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"If your death ever comes before mine, I hope the gods take my life soon after." Duli and her husband had stated those words to each other several times. Then the day came when his dwarf kin brought his body back from the field of an ambush. As a non-clan dwarf, rendered beardless by old customs, her widowed status places her in the lowest caste of Tok-Maurron. Fearful of her future under a chauvinistic crafters' guild, and unwilling to complete her suicide attempt, Duli's emotions turn to rage directed at the humans. Dwarf traditions forbid women to wage war, yet the ongoing battles leave more widows enticed by her call to action.
Ridiculed, chastised, and even jailed in her own chambers for her actions, Duli's struggles for her beliefs are even slowed by her need to earn a living off her non-sanctioned craft. Duli only wishes her own death, but in the process sparks a liberation movement that shakes the subterranean city to its core values. Even if the women win over their clan, they must still prove they have the mettle to face their husbands' killers, and the magic that humans command.
Author's Note: The world in which The Widow Brigade is set was designed after much of my own experience, and critical critique, of classic fantasy books and role-playing games. The story tips my hat to the many and yet too-few women who have shared this gaming passion of mine. The following quote by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich influenced how this story had to be written: "Well-behaved women seldom make history."
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- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Magentite. The rarest of gems, one capable of turning any mage into an unstoppable force of destruction. A gem found only in the empty lands surrounding the Tyber River. And now war has come. Endless war between Esteria and the native Tyberons, a savage and mysterious people who prowl the grass-covered land with spearpoints ready. Unable to end the conflict the Esterians rely on mercenaries to bolster their military, desperate men like Dain Gladstone, a disgraced Paladin.
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War and survival
- By happyjo on 11-08-18
By: Kade Derricks
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The Wolf of the North Trilogy
- Wolf of the North, Books 1-3
- By: Duncan M. Hamilton
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 32 hrs and 22 mins
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Wolf of the North: It has been generations since the Northlands have seen a hero worthy of the title. Many have made the claim, but few have lived to defend it. Timid, weak, and bullied, Wulfric is as unlikely a candidate as there could be. Jorundyr's Path: Jorundyr's Path is walked only by the brave. As Wulfric pursues Adalhaid's Blood Debt, he soon learns that the path to revenge is never easy. The Blood Debt: A blade fit for a hero. An army for a tyrant. A reckoning long awaited, and a tale reaching its end.
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Could have been so much more, a classic even
- By Listener on 01-14-23
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Stalking the Beast
- By: Howard Andrew Jones
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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When a mysterious monster carves a path of destruction across the southern River Kingdoms, desperate townsfolk look to the famed elven ranger Elyana and her half-orc companion Drelm for salvation. For Drelm, however, the mission is about more than simple justice - it's about protecting the frontier town he's adopted as his home, and the woman he plans to marry.
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Amazing
- By Aaron on 04-10-20
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Survive Week One
- Codename: Freedom, Book 1
- By: Apollos Thorne
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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The government has accelerated their super soldier program. Their new Virtual Reality system is the perfect tool to train soldiers for the coming war. There is a shortage of enlisted men and women that possess the "talent". Everyone from athletes to professional gamers must be sorted and vetted. Humanity is on the line. Lucius is one of those lucky few selected to participate in Codename: Freedom, a new game that promises to push Virtual Reality to the ultimate level.
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Combat Heavy
- By Austin on 10-29-18
By: Apollos Thorne
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Marching with Caesar
- Birth of the 10th Legion
- By: R.W. Peake
- Narrated by: Simon Burdett
- Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
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Titus Pullus, the hero of the 10th Legion and the Marching With Caesar series, tells his story from the very beginning of his life, starting with his relationship with his father, how his friendship with Vibius Domitius began, and how their burning ambition to join the Legions was helped by a veteran nicknamed Cyclops. Enlisting in the 10th Legion, raised in 61 B.C. by Gaius Julius Caesar, Birth of the 10th Legion recounts the first campaign ever conducted by Julius Caesar as a commander...
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Superb history and pulse pounding excitement.
- By William H. Harrington on 12-10-14
By: R.W. Peake
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The Skystone
- Camulod Chronicles, Book 1
- By: Jack Whyte
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
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Everyone knows the story-how Arthur pulled the sword from the stone, how Camelot came to be, and about the power struggles that ultimately destroyed Arthur's dreams. But what of the time before Arthur and the forces that created him?
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Fascinating new series
- By Jim R. Whitt Jr. on 08-27-13
By: Jack Whyte
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Rites of Passage
- A Warmachine Anthology
- By: Oren Ashkenazi, Darla Kennerud, Aeryn Rudel, and others
- Narrated by: Bryan Reid, Mike Ortego
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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In the beginning, great power is only great potential... Renowned for both martial and arcane skills, the mighty warcasters of the Iron Kingdoms possess the unique gift of bonding with and commanding mighty warjacks on the field of battle. Yet despite their inborn abilities, these powerful soldier-sorcerers began as novices, forced to harness their talents in rigorously structured military training programs or through the brutal crucible of battle.
