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Title: Under a Bloody Flag

Author: Kathleen Walls

Narrator: Samuel R. Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-13

Publisher: Kathleen Walls

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In Kansas and Missouri, the War Between the States started long before Fort Sumter. Daniel Fitzgerald, a Southerner who tries to settle in Kansas and leave behind his tormented Louisiana roots, soon finds that in Kansas Territory, you have to take sides or die.

Taking sides doesn't lessen the chances of a violent death, it just determines who is going to try and kill you. For Massachusetts-born Rebecca Styles, who comes to Kansas to insure freedom for slaves, the choice is easy. Or is it? When she meets Daniel, she is forced to take a new look at all the ideas she took for granted, such as all Southerners are evil and all abolitionists are good.

Daniel's half-brother and former slave, Andre, knows his first loyalty belongs to his friends and family, not a lofty ideal, but he can't sit by and do nothing when injustice stares him in the face. Throw into the mix all the larger-than-life characters who played a part in the sectional violence which led the nation into its bloodiest war and you have a novel with all the drama of the era.

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Title: Hammon Falls

Author: Dave Hoing, Roger Hileman

Narrator: Laura Jennings

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-13

Publisher: All Things That Matter Press, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When George Hammon's teenaged wife dies in childbirth in 1914, he flees small-town Iowa for Europe and the horrors of the Great War. Surviving battles, homelessness, and disease, he squanders his days on women and wine, trying to forget his lost love. But life is not idle in Iowa during his absence, and when a bitter and weary George comes home twenty-two years later, he finds a web of murder, suicide, and shocking revelations.

The future of his family rests on one terrible choice...but is he prepared to make it? Spanning the years 1893 through 2009, Hammon Falls weaves a tapestry of estrangement, loss, love, sacrifice, and redemption.

Members Reviews:

A Tight Weaving of Historical Fiction

Hammon Falls begins with ninety-four year-old Will in present day, relaxing in a jacuzzi, telling a telephone to shut up its ringing. When he finally answers, he finds it's his daughter. She tells him that she has unearthed a family relic. And so the story begins.

From the opening on, Hammon Falls is told through a third person narrator as it spans time from 1893 to 2008, only the story is not told in a series of chronological vignettes but a calculated manner that exposes a town and a family's history as it weaves generations creating a dynamic look at how our family patterns influence todays outcomes. The story is largely researched and based on a real life Iowa town, and this much is evident in the manner it is told--often times, the novel reads as a biography or historical essay--but it also incorporates the techniques of a master storyteller (two storytellers) as many of the scenes come to life in a manner that makes them emotive and easy to visualize.

There is something really beautiful about combining true-to-life stories with an openly-imaginative storyteller in order to pull out the delicate patterns of family and locale history. Hammon Falls is a great piece of work that has endeared me, for the time being, to an entire genre that I don't often read: historical fiction. My only gripe would be the images, which to a big biography and memoir fan, seemed distracting to a book that has openly told readers that the characters within are fictionalized--I say give the reader the license to imagine the images through the writing and descriptions. This is a small thing, though, and the images ability to distract this reader is most likely highly subjective. The writing and brilliance of the telling more than make up for my slight distraction. Hammon Falls is a wonderful book, and I would recommend it to just about anyone.

Dynamic Duo

As far as I'm concerned, there can be no acceptable explanation as to why the dynamic Dave Hoing/Roger Hileman duo has not yet attained bestseller status. "Hammon Falls" has it all: vivid description, a riveting plot, complex characters and relationships, literary depth, and more.

Spanning the years 1893 through 2009, "Hammon Falls" takes its readers on a journey through multiple settings, points of view, and time periods, with every scene, every emotion, and every action described in beautiful prose that sparkles but is never overwrought. Hoing and Hileman are musicians as well as authors, a fact that can be seen in the following passage, where their language both appreciates music and creates it:

Slowly the music changed from a bright major key to a slow minor one.

