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Title: The Fortune Hunter

Author: Daisy Goodwin

Narrator: Clare Corbett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-24-14

Publisher: Headline Digital

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the author of the best-selling My Last Duchess - and for any fans of Downton Abbey

In 1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies. Beautiful, athletic, and intelligent, Sisi has everything - except happiness. Bored with the stultifying etiquette of the Hapsburg Court and her dutiful but unexciting husband, Franz Joseph, Sisi comes to England to hunt. She comes looking for excitement and she finds it in the dashing form of Captain Bay Middleton, the only man in Europe who can outride her. Ten years younger than her and engaged to the rich and devoted Charlotte, Bay has everything to lose by falling for a woman who can never be his. But Bay and the Empress are as reckless as each other, and their mutual attraction is a force that cannot be denied.

Full of passion and drama, The Fortune Hunter tells the true story of a 19th-century Queen of Hearts and a cavalry captain, and the struggle between love and duty.

Members Reviews:

An easy listen

Well written and excellently narrated by Clare Corbett, this is a an easy, gentle listen.

The pace is steady, having said that, there is not much really in the story to get your teeth into..and I did find myself wishing for the end sooner than it arrived. You do find yourself wishing that the Empress would get her hair cut at various stages of the book...so not so diffiult for the mind to wander!

The story did make me look up the various real life characters 'loosely' represented in the story, so I did learn a few new things, which is always good.

I am not sure if I will listen to another Daisy Goodwin novel, but I will certainly look up for other reads from this narrator, as she did an outstanding job.

Ending let down the book

I enjoyed the book and the reading by Clare Corbett. It was a good illustration of life in a bygone age and of unconventional women - both the heiress and the empress. My only gripe is that the ending seemed contrived with the coincidences that end at the Grand National not sitting well alongside the pace of the book. As the book is loosely based on real people it is a shame it didn't go onto their marriage and the death of the 'hero'. This would have been a better end than leaving the story in Liverpool (Aintree).

Great read

Will read again & again . Really liked this book.good very good exceptionally good goodgood. Good good

boring and predictable

some bits were entertaining and ikept me curious, but on the whole it was predictable and tedious. I've read better mills and boon!

BORING

What disappointed you about The Fortune Hunter?

Predictable

What could Daisy Goodwin have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Use some imagination, it just needed some more gumph

What didnt you like about Clare Corbetts performance?

Not very convincing accents

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Boredom

Any additional comments?

Maybe just not for me, I was looking for a bit of intregue, history sadly this was more "Mills & Boon"

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Title: Yukon Gold

Author: M. & M. Lehman

Narrator: Gene Engene

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-14

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Prim and proper Becky Hurst leaves the frontier town of Seattle and travels alone to the Yukon to join her ne'er-do-well husband. But things don't turn out like she planned. Becky learns worldly truths that were suppressed while sheltered in her parents' home. Her survival is soon linked to her quick wit and new found prowess with firearms. Proper manners fall by the wayside as she grows stronger and trailwise, challenging the wilderness on its own terms. Becky learns to survive and endure in a man's world, but at what cost...

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Titel: Das Geheimnis des Templers Episode I-VI

Autor:: Martina André

Erzähler: Jürgen Holdorf

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 20 hrs and 31 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 04-09-14

Herausgeber: SAGA Egmont

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Gero von Breydenbach wächst als zweiter Sohn eines Adeligen auf. Damit wird er nicht der Nachfolger seines Vaters und Lehnsherr über die Burg. Für ihn ist eine geistliche Laufbahn vorgesehen oder der Eintritt bei den Templern. Gero will Templer werden und gegen die Heiden ziehen, die das Heilige Land besetzt halten. Aber dann verliebt er sich ausgerechnet in seine Adoptivschwester...

Zur Autorin: Martina André, geb. 1961, ist seit ihrer Kindheit eine begeisterte Geschichtenerzählerin. 2007 veröffentlichte sie mit "Die Gegenpäpstin" auf Anhieb einen Bestseller.

