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Title: The Great Leader

Subtitle: A Faux Mystery

Author: Jim Harrison

Narrator: Ray Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 99 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Author Jim Harrison has won international acclaim for his masterful body of work, including over thirty books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In his most original work to date, Harrison delivers an enthralling, witty, and expertly crafted novel following one mans hunt for an elusive cult leader, dubbed the Great Leader.

On the verge of retirement, Detective Sunderson begins to investigate a hedonistic cult, which has set up camp near his home in Michigans Upper Peninsula. At first, the self-declared Great Leader seems merely a harmless oddball, but as Sunderson and his sixteen-year-old sidekick dig deeper, they find him more intelligent and sinister than they realized. Recently divorced and frequently pickled in alcohol, Sunderson tracks his quarry from the woods of Michigan to a town in Arizona, filled with criminal border-crossers, and on to Nebraska, where the Great Leaders most recent recruits have gathered to glorify his questionable religion. But Sundersons demons are also in pursuit of him.

Rich with character and humor, The Great Leader is at once a gripping excursion through Americas landscapes and the poignant story of a man grappling with age, lost love, and his own darker nature.

Critic Reviews:

A classic Harrison novel, complete with humorous and introspective characters. (

Library Journal)

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Title: Lion of Babylon

Author: Davis Bunn

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-11

Publisher: christianaudio.com

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 76 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Marc Royce works for the State Department on special assignments, most of them rather routine, until two CIA operatives go missing in Iraq--kidnapped by Taliban forces bent on generating chaos in the region. Two others also drop out of sight--a high-placed Iraqi civilian and an American woman providing humanitarian aid. Are the disappearances linked? Rumors circulate in a whirl of misinformation. Marc must unravel the truth in a covert operation requiring utmost secrecy--from both the Americans and the insurgents. But even more secret than the undercover operation is the underground dialogue taking place between sworn enemies. Will the ultimate Reconciler between ancient enemies, current foes, and fanatical religious factions be heard?

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Title: Domestic Violets

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Matthew Norman

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-11

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 153 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Tom Violet always thought that by the time he turned 35, hed have everything going for him. Fame. Fortune. A beautiful wife. A satisfying career as a successful novelist. A happy dog to greet him at the end of the day.

The reality, though, is far different. Hes got a wife, but their problems are bigger than he can even imagine. And hes written a novel, but the manuscript hes slaved over for years is currently hidden in his desk drawer while his father, an actual famous writer, just won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His career, such that it is, involves mind-numbing corporate buzzwords, his pretentious archnemesis Gregory, and a hopeless, completely inappropriate crush on his favorite coworker. Oh... and his dog, according to the vet, is suffering from acute anxiety.

Toms life is crushing his soul, but hes decided to do something about it. (Really.) Domestic Violets is the brilliant and beguiling story of a man finally taking control of his own happiness - even if it means making a complete idiot of himself along the way.

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Title: The Girl in the Blue Beret

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Bobbie Ann Mason

Narrator: Fred Sullivan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Inspired by a true story, the best-selling author of In Country offers a gorgeous, haunting novel about an airline pilot coming to terms with his past, and searching for the people who saved him during World War II. After Marshall Stone's B-17 bomber was shot down in occupied Europe in 1944, people in the French Resistance helped him escape to safety. One of the brave French people who risked their lives for him was a lively girl in Paris--a girl identified by her blue beret. After the war Marshall returned to America, raised a family, and became a successful airline pilot. He tried to forget the war. Now, in 1980, he returns to France and finds himself drawn back in time--memories of the crash, the terror of being alone in a foreign country where German soldiers were hunting down fallen Allied aviators, the long months of hiding. Marshall finds the people who helped him escape from the Nazis and falls in love with the woman who was the girl in the blue beret. He also discovers astonishing revelations about the suffering of the people he had known during the war. Bobbie Ann Mason's novel, inspired by her father-in-law's wartime experiences, is a beautifully woven story of love, war, and second chances.

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Title: A Severed Head

Author: Iris Murdoch

Narrator: Derek Jacobi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-11

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Martin Lynch-Gibbon believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendour at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. As his Medusa informs him, 'this is nothing to do with happiness'.

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Title: Turn of Mind

Author: Alice LaPlante

Narrator: Jean Reed Bahle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-11

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 375 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

My name is Dr. Jennifer White. I am 64 years old. I have dementia. My son, Mark, is 29. My daughter, Fiona, 24. A caregiver, Magdalena, lives with me.

Alice LaPlantes Turn of Mind is a spellbinding novel about the disintegration of a strong womans mind and the unhinging of her family. Dr. Jennifer White, recently widowed and a newly retired orthopedic surgeon, is entering the beginning stages of dementia where the impossibility of recognizing reality can be both a blessing and a curse. As the story opens, Jennifers life-long friend and neighbor, Amanda, has been killed, and four fingers surgically removed. Dr. White is the prime suspect in the murder and she herself doesnt know if she did it or not.

