Abridged and Unabridged Audio Books, Misc
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| | (Single books On Sale For up to 60% -OFF MSRP) | | AUTHOR | TITLE | Unabr | SALE | New | Media |
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| DAVID BALDACCI | LAST MAN STANDING -
The essential elements of a terrific David Baldacci novel: a tough but tender-hearted hero, dirty dealings in the nation's bureaucracy, and a roller-coaster plot. Web London, a member of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, froze up on a drug raid and thus became the sole survivor of a remote-controlled ambush that killed six of his compatriots. Now the only witness has disappeared and the inside man on the botched raid has gone underground.
As a pretty psychiatrist puzzles over the corners of Web's brain that kept him alive, Web himself stays on the move. He's certain that the ambush is connected to the prison escape of a neofascist leader, Ernest B. Free, whom he helped arrest five years earlier, and a series of new murders leads him to a Virginia horse farm and the driving force behind all the carnage. It may seem as though Baldacci gives away the mastermind too soon, but both the bad guys and the good guys are complex enough that there's plenty of punch all the way to the last page.
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(6T,9H) | $19 | No | T |
| DALE BROWNS | DREAMLAND -
Set deep in the Nevada desert, Dreamland is the place where top minds converge to develop cutting-edge artillery and aircraft. The discovery of a spy among the ranks of Dreamland's top pilots unnerves the elite air force personnel assigned to the base and starts a downward spiral in spirits. When Lt. Col. Tecumseh "Dog" Bastian is appointed to keep Dreamland off the Pentagon's chopping block, morale is at an all-time low. Bastian's daughter, Capt. Breanna Bastian Stockard, is one of Dreamland's best pilots, as was her husband, Maj. Jeff "Zen" Stockard, before a training mishap landed him in a wheelchair. Together, father, daughter and son-in-law lead a team into battle-torn Somalia using the Megafortress test bomber, securing Dreamland's funding and restoring its dignity.
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(4T,6H) | $9 | No | T |
| SANDRA BROWN | THE ALIBI -
Spellbinding novel of suspense, intrigue and corruption. A woman suspected of murder arranges the one thing she desperately needs ... The Alibi. A narrative that grabs and doesn't let go, a top-notch crime novel, with sensitivity and insight into the chuman condition.
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(4T,6H) | $9 | No | T |
| BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL | YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE -
Written in poetic prose, filled with masterfully drawn and sympathetic characters that a less able hand might have rendered in stereotypes, this first novel blends the irony of Flannery O'Connor's fiction and the poignance of Harper Lee's. Moving quickly and believably from the eve of integration in rural Mississippi to the present-day street gangs in Chicago's housing projects, Campbell ( Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad ) captures the gulf between pre-and post-civil rights America; her story, starting with the murder of a young black man whose trial--argued before an all-white jury--captures national attention, shows us how far we have come and yet suggests we have not come so far after all. When word gets out that black teenager Armstrong Todd was talking French to Lily Cox, the Cox men kill him. Clayton Pinochet, the local newspaper reporter whose father is the most powerful and reactionary man in town, secretly tips off the national press; the men are arrested for what in previous times would have been a permissible crime. Their acquittal makes it clear that the system doesn't provide justice, and life never returns to normal for anyone. Details--the advent of TV, the polio vaccine, a Faulkner novel, Vietnam, women's lib and Oprah! --add to the rich, textured background.
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(2T,3H) | $8 | No | T |
| MICHAEL CHABON | THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER and CLAY -
It's 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat -- smuggling himself out of Hitler's Prague. He's looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn's own Sammy Clay, is looking for a partner in creating the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book. Inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapist, the Monitor, and the otherworldy Mistress of the Night, Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. The golden age of comic books has begun, even as the shadow of Hitler falls across Europe.
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(6T,9H) | $19 | No | T |
| DEEPAK CHOPRA, M.D. | GROW YOUNGER, LIVE LONGER -
A complete manual for renewal. On this audio you will find a simple, practical, step-by-step program for reversing aging. At the heart of the program are ten steps, each of which is supported by three daily actions. Learn how to maintain a youthful mind, cultivate flexibility, reawaken sexual energy, strengthen your immune system, nourish your body, change your perceptions, and enjoy restful awareness and restful sleep. By integrating the audio's insights and practices into your daily life, you will notice immediate imrovements in your physical and emotional well-being. As you begin to reverse your biological age, you will find yourself increasingly able to reclaim the gifts of your birthright by tapping into your inner reservoir of unlimited energy, crativity, vitality, and love.
