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Title: Fugitive Colors

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Lisa Barr

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 33 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Fugitive Colors is a gripping debut novel of an artist's indomitable vengeance after World War II. Julian Klein, a young American artist, rebels against his religious upbringing and is eager for the artistic freedom of 1930s Paris. He flees Chicago only to find himself consumed by a world in which a paintbrush is far more lethal than a gun. An artist turned spy, Julian at the same time competes with jealous inferior artists who feverishly attempt to destroy those with true talent. Love, friendship, betrayal, and passion, as Julian learns, are never black and white.

Like an abstract painting, Julian's turbulent journey is emotionally charged as he tries to save his friends and salvage some of the most beloved pieces of modern art - including his own. The story of Julian and his friends' artistic endeavors is inspired by a harrowing and little-known historical truth: the official Nazi exhibition of "Degenerate Art," which opened in Munich on July 19, 1937, one day after the first Great German Art Exhibition. Lisa Barr's unrelenting prose brings to life artists who were made to endure miserable oppression - sometimes death - under the brutal Nazi regime. This is an audiobook of suspense, love, mystery, and, above all, the power of art.

Editorial Reviews:

Lisa Barr's historical fiction debut, Fugitive Colors, tells the story of artist-slash-spy Julian Klein, an American Jew who seeks the creative fervor or 1930s Paris, only to find himself involved in the struggles of war. Inspired by the Nazi exhibition "Degenerate Art", which aimed to discredit all of modern art, this novel is tense and gripping, a deeply affecting portrayal of the terrible trials of art under the Nazi regime. Prolific, award-winning voice actor Jonathan Davis' dramatic, emotional inflection elevates this story, making it an engrossing listen.

Members Reviews:

phenominal book

Would you listen to Fugitive Colors again? Why?

Such a beautiful story. Not many thrillers can make you cry. This book hits on every emotion. The reader was sensational.

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Title: Rare Earth

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Paul Mason

Narrator: James Chen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-08-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A washed up T.V. reporter stumbles onto a corruption scandal in Western China. Pursued through the desert by a psychotic spin-doctor and a world-weary cop, he discovers the real China: illegal metal mines, a fashion-crazed gang of girl bikers, a whole commune of Tiananmen Square survivors and the up-market sleaze-joints of Beijing. En route, he clashes with a stellar cast of people - traffickers, prostitutes and T.V. execs. But then the unquiet dead begin to intervene: ghosts from his own past and the past of Chinese Communism; the "spirits that hover three feet above our heads" of Chinese folklore.

Rare Earth is a story about love, journalism, ghosts, metallurgy, vintage militaria and large motorcycles set in the badlands of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia. It is about the west's inability to understand the East; one man's epic journey across a dying landscape, where "thousands of pairs of eyes peer beyond grimy windowpanes into the moonless sky, looking for something better.

Editorial Reviews:

Middle-aged reporter Brough arrives in China to film a documentary, only to plunge into a dizzying adventure filled with arrests, attempted assassinations, kidnappings, wild chases, and sex. Despite the frenzied and entertaining plot, Paul Mason - a respected Channel 4 and former BBC2 broadcaster - describes China's fervently patriotic political culture, secretive media, and environmental problems with keen yet colorful insight. James Chen has a wonderfully wry style that turns chameleonic when giving voice to Mason's characters, from the grizzled Brough to the chirpy Chinese interpreter and Brough's harried producer, turning an entertaining, nearly parodic, thriller into a real hoot.

Members Reviews:

Four Stars

Great insight on modern Chinese culture with fantasy biker chicks thrown in. Something for everyone.