Narrated in her voice, fractured and eloquent, a picture emerges of the surprisingly intimate, complex alliance between this pair two proud, forceful women who were at times each others most formidable adversaries. The womens 30-year friendship deeply entangled their families, and as the narrative unfolds we see that things were not always as they seemed. Jennifers deceased husband, James, is clearly not the scion he was thought to be. Her two grown children Mark, a lawyer, and Fiona, a professor, who now have power over their mothers medical and financial decisions respectively have agendas of their own. And Magdalena, her brusque live-in caretaker, has a past she hides. As the investigation intensifies, a chilling question persists: is Dr. Jennifer Whites shattered memory preventing her from revealing the truth or helping her to hide it?

Told through the voice of a woman with a powerful intellect that is maddeningly slipping away, Turn of Mind is not only a suspenseful psychological thriller that pulses with intensity but also a brilliant portrayal of the fragility of consciousness and memory, and of a mind finally turning on itself.

Critic Reviews:

Turn of Mind is bursting with humanity, in full array. Impossible to put down and yet a book not only to be savored, but returned to. A glorious achievement. (Jeffrey Lent)

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Title: Bury Your Dead

Author: Louise Penny

Narrator: Adam Sims

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-11

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 105 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

As Quebec City shivers in the grip of winter, its ancient stone walls cracking in the cold, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache plunges into the strangest case of his celebrated career. A man has been brutally murdered in one of the citys oldest buildings - a library where the English citizens of Quebec safeguard their history. And the death opens a door into the past, exposing a mystery that has lain dormant for centuries... a mystery Gamache must solve if hes to catch a present-day killer. Steeped in luscious atmosphere, brimming with the suspense and wit that have earned Louise Penny a massive global following, Bury Your Dead is the most ingenious suspense novel of the year.

Critic Reviews:

"Murder, an attractive detective, and terrific atmosphere . . . Impressive." (The Times)

"Magic . . . an elegance and depth not often seen." (The New York Times Book Review)

"Ingenious." (Guardian)

"Shudders and suspense . . . terrific." (Time Out)

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Title: 44 Charles Street

Author: Danielle Steel

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-11

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 266 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The plumbing was prone to leaks, the furniture rescued from garage sales. And every square inch was being devotedly restored to its original splendor - even as a relationship fell to pieces. Now Francesca Thayer, newly separated from her lawyer boyfriend Todd, is desperate. The owner of a struggling art gallery, and suddenly the sole mortgage payer on her Greenwich Village townhouse, Francesca does the math and then the unimaginable. She puts out an advertisement for boarders. Soon her house becomes a whole new world.

First comes Eileen, a fresh, pretty L.A. transplant, now a New York City schoolteacher. Then theres Chris, a young father struggling with a troubled ex-wife and the challenge of parenting a seven-year-old son who visits every other weekend. The final tenant is Marya, a celebrated cookbook author hoping to start a new chapter in her life after the death of her husband. As Francescas art gallery begins to find its footing and Todd moves on to another woman, she discovers that her accidental tenants have become the most important people in her life. As the roommates bond, and the house fills with the aroma of Maryas exquisite cuisine, there are shadows as well as light. Naïve Eileen explores the precarious boundaries of online dating with a series of strangers. Chriss custody fight for his son escalates to devastating levels. Marya faces an unexpected choice that will take her into untested waters. And Francesca herself will contemplate what had seemed impossible: opening her heart once more.

Over the course of one amazing, unforgettable, ultimately life-changing year, the house at 44 Charles Street fills with laughter, heartbreak, and, always, hope. In the hands of master storyteller Danielle Steel, its a place those who visit will never want to leave.

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Title: For the Time Being

Author: Annie Dillard

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 38 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being, her most profound narrative to date. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard renews our ability to discover wonder in lifes smallestand often darkestcorners.

Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images: pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birth defects; ten thousand terra-cotta figures fashioned for a Chinese emperor in place of the human court that might have followed him into death; the paleontologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin crossing the Gobi Desert; the dizzying variety of clouds. Vivid, eloquent, and haunting, For the Time Being evokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly and troublingly beyond our understanding.

Critic Reviews:

Writing as if on the edge of a precipice, staring over into the abyss, Dillard offers a risk-taking, inspiring meditation on life, death, birth, God, evil, eternity, the nuclear age, and the human predicamentHer razor-sharp lyricism hones this mind-expanding existential scrapbook, which is imbued with the same spiritual yearning, moral urgency, and reverence for nature that has informed nearly all of her nonfiction since the 1972 Pulitzer Prizewinning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Death of a Chimney Sweep

Author: M. C. Beaton

Narrator: Graeme Malcolm

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 454 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In the isolated villages in the north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the chimney sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands, until the day that Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager's fireplace, and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney. The entire town of Lochdubh is certain Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn't believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder. Then Pete's body is found on the Scottish moors, and the mystery deepens. It's up to Hamish to discover who's responsible for the dirty deed--and this time, the murderer may be closer than he realizes.

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