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Title: A Small Hotel

Author: Robert Olen Butler

Narrator: Robert Olen Butler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-22-11

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Set in contemporary New Orleans but working its way back in time, A Small Hotel chronicles the relationship between Michael and Kelly Hayes, who have decided to separate after 20 years of marriage. The book begins on the day that the Hays are to finalize their divorce. Kelly is due to be in court, but instead she drives to New Orleans and checks into the hotel where she and Michael fell in love some 20 years earlier and where she must now make a decision that will forever affect her, Michael, and their 19-year-old daughter.

Butler masterfully weaves scenes of the present with memories from both Michael and Kelly, showing two people deeply in love but struggling with their own inabilities to express this love.

Critic Reviews:

"A sleek, erotic, and suspenseful drama about men who cannot say the word love and the women they harm...Butler executes a plot twist of profound proportions in this gorgeously controlled, unnerving, and beautifully revealing tale of the consequences of emotional withholding." (Booklist)

"[A] deliciously, unapologetically romantic novel...[Butler's] empathetic, precise writing flirts with melodrama but never feels hackneyed. In less skillful hands, this story would be a guilty pleasure. Instead, it's just a pleasure." (O Magazine)

"With mesmerizing detail, Butler excavates layers of memory and illuminates moments of both tenderness and alienation." (The New Yorker)

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Title: The Way We Were

Author: Marcia Willett

Narrator: June Barrie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Pregnant and grieving, twenty-something Tiggy arrives at the remote house of her friend Julia in the middle of a snowstorm. All alone, having lost her mate in a tragic accident, Tiggy finds refuge with Julia's warm and chaotic family. Nurtured and loved at last, Tiggy begins to live again as she eagerly awaits the birth of her son. But nearly thirty years later, when her son is about to become a father himself, the next generation discovers that there are some secrets of the past that still live on

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Title: When the Dog Dies: Complete Series 1

Author: Ian Davidson, Peter Vincent

Narrator: Liza Tarbuck

Format: Original Recording

Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-11

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Ronnie Corbett plays granddad Sandy Hopper in this sitcom which reunites him with the writers of his hit comedy Sorry Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. Sandy Hopper is growing old happily along with his dog Henry. His grown up children both married to people Sandy doesn't approve of at all would like him to move out of the family home so they can get their hands on their money earlier. But Sandy's not having this he's not moving until the dog dies. And anyway, how can he move if he's got a lodger? His daughter is convinced that his too-attractive lodger Dolores (Liza Tarbuck) is after Sandy and his money. Luckily, Sandy has three grandchildren and sometimes a friendly word a kindly hand on the shoulder can really help a Granddad in the 21st century. Man and dog together face a complicated world. There's every chance they'll make it more so.

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Title: The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm

Author: Norman Hunter

Narrator: Martin Jarvis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-11

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Eccentric, absent-minded inventor Professor Branestawm, with three or four glasses stacked up over his bald head (and he still cant find them) embarks on a series of adventures with his friend Colonel Dedshott. Various machines are invented: a time travel machine, a device to capture and tie up burglars, and a spring cleaning machine. Inevitably, something goes wrong and Professor Branestawm is again in a pickle, exasperating his housekeeper Mrs Flittersnoop and delighting us.

Editorial Reviews:

These beloved larks combine the jaunty "What Ho!" humor of P. G. Wodehouse with epic imagination and adventure in the tradition of Jules Verne, Hugh Lofton, and Terry Gilliam. Parents and children alike will delight in the absurdity of the absentminded Professor Bransestawms inventions - which never seem to work as planned - as he travels to the kingdom of "Squigalatania" in his highly combustible time machine, or blankets the town in batter from a malfunctioning pancake maker. With warmth and sprightliness, BBC stalwart Martin Jarvis (The Forsyte Saga, Murder, She Wrote) conjures up fond memories of bedtime stories, lending his genial, eloquent diction to the hapless and forgetful Branestawm, his loyal housekeeper Mrs. Fittersnoop, and his sidekick, Colonel Dedshott of the Catapult Cavaliers.

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Title: Caught Up in the Rapture

Author: Sheneska Jackson

Narrator: Peter Francis James, Kim Staunton, Deon Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-14-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Sheneska Jackson made an impressive debut when this novel soared to the top of the Blackboard best seller list. Raised in the same Los Angeles neighborhood that is home to her vibrant characters, she expertly translates the gritty language and ambiance of the hood into a dazzling literary experience. When fate brings Jazmine and the X-Man together, the only thing they have in common is a dream to make it big in the music business. Jazmine, a college student, sings in the church choir and yearns for the courage to move away from her overprotective father. The X-Man, who packs a .38 and gets high with his homies, performs his own brand of gangsta rap in the street. Suddenly Black Tie Records discovers them both, and, amazingly enough, they discover each other.

