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Titel: Herrin der Schmuggler

Autor:: Peter Dempf

Erzähler: Solveig Jeschke

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 12 hrs and 20 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-16-15

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Augsburg, 1305. Die Obsthändlerin Gera führt ein einfaches, aber ehrbares Leben - bis ihr Mann ermordet und sie selbst zur Gejagten wird. Was wollte der Mörder? Wer sind die Männer, die sie suchen? Gera hat nur zwei Anhaltspunkte: Ein goldenes Templerkreuz, das einer der Angreifer verliert, und ein Kohlestück aus der Hand ihres toten Mannes, das sie zu einer Gruppe von Kohleschmugglern führt. Verfolgt und auf allen Seiten von Verrätern umgeben, sieht Gera nur eine Chance: Sie muss sich den Schmugglern anschließen...

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Title: Luftspejling 38 [Mirage 38]

Author: Kjell Westö

Narrator: Karsten Pharao

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-15

Publisher: Viatone

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

I det uformelle diskussionsforum Onsdagsklubben diskuterer advokaten Claes Thune og nogle venner Hitlers ekspansionspolitik, der vkker bde vrede og beundring. Vi befinder os i Helsingfors i 1938. Thune er for nylig blevet skilt fra sin kone, der har bedraget ham med en af hans bedste venner og tilmed skrevet en vovet bog med erotiske noveller. Begge dele har fet ham til at gruble over deres samliv og hans formen som mand. Skilsmissen har ogs tret p arbejdsengagementet, men heldigvis har han netop ansat den dygtige kontormedarbejder Matilda Wiik. Fru Wiik fler sig dog ikke srlig dygtig og plages af minder fra borgerkrigen og den interneringslejr, hun som 16-rig sad i. Det er oplevelser, hun lige siden har forsgt at glemme, men en dag indhentes hun af fortiden, da Onsdagsklubben mdes p advokatkontoret, og hun hrer en velkendt stemme.

Please note: This audiobook is in Danish.

Critic Reviews:

"De nominerede romaner i rets felt, de danske ikke mindst, var svagere end lnge, men i et hvilket som helst felt, ville Kjell Westös roman fortjene stor hder." (Jes Stein Pedersen, Politiken)

"Denne bog er intensere end Westös tidligere romaner, med et sugende suspense og en voldsom overraskelse i slutningen." (Arne Hardis, Weekendavisen)

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Title: Summerville

Author: Eugene Goss

Narrator: John Fritz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-09-15

Publisher: Eugene Goss

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Discovery of a well-kept secret changes everything for the charismatic Andersons who dominate an international sport. The story of Summerville emerges from their family ties to the Revolutionary War, celebrating the poignant story of their great legacy.

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Title: Afrika's Struggle

Subtitle: His Experiential Journey

Author: Karl A. Mitchell

Narrator: Gary Roelofs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-15

Publisher: Karl A. Mitchell

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In this historically accurate work of fiction, listeners follow the journey of Afrika, an African man descended from an emperor who is first enslaved and then given his freedom by white men.

Captured in Africa and transported across the ocean to the Americas, Afrika's captors sell him to a German-born plantation owner in Georgia who becomes a father figure to him. A learned man, he teaches Afrika the value and power of an education, instilling in him a love of learning and starting him on a path toward intellectual freedom even before he gains his physical freedom.

As Afrika's journey continues, he meets a variety of people from different backgrounds who introduce him to new ideas. An English-born abolitionist in New York City, a French intellectual with revolutionary leanings in Montreal, and visits to renowned institutions of learning in Paris and London make a deep impact on Afrika.

These encounters shape Afrika's view of the world as it is - and inform his vision of how the world should be. Consequently, as his understanding of politics and philosophy grows, so does his involvement in the revolutions in the United States, France, and Haiti.

Members Reviews:

Can you imagine if this book were a MOVIE?

