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by David Baldacci
Read by Francis Cassidy. LuAnn Tyler is a young, tough, poor, unwed mother, who is as good with her fists as with her wits. Enter a mysterious stranger who offers her a guarantee: to be the next $100 million national lottery winner. An inspiring heroine and a sinister criminal battle in this action-packed thirller.(18 hrs. 12cs.)
FMA019/ Buy $49.98 / Rent $16.75
by Nelson DeMille and Thomas Block
Read by Michael Prichard. Storyteller and pilot conspire to produce an air disaster thriller to beat all. Twelve miles above the Pacific, a missile strikes a jumbo jet. Three survivors, none of them crew, must achieve the impossible: land the plane.(15 hrs. 10cs.)
FDE011/ Buy $44.98 / Rent $15.25
by Charles Frazier
Read by the author. Based on local history and family stories, this is a love story and history. Inman is a wounded soldier who walks away from the Civil war and back home to Ada, his prewar sweetheart. While he passes through the devastated and dangerous landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South, Ada struggles to revive her father's farm with the help of a young drifter, Ruby.(14.5 hrs. 12cs.)
FFR006/ Buy $44.95 / Rent $16.75
by Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg
Read by Jay O. Sanders. In 1999 the Russioan Federation is thrown into chaos by the sudden death of its president. Devastating crop failures lead to a request for US help. The whole world is watching when a terrorist attack stuns the US and implicates Russia. In Russia, Roger Gordian is worried about his multinational corporation's employees, and is determined to identify those responsible for the attack. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
FCL011/ Buy $18.00 / Rent $5.75
by Jo-Ann Mapson
Read by Kate Forbes. 33-year-old Chloe Morgan is a part-time waitress and horse trainer in southern California, with a troupe of colorful friends surrounding her, but no one she allows herself to love except her dog and her horse. A sudden funeral and a quirk in the weather bring Chloe together with Henry Oliver, local college professor. Despite wildly different backgrounds, the two are drawn to each other. Funny, harsh, very appealing.(12 hrs. 8cs.)
FMA030/ Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Desmond Bagley
Read by Nigel Davenport. Mark and Mike Trevelyan didn't like each other much, but the brothers shared a fascination for the sea and its secrets. On an expedition to a remote Pacific atoll, Mark dies. The circumstances are suspicious enough to force Mike to investigate. His only clues are a notebook in code and a lump of rock, until the series of violent attacks on him began.(10.25 hrs. 8cs.)
FBA018/ Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Bill Bryson
Read by the author. We grabbed it when we saw this book, because Duncan has recently walked a piece of the Appalachian Trail, thanks to our daughter Susannah's delight with several pieces of the trail she has taken in recent years. This is a nice balance between the hilarious consequences of unfit middle age taking on the AT, and interesting history about the trail, bits of botanical and political information, and stories of AT hikers. (6 hrs. 4cs.)
NBR013 / Buy $25 / Rent $10.25
by William Makepeace Thackeray, England 1847-8
Read by John Castle. Together, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave the shelter of Miss Pinkerton's Academy for the infinitely more fascinating and dangerous Vanity Fair, where the only standard is worldly success. Becky, charming and amoral, is well-fitted for the fight, but sweet Amelia only longs for her worthless soldier. The relaxed figure of the narrator strolls through battles, military and domestic, fortunes made and lost, elopements and betrayals, among the tawdry glamor of the Regency. (30.5 hrs. 20 cs.)
CTH003/ Buy $124.95 / Rent $20
by Mary Wesley
Read by Anna Massey. Summer, 1954. James and Matthew arrive to spend the weekend with their friend Henry, who has inherited a country house. It is an agreeable, if scruffy, house, planted in an excellently run and beautifully maintained farm. Henry's wife Margaret is an eccentric mystery to all, Henry included: there are hints she was part of his inheritance. A party is planned, romance is in the air, and both visitors are poised to propose marriage. (8.5 hrs. 8cs.)
FWE015/ Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Sue Grafton
Read by Mary Peiffer. Kinsey Millhone sets up shop in Nota Lake to investigate the sudden death of its sheriff, Tom Newquist. It's a case Kinsey should have dumped: she has put herself in the gravest jeopardy of her career as she becomes the next target, and an entire towns seems in for the kill. (9 hrs. 6cs.)
MGR019/ Buy $34.95 / Rent $12.25
by Agatha Christie
Read by David Suchet. Aboard a Nile steamer, Poirot meets a woman who appears to have it all: beauty, riches, a loving husband, and a cruise on the Nile. Linnet Doyle is shot through the head. At first, the identity of the murderer is obvious, but Poirot is sure there is something amiss.(8.5 hrs. 8cs.)