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(3T,5H) | $12 | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER -
Colombian drug lords send a clear message to the US by assassinating three high American officials; Jack Ryan must find the enemy, and decide how much action is too much - Colombian drug lords send a clear message to the US by assassinating three high American officials; Jack Ryan must find the enemy, and decide how much action is too much
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(2T,3H) | $8 | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN -
When a CIA operative in the Kremlin, Mikhail Filitov, a war hero and Red Army Colonel, is discovered by the KGB the Soviets begin a furious hunt to capture the spy who has uncovered plans for their Star Wars defense system. Now in the midst of US - Soviet treaty negotiations, Jack Ryan must outduel the KGB and bring the agent out alive.
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(2T,3H) | $6 | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | THE SUM OF ALL FEARS -
In the late 1990s the world is cautiously emerging from the Cold War; even the Arab-Israeli conflict is being resolved, thanks to the cleverness of Clancy's hero Jack Ryan. But as confrontation yields to cooperation, what becomes of displaced terrorists? Palestinians without a cause and East Germans without a country seek to rekindle U.S.-U.S.S.R. animosity. A small nuclear device is exploded at the Super Bowl; in Berlin American and Russian troops are tricked into firing on each other; residual suspicions carry the action from there. After the solution of the Middle East crisis serves as an exciting preliminary to the main plot, the novel's middle parts seem a recycling of situations and characters from Red October and Cardinal of the Kremlin. But in the last third of the book Clancy integrates story lines, taking readers on a nonstop roller-coaster ride to a nail-biting finish. Fundamentally, Clancy is writing about a vital and elusive quality: grace under pressure. Whether terrorists or statesmen, Clancy's characters face a common challenge--situations that break down pretensions of rank, power and ideology. Their responses, carefully and empathetically constructed, make this book compelling instead of merely ingenious.
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(2T,3H) | $9 | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | SSN -
Chinese hardliners have staged a daring raid on the Spratly Islands, one of the world's last great untapped oil reserves, setting the stage fora rejuvenated Communist dictatorship. Representing the United States is the commander of an improved Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine the, USS CHEYENNE. Over 360 feet long and brimming with state-of-th-art electronic warfare systems, she is the finest fast attack submarine in the world.
The missions of SSN lead our brave commander through chillingly realistic scenarios which could be taken from tomorrow's headlines. Many of the threats he faces are rea; all of them are dangerous.
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(2T,2H) | $7 | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | MIRROR IMAGE -
The Cold War is over. Chaos is setting in. The new President of Russia is trying to create a new democratic regime. But there are stong elements within the country that are trying to stop him: the ruthless Russian Mafia, the right wing nationalists, and nefarious forces that will do whatever it takes to return Russia to the days of the Czar.
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(2T,3H) | $8 | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | OP-CENTER -
Op-Center: A beating heart of surveillance, intelligence, and defensive technology, run by a crack team of operatives both within its own walls and out in the field. When the job is too dirty or too dangerous the government turns to the Op-Center, a beating heart of intelligence, defense, and crisis management technology. But nothing has prepared Director Paul Hood and his Op-Center crisis management team for what they are about the uncover a very real, very frightening power play that could change the balance of power in a new world order.
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(2T,3H) | $7 | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | RUTHLESS.COM -
Intrigues are afoot to wrest UpLink Communications and its encryption program away from its owner, Roger Gordian, who assembles a maelstrom of operatives, congressmen and writers to fight back. The viewpoint is that not all information is useful and that encryption technology in the wrong hands could jeopardize national and world security. The action sequences are strong and well paced; Gordian is as plain as they come, and most of the secondary characters are interchangeable. The book will be of most interest to those who are knowledgeable in encryption-technology issues and who have read the first in the Power Plays series, Politika.
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(2T,3H) | $7 | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | POLITIKA -
With widespread crop failures and the sudden death of Boris Yeltsin, the Russian situation is dire at best. Old-school communists see the opportunity to scuttle American relief efforts by launching a terrorist attack in Times Square. Roger Gordian, a U.S. businessman, finds his multinational corporation in peril and takes the initiative to prevent escalation to full-scale war.
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(2T,3H) | $7 | No | T |
| PEARL CLEAGE | WHAT LOOKS LIKE CRAZY ON AN ORDINARY DAY...
