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Title: Snow Hunters

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Paul Yoon

Narrator: Paul Yoon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-13

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Snow Hunters traces the extraordinary journey of Yohan, who defects from his country at the end of the Korean War, leaving his friends and family behind to seek a new life on the coast of Brazil. Throughout his years there, four people slip in and out of his life: Kiyoshi, the Japanese tailor for whom he works; Peixe, the groundskeeper at the town church; and two vagrant children named Santi and Bia. Yohan longs to connect with these people, but to do so he must let go of his traumatic past.

In Snow Hunters, Yoon proves that love can dissolve loneliness, that hope can wash away despair, and that a man who has lost a country can find a new home. This is a heartrending story of second chances, told with unerring elegance and tenderness.

Members Reviews:

Atmospheric

First impression: There is beauty in the words. You feel the North Korean war refugee's aloofness in his new country, Brazil. The distance he feels and his reticence is palpable. Narration by the author adds to the lines' impact. A blanket of quiet overlays the story.

People can talk without words. What is not said can speak louder than what is said. And what a person does doesnt always reflect what they are really saying. This book captures that. It draws a world of silence and solitude that does speak and does convey a message. You watch what happens. You feel the atmosphere. There is a distance to all that happens and to the characters themselves. The manner in which this is achieved is artistically done. Beautiful rather than boring. You are drawn in. Slowly, slowly this North Korean war refugee assimilates and comes to feel at home in his new country, in an unnamed village in Brazil. S-l-o-w-l-y the past recedes, the memories blur and he melts into a new life. You read this book to feel his dislocation, the alienation of one who leaves one country for another. Leaving both horrible memories and good memories, sort of like stapling up picture upon picture until the pictures at the bottom arent gone but are superseded by others that are newer, stronger, more vibrant. You cannot just rip out those pictures at the bottom, can you?

Is the ending realistic? No, maybe not, but I am OK with that. You do not read this book to follow the plot line from A to Z. Neither does the story follow a chronological order. Memories come and go, and that is how you learn of the past

An atmospheric novel, to be read to understand how it is to be completely alone in a new world. You never start from scratch, since we all have our own pasts.

Simply beautiful.

It is always fascinating to hear audiobooks read by the author. Paul Yoon writes and reads beautifully about a man named Yohan, a North Korean, whose life suddenly locates puts in a small coastal town of Brazil. In that foreign country, Yohan forms his new life, one by one. Characters in Snow Hunters rarely talk, surprisingly. Even without much conversation, however, the author had found his own style and shaped the novel into a piece of highly refined, quality art.

Good Story

Paul Yoon as narrator adds to effect of the story. Good story. I recommend it.

Colourful

A colourful visit to the aftermath of war in an unexpected brief poetic story minus the psychology of suffering with the exactitude and beauty of life in symbolism, people and place.

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Title: Stealing Fire

Author: Jo Graham

Narrator: Chet Williamson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-13

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Alexander the Great's soldier, Lydias of Miletus, has survived the final campaigns of the king's life. He now has to deal with the chaos surrounding his death. Lydias throws his lot in with Ptolemy, one of Alexander's generals who has grabbed Egypt as his personal territory. Aided by the eunuch Bagoas, the Persian archer Artashir, and the Athenian courtesan Thais, Ptolemy and Lydias must take on all the contenders in a desperate adventure whose prize is the fate of a white city by the sea - and Alexander's legacy.

Members Reviews:

Exciting post-Alexander historical fantasy

4 1/2 stars

This is the third book in Graham's "Numinous World" series of

historical fantasies. The first one, "Black Ships" is a retelling of

the Aeneid, the founding of Rome by Greeks during the collapse of the

Bronze Age (~1200 BC), with an oracle named Gull telling the story.

The second one tells the story of Cleopatra (~50 BC) from the point of

view of her sister, Charmian. And this one is set just after the

death in 323 BC of Alexander the Great, by one of his soldiers,

Lydias, who ends up in Egypt with Ptolemy. Each of these characters

is 'god-touched', and they're all connected through time.

