Audio Books 71B: Mysteries, Adventure, Fiction
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| LARRY BOND | DAY OF WRATH - A blood-chilling, all-too-plausible question that only Larry Bond dares to ask: What if the world's wealthiest man were also the world's deadliest terrorist? A plane carrying an American arms inspection team mysteriously crashes; a senior American diplomat is assassinated. The warning shots have been fired in a bold gambit to destroy America. The architect is ... | (4T,4.5H) | $ | No | T |
| LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN | THE CAT WHO BLEW THE WHISTLE - The seventeenth Cat Who ... adventure. When an affluent railcar owner disappears with millions of dollars belonging to Moose County investors, the international police launch an intense investigation to find the fugitive. But journalist detective Jim Qwilleran and his feline crime-busters find a mystery to unravel that is closer to home. Who blew the whistle on the embezzler? And, why did they do it? Qwill goes full steam ahead to solve the puzzle before a tragedy occurs, but the case is complicated by ... | (2T,3H) | $ | No | T |
| LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN | THE CAT WHO SAID CHEESE - Pickax loves a big occasion. Just now the Great Food Explo is about to begin, introducing new restaurants, country inns, food specialty shops and a new food page in the Moose County Something. And lurking in the background, a killer determined to make this an event Pickax City will never forget. So the Explo begins with a literal bang: a bomb wrecks the hotel, killing a hoursekeeper and causing extensive damage. Lucky for Pickax, Qwill is on the scene, his moustache twitchng with suspicions that this bomb was intended as something stronger than a warning to someone. His evidence: Koko and Yum Yum's new interest in cheese .. | (2T,3H) | $ | No | T |
| LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN | THE CAT WHO SAW STARS - The twenty-first Cat Who ... adventure. Quill is determined to dispel rumors circulating in Moose County, "four hundred miles north of everywhere," that extra-terrestrial beings may be responsible for the disappearance of a stray backpacker. Koko, on the other hand, is spending hours on the porch in the dark, watching the sky for stars ... or something ... | (2T,3H) | $ | No | T |
| LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN | THE CAT WHO SMELLED A RAT - The twenty-third Cat Who ... adventure. The Big One is on its way, and none too soon for the residents of an unusually arid Moose County, who are becoming increasingly anxious about wildfires as they await the first snowstorm of the season. A Citizens' Fire Watch is formed, and volunteers go out on shifts to patrol areas of concern, particularly the old minesites, which have been rumored to contain subterranean fires deep within. When a volunteer is murdered near the Big B minesite, which had been set ablaze, the people of Pickax realize they are dealing with both an arsonist and a killer. And Koko, Siamese cat extraordinaire and owner of journalist James Qwilleran, knows even more than that, as evidenced by his suspicious scrutiny of an antique pitcher, a batik of robins, and an old-fashioned glove box. The string of catastrophes continues as a local builder dies in an apparent accident, and it's up to Qwilleran & Co. to trap the rat who's behind it all ... | (2T,3H) | $ | No | T |
| LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN | THE CAT WHO WENT INTO THE CLOSET - When Qwill rents Euphonia Gage's mansion in Moose County, he and Koko soon discover fifteen closets jammed with several generations of junk. But what starts out as junk turns into something more. The mansion's former occupant, Euphonia Gage, enjoying a new life in Florida, is soon discovered to be an aparent suicide victim. But why would someone as happy and full of life as Euphonia kill herself? And what is the connection between the Gage family and dead potato farmer Gil Inchpot (who is found in the snow with a bullet hole in his head?) Can Qwill and the cats uncover a buried family secret before the winter yields another dead body? | (2T,3H) | $ | No | T |
| DALE BROWN | FATAL TERRAIN - In Asia all hell breaks loose as China strikes at Taiwan. A U.S. effort to bolster Taiwan meets with a stunning setback that encourages an emboldened China to advance on territory it lost decades ago. Meanwhile, Chinese allies in North Korea, Pakistan and Iran begin their own offensives, triggering conflicts from the Middle East to the Korean peninsula. As the situation deteriorates, aerial strike warfere expert Patrick McLanahan and genius aerospace engineer Jon Masters are authorized by the President to put a bold plan into action ... | (4T,6H) | $ | No | T |
