Audio Books Box 55C

Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense

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A COLLECTION

CLASSIC DETECTIVE STORIES (Volume 1) -
These detective stories are from the vintage era of mystery writing, which is to say that time when the deductive powers for a human mind were more to be treasured than the laboratory analysis.
Included in this carefully culled selection are the following gems: "The Problem of Cell 13" by Jacques Furtrelle, "The Problem of Cell Robberies" by Arthur Morrison, "The Adventure of the Empty House" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Absent Minded Coterie" by Robert Barr, "Madame Sare" by L.T. Meade, "How He Cut His Stick" by M. Bodkin, "The Glasgow Mystery" and "The Dublin Mystery" by Baroness Orczy.

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A COLLECTION

CLASSIC DETECTIVE STORIES (Volume 2) -
Here are 14 more intriguing detective stories to challenge your deductive powers: "The Stolen Cigar Case" by Bret Harte; "The Nicobar Bullion Case" and "The Affair of the Tortoise" by Arthur Morrison; "The Blood Red Cross" by L.T. Meade and R. Eustace; "The Fatal Cipher" by Jacques Fultrelle; "The Duchess of Wilshire's Diamonds" by G. Boothby; "The Mystery of Mrs. Dickenson" by Nicholas Carter; "The Stolen White Elephant" and "A Double-Barrelled Detective Story" by Mark Twain; "The Red-Headed League" and "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; "The Purloined Letter" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe; and "Mr. Policeman and the Cook" by Wilkie Collins.

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TEXASVILLE -
Texans have a very special God. He serves them overdoses of everything...pain, poverty, riches, heat, history. McMurtry catches it all in TEXASVILLE.
Remember THE LAST PICTURE SHOW? Thalia, in the '50s. Duanne and Jacy necking on the team bus, the echoing hopes and dreams of our last innocent generation. Well, this is its sequel.
Thalia got in the way of the oil boom and Duanne got rich. But all the money does is show how empty his life is. The boom turns to bust. In the crisis, Duanne and his fellow Thalians prove once again that Texans do indeed have a very special God!
"As funny and entertaining as THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, except that the characters have aged, so the humor is bittersweet. A fine and satisfying story." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

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$48

THE EVENING STAR -
Aurora, the feisty centerpiece of 'Terms of Endearment', is now 71; her boyfriend, the general, nearly 90. Not much fire there, and Aurora consoles herself with a cast of aging admireres.
Her grandchildren, in her care since their mother's death, are no help, in fact the opposite. Despite her many commitments, Aurora recognizes that she is in the evening of life. She must come to grips with the passing of time ... in short, with the passing of life itself. Full of comic invention beneath which runs a deep understanding that no one's journey ever turns out quite as planned ...

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THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN -
"Watch your brother," says Beth Cappadora to her seven-year-old son, Vincent, as she checks into a hotel. Five minutes later, three-year-old Ben has disappeared. A police search yields no clues and no Ben.
In the nine years that follow the kidnapping, Beth, overwhelmed with grief, neglects her two other children and her husband. The family disintegrates. Then one day a 12-year-old boy knocks at the door of the Cappadora house, looking for yardwork. Can Ben's return revitalize the family?
"Rich, moving, altogether stunning...impossible to put down." (Publishers Weekly)

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MASTER AND COMMANDER -
This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Every ship action, every battle and landing, is based on careful research of Admiralty records.
Details of life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers, the food, the floggings, the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.

