07.30.07
Morrigan’s Cross — Audio book by Nora Roberts
Morrigan’s Cross is a historical audiobook by Nora Roberts. It’s published by Brilliance Audio Inc and narrated by Dick Hill.
Standing on the cliffs of 12th century Ireland following the disappearance of his twin, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith is visited by the goddess Morrigan and is charged with the ultimate of tasks: saving his and all future worlds.
His enemy, the beautiful but deadly vampire queen Lilith, has had over two thousand years experience in cruelly killing and changing humans into one of her own – including Hoyt’s brother, Cian. Now, Hoyt, a sorcerer, must travel across the world and through time to find and train the five others Morrigan has prophesized will join him as a circle and do battle against Lilith’s army of vampires on Samhain in the land of Geall. But just who is the witch, the shape-changer, the scholar, the warrior and the vampire? How will this unlikely band of six prepare and become one with less than three months until the possible end of the world?
Following the arrival of Glenna Ward – a modern day witch with a knack for making her own kind of magic, the kind that makes his heart melt – Hoyt must find the strength to save the world, and a love that knows no bounds. First in a trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
07.27.07
The Diet Code — Audio Book
The Diet Code is a new approach to healthy living written by Stephen Lanzalotta.
As a master baker and craftsman, Stephen Lanzalotta had been applying the mathematical principles of the Golden Ratio for more than twenty years. His realization that this ancient, universal formula, used by Da Vinci and other great geniuses of the Renaissance, also held the secret to optimal nutrition and health led him to apply it to his own diet and the menu at his popular cafe. The weight loss and sense of well-being that he and his customers experienced convinced him that he had cracked the diet code, discovering a simple, natural, and nutritious approach to healthy eating that is as easy as I, 2, 3.
The Diet Code is a unique approach to eatmg well based on a mathematical phenomenon that’s been around for centuries but has never before been applied to diet. Now prepare to lose weight and get healthy by asking yourself “What would Da Vinci eat?”
Stephen Lanzalotta is a master woodworker, painter, baker, and chef He studied microbiology and biochemistry at the University of Vermont. After working for fifteen years as a woodworker, he opened Sophia’s, a popular eatery in Portland, Maine, where customers savor the ancient principles of The Diet Code in his famous breads and foods.
07.26.07
Doctor Who – Space Pirates Audio Book
Doctor Who – Space Pirates published by BBC Audiobooks Ltd.
“We’ve landed ourselves in the middle of some sort of war in Space!”
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe become victims of piracy when they materialise on a space beacon, minutes before it is literally blown to pieces. So begins their quest to be reunited with the TARDIS, whilst treading perilously across the paths of the Interstella Space Corps and a gang of murderous bandits.
The eccentric prospector Milo Clancey gives the travellers passage in his ageing spaceship but the old man is himself the focus of Space Corps investigations. Could he possibly be behind the destruction and salvage of so many beacons in the sector? What is the position of Madeleine Issigri, who runs her father’s mining corporation or the planet Ta – and how might a locked room provide the answer to this mystery?
Half the galaxy is spanned in a game of cat and mouse between the law enforcers – led by no-nonsense General Hermack and his V-Ship crew – and the pirates Caven and Dervish, who will apparently stop at nothing to continue their lucrative racket.
This six-part adventure, brimming with visions of space travel in the 21st century, offers excitement on a grand scale and was the penultimate story of the second Doctor’s TV era.
07.24.07
The Book of the Dead
The Book of the Dead is an audiobook written by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit…
His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime…
A young woman with an extraordinary past, on the edge of a violent breakdown…
An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala..
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are coauthors of the bestselling novels Relic, Mount Dragon, Reliquary, Riptide, Thunderhead, The Ice Limit, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life with Crows, Brimstone , and Dance of Death . Douglas Preston , a regular contributor to The New Yorker, worked for the American Museum of Natural History. He is an expert horseman who has ridden thousands of miles across the West. Lincoln Child is a former book editor and systems analyst who has published numerous anthologies of ghost stories and supernatural tales. The authors are working on their next Pendergast novel;
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Scott Brick has read several Time Warner AudioBooks, Including the unabridged versions of The Lion’s Game, Up Country, ‘and Night Fall by Nelson DeMille, The First Counsel, The Millionaires , and Zero Game by Brad Meltzer , and The Ice Limit by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
07.23.07
Getting To Yes – Audio Book
Getting To Yes is a self help audiobook by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton. Publisher is Simon & Schuster.
