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Title: The Essex Serpent

Author: Sarah Perry

Narrator: Juanita McMahon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-16

Publisher: Lamplight Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

London 1893: When Cora Seaborne and her son Francis reach Essex, rumours spread from further up the estuary that the mythical Essex Serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming lives, has returned to the coastal parish of Aldwinter. Cora, a keen amateur naturalist is enthralled, convinced that it may be a previously undiscovered species.

As she sets out on its trail she meets William Ransome, Aldwinter's vicar. They find themselves inexorably drawn together and torn apart, eventually changing each other's lives in ways entirely unexpected.

Critic Reviews:

"One of the most memorable historical novels of the past decade." (Sunday Times)

"The Essex Serpent is a novel to relish: a work of great intelligence and charm, by a hugely talented author." (Sarah Waters)

Members Reviews:

Magnificent!

Which character as performed by Juanita McMahon was your favorite?

Wil Ransom.

Any additional comments?

This book bursts with colour, creativity, passion, history, intelligence, unique characters, and strong women. Perry is obviously an extremely learned writer, and one who is no less engaging for being so. I am totally flabbergasted at the negative reviews here. This is something bordering on a masterpiece; we don't often see such novels written these days. At its heart is a meditation on faith and reason, which might sound boring, but Perry truly makes it fascinating, seamlessly embedding it within the interactions between characters as she does. If it makes a difference to potential readers, I love both contemporary and classical fiction. I enjoyed the first half, but don't think I was completely hooked until the second. It was definitely worth hanging in there. There are some truly breathtaking passages especially towards the end of the novel. Enjoy!

Good Story Let Down by Poor Performance

This is a general plea to the producers and narrators of audiobooks: a book is not a screenplay, and reading a book is not an enactment of a play. So why, oh why, must narrators insist on acting out a book? Juanita McMahon has a lovely reading voice: articulate, gentle and almost perfect. But what possesses her to portray every male character as a blustering buffoon or every female one a simpering simpleton, I do not know. It ruins the book. We are not children in need of the acting out of stories (for that I turn to the theatre or to television). We simple want a story beautifully told. I'm only half-way through the book and I am truly interested in the story but I don't think I can carry on. This is the third audio book in a row where I've encountered this problem. So I beg you, fine ladies and gentlemen of audio-land, please stop.

An Authentic Voice

Beautifully written, with fully fledged characters, a wholly believable plot and the perfect narrator, makes this book stand head and shoulders above the crowd. Sarah Perry has a gift, a special gift that means she really can paint pictures, induce smells, bring forth the tactile nature of her novels like few others can. I just loved it.

Give me the book!

This is an excellent book crammed with characters, history, myth, relationships and nineteenth century concerns from scientific discoveries to poverty and marriage.

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Title: Monte Cassino (Sven Hassel-serien 6)

Author: Sven Hassel

Narrator: Martin Halland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-16

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Monte Cassino, det heliga berget norr om Neapel, var en naturlig observationspunkt. Sluttningarna, mindre höjder och dalen framför hade av tyskarna byggts ut till en av världens mest respektingivande försvarsställningar. Slaget om Monte Cassino vintern och vren 1944 var ett obeskrivligt helvete for bde anfallare och försvarare. De allierade satte in allt vad de hade av flyg, artilleri, pansar och infanteri frn mnga nationer och bland de tyska styrkorna stred de främsta elitförbanden. Hit for ocks författaren Sven Hassel med sitt 27:e pansarstraffregemente. De förväntades inte överleva - men ngra gjorde det.

Sven Hassel är pseudonym fr Brge W. R. Pedersen, som skapade karaktären Sven Hassel, författare och krigsveteran: Sven Hassels böcker följer en sammansvetsad grupp soldater under större delen av kriget - soldater som tvngskommenderats till tyska krigsmaktens straffregemente. De tvingas utkämpa ett krig ingen av dem tror p. F författare har som Hassel s närgnget och med en s bister realism fngat andra världskrigets brutala verklighet och soldaternas illusionslösa, grovkorniga humor.

©2016 SAGA Egmont (P)2016 SAGA Egmont

Critic Reviews:

I niv med Homeros skildring av det trojanska kriget.

