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Title: Pocahontas

Author: Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye, Shauna Zurbrugg - adaption

Narrator: Melissa Manchester

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-17

Publisher: Raffin

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In this true and historical story, the colonization of the New World - which was filled with danger, sacrifice, adventure, and drama - serves as the backdrop for the legendary Indian princess' compassionate acts of bravery and personal risk.

Members Reviews:

Melissa Manchester -- this Pocahantas is great!

Real history, drama, music...No wonder my kids love to play this tape again and again.

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Title: The Girls of Ennismore

Author: Patricia Falvey

Narrator: Caroline Lennon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-17

Publisher: Soundings

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Victoria Bell and Rosie Killeen are best friends. Growing up in rural Ireland's County Mayo, their friendship is forged against the glorious backdrop of Ennismore House. However, Victoria, born of the aristocracy, and Rosie, daughter of a local farmer, both find that the disparity of their class and the simmering social tension in Ireland will push their friendship to the brink....

Both girls leave the idyllic Ennismore of their childhood to move to the gritty, politically charged streets of Dublin. On the cusp of the Easter Rising and the impending First World War, each girl finds herself deeply involved in the fray while immersed in forbidden romance.

Members Reviews:

A wonderful read with a feel of Downton Abbey...

Patricia Falvey

Kensington Books, March 2017

448 pages, ebook, hardcover, paperback, audiobook, MP3 CD

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This was purchased at the current price and is being given an honest review. I am not being compensated in any way.

Womenâs Lit, Family Stories, Historical

Iâve read reviews that compare this book to Downton Abbey, and there is a feel to it, but to me itâs only because they both take place at the same time and both involve the landed gentry and the servants who wait on them. This book is so Irish, you just canât compare it to DA. This does tell the story of both sets of people, but itâs so wrapped in Irelandâs history that it canât be separated from that.

Itâs 1900 and 8 year-old Rosie is walking to the Big House barefoot in a new dress to start lessons with the lordâs daughter, Victoria. Just before she gets to the door, she takes her shoes out of her pocket and puts them on. She isnât happy about leaving her own school and all her friends to come here. Her sister, Bridie, is a maid here and is very angry at her about this. Rosie is sure the other servants will feel the same way. Once she gets into the schoolroom, things donât get any better. Itâs plain that Lady Louisa, the governess and aunt of Victoria, her 7 year-old benefactor, doesnât want her there. She wants nothing to do with teaching a servantâs child. Lady Louisa is very strict and lays down very harsh and confining rules for the two girls to make it as hard as possible for any friendship to grow between them. Or for Rosie to get to know anyone else in the family closely. But Victoria has been so lonely and wants this so much that the friendship grows nonetheless. The young girls learn their lessons and eventually become young ladies of their times. At 17, itâs time for Victoria to be presented to society. But Lady Louisa and Victoriaâs mother refuse to have anything to do with presenting Rosie. The first time the two sisters-in-law are on the same side of any issue. So the two girls are parted. Victoria to Dublin for her coming out and Rosie home to try to earn money to help support her family.

Bridieâs health causes her to collapse and her job is in danger. Rosie is sent to the Big House again, but this time as a maid to keep Bridieâs job. No one is nice about this belowstairs. And Rosie is totally embarrassed when Valentine, Victoriaâs brother, discovers her change of status one day as she scrubbs the floor on her knees.

Iâm not going to give you the whole story in my own words. This was a really good read. The author provided some questions for discussion at the end of the book. Some of them I felt were worth mentioning.

Courage.

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Title: To Capture What We Cannot Keep

Author: Beatrice Colin

Narrator: Charlotte Strevens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-17

Publisher: Soundings

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata becomes clear.

Cait is a widow, forced to chaperone two wealthy Scottish charges. Emile is expected to take on the bourgeois stability of his family's business and choose a suitable wife. As the Eiffel Tower rises, a marvel of steel and air and light, Cait and Emile must decide what their love is worth.

Seamlessly weaving historical detail and vivid invention, Beatrice Colin evokes the revolutionary time in which Cait and Emile live - one of corsets and secret trysts, strict tradition and Impressionist experimentation.

