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Title: Otter St. Onge and the Bootleggers

Subtitle: A Tale of Adventure

Author: Alec Hastings

Narrator: Alec William Hastings

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-15

Publisher: Alec William Hastings

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

On the eve of Vermont's Great Flood of 1927, rain falls on northern Lake Champlain. Otter's father has been missing since World War I, and then a letter arrives with surprising news. Royal St. Onge may be alive! Otter and Granddad load a canoe with Missisquoi Moonbeam and paddle across Goose Bay to rendezvous at the family camp, but Otter's father is nowhere to be found, and bullet holes scar the cabin walls. The trail finally leads to a cutthroat gang called the Crows who will kill every member of Royal's family unless Otter can stop them.

Members Reviews:

Interesting family tale set in Vermont.

I did not think I would enjoy this book. I had read a description comparing it to the stories of Mark Twain. So I expected it to be a bit "folksy". To my surprise I did enjoy the book. The story took me to an area of Vermont that I know little about. It also explored some history I was not very familiar with. I would describe the novel as being a family tale that brings many generations together. I'm not sure you would call it a mystery but there is a mystery that develops as you turn the pages. The story could interest many different readers, both men and women and younger readers in their teens.

What a Storyteller

Yes, yes, yes. I'm fascinated by Prohibition history and bootleggers, love a good adventure novel, and this book has it all. Great fun, well written, a wonderful surprise from an author I'd never heard of.

A Must Read

I knew I wanted to read this because Alec and I grew up together. But friendship aside, I LOVED this book. Being from Vermont made the associations fun but you could be from anywhere and enjoy these incredible characters. Bravo Alec and we can not wait for the next adventure!!

Lisa LeBaron Hadley

Great even for reluctant readers!

I'm a Vermonter who loves history, so I really enjoyed this book. The Great Flood of 1927 makes a perfect, suspenseful backdrop for the fast-paced action. I have shared this book with my basic-level students (foundational high school English), and even these very reluctant readers have given it two thumbs up! They like the main character and find him wholly believable. Both boys and girls have enjoyed the story.

A Great Tale of the North Country

This is a spell binding tale of north country people surviving through The Prohibition. Alec Hastings grabs you and takes you on thrill ride. It is a really good read.

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Title: Gramps 1861 to 1865

Author: David Chapman

Narrator: James H. Kiser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-15

Publisher: David E Chapman

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

This is the first part of the life story of Michael James Hardisty. He enlisted in the Civil War at an early age and survived. He is witness to many of our historical events and relates them in his journals. Events such as the Transcontinental Railroad, the eradication of the American buffalo, the destruction of the American Indian, Gunfight at the OK Corral, Wright Brothers in Kitty Hawk, and many more. His journals relate the view of an idealistic youth then gradually matures to a cynical tongue-in-cheek humor.

Gramp's perspective on these historical events is not what we have been taught in school. His perspective is blunt and to the point; it is not glorified. Enjoy listening about these notable events from a different view.

Members Reviews:

Great story

If this story is true, Gramps is like the Forrest Gump of the Civil War era. Great read, I enjoyed it very much.

Good reading - very entertaining

An outstanding and well written book that entwines history in an interesting way. Good reading - very entertaining.

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Title: The Devil Remembers

Subtitle: Be Careful What You Promise

Author: Will Bevis

Narrator: Gene Tognacci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-08-15

Publisher: Will Bevis

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When officials come to disinter a noted Civil War figure, they receive an a horrible surprise. The body is still bleeding. From the Mouth. But why. The wife and the gravedigger know. But they are not talking. It is up to the doctor among the group to find out why this could be happening. And he does.

From the author of The Civil War Cover-Up books and many more Civil War and Now Civil War Stories, comes...

The Devil Remembers: Be Careful What You Promise.

Members Reviews:

Typical Bevis!

Would you listen to The Devil Remembers again? Why?

