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In 1878 Paris, Police Commissioner "Papa" Gauche must solve a brutal murder. Lord Littleby has been found at home with his head bashed in, surrounded by the bodies of seven servants and two children who all seem to have died from morphine poisoning. The only clue Gauche has to go on is a gold key in the shape of a whale. This key gains entrance to a luxury liner, the Leviathan, whose maiden voyage is to India. Gauche embarks, and finds among the passengers - all highly suspicious - Erast Fandorin, now a diplomat bound for a posting in Japan, but previously a crack inspector in the Moscow Police Department. When Fandorin discovers that a murderer is on board, he joins forces with Gauche to deduce the awful truth. "The reader trembles, palpitates, jubilates. But you also bow before such erudition, quotes, winks, and sheer style."

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 9 Hours, $25

Anthony Lowell carries neither gun nor badge and doesn't own a briefcase. A dropout from the Beatles generation, a retired photographer now restoring boats, he's also a freelance, unlicensed private eye -- and the best detective on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Lowell's latest case is murdered in front of him, before she can finish describing her problem. Though not a Lowell fan, Police Detective Lena Bedrosian finds herself on his side in this one. It's a power struggle that involves a judge and his chief Senate sponsor. Who's going to blink first? "Lowell's an attractive protagonist, earnest but not solemn and blissfully innocent of forced wisecracks." (Los Angeles Times)

Unabridged, 7 Tapes, 10.5 Hours, $25

Eight years ago Sean King retired from his career as a Secret Service agent in disgrace after losing his "protectee," third party candidate Clyde Ritter, to an assassin. Now a lawyer and part-time deputy sheriff in a small Virginia town, Sean learns that the current third party presidential candidate has disappeared - this time under the protection of Secret Service agent Michelle Maxwell. King and Maxwell join forces in a search for answers, and for redemption - a search that leads them into the depths of the government's Witness Protection Program and into the past of Clyde Ritter's dead assassin. But the answers are not what they seem, and the two quickly learn that a look in the wrong direction could lead to death.

Unabridged, 8 Tapes, 12 Hours, $28

NewBOT-1 5431 (Wish You Well; David Baldacci)

This is the story of a precocious twelve-year-old girl living in hectic New York City of 1940, suddenly finding herself coming of age in a landscape that could not be more foreign to her with her brother Oz, where she learns lessons in loyalty, tragedy and redemption; and experiences adventures tragic, comic and audacious. A tale about family, and about life. "Baldacci triumphs with his best novel yet, an utterly captivating drama...bone-deep emotional truth..." (Publishers Weekly) "Baldacci triumphs with his best novel yet, an utterly captivating drama...bone-deep emotional truth..." (Publishers Weekly)

Unabridged, 7 Tapes, 10.5 Hours, $32

In this ingenious novel - first in a series - Stephanie Barron imagines Jane Austen had used her wit and powers of observation as a sleuth before becoming an author. In her first case, Jane has scarcely arrived at the estate of her friend, Isobel Payne, when a mysterious ailment fells Isobel's husband, the Earl of Scargrave. Worse yet, Isobel gets a letter accusing her of the murder - and adultery to boot. Wisely, Isobel turns to Jane, who starts sifting through the motives of the Scargrave Manor's guests. "Ms. Barron's skillful rendering of Austen's style is an ideal vehicle for this cozy murder mystery." (The New York Times)

Unabridged, 8 Tapes, 12 Hours, $28

In this second Jane Austen Mystery, the vacationing Austen family must seek shelter at High Down Grange when their carriage overturns. There, in a dismal manor house, Jane meets the forbidding Mr. Geoffrey Sidmouth. What secrets is the brooding Mr. Sidmouth hiding? Jane hopes to get some answers, when a man is found hanged down by the sea -- and talk turns to a notorious smuggler known only as the Reverend. Is there some link between this dark figure and the master of High Down Grange? Stylish and wickedly diverting, JANE AND THE MAN of the Cloth delves into the foibles and passions that lurk within the most polite society. "There's plenty to enjoy in this crime solving side of Jane . . . [She] is as worthy a detective as Columbo." (USA Today)

Unabridged, 8 Tapes, 12 Hours, $28

As Christmas of 1804 approaches, Jane Austen finds herself in Bath, England and bored to death. Thus, she welcomes an assignment from a titled friend: keep a discreet watch over his niece. But at a masquerade thronged with the fashionable and the notorious, Jane's diversion turns deadly -- someone kills a guest. Standing by the body, knife in hand, is Simon, Marquis of Kinsfel. Jane knows he's innocent, but must learn who did the deed, and why. The only clue is an "eye portrait" left near the body; carrying a miniature of a loved one's eye was a contemporary fad. A bewildering array of suspects emerge, and Jane's investigation reveals her subtle skills of deduction. Stephanie Barron weaves manners, mayhem, and murder into a captivating novel of intrigue and suspense. "Delightful...Ms. Barron's skillful rendering of Austen's style, attuned to picking up the most delicate fluctuations in social behavior, reveals it to be an ideal vehicle for the classic cozy murder mystery. Who knew?" (The New York Times Book Review)

