Miscellaneous Authors

Richard Adams

Watership Down      4 hours      abridged      Full Cast Dramatization

The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos.

Scott Adams

Dogbert’s Management Handbook     90 minutes     abridged     Scott Adams

This valuable handbook teaches new managers how to transform themselves from bitter and bewildered “little people” into fully functioning, paradigm-spewing management zombies.

Cleveland Amory

Ranch of Dreams     3 hours     abridged     Cleveland Amory  

This devout animal lover has had some interesting adventures through the years as he rescued animals in distress. He has done everything from air-lifting wild burros out of the Grand Canyon to saving a chimpanzee from too many scientific experiments. Amory has met his share of eccentric characters through his animal acquisitions--people like the wacky zealot dedicated to saving wild buffalos from slaughter. Read in his deadpan Boston accent, these two tapes provide extremes--from enjoyable entertainment to head-shaking sadness as he graphically describes animal cruelty.

The Cat and the Curmudgeon     90 minutes     abridged     Cleveland Amory

The humorous and heartwarming adventures of the sublime Polar Bear and his crafty owner

Jeffrey Archer

Honour Among Thieves      60 minutes     abridged     Nigel Havers  

A possibly fraudulent wine tasting event. 

The Steal     15  minutes     abridged     Nigel Havers

The tale of two travellers who end up with a priceless treasure – or is it?

The Loophole     15  minutes     abridged     Nigel Havers  

The machinations of the law 

James Axler

Outlanders - Wreath of Fire     3 hours     abridged      David Elias

The nukecaust that gave birth to the garrisoned cities and the hellzones of the Outlands was the calculated stroke of a dark conspiracy that haunts humanity. Now, as this evil specter continues its secret war to conquer what is left of civilization, a dedicated group dares to expose the truth about earth's sinister overlords.... A former enforcer of the new world order, Kane and his fellow exiles hazard the treacherous no-man's-land of what was once Utah. Here, a ruthless woman warrior with a reputation for scorched earth may become the ally they are seeking to expand their power base against earth's alien oppressors. Or she may be a doomsday force eager to destroy anything that interferes with her own quest for power. In the Outlands, life is cheap. But death is free.

Max Barclay

Red Mercury     3 hours      abridged     Brian Keith

Atlanta, Georgia, July, 1996. The Centennial Olympic Games. A homemade pipe bomb goes off in Centennial Park and makes international news. But behind the scenes the U.S. Government discovers a stash of stolen weapons-grade plutonium whose radioactive trail leads right to downtown Atlanta. Mack McFall, the brilliant leader of NEST, the U.S. government's secret Nuclear Emergency Search Team, leads a massive hunt for the stolen plutonium. His partner is special agent Kyle Preston, the bureau's highest ranking female field officer, squad leader of the elite FBI Olympic Counter-Terrorist Task Force.

Robert G. Barrett

Mystery Bay     9 hours      unabridged     Dino Marnika     CD

Just when everything was going so good, Les slips a disc in his back. He can’t run, he can’t train. He can’t do anything much. But he can still drive his car. So it’s down to Narooma for the South Coast Blues Festival and a bit of R&R: 30 bands and three days and nights of non-stop rock ’n’ roll. Which would have been great, only Les has to have a slight altercation with four fishermen on his first night in town. Now the toughest, meanest, most horrible bloke on the south coast is after his blood.

Then Les meets Amazing Grace. Add some magic mushrooms, a dancing bear and Jerry Lee Rat. It all makes for an interesting time at the Blues Festival.

Maeve Binchy

Tara Road      6 hours       abridged       Terry Donnelly

Against all odds, two newlyweds manage to buy the house of their dreams. In 1982, property speculation is beginning to be a big, big thing in Dublin--and their street is very much in an up-and-coming part of town. "They laughed and hugged each other. Danny Lynch from the broken-down cottage in the back of beyond and Ria Johnson from the corner house in the big, shabby estate were not only living like gentry in a big Tara Road mansion, they were actually debating what style of dining table to buy." But for its various inhabitants, the street is to become a boulevard of dreams--some broken, others created anew. Maeve Binchy has long proved herself a secure hand at multiple story lines, and over the course of 500 satisfying pages she focuses on Ria; her best friend, Rosemary Ryan, a beautiful, endlessly selfish career woman; Gertie, the battered wife of a drunkard; and several other intriguing women, each of whom has secrets not to be shared. There is even an all-knowing fortune teller who early on hints that Ria will travel and start a successful business--two things she knows are definitely not in the offing.

Yet after our supposedly happy housewife and mother of two is confronted by some inexorable home truths, a chance phone call from America will change her life, forcing her to discard her illusions about men, women, and marriage and start all over again. At the same time, the Connecticut caller, Marilyn Vine, has her own lessons to learn when she and Ria swap houses for the summer.

John Blackthorn

Sins of the Fathers     3 hours     abridged      Julio Perez

As the timer ticks inexorably toward January 1, 1999, an American historian finds himself caught in a race against the clock, between the Cold War past he's studying--and an unthinkable future of atomic devastation.

Lawrence Block

The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza     3 hours     abridged      Lawrence Block

Bernie Rhodenbarr's capers continue with this adventure for the Greenwich Village bookseller who can't resist a little breaking and entering now and then. When Bernie breaks-in to Hank and Wanda Colcannon's apartment, he finds the place ransacked--but is still able to find a rare coin for himself. Unfortunately for Bernie, when the Colcannon's return from their trip, they surprise an intruder, who kills Wanda. The turn of events leave Bernie holding the coin--the main piece of evidence the police are hunting.

Tom Bodett

The Better Part of the End of the Road     2 hours     unabridged      Tom Bodett

Join Tom Bodett as he invites us to spend a thoroughly entertaining visit with our old friends at the End of the Road. From babysitting disasters to the strangest set of wedding bells Alaska ever saw, life takes some strange turns – and then again, goes on pretty much as usual.

Brick Mallery Private Investigator Episode 3: Down Alive      45 minutes       unabridged      dramatized

The Brick Mallery series belongs to the "theater of the mind" style of recording made popular in the 1970s by Firesign Theater. Mallery parodies the hard-boiled private eyes of the 1950s. Everyone talks "tough-guy" lingo, and the secretary wears red stiletto heels and smacks chewing gum, when not dodging bullets. Complete with sound effects, music, and plenty of action, these tapes will put your surround-sound stereo system to good use and introduce a new generation of listeners to this theater of the absurd. Mallery's dealings with the more bizarre crimes, those involving mind-control, cannibal vampire zombies, and talking shrunken heads, take him as far out of the realm of the common PI as this audio is from the "common" audiobook.

Rosellen Brown

Before and After     3 hours     abridged     Kate Nelligan, Dennis Boutsikaris and Ali Thomas

When Ben and Carolyn Ryan learn that their son Jacob may be implicated in the murder of the girl he has been dating, they take dramatically different approaches to the situation.

Half a Heart     6 hours      abridged      Jayne Atkinson and Lisagay Hamilton

A white woman named Miriam Vener used to be a civil rights activist, but now she lives a conventional middle-class life in Houston with her family, spending summers in an equally conventional New England town. Then her long-estranged daughter, Veronica, turns up. Veronica is of mixed race, the product of Miriam's romance with a black professor, who has raised the girl. The impact of her daughter's existence--and her color--on Miriam's world forces Miriam to reevaluate many aspects of her life--and, meanwhile, Veronica must come to terms with her resentment of the mother who abandoned her.

Ray Canale

Nightfall: The Blood Countess       1 hour       unabridged       Full Cast Production

The most horrifying vampire of all. The most depraved ritual ever. A Transylvanian countess who bathed in the blood of virgins to keep her yound. She lived and her name was Elizabeth Batbory.

William J. Caunitz

Exceptional Clearance      3 hours     abridged      Kevin Spacey

Caunitz is a retired NYC detective who is a good story teller of police procedurals. This one involves a serial killer who is both nutty as a fruit cake and out after revenge. The killer has a very unusual method of killing. The killer is hunted by a team that is headed by a recently widowed detective. About half way through the book, the reader finds out who the killer is, but the police have to do it the hard way. If you read this sort of fiction, the story will seem sort of familiar. There is a psycho serial killer, the hunting team is headed by a first rate detective who is in the official dog-house, is a loner, who has a great intuition, and who is traumatized by the recent death of his wife, and we watch the team gradually piece together the little clues with the help of a friendly newsman and a helpful FBI agent.

Chang-Rae Lee

Native Speaker       3 hours      abridged       David Colacci

Henry Park, a Korean-American private spy, is challenged by a new assignment to investigate a rising politician, but the secrets he uncovers threaten his cultural identity and his relationship with his wife.

Deborah Chester

The Golden One  (Alien Chronicles 1)      3 hours     abridged      Dramatization

Here is an epic set in a far distant universe--a saga of faraway planets and of races strange and more fantastic than an ever seen on our world. Yet their struggles are universal: for justice, for freedom, for peace. "Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles" is a sweeping adventure that will transport you to another time, and to another place, where a legend is about to be born.

Tom Clancy

Without Remorse      6 hours       abridged       David Dukes

John Kelly, an ordinary man, crosses the lines of justice and morality and becomes the legendary Mr. Clark of the CIA, a man of ruthless and brilliant cunning, whose merciless work during an all-out war game is done with complete human detachment.