What makes Pearl Cleage's novel so damned enjoyable? At first glance, after all, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day seems pretty heavy going: HIV, suicide, sudden infant death syndrome, and drunk driving all figure prominently in the lives of narrator Ava Johnson and her older sister Joyce. It isn't long before crack addiction, domestic violence, and unwed motherhood have joined the list--so, where's the pleasure? The answer lies in the sharp and funny attitude Cleage brings to her depiction of one African American community in the troubled '90s.
Ada has spent the last 10 years living in Atlanta. When she discovers she's infected, she sells her hairdressing business and heads back to her childhood home of Idlewild, Michigan, to spend the summer with her recently widowed sister before moving on to San Francisco. Once there, however, she finds herself embroiled in big-city problems--drugs, violence, teen pregnancy, and an abandoned crack-addicted baby, to name just a few--in a small-town setting. Ava also meets Eddie Jefferson, a man with a past who just might change her mind about the imprudence of falling in love.
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(4T,4.5H) | $10 | No | T |
| ANDREI CODRESCU | THE BLOOD COUNTESS -
Andrei Codrescu has written a fascinating first novel based on the life of his real-life ancestor, Elizabeth Bathory, the legendary Blood Countess. Codrescu expertly weaves together two stories in this neo-gothic work: that of the 16th century Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory, a beautiful and terrifying woman who bathes in the blood of virgin girls; and of her distant descendant, a contemporary journalist who must return to his native Hungary and come to terms with his bloody and disturbing past.
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(4T,4.5H) | $9 | No | T |
| RALPH COMPTON | THE CHISHOLM TRAIL -
The third book in St. Martin's exciting new Western series The Trail Drive--a sweeping, historically accurate epic set against the backdrop of the great cattle drives of the Old West. The illegitimate son of Jesse Chisholm and a young Cherokee woman, Ten Chisholm leaves New Orleans with a price on his head. Vowing to return for the one he loves, Ten rides into the harsh Texas brakes to round up longhorn cattle for a treacherous thousand-mile drive.
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(4T,6H) | $10 | No | T |
| MICHAEL CONNELLY | ANGELS FLIGHT -
The man most hated by the LAPD - a black lawyer who has made his name by bringing lawsuits alleging racism and brutality by police officers - has been found murdered on the eve of a high-profile trial. The list of suspects includes half the police force. And Harry Bosch is the detective chosen to lead the investigation.
The political dangers of the case are huge. If it's not investigated fairly, the public outcry could make the Rodney King riots look tame. But a full investigation will take Bosch into the ugliest corners of law enforcement.
To make matters worse, Bosch's wife, Eleanor, has disappeared. Bosch fears she has left him - or succumbed to her gambling addiction. He's not sure which would be worse.
Angels Flight reads in a white heat. It continues to up the ante of the series that is "raising the hard-boiled detective novel to a new level - adding substance and depth to modern crime fiction." (Boston Globe)
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(4T,6H) | $10 | No | T |
| MICHAEL CONNELLY | BLOOD WORK -
Thanks to a heart transplant, former FBI agent Terry McCaleb is enjoying a quiet retirement, renovating the fishing boat he lives on in Los Angeles Harbor. But McCaleb's calm seas turn choppy when a story in the "What Happened To?" column of the LA Times brings him face-to-face with the sister of the woman whose heart now beats in his chest. From her, McCaleb learns a terrible truth, that the donor of his heart was ot killed in an accident as he'd been told, but was murdered.
Wracked with guilt over the fact that he's alive because another human being was killed, McCaleb embarks on a private investigation of a crime as horrific as anything he'd ever encountered as a serial killer investigator for the FBI
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(2T,3H) | $7 | No | T |
| PAT CONROY | THE PRINCE OF TIDES -
A stirring human drama. Tom Wingo's troubled but quet life in the low country of South Carolina is shaken by the news of a suicide attempt by his twin sister, Savannah, a gifted poet living in New York City.
This brash, powerful tale sweeps from Tom's chldhood during WWII through the Vietnam war and into the present day, and from their small South Carolina town, peopled with eccentric and endearing characters to the dusty glitter of Manhattan, as Tom gradually realizes that trying to save his sister is perhaps his last chance to save himself.
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(2T,3H) | $6 | No | T |
| PAT CONROY | THE WATER IS WIDE -
The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not safe. Waste from industry threatens their very existence–unless, somehow, they can learn a new life. But they will learn nothing without someone to teach them, and their school has no teacher.
