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Title: Empire of the Sun

Author: J. G. Ballard

Narrator: Jeremy Irons

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-26-10

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 60 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.

Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world.

Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.

Critic Reviews:

"An outstanding novel...a classic adventure story." (The New York Times)

"A profound and moving work of the imagination." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

"An incredible literary achievement....Brilliant." (Anthony Burgess)

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Title: Shadow Tag

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Louise Erdrich

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-10

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 141 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When Irene America discovers that her husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and her marriage, while turning her Red Diaryhidden where Gil will find itinto a manipulative farce.

Alternating between these two records, complemented by unflinching third-person narration, Shadow Tag is an eerily gripping read. When the novel opens, Irene is resuming work on her doctoral thesis about George Catlin, the 19th century painter whose Native American subjects often regarded his portraits with suspicious wonder. Gil, who gained notoriety as an artist through his emotionally revealing portraits of his wifework that is adoring, sensual, and humiliating, even shockingrealizes that his fear of losing Irene may force him to create the defining work of his career.

Meanwhile, Irene and Gil fight to keep up appearances for their three children: 14-year-old genius Florian, who escapes his familys unraveling with joints and a stolen bottle of wine; Riel, their only daughter, an 11-year-old feverishly planning to preserve her family, no matter what disaster strikes; and sweet kindergartener Stoney, who was born, his parents come to realize, at the beginning of the end. As her home increasingly becomes a place of violence and secrets, and she drifts into alcoholism, Irene moves to end her marriage. But her attachment to Gil is filled with shadowy need and delicious ironies.

In brilliantly controlled prose, Shadow Tag fearlessly explores the complex nature of love, the fluid boundaries of identity, and one familys struggle for survival and redemption.

Editorial Reviews:

Senseless destruction is horrifying to watch. It makes sense, then, that this audiobook is horrifying to hear - horrifying yet irresistible. Uncomfortable scenes replay themselves as Irene's marriage to the brilliant, troubled artist Gil twists itself into a tortured stranglehold. The two go to extremes to make each other unhappy. Coleen Marlo nimbly captures each tormented character's voice and even portrays the suffering of the children with heartbreaking authenticity. The profound selfishness of the couple makes them difficult to like, but the beauty of Erdrich's writing and the precise neutrality of Marlo's narration make the family wreckage something that can't be ignored.

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Title: Noah's Compass

Author: Anne Tyler

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-05-10

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 170 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.

Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn't bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged.

His effort to recover the moments of his life that have been stolen from him leads him on an unexpected detour. What he needs is someone who can do the remembering for him. What he gets is well, something quite different.

We all know a Liam. In fact, there may be a little of Liam in each of us. Which is why Anne Tyler's lovely novel resonates so deeply.

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Title: Dead Tomorrow

Subtitle: Roy Grace, Book 5

Author: Peter James

Narrator: David Bauckham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-09

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 136 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In an evil world, everything is for sale....

The body of a missing teenager is dredged from the seabed off the Sussex coast, missing vital organs. Soon after, a further two more bodies are found...

Caitlin Beckett, a 15 year old in Brighton will die if she does not receive an urgent transplant. When the health system threatens to let her down her mother takes drastic action and goes to an online broker in black-market organs. The broker can provide what she wants, but it will come at a price.

As Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the recovered bodies, he unearths the trail of a gang of child traffickers operating from Eastern Europe. Soon Grace and his team will find themselves in a race against time to save the life of a young street kid, while a desperate mother will stop at nothing to save her daughter's life....

Dead Tomorrow is the fifth novel in the multi-million copy best-selling Roy Grace series from number one author Peter James.

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Title: The Christmas List

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Richard Paul Evans

Narrator: John Dossett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-09

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 129 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When I was in seventh grade, my English teacher, Mrs. Johnson, gave our class the intriguing (if somewhat macabre) assignment of writing our own obituaries. Oddly, I don't remember much of what I wrote about my life, but I do remember how I died: in first place on the final lap of the Daytona 500. At the time, I hadn't considered writing as an occupation, a field with a remarkably low on-the-job casualty rate.

What intrigues me most about Mrs. Johnson's assignment is the opportunity she gave us to confront our own legacy. How do we want to be remembered? That question has motivated our species since the beginning of time: from building pyramids to putting our names on skyscrapers.

As I began to write this book, I had two objectives: First, I wanted to explore what could happen if someone read their obituary before they died and saw, firsthand, what the world really thought of them. Their legacy.