I'm not normally very patient with battle scenes, but these were

perfect, and very exciting. The amazingly different kinds of love in the

book were believable and moving. In each of these books Egypt really

comes alive. While a little slow to get moving, "Stealing Fire" was

ultimately an easy and engrossing read. While there are connections

between the books, I believe it would easily stand alone.

In the back material Graham mentions that she has 20 or more books

in her head in this series -- let's have more of them, please!

A story of Egypt post-Alexander that's worth the read!

This is my 3rd Jo Graham book (yes, I read them out of order and that's just fine!), and I wish she'd write more! It's the story of Lydias of Miletus, one of Alexander the Great's soldiers, originally a slave. The story takes place after Alexander's death, and incorporates enough history to make it believable. There is plenty of adventure (who steals Alexander's casket and how do they get it back, for example), love, friendship, faith and drama to keep anyone's attention, especially someone who loves historical fictions. It's an easy and interesting read, the characters are interesting (and in some cases real, which can be even better than fiction!), and the setting grabs your attention. A great book!

The 'physical' book was in excellent condition.

Disagreed with the author about Bagoas seeking a lover,,,

The 'physical' book was in excellent condition.

Excellent historical fantasy.

Having read & loved most everything Judith Tarr has written, Jo Graham is my new favorite historical fantasy writer. _Stealing Fire_ is beautifully detailed and well-researched, set in the years after the death of Alexander the Great and the founding of his city, Alexandria. Filled with lovely moments that lift the hairs on the back of your neck alongside fast action, suspense and battle scenes. Flashbacks to develop the back story during Alexander's campaign are handled well and the characters are memorable: decent people working at the side of great ones, caught up in massive events. A terrific, satisfying read.

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Title: One Bright Morning

Author: Alice Duncan

Narrator: Denice Stradling

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-03-13

Publisher: Alice Duncan

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Young widow Maggie Bright had her hands full raising a baby daughter and running a farm with no one to help her except her lazy drunk of a hired hand. The last thing she needed was a bullet-riddled, half-dead stranger riding into her front yard.

As she nursed Jubal Green back to life, Maggie found him by turns enchanting, stubborn, caring and handsome as sin - but most of all, dangerous. For the dire circumstances that had brought Jubal to Maggie's door were also likely to jeopardize the peace they had begun to find in each other's arms.

Members Reviews:

Wonderful!!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, The story and narrator were wonderful, exciting for every moment. I couldn't stop to do my work, had to listen to every word. Get ready to laugh, cry and sigh. Heart warming.

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Title: Garden of Stones

Author: Sophie Littlefield

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-17-13

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Lucy Takeda is just 14 years old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are ripped from their home, rounded up - along with thousands of other innocent Japanese Americans - and taken to the Manzanar prison camp.

Buffeted by blistering heat and choking dust, Lucy and Miyako must endure the harsh living conditions of the camp. Corruption and abuse creep into every corner of Manzanar, eventually ensnaring beautiful, vulnerable Miyako. Ruined and unwilling to surrender her daughter to the same fate, Miyako soon breaks. Her final act of desperation will stay with Lucy forever...and spur her to sins of her own.

Members Reviews:

Highs and Lows

Beautiful writing and characters driven by complex circumstances. The narrator's voice didn't quite fit when Lucy spoke--too young sounding. The coarse language was unnecessary. Overall an interesting look into the lives of Japanese imprisoned at Manzanar.

Shame on US

Eye opening to the internment camps for the Japanese Americans. Gracious story with twists and turns, love and forgiveness. Nice book, good listen.

