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Title: Salvation City

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Sigrid Nunez

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-10

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

After losing both parents to a flu pandemic that seriously threatens his own life as well, 13-year-old Cole Vining is sent to live with an evangelical pastor and his wife in Salvation City, a small town in southern Indiana. There, Cole feels sheltered and loved but never as if he truly belongs. Everything about his new home is vastly different from the secular world in which he was raised. As he tries to adjust, he struggles also with memories of the past, a struggle made more difficult by the fact that he had lost his parents at a time when family relations were at their most fraught and unhappy. How is he to remember them now? Are they still his parents if they are no longer there? Must he accept what those around him believe, that because his parents did not know Jesus they are condemned to hell? During this time, Cole finds solace in drawing comics, for which he has a remarkable gift, and in fantasies about being a superhero.

Salvation City is a story of love, betrayal, and forgiveness. It is about spiritual and moral growth, and the consolation of art. It is about belief - belief in God and belief in self. As others around him grow increasingly fixated on the hope of salvation and a new life to come through an imminent rapture, Cole imagines a different future, one in which his own dreams of happiness and heroism begin to seem within reach.

Editorial Reviews:

Author Sigrid Nunez gives us a look at two very different ideologies and lifestyles through the eyes of a young man struggling to find his own identity in a time of grief, anger, and confusion.

In this coming-of-age story, a flu pandemic has killed off most of the population, including Cole Vining's secular, liberal parents. Cole finds himself moved from the state-run orphanage to Salvation City, where the residents await the Rapture which they are certain will soon come. His new foster parents the local pastor and his wife introduce Cole to ideas that he knows his parents would never have approved of. Ideologies collide as Cole struggles to make sense of conflicting world views. Equally difficult is his effort at sorting out his memories and perceptions of his parents.

Audie Award-winning narrator Stephen Hoye brings his theatrical training to bear in his performance of Salvation City. His talent shines in the character of Pastor Wyatt, the evangelical preacher who takes Cole in. Hoyes portrayal of Wyatt is warm, wise, unassuming, and utterly convincing. By contrast, the character of teenaged Cole is a little rough in Hoyes hands he does not sound comfortable with some of Nunezs invented slang, but since most of the story happens in Coles head this is easily forgiven.

While often referred to as a post-apocalyptic novel, it really is only so in the broadest sense the apocalypse (the flu pandemic) happens only in memory, and Salvation City is anything but the devastated wasteland we come to expect from a book that has such a label applied. This is a look at a society still intact but deeply changed. Those looking for action and peril in a scorched urban setting should look elsewhere; those looking for a thoughtful look at nature, nurture, and how each shapes us should find this a satisfying listen.

Critic Reviews:

"Salvation City is not only timely and thought-provoking but also generous in its understanding of human nature.

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Title: Samsara

Author: David Adams

Narrator: Eddie Lopez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Exchanging Western values for far-off Thailand, Gunnar Ray plans to teach in the countryside and absorb the country's ancient wisdom. When monsoon rains flood the lands above his adopted village, catastrophe strikes. Gunnar's innocence is swept downstream along with hundreds of Thai lives.

Spiritually adrift, he washes up in the offices of the Bangkok Times, a crusading reporter hell bent on derailing corrupt officials at war with the Thai environment. He is not alone. A summons from an enigmatic Buddhist monk with rumoured mystical powers and a near militant love for the jungle is just the sort of lead that Gunnar thrives on. In a forgotten province, he will test whether his pen is indeed mightier than the military's sword. When the forest-protecting monk of the Northeast is arrested, Gunnar sets off on a cross-country journey to summon support.

With the monk's beautiful niece as his guide, he navigates the currents and eddies of remote provinces that few Westerners have penetrated. Gunnar's articles aimed at freeing the first-ever imprisoned Thai monk transform him into a high profile activist-and target. Ultimately he must choose: his growing love for the monk's niece and commitment to the cause, versus the now daily threat of an assassin's bullet.

Ecological thriller, love story, spiritual journey, Samsara scratches the bloody underbelly of a nation in conflict.

Members Reviews:

Boring and more boring

Very boring. Halfway through and the story is too boring to continue. Deleting. Shallow character development. The requisite love story is uninteresting.