Lori Copeland

A Case of Nosy Neighbors    10 hours     unabridged    Cristine McMurdo-Wallis     MP3

Maude, Stella, and CeeCee must solve the mystery of the Peeping Toms. Who is peeking through the townspeople's windows? Copeland's readers will be amused and surprised when they discover the identity of the nosy neighbors.

Michael Cordy

The Miracle Strain    3 hours     abridged     Darrell Larson

Famed geneticist Dr. Tom Carter's worst nightmares come true when his wife is slain by an assassin's bullet and his nine-year-old daughter is diagnosed with incurable brain cancer. Carter now needs a miracle to save his little girl; and one is waiting for him in a cave in the Middle East and in the guarded DNA of the greatest healer in history.

Bernard Cornwell

The Archer's Tale       6 hours      abridged      Tim Piggot-Smith

At dawn on Easter morning 1343, a marauding band of French raiders arrives by boat to ambush the coastal village of Hookton. To brave young Thomas, the only survivor, the horror of the attack is epitomized by the casual savagery of a particular black-clad knight. Thomas vows to avenge the murder of his townsmen and recapture a holy treasure that the black knight stole from the church. But Thomas must first make his way to France, so he joins the army of King Edward III as it is about to invade the continent and quickly becomes recognized as one of England's most deadly archers.

When Thomas saves a young Frenchwoman from a bloodthirsty crowd, her father rewards his bravery by joining him in the hunt for the mysterious dark knight and the stolen holy relic. What begins as a search for vengance will soon prove the beginning of an even higher purpose: the quest for the Holy Grail itself.

Robin Cook

Vital Signs      3 hours      abridged      Bebe Neuwirth

Epidemiologist Marissa Blumenthal, seen before in Outbreak , now has a successful pediatrics practice near Boston and an affluent health-care-entrepreneur husband. But her inability to become pregnant threatens both her marriage and her career. After unsuccessful visits to a local fertility clinic, she discovers a suprising and suspicious link between her medical records and those of an inordinate number of the clinic's clients. Traveling to Australia to learn more about a worldwide in vitro fertilization organization, Marissa and her friend Wendy are trailed, and a tragedy occurs. Marissa, now accompanied by the physician whose work she had come to Australia to investigate, goes to Hong Kong and eventually China--fleeing murderous assailants every step of the way--before a billion-dollar international scam is revealed.

Michael Crichton

The Lost World    4 hours     abridged     Anthony Heald

The sequel to Michael Crichton's bestselling Jurassic Park.

It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park: six years since that extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end - the dinosaurs destroyed, the part dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public.

There are rumors that something has survived.

The Andromedia Strain   3 hours     abridged     Chris North     MP3

The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.

Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona.

Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town's inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.

The terror has begun . . .

Richie Tankersley Cusick

Buffy the Vampire Slayer      3 hours      unabridged     Kristy Swanson

A novelization of the feature film starring Luke Perry follows Buffy, a high school girl bearing the mark of the coven, as she uses the physical and mental powers new pal Merrick has given to her to fight L.A.'s vampires.

Charts of lost gold...breathtaking art and rare volumes...maps of hidden oil and mineral deposits that could change the world's balance of power. Now DIRK PITT discovers the secret trail of the treasures of Alexandria -- a trail that plunges him into a brutal conspiracy for total domination of the globe. Zealots threaten to unseat the governments of Egypt and Mexico, exposing America to invasion and economic collapse. Suddenly, from East to West, anarchists reach their deadly tentacles into the heart of the United States. And DIRK PITT, the hard-hitting hero of Clive Cussler's smash bestsellers Sahara and Inca Gold, is up against the most feared assassin known to man. An international band of terrorists is making its play for world power on the high seas -- and Pitt is the only man alive who can stop them!

Daniel Dafoe

Robinson Crusoe    11 hours     unabridged     Tom Casaletto    CD

Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adventures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself alone on a remote desert island. He remains there many years, building a life for himself in solitude, until the day he discovers another man’s footprint in the sand.

David F. D'alessandro

Brand Warfare     4.5 hours     abridged     Grover Gardiner

In this short, concise work, D'Alessandro, CEO of the John Hancock insurance group, entertainingly hammers home the importance of creating and maintaining a brand. He discusses the steps to building a brand, consistently emphasizing that, if it is to resonate, the brand must have one simple image and reminds everyone that their company's brand is its most crucial asset.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

The Scream     45 minutes     unabridged     Oliver Wyman

Will David Crowley pay forever for one moment of a bad decision.

Philip K. Dick

Minority Report       4.5 hours       unabridged      Keir Dullea

Police Commissioner John Anderton finds himself at the mercy of his own crime-prevention system when the prescient precogs he's hired to stop crime before it starts peg him as a soon-to-be murderer

Charles Dickens

The Old Curiosity Shop      11.5  hours     unabridged     dramatized

Nell is on her way home to the dusty shop where she and her grandfather live a rather mysterious life. The old man disappears every night--visiting gambling dens with the naive hope of winning a fortune. Instead he sinks deeper and deeper into debt. Enter Daniel Quilp, moneylender, who becomes furious upon learning that the grandfather is a pauper and will never be able to repay his tremendous debt. Quilp seizes the curiosity shop and begins making lecherous overtures to Nell, so she and her grandfather steal away one morning to seek their fortunes elsewhere. But the demonic dwarf is never far behind.  

Barnaby Rudge

Barnaby Rudge was Dickens' first attempt at a historical novel. It is set in the late 18th century and presents with great vigor and understanding (and some ambivalence of attitude) the spectacle of large-scale mob violence. In a case of mistaken identification, Barnaby Rudge, the mentally retarded son of a murderer, is arrested as a leader of a mob of anti-Catholic rioters. Subsequently jailed and sentenced to death, he is pardoned at the scaffold.  

A Tale of Two Cities

The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution. Although Dickens borrowed from Thomas Carlyle's history, The French Revolution, for his sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris , the novel offers more drama than accuracy. The scenes of large-scale mob violence are especially vivid, if superficial in historical understanding. The complex plot involves Sydney Carton's sacrifice of his own life on behalf of his friends Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette. While political events drive the story, Dickens takes a decidedly antipolitical tone, lambasting both aristocratic tyranny and revolutionary excess--the latter memorably caricatured in Madame Defarge, who knits beside the guillotine.

William Diehl  

Primal Fear      3 hours     abridged     Robert O'Keefe  

After a sainted Chicago archbishop is brutally murdered in his rectory, altar boy Aaron Stampler is found hiding in a confessional, clutching a bloody knife and swearing he is innocent.  

Brilliant "bad-boy" lawyer Martin Vail eagerly seizes the opportunity to defend Stampler, the young human monster. But first he must uncover the horrifying truth behind the archbishop's slaughter....

Carole Nelson Douglas

Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt     3 hours     abridged     Robert Forester and Andrea Thompson  

Back in Las Vegas after a trip to the Big Apple, Midnight Louie, the black tomcat detective with a nose for the notorious, witnesses death on the Nile when the battling Egyptian barges outside the Oasis Hotel force a dead body to the surface.

Ruth Downie

Medicus     12.5 hours     unabridged     Simon Vance   MP3 CD  

Gaius Petrius Ruso, a military medicus (or doctor), transfers to the 20th Legion in the remote Britannia port of Deva (now Chester) to start over after a ruinous divorce and his father's death. Things go downhill from there. His quarters are filthy and vermin-filled, and his superior at the hospital is a petty tyrant. Gaius rescues and buys an injured slave girl, Tilla, from her abusive master, but she refuses to talk, can't cook and costs more to keep than he can afford. Meanwhile, young women from the local bordello keep turning up dead, and nobody is interested in investigating. Gaius becomes a reluctant detective, but his sleuthing threatens to get him killed and leaves him scant time to work on the first-aid guide he's writing to help salvage his finances. Tilla plots her escape as she recovers from her injuries, and just when Ruso becomes attached to her, she runs away, complicating his personal life and his investigation.

Alexandre Dumas

The Man in the Iron Mask     3 hours     abridged     Reg Green  

In this, the final adventure of "The Three Musketeers", the swashbuckling trio joins D'Artagnan to rescue a masked prisoner held in the Bastille.

Umberto Eco  

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana    15.5 hours     unabridged     George Guidall    CD

When aging Italian book-dealer Yambo, hero of this engaging if somewhat bloodless novel of ideas, regains consciousness after a mysterious coma, he suffers a peculiar form of amnesia. His "public" memory of languages, everyday routines, history and literature remains intact, but his autobiographical memory of personal experiences—of his family, lovers, childhood, even his name—is gone. He can spout literary and cultural allusions on any topic, citing everything from Moby-Dick to Star Trek, but complains, "I don't have feelings, I only have memorable sayings." To recover his past, he repairs to his boyhood home to peruse a cache of memorabilia amassed in his youth during Mussolini's reign and WWII, consisting of comic books, schoolbooks, Fascist propaganda, popular music, romantic novels and his own poetry about an unattainable high school beauty.

