10.30.07
Star Trek Gateways: What Lay Beyond
Star Trek Gateways: What Lay Beyond is an audio book written by Peter David and read by David Kaye.
Created by the incalculably ancient Iconians, whose transcendent technology is quantum levels beyond that of the Federation and its allies, the Gateways offer instantaneous transport across unimaginable distances.
Throughout the known galaxy, from Deep Space Nine(TM) to the New Frontier, from the Delta Quadrant to the bridge of the Starship Enterprise (TM), the sudden reactivation of the Gateways has destabilized interstellar relations between planets and cultures previously separated by countless light-years.
Starfleet’s finest have coped with the crisis as best they can, but circumstances have forced several valiant commanders to leap through separate Gateways into the unknown. Captain James T. Kirk of the original Starship Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation® Colonel Kira Nerys of Deep Space Nine Captain Kathryn Janeway of the U.S.S. Voyager (TM) Captains Calhoun and Shelby of Star Trek : New Frontier Commander Nick Keller of the U.S.S. Challenger All of these heroes, for their own reasons, have taken the ultimate gamble: hurling themselves personally through a Gateway without any knowledge or forewarning of what lay beyond.
Each must face their own unique challenge, struggling to find a way back to the ships and homes they left behind. And waiting behind at least one of the Gateways are the ageless Iconians themselves, the primordial architects of the mysterious portals causing chaos throughout the Milky Way galaxy. Where did they disappear to, many long eons ago, and what do they want now?
The answer lies on the other side…. What Lay Beyond brings the Gateways saga to a spectacular finish, in an all-star collaboration by six popular, bestselling Star Trek authors. Among them, Diane Carey, Peter David, Keith R.A. Decandido, Christie Golden, Robert Greenberger, and Susan Wright have written dozens of Star Trek novels. This is their first mega-collaboration.
10.23.07
Doctor Who at the BBC: The Tenth Doctor
The BBC Doctor Who blog is my answer to the great interest in the Doctor Who Audio Books. That will be where I gather every title I find and also publish other related content about Doctor Who.
“Doctor Who at the BBC: The Tenth Doctor” is another audio book about the cult doctor…
The actress behind the much-loved Sarah Jane Smith is your guide through this exciting, surprising and often funny mix of radio and TV features, all based around the worlds of contemporary Doctor Who.
Travel behind the scenes in the company of David Tennant, Billie Piper, Freema Agyeman, Catherine Tate, Sarah Parish, Jessica Hynes, Thomas Sangster, and many other stars of series Two and Three.
Learn more about how Doctor Who is made from Russell T Davies, Susie Liggat and Edward Thomas – and eavesdrop on an unusual phone call to Executive Producer Julie Gardner!
Along the way you’ll enjoy many fascinating Doctor Who-related items from Blue Peter, Breakfast, Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, front Row and Jo Whiley Meets Doctor Who – Back in Time series!
With laughter from the Dead ringers and I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue teams thrown in, and a bonus peak at The Sarah Jane Adventures, this exclusive CD is guaranteed to provide two hours of enjoyment for Doctor Who fans young, old and in-between!
10.22.07
Key of Knowledge — Nora Roberts Audio Book
Key of Knowledge is an audiobook written by Nora Roberts and read by Susan Ericksen.
What happens when the very gods depend on mortals for help? That’s what three very different young women find out when they are invited to Warrior’s Peak.
To Dana Steele books and the knowledge they hold are the key to contentment. But now that search for knowledge must include the second key needed to release three souls held captive by an evil god.
She won’t be alone, for she’s formed fast frienships with two very different women. She can’t allow herself to be distracted by the return of the man who broke her heart so long ago, for a danger beyond anyone’s imagination is determined to keep her from completing her quest.
10.21.07
Hearts in Atlantis — Stephen King
Hearts in Atlantis is another audio book written by Stephen King.
Taking its cue from the fractured times it describes between 1960 and today, each beautifully interwoven tale is deeply rooted in the sixties, each is haunted by the Vietnam war.
This is a book about a group of peers from small-town Harwich, Connecticut:
in 1960, there’s a newcomer to the town, who introduces Bobby Garfield to the joy of reading and the horrors of ‘low men in yellow coats’;
by 1966, it’s bellbottom pants, pot, patchouli and peace-signs and at Maine University, Pete, who has fallen victim to the addictive game of ‘hearts in Atlantis’, will learn a lesson in humanity;
by 1983, ‘Nam vet ‘Blind Willie’ is paying penance;
in 1999, there are reunions, funerals, and the eternal questions – ‘why we’re in Vietnam’; a year later, Bobby comes home to where his heart is, where the past is always present, as ‘Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling’.
