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Title: Song of Freedom

Author: Tim Simmons

Narrator: Kevin Foley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-31-11

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The year is 1910 and two people dance at the edge of the whirlwind known as the Mexican Revolution. Sonia de la Ontiveros is a beautiful young woman who comes to Mexico City from Sonora to be the nanny for her young cousins. Joaquin Cota is a vaquero in Chihuahua. Sonias uncle is an associate with Francisco Madero, the man who instigates the revolt from the oppressive regime of Porfirio Diaz. Sonia becomes involved with Captain Ramon Carvajal, a handsome young army officer, but he is the epitome of the plastic, tainted society Madero struggles against.

Joaquin is busy on the ranch where his family has lived for generations. He is not politically minded, but he knows it is not fair that only foreigners own land in Mexico, such as the ranch where he and his family slave away yet they slip further into debt due to overbearing taxation. Revolution finally erupts. Maderos forces drive Diaz out of Mexico. But it is costly for Sonia. She has to break off with Ramon as she accepts the reality of their polarity. And her uncle is killed.

Joaquin learns there is a new president of Mexicobut it means little to him. He and his family are still peons on a ranch that belongs to a foreigner. Sonia returns to her family in Sonora. A year and a half later, Sonia visits her former charges in Mexico City. Those who are displeased with Madero rise up, assassinate him and Victoriano Huerta, the next in a corrupt line, takes control. Sonia returns to Sonora, thoroughly discouraged. Revolutionaries strike the ranch in Chihuahua and Joaquin joins Pancho Villas Division of the North rather than fight them.

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Title: One Unashamed Night

Author: Sophia James

Narrator: Susan Lyons

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-11

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The awakening of Beatrice... Living in a grey world of silhouette, Lord Taris Wellingham conceals his fading eyesight from Society. He has long protected himself from any intimate relationships. Plain, twenty-eight-year-old Beatrice-Maude Bassingstoke does not expect to attract any man, especially not one as good-looking as her remote travelling companion. Forced by a snowstorm to spend the night together, these two lonely people seek solace in each other's arms. How will their lives change with the coming of the new day?

Members Reviews:

So sweet.

Any additional comments?

The narrator was great, the characters were sweet, and the story was interesting. Random thoughts: some steamy scenes, fairly predictable.

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Title: Honorable Doctor, Improper Arrangement

Author: Mary Nichols

Narrator: Rebecca DeLeeuw

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-11

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A woman worth fighting for! Dr Simon Redfern has risked his heart - and his reputation - over a woman once before. So when he meets Kate Meredith, who is helping a ragged child, he's shocked to find himself longing to make the warm-hearted young widow his wife...

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Title: The Fiend in the Human

Author: John Maclachlan Gray

Narrator: Patrick Romer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-10

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In the midst of life we are in death.

London in the early 1850s. The squalid underbelly of the Victorian slums coexist in uneasy partnership with the specious glamour of the privileged, dandified West End, each feeding off the other in an endless circle of vice, exploitation and death. London is the world's capital city of murder, its chief attraction the public execution of killers at Newgate.

Edmund Whitty is a correspondent on the Falcon, reporting on the underworld. He is a loser, pursued by creditors and dangerously addicted to alcohol, laudanum, and cocaine. He is openly scornful of the balladeers, or patterers, who write up the life of the condemned in doggerel verses even further divorced from truth than his own, embroidered newspaper reports. Whitty reaches his nadir when he is kidnapped and spirited off to the slums of St Giles.

His kidnapper is Mr. Owler, a balladeer he has traduced in one of his columns. But instead of revenge Owler wishes them to form an unlikely partnership. The subject of Owler's latest ballad is the serial killer, William Ryan, shortly to hang for his crimes. Ryan denies his guilt, but Owler feels by securing access to the criminal he will extract the man's true confession, beat his competitors to the story and thus make his fortune. He wants Whitty to lend validation to his research.

They are about to embark on a strange journey through the darkness of Victorian London where truth and fiction are often indistinguishable, a condemned man's life is at stake and savage, copycat murders continue despite his incarceration.

Members Reviews:

Two hour walks daily - Happy doggies!