| DALE BROWN | SHADOWS OF STEEL - The world is a dangerous place. Hardly a revelation, but for the new President of the United States, nothing drives it home more forcefully than the sight of a newly nuclear Iran throwing its weight around the Persian Gulf, while the U.S. uneasily stands by, its military weakened by years of budget cuts and unpopular, inclusive police actions ... | (4T,6H) | $ | No | T |
| JAMES LEE BURKE | BURNING ANGEL = A brutal legacy of cruelty and hate is awakened in the Bayou. When Sonny Boy Marsallus returns to New Iberia after fleeing for Central America to avoid the wrath of the powerful Giacana family, his old troubles soon follow. Meanwhile Dave Robicheaux becomes entangled in the affairs of the Fontenot family, descendants of sharecroppers whose matriarch helped raise Dave as a child. They are in danger of losing the land they've lived on for more than a century ... | (2T,3H) | $ | No | T |
| STEPHEN J CANNELL | THE DEVIL'S WORKSHOP - Stacy Richardson is a microbiology graduate student, taking her final doctoral exams. In the middle of her "Quals," Stacy learns that her husband, head of the Microbiology Department, has "committed suicide" while on sabbatical at a super-secret bio-weapons Lab known as the Devil's Workshop. Meanwhile, two train-riding hobos are traveling near Vanishing Lake, Texas, where the newest generation of bio-weapons is secretly being tested. A bio-accident turns the town into a living hell. An unlikely trio, Stacy, Lucky and egomaniacal movie producer Buddy Brazil work to expose the horrific truth about the Devil's Workshop while trying to stop a gang of white supremacists from "detonating" the frightening new bio-weapon. (Us poh white trash don't nevah get no respect) | (3T,5H) | $ | No | T |
| STEPHEN J CANNELL | KING CON - A confidence-game yarn in the spirit of The Sting. Beano Bates is "King Con" to his fellow grifters: con-artist extraordinaire with a taste for the fast life. When he runs afoul of mob boss Joe "Dancer" Rina, he wants not only to save his skin but also to pursue his own unique brand of justice. He teams up with "Tricky Vicky" Hart, a beautiful and brilliant DA, launching a cross-country trek that leads to a series of ingenious scanms, and finally the Mother of All Stings ... | (4T,6H) | $ | No | T |
| STEPHEN J CANNELL | RIDING THE SNAKE - Wheeler Cassidy, charming prankster of a wealthy Beverly Hills family, has never done much with his life except play golf, drink, and seduce other men's wives. But after his politically connected brother's mysterious death. Wheeler embarks on a perilous journey to find himself and the Chinese gangsters who murdered the only member of his family he ever really loved. Along the way, he teams up with Tanisha Williams, a beautiful African-American detective raised in South Central and now assigned to the L.A.P.D. Asian Crime Task Force. Born just fifteen minutes from each other but worlds apart, the two make a combustible pair and, together, face the violence and corruption that stretches from Hong Kong's Triad to the highest reaches of American government | (4T,6H) | $ | No | T |
| CALEB CARR | KILLING TIME (Unabridged) - The year is 2023, and much of the world enjoys great wealth generated by the triumph of information technology. However, the staphylococcus plague of 2006 wiped out 40 million people, and the 2020 assassination of American President Emily Forrester traumatized the nation. Through it all, the internet remains the main source of information, bombarding people with news, rumors and allegations twenty-four hours a day ... while creating enormous possibilities for the manipulation of mankind. Into this world of deception wanders Dr. Gideon Wolfe, a New York psychiatrist, criminal profiler, and historian who discovers ... | (6T,8H) | $ | No | T |
| AGATHA CHRISTIE | A POCKET FULL OF RYE and 4:50 FROM PADDINGTON - Two Miss Marple Dramas. First (Rye): With only one bizarre clue to the agonizing death of a wealthy financier, Miss Marple must unravel a mystery hidden in a child's nursery rhyme. Second (Paddington); When Elspeth McGillicuddy is the ony witness to a brutal murder, for which not even a body is in evidence, it takes all of Miss Marple's remarkable ingenuity to discover the key. | (2T,3H) | $ | No | T |
| AGATHA CHRISTIE | MURDER AT THE VICARAGE - Miss Marple, Christie's immortal spinster sleuth with the razor-sharp mind and an intuitive understanding of criminal behavior gets to grips with a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little village of St. Mary Mead, where under the seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country village lurks intrique, guilt, deception and death ... | (2T,2+H) | $ | No | T |
