Audio Books Box 72A

Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense

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JANE AUSTEN (1815-1816)

PERSUASION -
Jane Austen was born in 1775 and died unmarried in her early forties. The daughter of a rector, she lived a comfortable upper middle-class life which was made eventful only through her active imagination.
In PERSUASION, the book's heroine, Anne Elliot, was earlier engaged to Frederick Wentworth, a young naval officer, now become a captain. Anne is 27, and the early bloom of youth is past when she and Captain Wentworth are thrown together again.
This book is often thought to be the story of Jane Austen's own lost love. In it, she seems mellowed and more philosophical, touched perhaps by the sentiment of a story in which she saw herself as heroine but in whose happy outcome she had a premonition that she would never play a part.

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$16

THE SIMPLE TRUTH -
Rufus Harm has spent the last twenty-five years in prison for a murder he's sure he committed. However, when he receives a letter from the army, Rufus' memory is jogged. As the events play out in his mind, Rufus comes to a realization: he's not guilty. From his prison cell Rufus secretly files an appeal with the Supreme Court. When the Supreme Court clerk, who is the first to see Rufus' appeal, and Harm's own lawyer are murdered, Harm knows the real killers are on to him. Rufus also knows he's quickly running out of time. Sprung from prison with the help of his brother, Rufus must elude capture long enough to expose a cover-up and save his own life. The bestselling author of THE WINNER, TOTAL CONTROL and ABSOLUTE POWER returns with a winner sure to keep readers captivated.

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$32

WILLIAM BLAKE

SELECTED POEMS -
At the end of his life, William Blake (1757-1827) gave up hope of being widely understood, but the 20th century has brought to his work intense interest and acclaim. Included in this collection are well-known poems such as "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright" and "A Poison Tree"; longer poems such as "The Everlasting Gospel"; Blake's principal prose work, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"; and an assortment of epigrams and short satire. Poet, artist, and mystic, Blake wrote, "I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's." Create, he did.

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$10

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

A STUDY IN SCARLET -
All Holmes stories are important to the Baker Street Irregulars, but this one ranks particularly high in their hagiography. Reason: Dr. Watson is introduced, and with this perfect foil to Holmes's gigantic abilities, the author and his characters attain a more relaxed relationship.

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SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES -
A moonless night, a fog-drenched moor, a silent path, a solitary man picking his apprehensive way. Distantly, distantly a primeval howl. The man freezes. It comes again, closer. What can it be? Moments later an apparition flashes at him out of the blackness, huge, tearing. Then nothing.
When Sir Conan Doyle imagined this scene he was 43, 15 years into his Sherlock cycle, vastly rich and famous. Many consider this book the best of his work; all agree it's the most terrifying.
Trained as a physician, knighted for his medical service in the Boer War, author of an acknowledged military classic and a convert in his later years to spiritualism, Conan Doyle would have been just another accomplished Victorian gentleman.

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THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE -
The time is early 1944, the place a secluded area on the east coast of England. To keep the impending invasion of Normandy a secret, American and British forces have constructed a "fake" military site here -- complete with imitation ships, plywood airplanes, barracks and equipment. The Germans are meant to "discover" this operation through aerial photographs. However, a German spy has uncovered the deception and is trying to meet up with a German U-boat to report the Allied plan to the Germans. The whole outcome of the war hangs in the balance.

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$24

N. SCOTT MOMADAY

HOUSE MADE OF DAWN -
N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of Abel, a young American Indian living with his grandfather in the pueblo of San Ysidro. The novel spans the seven years from 1945 to 1952.
Abel is a young man trying to find himself not in one world, but two: white and Indian. To all the trials of growing up is added cultural ambiguity.
"HOUSE MADE OF DAWN is a brilliant exposition of the mind and soul of the American Indian and an important contribution to American literature." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

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RUMPOLE AND THE ANGEL OF DEATH -
This is a collection of six tales of the "barrister [who's] as much a detective as sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot" (Boston Sunday Globe). The comic, courageous, and corpulent "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" is joined by a winning cast of villains and victims in tales whose wry humor and sparkling wit deftly send up the British legal system.
In Rumpole and the Angel of Death our hero achieves new, resounding triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness. "Rumpole and the Way Through the woods" involves Rumpole in the world of hunters and the hunted, animal rights and human wrongs. In "Rumpole and the Rights of Man," he finds at the European Court of human Rights that international justice is as fallible as the domestic variety. And for the first time, Hilda, She Who Must Be Obeyed, tells a story all her own.