©2013 Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin. Covergestaltung: Mediabureau Di Stefano, Berlin. Abbildungen: iStockphoto / Nathan Winter / Reinhold Leitner (P)2013 Lindhardt og Ringhof

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Title: Death on Ice

Author: Robert Ryan

Narrator: Ray Chase

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The tragic story of Robert Falcon Scotts quest for the South Pole is brought to sparkling new life in this adventure novel.

It is one of the most famous quotes in the history of exploration: I am just going outside. I may be some time.

The story of how former cavalry officer Lawrence Oates came to deliver his brave last words, before walking bootless into a Antarctic blizzard so that Robert Falcon Scott and the other members of the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition might have a better chance of survival, is brilliantly reimagined in this epic novel based on fact. A hero of the Boer Wars, Oates joined Scotts second journey to Antarctica with dreams of winning the race to the South Pole for England. But small mistakes and bad luck plagued the mission from the start, and when they finally reached the Pole on January 17, 1912, Oates and Scott were heartbroken to find that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten them thereby more than a month. Little did they know, things were about to get much, much worse.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Excellent

Ninety South

Robert Ryan's "Death on the Ice" is a novelization of Robert Falcon Scott's attempts on The South Pole.

In 1901, his first - "The Discovery Expedition" - achieved the feat of "The Furthest South" - just beyond 81 degrees, but he was beaten back by appalling weather before he could reach his ultimate goal. The 1911 "Terra Nova Expedition" won Scott his immortality. He and four companions reached The Pole, but died on the return journey, barely a day's march from salvation.

Scott's reputation has waxed and waned in the 100 years since his death. Initially lauded as the archetypal heroic Englishman, he has more recently been portrayed as a hapless incompetent. Even more recently, biographers such as Sir Ranulph Fiennes have returned to the man's defence. Robert Ryan takes a fairly even-handed view of the man in this dramatization. He is neither hero nor fool, rather a relatively ordinary man driven to extreme undertakings; flawed in some ways, resilient in others and, ultimately, as much a victim of bad luck as of his failings.

"Death on the Ice" tells the story from the points of view of Scott's companions and colleagues as well as his own; chiefly Ernest Shackleton, who accompanied Scott other first expedition and Lawrence Oates who died on the second. Again, Ryan steadfastly avoids the veneration of men who have been greatly lionised since and, as a result, presents us with a story that reads realistically, believably and sympathetically.

It is, nevertheless, a gripping read. Ryan's description of the terrible privations suffered by the polar explorers is deeply compelling and I struggled to put the book down. It's well written as a novel; Ryan is a prolific and accomplished novelist and it is clear that he researched his subject well enough to write with some considerable authority. Of course it remains "only" a novel, but, if of you know little or nothing of Scott's adventures, you may well be tempted to seek out his more authentic biographies.

A highly recommended boy's own adventure.

Well written and well researched - a good read

I enjoyed reading this book, even if we all know what happened to Scott's expedition to the South Pole.

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Title: The Oriental Wife

Author: Evelyn Toynton

Narrator: Kristin Kalbli

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The Oriental Wife is the story of two assimilated Jewish children from Nuremberg who flee Hitlers Germany and struggle to put down roots elsewhere. When they meet up again in New York, they fall in love both with each other and with America, believing they have found a permanent refuge. But just when it looks as though nothing can ever touch them again, their lives are shattered by a freakish accident and a betrayal that will reverberate into the life of their American daughter. In its portrait of the immigrant experience, and of the tragic gulf between generations, The Oriental Wife illuminates the collision of American ideals of freedom and happiness with certain sterner old world virtues.

Members Reviews:

Left wanting more

The Oriental Wife is about a young Jewish girl who flees Germany during Hitler's reign prior to World War II. After a series of adventures and heart breaks, she eventually lands (or docks) in New York City and reconnects with a childhood friend who also left Germany. The rest of the book is a story of their life together and all of the twists it takes.

This book was good, but I wasn't overwhelmed by it. It starts off strong, but kind of falls off in the last third. It seems like the characters could be developed better throughout the novel and the plot could have used more words dedicated to it. As I finished it, I was left wanting more. Nevertheless, it was a quick and easy read that worked well for vacation.

