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Title: The Blue Cross

Subtitle: A Father Brown Mystery

Author: G. K. Chesterton

Narrator: James Arthur

Format: Unabridged

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-09

Publisher: Audio Holdings, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Listeners will delight in these masterful chronicles of the adventures and mishaps of Father Brown. Small, round-faced, and engagingly innocent, Brown is a Roman Catholic priest from East Anglia. He also happens to be a top-notch detective, possessing that rarest of all gifts - an intuition that never fails.

(P)2009 Audio Holdings, LLC

Editorial Reviews:

In "The Blue Cross", G. K. Chesterton first introduces Father Brown, his famed fictional detective who moonlights as a Catholic priest (or vice versa). Unlike the other 50 detective stories in the Father Brown series, this plot follows the action of Valentin, head of the Paris police department, rather than the priest himself. There is, however, plenty of Father Brown's sagacity, reason, and psychological insight on display here.

James Arthur brings a classical English accent to this tale of cross-Channel intrigue. When the performance requires it, Arthur easily slips into a French accent or French prose itself, but for the most part his absorbing voice is staunchly British, worthy of a highly educated clergyman.

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Title: Mean Streets

Author: Jim Butcher, Kat Richardson, Simon R. Green

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-30-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 454 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Featuring New York Times best-selling authors Jim Butcher and Simon R. Green, and national best-selling authors Kat Richardson and Thomas E. Sniegoski, Mean Streets offers four novellas from the hottest names in contemporary paranormal suspense. Running the gamut from demons and werewolves to zombies and black magic, these whodunits crackle with otherworldly secrets, making for a noir collection with an extra set of fangs.

©2009 Roc Trade; (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC

Members Reviews:

A collection of 4 novellas

I am familiar with Jim Butcher and Simon Green, I have read most of what they have written, I enjoyed what they contributed. (not their best, but not their worst either) Kat Richardson's ghost story was interesting and had a real twist, It was good for a 2 1/2 hour listen. Thomas Sniegoski' is new to me, but I found this work very enjoyable and will be looking into checking out some of his other books. If you enjoy urban fantasy, these anthologies are a good way to find new authors. No not every story will knock your socks off but, being fair I have to say I really enjoyed 80% and I didn't hate the other 20%. Wish I could give this 4 1/2 stars.BTW If you have been listening to Jim Butcher "Dresden Files" and Simon Green "Nightside" on Audible, there is a different narrators, still I think they were done well. Nice way to find new authors and narrators.

Anthology

The Warrior" Book 10.5 (The Dresden Files) by Jim Butcher -

The Difference a Day Makes" Book 9.5 (Nightside) by Simon R. Green -

The Third Death of the Little Clay Dog" Bk 3.5 (Greywalker) by Kat Richardson

Noah's Orphans" Book 1.5 (Remy Chandler) by Thomas E. Sniegoski -

PIG EAR, GOOD

WEEPING WOMEN, ALMOST ALWAYS MEAN TROUBLE FOR SOMEBODY

I enjoyed three out of four of these, which is a good average. I especially liked Sniegoski's story NOAH'S ORPHANS. Some may not like this story as it shows God as not being perfect. For me the whole concept was cool and the story had a twist or two.

IS THIS HELL?

NO, BUT YOU CAN SEE IT FROM HERE.

Green has a story from IN THE NIGHTSIDE, which is funny, weird and very different. If you have not read any of the books from this series, this is a good way to get your feet wet.

Angels use Map Quest?

All the narrators are great.

Great P. I. Stories with a twist.

This was the best anthology I have run across. Each novella was a jewel! I had to put it away briefly while I caught up on the Dresden series and then jumped right in. Fortunately I totally lucked out and caught two of the other authors in the perfect sequence I was in with their series! Simon Green was new to me and I am intrigued by his "Nightside" series and will definitely check out some of his other stuff.

I am already a huge Dresden fan so I figured I would like his story the best but Kat Richardson's jaunt to Mexico with Harper Blaine blew me away too. This is the way to do an anthology. Rather than being loaded with many short, mediocre stories it has four great stories by truly talented writers with enough time to develop some great tales.

BS good, RG bad...

I bought and listened to this book to determien whether or not I wanted to purchase Butcher's Dresden files, as well as to determine if any of the other author's were worth reading.

My conclusions in order:

1) Yes.

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Title: Best of the West Expanded Edition, Vol. 1

Subtitle: Classic Stories from the American Frontier

Author: Zane Grey, Will Henry, Elmer Kelton, Matt Braun, Loren Estleman, Gary McCarthy, Gary Morris, Ed Asner

Narrator: Roseanne Cash, Crystal Gayle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-09

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

America's richest legends come from the frontier - from the land where the events of a single moment might erase the lines between law and lawlessness, between safety and mortal danger, between heroes and villains. The carefully selected stories in this collection are vibrant proof that the great American West is a fertile ground to storytellers. Here's the most varied collection of short stories, by 17 highly acclaimed Western writers, including works from Spur Award Winners Zane Grey, Will Henry, Elmer Kelton, Matt Braun, Loren Estleman, Gary McCarthy, Bill Gulick and more! Featuring performances by Roseanne Cash, Gary Morris, Ed Asner and Crystal Gayle.

