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Title: Loop Group

Author: Larry McMurtry

Narrator: C.J. Critt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-22-04

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Maggie runs a group that dubs voices for movies. She spends much of her time fending off her three pushy daughters, and gets her kicks with her far older Sicilian lover. Connie, on the other hand, has a taste for younger men. These two best friends are getting past their prime, which is why they plan to have one last great adventure. But on the road from Texas to California and back, the women get caught up in events beyond their control. Packing a .38 Special, they blaze their trail across the Southwest, bumping into one zany character after another.

Critic Reviews:

"In his 28th novel, Pulitzer-winner McMurtry again displays his knack for compelling characters and plots." (Publishers Weekly) "What makes this work special is McMurtry's gift for creating a genuinely likable, believable pair of protagonists and weaving an often touching fabric around their intertwined relationship." (Booklist)

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Title: The Dante Club

Author: Matthew Pearl

Narrator: Boyd Gaines

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-03

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 136 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

As they struggle to keep their sacred literary cause alive, the plans of the Dante Club are put in further jeopardy when a serial killer unleashes his terror on the city. Only the scholars realize that the gruesome murders are modeled on the descriptions from Dante's Inferno and its account of Hell's torturous punishments. With the lives of the Boston elite and Dante's literary future in America at stake, the Dante Club must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret.

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and outcast police officer Nicholas Rey, the first black member of the Boston police department, place their careers on the line in their efforts to end the killing spree. Together, they discover that the source of the murders lies closer than they ever could have imagined.

The Dante Club is a magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante, his mythic genius, and his continued grip on our imaginations.

Critic Reviews:

"Expertly weaving period detail, historical fact (the Dante Club did indeed exist), complex character studies, and nail-biting suspense, Pearl has written a unique and utterly absorbing tale." (Booklist, Starred Review) "Absorbing and dramatic...Pearl has proven himself a master." (Library Journal)

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Title: Thunder in the Deep

Author: Joe Buff

Narrator: John Bedford Lloyd

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-12-02

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 82 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The Challenger is the weapon of the future, a ceramic-hulled nuclear submarine with the most advanced electronics ever created. Acting captain Jeffrey Fuller's mission is to rescue the fast attack sub Texas, now lying on the bottom of the Atlantic. But a newly resurrected and fanatically militaristic Germany knows where the Texas is, too, and it knows the Challenger is coming. It is the Challenger the Germans want, dispatching their own high-tech supersub to destroy her.

Executive Producer: Laura Wilson

Producer: David Rapkin

Original jacket illustration: ©Tom Hallman

©2001 Joe Buff(p) 2002 Random House, Inc.

Critic Reviews:

"[He] out-Clancys Clancy's lust for detail ... the action lives up to the jargon... Buff gives us terrific battle maneuvers... Talk about fun."- Kirkus Reviews

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Title: Out of the Night that Covers Me

Author: Pat Cunningham Devoto

Narrator: Pat Cunningham Devoto

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 02-19-01

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

As John fights for his survival, he comes to identify with the struggles of the poor blacks he encounters, and imagines that his salvation lies in escape to Chicago, just as they feel that their own survival depends on going north to a new life. Instead, a twist of fate brings him to the Bend, a black settlement that has become a refuge for outcasts. Here John finds himself in the middle of the brutal confrontation between blacks and whites that will foreshadow the historic struggle about to sweep the country.

A powerful drama of prejudice and lost innocence, indomitable courage, and the secret corners of a child's heart, Out of the Night that Covers Me is a testament to Pat Cunningham Devoto's extraordinary talent.

Critic Reviews:

"This book took me on remarkable journey - one not soon forgotten." (Billie Letts, bestselling author of Where the Heart Is)

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Title: A School Story

Subtitle: The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James

Author: Montague Rhodes James

Narrator: David Collings

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-14-09

Publisher: Andrews UK Limited

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "A School Story". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

(P)2009 Andrews UK Ltd under exclusive license from Craftsman Audio

Critic Reviews:

"David Collings Reads Wonderfully Well." (The Observer)

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Title: In the Company of Liars

Author: David Ellis

Narrator: Dick Hill and Susie Breck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 32 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Our first picture of Allison is in the moments after her death. Then the story moves backward in time: an hour before, then a day, back and back until we're at the beginning and can see what's really happened - and most shocking, what has not. At every turn, Allison knows what she sees may not be what's real. The only sure thing is her place in a vortex of half-truths, threat, and suspicion. When her nightmare is over, where will she be? In the company of friends - or the company of liars?

