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Title: The Seal Wife

Author: Kathryn Harrison

Narrator: Fred Stella

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-21-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A novel of passions both dangerous and generative, The Seal Wife explores the nature of desire and its ability to propel an individual beyond himself and outside conventions. Harrison brilliantly re-creates the Alaskan frontier during the period of the first World War and in lyrical prose explores the interior landscape of the psyche and human emotions - a landscape eerily continuous with the splendor and terror of the frozen frontier, the storms that blow over the earth and its face.

Critic Reviews:

A stunning and hypnotic novel by "a writer of extraordinary gifts" (Tobias Wolff)

Members Reviews:

Intriguing enough

Evocative descriptions of Alaska, and one man's personal quest for discovery. I found the storyline itself a bit dry, but it was intriguing enough to keep me reading. Worth a look!

Evocative

Super evocative setting: loved being transported to early 20th c. Alaska. The protagonist was interesting but quirky. For me, a lot of the books action was so centered on his sex/romantic life, and not always in a great way. I did very much like "the Seal Wife" : she was a compelling and mysterious and I was as fascinated by her as the protagonist was!

The story fascinates and the writing is good.

A dark story of obsession, set in a dark sun-starved climate about a period of hardship in Alaska. The story fascinates and the writing is good.

Strange!

If you like a book that nothing happens, read it!

One Star

BORING!!!!

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Title: Skies Over Sweetwater

Author: Julia Moberg

Narrator: Suzy Myers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-08

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

At camp, Byrd meets Cornelia the rich girl, Sadie the college girl, and Opal the city girl. Together they struggle to master not only handling a plane, but some of life's most important challenges.

The WASP were the first women in history trained to fly American military aircraft. Still in their teens, these courageous pioneers, heroes in their own right, left their homes to serve their country doing what they loved to do - fly! Their story inspires us all to follow our dreams and find our own place in the world through courage, integrity, and passion. Readers of all ages will love the WASP's story of achievement, friendship, and patriotism.

Members Reviews:

hometown girl

this story took place in my hometown. all of the little details made me very nostalgic.

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Title: The Blue Star

Author: Tony Earley

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-08

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Jim Glass has fallen in love, as only a teenage boy can fall in love, with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the Navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in Bucky's absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven and gives a young man's emotions a grown man's gravity.

When Bucky returns to Aliceville a fallen hero, Jim finds himself adrift in a once-familiar town where everything, including Chrissie, seems to be changing.

With the uncanny insight into the well-intentioned heart that made Jim the Boy a modern classic, Tony Earley has fashioned a nuanced and unforgettable portrait of America in another time - making it feel even more real than our own day. This is a moving story of discovery, loss, and growing up, showing again that Tony Earley's writing "radiates with a largeness of heart". (Esquire).

Critic Reviews:

"Questions of patriotism, sexuality and poverty weave their way into a narrative that's deceptive in its simplicity: the growing pains that Jim and his friends experience pack a startling emotional punch." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

catches the feel of new relationship

This sequel to Jim the Boy continues to catch and share the feel of being human in relationship. Jim as a boy is passionate, loving, awkward and taking plenty for granted. Jim here, in The Blue Star, is passionate, loving, awkward and beautifully coming into maturity as he loves both a woman and a friend in difficult situations. The author notices and shares the subtleties of interaction that bring these new friends alive!

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Title: Across the Brazos

Author: Ermal Walden Williamson

Narrator: Rusty Nelson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-08

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

His adventures took him south, where he served in the Confederate Army. After the Civil War, he followed his commanding general to Texas to work as a hired gun.

Range wars and cattle drives kept him busy, and home life on the ranch was good. Then, one summer day, three cowboys rode in from Montana to bring him home. Matt's life would change forever as he found himself having to decide between the life and love he found in Texas and his family's ranch in Montana.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Good read

Across the Brazos

Twenty years after Matt is assumed dead in a bank robbery attempt in Montana where his brother and another man thought to be him was killed (see the movie The Cowboys), Matt works as a hired gun on the Brazos River Bar M Ranch in Texas for his old General when he served in the Confederate Army during the US Civil War. Three cowboys from the Double-O Ranch in Montana, arrive in Texas to inform Matt that his mother is dying and she wishes to see him before she passes. But the ranch Matt is working on is in a war with a neighboring ranch that wants all of their land and cattle, and Matt is the man the General depends upon to lead the cowboys on the Brazos River Bar M Ranch in a fight. Leisha, the General's daughter, is Matt's girl, even though he knows that he will never marry her. His best friend, and fellow Civil Wars soldier, Steve, is also in love with Liesha, but will not ever make a real move on her while she belongs to Matt. Matt knows that he can't leave, but would like to see his mother before she dies. He just doesn't know how he can leave Texas at this time...or ever. This is his home now.

This is a western story taking place in and outside of Waco, Texas in the year 1878. It is a sequel based on the William Dale Jennings' book and screenplay The Cowboys. This is the first published book for Ermal Walden Williamson, a John Wayne imitator.