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(2T,3H) | $7 | No | T |
| STEPHEN COONTS | AMERICA -
The stealth submarine U.S.S. America is hijacked on her maiden voyage. The sub quickly lives up to her reputation as the sneakiest undersea vessel in the world by seeming to vanish into the Atlantic. It takes a little while for Grafton to connect the dots between the two military blunders, by which time missiles fired from the America have devastated Washington, frying every electronic circuit in the city, and even burning the White House to the ground. Between looking for the rogue sub, searching for the satellite, and trying to get some answers about the team the CIA trained to steal a Russian sub (and then beached when the mission was canceled), Grafton's got his hands full.
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(9T,13H) | $19 | No | T |
| STEPHEN COONTS | AMERICA -
The stealth submarine U.S.S. America is hijacked on her maiden voyage. The sub quickly lives up to her reputation as the sneakiest undersea vessel in the world by seeming to vanish into the Atlantic. It takes a little while for Grafton to connect the dots between the two military blunders, by which time missiles fired from the America have devastated Washington, frying every electronic circuit in the city, and even burning the White House to the ground. Between looking for the rogue sub, searching for the satellite, and trying to get some answers about the team the CIA trained to steal a Russian sub (and then beached when the mission was canceled), Grafton's got his hands full.
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(4T,6H) | $10 | No | T |
| STEPHEN COONTS | FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER -
Stephen Coonts flew A-6's in Vietnam. He has the credentials to write this story, which helps explain its long stay on the best seller list. A-6's were called Intruders. Their pilots tackled assignments of dazzling complexity and flew them with daring and dispatch. But they paid a price ... in lost lives, disillusion, incredible tension. They had one reward ... exhilaration ... worth the whole candle. You share the airmen's special brand of comradery, the one stabilizing force in an otherwise precarious life, that only an insider knows.
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(2T,3H) | $9 | No | T |
| ROBERT CRAIS | LULLABY TOWN -
Chelam, Connecticut, where L.A. shamus Elvis Cole goes in search of Karen Shipley, divorced ten years earlier by boyish filmmaker Peter Alan Nelsen, who's since developed a string of action hits and a conscience of sorts. Just when it looks like Elvis has found Karen and her son, Toby, all too easily, Karen turns out to be laundering money for the Mafia, and the story takes off like a two-stage rocket. It'll take all of Elvis's wise-guy savvy to pry Karen loose from those other wise-guys without condemning her to the witness-protection program or the East River. This story is pure pleasure from the very first page.
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(4T,6H) | $9 | No | T |
| ROBERT CRAIS | THE MONKEY'S RAINCOAT -
Introducing tough but charming P. I. Elvis Cole, and his unflappable and ammo-ready partner Joe Pike . . .
When Ellen Lang's husband disappears with their son, she hires Elvis Cole to track him down. A quiet and seemingly submissive wife, Ellen can't even write a check without him. All she wants is to get him and her son back -- no questions asked.
The search for Ellen's errant husband leads Elvis into the seamier side of Hollywood. He soon learns that Mort Lang is a down-on-his-luck talent agent who associates with a schlocky movie producer, and the last place he was spotted was at a party thrown by a famous and very well-connected ex-Matador. But no one has seen him since -- including his B-movie girlfriend.
At the same time the police find Mort in his parked car with four gunshots in his chest -- and no kid in sight -- Ellen disappears. Now nothing is what it seems, and the heat is on. It's up to Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike to find the connection between sleazy Hollywood players and an ex-Matador.
"Far and away the most satisfying private eye novel in years. Grab this one - it's a winner!" -Lawrence Block
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(4T,6H) | $10 | No | T |
| 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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(4T,4H) | $9 | No | T |
| MICHAEL CRICHTON | DISCLOSURE -
Beautiful, bright, and talented Meredith Johnson arrives at Digital Communications Technology company to become the head of a division, a position that Tom Sanders thought was going to be his. Meredith, his former lover, invites him to her office after hours and attempts to seduce him. When he rejects her, she accuses him of sexual harassment, a modern-day source of power. Tom hires Louise Fernandez to defend him and reverses the accusation to name Meredith as the aggressor. To this plot, Crichton adds computer-industry sabotage, corporate mergers, video-linkups, stock options, CD-ROM jargon, and even a trip on a virtual-reality simulator to help Tom save his reputation and career. | No
(4T,4H) | $9 | No | T |
| ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ | THE GENESIS OF JUSTICE -
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth: the lessons in the Book of Genesis led to our modern legal system. Dershowitz uses ten of the most intriguing Biblical narratives to show the evolution of the concepts of fair play and justice.
