BOOKS ON TAPE (BOT) CLASSICS - UNABRIDGED - LIKE NEW
BOX L63A - BOX L63B - BOX L63C
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| | (Single books On Sale For up to 60% -OFF MSRP) | | AUTHOR | TITLE | Unabr | SALE | New | Media |
| BOX L63A - (BOT) unless marked: Harper (H), Random House (RH), Bookcasette (B), Penguin (P) |
| JOSEPH HELLER | CLOSING TIME - Sequel Catch 22, the main characters are old; the anger of Catch 22 towards official stupidity and duplicity is replaced with resignation. "This is how the world is, and nothing we can do will change it | Y
(12T,18H) | $39 | No | T |
| JONATHAN KIRSCH | THE HARLOT BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD - Sex. Violence. Scandal. Words we rarely associate with the sacred text of the Bible. This brilliant book recounts shocking tales that have been suppressed by religious authorities throughout history. Kirsch places each story within the political and social context of its time, delves into the latest biblical scholarship to explain why each one was originally censored, and shows how these ancient narratives hold valuable lessons for all of us | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $29 | No | T |
| LARRY MCMURTRY | DEAD MAN'S WALK - The momentum begun with a snapping turtle and a naked whore never loses its force throughout this rollicking prequel to LONESOME DOVE, fleshing out Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, their friendship, and their first adventures with the Texas Rangers, a motley group of men led by the unpredictable and egotistical Colonel Cobb | Y
(10T,15H) | $32 | No | T |
| NICK HORNBY | ABOUT A BOY - Set in London, the story is equally that of Will, an attractive, single, 36 year-old man and Marcus, an odd-looking, nerdy, 12 year-old boy; great contrast between protagonists, a hopeful, feel-good book | Y
(6T,9H) | $20 | No | T |
| LARRY HEINEMANN | PACO'S STORY - Paco is haunted by memories of Vietnam and, quite literally, by the spirits of his dead fellow soldiers--in fact, they narrate the book | Y
(8T,8H) | $20 | No | T |
| WILLIAM KENNEDY | IRONWEED - Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Now, back in town, roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, Francis is trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and the present. "A powerfully affecting work, abounding in humor and heartbreak" | Y
(8T,8H) | $20 | No | T |
| JOHN HERSEY | A BELL FOR ADANO - The story of an Italian-American major who wins the love and admiration of a small Sicilian village when he tries to replace the 700-year-old town bell that was melted down by the Fascists | Y
(8T,8H) | $20 | No | T |
| MARCIA MULLER | BOTH ENDS OF THE NIGHT - Muller delivers the tension, action, and drama of high-caliber suspense fiction, ging beyond mere mystery, this crosses over into the thriller genre | Y
(6T,9H) | $20 | No | T |
| PHILLIP MARGOLIN | THE UNDERTAKER'S WIDOW - Beleaguered Richard Quinn - a judge so ethical that he is willing to risk his own life to see that justice prevails in his courtroom, discovers when he presides over the trial of tough-talking state senator Ellen Crease, there is not always a clear path to justice | Y
(6T,9H) | $10 | No | T |
| JOHN IRVING | THE WATER-METHOD MAN - Featured character has flawed personality and other failings, motivated to behave in often outrageous and frequently hilarious ways, a very readable tale of how he sorts out the mishmash of his life | Y
(8T,12H) | $26 | No | T |
| JOHN IRVING | THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE - The quirkiest of John Irving's novels, raises the bar on dysfunction to dizzying heights, featuring characters who stand alone in their memorable kinks in strange and wonderful ways | Y
(12T,18H) | $39 | No | T |
| PATRICIA HIGHSMITH | TALENTED MR RIPLEY - Centers around the title young man, a charming and desperately lonely sociopath from whose point of view the story is revealed (RH) | Y
(6T,9H) | $16 | No | T |
| JANE JENSEN | MILLENIUM RISING - An exciting thriller leaving the audience wondering if the end of the world has begun or is it a mix of big business, big government, and big religion pulling the strings (B) | Y
(6T,9H) | $16 | No | T |
| OSCAR HIJUELOS | EMPRESS OF THE SPLENDID SEASON - The story of the beautiful Lydia Espana, an emigre from pre-Castro Cuba who lives and works on the Upper West Side of Manhattan; as the years pass and her life of hard labor takes it toll, "Lydia the Empress" is forced to come to terms with the reality of her life as one of the working poor; a portrait of one family's complex road toward assimilation,and of a pulsing, vibrant, and dangerous New York City (H)(Abridged) | Y
(4T,6H) | $10 | No | T |
| JAN KARON | A COMMON LIFE:Wedding Story - Laughter and wedding bells ring as Jan takes her millions of fans back in time to the most cherished event in Mitford (P) | Y