I do love a good western, and never having seen the movie The Cowboys, I was a little trepidations about reading this story. But Mr. Williamson does a really fine job here with the storytelling. I was really impressed with the characters that were created and how real he made them. Actually, there are two different stories here: one taking place in Texas, which is most of the book, and the rest in Montana, which the reader looks forward to having closure from what happened 20 years ago. The book is deceptively long, which was okay with me, as I like long stories. The main character, Matt, is a man wrestling with his own inner demons. But he is a nice guy, and I really liked him. The only problem I had with the book was some of the editing. Some of the punctuation, like double periods really stand out. And once, and entire page was duplicated. Overall, this is a good story and a fun western to read.

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Title: The Franciscan Conspiracy

Author: John Sack

Narrator: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-14-08

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 59 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The story begins 30 years after Francis's death, when Father Leo, Francis' closest friend, is dying. Bound to a vow of silence, Leo sends a cryptic message to Conrad, his own favorite student, connecting him with an unlikely companion, 16-year-old Sister Amata. The two begin to search for the truth about St. Francis, a truth that will shake the faith of the masses to the core and bring into question the foundation of the Franciscan Order.

Members Reviews:

definitely not Da Vinci code

I disliked the "movie-script like" Dan Brown novel but I did enjoy this listen. It is a quiet "mystery," quietly told -- more about the setting and times (and underpinned with a love of Franciscan spirituality and legends) rather than a fast paced whodunnit. It's more in the tradition of "The Name of the Rose". There may be some anachronisms of character, but "Franciscan Conspiracy" is a work of historical fiction with religious undertones, and like most novels, not for everyone.

Very Interesting Plot

I must admit, the plot was a surprise, a bit suggestive of Dan Brown's DaVinci Code. None of the high speed thrills & chases, but I still think I enjoyed this one more. It is full of some delightful imagery of the times and of the motivations for the religeous communities of the next generation of St. Francis' teachings. I recommend it without hesitation, but don't expect the 20th Century speed and energy. This is a moderately paced but delightfully rewarding story for those who like a bit of mystery and a lot of historical fiction. I think most will enjoy it just as I did, especially if you are familiar with the story of St. Francis and the politics that troubled him unto his death, and, it seems, beyond.

Enjoy it. I did.

Disappointing

The first and worst problem is the narration. If there was any appeal to this story, it was smothered by the dull delivery by the narrator.

The author's attempt at creating suspense failed-- I never really cared whether the characters suffered or got killed, and took no joy in their successes.

Worst of all, the "mystery" that they are bound to discover ends up being totally prosaic and even the characters don't seem to care a whole lot by the time they figure it out.

I think a spirited narration can sometimes save a mediocre book, but this one had no such salvation.

It's no DaVinci Code but...

I think that the title alone, "The Franciscan Conspiracy" had me thinking that this would be a book similar to The DaVinci Code in pace and style and intent. It is not that, the book is less adventurous, less intriguing and ultimately less successful. It took A LONG time for me to get engaged with the book, but about half way through then characters and pacing began to mesh. In a sense, the book became more a love story than a novel of intrigue -- and St Francis himself did not really hover as a presence in the way, to make the parallel, that DaVinci himself does in the "Code." As historical fiction I'm no expert on Franciscan times, but I didn't quite...trust the content-- no reason why, just discomfort with motivations, characters.

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Título: La Tierra del fuego (Texto Completo) [Earth of Fire]

Autor: Sylvia Iparraguirre

Narrador: George Bass

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 7 hrs and 16 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 12-10-07

Editor: Recorded Books

Categorías: Fiction, Historical

Resumen del editor:

This novel by Sylvia Iparraguirre is based on the story of a Ymara Indian named Jemmy Button.

In 1830, a British sea captain removes Jemmy from his native land, Cape Horn, Argentina, with the intent of taking him to London and converting him into a polished and civilized man. Jemmy then returns to his homeland to influence the barbaric people to become civilized like the British. It is only during a trial in the Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands) that the experiment is revealed as a miserable failure.

Crítica Comentarios:

"This brilliant and beautifully wrought work deserves to become a classic." (Texas Observer)

"This story deals with European arrogance without resorting to the cliche of the Noble Savage." (Hispanic Outlook)

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Title: Adam Resurrected

Author: Yoram Kaniuk

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-07

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of other Jews as they marched to their deaths, Adam is now the ringleader at an asylum populated solely by Holocaust survivors. Alternately more brilliant than the doctors and more insane than any of the patients, Adam struggles wildly to make sense of a world in which the line between sanity and madness has been irreversibly blurred.

With the biting irony of Catch-22, the intellectual vigor of Saul Bellow, and the pathos and humanity that are Kaniuk's hallmarks, Adam Resurrected offers a vision of a modern hell that devastates even as it inches toward redemption.