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Title: The Rose of the World

Author: Alys Clare

Narrator: Charlotte Strevens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-05-13

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Autumn, 1210: A year ago, King John was excommunicated - and now his men have come to take over Hawkenlye Abbey. Abbess Caliste, Helewises successor, worries how she is to feed the nuns under her care, let alone conduct her good works. Meanwhile, Helewise has moved into Hawkenlye Manor with Josse, and their lives are full of family and warmth. But after a visit to St Edmunds Chapel, Helewises 11-year-old granddaughter, Rosamund, goes missing - and soon all that they hold dear is threatened....

Critic Reviews:

"Appealing characters, an unusual plot, authentic period detail, and plenty of unexpected twists make this Hawkenlye novel a sure thing for fans of medieval mysteries." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Helewise and Josse do it again!

In this latest novel in the Hawkenlye series we meet some well developed and well loved characters again, Josse, Helewise, Caliste etc but we also get to know more about those who have been on the periphery of the earlier novels, the family members, the sheriff and the King. I am glad that Alys Clare has continued the series after Helewise left the Abbey and Caliste took over her role as Abbess. We get some insight into the harrowing effects of the conflict between Church and State on the common people as the mystery unfolds both in England and in Cathar country. I really admire the way that the author has done her research and deftly used it to enrich her plot and character development. The ending was a surprise that made sense of the prologue and also laid the foundation for further Hawkenlye mysteries!

Five Stars

I've loved the whole series!

Not on a par with the other titles in the series.

This book does not measure up the others in the series. I am about half way through and am having a hard time forcing myself to continue. I have read all the other books in the series and have found them to be an easy read. This story seems forced and I am having a hard time caring about the characters. The whole clan is friendly with the sheriff, but they think he will hang someone for defending Rosamund? I don't think so.

Could not put it down

I read it all the way through in one sitting, it was so good, I was afraid to put it down for fear of missing something. I have read all the books in this series. They are very well written, historically accurate, and have good character development. When I read the books in this series I feel transported back in time to a place I know with people I've come to love, like, admire, and get frustrated with at times. I can't wait for the next installment.

Evamay.

These are excellent books by Alys Clare and I thoroughly recommend them. The characters are wonderful and the storyline believable.

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Title: A Miracle in Shreveport

Subtitle: The All Nations Team

Author: Michael Jasper

Narrator: Robert Slone

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-31-13

Publisher: UnWrecked Press

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

"We were lucky to make it out of Shreveport alive on that early spring day in 1917."

"At noon, before the first game of our doubleheader, my All Nations team was taking batting practice, and as usual, I was studying the crowd. The people fascinated me: all those life stories that I'd never get a chance to hear, like that old colored man smiling and singing to himself next to his stern, frowning wife in her flowered hat, or the two white women with their cigarettes and exposed ankles. I was amazed by it all, though we never stayed in a place long enough to learn about anyone or anything more than the game and its players."

A story of the first truly integrated baseball team, decades before Jackie Robinson, set during the early years of World War I. Magic, miracles, and more...

A Miracle in Shreveport was first published in Electric Velocipede, May 2007, and it also garnered an Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Science Fiction vol. 25.

This story is part of the novel The All Nations Team.

Members Reviews:

Felt incomplete

This seems to be part of a longer series of stories, but on its own felt a bit incomplete or like a story sketch.

Enjoyed this, want to read the All Nations Team Book

I read this so I can encourage my young son to read it to. I really enjoyed the way it combined baseball with history. It made me want to read the "All Nations Team" book to see how Mak's prediction happens.

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Title: Another Small Kingdom

Author: James Green

Narrator: John Chancer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-30-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Boston, 1802, Lawyer Macleod is a man full of hate, a dangerous man. When a newly arrived young lawyer is mad enough to insult him, the consequences spin out of control and Macleod is caught up in a web of danger and intrigue.

With England at war with France, some powerful Americans feel that the USA's best chance of remaining independent is to throw in their lot with France even if it means accepting a French king for a while. To counter their plot, Macleod is sent to New Orleans, where he meets Marie, wife of Etienne de Valois, aristocrat and fop, and through her learns a terrible secret. Together, unable to trust anyone, they race to uncover the traitors at the heart of the American Government.