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RUMPOLE'S LAST CASE -
Rumpole is on the job again, with his taste for claret, his penchant for poetry, and his reputation for a good story. This time, several interesting cases of murder and suspicious doings pass through chambers. Rumpole uses the refined taste of a garage mechanic to discover the reasons for the robbery of a case of wine; indulges his knowledge of bloodstains and typewriters; and recalls three delightful battles with his arch-enemy, the Mad Bull (Judge Roger Bullingham). As usual, Rumpole's biting wit and benevolent ideas of justice push the Mad Bull to the edge of retaliation; and it is only through some last minute diplomatic intervention that Rumpole lives to argue another day.

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LARRY NIVEN

RAINBOW MARS -
Hanville Svetz was born into a future to match the sorriest predictions of Greenpeace. Most of Earth's original life forms are extinct. It had been Svetz's job to go back in time and retrieve them but he's been transferred. He now must figure out why the Martian canals have gone dry and what that means for Earth's future, because Mars was inhabited. When Svetz learns how the sapient Martian species was wiped out, he realizes that Earth could soon fall victim to a similar fate. Together with his dog, Wrona, a visitor from the distant past, and Miya, an astronaut with her own complex history, Svetz must unravel a puzzle that will tax not just his rational mind, but the very limits of his imagination.
"Niven...lifts the reader far from the conventional world - and does it with a dash." (Los Angeles Times)

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GOING AFTER CACCIATO -
Cacciato is one dumb soldier. He walks away from the Vietnam War. Across mountains, deserts and swamps, he plans to hike 8600 miles from Vietnam to Paris. He's after peace and freedom. But that's insane. Isn't it? So a squad of his buddies goes after him. They're told to bring him back...or else.
GOING AFTER CACCIATO gives us the grunt, day by day. It brings Vietnam home. It won a National Book Award for fiction.
"Incomparable! Every war has its chroniclers of fear and flight, its Stephen Cranes and Joseph Hellers. Tim O'Brien joins their number." (Philadelphia Inquirer)

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BITTER MEDICINE -
V.I. Warshawski is performing a favor when she drives her young friend Consuelo, 16 and pregnant, and her street-punk husband, Fabiano, to a job interview.
When Consuelo's labor begins prematurely, Vic takes her to a private suburban hospital--whose staff, seeing "indigent" written all over a young Hispanic face, treats her only reluctantly. Consuelo and her baby don't live out the night.
The next day the doctor who treated her is found brutally murdered, and V.I. Warshawski is hip-deep in a highly personal investigation. What she uncovers is an explosive nightmare of conspiracy and greed--where human life takes a back seat to the bottom line.

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BURN MARKS -
It's 3:00 in the morning and who should be standing at her door (and smelling of stale beer) but V.I. Warshawski's derelict aunt, Elena. Burned out of her SRO hotel, Elena turns to her niece for a place to stay. V.I. vows it will be brief.
When V.I. turns arson investigator, Aunt Elena disappears. Then Elena's closest friend turns up dead at a construction site. V.I. digs into a new mystery, but gets buzzed off by a high-ranking member of the force as well as a major developer. What do they have in common, V.I. muses...as she pushes on with the case.
"One of the best writers now working the PI field. Mood, setting, characters -- this one has it all. Fresh and fascinating." (Toronto Globe and Mail)

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HIDE AND SEEK -
How could she do it? That's what fans of Maggie Bradford, legendary vocalist, ask themselves. How could she murder her husband, a popular figure in his own right and father of her two children?
Maggie talks abuse, but these days, who doesn't? The question is, will the jury believe it?
"Fluid, gripping narrative and a final Big Twist." (Publishers Weekly)

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KISS THE GIRLS -
He rocked the world of popular fiction with his mega-bestselling thriller, ALONG CAME A SPIDER. Now James Patterson is back with a novel more chilling than you can imagine. Two depraved killers are on the loose - one abducting young women from colleges in the Southeast, the other terrorizing L.A. The FBI thinks they may be talking to each other - maybe even working together. But, when one of them kidnaps Detective Alex Cross's favorite niece, Alex brings a new commitment to the search. This is one the good guys have to win! KISS THE GIRLS was made into a movie.

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JAMES PATTERSON

THE MIDNIGHT CLUB -
John Stefanovitch is one tough New York cop. Nobody knows the city like he does. Stef is out to nab Alexandre St. Germain, the most treacherous and powerful member of the Midnight Club - a secret international society whose membership is limited to an elite group of ruthless crime czars, all of whom are "respectable businessmen." And Stef's the ideal man for the job - until he's leveled by a blast from St. Germain's shotgun and left for dead. Now, Stef is back, wheelchair bound, yet sworn to destroy the vicious St. Germain. With the help of a beautiful journalist and a Harlem cop, Stef is determined to crack the Midnight Club. And he's up against odds that are as unknown as they are deadly.
"Guaranteed: You'll devour this yarn-burner in one sitting." (New York Daily News)