I"m not sure I'll listen again to the 23 minutes of this story. I think I got it the first time thru. But then, maybe once is not enough and since I"ve still got the audio in my library.....maybe I will.

What did you like best about this story?

It's typical Bevis--thoughtful, witty, respectful of humanity, and memorable.

What about Gene Tognaccis performance did you like?

Very nice pacing, accents not overdone, but also not too distinctive--listening to a character out of context would make it hard to know whether it's the doctor, the gravedigger, or the mayor. But the similarity wasn't distracting, since the text contains the "said the doctor" and the other flags.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Well, the discovery of who we are hearing about and the memories and images I have associated with that are moving, yes.

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Titel: Die Abenteuer des Röde Orm

Autor:: Frans G. Bengtsson

Erzähler: Günter Schoßböck

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 20 hrs and 16 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 01-01-15

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 3 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Wie eine nordische Saga beginnt und endet, höchst stilvoll, diese Wikingergeschichte. Was dazwischen liegt, ist aber alles andere als feierlich, sondern spannend und vergnüglich zu lesen. Mit Speeren, Äxten und Menschenleben geht man allerdings sorglos um, Hauptsache, die ess-, trink- und liebesfreudigen Helden haben ihren Spaß!

Die Geschichte beginnt so: Orm, Mutters Jüngster, verzärtelt und hypochondrisch, wird von plündernden Nachbar-Wikingern verschleppt. Das Schiff, auf dem die Nordmänner zu ihrem alljährlichen Raubzug gen Spanien fahren, kapern die Mauren. Leider sehen sich die Wikinger eines Tages genötigt, einen ihrer maurischen Widersacher zu erschlagen, und müssen deshalb - nicht ohne Hinterlassung aufrichtiger Entschuldigungen an den Kalifen von Cordova - fliehen...

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©1997 Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. KG. Übersetzung von Elsa Carlberg (P)2015 Audible GmbH

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

Definitely not happy with any part of this purchase

I thought this was the Swedish version, no it's German...I don't speak German so this is now just an overpriced paperweight. Ordered this at the same time as another book and this took twice as long. Definitely not happy with any part of this purchase.

Worth the Trouble it Takes to Find It!

Having heard so much about this saga-type novel I sought it eagerly and finally broke down and bought it via amazon uk (after a long, fruitless hunt stateside). Rather expensive for the copy I managed to secure (not the one featured on this page). And it had lots of typos and editing problems. But the book was worth it in the end. The tale of Orm Tostesson and "friends", it follows the adventures of this typical late tenth century viking through nearly all the high-points of vikingdom in the period. From raids and servitude on the coasts of Moorish Spain, to visits with Irish monks and dinner with the Danish King, Harald Bluetooth, and his assorted guests, including no less a worthy than Styrbiorn Olafsson, the Jomsviking and claimant to the Swedish throne about whom E. R. Eddison wrote so brilliantly in his own viking novel, STYRBIORN THE STRONG, this book takes us through all the paces. Orm ends up with a very noble wife living in a backwater part of Scandinavia (the borderlands between Sweden and medieval Denmark) but even there he gets no peace since his enemies and adventures pursue him. And in his maturity another and final adventure comes his way when he is summoned to the eastern reaches of far Gaardarike (the country that was to become Russia) to claim an "inheritance" of great value. Along the way, Orm makes some good friends, some bad enemies, participates in some (but by no means all) of the great events of viking history in that period, and finally mellows to become a better man who embraces the new way of thinking while yet feeling at home in the old.

I did think the book a bit too episodic though this is no indictment of it since the sagas themselves are nearly always such and the "voice" smacks very much of the sagaman's art.