Karl A. Mitchell's "Afrika's Struggle: His Experiential Journey" was an emotionally jarring read that stimulated the activist in me! I didn't know what to expect before I read this book but I have been taught, scandalized, romanced and tearful during the relationships I built with the characters in this story. Cleverly, Mitchell juxtapositions Afrika, the man along with Africa, the land which highlights a historic struggle through the evolution of Afrika, the man. This story hasn't been told quite this way before. Not only will the pages of the book fly by as you read but the message of the story will haunt your thoughts. I recommend this book to anyone who considers themselves a history buff, enjoys gritty adventure, colorful language and has an overactive imagination, such as myself, so that they may envision the lavish scenes that played in my mind during Afrika's journey.

AFRIKA'S STRUGGLE HIS EXPERIENTIAL JOURNEY

Through the eyes of Afrika a slave, he took me on a journey of his struggles of survival from Afrika to Europe, America and the Caribbean during the time of slavery. He was the main character along with his adapted father and godfather. His adapted father gave him his wide education that helps to molds him in a very smart, smooth and cunning genius of a man. Afrika, was my favorite character, even though his struggles were treacherous he had many adventures Planning uprising and adventures of love especially with Countess Helene de Gramont it was hot.

I like this book it is a easy read. I am reading it again. I would recommend this book as a history book in an adventurous style and a literature review.

Afrikaâs Struggle is beautifully written and an easy read

Afrikaâs Struggle is beautifully written and an easy read. Afrika, a direct descendant of an African emperor, was taken captive at a young age and transported to America to live a life of slavery. Protected by the Gods and destined to lead, his journey takes him to a life unlike no other slave. The writer very cleverly, gives you history lessons filled with intrigue and a little romance. This is not the average book on slavery.

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Title: Rembrandt's Mirror

Author: Kim Devereux

Narrator: Pippa Nixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-15

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Rembrandt's Mirror explores the three women of Rembrandt's life and the towering passions of the artist seen through the eyes of his last,great love, Hendrickje.

Hendrickje, a girl from a strict Calvinist family, leaves her provincial home to find work as a housemaid. She enters Rembrandt's flourishing workshop five years after the death of the great artist's wife, an event that continues to haunt him.

It is a house full of secrets and desires, and Hendrickje soon witnesses a sexual encounter between Rembrandt and Geertje, his implacable housekeeper. She is shocked to the core by their intense carnality and yet, slowly, she is drawn to Rembrandt by the freshness with which he perceives the world and the special freedom he seems to possess.

Rembrandt is a man of dark corners, strange passions and a ruthlessness born from his need to put his art first. An involvement with him could be her ruin or her liberty.

Members Reviews:

Fantastic Audio

Going by the reviews of the book , I decided to take a chance on this audio. I'm so glad that I did! I enjoyed it immensely and found the style in which it was written wonderful. The painting of some of Rembrandt's works were brought vividly to life and it was easy to imagine his workshop and house.

My only niggle, was that it was sometimes unclear when the narrator changed point of view, as the story is told in the first person. This was sometimes a little confusing but the fault of editing rather than the narrator. It would've been wiser to leave a tiny pause between each switch. However if you are either a fan of Rembrandt or liked 'Girl with a Pearl Earring,' I would recommend this.

Dreary and claustrophobic

For me the characters were all wrong, not fully fleshed out, not believable - I listened to 75% then lost the will to live. Ridiculous, derivative, indulgent tosh.

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Title: Motherland

Author: Jo McMillan

Narrator: Charlie Sanderson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-15

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It is 1978, Jess and her mother Eleanor struggle to sell socialism to Tamworth - a sleepy Midlands town that just doesn't want to know. So when Eleanor is invited to spend a summer teaching in East Germany, she and Jess jump at the chance. But friends can become enemies, and Jess discovers how easy it is to switch sides, and how sides can be switched for you, sometimes without you even knowing.

Members Reviews:

Good account of misplaced youthful idealism

I was active in CND and travelled to East Berlin in the same period and was rather bemused my East German had never heard of Leon Trotsky. I didn't share the protagonist's delusion in a workers' paradise behind the Iron Curtain and feel the story would have been more authentic with a female Citizen Smith style character rather than the daughter of a tankie (fundamentalists who supported the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia). Rebellious youngsters seldom follow their parents' political persuasion. Nonetheless the book offers great insights into the crazy world of left-wing activists and the dreariness of 1980s Middle England.

