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Title: The Hippies Who Meant It

Author: Seymour Hamilton

Narrator: Seymour Hamilton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-17

Publisher: Scribl

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In the mid-60s, Joe from the Bronx and Beth the orphan escape New York City for Canada, hoping to leave their past lives - and American politics - behind them. At a peace march on their way north, their fortunes intertwine with the fate of Dick, a Royal Military College Officer Cadet.

Armed with naïveté, optimism, and a little weed, the three homestead on Nova Scotia's North Mountain. Unlike many of the fair-weather hippies of summer, they make it through the first winter with a little help from their hardier neighbors.

Steve, a man damaged by the Vietnam War, shatters their peaceful existence in one night of rape and violence. When he disappears, the Mountain folk hope that peace will return to their little world. Birth, marriage, death, divorce, and fresh relationships complicate their lives. But even as they gradually resolve the consequences of their own pasts, they become increasingly aware that Steve may return to destroy all they have achieved.

Members Reviews:

Hallmark movie

If you like hallmark movies, you'll enjoy this book. Good characters and location. Lots of 1960's historic references. A bit long.

Time travel...

Beautiful and vivid evocation of a time and place. Yes, the hippies of the 1960s weren't all just kids going through a phase - some of them went back to the land, and stayed there. Funny and often tender, a great sense of the passage of time and its effects on these young lives.

love, confusion

Seymour Hamilton took us into the far future with Astreya, his acclaimed science fiction trilogy. Now, with as much art and compelling storytelling, he masterfully takes us back to the nearby past with the novel, The Hippies Who Meant It.

In the photographic view of the back-to-the-land movement, the one we all saw in newspapers and magazines and clips on TV, the young hippies appear as shaggy, strangely dressed, idealistic and a bit glazed over. Itâs a photo that weâve all seen, the braless young girls, the bearded young men in Captain Marvel overalls and the kids in tie-dyed jammies.

Some of them were in it briefly, lured by the image but ultimately repelled by the reality of hauling water, enduring outdoor plumbing and the realization that communing with nature was not enough to get a garden planted. The ones who couldnât take the calluses quickly headed back to the cities and suburbs fueled by their newfound desire to âlive wellâ.

But there were also those who were in it for real. They were The Hippies Who Meant It.

They stuck it out and learned to adapt and even thrive. Their intertwined stories â what drove or lured them to live on the land â capture the time as nothing else Iâve read. The Hippies who Meant It is a novel that is driven by characters who are in as much trouble, love, confusion, and danger as anyone in any part of society, only theyâre doing it in homebuilt cabins in out of the way pieces of the country. They were the ones who came to the land seeking a life other than that toward which they were being propelled and stayed to make it happen.

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Titre: Deux sœurs pour un roi

Auteur: Philippa Gregory

Narrateur: Maud Rudigoz

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 18 hrs and 2 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 10-12-17

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Introduite au palais de Westminster, à l'âge de 14 ans, Marie Boleyn est séduite par le roi Henri VIII auquel elle donnera deux enfants. D'abord éblouie par le jeune souverain, elle comprend très vite qu'elle sert d'appât au milieu des complots dynastiques. Quand l'intérêt du roi pour elle s'émousse, le clan Boleyn demande à sa sœur et rivale, Anne, de le séduire à son tour.

Marie, désormais en disgrâce, ne peut qu'assister, impuissante, au succès de sa sœur, dont l'ambition n'a plus de limites. Mais il y a quelqu'un que la cour n'impressionne pas. Il osera braver les conventions pour offrir à Marie une vie de liberté et de passion...

Se déroulant sur quinze ans (1521-1536), cette fresque historique, racontée à la première personne par Marie Boleyn, dépeint les rivalités, les ambitions et les trahisons au sein d'une cour où se déchaînent les passions les plus sombres - une histoire tragique qui se terminera dans le sang.

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©2008 Les éditions Archipoche. Traduit de l'anglais par Céline Véron Voetelink (P)2017 Audible Studios

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Title: Fava Beans for Breakfast

Author: Suzanne Salem

Narrator: Jennifer Vuletic

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-17

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A powerful debut, harmonising Australian-born and immigrant voices, contrasting and connecting their thoughts and struggles.

What if moving to a crumbling Australian coastal town meant giving up your only dream? In 1974, Nayeema reluctantly leaves Sydney's inner city to move to Burraboo, a tired coastal town, with her husband, Fawzy. In doing so, Nayeema surrenders her only dream, but once there she falls under the sway of new infatuations.

On a houseboat in the pristine bay nearby, she sells the comforting food of her Egyptian childhood but keeps her income a secret from her husband. Through this act of defiance and independence, Nayeema unwittingly unlocks a mysterious connection with her new land. Then everything changes when a local teenage girl goes missing and racial tensions ignite in the town.