Adventure and supernatural happenings set against real-world events

The year is 2009 - just before the rare earth crisis broke into real-world news - and a hapless TV news crew on a fairly mundane assignment in China stumbles across pollution, corruption and all sorts of other trouble in the general area of Bao Tou. There are tensions within the team, and conflicts with various other characters as the plot moves along, sometimes on parallel, diverging or converging paths. Provincial life in China is portrayed as highly corrupt, both at the individual and institutional level, and provincial cities have something of the dystopic feel of the movie Blade Runner, but in the present day rather than some distant future. Along the way the team stumbles across illicit, though officially tolerated mining and refining operations, secret mining cartels, government manipulation of the media, excesses of the Chinese nouveau riche, and the desecration of precious antiquities. Oh, and there are mythical beings involved, too: the ghosts of some characters' ancestors play important roles, as does a desert-dwelling motorcycle gang whose members are all young Chinese women with advanced degrees from western universities. Go figure. Hardly ever drawing breath between car chases, fights, murders and debauchery of various kinds, the plot gradually unveils a Chinese scheme, dating all the way back to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, to corner the world market for rare earths and then exploit it.

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Title: Reconstructing Amelia

Author: Kimberly McCreight

Narrator: Kate Harper, Jane Collingwood, Jamie Parker, Harper Marshall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-13

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Do you really want to know whats going on inside your daughters head? Single mother Kate Baron is in the meeting of her career when she is interrupted by a telephone call. Her daughter Amelia has just been suspended from her exclusive school. When Kate eventually arrives an hour later, she hears the news that no mother ever wants to hear.

A grieving Kate can't accept that her daughter would kill herself. But she soon discovers she didn't know Amelia quite as well as she thought. Then Kate receives an anonymous text saying simply: Amelia didnt jump. And so begins an investigation which takes her deep into Amelia's private world, into her journals, her email account and into the mind of a troubled young girl.

Critic Reviews:

"Like Gone Girl, this seamlessly marries a crime story with a relationship drama. And like Gone Girl it should be hailed as one of the best books of the year." (Entertainment weekly)

"A very clever, menacing novel that will make you rightly wary of damaged teenage girls." (Daily Mail)

Members Reviews:

Amazing end twist

The plot twist at the end is totally worth the wait. Narrated very well!!Enjoyed it

entertaining

a good story with lots of twists and turns, kept me interested until the end

do you know your child?

Any additional comments?

kate thought she knew Amelia, they could talk about anything, until amelila committed suicide. kate couldn't understand why Amelia could do such a thing and she not know the reason why. she desperately needs to know the reason why.

the story is told in the first person by kate and Amelia and goes back and forth in time.

both of these characters were well written to the point you felt sorry for them both. it is an emotionally charged book where secrets are revealed at the end.

an enjoyable listen.

Every mothers nightmare

Brilliant story and beautifully narrated. Totally believable and heartbreaking. A realistic depiction of the secret life of teenagers.

reconstructing amelia

An excellent performance and works so well on audible with the voices of different events telling the story of what happened in the days leading up to Amelias death. A very fast paced story with some unexpected revelations about characters in the story.

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Title: Three Days on Mimosa Lane

Subtitle: Seasons of the Heart, Book 2

Author: Anna DeStefano

Narrator: Janet Metzger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-13

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 28 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

One day can change your life forever. Three days can transform a painful past into a beautiful tomorrow....

Once, Sam Perry had it all. A loving marriage, an amazing job she adored as a preschool teacher, and a beautiful home. She was safe, happy, and secure. Then the unthinkable happened....

Watching his once-carefree wife withdraw into herself was almost more than Brian Perry could handle. The only thing that kept him going was knowing that he loved her more than life itself. Moving her out of New York to Chandlerville, a small, quiet suburb of Atlanta, felt right. Anything to get her away from the memories of the buildings, and her world, crashing around her.

Now, two sons and many years later, Sam cherishes the new life on Mimosa Lane that Brian built for them. Until lightning strikes twice. This time, Brian will need their entire community to help him win his wife back.

Members Reviews:

Three Days on Mimosa Lane

I usually don't read this type of book, leaning more toward thrillers and police procedurals. It sounded interesting though, so I thought I'd give it a try. I got about 20% of the way through it before giving up.