10.19.07
Running with the Bulls — Hemingway Autobiography
Running with the Bulls is an autobiography by Valerie Hemingway, personal secretary of Ernest and married to his son.
A chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face-to-face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicked into place. For the next two years, Valerie devoted her life to Hemingway and his wife, Mary, traveling with them through beloved old haunts in Spain and France and living with them during the tumultuous final months in Cuba.
In name a personal secretary, but in reality a confidante and sharer of the great man’s secrets and sorrows, Valerie literally came of age in the company of one of the greatest literary lions of the twentieth century.
Five years after his death, Valerie became a Hemingway herself when she married the writer’s estranged son Gregory. Now, at last, she tells the story of the incredible years she spent with this extravagantly talented and tragically doomed family.
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10.15.07
The Nick Adams Stories — Ernest Hemingway
The Nick Adams Stories is a biographic audio book written by Ernest Hemingway and read by Stacy Keach.
“Of the place where he had been a boy he had written well enough. As well as he could then.” So thought a dying writer in an early version of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.”
The writer of course was Hemingway. The place was the Michigan of his boyhood summers, where he remembered himself as Nick Adams.
The famous “Nick Adams” stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent — a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway’s life.
In this arrangement Nick Adams emerges clearly as the first in a long line of Hemingway’s fictional selves. Later versions, from Jake Barnes and Frederic Henry to Richard Cantwell and Thomas Hudson, were all to have behind them part of Nick’s history and, correspondingly, part of Hemingway’s.
10.14.07
Murder List Audio Book
Murder List is an audio book written by Julie Garwood and read by Joyce Bean.
When Chicago detective Alec Buchanan is offered a prime position with the FBI, he takes it as the perfect opportunity to leave the Windy City and follow in his brothers’ footsteps to the top echelons of law enforcement. But first he must complete one last assignment: acting as a glorified bodyguard to hotel heiress Regan Hamilton Madison. The gorgeous exec has become entangled in some potentially deadly business: Someone has e-mailed her a graphic crime-scene photo – and the victim is no stranger.
Regan suspects that the trouble started when she agreed to help a journalist friend expose a shady self-help guru who preys on lonely, vulnerable women. In fact, the smooth-as-an-oil-slick Dr. Lawrence Shields may have been responsible for the death of one of his devotees. Hoping to find some damning evidence, Regan attends a Shields seminar.
At the gathering, the doctor persuades his guests to partake in an innocent little “cleansing” exercise. He asks them to make a list of the people who have hurt or deceived them over the years, and poses the question: Would your world be a better place if these people ceased to exist? Treating the exercise as a game, Regan plays along.
The experience is all but forgotten – until the first person on Regan’s list turns up dead. Shock turns to horror when other names from the list start to surface as corpses, and a harrowing tango of desire and death is set into motion. Now brutal murders seem to stalk Regan’s every move – and a growing attraction to Alec may compromise her safety, while stirring up tender emotions she thought she could no longer feel. Yet as the danger intensifies and a serial killer circles ever closer, Regan must discover who has turned her private revenge fantasies into grisly reality.
10.12.07
Face the Fire — Nora Roberts
Face the Fire is an audio book by Nora Roberts and read by Sandra Burr.
Mia Devlin knows what it is like to love with your whole heart – and then watch your love walk away. Years ago, she and Sam Logan shared an incredible bond built on passion, legend, and fate. But then one day he fled Three Sisters Island, leaving her lost in memories of the magic they shared – and determined to live without love.
The new owner of the island’s only hotel, Sam has returned to Three Sisters with hopes of winning back Mia’s affections. He is puzzled when she greets him with icy indifference – for the chemistry between them is still sizzling and true. Angry, hurt and deeply confused, Mia refuses to admit that a passion for Sam still burns in her heart. But she’ll need his help – and his powers – to face her greatest, most terrifying challenge. And as the deadline for breaking a centuries-old curse draws near, they must take the first steps toward destiny – and come together to turn back the dark…
10.10.07
Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon — Audio Book
Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon is another audiobook in the Doctor Who series. Malcolm Hulke is the author and Geoffrey Beevers is the narrator.
The evil Master has stolen the Time Lords’ file on the horrifying Doomsday Weapon with which, when he finds it, he can blast whole planets out of existence and make himself ruler of the Galaxy!
The Time Lords direct Doctor Who and Jo Grant in their TARDIS to a bleak planet in the year 2471, were they find colonists from Earth under threat from mysterious, savage, monster lizards with frightful claws!
And hidden upon the planet is the Doomsday Weapon, for which the master is intently searching. . .
Geoffrey Beevers, who played an incarnation of the master in the classic BBC TV Doctor Who series, reads Malcolm Hulke’s complete and unabridged novelisation, based on the TV adventure Colony In Space and first published by Target Books in 1974.
