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ON STRANGER TIDES : by Tim Powers
Read by : Bronson Pinchot Science Fiction & Fantasy • Unabridged DESCRIPTION The novel that inspired Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides On Stranger Tides is Tim Powers’ great Disneyland ride through pirates, puppeteers, treasure, and thrill-a-minute action that carries on from the start. On Stranger Tides follows the exploits of John “Jack Shandy” Chandagnac, who travels to the new world after the death of his puppeteer father to confront his uncle, who has apparently made off with the family fortune. During the voyage, he befriends Beth Hurwood and her father Benjamin Hurwood, an Oxford professor. Before they arrive at their destination, their ship is waylaid by Blackbeard and his band of pirates. With the help of the professor and his assistant, the captain is killed and Chandagnac is pressed into piracy and sorcery as Blackbeard searches for the Fountain of Lost Youth. Chandagnac, newly dubbed “Jack Shandy,” must stop the evil plot and save Beth Hurwood. REVIEWS “Powers writes action and adventure that Indiana Jones could only dream of…Keeps you reading for the joy of it.”--Washington Post “World Fantasy Award–winner Powers (Three Days to Never) demonstrates a precise control of complex narratives…This dark fantasy tale will appeal not just to pirate fans but also to anyone who appreciates Powers’s talent for blending the most unlikely elements into a brilliantly cohesive whole.”--Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Powers writes in a clean, elegant style that illuminates without slowing down the tale. The story promises marvels and horrors, and delivers them all. You’ll love the characters, you’ll stay awake all night reading it, and when you finally do sleep, you’ll find this story playing through your dreams.”—Orson Scott Card, from Hatrack.com TIM POWERS : is the author of over a dozen novels, including The Anubis Gates, Declare, Last Call, and Three Days to Never. He has received the Philip K. Dick, World Fantasy, and Locus Awards. He lives in San Bernardino, California. 10 CD's $ 29.99 Plus 3.99 Shipping |
THE BROKEN SWORD by Poul Anderson
read by Bronson Pinchot Science Fiction & Fantasy • Unabridged DESCRIPTION Thor has broken the sword Tyrfing so that it cannot strike at the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds together earth, heaven, and hell. But now the mighty sword is needed again to save the elves in their war against the trolls, and only Skafloc, a human child kidnapped and raised by the elves, can hope to persuade Bölverk the ice-giant to make Tyrfing whole again. But Skafloc must also confront his shadow self, Valgard the changeling, who has taken his place in the world of men. REVIEWS “Poul Anderson’s classic fantasy, The Broken Sword, knocks The Fellowship of the Ring into a cocked hat.”--Guardian (UK) POUL ANDERSON (1926–2001) : was one of the most prolific and popular writers in science fiction. He won the Hugo Award seven times and the Nebula Award three times, as well as many other awards, including the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America for a lifetime of distinguished achievement. With a degree in physics and a wide knowledge of other fields of science, he was noted for building stories on a solid foundation of real science, as well as for being one of the most skilled creators of fast-paced adventure stories. He was author of over one hundred novels and story collections, several hundred short stories, and several mysteries and nonfiction books. 7 CD's $ 29.99 Plus 3.99 Shipping |
HAMLET : by William Shakespeare Read by : A Full Cast Classic Literature • Audio Theate DESCRIPTION Produced by Ira Burton Based on the 2010 Oregon Shakespeare Festival production directed by Bill Rauch Blackstone Audio is proud to present the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s brilliant production of Shakespeare’s disturbing and psychologically rich masterpiece Hamlet. Whether you’re a Hamlet scholar or being exposed to this work for the first time, this stunning work of audio theater, fully dramatized with performances by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival cast, is a must-listen. In Denmark a king is dead. His brother, Claudius, has snatched the throne, and the widowed queen, yet life goes on—for everyone but Prince Hamlet. The prince, fixated on his uncle as the murderer, is charged by his father’s ghost to avenge the wrong. Disconnected from the foul world around him, Hamlet strains under the weight of his task, descending into madness, both real and feigned. REVIEWS Praise for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s theatrical production of Hamlet: “Crackles with a contemporary energy, while still casting the sort of cold, eerie light on human experience that has made it history’s most celebrated play. Hip-hop’s just a small, though potent, part of the thrilling whole.”--Oregonian WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564–1616) , English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, is the most widely known author in all of English literature and often considered the greatest. He was an active member of a theater company for at least twenty years, during which time he wrote many great plays. Plays were not prized as literature at the time, and Shakespeare was not widely read until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a great upsurge of interest in his works began that continues today. 3 CD's $ 17.99 Plus 3.99 Shipping 
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF MICKEY SPILLANE’S MIKE HAMMER, VOL. 2 by Max Allan Collins from a story by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins
