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Title: Open House

Author: Elizabeth Berg

Narrator: Becky Baker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-07-01

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 256 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Open House is the unforgettable story of how a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening her house to strangers and her heart to the simple miracle of possibility.

Critic Reviews:

"Savvy, wry, and sharply observant." (The Denver Post) "Smart, funny, and satisfying...a fine literary novel." (The Baltimore Sun)

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Title: Money

Subtitle: A Suicide Note

Author: Martin Amis

Narrator: Graeme Malcom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 447 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The story of John Self and his insatiable appetite for money, alcohol, drugs, porn, and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, it is a tale of life lived without restraint, of money and the disasters it can precipitate.

As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of Martin Amis' book, you'll also get an exclusive Jim Atlas interview that begins when the audiobook ends.

Critic Reviews:

"Absolutely one of the funniest, smartest, meanest books I know. John Self, the Rabelaisian narrator of the novel, is an advertising man and director of TV commercials who lurches through London and Manhattan, eating, drinking, drugging and smoking too much, buying too much sex, and caring for little else besides getting the big movie deal that will make him lots of money. Hey, it was the '80s. Most importantly, however, Amis in Money musters more sheer entertainment power in any single sentence than most writers are lucky to produce in a career." (Amazon.com review)

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Title: Halfway To Forever

Subtitle: Forever Faithful Series #3

Author: Karen Kingsbury

Narrator: Barbara Caruso

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-08

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 68 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Halfway to Forever continues the story of Hannah Ryan, the grieving widow who found her way back to God in Waiting for Morning. As Hannah and her new husband, Matthew, confront obstacles while waiting to adopt a child, their best friends must cope with a devastating illness.

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Title: The Good Father

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Noah Hawley

Narrator: Bruce Turk, Arthur Morey, Ryan Gesell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-20-12

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 220 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The Good Father is an intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his 20-year-old son.

As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sons - hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel.

In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin.

Daniel Allen has always been a good kid - a decent student, popular - but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. Which may be why, at the age of nineteen, he quietly drops out of Vassar and begins an aimless journey across the United States, during which he sheds his former skin and eventually even changes his name to Carter Allen Cash.

Told alternately from the point of view of the guilt-ridden, determined father and his meandering, ruminative son, The Good Father is a powerfully emotional page-turner that keeps one guessing until the very end. This is an absorbing and honest novel about the responsibilities - and limitations - of being a parent and our capacity to provide our children with unconditional love in the face of an unthinkable situation.

Critic Reviews:

The father of a man who assassinates a presidential candidate tries to make sense of his sons crime in Hawleys gripping new novel.With great skill, Hawley renders Dr. Allens treacherous emotional geography, from his shock and guilt to his growing sense that he knows far less about his son than he thought.Hawleys complicated protagonist is a fully fathomed and beautifully realized character whose emotional growth never slows a narrative that races toward a satisfying and touching conclusion. (Publishers Weekly)

The Good Father is hypnotic and haunting and I lost all track of time when I was reading it. Suddenly the day had become night and still I was engrossed in one fathers poignant story and Noah Hawleys mesmeric tales of a long litany of assassins. (Chris Bohjalian, author of The Night Strangers, The Double Bind, and Secrets of Eden)

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