I listened to this story on Audible - and enjoyed every minute of the 15 hours! True the plot did, at times become subsumed by the evocative descriptions of Victorian London, but in an odd way that further enhanced the whole experience. I normally get bored with extensive descriptive passages, but the reader, Patrick Romer came over as the very essence of a Victorian gent, subtly transporting the readers/listeners back to the mid 19th Century

Great

When I first started to listen to this book I didnt think I would like it.It does jump from one character to the next rather quickly I thought, without much warning and seems rather hectic at first as if the author is trying to get all the characters introduced at once so he can get on with the story. However, I soon became quite engrossed with it. The story of early journalists on the trail of a murderer could quite easily mirror into todays modern life I found the narration by Patrick Romer very good He sounds like a victorian if you know what I mean! He does an excellent upperclass voice

For me it had a good ending with a twist added .I think this would make an excellent historical TV drama/mystery if it was edited correctly. Thoroughly reccomended

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Title: The Gathering Storm

Author: Peter Smalley

Narrator: Michael Tudor Barnes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-10

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Spring 1791. Though deeply disturbed by a terrible incident during his previous commission, James Hayter is nevertheless on the verge of taking command of HMS Sloop Eglantine as Master and Commander when personal tragedy shatters his life. The twin blows convince Hayter that he is not fit to command and he must turn his back on the sea forever. Even the intervention of his friend and former captain, William Rennie, cannot not dissuade him from derelicting his duty.

Though repenting in the end of his decision, Hayters career in the Navy appears to be over until the intervention of an agent, Mr Brough Mappin, working for Hayters old nemesis, the British Secret Service Fund.

Mappins plan offers Hayter a chance to revive his career on a special mission, with the promise of reinstatement in the Royal Naval List if he is successful. But it is also the single most dangerous mission of his life. He must sail for France with Rennie in HMS Expedient and there rescue some persons of interest from the grasp of the French Revolutionary forces searching for them.

What no one mentions is that the rescue will bring to bear on Expedient and her crew a force so fierce and mighty that, if it can, it will wipe all trace of the incident, Hayter, and the ship from the memory of everyone involved in the forthcoming struggle.

Members Reviews:

Gathering Storm

Peter Smalley weaves another action pack novel featuring the characters from his Napoleonic period Naval Saga.. I highly recommend buying it.

A fine continuation of the series

Peter Smalley does not rest on his laurels in this latest, the fifth, in the Hayter/Rennie series. He has created a readable, interesting tale: characters we care about, a compelling story, lots of action and a window on history. James Hayter, haunted by doubts about his leadership ability and beset by tragedy at home, resigns his commission in the Royal Navy, a step he soon comes to regret. He is recruited by the shadowy agency that has already touched his life and he finds a new calling, one that gives him an opportunity to collaborate with mentor and friend, Captain William Rennie. As France reels from the Terror, Hayter and Rennie find themselves embroiled in a scheme to foil the worst excesses of the revolution. Their masters resolutely keep them in the dark and they chafe at being pawns in a game whose rules they don't understand. Nothing is straightforward in their mission and, faced with betrayal, they wind up in a desperate fight for their lives.

Smalley does a fine job of weaving his fictional narrative into the fabric of history (although he does advance the first use of the guillotine by almost a year.) To say more risks spoiling the story for new readers. Even if much of the plot is driven by events ashore, Smalley makes sure that there is plenty of shipboard action: sailing evolutions, repairs, storms, gunnery, boat actions, single- and multiple-ship actions as well as the small daily dramas that swirl around a captain at sea. These passages are the heart of historic naval fiction, and Smalley excels at them. It is aboard the Expedient that the reader finds many of the wonderful minor characters introduced in earlier books.

Hayter and Rennie make a memorable pair. While each may become impatient with the other's shortcomings, their friendship is built on genuine regard and they are fiercely loyal one to the other.

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Title: Sage

Subtitle: In the Rugged Hills Series, Book 1

Author: Debora Clark

Narrator: Shawna Windom

Format: Abridged

Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-10

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Sage: a venerable, wise man, judicious; and aromatic plant with grayish-green leaves used as seasoning; the healing plant; the herb of happiness. Lenny and her sister were as close as two sisters could be. Their mother died when Lenny was fourteen, and Lenny took on the role of caretaker, tending her eight-year-old sister and the herb garden their mother left behind. The garden was just about the only thing that brought joy to the desolate farm until a handsome stranger rode through on his way to Missouri. The mysterious man stayed a while to help their pa rebuild the storm-damaged barn, and his presence on the farm led to an event that changed all their lives.

