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ID: 118301

Title: Son of Tarzan

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrator: Shelly Frasier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

In this sequel to The Beasts of Tarzan, the Lord of the Apes' old nemesis, Alexis Paulvitch, lures Tarzan's son, Jack, to Africa, where he plans to kill him. His plan is foiled when Jack escapes with the help of Akut, the great ape. The pair flee to the jungle where Tarzan was raised a generation earlier, and Jack establishes his own reputation among the apes as Korak the Killer. He also rescues Meriem, a beautiful young woman, from a band of Arab raiders. She turns out to be the daughter of Armand Jacot, the Prince de Cadrenet, and is therefore a fitting mate for the son of Lord Greystoke.

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ID: 119331

Title: Shadows in the Jungle: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines in World War II

Author: Larry Alexander

Narrator: Norman Dietz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-17-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Military

Summary:

Set on retaking the Philippines ever since his ignominious flight from the islands in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur needed a first-rate intelligence-gathering unit. Out of thousands, only 138 men were chosen: the best, toughest, and most fit men the army had to offer. Their task: silently slip onto Japanese-held islands, stalk through the thick jungles, and assess enemy locations, conditions, morale, and troop strength, all while remaining undetected. It was an impossible task, doomed to failure, but incredibly, the Alamo Scouts were a valuable success.

Throughout the years 1944 and 1945, the Scouts performed a wide array of special operations, many of them classified for decades after the war. More than just a recon and intelligence outfit, the Scouts also conducted rescue missions to recover captured military and civilian prisoners from Japanese camps, organized and supplied guerrilla freedom fighters, and provided protection for General MacArthur himself. They completed at least 107 known missions against superior numbers of enemy troops, but not a single Scout was killed or captured.

Writing with the narrative power usually found in a novel, Larry Alexander takes listeners in the footsteps of the men who made up the elite reconnaissance unit that served as General MacArthur's eyes and ears in the Pacific War. Drawing from personal interviews and testimonies from Scout veterans, Alexander weaves together the tales of the individual Scouts, who often spent weeks behind enemy lines to complete their missions. Now, more than sixty years after the war, the story of the Alamo Scouts has finally been told.

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ID: 118297

Title: Underground City

Author: Jules Verne

Narrator: John Bolen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

How can humans survive and prosper 1,500 feet below the earth's surface? Jules Verne successfully weaves a dark yet magnificent story into this equally dark world. The book takes place in a revived and now prosperous coal mine. Amazingly, life in the mine has everything that one could desire, including a lake, fish, and attractive homes. Yet there lurks an evil presence: unexplainable, malicious, and life-threatening occurrences begin. And this evil force could destroy the underground world and everyone in it.

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ID: 118299

Title: Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Jonathan Kent

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Classics, Paranormal, Psychological

Summary:

The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain's fantastical last novelette, took him twelve years-and three long drafts-to complete. Based on boyhood memories of the Mississippi River Valley and of the print shops of Hannibal, the story is set in medieval Austria at the dawn of the printing craft. It is a psychic adventure, full of phantasmagoric effects, in which a penniless printer's apprentice-a youthful, mysterious stranger with the curious name 44-gradually reveals his otherworldly powers and the hidden possibilities of the mind. Ending on a startling note, this surprisingly existential tale reveals a darker side to the author's genius.

The Mysterious Stranger is a rarity in the work of Twain-a story in which the author turns his sardonic, free-wheeling wit to the problem of Eternal Evil in a distant time and place. In the other stories presented here, Twain debunks his Gilded Age; he ransacks the backyards of daily life and fable to find his notorious, sometimes preposterous metaphors. He is as apt to deal with the great minds of the law hunting a wayward elephant as with a man who has a bank note no one can cash.

In addition to The Mysterious Stranger, this volume includes the stories 'The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg,' 'The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,' 'The Story of the Bad Little Boy,' 'The Diary of Adam and Eve,' 'Edward Mills and George Benton,' 'The Joke That Made Ed's Fortune,' and 'A Fable.'

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ID: 119229

Title: Metzger's Dog: A Novel

Author: Thomas Perry

Narrator: Michael Kramer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Espionage

Summary:

When Leroy 'Chinese' Gordon breaks into a professor's lab at the University of Los Angeles, he's after some pharmaceutical cocaine, worth plenty of money. Instead, he finds the papers the professor has compiled for the CIA, which include a blueprint for throwing a large city into chaos. But how is the CIA to be persuaded to pay a suitable ransom, unless of course someone actually uses the plan to throw a large city into chaos-Los Angeles, for instance?

Assigned to cope with the crisis and restore the peace, veteran agent Ben Porterfield steps onto the scene to remind us that the CIA's middle name is, after all, Intelligence. Enlivening the mix are Gordon's beautiful girlfriend, Margaret, his temperamental cat, Dr. Henry Metzger, and Metzger's friend, an enormous half-wild dog with huge teeth.

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ID: 119343

Title: Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach

Author: Laurence Leamer

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

In March 1999, a Palm Beach matron and her socially ambitious husband invited the elite of the island for a dinner dance honoring Prince Edward. Among those dancing to the string orchestra that evening would be those accused of murder and spousal abuse, and others who would suffer fates both unseemly and unspeakable. Among the outer circle there would be murders, suicides, and fatal fires. There would be those who would rise from the dust of obscurity to the heights of wealth and those who would fall to oblivion and disgrace.