(P)2009 Phoenix Audio

Members Reviews:

Great Collection!

I just finished listening to this audio book, and it was so good I'm going to purchase the next volume. The writing is crisp, descriptive, and the length of each story is perfect. While the narrators listed are Roseanne Cash & Crystal Gayle, there were other male narrators as well -- excellent narration and recording quality. I highly recommend this collection of shorts.

Best of the west vol. 1

For what this book is it is fine. I am not much on short stories. This book reminded me of the old dime novels that I used to read when I was kid. Not bad but not my cup of tea.

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Title: Selected Shorts

Subtitle: Whodunit?

Author: C. S. Montanye, Dashiell Hammett, Ed McBain, Louise Erdrich, Shirley Jackson, Nadine Gordimer

Narrator: Fionnula Flanagan, John Shea, Isaiah Sheffer, Robert Sean Leonard, René Auberjonois, Hattie Winston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-24-09

Publisher: Symphony Space, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Stories in this set include:

Members Reviews:

This is My Kinda Fiction Buster...

I grew up smelling uncles that breathed tobacco and Three Feathers Whiskey. Bartended in dives to put myself through college and watched all the black and whites with mom on the couch late at night. I am hopelessly in awe of this time when a man was a guy and a gal was a broad. This I believe is the second wave of American Cowboy Hero.. the Gumshoe and Dick...

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Title: Pilgrims

Author: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-08-09

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 33 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

When Elizabeth Gilbert's story collection Pilgrims first appeared in 1997, it immediately announced her compelling voice, her comic touch, and her amazing ear for dialogue. Brave and unforgettable, the heroes of Pilgrims are sure to strike a chord with fans old and new.

©2007 Elizabeth Gilbert; (P)2007 Penguin

Editorial Reviews:

Elizabeth Gilbert published Pilgrims, her beautiful, bristly short story collection, in 1997, nine years before Eat, Pray, Love, her exuberant, raw meditation on divorce, depression, and healing, made her suddenly famous enough for Julia Roberts to slip on gladiator sandals and beads to play her in a film version of the book. Its a shame that Pilgrims will now probably be forever eclipsed by Eat, Pray, Love since it, too, peels back convention to reveal, with empathy and droll language, the primitive nuttiness and courage that lends ordinary people heart.

By definition, modern pilgrims are wanderers, struggling through daily grinds to find redemption, or the true purpose of life. Each of the tart, spiny characters inhabiting Gilberts 12 stories is searching for something her pilgrims hang out on ranches and in bars, in remote corners of Wyoming and Montana, and vegetable markets in the Bronx. There is sturdy Martha Knox, a ranch cook, with a dark, brown braid thick as a girls arm, and Rose, an elderly widow who drives a kindergarten school bus, crammed, one morning, with ghosts, all adoring suitors from her unchaste past. None of Gilberts characters is immediately charming, but all compel with their routine habits and dustbowl looks.

Coleen Marlo, narrator of Pilgrims, has a silk slip of a voice that ably roams from the coarse drawl of a rodeo cowboy to the hollow whine of Babette, a bawdy Manhattan nightclub singer. Marlo passes up the easy fixes of pinning characters with cartoonish regional accents or undermining their essential dignity by assuming an absence of formal education translates into broken English. Pilgrims is both buoyant and prickly. Under Marlos finespun, intelligent narration, listeners will find an intuitive collaborator to Gilberts good flow.

Critic Reviews:

"A fine first collection of 12 stories that are richly varied in setting and content, and enlivened by their author's flair for vigorous dialogue and concise summary statement." (Kirkus Reviews)

Members Reviews:

Wasnt impressed

Barely got through the second chapter. Just could not get into it. Maybe its the storyline or maybe the style of the narrator. Not sure because Ive listened to another Elizabeth Gilbert book and loved it.

Elizabeth Gilbert is amazing !!!!

Elizabeth Gilbert is amazing !!!! Like a magician she pulled these magnificent stories out of thin air !!!! All her work is first rate !!!

A convoluted story.

A good listen. Fun to hear story read by author.

Needed to follow closely to see how it wove together.

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Title: Further Chronicles of Avonlea

Author: L. M. Montgomery

Narrator: Grace Conlin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-08

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 31 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

In this volume of heartwarming tales, a Persian cat plays an amazing role in a marriage proposal, a young girl risks losing her mother in her quest to find her father, and a foolish lie threatens to make an unattached woman the town's laughingstock.

These 15 short stories together present a piquant and fascinating picture of life in the villages and country surrounding Avonlea.