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Title: Thunder Basin Range War

Author: Norm Bass

Narrator: Hubert Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-17-14

Publisher: Norm Bass

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In the spring of 1878 a handful of ranchers in the northeast corner of the Wyoming Territory pooled their money and entrusted it to fellow rancher, Gilbert Mack, to buy cattle in Denver and then drive the herd north to the small town of Recluse. After purchasing the cattle in Denver, Mack had them shipped by rail to Cheyenne where his longtime friend was waiting with nine other cowboys. The first portion of the drive goes as expected with relatively few problems, but as Mack attempts to drive the herd into a region known as the Thunder Basin, they are met by a bunch of "regulators" with orders to keep them from reaching the Cheyenne River. The story continues with Mack and his men trying to deal with stampeding cattle, renegade Indians, and an all-out war with the Thunder Basin Cattleman's Association.

Members Reviews:

Open range is not always open.

Bass has written a good story about open range cattle raising and driving a herd of Cows through unfriendly country and the greed of a large rancher . This is a very good read.

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Title: Mannequin Girl

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Ellen Litman

Narrator: Elizabeth Evans

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A heartfelt and deftly told coming-of-age story, Mannequin Girl captures the bleakness of Soviet Russia and the hopeful turmoil of adolescence.

"A perfect little figure," he says. "Our mannequin girl." She knows who mannequin girls are. They are in her grandmother's Working Woman magazines, modeling flouncy dresses and berets. "Bend," he tells her, and she does, so pliant, so obedient.

Growing up in Soviet Russia, Kat Knopman worships her parents, temperamental Anechka and soft-hearted, absent-minded Misha. Young Jewish intellectuals, they teach literature at a Moscow school, run a drama club, and dabble in political radicalism. Kat sees herself as their heir and ally. But when she's diagnosed with rapidly-progressing scoliosis, the trajectory of her life changes, and she finds herself at a different institution - a school-sanatorium for children with spinal ailments. Confined to a brace, surrounded by unsympathetic peers, Kat embarks on a quest to prove that she can be as exceptional as her parents: a beauty, an intellect, and free spirit despite her physical limitations, her Jewishness, and her suspicion that her beloved parents are in fact flawed.

Can a girl with a crooked spine really be a mannequin girl, her parents' pride and her doctors' and teachers' glory? Or will she prove to be something far more ordinary - and, thereby, more her own? An unforgettable heroine, Kat will have to find the courage to face the world and break free, not only of her metal brace but of all the constraints that bind her.

Members Reviews:

I wanted to like this

Any additional comments?

I love Elizabeth Evans as a narrator. I even thought I would like this novel as it started with a haunting quote I won't soon forget...

Unfortunately, I kept picking it up and putting it down, and almost dreaded keeping going back to it. It seems to meander through time and space, constantly in present tense.

I wanted to like this... the writing is literary quality, but something was missing - maybe urgency, maybe anything remotely happy...

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Title: As Angels Weep

Subtitle: The Juno Letters, Book 4

Author: L.W. Hewitt

Narrator: Gary Regal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-11-14

Publisher: L.W. Hewitt, MBM

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A storm explodes on German streets in November, 1938 - The Night of Broken Glass. The Holocaust has begun - and the world has changed forever. The little girls Rabbi Shalev calls his "Three Angels" flee their burning orphanage in terror, fearing for their lives. Hunted by an obsessed Gestapo captain, the best friends are torn apart and cast in the violent maelstrom of occupied Europe.

No government can help them. No army will come to their rescue. Corruption and greed stalk them at every turn. Their only hope for survival is to find sanctuary in the hearts of strangers who must risk their own lives as they plot treason - for it is a crime against the state to save a life.

The Three Angels are the stories of just three survivors hidden during the Holocaust by quiet heroes. They remain mostly anonymous. We can never know how many there were. We can never know their names. We must be content to know they existed, and stood against a great evil ... alone and resolute.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Another couldn't put it down book, which ruins my day for housework.

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Title: On Bittersweet Place

Author: Ronna Wineberg

Narrator: Lesa Lockford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-14

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

On Bittersweet Place is the powerful coming-of-age story of Lena Czernitski, a young Russian Jew whose family flees their homeland in the Ukraine after the October Revolution. The story unfolds in Chicago during the Jazz Age of the 1920s, where Lena's impoverished family has settled and where she must traverse the early years of adolescence. Lena's new world is large and beautiful and full of promise, but it is also cold and unwelcoming and laden with danger.

