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ID: 319893

Title: Post-Birthday World

Author: Lionel Shriver

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Format: Abridged

Length: 07:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, General, Contemporary

Summary:

The new novel from the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin.

It all hinges on one kiss. Whether Irena McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips in London will determine whether she stays with her disciplined, intellectual partner Lawrence or runs off with Ramsey, a hard-living snooker player. Using a parallel universe structure, we follow Irina's life as it unfolds under the influence of two drastically different men. Lawrence is Irena's partner of nearly ten years. Ramsey is the ex-husband of a sometime friend, a once-a-year acquaintance to whom Irena has never paid a great deal of attention. Where Lawrence is supportive and devoted; Ramsey is flighty and spontaneous. Lawrence is emotionally withdrawn to the point of repression; Ramsey is fiery and passionate, but volatile. The contrasts between the two men have ramifications for Irena's relationships with friends and family, for her career as an illustrator, and more importantly, for the texture of her daily life.

This love is about trade-offs. Both men in Irena's dual future are worthy of her affection but deeply flawed. The answer is that there is no perfect answer: one of the things that draws us to our mates is what is wrong with them. The Post-Birthday World is written with all the subtlety, perceptiveness and drama that made We Need to Talk About Kevin an international bestseller.

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ID: 319891

Title: Without Mercy

Author: Jack Higgins

Narrator: Kerry Shale

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Detective Stories, General

Summary:

From the master of suspense, a fierce thriller of terrorism, murder and revenge.

In Higgins acclaimed bestseller DARK JUSTICE, intelligence operative Sean Dillon and his colleagues in Britain and the United States beat back a terrible enemy, but at an equally terrible cost. One of them was shot, another run down in the street. Both were expected to survive but only one of them does.

As Detective Superintendent Hannah Bernstein of Special Branch lies recuperating in the hospital, a dark shadow from their past, scarred deep by hatred, steals across the room and finishes the job.

Consumed by grief and rage, Dillon, Blake, Ferguson and all who loved Hannah swear vengeance, no matter where it takes them. But they have no idea of the searing journey upon which they are about to embark nor of the war which will change them all.

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ID: 319890

Title: Dark Justice

Author: Jack Higgins

Narrator: Kerry Shale

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:45:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

A fabulous all-new contemporary thriller from the master of the genre the author of the international bestsellers Midnight Runner, A Fine Night for Dying and Bad Company.

Read by Rupert Penry-Jones.

Sean Dillon is back in another heart-stopping, adrenalin-laced adventure

When the president's right hand men foil a plan to assassinate him. Sean Dillon is called upon to trace the would-be killer's history

It appears the assassin is British with Muslim connections, and suddenly Dillon is on a trail that leads him to England, Russia and Iraq, where he prepares for the deadliest challenge of his life.

The Jack Higgins name is synonymous with action, pace and breath-taking suspense. He has sold over 250 Million copies of his novels and remains one of the world's best-selling writer's of thriller fiction.

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ID: 319898

Title: Buried Circle

Author: Jenni Mills

Narrator: Jenni Mills

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:05:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Thriller & Horror, International Mystery

Summary:

A pacy literary thriller, The Buried Circle is a gripping blend of fact and fiction, peopled with extraordinary characters

The village of Avebury is one of the most mysterious places in the English countryside. Surrounded by ancient standing stones, crop circles and burial mounds, this is a place where all is not as it seems.

In 1938, the archaeologist Alexander Keiller a millionaire playboy with a passion for ritual magic plans to reconstruct the 5000-year-old stone circle at Avebury. As war looms, Frannie Robinson and her boyfriend Davey are among those who fall under his spell, with fatal results.

Seventy years later, Frannie's granddaughter India, filming in the area, survives a helicopter crash. Devastated, she decides to move back to Avebury and her grandmother, setting out on a quest to discover the truth about her family. But why is her grandmother so reluctant to talk about Keiller and the war? And exactly whose past is India unearthing?

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ID: 319896

Title: Dragon Keeper

Author: Robin Hobb

Narrator: Saskia Butler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:03:08

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

Return to the world of the Liveships Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River in this standalone adventure from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer trilogy.

Guided by the great blue dragon Tintaglia, they came from the sea: a Tangle of serpents fighting their way up the Rain Wilds River, the first to make the perilous journey to the cocooning grounds in generations. Many have died along the way. With its acid waters and impenetrable forest, it is a hard place for any to survive.

People are changed by the Rain Wilds, subtly or otherwise. One such is Thymara. Born with black claws and other aberrations, she should have been exposed at birth. But her father saved her and her mother has never forgiven him. Like everyone else, Thymara is fascinated by the return of dragons: it is as if they symbolise the return of hope to their war-torn world. Leftrin, captain of the liveship Tarman, also has an interest in the hatching; as does Bingtown newlywed, Alise Finbok, who has made it her life's work to study all there is to know of dragons.