Read by : Starring Stacy Keach as Mike Hammer with a full supporting cast Myst & Susp • Audio Theater DESCRIPTION Subtitle: “The Little Death” Winner of the 2011 Audie® Award for Best Original Work A 2010 AudioFile Best Book of the Year Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award Private eye Mike Hammer is no stranger to murder, but this time he has two to untangle: the the killing of the Captain, a legless, homeless panhandler, dismissed by the police as “minor,” and the slaying of gambling kingpin Marty Wellman. 2 CD's $ 17.99 Plus 3.99 Shipping 
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH : by William L. Shirer
Read by : Grover Gardner History • Unabridged DESCRIPTION Subtitle: A History of Nazi Germany Winner of the National Book Award in 1961 Winner of the Carey-Thomas Award for Nonfiction Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer’s monumental study of Hitler’s German empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the twentieth century’s blackest hours. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world. With millions of copies in print around the globe, it has attained the status of a vital and enduring classic. Now, years after the end of World War II, it may seem incredible that our most valued institutions, and way of life, were threatened by the menace that Hitler and the Third Reich represented. Shirer’s description of events and the cast of characters who played such pivotal roles in defining the course Europe was to take is unforgettable. Benefiting from his many years as a reporter, and thus a personal observer of the rise of Nazi Germany, and availing himself of some of the 485 tons of documents from the German Foreign Office, as well as countless other diaries, phone transcriptions, and other written records, meticulously kept at every level by the Germans, Shirer has put together a brutally objective account of how Hitler wrested political control of Germany, and planned and executed his six-year quest to dominate the world, only to see Germany go down in flames. Although 1600 pages long, this is such a richly rewarding experience for anyone who wants to come to grips with the mysterious question as to how this menace to civilization ever came into being, much less was sustained for as long as it was. The answer, unfortunately, is that most of Germany, for a whole host of reasons, embraced Nazism and the fanaticism that Hitler engendered. REVIEWS “One of the most important works of history of our time.”--New York Times ”A splendid work of scholarship, objective in method, sound in judgment, inescapable in its conclusions.”--New York Times Book Review “Expertly performed by narrator Grover Gardner. Gardner makes Shirer's thoroughly detailed text approachable through his seamless performance and fluid pacing…The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is an epic historical text that now achieves a place of importance in the annals of the audiobook world. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award.”--AudioFile WILLIAM L. SHIRER has had a distinguished career as foreign correspondent, news commentator, and historian of the contemporary world. He was a war correspondent reporting from Berlin on the rise of the Nazis for the Universal News Service and for CBS. Out of these reports grew his bestsellers, Berlin Diary and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which has sold more copies for the Book-of-the-Month Club than any other book in the club's history. 46 CD's 39.97 Plus 4.99 Shipping |
THE RUM DIARY : by Hunter S. Thompson
Read by : Christopher Lane General Fiction • Unabridged DESCRIPTION A New York Times Notable Book of 1998 Now a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and Aaron Eckhart Begun in 1959 by a then twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The autobiographical hero, a young writer dreaming of Hemingway but stuck in a dead-end newspaper job, embarks on a carousing, hell-raising journey through the tropics. Along the way, he comes between a wild-spirited comrade and his temptress girlfriend and gets in the middle of a violent clash between the island culture and the encroaching American tourist values. Exuberant and energetic, The Rum Diary is an outrageous, drunken romp in the spirit of Thompson's bestselling Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Hell's Angels. REVIEWS “A remarkably full and mature first novel…A languid and lovingly executed book that reveals its emotional depths slowly.”--Salon “A great and an unexpected joy…reveals a young Hunter Thompson brimming with talent.”--Philadelphia Inquirer “At the core of this hard-drinking, hard-talking, hard-living man is a moralist, a Puritan, even an innocent. The Rum Diary gives us this side of him without apology…with a kind of pride.”--Washington Post Book World “Enough booze to float a yacht and enough fear and loathing to sink it.”--New York Daily News “Thompson has [created] a raging, grubbily poetic, and galvanic persona who reacts to all that is rotten in the world with a compelling mix of self-aggrandizement and self-destruction…[The Rum Diary reveals] the early stage of his particular form of myth-making and the emergence of his distinctive voice.”--Booklist “Christopher Lane’s relatively youthful but scratchy voice and his tone of petulance fit the teller of the story, Paul Kemp, who is already jaded in his early thirties.”--AudioFile HUNTER S. THOMPSON (1937–2005) was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. His books on politics and society were regarded as groundbreaking among journalists, and he was celebrated as one of the early practitioners of an outraged form of irreverent and angry journalism that became known as “gonzo” journalism. His numerous articles for Rolling Stone and books like Hell’s Angels and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas brought him wide recognition and cult-like status. 6 CD's 26.97 Plus 4.99 Shipping 
SLOW MOTION RIOT : by Peter Blauner
