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Title: Blood Beyond the Rose

Subtitle: The George Beattie Story

Author: Barry Dominic Graham

Narrator: Peter Baker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-17

Publisher: Barry Dominic Graham

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Born in the autumn of 1786, in the Scottish northeast coastal village of St. Cyrus: the son of a salmon fisher and crofter....

George Beattie would rise above his humble origins to become one of the most beloved, noble, inspiring, admired, and respected figures in northeast Scottish history.

He was a lawyer, a poet, a humorist, a philanthropist, a Scottish patriot, a radical... and an aspiring reformer.

He was widely regarded as a man of genius.

In 1823, a doomed love affair with a younger woman of higher social status, combined with the fatal machinations of certain socially powerful and malevolent individuals, with amoral links to Caribbean plantation slavery, would usher in the darkest of skies, producing a maelstrom which would, ultimately, consume him entirely, effectuating an abrupt, premature, and cruel end to his happiness... and life!

This is an educatedly speculated, semi-fictionalized narrative based on several years of extensive research.

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Título: La Reina Norteamericana [The American Queen]

Subtitular: Una Novela [A Novel]

Autor: Luis Alberto Urrea

Narrador: Maria del Carmen Siccardi

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 18 hrs and 26 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 12-05-17

Editor: Hachette Audio

Categorías: Fiction, Historical

Resumen del editor:

Una historia a veces desgarradora, inspiradora, apasionadamente romántica y con desenfrenado humor, La Reina Norteamericana es un relato sobre una joven que alcanza su mayoría de edad y tiene que encontrar su lugar en un mundo nuevo. Comenzando donde se quedó el bestseller de Luis Alberto Urrea The Hummingbird's Daughter, ahora en La Reina Norteamericana nos vuele a reunir, en Arizona en 1982, con la joven Teresita Urrea, amada curandera y "Santa de Cabora", y su padre. Asediada por lo colonos quienes necesitan desesperadamente de sus poderes curativos, y perseguida por asesinos, ella tiene más opción que escapar hacia las tierras fronterizas y embarcar en un extraordinario viaje hacia el corazón de la Norteamérica de fin de siglo.

Esta aventura de Teresita la lleva desde Nueva York a San Francisco, pasando por St. Louis, donde conoce realeza europea, poetas cubanos, reinas de belleza, inmigrantes ansiosos y poderosos magnates, entre los cuales se encuentra un hombre que la obligará a finalmente formularse la pregunta más importante de su vida: ¿se le permite a una santa enamorarse?

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

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Title: Fireflies

Author: P. S. Bartlett

Narrator: Heather Jane Hogan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-17

Publisher: P.S. Bartlett

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Dr. Owen Whelan and his wife Sarah have seven bright and expressive children. However, one of them is very unique; hes been followed since birth by lost souls.

However peculiar Ennis Whelan has been for the first six years of his life, not until the day he found the bird did the degree of his strangeness become so tangible.

Ennis claimed it flew away.

His sister Teagan was about to bury it. Teagan becomes increasingly suspicious of his odd behavior, but their mother dismisses her claims; that is, until he starts healing people.

When he also reveals the gift of sight, he questions his father about visions of his past, including his father's voyage to America in 1844. Owen prayed hed never have to share those tragic memories, but he will when he realizes he has no choice. Ennis life depends on it.

Members Reviews:

Great listen and well worth the credit

I received this book to listen to while on a road trip with my Mom. We both thoroughly enjoyed the book and the miles just passed by quickly. We were disappointed to reach our first destination 8.5 hours in because we wanted to continue to listen. This book keeps you entertained and captivated. Heather Jane Hogan is becoming one of my favorite narrators on audible. I would and have recommended this book to others. I look forward to the next book in this series.

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Title: - [The Princesses of the Han Dynasty]

Author: - - Wu Wei

Narrator: - - Wang Jingpeng

Format: Unabridged

Length: 26 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-17

Publisher: BOVCM

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Please note: This audiobook is in Mandarin. : / : /

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Title: The Big House: Story of a Southern Family, Book 2

Author: J. Keck

Narrator: Carrie Barton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-26-17

Publisher: J Keck

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In 1928, Minnie's mother, Nora, arrives at her nursing college after abandoning her a few years ago as a child. What does Nora want?

An unexpected visit to Grandpa and Marie at the Big House offers Minnie shelter and refuge, but no longer the carefree days of her youthful experiences there. She discovers secrets. Shrewd and hidden manipulations of power ensure the survival of the Big House in this small Southern town, where a smile can mask suppressed rage and hostility.

A power struggle ensues between Minnie and Nora, when honor, wealth and influence are risked by young love. Both women will have their say, but only one will prevail.

