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by Anonymous
Read by Blair Underwood. Young Henry Burton, a former congressional aide of mixed race, grandson of a legendary civil rights leader, is going through a precocious midlife crisis. Tired of the back-stabbing and back-scratching of legislative politics, heís wondering what to do next when the governor of a small southern state who has set his eye on the presidency shanghais him into a campaign staff job. What follows is an education in modern US electoral politics which in drama, humor, psychological acuity and insider knowledge beggars a hundred textbooks. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
FAN001 / Buy $18 / Rent $5.75
by John Grisham
Read by Frank Muller Now living in Brazil, Danilo Silver has a past with many chapters. He was once Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a prominent Biloxi law firm, who faked his death and left the country. For a while, quietÑnow, suddenly, there are questions about his being dead and buried after all.(12 hrs. 12cs.)
FGR014/ Buy $49.95 / Rent $16.75
by Willa Cather
Read by Grover Gardner After the death of her immigrant father, Antonia works as a servant for neighbors in the farmlands of Nebraska. She leaves for an unfortunate affair with an irish railway conductor, but returns home, eventually marries and raises a large family in true pioneer style.(8.25 hrs. 8 cs.)
CCA002/ Buy $56.95 / Rent $12.25
by Maeve Binchy
Read by Kate Binchy. Four stories set in the heart of Dublin's fashionable Southside. A society hostess entertains her husband's mistress to dinner; a country girl savors the delights of city life; a student faces the dilemma of unmarried pregnancy; and a drink-ridden photographer tries to relaunch his career.. (5.25 hrs. 4 cs.)
FBI006 / Buy $24.95 / Rent $10.25
by Maeve Binchy
Read by Kate Binchy. Eight children once carved their names on the trunk of the great copper beech shading the schoolhouse in Shancarrig. Now they are grown and when the seemingly placid layers of this small town in Ireland are peeled away, all sorts of unexpected things come to light. (11.25 hrs. 10 cs.)
FBI005 / Buy $84.95 / Rent $15.25
by Michael Crichton
Read by Frances Cassidy. With the issue of safety in the skies paramount in the public mind, Crichton has come along with his trademark mixture of super suspense and authentic information to tell a story of a plane with three passengers dead, 56 injured, and the interior cabin virtually destroyed, as the pilot attempts to land.(11 hrs. 8cs)
FCR004 / Buy $39.95 / Rent $13.75
by Dirk Bogarde
Read by the author. This is an account of Bogardeís happy decades spent on a french farm with E.L.L. Forwood, a version of A Year in Provence with depth and heart. It was Forwood's ill health that brought the couple back to England, and his death that pushed Bogarde back into acting. Novelist, poet and autobiographer as well, Bogarde is a lovely, serious, appealing character. (10 hrs. 8 cs.)
NBO005 / Buy $34.95 / Rent $13.75
by Ken Follett
Read by Diane Ventura. Jeannie Ferrami, a brilliant young research scientist studying the genetic components of aggression, makes a startling discovery. Using a restricted FBI database, she locates two men who appear to be identical twins, a law student and a convicted murderer. Yet they were born on different days to different mothers. When she delves into their backgrounds, she unwittingly stumbles upon evidence of a major conspiracy involving a top biotech company, right-wing politicians and her own university.Thus it becomes the story of a brave woman who pits her wits against some of the most powerful people in the world.(4 hrs. 4 cs.)
FFO016 / Buy $24 / Rent $10.25
by Margaret Atwood
Read by Elizabeth McGovern. A beautifully crafted novel, beautifully read. Atwood takes listeners back in time and into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks was convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and of his housekeeper mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. After a stint in Toronto's lunatic asylum and now serving a life term, Grace herself claims to have no memory of the murders. Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the field of mental illness, decides to attempt to unlock her memories.(6 hrs. 4cs.)
FAT005/ Buy $24.95 / Rent $10.25
by Mary Higgins Clark
Read by Megan Gallagher. Maggie Holloway has put tragedy behind her and become a successful fashion photographer, when she is reunited with Nuala, who had once been her stepmother. When Maggie goes to visit the woman, she finds her dead, and finds that Nuala has left her victorian house to Maggie, with one proviso: that Maggie occasional visit Nuala's old friend Greta. Going with Greta to the visit Nuala's grave, Maggie begins to suspect that something is terribly wrong, and puts her photographic skills to work to uncover the secrets hidden on the gravesites of Nuala and other friends recently dead. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MCL010 / Buy $18 / Rent $5.75
by David Guterson
Read by Peter Marinker. Among the islands of the Pacific northwest are settlers from all backgrounds, including a small community of Japanese. One of them arranges the purchase of seven acres of strawberry farmÑnot for himself, since he was born in Japan and is not allowed to own land in the US, but for his son when he comes of age. One payment short of the final purchase and months from the son's 20th birthday, WWII breaks out and the family is moved to Manzanar prison camp. The seven acres are sold, and it is not until after the war that the family returns to the site of their dream farm. Then the son is accused of murdering the man who owns the land.(15 hrs. 10cs.)
