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Title: The Odd Angry Shot

Author: William Nagle

Narrator: Humphrey Bower

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-17

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The Odd Angry Shot is the seminal account of Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War.

Brief and bracing, tragic yet darkly funny, the novel is an award-winning commentary on Vietnam, following a close-knit group of knockabout SAS fighters: their friendships, homesickness and fears; and their practical jokes, drinking and fighting.

Chronicling their experiences over one year, we learn that their enemy is not just the Vietcong, but their superiors, the mud and torrential rain, and boredom. It is a reflective and brutal account of how war damages not only physically but psychologically, as soldiers readjust to home life.

Critic Reviews:

"This autobiographical novel stands the test of time, revealing human faces caught in a tragic chapter of Australian history." (The Age)

Members Reviews:

Very insightful!

I decided to read this book on my Kindle after reading a review of it in the weekend paper. I have not read any books about the Vietnam war before. This was quite an uncomfortable subject area to read about, and this book is very raw and honest (through the unpretty eyes of a 19 year old), but such an insightful book. It is very short, but leaves a strong impression of what it was like for these young Australians in Vietnam, and how this experience has affected their lives. The word 'remember' is used powerfully throughout the book, and sends a strong message about remembering the terrors of all wars.

Where is the movie?

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Title: Kidnapped

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrator: Mark F. Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

"Kidnapped" is a historical fiction adventure novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Written as a "boys' novel" and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886, the novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Seamus Heaney. A sequel, "Catriona", was published in 1893.

As historical fiction, it is set around 18th century Scottish events, notably the "Appin Murder", which occurred near Ballachulish in 1752 in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising. Many of the characters, and one of the principals, Alan Breck Stewart, were real people. The political situation of the time is portrayed from different viewpoints, and the Scottish Highlanders are treated sympathetically.

©2017 SAGA Egmont (P)2017 SAGA Egmont

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Title: I spindelns nät

Author: Ingrid Kamps

Narrator: Anna Tulestedt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-17

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Denna fängslande historiska roman utspelar sig r 1535 i Varberg som p den tiden tillhörde Danmark. Det var uppslitande tider och det blodiga inbördeskriget Grevefejden härjade landet. Marcus Meyer frn Lübeck tar över Varberg slott och fr handskas med den unga slottsfrun, svensk-norskan Grövel Fadersdotter Sparre.

Meyer har storslagna planer och spinner ett intrikat nät omkring sig. Men med tiden ska han själv fastna däri...

Ingrid Kamps är utbildad sjuksköterska och en lovordad författare. Hon skriver bde kriminalromaner, historiska romaner och noveller. Hon har bland annat belönats med pris för bästa nordiska följetongsroman.

©2017 Lindhardt og Ringhof (P)2017 Lindhardt og Ringhof

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Title: Crime Scene

Author: Ed Ireland

Narrator: Alex Robertson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-17

Publisher: Edward Ireland

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In Philadelphia during 1962, the crime family was at its peak. They had their own premiere hitman, Salvatore DeSantos, and it seemed as if the world was their oyster.

Behind the scenes there were power struggles beginning to take effect and pressure from the New York and Florida families. Don Angelo Bruno worked to control everything as best he could. Then came the call from New York...they were sending a younger member in to be trained by Sal. There was also a massive plan being implemented that called for Sal's unique talents.

With young Vinnie Collasimo in tow, Sal lands in Los Angeles and a meeting with the three most powerful Dons in America. Also at the meeting are members of the CIA and FBI. Something is in the wind, and when his next target is placed in his lap, Sal knows his world will never be the same. Not just his world, but the entire world!

This stylized fictional account of one man's part in that dark day in November in 1963 will have you wondering just how much of an involvement there was on the part of the American Mafia, the CIA, and other groups. Was Sal the triggerman that day? Would he follow orders even if he didn't agree with them? Would the Dons be willing to put up with the well-practiced deceit of the government?

Follow Sal as his story unfolds in this tale of double-crosses and lies. Told in the authentic vernacular of the streets of Philadelphia as well as being peppered with euphemisms from the Italian background they came from. Crime Scene is as authentic as a warm soft pretzel or a hot cheesesteak. It will bring a taste of South Philly into your world and an insight into life in the city, the mob, and the early sixties.

Members Reviews:

A Great Read!

Iâve been reading Ed Irelandâs books for a while, and this is the first one that isnât in the Epic Fantasy genre.