Seamless, heartrending

I don't know what disappointed readers expected, but perhaps their expectations was the problem. In THE ORIENTAL WIFE, Evelyn Toynton gets out of the way of her characters and their story, writing prose so clean you can see yourself in it. This is a seamless, heartrending novel.

Surviving war torn Europe with hope

Another story of survival. They were children who survived one atrocity only to come to America and find that life can be just as difficult.

YOUTH ESCAPE THE GERMAN POGROMS

Interesting book of young people leaving Germany before the progroms get them. They settle in New York and their tale unfolds from there. Good book. Not sure where the Oriental in the title comes from........... very fast read.

A literary novel with profound historical insight

Most effective was the slow uncovering of the characters' lives and unfulfilled dreams.

Toynton's language is rich, poetic.The final chapters left me stunned speecless.

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Title: Marbeck and the Double-Dealer

Subtitle: Marbeck Series, Book 1

Author: John Pilkington

Narrator: Philip Franks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the author of the successful Thomas the Falconer mysteries comes a new historical series featuring Elizabethan intelligencer Martin Marbeck....

1600: A new century dawns. War with Spain has dragged on for 15 years, the conflict in Ireland for six. Unease stalks England in the dying years of Elizabeth Is reign, and Elizabethan intelligencer Martin Marbeck is bored.

Then a message from his spymaster, Sir Robert Cecil, arrives: the existence of a spy has been discovered, code-named Morera, and Marbeck must uncover the true identity of this traitor quickly, before rumours of the young King Philip III forming a new Armada prove themselves to be true.

Members Reviews:

Double Good Skulduggery!

It takes you to that earlier world and culture!

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Title: Only the Gallant

Author: Kerry Newcomb

Narrator: Brian Troxell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-20-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The year is 1863 and the Confederacy is on the run. After narrowly escaping death at the hands of a mob in New Orleans, young Union soldier Jesse McQueen faces disgrace and court-martial - in service of a higher, hidden glory. As a spy behind Confederate lines, he will intercept crucial information that could provide the turning point in a bloody, tragic war. But the young daredevil finds himself playing the part of turncoat and Confederate officer all too well, as infatuation for an indomitable Rebel Belle becomes a deeper, more dangerous sentiment. Even with the powerful symbol of patriotism and duty that he wears around his neck, Jesse needs all the courage he can muster to resolve the uncivil war raging inside his own head and heart.

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Title: Emma's Place is at the End of the Oregon Trail

Subtitle: Love & Hope After Domestic Abuse

Author: Vanessa Carvo

Narrator: Mona Bella

Format: Unabridged

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-14

Publisher: Quietly Blessed and Loved Press

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Emma's Place is at the End of the Oregon Trail, is a powerful story about how one, then two, then more women, escaped domestic abuse in the mid 1800s by taking the Oregon Trail, and what happened at the end of their journey.

Members Reviews:

5 stars!!!

From the start I could not keep my eyes off this story, it made me cry, scream, and so many other things I had not done before. I really loved this story, It takes vision to come up with the story. This story not only met my expectation but surpass it.

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Title: The Juno Letters

Author: L. W. Hewitt

Narrator: Gary Regal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-14

Publisher: L.W. Hewitt, MBM

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Letters discovered in a tin box hidden in the foundation of a small cottage in Normandy reveal a terrible secret, a desperate whisper between the lines. Antoine's world was collapsing. His beautiful Marianne, his precious daughter Ariéle, missing. The lives of hundreds - perhaps thousands - of allied soldiers preparing to storm Juno Beach on D-Day literally are in his hands. The Gestapo hunt him as a traitor - the French resistance as a collaborator. As chaos erupts all around him, Antoine must choose - to find Marianne and Ariéle, or face Hell even if it means he could lose his family, his only friend, and his life.

Members Reviews:

A fascinating story.

What did you love best about The Juno Letters?