Loved it

one of my 1st audible books was On the Corner of Bitter & Sweet.....guess I wasn't very good with my history but had no idea what happened to the American Japanese here in the United States after the bombing of Pearl Harbor....that made me so interested, and now this book took you right there again and it was sooooo good and so sad at the same time. It's a must read. I finished it today and can't get it off my mind...you for sure won't want to put this one down...in fact, this would make a fantastic movie

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Title: The Golden Fleece

Author: Robert Graves

Narrator: Nigel Carrington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-10-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 27 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In order to reclaim his father's kingdom, Jason has been sent on an impossible mission: to take the golden ram's fleece that lies far away, guarded by a dragon. Jason, who is so attractive that women fall instantly in love with him, sets sail in the Argo, along with the greatest heroes of ancient Greece, including the surly (and often drunk) Hercules, the enchanting musician Orpheus and the warring twins Castor and Pollux. As they battle clashing rocks, monsters and seductresses, watched over by pitiless gods, they will learn that victory comes at a price. In The Golden Fleece Robert Graves transforms Greek myth into a thrilling and richly imagined story, bringing the ancient world vividly alive.

Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 7 December 1985) was an English poet and novelist, scholar, translator and writer of antiquity, specialising in Classical Greece and Rome. During his long life he produced more than 140 works. Graves's translations and innovative analysis and interpretations of the Greek myths, the memoir of his early life, Goodbye to all That, and his speculative study of poetic inspiration, The White Goddess, have never been out of print. Graves earned his living by writing popular historical novels, including I, Claudius (for which he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), King Jesus, The Golden Fleece and Count Belisarius. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1961 and made an honorary fellow of St Johns College, Oxford, in 1971.

Critic Reviews:

Shows the legendary cruise as one of the bawdiest, bloodiest, most boisterous expeditions of all time (Time)

Members Reviews:

nice "factual" recreation

Graves was a scholar of ancient lit and history and myth and I like the realistic approach to the story. and then you also see how these events would lend themselves later to the myths. I would say however that the first 1/3 of the novel was more interesting for me as he dealt with many explanations of how certain rituals etc evolved and their purposes and meanings. as the story progressed this element faded somewhat amid the storyline and the whole thing went on a bit too long, got a bit too drawn out and dry.

I found myself wishing for Mary Renault's King Must Die and Bull From the Sea, similar in the more realistic approach to events and how they became the myth of Theseus, but in general I was more engaged in her novel pair and would love to revisit them, hopefully they'll show up here some day.

and though there is some controversy and disagreement over Graves ideas concerning myths and origins and meanings, I find his ideas compelling. His Greek Myths is very interesting and detailed and thought provoking even if the root of controversy.

and there is an interesting historical appendix in the novel that is for some reason excluded from the audio, wherein Graves outlines some of his reasoning for certain elements in the story, wish it had been included, but perhaps of interest more to me than others.

A Violent, Comical, Encyclopedic, Mythic Feast

"But remember, no lies! The dead may speak the truth only, even when it discredits themselves." So ends the "Invocation" that begins Robert Graves' The Golden Fleece (1944), Graves having asked the ghost of Little Ancaeus, the last survivor of the Argonauts, to "unfold the whole story" of their quest to retrieve from far Colchis the sacred Fleece.

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Title: Moni and the Goat Boy

Author: Johanna Spyri

Narrator: Karen White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-12-13

Publisher: Harmonic Wave

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Moni, the goat boy, was a very cheerful young man who loved his job and his flock with all his heart. When young Paula first encounter's Moni's jubilant nature and happy song, she is captivated by his joy and becomes his friend. Moni spends each day up in the mountains with the goats and has a particularly special attachment to a kid named Maggerli. One day, Moni runs into a boy from another village who has discovered a beautiful diamond cross and the boy tells Moni that if he keeps his secret about the gross, he will buy Maggerli for Moni to save her from death. Moni struggles with keeping the deceitful secret, and finally confesses the truth to Paula (the owner of the cross) what has happened. Paula, further touched by Moni's honesty and love for Maggerli, decides to do something that will bring about a happy ending for everyone.

Johanna Spyri (1827-1901) was a Swiss children's author, best known for her novel Heidi. Her stories are heavily influenced by her own life and the area of Switzerland in which she grew up.

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Title: The King's Damsel

Subtitle: Secrets of the Tudor Court #5

Author: Kate Emerson

Narrator: Alison Larkin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Handmaid. Spy. Mistress.

