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Titel: Das Gold des Meeres

Autor:: Daniel Wolf

Erzähler: Johannes Steck

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 14 hrs and 39 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-18-16

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Varennes-Saint-Jacques 1260: Die Gebrüder Fleury könnten verschiedener nicht sein. Während Michel das legendäre kaufmännische Talent seines Großvaters geerbt hat und das Handelsimperium der Familie ausbaut, träumt Balian von Ruhm und Ehre auf dem Schlachtfeld. Doch das Schicksal hat andere Pläne mit ihm. Nach dem Tod seines Bruders muss Balian die Geschäfte plötzlich allein führen. Es kommt, wie es kommen muss: Bald steht die Familie vor dem Ruin. Balian sieht nur noch eine Chance: Eine waghalsige Handelsfahrt soll ihn retten. Das Abenteuer führt ihn und seine Schwester Blanche bis ans Ende der bekannten Welt - und einer seiner Gefährten ist ein Mörder...

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Ein grandioses Mittelalter-Epos!

-- SWR

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Ein guter Abschluss

Der dritte Teil einer tollen Trilogie. Alle drei sind empfehlenswert. Die ersten zwei gefielen mir besser, aber dieses Buch war ein guter Abschluss dieser Familiensaga.

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Titolo: La spada di Macsen (L'Aquila e la Spada 2)

Autore: Alvaro Gradella

Narratore: Alvaro Gradella

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 3 hrs and 59 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 07-15-16

Editore: GoodMood

Categoria: Fiction, Historical

Riepilogo Editore:

Magno Massimo si insedia come Governatore della Britannia, ma l'Isola dei Potenti - come i Celti di quei luoghi amavano chiamarla - gli riserverà molte sorprese: dall'incontro con la nobile e bellissima Principessa Elain alla premonizione d'un destino eroico ed impensato, da strani e sconvolgenti sogni al riapparire di crudeli riti ancestrali, dal contatto con deità oscure e malvagie fino alla metamorfosi di un antico e dimenticato simulacro imperiale in una lama fatata e micidiale che verrà tramandata dai bardi come la Spada di Macsen; un'arma destinata - questo narreranno successivamente gli storiografi - ad essere impugnata nel futuro da un Re leggendario, che sarà amato e rimpianto come nessuno.

Grazie ad essa, Magno Massimo avvertirà la minaccia di una massiccia ed imminente invasione dei barbari del Nord: i brutali e feroci Pitti. Perciò, investito dell'autorità antica e unificatrice di Wledig (la Guida) dalle rissose genti britanne (che da allora lo chiameranno Macsen Wledig), preparerà un'operazione militare di "difesa preventiva" verso una delle più grandi costruzioni difensive mai erette dall'Uomo: il Vallo di Adriano.

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Titel: Die Seidendiebe

Autor:: Dirk Husemann

Erzähler: Peter Weiß

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 13 hrs and 33 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-14-16

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Den byzantinischen Spionen Taurus und Olympiodorus gelingt es, im fernen China das Geheimnis der Seidenproduktion zu lüften. Sie verstecken einige Seidenraupen in hohlen Wanderstöcken und treten mit der wertvollen Beute schleunigst den Rückweg über die zehntausend Kilometer lange Seidenstraße an. Doch chinesische Kaufleute, die ihr Seidenmonopol bedroht sehen, nehmen die Verfolgung auf. Bald hängt das Leben der beiden Byzantiner und ihrer geheimnisvollen Begleiterin Helian Cui am seidenen Faden.

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Titre: Maria, entre Tlemcen et Entre-Rios (Afrique du Nord 1)

Auteur: Michelle Pannetier-Alabert

Narrateur: Michelle Pannetier-Alabert

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 4 hrs and 41 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 07-12-16

Éditeur: Michelle Pannetier-Alabert

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Maria entre Tlemcen et Entre-Rios est un livre audio de la série Afrique du Nord, c'est une histoire de famille à la fin du XIXesiècle. Joseph émigre en Argentine mais il laisse son épouse Maria et ses cinq jeunes enfants à Tlemcen, en Algérie. Maria aura-t-elle le courage de le rejoindre en dépit des conditions d'une traversée périlleuse vers un nouveau monde inconnu? Maria était une femme forte comme il en existait à cette époque et la vie en Algérie était douce et facile en 1881. Joseph fera-t-il fortune dans son nouvel Eldorado? Se rejoindront-ils? Vous retrouverez dans ce roman des rappels de la Grande Histoire de l'Algérie, de l'Argentine et aussi de la France en fonction des lieux où se trouve cette famille. Faites ce grand voyage avec eux.

