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Title: Intervention

Subtitle: A Journey

Author: Chris Leibig

Narrator: Steve Carlson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-14

Publisher: Chris Leibig

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Jean Claude "Skeeter" Johanson has never caught a break. Bouncing from a messed-up childhood into prison and back to his dying small-town home; he scrapes by as a low-level drug dealer. On a day that starts bad and pushes him toward a desperate end, he encounters a mystical stranger on a lonely road who saves him in more ways than one.

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Title: Color

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Sandi Russell

Narrator: Sandi Russell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-14

Publisher: Sandi Russell

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Color brings together one person's quest for identity with the inner lives of a whole community. As individual characters tell their stories, dreams are shared, secrets are revealed and a complex picture emerges of intimate relationships, racial tensions, and passionate aspirations. Rooted in Tidewater, Virginia, and spanning the 20th century, this is original fiction in the tradition of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison. Through a rich texture of voices and sensations, it offers unique insights into the history of the New World and the meaning of the "American Dream".

Critic Reviews:

"Russell writes with verve and passion." (New Directions for Women)

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Title: Make Friends Break Friends & a Friend in Need

Author: Julia Jarman

Narrator: Joan Walker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-14

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Daisy has two best friends, Phoebe and Erika, but they dont get on. Erika thinks Phoebes feeble and Phoebe thinks Erikas a bully. Daisy has a plan to get her two best friends to like each other, but suddenly everyone is against her! In the second book in Julia Jarmans Friends series Daisy and Phoebe are worried about Erika - she seems really quiet and is avoiding them. Erika is good at everything, and has loads of friends. If it wasnt Erika theyd be worried she was being bullied, but who would bully the most popular girl in school?

Critic Reviews:

"There are plenty of issues worth discussing." (Books for Keeps)

"Entertaining and realistic." (Julia Eccleshare, Lovereading)

"A great book for helping children to understand how tricky friendships can be." (Creative Steps)

"Will appeal to girls of sevenish who are gaining confidence as independent readers." (Jill Bennett Red, Reading Hub)

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Title: Death in the Sun

Author: Adam Creed

Narrator: Jonathan Oliver

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-14

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In Almagen, a village in the Andalucian mountains, Staffe nurses himself back from the brink of death. One day his friend, Manolo, takes Staffe to visit Almeria and tells him about a body that has been found buried in an old greenhouse. It emerges that this murder mirrors the methods of torture used during Spains civil war. Soon Almagens own secret past rises to the surface, bringing with it family feuds and an expatriate ménage of a famous British artist, a Vietnam war vet, and a beautiful German heiress. Between the sierra and the sea, everyone wants to bury the past - except Staffe.

Members Reviews:

A very slow read

Usually I take a day or two to read a mystery. I'm still working on this one ... for months now. So that should say it all. The mystery, location and characters are all interesting and that is what keeps me going. However, reading this book is like coming late to a meeting and trying to figure out what is going on...who? What? Who?

It's a continuation of a complex story and the author does not summarize past events or characters so that the reader can get up to speed. The prior books in the series were not available. This is my first purchase in the series....possibly the last.

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Title: These Days Are Ours

Author: Michelle Haimoff

Narrator: Katharine Mangold

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-14

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Only six months have passed since 9/11 and New York is still reeling. For Hailey, living back with her parents after graduation, life feels like a struggle - to find a job and to come to terms with her new post-9/11 home. But when she meets Adrian, a recent Brown graduate, she finds her worldview turned upside down and begins to realise that there is more to life and love than she ever believed.