Read by : Malcolm Hillgartner General Fiction • Unabridged DESCRIPTION Winner of the 1992 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best First Novel On an urban battleground dangerously divided along racial lines, probation officer Steve Baum is desperately struggling to hold on to the last remaining shreds of his idealism, until Darryl King invades his world. A deranged young sociopath, one of the most bloodthirsty creations of a diseased society, Darryl has come to drag Baum along with him into an inescapable morass of terror and corruption. And as their ravaged city explodes, they will stand face-to-face, mortal enemies trapped together in the heart of a devastating inferno that threatens to consume them both. REVIEWS “Tough as rivets…a solid, gritty, often funny book.”--New York Daily News “Rich…fast-paced…the book crackles with authentic street slang.”--Chicago Tribune “An intriguing new writer with a gift for smooth talk, fast action, and nasty surprises.”—Oliver Stone “Stunning…dead on…a tough, gritty, often unbearably tense story right out of today’s headlines…explores an urban terrain little seen in fiction with insight and power.”--Book Talk “Scary, violent, and caustically funny…unmistakably authentic.”--Literary Review “Gripping and powerful stuff…Vivid characters, plausible events, and scenes rich in human pathos make it an outstanding first novel.”--Library Journal “Malcolm Hillgartner narrates with an old-time radio newscaster's skill, though he can sound like a ghetto youth with attitude when needed. King and Baum are the muscle that gives this book its uncompromising view of life on the wrong side of the big city.”--AudioFile “Powerful…A jolting, urban authentic crime thriller.”--Kirkus Reviews PETER BLAUNER is the author of Casino Moon, The Intruder, Man of the Hour, The Last Good Day, and Slipping into Darkness. The Intruder was a New York Times best-seller. His novels have been praised by such authors as Stephen King, James Patterson, and Michael Connelly. He studied at Wesleyan University where he won the Paul Horgan prize for best short fiction by a student. He lives in New York City with his wife and their two children. 10 CD's 39.97 Plus 4.99 Shipping 
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Subtitle: Risking It All for a Convenience Store A New York Times bestseller! One of O Magazine’s “17 Books to Watch for in March 2011” An Amazon.com Book of the Month, March 2011 This sweet and funny tale of a preppy editor buying a Brooklyn deli with his Korean in-laws is about family, culture clash, and the quest for authentic experiences. It starts with a gift. When Ben Ryder Howe’s wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants, decides to repay her parents’ self-sacrifice by buying them a store, Howe, an editor at the rarefied Paris Review, agrees to go along. Things soon become a lot more complicated. After the business struggles, Howe finds himself living in the basement of his in-laws’ Staten Island home, commuting to the Paris Review offices in George Plimpton’s Upper East Side townhouse by day and heading to Brooklyn to slice cold cuts and peddle lottery tickets by night. My Korean Deli follows the store’s tumultuous life span, and along the way paints the portrait of an extremely unlikely partnership between characters with shoots across society, from the Brooklyn streets to Seoul to Puritan New England. Owning the deli becomes a transformative experience for everyone involved as they struggle to salvage the original gift—and the family—while sorting out issues of values, work, and identity. REVIEWS “My Korean Deli is about a Korean deli, as I expected. But it’s also about love, culture clashes, family, money, and literature. Plus, it happens to be very funny and poignant. So buy a Slim Jim and a Vitamin Water and sit down to enjoy it.”—A. J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically “I don’t know how else to explain My Korean Deli except to say that Ben Ryder Howe has made kimchi. As in that splendid staple dish of Korea, the mundane (cabbage/Brooklyn) is combined with the piquant (crazy spices/families) and pickled (natural fermentation/a job at the Paris Review). The result is overpoweringly good. But My Korean Deli will sweeten your reading rather than stinking up your house and will give you deep thoughts not breath that can kill mice in the walls.”—P. J. O’Rourke, New York Times bestselling author “In this WASP-out-of-water tale of a Paris Review editor moonlighting as deli owner, Howe plunges boldly into life’s ultimate mysteries: marriage, money, cohabitation with in-laws, the yin-yang currents of striving and slacking, and—perhaps the biggest mystery of them all—why the store can be empty of customers for hours and hours, and then twenty show up at once.”—Ben Fountain, author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara “Howe ably transforms what could have been a string of amusing vignettes about deli ownership into a humorous but heartfelt look into the complexities of family dynamics and the search for identity.”--Publishers Weekly “Poking fun at everything from his stereotypically WASP upbringing to his ‘tank’ (he said it) of a mother-in-law…Howe has created a smartly measured and propulsive read.”--Booklist BEN RYDER HOWE : has written for the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, and Outside, and his work has been selected for Best American Travel Writing. He is a former senior editor of Paris Review. My Korean Deli is his first book. 7 CD"s 26.95 + 4.99 Shipping |