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(6T,9H) | $16 | No | T |
| LAURA ESQUIVEL | SWIFT AS DESIRE -
An enchanting and sensuous romance, reflects upon an undying love and the will to overcome an unspeakable tragedy. As in her bestselling novel Like Water for Chocolate, Swift as Desire is rich with metaphor, coated with magic, and very much about the power of desire. Júbilo, a telegraph operator blessed (or cursed) with the ability to hear what people feel, radiates joy from his birth. He spends his life mediating for others and salvaging their relationships, until disaster strikes his own life and causes him to question, even loathe, his supernatural gift.
He who knew that no matter how quiet the air was, there were always hearts beating, planets spinning in the heavens, bodies breathing, plants growing; and all producing sounds, but he hadn't heard anything! He hadn't heard anything!
Writing the novel as a tribute to her father (himself, a telegraph operator), Esquivel integrates her belief in the power of words. Swift as Desire is an engaging and enjoyable story that anyone with the slightest interest in a sensually romantic novel will find quite desirable, indeed. --Yvonne Schindler
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(4T,6H) | $10 | No | T |
| DIANA GABALDON | THE FIERY CROSS -
The fiery cross, once used to summon Highland clans to war, now beckons readers to take up Diana Gabaldon's fifth installment in the Outlander series featuring the time-traveling Frasers. Historical fiction fans will thrill to Gabaldon's trademark detail and sensuality. In this pre-Revolutionary War period, Claire Fraser and her husband, Jamie, have crossed oceans and centuries to build a life together in the bucolic beauty of North Carolina. But tensions both ancient and recent threaten not only Claire and James, but their daughter, Brianna, her new husband, Roger, and their infant son, Jemmy, as well as members of their clan. Gabaldon delivers on what she does best: poignant storylines, empathetic characters, meticulous detail, and searing passion. Savor every carefully chosen word, readers; it may be a long time until the next installment! --
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(6T,9H) | $12 | No | T |
| GREG ILES | DEAD SLEEP -
Greg Iles lives up to the promise of his previous bestseller, 24 Hours, with a new thriller that showcases his ability to deliver top-level suspense as well as multidimensional characterization. When Jordan Glass, a world-renowned photojournalist, happens on an exhibit of a series of paintings known as "The Sleeping Women," she is stunned to discover that one of the models--a nude who, like the other women in the paintings, looks dead rather than asleep--is her mirror image. But Jordan knows the face in the painting isn't her; it's her twin sister, Jane, who disappeared from her New Orleans home more than a year ago, and is presumed to have been murdered by a serial killer who's been snatching women off the streets of the Crescent City for at least that long. None of the bodies of the missing women have turned up, but their faces match the models in the other Sleeping Women paintings. A veteran FBI agent named John Kaiser brings Jordan into the Bureau's hunt for the anonymous artist, who may also know something about the disappearance of Jordan's father in Vietnam almost 30 years before.
This is a taut, well-crafted thriller with a nice secondary love story that's woven into the action without slowing it down.
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(9T,13H) | $18 | No | T |
| LARRY KING | LOVE STORIES OF WORLD WAR II -
Poignant and inspiring, these are the stories of men and women who met amid the chaos of the most devastating war in history and became the loves of one another's lives
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(3T,5H) | $10 | No | T |
| JOHN SANDFORD | CHOSEN PREY -
When a spring thaw disinters the body of a young woman who's been missing for over a year, Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport doesn't have much to go on except the victim's rumored connection with an unnamed man, who may be an artist and also, perhaps, a priest. But then the deserted property where her body was discovered turns out to be a killing field full of other young blondes last seen in the company of a man with a nasty habit of superimposing their faces on pornographic drawings. Davenport begins to close in on a serial killer whose perverted hobby provides the clues Davenport needs to stop him in his bloody tracks. James Qatar isn't a priest, and he's not really an artist, but he's definitely a monster, one who's met his match in Davenport.
Davenport is a smart, thoughtful cop whose girlfriend is pressuring him to make a commitment to parenthood and whose boss is about to lose her job in a political turnover. While the search for the killer is handled in author John Sandford's usual, crisp, procedural style, it almost seems to be a pretext for exploring the evolution of Davenport's relationship with Dr. Weather Karkinnen.
This is the 12th in The Prey Series.
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(8T,11.5H) | $16 | No | T |
| RICHARD NORTH PATTERSON | THE LASKO TANGENT -
William Lasko is a self-made millionaire who's got an eye for wealth and influence, the ear of the president, and a talent for using both to get what he wants. Now the Economic Crimes Commission wants the corrupt, untouchable Lasko brought down--and U.S. Attorney Christopher Paget is tapped to take on the job.
