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ID: 119782

Title: Mystery Stories of Violet Strange

Author: Anna Katharine Green

Narrator: Shelly Frasier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

Violet Strange is no ordinary well-to-do young New York City debutante. Unbeknownst to her family and society friends, she leads a secret life as a professional sleuth for a private detective agency. On a mission to raise money for an undisclosed project, the determined and gutsy young debutante diligently snoops around sleepwalking widows, violent and sinister characters, whispering clocks, and concealed tombs, connecting clues to solve tales of murder, mystery, and intrigue.

The quirky tales of detection included in this collection are 'The Golden Slipper,' 'The Second Bullet,' 'The Intangible Clue,' 'The Grotto Spectre,' 'The Dreaming Lady,' 'The House of Clocks,' 'The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock,' 'Missing: Page Thirteen,' and 'Violet's Own.'

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ID: 119804

Title: Baree: The Wolf Dog

Author: James Oliver Curwood

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Action & Adventure, Classics

Summary:

Baree, the son of a grey wolf and a black dog, was born in the vast Canadian wilderness. He learns about nature and his fellow animals by trial and error-fighting with owls and playing with beavers. Being alone in the wild, he desperately seeks to join a pack of wolves, but they see him as a dog, and he is driven away.

If the wolves are treacherous, Baree soon learns that humans are worse. He is shot, beaten, and trapped, but he soon learns to take care of himself. After fighting alone against the world, Baree befriends an indian maiden, Nepeese, and he finds his purpose in life.

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ID: 118497

Title: Banquo's Ghosts: A Novel

Author: Keith Korman, Rich Lowry

Narrator: Mel Foster

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

After learning that an Iranian scientist is in the process of developing nuclear weapons on Iranian soil, all-but-forgotten spymaster Stewart Banquo initiates a rogue special operation. With the assistance of his most trusted agent, Robert Wallets, Banquo recruits Peter Johnson, a dissolute, morally bankrupt liberal news journalist, to travel to Iran. Johnson poses as a sympathetic reporter writing a piece on the country's nuclear facilities. His mission: to kill the scientist. Like many elaborate plans, Johnson's assassination attempt fails. The journalist falls into Iranian hands and is tortured to confess-a staggering security crisis for the United States. Aided by Wallets and the battle-hardened Marjorie Morningstar-the CIA operatives who trained him-Johnson escapes from Iran.

Now back in the United States, Johnson helps Banquo and his CIA cohorts lead a team of federal agents and New York City officials in tracking down a group of suspected Iranian terrorists in New York who are planning to commit nuclear terrorism by dispersing a highly radioactive material throughout the city streets and subways. When Johnson's only daughter is kidnapped by the Iranians, he and Banquo must race against time to save her...and the City of New York.

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ID: 733680

Title: Enigma

Author: Robert Harris

Narrator: Alan Howard

Format: Abridged

Length: 06:01:11

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-09

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical Fiction, Espionage, War & Military

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Bletchley Park: the top-secret landmark of World War Two, where a group of young people were fighting to defeat Hitler, and win the war. March 1943, the Second World War hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly suddenly disappears.

© Robert Harris 1995 (P) Penguin Audio 2009

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ID: 118495

Title: Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer

Author: Novella Carpenter

Narrator: Karen White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Women

Summary:

Novella Carpenter loves cities-the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to love nature and eat vegetables. Ambivalent about repeating her parents' disastrous mistakes, yet drawn to the idea of backyard self-sufficiency, Carpenter decided that it might be possible to have it both ways: a homegrown vegetable plot as well as museums, bars, concerts, and a twenty-four-hour convenience mart mere minutes away. Especially when she moved to a ramshackle house in inner-city Oakland and discovered a weed-choked, garbage-strewn abandoned lot next door. She closed her eyes and pictured heirloom tomatoes, a beehive, and a chicken coop.

What started out as a few egg-laying chickens led to turkeys, geese, and ducks. Soon, some rabbits joined the fun, then two 300-pound pigs. And no, these charming and eccentric animals weren't pets; she was a farmer, not a zookeeper. Novella was raising these animals for dinner. Novella Carpenter's corner of downtown Oakland is populated by unforgettable characters. Lana (anal spelled backward, she reminds us) runs a speakeasy across the street and refuses to hurt even a fly, let alone condone raising turkeys for Thanksgiving. Bobby, the homeless man who collects cars and car parts just outside the farm, is an invaluable neighborhood concierge. The turkeys, Harold and Maude, tend to escape on a daily basis to cavort with the prostitutes hanging around just off the highway nearby. Every day on this strange and beautiful farm, urban meets rural in the most surprising ways.

