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Title: The Blue Guitar

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Ann Ireland

Narrator: Barbara Edelman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-18-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

At the International Classical Guitar Competition in Montreal, top-flight musicians fly in from all over the world to compete in a gruelling week. A career can be made or lost here, and the slightest mishap - a lapse of memory, a shaking right hand, a broken fingernail - can ruin years of preparation.

More than a decade ago Toby made the finals in a similar competition but suffered a breakdown and is only now venturing back into the fray. Middle-aged Lucy is tired of playing bar mitzvahs and weddings and is determined to perform the recital of her life. Trace is a kayaking teenager from the West Coast who seems careless in her talent.

Judges and contestants alike battle and scheme to achieve what they most desire here. There is much more than pretty music being performed on this stage.

Editorial Reviews:

Creative genius and madness vie for dominance in a young musicians mind in The Blue Guitar, Ann Irelands novel of love and healing. The novel follows Toby Hausner, a classical guitarist who lives in the wake of a mental breakdown that cost him his music career. As Hausner contemplates a return to music, he risks the stability and the love he has gained from a romantic relationship with his therapist. Irelands lyrical novel culminates in a guitar competition in which she braids the stories of several performers, all of whom struggle to balance the freedom and passion they find in music with the realities of their own lives. Narrator Barbara Edelman charges headlong into the drama of this story in her emotive perforance of Irelands novel.

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Title: Praxis

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Fay Weldon

Narrator: Cat Gould

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Raised by a mad mother and a half-mad sister, abandoned by her father, Praxis Duveen is a master of the art of survival. Her life, indeed, has been full: two marriages, unsuccessful; a brief but profitable career as a prostitute; a little dabbling in incest; a mercy killing; and an inadvertent reign as both apostle and victim of the women's movement.

Buffeted and battered by life, Praxis has survived with energy and humor intact. Her struggles with men and women, with mother and marriages, and most particularly, with herself, become, in Weldon's deft hands, a witty and trenchant commentary on what women want - and what they can actually get.

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Title: The Heart of the Country

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Fay Weldon

Narrator: Kelly Birch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Men have deserted women often, and perhaps Natalie Harris, whose husband ran off with the local carnival queen, should not have been surprised. But there she was - charming, well-meaning, and well-dressed - suddenly without gas to drive her children to school or money to pay their tuition.

True. Natalie had had a lover for a number of years, but they saw each other only on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. Still, she felt wronged and helpless when her husband left her; she was the kind of woman other men, attached to other women, liked to help - on their own terms, of course.

The Heart of the Country is about the decidedly unsentimental education of Natalie Harris. Without husband, without home, thrown on the mercy of bank managers and welfare officers, she depends for enlightenment upon long-suffering Sonia who has been abandoned before. But what can Sonia do in the face of Natalie's own nature and the procession of men only too ready to take advantage of her appealing vulnerability?

A cunning satirist, Fay Weldon tickles the myth of the suburban countryside as a place where serenity reigns and neighbors are kindhearted. But if the heart of the country is in upheaval, chaos can be exhilarating. And as Weldon exposes the foibles of the human spirit, she manages to celebrate its wonderful elasticity. Involuntary though it may be, Natalie Harris's education is not all to her disadvantage.

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Title: K-9 Cooper

Subtitle: Cooper Collection 107

Author: Bill Bernico

Narrator: Vernon Kuehn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-13

Publisher: Downwind Publications

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Elliott has a chance to ride along with a K-9 unit of his police department. The dog, Daisy, proves invaluable and Elliott can see why the officers get so attached to their animal partners. Daisy is facing retirement at twelve-years-old and his cop handler can't take him home, since his family is allergic to dogs.

Elliott agrees to take Daisy home for his son, Matt. However, Matt's terrified of the German Shepherd so Elliott takes Daisy to his office and finds that the dog proves very helpful in his line of work and decides to keep her at the office.

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Title: The Red Well

Subtitle: A Western Story

Author: Max Brand

Narrator: Steven Menasche

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The Red Well is called that by Jerry Finnegan when the water in the well on his ranch turns that color. Finnegan asks Charlie Kimball to help him defend the ranch and protect his wife Sarah andyoung son from the threat of death by Slade and his gang. Slade wants the ranch and will murderto get it if Finnegan refuses to sell. For Charlie Kimball the reason driving Slade can only be thered water in the well.