Whatâs really cool, is he slipped into this genre without any difficulty, and I have to admit, this may be his best work yet. I know, for me, it was among the most entertaining. I loved Sal, and every time he was in a scene, I pictured and heard Joe Pesciâs character from Goodfellas. The author did a phenomenal job at carrying over Salâs charismatic qualities other characters commented on throughout, as well as giving each character their own soul, so to speak.

The store itself was fast paced and it was hard for me to put the book down. I wanted to see what was going to happen next. The multiple conspiracy theories were woven so tightly together with factual history, itâs difficult to separate the two. The story does an awesome job at scratching both my historian and entertainment itches that I wanted more by the end. Personally, I thought it ended perfectly with lovable mention of a goat. I wonât say any more than that, but itâs definitely a great way to close the tale.

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Título: Crónica del rey pasmado [Chronicle of the Amazed King]

Autor: Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

Narrador: Eladio Ramos

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 4 hrs and 45 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 06-15-17

Editor: Audiomol

Categorías: Fiction, Historical

Resumen del editor:

Basada en la figura de Felipe IV, del que la historia destaca su infrenable lujuria, esta novela de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (Premio Cervantes 1985) es una divertida recreación de la vida de la antigua corte animada por un inaudito capricho del rey.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

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Title: A Place for Mei Lin

Author: Harlan Hague

Narrator: Chris Abernathy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-29-17

Publisher: Harlan Hague

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Unable to come to terms with a family tragedy in Virginia, Caleb drifts westward, seeking anonymity or death. He fears nothing since he has already lost everything he held dear. He learns to fight and kill and is untouched by the result. For Caleb, there is no retribution, no penalty, no tomorrow, only today. He avoids any binding human contact, owing nothing to others, expecting nothing from others except to be left alone.

He begins gold dredging in the Stanley Basin in central Idaho. He has no interest in success, only occupation. Then his life takes a dramatic change. He rescues Mei Lin, a young Chinese prostitute, from a brothel and promises to find a place for her. He knows he is an emotional wreck and cannot care for her. She has other ideas. She has found her place with Caleb.

Each scarred by personal tragedy, Caleb and Mei Lin live and work together, but they are not intimate. They fight forest fire and flood and attacks by a local dredge operator who will not tolerate competition. Caleb protects Mei Lin from locals and the federal government that wants to remove Chinese from Idaho by violence and law.

Caleb finds new purpose in his life. He begins to hope and to care, and Mei Lin is at the center of the change. But does he dare tell her of his love and invite her into his uncertain life?

Members Reviews:

I think you will enjoy it.

Book Review for Harlan Hagueâs âA Place For Mei Lin.â

This book is a surprise: it doesnât fit your expectations of a typical western. Usually there are gun-toting lawmen, ruthless rustlers, gamblers, and shady ladies at the local saloon. Right away, however, the Chinese name in the title offers a clue that something different is here. Instead, this is the story of a man with a ruined past and no future. His life takes a new turn in an accidental meeting with a Chinese girl sold into servitude in an Idaho saloon. Then action begins and picks up intensity through to the conclusion.

In many ways the author develops the theme of the old West as a place of hope and new beginnings. He puts that concept to the test as the story unfolds. There is a radical re-shaping of the heroâs vision and his place in the West. Only then does the author include the Chinese girl into a fanciful blending of East and West.

Get this book and read it. I think you will enjoy it.

For the men, (and women) that don't fit in...

Harlan Hague's latest story offers a fresh location and time in history for the Historical Fiction / Western enthusiast. Part drama, romance, action / adventure story, the protagonist Caleb came to mind when I started enjoying the new BBC series Poldark. The independent outsider maintains his vision and sense of morality despite adversity. Mei Lin is endearing, the setting interesting and not overly represented in fiction.

An Intriguing Historical Fiction

Harlan Hague has written an intriguing historical fiction, A Place for Mei Lin, set in Americaâs Northwest in the early 20th century.

At one time Caleb Willis was blissfully happy with his wife and two children, but when his family all tragically died, he was without purpose, not caring what happened to him. He drifts from Virginia and settles in Idahoâs Sawtooth Mountains area and sets up a gold dredging operation near Stanley. On a trip to town, he encounters a young Chinese woman, Mei Lin, who had been sold and pressed into service in a brothel.