For anyone who has ever grown herbs on their windowsill or tomatoes on their fire escape, or who has obsessed over the offerings at the local farmers' market, Carpenter's story will capture your heart. And if you've ever considered leaving it all behind to become a farmer outside the city limits or looked at the abandoned lot next door with a gleam in your eye, consider this both a cautionary tale and a full-throated call to action. Farm City is an unforgettably charming memoir, full of hilarious moments, fascinating farmers' tips, and a great deal of heart. It is also a moving meditation on urban life versus the natural world and what we have given up to live the way we do.

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ID: 119638

Title: Beau Geste

Author: Percival Wren

Narrator: David Case

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure, Classics

Summary:

A column of French Legionnaires finds one of their fortresses manned by dead men. It looks like the sergeant was killed by one of his own troops. Who could have done it?

A flashback then unravels the mystery of the three English Geste brothers. The brothers, orphaned early in life, are raised by an aunt. Their raucous youths are filled with the literature of adventure and ritualized horseplay centered around these myths and legends. So when the family's prized Blue Water sapphire turns up missing, each of the young men confesses to being the thief in order to protect the others, and one by one they head off to join the French Foreign Legion. The three brothers meet up in the deserts of Africa, where they fall under the command of the malevolent Sergeant Lejaune. Not content to merely be a martinet, Lejaune sets his sights on stealing the jewel, which rumor holds to be in the brothers' possession. Meanwhile, the unruly troops he commands are planning a mutiny, and the marauding Tauregs pin this badly outnumbered and bitterly divided unit of Legionnaires at Fort Zinderneuf. The ensuing drama plays itself out as the French forces battle overwhelming odds. Ultimately, only a handful of men survive to discover the truth behind the Blue Water's disappearance.

A classic, rip-roaring tale of adventure!

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ID: 119228

Title: Dance for the Dead

Author: Thomas Perry

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Detective Stories, General

Summary:

When eight-year-old Timothy Decker finds his parents brutally murdered, it's clear the Deckers weren't the intended victims: Timothy's own room-ransacked, all traces of his existence expertly obliterated-is the shocking evidence. Timothy's nanny, Mona, is certain about only one thing. Timmy needs to disappear, fast.

Only Jane Whitefield, a Native American 'guide' who specializes in making victims vanish, can lead him to safety. But diverting Jane's attention is Mary Perkins, a desperate woman with S&L fraud in her past. Stalking Mary is a ruthless predator determined to find her-and the fortune she claims she doesn't have. Jane quickly creates a new life for Mary and jumps back on Timmy's case...not knowing that the two are fatefully linked to one calculating killer.

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ID: 119779

Title: Eric Brighteyes

Author: Henry Rider Haggard

Narrator: Shelly Frasier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, War & Military

Summary:

A gripping tale of betrayal, blood-gorged blades, and the pursuit of heart's desire, Eric Brighteyes follows the adventures of a young man raised on Coldback farm-a lonely place to be found where the Westman Isles rise from the sea.

Plagued by misfortune, the golden-haired youth finds himself outlawed and exiled-even as he wins Whitefire, the legendary sword of King Odin. Eric struggles against treachery to fight his way back to his home and to the two women whose lives are fatefully intertwined with his: Gudruda the Fair, and Swanwild the Fatherless.

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ID: 118482

Title: Valor's Trial

Author: Tanya Huff

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, War & Military, Space Opera

Summary:

Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr is a Confederation Marine's marine. She has survived more deadly encounters-and kept more of her officers and enlistees alive-than anyone else in the Corps.

Unexpectedly pulled from battle, Torin finds herself in an underground POW camp that shouldn't exist, where her fellow marine prisoners seem to have lost all will to escape. Now Torin must fight her way not only out of the prison but also past the growing compulsion to sit down and give up-not realizing that her escape could mean the end of the war.

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ID: 119778

Title: Michael Strogoff

Author: Jules Verne

Narrator: John Bolen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Classics

Summary:

A courier of the Czar must be dispatched to warn the Governor-General of Sibera at once: Ivan Ogareff has allied himself with the fierce and ambitious Feofar-Khan. The Tartar chiefs are pouring their men into Siberia and fomenting rebellion. Should Ivan Ogareff and his allies succeed, the Siberian provinces will be wrested away from Russian control.

No man is more capable of handling such a dangerous mission than Michael Strogoff. A native of Siberia, he knows the people and their languages, the challenging terrain, and how to survive the harsh winters. His great strength and courage are also matched by a kind and generous heart. Hunger, fatigue, capture, torture-nothing except death will stop him from completing his mission.

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