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Starring Val Kilmer as the voice of Zorro Based on Johnston McCulley’s The Curse of Capistrano first published in 1919 by the pulp magazine All-Story Weekly, dramatized for audio by Yuri Rasovsky Set in Los Angeles during the era of early nineteenth century Colonial Spanish California, the story introduces us to wealthy, young aristocrat Don Diego de la Vega, son of the richest ranchero in the country. Don Diego is an idler who has never concerned himself with more than the cut of his clothes. Unlike other full-blooded youths of his age, he presents himself as a fop, lacking in vigor, vitality, and strength. But Vega’s timorous reputation is merely a mask to conceal his alter ego—El Zorro. As Zorro, dressed in black and wearing a mask, he is transformed into a cunning swordsman who fearlessly pulls off dashing and daring escapades in his quest to avenge the helpless, aid the poor and oppressed, and punish cruel officials. Deemed an outlaw by California’s corrupt governor, he is ever-hunted by the Commandante of La Reina de Los Angeles, Capitan Ramón, and his henchman, Sergeant Pedro Gonzalez. Forced to find a wife or lose his inheritance, Diego sets off to romance the fiery, outspoken Lolita Pulido, the most beautiful señorita in Los Angeles. Unimpressed with Diego’s passionless efforts to win her affections, Lolita finds herself attracted to the dashing and courageous Zorro. With the Pulido family having been impoverished by the corrupt governor, her father would see her married to the rich Don Diego. At the same time, the nobly born, but morally dissolute, Captain Ramón has also taken an interest in the fair señorita, making matters worse. As tensions heighten between Ramon and the Pulido family and pursuit of the masked avenger intensifies, Zorro leaves his mark on those who would perpetrate injustice. The Mark of Zorro, masterfully adapted into a full-cast audio drama by the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear especially for Blackstone Audio, is an exciting, action packed, swashbuckling adventure that will have listeners on the edge of their seats. REVIEWS “A succession of thrills from first page to last…Original…Captivating.”--Boston Traveler VAL KILMER is one of the most prolific actors of his generation. From his more recent work as a career military officer in David Mamet’s Spartan, back through his work with Oliver Stone in The Doors and Michael Mann in Heat, to his early work in Top Gun, Kilmer has worked with many of film’s most respected directors and actors. He recently wrapped The Irishman opposite Linda Cardellini and Christopher Walken, and Riddle alongside Elizabeth Harnois and Diora Baird, both of which will be released in 2011. YURI RASOVSKY has won wide critical acclaim during his thirty-nine-year career as an audio dramatist, writer, producer, and director. His numerous honors include two Peabody Awards, eight Audie® Awards, and a Grammy®. His production for Blackstone Audio, Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls, won three Audies in 2008. JOHNSTON MCCULLEY (1883–1958), a one-time police reporter, was the author of hundreds of stories, fifty novels, plus numerous screenplays for film and television. Oh, yes. He also created Zorro. 3 CD"s 17.95 + 4.99 Shipping |
DEVIL’S KNOT : by Mara Leveritt
Read by : Lorna Raver Non-Fiction • Unabridged DESCRIPTION Subtitle: The True Story of the West Memphis Three With a new afterword by the author “Free the West Memphis Three!”—maybe you’ve heard the phrase, but do you know why their story is so alarming? Do you know the facts? The guilty verdicts handed out to three Arkansas teens in a horrific capital murder case were popular in their home state—even upheld on appeal. But after two HBO documentaries called attention to the witch-hunt atmosphere at the trials, artists and other supporters raised concerns about the accompanying lack of evidence. Now, award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt provides the most comprehensive look yet into this endlessly shocking case. For weeks in 1993, after the murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas, seemed stymied. Then suddenly detectives charged three teenagers—alleged members of a satanic cult—with the killings. Despite stunning investigative blunders, a confession riddled with errors, and an absence of physical evidence linking any of the accused to the crime, the teenagers were tried and convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison. They sentenced Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death. Ten years later, all three remain in prison. Here, Leveritt unravels this seemingly medieval case and offers close-up views of its key participants—including one with an uncanny knack for evading the law. REVIEWS “Devil’s Knot…leaves you wondering what new sick dread might be lying in wait on the next page, one of those that telegraphs the frustration and fear of its characters through the cover like a chunk of iron struck with a mallet. The monster Leveritt reveals in the end, however, is more terrifying than even the fork-tailed bogeymen conjured by West Memphis police and prosecutors to fit their crime. What Leveritt reveals to us is the most horrible fiend a rational person can imagine when matters of life and death are at stake: the Specter of Doubt.”--Arkansas Times “The abuses of the criminal justice system shown here are so blatant—and so profoundly tragic—that they would be hard to believe were it not for the depth and evenhandedness of Mara Leveritt’s reporting.”—Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking “Devil’s Knot is the brutal, riveting story of the Robin Hood Woods murders and the amateur justice meted out in the subsequent trial and sentencing. The true horror of Leveritt’s well-written book is that this barely believable fate could potentially befall any American.”—Henry Rollins, American singer-songwriter, artist, and actor “An affecting account of a controversial trial in the wake of three child murders in Arkansas…Sure to be locally controversial, Leveritt’s carefully researched book offers a riveting portrait of a down-at-the-heels, socially conservative rural town with more than its share of corruption and violence.”--Publishers Weekly “Well written in descriptive language, [Devil’s Knot] is an indictment of a culture and legal system that failed to protect children as defendants or victims. Highly recommended.”--Library Journal MARA LEVERITT has won several awards for investigative journalism, including Arkansas’s Booker Worthen Prize for her book The Boys on the Tracks. A contributing editor to the Arkansas Times, she lives in Little Rock. 13 CD's 29.97 Plus 4.99 Shipping |