Members Reviews:

Jealously, Murder, Love, Oh Yes, A Cat

Grace Conlin did full justice to this work. I cannot give high enough praise to her performance. Montgomery's magnificent powers are on full display in these fifteen little stories of love, loss, redemption and human dramas. No one does cat stories better than Lucy Maude Montgomery. My favorites are the cats of Patty's Place in "Anne of the Island", Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in "Rilla of Inglesides" and from this collection "Aunt Cynthia's Persian Cat" is definitely a star. I am only mentioning a few stories that I particularly enjoyed but there are none in this collection that I would have passed up. "Her Father's Daughter" is about a girl on her wedding whose parents had separated years earlier. Actually, her mother had got into a pet and locked the guy out. However, the girl didn't lock her father out and is hell bent on having him at her wedding. In "Jane's Baby", two women get into an all out cat fight over who gets their dead sister's baby. "The Dream Child" is about the loss of a child and how the husband and wife go forth. It is a bit strange but not too. "The Education of Betty", well think of the movie "Daddy Long Legs" with Janet Gaynor. In this case, the book is better. Guess who comes to the wedding in "Only a Common Fellow"? I am not telling. "Tannis of the Flats" is a bit unusual, first there is a murder then most of the story takes place in Alberta instead of the Maritimes. Remember there is a thread in Montgomery's stories that these folks are linked to the sea and to traveling off into the dangerous unknowns. Even sometimes the women folk head west. For instance, Jane Anderson couldn't find a husband in P.E.I. so off she charged to the west country and snagged herself a for real millionaire. This little story also touches the conflicting cultures of the Europeans and the natives. Montgomery did an outstanding job with this one in particular.

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Title: Jayakanthan Short Stories

Author: Jayakanthan

Narrator: S. Sundararaman, B. Anuradha

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-08

Publisher: Kizhakku Pathippagam

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Jayakanthan, born in 1934, is known for his original thinking and thought-provoking ideas. A prolific writer, he has two autobiographies, two biographies, several novels and novellas, anthologies of short stories and essays to his credit. He is a Fellow of the Sahitya Akademi and was awarded the Jnanpith Award in 2002.

Short stories in this collection: Siluvai Yugasandhi Gurupeedam Naan Irukkiren Agni Pravesam Suyadharisanam Andarangam Punidhamanadhu Oru Veedu Pooti Kidakkiradhu Oru Pagalnera Passenger Vandiyil Naan Jannalaruge Utkaarndhirukkiren.

Members Reviews:

Funtastic collections to be treasured..

What made the experience of listening to Jayakanthan Short Stories the most enjoyable?

It was very late i read this book , but worth it.. each story is a classic. This is the first book i ever read and listened of Jayakanthan..Now , I am looking for all of his writing.. His style is very simple and to a point. I heard about his writing and felt it when i listened to his short stories.. he will on one of my top writers ..

What was one of the most memorable moments of Jayakanthan Short Stories?

the style and simpllcity in language and his flow connected me very well.

What about S. Sundararaman and B. Anuradha s performance did you like?

Funtastic..enjoyed.. they have done a awesome job

If you could rename Jayakanthan Short Stories, what would you call it?

collection of Gems

Any additional comments?

No comments.. i tasted his wrtiting ..loooking for more

Jayakanthan is great as always

Suyadarisanam and window stories are awesome. His narration has just getting the situation/plot in my eyes. Great writer we have lost in our generation!

Great narration!!!

I really enjoyed hearing writer legend Jayakanthan's short stories..Well done Narrators Sundararaman and Anuradha!!

This is my first audio book experience in tamil...I should give 5 out of 5 for this work.

Bad Stories

The stories in this audiobook are really bad, you will get depressed as you hear them :)

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Title: Medicine Ground (Dramatized)

Author: Louis L'Amour

Narrator: uncredited

Format: Unabridged

Length: 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-08

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

"Medicine Ground" is a short story from L'Amour's hardcover,

Valley of the Sun, - previously unavailable anywhere!

©2003 Louis L'Amour (P)2008 Random House Audio

Members Reviews:

Great story

As with any lamour story, excellent. keeps you entertained from the very beginning to the end.

fun

a fun adventure! I really enjoy Louis L'Amour. I recommend giving this book a listen.

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Title: Pigeon Blood: A Classic Hard-Boiled Tale from the Original Black Mask

Author: Paul Cain

Narrator: Tom Weiner, Lorna Raver, Bill Hughes, Anthony Heald, Grover Gardner, Malcolm Hillgartner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-08

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

A society matron's life is threatened after she engineers the theft of her own priceless jewelry to pay off a gambling debt. Only a debonair connoisseur of crime can save her and recover her gems. For a price.

©1961 Keith Alan Deutsch; (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Members Reviews:

Noir as it should be.

A classic tale in the style of the greats, Chandler and Hammett. While reading it you can almost see the black and white movie version in your mind. Better than pulp fiction but the author never sufferred the aclaim of the greats. Too bad, this is a top notch addition to the genre. Read it, listen to it, enjoy.

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Title: Lost and Found

Subtitle: A Classic Hard-Boiled Tale from the Original Black Mask

Author: Hugh B. Cave

Narrator: Richard Furrone

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-08

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Did a spoiled rich girl die in a plane crash, or is she hiding with her homicidal lover in the Florida Keys? Whose body is that in the wreckage? Who put it there?

©1968 Keith Alan Deutsch; (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.