Abridged and Unabridged Audio Books, Misc
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| ISABEL ALLENDE | DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE - As we follow the spirited heroine on a perilous journey north in the hold of a ship to the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco and northern California, we enter a world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever. A society of single men and prostitutes among whom Eliza moves — with the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en — California opens the door to a new life of freedom and independence for the young Chilean. Her search for the elusive Joaquín gradually turns into another kind of journey that transforms her over time, and what began as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom. By the time she finally hears news of him, Eliza must decide who her true love really is. | Y
(10T,13H) | $19 | No | T |
| DOROTHY ALLISON | BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA - The extraordinary story of a young girl caught up in famiy violence, incest and redemption. "Allison manages a rare feat: a child narrator who delivers her raw truth in remarkable, beautiful, original language | (2T) | $9 | No | T |
| STEVE ALTEN | THE TRENCH - A Prehistoric Killing Machine. Its appetite is ravenous. Its teeth scalpel-sharp. Its power unstoppable as it smashes the steel doors holding it in a Monterey aquarium. The captive twenty-ton Megalodon shark has tasted human blood, and it wants more. On the other side of the world, in the silent depths of the ocean lies the Mariana Trench where the Megalodon has spawned since the dawn of time. Using himself as bait, Paleo-biologist Jonas Taylor will enter the ultimate battle, a fight to the death between man and beast in the darkest recesses of the ocean, and a fight for his sanity from the depths of his own tormented soul | Y
(7T,12H) | $19 | No | T |
| RUSSELL ANDREWS | GIDEON - Gideon, an identity shrouded in mystery, the anonymous source who holds the key to an explosive secret. Writer Carl Granville, hired to turn the pages of an old diary into compelling fiction, begins to understand that it is something more, and becomes a Man Alone, on the run, and wanted for murder | Y
(9T,14H) | $18 | No | T |
| ANONYMOUS | PRIMARY COLORS - Portrays a convincing world of its own, peopled by smart cokies, nut cases, and wheeler-dealers, whose public and private lives illuminate each other, sometimes by casting dark shadows. The story paints a picture of the political state of the nation so vivid that one finds in it the deepest kind of truth | (2T,3H) | $9 | No | T |
| MARGARET ATWOOD | THE BLIND ASSASSIN - Begins: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." The Blind Assassin, despite what sounds like a romantic plot, has been scoured free of any trace of sentimentality. There is a steely quality to Ms. Atwood's writing that's a bit scary but also exhilarating; no one gets away with anything, especially not her female narrators--and they know better than to try.
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(11T,18H) | $18 | No | T |
| DAVID BALDACCI | ABSOLUTE POWER - How far will the government go to protect the president? This riveting debut novel of murder, honor, loyalty and betrayal reaches into the highest echelon of power ... and the lowest depth of deception | (2T,3H) | $8 | No | T |
| DAVID BALDACCI | SAVING FAITH (Unabridged) - Faith Lockhart is coming to tell the FBI everything she knows about a powerful lobbyist but becomes the object of a hit man, and must go on the run from the most dangerous people in America, with Lee Adams, a man she doesn't know, yet must trust. Relentless Chase Novel, power gone mad in Washington | Y
(6H) | $16 | No | T |
| Sally Beauman | REBACCA'S TALE - April 1951. It is twenty years since the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter. Twenty years since Manderley, the de Winter family's estate, was destroyed by fire. But Rebecca's tale is just beginning. Colonel Julyan, an old family friend, receives an anonymous package concerning Rebecca. An inquisitive young scholar named Terence Gray appears and stirs up the quiet seaside hamlet with disturbing questions about the past -- and with the close ties he soon forges with the Colonel and his eligible daughter, Ellie. Amid bitter gossip and murky intrigue, the trio begins a search for the real Rebecca, and the truth behind her mysterious death.