Perfect book for brilliant readers/listeners!

An impressive and realistic story from a genius writer. Each chapter will not fail to deepen your intellect, entertain, inspire and touch your heart. Love, sex, religion, nature, adventure, fantasy, war, and comedy fused into one book is equivalent to PERFECTION.

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Title: Vodka and Bread

Author: Mira Magen

Narrator: Liat Shnapp

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-10

Publisher: SonicBooks Ltd.

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A husband and wife, both successful academics, leave their careers and choose to live a simple life as a fisherman and a manual laborer. Gideon, a brilliant lawyer, chooses to work as a fisherman in the Eilat fish farms. Amiya, his wife, an accountant, giving up her honorable job, chooses to work in her parents' grocery store.

Vodka and Bread was published by Zmora Bitan. The audiobook was produced by SonicBooks.

Please note: This audiobook is in the Hebrew language.

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Title: Beautiful Malice

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Rebecca James

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-10

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Who is Katherine Patterson? It is a question she hopes no one can answer. To erase her past, Katherine has moved to a new city, enrolled in a new school, and even changed her name. She's done the next best thing to disappearing altogether. Now, wary and alone, she seeks nothing more than anonymity.

What she finds instead is the last thing she expected: a friend. Even more unlikely, Katherines new friend is the most popular and magnetic girl in school. Extroverted, gorgeous, flirtatious, and unpredictable, she is everything that Katherine is not and doesn't want to be: the center of attention. Yet Alice's enthusiasm is infectious, her candor sometimes unsettling, and Katherine, in spite of her guarded caution, finds herself drawn into Alice's private circle.

But Alice has secrets, too - darker than anyone can begin to imagine. And when she lets her guard down at last, Katherine discovers the darkest of them all. For there will be no escaping the past for Katherine Patterson - only a descent into a trap far more sinister...and infinitely more seductive.

Critic Reviews:

"This unflinching exploration of psychological manipulation and the tragedies it creates introduces a promising new talent in literary suspense." (

Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Definitely not a YA read!

A massive disappointment.

The good stuff first so that you guys don't think I'm nasty giving it a poor rating because I was in some kind of bad mood. But honestly I couldn't see what the fuss was all about.

I guess it was a compelling read. Although I'm not quite sure why -- I can't say that I cared very much about the plot and, although I love psychological thrillers I couldn't say that there was any massive driving questions that had me chewing my nails. I read it in a couple of hours and there were some points in the book that I felt the tension that readers should feel but the feeling didn't last long, which was a major disappointment. This really could have been much better.

The character who had the most appeal to me was Robbie, a young man who has lost his mother and who finds no support or comfort from his emotionally wrecked father. One who is willing to succumb to the poison that is Alice so as to feel even an iota of happiness that she able to give him despite the destruction she brings to his heart and mind.

However, this is where I have to bridge the gap between praise and criticism. I relished the Alice parts because James showed elements of Alice's character, and the depth of her narcissism, with fairly subtle stuff like Alice not wanting to travel because no-one would know her abroad. However, James isn't satisfied until she has beaten that horse to a bloody pulp. James, you are wrtiing for a YA adult, but YAs are not morons. They know a narcissist when they see it even if they don't know the psychological term. The reader doesn't need a psychology master's student (Philippa) running around telling us that Alice has "issues." We understand how badly Alice's mother abandoning her must have screwed her up and that it's probably the reason behind her actions -- we don't need that vomit-inducing, sanctimonious paragraph that Katherine delivered at the end. We get that Alice is not 100% monster.

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Title: American Taliban

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Pearl Abraham

Narrator: Jay Snyder

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

An avid, near-six-foot-tall surfer, John Jude Parish cuts a striking figure on the beaches of the Outer Banks in North Carolina. When he isn't on water, John lives on wheels, a self-described skate ratgrinding and kickflipping with his friends, and encouraged by his progressive parents. His hero is the great explorer Richard Burton, his personal prophet is Bob Dylan, and his world is wide open to new ideas, philosophies, and religions.