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Overdrive’s Fourth Most Downloaded Adult Fiction Audiobook from Libraries in 2009 In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of judgment has its value gone unrecognized, its brilliant inventor punished rather than rewarded for his efforts? In defense of those greatest of human qualities that have made civilization possible, one man sets out to show what would happen to the world if all the heroes of innovation and industry went on strike. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? And why does he fight his hardest battle not against his enemies, but against the woman he loves? Tremendous in scope and breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, an electrifying moral defense of capitalism and free enterprise which launched an ideological movement and gained millions of loyal fans around the world. REVIEWS “[A] vibrant and powerful novel of ideas.”--New York Herald Tribune “Ayn Rand is destined to rank in history as the outstanding novelist and most profound philosopher of the twentieth century.”--New York Daily Mirror “Narrator Scott Brick takes listeners on a journey so extraordinary they’ll hardly notice the book’s length. While his performance offers little in the way of theatrics, Brick is capable of garnering sympathy and, perhaps most importantly, devout attention for Rand’s plot and characters. On the surface, Brick’s voice is a cool, unrelenting force determined to capture every facet of Rand’s complex story. But amid his calm and collected delivery, he taps into a more colorful emotional palette that will keep listeners involved. Brick’s subtle delivery holds far more than meets the ear.”--AudioFile “Atlas Shrugged is not merely a novel. It is also—or may I say: first of all—a cogent analysis of the evils that plague our society.”—Ludwig von Mises “Countless individuals working to secure liberty have found inspiration in the works of Ayn Rand. With her unique ability to depict heroism, idealism, and romance behind the creativity of the individual, Rand inspires readers to come to the defense of free minds and free markets.”—Chip Mellor, Institute for Justice AYN RAND (1905–1982) was born in Russia, graduated from the University of Leningrad, and in 1926 came to the United States where she was naturalized. Her first novel, We the Living, was published in 1936. With the publication of The Fountainhead in 1943, she achieved a spectacular and enduring success and her unique philosophy, Objectivism, gained a worldwide following. 50 CD'S 39.95 + 4.99 Shipping |
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2011 Audie® Award Finalist Winner of the Carnegie Medal Winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize A #1 Publishers Weekly Bestseller Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren; he felt sure of it. They had to leave immediately. So begins a long and perilous journey of survival for a small band of rabbits. As the rabbits skirt danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band, its humorous characters and its compelling culture, complete with its own folk history and mythos. Fiver's vision finally leads them to Watership Down, an upland meadow. But here they face their most difficult challenges of all. A stirring epic of courage and survival against the odds, Watership Down has become a beloved classic for all ages. Both an exciting adventure story and an involving allegory about freedom, ethics, and human nature, it has delighted generations with its unique and charming world, winning many awards and being adapted to film, TV, and theater. REVIEWS “Quite marvelous…A powerful new vision of the great chain of being.”--New York Times Book Review “Adams is a master of menace and suspense. I read the last hundred pages at a gulp, heart thumping.”--New York Review of Books “Spellbinding…Marvelous…A taut tale of suspense, hot pursuit, and derring-do.”--Chicago Tribune “A classic…A great book.”--Los Angeles Times “Adams handles his suspenseful narrative more dexterously than most authors who claim to write adventure novels, but his true achievement lies in the consistent, comprehensible and altogether enchanting civilization that he has created.”--Newsweek “I announce, with trembling pleasure, the appearance of a great story.”--Times (London) “Mr. Adams…has bravely and successfully resurrected the big picaresque adventure story, with moments of such tension that the helplessly involved reader finds himself checking whether things are going to work out all right on the next page before daring to finish the preceding one.”--New Statesman “If there is no place for Watership Down in children’s bookshops, then children’s literature is dead.”--Economist “As in the real world, the rabbit world is inhabited by good guys and bad, and the good guys prevail in this adventurous tale of a small band of rabbits searching for a place to live in peace. Adventure, suspense, menace, and great chase scenes abound, and, of course, the listener learns a few words of Lapin as the story progresses. Cosham is a film and stage actor, film voice actor, and book narrator. He also records under the name Geoffrey Howard. He has recorded over 100 titles. Here he is absolutely brilliant, voicing each rabbit and the other animals as well. His Scandinavian gull and Italian mouse are sure to amuse the listener. This reading does this modern classic complete justice. Adults, teens, and older children will enjoy stepping into this enchanted land.”—Sound Commentary.com (starred review) RICHARD ADAMS grew up in Berkshire, England, the son of a country doctor. After an education at Oxford, he spent six years in the army and then went into the Civil Service. He has written many novels and short stories, including Shardik and The Plague Dogs. 13 CD"s 29.95 + 4.99 Shipping |
CARIBOU ISLAND by David Vannread by Bronson Pinchot