| AGATHA CHRISTIE | MYSTERIES - Here are three superb mysteries, including Philomel Cottage, one of her best. It's a story full of suspense as Alix Martin, a woman "no longer in her first youth," marries a man she hardly knows. Suspicion about his past begins to consume Alix, and when she discovers her husband's true identity, she finds herself in great danger. Also included is The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl, and The Red Signal | (2T,2.5H) | $ | No | T |
| AGATHA CHRISTIE | SAD CYPRESS - A stunning BBC dramatization: An anonymous warning that their elderly aunt may cut them off sends Elinor Carlisle and Roddy Welman on a visit ... with deadly consequences. Soon Aunt Laura is dead, a vial of morphine turns up missing, and a beautiful young woman falls victim to a poisoner's prey. Elinor finds herself charged with the murder ... and Hercule Poirot, hired to uncover the truth, is the only one who can save her life ... | (2T,2+H) | $ | No | T |
| AGATHA CHRISTIE | THE HARLEQUIN TEA SET (Unabridged) - Nine previously uncollected Agatha Christie gems, quintessential examples of her brilliance. Hercule Poirot unravels The Mystery of the Spanish Chest; a woman must decide whether to follow her heart or her conscience in The Edge; and in The Harlequin Tea Set, Mr. Harley Quin helps a man save his loved ones from the greedy hand of murder. Six other stories on the darker side of human nature complete these fascinating tales | (4T,6H) | $ | No | T |
| AGATHA CHRISTIE | THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD / MURDER ON THE LINKS - BBC - Two masterful tales, presented in stunning dramatizations with all the excitement of a theater performance, and all the charm of a vintage radio show; lavish productions combining full casts with stirring music and sound effects. First: Mrs. Farrars' death, just one year after that of her husband, sets the village abuzz. Young, attractive, and affluent, with everything to live for, she was engaged to marry wealthy Roger Ackroyd. Could she have ... ? Second: An urgent appeal for help from a mysterious millionaire summons Hercule Poirot to France. But he arrives to find his client stabbed to death, his body flung carelessly into an open grave on the new golf course. The questions arise ... | (2T,2.3H) | $ | No | T |
| AGATHA CHRISTIE | THE SITTAFORD MYSTERY - BBC presents one of Dame Agatha's lesser known yet most gripping tales. The wind whistles and the snow flies across the desolate English moors. At Sittaford House, the Willett ladies, newly arrived from South Africa to spend a lonely winter in the remote little village of Dartmoor, have invited a party of six for an evening of games. But when a certain spirit spells out murder with regard to the Sillett's landlord, their evening's revelry is brought to an abrupt end ... | (2T,2.3H) | $ | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | DEBT OF HONOR - On the Pacific Island of Saipan, a wealthy Japanese businessman regards his newly bought land with satisfaction. In the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka, a foreign navy begins a series of unusual exercises. At the headquarters of America's major stock clearing corporation, an engineer brings a customized computer program on-line for the first time, and smiles at his own privte joke. These are just the first links in a chain of events that will stun the world | (4T,6H) | $ | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | NET FORCE: HIDDEN AGENDAS - Instructions onhow to make a bomb ... a list of every US spy in the Euro-Asian theater ... Someone with access to classified information is posting it on the Internet and it's costing lives. A novel providing a powerful examination of America's defense and intelligence systems of the future. | (3T,3.5H | $ | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | OP-CENTER: BALANCE OF POWER - Spain is a nation poised to suffer its worst internal strife in a thousand years. Certain well-placed Spanish diplomats sense it. Op-Center intelligence corroborates it. All the United States and Spain have to do is find a way to avert it. Before they can, an Op-Center representative is assassinated in Madrid on her way to a top secret diplomatic meeting. Now all fears are confirmed. Someone very powerful wants another Spanish civil war ... no matter what the cost ... | (4T,4H) | $ | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | OP-CENTER: GAMES OF STATE - In the newly unified Germany, old horrors are reborn. It is the beginning of Chaos Days, a time when neo-Nazi groups gather to spread violence and resurrect dead dreams, but this year Germany isn't the only target ... | (4T,4H) | $ | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | EXECUTIVE ORDERS - Ryan had agreeed to accept the vice-presidency only as a caretaker for a year, and suddenly an incalculable weight has fallen on his shoulders as national tragedy throws him into the Presidency. He must calm an anxious and grieving nation, allay the