(Mostly)-Abridged Audio Books, Miscellaneous
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| A COLLECTION | GREAT AMERICAN ESSAYS -
The essay has lost out in recent years to television and the op-ed page, but in its prime it packed a wallop.
This collection includes: Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance"; Henry David Thoreau's "Walking" and "Civil Disobedience"; Mark Twain's "Hunting the Deceitful Turkey" and "Reply to a Begging Letter"; and Thomas Paine's "The American Crisis." Other titles are: Alexander Hamilton's "The Union and Its New Constitution"; P.T.Barnum's "The Art of Publicity"; John burroughs' "A Life of Fear'; Bradford Terry's " A Short Month"; Eugene Field's "Other People's Dogs"; and James Russell Lowell's "Abraham Lincoln."
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| JON LEE ANDERSON | CHE GUEVARA (Part 1) -
Even to those without Marxist sympathies, Che Guevara (1928-67) was a dashing, charismatic figure: the asthmatic son of an aristocratic Argentine family whose sympathy for the world's oppressed turned him into a socialist revolutionary, the valued comrade-in-arms of Cuba's Fidel Castro and a leader of guerilla warfare in Latin America and Africa. Journalist Jon Lee Anderson's lengthy and absorbing portrait captures the complexities of international politics (revolutionary and counter); his painstaking research has unearthed a remarkable amount of new material, including information about Guevara's death at the hands of the Bolivian military.
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| JON LEE ANDERSON | CHE GUEVARA ( Part 2)
Anderson's book is an epic end run around the guardians of the Che legend. A journalist who has made a career writing about wars and guerrillas, Anderson lived in Cuba for three years in order to do this project, and he persuaded Che's second wife, Aleida March, to let him read Che's private diaries. He also seems to have talked to everyone else still alive who ever knew Guevara, and one of the things that such dogged reporting has enabled him to do is to tell us, in wonderful new detail, about Che as a youth.
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| ANONYMOUS | PRIMARY COLORS - Primary Colors has its rich rewards as a savvy insider's look at life on the stump. But it travels far beyond mere gossip and discovers a convincing world of its own, peopled by smart cookies, nutcases, and wheeler-dealers, whose public and private lives illuminate each other-sometimes by casting dark shadows. This story spans the novelistic spectrum from bedroom farce to high moral drama, and it paints a picture of the political state of the nation so vivid and authentic that one finds in it the deepest kind of truth-the kind of truth that only fiction can tell.
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(2T,2H) | $5 | No | T |
| BREENA CLARKE | RIVER, CROSS MY HEART -
Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1999: Breena Clarke's first novel takes place in Georgetown in 1925, where a large and close-knit African American community took shape beneath the shadow of segregation. At the center of the story is baby Clara, who is swallowed by the Potomac as her sister, Johnnie Mae, cools off in the brackish water. It's the only place the girls can find relief--they're banned from the new, clean swimming pool the white kids use.
After Clara drowns, the river is never the same, and Johnnie Mae hovers on the edge of womanhood wondering if she'll be able to get past her guilt and emptiness. In an eloquent passage, Clarke writes, "Losing a loved one, a family member, is like losing a tooth. After a while, those teeth remaining shift and lean and spread out to split the distance between themselves and the other teeth still left, trying to close up spaces."
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| MARY HIGGINS CLARK | WE'LL MEET AGAIN -
A brutal murder of a respected and successful young doctor, his skull crushed by a blow with a prized sculpture, strikes Geenwich society like a thunderbolt, as does the news that his beautiful young wife has been arrested for her husband's murder. Nobody believes her claim to have no memory of the events, evidence against her is overwhelming; to escape a murder conviction she accepts a plea bargain. After her release from prison, she reasserts her innocence and an old schoolmate, an investigative reporter, decides to help her prove it. | Y
(8T,10.5H) | $16 | No | T |
| CATHERINE COULTER | HEMLOCK BAY -
FBI agents Dillon and Lacey Sherlock Savich return (The Maze, etc.) in Coulter's latest romance thriller to take down the satanic child-killing Tuttle twins in a Maryland barn before rushing off to California to save Dillon's sister, Lily, from her in-laws. Once an accomplished cartoonist, Lily has battled depression since the death of her daughter despite, or perhaps because of, her husband, a psychiatrist more devoted to Lily's inheritance (her famous grandmother's paintings) than to Lily. After Dillon's friend, debonair art broker Simon Russo, reveals that four of the paintings are forgeries, Lily finds herself hypnotized, mugged, caught in a fire, chased onto a cliff and kidnapped as she and Simon fly from Washington to California to Sweden. Coulter creates such vivid characters and fast-moving plotlines that fans of her almost 50 novels will overlook her occasional leaps of logic (tiny Lily defeats a mugger with a few quick karate chops) and boilerplate dialogue (" `A young guy tried to murder me this morning.' `What? Oh, God, no!' "). In return, she spices up her story with a dash of gothic horror, a splash of romance and a steady determination not to take herself or her genres too seriously.