Anxious to secure his own success at the glittering court of Henry VIII, heiress Tamsin Lodges ambitious guardian obtains her a position as maid of honor to young Princess Mary Tudor. Tamsin soon comes to love the neglected child, but in the Tudor court, not even a princess is secure. Marys father is besotted with the lovely Anne Boleyn, and the girls future has grown perilous. Plotting to be Marys eyes and ears, Tamsin joins Annes service, but the handsome silk worker who is her co-conspirator may be her undoing. While marriage with a merchant is unthinkable, she cannot resist Rafe Pinckneys embraces. When Tamsin also attracts the lusty Henry, she must choose between loyalty and desire.... With Annes jealousy growing dangerous, can Tamsin survive the schemes and seductions that surround her?

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Great book

Two Stars

It was not very memorable.

Loved!

I adore Kate Emerson's books so i am slightly biased, this was another great book that i flew through in a few days. Gritty and romantic all in one. Loved it!

Good story line

Kept my interest with some twists that I wasn't expecting. Ms. Emerson brings King Henry's court to life; a fun read.

King's damsel

Excellent novel , could not put down !

Left with the thought if thomasine lodge could have been the secret lady , that caught king Henry's attention .

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Title: At the King's Pleasure

Subtitle: Secrets of the Tudor Court #4

Author: Kate Emerson

Narrator: Alison Larkin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Married to one man. Desiring another...

Beautiful Lady Anne Stafford, lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon, is torn between her love for her husband, George, Lord Hastings...and the kings boon companion, the attentive Sir William Compton. But when King Henry VIII, amorous as always, joins the men clustering around her, Anne realizes she has become perilously enmeshed in the intrigues of the court. Will she be forced to decide between the two men she desires - and the one she doesnt?

Kate Emerson charms again with a heroine who steps out of the pages of history to win our hearts in this sumptuous novel of Tudor scandal and intrigue.

Members Reviews:

Good book. Easy listen.

Well written entertaining novel about the life of Anne Stafford who is believed to be an early mistress of Henry VIII. She was sister to the highest duke in the realm, Duke of Buckingham. This story will be most interesting to those who don't know the details of the Duke. But it is still an entertaining story for those who do.

Excellent narrator makes this an enjoyable easy-listen.

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Title: Kafka in Love

Author: Jacqueline Raoul-Duval

Narrator: Chris Kayser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Kafka was an attractive, slender, and elegant man - something of a dandy - who captivated his friends and knew how to charm women. He seemed to have had four important love affairs: Felice, Julie, Milena, and Dora. All of them lived far away, in Berlin or Vienna, and perhaps that's one of the reasons that he loved them: he chose long-distance relationships so he could have the pleasure of writing to them, without the burden of having to live with them. He was engaged to all four women, and four times he avoided marriage. At the end of each love affair, he threw himself into his writing and produced some of his most famous novels: Amerika, The Trial, and The Castle.

In this charming book, author Jacqueline Raoul-Duval follows the paper trail of Kafka's ardor. She uses his voice in her own writing, and a third of the book is pulled from Kafka's journals. It is the perfect introduction to this giant of world literature, and captures his life and romances in a style worthy of his own.

Members Reviews:

Love reading about writers "in love."

This is another unusual novel that is based on letters about the four major relationships with women in Kafka's relatively short life, before his death from tuberculosis. While this is certainly not "romance" in the mundane sense of the word, these relationships played a role in some of Kafka's greatest writing and is fascinating for that reason.

His was a life lived in unusual and fraught times, much of which is well represented in Raoul-Duval's novel. His relationship with his own Jewishness, with Zionism, with utopian and idealized notions about love and family, all simply fascinating.

This is an historically important work, an interesting work in terms of working the line between fiction and biography, which feels - as is so often the case with great fiction - as if it were "truer" than straight historical narrative biography could ever be!

A Magical Masterpiece

This is now one of my most beloved books and has changed my life. I am so grateful to the author for sharing such a gem with us, thank you. It is a true masterpiece.

I have edited this comment to say I am shocked by any negative comments regarding this book, I hope you don't miss the chance to experience such a lovely work of literary art.

A DUMB BOOK!