Laura Esquivel

Like Water for Chocolate    5.5 hours     abridged     Yareli Arizmendi  

A first novel (``the number one bestseller in Mexico in 1990'')--liberally sprinkled with recipes and homemade remedies- -from screenwriter Esquivel. Set in turn-of-the-century Mexico, it tells the romantic tale of Tita De La Garza, the youngest of Mama Elena's three daughters, whose fate, dictated by family tradition, is to remain single so that she can take care of her mother in her old age. Tita has grown up under the tutelage of the spinster cook Nacha and has learned all the family recipes and remedies. When Pedro, Tita's admirer, asks for Tita's hand in marriage, her mother refuses permission, offering instead Tita's older sister, Rosaura. Pedro accepts, thinking it will be a way to stay close to his one true love. But Tita doesn't know his thinking and, crushed by what she sees as betrayal, she must make the wedding cake. Crying as she bakes, her tears mingle with the ingredients and unleash a wave of longing in everyone who eats a piece. It is just the beginning of the realization that Tita has special talents, both in the kitchen and beyond. As we witness the nurturing Tita's struggle to be true both to family tradition and to her own heart, we are steeped in elaborate recipes for dishes such as turkey mole with almonds and sesame seeds or quail with rose petals, in medicinal concoctions for ailments such as bad breath and gas, and in instructions on how to make ink or matches. Eventually, Tita must choose between marrying a loving, devoted doctor or saving herself for Pedro, her first true love. Her choice is revealed in a surprise last chapter. Playful in its flirtation with magical realism and engaging in its folkloric earthiness but, nonetheless, light, romantic fare.

Sebastian Faulks      

Charlotte Gray     6 hours     abridged     Samuel West  

In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission:to run an apparantly simple errand for a British special operations group and to search for her lover, an English airman called Peter Gregory, who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette, Sebastian Faulks presents a microcosm of France and its agony in 'the black years', here is the full range of collaboration, from the tacit to the enthusiastic, as well as examples of extraordinary courage and altruism. Through the local resistance chief Julien, Charlotte meets his father a Jewish painter whose inspiration has failed him. In Charlotte's friendship with both men, Faulks opens up the theme of false memory and of paradises—both national and personal—that appear irredeemably lost. In a series of shocking narrative climaxes in which the full extent of French collusion in the Nazi holocaust is delineated, Faulks brings the story to a resolution of redemptive love.

Robert Ferrigno

Heartbreaker    3 hours     abridged     John Glover  

It opens with a killing on a south Florida beach. Val Duran, an undercover cop, is forced to witness the murder of his partner, which has been arranged by a drug kingpin called Junior. In retaliation, Val kills two of Junior's men, but the score is far from settled.

Val quits Florida fast and doesn't stop until he reaches Hollywood . He ends up doing stunt work in B movies, but his real life turns out to be much more hazardous. He's fallen hard for Kyle Abbott, a marine biologist with an attitude, a pedigree, and a take on nature ("survival is all about speed and cunning, camouflage and adaptability") that would have forewarned Val had she not completely disarmed his habitual protective paranoia. Which means that he doesn't see Junior coming until it's almost too late.

Fannie Flagg  

Fried Green Tomatoes     2 hours     abridged     Fanny Flagg

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s: of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again. . . .

Leslie Forbes

Bombay Ice     3 hours     abridged     Lisanne Cote  

Rosalind Bengal is a journalist, working with the BBC in London . Her half-sister, Miranda, lives in Bombay, India, with her husband, an Indian film mogul whose obsession is to produce an Indian version of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Due to dwindling financial backing, the filming has been going on in fits and starts for 20 years. When Rosalind hears rumors that Miranda's husband killed his first wife so he could use her money for The Tempest, the journalist dons her "private eye" hat and heads for Bombay .

John Fullerton

The Monkey House     3 hours     abridged     J. Charles  

Branston Flett is a famous American journalist who comes to wartime Sarajevo with the intent of covering the ethnic conflict. But what he discovers is the netherworld of a city gone mad. A police informant is found drowned in a bathtub of a building that rarely has water. The building is in a Serb enclave detested by the Croats. A Croatian detective with a Serbian wife is suspicious. Meanwhile gunfire, mortar, and artillery ring through the city. People are starving; others are dying.

Lewis Gannett  

Gehenna   (Millennium TV series)  3 hours     abridged     Bill Smitrovich  

Frank investigates a cult and its powerful leader.

Julie Garwood

Heartbreaker     4.5 hours     abridged     Jan Maxwell  

In the still shadows of the confessional, a madman tauntingly reveals his plan for a murder he is going to commit, pulling Father Thomas Madden into a twisted game by disclosing his next intended victim: Tom's sister, Laurant. In a frantic race to protect her, Tom calls upon his best friend, elite FBI agent Nick Buchanan, to track the predator who is closing in on Laurant. Now, as an electrifying attraction grows between Laurant and Nick, so does the danger -- and one false move will cost both of them everything that matters.

Tess Gerritsen 

Life Support     3 hours     abridged     Megan Gallagher

The overnight ER rotation at Springer Hospital suits Dr. Toby Harper just fine -- until its calm is shattered by a man Toby admits one quiet night. Delirious and in critical condition from a possible viral infection of the brain, he barely responds to treatment...and then he disappears without a trace. But before Toby can find her missing patient, a second case occurs, revealing a chilling twist: evidence of an infection that can only be spread through direct tissue exchange. Soon Toby's on a trail that winds from a pregnant sixteen-year-old prostitute to an unexpected tragedy in her own home. Only then does she discover the unthinkable: an evil, deadly design to the frightening epidemic.

The Bone Garden     5 hours     abridged     Carolyn McCormick

Julia Hamill finds an old skull buried in the garden of her newly acquired Boston home. A forensic anthropologist determines that it belongs to a murder victim, circa 1800. The story flashes back to 1830, when a killer known as the West End Reaper is terrorizing the area. Susan Denaker narrates with skill and animation even when the predictable, coincidence-prone story lose immediacy. She provides expert voices for Rose Connolly, a poor Irish seamstress; Norris Marshall, a medical student forced by poverty to assist an immoral resurrectionist (a grave robber supplying cadavers for medical study); and Henry Page, an 89-year-old archivist helping Julia.

William Goldman      

The  Princess Bride     3 hours     abridged     Rob Reiner  

What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?

As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the "S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears.

Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.

What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.

In short, it's about everything.

Oliva Goldsmith

First Wives Club     3 hours     abridged       Christine Baranski  

"Elise, Brenda, and Annie were all first wives inhabiting the headier spheres of New York society. Then in their forties, with their husbands at the pinnacle of success, they were abandoned for "trophy wives."  

Heather Graham 

Slow Burn     3 hours     abridged     Eliza Foss

After the brutal slaying of her husband, Spencer Huntington demands answers for the senseless murder of the man she loves. She turns to David Delgado, her husband's former partner — and her exlover. Soon the reluctant partnership and their loyalties are tested by the tortured secrets and desperate schemes of a killer — and a desire for each other they cannot deny . . .

Zane Grey      

The Great Slave     100 minutes     unabridged     Ted Stoddard  

In the times before cowboys, ranches and trains changed the West, Indian tribes battled and enslaved each other while surviving in a dangerous wilderness. A fierce and legendary chief lived during this time, born to a vanishing tribe and captured and enslaved by his enemy before he could save his people. Tortured, brutalized and humiliated by his captors, this noble warrior and great man faced a terrible death — until his archenemy needed his help.

Martha Grimes  

The Old Silent     3 hours     abridged     Tim Curry  

Set in West Yorkshire and Cornwall, this story challenges Martha Grimes's major character, Superintendent Richard Jury, to find out the real reason that a perfectly sane and patient wife should murder her husband ten years after their only child has been kidnapped and presumably killed.

John Grisham

The Painted House     13 hours    unabridged     David Lansbury  

Lucas Chandler is a seven-year-old boy who lives in an unpainted house on an Arkansas farm with his parents and grandparents in the early 1950s. He loves Coca-Cola, baseball, and the St. Louis Cardinals, and he plans on using the money he earns picking cotton to buy a shiny baseball jacket from the Sears and Roebuck catalog. Soon after the hired crews of Mexicans and "hill people" arrive to help pick the Chandler family's 80 acres of cotton, Lucas sees things that cause him to lose his innocence much earlier than he should and long for the days when he did not have to keep secrets or worry about his and his family's safety.

The Partner      6 hours      abridged     Michael Beck

They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language, and spoke it very well.

But Danilo had a past with many chapters. Four years earlier he had been Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a prominent Biloxi law firm. He had a pretty wife, a new daughter, and a bright future. Then one cold winter night Patrick was trapped in a burning car and died a horrible death. When he was buried his casket held nothing more than his ashes.

From a short distance away, Patrick watched his own burial. Then he fled. Six weeks later, a fortune was stolen from his ex-law firm's offshore account. And Patrick fled some more.
But they found him.

The Associate     6  hours    abridged     Erik Singer     CD

Kyle McAvoy possesses an outstanding legal mind. Good-looking and affable, he has a glittering future. He also has a dark secret that could destroy his dreams, his career, even his life. One night that secret catches up with him. The men who accost Kyle have a compromising video they’ll use to ruin him–unless he does exactly what they say. What they offer Kyle is something any ambitious young lawyer would kill for: a job in Manhattan as an associate at the world’s largest law firm. If Kyle accepts, he’ll be on the fast track to partnership and a fortune. But there’s a catch. Kyle won’t be working for the firm but against it in a dispute between two powerful defense contractors worth billions. Now Kyle is caught between the criminal forces manipulating him, the FBI, and his own law firm–in a malignant conspiracy not even Kyle with all his intellect, cunning, and bravery may be able to escape alive.

