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Title: The Vices

Author: Lawrence Douglas

Narrator: Andy Caploe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Oliver Vice, 41, prominent philosopher, scholar, and art collector, is missing and presumed dead, over the side of Queen Mary 2.

Troubled by his friends possible suicide, the unnamed narrator of Lawrence Douglas new novel launches an all-consuming investigation into Vices life history. Douglas, moving backward through time, tells a mordantly humorous story of fascination turned obsession, as his narrator peels back the layers of the Vice familys rich and bizarre history. At the heart of the family are Francizka, Olivers handsome, overbearing, vaguely anti-Semitic Hungarian mother, and his fraternal twin brother, Bartholomew, a gigantic and troubled young man with a morbid interest in Europes great tyrants. As the narrator finds himself drawn into a battle over the familys money and art, he comes to sense that someone - or perhaps the entire family - is hiding an unsavory past. Pursuing the truth from New York to London, from Budapest to Portugal, he remains oblivious to the irony of the search: that in his need to understand Vices life, he is really grappling with ambivalence about his own.

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Title: The Salt of Broken Tears

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Michael Meehan

Narrator: Cynthia Barrett, Alan Robertson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

On the edge of the remote salt flats of Australia, a young woman blows in from nowhere and disturbs the precarious equilibrium of a family farm. The boy is fascinated by her, his mother despises her, and the brutish farmhand wants to possess her. When the woman mysteriously disappears, the only trace of her a bloodied dress, the boy sets out in search of an Indian hawker who may or may not have the answers. As he journeys through the broken landscape, accompanied only by his horse and his dog, the boy becomes aware of another party converging murderously on his destination.

Editorial Reviews:

A sensual young woman stumbles into a farm on the remote Australian salt flats, and narrators Cynthia Barrett and Alan Robertson terrifically embody the emotional upheaval she causes. Their shifts in tension and pitch clearly define the family's reactions: the boy's voyeuristic fascination, his mother's suspicion and jealousy, the farmhand's loutish desire. When the young woman vanishes, the boy takes his horse and dog to search for her, convinced that she has joined a charismatic Indian peddler. The details of the boy's journey through the desolate landscape, rendered in Robertson's gentle rasp, are particularly stirring.

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Title: Mixed Nuts

Author: Venita Louise

Narrator: Eric Fox

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-06-13

Publisher: Vinspire Publishing, LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The Beals live in a upper middle class neighborhood in the mid 1960's. Frank is a jingle writer who is having more than a little trouble coming up with a shoe polish jingle. Trying to keep up with the neighbor's expensive tastes is a full time job in itself. But when Frank butts heads with a Voodoo practicing Brazilian gardener, he gets much more than he bargains for, especially when he is distracted by all the spells flying back and forth, with a force stong enough to turn his wife into a love-starved siren and his children into well-behaved angels.

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Title: The Courtesan and the Samurai

Author: Lesley Downer

Narrator: Maggie Ollerenshaw

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-11

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Hana is 17 when her husband goes to war. When enemy soldiers attack her house she flees to the Yoshiwara, Tokyo's pleasure quarter, where she becomes a courtesan. Yozo returns to Japan to discover that the world he left behind has been destroyed. Travelling north to join his rebel comrades, he is captured but escapes making his way south-to the Yoshiwara. There the battered fugitive meets the beautiful courtesan. But each has a secret so terrible, that once revealed, it will threaten their very lives...

Critic Reviews:

"This is historical romance at its best." (Lancashire Evening Post)

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Title: New Beginnings

Author: Sharon Lee Thomas

Narrator: Beth Richmond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-21-12

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In 1847, Marjory Turner struggles with the difficult journey west to the Oregon Territory, recording her feelings in her journal. On the cusp of womanhood, she is ill equipped to deal with the hardships after her father dies in an accident midway through the journey.

The already-strained relationship with her mother grows worse as her mother's behavior becomes more mysteriously irrational and Marjory is forced to take on the responsibility of her much younger siblings. But the trials strengthen Marjory, as she quickly matures into an independent, patient and compassionate young woman.

She is faced with some difficult decisions when her mother dies, and Marjory must find a new destiny for herself and her family. With the help of Walter Wilkins, the young man assigned to drive their team, Marjory must find a courage equal to the task ahead of her and the strength to accept what may be the hardest thing of alltrue love.

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Title: She Rises

Author: Kate Worsley

Narrator: Clare Corbett, Thomas Judd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-13

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It is 1740 and when Louise Fletcher is offered work as a maid in the bustling port of Harwich she leaps at the chance.

Fifteen-year old Luke is in a Harwich tavern when it is raided by His Majesty's Navy and he is press ganged and sent to sea on board the warship Essex. The worlds they find are more dangerous and more exciting than they could ever have imagined

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Title: Hide Me Among the Graves

Author: Tim Powers

Narrator: Imogen Church

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

London, 1862. A city of over three million souls, of stinking fog and dark, winding streets. Through these streets walks the poet Christina Rossetti, haunted and tormented by the ghost of her uncle, John Polidori. Without him, she cannot write, but her relationship with him threatens to shake London itself to the ground.

A fascinating and vivid recreation of the stews and slums of Victorian London - a city of dreadful delight. But it is the history of a hidden city, where nursery rhymes lead the adventurer through haunted tunnels and inverted spires. And where the price of poetic inspiration is blood.

Tim Powers is the author of several acclaimed works of speculative fiction. His books have won both the World Fantasy and the Philip K. Dick Memorial Awards, twice. He has received the Locus Award three times. He lives in San Bernardino, California.

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