As Nayeema's houseboat arrangements become more entangled, her yearnings must fight her own history, the impetuous jinn and each other to finally reveal the mystery of the strange birthmark that prickles on her chest.

Members Reviews:

Wonderful peice of writing

Beautifully written book. I loved it from beginning to end. Characters are colourful and the food in the book made me hungry every time Neema cooks!

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Title: The Twelve-Mile Straight

Author: Eleanor Henderson

Narrator: Allyson Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-17

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Tender and savage, heartbreaking and hopeful and deeply human, The Twelve Mile Straight will appeal to fans of American classics by Harper Lee, Toni Morrison and William Faulkner.

Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town.

Despite the prying eyes and curious whispers of the townspeople, Elma begins to raise her babies as best as she can, under the roof of her impulsive father, Juke, and with the help of Nan, the young black housekeeper who is as close to Elma as a sister. It soon becomes clear that the ties that bind all of them together are more intricate than any could have imagined. A web of lies begins to collapse around the family, destabilizing their precarious world and forcing all to reckon with the truth.

Critic Reviews:

"The setup is simple: Two babies - one of them black and one of them white. But the story of how they came to be is one of the deepest and most nuanced explorations of our shared humanity that I've read in a long time. The characters are so vivid that you will feel as though they exist unbound by the pages of the book; the writing is so extraordinary it will make your teeth ache; the story is so compelling that you may gasp out loud - as I did - as the revelations unfold. This is no ordinary novel. It is art of the highest order." (Cristina Henríquez)

"Eleanor Henderson's lyrical evocation of rural Georgia during the Depression is mesmerizing, disturbing, and wonderfully persuasive. The world is brutal even as the landscape is lush and seductive. The Twelve-Mile Straight is unstinting in showing us the everyday savagery of Jim Crow, of poverty, and of family abuse. A riveting, consequential story full of complex secrets and unexpected turns." (Dana Spiotta)

"The Twelve-Mile Straight is anything but - a family drama, a mystery, Southern Gothic, and a searing study of the complexities of race in America. Eleanor Henderson pins on the setting board the intersecting forces of country, community, family and self - each tugging the other, near to the point of tearing. Cotton County and the Twelve Mile Straight within it is a dark place - tortured by its secrets, and it's in Henderson's expert hand and penetrating eye that those secrets are carried into light." (Bill Cheng)

Members Reviews:

Excellent read

I loved this book. The style of writing took a bit of getting used to. It was a bit of Zora Nealâs Hurston and J. California Cooperâs style of writing in the vernacular so you have to get into that place where the speech pattern becomes a part of you. Once you get there, youâre actually living the experience along with the characters. It was such a vivid experience that in recounting a situation I read about in the book, I explained it as something I had actually seen unfold in a movie. It was only shortly afterwards that I realized it came from the book. I would love to see this book made into a movie. It would be on par with Mudbound if well acted.

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Title: All Is Beauty Now

Author: Sarah Faber

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Set against the seductive world of 1960s Rio de Janeiro, an exquisite debut novel about family secrets, divided loyalties, and what we're willing to do to save ourselves.

This mesmerizing first novel follows a glamorous family as they prepare to leave the seeming paradise of Brazil for Canada in the wake to the mysterious disappearance - and presumed drowning - of their eldest daughter a year earlier. As the novel moves back and forth between the members of the Maurer family, we are taken into the heart of a family whose beauty and charm belie a more troubling reality. We meet the family's brilliant and charismatic father, whose bipolar extremes are becoming increasingly disturbing; his long-suffering wife, who once had a brief affair that proves to have shattering consequences for the family she swore to protect; their two remaining daughters, both on the brink of understanding the darker currents that run in their once-proud family; and the lost daughter herself, a beautiful young woman undone by her own grand delusions.

Taking listeners from the golden beaches of Rio to the poverty of its fishing villages, from the glamour of the legendary Copacabana Club to the austerity of a remote convent, this revelatory novel takes us into the soul of a family already living in the shadow of loss and now poised to leave behind everything they've ever known, if only they could make peace with the past.