Winston Groom  

Gump and Co.     3 hours     abridged     Will Patton

Struggling to make a life for his young son when the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company takes a dive, Forrest Gump shares a second series of offbeat adventures that entangle him with the Coca-Cola company and Oliver North.

Jack O' Reilly is a 17-year-old New Englander who in 1805, sails with his parents on the Perdido Star to Cuba, his mother's birthplace, to claim the land she inherited. But for Jack, the trip that began with high hopes and the excitement of a new life, becomes a descent into violence and revenge. His parents murdered, their land confiscated, his own life nearly taken, Jack is forced to rejoin the Star as a member of the crew, sailing through the world's most treacherous waters under a drink-crazed captain.

His soul seared and his heart calloused, his obsession to get back to the killer of his parents dominates his life. And so the boy Jackson O'Reilly becomes the pirate "Black Jack," the relentless scourge of any who stand in his path to retribution, until a daring recue of two of his mates teaches him that there are other emothions than anger, other feelings than hatred and mistrust.

Joyce Harrington  

Eunice and Wally     35 minutes     unabridged     Karen Murray

When Wally’s crimes went beyond assault to terrible, unspeakable acts, Eunice reached for the machete.

Thomas Harris  

Stories include Christmas, Professional Doctors, Gin Trap, Locum, Flopping Trap and Other Successes, and Maternal Instincts.

Wes     1 hour     unabridged     Christopher Timothy

A neglected boy is at war with an entire town, and especially Herriot, until he acquires a dog of his own. When it becomes terribly ill, he must turn to James for help.

Tami Hoag

Dust to Dust     6 hours     abridged     Jon Tenney     **CD**

Andy Fallon, a gay Minneapolis police officer, hangs dead in his bedroom. A week later Iron Mike Fallon, a former cop and Andy's father, shoots himself with his service revolver. Detectives Nikki Liska and Sam Kovac are not happy with the suspicious circumstances and the too-swift closing of both cases. They continue to nose around, causing unexpected people to react to their search with panic, threats, and attempted murder. What is the secret behind these deaths, and how are all the people connected?

Kill the Messenger     5.25 hours     abridged     Erik Davies     **CD**

Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time! Being an L.A. bike messenger can be risky on the best of days, but it doesn't normally mean being plunged into a struggle to stay alive. Nineteen-year-old orphan Jake, who lives on the fringe in Chinatown with his younger brother, is on the run after the murder of a lawyer from whom he picked up a package.

Alibi Man     6 hours     abridged     Beth McDonald     **CD**

Elena Estes, former policewoman, former member of the elite of Palm Beach, Florida, is thrust back into both aspects of her former life when she discovers a woman's body in a canal. Physically healed from the wounds she sustained while working on a meth-lab bust, she has yet to recover emotionally from causing another officer's death and has been living and working at her best friend's horse farm. When she realizes that the victim is the farm's beautiful, vibrant young groom Irina, Elena is determined to bring her justice no matter what. Her search leads to the creme de la creme of Palm Beach society and the powerbrokers who hang out at the tony polo fields, including her ex-fiance, who, Elena knows, is capable of committing the crime.

Dark Paradise     6 hours     abridged     Joyce Bean     **CD**

Mari Beth leaves her job as a court reporter and her latest failed love affair, jumps in the car, and goes, unannounced, to New Eden, MT, to join her best pal for a few weeks of R&R. When she arrives, she finds the house trashed, her friend dead, and the natives less than friendly. Something about her friend's death is not right, and Mari keeps probing for information. She gets bopped, bashed, and generally mistreated by everyone in New Eden, and this makes her more suspicious. In discovering what really happened to her friend, she also uncovers the deepest secrets of a most unsavory bunch of immoral and unlawful interlopers from Hollywood.

Kay Hooper

Chill of Fear     6 hours     abridged     Dick Hill     CD

Something old, and dark, and cold. Something evil" is on the loose at a remote, exclusive resort in the Tennessee mountains in the easy-reading second installment of the Hooper's Fear trilogy (after Hunting Fear). When an eight-year-old girl mysteriously goes missing—at least the sixth disappearance in the past few decades—a crack team of paranormals, the FBI's Special Crimes Unit (SCU), aka Spooky Crimes Unit, is on the case. SCU head Noah Bishop and telepathic new recruit Quentin Hayes recover the girl and stick around to track down the lurking evil once and for all. This isn't Hayes' first stay at the Lodge: on vacation with his parents there 25 years earlier, 12-year-old Hayes discovered the strangled corpse of his friend Missy, an unsolved crime that has haunted him since. On this visit, Hayes meets Lodge guest Diana Brisco, a striking redhead who's at the resort taking a therapeutic art class to treat the nightmares, disorientation and blackouts she's suffered since childhood. Hayes helps Diana understand that she's not crazy but rather powerfully psychic, and they join forces to rid the Lodge of evil.

Linda Howard  

Mr. Perfect     4.5 hours     abridged     Jenna Stern  

Four women friends whip up a playful and ongoing list of characteristics that make up the perfect man. It's all a game until one of the friends is murdered.

Eric Idle  

The Road to Mars     3 hours     abridged     Eric Idle  

The Road to Mars is the second novel by Eric Idle--yes, that Eric Idle, the guy from Monty Python's Flying Circus. No, the book isn't like a Monty Python skit (and a good thing too, since silly sketches are no basis for a successful novel). Yes, Monty Python is mentioned in the book, but the self-referentiality is blessedly confined to two paragraphs. Yes, The Road to Mars is funny. It's also genuine science fiction. And it's satirical, sharply characterized, well-written, thoughtful, fun, and more complex than you'd expect from its picaresque structure, in which a stand-up-comedian odd couple and their robot knock around the outer planets in search of decent gigs. Well, Alex and Lewis are looking for work (and sex); their android, Carlton , unfazed by his own irony impairment, is trying to write a thesis about comedy. The trio quickly find themselves mixed up with a mysterious beauty, a famous diva, the captain of the solar cruise ship Princess Di, and a band of terrorists determined to blow up Mars.

Greg Iles  

Iris Johansen   

Reap the Wind     6 hours     abridged     Sandra Burr    Sandra Burr     

A storm has destroyed half of the famous rosebushes on Caitlin Vasaro's estate in the South of France and endangered her plans to launch a new perfume when Alex Karazov rolls up in his Lamborghini with a proposition Caitlin can't refuse. He'll bankroll the perfume startup for a percentage of the profits and control of the campaign. Blinded by her growing affection for her savior, Caitlin is slow to realize that Alex (late of the KGB and CIA)stet ital has his own agenda: he wants her family heirloom, the Wind Dancer--a gold statue of Pegasus now in the possession of American politician Jonathan Andreas--as bait for his arch enemy, former CIA agent Brian Ledford. Besides having had Alex's best friend murdered, Ledford has been stealing artworks and staging terrorist acts to destabilize Europe and aid its newest aspiring Napoleon.

Penny Jordan    

Lingering Shadows     2 hours     abridged     Michael Page     

The dramatic story of extraordinary men and women who find the strength to step out of the shadow of the past and into the light of a passionate future. Irrevocably linked by ambition and passion, held apart by the sins of the fathers, together three couples forge new lives in a riveting journey of freedom and fulfillment.

Alex Kava   

A Perfect Evil     3 hours     abridged     Richard Roban     

Just before the state of Nebraska executed him for the heinous murders of three boys, Ronald Jeffrey confesses his sins to Father Francis. Ronald insists that he only killed and raped one of the lads, Bobby Wilson. He swears to God that he never murdered, mutilated, or raped the other two boys. No one including the confessional priest believes Ronald is anything but a serial killing monster.  

Three months after the electrocution of Ronald, a new corpse of a young butchered boy is discovered in Platte City . Relatively new Sheriff Nick Morelli has no experience with this type of investigation. He asks the FBI to lend him a top profiler. Maggie O’Dell is tired to the bone after a particularly nasty case. Her boss gives her a choice of some R&R or helping Nick. With personal demons that reject any notion of rest, Maggie travels to Platte City to assist the local law enforcement team. As they work together to uncover an evil presence who has murdered again, they fall in love, but as Maggie knows, the aftertaste of a case leaves little room for happiness.

Exposed    5 hours     abridged     Tanya Eby    CD

Agent Maggie O’Dell and Assistant Director Cunningham believe they’re responding to a threat made at Quantico. Instead they walk into a trap. Before they realize it, they’ve both been exposed to a killer who can strike at anyone, anytime and no one can predict who might be next…until it’s too late. The killer’s tactics suggest he’s an aficionado of criminal minds. He uses bits and pieces from those he admires: a phrase from the Beltway Snipers, a clue from the Unabomber, a delivery method similar to the Anthrax Killer. His weapon is a deadly virus, virtually invisible and totally unexpected. His victims appear to be random but, in fact, they are chosen with a revengeful precision. The vaccine is limited and untested. Maggie knows dangerous minds—from hauntingly perverse child predators to cunningly twisted serial killers. Now she faces a new opponent from inside an isolation ward at a biosafety containment hospital. Maggie must help Agent R. J. Tully find clues to catch the killer—while waiting to see if the deadly strain is already multiplying in her body. With every new exposure there’s the potential for an epidemic. And Maggie knows she and Cunningham may not live long enough to discover who is the deadliest, most intelligent killer they’ve ever profiled.

