Audio Books Box 21A

Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense

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FORTY WORDS FOR SORROW -
John Cardinal is a cop with his career in the toilet and a clinically depressed wife. His usual partner is tied up in court on another case, so Cardinal is assigned another one, Lise Delorme, who's just come to homicide from Special Bureau (Americans, think “internal affairs”). Cardinal, who some folks in the branch suspect of being crooked, immediately suspects she's been paired with him in order to investigate him. But he's got too much on his plate to spend much time worrying about that; first, his wife goes into the hospital with a particularly nasty bout of depression. Second, a body is found in a mineshaft, believed to be that of Katie Pine, a missing girl whom Cardinal always suspected of being murdered; his obsession with her case got him demoted from homicide in the first place. Who can worry about whether you're being investigated by your partner or not?
Perhaps the most intriguing thing about Forty Words for Sorrow is the tension between Cardinal and Delorme, and trying to decide whether a romance is getting underway. The two of them are very deftly handled, and while they seesaw back and forth between being nice to one another and loathing one another, there's never a sense that anything is being exaggerated for the reader; the perils of having a new partner, and one of the opposite sex.

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MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY -
Charles Chaplin was born in London in 1889 to actor parents. His career in films started in 1914 with a string of single-reelers for Keystone Comedy Film Company. Success was immediate, and nine years later, to get better terms, he helped form United Artists. Chaplin's life was full of controversy, from his memorable arguments with the government about taxes to his marriage late in life to Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene and two generations his junior. By her he sired an extensive brood. She in turn cared for him devotedly through the remainder of his long life (he died on Christmas Day, 1977).
"From a destitute childhood in Victorian London to fame without frontiers...one of the success extravaganzas of the century." (Publisher's Source)

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BERNARD CORNWELL

WATERLOO -
With the emperor Napoleon at its head, an enormous French army is marching toward Brussels. The British and their allies are also converging on Brussels, in preparation for a grand society ball. And it is up to Richard Sharpe to convince the Prince of Orange to act before it is too late. But Sharpe's warning cannot stop the tide of battle, and the British suffer heavy losses. In this, the culmination of Richard Sharpe's long and arduous career, Cornwell brings to life all the horror and all the exhilaration, of one of the greatest military triumphs of all time

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ARTISTS IN CRIME -
When murder upsets the creative tranquillity of an artists' colony, Scotland Yard sends in its most famous investigator. And what begins as a routine case turns out to be the most momentous of Roderick Alleyn's career. For before he can corner the killer, his heart is captured by one of the suspects-the flashing-eyed painter Agatha Troy, who has nothing but scorn for the art of detection. "Artists IN CRIME is Miss Marsh's best.... Her touch is light, without lapsing into the facetious, her characterization excellent; her plot neat and precise." -Nicholas Blake, SPECTATOR

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FINAL CURTAIN -
Beautiful Troy Alleyn, artist wife of Inspector Alleyn, has been warned about the famed old Shakespearean actor... and his eccentric household. But she is not prepared for their acts of malice and mischief. Now Sir Henry is dead, after a large and lethal birthday dinner of champagne and crayfish-and after changing his will in favor of his glamorous young fiancé. And Troy is suddenly star witness in one of her husband's most sensational cases to determine which of the flamboyant characters brought down the final curtain, and turned a drawing room farce into tragedy. Anyone who has read a Ngaio Marsh mystery is likely to agree withNew YORK MAGAZINE' S Dilys Winn who said, "It's time to compare Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around."

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SCALES OF JUSTICE -
The quiet village of Swevenings seemed an English pastoral paradise until the savagely-beaten body of a lord was found near a tranquil stream. Suddenly, the playground of British blue-bloods has been soiled by murder and the lowest sort of intrigue. But if anyone can clean it up, it's the famous Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard.
"A handsome bit of craftsmanship-a classical detective story, with lots of suspects." -The LONDON TIMES

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SAMUEL ELLIOT MORISON

ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA (PART 1) -
"This is a sailor's life of the greatest sailor of them all. There has never been a biography of Columbus like it. The reader will feel that he knows Columbus -- who and what he was, what he did and how he did it -- better than the men who sailed with him." (Publisher's Source)

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SAMUEL ELLIOT MORISON

ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA (PART 2) -
Like Columbus, Morison was a venturesome sailor. In his search for new material, he cruised the Caribbean, traced Columbus' travels along the coast of Santo Domingo, crossed the Atlantic from Portugal, and combed the coasts of Cuba and the Bahamas in a ketch.