Michelle Pannetier-Alabert, auteure et narratrice, est une conseillère de chambre régionale des comptes en retraite. Après de longues années consacrées au droit et aux finances publiques, elle a décidé de tourner une page pour en ouvrir une autre, celle de la littérature et plus particulièrement l'écriture de romans historiques. Née au Maroc, elle est attirée par l'Afrique du Nord et elle s'interroge sur la période coloniale. Maria, entre Tlemcen et Entre-Rios est le premier tome d'une série intitulée Afrique du Nord, le second tome, Casablanca, ville nouvelle, se passe au Maroc au début du XXe siècle, le troisième tome, Une jeunesse dans le Tumulte est en cours d'écriture et relate la période de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Chaque tome peut se lire indépendamment des autres.

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Algeria was not the best place to live for someone from Spanish decent

The book helps you understand the period that the author is writing about. The story is of a family that struggles for survival in Algeria and in Rio. This really spoke to me about the Female position during that time Maria was left alone to struggle in Algeria while her husband Joseph looks for work and try's to rebuild their lives in Rio. Algeria was not the best place to live for someone from Spanish decent. The trip alone took months and then the struggle to survive. This part of history is almost forgotten and it is good to talk and tell the story out. Enjoyed the book.

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Titre: Casablanca, ville nouvelle (Afrique du Nord 2)

Auteur: Michelle Pannetier-Alabert

Narrateur: Michelle Pannetier-Alabert

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 4 hrs and 53 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 07-12-16

Éditeur: Michelle Pannetier-Alabert

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Au début du XXe siècle, la ville de Casablanca attire les Français en masse. S'agit-il de migrants ou de colonisateurs ? Les aventuriers s'y installent, les hommes d'affaires spéculent, les soldats "pacifient" et l'armée d'Afrique est mobilisée pour la Grande Guerre. Le développement de la ville est aussi rapide que spectaculaire. Les familles Daulpies, Belise, Sontes, Gelosa et Campero vont vivre cette épopée.

Michelle Pannetier-Alabert est une conseillère de Chambre régionale des comptes, en retraite depuis 2012. Elle est née au Maroc et vit actuellement en Provence. Son roman, Maria, entre Tlemcen et Entre-Rios est le premier tome premier tome d'une série, intitulée Afrique du Nord dont l'action se passe en Algérie à la fin du XIXe siècle. Dans le second tome, Casablanca, ville nouvelle qui peut être lu indépendamment du premier, une partie de la famille Campero se retrouve au Maroc de 1907 à 1928 et elle y côtoie de nouveaux personnages, arrivés de France, pour une deuxième aventure. Un troisième tome est en cours d'écriture : l'action se passe au Maroc dans la période 1938-1947.

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Title: Luck of the Draw

Author: William Scott Morrison

Narrator: William Scott Morrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-16

Publisher: Castalia Communications

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the baseball playgrounds of Little League in the conservative 50s, through the Summer of Love and the radical 60s, to the last days of the Vietnam War, Luck of the Draw is the story of four idealistic boomers coming of age while looking for love and trying to change the world. Theirs is the story of what it was like to be young during that turbulent time of Cold War paranoia, political assassinations, the fight for civil rights, counter-culture hippies, the sexual revolution, women's liberation, military conscription, televised war, massive anti-war protests, and of course, sex and drugs and the greatest rock 'n' roll.

Luck of the Draw is a companion novel to The Energy Caper, or Nixon in the Sky with Diamonds, in which the same characters live and love in an alternate universe where there was no Vietnam War, the Kennedys and Martin Luther King were not killed, and find themselves helping a "good" Richard Nixon in his fight to make America energy independent.

Members Reviews:

A Great Story that Captures a Piece of History

Scott Morrison is a great story teller and having listened to an audio version of this book I ordered the Kindle version as soon as I learned it was available. If you lived through the 1950s, and 70s, Luck of the Draw will resonate with your memories of the times and the social angst of the Vietnam War. If you are not old enough this book will acquaint you with a time and a culture thatâs hard to understand, unless you were there. Morrison captures the time and feelings with great characterization and great insight of an era that is gone, but should not be forgotten. If you listen to audio books you will want to add this one to your collection. Itâs rare for an author to narrate their own book and rarer still to do it with so much infectious enthusiasm and animation. In any venue, The Luck of the Draw is a pleasurable experience. Highly recommended.