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One bad narrator, the rest was great
- By Adam on 02-23-15
By: Oren Ashkenazi, and others
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The Troll Hunter
- By: Keith C. Blackmore
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
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A warrior with a secret, a ruthless band of cutthroats, and a monster of ancient legend converge in this fantasy from the author of the Mountain Man series. It’s a time of war. After years of relentless battle, the tired nation of Sunja realizes its spine is close to breaking. Desperate for aid, the country’s king dispatches a company of soldiers to the north in a desperate plea for help from its neighbors.
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My opinion:Blackmore,is the best in the business!
- By eric on 07-10-19
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Gears of Troy
- By: Daniel Pierce
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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When naval officer Troy Weston loses his hands in a training accident, the doctors present him with a unique offer: robotic replacement hands with added strength and durability. He'll be a new man with a new life, far more capable than he ever was before. He accepts, and during his recovery he returns to Lake Superior to pilot his sailboat on bays he's known since childhood. During a fierce and wild thunderstorm, Troy and his craft are sent through a portal and into an unknown world. When the rain settles, he finds himself on a foreign coastline surrounded by Greek architecture.
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Needs more
- By John on 05-22-19
By: Daniel Pierce
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New Spring
- The Wheel of Time Prequel
- By: Robert Jordan
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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For three days battle has raged in the snow around the great city of Tar Valon. In the city, a foretelling of the future is uttered. On the slopes of Dragonmount, the immense mountain that looms over the city, a child is born, an infant prophesied to change the world. That child must be found before he can be killed by the forces of the Shadow.
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Read it after reading others in the series
- By Stacy Fair on 12-13-07
By: Robert Jordan
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Altdorf
- The Forest Knights, Book 1
- By: J.K. Swift
- Narrated by: Brad Wills
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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A wild land too mountainous to be tamed by plows…A Duke of the Holy Roman Empire, his cunning overshadowed only by his ambition…A young Priestess of the Old Religion, together with a charismatic outlaw, sparking a rebellion from deep within the forests…And an ex-Hospitaller caught between them all. At the end of the thirteenth century, five hundred orphans and second sons are rounded up from villages in the Alpine countryside and sold to the Hospitaller Knights of St John. Trained to serve as Soldiers of Christ, they fight in eastern lands they know nothing about, for a cause they do not understand.
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Life's Trials.
- By Gary Carter on 04-05-18
By: J.K. Swift
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The Wrath of the Orphans
- Book One of Elmoryn's The Kinless Trilogy
- By: Chris Philbrook
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
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What do you do when everything you've ever known is ripped away from you, leaving nothing but ashes and charred memories behind? You get angry. So very angry. Malwynn and his twin sister, Umaryn, live in a small town in Northern Varrland. In idyllic New Picknell nearly nothing happens, and when their day-to-day routine is interrupted by a skirmish between an invading patrol of the dead from The Amaranth Empire and a defending force from Varrland, their world begins to come undone.
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FURIOUS TICKLING ENSUED
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 09-27-17
By: Chris Philbrook
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- Justin
- 06-21-19
Pulls on the heart strings.
A nice change of pace from your standard fantasy novel. It has slow start and the narrator's voices sounded similar. Other than that it was well done.
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- Joseph Moore
- 07-03-19
Mixed Feelings
The overall world that is built is interesting, even if not that unique among fantasy novels. The wolf character would normally be enough by itself to make me like the novel, but the handling of the main character. The entire world develops around her and even largely as a result of her, but her character is completely stagnant with the same internal dialog repeated from first chapter to last.
The narrator's performance of the male characters was awful. They all sound ancient and gruff to an almost incomprehensible degree, I understand that they are dwarves, but really... The female voices were done better and had a fair amount of distinction among characters, luckily this is most of the dialog.
I was given a free copy of this audiobook in exchange for an unbiased review.
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- Stephen
- 11-05-19
Amazing!
Absolutely wonderful story and intriguing characters! Great narrative by Darla Middlebrook. I enjoyed reading this book, but heading it brings another aspect of it, the characters are given a voice/ sound.
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- Aurora McMillian
- 07-19-19
Unlikely Heroes
I truly enjoyed this book! These women were heroes and brought about historical change in the world of dwarves. I laughed, I cried and as I woman I was so very proud! I shows want one person can accomplish if they just go after what they believe is right. The narrator did a fine job with differences between males and females, the ladies sounded like women of varying ages and then sounded like gruff ancient males with antique ideals and biased thinking, they sounded just as ugly as they behaved. They were shamed into having honor which just shows how much they had lost their way as dwarves. I am glad I read it and it was gifted to me in exchange for my thoughts.
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- Chris Schmitz
- 11-29-19
Do you like dwarves...
Cuz this has dwarves. But it's more than that, this follows a female dwarf in the aftermath of losing her husband to an enemy. This book is one of the most interesting reads I've seen on not just dwarf women, but the culture. I've read lots of dwarf-heavy fantasy, but this is nuanced, paced, introspective, and really delves into its subject matter. I couldn't help but feel shades of Joan of Arc in Duli as she has had enough crap from the male-centric guilds and decides to begin forging her own path--even if that means fighting. She is a dwarf, after all.
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