Critic Reviews:

"Engrossing resonates with authenticity and gravitas" (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

it was bad. Were I in my teens

Predictably, it was bad. Were I in my teens, I would think differently. But as a NYC resident, it's just so painfully one-dimensional and shallow, and to that point I think there should probably be some sort of label warning that unless you're of a certain socioeconomic class, you won't be able to relate to this story. There was a real missed opportunity to be thoughtful and universal, like Nadja Spiegelmanâwho came from privilege but still writes in an honest and connecting wayâbut as soon as I read "I think we have the same decorator" I closed the book and concluded that, "No, I'm not going to get anything out of this." Sadly, not even amusement.

readable but no "wow" moments

This very readable book reminded me a Woody Allen movieâlots of intense, witty dialogue among a young Jewish group of NYC friends. There were beads of wisdom in the conversations; comments that made me put the book down a second and think. Haimoff makes writing seem effortless; in just a few sentences sheâs able to convey the pulse of New York City. The fact that the novel takes place six months after 9/11 adds a more serious tone, though this isnât, in fact, a 9/11 book. The time frame is just a backdrop.

My problem with the book is that Iâm a middle-class, non-Jewish suburbanite in my sixties, so I couldnât relate to the wealthy NYC Jewish 20-somethings. Yes, the book contained some ageless wisdom and humor, but in fact the book was written for the young. I knew some of the music references only because I have kids in their twenties. And true to the age, itâs a bit angst-y. The book opens with the main character fantasizing about marrying her current crush (whoâs a total jerk), and I found it pretty silly and boring. Still, her brightness and intelligence did lure me in, and I ended up liking the main character and the book. In fact, I realized there is a connection between a new college grad in search of a job and a recently retired person in search of meaningful activity. Some things transcend ageâfinding meaning in life spans all ages.

This isnât a âwowâ book. Nothing important happens. It annoyed me that there were no chapters, plus the ending is too abrupt. But, that said, I enjoyed reading it.

This is so not a 9/11 book

Don't let anyone you know pigeonhole this book to you. It is not the kind of book focused on and sermonizing about the angst post-9/11.

It's about people who you'd assume are way too rich to relate to (heck, they live in Manhattan. They've gotta be rich). And yet somehow you do relate to them. And you find yourself liking them. Rooting for them. Wanted to know more about them. And seeing a little bit of yourself in them.

And that's not so bad.

Read this book before they massacre it into a movie.

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Title: Vampires in the Lemon Grove

Author: Karen Russell

Narrator: Robbie Daymond, Romy Rosemont, Michael Bybee, Mark Bramhall, Kaleo Griffith, Joy Osmanski, Arthur Morey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-14

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

On Strong Beach, an awkward teen with a terrible haircut has a reversal of fortune when he finds artefacts from the future lining a seagulls nest. By the Hox River in Nebraska, a window fuels both family pride and deadly revenge. In a godforsaken barn in what they suspect is Kentucky, Presidents Eisenhower, John Adams, and Rutherford B. Hayes are bemused to find themselves reincarnated as horses. And in the collections title story, "Clyde and Magreb" - he a traditional capes-and-coffins vampire, she the more progressive variety - settle in an Italian lemon grove in the hope that its ripe fruit will keep their thirst for blood at bay.

Karen Russell is an audacious talent with a wicked sense of humour, and this hotly anticipated new collection confirms her place as a master of the short story form, and one of the most imaginative young writers at work today.

Members Reviews:

Wonderful, imaginative stories

Kate Russell is surprising in the depth of her writing and the splendor of her subject matter.

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Title: The Watch

Author: Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

Narrator: Kris Koscheski, Richard Allen, Kaleo Griffith, Zadran Wali, Dustin Rubin, George Newbern, Reha Zamani

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-14

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Youve had no sleep since the firefight last night.The morning fog beyond the walls of your base lifts to reveal a lone woman approaching the gate.

She says she has come to claim the body of her brother killed in last nights attack.

Is she a terrorist? A spy? A lunatic? Or what she says she is a grieving sister? What should you do? What do you do?

Shortlisted for the Criticos Prize and the Boeke Prize and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the DSC Asian Literature Prize. One of Publishers Weekly's ten best contemporary war novels.