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THE FORTUNE OF WAR -
In this sixth volume of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series, Captain Jack Aubrey arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find he has been given the fastest and best armed frigate in the navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England to assume command.
But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected adventures where Stephen's past as a secret agent is uncovered and nearly results in his death.
"THE FORTUNE OF WAR is a full-flavored book, towering over rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat." (The Times Literary Supplement, London)

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THE IONIAN MISSION -
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans of many battles, return to those seas where they first sailed as shipmates. Jack is now a senior captain in the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon, a harder, colder assignment than the dashing frigate actions of his early days.
A sudden turn of events takes the two men on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands, where all Aubrey's skills come triumphantly into play.
"O'Brian's stories are unheroic and unconventional. Like le Carre, he has erased the boundary separating a debased genre from 'serious' fiction. O'Brian is a novelist, one of the best we have." (Los Angeles Times)

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THE COMMODORE -
This is the 17th novel in the remarkable Aubrey/Maturin series. Set in the early 19th century, Aubrey and Maturin take a small fleet of ships to the Gulf of Guinea to put down the slave trade. Their secret mission, however, is to destroy a French fleet that is planning on mounting an invasion of England via Ireland. The mission tests Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's cunning.
But Maturin returns home to a greater trial. His daughter seems autistic and his wife, Diana, has disappeared, unable to bear it.
"The best historical novels ever written." (The New York Times, on the Aubrey/Maturin series)

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THE YELLOW ADMIRAL -
Life ashore finds Jack Aubrey with a series of land-locked dilemmas. His wealth fades, his prospects in Parliament dim, and damaging old letters sour his marriage. Worst of all, England is at peace in the spring of 1814, feeding Jack's fear of being "yellowed" -- nominally promoted to the rank of admiral without any squadron to command.
But change is in the offing. Napoleon's escape from Elba brings about a fresh crisis and along with it an abrupt shift in Aubrey's fortunes.

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BLUE AT THE MIZZEN -
In this, the twentieth installment of the Aubrey/Maturin series, Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace takes on an ugly complexion for Captain Jack Aubrey. Neartly half of his crew has deserted and his own career propsects are suddenly dimming in a peacetime navy. To cap it off, the SURPRISE is nearly sunk in a shattering night collision on the first leg of her journey to South America where Jack and Stephen are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain. In the end it is Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet that precipitates the spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own.

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THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD -
The War of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets sail for Cape Horn with orders that speak to his heart: intercept and destroy a powerful American frigate sent out to wreck Britain's whaling trade. And Stephen Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence.
But disaster waits in the Great Southern Sea. Calamities abound, natural and manmade: typhoons, castaways, shipwreck, murder, criminal insanity.

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THE MOVIEGOER -
A winner of The National Book Award,THE MOVIEGOER established Walker Percy as an insightful and grimly humorous storyteller. It is the tale of Binx Bolling, a small-time stockbroker who lives quietly in suburban New Orleans, pursuing an interest in the movies and affairs with his secretaries, and living out his days. But soon he finds himself on a "search" for something more important, some spiritual truth to anchor him.
Binx's life floats casually along until one fateful Mardi Gras week, when a bizarre series of events leads him to his unlikely salvation. In his half-brother Lonnie, who is confined to a wheelchair and soon to die, and his stepcousin Kate, whose predicament is even more ominous, Binx begins to find the sort of "certified reality" that had eluded him everywhere but at the movies.

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THE VENDETTA DEFENSE -
In a case steeped in blood and memory, New York Times bestselling author of Moment of Truth and Mistaken Identity tells a wonderfully rich story of past sins, love and justice.
Lawyer Judy Carrier takes the case of an elderly pigeon racer, Tony Lucia, who has been arrested for the murder of his lifelong enemy, Angelo Coluzzi. "Pigeon Tony," as he's known, confesses to Judy that he killed Coluzzi because of a vendetta begun more than fifty years ago ... which is only the beginning of Judy's problems ...

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SUETONIUS

THE TWELVE CAESARS -
Little is known about the life of Gaius Suetonius Tranquillis, but much is inferred. He was born in the first century A.D. when Roman power was at its zenith. Pliny the Younger tells us that Suetonius briefly practiced law, avoided political controversy and became chief secretary to the Emperor Hadrian.
Suetonius lived out his full span and died in 140 A.D. He was a prolific writer, for there are records of numerous books. But the only one extant is THE TWELVE CAESARS, the most fascinating and richest of all Latin histories.

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