General Fiction • Unabridged DESCRIPTION On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, Gary and Irene’s marriage is unraveling. Alone now that the children are grown, Gary, driven by thirty years of diverted plans, is determined to build from scratch the cabin he has always wanted, believing it will recapture what once drew him to Alaska. Irene knows better. She suspects that the cabin is Gary’s first step to leaving her. Soon they are hauling logs out to Caribou Island in good weather and in terrible storms, in sickness and in health. But setbacks begin to create chinks in Gary’s half-baked design, while Irene is stricken with mysterious headaches and troubling flashes of her tragic past. With each trip to the island their desperation escalates, and when winter comes early, the punishing desolation of the prehistoric wilderness will threaten to push Irene and Gary to the edge and end a marriage sustained by pain and rage that has been simmering for years. A noir novel rooted in a world of profound violence and regret, Caribou Island is an exploration of marriage and exile set against the interminable restlessness of Alaska’s primal landscape. REVIEWS “[Caribou Island] progresses with tremendous momentum…perfectly choreographed.”--Washington Post “Caribou Island is tough, funny, sad, scary, and hard to put down. It has haunted me ever since. The bad news (for us) was that the whole novel is so much of a piece, we couldn’t tease out one strand. The good news is that now the book is out: You can read the whole thing yourself.”--Paris Review 7 CD's 39.95 + 4.99 Shipping 
SHANTARAM by Gregory David Roberts
read by Humphrey Bower General Fiction Unabridged DESCRIPTION One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2007 An Audie Award Nominee This mesmerizing first novel tells the epic journey of Lin, an escaped convict who flees maximum security prison in Australia to disappear into the underworld of contemporary Bombay, a hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, actors and exiles. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The keys to unlock the mysteries that bind Lin are held by two people: his mentor Khader Khan, mafia godfather and criminal-philosopher, and the beautiful, elusive Karla, whose passions are driven by dangerous secrets. Based on the life of the author, this extraordinary debut has the world of human experience in its reach. REVIEWS "Few stand out quite like Shantaram…nothing if not entertaining. Sometimes a big story is its own best reward."--New York Times 35 CD's 39.95 + 4.99 Shipping |
JACKIE AS EDITOR by Greg LawrenceRead by Bernadette Dunne
Biography • Unabridged DESCRIPTION An absorbing chronicle of a much overlooked chapter in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ life—her nineteen-year editorial career History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation’s tragic widow, the tycoon’s wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers, however, skip over an equally important stage in her life: her nearly twenty-year-long career as a book editor. Jackie as Editor, written by one of the authors Jackie edited, is the first book to focus exclusively on this remarkable woman’s editorial career. At the age of forty-six, one of the most famous women in the world went to work for the first time in twenty-two years. Greg Lawrence, who had three of his books edited by Jackie, draws from interviews with more than 120 of her former collaborators and acquaintances in the publishing world to examine one of the twentieth century’s most enduring subjects of fascination through a new angle: her previously untouted skill in the career she chose. Over the last third of her life, Jackie would master a new industry, weather a very public professional scandal, and shepherd over a hundred books through the increasingly corporate halls of Viking and Doubleday. Away from the public eye, Jackie quietly defined life on her own terms. Jackie as Editor gives intimate new insights into the life of a complex and enigmatic woman who found fulfillment through her creative career during book publishing’s legendary golden age. REVIEWS “Jackie as Editor is a fascinating insider account of her fulfilling final years as a book editor in publishing. A must for Jackie fans.”—Sarah Bradford, New York Times bestselling author 11 CD 's 39.95 + 4.99 Shipping 
THE VOICE OF REASON by Ayn Rand
read by Bernadette Dunne Philosophy Unabridged DESCRIPTION Subtitle: Essays in Objectivist Thought Edited and with additional essays by Leonard Peikoff In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces are gathered together in book form for the first time. Written in the last decades of Rand’s life, they reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand’s longtime associate and literary executor. The work concludes with Peikoff’s epilogue, “My Thirty Years with Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir”, which answers the question “What was Ayn Rand really like?” Important reading for all thinking individuals, this collection communicates not only Rand’s singular worldview, but also the penetrating cultural and political analysis to which it gives rise. REVIEWS “Thirty-one entirely provocative essays.”--Charleston Evening Post 13 CD 's 29.95 + 4.99 Shipping |
THIS SIDE OF THE GRAVE by Jeaniene Frost