Unabridged, 7 Tapes, 10.5 Hours, $25

In the waning days of summer, Jane Austen is off to the Canterbury Races, where the rich and fashionable go to gamble away their fortunes. She is unprepared for the shocking drama that ensues when Francoise Grey, a raven-haired wanton, recklessly leaps the rail on her fleet black horse and joins the race. Only hours after Mrs. Grey has departed the race grounds in triumph, her lifeless body (minus her ruby riding habit) is found, gruesomely strangled. As rumors spread that Napoleon's fleet is bound for Kent, Jane begins to suspect that Grey's murder was an act of war rather than a crime of passion. The peaceful fields of Kent have become a very dangerous place...and Jane's thirst for justice may exact the steepest price of all - her life. "People who lament Jane Austen's minimal lifetime output...now have cause to rejoice." (The Drood Review of Mystery)

Unabridged, 8 Tapes, 12 Hours, $28

While out on a walk in the hills during a visit to her relatives in Derbyshire, Jane finds a terribly mutilated body. It turns out to be Tess Arnold, a stillroom maid at a local estate known for her skill as an herbalist. Was Tess suspected of witchcraft? Was she thought to be a traitor to the secret rites of the Freemasons? What was her relationship with the Duke's family? Was the killing the work of a madman? When the wrong person is accused of murder, Jane Austen becomes an innocent victim's only hope in a fiendishly clever and breathlessly diverting mystery. Once again Stephanie Barron reveals Jane Austen's potential as a brilliant sleuth. "Delightful...captures the wit and style of Austen. A real charmer." (San Francisco Chronicle)

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 9 Hours, $25

Jane Austen, novelist and private investigator, is back on another case - this one involving the Royal Navy. Her brother Frank's friend Tom Seagrave is in the brig, accused by his first mate of stabbing a French captain after the captain surrendered. Tom denies the charges, but his dagger was found in the French captain's chest. To clear up this mystery, Jane agrees to go to the Wool House, a building where French prisoners are jailed. Risking infection, she nurses the French ship's crew, and gets an account from the ship's surgeon that exonerates Tom. But at that moment, the first mate is killed, and Tom is now doubly under suspicion. Who could want to send him to the gallows? "[Barron] goes beneath the surfaces to dig at the underlying emotions, creating a wonderful mosaic of past and present." (The Armchair Detective)

Unabridged, 7 Tapes, 10.5 Hours, $25

The eighteenth-century novelist-of-manners-turned-sleuth returns to delight readers with another nimble-witted investigation of mayhem in the pastoral landscape of rural England. When Jane's gentleman friend Lord Trowbridge sends her - in the utmost secrecy - to retrieve a parcel hidden amidst the ruins of Netley Abbey, Jane finds not only the parcel but also a dying man. When events take a regrettably sinister turn, only Jane is clever enough to pursue the miscreant. Stephanie Barron's series masterfully evokes Austen's witty style, the intricacies of manners in this genteel era, and the rich tapestry of gossip in a milieu of carefully nuanced social relationships. The classic murder mystery meets its match in a plucky heroine who layers Austen's sense and sensibility on top of an inquisitive nature and a natural resolve. "Ms. Barron's skillful rendering of Ms. Austen's style, attuned to picking up the most delicate fluctuations in social behavior, reveals it to be an ideal vehicle for the classic cozy murder mystery. Who knew?" (The New York Times Book Review)

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 9 Hours, $25

Christopher Buckley's comic thriller takes readers to the Arab land of Matar, where a philandering emir allays his restless wife by allowing her to start a TV network for Arab women. She is joined in this endeavor by a maverick American State Department officer known as Florence, who wants to use the TV network to start a revolution among Islamic women. But before the revolution can occur, Florence must deal with the shady dealings of the royal family of neighboring Wasabia; the CIA; and a very dangerous camel. With darkly comic insight into the politics of the Middle East, Christopher Buckley takes readers on and adventurous, wickedly funny journey into Arabia.

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 9 Hours, $25

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter pillories American liberals for their views on Republicans and conservative causes. Author of the bestselling anti-Clinton book HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, Coulter summons pages of footnotes to support her highly original thesis that most of the media condemn even the most moderate of conservative views. Though accusing Democrats of "prefer[ring] invective to engagement," Coulter herself makes no pretense to temperance, remarking after the terrorist attacks, "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." Liberals emerge as Public Enemy No. 1, endorsers of rape and other crimes, and the enemies of Christianity, guns, the profit motive, and political speech. Coulter's over-the-top prose is guaranteed to fan the flames of those who enjoy a good brawl.
"Carefully measured criticism never has been Coulter's shtick - or her appeal. Fans of Rush Limbaugh and admirers of Bernard Goldberg's BIAS won't want to miss SLANDER." (Amazon.com)