Members Reviews:

Another brilliant book from Beatrice Colin

This book has an interesting background of the building of the Eiffel Tower. I am not a fan of historical romance, and to categorise this book as such would certainly be a disservice. Beatrice has skilfully woven together accurate historical fact, real characters, accurate descriptions of places from Greenock Esplanade, Glasgow districts, Parisian arrondissements to Panama and Africa - and all via the Tay Bridge Disaster. It all coalesces to form this engrossing fictional read. Very cleverly done - thank you Beatrice.

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Title: All True Not a Lie in It

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Alix Hawley

Narrator: Jesse Einstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-31-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The story of pioneer Daniel Boone's life, told in his voice - a tall tale like no other, startling, funny, poignant, romantic and brawling - set during the American Revolutionary War.

Here is Daniel Boone as you've never seen him: debut novelist Alix Hawley presents Boone's life, from his childhood in a Quaker colony through two stints captured by Indians as he attempted to settle Kentucky, the death of a son at the hands of the same Indians, and the rescue of a daughter. The prose rivals Hilary Mantel's and Peter Carey's, conveying that sense of being inside the head of a storied historical figure about which much nonsense is spoken while also feeling completely contemporary.

Boone was a fabulous hunter and explorer and a "white Indian", perhaps happiest when he found a place as the captive, adopted son of a chief who was trying to prevent the white settlement of Kentucky. Hawley takes us intimately into the life-and-death survival of people pushing away from security and into Indian lands, despite sense and treaties, just before and into the War of Independence.

The love story between Boone and his wife, Rebecca, is rich and tangled, but mostly it's Boone who fascinates, pushing into places where he imagines he can create a new "clean" world, only to find death and trouble and complication. He is a fabulous character, unrivaled in North American literature and a prime candidate for the tall tale. The storytelling is taut and expert, the descriptions rich and powerful, the prose full of feeling, but Boone is what drives this outstanding debut.

Members Reviews:

Clever dialogue!

This is clever book with sharp and clever dialogue. For a first book, it is unique. I do hope the author gets deeper into the historical facts in her next book. I would like to know more of the land and the tracking, etc. This is a quick read and runs quickly in Boone's life. Daniel isn't a very deep thinker in the novel. There is a lot of reflection on people gone from his life. The book left me with a lot of questions. I definitely look forward to the author's next book and expect more growth and deeper development of the characters. The book deserves an A+

Lossful life

This is a compelling story that had me wondering what really happened to Daniel Boone. Even after reading more about him outside the story, I am still faced with this story of a man who endured loss of those he loved, who remade his life over and over in the image of the open land and its peoples, who wants to be with those he lost. It is about the inner life of such a restless man.

A little upset at this book

I have waited for some time before writing a review of this book. First of all, I admire anyone who can take words out of thin air and his or her own creativity to write and publish a book, but I was very troubled by this book. Not a lie in it? Perhaps more fabrication and imagination. I got out all of my bios and other books about Boone just to try to verify some of the flights of fancy in it. Morgan Bryan was my 4th Great Grandfather, and the story about him taking his family back into NC due to Indian troubles was one that I had never run across before. He was in his 90âs and I doubt that he was in any shape to take that perilous trek back to NC at that time. Once was enough. He died in 1763 at 92, long before Boone had been to Kentucky or captured.

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Title: All True Not a Lie in It

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Alix Hawley

Narrator: Jesse Einstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The story of pioneer Daniel Boone's life, told in his voice - a tall tale like no other, startling, funny, poignant, romantic, and brawling - set during the American Revolutionary War.

Here is Daniel Boone as you've never seen him. Debut novelist Alix Hawley presents Boone's life, from his childhood in a Quaker colony, through two stints captured by Indians as he attempted to settle Kentucky, the death of a son at the hands of the same Indians, and the rescue of a daughter. The prose rivals Hilary Mantel's and Peter Carey's, conveying that sense of being inside the head of a storied historical figure about which much nonsense is spoken while also feeling completely contemporary.

Boone was a fabulous hunter and explorer, and a "white Indian", perhaps happiest when he found a place as the captive, adopted son of a chief who was trying to prevent the white settlement of Kentucky. Hawley takes us intimately into the life-and-death survival of people pushing away from security and into Indian lands, despite sense and treaties, just before and into the War of Independence.

The love story between Boone and his wife, Rebecca, is rich and tangled, but mostly it's Boone who fascinates, pushing into places where he imagines he can create a new "clean" world, only to find death and trouble and complication. He is a fabulous character, unrivaled in North American literature, and a prime candidate for the tall tale. The storytelling is taut and expert, the descriptions rich and powerful, the prose full of feeling, but Boone is what drives this outstanding debut.

