08.30.07
Justice Denied — Audio Book
Justice Denied is an audiobook written by J A Jance and narrated by Alan Nebelthau.
The investigation of LaShawn Tompkins’s murder seemed straightforward enough. Upon his release from death row, the ex-drug-dealer returned to his old neighborhood where he was gunned down on his mother’s doorstep. Just another case of turf warfare. At least that’s what it looks like on the surface to Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont, who’s been handed the assignment under the strictest confidence.
But as Beau starts digging, the situation becomes more complicated than he’d thought. It appears that LaShawn really had turned over a new leaf at the King Street Mission and his murder was pre-meditated. Someone had targeted the man for death.
Meanwhile, Beau’s lover and fellow cop, Mel Soames, is given her own hush-hush investigation. A routine check on registered sex offenders has revealed a disturbing pattern: they’re dying off at an alarming rate, and not all due to natural causes. Details of the latest death suggest an inside job, but Mel isn’t letting this go.
Suddenly, Mel’s investigation becomes entangled with Beau’s, and the two begin to uncover a nightmarish conspiracy that could involve people in high places—including their own top brass.
08.28.07
The Death of Dalziel — Audio Book
The Death of Dalziel is an audibook by Reginald Hill.
The highly anticipated return of Dalziel and Pascoe, the hugely popular police duo and stars of the long-running BBC TV series, in a psychological thriller.
Can it be true? Has the Fat Man really sung?
Caught in the blast of a huge Semtex explosion, the only thing preventing Superintendent Andy Dalziel from stepping through Death’s door might be his own size (and indomitable willpower).
As he lies on a hospital bed, it falls on DCI Peter Pascoe to seek justice for Andy. The security services have written it off as an accident; the terrorist suspects have paid for their clumsiness with their lives.
Who, then, are the Templars, a shadowy extremist conspiracy known to exact summary justice on their enemies? Pascoe is certain of a conspiracy and the attempted murder of Yorkshire Police’s most inept officer only convinces him further.
But if the plot is complex, the climax will prove astounding…
08.22.07
Body Surfing — Audio Book
Body Surfing is an audiobook written by Anita Shreve and narrated by Lolita Davidovich.
At the age of twenty-nine. Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing after this tragic double blow, she answers the ad of a couple seeking a tutor for their teenage daughter and ends up spending the summer at the cottage of the Edwards family on the stunning New Hampshire coast.
No sooner does Sydney settle into the household routine – acting as something between a servant and a family member – than the Edwardses’ two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, show up for a weekend. Ben is a real-estate executive, Jeff is a professor. Both are handsome, both are accomplished, both are competitive. And both seem completely enraptured by Sydney.
As the weeks pass in this seaside idyll, Sydney enters a strange love triangle, infused with old rivalries and bitter secrets she can only guess at. And she begins to fear that the brothers’ competiton for her affections could tear apart their family – and the fragile existence she has painstakingly rebuilt.
With the deep insight into human emotion that makes her work both intensely powerful and profoundly satisfying, and written in language both true and spare, this is Anita Shreve at her finest, telling an unforgettable and suprising story about the longing for family, the resilience of the heart, and the supreme courage it takes to love.
08.21.07
Captain David Grief — Audio Book
Captain David Grief is an audiobook by Jack London. Brian Emerson is narrator and the book is published by Blackstone Audio Inc.
“Brian Emerson contributes a well-paced reading and an authentic range of voices. His David Grief is just right: self-assured and always in control.”AudioFile
Captain David Grief, South Pacific tycoon, owns plantations and trading stations from New Guinea to Samoa, pearling fisheries in the Paumotus, and rubber acreages in the Louisiades. His own vessels recruit contract labor, and he operates three steamers on ocean runs. He came to
the South Seas at the age of twenty and, blessed with a blond skin impervious to tropical rays,
became browner through two decades as a true “son of the sun.”
At forty years of age, he looks no more than thirty. His manifold enterprises flourish. His is the golden touch. But he plays the South Sea game not for the gold but for the game’s sake and for the daring life of the island rover.
This book, originally published as A Son of the Sun, gives David Grief’s adventures through eight
long tales of danger and daring told in Jack London’s graphic and colorful style.
Born in San Francisco in 1876, Jack London never knew who his father was. His name came from his stepfather, John Griffith London. The family was poor, and London’s early education has been described as “spotty,” though he read voraciously. To help the family, he held many different jobs, from peddling papers to working in a cannery.
At nineteen, he entered high school, followed by one semester of college. In 1897, London hunted for gold in the Klondike and returned with scurvy and story ideas. By 1899, his work was selling briskly. At one time he was acclaimed the highest paid writer in the world, but bad investments and an inability to manage his money kept London poor throughout his life. In 1916, at age forty, he died on his beloved ranch near Sonoma, California.
08.19.07
The Tin Roof Blowdown — Audio Book
The Tin Roof Blowdown is an audiobook written by James Lee Burke. It’s narrated by Will Patton and published by Simon & Schuster.
Dave Robicheaux returns in another Bayou adventure, this one more gruesome and gut-wrenching than any that have come before. Hurricane Katrina has ravaged New Orleans, and it has left the streets and buildings flooded and the city awash with opportunists, looters, and vicious criminals. There is no order, no law.