Getting to Yes is a straightforward, universally applicable method for negotiating personal and professional disputes without getting taken — and without getting angry.
It offers a concise, step-by-step, proven strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict — whether it involves parents and children, neighbors, bosses and employees, customers or corporations, tenants or diplomats. Based on the work of Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deal continually with all levels of negotiations and conflict resolutions from domestic to business to international, Getting to Yes tells you how to:
* Separate the people from the problem
* Focus on interests, not positions
* Work together to create opinions that will satisfy both parties
* Negotiate successfully with people who are more powerful, refuse to play by the rules, or resort to “dirty tricks”
07.22.07
Gentleman and Players — Audio Book
Gentleman and Players is an audiobook by Joanne Harris.
‘Audere, agere, auferre’. To dare, to strive, to conquer
For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald s Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years. But this year the wind of unwelcome change is blowing, and Straitley is finally contemplating retirement. He is joined this term by five new faculty members, including one who holds intimate and dangerous knowledge of St. Oswald’s ways and secrets. Harboring dark ties to the school’s past, this young teacher has arrived with one terrible goal: to destroy St. Oswald’s.
As the new term gets under way, a number of incidents befall students and faculty alike. Beginning as small annoyances, they are initially overlooked. But as the incidents escalate, it soon becomes apparent that a darker undercurrent is stirring within the school. With St. Oswald’s unraveling, only Straitley stands in the way of its ruin. The veteran teacher faces a formidable opponent, however—a master player with a bitter grudge and a strategy that has been meticulously planned to the final move, a secret game with very real, very deadly consequences.
A harrowing tale of cat and mouse, this riveting, hypnotically atmospheric novel showcases New York Times bestselling author Joanne Harris’s astonishing storytelling talent as never before.
Joanne Harris is the author of six other critically acclaimed novels, a collection of short fiction, and two cookbook-memoirs. Half French and half British, she lives in England.
Steven Pacey’s extensive work in the West End includes The Birthday Party, Things We Do Tor love, By Jeeves (Olivier Award nomination) and being directed by Harold Pinter in his successful productions of Celebration and The Room. Steven has appeared in numerous TV roles and has made over 300 radio broadcasts.
07.20.07
The Righteous Men — Audio Book
The Righteous Men is an audiobook by Sam Bourne. Dennis Boutsikaris is the narrator and this book is published by Simon & Schuster.
A series of brutal murders around the globe, an ancient prophecy of the end of the world… an international bestseller in the blockbuster tradition of The Last Templar
New York Times reporter Will Monroes investigation of a rash of seemingly random killings takes a dark and dangerous turn when his wife is kidnapped by shadowy enemies who want him to stop. Desperate to save his wife, Will follows the clues into the heart of New York’s Hassidic community, and learns that the stakes of his quest are higher then he could ever imagine. As the death toll rises, he enlists an eccentric Kabbalah expert to decode his wife’s captors’ cryptic messages. The trail they pursue leads inexorably to a set of ancient texts and a prophecy that will save the world… or destroy all of life as we know it.
What will happen when the one secret that has kept the world safe for thousands of years is revealed to all? In The Righteous Men , a blistering, high-concept thriller filled with mystery, romance and suspense, Sam Bourne rakes listeners deep into the hidden worlds of fundamentalist religion, mysticism and biblical prophecies, in a visionary tale as frightening as it is entertaining,
‘ Ever since Dan Brown inspired a flood of mystic-religious fiction with The Da Vinci Code, it was inevitable a contender far his crown would emerge. Finally, he is among us. His name is Sam Bourne and his book is The Righteous Man. .. If anything, The Righteous Man is more readable than The Da Vinci Code—the sense of menace is darker and the characters are more believable.” – Esquire (UK)
Sam Bourne is a pseudonym for the award-winning journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Freedland . He writes weekly columns in both the Guardian and the London Evening Standard , as well as a monthly piece for the Jewish Chronicle . He also presents BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series, The Long View . The author of Jacob’s Gift and Bring Home the Revolution , Freedland , named by the Financial Times as one of the worlds most influential commentators, lives in London.