But the creatures which emerge from the cocoons are a travesty of the powerful, shining dragons of old. Stunted and deformed, they cannot fly; some seem witless and bestial. Soon, they become a danger and a burden to the Rain Wilders: something must be done. The dragons claim an ancestral memory of a fabled Elderling city far upriver: perhaps there the dragons will find their true home. But Kelsingra appears on no maps and they cannot get there on their own: a band of dragon keepers, hunters and chroniclers must attend them.

To be a dragon keeper is a dangerous job: their charges are vicious and unpredictable, and there are many unknown perils on the journey to a city which may not even exist

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ID: 319894

Title: Ship of Rome

Author: John Stack

Narrator: Laurence Kennedy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Action & Adventure

Summary:

Against a backdrop of the clash of the Roman and Carthaginian empires, the battle for sovereignty takes place on the high seas

Atticus, captain of one of the ships of Rome's small, coastal fleet, is from a Greek fishing family. Septimus, legionary commander, reluctantly ordered aboard ship, is from Rome, born into a traditionally army family. It could never be an easy alliance. But the arrival of a hostile fleet, larger, far more skilful and more powerful than any Atticus has encountered before, forces them to act together.

So Atticus, one of Rome's few experienced sailors, finds himself propelled into the middle of a political struggle that is completely foreign to him. Rome need to build a navy fast but the obstacles are many; political animosities, legions adamant that they will only use their traditional methods; Roman prejudice even from friends, that all those not born in Rome are inferior citizens.

The enemy are first class, experienced and determined to control the seas. Can Atticus, and the fledgling Roman navy, staffed with inexperienced sailors and unwilling legionaries, out-wit and out-fight his opponents.

SHIP OF ROME, full of magnificent sea-battles, packed with strong characters, torn between two powerful empires, is the first book in a new series, MASTERS OF THE SEA, by a brilliant new author.

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ID: 319897

Title: Wetlands

Author: Charlotte Roche

Narrator: Emilia Fox

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:15:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Erotica, Modern

Summary:

With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel's 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany.

The book is a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct, physical and psychological, of its narrator's body and mind. It is difficult to overstate the raunchiness of the novel. Wetlands opens in a hospital room after an intimate shaving accident. It gives a detailed topography of Helen's hemorrhoids, continues into the subject of anal intercourse and only gains momentum from there, eventually reaching avocado pits as objects of female sexual satisfaction and - here is where the debate kicks in - just possibly female empowerment. Clearly the novel has struck a nerve, catching a wave of popular interest in renewing the debate over women's roles and image in society.

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ID: 319899

Title: Strain

Author: Chuck Hogan, Guillermo Del Toro

Narrator: Ron Perlman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

The high-concept thriller with a supernatural edge from the world-famous director, whose films include Pans Labyrinth and Hellboy.

A plane lands at JFK and mysteriously goes dark, stopping in the middle of the runway for no apparent reason, all lights off, all doors sealed. The pilots cannot be raised.

When the hatch above the wing finally clicks open, it quickly becomes clear that everyone on board is dead although there is no sign of any trauma or struggle. Ephraim Goodweather and his team from the Center for Disease Control must work quickly to establish the cause of this strange occurrence before panic spreads.

The first thing they discover is that four of the victims are actually still alive. But thats the only good news. And when all two hundred corpses disappear from various morgues around the city on the same night, things very rapidly get worse. Soon Eph and a small band of helpers will find themselves battling to protect not only their own loved ones, but the whole city, against an ancient threat to humanity.

Perfect for fans of Dean Koontzs The Eyes of Darkness

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ID: 319901

Title: Midnight Fugue

Author: Reginald Hill

Narrator: Daniel Ryan

Format: Abridged

Length: 05:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-28-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories, Political Thriller

Summary:

A psychological thriller starring Dalziel and Pascoe, the hugely popular police duo and stars of the long-running BBC TV series.

Gina Wolfe is searching for her missing husband, believed dead, and hopes Superintendent Andy Dalziel can help. What neither realize is that there are others on the same trail.

A tabloid hack with some awkward enquiries about an ambitious MP's father. The politicians secretary who shares his suspicions. The ruthless entrepreneur in question and the two henchmen out to make sure the past stays in the past.

Four stories, two mismatched detectives trying to figure it all out, and 24 hours in which to do it: Dalziel and Pascoe are about to learn the hard way exactly how much difference a day makes

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ID: 319904

Title: Our Mutual Friend

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Paul Scofield

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:50:39

Language: English

Release date: 05-28-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

'Our Mutual Friend', Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes.

'Our Mutual Friend', Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to England as his father's heir. He is believed drowned under suspicious circumstances a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity until he can evaluate Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance. The story is filled with colourful characters and incidents the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering's dinner table, Betty Higden and her terror of the workhouse and the greedy plottings of Silas Wegg.

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