FGU005/ Buy $84.95 / Rent $15.25
by Kenneth Davis
Read by the author. From the first settlements of the continent through Vietnam, Watergate and Reagan, Davis takes listeners on a rollicking ride through 600 years of Americana. With funny and fascinating facts, he explodes long-held myths and misconceptions--revealing the human side of history that the textbooks neglect. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
LDA002 / Buy $15.99 / Rent $5.75
by Richard Llewellyn
Read by Philip Madoc. First there were the green mountains and fertile valleys that had defined Wales for millennia; then below the meadows coal was found. The men of the fields turned into people of darkness, who fought and loved, drank and sang in the shadows of the great collieries, forgetting how green their valley had been. This gorgeous book appeared in 1939 and immediately became the first and most famous bestseller of the war years.(16.25 hrs. 12 cs.)
FLL001 / Buy $94.95 / Rent $16.75
by Edith Wharton
Read by Mari Devon. Out of print for decades, this was an international bestseller. In the 1920's, Nick and Susy have a marriage of convenience, figuring they can sponge their way through an extended honeymoon at the villas of their rich friends. They agreed that each was free to ask for a divorce if they found a rich person ready to marry them. They did not reckon on falling in love.(9.5 hrs. 7cs.)
CWH005 / Buy $69.95 / Rent $13
by Nicholas Evans
Read by Peter Coyote. When a 40-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy road, a girl on horseback is in its path. This is the story of healing for the girl and for the horse, the former withdrawn and the latter crazed with pain. The girl's mother packs them up and drives across the continent to Tom Booker, the modern inheritor of the ancient race of Horse Whisperers, men whose voices calmed wild horses and healed broken spirits. Under the big Montana sky, all their lives are changed. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
FEV001 / Buy $23.95 / Rent $10.25
by Walter Cronkite
Read by the author. It was no accident that Walter Cronkite came to be known as the most trusted man in America. From the age of six, when he dashed down a hill to spread the news of President Harding's death, his vocation was unmistakable. Now at the age of eighty, Cronkite tells his life story.(4 hrs. 4cs.)
NCR003 / Buy $24 / Rent $10.25
by Dorothy Sayers
Read by Ian Carmichael. Lord Peter Wimsey, noted detective, scholar and bon vivant, calls upon all his skills when murder strikes very close to home. The victim is his sister's fiancé and the accused is the Duke of Denver, Peter's brother. As the Duke goes to trial for his life in the House of Lords, Peter and his man Bunter must come up with the real culprit before it is too late.(9.25 hrs. 8cs.)
MSA007 / Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Dick Francis
Read by Tony Britton. Philip Nore is nearing the end as a jockey. George Millace is finished in photography. The difference is that Millace is dead and Nore has discovered his secret: a set of photos which would blow the top off the racing world, showing corruption on a scale he had never imagined. (8.5 hrs. 8 cs.)
MFR023 / Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Sue Grafton
Read by Judy Kaye. Malek Construction is one of the big three in California construction, one of the few still in family hands. Four sons now nearing middle age stand to inherit a fortune. Eighteen years ago, one of them angry, troubled, and in trouble went missing. This prodigal son will find no welcome at his family's table, but Kinsey Millhone is hired to trace him. (4 hrs. 4 cs.)
MGR017 / Buy $24 / Rent $10.25
by John Grisham
Read by Michael Beck. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he is being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from a young woman suggests that she is able to predict the jurors' increasingly erratic behavior. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
FGR012 / Buy $26.95 / Rent $10.25
by Frank McCourt
Read by the author. "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." McCourt survived poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of friends and neighbors in Limerick, to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness.(4.5 hrs. 4cs.)
NMC002/ Buy $24 / Rent $10.25
by Katherine Graham
Read by the author. There are two stories here, one of Katherine Graham's privileged childhood and marriage to an adored husband who plunged into manic-depression and suicide, and the other of her tenure at the Washington Post. The story of the newspaper intertwines with Graham's, from the time her father bought and restored it, through the Woodward and Bernstein and Bradlee dramas. It is a tale of learning by doing, growing and growing up, about a woman liberated both by circumstances and by her own strengths.(3 hrs. 2cs.)
NGR004/ Buy 18/ Rent $5.75
Read by the author. Whether you're at a cocktail party, in a job interview, or giving a speech, there are simple techniques for getting your listeners on your side and getting your message across and Larry King knows them all. He provides dozens of tips that will help you master the art of conversation in both social and professional settings. (1.5 hrs. 1 cs.)