James Green uses fictional characters to illuminate the real events that lead to the birth of the American Intelligence Services and culminated in the extraordinary Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the USA at the cost of 3 cents an acre. Packed with action and fascinating historical detail, Another Small Kingdom will appeal both to those interested in the history of the USA and to aficionados of intelligent spy thrillers.

James Green is well known as the author of the Jimmy Costello crime series, the first book of which, Bad Catholics, was short-listed for the 2009 Crime Writers Association Dagger Awards. A prolific writer, James, who is now working on the second of the five-book series which begins with Another Small Kingdom, is married and lives in Nottinghamshire.

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Title: Rites of Passage

Author: Roland Yeomans

Narrator: J. C. Rede

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-22-13

Publisher: Roland D. Yeomans

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Some dangerous souls lead lives like loaded guns.

Captain Samuel McCord is such a man. His nature was that of a poet and a philosopher. Until the day he witnessed his family dying in a Comanche raid.

Violence and death have stalked him since that day. Then, becoming blood brother to a not fully human Apache shaman, further changed McCord.

By 1853, he has become a pariah among the Texas Rangers, given assignments with certain death. Traveling the world, McCord saves Princess Victoria's life, sets Napoleon III on his throne, and fights on both sides in the Chinese Opium War. Every crown prince of Europe and the Orient has set a bounty on his life...

Then, the one thing he never expected comes into his life, love. Love in the deadly form of an alien, born of stardust and the sea. McCord can fight any enemy, but can he survive the love of a deadly goddess?

Members Reviews:

Must Read for Sam McCord Fans

If you have read any of the Victor Standish novels, you will need to read this one also. It gives some if the background and motivations of Sam McCord. It is a very good read. Awaiting the remaining books in the series.

A Western with a Texas Ranger

RY has written western that is half occult and half demonized. A Texas Ranger is looking for the culprit that killed his alleged daughter and then attempted her face. The Texas Ranger it's evil personified. He knows who else is bad, but has to wait until his potential is important. This is an excellent read for the gene.....ER

RITES OF PASSAGE

Who could resist such a prestigious line up (referring to the product description) of historical figures? The stories of McCord's globe spanning adventures is told through argumentative dialogue between the notorious celebrities as they either criticize his failures or extol his heroism. As the synopsis reveals, few of the notables are still among the living, and even the mystical creatures encountered in the salon and on deck have their stories of McCord's past deeds to share.

The esteemed author William Faulkner (who is the narrator of the novel) sets the tone in our initial meeting with Sam McCord with this excerpt (reprinted with permission by the author):

. .This time he was already sitting on the bench, laughing. I sat down beside him and asked what was so funny. He looked at me for a long moment.

"I am," he said.

And that was the great tragedy of his character, for he meant it.

. . .he expected people to mock and ridicule him. He expected people nowhere near his equal in stature or accomplishment or wit or anything else, to hold him in scorn and derision.

The theme of the novel explores the darker side of human motivation, each scene well crafted to expound on the selfishness inherent in even the most well intentioned deeds. It is during the exploration of one of those misdeeds that McCord is drawn to the moonlit deck of the Demeter and meets the sea goddess Meilori. Their shared loses bind them as soul mates.

Despite the shortcomings of humans as a species, Capt. Sam is the defender of all creatures suffering oppression by others. While he's heavily armed with all the weapons of the era, McCord's preferred weapon is verbal debate on the morality of the opponents. The plot climax does involve a well written action scene.

Without spoiling the novel too much: McCord enters the salon, knowing it is a clever trap set by his nemesis DayStar, also known as The Gray Man.