A Timely Read

Timely, serious, humorous and entertaining, a human perspective on four wonderful characters, living in an era of unpopular war, a growing demand for human rights, and the beginning of the generation-long end of the so-called "good old days"--a process still playing out in the divided American presidential election of 2016.

Two young women beat the odds and fall in love with them

Morrison's well-paced novel has the humor and pathos of the 1960s. Two young men beat the odds and survive the Viet Nam War. Two young women beat the odds and fall in love with them. Morrison's novel shines a light on an era where just about anything and everything did happen. Music is often the medium that forges the path ahead.

Review by Bill McCausland. William Scott Morrison exquisitely constructed ...

Review by Bill McCausland. William Scott Morrison exquisitely constructed The Luck of the Draw. The novel elegantly tracts the developmental evolution of the characters that shows their complexities. A strong element of the book is also how Morrison handles conflict, which is extremely well balanced. One main character, Arty McGill, contracts with the military to be an MP in trade for not being sent to Vietnam, yet because he participates in his First Amendment right to speak of peace in from of an enormous crowd, the military sends him to Vietnam which seemingly violates his contract. He fights it along with his girlfriend who is in law school, but the military dismisses his attempts.

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Titel: Das Blausteintuch (Das Blausteintuch 1): Ein Renaissance-Roadmovie

Autor:: Serotonin

Erzähler: Stefan Kaminski

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 16 hrs and 5 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-07-16

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Dieses Buch ist eine Odyssee, ein Abenteuerroman, eine mittelalterliche Saga und ein Renaissance-Roadmovie, es erzählt die gefahrvolle Reise des Carlos Karge Dinarese, die vom Balkan über das Osmanische Reich bis nach Venedig führt.Spätmittelalter in Rumelien, Schlachtfeld der osmanischen Invasion gen Westen, Heere und Kulturen prallen aufeinander.

Karge, ein Bauernsohn und Außenseiter, fällt eines Tages der "Knabenlese" zum Opfer und wird aus seiner Heimat gen Osten verschleppt. Doch das Unglück entpuppt sich als Segen, denn für Karge beginnt eine Reise in ein gänzlich anderes Leben: Er schließt echte Freundschaften, sieht sein erstes Kamel, lernt die wunderbaren Gärten jener Feinde kennen, die ihn raubten. Er hat Glück mit seinem neuen Herren und findet in dessen Haus den Zugang zu Büchern und Bildung.

Selbst die neuerliche Vertreibung aus Bursa und seine Flucht über das Meer nach Venedig können den jungen Mann nicht aufhalten. Als Karge jedoch seine Chance ergreift, die fest gefügte Ordnung der Serenissima mit seinen neuen Ideen zu durchbrechen, ruft er den Zorn der Kirche und des Adels auf sich. Ein tödliches Spiel beginnt...

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Title: If I Could Tell You

Author: Elizabeth Wilhide

Narrator: Lucy Price-Lewis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-16

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Suffolk, 1939: Julia Compton has a beautifully well-ordered life. Once a promising musician, she now has a handsome husband who pays the bills, a young son she adores and a housekeeper who takes care of her comfortable home.

Then, on the eve of war, something unexpected happens. She falls in love.

Cut off from family and friends, Julia loses everything. Penniless and denied access to her son, she is cast adrift in wartime London with her bohemian filmmaker lover, Dougie. As invasion looms and the bombs rain down, her struggle is only beginning. Before long, ruined and broken, she faces a choice - succumb to her fate or fight to forge a new identity in the heat of war.

Members Reviews:

Interesting view of WW2

When I began this book I wasn't sure if I was going to get on with it, but as I read on I started to really enjoy it. As I read the last page I felt that I knew the characters and became concerned for their welfare. Which I believe says it was a good book!

Slow....

The story moved very slowly....made it difficult to stay engaged. Very little information and details about the actual war happenings and effects.