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Title: The Looking Glass House

Author: Vanessa Tait

Narrator: Melody Grove

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-15

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Oxford, 1862: As Mary Prickett takes up her post as governess to the daughters of the dean of Christ Church, she is thrust into a strange new world. Mary is desperate for change, but there is a problem: Mary does not like children, especially the precocious Alice Liddell. When Mary meets Charles Dodgson, the Christ Church mathematics tutor, she is flattered by his attentions, and Mary begins to believe that she could be more than just a dowdy governess.

One sunny day Mr Dodgson tells the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. But Mary is determined to become Mr Dodgson's muse - and will turn all the lives around her topsy-turvey in pursuit of her obsession.

Members Reviews:

Carroll and Alice

Lewis Carroll was a compulsive diarist. His family were rigorous in maintaining his reputation and removed and probably destroyed several portions of the diaries after his death, including the period around the creation of what became Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a period which also saw a sudden break in relations between Dodgson and Alice's family. This novel, by Alice's great-granddaughter, tries to fill the gap.

There are two principal theories for the source of the break, and Tait rather neatly intertwined them. There are some clever allusions to Carroll's works but on the whole this is more Sylvie and Bruno than Alice or Snark.

Five Stars

Verg good

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Title: A Hanging at Cinder Bottom

Author: Glenn Taylor

Narrator: Bill Roberts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-15

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the author of The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart and set in the boom years of the West Virginia coalmining industry, this is an epic story of personal ambition, exile and return, and a grand heist.

Keystone, West Virginia, 1910. In the hot August rain, the townspeople gather to witness the first public hanging in over a decade. At the gallows are none other than poker player Abe Baach and his lover, the madam of the towns brothel, one Goldie Toothman.

Abe split town seven years prior and has been playing cards up and down the coast ever since. But when he returns to Keystone to reunite with Goldie and to set the past right, he finds a brother dead and his father's saloon in shambles - and suspects the same men might be responsible for both. Only then, in facing his family's past, does the real swindle begin.

Critic Reviews:

"It's not enough to say Glenn Taylor is a brilliant writer. He's that rarity nowadays, a great storyteller...irresistible. You'll never have a better time at a hanging." (Stewart O'Nan, author of A Prayer for the Dying)

"[A] galloping, defiant epic...a virtuoso performance...vigorous and sincere, located squarely in the tradition of Twain, Faulkner and McCullers." (Guardian)

"Taylor has created a marvellous, jump-off-the-page character...a defiantly incredible creation.... The writing is limber, and the real life it bundles up into its freakish, charismatic character make this a genuine success that admirers of John Irving - and others too - will surely enjoy." (The Independent)

"An energetic romp." (Dazed and Confused)

Members Reviews:

MOVE OVER TOM JONES

The novel opens with two jailed citizens awaiting their hanging. One is a handsome gambling man and the other is his love, a gorgeous and feisty prostitute. Both stand naked and humming in their respective cells. The opening is a hoot and the rest of the story is just as much fun to read. It's a convoluted tale of greed and misdeeds.

Taylor is writing about a real place and relevant WV history and making it sing (or hum, if you will).

This over the top novel is a delight to read and Taylor's writing is spot on. He knows West Virginia and its history. He's super-good at telling a tale.

A thrill a minute!

Glenn Taylorâs new over-the-top caper sparkles with cinematic scenes begging to be transformed into film. A Hanging at Cinder Bottom: A Novel is primarily set in West Virginia coal country with occasional forays into Baltimore. The white-faced monkey depicted on the cover plays a role in a story as entertaining as a three-ring circusâand at times, the author seems to be juggling that many acts at once. The novel might be compared to the movies The Sting or Catch Me If You Can. It also fits the definition of the picaresque novel in the vein of The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling or A Confederacy of Dunces. Taylorâs gifts include an ear for capturing pitch-perfect dialect and creating a detail-rich setting from extensive research.