skepticism of the world's leaders, conduct a swift investigation of the tragedy, and arrange a massive state funeral, but many of the world powers watch him with unfriendly eyes ... | (4T,6H) | $ | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | OP CENTER: LINE OF CONTROL - It's a mission that only Striker .... the military arm of Op-Center ... can handle: capture an Islamic cleric who is stirring up a rebellion against the Indian government. But when the border between India and Pakistan erupts, the Striker team gets caught in the crossfire. Now America's most proficient covert team is trapped in a full-fledged war. Their fate rests in the hands of a devious double agent whose own agenda is unknown ... a man who could just as easily sell them out as set them free | (4T,4.5H) | $ | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | PATRIOT GAMES - Years before the defection of a Soviet submarine will send him hurtling into confrontation with the Soviets in Red October, Jack Ryan, historian, ex-marine, and CIA analyst, is vacationing in London when the Ulster Liberation Army makes a terrorist attack on the Prince and Princess of Wales. By instinctively diving forward to break up the attack, he gains both the gratitude of a nation and the hatred of its most dangerous men. Jack Ryan must summon all of the skills and knowledge at his command to battle back against his nemesis | (2T,3H) | $ | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | RAINBOW SIX John Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL, a master of secret operational missions, is newly named the head of an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. Clark is looking forward to sinking his teeth into a new mission, but the opportunities start coming faster than anyone could have expected; an incident at a Swiss bank, the kidnapping of an international trader in Germany, a terrible raid on an amusement park in Spain. Each episode seems separate, yet the timing disturbs Clark. Is there a connection ... ? | (4T,6H) | $ | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | RED STORM RISING - "Allah!" With that shrill cry, three Muslim terrorists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, creating a critical oil shortage that threatens the stability of the USSR. To offset the effects of this disaster, members of the Politburo and the KGB devise a brilliant plan of diplomatic trickery, .... a sequence of events designed to pit the NATO allies against each other ... a distraction calculated to enable the Soviets to seize all the oil in the Persian Gulf. But as this spellbinding story of international intrigue and global politics nears its climax, the Soviets are faced with another prospect, one they hadn't planned on: a full-scale conflict which nobody can win | (2T,2H) | $ | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | THE BEAR AND THE DRAGON - Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President hasn't gotten any easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn, the Asian economy is going down the tubes, and in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR .... the former KGB ... with a rocket-propelled grenade. Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the potential assassins. Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, disaffected former KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here. Ryan is right to wonder ... | (4T,6H) | $ | No | T |
| TOM CLANCY | WITHOUT REMORSE - John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife when he befriends a young woman with a checkered past. When the past reaches out for her in particularly horrifying fashion, he vows revenge and sets out to track down the men responsible. At the same time, the Pentagon is readying an operation to rescue a key group of prisoners in a North Vietnamese POW camp. One man knows the terrain around that camp better than anyone: John Kelly, who will have his own mission as well ... | (4T,6H) | $ | No | T |
| MARY HIGGINS CLARK | THE LOTTERY WINNER - Alvirah Meehan, the ever-resourceful former cleaning lady who struck it rich in the lottery, won the hearts of millions of readers and listeners when she narrowly survived a stalking killer in "Weep No More My Lady." Now she returns with her occasionally befuddled mate Willy in this dazzling collection of interconnected stories. Written with Clark's trademark wit, romance, and keen eye for thrilling detection, the unabridged recordings are destined to become perennial favorites | (4T,5.5H) | $ | No | T |