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Title: An Uncommon Enemy

Subtitle: Eden Murdoch, Book 1

Author: Michelle Black

Narrator: Kris Faulkner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-13

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

"There is no word in the Cheyenne language for forgiveness." On the day after Thanksgiving, 1868, George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry attack a sleeping Cheyenne village on the banks of the Washita. Ironically, it later becomes known that the village attacked was that of Black Kettle, the foremost peace chief of the Cheyenne Nation. Amidst the heartless and senseless slaughter of men, women, and children, the Seventh Cavalry discovers a white woman living among the Cheyenne. Her name is Eden Murdoch, and she was presumed dead years before. While the army expects to use her for propaganda purposes and to refute the accusations that the Cheyenne village posed no threat to white settlers, Eden refuses to take part in any such propaganda: to acknowledge that the army "rescued" her from a "savage" society. Eden avoids giving the details of her story to any of the officers; she will say only that she considered her Cheyenne husband and his other wives family. Custer's young and inexperienced aide-de-camp, Captain Brad Randall, is assigned the task of looking after Eden and locating her family. Beginning to doubt Custer's actions and struggling to act honorably, Brad is both fascinated and perplexed by Eden's eccentric behavior. He becomes obsessed with learning the truth behind Eden's bizarre journey, and when Eden begins to reveal it to him, his own future changes. Eden and Brad unexpectedly set in motion events that will echo all the way to the Little Bighorn.

Members Reviews:

A Good Depiction of the Complexity of Human Relationships

I've always been interested in the clash of culture between the white and Indian races and I found this story to be an absorbing account of the battle of the Washita and the effect on a woman captive. On Nov. 27, 1868 near Cheyenne, Oklahoma, arrogance and the notion that one race is superior to another wiped out Chief Black Kettle's village of people without warning and with disregard for promises made to them. Custer, who led the 7th Calvary into this disgraceful battle, is painted in this story as ambitious, arrogant, and cruel. After the killing of the people, the army slaughtered the Indian's horses, burned their lodges, destroyed all food and winter supplies and captured 53 women and children. This story also tells of a white woman captive who suffered horribly at the hands of her Indian captor, was rescued by another Indian and his wives and taken in to become a loved member of their household. Recognized as a white woman, at the battle of the Washita, she is then "rescued" against her will and brought back into white society. It's an interesting story and I enjoyed it. It was also the very first story I read using my Kindle. Eunice Boeve, author of Ride a Shadowed Trail.

A poignant look at the cruelty of manifest destiny

Michelle Black has told a tragic story in such depth, the reader is able to understand if not sympathize with those involved in the last struggle of the Northern Cheyenne to return to their home rather than be imprisoned on a reservation in Oklahoma. Her characters are so realistic we can't help but follow them on their journeys.

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Title: Daughter of the Northern Fields

Author: Pamela Haines

Narrator: Courtney Patterson Quinones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-10-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Christabel Woodward is the darling of her prosperous, mill-owning father until one day he has a sudden and bewildering change of heart. He has read her mother's story, written in three exercise books and usually kept well hidden, and he knows her secret: Christabel is not his own child, but the illegitimate daughter of Branwell Brontë. Branwell died at 31, an obsessive and tormented wreck of a man who was ruined by drinking, drug addiction, and bouts of depression. All Christabel's mother has left of her secret love are a lock of auburn hair and Branwell's daughter, whom he has never known.

Daughter of the Northern Fields is Christabel's story. It is the story of a girl who loses all those whom she loves most dearly and is forced to leave the wild Yorkshire moorland which is her home. A girl who is abused by a shattering rape which leaves her feeling she can never again love or be loved. But Christabel is destined to experience a joy that she had not dared to believe possible.

In this impressive new novel Pamela Haines brilliantly captures the atmosphere of the Brontës' Yorkshire. With her courage, her indomitable spirit and her depth of feeling, Christabel is a creation worthy of the pages of a Brontë novel.

Pamela Haines was born in Yorkshire, like so many of the characters in her novels. Knaresborough, Leeds, and Harrogate have all played a part in her family background. She was educated at a convent in the Midlands, and then read English at Newnham College, Cambridge. As a child she wrote nonstop, but around the age of 17, life became too busy, and she did not write again until her late 30s, by which time she was married to a doctor, and had five children.