Judith Kelman  

Morphing the Millennium     45 minutes     unabridged     Tony Hoty  

Lenny Cambio, an inventor and crooked businessman owes more monry than anything. He has a plan on how to get money but there is only one catch.

Jean Kerr  

Please Don't Eat the Daisies           3 hours           abridged          

This timeless audiobook, originally published in 1957, sounds as fresh as a daisy. Kerr writes about family life, pets, the New York theater culture and everything else from dieting to having an operation. She tells tales of raising four young sons and trying to keep her head above water as a playwright. These tapes sound like two hours of stand-up comedy. Webb delivers it in a deadpan manner with appropriate pauses for laughter. Her tone conveys the frustration and hilarity of being a young mother trying to survive in a rough environment.

Stephen King  

The Green Mile     14 hours     unabridged     Frank Muller  

Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain 's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs...and yours.

Jeffrey A. Krames

The Rumsfeld Way     4.5 hours     abridged     Grover Gardiner

Analysis of the leadership strategies of the secretary of defense.

The first in a trilogy called King Raven, Hood tells the story of an alternative Robin Hood, a rebel in the deep forests of Wales in 1093. (Lawhead's extensive research convinced him of this premise.) Son of a king, a young man named Bran is made homeless when his father is killed and the kingdom of Elfael becomes a pawn to squabbling Norman factions. A long and fascinating time in the wilderness, in which Bran's faith and health are restored by an old woman of mystical origins, brings him at last to his destiny: leading a band of dauntless archers against the kingdom's usurpers. Robin Hood is born, along with Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, and Little John, in this highly imaginative, earthy adventure that has little to do with Errol Flynn but is just as rousing. 

Wally Lamb  

She’s Come Undone     4.5 hours     abridged     Kathy Najimy  

Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under.

John Le Carré

Smiley's People 3 hours abridged BBC Radio Dramatization

The conclusion to the famous Karla trilogy, in which George Smiley attempts to entrap his Soviet counterpart and settle old scores, is magnificent on audio. John le CarrŽ's absorbing world of spies and espionage is one of human voices--of many nations and emotions--all artfully filtered through his caustic world view. Through the narration of British actor Jayston, layers of interpretive sound collide in fantastic verisimilitude. Jayston captures both sides of Smiley: his obsessive, steely drive to redeem the past and his melancholic musings on the ultimate impossibility of victory in such a contest

Elmore Leonard  

Pagan Babies     6 hours     abridged     Steve Buscemi  

Father Terry Dunn thought he’d seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to Rwanda to evade a tax-fraud indictment. Now the whiskey-drinking, Nine Inch Nails T-shirt-wearing padre is back trying to hustle up a score to help the little orphans of Rwanda. But the fund-raising gets complicated when a former tattletale cohort pops up on Terry’s tail. And then there’s the lovely Debbie Dewey. A freshly sprung ex-con turned stand-up comic, Debbie needs some fast cash, too, to settle an old score. Now they’re in together for a bigger payoff than either could finagle alone. After all, it makes sense...unless Father Terry is working a con of his own.  

Marc Levy  

If Only It Were True     6 hours     unabridged     Michael McGlone

Lauren, a medical student at a San Francisco hospital, ends up in a coma after a car crash. Several months later Arthur, an architect, finds Lauren in the closet of his new apartment. She explains that this is her apartment and that she is sort of a ghost: her body is in the hospital and she has become separated from it. Lauren is as shocked as Arthur, who, after checking out her story, decides to take a leave from work so he can help her. They start to fall in love, and when Lauren's mother decides to take out her feeding tube, Arthur is forced to take action.

Paul Lindsay

Traps: A Novel of the FBI      4 hours     abridged      J. Charles

Jack Kincade is no lantern-jawed poster boy for the FBI--in fact, he's a bank robber and an explosives expert. But his new boss in the Chicago bureau doesn't know that, and even though he doesn't like Kincade's attitude or his independent streak, he needs all the manpower he can get: the victim of an unsolved kidnapping has threatened to detonate an 800-pound bomb under the Cook County Jail unless the Feds find his daughter. Assigned to work with Ben Alton, an agent with an artificial leg and a chip on his shoulder, Kincade solves the 3-year old case in record time. But someone besides the victim's father has an even bigger grudge against the FBI, and even though Jack and Ben know who it is, more people will die before the killer kidnaps Ben's daughter and the trap the agents set for him drives this solid thriller to its riveting conclusion.

Bette Bao Lord  

The Middle Heart     6 hours     abridged     Bette Bao Lord  

In the spring of 1932, an unlikely trio of children forge a happy alliance and declare themselves "brothers of the middleheart": Steel Hope, the scion of the House of Li; Mountain Pine, his book mate and servant; and Firecracker.  

In their childish passion, they promise to defend their country and save their people during a time of turmoil and change as China experiences the death of old regimes, civil war, World War II, and the communist revolution. Through it all, the three friends are separated and reunited again and again, but survive the decades of loss and love.

Sarah Lovett  

Dangerous Attachments     3 hours     abridged     Lindsay Crouse  

In her work within the justice system, forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange has dealt with some of the most twisted and depraved minds ever documented. Now, one of those minds wants to deal with her.

Lucas Watson has escaped from prison. A grotesque embodiment of homicidal dementia, Watson is not trying to get away. He's got something far more sinister in mind -- playing a deadly game of wits and wills with the beautiful doctor.

Now, Sylvia must employ all of her courage and knowledge of the criminal mind to survive the attentions of one of the most violent killers ever known....

Slow Burn     3 hours     abridged     Lindsay Crouse  

Introducing a brilliant new star in the mystery firmament--and a bold and brainy new female sleuth. When forensic pathologist Sylvia Strange's evaluation of a sociopath--whose gruesome hobby is "harvesting" body parts from other inmates--results in his loss of parole, her life is threatened by his family.

Elizabeth Lowell  

Running Scared     6 hours     abridged     Maria Tucci  

This novel involves antiques, druid gold and psychic powers and is set primarily in post-mob Las Vegas with side trips to Sedona, Ariz. Risa Sheridan is a consultant for Rarities Unlimited, hired by casino mogul Shane Tannahill to find something spectacular to display at a New Year's Eve opening bash for his new gallery. It looks like Risa's hit pay dirt when she comes across some gold druid pieces that a WWII vet purloined from Wales during the war. But there are complications. Risa's childhood friend Cherelle, a faux psychic who goes by the name of Lady Faulkner, had been scamming the vet and is now in pursuit of the gold, too. Then there are Shane's rival casino bosses, who are looking for something to frame him with so they can edge him out of the picture. Can they somehow use the discovery of druid loot to achieve that end?

Robert Ludlum

The Sigma Protocol      6 hours     abridged      Paul Michael

Anna Navarro, special agent for the Justice Department, has been assigned to investigate the deaths of several eminent men, all advanced in age and all connected to a mysterious group called Sigma, founded in the last years of World War II. An accident brings her together with Ben Hartman, an American investment banker who is in Zurich investigating the death of his twin brother and finds himself the target of an assassination attempt. Who is Sigma, and why are some of its members being killed? More importantly, what grand project is in the works? Readers may find the answer to these questions simplistic: Sigma is a partnership of high-ranking statesmen and industrialists, put together not only to spirit wealth out of Germany at the end of the war but also to stop communism's spread. Sigma's goal is to make the world safe for capitalism, a corporation whose board of directors is in charge of Western history itself.

Patrick Lynch  

Figure of Eight     6 hours     abridged     Buck Schirner  

Ellen Cusak left Ukraine as a young teenager, skating her way to fame and fortune and capturing the hearts of millions of adoring fans in her adopted country. Shortly after winning the World Championship, she married a Hollywood celebrity and dropped out of sight. Now that the romance is over and the bills are mounting, she's gliding toward a comeback, with a book deal, a TV special, and lucrative endorsements in the offing. That's when the threatening letters and phone calls begin, hinting at a dark secret in her past. A photograph of a young skater in a blue dress with an astonishing resemblance to Ellen appears mysteriously on the trophy wall in her living room, and an unidentified corpse turns up in her backyard.

Peter Mayle      

A Year In Provence     3 hours     abridged     Peter Mayle  

A funny--and often hilarious--month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations of moving into an old French farmhouse in Provence and adapting to a very different way of life.

Stuart McBride   

Cold Granite     6 hours     abridged     John Sessions     MP3

It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Four-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch, strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. There's a killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood. If that wasn't enough, Logan also has to contend with a new boss, DI Insch, who doesn't suffer fools gladly and thinks everyone's a fool, and his own ex-girlfriend, the beautiful but chilly Isobel MacAlister, who also happens to be the chief pathologist. The only good news is WPC 'Ball Breaker' Watson, Logan's new guardian angel. The dead are piling up in the morgue almost as fast as the snow on the streets, and Logan knows time is running out. More children are going missing. More are going to die. If Logan isn't careful, he's going to end up joining them.

Anne McCaffrey   

Crisis on Doona     (co-author Jody Lynn Nye)   3 hours     abridged     Meredith MacRae

When humans colonized Doona they thought it to be uninhabited. When they discovered another race--the catlike Hrrubans--the two races decided to forego their traditional isolationism and try to share the planet. That treaty is up for review 25 years later, and a conspiracy is afoot to discredit Todd Reeve and Hrriss, best of friends, who have come to symbolize the human/Hrruban cohabitation and, by extension, the treaty.