The author is a talented writer with a good writing style. The problem to me is the character of Sam. Sam is an unbelievably selfish woman. While she lived in New York at the time of 9/11, she didn't lose any family members or close friends. Yet we are supposed to believe that 12 years later, it is still affecting her to the point where she rarely leaves her house and has put her long-suffering husband and two young sons through years of her self-pity and drama. Her husband has sacrificed his career for her and her children are confused and never sure what to expect from her.

Then when Sam experiences another tragedy (again, her family is unscathed), she loses it all over again and leaves her husband, only to move across the street and live with the neighbors. Her philosophy is to never forget the bad things that have happened, and to wallow in them ceaselessly. She even passes this "wisdom" along to another young boy who was injured in the more recent incident and is having trouble dealing with what happened. In the meantime her own sons are left without their mother (am I a bad person for thinking they are better off?) at a difficult time in their own lives.

While I understand that both 9/11 and the school shooting were traumatic for Sam, it's not all about her, and her actions are incomprehensible to me as a mother and a human being. I'm sure it all works out in the end, but it's hard to read a book when you're rolling your eyes and you want to shake the protagonist and tell her to grow up.

Spoiler Alert!!!!!

I don't usually give a book a review if I have nothing nice to say about it but in this case...........I just have to say this book was one of the most dull and boring books I have ever read. Classified as a romance? Ummm, no not really unless you count the one romantic moment when Brian and Sam met at the part late one night. Psychology? No, again. The author didn't offer the reader enough in depth thoughts for that. Mystery? No, we know who did it when it happens.

The book read like a wordy diary written by a frustrated and bored housewife telling us how unhappy she was.

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Title: Summers at Blue Lake

Author: Jill Althouse-Wood

Narrator: Kristin Johansen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-10-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

She thought that her family was an open book, without secrets. Even as a child, Barbara Jean Ellington knew her grandmothers were lesbians, a truth they never concealed. During BJ's summer vacations at their home on Blue Lake, Nonna and Lena taught her to swim and play cards, provided a lively contrast to BJ's conservative parents, and comforted BJ when her first summer romance ended abruptly and without reason. Now, years later, BJ seeks refuge in her late grandmothers' house in the wake of her husband's affair. As she relives the languid summer days of her youth and prepares the house for sale, she struggles to come to terms not only with the looming threat of divorce, but also with the Pandora's Box of family revelations she uncovers in Nonna's hidden notebooks. In them, she discovers a 50-year family history littered with secrets from the past - secrets that have present day consequences for herself, her marriage, and for Travis, the boy who broke her heart during that long-ago summer. With discerning prose and compelling characters, Summers at Blue Lake follows in the tradition of best-selling authors such as Anita Shreve, Elizabeth Berg, and Sue Miller.

Members Reviews:

Great read. It pulled me in, and I really enjoyed the story. It makes you realize how strange , and complicated people's lives

It pulled me in, and I really enjoyed the story

It makes you realize how strange, and complicated people's lives can be. It also makes you realize the importance of teaching children to be tolerant of others. We never know what others stories are. We all need to learn to not judge other people. Hopefully we can realize our mistakes before it is to late. This was a really great read.

Blue Lake isn't Blue

It's hard not to be intrigued by a story that opens with "My grandmothers were lesbians"! Don't be put off, it's not the story of lesbians but of family, bonds and love. It's well written, with a light touch which never gets heavy handed. Yes, it's a romance novel, but the story is well-told, with believable emotions and conflicts and good insight into relationships. An unexpected twist to the story enriches it and puts this book above the average.

Very good story

I liked how the characters evolved, both in real time and in the past. I also liked how the relationship between Lena and Anja appeared one way on the surface, but was much more complicated and unexpected for them and their heirs. I loved the ending.

Too weird

I could not get into this book, it was just too weird.

I enjoyed reading this book.

I enjoyed reading this book. It was very full of interesting plots with the ending of a marriage and the solving of several mysteries.

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Title: A Regular Guy

Author: Mona Simpson

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-13

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In this luminous and tartly comic new novel, Mona Simpson, modern master of the surreal family drama, trains her eye on a generation - and a man - torn between idealism and self-absorption.