-- Neue Zeitung, Tyskland

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Title: As Good as Gone

Author: Larry Watson

Narrator: Richard Poe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-16

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The American West is best-selling author Larry Watson's forte, and in this, his tenth novel, he has created his most vivid, genuine antihero yet in Calvin Sidey, a man stuck in a myth.

Calvin Sidey - steely, hardened, with his own personal code - is one of the last cowboys. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a trailer on the prairie when his adult son, Bill, seeks his help. A mostly absentee father and grandfather, Calvin nevertheless agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his son's house in the small town where he once was a mythic figure, and soon enough problems arise: A boy's attentions to 17-year-old Ann are increasingly aggressive, and a group of reckless kids portend danger for 11-year-old Will.

Calvin knows only one way to solve a problem: the Old West way, in which ultimatums are issued and your gun is always loaded. In the changing culture of the 1960s, Calvin isn't just a relic; he's a wild card. At the same time, his old-school ways exert a powerful effect on those around him, from widowed neighbor Beverly Lodge, who feels herself falling for him and wants to be part of his life, to his grandchildren. Ann and Will see in their grandfather a man who brings a sudden, if shocking, order to their lives, as Calvin terrorizes those who have often terrorized them.

With the crisp, restrained prose for which Larry Watson is revered, As Good as Gone is a story of a man increasingly at odds with the world. This is Larry Watson at his best.

Members Reviews:

Tops in My Book!

Larry Watson is my favorite author so perhaps I'm not looking at this from a fair point of view. That being said, this book is fantastic. The story keeps you interested and wanting more. The thing that amazes me the most about his writing is that he is very descriptive, but he manages to do this in a way that is enjoyable and not just something you have to wade through. I just wish it wasn't such a long time between his book releases, but perhaps to attain his quality, this is necessary.

A great read. Michael Tidemann Adjunct instructor

Deep characters

Ernest Hemingway spoke of characters as being the tip of the iceberg. In Larry Watson, we see the entire iceberg. His characters are deeply complex, and brimming with emotion. However, Watson's characters are by no means maudlin, something that could happen to this story if it were in the hands of a far less-skilled writer.

I had actually expected a darker ending to the story which, to me at least, ended on a somewhat higher note. And the character that seems a villain at first ends up being the hero in a roundabout way.

Watson reminds me of the late Larry Brown's Joe or David Rhodes' Driftless in that a shiftless character of questionable morals rises to the occasion when his personal values are challenged. A great read.

Michael Tidemann

Adjunct instructor, Buena Vista University

Author, Doomsday: A tale of cyber terror

Classic Watson. Very highly recommended

I've been a Larry Watson fan for close to twenty years now. Regrettably, I haven't read all of his books, but have read five - MONTANA 1948, JUSTICE, WHITE CROSSES, ORCHARD, and AMERICAN BOY. Every one was simply terrific. And AS GOOD AS GONE, his latest, has not changed my opinion of Watson in the least.

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Title: The Keeper of Secrets

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Julie Thomas

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In 1939 Berlin, 18-year-old Simon Horowitz's world is stirred by his father's 1742 Guarneri del Gesu violin. When Nazis march across Europe and Simon is sent to Dachau, he finds unexpected kindness, and a chance to live.

In the present day, orchestra conductor Rafael Gomez finds himself inspired by Daniel Horowitz, a 14-year-old violin virtuoso who refuses to play. When Rafael learns that the boy's family once owned a precious violin believed to have been lost forever, Rafael seizes the power of history and discovers a family story like no other.

Members Reviews:

The violin

I liked the book very much. It has well developed characterization, suspense, mystery but parts that are tragic. It tells about a boy and his love for the violin, and his passion for baseball.This conflict of not being allowed to have both forces him to choose, which begins a long journey for him as he learns about his grandfather and great grandfather's life before and during their time in the concentration camp, These two people are great violinists, the younger one, Simon, is only a young teenager at the time. Other very important players are vital in this story as a particular violin is recognized by one while being played at an international competition. Amonst the horror of some, there are great and caring personalities and you will immediately recognize some of them at first and others later.

