Best Friends Forever: A Novel [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK]
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Best Friends Forever: A Novel [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK]
[CD]
Author: Weiner, Jennifer Baldwin, Kate Holmes, Rick
ISBN: 0-7435-8231-4
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Category: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Audio CD Simon & Schuster Audio
Weiner offers airtight proof that
the genre thrives with this clever, sad and sweet turn on Thelma and
Louise–style rage. Juggling the politics of broken families, heartbreaking
betrayal and shaky self-esteem, two girlhood pals--ugly duckling Addie and
wounded beauty Valerie--reconnect after their high school reunion, where Valerie
exacts a long-in-coming revenge on smug former beau Dan Swansea. But the payback
gets more complicated when police chief Jordan Novick, nursing a broken heart
and a crush-at-first-sight with Addie, is called in to investigate Dan's
disappearance. Along the way, Val and Addie stage what may be the funniest
not-quite-heist ever pulled off as they evade the heat over the missing Dan. The
big payoff, of course, is that Addie and Valerie mend the mean-girls
misunderstanding that drove them apart as teens and discover the shared pain and
loss that bound them as kids and, once again, as adults. This beach read will
win readers over with its wit and wisdom.
Hyperion
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Hyperion
Author: Various (Reader) .., The first half
of the Hyperion Cantos, this epic tells the tale of seve
ISBN:
1-4233-8140-8
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Category:
American Science Fiction And Fantasy
Audio CD Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged
Amazon.com Review On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war,
seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to
the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope--and a
terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands. A stunning
tour de force, this Hugo Award-winning novel is the first volume in a remarkable
new science fiction epic by the author of The Hollow Man. --This text refers to
the Mass Market Paperback edition. Review Each of [the pilgrim's] stories would
make a superb novella on its own. -- The New York Times Book Review, Gerald
Jonas --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
The Eleventh Victim CD [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK]
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The Eleventh Victim CD [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK]
Author:
Mcintyre, Kate (Reader) Mcintyre, Kate
ISBN:
1-4013-9311-X
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Category:
American Mystery & Suspense Fiction
Audio CD Hyperion
TV personality and bestseller Grace (Objection! with
Diane Clehane) makes her fiction debut with a less than compelling thriller
starring a heroine much like herself, Hailey Dean, a highly successful Atlanta
assistant DA who loses her fiancé to violence. After a final courtroom triumph,
the conviction of chef Clint Burrell Cruise for the murder of 11 prostitutes,
Dean resigns her prosecutor post and moves to Manhattan, where within two years
she has a new career as a therapist. When someone starts to murder her patients
with an m.o. similar to Cruise's, Dean becomes a suspect. Rather implausibly,
neither the NYPD nor Dean is aware that Cruise has been released from prison
after the reversal of his conviction on appeal.
Wyoming Brides [AUDIOBOOK] [CD] [UNABRIDGED]
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Wyoming Brides [AUDIOBOOK] [CD] [UNABRIDGED]
Author:
Macomber, Debbie Eby, Tanya (Reader)
ISBN:
1-4418-0747-0
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Category:
American Light Romantic Fiction
Audio CD Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged
Denim and Diamonds: Rancher Chase Brown has always loved Letty Ellison, but nine years ago she left their small Wyoming town, searching
for a different kind of life. Now she's come home to Red Springs with her dreams
in tatters—and a five-year-old child in tow. She's ready to trade the false
glitter of Hollywood for the true happiness of being a rancher's wife. Chase's
wife. But is it too late? The Wyoming Kid: Rancher Lonny Ellison is an ex-rodeo
cowboy who's used to the adulation of women. But that's something he doesn't get
from Joy Fuller. In fact, they argue constantly. His sister, Letty, says it's
because he's interested in Joy…and Lonny figures she's right. Can he convince
Joy that marriage to the Wyoming Kid will be as exciting as an eight-second bull
ride and as sweet as the cookies she likes to bake? “Macomber is known for her
honest portrayals of ordinary women in small-town America.” –
Blindman's Bluff CD
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Blindman's Bluff CD
Author: Kellerman, Faye
Greenberg, Mitchell (Reader)
ISBN:
0-06-176817-0
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Category:
American Mystery & Suspense Fiction
Audio CD HarperAudio
LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina
Lazarus, will be blindsided by a brutal multiple murder in this twisting tale of
suspense from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman. Someone has
broken into the exclusive Coyote Ranch compound of billionaire developer Guy
Kaffey and viciously gunned him down, along with his wife and four employees. It
doesn't take long for Peter and his trusted detectives to figure out that the
gruesome killings must be an inside job. But was the job pure murder/robbery or
something even more twisted? With leads taking the team across L.A., up and down
the Golden State, and into Mexico, Decker is plenty busy-and plenty thankful not
to have to worry about Rina getting caught up in this deadly case. Rina is out
of harm's way, serving on a jury at the courthouse. But then a chance encounter
with a court translator who needs her help leads Rina into the terrifying heart
of her husband's murder investigations-and straight into the path of a gang of
ruthless killers. Blindman's Bluff is a riveting mile-a-minute thrill ride from
a formidable master of her craft.