LKI002 / Buy $12 / Rent $4.75
by Barbara Kingsolver
Read by the author. Beautifully read and exquisitely written short stories from one of our favorite authors, exploring the twin themes of family ties and the life choices one must ultimately make alone. This selection of five complete stories from HomelandÉ includes: "Homeland," "Blueprints," "Quality Time," "Extinctions," and "Rose-Johnny." (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
FKI005 / Buy $18 / Rent $5.75
by Dean Koontz
Read by Carol Cowan and Michael Hanson. Accident victim Hatch Harrison dies en route to the hospital, where a doctor miraculously rescuscitates him. Hatch and his wife Lindsey celebrate their second chance at life together, until a series of scary events make Hatch fear that he has brought a deadly Presence back with him from the land of the dead. (14 hrs. 9 cs.)
SKO006 / Buy $39.95 / Rent $14.50
by Dean Koontz
Read by David Birney. A mysterious air catastrophe leaves 330 dead, no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and daughter of LA crime reporter Joe Carpenter. A year later, still paralyzed with grief, Joe meets a woman named Rose who claims to have survived the crash, then disappears. Joe is enraged: have the authorites witheld information? He sets out to find Rose, only to step into the path of a powerful and shadowy organization hell-bent on stopping Rose before she can talk to anyone about the crash. (12 hrs. 8cs.)
SKO008 / Buy $39.95 / Rent $13.75
by Thomas Cahill
Read by Liam Neeson. From the fall of Rome to the rise of CharlemagneÑthe "dark ages"Ñlearning, scholarship, and culture disappeared from the european continent. The heritage of western civilization would have been utterly lost were it not for the holy men and women of unconquered Ireland. Thus the Irish not only were the conservators of civilization, but became the shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on western culture.(3 hrs. 2cs.)
NCA005/ Buy $17 / Rent $5.75
by Compton Mackenzie
Read by Ken Stott. Wonderful reading, a funny story, a flagrant love of gaelic language, people and places, and a funny story make this a delight. Hitler is at the gate, but what the folks in the Outer Hebrides are worried about is a whisky drought that has taken one life and sorely stressed many others. Enter the SS Cabinet Minister, carrying 50,000 cases of the golden liquor to New York to earn war money, and wrecked on the suffering islanders' own reef.(10.5 hrs. 7 cs.)
FMA025/ Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Sandra Dallas
Read by Moira Kelly. Queenie Bean, 24-year old Kansas farmwife in the 1930's, is a loyal member of the Persian Pickle Club. At their weekly meetings, they quilt, eat, and improve their minds. Rita is from Denver, a Pickle member more interested in investigative journalism than anything else, and forces the Pickles to face a long-kept secret involving the disappearance of one member's husband. Delightful.(6 hrs. 4cs.)
FDA004/ Buy $22.95 / Rent $10.75
by Scott Turow
Read by Blair Brown, Joe Grifasi and Joe Morton. The story opens with a spectacular drive-by shooting in a notoriously drug-plagued housing project. Within days, the son of the victim, Nile Eddgar, a probation officer, is charged with the crime. The trial, presided over by Judge Sonia Klonsky, brings together a vivid cast of characters from Sonia's student years during the turbulent sixties, among them Nile's father, and her old boyfriend Seth Weissman, now a renowned journalist.(6 hrs. 4 cs.)
FTU003 / Buy $26 / Rent $10.25
by Stephen Ambrose
Read by Cotter Smith. Using previously unknown information, Ambrose has pieced together a colorful and realistic backdrop for the 1803 Lewis and Clark expedition, as seen through the eyes of Jefferson's personal secretary, Meriwether Lewis. High adventure, politics, suspense, drama, diplomacy, romance and tragedy make this work of scholarship as engaging as any fiction.(4.5 hrs. 4cs.)
NAM001/ Buy $25 / Rent $10.25
by Patricia Cornwell
Read by Chris Sarandon. A knowing and wry story of big-city police and big-city crime, this is a study of the lives and motives of ordinary mortals in extraordinary circumstances. The city is Charlotte, and the heroes are Andy Brazil, an ambitious young reporter and volunteer cop; Judy Hammer, strong and troubled police chief; and her deputy, Virginia West, a head-turner married to her job.(6 hrs. 4cs.)
MCO011/ Buy $24.95 / Rent $10.25
by Mark Twain
Read by Grover Gardner. A delightful and not often read work of Mark Twain, this is the story of Joan of Arc as seen through the eyes of her childhood friend and secretary; described with irony, loving detail and the authorís customary pithy insight into human nature. (15 hrs. 10 cs.)
CTW004 / Buy $62.95 / Rent $15.25
by Suzette Hayden Elgin
Read by the author. Elgin is a professor of linguistics as well as a delightful science fiction author. Learn how to recognize when people are trying to manipulate you; how to respond in a positive, effective way; to give commands and make complaints without being confrontational; and to rid yourself of speech patterns that could cause others to perceive you negatively.(10.75 hrs. 8 cs.)
LEL002/ Buy $29.95 / Rent $10.25
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