Through online forums and chat rooms, John meets a young woman from Brooklyn who spurs his interest in Islam and Arab literature. Deferring Brown University for a year, he moves to the idyllic New York borough to study Arabic. Like Burton, John embraces the experience heart, body, and soul-submitting to Islam, practicing the salaat, fasting and meditating, dancing with dervishes, and encountering the extraordinary. Burton lived the life of a nineteenth-century adventurer, but he also penetrated the ancient wisdom of secret worlds. John will toowith unforeseen consequences. Critically acclaimed novelist Pearl Abraham uses her gifts of psychological acuity and uncommon empathy to depict a typical upper-middle-class family snared by the forces of history, politics, and faith.

In American Taliban, she imagines this young surfer/skater on a distinctly American spiritual journey that begins with Transcendentalism and countercultural impulses, enters into world mysticism, and finds its destination in Islam.

Members Reviews:

What Happened to John Jude Parish?

Is it just me? Or is anyone else wondering what happened to John? The book was riveting right up until the last page, I will give it that. The story of John was plausible, and I read with baited breath to discover where his amazing journey took him. Having said that, it seems to me that Ms. Abraham forgot to add the last chapter. The chapter that would tell what ever became of John. The telling of his journey ended abruptly, too abruptly for me to feel even slightly satisfied. I feel cheated. I invested my time and energy into John, and then poof! He was nowhere to be found. Big. Fat. Disappointment.

Fascinating story, unfullfilling ending

I was extremely caught up in this book and with the characters, which Abraham develops beautifully. While it may not be a question most people have thought to ask, Abraham gives us the answer to the question of how a person can be drawn into terrorism or extremism. It happens so slowly and organically that I forgot I was reading a fiction novel and not someone's real story. I heard once that the sign of a good book is when you forget you're actually reading, and that was definitely the case with this book.

Unfortunately, I wasn't satisfied with how Abraham chose to end the book, though I understand why she did it. The book covers holistically how extremism affected the main character, and then explodes out into how it affects their family, friends, and beyond. If you're looking for a book that ends wrapped up in a neat little bow, this isn't your book but if you're looking for a fantastic piece of most 9/11 fiction, dig in.

A marvelous, thought provoking book

American Taliban is on one level a vivid portrayal of external landscapes: the unique coastal areas of Atlantic America and the far off mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan with their underlying philosophical and cultural strata.

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Title: Code Blue

Subtitle: A Political and Tension Novel

Author: Zvika Amit

Narrator: liat Shnapp

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-10

Publisher: SonicBooks Ltd.

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

In a decision to disengage from Gaza, the prime minister of Israel comes to the conclusion that there is no solution to the bloody Israeli - Palestinian conflict, except for the evacuation of Judea and Samaria and the establishment of a Palestinian state. When news of that comes, Gabrush, of the senior Yesha Council, feels his world has been destroyed. He knows that if carried out, the plan will end the dream of a Greater Israel and he will have to vacate the house he built himself in Maale Oranim. To thwart the plan Gabrush recruits groups of right-wing extremists, causing whirlpools of secret conspiracies and connections.

Zvika Amit creates masterfully a complex and sophisticated narrative.

Please note: This audiobook is in Hebrew.

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Title: Skaknovelle [Royal Game]

Author: Stefan Zweig

Narrator: Bent Otto Hansen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-10

Publisher: Viatone

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Skaknovelle omhandler mdet mellem verdensmeteren i skak og amatren Dr. B. En intens og opslugende beretning om duellerne og ikke mindst om de to duellanters baggrund og vidt forskellige indgang til spillet.

Please note: This audiobook is in Danish.

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Title: Sexus

Author: Henry Miller

Narrator: Steven Berkoff

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-09

Publisher: The Copyright Group

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

It explores work, love and friendship and as with all his work is based on autobiographical experiences- in this book his passionate affair with a dance hall hostess in NY that is recounted in intimately graphic and vivid detail.

The acclaimed actor, writer and director Steven Berkoff is perfectly suited for Miller's relentless power and uncompromising expression making this audio book a deeply compelling listen.