Thirty-three years later, Lenny's younger sister receives a mysterious package. When she opens the green velveteen hatbox, the smell of sage overwhelms her. But what's more, she realizes the box contains the missing pieces of her puzzled life. Soon she finds answers and learns that things were not always as they appeared as Lenny's story unfolds before her eyes. Will these discoveries bring closure after all these years? Can sage truly bring the sisters healing and happiness?

Set in the beautiful Ozark mountains of Missouri, Sage is a historical novel highlighted by the mighty men and women who forged a wilderness. These early settlers demonstrated courage only surpassed by their determination when faced with a war between the states and the lifelong wars that raged within. Debora Clark and her husband, Jim, enjoy the nature and beauty of the rugged hills, the scenic Ozarks, from their porch swing in Alton, Missouri. They are thankful for their many blessings. Sage is the first book in Debora's series, In the Rugged Hills.

Members Reviews:

Really enjoyed the book.

Thought this was a good book. Love books that take place in that era and enjoyed the descriptions of the places and characters in the book. Will be looking forward to Debora Clarks next one.

SAGE

Deborah Clark's novel SAGE is set in the Ozark Mountains during the Civil War Era. It is a good read. We look forward to the next book in the series.

Sage is one of those rare gems that will become a classic time piece.

I have to be honest. Most of the stories I read are either science fiction or fantasy. My uncertainty of reading a book from this genre made it a challenge to pick it up. Man, was I ever glad I did. Debora Clark's prose is amazingly smooth and allows this Civil War period story to flow at a fast pace. Another thing that surprised me, was the majority of this novel is told in the form of a diary. I have never read a story formatted this way before and I am positive very few authors could pull this off as wonderfully as she has. The narrative is so descriptive that it transported me into this era. The characters come to life against the surreal backdrop known as the Rugged Hills; my mind seeing it as if I were observing it through a stereoscope. The challenges faced by the characters are ones modern man seldom have to deal with in light of all our technology and medical advances, which brings the rigorous and harsh conditions of life along the Eleven Point River to the forefront. I'm not for sure if I could ever read another book from this genre unless it was another classic told by Debora.

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Title: The Revolt of the Eaglets

Author: Jean Plaidy

Narrator: Jilly Bond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-10

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

News of Thomas à Beckets martyrdom has spread throughout Christendom, and the blame is laid at the feet of Henry Plantagenet, King of England. Two years later, with Becket canonised, Henrys position is precarious: punished at the Popes insistence for his part in Beckets death, he now also has an enemy in his Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, after her discovery of his longstanding infidelity with Rosamund Clifford. Eleanor is determined to seek vengeance, so, with King Philip of France, she encourages her sons to conspire, both against their father and each other.

Much embattled, the old eagle Henry struggles to fend off both rebellion and the plots of his aggressively circling offspring.

Members Reviews:

Not One to put down

What can you say about Henry II and his brood? If he expected his sons to be any less ambitious than he was then he was sadly mistaken.

This book picks up where The Plantagenet Prelude left off. Most of Henry and Eleanor's children have grown up and married. Eleanor is prisoner through most of this book and Henry is left to defend his kingdom alone without her help and support. She knows things about his children that he refuses to see, or just plain doesn't care to see.

Henry makes the disastrous mistake of crowning his son Henry king while he is still alive, but doesn't give Young Henry any power when the time comes. This causes Henry to resent his father and for him to come up with numerous plans to unseat him, or at least for him to give him what he believes is truly his. He also does the same for Richard, in giving him Aquitaine, the land his mother originally wanted him to have anyway, and Geoffery, in marrying him into Brittany. John is too young at this time, but he begins to groom him to take over the throne if anything should happen to Young Henry. Henry II also tries to make John into the son he believes he never had.

The book is pretty action packed. Full of battles between father and sons, father and one son against the others, Henry again the King of France, Phillip II, who is very smart, very wily and befriends Richard.

It's also a very sad book because you feel that Henry, in his advancing age, is just looking for the love he never had, looking to give what love he can. No one seems to be able to understand exactly what's going on in his mind.

The book ends with his death. He dies a very heart broken man. Two sons are dead. One fighting against him and the one, the very one he loves most of all, is a coward, a traitor, a deserter.

Richard is now Richard I. He is earning the legend we know him by now. He is king and we are ready for the next book.

And Again

We are enjoying the Norman Trilogy obtained through your excellent services, and now the Revolt of Eagles is added to the Plantagenent saga. All in excellent condition and a welcome addition to our library of readable and re-readable literature, thanks to Amazon and its clients who supply these sometimes hard to get books.