Critic Reviews:

"A masterpiece of inventiveness, compassion, and stylistic virtuosity." (Jewish Spectator)

"Yoram Kaniuk is one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World." (New York Times)

"Whether it is due to the originality of his broken style, or the sensitivity of his characters, or his implacable lucidity, Kaniuk must be considered one of the great writers of our time." (Le Monde)

Members Reviews:

Very, very slow

I was really interested in reading this translation from the Hebrew but I was not able to go beyond the first hour, sorry ...

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Title: Legacy of Sins

Author: Anne Baker

Narrator: Julia Franklin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-07

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Aunt Maud's cruel words shock Rosie Quest. But they also explain the atmosphere of hostility that surrounds her on the run-down Wirral farm: no wonder her aunt resents having had to take in an illegitimate child, born in the workhouse. It's quite a relief to escape every day to her job as a machinist in Sheraing's garment factory, even though Beatrice Shearing is a demanding employer.

But when Rosie catches the eye of Ben Shearing, Beatrice is having none of it: her son is much too good for a mere factory girl. When she fails to halt the romance by conventional methods, Beatrice resolves to try more drastic tactics, even if that means uncovering family secrets best left uncovered.

Members Reviews:

Good period drama saga.

loved this book and narrator. only 2 books from Anne Baker on Audible. Definitely need more!

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Title: Going Places

Author: Billy Hopkins

Narrator: Christopher Kay

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-07

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

When Billy spots an advertisement for education officers in Kenya, it sounds like the answer to all their prayers, despite worries about the Mau Mau rebellion and the omnipresence of dangerous creatures. After much family debate, Laura, Billy, and the junior Hopkins set off to Nairobi on a BOAC Argonaut and start on the biggest adventure of their lives.

Members Reviews:

Billy Hopkins

Thank you for finding this book. I have read all the others in the series but unable to find this one in our Library.

Very enjoyable. Will donate it to our Library.

brilliant adventure

Start with Kates story and read your way through the Billy Hopkins series. It is an amazing series and won't disapoint I am sure

Five Stars

Excellent, thank you

Shallow

True story set in the 1950's based on Billy's own experiences firstly as a newlywed to Laura, working hard while struggling to get his degree, then of the family's later emigration to Kenya.

I found the jolly sing-song writing style off-putting and characters emotions were not fully conveyed. It would have made for a very interesting read if it hadn't been written in such a 2 dimensional fashion. Certain parts seemed to move too quickly, merrily glossing over what people would have been feeling and thinking at the time.

Overall, a forgettable read, due to lack of depth.

Sorry but this one wasn't for me!

FARAWAY PLACES IN TIME AND SPACE

`Up on the Roof', where Ben E. King and The Drifters reputedly head `when this old world' starts getting them down, never was going to be an option for householders like myself, possessed of apex roofs designed to fend off Jupiter Pluvius and mortgagee in equal proportion. But, as luck would have it, Billy Hopkins' books (there are now five in the series, including ANYTHING GOES, his latest) have proved to be much more accessible over the years. And unlike the aforementioned rooftop, GOING PLACES in particular is an adventure in time (early 1950s Britain, with newly-weds Billy and Laura setting up home together) as well as space (a whole different world of space in East Africa where, with a couple of kids now in tow, the enterprising couple are seeking further professional opportunity).

Escapees (from this old world that's getting them down, that is) will find GOING PLACES is effectively split into two parts in this respect.

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Title: Chloe

Author: Lyn Cote

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-05

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 28 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Chloe Lorraine Kimball is born at the estate of Ivy Manor in the wee hours of the twentieth century. Becoming a young woman, and having a home filled with everything a young girl could desire, she still lacks the one thing she wants above all else: unconditional love from her parents. With the help of friends, Chloe strikes out on her own, determined to stand apart from her family. She embraces marriage and a career, but not even motherhood brings her what she longs for. Her world comes crashing down amid the opening months of the Depression, and Chloe must realize that whether or not she's capable of giving and receiving love is entirely up to her. Will she find happiness on her own terms?Chloe is the first story in the Women of Ivy Manor series about four generations of women, set against the sprawling tapestry of the twentieth century.

©2005 Lyn Cote; (P)2005 Blackstone Audiobooks

Critic Reviews:

"A romance of epic proportions, absorbing and satisfying....Cote has written a winner. You will remember this heroine long after the final page is turned." (Deborah Bedford)

Members Reviews:

Chloe

I found this to be an enjoyable read. It was fun as well as historical. I normally don't listen to books this short but I found this one to be just right. It piqued my interest in women of the twentieth century and that era in general. I found that the author did a good job of covering many historical events in short order without making the story choppy.

yuck

I did not enjoy this book. It was sappy. The story line was interesting, but all of the characters were more interesting then Chloe. I began to wish she would go away so we could learn about the others. Waste of time.

Good story

I really liked this story. Good characters. Good reader. I kept waiting to hear why Kitty left. That was never resolved.