November 12, 2008
- The Secret Life of Bees
Rating:
Awards: Book Sense Book of the Year Award Finalist, Adult Fiction, 2003
Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Narrator: Jenna Lamia
Category: Fiction
Publisher: HighBridge Audio
Release Date: 2003
Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
Unabridged
An Overview:
Smart, haunted, and motherless, Lily Owens is largely left to her own devices. She is visited, nightly, by a small swarm of bees that mysteriously get into her bedroom. (…)
November 11, 2008
- The Firm
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Awards:
Author: John Grisham
Narrator: D.W. (…)
November 10, 2008
- The Namesake
Rating:
Awards: A.C.S. (…)
November 8, 2008
- Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death
Rating:
Awards:
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Narrator: Ethan Hawke
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Harper Audio
Release Date: 2003
Length: 6 hrs
Unabridged
An Overview:
In Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death , Billy Pilgrim is “unstuck in time.” He travels randomly through his life. (…)
November 6, 2008
- The Bluest Eye
Rating:
Awards: Oprah Book Club Selection, Audiofile Earphones Award
Author: Toni Morrison
Narrator: Toni Morrison and Ruby Dee
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Random House Audio
Release Date: 2007
Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
Abridged
An Overview:
In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison offers an intimate peek into the lived of a broken family in the South during the 1940's. (…)
November 5, 2008
- Ender's Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition
Rating:
Awards: Nebula Award Winner, Best Novel, 1985
AudioFile Earphones Award
Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1986
Author: Orson Scott Card
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison, and more
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Release Date: 2002
Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
Unabridged
An Overview:
Ender's Game is a classic science fiction book about a time in the future when humans have come into contact with a hostile alien race. (…)
November 4, 2008
- The Red Tent
Rating:
Awards: Book Sense Book of the Year Award Winner, Adult Fiction, 2001
Author: Anita Diamant
Narrator: Carol Bilger
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Release Date: 2000
Length: 12 hrs
Unabridged
An Overview:
The Red Tent, a NY Times bestselling novel written by Anita Diamant in 1997, is a feminist approach to the biblical story of Dina, sister of Joseph and daughter of Jacob. (…)
November 3, 2008
- All the Pretty Horses
Rating:
Awards: The National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Best Fiction, 1992
National Book Award Winner, Best Fiction, 1992
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Narrator: Frank Muller
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Harper Audio
Release Date: 2004
Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
Unabridged
An overview:
All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy is a unique coming of age story. (…)
October 31, 2008
- The Mists of Avalon
Rating:
Awards: Locus Award, 1984
Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
Narrator: Natasha Richardson
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Release Date: 1999
Length: 3 hrs
Abridged
An Overview:
In "The Mists of Avalon", Morgaine (more commonly today known as Morgan Le Fay) is struggling to save the Pagan culture in a country that is being swallowed by the developing Christian religion. (…)
October 30, 2008
- Morgan’s Run
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Awards:
Author: Colleen McCullough
Narrator: Tim Curry
Category: Historical Fiction
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Release Date: 2001
Length: 6 hours
Abridged
An overview:
Already having introduced her readers to the great Australian Outback in her wonderful saga, The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough now brings them even further back in history with Morgan’s Run, a historical fiction novel about the first penal colony settlers on the continent. (…)
October 29, 2008
- Airframe
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Awards:
Author: Michael Crichton
Narrator: Blair Brown
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
Release Date: 2001
Length: 4 hrs
Abridged
An Overview:
Airframe: An airplane in a large airline begins to fly sporadically, diving down and then veering up again several times, leaving four dead and more than fifty passengers wounded. (…)
October 28, 2008
- Four to Score
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Awards:
Author: Janet Evanovich
Narrator: CJ Critt
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Release Date: 2005
Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
Unabridged
An Overview:
Once again Stephanie Plum has her work cut out for her in Four to Score. (…)
October 27, 2008
- Hot Six
Rating:
Awards:
Author: Janet Evanovich
Narrator: Debi Mazar
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Release Date: 2000
Length: 3 hrs
Abridged
An Overview:
Stephanie is in the middle of everything in Hot Six. (…)
October 26, 2008
- High Five
Rating:
Awards:
Author: Janet Evanovich
Narrator: Lorelei King
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd. (…)
October 25, 2008
- One for the Money
Rating:
Awards:
Author: Janet Evanovich
Narrator: Lorelei King
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd. (…)
October 23, 2008
- Two for the Dough
Rating:
Awards:
Author: Janet Evanovich
Narrator: Lori Petty
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Release Date: 2000
Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
AbridgedAn Overview:
Two for the Dough is the second installment of the Stephanie Plum numbers series by Janet Evanovich. (…)
October 22, 2008
- Three to Get Deadly
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Awards:
Author: Janet Evanovich
Narrator: Lorelei King
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd. (…)
October 21, 2008
- Housekeeping
Rating:
Awards:
Author: Marilynne Robinson
Narrator: Becket Royce
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Release Date: 2005
Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
Unabridged
An Overview:
If you’re a fan of Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Gilead, you won’t be disappointed by her first novel Housekeeping. (…)
October 19, 2008
- On Chesil Beach
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Author: Ian McEwan
Narrator: Ian McEwan
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Random House Audio
Release Date: 2007
Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
Unabridged
An Overview:
On Chesil Beach is an exposition of one couple’s present and past, that centers on their tumultuous wedding night. (…)
October 18, 2008
- Naked in Death
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Awards:
Author: J. D. (…)
