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Title: Cry Me a River

Author: Ernest Hill

Narrator: Peter Jay Fernandez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-08

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Sent to prison, Tyrone Stokes left his wife to raise their son, Marcus, alone. Now Tyrone is free, but 17-year-old Marcus is on Louisiana's death row for the murder of a young white girl. Convinced of his son's innocence, Tyrone will sacrifice everything to keep Marcus alive. Cry Me a River offers the distinctive blend of emotional power, vivid imagery, and rich characters that has brought its author national acclaim.

Members Reviews:

Social issue laden

Addresses social issues with page turning suspense when you get past the fairly slow beginning that sets the scene. I read it for a book club and we had a great discussion. The reading guide was useful, but even without it, the book stirred up plenty of discussion topics.

Family bonds

An extraordinary story of family both its strengths and its weaknesses

Very enjoyable

Very entertaining. I read it in 2 days because I had to know how it would end. the suspense was killing me though I figured it out pretty quickly I loved how the story unfolded. Ernest Hill is an amazing writer.

OUTSTANDING

This is a must read for men! I really enjoyed this book. When I got started I could not put it down. I finished this book in two days. It took me that long because I actually had to go to work on those days. (almost played sick just so I could finish it) This is my first Ernest Hill book, but not the last. Please keep of the excellent work.

Great Dialogue, Poor Plot

Sometimes drama can overcome reality, and too often reality is stranger than fiction - but on some occasions the delivery of a novel is so unlikely that its attempt to warm the soul is forfeited. Such is the fate of this novel.

This novel centers around a young black man, Marcus, who is wrongly convicted of raping and murdering a white girl. His father - Tyrone Stokes - stumbles upon this scene when the boy is only days away from execution. Tyrone just got out of jail and no one told him about his son's misfortune. And, I presume it did not make the papers as well. With the impediments of parole, curfews, and lack of credibility - Tyrone searches the streets to find out what really happened. And, he amazingly does.

Now the bad news. The author wants you to believe that Tyrone was capable of doing what his lawyer could not: e.g. ask questions of people. Tyrone, in a matter of days, did what his attorney failed to do in weeks, months or years. Tyrone, an amateur, was able to do what the police, the courts and more could not. And how? Much through the incognito friend - Beggarman -- who knows everyone who knows anything about anyone in his town.

That is the problem I encounter with a novel like this. The well intentioned plot succumbs to faulty supposition: that a parolee can do more in investigating the murder than the police or the wrongly accused's lawyer. And, the simple things he does make the lawyer look like a fool. Tyrone and Marcus, in the end, have a gripe. Marcus possibly a lawsuit - for pain and suffering while sitting in death row because of his lawyer's incompetence which included the following: not talking to the people who lived across the street from the scene of the kidnapping; failing to find out that the murdered child was dating a boy (a black boy); having the right truck identified; or discovering that the murdered girl was pregnant (how did that happen?) And, what do the people do in the end? Celebrate? Yes, for some. But, Tyrone goes back to prison.

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Título: Luna caliente [Hot Moon (Texto Completo)]

Autor: Mempo Giardinelli

Narrador: George Bass

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 3 hrs and 17 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 11-10-08

Editor: Recorded Books

Calificaciones: 3.5 de 5 de 2 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Contemporary

Resumen del editor:

Todos los ingredientes necesarios para llegar a los lectores más exigentes se conjugan en esta obra: crueldad, miedo, sexo, muerte, pura tensión y la extrema velocidad de un violento thriller con un siniestro telón de fondo: la dictadura militar.

Please note: This title is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Five Stars

Solid

Five Stars

Increible historia, seguro fue parte verdad!!

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Título: La hora sin diosa [The Hour Without Goddesses (Texto Completo)]

Autor: Beatriz Rivas

Narrador: Francisco Rivela

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 9 hrs and 7 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 11-10-08

Editor: Recorded Books

Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 1 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Contemporary

Resumen del editor:

Please note: This title is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Excelente novela sobre 3 mujeres históricas

Excelente novela histórica y romántica sobre 3 grandes mujeres: Lou Andreas Salomé (escritora y psicoanalista), Hannah Arendt (filosofa) y Alma Mahler (compositora).

La novela entreteje la vida de éstas grandes mujeres a través de un personaje (quizás ficticio): Daniel Ponty, que supuestamente fue amante y amigo de las mismas.

