(Mostly)-Abridged Audio Books: Mystery, Adventure, Eclectic
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| | (Single books On Sale For up to 60% -OFF MSRP) | | AUTHOR | TITLE | Unabr | SALE | New | Media |
| BOX 41B |
| PETER ARNETT | LIVE FROM THE BATTLEFIELD - Arnett now recounts the adventures, the gambles, and the glory of his life, more than thirty-five years inside the world's war zones. | No
(2T,3H) | $7 | No | T |
| JOHN BERENDT | MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL - A sublime and seductive listening experience, a hugely entertaining account of life in Savannah, interwoven with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case and peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters, from Southern belles to drag queens to voodoo priestesses | Yes
(10T,15H) | $18 | No | T |
| LAWRENCE BLOCK | THE BURGLAR WHO STUDIED SPINOZA - It's just good luck when Greenwich Village bookseller and burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr knows that Hank and Wanda Colcannon's Chelsea apartment is empty while they are out of town. But it's lousy luck that somebody beats him to the job and ransacks the place before he arrives ... and that the Colcannons came home early and ... | No
(2T,3H) | $7 | No | T |
| SANDRA BROWN | EXCLUSIVE - A second-stringer with first-class talent, Barrie Travis is stuck at a low-budget television station. Then, suddenly, she receives an invitation from the First Lady for an off-the-record conversation. Barrie's reporter's instincts are instantly aroused. Blind to everything but getting her exclusive, Barrie is determined to investigate the death of the President's child. But, she soon realizes that getting her story will test her ethics and her patriotism ... | No
(8T,12H) | $20 | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER/THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN (Two Books) - 1st: The US Ambassador to Colombia has been murdered by drug lords. Enemy covert agents filter into the jungles of South America, and as the continent is ready to explode, Jack Ryan is caught in the eye of the storm. - 2nd: When a CIA operative in the Kremlin 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. | No
(4T,6H) | $13 | No | T |
| PATRICIA CORNWELL | THE LAST PRECINCT - We enter through the reverberating aftershocks of Black Notice, inconceivably finding Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner, Kay Scarpetta, an object of suspicion and criminal investigation. The nightmare on Scarpetta's doorstep continues as she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of her past. When a formidable prosecutor, a female assistant district attorney, is brought into the case, Scarpetta must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting and unnerving evidence to the contrary. Tested in every way, she turns inward to ask, "Where do you go when there is nowhere left?" The answer is the Last Precinct | No
(10T,17H) | $10 | No | T |
| STEPHEN FREY | THE INSIDER - He has the best job on wall street, but the bonus is a killer. Jay West is thrilled to land a job with Oliver Mason, a deal-maker with the Midas touch. Even better is the million-dollar bonus Jay is promised at year's end. But Jay soon begins to suspect that Mason's stunning success has a dark side, and that Jay himself may lose everything by revealing it. As deceit and corruption threaten to overwhelm him, Jay must struggle to stay in the game .... and stay alive | No
(4T,6H) | $9 | No | T |
| NEWT GINGRICH | LESSONS LEARNED THE HARD WAY - This is a summation of lessons learned, some ... perhaps the most difficult ... behind closed doors. It is my personal report to all of you who may not always have agreed with us or supported us but who are curious about what has happened to their Congress while I was leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives | No
(2T,3H) | $8 | No | T |
| GEORGE DAWES GREEN | THE JUROR - Annie Laird is Juror 224, a sculptor with a career going nowhere, a single mother struggling to raise a son, a good citizen who has been summoned in what looks like a routine tour of civic duty. But the trial she is called to serve on is no ordinary trial, it is a mob trial, whose outcome has been meticulously orchestrated by a man of insidious power and deadly precision, a man who lives by the teachings of Lao Tsu, whose magnetism is irresistable, whose mind is as brilliant as it is twisted, and he's set his sights on Annie Laird ... | No
(2T,3H) | $8 | No | T |
| JAMES HALL | MEAN HIGH TIDE - Reintroduces Thorn, the dark, brooding hero of 'Tropical Freeze' and 'Under Cover of Daylight,' who finds himself shaken out of his stilt house and into a chaotic world by an event so shattering that no part of his life is left untouched. A loner who ties fishing lures and trolls the coastal shallows, Thorn lives in harmony with the delicate ecosystem of sea and shore around him and shares his life with beautiful Darcy Richards ... Her brutal murder tears it all away ... | No
(2T,3H) | $7 | No | T |
