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Title: A Miracle of Catfish

Author: Larry Brown

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-08

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Before his untimely death in 2004, Larry Brown was hailed as one of the world's greatest living writers. With A Miracle of Catfish, the unfinished but largely complete novel Brown left behind, listeners can once again savor his eloquent and unique style. This tale of fatherhood, alienation, and loneliness introduces readers to another set of Brown's irresistibly flawed characters.

©2007 Larry Brown; (P)2007 Recorded Books

Critic Reviews:

"A Miracle of Catfish is vintage Brown. It's driven by terse sentences, haunting images and a sense of place you can almost smell and taste . . . [and] filled with memorable characters....Brown was a writer who was never writerly. He was never self-consciously literary, yet created a literature that will last." (USA Today)

"The truth of the matter is that Brown is one of the best writers we have, able in a sentence or two to cut to the heart of things." (Washington Post Book World)

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Title: Beautiful Children

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Charles Bock

Narrator: Mark Deakins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-22-08

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 27 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

As the Ewings navigate the mystery of what's become of their son, the circumstances surrounding Newell's vanishing and other events on that same night reverberate through the lives of seemingly disconnected strangers: a comic book illustrator in town for a weekend of debauchery; a painfully shy and possibly disturbed young artist; a stripper who imagines moments from her life as if they were movie scenes; a bubbly teenage Wiccan anarchist; a dangerous and scheming gutter punk; a band of misfit runaways. These "urban nomads", each with a past to hide and a pain to nurture, weave their way through a neon underworld of sex, drugs, and the spinning wheels of chance.

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Title: Kimberley Sun

Author: Di Morrissey

Narrator: Kate Hood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-24-07

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The story is set in the remote town of Broome, the desert, and the Kimberley coast - Australia's last frontier and a land of ancient beauty. Lily Barton, now 53, is beautiful, adventurous, and looking for a life change. Sami, her daughter, is driving alone through the outback to finally, reluctantly confront her family roots.

Together they are swept into a world where legends, myths and reality converge. They find that everyone they meet has a story to tell, from Farouz, the son of an Afghan camel driver, to Bobby, the Chinese-Aboriginal man who is tangled up in the murder of a German tourist - and who is the mysterious artist hiding in the desert? All have a secret and a story to share as each finds their place under the Kimberley Sun.

Editorial Reviews:

The endearing tale of a mother and daughter in the rugged climes of Western Australia, Kimberley Sun beckons listeners on a vibrant and heartwarming jaunt through the countrys history. Actress Kate Hood (Prisoner, Blue Heelers) deftly depicts Di Morrisseys colorful cast of characters, betraying the rich tapestry of cultures and experiences that make up the Australian character of past and present. Through the eyes of Lily Barton and daughter Sami, listeners meet Bobby, an Aboriginal man who finds himself on the wrong end of a murder investigation, and Farouz, the son of a camel driver from Afghanistan. The versatile Hood provides each character with a unique voice while nevertheless imparting the essentially Australian experience that binds together these modern-day pioneers of the Kimberley coast.

Critic Reviews:

"Narrator Kate Hood does the unexpected in making an extraordinary story even more compelling. Every character...is splendid and distinct.â¿¿ (AudioFile Magazine)

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Title: The Rest of Her Life

Author: Laura Moriarty

Narrator: Julia Gibson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-31-07

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 91 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high-school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy - the effects of which not only divide Leigh's family, but polarize the entire community. We see the story from Leigh's perspective as she grapples with the hard reality of what her daughter has done and the devastating consequences her actions have on the family of another teenage girl in town, all while struggling to protect Kara in the face of a rising public outcry.

Like the best works of Jane Hamilton, Jodi Picoult, and Alice Sebold, Laura Moriarty's The Rest of Her Life is a novel of complex moral dilemma, filled with nuanced characters and an engrossing plot that will make listeners ask themselves, "What would I do?"

Critic Reviews:

"Moriarty's honest novel about an ordinary family whose life changes in one extraordinary moment resonates like an emotional tuning fork." (Jodi Picoult)

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Title: The Steep Approach to Garbadale

Author: Iain Banks

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-20-07

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 105 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The Wopuld family built their fortune on a board game called Empire, now a wildly successful computer game. So successful, in fact, that the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the Wopulds out. Alban, who has been evading the family tentacles for the last few years, thinks Spraint should be treated with suspicion, but he also has other things on his mind. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he yet over Sophie, his teenage love, who'll be present at the forthcoming family gathering - part birthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting - in their highland castle?

©2007 Iain Banks; (P)2007 Hachette Audio

Critic Reviews:

"The most imaginative British novelist of his generation." (The Times)

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Title: Coronado

Subtitle: Unabridged Stories

Author: Dennis Lehane

Narrator: Stanley Tucci

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-06

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A young girl, caught up in an inner-city gang war, crosses the line from victim to avenger...An innocent man is hunted by government agents for an unspecified crime.