Unabridged, 7 Tapes, 10.5 Hours, $28

Conservative shock-mistress Ann Coulter continues her pillorying of American liberals with a follow-up to SLANDER. In an argument that poses a challenge to conventional interpretations of the First Amendment, she argues that because liberals are wrong on every issue concerning political analysis or policy prescription, their politics amount to treason. Her analyses range from the career of Senator Joseph McCarthy to the Gulf War, from the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss affair to the present war on terrorism, from the Nixon presidency to that of Clinton, from domestic to foreign policy. Coulter's power derives not only from the consistency and thoroughness of her argument - that "Liberals have been wrong about everything in the last half century" - but also from her over-the-top humor.
"The conservative movement has found its diva." (Bill Maher)

Unabridged, Tapes, Hours, $28

From the author of the New York Times bestsellers TREASON and SLANDER, comes an updated Ann Coulter compendium, complete with reader responses, television and talk radio transcripts (Couric, Donahue, Franken). With titles like "Would Mohamed Atta Object to Armed Pilots?" "9 out of 10 Caribou Support Drilling" and "Liberal Pimps for Clintonism", HOW TO TALK TO A LIBERAL covers Coulter's waterfront on her favorite issues and targets, from national security to Hollywood. Agree or disagree with her, Coulter says exactly what's on her mind, unafraid of consequences, and in the process elicits real passion and feisty political debate.

Unabridged, 10 Tapes, 15 Hours, $32

Stonewall Jackson depended on him; General Lee complimented him; Union soldiers admired him; and ladies adored him--this dashing, handsome, young Henry Kyd Douglas. He rode with Stonewall. He fought at the side of Ashby. He lived, joked and courted with Jeb Stuart. From his meeting with John Brown, shortly before Harper's Ferry, through the long bitter years of the Civil War, he clung to the Southern cause. He fought its battles and endured its defeats. And he captured it all, in a resonant prose, in his diaries. Douglas was born in 1840, became a laywer and was the youngest member of Stonewall Jackson's staff. At the close of the war he was in command of the Light Brigade. After the war he praticed law, rose to prominence in Maryland, and died in 1903.

Unabridged, 10 Tapes, 15 Hours, $32

On her first wedding anniversary, Karen Matthews, a young, unassuming dental student, overhears a passionate exchange between her husband Peter and his former girlfriend. Before she can confront Peter, he vanishes. That's hard enough to swallow, but it gets worse. The old girlfriend's fiance turns up dead, and police want Peter for questioning. Desperate for answers, Karen follows Peter's trail to Hong Kong, where she finds him living under an assumed name at the posh Peninsula Hotel. He gives her a bizarre explanation for his actions and asks her to trust him. Can she? Before she decides, Peter disappears again, this time into China. When Karen learns he's in danger, it's up to her to save not only their marriage -- but Peter's life. "Layers of intrigue, quirky plot twists and enlightening glimpses of Chinese culture."

Unabridged, 7 Tapes, 10.5 Hours, $25

3218 (The Hound of the Baskervilles; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (P 1993))

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.

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 6 Hours, $25

** 2844 (Valley of Fear; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An English manor house--a raised drawbridge--a moat. It is almost a sealed room murder. A millionaire with a very private past is dead--shot by that peculiarly American weapon, a sawed-off shotgun. Does this tie into his years in the Pennsylvania coal fields? Does someone know his secret? Can Holmes find the answer--or is this a case that even he can't solve? "Our favorite among the long tales of Sherlock Holmes...some of the best wit and humor to be found anywhere--and a stunning punch ending!" (Catalog of Crime)

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 6 Hours, $25

Ellen Gilchrist introduces a woman who struggles mightily to get what she wants - and gets more than she's bargained for. Three decades after leaving Vanderbilt University, Sarah is a divorcee living in New York City, where she works as a celebrated magazine editor and writer. She has remained cut off from her native South, until she receives word that her old college sweetheart, the love of her life, is about to become a widower. The man who once broke her heart by marrying someone else is suddenly free again. But as Sarah leaves for Paris to work on a screenplay, she discovers that her miraculous second chance is fraught with complications. Filled with Ellen Gilchrist's renowned humor, warmth, and insight, SARAH CONLEY is unforgettable and intriguing. "It is not hard to see why Ellen Gilchrist has such a loyal following." (The Atlanta Jounral)

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 9 Hours, $25

From the bestselling author of THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW and DAY OF CONFESSION comes a new thriller featuring Jack Barron, the newest and the youngest member of the LAPD's murderous 5-2 squad. On a night in the California desert, he gets a baptism of blood and fire he will never forget. Then, panic ensues on the LA streets: an international hit man is on the prowl and nothing can stop him--not the governments he threatens, not the prisons he escapes, not LA's bloodiest cops. A world famous baroness--as beautiful as she is cruel--will stop at nothing to fulfill her secret vision that would topple governments, dethrone dynasties, and fulfill her global ambitions. Together with his beautiful sister Rebecca, whom a night of traumatic terror has left mute, Jack is trapped in a web of global intrigue and swept across oceans and continents, from Europe to Russia.
"A masterful epic...has the sweep and power of THE DA VINCI CODE--a global enigma and a blistering pace that will singe...your fingers" (Douglas Preston, "New York Times" bestselling co-author of RELIC and CABINET OF CURIOSITIES)