Living in France as I do, near to Tours, which is featured in this book, the tributes are all around us to the brave young men of many nations who lost their lives, and, not too far away in Normandy are the Juno landings beaches, and Courseulles-sur-Mer so vital during D Day on the 6th June, 1944.It is very hard for me, even now to remember that this is a work of fiction, the depth of research and attention to detail bring alive all too horrifically the very real dangers facing collaborators during the wars and the bravery of the resistance and allies working behind enemy lines.

Which character as performed by Gary Regal was your favorite?

Gary Regal's narration of this audiobook was exceptional especially the pronunciation of the French place names.

Who was the most memorable character of The Juno Letters and why?

It would have to be Antoine. A friendship was forged in WWI between the author's grandfather, Private Andy Anderson and Antoine Bouchard, who although French was living in the Alsace region at the outbreak of the war and was forced to fight for Germany. Then, after WWI Andy returns home and becomes a chaplain and Antoine stays in France.

Any additional comments?

This is such a fascinating story for anyone interested in WWI and WWII, I just could not put it down.

The story begins with an unexpected parcel, which arrives for Lawrence Hewitt from Courseulles-sur-Mer in France, it contains letters, they are addressed to his Grandfather Andy. The letters, which were written during WWII had been discovered hidden in a small cottage in Normandy and are from Andys friend Antoine Bouchard, but they were never posted

This story is a tribute to the author, Lawrence Hewitts Grandfather Andy. Armed with his grandfathers personal journals which he wrote as a soldier in the Great War, the author visited Paris in 2012 and followed in his footsteps. The journey he took and his visit to the Normandy landing beaches are the inspiration behind The Juno Letters.

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Title: An Elegant Solution

Author: Paul Robertson

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-14

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

For young Leonhard Euler, the Bernoulli family have been more than just friends. Master Johann has been a demanding mentor, and his sons have been Leonhard's allies and companions. But it is also a family torn by jealousy and distrust. Father and sons are engaged in a ruthless competition for prestige among the mathematical elites of Europe, especially the greatest prize: the Chair of Mathematics at the University of Basel, which Johann holds and his sons want. And now, their aspirations may have turned deadly. Lured into an investigation of the suspicious death of Uncle Jacob 20 years ago, Leonhard soon realizes there's more at stake than even a prominent appointment. Surrounded by the most brilliant - and cunning - minds of his generation, Leonhard is forced to see how dangerous his world is. His studies in mathematics have always been entwined with his thoughts on theology, and now, caught in a deadly battle of wills, he'll need both his genius and his faith to survive.

Members Reviews:

Euler at 18

This unusual historical novel is set in Basel, Switzerland, in 1725 and is narrated by the 18-year-old Leonhard Euler.

Leonhard, who was then a student in Basel, would go on to become one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, known for both the tremendous quantity and great originality of his work. Paul Robertson's portrayal of Euler includes several qualities of character consistent with the young man's later success, including diligence and self-discipline; an active imagination; and a passion for mathematics fueled by the conviction that his work glorified his Creator.

As Malcolm Gladwell might point out, the success of an "outlier" like Euler also can be partially explained by the exceptional opportunities available to him, especially the chance to work under Johann Bernoulli during the time when the techniques and applications of calculus were being developed. The Bernoulli family, which was brilliant but divided by rivalry and jealousy, is also a major part of Euler's life and Robertson's story.

As the story begins, Johann's sons Daniel and Nicolaus come back home to Basel for a visit, and Euler finds himself in the middle of the family's strife. Shortly after their arrival a local man is murdered, and the body is found in a trunk that seems to have connections to the Bernoullis. While studying the mathematical and physical laws of the universe, Euler also searches for the truth about the murder, an investigation involving the complex dynamics of the Bernoulli family and the power structure of the local university.

Highlights of the novel include Robertson's depiction of Euler and the Bernoullis and his rich descriptions of Basel and its university life and politics. Those interested in the history of mathematics or the relationship between mathematics and faith should find this book especially compelling.

A truly elegant book

What an elegant book by Paul Roberston, a man whose other books I am going to search out. Paul writes about a time when men thought they could worship God by the study of math as well as they could sitting in a pew.

Let me quote a paragraph in the book where the main character is contemplating Newton's math of gravity:

The stars were vast, but their infinite sum still was only a finite portion of the sky.