read by Tavia Gilbert Science Fiction & Fantasy • Unabridged DESCRIPTION Subtitle: A Night Huntress Novel The Night Huntress Novels, Book 5 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Danger waits on both sides of the grave… Half-vampire Cat Crawfield and her vampire husband Bones have fought for their lives, as well as for their relationship. But just when they’ve triumphed over the latest battle, Cat’s new and unexpected abilities threaten to upset a long-standing balance. With the mysterious disappearance of vampires, rumors abound that a species war is brewing. A zealot is inciting tensions between the vampires and ghouls, and if these two powerful groups clash, innocent mortals could become collateral damage. Now Cat and Bones are forced to seek help from a dangerous “ally”—the ghoul queen of New Orleans herself. But the price of her assistance may prove more treacherous than even the threat of a supernatural war—to say nothing of the repercussions Cat never imagined. REVIEWS “Cat and Bones are combustible together.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris “New and returning readers alike will enjoy this warmhearted and often hot-blooded adventure.”--Publishers Weekly “While this series follows the course of Cat’s evolution and destiny, what makes these books so unforgettable is the sizzling and complex relationship between Cat and Bones. The Frost name guarantees quality!”--Romantic Times, Top pick! “The list of reasons I enjoy reading Frost’s writing is long and spans from her stellar world-building to her defined and endearing characters to her ability to pepper in humor amid death and darkness.”--Vampire Book Club 8 CDS 17.99 + 3.99 Shipping |
DESTINED FOR AN EARLY GRAVE by Jeaniene Frost
read by Tavia Gilbert Science Fiction & Fantasy • Unabridged DESCRIPTION A Night Huntress Novel (Book 4) A New York Times bestseller Since half-vampire Cat Crawfield and her undead lover Bones met six years ago, they’ve fought against the rogue undead, battled a vengeful Master vampire, and pledged their devotion with a blood bond. Now it’s time for a vacation. But their hopes for a perfect Paris holiday are dashed when Cat awakes one night in terror. She’s having visions of a vampire named Gregor, who’s more powerful than Bones and has ties to her past that even Cat herself didn’t know about. Gregor believes Cat is his and won’t stop until he has her. As the battle begins between the vamp who haunts her nightmares and the one who holds her heart, only Cat can break Gregor’s hold over her. She’ll need all the power she can summon in order to bring down the baddest bloodsucker she’s ever faced … even if getting that power will result in an early grave. REVIEWS “Frost’s dazzling blend of urban fantasy action and passionate relationships makes her a true phenomenon.”--Romantic Times “Destined for an Early Grave holds big changes and many surprises for fans of the series, and should not be missed.”--Darque Reviews “Sexy, nonstop thrills.”—Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author JEANIENE FROST, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, lives with her husband and their very spoiled dog in Florida. Although not a vampire herself, she confesses to having pale skin, wearing a lot of black, and sleeping in late whenever possible. And while she can’t see ghosts, she loves to walk through old cemeteries. She also loves poetry and animals but fears children and hates to cook. She is currently at work on the next novel in her bestselling Night Huntress series. 8 CDS 27.99 + 3.99 Shipping |
MATTERHORN by Karl Marlantes
read by Bronson Pinchot General Fiction • Unabridged DESCRIPTION Subtitle: A Novel of the Vietnam War Audible’s Best of 2010: Audiobook of the Year Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2010 A USA Today Best Book of 2010 A 2010 AudioFile Best Book of the Year A 2010 AudioFile Best Voice winner A Barnes & Noble Summer Discover Pick Amazon Best Books of the Month, March REVIEWS “Matterhorn is one of the most powerful and moving novels about combat, the Vietnam War, and war in general that I have ever read.”—Dan Rather, award-winning TV news anchor “Marlantes pushes you through what may be one of the most profound and devastating novels ever to come out of Vietnam — or any war. It’s not a book so much as a deployment, and you will not return unaltered…Matterhorn is a raw, brilliant account of war that may well serve as a final exorcism for one of the most painful passages in American history.”--New York Times “There’s a reason this big Vietnam War novel made such an impression on the public consciousness. It is a deep and devastating achievement.”—George Pelecanos, New York Times bestselling author “Narrator Bronson Pinchot should get a medal for his extraordinary portrayal of Lieutenant Waino Mellas in Marlantes’s debut novel. The author, a former Marine and decorated Vietnam veteran, tells a heartrending, nerve-jangling story of war. Pinchot breathes life into each member of Mellas’s Bravo Company as they inch their way up a strategic mountain in the middle of the Vietnam War. Pinchot allows a tinge of regret to creep into his voice as the men are sprayed with ‘harmless’ Agent Orange and face one seemingly exhausting task after another. A surprise attack by a wily jungle cat heightens the eeriness of the tension-filled environment, a quality that is perfectly matched by Pinchot’s performance. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”--AudioFile “I've laughed at Catch-22 and wept at The Thin hell. There it is.”—Michael Schaub, NPR book reviewer “Matterhorn will not only take its place on the top shelf of war fiction, it’s going to knock a few books off. 17 CDS 24.99 + 3.99 Shipping |
SOMEBODY PICK UP MY PIECES* by J. D. Mason
read by Allyson Johnson Urban Lit • Unabridged DESCRIPTION Six months ago her three daughters walked out and left Charlotte Rodgers to fend for herself in her small home in Murphy, Kansas. Charlotte is left resentful and bitter toward her children—Clarice, Connie, and especially Camille—for abandoning her when all she wanted was to return home, finally, to Denver and escape from the memories of her painful past. What Charlotte doesn’t know is that the past is hot on her trail and, to her horror, will soon catch up with her once again. Justin and Clarice “Reesy” Braxton are struggling to hold on to what’s left of their marriage. Justin’s affair has taken its toll on the union, and Reesy has to decide, once and for all, if she can finally forgive him and move forward, or if the lure of revenge—giving Justin a dose of his own medicine—is too tempting to ignore. But is Reesy being honest, telling herself that she’s cheating on her husband to teach him a lesson, or are her feelings for her new lover more real than any she’s ever had for her husband? Camille Rodgers