Critic Reviews:

"At once, an intimate family portrait, a mystery, a romance, and a stylistic tour de force. Think Alice Munro's The Lives of Girls and Women, Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family, and Jodorowsky's The Dance of Reality in a gloriously refreshing mash-up." (Johanna Skibsrud, Giller Prize-winning author of The Sentimentalists)

"This debut infuses the fierce familial love with the bitter ache of dreams lost and secrets kept. Faber's swirling, dreamlike prose paints a wildly beautiful Brazil. Readers will lose themselves in this delicately wrought, heartbreaking tale." (Publishers Weekly)

"At first blush a deft, kaleidoscopic chronicle of a family's grief after the disappearance of a 20-year-old daughter off the shores of Rio de Janeiro, All Is Beauty Now is an unflinching look at the pervasive effect of secreted mental illness. Like the brilliant swirl of Carnival, the Maurer family's story possesses multiple layers of both splendor and affliction. I lost myself in its white sands, birds of paradise, and madness." (Anne Korkeakivi, author of Shining Sea)

Members Reviews:

Lovers of historical fiction will enjoy this one.

Sarah Faberâs debut novel All is Beauty Now is a wonderfully told story of family, secrets, and the lengths we will go to save ourselves.

The Maurer family is at the center of this story. We follow along as they leave their lives in Brazil behind and move to Canada. This takes place about a year after their oldest daughter disappeared and was presumed to have drown. As the family adjusts to life in a new city, country and climate, we experience the ups and downs, and the revealing of secrets. This is a family already in the darkness of loss and now they must leave it all in the past to have any kind of a future.

Iâm going to be honest and say this just wasnât my cup of tea. It was well written, and the blurb made it sound much more intriguing than I found it.

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Titel: Das rote Licht des Mondes (Lina Kaufmeister 1)

Autor:: Silvia Kaffke

Erzähler: Ulrike Kapfer

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 15 hrs and 47 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-20-17

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bricht an Rhein und Ruhr ein neues Zeitalter an. Doch auch der Fortschritt hat eine dunkle Seite: Während Lina Kaufmeister, Tochter aus gutem Hause, davon träumt, sich als Schneiderin selbständig zu machen, erschüttert der Fund zweier grausam zugerichteter Leichen die Stadt Ruhrort. Beiden Mädchen wurden die Herzen aus dem Leib geschnitten. Weitere Opfer folgen. Ein Werk des Teufels, munkelt man.

Zusammen mit Commissar Robert Borghoff kommt Lina einer Verschwörung auf die Spur. Sie ahnen: Wenn der Blutmond die Stadt in sein rotes Licht taucht, ist keiner mehr sicher.

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©2010 Rowohlt Verlag GmbH (P)2017 Audible GmbH

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Title: Jezebel Johnston: Queen of Anarchy

Author: Nancy Hansen

Narrator: Brian Held, Jr.

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-17

Publisher: RadioArchives.com

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The adventure continues.

Having survived the sinking of the British privateer, Devil's Handmaid, by a Spanish warship employing an ancient weapon, the disguised Jezebel Johnson and a few of her compatriots are rescued by a flotilla of French vessels. Their commander is the ruthless and sadistic Captain Lucien Levesque. Having witnessed the fiery destruction of the British ship, Levesque is obsessed with hunting down the Spanish galleon and obtaining the secret of the Greek Fire they possess. To do this, he will scour the surrounding islands until his prey is found.

Meanwhile, Jez, and her lover, Watler Armitage, find themselves pressed into service aboard different ships in Levesque's tiny fleet where they must endure daily hardships to stay alive. At the same time, she comes under the attention of the Queen of Anarchy's handsome but fierce quartermaster, Mister Blanchette. What is his interest in the young mulato sailor and why are Jezebel's own feelings confused when near the blond-haired rogue?

Writer Nancy Hansen unleashes the second chapter in her bold new pirate series starring the brave and beautiful Jezebel Johnson, the true Queen of Anarchy!

Members Reviews:

GREAT BOOK

Great

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Title: The Johnson Family Chronicles: Changing Currents - Changing Tides, Volume 1

Author: Stan Cromlish

Narrator: Randal Schaffer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-17

Publisher: Stan Cromlish Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A fictional account of a typical small town American family facing hard decisions after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan. Being forced to navigate the difficult days which would shape the course of their lives, this coming of age family story typifies those events that were played out in many small towns across the United States during World War II. Written in a style to take the reader on a historical journey that highlights American families of the Greatest Generation, the story follows the hardships that must be endured in order to earn ultimate victory. This is the first in a series that will cover the entire period of World War II and its effect on the Johnson family and how they worked to overcome the trials and tragedies that are a part of war when awaiting news of family from far flung battlefields.

Members Reviews:

Accurate picture of an era.

Basically, this family history follows the often rocky journey of brothers, Ray and Jimmy into the Marine Corps and Army Air Corp, respectively.

Along the way, the author included details and vignettes that capture the U.S. of the early nineteen forties and the language and mind set of a Southern family. Details like a blue star flag in the window, a three dollar sheet of 100 stamps, the fact that Rayâs expert marksmanship earns him an additional five dollars per month, raising his Marine Corps monthly pay to twenty-six dollars bring the early WWII era to life.