Critic Reviews:

"The first great novel of the war in Afghanistan." (Wall Street Journal)

Members Reviews:

Antigone meets Afghanistan

The Watch - a kind of modern re-working of Sophocles' Antigone set in Afghanistan - is a richly drawn, quick reading novel. At first I was unsure whether the book was going to be too little nuanced, turning into a nakedly anti-war novel with not much substance. I was relieved to be proven wrong. Not that I am "pro-war" - just that I didn't want to read a novel that was overtly grinding a black or white political axe. Like Sophocles' tragedy, The Watch plays on the dichotomy between nomos (human convention) and phusis (natural law) - that which man conjures to fit his various and changing needs vs. the unwritten trans-personal laws one is "bound" to follow or obey. What I liked about the book is that it presents both sides - the Afghanis and Americans as being oppressed (in a different but quite mutually destructive way) by the same arbitrary laws of mankind - all the while searching, quite poignantly at times, for a way to go beyond them and simply do "what's right". This doing of "what's right" is initially set up, for the sake of poignancy, to fall on the shoulders of a young Afghan girl wishing to bury her dead brother - dead at the hands of Americans defending themselves against an insurgent attack. There is "right" and "wrong" on both sides - reasons for the Americans to be highly suspicious but insensitive and reason to see the girl as principled but displaying a naive devotion. The book revolves around this tension - this confrontation of wills. What the book was so successful at, in my opinion, was its articulation of how war (especially between such too different cultures) makes getting "what's right" so incredibly hard - how the road to hell is truly paved with good intentions. For, when two people(s) don't understand each other how is it possible for one to really help the other? Helping people and achieving a geo-politcal end under the guise of helping people are not the same thing; this is what the book addresses - whether we can break free of the powers that be in this world (our Creon's - to evoke Antigone) so as to allow us enough room to reach out, to extend ourselves far enough, that we may approach something meaningful being done.

ENG372 Transnational Literature Book Review

This book in one I truly couldn't put down. I found myself reading almost the entirety of it in only a few hours and recommending it to everybody I've talked to. As a person who wouldn't typically pick this genre as a typical one to read, I am happy with my purchase as well as the magic of Bhattacharya's writing.

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Title: In the Game

Author: Luke Fremont

Narrator: Luke Fremont

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-14

Publisher: Harken Media

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Less than a minute remains in the game; their offense presses - the ball bears down; you're the last defender. What will you do?

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Title: Split Level

Author: Andrea Boyette

Narrator: Crystal Marcano

Format: Unabridged

Length: 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-14

Publisher: Andrea Boyette

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

What do we do when our dreams don't work out the way we plan? In this newest short story, author Andrea Boyette explores what happens when a young woman discovers her wish for a house in the suburbs doesn't end in quite the way she imagined. A lighthearted bonus story, "Mud Pie", the tale of a woman who gets in too deep when she agrees to participate in a mud run, is also included.

Members Reviews:

Changes

There were two short stories in this collection and both were good. I always enjoy it when an author makes the different stories in their collections, well, different. Perhaps it would be better put to say that they have two very different flavors. (Or maybe I'm just hungry...hmmm)

I especially enjoyed the first story about the end of a relationship. I found it sad and poignant, but also strangely hopeful. I thought the author handled it beautifully.

The second story revolves around three sisters who finally realize that their relationship with each other has to change. That childhood methods of interacting with each other were no longer healthy and were, in fact, driving them apart.

I enjoy short stories immensely but they can make reviews difficult to write. I try hard not to give much away and ruin someone else's enjoyment. So I will end by saying that these are worth a read.

Lovin' It!!

When can we expect more of your work??

excellent writing!

I found it very interesting and would like to read more by Andrea.

Thanks and keep up the good work.

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Title: The Killing Season

Author: Mark Pearson

Narrator: Mark Meadows

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

DI Jack Delaney is trying to make a clean break. Tormented by his troubled past, he has taken his young family out of London, swapping the mayhem of London for the tranquil calm of the North Norfolk coast. Except it's not so tranquil. After a terrible storm hits Sheringham, a body is discovered beneath a collapsed cliff. Natural disaster? No, this looks like murder, and Jack is the only local resident qualified to investigate. But when more disappearances follow and the local police step in, Jack finds himself plunged dangerously deep into the investigation - and in the sights of the killer on the loose.

Critic Reviews:

"A very good writer" (James Patterson)

"Jack Delaney is hard to forget" (Time Out)