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Five Stars

Jean PLAIDY a great author. Playing catch up by reading this series of her historical novels. Enjoyed and enjoying.

LOVE EVERY BOOK WRITTEN BY JEAN PLAIDY

LOVE EVERY BOOK WRITTEN BY JEAN PLAIDY AND ALL HER OTHER PENS!!! I COLLECT THEM ALL.........I LOVE THE WAY SHE PUT ALL HER NOVELS TOGETHER. A GREAT NOVELIST!!!!

Revolt of the Eaglets

Loved the book. Fascinated by the time period and Jean Plaidy is the best. The whole series is amazing.

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Title: Up From Thunder

Author: Susan K. Salzer

Narrator: Laurie Klein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-10

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

For 16-year-old Hattie Rood, Mr. Lincoln's War has brought nothing but death and hardship. She has lost one brother to a Yankee sharpshooter, another is away fighting with the Confederate army, and her aging father is barely able to keep the family tobacco farm going. One hot August night in 1864, Hattie's life takes another dramatic turn when rebel bushwhackers bring a wounded Jesse James to the Rood farmhouse, to recover or die. During the next four weeks, as she nurses 17-year-old Jesse back to health, Hattie learns about herself, the lawlessness of war, and most importantly the character of the wounded boy she comes to love. Based on actual events, Up From Thunder explores the uniquely savage Civil War in Missouri a conflict that pitted guerillas led by men like "Bloody Bill" Anderson and William Quantrill against Jayhawkers and often unscrupulous Federal forces. It also examines the ways in which these desperate events and personalities shaped the lives of young Missourians like Hattie Rood, caught in the crossfire.

Members Reviews:

hafgw7

Up From Thunder is a wonderful read. Not only is the imagery and historical backdrop interesting, but it has an excellent storyline. Although set in the 1860s, I felt like I could identify to the young Hattie. This novel has sparked my interest for further investigation into what life in Missouri was like during this period in time. I would highly suggest this novel to anyone looking for a fun, easy, and highly enjoyable read. I look forward to further novels from the author.

Fabulous book

I enjoyed this book more than any I have read in a while. The imagery is amazing. It is one of those rare books that makes you feel you are right there. You are literally transported to Missouri's distant and dusty civil war days. The heroine is an immensely empathic character, with whom you bond immediately. I'm in the process of trying to find other books by this author.

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Title: The Uncertain Years

Author: Beryl Matthews

Narrator: Annie Aldington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-10

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

As World War II breaks out, four friends from Londons East End consider the changes that war will mean for all of them. Tomboyish Becky Adams plans to join the ATS, her neighbours Bob and Jim the navy and army respectively. Only Beckys brother, Will, is left out of the excitement; because of a slight physical disability, he is forced to stay behind, working as a cub reporter on a newspaper.

As hostilities gather pace, and the friends are separated, their youthful enthusiasm is tempered by the grim headlines in the newspapers and their experiences at Dunkirk and in the Blitz. Like so many others, Becky and her friends will face hardship, drama, and tragedy before the war is over.

Members Reviews:

Not my cup of tea!

Any additional comments?

Sorry, bit I didn't finish this audio book which was a pity as I think it would have been interesting. I just coukdn't stand the reader.

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Title: The Royalscope Fe-As-Ko

Subtitle: Fe-As-Ko Series, 2

Author: Randall Platt

Narrator: Jerry Sciarrio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-10

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In The Royalscope Fe-As-Ko, Northwest cattle rancher Royal Leckner finds himself in the middle of another fe-as-ko, this time in 1915 Hollywood. Dreams of stardom for her daughter, Elsie, and for herself entice Royal's wife, E.M., to buy a silent film company. She quickly renames it Royalscope Productions in order to convince her fuming husband it's a gift. When Royal arrives in Hollywood with his two young sons, Chick'n'Tad, everyone gets into the act. There's a nefarious-looking director who might be a crook -- or just a failure. A handsome but shady leading man who might be after Royal's daughter -- or more of his money. A young English professor and scriptwriter who might have dreams -- or designs -- of his own. And then there's Western film star William S. Hart, who happens to look very much like Royal. Or is it the other way around? And whose side is he on? It's hard to tell with all the acting that's going on. Through the homespun storytelling of Royal Leckner, the silent film era of Hollywood takes on a whole new life. Vanity hasn't been this much fun since Thackeray wrote Vanity Fair. Randall Beth Platt has once again taken a fresh, warm, and funny approach to the Old West. And Hollywood to boot.