Police are shooting randomly at innocent people, prison guards have abandoned their posts, bodies float through the streets and hang from trees, and every drug dealer, murderer and rapist is out taking advantage of the desperate lawlessness that holds the city captive.
In the midst of it all is Robicheaux, doing his best to help regulate the post-Katrina madness, all the while on a dogged search for a pair of dangerous fugitives, a dope-addicted, fallen priest, and a vigilante insurance salesman who takes his family’s protection too far. This promises to be the most taxing and emotional case Robicheaux has had to work.
In his singular style that defies genre, James Lee Burke has created a haunting picture of life in New Orleans after Katrina. Filled with complex characters and vivid descriptions of the destruction and death that gripped the Big Easy, The Tin Roof Blowdown is an action-packed crime thriller as well as a poignant story of what disaster and desperation can do to people.
08.16.07
The Bourne Betrayal — Audio Book
The Bourne Betrayal is an audibook written by Eric Van Lustbader and narrated by Jeremy Davidson.
Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA, Martin Lindros, who disappeared in Africa while tracking shipments of yellowcake uranium. Once safely back in America, Lindros persuades Bourne to help track the money trail of terrorists buying the nuclear material in Odessa.
But once there, Bourne is hampered by confusing flashbacks of unfamiliar places and events and he wonders: Is someone brainwashing him in order to throw him off the trail? Worse, is the man he saved in Africa really Martin Lindros? Now, Bourne is alone gathering evidence while trying to stay one step ahead of the terrorists who won’t let anyone stand in their way of destroying the U.S.
08.15.07
Blaze — Audio Book
Blaze is an audiobook by Richard Bachman. It’s narrated by Ron McLarty and there is a foreword by Stephen King.
Drafted thirty-five years ago on the same Olivetti typewriter he next used to write Carrie, BLAZE was dismissed by King as too sweet when he first decided to publish “the Bachman books,” and then lost among boxes of papers that wound up at the University of Maine’s Fogler Library. Fortunately, it was recovered this past fall.
When he began reading it, King realized he’d written a Bachman novel of surprising strength—a crime story not just sweet but sad, suspenseful, and sustained by classic lineaments of fate and character. King has refined the story to give listeners his best Bachman novel.
The life of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr.—the crimes committed against him and the crimes he himself commits, including the kidnapping he is doomed to attempt is a gripping and unforgettable experience. King’s last Bachman novel was The Regulators, published simultaneously with Desperation in 1996. The others are Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Running Man, and Thinner.
08.13.07
Evil, Inc — Audio Book
Evil, Inc is an audiobook by Glenn Kaplan.
“Kaplan takes kill-or-be-killed business ideologies to psychopathic new levels in this deftly plotted corporate thriller.It’s Donald Trump meets Hannibal Lecter, with highly engaging results.”
Publishers Weekly
Ken Olson’s world is shattered by a corporate crime which his company must cover up at any cost. Stripped of everything but his passion for justice, Olson discovers the dark and dangerous world behind the corporate jets, the hired killers who secretly do the corporation’s dirtiest work, the clandestine offshore bank accounts, and the greedy machinations of the lucky few at the top.
Olson’s struggle pits him against a host of deadly rivals: a psychopathic CEO who has hijacked the corner office, a brutal killer from the private military underworld, a network anchorwoman without a hint of conscience, an aristocrat who pulls the strings of power, and a hot young actress who makes sex a tool of deception.
08.10.07
The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make
The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make is an audiobook by Sean Covey.
The challenges teens face today are tougher than at any time in history: academic stress, parent communication, media bombardment, dating drama, abuse, bullying, addictions, depression, and peer pressure, just to name a few. And, like it or not, the choices teens make while navigating these challenges can make or break their futures.
In The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make, Sean Covey, author of the international bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, gives teens the strong advice they need to make informed and wise decisions. Using real stories from teens around the world, Sean shows teens how to succeed in school, make good friends, get along with parents, wisely handle dating and sex issues, avoid or overcome addictions, build self-esteem, and much more. Jam-packed with original cartoons, inspiring quotes, and fun quizzes, this innovative bok will help teens not only survive but thrive during their teen years and beyond.
Building upon the legacy of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, this is an indispensable resource for teens everywhere.
08.09.07
Alan Bennett – Triple Bill
Alan Bennett – Triple Bill is an audiobook containing three classic Alan Bennett adaptations, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and released for the first time.
A Visit from Miss Prothero
Since Mr Dodsworth retired, he has had all the time in the world. Then he has a visitor from his old firm – Miss Prothero, who is eager to tell him all the news…
Say Something Happened
A naive, inexperienced social worker calls on an elderly couple – but does she need more help than they do?
Two in Torquay
A middle-aged man and a middle-aged woman engage in polite conversation in a hotel on the Cornish Riviera. But neither is quite who they appear to be. Who is deceiving whom?
Amusing, ironic and affectionate, these three adaptations feature Hugh Lloyd, Patricia Routledge, Judi Dench, Thora Hird, Brian Wilde, Imelda Staunton and Alan Bennett himself.