Members Reviews:

Heartwarming story of a young girl trying to escape the constaints of family

Readers will fall in love with Lena Czernitski, a girl on the threshold of adolescence. Lena has the clear-eyed vision of a future artist. She's a watcher who tries to stay out of people's way, all the while observing them closely. She struggles to understand her two uncles, moody mother, and the father who attempts to provide for his family and establish a social life for family and friends. Set in a neighborhood near Chicago's famed Maxwell Street, Lena's mother and father clearly love her, but each of the adults in the crowded apartment has a hidden agenda. Busy sorting out her complicated feelings about friends, her uncles, teachers, her brother, a possible boyfriend and her own progress toward fashioning a life for herself, Lena makes lists. I loved her lists and was always surprised at her self-evaluations. They helped me track of how she was doing in her efforts to fashion a life for herself beyond the options presented by the grownups. Lena's voice will pull you right back into historical Chicago and into a family that has escaped pogroms only to find themselves exposed to other dangers.

Bitter and sweet -- honest and evocative

Ronna Winebergâs "On Bittersweet Place" is a poignant coming-of-age story of a young immigrant girl in Chicago. It is tender and sweet while also being bitter and evocative of harsh truths.

Rena Czernitskiâs journey begins in Russia, her grandmother and mother, her uncles and brother Simon, and she fleeing the butchery of Cossacks that had taken her grandfatherâs life and stolen much of their riches. As they flee in a wagon through a forest on a dark night, Rena comes close to being left by the driver for crying over a lost shoe, close to being âleft to the wolves,â excepting her Uncle William intercedes. He gains her a reprieve, then keeps his hand over mouth to stifle her crying.

Bittersweet Place is where they join her father in 1922, who has come before them. Their small apartment becomes the nucleus of the extended family of aunts and uncles, cousins, and favorite friends. It is where Rena contemplates her fears in coming to Americaâto never speak perfect English, to be attacked on the street by perluriaâpeasants, to never have a home that is safe, to lose someone dear to her; as well as her desiresâto have a happy life, become a woman, draw beautiful pictures, be very completely in love. Her father runs a laundry in partnership with her uncles; her mother seems ever diminished and angry; her brother drifting further and further away.

Winebergâs prose is lean, her narrative straightforward. But she writes beautifully and evocatively, especially about the things that Rena loves: drawing, her young cousin Leah Grace, her father, and her Uncle William.

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Title: Whip Smart: Lola Montez Starts a Revolution

Author: Kit Brennan

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The wild and sexy Whip Smart series is based on the audaciously cosmopolitan, uniquely influential and true-life historical figure Lola Montez - the actress-turned-political diabla of Victorian times. In her most flamboyant adventure yet, Lola Montez gallops to Bavaria and, on an outrageous dare, seduces King Ludwig I. The aging royal cannot resist her fascinating moves as a Spanish dancer or the exciting wardrobe malfunction that ensues. As their scandalous love affair gains momentum, all of Europe seethes with an explosive unrest not seen since the French Revolution. During the opening months of 1848, Lola finds herself the target of a terrifying witch hunt, and it will take her considerable wiles to not only save herself but foment a revolution that can change the known world.

Written in Brennan's signature fun, sexy style, Lola Montez Starts a Revolution continues Lola's adventures from France (in Book Two - Lola Montez and the Poisoned Nom de Plume) and her origin story from England to Spain (in Book One - Lola Montez Conquers the Spaniards). And coming soon, Book Four - Lola Montez Seduces America - follows our flamboyant heroine to New York, Nicaragua, and California.