Unabridged, 16 Tapes, 24 Hours, $46

NewBOT-4 3546 (Smokescreen; Dick Francis)

A famous movie star who plays impossibly caring detectives, Edward Lincoln is in real life an ordinary man in an extraordinary spot. His ailing godmother has persuaded him to go to South Africa to investigate the possible tampering with her racehorses. As he deals with his celebrity, Lincoln is confronted by sudden perils and even murder. He finally realizes that the only way to uncover the killer is to give not only the performance of his life but a performance to save his life. "The talented Dick Francis is in fine form in a mystery with an interestingly different setting--the racing world of South Africa." (Publishers Weekly)

Unabridged, 7 Tapes, 7 Hours, $25

THE CABAL, the hilarious novella that forms the centerpiece of Ellen Gilchrist's new collection of stories, is the story of a group of prominent citizens of Jackson, Mississippi, whose psychiatrist suddenly goes mad, revealing their deepest secrets and embarrassing misdeeds to anyone who will listen. The whole town goes crazy trying to figure out what to do. The result is a bitingly ironic tale, revealing that our deepest secrets are invariably those best known by others. The five stories that follow are classic Gilchrist. From a literary writer struggling in Hollywood to the mysterious appearance of thirty-six gold coins in a small Southern town, these stories, filled with warmth, wit, and humor, will delight both old and new fans. "Few pleasures can match the satisfaction of a collection of short stories by Ellen Gilchrist." (Chicago Tribune) "Gilchrist is funny, forgiving, and lyric." (Miami Herald)

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 9 Hours, $28

Ted Sandstrom, an experimental physicist, discovers a method of generating vast amounts of power with a small quantum energy device. Victor Orlov, a powerful Russian industrialist, sends a private army to steal Sandstrom's work and turn it over to his own scientists who will use it to destabilize the economic and geopolitical balance. Orlov, however, must face Nolan Kilkenny, a former Navy Seal turned scientist, who plans to transfer Sandstrom's research to the industrialized sector. Kilkenny, from Grace's earlier book, SPYDER WEB, is a one-man army as this suspense thriller hurls us into the dangers of the twenty-first century. "A twenty-first century suspense thriller of compelling interest to those who care about how new technology impacts the world economy." (Amazon.com)

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 9 Hours, $25

It is an eighteen-year-old cold case, and Kinsey Millhone is intrigued. The victim was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was found near a quarry off California's Highway 1. Her wounds were brutal - she was multiply stabbed and her throat cut, her wrists bound with a length of wire. But the Santa Teresa County detectives had little to go on, and abandoned the case after a few months. Now, old and ill, they want Kinsey Millhone to identify her, just to bring closure to the case and rest to their minds. But revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.

Unabridged, 8 Tapes, 12 Hours, $26

Reba Lafferty, abandoned by her rebellious mother when she was an infant, is the only child of a rich man already in his 50s when Reba is born. Adored and thoroughly spoiled by her father, she is 32 years old and about to be released with probation from the California Institute for Women, having served less than half of her four-year sentence for embezzlement. Wanting her to 'stay straight' - away from drugs, drink, and gambling - her father, Nord Lafferty wants her to stay at home. For Kinsey it seems an easy enough assignment: babysit the seemingly remorseful and friendly Reba for a week, while earning good money. But no less than 24 hours after Reba's release, one of her crowd stops by.

Unabridged, 10 CDs, 10.5 Hours, $32

Robert Graves first came across the name of Roger Lamb in 1914, when Graves was an English officer instructing his platoon in regimental history. Lamb was a British soldier, a sergeant, who had served his king during the American Revolution and whose claim to a footnote in history is that he managed to escape twice from American prison camps. When Graves came to America in the 1930s, he remembered Sergeant Lamb, investigating his story and wrote this historical novel centered around a representative British soldier. As used as we are to our own tales of American heroism in the Revolution, this tale from the "enemy" captures the times from another point of view and, moreover, is is itself a story of courage and adventure.

Unabridged, 9 Tapes, 13.5 Hours, $28

In 1970, the future of one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, looked bleak until Willie Traynor, a twenty-three-year-old college dropout, assumed ownership. Reporting all the gruesome details of a recent rape and murder of a young mother by a member of the notorious Padgitt family, Willie saved the paper and helped bring the murderer, Danny Padgitt, to justice. Tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi, Padgitt - in a startling finale of the trial - threatened revenge against the jurors should they dare convict him. Though found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled after nine years, returning to Ford County to begin his revenge.

