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Scaramouche by Raphael Sabatini

By on January 11, 2012 in 2011, Recently Completed

The passionate Andre-Louis Moreau makes an unexpected entrance into the French Revolution when he vows to avenge his best friend’s death. His target: Monsieur de La Tour d’Azyr, the aristocratic villain who killed his friend. Andre-Louis rallies the underclass to join him in his mission against the supreme power of the nobility. Soon the rebel [...]

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We Shall See God by Randy Alcorn

By on January 11, 2012 in 2011, Recently Completed

No author in history has more material in print than Charles Spurgeon. During his lifetime, Spurgeon and his writings affected the world far and wide. Today, nearly 120 years after his death, countless people continue to have a passion for this London preacher, and more and more discover him every day. Some of Spurgeon’s most [...]

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The King’s Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi

By on February 5, 2011 in 2011, 2012, Recently Completed

This stellar audio production of the book that preceded the Oscar-winning film THE KING’S SPEECH is a must-listen for historians, gossips, royalists, colonialists, and everyone else. The audio begins with something the book can’t offer—a recording of King George VI’s actual wartime speech.

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In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh

By on February 1, 2011 in 2011

Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought [...]

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Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

By on January 28, 2011 in 2011

This is not a new book, but I’m only now listing it because of the Earphone Award it has just received from AudioFile Magazine with this excellent review: Only those who were born in Tigana can speak or hear its name and remember their homeland. But a small resistance band begins to gather in hopes [...]

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