| JACK HIGGINS | DRING WITH THE DEVIL - In 1985, off the northwest coast of England, an audacious hijacking by Irish Protestant paramilitaries culminates in the disappearance of one hundred million pounds in gold bullion when the seagoing barge Irish Rose capsizes and sinks under mysterious circumstances. Only Michael Ryan, the mastermind behind the plot, his niece Kathleen, and the mysterious Martin Keogh survive the disaster and only Sean Dillon, once the most feared IRA enforcer, now in the employ of British Intelligence, can avert disaster ... | No
(2T,3H) | $8 | No | T |
| TAMI HOAG | DARK PARADISE - In the place she feels safest, terror lies in wait ... New Eden, Montana, is a piece of heaven on earth where one woman died in her own private hell. Now it's up to ex-court reporter Marilee Jennings to decipher the puzzle of her best friend's death, but someone has a stake in silencing her suspicion ... | No
(4T,6H) | $10 | No | T |
| MARY KARR | CHERRY - Karr told the prizewinning tale of her hardscrabble Texas childhood with enough literary verve to spark a renaissance in memoir writing, but it left her readers wondering how this scrappy kid made it out of that Texas backwater. Cherry dares to recount that story. In edgy, brilliant prose, Cherry takes listeners to a place never explored with such candor. Parts will leave you gasping with laughter. But its soaring close proves that from even the smokiest beginnings a solid self can form, one capable of facing down all manner of monsters | No
(4T,6H) | $12 | No | T |
| LINDA NICHOLS | HANDYMAN - Delightful, a romantic fable that warms the heart. An accidental therapy session is the catalyst for change in this love story about two people who don't realize they're made for each other until it's almost too late | Y | $25 | No | T |
| CHUCK PALAHNIUK | FIGHT CLUB - "The first rule about Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club" ... Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, thousands of young men with good white-collar jobs take off their shoes and shirts ... and fight... and it's only the beginning of Tyler Durden's plans for revenge on society | No
(4T,5H) | $10 | No | T |
| LAWRENCE SANDERS | MCNALLY'S GAMBLE - Palm Beach bon vivant and playboy sleuth Archy McNally returns in another tale of love and larceny among the wealthy denizens of south Florida. Archy lives a life most people only dream about. As Chief of Discreet Inquiries, Archy keeps tabs on the rich and famous while keeping hours only a barly could love. When well-to-do widow Edythe Westmore is urged to buy a Faberge Imperial egg, her adult offspring violently oppose the investment and ... | No
(2T,3H) | $8 | No | T |
| LAWRENCE SANDERS | MCNALLY'S LUCK - It's hazy, hot and humid in the Palm Beach world of the rich and famous, but charming, soophisticated .. and street smart ... investigator Archibald McNally keeps his cool, solving discreet cases for a select group of posh clients. Things start to sizzle when Archy is hired to locate Peaches, a stolen cat owned by a wealthy real estate developer, and the "snap" case is suddenly ignited ... | No
(2T,3H) | $7 | No | T |
| NYOGEN SENZAKI | THE IRON FLUTE - One of the most significant contributions to Zen literature in recent times; a classic koan collection with peerless commentaries by masters from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, speaks radiantly to the heat. | No
(2T,3H) | $8 | Y | T |
| SIDNEY SHELDON | MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT - Continuing the story and characters introduced in "The Other Side of Midnight," the story moves from Greece to other exotic locations in a most compelling portrayal of one woman's fight against a terrifying destiny | No
(2T,3H) | $7 | No | T |
| BERNIE SIEGEL, M.D. | NEVER GROW OLD - Health, Self-Help, Nobody in America knows more about the miracle each day of life offers us than Dr. Siegel. Here, he offers heartwarming stories of everyday heroes who have turned their lives around against great odds. We are never too young, or too old, to overcome life's obstacles, he says, when we put our heart into it | No
(1T,1H) | $4 | No | T |
| MICKEY SPILLANE | BLACK ALLEY - A retired Mike Hammer awakes from a near-death coma to find that he is at the center of a search for eighty-nine billion dollars in missing mob money. The Feds are also in on the game, eager to beat the tough guys to the loot, even if it means throwing Mike to the wolves ... | No
(2T,3H) | $7 | No | T |
| ANDREW VACHSS | BATMAN THE ULTIMATE EVIL - The Dark Knight faces the most horrible crime imaginable in this gripping adaptation. When Batman casts a vengeful eye on the world of child abuse and sexual slavery, he discovers it may be a nightmare too terrible even for him to bear. Determined to destroy a network of child abusers, he uncovers the secret truth about someone close to his own heart, on a journey from the urban jungle of Gotham City to the tropical jungles of southeast Asia, where he confronts ... The Ultimate Evil | No
(2T,3H) | $8 | No | T |
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