Unabridged, 8 Tapes, 12 Hours, $28

Annie Darling's yuletide preparations have been put on hold because her mother-in-law, Laurel, has taken to chatting up ghosts in the local graveyard. Across Broward's Rock, onetime movie star Marguerite Dumaney Ladson has called together all of her kin and their exes for a gala celebration. Among the honored guests are Annie's father and Dr. Emory Swanson. Ladson has fallen for Swanson's new-age-pseudo-occult gobbledygook. Right after the announcement that she's leaving her fortune to the charlatan's Evermore Foundation, there's a murder. And the finger of suspicion seems to be pointing straight at Annie's recently arrived deadbeat father. Annie doesn't believe for a minute he's guilty. When a second murder occurs, Annie realizes she will need all the help her easy-going P.I. husband, Max, can offer. "SUGARPLUM DEAD charms, intrigues, puzzles and astounds with gentle wit and sly satire - vintage Carolyn Hart." (Joan Hess)

Unabridged, 9 Tapes, 13.5 Hours, $28

On a stifling hot Sunday in May 1857, at the height of the British Raj in India, three regiments of native troops mutinied at Meerut, forty miles from Delhi. British officers and their wives were murdered, buildings were burned, British power and property was destroyed. Soon all the North-Western Provinces in India were in an uproar. In places from Arrah to Indore, British officials, their wives and children, were besieged. In this absorbing book, Hibbert investigates the causes of the Mutiny as well as its course. He tells the story of that year, 1857, in vivid detail and brilliantly captures the atmosphere of the time. At once an impartial narrative of great drive and power, here too is the fullest, most unforgettable account of the Great Mutiny. "Mr. Hibbert is a writer of absolute certainty, and it is hard not to believe that he himself was on hand at every occasion he recounts." (The New Yorker)

Unabridged, 12 Tapes, 18 Hours, $35

Jilliane Hoffman, the author of this chilling, stunning book, was a felony prosecutor in Miami for six years, and her precise inside knowledge of the workings of domestic violence cases, homicide cases, and law enforcement shines through here. In RETRIBUTION, a Miami prosecutor is caught in a cat and mouse game with a serial killer who raped her and left her for dead twelve years before. Haunted by personal demons, she must outgrow her vulnerability, for it is her duty to bring him to justice. In doing so, she must follow every hideous clue that he leaves and must exercise a single-minded determination to survive their encounters. At the same time, she wants to get even - but can she do so and stay within the law?

Unabridged, 9 Tapes, 13.5 Hours, $28

2705 (Three Men in a Boat; Jerome K. Jerome (P 1990))

More than 100 years after its first appearance, Jerome K. Jerome's classic account of an eccentric journey up the Thames by rowboat, remains popular. The erratic progress of J. Harris, George and Montmorency the dog won immediate approval of Londoners, while readers all over the world saw THREE MEN IN A BOAT as a key to the British character. The project, which began as an attempt to promote pleasure boating, became one of the greatest comedy turns of Victorian literature -- a timeless classic to be read again and again. "One of the happiest examples of how serendipity can transform humdrum into pure delight." (Publisher's Source)

Unabridged, 7 Tapes, 7 Hours, $25

The #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen delivers a brand new thriller. Every day brings a new challenge for the forensic sculptor Eve Duncan: identify a new victim and help bring a criminal to justice. But Eve, who uses her intuition and modeling clay the same way a sketch artist uses a pencil, is about to meet her greatest challenge yet: a killer who is going to extraordinary lengths to obscure the identity of his victims, leaving them literally faceless and with burned fingerprints. When Eve reveals the identity of the first victim, her world is turned upside down.

Unabridged, 7 Tapes, 10.5 Hours, $25

Fiction - Crime
Bestselling novelists Jonathan and Faye Kellerman team up for two novellas featuring different detectives solving crimes in different cities. In LAND OF THE GIANTS, Boston homicide detectives Michael MacCain and Doris Sylvestor investigate the mysterious death of a college basketball star. In STILL LIFE, the co-worker of a Santa Fe art gallery is murdered, forcing detectives Darryl Two Moons and Steve Katz to put their holiday festivities on hold and set things right.

Unabridged, 4 Tapes, 6 Hours, $21

George Moran, ex-marine, seeks a quiet life at his Florida motel. But he's hooked on the American wife of an exiled Dominican general. After visiting the Dominican Republic, he gets caught in a crossfire between con-men, private eyes and the General. Can he get out of this alive? "A tidy little thriller with great twists, a great ending." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

8 Tapes, 8 Hours, $28

Freaky Deaky is a contemporary classic from the reigning king of the hard-boiled crime novel. Elmore Leonard's cast is as convincing as any he's ever assembled: a band of untamed survivors of the tumultuous '60s, determined to keep the revolution going. Armed with a seemingly foolproof plot, they go on a bombing spree for revenge and profit. But their caper takes more than one wrong turn -- and more than one life.
"Intriguing, smart and funny... A sexy dance all the way." (The New York Times)

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 9 Hours, $25

Bullies love the smell of fear because they can seize power over the weak. Most of us don't fight back. Who wants confrontation? Certainly not Vincent Majestyk, a peaceful farmer.
But mobsters push him to his limit, demanding that he hire their people. A cop on a power trip gets his goat. And a beautiful woman tells him to run and hide. None of them knows his past, but they'll soon find out how an ex-combat soldier -- trained to kill -- goes to war when he's had enough.
"Leonard is a superb craftsman and his writing is pure pleasure." (Los Angeles Times)