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| MICHAEL CRICHTON | AIRFRAME -
Disaster, or something close to it, strikes an airliner en route from Hong Kong to Denver. Three passengers dead, 56 injured, the interior cabin destroyed. Whether through luck or skill, the pilot gets the plane down, more or less in one piece. But to what end? The public, jaded with excuses, calls for a fix, and Congress calls for an investigation. Where will it all lead?
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| ANITA DIAMANT | GOOD HARBOR
The seaside town of Goucester, Mass, is a place where the smell of the ocean lingers in the air and the rocky coast glistens in the Atlantic sunshine. When longtime Gloucester-resident Kathleen Levine is diagnosed with breast cancer, her life is thrown into turmoil. Frightened and burdened by secrets, she meets Joyce Tabachnik, a freelance writer with literary aspirations, and a once-in-a-lifetime friendship is born. Fragile, sharing, helping each other to confront scars left by old emotional wounds, the redemptive power of friendship.
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| CURT GENTRY | J EDGAR HOOVER (Part 1) -
For almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover held virtually unchecked public power. He manipulated every president from FDR to Nixon but shrank from human contact. He was a mass of contradit=ctions ... a hypochondriac who became a national hero, a bachelor obsessed with sexual slander, a federal official with a web of connections to organized crime.
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(13T,19.5H) | $44 | No | T |
| CURT GENTRY | J EDGAR HOOVER (Part 2) -
Hoover literally changed the course of U.S. history with files the Justice Department called "12 drawers full of political cancer." He came close to giving McCarthyism a boost, to blackmailing the Kennedy brothers and to influencing the Supreme Court itself.
(When you die, you can't protect your good name from conscience-less, self-serving mudslingers, can you?) | Y
(13T,19.5H) | $44 | No | T |
| STEPHEN HAWKING | THE UNIVERSE IN A NUTSHELL
One of the most influential thinkers of our time, Stephen Hawking is an intellectual icon, known not only for the adenturousness of his ideas, but for the clarity and wit with which he expresses them. Here, Hawking brings us to the cutting edge of theoretical physics, where truth is often stranger than fiction, to explain in laymen's terms the principles that control our universe.
With characteristic exuberance, Professor Hawking invites us to be fellow travelers on this extraordinary voyage through the spacetime and the universe in which we live.
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| LOUIS L'AMOUR | THE SACKETT BRAND -
Tell Sackett was miles away from anyone he knew and he had no reason to think there were enemies nearby. But then Tell is shot without warning ... and when he finally comes to, he discovers that all traces of his life have vanished. His wagon has disappeared and his beloved wife, Ange, is missing. Sackett vows to stop at noththing to find what became of her and it will take all his strength, because the forces behind the mystery won't stop until Sackett is dead.
(The Sacketts weren't too bad, for a bunch of damn yankees)
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| JAMES PATTERSON | VIOLETS ARE BLUE -
Patterson delivers his most shocking thriller yet as Alex Cross investigates a series of crimes that lead him into the terrifying world of ritual role playing, where people believe they are vampires--and sometimes cross the line.
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| RUTH RENDELL | BLOOD LINES -
Long and short stories which pinpoint deceptions and guilty secrets.
These vignettes of mystery and wrongdoing put us into familiar Rendell territory ... not just the English villages that Chief Constable Wexford calls home, but also the dark places of the human mind. Throughout the stories, psychological twists evolve from characters who range from the mildly eccentric to the truly mad. But for Wexford, it's business as usual: dogged police work rewarded with a flash of insight.
"Ruth Rendell is, unequivocally, the most brilliant mystery novelist of our time."
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(6T,6H) | $25 | No | T |
| SCOTT SMITH | A SIMPLE PLAN -
Hank Mitchell ... steady, solid, devoted husband, proud new father ... finds an immense cache of money with two other men. The three agree to a simple plan that will allow them to hide, keep and eventually share the fortune.
But when suspicion, blackmail, betrayal and murder come on the scene, Hank's orderly universe begins to crumble.
"Fulfills every expectation of a novel of suspense, leading the reader on a wild exploration of the banality of evil, consummate skill increasing the tension exponentially with plot twists that are inevitable and unpredictable at the same time."
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(8T,12H) | $35 | No | T |
| DANA STABENOW | HUNTER'S MOON -
It's the height of hunting season in the bush. Experienced hunter Kate Shugak and her boyfriend volunteer to help out their friend and big-game outfitter George Perry with a hunting trip. The would be hunters are a wealthy group of German computer executives who blaze away at every target that comes into sight. Used to pampering, the group has a style that clashes with Kate's self-sufficient ways. After successfully bagging a moose with two of her charges, Kate returns to camp to learn that a hunter has been shot. It appears to be an accident, until the body of a second hunter is discovered in even more gruesome circumstances. With no shortage of potential suspects, Kate realizes the moose and the bears aren't the only animals being hunted in the bush.