Dennis Boutsikaris won an OBIE Award for his performance in Sight Unseen and played Mozart in Amadeus on Broadway. Among his films are *batteries not included, The Dream Team, and Boys On the Side . His many television credits include And Then There Was One, Chasing the Dragon and 100 Center Street .
07.16.07
Symptoms of Withdrawal Audio Book
Symptoms of Withdrawal is an audiobook by Christopher Kennedy Lawford.
“Sing no sad songs for Christopher Kennedy Lawford. We are fortunate to have his story in prose that is jazzy, rocking, sometimes dark but, in the end, bright with hope.” — Frank McCourt
Born into enormous privilege as well as burdened by gut-wrenching family tragedy, Christopher Kennedy Lawford now shares his life story, offering a rare glimpse into the private worlds of both Washington politics and the Hollywood elite.
As the firstborn child of famed Rat Pack actor Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy, sister to John F. Kennedy, Christopher Kennedy Lawford grew up with presidents and movie stars as close relatives and personal friends.
In spite of a seemingly idyllic childhood, Lawford’s early life was marked by the traumatic assassinations of his beloved uncles, Jack and Bobby, and he soon succumbed to the burgeoning drug scene. With compelling realism mixed with equal doses of self-deprecating wit, youthful bravado, and hard-earned humility, Symptoms of Withdrawal chronicles Lawford’s deep and long descent into near-fatal drug and alcohol addiction, and his subsequent formidable path back to the sobriety he has preserved for the past twenty years.
Symptoms of Withdrawal is a poignantly honest portrayal of Lawford’s life as a Kennedy, a journey overflowing with hilarious insider anecdotes, heartbreaking accounts of Lawford’s addictions to narcotics as well as to celebrity and, ultimately, the redemption he found by asserting his own independence.
07.12.07
Poor People — Audio Book
Poor People is a classic book written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, now as an audiobook.
Patrick Cullen and Julia Emlen read the letters with deep emotion, exhibiting the love, frustration, and ultimate sorrow felt by the characters. Cullen’s portrayal of Dievushkin’s bouts of drunkenness, as well as his frantic efforts to save Dobroselova, are marvelous and intense.AudioFile
On this excellent audiobook, the epistolary format is well presented by the single-voiced first-person readings of Cullen and Emlen. Both readers express the hopeless love and rage that the two correspondents capture in their heartfelt letters.KLIATT
As both a masterpiece of Russian populist writing and a parody of the entire genre, Poor People is an early example of Dostoevskys genius.
Written as a series of letters, Poor People tells the tragic tale of a petty clerk and his impossible love for a young girl. Longing to help her and her family, he sells everything he can, but his kindness leads him only into more desperate poverty, and ultimately into debauchery. As a typical man of the underground, he serves as the embodiment of the belief that happiness can only be achieved with riches.
This work is remarkable for its vivid characterizations, especially of Dievushkin, the clerk, solely by means of his letters to the young girl and her answers to him.
Patrick Cullen, a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., where he continues to live and work in the theater.
07.11.07
Dostoevsky — Audio Book
Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes is an audiobook by Paul Strathern.
“A fine guide, especially recommended for students….Provide[s]
concise overviews…. Makes an easily digested introduction.”Bookwatch
“Succinct and easy-to-read synopsis of the unusual-even dysfunctional-life.”
Foreword Magazine
After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years old, Dostoevsky never took things lightly. His great novels burst upon the European literary scene like a succession of thunderbolts. His understanding of the darker and more extreme recesses of the human mind cast a forceful light into these areas of experience. The raw psychology and passionate involvement of his books galvanized writers and thinkers as disparate as Nietzsche and Kafka.
In Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Dostoevsky’s life and ideas, and explains their influence on literature and on man’s struggle to understand his place in the world. The book also includes selections from Dostoevsky’s writings, a list of his chief works in English translation, a chronology of Dostoevsky’s life and times, and recommended reading for those who wish to push further.
Paul Strathern earned a degree in philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, and has lectured in philosophy and mathematics. A Somerset Maugham prize winner, he has written books on history, philosophy, and travel as well as five novels. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including the Observer (London) and the Irish Times. He lives and writes in London.
Earphones Awards recipient Robert Whitfield was born in England and worked for the BBC for ten years as a radio news announcer and also worked as a narrator for the Royal National Institute for the Blind in London. In addition to narrating for Blackstone Audiobooks, he involves himself in numerous stage-acting projects in the United States and Europe.