The Reincarnationist [AUDIOBOOK] [CD] [UNABRIDGED]
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The Reincarnationist [AUDIOBOOK] [CD]
[UNABRIDGED]
Author: Gigante, Phil (Reader) Gigante, Phil
ISBN: 1-4233-9828-9
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Category: American Mystery & Suspense Fiction
Audio CD Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged
Best known as an author of erotic
thrillers, Rose (Lip Service) delves into religious myth and past-life discovery
in her well-paced ninth novel. In present-day Rome, a terrorist bomb explosion
triggers flashbacks of pre-Christian Italy in photographer Josh Ryder. Josh
experiences the memories as Julius, a pagan priest defending the sacrosanct
monuments of his gods and the life of his vestal virgin lover against the
emperor-mandated onslaught of Christianity in A.D. 391. Six months later, Josh
has teamed with the Phoenix Foundation, an institute specializing in past-life
memories in children, to explore a newly excavated tomb that may contain pagan
memory stones that incite past-life regressions and will, by proving the
existence of reincarnation, challenge the church. The stakes rise after it
becomes clear that dangerous outside forces also want the stones. In a series of
memory lurches, the narratives of Josh and Julius slowly wind together to reveal
a Da Vinci Code–esque tale of intrigue that's more believably plotted and better
meets its ambitions than Dan Brown's ubiquitous book.
The Good Thief [AUDIOBOOK] [CD] [UNABRIDGED]
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The Good Thief [AUDIOBOOK] [CD] [UNABRIDGED]
Author:
Dufris, William (Reader) Dufris, William
ISBN:
1-4233-8530-6
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Category:
American Historical Fiction
Audio CD Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged
This striking debut novel is an homage to old-fashioned
boys-own adventure stories, and unfolds like a Robert Louis Stevenson tale
retold amid the hardscrabble squalor of Colonial New England. The sheer
strangeness of the story is beguiling: a one-handed boy, tainted by his
upbringing in a Catholic orphanage and with little to offer but a head full of
lice, is adopted by a con artist, and enters an underworld of ruthless
mousetrap-manufacturing barons, feisty chimney-dwelling dwarves, and, perhaps
most terrifying of all, black-market dentists. In keeping with the gothic
tradition, Tinti writes with an arch, almost camp sensibility. While on a
nocturnal grave-digging excursion to procure bodies for a crazy scientist, for
instance, the pair encounter an assassin, who tells the twelve-year-old hero
that he was made for killing. Will the boy ever discover the truth of his past?
Its good fun watching him find out.
Intervention [AUDIOBOOK]
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Intervention [AUDIOBOOK]
Author: Cook, Robin Guidall,
George
ISBN: 0-14-314457-X
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Category: American Mystery & Suspense Fiction
Audio CD Penguin Audio
In this uneven medical thriller from bestseller Cook
(Foreign Body), Dr. Jack Stapleton, a New York City forensic pathologist who
lost his first wife and their two children in a plane crash, is devastated when
his newborn son by his second wife is diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma. As
a diversion from his efforts to find a cure for his son, Stapleton seeks to
expose unscrupulous practitioners of alternative medicine. In particular, he
investigates the death of a healthy woman whose vertebral arteries were damaged
by a chiropractor. Then the plot swerves into Da Vinci Code territory as two of
Stapleton's college friends--the archbishop of New York and an
archeologist--battle over skeletal remains that may be those of the Virgin Mary.
When the characters themselves comment on the events as something out of a
horror movie or a book, suspension of disbelief becomes even more of a challenge
(e.g., He felt like he was a participant in a kind of unfolding real-life
mystery-thriller).
The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK]
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The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners [ABRIDGED]
[AUDIOBOOK]
Author: Brown, Blair (Reader) Brown, Blair
ISBN: 0-7393-4366-1
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Category: American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors
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Audio CD Random House Audio
The amazingly prolific Rice reintroduces characters
from 2009's Geometry of Sisters for this heart-tugger about a reunion of a
mother and her two daughters who've been separated for 10 years due to a
disturbing secret. Set on the picturesque isle of Capri, Rice's touching tale
reflects on how families can survive and thrive despite tragedies. Lyra
Nicholson is a lonely heiress living in Italy while her equally lonely
daughters, 16-year-old Pell and Lucy, a 14-year-old math whiz, live in Newport,
R.Iwith their grandmother. Lucy's already tried to contact (via equations) the
ghost of her dead father with Beck, her BFF and the sister of Pell's boyfriend,
Travis. Pell travels to Italy, wanting Lyra, who abandoned her and Lucy, to
finally take responsibility for them. Max Gardiner, her mother's smitten
playwright neighbor, encourages Pell, even as she is distracted by Rafe, Max's
19-year-old recovering addict grandson. Rice gives Pell an old-beyond-her-years
stability that Lyra lacks in this beguiling beach read that would suit YA
readers as well as their mothers
The White Queen: A Novel [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK]
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The White Queen: A Novel [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK]
Author:
Amato, Bianca (Reader) Amato, Bianca
ISBN:
0-7435-8229-2
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Category:
English Historical Fiction
Audio CD Simon & Schuster Audio
THE COUSINS' WAR Book
OnePhilippa Gregory, "the queen of royal fiction,"* presents the first of a new
series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the Wars of the Roses.
Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in
this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants
and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Philippa Gregory brings
them to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players:
the indomitable women, starting with Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen. The
White Queen tells the story of a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition who,
catching the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and
ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position
and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in
a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in
the Tower of London whose fate is still unknown. From her uniquely qualified
perspective,