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Title: Price of Desire

Subtitle: Novellas from Transgressions (Unabridged Selections)

Author: Donald E. Westlake, Ed McBain, Anne Perry

Narrator: David Prete, Richard Ferrone, John Keating

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-05

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Merely Hate by Ed McBainWhen a string of Muslim cabdrivers are killed, and the evidence points to another ethnic group, the detectives of the 87th Precinct must hunt down a killer before the city explodes in violence.

Hostages by Anne PerryIn their eternal struggle for freedom, there is about to be a changing of the guard in the Irish Republican Army. Yet for some, old habits, and honor, die hard.

Walking Around Money by Donald E. WestlakeIf it sounds too good to be true, it usually is, and the hapless crook, John Dortmunder, must get to the bottom of this slam-dunk caper before he's left holding the bag.

Members Reviews:

Good trio

Exactly what you'd expect from this set of authors. Excellent stories, good twists, intersting psychology. Well worth it.

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Title: His Last Bow

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-26-04

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 41 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Finally, with the approach of the German War, Holmes emerges from retirement among his books and bees on the South Downs to lay his unique intellect at the disposal of the British Government, with the historic results disclosed in "His Last Bow".

Members Reviews:

Fantastic

Its been sometime since I've read these stories and being in need of some comfort reading, I decided to download an audible version. These stories are like some old friends and the narrator, who I have heard with his work on John Buchan's books, only enhanced the stories with his most complementary reading. If you like Holmes you will not be disappointed. The final story is also interesting for the very singular time in history in which it was written.

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Title: Hunters in the Forest

Author: Robert Silverberg

Narrator: Brian Corrigan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-24-01

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 46 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

From one of the most prestigious literary science fiction writers in modern times, Robert Silverberg's Hunters in the Forest explores a distant future where vacationers travel back to the time of dinosaurs. After a chance meeting, Tom Mallory questions whether or not to return to civilization - with all its trappings and conveniences. Mallory must choose between an artificial life and a natural one.

Executive Producer: Dan Zitt

©1991 by Agberg, Ltd.

(P)2001 Random House, Inc.

Members Reviews:

Lovin' that Silverberg!!!

Any additional comments?

Hahaha, HILARIOUS; in a disturbed kind of way ;^D. Silverberg is one of my favorites and this story was Great. Must. Read. More. Silverberg!!!

Hunters in the Forest (unabridged)

Robert Silverberg's masterly short piece. Leading the reader / listener down what appears a predictable path, only to end with the totally unpredictable. A great imagination.

Not Silverberg at his best

The story was okay until I saw that it was in fact just a gag. Silverberg is better than trick fiction and this short does not do just to his skill at developing worlds and characters.

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Title: Exchange Rate

Author: Hal Clement

Narrator: Kerin McCue

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-22-00

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 46 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Although known as one of the most scrupulously accurate of the "hard science" writers, someone careful to always get the scientific details right, Hal Clement also has a rich and lively imagination, especially when it comes to alien lifeforms, and he has created some of the most memorable alien characters in science fiction. Clement's outdone even himself in the suspenseful novella, Exchange Rate, in which harried human explorers (under pressure in more ways than one!) must try to figure out the lifeways and motivations of some extremely strange and enigmatic alien creatures on one of the strangest planets ever portrayed in science fiction - and do it all before the clock runs out. Exchange Rate was chosen for inclusion in the Seventeenth Annual Collection of The Year's Best Science Fiction.

Executive Producer: Laura Wilson

©1999 by DNA Publications, Inc. First published in Absolute Magnitude, Winter 1999.

(P)2000 by Random House, Inc.

Members Reviews:

Time lost

Two and a half hours of sci-fi jargon without a hint of any meaning.

Here is the spoiler: "Somebody drives around some planet trying to deliver something to somebody."

That's it. No explanations or reasons given.

There, I just saved you 10 bucks and 150 minutes of your life.

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Título: Los Jacarandas

Autor: Julio Ramon Ribeyro

Narrador: Fortuna Calvo

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 53 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 12-16-99

Editor: Coral/ Nueva Onda

Calificaciones: 2 de 5 de 2 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Resumen del editor:

The winner of Mexico's prestigious Juan Rulfo prize for literature, Julio Ramón Ribeyro spent many years as the Peruvian ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, where he wrote many of his stories. In this piece from La Palabra del Mudo (The Word of the Mute), Ribeyro tells the tale of Professor Manrique, who returns to Ayacucho, or "the Corner of the Dead" in Quechua, to fulfill a task. There, he decides that Olga, the Englishwoman, and Miss Evans, the schoolteacher, are actually the same person. Through his limpid prose, Ribeyro demonstrates the meaning of profound loss. In Spanish.