Absorbing

We're in England. It's 1939 and war is going to break out at any moment. Julia Compton is comfortably married. Her adored only child, Peter, attends Boarding School. She has a housekeeper to take care of all things domestic. Her life is privileged and easy. Then one day, when out with a friend, she meets Dougie, a documentary maker. As the French would say, it's a "coup de foudre" - an instant attraction that leads to an affair. An affair which leads to the end of her marriage and suddenly Julia is navigating her way through very unfamiliar territory. Cut off from her child and her income, living in the heart of the Blitz, realising how little she really knows the man she fell for.

I have never read any other books by Elizabeth Wilhide but wow, she can write. Her writing style is reminiscent of Helen Dunmore or Kate Atkinson, which is high praise. I was sucked into this story. I enjoyed the subtle humour and I thought the way it brought the realities of wartime London to life was masterful. One of the things I liked about the writing is the way that things aren't necessarily spelled out for us. It's not one of those books where you know exactly what people are thinking or can predict where the plot is going to take you.

I notice that some reviews of this book complain that there isn't enough of a plot and in a way I can see where they are coming from but I didn't feel that it was an issue. To me, it's about a woman being forced to grow up at a time when the war brought opportunities for women that they had never had before. My only significant complaint is that Dougie was such an unattractive and self-centered character that it was hard to understand why Julia would have fallen so heavily for him - but lust is like that, isn't it, it's not rational nor sensible. I really enjoyed this and it was very close to being a five star read for me.

Underwhelming, predictable novel that's missing character development and a sense of momentum

Julia Compton seems to have it all -- a handsome husband (so handsome that she occasionally forgets that he actually looks like a matinée idol, she muses, early on in this novel) and a delightful young son, off at boarding school.

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Title: Wilson's Wall

Author: Albert Ruggiero

Narrator: Mike Vendetti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-16

Publisher: Albert Ruggiero

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Sergeant Burton, a large barrel-chested man, grabbed Lawrence and was choking him. The war seeped into their everyday lives; conflicts they were in during the war were brought back home.

Members Reviews:

Serious Topic, Flat Story

PTSD is a debilitating disease. I have known quite a few who suffer(ed) from it. So when I found this novel set in my home state I thought I'd give it a try. The story opens with the return home of Lawrence Ellsworth who along with his Sarge, a rough man named Burton, arrive at the farm in Connecticut where Lawrence grew up. They pair have traveled far from the battlefields of the War of Southern Secession (Civil War). Waiting to greet them is Abigail, the love of Lawrence's life, whom he shortly marries. The two have a very colorful past. As anyone would expect, there is a period of adjustment upon the return from any combat but everyday things seem to trigger episodes for Lawrence that hearken back to the battlefield. The questions he asks himself, "What's wrong with me?" "Why am I like this?" "What demons are living within me?" all lead to violent outbursts and soon cause his wife to live in fear. Will Lawrence conquer those demons and how will he accomplish that?

This story is full of unrealized potential. It barely skims the surface of the problem. As we now know, PTSD is a life-long affliction that can be controlled to some degree with medication. But the flareups arrive without warning leaving the sufferer as well as those around him/her at a loss. In the era of Wilson's Wall, it was believed that love would conquer all. Each of the incidents that occurs within the story could have been elaborated on a bit more. The characters are one-dimensional at best. It was like watching cardboard cutouts of people move through the scenes with little to no emotion, spouting every cliche imaginable. The scenes were mostly flat. What could have been a 5-star novel rates only 2.5 stars (no option for that so I went with 2 stars). Would like to see this book be edited better and expanded.

Great read and historically accurate

Great read and historically accurate. Definitely explores the issues of PTSD that the Civil War soldiers went through which in their time was misunderstood.

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Title: Unwilling Warrior: A Novelette from World War II

Subtitle: Adventures of a Baby Boomer, Book 1

Author: Thomas Shaw

Narrator: Thomas Shaw

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-16

Publisher: ACX

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Patton's fast moving troops caused more trouble than just for the enemy. This novelette is about a young man just about to graduate from college, but is drafted into the United States Army and sent to the European theater and goes on a mission that gets caught up in the Fog of War.

Part 2 is a true story about a murder trial that I was involved in and how it ended up having two juries, which was very strange.

Part 3 is another true story about Sanctuary Cities and how I witnessed the first government-sanctioned city way back in 1977. This proves the adage that, "If we don't learn from history, we will be doomed to repeat it."