To gather enough evidence to nail Lasko without alienating the White House, Paget's got to go by the book. But Lasko makes his own rules. And eliminating enemies is William Lasko's golden one....
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| JOHN SANDFORD | CERTAIN PREY -
Attorney Carmel Loan is preternaturally beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious. When she becomes infatuated with fellow barrister Hale Allen, she isn't going to let a little thing like his being married get in her way. A quick meeting with an ex-client sets up the hit on Hale's wife, Barbara. The professional killer, Clara Rinker, is one of the best in the business. Smart, attractive, with a gentle Southern drawl, no one would suspect her of being a top Mafia hit man... er, hit person. When she takes the Allen assignment, she figures it will be easy money for a day's work. But things go wrong from the beginning. Loan's ex-client made a tape of the meeting, and is shaking her down for money. Worse, the shooting of a witness--a cop--brings deputy inspector Lucas Davenport into the case. Somehow Davenport has not only linked Loan to the killing, but seems to have a lead on Rinker as well. Carmel and Clara team up to clean up the loose ends, which includes getting Davenport off their back by whatever means necessary.
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(4T,6H) | $10 | No | T |
| JOHN SANDFORD | CHOSEN PREY -
When a spring thaw disinters the body of a young woman who's been missing for over a year, Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport doesn't have much to go on except the victim's rumored connection with an unnamed man, who may be an artist and also, perhaps, a priest. But then the deserted property where her body was discovered turns out to be a killing field full of other young blondes last seen in the company of a man with a nasty habit of superimposing their faces on pornographic drawings. Davenport begins to close in on a serial killer whose perverted hobby provides the clues Davenport needs to stop him in his bloody tracks. James Qatar isn't a priest, and he's not really an artist, but he's definitely a monster, one who's met his match in Davenport.
Davenport is a smart, thoughtful cop whose girlfriend is pressuring him to make a commitment to parenthood and whose boss is about to lose her job in a political turnover. While the search for the killer is handled in author John Sandford's usual, crisp, procedural style, it almost seems to be a pretext for exploring the evolution of Davenport's relationship with Dr. Weather Karkinnen.
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(4T,6H) | $10 | No | T |
| JOHN SANDFORD | SUDDEN PREY -
Revenge is the engine which powers Sanford's seventh "Prey" thriller starring superslick Minnesota cop Lucas Davenport. When a dangerous female bank robber is killed in a shootout, her even more dangerous husband escapes from prison and begins a campaign of retribution against the families of Davenport and his team. As always with Sandford, excellent writing is the icing on an enjoyable cake.
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(2T,3H) | $6 | No | T |
| JOHN SAUL | THE HOMING -
This novel may be the ultimate stomach turner. Saul follows his standard theme: a group of dangerous young people must be destroyed for the world to be safe. The story begins with Julie falling victim to a strain of bees whose venom is unusually toxic. The man who developed the bees, and their antitoxin, is a serial killer. Not wanting Julie to survive, he switches the antitoxin for an untried substance that turns out to be a new species of insect that requires a mammalian host for survival. Julie survives, infested with internal insects, and spews them forth to infect her friends. The horror of her condition is thoroughly detailed. Saul also gives us a splendidly creepy bug-infested house of horrors and a fitting revenge for the villain.
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(2T,3H) | $7 | No | T |
| JOHN SAUL | THE PRESENCE -
A chance to study unusual skeletal remains unearthed on Maui: it is an offer that anthropologist Katharine Sundquist cannot refuse. Yet for her sixteen-year-old son, Michael, the sudden move is jarring, the last thing he needs while struggling with the still-painful death of his father.
But here, masked by the beauty of the rainforest, a terrible danger awaits. The volcano on the Big Island sends a life-choking vog over Maui. And below the depths of the Pacific, a substance far more deadly snakes through undiscovered fissures on the ocean floor ... nature itself seems to portend the horror to come.
Secret deliveries to the high-tech lab in which Katharine works signal that a sinister experiment is unfolding. And with the sudden, unexplained death of Michael's friend, a disturbing truth dawns: the corporation that is funding her dig has a far greater investment in the project than she ever imagined ... an investment in medical terror. And her son may be part of their hideous grand plan
If you feel your chest tightening in terror ... or a paniky feeling that someone ... something ... is following you ... then you've been exposed to "The Presence."