Tom Owens is a brilliant barefoot entrepreneur who has become rich and famous by inventing a new kind of business - a man who is fond of showering his largesse on friends and perfect strangers even as he resists any deeper claims on his affection. Into Owens's charmed life comes a 10-year-old girl whose claims he cannot ignore: Jane is his daughter, born out of wedlock, raised in communes, and now dispatched into his care by a mother who is no longer capable of providing it. As this raggedy, preternaturally observant girl seeks a place within Owens's circle, A Regular Guy depicts the miraculous chemistry that transforms longing into belonging, an uneasy menage into a family, and an arrogant boy-man into a father.

"Simpson understands families. She understands money. She understands America. This is a poignant, funny book about loss and disillusionment." (Chicago Tribune)

Members Reviews:

To be missed!

What would have made A Regular Guy better?

The author having a vocabulary of more then 1000 words and finding some alternatives to "He said," and "she said".

Has A Regular Guy turned you off from other books in this genre?

no, just from this author.

How could the performance have been better?

If the narrator had developed any of the characters in such a way that one did not despise them all equally.

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Possibly some insight into the author's brother, but one understands why he wished to limit contact with his sister.

Any additional comments?

Not a book worth reading.

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Title: The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker (Dramatised)

Author: Tobias Smollet, Yvonne Antrobus

Narrator: Nigel Anthony, Full Cast

Format: Original Recording

Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-13

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Tobias Smollet's uproarious satire of 18th-century life, dramatised by Yvonne Antrobus.

Squire Bramble and family embark on their whistle-stop tour of Great Britain. They encounter adventure, mayhem, and the enigmatic Humphry Clinker. Episode 2: The family is stranded. Bramble is keen to continue their grand tour, but how can they leave London when Humphry is in gaol? Episode 3: The Bramble family's adventures continue as they begin the long trip home, a journey full of surprises and unexpected revelations.

Starring Nigel Anthony and full cast. Directed by Marc Beeby.

Members Reviews:

Brilliant adaptation and performance

Every word is crucial to the plot so listen carefully. Superb production quality. Perfectly cast. One to listen to more than once.

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Title: Bankroll Squad 2

Subtitle: Kyla's Revenge, Volume 2

Author: David Weaver

Narrator: Derrick Hardin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-13

Publisher: David Weaver

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 32 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling urban novel, Bankroll Squad. The men ruled the streets in the first book, but now the women take center stage in this action packed dramatical love story. David Weaver's clever plot twists will continue to shock and amaze you all the way to the very last page. Picture Set it Off meets New Jack City meets Bonnie and Clyde.

Critic Reviews:

"Writer David Weaver is poised to be the next big thing. His level of creativity and timing are natural talents that can not be taught." (Sentinel Press)

Members Reviews:

Smh, wow! Short but good read!!!

Omg, I knew that girl Sunshine was going to be problem. I hope they light fire to her ***. Especially for leaving Malcolm, like really I wish Rain would've told Kyla that Sunshine psychoo self likes I mean loved her. And I agreed with Malcom he (Catfish) should've gotten his girl off the streets now look what happened smh. I tell you, catfish will never be the same. I got part 3 so I will read it soon.

Great Read

loved this book. the sound effects were a little blah, but overall the narrator is good.

Loved it.

David Weaver had me on the edge of my seat from beginning to end. Great.

reminds me of murder mama'a

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

yes

Who was your favorite character and why?

all of them except irish

Which character as performed by Derrick Hardin was your favorite?

no specific

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

no

Any additional comments?

wish they would put them on audible at the same time instead of waiting

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Title: Dis ek, Anna [It's Me, Anna]

Author: Elbie Lötter

Narrator: Joanie Combrink

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-13

Publisher: Tafelberg

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Uiteindelik: dié blitsverkoper is nou ook beskikbaar as luisterboek. Sy het haarself Stom Anna genoem. Omdat sy vir niemand kon vertel dit wat tussen haar en haar stiefpa plaasgevind het nie. In dié verhaal verbreek sy eindelik die swye oor hoe haar stiefpa haar diepste menswees aangetas het. En hoe sy uiteindelik ánderkant uitgekom het. Dis ek, Anna is gebaseer op n ware verhaal. Elbie Lötter is n skuilnaam van die skrywer Anchien Troskie.