Además, la novela está enriquecida por notas históricas de grandes personajes de finales del siglo XIX y del siglo XX: Paul Rée y Friedrich Nietzsche, Viktor Tausk, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Oskar Kokoschka, Gustav Klimt, Martín Heidegger.

Me gusto en particular la parte dedicada a Lou Andreas Salomé y el triángulo amistoso que formó con Paul Rée y Friedrich Nietzsche, de hecho la película Más allá del Bien y del Mal filmada en los 70s trata sobre este tema.

La narración es buena

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Title: The Comfort of Saturdays

Author: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrator: Hilary Neville

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 11-03-08

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

As she attempts to unravel the truth behind Dr Thompson's disgrace, Isabel's patient intelligence is also required to deal with challenges in her own life. There is her baby son Charlie; Cat's deli to look after, not to mention her vulnerable assistant Eddie; and a mysterious and unlikeable composer who has latched on to Jamie, making Isabel fear for the future of her new family.

Isabel treads a difficult path between trust and gullibility, philanthropy and interference, while keeping in her sights the small but certain comforts of family, philosophy and a fine Saturday morning.

Members Reviews:

How to get an education in morality

All Alexander MCCALL's books get your thinking gear working. All of them real gems with their gentle understanding of human nature.

pity this is abridged

just as expected from this author and series. well written and entertaining. worth listening to.

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Title: Comstock Camels

Subtitle: The Derby Man Seris, Book 11

Author: Gary McCarthy

Narrator: Gene Engene

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-08

Publisher: Books In Motion

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Darby Buckingham becomes the unwilling owner of a herd of 12 dirty and disagreeable camels. Deciding to go into the freight business, Darby is faced with unfriendly Paiutes, scorching desert and steep, impassable trails. Add to that the horrors contrived by the murderous band of a competitor, an ugly giant known as Big Bert Jasper, and you have all the makings of an exciting story. The Derby Man will be hard pressed to come out ahead on this caper.

©2008 Books In Motion; (P)2008 Books In Motion

Members Reviews:

Hollow recording quality.

A word of caution. Listen carefully to the sample and decide if you can tolerate the hollow sounding recording. Eventually, I sort of got used to it, but I don't think there's a good excuse for poor studio work in an audiobook.

Otherwise, it was a fun story with a well matched and professional narrator in my opinion.

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Title: Blood on the Strip

Subtitle: The Penetrator Series, book 2

Author: Chet Cunningham

Narrator: Gene Engene

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-28-08

Publisher: Books In Motion

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

As a child he bounced from orphanages to foster homes. He grew up with foster parents as diverse as Mafia Dons, Irish policemen, and college professors. He's seen all angles of life. He knows it is too often evil, and it has become his mission to eradicate evil any way he can. Evil brings The Penetrator to Las Vegas. A town given life by corruption and nourished by greed. A town where all that glitters is not gold but perhaps the flash of a knife blade destined for The Penetrator's heart. In Las Vegas he seeks an elusive enemy, but for Hardin even one faint clue is enough to begin. His ancestors bequeathed him special knowledge in these things. It is late. He has penetrated, now he must complete the mission and escape.

Members Reviews:

An 80's reboot that is probably better off left back there

I was looking for something with some action so I picked up this book.

While it does contain a lot of action in it there were multiple typos through out, which is beyond surprising as this is from a publishing house.

The biggest issue I had was that through the entire story I never really felt any connection to the main character. There didn't seem to be much depth to the character.

The rest of the characters were also very one dimensional, we are told what they do but not why or how they came to be in the positions we find them. They seem to be just painted with the good/evil brush and left at that.

The story had a rushed feel to it. I contribute this mostly to the lack of character depth. It just felt very contrived with absolutely no surprises and very little imagination. Everyone did exactly what you expected them to do and in some cases in a way that had me scratching my head wondering why someone would be so obvious or so blind.

The entire final act seemed to be more of a gratuitous series of action instead of the culmination of the plot line. The conclusion to the characters was so underwhelming that it really left me wondering what the point of the story was. The events to a particular character that comes into the story near the end was so unnecessary that it seems to me that they character was introduced solely as a device to fill a hole. It served no purpose other than just a gimmick attempt to add to the readers fury I assume, which it failed at miserably.

At the very end we find that the lead character tends to leave a calling card at each scene. I actually cringed at not only the fact that he does but what it is. I'm still shaking my head at the absurdity of it.

While getting read to post this review I found that this is actually a re-print of the original book published in 1982 by pinnical books so it a way it now makes sense that there seems to be little depth to it and I wonder if all the typos are in the original book or introduced in this reboot.