Members Reviews:

Fantastic new addition to the Lola Montez series

Fantastic new addition to the Lola Montez series. We start in mid-gallop as Lola rushes to a meeting with perhaps her greatest adversary - her Irish mammy. From there she travels to Bavaria and becomes the mistress of King Ludwig, as the country unites in protest against her. I can't help but love this heroine even as I found myself mentally begging her to cut her losses and get out of town: Lola is witty, courageous, determined, and really quite vulnerable, and the mix of Spanish and Irish slang that peppers her speech is strangely addictive. More swashbuckling adventure, great sex, and historical atmosphere, this time often with a dream-like quality. All this and a hot air balloon rescue. I'll be sad to see the end of this series.

Great, Interesting Read

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The first thing that I noticed and really commented on was the different time period. It was intriguing to go back to time periods I'd heard about and learned about in class, but this time have a character's interpretation of things. It certainly took some time to adjust to as I don't usually read a lot of books set in the past, but once I started to get that into my head, it got easier and easier to be drawn in.

As per usual, I didn't enjoy the first person perspective. The character was lively but I just don't enjoy that perspective. It didn't take away the interest I had in the book, it's just something I like to mention. It is continuing on from the previous books, and while there were a few small details that I felt were missing, the necessary events were at least explained in sufficient detail so that you didn't feel out of the loop while you were reading Whip Smart: Lola Montez Starts A Revolution.

Time seemed to pass quickly in the novel, which wasn't a bad thing but sometimes you felt as if you were racing from event to event. Which fit perfectly with the character, you just sometimes wanted to yell at her to slow down for a moment so you could catch your breath.

Whip Smart: Lola Montez Starts A Revolution was an energetic, for the most part lighthearted book.

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Title: Semblance of Balance

Author: Wayne Nielsen

Narrator: Kirk Winkler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-14

Publisher: Wayne F. Nielsen

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The trial of Leopold and Loeb is one of America's most tragic events. This intriguing account of the entire story - told from the perspective of an innocent household servant - provides some shocking answers.

When a wealthy, influential family hires Elizabeth to take care of their little boy, Nathan, she is grateful and relieved. Perhaps now, she thinks, she can put behind her the horrors she experienced during WWI. But Elizabeth is sadly mistaken.

Precocious Nathan and Dickie, his manipulative little friend, are not ordinary children, and Elizabeth soon finds herself entwined in a bizarre murder case. Does she dare to testify against little Nathan? Can she stand up to Clarence Darrow and Chicago's powerful elite?

Members Reviews:

The characters are plausible so it is easy to become immersed in their tale

I had always heard of the Leopold and Loeb trial and the defense by the famous Clarence Darrow. That was really the end of my knowledge base. This book brought the crimes, the perpetrators, the victims, and the by standers into sharp focus. The details as narrated by the Loeb's maid are crisp and believable. The characters are plausible so it is easy to become immersed in their tale. This was a quick, interesting and informative read.

GREAT BOOK!

Being a huge history buff & having read extensively on the Leopold & Loeb case, (which a high school history teacher taught us about in a great class on the 1920`s), I highly recommend this book to any history buffs out there. Whether you're interest is in Leopold & Loeb, the 1920`s, or even historical true crime, you'll like this book! Even tho I'm not a great fan of fiction, the writer has done his historical homework! It's a very good read. Doesn't bog down & is very well written!

Well told, and interesting book!

This was an extremely interesting, easy to read book about the Leopold-Loeb murders from the view point of a person who lived in the house and knew them well. It was, for me, one of those 'can't put the book down till it's finished' kind of books, so I gave it five stars.

memories

So nice to read about Elizabeth and KK, who I remember as Aunt Betty and Uncle Karl. I remembered many afternoons spent at her home with another cousin, Diane. Aunt Betty let us dress up in her clothes and jewelry, serving tea and a sweet desert to us on her back porch. Wayne gives a welcome glimpse into her past adding to her amazing life and sharing it with many.

Semblance of Balance

This is the story of my aunt Elizabeth and her experiences during her early years of living in the United States

after emigrating from Vienna, Austria. Very informative of many people in our family who are not with us any longer.