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Title: Malice Domestic 3

Subtitle: An Anthology of Original Mystery Stories

Author: Marilyn Wallace, Nancy Pickard, Deborah Adams

Narrator: Linda Hamilton, D.B. Sweeney

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Acclaimed Agatha Award-winning author Nancy Pickard presents this anthology of original mystery stories by some of the most distinguished mystery writers of the 20th century. The collection was compiled in honor of the most beloved crime writer of all time - Agatha Christie. It includes: "His Tears" by Marilyn Wallace, "Sign of the Times" by Nancy Pickard, "Fannie's Back Fence Caper" by Susan and Bill Albert, "The Dying Light" by Taylor McCafferty, "The Family Jewels" by Dorothy Cannell, "The Trouble with the Shoot" by Camilla T. Crespi, "High Heels in the Headliner" by Wendy Hornsby, "Cara's Turn" by Marlys Millhiser, and "Gentle Reader" by Sharyn McCrumb.

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Title: The Decline and Fall of the Episcopal Church (in the Year of Our Lord 1952)

Author: Peter Taylor

Narrator: Randall Caudwell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Findaway World

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor uses remarkable events in ordinary people's lives to describe an intricate fabric of tradition. In these four subtle and beautiful stories, a contractor uses a baptismal font as a birdbath, an annual children's party given by an aging brother and sister ends in disaster, a strange woman needlessly sends two men into a burning house, and a woman finds a way to express her frustration. In addition to the title story, the collection contains "Venus, Folly, Cupid and Time" (winner of the 1959 O. Henry Award), "Two Pilgrims", and "Her Need".

Critic Reviews:

"The undisputed master of the short story form." (Anne Tyler)

"Quite simply, there is not a better writer of fiction now at work in the United States." (The Washington Post)

"Don't read him because you ought to: try Taylor because he's irresistibly beguiling...." (Newsweek)

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Title: Malice Domestic 5

Subtitle: An Anthology of Original Mystery Stories

Author: Peter Lovesey, Carolyn Wheat

Narrator: Teri Garr, Carol Lawrence

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Mystery Writers of America grand master Phyllis A. Whitney, author of more than 70 best sellers, presides over a salon of today's wittiest writers of mystery in this sparkling addition to the series. Malice Domestic 5> once again delivers the style of skillfully plotted crime writing that is a credit to the Agatha Christie tradition. Short stories include: "A Parrot is Forever" by Peter Lovesey; "Accidents will Happen" by Carolyn Wheat; "Bugged" by Eve K. Sanderstrom; "The Bun Also Rises" by Jill Churchill; "Hill People" by Dean Feldmeyer; "Double Jeopardy" by Eileen Dreyer; "Vivian By Moonlight" by Medora Sale; "Crossed Keys" by Patricia Moyes; "Barbecued Bimbo" by Susan Rogers Cooper; and "Honeymoon" by Nancy Atherton.

Members Reviews:

Boring

Dull. I generally only read mysteries, but I couldn't wait until these stories ended - or was it waiting and hoping each would get started! Perhaps I'm not a fan of short stories, but as each ended, I felt "is that all there is?", or "whatever". Hard to believe these stories were written by professionals.

Bad sound recording

the stories were all quite what you'd expect, but the sound quality was very bad. I have never heard such bad sound quality, it sounds as if it was revorded on an old mono cassette tape machine of old. I expect modern quality for the money i oay, and will more careful with my book selections.

Delightful listen for a long drive

My husband and I love the short story format for long drive listens - they give us a chance to get up and stretch between stories. These stories were well written and (mostly) well read, interesting enough to keep us listening, and all with subtle little twists that made us laugh.

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Title: Collateral Damage and Stories

Author: Bob Mustin

Narrator: Lee David Foreman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-22-16

Publisher: AM Ink Publishing

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

The stories in this collection examine the ways we use imagination to set aside human anguish and move on with our lives. Here, baseball opens a passageway to life after death, obsession transforms romantic complexities into a corrupted form of happiness, conquest and empire begets guilt and a healing sacrifice, and the recipients of medical technology deal with the well-meant horrors inflicted on them. In Collateral Damage, the collection's centerpiece, writer John Fromme suffers a mental upset caused by his refusal to confront a family murder he witnessed as a child.