Okay for $1.99 but I certainly wouldn't pay more

The story is relatively good but I've read much better prose. What really got to me was the Russian names - if you are going to write a story with Russian characters then PLEASE get the names right. Once I came across the first misinterpretation of a Russian name, it threw me. Then I came across another and it was completely distracting. If you are not familiar with Russian names, then this won't bother you, but the this incorrect naming showed the author's lack of research when it comes to Russian names and it got to the point where I had to start skipping pages. It's like a British author who writes a book that takes place in America with American characters but uses British idioms throughout. The inaccuracy distracts from the story.

Love of music

I would recommend this book to others I happen to be drawn to the stories of hardship created by the holocaust. The history is the same but the stories of strength and survival are different and give encouragement to others .

Permeated with the Love of Music

The story of a boy, a family, and a violin. Well written and fascinating story that involved many unforgettable characters and locales - from Italy to Germany, Russia and the United States. the chapters leading up to and in the Concentration camps were difficult but important to read as they are essential to the story. A touch of mystery and suspense adds to the telling of the story. Music and the love of music permeates this book and the reader should listen to some wonderful music for the violin as she reads.

This is an interesting book written about a lost violin ...

This is an interesting book written about a lost violin, on the surface, but much deeper than that is the history of the treatment of Jews by Nazis in Germany, etc. Not a light read, but in the end a heartwarming story. The writing style is a sometimes confusing because of the way it jumps back in time to 1930's and then back the present, etc.

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Title: Fire and Sword

Subtitle: Throne of the Caesars, Book 3

Author: Harry Sidebottom

Narrator: Colin Mace

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-16

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The third book in Sidebottom's epic series set in third-century Rome - a dramatic era of murder, coup, counter-rebellions and civil war.

Critic Reviews:

Praise for Blood & Steel: "Absorbing, rich in detail and brilliant." (The Times)

Praise for Iron & Rust: "An amazing story of bloodlust, ruthless ambition and revenge." (The Times)

Praise for Harry Sidebottom: "Sidebottom's prose blazes with searing scholarship." (The Times)

"Superior fiction, with depth, authenticity and a sense of place." (TLS)

"A storming triumph...wonderful fight scenes, deft literary touches and salty dialogue." (Daily Telegraph)

Members Reviews:

Can't get enough

This series of books goes from strength to strength.Fire and Sword is by far the best to date.Quite literally a Game of Thrones.Looking forward to the next instalment.

Don't waste your time !

The Characters lacked formed story lines so that you neither cared or believed in their lives- pointless!

Having read all the other books very disappointed.

Front bottom !

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Title: Die verdwyning van Mina Afrika [The Disappearance of Mina Africa]

Author: Zuretha Roos, RSG, Eben Cruywagen - adaptation

Narrator: Simone Benjamin, De Klerk Oeloefse, Elanza Swart, Frieda van Heever, Waldi Schultz, Joel Liebenberg, Marcel van Heerden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-16

Publisher: Tafelberg

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Op winterdag in 1945 ontferm kinderlose blanke egpaar, Sara en Erik de Graaff, hulle oor driejarige halwe weeskind - Mina Afrika. Hulle wil haar graag kans in die lewe gee, haar fyn opvoed. Maar dadelik begin die gegis, die geskinder in die Hexvallei Want Mina se vel lyk soos koffie vol Jerseyroom. Soos die jare kom en gaan, bly sy hul "aanneemkind". Dit is die wyse, bejaarde Tietser Meraai wat meer soos ma vir haar is. Sy waarsku die pragtige, intelligente kind: Net een misstap en die blankes sal vinger wys en sê: Daar het die De Graaffs nou hulle loon. Wat het hulle in elk geval verwag van "hotnoskind", maak nie saak hoe goed sy "opgevoed" is nie. Dan, terwyl Mina nog vol ambisie haar toekoms beplan en haar drome met die bewonderende Boeta Bantjies deel, gebeur dié "misstap". Die verraderlike daad van ryk jong wit man dryf Mina weg uit die Vallei, laat haar beland in eindelose spiraal van bedrog. Lewe van vernedering in Groenpunt en tussen die bendes van Distrik Ses....