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Title: Peculiar Ground

Author: Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Narrator: Juanita McMahon, Leighton Pugh, Adjoa Andoh, Peter Noble, Jake Curran, Rachel Atkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-18-17

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In the 17th century, a wall is built around the deer park of a great house. Wychwood is a world in itself, its ornamental lakes and majestic avenues planned by Mr Norris, a master of the new art of landscaping. A world where, after decades of civil war, everyone has something to hide or something to fear, where dissidents hide in the forest and Londoners fleeing the plague are at the gate.

Three centuries later, one hot weekend, there is a house party at Wychwood. Over the course of the weekend another wall goes up, dividing Berlin. Erotic entanglements blur, with distant rumours of historic changes, and a little girl, Nell, observes all.

As Nell grows up, and as the Berlin Wall falls, the world splits again. There are TV cameras in the dining room, golf buggies in the park and a Great Storm brewing. A fatwa alerts Westerners to a new ideological fault line. A refugee from the new conflict, the one which is still tearing us apart, seeks safety in Wychwood.

From the author of The Pike, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize and the Costa Biography Award, comes a feast of a book. Peculiar Ground is a breathtakingly ambitious, beautifully written novel about young love and the pathos of aging, about gamekeepers and aristos, agitators and witches, about fantasies of magic and the reality of the land, and about frontiers and fortresses and secret gardens.

Full list of narrators includes Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Anna Bentinck, and Maggie Ollerenshaw.

Members Reviews:

One for listeners who like a challenge

If you could sum up Peculiar Ground in three words, what would they be?

challenging evocative overcomlex

What did you like best about this story?

The evocation of the early restoration peraiod from the perspectiveof a returning landowner, dispossessed under the previous commonweaklth regime and t5he sights, sounds and smells ofclothes,landscape, food, everything.

What does the narrators bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you had only read the book?

The is distyinctyive character tiof the minor players in the narrative ,You get a better picture of the minor characters than yoou would by just reading it,, especially those of lower social status

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I nearly criedboth when LordWoldingham's son drowned and when Cecily revkeale dher plsguee symtoms to Norris through a window

Any additional comments?

I had two problems: the first was t he multiplicity of the characters in the twentieth century sections: they ir individual characters emerged too slowly and I couldn't see the point of some of the female chasracters.There were too many themes: the borders theme came over clearly but thereee alkso seemed to be sdome significance in the action of water, which I didn't quite grasp.Overall I preferred the 1660s s sections and I was tempted to skip .

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Titel: Die fremde Königin (Otto der Große 2)

Autor:: Rebecca Gablé

Erzähler: Detlef Bierstedt

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 15 hrs and 33 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 04-27-17

Herausgeber: Lübbe Audio

Bewertung: 4.5 von 5 von 2 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

"Könige sind wie Gaukler. Sie blenden die Untertanen mit ihrem Mummenschanz, damit die nicht merken, dass das Reich auseinanderfällt."

Anno Domini 951: Der junge Gaidemar, ein Bastard vornehmer, aber unbekannter Herkunft und Panzerreiter in König Ottos Reiterlegion, erhält einen gefährlichen Auftrag: Er soll die italienische Königin Adelheid aus der Gefangenschaft in Garda befreien. Auf ihrer Flucht verliebt er sich in Adelheid, aber sie heiratet König Otto. Dennoch steigt Gaidemar zum Vertrauten der Königin auf und erringt mit Otto auf dem Lechfeld den Sieg über die Ungarn. Schließlich verlobt er sich mit der Tochter eines mächtigen Slawenfürsten, und der Makel seiner Geburt scheint endgültig getilgt. Doch Adelheid und Gaidemar ahnen nicht, dass ihr gefährlichster Feind noch lange nicht besiegt ist, und als sie mit Otto zur Kaiserkrönung nach Rom aufbrechen, droht ihnen dies zum Verhängnis zu werden...

Rebecca Gablé, Bestsellerautorin und Schöpferin der populären Waringham-Saga, hat nun mit ihrem Historienepos "Otto der Große" ein weiteres Meisterwerk geschaffen. Nach "Das Haupt der Welt" ist "Die fremde Königin" der zweite Band der mittelalterlichen Romanreihe.