Members Reviews:

Rod Serling Would Approve

Intriguing; Gripping; at times even Mind-numbing! In Collateral Damage and Stories, Bob Mustin has chosen to delve into the shadows of imagination more deeply and provocatively than social convention often is comfortable with and surely with more inventiveness than his Creative-Writing Prof would ever have envisioned. And to this reader, he seems to have done so with just a hint of a smile. And yet the author has written with such insight and awareness of the emotional mindset of the various characters, one would have to wonder if there may not be the âGhostsâ of some of his own âChristmas Pastsâ heâs writing about. Ranging from SyFy fun to heart-rending sorrow and to an occasional âWhat? Thatâs it?!â, Collateral Damage and Stories has the sweet fragrance in my hearkening back a half century to the iconic early TV series of my college years (1959-63), Rod Serlingâs The Twilight Zoneâa very heady comparison.

An elegy for important things

This collection showcases Bob Mustin's considerable talent-- for observation, for a well-turned phrase, for sensing the significance of a moment. But it's hardly a solemn affair. There's weirdness, myth, the supernatural, baseball, over-the-top stuff, keenly felt yet wry at the same time. Take your time over the title novella-length story. It's emotionally difficult but rewarding. I especially liked the baseball stories, but all of the offerings have the quality of good elegy, of engaging, let-me-tell-you-how-it was storytelling. Mustin is not asking the reader to go sentimental and nostalgic on him, however. Instead, the stories seem to come from a compulsion to declare, "This was important. This bears remembering." And it all does.

A Must from Bob Mustin

An engaging book that makes a reader think! Bob's work is always researched, adding credibility to his writings. He's written and published to a great degree. I recommend Collateral Damage as a wonderful addition to anyone's home library.

A definite must-buy for lovers of unusual short stories

The stories included in this collection are somewhere between Anais Nin and Ray Bradbury and the result is a strange, fascinating book that will appeal to readers in the horror, sci-fi and urban fantasy genres.

Thanks for the Ride

Bob Mustin has blazed new writing trails for himself, based on what I already know of his work. Sam's Place, his collection of Southern, literary short stories, was right up my alley for its gritty realism and deep, believable characters. This collection is full of unreliable narration and magical realism, so I salute Mustin for taking a different path and surprising me.

The novella, Collateral Damage, is the highlight of this collection.

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Title: Romance: The Werewolf Detective

Subtitle: Paranormal Mystery Thriller Romance Short Stories, Book 1

Author: Sicily Duval

Narrator: Troy Otte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-15

Publisher: Darkness and Light Publishing

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Discover romance, mystery, and excitement in this seductive thriller!

Someone is killing young girls from the VCU campus in Richmond, VA.

Officer Liam Lamb is just the "sexy" police officer to help crack the case with his otherworldly instincts, thanks to his being a werewolf...if only he could crack the case of why he was living in a separate bedroom from his wife!

Audrey Lamb is just trying to finish her thesis at VCU before the final slide off the cliff happens in her marriage to Liam. Will she be able to let her husband go when the time comes, or will she continue in the mind-numbing pain of a marriage struggling to stay afloat?

Members Reviews:

Opening book

Good opening book for the series. A lot comes out in this first book.

Looking forward to seeing where this,series goes

Typical Duval

We have the beginning of a decent story marred by misspelled and incorrect words, sloppy punctuation, and abrupt head hopping from one character to another. Oh, this is not a complete story, but an episode. CLIFFHANGER WARNING.

Not worth the time

What should have been a rather interesting werewolf detective story with a minor romance problem with his wife became a book about a man who has a major falling out with his wife. It really had nothing to do with being a werewolf or a detective. And listening to a couple on the verge of divorce just isn't that interesting.

Not complete

This is not a complete book. There is no resolution to the problems laid out in the story. I'm guessing you have to read the following books to get the full story but I'm not interested in continuing. The text itself needs further editing and the characters weren't sympathetic or compelling.

They've lost their way

Marriage is a job and joy when the parties are happy. So what went wrong. Now that he's made the grade can he figure that out as well?

Good read