has lived her whole life under Charlotte’s watchful and critical eye, struggling to be the perfect daughter and giving in to Charlotte’s whims. For the first time, she’s on her own and is quickly spiraling out of control. Camille lost everything before she moved away from Kansas. She lost the unborn child she was carrying. She lost her husband. And she nearly lost her life in a terrible car accident. Now, she has a chance for a fresh start in a new city, with sisters she never even knew she had until six months ago. By all accounts, Camille should be on top of the world, but she’s like a fish out of water and can’t seem to connect to the two women who say they love her. When she begins to entertain a dangerous man—and even more dangerous habits—she may lose more than she ever thought she had. *Produced by Buck 50 Productions and Blackstone Audio REVIEWS “Mason vividly explores the roller-coaster relationships the chronically unhappy Charlotte has with her daughters and captures Charlotte’s desperation as she contends with Uncle, leading to a bone-chilling if paradoxically uplifting ending.”--Publishers Weekly 7 CDS 24.99 + 3.99 Shipping |
PAUL IS UNDEAD by Alan Goldsher
read by Simon Vance Science Fiction & Fantasy • Unabridged DESCRIPTION Subtitle: The British Zombie Invasion One of Kirkus Reviews’ Top 25 Books of 2010 Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to really meet the Beatles. This is a delightfully gory retelling of the Beatles’ U.S. tour that reimagines the Liverpool foursome as bloodthirsty zombies who take over the world…literally! For John Lennon, a young, idealistic zombie guitarist with dreams of global domination, Liverpool seems the ideal place to form a band that could take over the world. In an inspired act, Lennon kills and reanimates local rocker Paul McCartney, kicking off an unstoppable partnership. With the addition of newly zombified guitarist George Harrison and drummer/Seventh Level Ninja Lord Ringo Starr, the Beatles soon cut a swath of bloody good music and bloody violent mayhem across Europe, America, and the entire planet. In this searing oral history, discover how the Fab Four climbed to the Toppermost of the Poppermost while stealing the hearts, ears, and brains of smitten teenage girls. Learn the tale behind a spiritual journey that resulted in the dismemberment of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Marvel at the seemingly indestructible quartet’s survival of a fierce attack by Eighth Level Ninja Lord Yoko Ono. And find out how the boys escaped eternal death at the hands of England’s greatest zombie hunter, Mick Jagger. Through all this, one mystery remains: Can the Beatles sublimate their hunger for gray matter, remain on top of the charts, and stay together for all eternity? After all, three of the Fab Four are zombies, and zombies live forever. REVIEWS "Are readers ready for a world in which the Beatles just wanna eat your brains? Goldsher thinks so, and he may be right…Roughly paralleling the real-world career of the Beatles, this alternate history reimagines successes, failures, and rivalries with over-the-top bizarro charm."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Brilliant and hilarious. Two decaying thumbs up.”—Jonathan Maberry, multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Patient Zero “A post-modern gothic classic.”—Mick Wall, author of When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin “Paul Is Undead caused this reviewer to laugh hard enough to pull a muscle. Which muscle exactly will never be revealed, but Goldsher could go on a quest similar to the one chronicled in this book and find out how many others have injured themselves from reading this hilarious work.”--New York Journal of Books “Paul Is Undead may be the most lively Beatles book to come down the long and winding road in years. It’s bloody brilliant!”—Examiner.com “Hilarious.”—Michael Ian Black, comedian and author of Clappy as a Ham 7 CDS 21.99 + 3.99 Shipping |
A COOL BREEZE ON THE UNDERGROUND by Don Winslow
read by Joe Barrett Myst & Susp • Unabridged DESCRIPTION Neal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on the streets of New York, usually on the wrong side of the law. Then he met a P.I. who introduced him to the Bank, an exclusive institution with a sideline in keeping its wealthy clients happy and out of trouble. They pay Neal's college tuition, and Neal gets an education that can't be found in any textbook, from learning how to trail a suspect to mastering the proper way to search a room. Now it’s payback time. The Bank wants Neal to put his skills to work in finding Allie Chase, the rebellious teenage daughter of a prominent senator. The problem is that she’s gone underground in the London punk scene. To get her back, Neal has to follow her into a violent netherworld where drugs run rampant and rage is the name of the game. REVIEWS "A fresh voice, immensely likeable…Winslow shows he's got what it takes to hook a reader…Where he goes next with Neal is anyone's guess, but it's bound to be a great ride."--Mystery Scene “Narrator Joe Barrett is a good choice for this solid mystery…Much of the action takes place in Britain, and Barrett juggles various UK accents while still delivering the right tone and temperament for the American protagonist and his adopted father.”--AudioFile "A flair for language, quick wit, and detail complete a winning first novel."--Library Journal "Winslow keeps his plot moving quickly despite many twists and turns."--Pittsburgh Press DON WINSLOW is the author of numerous books and has also written for film and television. On his way to becoming a writer, he did a number of things to make a living — private investigator, safari guide, actor, and theater director, among others. His first novel, A Cool Breeze on the Underground, was nominated for an Edgar, and California Fire and Life received the Shamus Award. He now lives in Southern California. 8 CDS 39.99 + 3.99 Shipping |
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