| JOE CONNELLY | BRINGING OUT THE DEAD - Frank Pierce has given CPR on dance floors. He's seen an 11-year-old boy shot off his bicycle and brought a bartender back to life on top of his own bar while Irish music played. Frank is an EMC medic in New York's Hell's Kitchen, a profession that subjects him to endless, careening nights tending to the city's most desperate and neglected patients, but has him hooked on the addictive thrill of saving lives. Increasingly, it seems to be Frank who needs saving: abondoned by his wife, haunted by the ghost of the girl hhe helped kill and the protracted agony of a man he should have let die ... | (2T,3H) | $ | No | T |
| JOHN CONNOLLY | EVERY DEAD THING - Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. Tracking down a missing girl, Parker is drawn into a world haunted by the murderer responsible for the deaths in this family, a serial killer unlike any other, a monster who uses the human body to create ... | (4T,5H) | $ | No | T |
| MICHAEL CONNELLY | ANGELS FLIGHT (Unabridged) - 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 head 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
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| ROBIN COOK | BLINDSIGHT - A series of seemingly unrelated Yuppie cocaine overdoses places young forensic pathologist Dr. Laurie Engler in a state of confusion. While the families of the victims swear that none of the deceased was involved with drugs, the bureaucratic law enforcement agencies refuse to take the investigations past the obvious. Jeopardizing her career and her life, Laurie's search for the truth leads her to a living medical nightmare ... | (2T,3H) | $ | No | T |
| ROBIN COOK | TOXIN - Dr. Kim Reggis, one of the country's top cardiac surgeons, finds himself ill equipped to deal with a medical catastrophe involving his daughter, Becky. Newly divorced, Kim takes Becky to her favorite fast-food restaurant on a special night out. The quintessential American meal of burgers and fries leads to tragedy and Becky becomes gravely ill from E. coli bacterial poisoning. Kim launches himself on an inquiry over a trail of deadly evidency of shoddy meat-industry practices and complicity, but the price he pays to learn the shocking truth may be his life and the lives of those he loves ... | (4T,6H) | $ | No | T |
| ROBIN COOK | VECTOR - New York City cab driver Yuri Davydov is an angry, disillusioned Russian emigre bent on returning to his motherland after an unhappy seven-year sojourn in the United States. Before his departure, he wants to lash out at the adoptive nation which he believes lured him with the hoax of the American Dream, only to deny him contentment, opportunity, and prosperity. Two forensic pathologists in the city's medical examiner's office must solve the puzzle before Yuri and his comrades unleash the ultimate terror: a modern bioweapon | (4T,6H) | $ | No | T |
| STEPHEN COONTS | CUBA - Rear Admiral Jake Grafton returns as the United States andCuba engage in a terrifying fame of brinkmanship, a high-risk gamble that could break the last military taboo and destroy both countries. As Fidel Castro lies dying ... | (4T,6H) | $ | No | T |
| PATRICIA CORNWELL | ALL THAT REMAINS - A serial killer is loose in Richmond, specializing in attractive young couples whose bodies are invariably found in the woods months later, minus their ... | (2T,3H) | $ | No | T |
| PATRICIA CORNWELL | BODY OF EVIDENCE - After months of menacing phone calls and feeling that her every move was being watched, successful writer Beryl Madison flees to Key West when a terrifying message is scratched on her car. But the very night she returns to Richmond, she deactivates her burglar alarm and opens the door ... to someone who nearly decapitates her. Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta wonders ... why did she let him in ... ? | (2T,3H) | $ | 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 | (4T,6H) | $ | No | T |
| CLIVE CUSSLER | INCA GOLD - An ancient horde of magnificent treasure, The secrets of a lost civilization, a sinister family syndicate in a deadly international operation ... Dirk Pitt is thrown into a vicious, no-hlds-barred struggle to survive ... | (4T,4.5H) | $ | No | T |
| CLIVE CUSSLER | SAHARA - A deadly toxic compound in the middle of the African desert is killing thousands of people and threatening to extinguish marine life in the world's seas. As Dirk Pitt crosses the Sahara to uncover an unholy conspiracy, he discovers the truth about Kitty Mannock, an Australian pilot missing since 1931, and an incredible secret held in a Confederate ironclad. An explosive, high-voltage audio experience, Saara takes Dirk Pitt on his most dangerous journey | (2T,3H) | $ | No | T |
| DIANE MOTT DAVIDSON | STICKS & SCONES - Her first big catering gig in weeks for Goldy Bear Schulz, but between trying to solve the riddle of the castle ghost, keep her son Arch and her wounded husband safe, and get the food on the table while it's still hot, Goldy is up to her elbows in trouble | (3T,5H) | $ | No | T |