I couldn't really recommend this with a clear conscious but maybe the rest of the series gets better but I doubt it.

Thugs, Vegas sex trafficing, and murder for hire bring justice to the city that never sleeps

A young woman is brutally beating and disfigured as an example and that starts a sequence that brings crime and corruption down in a spectacular fashion. Vegas off the strip is even worse than imaginable with sadistic killers praying on the innocent. Great characters, no limits danger, and a fast look into this seamy filthy racket that kills the spirit before the body.

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Title: Chosen

Subtitle: Full Circle Series #5

Author: Lisa Tawn Bergren

Narrator: Kris Faulkner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-25-08

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Alexana is willing to risk her life to make history, and nothing - not even love - will stand in her way! As supervisor of the historically significant Solomon's Stables dig, archaeologist Alexana Rourke, grad school friend of Dr. Christina Alvarez (Treasure), knows she's in serious danger. Yet she's determined that nothing will impede her excavations under the Temple Mount, not even the concern of handsome, world-renowned news correspondent Ridge McIntyre. Her stubbornness could well cost Alexana a future with the man she loves, and possibly even her life.

Members Reviews:

Review.\\\\\

One very good book. very prompt and excellent service. Love Lisa Bergen stories. Would certainly reccomend this book to friends.

Love and Suspense from Jerusalem

Chosen is a compelling book. I agree with the other ratings above. One comment I would like to see brought out is that Alexsana, the main female chararcter, often acts on her own instinct. Like most humans, she sometimes puts her decisions before the Lord...and at other times, just acts on her own judgement. She often ignores the counsel of Godly friends. She pays a price for this. Let's admire Alexsana, but look at her realistically. I highly recommend this book. It will stay on my shelf for years to come.

Christian romance full of action and historical information

Choosen incorporates the best of all areas of reading into one wonderful story. Religion, romance, and politics all come together producing a story like none other. Choosen discribes the Holy lands like a tour guide would, and correctly assesses the political turmoil the people there are experienceing. Choosen places fiction in the center of fact and weaves a tale so believable that one would expect it to appear on the news. From cover to cover an exelent story

Great!

This is a great story all about chosing between the work you love, and the man you can't live without. It really gave me a good idea about what the people in Jerusalem are feeling. This book has got it all- romance, politics, and religion. And it's SO real! A must read!

A great novel!

I highly recommend this book! It is a wonderful Christian

romance novel. I'd give it ten stars if I could!

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Title: Once Upon a Day

Author: Lisa Tucker

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Dorothea's search will turn into an odyssey of discovery, leading to the truth of her family's past and the terrifying day that changed her father forever. But Dorothea's journey will also introduce her to an unusual cast of characters, including a homeless girl from Missouri who becomes a jazz singer and a doctor turned cabdriver who has suffered his own losses. Together, they have a chance to make a discovery of a different kind: that though a heart can be broken by the tragic events of a day, a day can also bring a new chance at love and a deeper understanding of life's infinite possibilities.

Members Reviews:

Deep & Interesting book - BUT violent rape attempt

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

I thought about reading this book for a long time. The central theme about how a pivotal moment can change lives made me want to write an essay. I was interested in how the book seemed to stir up some debate on whether it was a good book club book. My opinion is that although the theme is hard to dispute there is certainly a lot to say about the decisions various people make, the inevitability of certain things - and whether you like or dislike the various characters.

What held me back for a long time from reading this is that I knew the book had a violent rape scene (technically it is an attempted rape, but extremely violent) I kept deciding not to read it. I finally went into a bookstore and read the offending scene which was easy enough to find while skimming and decided I could handle it. Having read the whole book now, it certainly could have been less gruesome, but it avoids a lot of the stuff I am trying to avoid by avoiding rape books since the victim isn't actually raped. The book involves a boy and girl raised to adulthood on an isolated estate named "The Sanctuary" by their father - who is so paranoid about their safety that they aren't even allowed to have a swing. At age 25, the boy heads out in the world and his 23 year old sister follows in search of him. The book mostly follows this girl, Dorothea.

The other parts of the book tell the story of the past from the point of view of Dorothea's mother Lucy, who isn't dead like Dorothea was told. Lucy is an actress so her parts of the story are about Hollywood to some extent. I think I would have avoided the book if I knew that because I don't usually find movie stars interesting but really the book is so focused on the family that it is okay that it has the Hollywood setting. So we see Dorothea's father from her adoring view and from the view of his wife before and after he kidnaps their children. That character Charles is probably the most controversial and would provide the most material for book club discussion. Is he evil? Why does he steal the children? Would they have been better off if he hadn't stolen them or not? Etc.