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| REX STOUT | THREE DOORS TO DEATH -
"Three Doors to Death" is a collection of 3 short Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout. In "Man Alive", Cynthia Nieder asks Wolfe to find her uncle after seeing him in New York. Paul Nieder had "committed" suicide by jumping in a geyser. Before Wolfe can find him, Nieder is murdered. In "Omit Flowers", Mario Vukcic asks Wolfe to help clear his friend, Virgil Pompa who is accused of murdering Floyd Whitten. In "Door to Death", Theodore Horstmann takes a leave of absence, and Wolfe goes to Joseph Pitcairn to hire his orchid man until Theodore returns. While there, Dini Lauer, Mrs. Pitcairn's nurse, is found dead under an orchid bench. Wolfe feels obligated to solve the crime. All three of these short novels are excellent. The plots are strong. I always enjoy going into the old brownstone with Archie and Wolfe.
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| DMITRI VOLKOGONOV | LENIN -
Provides history enthusiasts with a strong new biography which tackles the official party line about Lenin, drawing upon source materials from numerous archives to provide the real story of Lenin¹s leadership and politics.
Volkogonov shows many of the characteristics of Stalinism arose in Lenin's lifetime, often on Lenin's direct orders. From the creation of concentration camps, to brutal repression of the church and the media, Lenin's leadrship was cruel and totalitarian. An insider with access to over 3700 once secret documents, Volkogonov wove this mountain of information into a compelling story of the soviet founding father ahd the system he created.
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(15T,22.5H) | $48 | No | T |
| MARY WILLIS WALKER | THE RED SCREAM -
Molly Cates, crime reporter for the Lone Star Monthly, and true daughter of Texas, plans to witness Louie Bronk's execution (Bronk is a serial killer). But suddenly, her boss doesn't want her there, neither does the husband of Bronk's most famous victim. Why should they care?
Then Molly hears a rumor that Bronk was set up ... and the real killer remains at large. But if she follows the lead, it puts her own life at risk.
"An intelligent, complex thriller."
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| DONALD E. WESTLAKE | WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN? -
Massively funny Dortmunder novel (#9), one of the best. A rich householder catches John D. red-handed and steals his ring. Outraged, Dortmunder goes to incredible lengths to get his ring back. A great story.
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| STEPHEN WHITE | HARM'S WAY -
When Alan Gregory, a psychiatrist, finds his friend dead in a Colorado community theater, it looks like the victim knew ... even trusted ... his killer. The clues send Gregory on a trail leading to his friend's hidden life.
While he helps police untangle the knots, a string of new murders ... just as ghastly and baffling ... present fresh complications.
"Stephen White keeps on getting better."
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| SIMON WINCHESTER | THE MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD -
In 1793 William Smith, orphan son of a village blacksmith, made a startling discovery that was to turn the science of geology on its head. Here is his astounding story | Y
(6T,9.5H) | $14 | No | T |
| STUART WOODS | CHOKE -
Washed-up tennis pro turned instructor Chuck Chandler has choked on more than one occasion--first as a pro tennis player at Wimbledon, then as a womanizing coach at posh tennis clubs around the country. Now at Key West's Old Island Racquet Club, Chuck gets involved with the wrong married woman--the enticing Clare Carras, married to an enigmatic older man--and soon he is in way over his head when the husband is murdered. Perhaps only Tommy Scully, ex-New York cop and his novice partner can preserve Chuck's modest career ... and his freedom.
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| STUART WOODS | COLD PARADISE -
Suave, sophisticated Stone Barrington is a hero destined for the big screen. He's certainly got the trappings: the Armani tuxedo too well-tailored to reveal the gun beneath the drape, the sexy sports cars, the beautiful women who never fail to throw themselves at him, the confident familiarity with a complicated wine list or French menu. And he's got friends in high places, which helps when you're looking for a beautiful woman who made a big impression on the slightly nerdy but nice software billionaire who hires Barrington to find her.
Between bedding the billionaire's chef in Palm Beach, hiding from the homicidal Mafia princess he almost married in Italy, and playing games with a Hollywood beauty whose young son may or may not be his very own child, Stone hardly has time to do the job he's been hired for. But when he does, he discovers that the object of his search is still another ex-lover, a woman he thought had been executed on a Caribbean island three years ago. All these women, and all these adventures, plus Stone's old pal Dino, a New York cop, will be familiar to readers of Woods's other Stone Barrington thrillers.
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