Unabridged, 5 Tapes, 5 Hours, $21

For 20 years Harry Arno's scam was a sports book in Miami Beach. And for 20 years Harry's been skimming the profits, shortchanging his partners.
Harry's ready to retire when the FBI sets him up in a sting. Harry runs -- to the Italian Riviera, where mob enforcers and a determined U.S. Marshall lob him like a shuttlecock.
"An irresistible mural of the American underworld!" (The New Yorker)

Unabridged, 7 Tapes, 7 Hours, $25

Ordell Robbie, a vicious Palm Beach gunrunner, looks to retire with a million in the bank. Louis Gara, an antsy ex-con, wants nothing more than to keep his nose clean. Max Cherry, bail bondsman, aches for something like action. And Jackie Burke, a stewardess and smuggler's mule, schemes to keep her fine-at-forty tail out of jail.
Add in the holdup of a neo-Nazi headquarters, a classic Mutt-and-Jeff pair of lawmen, more high-tech weaponry than a Tom Clancy novel and $550,000 that everyone thinks should go in his own hip pocket and you have RUM PUNCH.
"In trademark Leonard fashion, the plotting is tight, clever and consistently surprising. The dialogue is smooth and true. The characters, slimeballs one and all, are vivid and -- here lies Leonard's true genius -- incredibly likable." (BOMC News)

Unabridged, 8 Tapes, 8 Hours, $28

It's Prohibition and when a big hell-raiser like Son Martin gets his mitts on something special -- namely $125,000 worth of Kentucky's finest homeboy whiskey -- no one is about to steal it. Because when it comes to fighting, shooting, and plain outsmarting the big boys, Son Martin just isn't good. He's bad. Dangerous. And deadly. Elmore Leonard knows bad guys do bad, and here he gives them a chance to have at it. "Leonard...the best writer in crime fiction today." (USA Today)

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 6 Hours, $25

Robbie Daniels, playboy millionaire, has a contradictory reputation: he makes money, but unmakes people, supposedly shooting them in self-defense. Angela Nolan, an investigative reporter, takes him on but gets real nervous when he hires a bodyguard who's even more trigger-happy. What's Daniels' plan? Murder is his plan -- and his joy. When Angela smokes it, she races to spoil Daniel's fun -- and save his prey. "Keeps you off balance...icy, understated and brilliant." (Newsweek)

Unabridged, 5 Tapes, 7.5 Hours, $21

Prison should reform the criminal, and Ernest Stickly thinks he's a new man. But after serving seven years for armed robbery in Michigan, "Stick" heads for Miami, where he finds the easy money hard to ignore. When Stick nearly gets iced by some of the crazies, he goes on the run, but leaves a trail that's easy to follow. Why doesn't he cover his tracks? Maybe that's part of the perfect scam that he plans with a beautiful blonde, an expert on money and men. The target is a drug czar. The sting: sweet revenge. "Pure pleasure...terrific." (Los Angeles Times)

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 9 Hours, $25

Everyone has dreams. Even ex-cons Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara, who both did time in the same slammer for grand theft auto. Now they've got an idea for a big score: kidnap the wife of a Detroit developer and collect some easy ransom money. They don't figure on a husband with a mistress and no desire to get his wife back. But dreams die hard, and things are going their way. The wife is a crazy, beautiful broad who decides to join Ordell and Louis in the slickest, most savvy crime of them all. They call it "The Switch." "Leonard dazzles with unexpected convolutions....his people are real, never a stereotype." (The New York Times)

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 6 Hours, $25

Fifteen years ago, Duncan Avery, an esteemed medical doctor, was convicted of killing his wife Marsha. Now, paroled and insistent about his resettling in his hometown in New Jersey, he is visited by his daughter, Nina Avery, a struggling actress in New York City who never stopped believing in her father's innocence. Her plans for a family reunion, complete with her two brothers Patrick, a successful investment banker, and Jimmy, a recovering drug addict, who had turned their backs on Duncan, are disturbed by yet another act of violence. Now Nina must delve deep into her family's and neighbors' past to catch the killer before she becomes his next victim.

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 9 Hours, $25

History And War: World-Ancient to Modern
The end of the Middle Ages and the arrival of the Renaissance was one of the most significant turning points in history, an era dominated by some of the greatest and most colorful personalities of all time: Galileo, Martin Luther, Magellan, Michelangelo, da Vinci, Lucrezia Borgia, Henry VIII. William Manchester brings all his storytelling power to bear on a group portrait of a century of giants. Weaving together the extraordinary lives, tempestuous events and intellectual ferment of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, he spins out a spellbinding narrative that reads like a novel, the reality more colorful than any fiction.