In 1971 she won the Spectator New Writing Prize with a short story, and eventually completed her first novel, Tea at Gunter's, in 1973. Critically acclaimed, it was the joint winner of the Yorkshire Arts Association Award for Young Writers. It was followed in 1976 by A Kind of War, described as 'a book to re-read and treasure' in the Daily Telegraph, and the even more successful Men on White Horses followed in 1978.

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Title: The Lion and the Lamb

Author: John Henry Clay

Narrator: Daniel Philpott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-04-13

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Britain, AD366

The island is at peace, enjoying an unprecedented age of prosperity. But from beyond the northern frontier come unsettling rumours: the barbarians are rising, eager to prey on the riches of the south. As the shadow of war looms, Cironius Agnus Paulus, a young soldier with a secret past, becomes ensnared in a conspiracy that endangers the home he has forsaken and the family he loves.

Epic in scope, rich with historical detail, this is a novel of Roman Britain on the cusp of the Dark Ages, when all that stands between her citizens and oblivion is one family.

Dr. John Henry Clay is a Lecturer in History at the University of Durham, from where he has built up an international research reputation in Anglo-Saxon and Frankish history and archaeology.

Members Reviews:

well researched novel

This look at post Roman Britain is a well researched novel thatgives a view of a society on the brink of extinction.The chaos that followed the Roman withdrawl is both entertaining and informative

Original and superb first

Received on 4 July 2013 from Amazon.co.uk

This is the author's first novel, and it is a remarkable one in many ways.

It is, as indicated on its cover "an epic novel of Roman Britain", but one that is set in the second half of the fourth century, during the little known "Barbarian Conspiracy" where several "barbarian" tribes and populations attacked Roman Britain simultaneously, at a time when most (if not all) of its field forces were away and campaigning on the Continent. The choice of topic is therefore somewhat original and makes this book stand out and different: it is not just another "epic novel of Roman Britain", or of the Roman Empire more generally.

The author's choice was to focus on the fate of a prominent Romano-Briton family, the intrigues and sorrows with which it is beset, and a lot about the Romano-Briton society and the way of living of the Romanized elites in Britain. You do get your share of "swords and sandals", but perhaps not as much as in some other books and the fights are mostly small affairs, as seems to have been the case by the end of the fourth century, as far as we know anyway.

The picture that the author draws of post-Constantine Britain is a harsh one, but a credible one, where limited manpower lead army press gangs to roam the countryside in search of recruits. It also shows the casual brutality with which these recruits could be treated in order to "toughen" them up and how major landowners got ever more powerful as they took lesser ones crushed by taxes under their protection. The picture of the developing, but not yet overwhelming, force of the Christian Church, the attitude of its often overbearing, superstitious and fanatical priests towards "pagans" (a derogatory term meaning "country bumpkins" in Latin) and the tensions that this could create with the followers of the old Gods are also very well presented.

This depiction of Roman Britain in the 360s is certainly one of the book's most outstanding features. Together with the events that it relates -the book starts towards the end of the reign of Julian and most of the action takes place in AD 366-367 - it also alludes to the recent past to provide lots of historical context (the usurpation of Magnentius, headquartered in Britain, and the repression in Britain after 353 AD, after Constantius victory, for instance).

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Title: The Lorimer Legacy

Author: Anne Melville

Narrator: Claire Carroll

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Volume Two of the dramatic saga of the Lorimer Family. A legacy may be of great value and still bring bad luck....

Although Margaret Lorimer has made her own way as a doctor, she does not at all approve of the ambitions of her beautiful young ward, Alexa. Being an opera singer is considered a disreputable career for a young lady. But Alexa has inherited a superb voice from her Italian mother, and is determined to have her way, even if it means travelling abroad. And she has also inherited a legacy from the father she never knew - a legacy which will bring her no happiness.

The Lorimer Legacy is the un-pausable second volume in the Lorimer series which chronicles the lives and fortunes of this vibrant family from the 1870s to the 1940s.