Members Reviews:

Hubba Hubbs

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Title: Drylands

Author: Thea Astley

Narrator: Beverley Dunn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-25-09

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

In her flat above Drylands' newsagency, Janet Deakin is writing a book for the world's last reader. Little has changed her in 50 years, except for the coming of cable TV. Loneliness is almost a religion, and still everyone knows your business. But the town is being outmanoeuvered by drought and begins to empty, pouring itself out like water into sand. Small minds shrink even smaller in the vastness of the land. One man is forced out by council rates and bigotry; another sells his property, risking the lot to build his dream. And all of them are shadowed by violence of some sort - these people whose only victory over the town is in leaving it.

©2000 Thea Astley; (P)2009 Bolinda Publishing

Editorial Reviews:

Janet Deakin, resident of a lonely, depressed town in rural Australia, decides to write a book about her experiences. A drought suffuses the town, and people begin to be driven out, this one by racism, that one by utter poverty. Beverly Dunn's matter-of-fact voice is suffused with a dry wit that conveys the bitterness and desolation of the characters in Drylands, by acclaimed Australian author Thea Astley, perfectly. The tenor of the landscape, the harsh life of the town's inhabitants, and the drama of the slowly emptying community are described in gorgeous literary prose, exposing all the brutality and heart of this small town in this classic work of Australian literature.

Critic Reviews:

"It is impossible to put this book down. It seethes with energy and passion." (Herald Sun, Australia)

Members Reviews:

Enjoyable!

I love this book. Very well narrated, along with a collection of stories, that reflect the inner struggles of life in Australia. A worthy listen!

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Title: Inside Moves

Author: Todd Walton

Narrator: Todd Walton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-09

Publisher: Redwood Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Roary, crippled by war, and Jerry, a phenomenal basketball player born with a bum leg, hang out at Max's bar in San Francisco, a racially mixed watering hole for the disabled community. Against seemingly impossible odds, Roary and Jerry, with lots of help from their friends, set out to realize Jerry's dream of becoming a pro basketball player.

Inside Moves is often classified as a sports novel, but basketball is merely the backdrop to this human comedy of love and sorrow and the healing power of friendship and community.

Inside Moves was Todd Walton's first novel and caused a sensation when published by Doubleday in 1978. A motion picture of Inside Moves was released in 1980, with a screenplay by Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin and directed by Richard Donner. The movie starred John Savage and launched the acting careers of David Morse, Amy Wright, and Diana Scarwid, who received an Academy Award-nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Louise, the feisty waitress of Max's.

Long unavailable, the movie version of Inside Moves was born again in 2009 with the long-awaited release of the DVD by Lions Gate Entertainment - which has spurred a renewed interest in the novel that inspired the film.

Critic Reviews:

"An extraordinary first novel. There is a real story here, metaphorical in its intensity and cleanly, effortlessly told. The pace is magic." (Anne Rice)

"A first-rate work, a story of hardship and dreams, rough, honest, youthful. Most of all it is a novel in which hope and the realizing of one's potential is the dominant theme." (San Francisco Chronicle)

"Timely and daring...Mr. Walton is most perceptive." - (The New Yorker)

Members Reviews:

Inside Moves is Moving

This book grabs you from the opening line and draws you in further all along the way. The author, Todd Walton, is a gifted reader as well as writer. It's much more than a sports story. I loved it!

Way Inside Moves

I loved the movie and although reading a book after "watching the movie" can be a little difficult because of the changes/edits made by screenwriters, listening to Roary (actually Todd on the audio) talk about himself and thinking aloud really brings you closer to the character and more inside his head than the movie. Comparing the movie with the book is like comparing someone's "outside" with their "inside". There is more inside. I especially love the character depictions, interactions, and the people and places Todd Walton created. The book and the characters are more complex than the movie as you would expect. But that is a shortcoming of movies in general. I don't think it can be any other way. As much as I loved the movie (it's one of my all time favorites), the ending seemed tacked on when I watched it the first few times. Don't expect that Hollywood Ending in the book. Those endings are for movies. Instead, expect a very intense and heartfelt depiction of Roary, Jerry and crew that is so remarkable, it jumped out at and was recognized by a talent like Richard Donner. The book brings you "way" inside moves. I am looking forward to the next Todd Walton book on audible.com.