Guns and violence become the signs of a new era. The 1929 Great Depression explodes, engulfing everyone. Minnie and the family must confront the Depression, as well as threats to the land from those who would rob them.

Driven by her own convictions and courage, Minnie refuses to give in to chaos and fear. While poverty and cruelty surround her, Minnie's spirit, character and hard-won life experience prepare her to survive and keep her values. Will the past and present circumstances overwhelm Minnie, or will she embrace the future and triumph?

Members Reviews:

Many thanks for the character of Minnie!

My daughter and I read about Minnie and we're rooting for her and crying for her and got angry with her when she helped that mama of hers and cried when she experiences many losses! Her relationship to her grandfather was similar to my own. Loved both of the first two books and can't wait until the third one cares out this year!

He absolutely enjoyed it and wanted to buy the third one but ...

I personally have not read this ---my husband bought it and the first one. He absolutely enjoyed it and wanted to buy the third one but I quess it hasn't been released yet. He would highly recommend it and I too will be reading as soon as I finish the book I am currently reading.

Enjoyed reading a southern story of plantation owners and their struggles. The changes that occurred especially during the Great

See above comments. Read book 1, now looking forward to reading book 3 to see the changes with modernization for plantations in the south.

Southern charm

Despite some poor reviews I thoroughly enjoyed this series...hoping for a third book!

Love It

I loved book 2. I read it one day. I couldn't put it down. I love books about the South, family history and most of all a book that paints the picture. This book was wonderful.

I will anxiously await book 3.

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Title: The Prince and the Prophet

Subtitle: Novels of Ancient Sumeria, Book 3

Author: Jesse Hudson

Narrator: Austin Vanfleet

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-17

Publisher: Noel Hudson

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

For Ammon-Shur the struggle to end the slave trade in Sumeria is not going as planned. He has barely survived several attempts on his life and the few people he has been able to save are less than a drop in the bucket compared to the many thousands who are bought and sold across Sumeria every week.

When he decides to try a new approach to get people to care about slavery he finds himself in unfamiliar territory as a lifetime of mostly ignoring the gods is suddenly turned on its head by close daily contact with a prophet of the Lord of Light.

As Ammon struggles to find a way to accept his newfound piety the secret cabal of the worshipers of Chaos disrupt all of Ammon's plans and he finds that facing down dangerous bands of slavers is child's play compared to the new challenges that will require all of his wit and skill to survive.

Members Reviews:

Loved it.

I enjoyed this story. Each book is even better than the last. I would recommend you to read this.

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Title: The Crow Garden

Author: Alison Littlewood

Narrator: Leighton Pugh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-17

Publisher: Quercus

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Susan Hill meets Alfred Hitchcock in Alison Littlewood's latest chiller.

Asylum doctor Nathaniel Kerner is obsessed with the beautiful Mrs Harleston - but is she truly delusional? Or is she hiding secrets that should never be uncovered?

Haunted by his father's suicide, Nathaniel walks away from the highly prestigious life of a consultant to become an asylum doctor. He takes up a position at Crakethorne Asylum, but the proprietor is more interested in phrenology and his growing collection of skulls than the patients' minds.

Nathaniel's only interesting case is Mrs Victoria Adelina 'Vita' Harleston: her husband accuses her of hysteria and delusions - but she accuses him of hiding secrets far more terrible. Nathaniel is increasingly obsessed with Vita, but when he has her mesmerised, there are unexpected results.

Vita starts hearing voices, the way she used to - her grandmother always claimed they came from beyond the grave - but it also unleashes her own powers of mesmerism...and a desperate need to escape.

Increasingly besotted, Nathaniel finds himself caught up in a world of séances and stage mesmerism in his bid to find Vita and save her. But constantly hanging over him is this warning: that doctors are apt to catch the diseases with which they are surrounded - whether of the body or the mind....

Critic Reviews:

"There's an amazing sense of place and time in this novel, as Littlewood perfectly captures the literary style, attitudes, and class consciousness of Victorian England." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Gothic novel set in Yorkshire

Gothic atmosphere, set in an asylum in the midst of the Yorkshire Moorsâ.mesmerism in theatres in London? Well this couldnât be more atmospheric if it tried. Having loved the Little People, I was keen to read this one and itâs a unique world Alison draws, thats for sure. She approaches the shockingly true story of how women could so easily be taken into asylums on the word of their husbands. The scenes â for this novel reads like a series of scenes dimly lit with the sound of candles crackling in your ear, are horrific and even disturbing.

The author also uses many literary references in the novel -with poets Brown and Byron being used to show each of the main characters personalities. The world of mesmerism is drawn with detailed and disturbing words and the overall effect for me was chilling, disturbing and a darn good gothic read.