Hereby Hangs a Hoot of a Tale

Glenn Taylor has out-done himself with this one. His first book "Trenchmouth Taggart" told us, this is one funny guy to follow as he matures. Well, this "Hanging" tale is what we've been waiting for. It's all here, brilliant writing, fine comic plotting, blemished heroes to cheer and despicable villains to hiss -- and no mistaking who is who.

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Titel: Der Schatten des Galiläers

Autor:: Gerd Theißen

Erzähler: Timo Berndt, Frerk Brockmeyer, Max Michels, Johann Schliefer, Maria Funk

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 17 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 06-30-15

Herausgeber: Random House Audio, Deutschland

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Gerd Theißen erzählt von Jesus und seiner Zeit. Die Rahmenhandlung ist fiktiv: Ein junger Jude, Andreas, wird von Pilatus dazu erpresst, Material über neue religiöse Bewegungen in Palästina zu sammeln. Dabei stößt er auf Jesus und reist ihm hinterher. Aus Berichten über Jesus rekonstruiert er dessen Leben.

Ein fesselndes Hörspiel, in dem Verkündigung und Geschick Jesu aus der Perspektive eines jüdischen Zeitgenossen erzählt und im Rahmen der religiösen und sozialen Welt des Judentums verständlich gemacht werden.

Sprecher:

©2004 Gütersloher Verlagshaus (P)2015 Randomhouse Audio

Kritik Bewertungen:

Spannend wie ein Krimi.

-- Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung

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Titre: Pietra Viva

Auteur: Léonor de Récondo

Narrateur: Lazare Herson-Macarel

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 3 hrs and 54 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 06-25-15

Éditeur: Sixtrid

Evaluation: 1 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Michelangelo, en ce printemps 1505, quitte Rome bouleversé. Il vient de découvrir sans vie le corps d'Andrea, le jeune moine dont la beauté lumineuse le fascinait. Il part choisir à Carrare les marbres du tombeau que le pape Jules II lui a commandé. Pendant six mois, cet artiste de trente ans déjà, à qui sa Pietà a valu gloire et renommée, va vivre au rythme de la carrière, sélectionnant les meilleurs blocs, les négociant, organisant leur transport. Sa capacité à discerner la moindre veine dans la montagne a tôt fait de lui gagner la confiance des tailleurs de pierre. Lors de ses soirées solitaires à l'auberge, avec pour seule compagnie le petit livre de Pétrarque que lui a offert Lorenzo de Medici et la bible d'Andrea, il ne cesse d'interroger le mystère de la mort du moine, tout à son désir impétueux de capturer dans la pierre sa beauté terrestre.

Au fil des jours, le sculpteur arrogant et tourmenté, que rien ne doit détourner de son œuvre, se laisse pourtant approcher : par ses compagnons les carriers, par la folie douce de Cavallino, mais aussi par Michele, un enfant de six ans dont la mère vient de mourir. La naïveté et l'affection du petit garçon feront resurgir les souvenirs les plus enfouis de Michelangelo.

Parce qu'enfin il s'abandonne à ses émotions, son séjour à Carrare, au cœur d'une nature exubérante, va marquer une transformation profonde dans son œuvre. Il retrouvera désormais ceux qu'il a aimés dans la matière vive du marbre.

©2013 Sabine Wespieser (P)2015 Sixtrid SAS

Revues par les critiques:

La presse en parle :

"Une poussière étoilée tombe des mots de Léonor de Récondo, et la finesse de ces particules provient d'un geste sûr, comme envoûté. La pierre vivante, "pietra viva", dans laquelle cette romancière sculpte avec ferveur, est un épisode de la vie de Michel-Ange, au creux d'une carrière de marbre, à Carrare."

Marine Landrot, Télérama

"Sans effet de manches ni grandiloquence, ce troisième roman de Léonor de Récondo interroge le mystère de la création, les noces singulières de l'art et de la mémoire. Creusant le sillon de la chair dans le marbre, elle signe un ouvrage profondément atypique, où l'émotion jaillit, jamais où on l'attend."

Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle Magazine

"Un moment clé de la vie du jeune Michel-Ange dans les carrières de marbre de Carrare, face à son passé, à ses obsessions et ses rêves. Ce livre magique, magnifique et lumineux est un best-seller."

Philippe Vallet, France Info