A boy and a girl fall in love while ransacking a rich man's house during the waning days of the Vietnam War...A compromised psychiatrist confronts the unstable patient he slept with...A father and a son wage a lethal battle of wits over the whereabouts of a stolen diamond and a missing woman...Along with completely original material, this new collection is a compilation of the best of Dennis Lehane's previously published short stories.

At turns suspenseful, surreal, romantic, and tragically comic, these tales journey headlong into the heart of our national myths about class, gender, freedom, and regeneration through violence and reveal that the truth waiting for us there is not what we'd expect.

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Title: Carry Me Down

Author: M.J. Hyland

Narrator: Gerard Doyle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-06

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

With an obsession for the Guinness Book of World Records, a keenly inquisitive mind, and a kind of faith, John is like a tuning fork, sensitive to the vibrations within himself and his family's shifting dynamics.

From his changing voice, body, and psyche to his parents' disheartening marital difficulties, this is a trying year in a fragile young boy's life, and when his sanity reaches near collapse, a frightening family catastrophe threatens to ruin what little they have.

Carry Me Down is a restrained, emotionally taut, and sometimes outrageously funny portrait whose drama drives toward, but narrowly averts, an unthinkable disaster.

Critic Reviews:

"A spare, piercing testimony to the bewilderment and resiliency of youth....[John is] among the year's memorable characters." (Publishers Weekly)

"Hyland demonstrates a mature sense of characterization and suspense in a thoroughly engaging narrative." (Kirkus Reviews)

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Title: Hunting Unicorns

Author: Bella Pollen

Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir, Christopher Cazenove

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-06

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Rory, the youngest son, runs a business that rents out the grand mansions for weddings and tours to help the owners pay upkeep on their dilapidated estates. Enter Maggie, an American TV journalist sent to London to do an expose on the aristocracy. She hires Rory to get her access to the most private families. The two immediately clash, bickering until a romance springs up where it seemed least likely.

A delightfully funny love story exploring loyalty and family, Hunting Unicorns is ultimately about having the courage to risk everything in the pursuit of what really counts.

Critic Reviews:

"[Pollen] hits the spot every time with her funny and frank observations of modern London life." (Sunday Times [London])

"This two-voice reading works quite well. Cazenove, who can sound tetchily upper crust with the best of them, brings a world-weary drawl to his interpretation. De Cuir is up-tempo and admirably quick with the zingers that pierce Rory's reserve." (AudioFile)

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Title: Challenger Park

Author: Stephen Harrigan

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-06

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

At the novel's center: Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut married to an astronaut, the loving mother of two young children, with a fierce ambition to excel in the space program. Her husband, Brian, a rigorous man whose dreams of glory have been blighted by two star-crossed missions. And Walt Womack, the steady, unflappable leader of the training team that prepares Lucy for her first shuttle flight.

Lucy has devoted years of intense and focused effort to win her place on a mission, but as her lifelong dream of flying in space comes true, her familiar world appears to be falling apart around her. Her marriage is deteriorating. Her son's asthma is growing more serious. Her relationship with Walt Womack is becoming dangerously intimate. And when at last she is in space, 240 miles above the earth, and an accident renders the world she left behind appallingly distant, perhaps unreachable, her spirit is tested in gripping and unexpected ways.

In The Gates of the Alamo, Stephen Harrigan's narrative authority brought a vanished 19th-century Texas to vibrant life. In Challenger Park, he does the same with the world of space flight, bringing us up close to the lives, the risks, the friendships, the rituals, and the training of the astronauts and the people who work with them. Harrigan has written an exciting, indeed a thrilling, novel about the contrary pulls of home and adventure, reality and dreams, and the unimaginable experience, the joys and terrors and revelations, of space flight itself.

Critic Reviews:

"A fine, absorbing achievement, probably the best science-factual novel about the space-faring worlds of Houston and Cape Canaveral in the nearly half-century since the first astronauts were chosen." (New York Times Book Review)

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Title: Specimen Days

Author: Michael Cunningham

Narrator: Alan Cumming

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-17-05

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Specimen Days is a genre-bending, haunting, and transformative ode to life in our greatest city, a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today.

Critic Reviews:

"Engaging Walt Whitman as his muse, Cunningham weaves a captivating, strange, and extravagant novel of human progress and social decline....This is daring, memorable fiction." (Publishers Weekly) "Brilliantly conceived, empathic, darkly humorous, and gorgeously rendered, Cunningham's galvanizing novel about the quest for justice and freedom, the parameters of the soul, the hunger for beauty, and the fluid interface between the natural and the engineered is a genuine literary event." (Booklist)

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