The full list of narrators includes: Simone Benjamin, De Klerk Oeloefse, Elanza Swart, Frieda van Heever, Waldi Schultz, Joel Liebenberg, Marcel van Heerden, Shirley Ellis, Juanita Swanepoel, Deidre Wolhuter, Brendan Daniels, and Zenobia Kloppers.

Please note: This audiobook is in Afrikaans.

Members Reviews:

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Die musiek tussen die hoofstukke raak te veel. Verder was dit 'n heerlike luisterboek. Geluk.

Mina Afrika - make it a movie !

I thoroughly enjoyed this book!

Die storie is boeiend en het my aandag behou. Die draaitjies en swaaitjies van Mina se storie is wonderlik aanmekaar gewerk en ek wens vir 'n opvolg om die res van haar storie te hoor!!

Great performances from all involved! Loved it!

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Title: Escape

Subtitle: The Asian Saga, Book 7

Author: James Clavell

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When the shah is thrown out of Iran, the nation's turmoil becomes world headlines. Caught in this shifting world of fanaticism, ambition, duplicity, heartbreak, and violent death are the foreign helicopter pilots who have been servicing the oil fields up and down the country. Their one objective is to make a bold, concerted escape to safety across the Gulf.

James Clavell told the full story of the three weeks it took them to achieve this in his hugely popular best seller Whirlwind. Here he has taken out a single, poignant thread from that epic narrative. The result is the moving and tender love story of Erikki, the blond Finnish pilot, and his beautiful high-born Iranian wife, Azadeh.

Members Reviews:

What a con!!

It's the same story as whirlwind, what a waste of a credit. Should be ashamed selling it!

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Title: Mozart's Last Aria

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Matt Rees

Narrator: Rula Lenska

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-08-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Transporting listeners to the salons and concert halls of 18th-century Austria, Mozart's Last Aria pulls back the curtain on a world of powerful secrets and powerful men - from the enigmatic Freemasons to the secret police to the Austrian emperor himself - in a detailed story of soaring music, burning passion, and mortal danger.

In December 1791, Madame Maria Anna Berchtold von Sonnenburg - known to her family as Nannerl - receives a letter from her sister-in-law, Costanze, with devastating news: Nannerl's brother, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is dead.

But Constanze's letter carries more than just news of the great composer's death. Months earlier, Mozart had confided in his wife that he believed his life was in danger and on his deathbed announced that he had been poisoned - though he was never able to name his murderer. Now, as Nannerl sets off for Vienna to pay her final respects, she finds herself entering a web of suspicion and intrigue involving rival composers, jealous lovers, and sinister creditors, where even Mozart's masonic brothers - including Prince Lichnowsky - harbor dark secrets about their onetime friend. And as Nannerl digs deeper into the mystery surrounding Mozart's demise, the tempo quickens, and her brother's black fate threatens to engulf Nannerl as well.

Members Reviews:

Enticing mystery for history buffs and music lovers

I'm a big fan of the author's mystery series set in contemporary Palestine and featuring an aging schoolmaster trying to be a voice of sanity in an insane world. Matt Rees couldn't have ventured farther afield from his traditional stomping grounds for this new work, and yet it worked well enough that I'm interested to see what he tackles next.

Leaving aside the somewhat clunky framing device, the novel starts on a wintry day in a small village outside Salzburg, where Mozart's elder sister has married and settled down to raise five stepchildren and two of her own. But it's 1791, a letter arrives to bring her news of her brother's demise -- and informs here he had insisted he had been poisoned. Nannerl (Anna Maria) immediately sets off to investigate, and is caught up in a whirlwind of plots and counterplots, spies and policemen, Masons and musicians. Was it jealousy, politics or Masonic conspiracy that brought the genius's life to a premature close?