Thus begins Madness Under the Royal Palms. Leave it to Laurence Leamer, the bestselling author known for getting the inside story on his elusive subjects, to take us behind the walls of America's most exclusive enclave of wealth and privilege. Here Leamer tells a braided story involving a socialite determined to make it to the top of Palm Beach society, two infamous murders, and a powerful society reporter. As a backdrop, Leamer tells the story of the clash between old money and new, religion and status, and the love, lust, and fatal hatreds that determine the shape of a fiercely protected society. The cast of characters include trophy wives, trophy husbands, purported gigolos, glamorous widows, a pioneering gay couple, a wildly irreverent event planner, a sociopathic multimillionaire, and an elegant society queen.

For 100 years, Palm Beach has been a fantasyland nurtured by, and maintained for, the megawealthy. In the end, Leamer's tale of money, murder, and mad pretension reveals a darker strain. Uncovering that strain, the author writes, 'turned into as fascinating, in some cases as shocking, and always as unexpected a journey as I have ever taken.'

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ID: 118298

Title: Secret Adversary

Author: Agatha Christie

Narrator: Penelope Dellaporta

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Some secret plans have survived the sinking of the Lusitania, and amateur sleuths Tommy and Tuppence are on the trail of international spies in order to recover them. 'Young Adventurers Limited' is a brand new private detective agency, set up by the dashing Tommy Beresford and the resourceful Tuppence Cowley. Their first assignment is to track down some secret documents that disappeared after the sinking of the Lusitania. Soon they are on the trail of the mysterious Mr. Brown, the head of an international gang of crooks-and in more danger than they bargained for!

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ID: 118487

Title: Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder

Author: Gus Russo, Stephen Molton

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, World, North America

Summary:

Using breakthrough reporting and interviews with long-silent sources, Gus Russo and Stephen Molton have crafted a dramatic retelling of the time before, during, and after the killing of John F. Kennedy. The book centers on the two opposed sets of brothers-the Kennedys and the Castros-who collectively authored one of modern history's most dangerous, and tragically ironic, chapters. Bobby Kennedy pushed for the murder of Fidel Castro and instead got the death of his beloved brother, a psychic blow from which he himself never recovered. Lee Harvey Oswald killed an admired president and traumatized a nation, but in so doing may have prevented a third world war.

Built on thirty years of intense research-including discoveries so significant that they have rekindled CIA and State Department interest in the Kennedy assassination-Brothers in Arms is a vivid, character-driven, almost cinematic narration of a singularly fascinating time. For neophytes, it is the most accessible and informed single volume on the assassination. For the many people who are fascinated by this story, this book provides extraordinary new facts that will force a reconsideration of how and why the Kennedy murder came to pass.

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ID: 119342

Title: Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

Author: Lauren Groff

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-10-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Lauren Groff presents nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman.

In 'Sir Fleeting,' a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In 'Blythe,' an attorney who has become a stay-at-home mother takes a night class in poetry and meets another full-time mother, one whose charismatic brilliance changes everything. In 'The Wife of the Dictator,' that eponymous wife ('brought back...from [the dictator's] last visit to America') grows more desperately, menacingly isolated every day. In 'Delicate Edible Birds,' a group of war correspondents-a lone, high-spirited woman among them-falls prey to a brutal farmer while fleeing Nazis in the French countryside. And in 'Lucky Chow Fun,' Groff returns to Templeton, the setting of her first book, for revelations about the darkness within even that idyllic small town.

In some of these stories, enormous changes happen in an instant. In others, transformations occur across a lifetime-or several lifetimes. Throughout the collection, Groff displays particular and vivid preoccupations. Crime is a motif-sex crimes, a possible murder, crimes of the heart. Love troubles occur in every story-love in alcoholism, in adultery, in a flood, even in the great flu epidemic of 1918. Some of the love has depths that are understood too late; some of the love is shallow and also understood too late. And mastery is a theme-Groff's women swim and twirl batons, become poets, or try and try again to achieve the inner strength to exercise personal freedom.

Overall, these stories announce a notable new literary master. Dazzlingly original and confident, Delicate Edible Birds will further Groff's growing reputation as one of the foremost talents of her generation.

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ID: 118232

Title: Riders of the Purple Sage

Author: Zane Grey

Narrator: John Bolen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western, Historical Romance, Classics

Summary:

A gentile sage rider is about to be whipped by the Mormons to coerce the rich and beautiful Jane Withersteen to marry against her will. In desperation, Jane whispers a prayer, 'Whence cometh my help!' Just then, an unlikely hero, the infamous gunfighter Lassiter, routs the persecutors and is drawn into this conflict on the Utah-Arizona border.

The mysterious loner hires on at Jane's ranch. Through battles with gun-slinging cattle rustlers, cutthroats, and the calculating Mormons, Lassiter unveils his tale of an endless search for a woman who was abducted long ago.

Judged by critics to be Zane Grey's best novel, Riders of the Purple Sage changed the Western genre when it was first published in 1912. This novel shows the gritty as well as the gallant in a more candid portrayal of the West than any that had come before it.

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