Please note: This audiobook is in Afrikaans.

Members Reviews:

Fantastiese hartsboek wat in jou siel invreet.

Ek Anna vertel die storie so oud solos die berge wat meer mense raak as wat mens bewus van wil wees .... Die euwel van die wêreld ... Ek kan nie wag vir die opvolg nie!

Could not stop listening!,

What made the experience of listening to Dis ek, Anna [It's Me, Anna] the most enjoyable?

Knowing it is based on a true story

What did you like best about this story?

Narrator's passion

Have you listened to any of Joanie Combrinks other performances before? How does this one compare?

No

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Does the public prefer to not know the truth?

Any additional comments?

Very inspiring

Passion and Pain, Heart breaking

Where does Dis ek, Anna [It's Me, Anna] rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

First book I have listened to.

What other book might you compare Dis ek, Anna [It's Me, Anna] to and why?

Hard to compare, it is one of a kind

Which scene was your favorite?

Passionate ending to this book.

Who was the most memorable character of Dis ek, Anna [It's Me, Anna] and why?

To my mind the mother. She caused so much pain, it was heartbreaking

Any additional comments?

Anyone who has a similar family setup or who have suffered from abuse should read this outstanding book.

Awesome book

i couldn't put this book down. i really enjoyed the book. i can't wait to listen to the next book !

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Title: Instructions for a Heatwave

Author: Maggie O'Farrell

Narrator: Dearbhla Molloy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-13

Publisher: Headline Digital

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The stunning new novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976.

It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn't come back.

The search for Robert brings Gretta's children - two estranged sisters and a brother on the brink of divorce - back home, each wih different ideas as to where their father might have gone. None of them suspects that their mother might have an explanation that even now she cannot share.

Members Reviews:

Great book, brilliant performance

I am a huge Maggie O'Farrell fan and sometimes I prefer a hard copy of my favourite books rather than an audiobook but was tempted by this. It is one of the best audio books I've ever purchased. Dearbhla Molloy's reading enhances Maggie O'Farrell's wonderful, subtle ,intuitive writing in such an engaging way that I was embarrassed to find myself shouting at, laughing with and crying at the dilemmas and disasters of this family as I listened to it on the tube. Only Maggie O'Farrell can write with such well observed realism and yet with such hopeful compassion. Only this reader, I suggest, could have done such a brilliant job of bringing these characters to even more complicated and vibrant life. I can't recommend this too highly.

Perfect summer reading!

Would you try another book written by Maggie O'Farrell or narrated by Dearbhla Molloy?

I have read all of Maggies O' Farrell's novels and found this one quite different in style and plot but it was nevertheless a good read.

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

As most of the characters are Irish the narrator's accent gave a genuine feel to the book though I found it irritating at times.

Was Instructions for a Heatwave worth the listening time?

Not the best of her books and in particular I was not drawn to any of characters which makes it hard to sustain interest in the plot unlike her other novels which I struggled to put down.

Any additional comments?

Fascinating information about the way Londoners dealt with the 1976 heat wave !

Delightful book, beautifully read.

I absolutely loved this book. I've read all Maggie O'Farrell's previous books and enjoyed them. I was nervous that the narrator might spoil it for me, but Dearbhla Molloy did such a good job, that I didn't want the book to finish.

Great book

I love Maggie O'Farrell books, and her latest didn't disappoint.

I really enjoyed Instructions for a Heatwave. It's beautifully written and the characters are believable.

Loved this book

Would you consider the audio edition of Instructions for a Heatwave to be better than the print version?

Yes because of the fantastically realistic narration that really managed to capture each charachter's personality.

Have you listened to any of Dearbhla Molloys other performances? How does this one compare?

No but I would do going forward, she is very talented.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Any additional comments?

I really enjoted this book - great story but also fantastic narration that really brought the charachters to life.