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WHEN THE WIND BLOWS -
Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, Frannie tries to find forgetfulness in her work. Then a second murder occurs, followed by the arrival on her doorstep of Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent. Late one night, near the woods of her animal hospital, Frannie stumbles upon a strange, astonishing phenomenon that will change the course of her life forever...Her name is Max. With breathtaking energy, eleven-year-old Max leads Frannie and Kit to uncover one of the most diabolical and inhuman plots of modern science. WHEN THE WIND BLOWS is as unique a story as has ever been told, filled with suspense and passion. James Patterson is the best-selling author of CAT And MOUSE, KISS THE GIRLS, and ALONG CAME A SPIDER. A past winner of the prestigious Edgar Award, Patterson lives in New York and Florida. He is at work on his next novel, featuring Alex Cross.

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ELLIS PETERS

THE ROSE RENT -
Ellis Peters's Brother Cadfael mysteries take place in the Middle Ages, and she authentically portrays the places and times in a most enchanting light. Brother Cadfael is a fascinating and complex detective who hacks away at ingenious puzzles in an atmosphere of marvel, surrounded with colorful monks, chivalrous knights, and touching young lovers.
In this work, wealthy young widow Judith Perle rents her house to the Abbey at Shrewsbury for the price of a single rose per year. The monk charged with delivering the flower is murdered, the rose tree destroyed, and Judith vanishes. All in all, it makes for a thorny case for Brother Cadfael to solve.

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ARMS OF NEMESIS -
South of Rome on the Gulf of Puteoli stands the splendid villa of Marcus crassus, Rome's wealthiest citizen. When the estate overseer is murdered, crassus concludes that the deed was done by two missing slaves, who have probably run off to join the Spartacan Slave Revolt. Unless they are found within five days, Crassus vows to massacre his remaining ninety-nine slaves. to Gordianus the Finder falls the fateful task of resolving this riddle from Hades. In a house filled with secrets, the truth is slow to emerge, and as the hour of the massacre approaches Gordianus realizes that the labyrinthine path he has chosen just may lead to his own destruction.

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IN THE TEETH OF THE EVIDENCE AND OTHER MYSTERIES -
A fleeing killer's green mustache. A corpse clutching a note with misplaced vowels. a telephone with the unmistakable ring of death. A hopeful heir's dreams of fortune done in when nature beats him to the punch. A playwright's unwatered-down honor that is thicker than blood.
In each case, the murder baffles the local authorities. For his Lordship and the spirited salesman-sleuth Montague Egg, a corpse is an intriguing invitation to unravel the postmortem puzzles of fascinating falsehoods, mysterious motives, and diabolical demises.

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MURDER MUST ADVERTISE -
When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable London advertising agency, it looks like an accident. Then Lord Peter Wimsey is called in, and he soon discovers there's more to copy writing than meets the eye. A bit of cocaine, a hint of blackmail, and some wanton women can be read between the lines. And then there is the brutal secession of murders - five of them - each one a fixed fee for advertising a deadly secret.
"An excellent detective story and an excellent picture on a British advertising firm."- The New York Evening Post
"I think I never enjoyed a detective story so much - probably because it takes place in an advertising agency and what goes on there in the everyday run of business is so steadily and even so uproariously funny it would keep me reading even a mystery less double-end-twisted than this." - The Saturday Review
"The murder is ingenious, and Wimsey is just right." - Jacques Barzun and Wendell hertig Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime
"A masterpiece." - The Times Literary Supplement (London)

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MICHAEL SHAARA

THE KILLER ANGELS -
In four bloody and courageous days, two armies fought for their conflicting dreams at Gettysburg. As men died on those Pennsylvania fields, so did our national innocence - "What it was like to be there"
This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic is the finest historical dramatization of the Civil War. The book centers around the key battle of the war: the battle of Gettysburg. In July of 1863, the Confederate Army, led by General Robert E. Lee, invaded the North, in order to deal a fatal blow to the Union Army. Lee's right hand man was the loyal General Longstreet. Opposing them was General George Meade, an unknown quantity at best. In the four most bloody and courageous days of the Civil War, their armies fought, one side for freedom and the other side for tradition. As the bodies piled up on the gory field, so did the dreams and hopes of the dead. Their futures were the ultimate casualties of war.
"The best and most realistic historical novel about war I have ever read." (General H. Norman Schwarzkopf)

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JOHANN DAVID WYSS

THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON -
THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON is a story of family cooperation and mutual support set on an exotic distant island. The tale, the most famous imitation of Defoe's ROBINSON CRUSOE, was concocted by Johann Wyss's father for the enjoyment of his sons. The sons pooled their talents in writing, illustrating and editing to produce this popular classic.
THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON is an ideal selection to share with children, at home, on vacation, or on a long weekend.

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