I am not sure what other people would get from this book. It had a weird effect on me. When Lucy's children are stolen, her son is 6 and her daughter is 4. His memories of her are fragmented and hers are non existent almost. That seemed so sad. Additionally, it gave me a new appreciation of time with my kids. What this book managed to say to me personally was that my focus was wrong. Enjoying things not being worse implies that they are bad. They are not bad they are actually good.

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Title: The Secret Between Us

Author: Barbara Delinsky

Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-08

Publisher: Random House Audio

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Her decision then turns into a deception that takes on a life of its own and threatens the special bond between mother and daughter.

The Secret Between Us is an unforgettable story about making bad choices for the right reasons and the terrible consequences of a lie gone wrong. Once again, Barbara Delinksy has delivered a riveting study of family and a superbly crafted novel, perfectly targeted to reading groups and fans of provocative fiction.

Members Reviews:

Not great, not bad

Agree with other reviewers that it did drag on a bit in the middle...disagree with other reviewers who found the characters unlikeable- can understand a mother wanting to protect her child, the most basic of instincts. Found it to be an entertaining read overall with an interesting plot...good for traveling on a plane/train kind of read, kind of in the Mary Higgins Clark good-girl-mystery/thriller category.

Great book...

I'll have to say that this is one of the best novels I've read in a long, long time. The plot to this story will touch your heart like you never imagined. Delinsky shows just how deep her talent runs in developing the characters, writing in such a way that you could feel the emotions of each one. I couldn't put this book down because it was so true to life in so many ways. When a marriage takes a turn to the point where one of the partners can feel the need to leave, then great pains should be taken to ensure the children of that union just how much they are still loved by BOTH parents, and it wasn't their (the children's) fault that the marriage ended. A newly-divorced physician that is left with the raising of a teenage daughter and young son, it took Deborah a while to get past the bitterness of being deserted for another woman. It was probably the circumstances involved (which I won't give the story plot away), but Deborah finally looked past her bitterness and realized she needed her ex-husband's help. In the end, he came through for her. Without a doubt, this story will have you reaching for the box of Kleenex. I give this novel a 5-star rating and only wish I could give it more.

Disappointing

Not one of Barbara Delinsky's better books. I found the standard of her writing a bit disappointing, I have read many of her books and this would , so far, be the only one I was not too impressed with. It's very repetitive and Deborah's children are a bit over the top with their histrionic behaviour. Aside from all that, I did finish reading the story.

Three Stars

Good read you kinda knew how the book was going.

A great read!

Novel was much more suspenseful than I expected. Every time I thought an issue was resolved, the writer introduced another crisis to keep me interested. Liked that the author let the reader see perspectives of all characters, and that characters were diverse. A great read!

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Title: Treasure

Subtitle: Full Circle Series #4

Author: Lisa Tawn Bergren

Narrator: Kris Faulkner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-03-08

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Ever since her days as an undergraduate student at Harvard, nautical archaeologist Dr. Christina Alvarez has been obsessed with finding her ancestor's lost treasure ship, and striking underwater gold. Traveling to the Caribbean Island of Robert's Foe, Christina must win over treasure hunter Mitch Crawford, who has refused to help her search.

©1995 Lisa Tawn Bergren; (P)2003 Books in Motion

Members Reviews:

Her stories are always different

I was afraid that the books in this series would become predictable but they are all so different. I really liked this. It was exciting and romantic.

Great book - I loved it!

If you could sum up Treasure in three words, what would they be?

Captivating

Suspenseful

Satisfying

What other book might you compare Treasure to and why?

Pathways, also by Lisa Bergren. She writes with passion, sensitivity, and beauty. In a world that seems to be traveling farther and farther from God, her writings are a refreshing breath of fresh air, a taste of the goodness of God. In a world of pain, I find it gives me joy when a book has a happy ending.

What about Kris Faulkners performance did you like?

I like the sound of her voice and her ability to convey the writer's meaning in her reading, enhancing the story with sensitivity to the characters, and her varied voices and inflections.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Yes, it made me cry for the beauty of it, and made me thank God for giving Lisa Bergren the gift of writing.

Any additional comments?

I hope you will continue to offer all of her books in audio version. Many thanks!!