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Titel: Im Zeichen des Adlers (Die Rom-Serie 1)

Autor:: Simon Scarrow

Erzähler: Reinhard Kuhnert

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 11 hrs and 27 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-28-17

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Wie alles begann: der Auftakt der beliebten antiken Abenteuerserie.

Kaiser Claudius gewährt seinem siebzehnjährigen Leibsklaven Cato die lang ersehnte Freiheit. Im Gegenzug muss sich der junge Mann zu zwanzig Jahren Dienst in der römischen Armee verpflichten. Kurz darauf befiehlt der Imperator das gefährlichste aller militärischen Abenteuer, an dem einst sogar Cäsar scheiterte: die Eroberung Britanniens. Cato steht auf der Insel aber nicht nur den wildesten Barbarenhorden gegenüber - auf direkten kaiserlichen Befehl muss er sich in einem tödlichen Netz aus Intrigen und Verschwörungen bewähren...

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©2008 Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH (P)2017 Audible GmbH

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Titel: Der Ruf der Trommel (Outlander 4)

Autor:: Diana Gabaldon

Erzähler: Birgitta Assheuer

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 53 hrs and 34 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-21-17

Herausgeber: Argon Verlag

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Nach einer langen und abenteuerlichen Reise über den Atlantik erreichen Claire und Jamie Fraser die amerikanischen Kolonien. Doch nach einem Schiffsunglück stehen sie mit leeren Händen da. Weil Jamie sich nicht in die Abhängigkeit von seiner verwitweten Tante Jocasta begeben will, nimmt er das Angebot des Gouverneurs William Tryon an: Gegen das Versprechen, im Falle eines Aufstands Soldaten für die Krone zu stellen, erhält Jamie Siedlungsland in North Carolina.

So ziehen er und Claire zusammen in die Wildnis und bauen dort die Siedlung Fraser's Ridge auf. Doch Claire fürchtet den Moment, an dem William Tryon die Einlösung des Versprechens einfordern wird...

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©1996 / 2017 Diana Gabaldon / Deutschsprachige Ausgabe Knaur Verlag. Ein Imprint der Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur GmbH & Co. KG, München. Übersetzung von Barbara Schnell (P)2017 Argon Verlag GmbH, Berlin

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Title: Elle

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Douglas Glover

Narrator: Severn Thompson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Imagine a 16th-century society belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza, and you'll have an inkling of what's in store in Douglas Glover's outrageously Rabelaisian new novel - his first in 10 years.

Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact. Based on a true story, Elle chronicles the ordeals and adventures of a young French woman marooned on the desolate Isle of Demons during Jacques Cartier's ill-fated third and last attempt to colonize Canada. Of course the plot is only the beginning. The bare outline is a true story: The Sieur de Roberval did abandon his unruly young niece, her lover, and her nurse on the Isle of Demons; her companions and her newborn baby did die; and she was indeed rescued and taken home to France. Beyond that, Glover's Rabelaisian imagination takes over.

What with real bears, spirit bears, and perhaps hallucinated bears, with mystified and mystifying natives, with the residue of a somewhat lurid religious faith, and with a world of self-preserving belligerence, the voluble heroine of Elle does more than survive. Elle brilliantly reinvents the beginnings of this country's history: what Canada meant to the early European adventurers, what these Europeans meant to Canada's original inhabitants, and the terrible failure of the two worlds to recognize each other as human. In a carnal whirlwind of myth and story, of death, lust, and love, of beauty and hilarity, Glover brings the past violently and unexpectedly into the present. In Elle, Glover's well-known scatological realism, exuberant violence, and dark, unsettling humor give history a thoroughly modern chill.

Cover design by Kent Fackenthall. Cover photograph copyright by Lev Dolgatshjov, istockphoto.com. Reproduced by permission of Goose Lane Editions.

Members Reviews:

A tall tale with mesmerizing prose

Douglas Glover's ELLE is a tale of a young woman who was abandoned on an island in the mouth of the St. Lawrence river in 1542. Thoroughly researched, this story is based on the true tale of Marguerite de la Rocque. Elle (her name is never given in the novel) is deposited by her uncle with her lover and nursemaid. The reason for this rather cruel treatment is that he has discovered her with her lover and disapproves, to the extent that he sentences her to an almost certain death. But Elle doesn't die. She survives the deaths of her lover and nursemaid. She survives the oncoming winter which bring ice, snow and bears. She survives a clash of cultures, and...but I won't say more so as not to spoil this wonderful novel for you.

If you like tall tales, mesmerizing writing, and a spunky heroine whose voice possesses a sweet wryness, then this book is for you. It won the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and it is easy to see why. Five stars.

I really disliked this book

I was very interested in reading Elle. It won Canada's Governor General's Award and had an interesting concept.

The heroine of the the story is a precocious young French woman voyaging to the New World in the 1500s. She's been sent to learn to temper her wild ways.