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MARY MCGARRY MORRIS

SONGS IN ORDINARY TIME -
This epic of everyday life takes us to Vermont in the early sixties and into the turbulent Fermoyle family. Marie Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for a dangerous con man, Omar Duvall. Her three children have their own difficulties. Alice, seventeen, is involved with a young priest. Norm, sixteen, can't control his hot temper. And twelve-year-old Benjy is so desperate for his mother's happiness that he hides a deadly truth about Duvall. Marvelously drawn characters and pointed observations on life, love and the dark side of the American dream.

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H.M.S. SURPRISE -
Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams: The ships sent by Napoleon to attack the China Fleet.
"Few, very few, books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. SURPRISE managed it." (Irish Press)

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THE LETTER OF MARQUE -
It is the early 1800s and British men-o'-war, the famous "wooden walls," limit Napoleon's expansion. Jack Aubrey, a brilliant captain, has been struck from duty for a crime he did not commit. Enter Stephen Maturin, Aubrey's best friend. Usually cast as a ship's surgeon (to mask his activities as an agent of British intelligence), Maturin buys Aubrey's former frigate Surprise and gives it to him as a privateer, more politely "a letter of marque."
They sail against the French on a mission that if successful will redeem Aubrey's career. Failure, particularly given the stakes, is simply not in his lexicon.
THE LETTER OF MARQUE is the 12th in the Aubrey/Maturin series following THE REVERSE OF THE MEDAL.

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THE UKNOWN SHORE -
This saga of survival, the immediate predecessor to O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series, focuses on two members of the HMS Wager's crew (we first met the Wager in O'Brian's The Golden Ocean).
As the Wager rounds Cape Horn, a storm separates it from the rest of Commodore Anson's squadron. Bad enough. But off the coast of Chile, she sinks. Rum, privation and a captain they detest drive the crew to mutiny. A handful of men make it to Valparaiso. Are their troubles over?
"The same splendid prose and attention to detail that O'Brian readers have come to expect." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

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THE TRUELOVE -
At French instigation an ambitious Tongan chief captures a British whaler in the Friendly Isles, and Captain Aubrey is dispatched from Australia with the frigate Surprise to restore order.
But a spirited female convict unexpectedly joins Aubrey and Maturin as a stowaway. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey himself is won over while only Stephen Maturin fathoms her secrets.

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THE WINE-DARK SEA -
In their 16th outing, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a prize into the Great Southern Ocean. The story takes Maturin to South America. Caught up in a failed coup, he flees across the Andes. Aubrey makes a desperate voyage in a open boat, but both survive and are reunited.
"The best chapter yet in the continuing saga of life in Nelson's navy." (Publishers Weekly)

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THE NUTMEG OF CONSOLATION -
We join Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, captain in the Royal Navy and surgeon/intelligence agent respectively, where we left them at the end of THE THIRTEEN GUN SALUTE: shipwrecked on a remote Dutch East Indies island.
Employing great enterprise, Aubrey secures a new ship and sails for Australia. A penal colony by charter, in fact a grim outpost of legalized slavery, conditions there exacerbate Maturin's Irish temper and nearly provoke a diplomatic crisis. And an excursion into the bush ends in a close encounter of the final kind.
"Always gripping. And everything -- skies and seas and ports and creatures -- is vivid and sensuously present." --A.S. Byatt
THE NUTMEG OF CONSOLATION is the 14th title in the series following THE THIRTEEN GUN SALUTE.

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ROSAMUNDE PILCHER

COMING HOME (Part 1) -
Through the years, Rosamunde Pilcher has enchanted us with modern classics like THE SHELL SEEKERS and SEPTEMBER. Now, five years in the writing, here is COMING HOME, a rich and romantic novel that Mrs. Pilcher believes to be the capstone of her career.
Judith Dunbar first saw Nancherrow, the Carey-Lewis estate in Cornwall, when her friend Loveday invited her home for the school holidays and into a loving family circle. But in August, 1939, the group of young people lounging on the estate's lawn scattered, driven by the winds of war: Edward to the Royal Air Force, Gus to France and Singapore with the Gordon Highlanders, Rupert to the Middle East, Jeremy to the North Atlantic and Mediterranean and Judith herself to Ceylon as a WREN. When would they be coming home?

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ROSAMUNDE PILCHER

COMING HOME (Part 2) - An old-fashioned tale hardly anyone knows how to tell anymore, teeming with marvelous, memorable characters; a totally involving story of a young woman's coming of age, coming to terms with both love and sadness

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