©2017 Bastei Lübbe (P)2017 Lübbe Audio

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

Five Stars

well written

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Title: Heaven's Net Is Wide

Author: Lian Hearn

Narrator: J. Paul Boehmer, Julia Fletcher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-17

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The Middle Country, home of the Otori clan, is ruled by a benign but weak leader, while in the East the warrior-like Tohan are gathering power. On the plain of Yaegahara, the clans clash in a bloody battle that leaves Otori Shigeru desperate for vengeance. Meanwhile, in a remote mountain village, a boy is born gifted with the supernatural skills of his father, once the deadliest assassin of the Tribe.

Set in the years before the beginning of Across the Nightingale Floor, Heaven's Net Is Wide by Lian Hearn is the first and last tale, which both closes the circle and introduces new listeners to the fantastical, beautiful and thrilling world of the Otori. It is an epic story of betrayal, revenge, magic and love.

Critic Reviews:

"How I do love it when people think outside the box, and writing a fantasy series which is not exactly a fantasy..." (Myshelf)

"It was pure pleasure." (Sunday Telegraph)

"Lian Hearn has written a saga that will continue to give pleasure to many." ( The Guardian)

Members Reviews:

Its still good. Like a Japanese tale but its written by ...

I started reading this thinking it was the first in the series, not realizing it was a prequel. Its still good. Like a Japanese tale but its written by a Westerner. Its pretty accurate to true Japanese myth. Jizo really is the guardian god of miscarried and stillborn babies. One thing bugged me. It mentioned the "long nosed goblins that live in the mountains" that were swordmasters. These "goblins" are properly called tengu, not goblins.

Very hard to put down.

In my opinion this book should have been first, but with this being said I believe that the author gave you characters whom you felt something for does what they call the "Origin Story" to find out why the father of the main character and his in all ways his wife too. Plus we now know why they turned him into a god after his death and why everyone else felt that it was their duty to place their loyalty to him and his wife. But with everything I could never understand why the main characters became so scared at the very end of the story. Yet I could not put it down, and reading the origin of the characters makes me want to reread the pryor books. Plus it is so well put together. It's very hard to put down. Especially if you enjoy Samurai stories. Yet the words Samurai, Ninjas, Dyamo or Katanas are mentioned in these stories. But you can pretty much determine whose who.

Beautifully brings the series full circle

The Tales of the Otori were recommended to me by a friend, but I'm wary of enthusiastic recommendations and at first only bought the first two books, Across the Nightingale Floor and Grass for his Pillow. Half-way into the first book, I was totally hooked and immediately ordered the last three of the series so as not to have to wait once I was done with the second.

This work was supposed to be a trilogy, became a tetralogy, then a pentalogy. I loved the first three books, and when I read the fourth, Harsh Cry of the Heron, I thought to myself, Lian Hearn should have stopped at three and left the fulfillment of the prophecy to our imagination. The fourth book is really the weakest of the series and undid whatever good feelings one had for the main characters (Takeo becomes a wimp, and Kaede a total b*tch).

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Title: Den vita frun

Author: Frida Skybäck

Narrator: Hannah Schmitz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-17

Publisher: Word Audio Publishing International

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

r 1784 reser Maria som sällskap till Juliana Bielke och hennes mor Dorotea frn Stockholm till Borgeby slott i Skne. Den vackra och utmanande Juliana har förargat sin mor genom att i hemlighet förlova sig med en fattig konstnär, och därför beslutar Dorotea sig för att ta med dottern bort frn storstadens lockelser till Borgeby, där tre ogifta och adliga män befinner sig. Maria, som levt tillsammans med familjen Bielke sedan hennes mor dog i dysenteri, är i jämförelse med Juliana alldaglig och tillbakadragen och van att befinna sig i skuggan av sin välgörares dotter.

Familjen som residerar p Borgeby slott präglas av inre motsättningar och mörka hemligheter. Maria kan inte lta bli att undra över deras avsikter. Varför har sällskapet egentligen bjudits in till slottet? Maria blir snart varse att allting inte str rätt till p slottet. Det sägs att det är "Den Vita Frun" som spökar i de mörka stensalarna. Maria vet inte vad hon ska tro, men finner kryptiska meddelanden i sin kammare och väcks av egendomliga ljud mitt i natten. Hon börjar misstänka att det inte bara är av en händelse som hon har hamnat p Borgeby slott.

"Den vita frun" är Frida Skybäcks andra roman. Det är en begvad, spänningsfylld kärleksroman om en ung kvinnas väg till att finna sig själv. 2011 utkom den lovprisade debutromanen "Charlotte Hassel".

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