Second, I wanted to write a Christmas story of true redemption. One of my family's holiday traditions is to see a local production of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. I don't know how many times I've seen it (perhaps a dozen), but it still thrills me to see the change that comes over Ebenezer Scrooge as he transforms from a dull, tight-fisted miser into a penitent, "giddy-as-a-schoolboy" man with love in his heart. I always leave the show with a smile on my face and a resolve to be a better person. That's what I wanted to share with you, my dear listeners, this Christmas - a holiday tale to warm your season, your homes, and your hearts.

Merry Christmas,

Richard Paul Evans

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Title: It's the Little Things

Author: Erica James

Narrator: Julia Franklin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-09

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Dan and Sally are now parents. Dan is enjoying being a stay-at-home father taking care of their young son, and Sally is the bread winner and loves her job as a partner in a Manchester law firm. The arrangement has so far worked well, but when Dan starts to question whether Sally has got her priorities right, the cracks in their marriage begin to appear.

Dan and Sally have everything Chloe wishes for in life - a happy marriage and a beautiful child. Dumped by her long-term boyfriend just weeks after the tsunami, she's been on a mission ever since to find the perfect father for the child she craves. When she meets Seth Hawthorne, she thinks she may have hit the jackpot. But is Seth the man she thinks he is?

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Title: My Abandonment

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Peter Rock

Narrator: Tai Sammons

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 35 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Thirteen-year-old Caroline and her father have lived for four years on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, in Forest Park. He has homeschooled her using encyclopedias and books from the library while also teaching her a rigid code of behavior that enables them to survive in this wilderness. Yet one small mistake allows the authorities to discover them. Their forced relocation to a horse farm outside of the city becomes only a brief respite to their deeper flight from a world that can't understand them.

©2009 Peter Rock; (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic Reviews:

Tai Sammons's narration commands attention.Definitely a worthwhile listen. (AudioFile)

Utterly entrancing.Every step of this narrativerings true. (Publishers Weekly)

This beautiful, strange novel takes us into the foreign country where those called homeless are at home; the city is wilderness, and the greater wilderness lies beyond. Fascinating and moving, it tells with great tenderness how human love goes wrong. (Ursula Le Guin)

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Title: East of the Sun

Author: Julia Gregson

Narrator: Tania Rodrigues

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-09

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 134 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Each of them has their own reason for leaving their homeland but the hopes and secrets they carry can do little to prepare them for what lies ahead in India...

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Title: Sixty Days and Counting

Subtitle: Science in the Capital, Book 3

Author: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrator: Peter Ganim, Kim Stanley Robinson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-11-08

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 85 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

But the president-elect remains optimistic and doesn't intend to give up without a fight. A maverick in every sense of the word, Chase starts organizing the most ambitious plan to save the world from disaster since FDR - and assembling a team of top scientists and advisers to implement it.

For Charlie Quibler, this means re-entering the political fray full-time and giving up full-time care of his young son, Joe. For Frank Vanderwal, hampered by a brain injury, it means trying to protect the woman he loves from a vengeful ex and a rogue "black ops" agency not even the president can control - a task for which neither Frank's work at the National Science Foundation nor his study of Tibetan Buddhism can prepare him.

In a world where time is running out as quickly as its natural resources, where surveillance is almost total and freedom nearly nonexistent, the forecast for the Chase administration looks darker each passing day. For as the last - and most terrible - of natural disasters looms on the horizon, it will take a miracle to stop the clock . . . the kind of miracle that only dedicated men and women can bring about.

BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction by author Kim Stanley Robinson.

Critic Reviews:

"Robinson's gift is a vision that uses the environment and its complexity as the focus of all that happens, rather than merely as grim set dressing or allegorical overlay." (Time)

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Título: La novela de milenio pasado [The Novel of the Past Millenium (Texto Completo)]

Autor: Roberto Quesada

Narrador: Walter Krochmal

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 4 hrs and 49 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 11-10-08

Editor: Recorded Books

Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 2 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Contemporary

Resumen del editor:

El escritor vive y trabaja en su estudio en el "Village Newyorkino" e intenta escribir una novela de amor a partir de la historia de un centavo. Él busca en su cerebro la palabra perfecta para describir las vidas de Alejandra y Fernandez. En La Lima Honduras, sus personajes se conocen y llevan su historia de amor desde 1960 hasta 1998.

En este juego literario, Quesada se refiere al humor del absurdo en la literatura Estadounidense y en lo mágico e incredible de la literatura Latinoamericana.

Please note: This title is in Spanish.

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