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(2T,3H) | $8 | No | T |
| JOHN SAUL | THE RIGHT HAND OF EVIL -
The Conway family is in deep financial trouble. Ted Conway would rather knock back bourbon than support his family, and Janet Conway's career as an artist is going nowhere. Happily, the three Conway children--toddler Molly and 15-year-old twins Jared and Kimberley--seem well adjusted. Of course happy children to not make for good horror material, so dark times are just around the corner.
Ted receives an unexpected call from a Louisiana sanatorium, where his aged Aunt Cora is dying. Cora wants to convey a final message to her only surviving family members. She rasps out the ominous words, "I can see it. Stay away! Stay away from here!" Her words are futile--the financially strapped Ted moves his family into Cora's old house, a house deeded to them in a family trust.
Young Kimberley instantly feels a dark presence in the dilapidated Victorian house: "Suddenly her skin was crawling, as if a large insect were creeping across her neck." Tragedy upon tragedy strikes the family. Kim's beloved cat disappears and is sacrificed in a black-magic ceremony; an evil presence takes over Jared's mind--transforming him into the most rotten of bad seeds; the wails of a dead infant fill Kim's head, driving her to the edge of insanity. The family has fallen victim to a centuries-old curse--a curse that threatens to wipe out the Conway name.
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(7T,11H) | $29 | No | T |
| JOHN SAUL | THE RIGHT HAND OF EVIL -
Infanticide, insanity, miscegenation and black magic are in the mulch that nurtures the Conway family tree by the time Ted Conway moves his family to the small Louisiana town of St. Albans and into the house bequeathed him by his weird Aunt Cora, who was institutionalized for 40 years following the suicide of her husband and the disappearance of her newborn child. An alcoholic who can barely hold a job, Ted blossoms under the cursed house's influence and begins restoring it with a plan to turn it into a hotel. By contrast, Ted's teenage son Jared absorbs the taint that has infected generations of his ancestors and spits it back out in acts of juvenile delinquency and ritual animal sacrifice. Among the folks convinced that the transformation of both father and son are due to the same malignant presence are the parish priest, determined to drive the Conways out of town, and a voodoo practicing next-door neighbor, whose father was lynched by one of Ted's forebears
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(3T,4H) | $9 | No | T |
| DON J. SNYDER | FALLEN ANGEL -
Eight-year-old Terry McQuinn's life changed one snowy Christmas Eve on the coast of Maine when he glimpsed the "summer people's" world previously unknown to this caretaker's son. Serenity Cottage was a place of beauty and privilege owned by the luminous Halworths -- but in the blink of an eye, tragedy left them in ruins. Determined not to follow in his father's footsteps, Terry grew up to become a high-flying Hollywood film agent -- but he has lost himself along the way. When he is called back to Maine by his father's death, he finds a note that stops him cold: Open Serenity for Christmas. No one has been in the house in thirty years. Although Terry's first instinct is to leave it all behind, he discovers that Katherine Halworth, the girl he remembers from that fateful night, is the new owner. With her arrival imminent, Terry's past comes rushing back and he soon learns that it's never too late to forgive -- and never too late to love.
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(5T,7H) | $14 | No | T |
| AUGUSTA TROBAUGH | SOPHIE AND THE RISING SUN -
It's 1941, and small-town spinster Sophie has fallen in love with a completely inappropriate fellow. Mr. Oto, a Japanese American gardener, years older, has captured her heart. The growth of their relationship is a gradual, tentative, even poetic event. However, the bombing of Pearl Harbor soon complicates this friendship. The townspeople of Sophie's Georgia burg are suspicious of outsiders and of any unconventional behavior. After the bombing, Mr. Oto must go into hiding while his landlady, Miss Anne, and Sophie both bravely conspire to hide and feed him. The end of the story brings the sudden disappearance of both Sophie and Mr. Oto, and it's up to readers to decide what this means for the protagonists. Trobaugh (Resting in the Bosom of the Lamb) has written another Southern novel featuring a beautiful and unusual love story.