Members Reviews:

Clever dialogue!

This is clever book with sharp and clever dialogue. For a first book, it is unique. I do hope the author gets deeper into the historical facts in her next book. I would like to know more of the land and the tracking, etc. This is a quick read and runs quickly in Boone's life. Daniel isn't a very deep thinker in the novel. There is a lot of reflection on people gone from his life. The book left me with a lot of questions. I definitely look forward to the author's next book and expect more growth and deeper development of the characters. The book deserves an A+

Lossful life

This is a compelling story that had me wondering what really happened to Daniel Boone. Even after reading more about him outside the story, I am still faced with this story of a man who endured loss of those he loved, who remade his life over and over in the image of the open land and its peoples, who wants to be with those he lost. It is about the inner life of such a restless man.

A little upset at this book

I have waited for some time before writing a review of this book. First of all, I admire anyone who can take words out of thin air and his or her own creativity to write and publish a book, but I was very troubled by this book. Not a lie in it? Perhaps more fabrication and imagination. I got out all of my bios and other books about Boone just to try to verify some of the flights of fancy in it. Morgan Bryan was my 4th Great Grandfather, and the story about him taking his family back into NC due to Indian troubles was one that I had never run across before. He was in his 90âs and I doubt that he was in any shape to take that perilous trek back to NC at that time. Once was enough. He died in 1763 at 92, long before Boone had been to Kentucky or captured.

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Title: The Companion

Author: Sarah Dunnakey

Narrator: Mike Rogers, Sherry Baines

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-17

Publisher: Orion

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The Companion is a beautiful and powerfully told story of buried secrets, set between the 1930s and the present day on the wild Yorkshire moors.

Billy Shaw lives in a palace. Potter's Pleasure Palace, the best entertainment venue in Yorkshire, complete with dancing and swing-boats and picnickers and a roller-skating rink. Jasper Harper lives in the big house above the valley, with his eccentric mother, Edie, and Uncle Charles, brother and sister authors who have come from London to write in the seclusion of the moors. When it is arranged for Billy to become Jasper's companion, Billy arrives to find a wild, peculiar boy in a curiously haphazard household where nothing that's meant is said and the air is thick with secrets. Later, when Charles and Edie are found dead, it is ruled a double suicide, but fictions have become tangled up in facts, and it's left to Anna Sallis, almost a century later, to unravel the knots and piece together the truth.

Read by Sherry Baines and Mike Rogers.

Members Reviews:

Iâm thrilled I had the opportunity to read The Companion.

I was fortunate enough to be sent a hardback copy of The Companion and to me that has added to the atmospheric feel of the entire novel. The cover is haunting and the story that unravels within the pages intriguing.

This is told via two timelines .. Billy the young lad in the 1930âs is an absolute delight and I immediately fell under the spell of his Yorkshire dialect. He is from a poor family, his Ma and sisters run the tearooms at the old mill which has been altered into an entertainment palace. His life changes when he is chosen to be a companion for a rather objectionable boy, Jasper. Jasper freaked me out a bit with his obsession with traps and dead things. Just imagine a creepy child out on the bleak and misty moor .. get the idea?

Jasperâs mother Edie and her brother Charles are both authors .. until tragedy strikes.

Anna voices the present day story as she begins to research the past in her role as custodian of the museum. So many files, documents etc need sorting, a daunting task. But as she unearths the deaths of the two authors questions are asked and secrets revealed.

I liked the way the whole history is explored, the wonderfully descriptive writing means there is a sense of tension but also the appropriateness of the time period. This moves along at a steady pace, slightly mysterious but also a saga involving the families. The whole area is bought to life and you find yourself absorbed along with Anna trying to fix the pieces together. Some social taboos of the era add to the misunderstandings. As generations progress the truth has to be revealed.

I enjoyed this, the alternating timelines worked well, sometimes there can be such a stark difference that it makes it awkward to shift focus but The Companion reads smoothly. My favourite segments were Billyâs though, he really captivated me as a boy.

Iâm thrilled I had the opportunity to read The Companion and to be a part of the blog tour .. my thanks to the author and publisher for my copy which I read and reviewed voluntarily.