I was very disappointed in this book, it goes on and on and is very boring, there is no life to it!

Love is Strange

Some people know Franz Kafka through cultural osmosis rather than an intimate reading of his work. Before starting Kafka in Love, I knew that Kafka wrote passionate letters to a girlfriend named Milena, but I didn't know he also had a Felice, a Julie, and a Dora, and that he wrote to them too. I knew he was Jewish, a vegetarian, and an eccentric; I didn't know to what extent he carried his beliefs. I do now.

To say Kafka in Love is a unflinching portrait of a genius understates the breadth of Raoul-Duval's accomplished text. Part literary history and part fiction, Raoul-Duval hurtles into Kafka's mental gymnastics and the emotional suffering he caused for himself, his family, and the women he never married.

The longest section is devoted to Felice and it can serve as a precautionary tale. Give this book to a friend (or an enemy) you want to discourage from whirlwind romances or long-distance affairs.

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Title: Meat Grinder Hill

Subtitle: The Rat Bastards, Book 4

Author: Len Levinson

Narrator: Ray Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Hells Choir of Killers!

The quiet of the jungle is shattered by a single command. The air fills with voices of death. A Texas cattle call. An Apache war whoop. A piercing scream of bloody blue murder. And a killing chorus of zinging hot lead. A mighty green wave surges up the hill. The Rat Bastards are on the rampage, and what the enemy began, they are about to finish.... The Rat Bastards.

Editorial Reviews:

Len Levinson's explosive, pulpy war adventure seamlessly interweaves two narratives featuring the "rat bastards" of the Recon Platoon. The first chronicles the wild erotic exploits of soldiers LaBarbara and Butsko with the nurses at a hospital in New Caledonia, and the second takes place on the front lines of Guadalcanal as Sgt. Bannon's platoon clashes with Japanese forces.

Veteran film and TV actor Ray Porter's fearless performance confidently shifts gears between the hard-hitting realism of the battlefield and the bawdy, sexually charged antics of LaBarbara and Butsko. Think The Dirty Dozen reimagined as a raunchy late-night cable movie.

Members Reviews:

WWII in Graphic, Gory Technicolor

In this installment, both Master Sergeant Butsko and PFC Frankie LaBarbara are hospitalized in New Caledonia, leaving Texan Buck Sergeant Bannon in charge of the 23rd Infantry's Recon Platoon (the R.B.s of the title).

US forces are mopping up the final resistance on Guadalcanal, and the regiment is using the Recon Platoon as a screen. In the attempt to catch up to an enemy patrol, Bannon and his platoon of cutthroats stumble right into the Japanese 17th Division, dug in on the Gifu line.

The narrative switches back-and-forth between the action on the 'Canal and the erotic adventures of LaBarbara and Butsko among the nurses on New Caledonia--two completely different plot lines, related only by the fact that these wounded Casanovas are from the Recon Platoon.

There is spectacular action...and not just with the lusty nurses. And not all the combat is against the Japanese. A cheese-eating first sergeant from one of the line companies sics his men on the RBs and the gang violence that ensues is better than any rumble between Crips and Bloods, Outlaws and Hell's Angels, or Jets and Sharks. When the opposing combatants are Japanese, the bloody gore is brutal without the sick, graphic obsession of some more current fiction. And true to form, Len Levinson depicts more bayonet combat in the battle for Hill 27 than probably occurred in the entire island-hopping campaign.

I first read this long ago, in a paperback with Levinson's John Mackie pseudonym on the cover. Upon a recent perusal, it surprised me how many typos I found, and other mistakes (in the space of 3 paragraphs, 1 character's rank changes from captain to lieutenant back to captain, for instance). But it is a great read if you like over-the-top war scenes (without ALL the sickening details of what combat in the Pacific was really like). As in all his books I've read, Levinson knows how to keep a reader turning pages, sprinkles in some nicely-researched tidbits, and litters the landscape with characters you will either abhor or admire...but always be entertained by.

Henry Brown is author of the military thriller Hell and Gone, plus other pulpesque fiction like Tales of the Honor Triad.