| JEFFERY DEAVER | THE DEVIL'S TEARDROP - New Year's Eve, a grizly machine gun attack in the Washington subway system leaves dozens dead and the city crippled with fear. A note delivered to the mayor's office connects the massacre to the Digger, an emotionless assassin programmed to wreak havoc on the capital at four-hour intervals, until midight. Only a ransom of 20 million dollars delivered to his accomplice, and mastermind, will end the death and terror. But, the accomplice is killed in a freak accident, and the Digger ... | (4T,4.5H) | $ | No | T |
| NELSON DEMILLE | SPENCERVILLE - A gripping, poignant story of lost love, betrayal and revenge. Keith Landry, an ex-intelligence operative, is finally going home after 25 years of working in the shadowy world of Cold War espionage. In his home town of Spencerville, he finds his high school and college sweetheart, a woman he has always loved and who still loves him, married to a man more dangerous than any of Landry's Cold War enemies ... | (4T,4H) | $ | No | T |
| CHARLES DICKENS | GREAT EXPECTATIONS - Stunning BBC dramatization with all the excitement of a theater performance. Better known as Pip, Philip Pirrip has been raised on the moors by his sister and her husband. A boy in humble circumstances, Pip's dreams of grandeur are inflamed by the eccentric Miss Havisham, a wealthy neighbor who invites him to play with her adopted niece, Estella. In her great house, among the decayed trappings of an interrupted wedding feast, Pip will fall in love with a beautiful girl who has been raised to wreak revenge on all men ... and falls prey to the illusion that Miss Havisham has become the mysterious benefactory providing him with money for his education and establishing him in London as her heir. But, from the moment young Pip helps a desperate escaped convict on the moors, startling surprises are in store that will transform Pip from a boy with shallow dreams into a man with depth of character | (4T,5.7H) | $ | No | T |
| ALEXANDRE DUMAS | MARY STUART, QUEEN OF SCOTS - Destiny prepared Mary Stuart to become the quintessential queen. Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nations; her marriage to the young French Dauphin promised her a third glorious crown. Regal and dazzlingly beautiful, Mary was often misunderstood yet revered for the mystery of her life. Succumbing to the irresistible impulses of passion, she gambled away her throune for love. Unbelievable acts of adbuction, rape and even murder were performed at her behest; she stopped at nothing. Eventually, she fell victim to her own schemes. Ultimately, the deady game of power she played and lost against her envious cousin, Elizabeth I, cost her not only her kingdom, but also her life ... | (4T,6H) | $ | No | T |
| GEORGE ELIOT | MIDDLEMARCH - BBC's stunning production brings George Eliot's timeless commentary on Victorian England to light. Written in 1871, Middlemarch has, at its center, the beautiful, spirited Dorothea Brooks, who marries an elderly cleric in the belief that she has devoted her life to a great cause. Instead, to her dismay, she finds herself committed to a petty, vindictive man and inept scholar, and dangerously drawn to Will Ladislaw, her husband's handsome young cousin ... | (4T,5.5H) | $ | No | T |
| WILLIAM FAULKNER | READS FAULKNER (Unabridged) - This historic recording contains the first readings by William Faulkner of his work. One hearing is hardly enough. As in his books, penetration deepens with each new experience of the work. Yield to Faulkner's senenity, the deep-south way with words, the unaffected ease with which he drifts into Yoknapatawpha dialect. An important recording. | (4T,5.5H) | $ | No | T |
| THOMAS HARDY | TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES - The compelling story of Tess Durbeyfield, Alec D'Urberville and Angel Clare proceeds at three levels: It is first a romantic and tragic tale of seduction and betrayal, of true love undone by the restraints of convention. Second, it is an indictment of the rigid class system of Victorian England. And finally, it is an inquiry into the nature of fate and of the inability of humans to control our own destiny. Remarkable for its female perspective on love as an instrument of destiny and on strong emotions as precursors to violence and tragedy | (4T,6H) | $ | No | T |
| HOMER | THE ODYSSEY - This robust, romantic, lyrical work has an openness and immediacy unsurpassed by any other translation. Homer's masterpiece tells the story of Odysseus, the ideal Greek hero, as he travels home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, a journey of ten years and countless thrilling adventures. Rich in Greek folklore and myth, featuring gods and goddesses, monsters and sorceresses, The Odyssey has enchanted listeners around the world for thousands of years | (6T,9H) | $ | No | T |
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