MCH015/ Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Susan Moody
Read by Cathy Tyson. When Penny Wanawake reluctantly agrees to babysit her friend's domestic agency for a few days, she expects to have to deal with no more than the odd request for a cordon bleu cook or mother's help. When nanny Fiona McIntosh goes missing, the reputation of the agency is on the line; when she shows up dead, the leggy, black, english, amateur sleuth goes into action. (8 hrs. 8cs.)
MMO003/ Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Ellis Peters
Read by Stephen Thorne. Pilgrims are gathering from far and wide to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the translation of Saint Winifred's bones to the abbey at Shrewsbury. In distant Winchester, a knight, supporter of Empress Maud, has been murdered. This should not be an event of particular importance to those seeking miracles at Winifred's shrine, but brother Cadfael notices some strange characters in the crowd. (7 hrs. 6cs.)
MPE019/ Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Mary Higgins Clark
Read by Jayne Atkinson. When doctor Susan Chandler uses her daily radio show to explore the phenomenon of women who disappear, and later are found to have become victims of killers who prey on the lonely and insecure, she has no idea she is exposing herself to the very terror she hopes to warn others against.(3 hrs. 2cs.)
MCL015/ Buy $18 / Rent $5.75
by Ruth Rendell
Read by Terrence Hardiman. The police knew all about Margaret Parsons' life, and, by the look of it, it was very dull. She had been a good woman, religious, old-fashioned and respectable, her life as spotless and ordinary as her home, as unexciting as her marriage. But what interested chief inspector Wexford was her death: passionate, violent, and unfathomable. (5.5 hrs. 4cs.)
MRE007/ Buy $39.95 / Rent $10.25
by Lew Dietz
Read by Rachel Sieben. A charming harbor seal pup adopts a family in Rockport, Maine. Raising him to be comfortable both in their house, the town's harbor, and the wild, open sea, the Goodridge family faces all kinds of challenges. The solutions Andre and his family worked out are amazing! (1.5 hrs. 2cs.)
KDI001/ Buy $14.95 / Rent $5.75
by Brian Jacques
Read by a full cast, including the author. The rats of Cluny the Scourge are digging a tunnel under the walls of Redwall Abbey, and one mouse remains missing from the gathering of defenders, inside: Matthias. The young mouse is seeking the sword of Martin the warrior. Will he return? In time? As the final battle rages, who will survive? (2.75 hrs. 2cs.)
KJA003/ Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Robert Newton Peck
Read by Terry Bregy. "As eldest son, it was my place to say words about my father. I didn't know what I was going to say. It wouldn't be much. What I thought about Papa couldn't have been said. Being his son was like knowing a king." A Vermont farm, a shaker community, and a father's love, make up an unforgettable boyhood.(3 hrs. 2cs.)
KPE001/ Buy $21.95 / Rent $5.75
by Elizabeth George Speare
Read by Greg Schaffert. At the beginning of the summer, Matt's father leaves their new Maine home to fetch the rest of the family . 12-year-old Matt faces serious challenges alone in the woods, but is coping, just, until he is caught in a bee swarm. He is rescued and treated by a native american man and his grandson, Attean. After some time and many trials, the boys become friends and Matt finds a community in Attean's village. When summer ends, should he go with Attean and his people, or trust that his family will eventually arrive? Newbery, ALA, NY Times winner.(3.2 hrs. 2cs.)
KSP001/ Buy $16.98 / Rent $5.75
by Lillian Beckwith
Read by Vivien Heilbron. Ruari MacDonald woos and wins Kirsty as his bride when he comes to the mainland shopping for one. He takes her to his home on a remote scottish island. She is soon bound up in rediscovering her own Hebridean roots, while adapting to the mysteries of marriage and a rigorous work routine. One thing stands in her way: the brooding, silent presence of her brother-in-law.(5.5 hrs. 4 cs.)
FBE005/ Buy $39.95 / Rent $10.25
by Penelope Lively
Read by Terrence Hardiman. Matthew Halland needs to build a new life, emerging as he is from a failed marriage. As an architect, he is involved in assorted projects that are part of building a new London. Moving through the city, past and present interweave. His search for what is missing in his life, pursued across a cityscape that has seen centuries of destruction, loss and quest, brings him closer to the heart and history of the city. (7.25 hrs. 6cs.)
FLI004 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Dick Francis
Read by Tony Britton. Three jockeys warned not to win their races turned into also-rans. Bill died when the sure-footed Admiral fell, Joe was scared rotten, and Alan York became the target of a vicious gang. But he wanted revenge, and to hell with the risk....(8 hrs. 6cs.)
MFR028/ Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Josephine Tey
Read by Stephen Thorne. The advent of Leslie Searle was not a particularly fortunate happening for the village of Salcott St Mary. The american photographer possessed an almost inhuman beauty, which aroused a variety of violent emotions in the small community. One spring night Searle disappeared close to the river. He was assumed drowned, but when Detective Inspector Grant is sent to the village, he is not short of murder suspects, and faces a fearsome puzzle, because Searle seems to have vanished like someone doing the indian rope trick in an english meadow. (6.5 hrs. 6cs.)