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Title: The Waves's Legacy

Author: David Baer

Narrator: Steve White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-17

Publisher: David Baer

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It was the most marvelous ship ever built, over four 4000 men labored for months creating the stunning beauty, RMS Phoenix, an elegant cruise liner that could carry at least a few thousand people. The destination on her maiden voyage, to the wet, dark, town of Blackpool, England. Her captain, Jack Perry, was a seasoned veteran of over 20 years and navigated the open waters of the North Atlantic. With his second in command, Alex Burrows, at his side, the two knew they could make the Phoenix the greatest passenger ship ever made. However, little did they know, there was an evil lurking in the dark depths, determined to not only destroy their ship and dreams, but their very lives as well.

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Titel: Legenden des Krieges: Das blutige Schwert (Thomas Blackstone 1)

Autor:: David Gilman

Erzähler: Wolfgang Berger

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 18 hrs and 3 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-21-17

Herausgeber: Audiobuch Verlag OHG

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

England, 1346. Der junge Steinmetz Thomas Blackstone wird vor die Wahl gestellt: Entweder der Tod durch den Strick - für einen Mord, den er nicht begangen hat. Oder er schließt sich der englischen Armee an, für die König Edward dringend weitere Bogenschützen sucht. Die Entscheidung fällt ihm nicht schwer. Doch in der Normandie lernt Thomas die bittere Realität des Krieges kennen. Ritterlichkeit ist ein Kodex für bessere Zeiten. Gnade gibt es nicht - schon gar nicht in der Schlacht von Crécy, dem blutigen Kessel des Hundertjährigen Krieges.

©2017 rororo (P)2017 Audiobuch Verlag OHG

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Title: The Esquimaux

Author: Tom Tivnan

Narrator: Thomas Judd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The North Atlantic, 1816. John Sackhouse, a native Greenlander, drifts in his canoe perilously close to death. He is rescued by a passing whaler whose captain, the enigmatic Owen Chase, believes John is a gift from God destined to lead his ship to untold riches.

But the ship's crew do not trust John and decide he must be done away with - until a spectacular event changes everything. Soon the ship is bound for the bustling port of Nantucket, where John must learn to cope with his celebrity status and the strange customs of a new land.

Then he meets Owen's wife, the beautiful and bold Isobel, and, to his dismay, falls for her. As this love triangle intensifies, John also finds himself entangled in the murderous intrigue of rival whaleship companies. And beneath it all is the dark secret of John's past.

Inspired by the incredible true story of John Sackhouse, The Esquimaux is a thrilling and unforgettable novel about greed and lust and the difficulties of love, friendship and acceptance.

Members Reviews:

Interesting historical detail. Meandering story...

I did manage to get to the end of this book but I have to admit it was a struggle especially when, after an exhilarating start, the main character hit dry land and everything fell into the doldrums. What I did like was the historical detail about Nantucket and the way author brought into perspective the lives of the sailors and the toll their long and frequent absences took on their long suffering spouses. What made me squirm was the way the author wrote about sex. Was he intentionally being farcical with some of the scenes? I couldn't quite work it out, but it didn't seem to sit right with the general atmosphere of the story. I also found the way the story skipped backwards and forwards in time, incredibly confusing and I wish the hands of a very strong and determined editor had been involved. Overall I would say this is an interesting rather than good book but I would be interested in reading more from this author as he does seem to have potential.

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Titel: Medici: Das Blut der Königin (Die Medici 3)

Autor:: Matteo Strukul

Erzähler: Johannes Steck

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 8 hrs and 40 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-17-17

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Der abschließende Band um die Familiendynastie.

Die Medici - keine andere Familiendynastie prägte die Geschicke von Florenz, Italien und der ganzen damaligen Welt: Cosimo, der Gründer des Imperiums und Förderer der Kunst. Lorenzo, der geschickte Politiker und talentierte Bankier. Und Catarina, die Frau Heinrichs II. und Königin von Frankreich. Doch auch Intrigen, Morde und Machthunger prägten das Bild der Medici, um die Vorherrschaft in Italien zu erlagen.

Die große historische Trilogie schildert Aufstieg und Fall der berühmten italienischen Dynastie.

©2017 Goldmann Verlag, München. Übersetzung von Christine Heinzius und Ingrid Exo (P)2017 der Hörverlag