As Mr. Cromlish says in his epilog, the Johnson family epitomizes the generation of Americans shaped by the great depression and determined to defeat their countryâs enemies.

Couldn't Put It Down

Throughout the story, I felt like I was a part of the Johnson Family. I couldn't put it down & can't wait to read the next installment. Keep up the great work of bringing history to life.

... is rich in historical context and made me feel like I was in Belmont during the Great War

This book is rich in historical context and made me feel like I was in Belmont during the Great War , I can't wait till it comes out on Kindle

Meh

I was disappointed with this book to say the least. I love a great war book but this one missed the mark by a mile. I recommend you pass on this one.

... is the writing or the narrator but I felt like it was forced and dialogue was

I don't know if it is the writing or the narrator but I felt like it was forced and dialogue was stilted

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Title: Rare Birds

Author: Kathleen Novak

Narrator: Christa Lewis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

On the very edge of nowhere, prospectors long ago found iron ore and mined it, and workers traveled from all over the world to settle and make their homes there. It is against this historical backdrop that the people live out their desires and unfinished stories in the early summer of 1960.

Betty Larsen, raising her lover's daughter on her own, waits impatiently for him to return. Skinny old Gertrude, who rounds the block headlong a dozen times a day, hears the bugs beneath the cut grass and the hysteria of a new season happening. And on the next block, Nicky Marodi, just returned from a state hospital for the mentally ill, lurches along in his new freedom. It is the first day of summer vacation, and the trees have blossomed in the brightest green.

Meanwhile, three neighborhood girls band together to explore an abandoned house, where they find mysteries in every room: half-packed boxes, what looks like blood, and the mementos of lives they try to imagine. But theirs is not the only mystery.

In fact mysteries and secrets abound. Betty's lover does not return. Gertrude suddenly experiences a longing she has never known. The girls encounter glints of magic that change each of them unexpectedly, even as a band of marauding teenage hoodlums invade their block and as Nicky lands in jail and the old Italians tend their gardens, claiming the land as their own.

A poetic and luscious paean of a particular place and time, Rare Birds interweaves the stories of these odd and dear characters, who could not have guessed they would be so well remembered.

Members Reviews:

Great Read

In a few blocks of a mining town in Northern Minnesota set in 1960, the lives of some of its occupiers intermingled into a delightful, fast moving book. A joy to read as you begin to discover these wonderful charactes!

Realist remembrance.

I.A truly accurate description of life in northern MN in the 60's! Enjoyed re-walking the streets of my youth, remembering the 3rd Avenue neighborhood, and smiling about some of our more colorful residents! Nice read. I truly enjoyed the story.

Small town stories brought to life

Loved this story of small town characters and their interior lives. Well told. I finished it a couple of weeks ago and keep âvisitingâ the characters in my mind.

Iron Range Americana

One can imagine the author's quandary in selecting a title for this book. She presents us with a neighborhood in a small northern Minnesota mining town that was torn apart a few generations earlier by the discovery of iron ore underÂits northern section. The introduction tells this part of the story so smoothly and is so well written that it is, in itself, worth the price of admission.

Now, generations later, we are introduced to a single neighborhood in the remade town. There are, indeed, some rare birds in this neighborhood. There are people who are not capable of self-careÂand must be looked after. But the author shows that even normal people, the non-strange, are constantly seeking to belong - to have a social group where they are not strange and can be accepted.

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Title: Summer at Mount Hope

Author: Rosalie Ham

Narrator: Caroline Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-17

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A black comedy about a young woman's attempt to resist the worlds of men and money, from the best-selling author of The Dressmaker.

Phoeba Crupp is a gal of inconveniently independent tendencies, to the concern of her mother and her sisters although not of her father - an eccentric ex-accountant who moved his family from the city to a small farm in rural Australia in order to establish a vineyard - a decision Phoeba's mother bitterly (and loudly) resents. But Phoeba has loved it since the day they arrived. While her sister makes a play for the local squatter's son, Phoeba is content with her best friend Harriet, until circumstances push her towards the world of men and money.

As the local community is shaken up by the arrival of pastoralists, suffragettes and squatters, carrying the threat and promise of change to their quiet corner of the country, Phoeba wakes up to the realities of the adult world and comes to realise the friendship of those near to her may count for more than she could ever have imagined. Told with Rosalie's Ham's trademark wit and wisdom, Summer At Mount Hope is a story of a young woman finding a way to take control of her own destiny.

Members Reviews:

Great writing... good story

I wanted a different ending but the writing was excellent. I particularly wanted comeuppance for a certain sister...