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(4T,6.5H) | $14 | No | T |
| SCOTT TUROW | PLEADING GUILTY -
Murder, embezzlement, bookmaking, offshore banking, and the politics of a high-powered law firm supply varying shades of corruption as Turow ( Presumed Innocent ; The Burden of Proof ) returns to Kindle County in this wise, surefooted legal thriller. World-weary attorney Mack Malloy, 50-ish ex-cop and recovering alcoholic, is the protagonist and narrator. Despite humiliating annual pay cuts, Mack plods on at Gage & Griswell, nearing the end of his usefulness. When another partner in the firm disappears, along with several million dollars, Mack is assigned the difficult and potentially dangerous job of discreetly discovering his whereabouts. During a one-month time span, Mack dictates his account onto six tapes corresponding to the book's chapters. It is an engaging, street-wise narrative full of plain talk and homespun philosophy, as well as a candid account of the behind-the-scenes workings of a powerful law firm. Though every element of the novel is polished and professional, the charisma of Mack's narration is its triumph. Add that to a taut, twist-filled plot, expert pacing, colorful and well-rendered supporting characters, and an appealing whiff of larceny, and Turow surpasses Grisham hands down.
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(4T,4.5H) | $10 | No | T |
| SCOTT TUROW | PRESUMED INNOCENT -
Rusty Sabich is chief deputy prosecuting attorney in a large mid-western city. His boss is in the midst of a bitter campaign for re-election. A fellow prosecuting attorney, Carolyn Polhemus has been brutally murdered. Rusty is handling the investigation ... and he needs results. Before election day. Before his illicit affair with Carolyn is uncovered. Election day brings a new prosecuting attorney into office. A political enemy who wants Rusty out. A man whose own secret investigation leads to Rusty being charged with murder. " A canny novel ... well-devised, crafted and meticulously calculated ... "
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(2T,3H) | $7 | No | T |
| SCOTT TUROW | THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS -
The mother of a probation officer is shot near a gang-infested housing project, provoking charges that her son orchestrated the killing. The ensuing trial reunites a group of affluent Sixties activists who knew each other in their student days. The courtroom scenes are energetic and intelligent, and Turow never resorts to playing good guys vs. bad guys. Nor does he subject his characters to tearful, revelatory testimony while on the stand. His dialog is snappy and believable, a and his insight into his characters' petty motivations and misplaced love is dead on. | No
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| STUART WOODS | SWIMMING TO CATALINA -
Bestselling author Woods brings back former NYPD detective turned lawyer Stone Barrington. He's flown to California on Centurion Studio's private jet to find the wife of heart-throb star Vance Calder. Most of Woods's characters are name-dropping beautiful people whom Ferrone smoothly portrays. His voice is so cool for both Stone and Vance, while his subtle vocal changes have the women sounding sultry as they seduce or are seduced. Stone's frequent sexual liaisons are detailed, but not overstated. Ferrone is equally convincing as the gruff bad guysÐsome dumb, all venomous. Glitter and greed abound in this more entertaining than mysterious cavort on the Hollywood scene.
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(4T,6H) | $10 | No | T |
| STUART WOODS | THE RUN
Stuart Woods has earned a reputation as a master of legal and political suspense. In The Run he crafts a blistering race through a difficult presidential campaign. Mississippi Senator Will Lee is in the spotlight. In strictest confidence, the Vice President has told Lee that he will not run for President. He urges Lee to announce his candidacy. But when the President is felled by a stroke, the Vice President takes over. Now, uncertain of the Vice President¿s plans, Lee is in a perilous political position. Everywhere he turns, he sees layers of conspiracy building that threaten to derail his campaign. Stuart Woods creates a world of politics that echoes the fickle headlines of today¿s papers. With Frank Muller¿s gripping narration, The Run hurtles toward an explosive conclusion. Its twists and turns will keep you in suspense until the last vote is cast.
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(6T,8H) | $19 | No | T |
| STUART WOODS | WORST FEARS REALIZED -
Fifth Novel in life and times of Stone Barrington, former cop turned lawyer turned investigator. Stone is in a position that every ex-policeman dreads --- all around him people are dying, and he suspects the killer may be someone he'd put in prison years before.
Stone's ex-partner is not immune, either, and the two men must pool their resources to protect those close to them. This nail-biting suspense tale takes Stone on a life-and-death hunt that twists and turns till the very end; a gripping thrill ride that will test him as no case has ever done before. Racing to find a killer, stone can only pray that his worst fears won't be realized.
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(4T,6H) | $10 | No | T |
| SUNSET PRODUCTIONS | AMERICAN INDIAN MYTHS AND LEGENDS (volume 2) -
This magnificent audio collection gathers selected tales from several tribal groups to offer a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From all across the continent come tales of creation and love, of heroes and war, of animals, tricksters and the end of the world.
Alfonso Ortiz, an eminent anthropologist, and Richard Erdoes, an artist and master story-teller, combined their skills to bring you the most comprehensive and authentic volumes of American Indian myths available anywhere.
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(1T,1.5H) | $ | No | T |
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