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Michael

Avid reader and listener, I enjoy history, popular science, suspense and legal thrillers with a dash of epic fantasy thrown in for flavor.

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  • The Winter Sea | [Susanna Kearsley]
    The Winter Sea
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    The Winter Sea

    • UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 54 mins)
    • By Susanna Kearsley
    • Narrated By Rosalyn Landor
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (1780)
    Performance
    (1437)
    Story
    (1436)

    History has all but forgotten.... In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown. Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next best-selling novel. Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and starts to write. But then she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction....

    Pamela says: "Love it"
    "Not quite Gabaldon...."
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    The story is relatively well crafted, holding an inner coherence. However, this book was suggested as an "Outlander" equivalent, which sadly, it's not....

    5 of 5 people found this review helpful
  • North and South: North and South Trilogy, Book 1 | [John Jakes]
    North and South: North and South Trilogy, Book 1
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    North and South: North and South Trilogy, Book 1

    • UNABRIDGED (30 hrs and 10 mins)
    • By John Jakes
    • Narrated By Grover Gardner
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (297)
    Performance
    (250)
    Story
    (251)

    Two strangers, young men from Pennsylvania and South Carolina, meet on the way to West Point.... Thus begins this brilliant novel of antebellum America, spanning three generations and chronicling the lives and loves of two great family dynasties. The Hazards and the Mains are brought together in bonds of friendship and affection that neither jealousy nor violence can shatter - until a storm of events sunders the nation and brings the cataclysm of war!

    Parusski says: "Captivating novel of the Civil War"
    "A Classic Revisited....."
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    John Jakes' classic novel of the civil war through the stories of the Hazards and Mains. Great story, well performed.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told about Genetics, Talent and IQ is Wrong | [David Shenk]
    The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told about Genetics, Talent and IQ is Wrong
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    The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told about Genetics, Talent and IQ is Wrong

    • UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 14 mins)
    • By David Shenk
    • Narrated By Mark Deakins
    Overall
    (80)
    Performance
    (30)
    Story
    (31)

    With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic giftedness, and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in the reach of every individual. DNA does not make us who we are. Forget everything you think you know about genes, talent, and intelligence, he writes. In recent years, a mountain of scientific evidence has emerged suggesting a completely new paradigm: not talent scarcity, but latent talent abundance.

    Laura says: "A New View on Genius"
    "Connecting genetics, talent and IQ intelligently"
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    I have been reading extensively on talent and IQ for about three years. You know the regular suspects: Outliers, The Talent Code, Talent is Overrated, Bounce and the likes.
    Shenk's book is fascinating in the depth of the science he goes into. With the book you get his full endnotes in PDF, which is quite the launching pad for further reading and research.
    Well written, very well researched and very intersting.

    2 of 2 people found this review helpful
  • 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created | [Charles C. Mann]
    1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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    1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

    • UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 51 mins)
    • By Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated By Robertson Dean
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (511)
    Performance
    (411)
    Story
    (406)

    More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus’s voyages brought them back together - and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas. As Charles Mann shows, this global ecological tumult - the “Columbian Exchange” - underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest generation of research by scientists, Mann shows the creation a worldwide trade network....

    Mavis H. Pas says: "fasinating new perspective on history"
    "A sweeping view of the columbine exchange"
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    Mann wrote a fascinating tale connecting Spain and China through silver, maize, and malaria.
    As a history lover, this book gave me a new appreciation of the significance of malaria to the Americas. I found this book enlightening and enjoyable.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful

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