These unlikely lovers are a good match, realizing their dreams together and helping each other find the best in themselves. But can their passionate love survive a world scarred with street violence and cut-throat ambition?

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Title: Mrs. Pringle of Fairacre

Author: Miss Read

Narrator: Gwen Watford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 63 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Mrs. Pringle, the lugubrious school cleaner, has always been a favorite character in the Fairacre series. Here, through the eyes and anecdotes of the schoolmistress Miss Read, and others, we trace Maud Pringle's life. They include childhood visits to the village from her Caxley home, through her working days before her marriage to Fred Pringle, and on to her long association with Fairacre School. We meet again many old friends as they cross Mrs. Pringle's path: Mr. Willet the caretaker, Mr. Partridge the vicar, Miss Clare, and Miss Read's friend Amy. And their adventures make another enchanting excursion to Fairacre that will delight Miss Read's devoted followers.

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Title: Simple Men

Author: Eric Arvin

Narrator: Charlie David

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-11

Publisher: Dreamspinner Press

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 201 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Chip Arnold is a well-liked football coach at a small liberal arts college, but his personal life is in a bit of a rut. He goes out drinking with his colleagues, gets along well with his players, and dates all the prettiest women in town - he has the life most straight men dream of. But lately none of the women he dates seem to be igniting any passion in him. Then he meets the new school chaplain, Foster Lewis.

Romantic attraction to another man is new and terrifying, and Chip just can't put his finger on why he's drawn to Foster, but it's stronger than anything he's felt for anyone in his life. Never one to back down from a challenge, Chip decides to go for it. But love is never simple, and sometimes it's a downright mess!

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Title: Butterfly's Shadow

Author: Lee Langley

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 237 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In a Japan still rigid with tradition, an apprehensive 15-year-old tea-house girl prepares to welcome her first client. In his gleaming white uniform, Lieutenant Pinkerton walks up the hill to a house in Nagasaki to find the female he has purchased for a few weeks. When he sails away, she waits, aching for his return. It is one of the worlds great love stories. And, as the curtain falls on Madame Butterfly, Cho-Cho hands over her son to his American father, before killing herself... In a daring imaginative leap, Lee Langley takes this searing moment as a springboard, sending Puccinis characters spinning into a future undreamed of in the original.

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Title: New Beginnings

Author: Fern Britton

Narrator: Fern Britton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-17-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A warm, witty and wise debut about the ups and downs of life as a TV presenter.

When Christie Lynch, journalist and single mother of two, appears as a guest on a daytime TV talk show, she could never have imagined that it would lead to a new career. Spotted by hugely successful talent agent, Julia Keen, Christie can't help but be impressed by Julia's charm and stellar client list. And once Julia takes Christie on as a client, Christie's life changes for ever as Julia secures her a high-profile presenting job on a daily chat show.

Christie is immediately thrust into the limelight and, despite the intrusion of the paparazzi in her front garden, she starts to enjoy her new-found wealth and fame. But as her career soars to new heights, her home life starts to suffer when she's forced to spend more and more time away from her children.

Will Christie find a way to balance her role as a mother with her increasingly demanding job? And can she make it in the cut-throat world of entertainment? Whatever happens, Christie's going to give it all she's got

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Title: Separate Beds

Author: Elizabeth Buchan

Narrator: Sarah Le Fevre

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-11

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A story of economic breakdown and romantic recovery from the author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.

Tom and Annie's kids have grown up, the mortgage is do-able, and they're about to get a gorgeous, new, state-of-the-art French stove. Life is good - or so it seems.

Beneath the veneer of professional success and domestic security, their marriage is crumbling, eaten away by years of resentment, loneliness, and the fallout from the estrangement of their daughter, and they've settled into simply being two strangers living under the same roof. Until the economy falls apart.

Suddenly, the dull but oddly comfortable predictability of their lives is upended by financial calamity: Tom loses his job, their son returns home, and Tom's mother moves in with them. As their world shrinks, Tom and Annie are forced closer together, and the chaos around them threatens to sweep away their bitterness and frustration, refreshing and possibly restoring the love that had been lying beneath all along.

In Separate Beds, Elizabeth Buchan has captured the concerns and joys of contemporary women, and her timely, warm, and funny novel tracks the ebb and flow of family, fortune, and love that is familiar to so many readers and listeners.

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