Rees is less skilled at bringing to life the personality of either Nannerl or her sister in law, Constanze, Mozart's widow, than he is in making "real" his Bethlehem-based schoolteacher. (That's a pity, as he clearly has insight into the world of music that he sees her as having relinquished with reluctance and regret.) But he crafts an intriguing, if sometimes over the top, tale that is at least somewhat plausible and certainly a lot of fun to read. And the Viennese settings are fabulous -- from the snowy streets to the Baroque palaces and the classic coffeeshops, Rees has the knack for capturing a sense of place.

This will appeal to fans of historical mysteries, and perhaps to music buffs as well. Don't expect anything genre-defying or ultra-literary; there are plenty of conventional twists and turns in response to which I occasionally found myself rolling my eyes and groaning. But it's an intriguing historical "what if" that is a great way to spend a few hours.

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Title: The Templar Inheritance

Subtitle: John Hart, Book 2

Author: Mario Reading

Narrator: Piers Wehner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It's 1198. On the eve of his execution, disgraced Templar knight Johannes von Hartelius writes a last confession. The parchment conceals the location of the Copper Scroll, said to hold the secret of Solomon's treasure.

In present-day Iraq, John Hart discovers the message hidden in his ancestor's testament. Accompanied only by his beautiful Kurdish translator, Hart sets out to find the Copper Scroll.

John Hart must travel in his forefather's footsteps to Iran and the hollow mountain known as Solomon's Prison...but will he share the Templars' fate?

Members Reviews:

A book of one half

The historical section I found interesting.

The rest I found was almost a parody of a rom /com I also thought the plot weak and contrived

Great Adventure!

If you could sum up The Templar Inheritance in three words, what would they be?

Fantastic, well written

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Templar Inheritance?

Loved the threading of storyline from present day to the Crusades

What about Piers Wehners performance did you like?

Captivating

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Totally

good read if you have read 1st book.

This book expanses on where book 1 ended. it had two timelines runny. I look forward to the 3rd Book

Fake accents

Drop the fake German accent, it is so bad that the story becomes somehow ridiculous. On the other hand the actual German words and names should be pronounced correctly. As mentioned this whole business does nothing for the story, it is off putting.

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Title: Soldier of Rome - The Sacrovir Revolt

Subtitle: Book Two of the Artorian Chronicles

Author: James Mace

Narrator: Nigel Patterson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-16

Publisher: Legionary Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 42 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It has been three years since the wars against Arminius and the Cherusci. Gaius Silius, legate of the 20th Legion, is concerned that the barbarians - though shattered by the war - may be stirring once again. He also seeks to confirm the rumors regarding Arminius' death. What Silius does not realize is that there is a new threat to the empire, but it does not come from beyond the frontier; it is coming from within, where a disenchanted nobleman looks to sow the seeds of rebellion in Gaul.

Legionary Artorius has greatly matured during his five years in the legions. He has become stronger in mind, his body growing even more powerful. Like the rest of the legion, he is unaware of the shadow growing well within the empire's borders, where a disaffected nobleman seeks to betray Emperor Tiberius. A shadow looms, one that looks to envelope the province of Gaul as well as the Rhine legions. The year is AD 20.

Members Reviews:

Finally!

I've been waiting for this for a long time. I'm a huge fan of the Artorian Chronicles and I've read them all more than once. I really like Nigel Patterson. He does an amazing job or giving every character their own unique voice and mannerisms.

Here's to hoping the rest of the series will make it to Audible!

Before archaeology, there were living soldiers

Most of what I know about Roman legionnaires comes from an interest in archaeology, so I had no understanding or real knowledge of the era represented here. I received this book from a friend with more widespread interests than mine ( I know some USMC, US Rev War, and Norse). That being said, I enjoyed the inter-regimental politics, insight into how things were done and perceived by the men in the field. More knowledgeable reviewers attest to the historicity of events and are pleased with this rendering. My personal view is that I now wish to read more of this series, from the first onward.

Patterson's performance is excellent, of course. Clear precise speech and audio interpretation of personages and emotions bring the tale to life and enhance reader understanding.

One man can make a difference, regardless of standing or century.

Soldiers of Rome

Any additional comments?

The Legionary is a book about Roman defeat and retaliation in Teutoburge a Roman legion as a whole and a legionary as an individual the key element for the supremacy of the ancient Rome in the then known world. All about Roman the whole time