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Title: A Year After Henry

Author: Cathie Pelletier

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In her exquisite new novel, acclaimed author Cathie Pelletier presents a witty and refreshingly candid portrait of grief, intergenerational conflict, and the impact one person can have on those he loved.

Bixley, Maine: One year after Henry Munroe's fatal heart attack at age 41, his doting parents, prudish wife, rebellious son, and wayward brother are still reeling. So is Evie Cooper, a bartender, self-proclaimed "spiritual portraitist", and Henry's former mistress. While his widow, Jeanie, struggles with the betrayal, Henry's overbearing mother is making plans to hold a memorial service. As the date of the tribute draws closer and these worlds threaten to collide, the Munroes grapple with the frailty of their own lives and the knowledge that love is all that matters.

With her trademark wry wit and wisdom, Cathie Pelletier has crafted an elegant and surprisingly uplifiting portrait of the many strange and inspiring forms that grief can take in its journey toward healing.

Critic Reviews:

Nobody walks the knife-edge of hilarity and heartbreak more confidently than Pelletier." (Richard Russo)

"Narrator Hillary Huber captures every every aspect of the grieving process, as depicted by Pelletier. Huber shines portraying the multigenerational characters, most significantly, Henry's widow, as they react to the discovery of Henry's secret life. Huber delivers the surprises in the same even tone and provides pauses at just the right spots to let the emotional truths to sink in. The story of the year after Henry's passing will stay with listeners for days after listening." (AudioFile)

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Title: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

Author: Annabel Pitcher

Narrator: David Tennant

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-14-11

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Limited

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 48 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his Dad and his teenage sister, Jasmine for a 'Fresh New Start'. Five years ago his sister's twin, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His parents are wrecked by their grief, Jasmine turns to piercing, pink hair and stops eating. The family falls apart. But Jamie hasn't cried in all that time. To him Rose is just a distant memory. Jamie is far more interested in his cat, Roger, his birthday Spiderman T-shirt, and in keeping his new friend Sunya a secret from his dad. And in his deep longing and unshakeable belief that his Mum will come back to the family she walked out on months ago. When he sees a TV advert for a talent show, he feels certain that this will change everything and bring them all back together once and for all.

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Title: The Forrests

Author: Emily Perkins

Narrator: Alison Larkin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-06-13

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Evelyn and Dorothy - the twins - are seven when the Forrests move from New York City, the hub of the world, to Westmere, New Zealand. The Forrest Trust Fund now cut out of their lives, the family live under a cloudless sky, in the dust and the heat, outdoors and running wild. Their father - who they would only call Frank - works for a cab company over the weekends but is really an actor. Michael, the eldest, has a friend called Daniel whose father lives in a half-way house. He starts to live with them, punches Dorothy on the shoulder to stop her crying when she starts school, and becomes family.

Lee, their mother, takes them to a commune when she needs to get away from Frank. The memory of that place - the freedom, the dirty richness of the landscape, the stolen kisses - their chaotic childhood, undulates beneath the surface of all their lives, and brings them together in flickering moments when they grow far apart.The passing of time happens quickly. Evelyn and Dorothy grow older, discover sex, love, have babies, and watch as they, too, grow old. Their youngest sister moves away and their parents decrease in importance in their lives. Daniel, like a shadow, is always in the back of their minds. Death changes everything, but somehow life remains the same.

In a narrative that shifts and moves, growing as wild as the characters, The Forrests is an extraordinary literary achievement. A novel that sings with color and memory, it speaks of family and time, dysfunction, aging, and loneliness, about lethargy, heat, youth, and how there is always something inaccessible and secretive, lying just out of reach.

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Title: Angels Watching Over Me

Author: Lurlene McDaniel

Narrator: Kate Forbes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

It is just two weeks before Christmas, and 16-year-old Leah Lewis-Hall is stuck in a hospital room. Leah is lonely and worried, but she doesnt want to trouble her honeymooning mother. When her new roommate Rebekah needs a friend, Leah forgets her own problems as she comforts the scared little Amish girl. Leah doesnt understand the Amish customs and beliefs, but she still looks forward to Rebekahs teenaged sister and brothers visits. Romantic sparks fly between Leah and brother Ethan. Then a mysterious night nurse whom only Leah and Rebekah can see appears to console the girls. Leah will need the support of all her friends when the doctor finally makes his diagnosis. Lurlene McDaniels best-selling inspirational novels about teenagers facing life-altering situations captivate her many young adult fans. With narrator Kate Forbes highlighting the poignancy and romance of Leahs story, the result is a truly memorable and uplifting listening experience.

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