(4T,6H) | $10 | No | T |
| FAYE KELLERMAN | MOON MUSIC - In the bleak wasteland of the Nevada desert the body of a once-beautiful showgirl is discovered, horribly mauled and mutilated; this death -- and a similar murder to follow -- harkens back to an unsolved slaying a quarter-century ago, pulling toward secrets from a strange and sordid past | Y
(11T,16.5H) | $20 | No | T |
| FAYE KELLERMAN | SANCTUARY - Orthodox Jewish housewife Rina Lazarus and her husband-and convert to Judaism-LAPD Detective Sergeant Peter Decker have their hands full in their seventh adventure | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $20 | No | T |
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| BOX 63B - (BOT) unless marked Blackstone Audio (BA) |
| ALLAN GURGANUS | OLDEST LIVING CONFEDERATE WIDOW TELLS ALL Part 1 - Lucy Mardsen is the widow of the Civil War's last surviving soldier. She is now half-blind, 99 years old, locked in a charity home; with her last energies she cracks jokes, names names and tells how it really was | Y
(13T,19.5H) | $42 | No | T |
| ALLAN GURGANUS | OLDEST LIVING CONFEDERATE WIDOW TELLS ALL Part 2 | Y
(13T,19.5H) | $42 | No | T |
| JOHN JAKES | NORTH AND SOUTH PART 1 - Part history, part novel, this chronicles two great American dynasties over three generations. Brought together in a friendship that neither jealousy nor violence could shatter, the Hazards and the Mains are torn apart by the storm of events that has divided the nation | Y
(12T,18H) | $39 | No | T |
| JOHN JAKES | NORTH AND SOUTH PART 2 | Y
(10T,15H) | $32 | No | T |
| JOHN JAKES | LOVE AND WAR PART 1 - 2nd in the North & South series, The Hazards and the Mains -- the first fatal shot fired at Fort Sumter divided them irrevocably with loyalties more powerful than family ties. The young would clash on the bloody battlefields of Bull Run and Fredericksburg, while in intrigue-ridden Washington and Richmond strong-willed men and beautiful women would defend their principles with their lives | (15T,22.5H) | $49 | No | T |
| JOHN JAKES | LOVE AND WAR PART 2 | Y
(15T,22.5H) | $49 | No | T |
| JOHN JAKES | HEAVEN AND HELL PART 1 - The Civil War may be over, but in this conclusion to the North and South Trilogy, the battles of the heart have just begun. Like NORTH AND SOUTH and LOVE AND WAR, this novel blends historical detail and fiction | Y
(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| JOHN JAKES | HEAVEN AND HELL PART 2 | Y
(10T,15H) | $32 | No | T |
| DAVID GUTERSON | SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS - It's 1954 and a young fisherman, Carl Heine, is found dead in the waters off of San Piedro, an island in Puget Sound. Police charge Kabuo Miyamoto, another fisherman, with murder. Themes include the childhood romance between a caucasian boy and a Japanese girl, a land dispute, and the wartime internment; "Compelling...heart-stopping. Finely wrought, and flawlessly written." | Y
(10T,15H) | $32 | No | T |
| VICTORIA HOLT | THE INDIA FAN - A priceless heirloom carries with it a potent curse. Enthralling mystery | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $29 | No | T |
| GEORGE V. HIGGINS | SANDRA NICHOLS FOUND DEAD - A dead body, discovered by a hapless plant thief blithely trespassing in a rural massachusetts wetland, turns out to belong to a woman with a past. Wrongful death? Murder one? Listen and find out (BA) | Y
(7T,10.5H) | $20 | No | T |
| JOHN IRVING | SETTING FREE THE BEARS - It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty-five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller | Y
(8T,12H) | $26 | No | T |
| MILAN KUNDERA | THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING - A young woman obsessed with a man torn between his love for her and his womanizing, a masterful novel by Czech-born Milan Kundera, in a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events | Y
(6T,9H) | $20 | No | T |
| BOX L63C - Books On Tape (BOT)unless where marked (BA) |
| MARK HARRIS | THE SOUTHPAW - Henry Wiggen is a beautiful athlete -- a perfect physical specimen and a gifted left-handed pitcher in a world that generally favors the right-handed. Despite his talents and his natural grace, the unpretentious small-town boy reaches manhood by the same arduous route followed by most boys. It is complicated, in his case, by that very talent and grace, and the expectations they create in everyone. Wiggen is that rarest of fiction heroes, a certifiable good guy, without guile, who wants always to do the right thing. Harris frames The Southpaw in an irresistible way, letting the fictional hero Wiggen "tell" his own story in the vernacular -- bad grammar, run-on sentences, the works | Y
(8T,12H) | $26 | No | T |