Unabridged, 8 Tapes, 12 Hours, $28

Larry McMurtry has a genius for conjuring up the eccentrics who people America's heartland. None is more grittily memorable than the hero of CADILLAC JACK, a rodeo cowboy turned antique dealer whose gypsy life centers on his classic Cadillac. In it he wanders the Texas flatlands, roams back roads looking for flea markets, samples Washington's political high life. The cast of characters includes a beautiful social climber, a high-rolling Texan, Washington politicians, and the kind of attractive young women who seem to have their minds on something else when they're making love. Richly comic, strangely moving, this is one of McMurtry's most original novels.

Unabridged, 10 Tapes, 15 Hours, $32

9525 (White Jacket Or Life in a Man-O-War; Herman Melville (P 1983))

Melville's art mirrors his young life. He was a vigorous man who lived 72 years (1819-91) but who found his inspiration when he went to sea at 18. Melville's stories ring with authenticity, and WHITE JACKET, which was written at the height of his powers, drips salt, sweat and spray. It is the story of life on a U.S. navy ship of the line in the 1840s and one scene, a flogging, was so vivid and powerful that it influenced Congress to write legislation abolishing the practice.

Unabridged, 13 Tapes, 19.5 Hours, $39

From Scotland's most exciting up-and-coming mystery novelist comes a story of Lachlan Harriot, a man who refuses to believe his wife, Susie, is a killer - even though she had been working with Andrew Gow, a paroled serial killer, as his court-appointed psychologist, when she was found covered in blood near the spot where his and his wife's bodies were discovered. Desperate to clear his wife's name, Lachlan searches her home office for proof of her innocence. What he finds in this formerly off-limits place is an unimaginable world that makes him question his wife and their life together. But something continues to trouble him, and he, believing that this is where the truth lies, follows his hunch beyond all reason and hope.
"A masterstroke of compelling originality that more than lives up to the promise of Mina's Garnethill trilogy" (Daily Record, U.K.)

Unabridged, 7 Tapes, 10.5 Hours, $25

When Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged, European intellectual, meets the twelve-year-old nymphette Dolores Haze, he is reminded of his lost adolescent love Anabel. Constructing an elaborate plot to seduce her, the obsessed Humbert soon discovers that even with her mother out of the way, Dolores would never conform to the image he has conjured up for her. Playfully humorous, beautifully written, and still raising as many eyebrows as in 1955 when it was written, Nabokov s classic is at once a linguistic masterpiece and a wry commentary on the post-WWII relations between the ubercivilized Europe and the young, cheerfully barbaric America.

Unabridged, 8 Tapes, 12 Hours, $28

Three years back, Lt. Joe Dartelli looked the other way when a rapist/killer died in police custody, supposedly a suicide. But Dartelli learned later that a rare hormonal imbalance turned up in the man's blood. Now comes a carbon copy. A wife beater dies, similarly ruled a suicide. The problem is, these two violent men share the same blood chemistry. Can Dartelli let this one go, too? It's a tough call for Dartelli because the blood evidence in both cases points to the friend, Walter Zeller, a crack forensics officer. Is the hormone a coincidence or a murder weapon? And if Dart goes after Zeller ( whom cops revere -- will anyone believe him? "Fascinating forensic clues and a dizzying plot twist...one of his best novels yet." (Publishers Weekly)

Unabridged, 9 Tapes, 13.5 Hours, $28

6189 (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; J. K. Rowling (P 2003))

Rowling does it again! She has captured the state of mind of a 15 year old perfectly. Her dedication to details is spell binding. Jim Dale's reading is so fine that my wife wants to listen to the tapes even though she already read the book.

Unabridged, 17 Tapes, 25.5 Hours, $32

A few years after losing his wife and young son in a tragic accident, Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell has finally begun to make a new life in Newenham, a remote fishing village of proud, independent natives where the currents of loyalty, fear, and violence run deep. Campbell's latest investigation into a seemingly routine homicide - a robbery gone bad - becomes something else when the first murder is followed by a second...then a third. Soon a chilling pattern begins to emerge - a twisting path that leads him back through the years and into the sights of a diabolical killer whose hidden agenda could have fatal consequences for Campbell and those he loves.

Unabridged, 7 Tapes, 10.5 Hours, $25

In 1931, a storm passes through the Florida straits, soon followed by a devastating explosion aboard a freighter, The Magdalena. Decades later, John Deal, the brooding real-estate developer and hero of eight previous Standiford mysteries, is traveling to Key West to talk over a prospective project with an old friend of his father's, the wealthy entrepreneur Franklin Stone. En route, Deal stops to help a young black man being harassed by police officers on a lonely beach road. Two days later, the young man turns up in Deal's hotel room - dead and clutching a label from a bottle of rare vintage wine, 1929, worth thousands of dollars. As Deal finds out, while trying to save his own life, past and present collide in this mystery where all answers point to a seventy-year-old tale of piracy and murder, and where a former girlfriend suddenly appears for reasons only she knows. "The action moves so quickly that each scene is like a little gasp for breath. There is art to it, and Standiford makes it look easy."