MTE007/ Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Stephen Jay Gould
Read by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. In 1950 at age eight, Gould started thinking about the approaching turn of the millenium. In this inquiry into time and its milestones, he shares his interest and insights with readers, tackling: What is this concept of a millennium and how has it changed? How did the name for the future 1000 year reign of christianity get transferred to the passage of a secular 1000 year period? When does the new millenium actually begin?(9.6 hrs. 8 cs.)
FSH016/ Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by E.M. Forster
Read by Peter Firth. Though written in 1913, publication of this work was postponed until the year after Forster's death, because it is a powerful condemnation of the repressive attitudes of society towards homosexuality. Maurice is born privileged, confident, and conforming, but increasingly finds himself attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, at Cambridge, and the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional and sexual awakening. (6.25 hrs. 6cs.)
CFO005/ Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Dean Koontz
Read by Keith Szarabaijka. Christopher Snow has a rare genetic disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light. His life is filled with the fascinating rituals of one who must embrace the dark, and he knows the night as no one else can. Until one night when he witnesses a series of disturbing incidents that sweep him into a violent mystery only he can solve. (12 hrs. 10cs.)
SKO009/ Buy $39.95 / Rent $15.25
by Candace Robb
Read by Stephen Thorne. It is the year 1363 and in the cathedral city of York people are dying in mysterious circumstances. The common thread seems to be the herbal remedies dispensed by Nicholas Wilton, Master Apothecary. Dispatched in disguise to York with orders to unravel the mystery, Owen Archer, former Captain of Archers, apprentices himself to the apothecary and to the real chemist, his wife Lucie. (10.75 hrs. 8cs.)
MRO003/ Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Jane Smiley
Read by Anna Fields. Set in the 1850's, this novel speaks in the strong, wry, voice of Lidie Harkness, a young woman of courage, good sense and good heart. She takes us into a US violently torn apart by the question of slavery, joining her through her travels and adventures during the feverish period preceding the Civil War. (19 hrs. 12cs.)
FSM008/ Buy $49.95 / Rent $16.75
by Alice Hoffman
Read by Susan Ericksen. After 20 years in California, March Murray returns with her 15 year old daughter to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up, for the funeral of the beloved housekeeper who raised her. Thrust into the world of her past, she discovers that her surrogate mother knew far more of life than March ever suspected; that her brother is dealing with his tragic life by drinking; and that Hollis, the boy she once loved, is a man she can't seem to stay away from. (10 hrs. 8cs.)
FHO011/ Buy $73.25 / Rent $13.75
by Dorothy Sayers
Read by Ian Carmichael. Harriet Vane returns to Oxford for the annual "Gaudy" celebration to find poison pen letters instead of pleasant nostalgia. Peter Wimsey joins her to unravel a sad and ugly story of frustrated passion. Rumored to be partly autobiographical, this is Sayers's finest book, a delicious love story as well as a riveting mystery.(15.5 hrs. 12cs.)
MSA008/ Buy $94.95 / Rent $16.75
by Fauziya Kassindja
Read by Sheryl Lee Ralph. Kassindja grew up in Togo, sheltered by her progressive father from genital mutilation and polygamy. But when he died in 1993, her life changed forever. At age 17 she was forced to become a stranger's fourth wife and prepare for the genital mutilation ritual. Hours before the ritual was to start, her sister helped her escape, and Kassindja came to the US seeking asylum and freedom. Instead, she was stripped, shackled, and locked up in various INS detention facilities for sixteen months, until Layli Miller Bashir, a 23-year-old law student, met the prisoner and determined to win the african girl's freedom.(6 hrs. 4cs.)
NKA001/ Buy $24.95 / Rent $10.25
by Maeve Binchy
Read by Kate Binchy. Every Friday night Tom Fitzgerald's lilac minibus carries the same seven people home from Dublin to spend the weekend in Rathdoon. Anonymous to each other on the bus trip, each character has a story, from the meanness of the "Miss Mouse," Dee's obsession with her affair with a married doctor, and Kev, a mystery to everyone, even his own family, to the driver himself, who has his own reasons for coming home every weekend. (6 hrs. 6cs.)
FBI009/ Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by E.L. Konigsburg
Read by Rick Adamson, L.J. Ganser et al. Why was Mrs Olinski's sixth grade academic bowl team so successful, and why had she chosen those kids in the first place? The four kids call themselves The Souls, and each has a story to tell. Taken together, the tales answer the first question! (4.75 hrs. 3cs.)
KKO001/ Buy $23.98 / Rent $8
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