| MARK HARRIS | BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY - Henry Wiggen, hero of The Southpaw and the best-known fictional baseball player in America, is back again, throwing a baseball "with his arm and his brain and his memory and his bluff for the sake of his pocket and his family." More than a novel about baseball, Bang the Drum Slowly is about the friendship and the lives of a group of men | Y
(7T,10.5H) | $17 | No | T |
| MARK HARRIS | IT LOOKED LIKE FOR EVER - Henry Wiggen, the bedraggled six-foot-three, 195-pound left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths, returns to narrate another novel in his inimitable manner. Wiggen is now thirty-nine, a fading veteran with a floating fastball, a finicky prostate, and other intimations of mortality. Released from the Mammoths after nineteen years, Wiggen is not ready to hang up his glove | Y
(6T,9H) | $20 | No | T |
| W.P. KINSELLA | SHOELESS JOE - "If you build it, he will come." Them mysterious words of an Iowa baseball announcer lead Ray Kinsella to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield in honor of his hero, the baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson. This is a book "not so much about baseball as it is about dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American" (BA) | Y
(6T,9H) | $18 | No | T |
| W.P. KINSELLA | THE IOWA BASEBALL CONFEDERACY - The Iowa Baseball Confederacy tells the story of Gideon Clark, a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world that the indomitable Chicago Cubs traveled to Iowa in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against an amateur league, the Iowa Baseball Confederacy. But a simple game somehow turned into a titanic battle of more than two thousand innings, and Gideon Clark struggles to set the record straight on this infamous game that no one else believes ever happened (BA) | Y
(6T,9H) | $18 | No | T |
| W.P. KINSELLA | BOX SOCIALS - Set in small towns, ball fields, barns and bedrooms of Alberta, Canada, and populated by some of the quirkiest, rowdiest, hottest-blooded folks in fiction, 'Box Socials' paints a brilliantly comic, full-color portrait of North American life in the 1940s (BA) | Y
(4T,6H) | $14 | No | T |
| HAROLD ROBBINS | THE STALLION - Sequel to The Betsy, Perino and Loren lock horns once again in a world where integrity takes a backseat to cutthroat instinct, the stakes are huge and everyone's a gambler | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $29 | No | T |
| MARY RENAULT | FUNERAL GAMES - In the sweltering midsummer heat of the palace at Babylon, Alexander the Great, master of half the known world, lies dying; Alexander's generals, no longer united by his magnetic presence, begin their struggle for the glittering prize of his vast dominions | (8T,12H) | $24 | No | T |
| RUTH RENDELL | THE KEYS TO THE STREET - When Mary Jago donates her bone marrow to help a complete stranger, she finds that every act has consequences, often unforeseen | (8T,12H | $20 | No | T |
| ANNE RICE | VIOLIN - A delicious tale sweeping from nineteenth-century Vienna to present day New Orleans, bringing together three charismatic figures bound by a single obsession: music | Y
(8T,12H) | $20 | No | T |
| HAROLD ROBBINS | THE RAIDERS - The sultry, seamy, sexy world of Hollywood where The Carpetbaggers left off; clifff-hanging chapters and a gallery of eccentric characters | Y
(10T,15H) | $32 | No | T |
| HAROLD ROBBINS | TYCOON - From the Prince of Glitz comes a tale of sex, money, and power in the broadcast industry | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $24 | No | T |
| NANCY TAYLOR ROSENBERG | TRIAL BY FIRE - It's bad enough to be falsely accused of three murders. But try this: you're a star D.A., and the victims are your parents and your boyfriend. This is Stella Cataloni's world, and finding the real killer is the only way to clear her name.
Is it good news when Stella learns the killer shadows her? Not really. She's got a case to prove and her nerves are gone. Can she find the truth before an unseen enemy buries it -- and her -- forever?
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(8T,12H) | $26 | No | T |
| ANNE RIVERS SIDDONS | UP ISLAND - A well-born Atlantan is devoted to one thing: her family, which suddenly crumbles: her domineering mother dies, and her husband quits her for another woman. Shell-shocked, Molly leaves her hometown for Martha's Vineyard, where she comes to learn and embrace what it means to truly be a family | Y
(10T,15H) | $32 | No | T |
| WALLACE STEGNER | ANGEL OF REPOSE part 1 of 2 - An engrossing portrait of an American family through four generations | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $16 | No | T |
| WALLACE STEGNER | ANGEL OF REPOSE part 2 of 2 - An engrossing portrait of an American family through four generations | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $16 | No | T |
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