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 9 Hours, $25

It had taken four men to crash the rock concert and a few minutes to split the receipts and hit the crossroads. Parker headed northeast with a bulging suitcase and an itching for the broad who was waiting for him. That should have been an end. He found Keegan nailed to a wall, his share gone, and a few heroin wrappers stuck to the floor. Briley and Morris were next -- which left Parker. No one would ever catch Parker, however, for in his mean, dark world, he was almost a god. He killed men as you or I would kill flies. "Nobody tops Stark in his objective portrayal of a world of total amorality"

Unabridged, 4 Tapes, 6 Hours, $18

9154 (The Wrong Box; Robert Louis Stevenson (P 1986))

A comic adventure in which an uncle depletes his nephews' trust funds and how they get their revenge. Morris and John Finsbury are victims of Uncle Joseph's amiable depletion of their trust fund. But he himself is an unusual asset...one of the last few members of a tontine, a sort of survivors insurance bonanza popular in the 19th century. Because they will be beneficiaries, the young men set up as guardians of their uncle's good health. All does not proceed smoothly. A train accident sets in motion a string of comic events, and a corpse mistaken for Uncle Joseph turns up in the most unlikely places.

Unabridged, 5 Tapes, 7.5 Hours, $21

1391 (Dracula ; Bram Stoker (1897))

Classics
A young Englishman is bound for the remote castle of an obscure count whose estates are folded deep in the mountains of Transylvania. He travels by carriage, staying the nights at rustic inns. It is 100 years ago, and time is frozen in a winter that knows no release. Heavy snows bog the road, slowing and finally stopping the carriage. Wolves suddenly materialize from the forest, terrifying horses and passenger. Only the driver remains impassive: by superior will he forces the animals back. On plunge the travelers, deeper into the darkness, into the woods, into the unknown. First published in 1897, DRACULA has become synonymous with perversion and evil.

Unabridged, 10 Tapes, 15 Hours, $32

9072 (The Lady Or the Tiger and Other Stories; Richard Stockton (P 1982))

Frank Richard Stockton was born in 1834 in Philadelphia. He was an author who wrote primarily for children, and is remembered now almost entirely for three of the stories that appear in this collection, "The Lady or the Tiger," "The Discourager of Hesitancy" and "Mr. Tolman." These stories may be said to include the reader in their final solution because none is properly "concluded." The listener is left to resolve them for himself.

Unabridged, 5 Tapes, 5 Hours, $21

When someone makes a present of a fer-de-lance, the dreaded snake, to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's close to solving two apparently unrelated murders. As for Wolfe, he's playing snake charmer in a case more deadly than a cobra -- and whistling a seductive tune he hopes will catch a killer with poison in his heart.

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 9 Hours, $25

Paul Chapin's college cronies never forgave themselves for the prank that crippled their friend. Yet with Harvard days behind them, they thought they were forgiven -- until a class reunion ends in a fatal fall. This league of frightened men seeks Nero Wolfe's help. But are Wolfe's brilliance and Archie's tenacity enough to outwit a most cunning killer? "Always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery." (The New York Times)

Unabridged, 7 Tapes, 10.5 Hours, $25

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - and the chivalry, romance, heroism, and betrayal at the heart of the legendary tale - have gripped the imagination of the world for centuries. In KING ARTHUR, young Arthur is given a seemingly impossible mission - to defeat a bloodthirsty Saxon conqueror and his army, a dozen times the size of Arthur's own. Haunted by Merlin and tormented by the fact that his small band of knights has only a slim chance at survival, Arthur is determined to fulfill his duty to the Roman Empire, his family, and Great Britain. In the midst of their mission, when Arthur and Lancelot, his greatest knight, rescue the exquisite Guinevere from captivity, the enchanting tale of the royal lovers begins. KING ARTHUR is a story of catastrophic defeat, devastating victory, and magical romance.

Unabridged, 6 Tapes, 9 Hours, $25

No single battalion was more feared during the Civil War than the 43rd Virginia Cavalry. Better known as Mosby's Rangers, it was an elite guerilla unit that operated successfully in northern Virginia and Maryland from 1863 to the last days of the war. Led by John Singleton Mosby, a ferocious warrior and brilliant tactician, the Rangers struck supply wagons and railroads, harassed and pinned down Union troops, and on one memorable occasion even kidnapped a Union general from his own headquarters. They obtained valuable intelligence for the Confederacy and were so hated by General Grant that he ordered the immediate execution without trial of any captured Ranger. But the Rangers defied him. They disbanded, without surrendering, at the end of the war.

Unabridged, 9 Tapes, 13.5 Hours, $28

Virginia Woolf is one of the 20th century's great innovative writers. She was a member of the Bloomsbury group in pre-WW I England. A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN is her investigation of the woman artist as a writer. Speculating on the imaginary life of Shakespeare's equally talented sister, she posits the necessity of "a room of one's own" (and a fixed income) for the writer to pursue her craft.

Unabridged, 5 Tapes, 5 Hours, $21

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