Lyon's Pride     3 hours     abridged     Jean Reed-Bable

In this sequel to Damia's Children , the psionically Talented children of Damia Gwyn-Raven and Afra Lyon are pushed closer to the forefront of the struggle between the human Nine Star League and their alien Mrdini allies against the blind expansionism of the insect-like Hive culture that threatens both their civilizations. Rojer, like his siblings a T-1 at the most powerful level of Talent, is assigned to provide communication and transport for a squadron following a Hiver vessel. When he refuses a command by the Mrdini Captain Prtglm to launch missiles psionically against an occupied Hiver planet, he barely escapes while Prtglm kills his Mrdni companions, complicating an already delicate situation. A debate sharpens within the human community and with the Mrdini over the fate of the Hive colonies, with some humans and most of the Mrdinis holding out for complete destruction. Another large faction of humanity, which has eschewed war for generations, seeks a less bloodthirsty solution, such as isolation and containment.

Sharyn, McCrumb     90 minutes     Sharon Gless  

Among My Souveniers

Old Rattler    

The Matchmaker

Foggy Mountain Breakdown     3 hours      unabridged     Various readers      CD

She Walks These Hills    3 hours    abridged     Buck Schirner  

The ghost of a murdered pioneer woman wanders the Appalachian hills, searching for a way home. But others, including a city-bred scholar and an escaped killer, also roam these hills, each undertaking a very personal journey. When their paths cross, a long-hidden mystery is revealed, and with it a secret that will rock the Appalachians to their very core

Michael McGarrity  

Serpent Gate     4.5 hours     abridged     James Naughton  

Montainair, New Mexico . The very name conjures up the clean air, the foothills, the gorgeous mountains of the Southwest. Some would say this is God's country. It is also Kevin Kearney's, especially when crimes like rape and cop murder intrude on the outwardly idyllic natural setting.

It was opening night of the annual town rodeo six months ago when Patrolman Paul Gillespie left the calf-roping finals, headed toward the police station, and was killed by person or persons unknown. Nobody much is talking, at least not to Kerney, but Kerney suspects that one man, Robert Cordova, a schizophrenic, saw something that memorable night.  

Murder and its aftermath, which are reflected on a small scale in Mountainair, play themselves out against a much glitzier backdrop in Santa Fé to take on and old nemesis.

Dave Cooks the Turkey
Dave cooks the Christmas turkey – Butch – as only Dave can.
Ferrets for Christmas
Sam secretly brings home his class’s pet Ferret for the holidays.
Christmas on the Road
Dave and family, along with Stephanie’s boyfriend and the organic turkey go on a road trip.
Christmas at the Turlingtons’
Dave is helpful at the Turlingtons’ copper Christmas.
Polly Anderson’s Christmas Party
It all begins with a mix up of the punchbowls and the kids…
Christmas Presents
Homemade Christmas presents has everyone going nuts – except for Dave and Stephanie
On the Roof
Dave does the unthinkable on the roof while stringing the lights…

The Vinyl Café Coast to Coast Story Service     3 hours     unabridged     Stuart McLean     CD

In this proud, poignant tale, four thirty -something African-American women rely on one another for love and support.

At twenty-four, Gordon McKenna thinks he's already heard the worst news of his life when he learns that his sister Georgia is fatally ill. Then Georgia and her husband die in a car accident, leaving behind their baby daughter, Keefer. Gordon and his parents are able to survive their sorrow only by devoting themselves to the care of the beloved one-year-old.  

But the decision of who will raise Keefer is far from over, and soon Gordon's most basic assumptions about his family will be challenged in ways so provocative that he will be driven to disbelief and then to outrage. The ordeal will test the bonds of this closely knit family, challenging even love's ultimate capacity to heal. 

Bright, young, and ambitious, Quinn Barry desperately wants to be an FBI agent, even as she programs databases in the basement of the J. Edgar Hoover Building. But Quinn's career -- and her life -- are about to change wildly. Testing a new program, Quinn's computer savvy turns up a mysterious DNA link among five gruesome murders. A link that the old FBI system had been carefully programmed to miss. A link that nearly costs Quinn her job, and soon, her life...Pitted against a conspiracy of unimaginable proportions, Quinn will match wits against powerful government forces that will use any means necessary to keep their dirty secrets hidden -- secrets that will land her in the clutches of a sadistic, brilliant madman who holds the key to it all.

It’s bold. It’s dangerous. It’s the kind of maverick operation that has made Mark Beamon both the FBI’s best agent and its least-likely-to-succeed screw-up.

A top-secret FBI file -- buried in an anonymous government warehouse since J. Edgar Hoover’s death -- is missing. The unlucky grad student who uncovered it is dead, and now his ex-girlfriend is on the run, accused of the murder. The only man everyone agrees can find the young woman and turn up the explosive document is "off-duty," suspended and under the threat of prosecution by the bureau itself.

Beamon knows better than anyone that this is his last shot to save his career -- and his country. Tracking the young woman down, though, will be the hardest assignment he’s ever tackled, for she’s a gutsy world-class rock-climber who can drop out of sight anywhere in the world. And even if he finds her and the file, who can he trust when the FBI itself is under suspicion? Beamon has no room for wrong guesses -- or moves. If he blows this one, he’ll free fall straight out of the bureau -- and straight into prison....

Diabolical DEA renegade Martin Fletcher has spent the last six years taking cold-blooded revenge on the families of his former DEA colleagues, whom he believes betrayed him, and Paul Masterson's family is his last target, unless Paul can stop him before it is too late.

When rising politician Benjamin Knight gets married on a perfect summer day, the four women watching don't realize how prophetic the best man's toast for success is. And over the next 20 years, the women all forge their own ambitious careers: Zoebecomes a foreign affairs analyst, a career choice made in order to get as far from Ben as possible; Celia, Ben's sister-in-law, uses her beauty and talent to build a career in national television; Georgie, Ben's childhood friend, becomes a congresswoman; and Kate, Ben's college classmate, founds a national child protection organization following the murder of her daughter. When a dangerous hostage situation arises overseas in an election year, the current president announces he will not run again. A heated political race erupts, and Ben throws his hat in the ring. His decision draws the women back into his life as he makes a run for the presidency, with Zoeas an adviser, Celia as an ambitious reporter covering his opponent, Kate as a lobbyist for her group, and Georgie as a member of the opposition. The strength of friendship and old loves wavers as the mudslinging intensifies, and only the lucky ones will survive.

San Francisco-based P.I. Sharon McCone is almost ageless. The series has more than a decade of titles, which follow McCone from her early days as an investigator at All Souls Legal Coop to her own detective agency where we find her in Both Ends of the Night.The focus is on flying and airports as McCone tries to unravel the tragic death of her flight instructor.

Kathleen Mallory, an extraordinary wild child turned New York City detective, is propelled onto the street when her adoptive father--a police inspector--is found stabbed to death next to the body of a wealthy woman. The murders are linked to two homicides her father had been investigating and now his cases become Mallory's, his death her cause.

The place Sri Lanka , the island nation off the southern tip of India , a country formerly known as Ceylon , steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition smf forced into the late 20th century by the ravages of civil war and the consequences of a government divided against itself.

Into this maelstrom steps a young woman, Anil Tissera, born in Sri Lanka , educated in America , a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to work with local officials to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island.

Bodies are discovered. Skeletons. And particularly one, nicknamed "Sailor." What follows, in a novel rich with character, emotion, and incident, is a story about love, about family, about identity and the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past and all propelled by a riveting mystery.

Rebecca Harris, a young intern at an Orange County newspaper, is gunned down right outside the paper's offices after being mistaken for a fire-breathing columnist. The victim's just-spurned fianceis a driven, intense FBI agent named Joshua Weinstein; her new lover is a reporter at the paper. Each man is aware of the other. Each is shattered by Rebecca's death. Weinstein knows who is responsible--a brilliant former agent who became a reclusive right-wing madman after his son was murdered. But Weinstein doesn't have enough evidence for an arrest, so he talks the girl's lover into going undercover to gather proof. William Faulkner once observed that the only thing truly worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.

Do you dare to look Where Serpents Lie?  

He takes them from their beds at night and releases them unharmed within a day--dressed like little angels with a piece of snakeskin tucked into the folds of their gowns as a memento. They are blindfolded and gagged throughout the ordeal, so they cannot describe their captor--nor do they know what happened while they were in his care. (Thank God.)  

Terry Naughton, head of Orange County 's Crimes Against Youth unit, faces the challenge of a lifetime when children are being kidnapped but released--and the people of Southern California are terrified for their safety. The cops don't know what the criminal wants--but they do know that his brand of psychotic behavior always escalates in scale. Will the next child never come back?

For superintendent Thomas Pitt, the sight of the dead man riding the morning tide of the Thames is unforgettable. He lies in a battered punt drifting through the morning mist, his arms and legs chained to the boat's sides. He is clad in a torn green gown and flowers bestrew his battered body.

Pitt's determined search for answers to the victim's identity leads him deep into London's bohemia to the theatre where beautiful Cecily Antrim is outraging society with her bold portrayal of a modern woman--and into studios where masters of light and shadow are experimenting with the fascinating new art of photography. But only Pitt's most relentless pursuit enables him to identify the wildfire passions raging through this tragedy of good and evil, to hunt down the guilty and protect the
innocent.

For archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her family, the allure of Egypt remains as powerful as ever, even in this tense time of World War. But nowhere in this desert land is safe -- especially for Amelia's son Ramses and his beautiful new wife Nefret. Treachery and peril are pursuing the two young lovers across the length and breadth of this strange, exotic world, strengthening a bond of passion and devotion that only death can sever. And the grim discovery of a recent corpse in a tomb where it does not belong is pulling Amelia deeper into a furious desert storm of intrigue, corruption, kidnapping, and murder -- and toward dark revelations that threaten to awaken the past...and alter the family's destiny.

Upon descending on Hoboken's most exclusive restaurant, The Magic Moscow, and tasting chef Steve Nickleson's culinary masterpiece, the sugar vampires instantly decide Steve must be Earth's contestant in an intergalactic cooking contest. So they kidnap Steve and take him to the dread planet Spiegel.

A love story within a love story, "The Last Valentine" weaves an emotional tale of love transcending time and space. On February 14, 1944, Caroline Thomas says goodbye to her beloved Navy pilot husband, who is being sent to the Pacific. She never sees him again. For 50 years, he is listed as Missing in Action. For 50 years, she waits for him to return. Then a miracle happens--Caroline receives his "last valentine"

The Family brings the lawless world of 15th-century Rome to vivid life, revealing the secrets of the Vatican just as Mario Puzo once laid bare the mysteries of the Mafia. This extraordinary epic revolves around Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, a larger than life hero propelled by a myriad of passions-power, faith, luxury, women, and an all-powerful love of family. While his blessings are sought by kings and peasants alike, enemies from within and abroad plot his demise. As Alexander strives to restore glory to the Catholic Church and unify the city-states of Italy, he also seeks to direct the lives of his beloved children. But for all Alexander's love and might, he cannot reverse the legacy of sin that is revisited upon his children.

Alexander's son, the passionate Cesare, is torn between his father's wish that he serve the Church, and his own desire to be a warrior. The story of Cesare's rise and fall is a cautionary tale of obsession and arrogance, a story at once mythic and viscerally suspenseful. He and his sister, Alexander's beautiful and sensitive daughter Lucrezia, are jointly cursed by an unthinkable secret, served unto them by their father. And the violent fate of Alexander's heartless son Juan is eventually echoed by the deadly vengeance of the Pope's neglected son Jofre. Torn between familial love and their own irresistible motivations, the Borgias are by turns each other's most steadfast saviors-and each other's greatest threat.

The Godfather      16.5  hours    unabridged     Dan Price, Rick Lavin, Chuck Winter  

The Godfather is Vito Corleone, a benevolent despot who stops at nothing to gain and hold power. He is a friendly man, a "reasonable" man, a just man -- and the deadliest gang leader in the Cosa Nostra.  

The Godfather's command post is a fortress on Long Island . From it he rules a vast empire of extortion, gambling, bookmaking and unions. He bends cops, bureaucrats, politicians...and he does it without ever touching a gun or knife or even making a threat.

Beatrice Poole, a young widow writing under the alias Amelia York, suspects her uncle of being murdered for his role in the search for a fabled treasure, the Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite. Seeking out an antiquities expert, Beatrice finds herself allied with Leo Drake, a mysterious, sexy widower who may be her perfect match.

Repeatedly beaten by her husband, a Brooklyn cop, Fran Benedetto secretly relocates to Florida with her 10-year-old son. As Beth, she starts a new life--complete with job, friends and love interest. It's only a matter of time, of course, before she's found, with heart-wrenching consequences. Telling the story five years later, Fran/Beth still sounds like a victimized, shell-shocked Northerner. Despite the many good things that have since happened, she can't get by the sadness in her life.

Dead Souls      3 hours     abridged     Bill Paterson  

A call from an old friend brings back memories and more than a little guilt for DI John Rebus. An old schoolfriend's son has gone missing, the ghost of Jack Morton is inhabiting Rebus' dreams, a part-time poisoner is terrorising the local zoo and a freed paedophile rouses the vigilantes.

In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to the dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation.

At the novel's center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana--who once dreamed of becoming a great musician--and the demonic fiddler Stefan, tormented ghost of a Russian aristocrat, who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin first to enchant, then to dominate and draw her into a state of madness through the music she loves.

But Triana understands the power of the music perhaps even more than does Stefan--and she sets out to resist Stefan and to fight not only for her sanity but for her life. The struggle draws them both into a terrifying supernatural realm where they find themselves surrounded by memories, by horrors, and by overwhelming truths. Battling desperately, they are at last propelled towards the novel's astonishing and unforgettable climax.

Ronnie likes the idea of being Senator Lewis Honneker's wife a whole lot more than she actually likes being married to him. She loves the power, the prestige, and of course the wealth and all of the comforts and beautiful things that he provides. But Ronnie is acutely lonely. Her husband is not the man she thought he was, and although long accustomed to it, Ronnie despises the strain of the campaign trail--especially the constant facade and total lack of privacy.

If those problems weren't enough, Lewis's voters despise Ronnie. As the younger, sexy, second wife, the senator's loyal constituency think that Ronnie broke up his first marriage. Because Lewis is up for reelection, expert political consultant Tom Quinlan is brought in to change Ronnie's image. He finds the task to be far more of a challenge then he expected--not only because Ronnie is difficult to direct, but also because the two can't keep their hands off each other. When the senator is found murdered and Ronnie is accused of the crime, only Tom believes she is innocent. The two work together to uncover the senator's sordid secrets.

Probation officer Ann Carlisle's husband, a highway patrolman, disappeared mysteriously four years ago, and it's been tough for Ann and her 12-year-old son to put their lives back together. A new love interest plus a heavy caseload at work are just beginning to help heal Ann's wounds when she becomes involved in a narcotics trial that will unravel her life all over again. Jimmy Sawyer, a spoiled rich kid, is convicted of selling drugs, and Ann is assigned to serve as his probation officer. But the minute Sawyer is out on bail, Ann is shot and nearly raped, her house is burglarized, her son is threatened, and she begins receiving mysterious phone calls from a man who sounds exactly like her supposedly dead husband.

Mitigating Circumstances      3 hours      abridged      Lindsay Crouse

After an intruder invades the home of Assistant District Attorney Lily Forrester, Lily finds that her life is spinning out of control, and turmoil in both her professional and private lives comes to a boil.

The last person convicted-murderer Richard Kraven asks to see before dying is Ann Jeffers, the newspaper woman who had kept his name and crimes in the public consciousness for five years. "Today won't end it...I'm sorry I won't be here to see you suffer when you finally realize you were wrong about me," he says. Brutal murders, perhaps copycat, perhaps at the hands of an accomplice, resume. At first, Ann accepts the changes in her husband following his heart attack. Gradually, they both begin to question what is happening.

This novel is deeply creepy right from the outset, opening with the brutal murder of its protagonist Caroline's husband in Central Park. Six months after that trauma, Caroline is struggling to make ends meet and to take care of her two children. Then she meets Tony. He seems the perfect gentleman, and she marries him after a long-enough courtship. When she and the children move in with him in the exclusive Rockwell building, she at first dismisses the stories she hears--the Rockwell's inhabitants are actually witches and vampires--as just so many urban legends. Then her daughter starts hearing voices in the walls at night, and Rebecca, the only other child in the building, who is already mysteriously ill, disappears. When her daughter falls ill with symptoms remarkably similar to Rebecca's, Caroline realizes she can no longer dismiss her aged neighbors as eccentric but basically harmless.

When the Conways move into their ancestral home in Louisiana after the death of an estranged aunt, it is with the promise of a new beginning. But the house has a life of its own. Deep within the cold cellar and etched into the very walls is a long, dark history of the Conway name -- a grim bloodline poisoned by suicide, strange disappearances, voodoo rituals, and rumors of murder. But the family knows nothing of the soul-shattering secrets that snake through generations of their past. They do not know that terror awaits them. For with each generation of the Conways comes a hellish day of reckoning.

For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours, this searing, fast-paced novel explores the complex ties between mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion, and the line between love and hate.

Gatekeeper features a labyrinthine setting -- from the chambers of the American embassy in Paris to the stoops and back alleys of New York City -- stocked with characters whose ambition, cunning, and technological sophistication are intolerant of any threat to their conspiratorial will to power.

Hollis Freemont has arrived in Paris to begin her job at the American consulate. Her return to Paris forces her to revisit tragedy: the assassination of her parents by a sniper's bullets fifteen years earlier. Hollis, a beautiful young woman, soon attracts the notice of Paul McGann, deputy chief of mission, whose ardent attention to Hollis is matched by his violent temper. Hollis's involvement with McGann leads her into the anals of the clandestine paragovernmental alliances colluding to create a new world order at the expense of certain high-level officials and unfortunate individuals, such as Hollis herself, who stray into the sights of a hired assassin -- the Handyman.

As she struggles against all odds to elude the Handyman and his colleagues, it becomes evident that she can trust no one, not even those whose confidences she holds most dear. From the opening scene in an assassin's hideout to the stomach-churning climax at the Statue of Liberty, Gatekeeper is electrifying.