| (4T) | $9 | No | T |
| MAEVE BINCHY | CIRCLE OF FRIENDS - For everyone who ever thought the person they loved was out of their reach - Sometimes dreams do come true | (2T,3H) | $7 | No | T |
| MAEVE BINCHY | SCARLET FEATHER - Scarlet Feather is the catering company newly formed by cooking school friends Tom Feather and Cathy Scarlet. They're young and talented, they've made some smart connecitons, and they've found the perfect premises to make their new business the best in Dublin, but not everyone seems as pleased by the idea of Scarlet Feather as they are ... | (4T,6H) | $10 | No | T |
| MAEVE BINCHY | THE RETURN JOURNEY - In this extraordinary collection of stories, Maeve Binchy brings us sons and lovers, daughters and strangers, husbands and wives in their infinite variety in compelling portraits of love, loss, revelation, and reconciliation | Y
(4T,4H 40') | $11 | No | T |
| FRANCIS H BURNETT | A LITTLE PRINCESS - The story of Sara Crewe, the richest girl in Miss Minchin's school, lavished with love and luxuries by a doting father. Suddenly orphaned, Sara is banished to the attic, fed crusts of bread, and forced to work as a common drudge. Half starved, she still saves crumbs to feed her pet rat and tells stories to comfort Becky, the kitchen maid. Her ability to play make-believe turns her hardships into an adventure, and wins friends, and ... | Y
(4T,6.5H) | $8 | No | T |
| LOUIS DE BERNIERIES | CORELLI'S MANDOLIN - The time -- fifty years ago. The setting -- the Greek Island of Cephallonia, an idyllic world that is only slowly entering the twentieth century when the inexorable and transforming tide of World War II rolls onto its shores. This stunning novel chronicles the lives of the people of Cephallonia as they contend with the Axis invasion and occupation, and the unexpected acts of God and man that shape their lives during the five decades that follow | (2T,3H) | $7 | No | T |
| Nicholas Evans | HORSE WHISPERER - His name is Tom Booker. His voice can calm wild horses, his touch can heal broken spirits. And Annie Graves has traveled across a continent to the Booker ranch in Montana, desperate to heal her injured daughter, the girl's savage horse, and her own wounded heart. She comes for hope. She comes for her child. And beneath the wide Montana sky, she comes to him for what no one else can give her: a reason to believe...
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(10T) | $18 | No | T |
| JANET FITCH | WHITE OLEANDER - Novel of child's struggle to find place for herself in impossible circumstances with determination and humor S | (4T) | $10 | No | T |
| FREDRICK FORSYTH | THE VETERAN - Detective Inspector Jack Burns wants to punish two thugs respnsible for a vicious beating at a housing estate in northeast London. He painstakingly builds his case against them, only to come up against a clever barrister, who has for some reason taken the case against him for very little money. A chilling twist at the end reveals the reason why | Y
(9T,13.5) | $18 | No | T |
| Glen David Gold | Carter Beats the Devil - Filled with historical references that evoke the excesses and exuberance of Roaring 20's pre-Depression America, Carter Beats the Devil is a complex and illuminating story of one man's journey through a magical -- and sometimes dangerous -- world, where illusion is everything | Y
(6T,9H) | $14 | No | T |
| Amy Gutman | EQUIVOCAL DEATH - Gutman's debut woman-in-peril crime thriller set amid the skullduggery of a prestigious New York City law firm provides doses of good, light entertainment. Weaving her way through the tangle is Kate Paine, a rising star at Samson & Mills and a favorite of the firm's managing partner, Carter Mills. Soon after immersing herself in an important sexual harassment case ... | Y
(7T) | $14 | No | T |
| STEPHEN KING | WIZARD AND GLASS/ DARK TOWER IV - Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is unlike anything you've ever read. King's most visionary storytelling, a magical mix of fantasy and horror that may well be his crowning achievement | Y
(18T, 27H) | $20 | No | T |
| Cormac McCarthy | ALL THE PRETTY HORSES - A critical triumph, this is the story of John Grady Cole, who at 16 finds himself at the dying end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. To escape a society moving in all the wrong directions, Cole and two companions decide to seek their future in Mexico, a land at once beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. But what begins as an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, leads, in fact, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Within months, one of the boys is dead, and the other two aged beyond their years. A story about childhood passing, innocence and an American age, here is a grand story and an education in responsibility, revenge, and survival | (2T,3H) | $8 | No | T |
| ROBERT B PARKER | FAMILY HONOR - Parker creates an entirely new character, young, smart, and for the first time, female. Her name is Sunny Randall, a former cop turned Boston P.I. Sunny soon finds herself the bodyguard for a difficult teenager who refuses to return to her family, but before long ... | (2T) | $8 | No | T |
| ELIZABETH RICHARDS | EVERY DAY - This powerful, richly textured debut novel tells the story of a woman whose life is as real as your own: vibrant, imperfect, and unpredictable regarding matters of the heart | (4T,6H) | $12 | No | T |
| NORA ROBERTS | SEA SWEPT - This is the first novel in a stunning new trilogy of three young men bound by the love of the extraordinary couple who took them in and raised them as brothers. A champion boat racer, Cameron Quinn traveled the world spending his winnings on champagne and women. But when his dying father calls him home to care for Seth, a troubled young boy not unlike Cameron once was, his life changes overnight. After years of independence, Cameron has to learn to live with his brothers again, while he struggles with cooking, cleaning and caring for a difficult boy. Old rivalries and new resentments flare between Cameron and his brothers, but they try to put aside their differences for Seth's sake. In the end, a social worker, as tough as she is beautiful, will decide Seth's fate. She has the power to bring the Quinns together, or tear them apart | (2T,3H) | $6 | No | T |
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