Meet Mike Daley. Ex-priest. Ex-public defender. And as of yesterday, ex-partner in one of San Francisco 's most prominent law firms. Today he's out on his own, setting up practice on the wrong side of town. Then his best friend and former colleague is charged with a brutal double murder, and Daley is instantly catapulted into a high-profile investigation involving the prestigious law firm that just booted him.

As he prepares his case, Daley uncovers the firm's dirtiest secrets. It doesn't take long for him to discover that in this trial, ambition, friendship, greed, and long-standing grudges will play just as important a role as truth and justice.

Meet Bonnie Marsden, a forty-five-year-old mother of four who hires herself out as a housekeeper when she loses her job as a loans officer in a small Nova Scotia town. But Bonnie ends up doing much more than housework as mystery, mayhem and murder abound in her home town of Membertou County. Each week brings a startling new case that needs cleaning up: a child with Downs Syndrome is found frozen to death in the woods; Bonnie's son Robbie is accused of vandalism; and the local game warden is found dead in his own kitchen.

Forthright, likable Joe Stratford is the kind of local businessman everybody trusts, for good reason. But it’s 1982, and even in Joe’s small town, values are in upheaval: not just property values, either. Enter Marcus Burns, a would-be master of the universe whose years with the IRS have taught him which rules are meant to be broken. Before long he and Joe are new best friends—and partners in an investment venture so complex that no one may ever understand it. Add to this Joe’s roller coaster affair with his mentor’s married daughter. The result is as suspenseful and entertaining as any of Jane Smiley’s fiction.

On the first day of school, high-school principal Tom Gardner thinks his biggest problem is finding the shipment of textbooks for his wife Claire's English class; but the most difficult ordeal of his life is about to begin. Tom's real troubles start when he meets a new student, Kent Arens, who turns out to be smart, well-mannered, a star athlete-and the illegitimate son Tom never knew he had, conceived during a one-night stand 18 years ago, just before Tom married Claire. Tom swings between fear that Claire will find out about Kent and pride in his newfound son, but when the boy, unaware of his lineage, starts courting Tom's 16-year-old daughter, Chelsea, Tom is forced to reveal his secret. Claire, bitter and angry, asks Tom to move out of their home. Robby, their son, resents his new brother and takes out his anger on Kent on the football field. Chelsea, meanwhile, starts running with the wrong crowd. But while Tom and Claire grow farther apart, the three siblings decide to become friends. Together, they reunite Tom and Claire, restoring family harmony.

Faith Madison suffers from "empty nest syndrome" when her daughters leave for college. She decides to pursue her lifelong dream of attending law school. But her husband opposes the idea, and his threats turn their cold marriage to ice. When she attends the funeral of her stepfather, she meets a childhood boyfriend, and her marriage is plunged into crisis.

Follows the romance between Sara Morgan, a beautiful graduate student, and Liam O'Connor, an Irish-born folklore professor, whose odd superstitions may be connected to a rash of brutal murders.

The ironic account of an itinerant professional assassin attempting to complete the final assignment of his career. The assassin, known only as N, has traveled to the Basque region of France to eliminate a troublesome arms dealer. N has carried out this sort of mission a hundred times before, but this time nothing works as planned.

In "Black Orchids," Wolfe endures the perils involved in leaving the brownstone to attend a flower show. Ah, yet this is no ordinary flower show, but one in which the world's only black orchids are on display. Wolfe has as much fun as his enormous envy will allow until someone is murdered at the show.

Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, are called in by a consortium of publishers and writers to investigate several cases of false plagiarism, but the probe soon becomes complicated by murder.

The ironic account of an itinerant professional assassin attempting to complete the final assignment of his career. The assassin, known only as N, has traveled to the Basque region of France to eliminate a troublesome arms dealer. N has carried out this sort of mission a hundred times before, but this time nothing works as planned.

Drawn together by their past, four women meet once a week for forty years to share stories and create joy and luck out of unimaginable catastrophe.

These two streetwise novels bring you the story of Carlito Brigante: Puerto Rican, hustler, drug dealer, and survivor. Carlito’s Way follows him through Spanish Harlem’s no–exit world of gangs, drugs, pimping, and the Mob, from the 1940s to the early 1970s. After Hours finds Carlito released from a five–year prison stint, and the world he knows is gone: cocaine has replaced heroin and the disco scene is in full swing. If he wants to make money, Carlito needs to adapt… quickly.

Two years ago Sally left a Los Angeles magazine and accepted a position working for her hometown paper in Castleford , Connecticut . When an unexpected event lands Sally an offer to write a feature article for a New York magazine, Sally's world is turned upside down. A new boyfriend, a murder investigation and an introduction to Cassy Cochran, president of DBS TV network set the stage for this highly suspenseful and romantic story.  

It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement. The boy turns out to hold the key to both the secrets of nuclear fission and breakthroughs in the time continuum. As he brainstorms with Robert Oppenheimer, he catches a glimpse of the coming war and becomes determined to ward off the cataclysm. In a race against time-and surrounded by figures from American history past and present, including Albert Einstein, Grover Cleveland, and Abraham Lincoln-he battles to save not just himself, but humanity.

Ten years and twelve million copies after the first printing of The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller brings to a poignant conclusion his story of the love affair between a wandering photographer and the conventional wife of an Iowa farmer.

In A Thousand Country Roads, Robert Kincaid initially finds himself with little but memories–memories of a lonely existence lived mostly on the road and memories of Francesca Johnson, the woman whose passion he stirred so briefly and with such power. Kincaid takes to the road again in what becomes a journey of discovery and surprise. With his dog Highway beside him, Kincaid begins a long winding run back to Roseman Bridge in Madison County, Iowa, returning to the place of his great love affair.

Living her own solitary life, Francesca still visits Roseman Bridge and reflects on her days and nights with Robert Kincaid. Cherishing the memory of the strange wandering man who changed her world, she vows to search for him.

Set in the upper Yukon River area of Alaska , this athabascan legend deals with a chief's difficult decision to leave behind two old women of the tribe one especially severe winter, thereby improving the chances of the rest of the people's survival. The consequences of that decision changed the tribe's traditions forever.

In a rollercoaster ride of doublecrosses and murder amidst the drug dealers, sleazemongers and black marketeers of Southern California and Tijuana, a San Diego police detective searches for a deadly killer: a 55-gallon drum of the toxic chemical Guthion.

Soulforge is the story of Raistlin's childhood in Solace and follows him on his adventures with his friends until the test in the Tower of Sorcery at Wayreth. It portrays him as a gifted, yet tortured young man, quick to learn yet hemmed in by his physical frailties. Yet, in spite of his tendency to say and do hurtful things, he still tries to do what he considers right, though things are confounded by his own ambitions, his own jealousies and the cruelty of the world around him. Despite this, his growing magical power does not go unnoticed by those who have an inkling of the war that is to come...

It's a cop's worst nightmare: a felon he or she sent to prison harbors a grudge, and when released, goes after the cop to extract revenge. That's exactly what happens to cop-turned-lawyer Stone Barrington when Herbert Mitteldorfer comes after Stone, his ex-partner, Dino Bacchetti, and their families and close friends. Somehow Mitteldorfer manages to disappear after every attack, and no one can find his hidey-hole or stop the victim list from growing longer and bloodier. Adding to Stone's problems are his romantic troubles--his longtime British girlfriend leaves in a huff, and the beautiful, sexy daughter of a Mafia don is panting to get him into bed.

Chief of Police Holly Barker must find out who is killing prospective Florida real estate buyers and why. Meanwhile two new men enter her life--a suave retiree from New York and a handsome FBI agent masquerading as a prospective buyer. One is obviously a phony--but which one?

"MORE BEER," quoth the griffin. Man's reign on Earth is almost over. Waiting in the wings are the creatures of myth and legend that our reality has denied existence for too long: the boisterous griffin, the thoughtful sasquatch, and the most dangerous of all, the charming, but devious, unicorn...  

Tired of being unappreciated, North, a precocious nine-year-old boy, sues his parents for his freedom and embarks on a worldwide search for the perfect parents.

A comedic depiction of the snafus caused by red tape and regulations among spacegoing naval vessels.            

We are the alien settlers and destroyers.  only one being on a distant planet has survived and his chances aren’t good – but he’s got a surprise for us!

A father could teach his son a lot of important things, but combat on the freeways wasn't one of them...not when the kid was eighteen and too full of himself to survive. But revenge did have its compensations!  

In the short story The Electric Ant, Philip. K. Dick is expressing his sarcastical opinion of man in society and man's inability to distinguish between the truth and fantasy. Using his main character's life, Garson Poole, the author illustrates teh delusion of mankind's freedom. This delusion is demonstrated by three components of Garson's life: his automated reality chip, and his emotional and physical makeup as an oranic robot.

The Captain can save the ship - if they used his brain.  The finest passenger ship of the future is lost in space.  getting back will require a terrible sacrifice.  

Scientists are building the ultimate soldier.  If they make him smart enough to fight, they’ll never be able to rust them.

As the musical theme from Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" begins, old-time radio fans will know what's coming--the Green Hornet's fight against crime. The Hornet is the alias of Britt Reid, the daily Sentinel's publisher, who pursues racketeers and swindlers in four original episodes collected in this program. A full cast gives voice to his comrades--Kato, his faithful valet; Ed Lowry, the eager reporter; Casey, his devoted secretary; and other stalwarts of the series.

The program features four hilarious episodes from the original BBC television sound-tracks in which Cleese is joined by Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs and Connie Booth.