"Bad News for Bad Men" by Hugh Owen first appeared in Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine (12/8/34). Copyright 1934 by Stree & Smith Publications, Inc. Copyright renewed 1962 by the Estate of Frederick Faust. Copyright 2011 by Golden West Literary Agency for restored material. Acknowledgment is made to Condé Nast Publications, Inc., for their co-operation. "The Lion's Share" by George Owen Baxter first appeared in Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine (12/1/28). Copyright 1928 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Copyright renewed 1956 by Dorothy Faust. Copyright 2011 by Golden West Literary Agency for restored material. Acknowledgment is made to Condé Nast Publications, Inc., for their co-operation. "The Red Well" by Hugh Owen first appeared in Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine (12/29/34). Copyright © 1934 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Copyright renewed 1961 by Estate of Frederick Faust. Copyright 2011 by Golden West Literary Agency for restored material. Acknowledgment is made to Condé Nast Publications, Inc., for their co-operation. The name Max Brand is a registered trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and cannot be used for any purpose without express written permission.

Editorial Reviews:

The Red Well is a good old-fashioned Western in the most traditional sense of the term, written by one of the genre's great masters, the notorious Max Brand, whose prolific literary production through the first half of the 20th century helped to shape this beloved style of American storytelling.

Steve Menasche's performance of the three stories that make up this collection is almost over-the-top at times, but then, the genre itself is defined in part by larger-than-life action, and Menasche's thick, drawling character voices work well in these stories of newsmen and ranch hands, treachery and gunfights, good guys and villains. Settle in for some shoot'em up action - you won't be disappointed!

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Title: Confessions of a Predatory Lender

Author: Irma Fritz

Narrator: Anne Marie Damman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-21-13

Publisher: IRMA FRITZ

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Meet Christy. She's all about Palouse. She was born in the town of Palouse, in the Palouse region of Washington State. Her family name is Palus, and her father is a descendant of the Palouse tribe - watered down to a few drops. Still, it's something she is proud of. If someone had told her that she will become a predatory lender, betray her best friend, fall in love with a thief, and help her bosses bust up the bank she works for, she would have laughed out loud.

This is the summer of 2006, and everyone knows you can make a killing in mortgage lending. Christy and her BFF Megan moved to the big city of Seattle to do just that. While Megan is already dreaming of hot cars and designer clothes, "good girl" Christy's ambitions are more modest...at first!

So how is it her fault that she lands in the world of subprime lending; you know, the stuff that lost families their homes and wrecked our economy?

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Title: Alleys of Darkness

Author: Robert E. Howard

Narrator: Christopher Sorrensen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-20-13

Publisher: Harmonic Wave

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When Dennis Dorgan is unexpectedly declared the loser in a boxing match against Kid Leary that he quite obviously won, he realizes something has gone amiss. The situation grows worse when his manager comes in and reveals that he has lost all his money and his ship because of the loss. When the crooked referee comes to Dorgan and tells him that the fight was fixed for a reason, Dorgan agrees to help him shake up the bad guy and straighten out the situation. Dorgan quickly learns that things aren't as they seem and finds himself in the middle of some dangerous shenanigans.

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Title: Silent House

Author: Orhan Pamuk

Narrator: Various

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-13

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The moving story of a Turkish family gathering in the shadow of the impending military coup of 1980.

In an old mansion in a village near Istanbul, a widow awaits the annual visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mostly bedridden, she is attended by her faithful servant Recep, a dwarf - and her late husband's illegitimate son.

But it is Recep's nephew Hassan, a high-school dropout lately fallen in with right-wing nationalists who will draw the family into Turkey's century-long struggle for modernity.

Never before published in English. Silent House is Orhan Pamuk's second novel.

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Title: A Pack of Wolves II

Subtitle: Skyfall

Author: Eric S. Brown

Narrator: David Dietz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-13

Publisher: Grand Mal Press

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A century later, the Farr family continues to thrive. A new generation of wolves walks the Earth with Zed as their leader. From the depths of space arrives an army of aliens with superior technology and a massive power-armored force of troops. Their goal: to take the Earth and make it their own.

Now only the Farr family and their allies in the world of the supernatural can save the human race from being utterly destroyed. It's werewolves vs. aliens in this action-filled tale of war and interplanetary conquest.

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Title: Save Italy! Forget the Rest

Subtitle: A Dante Passoni Adventure, Book 1

Author: Tommy Vilar

Narrator: Edoardo Camponeschi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-13

Publisher: Tommy Vilar

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Dante Passoni, the long awaited Italian counterpart to James Bond, is a man of this century, not a relic of the cold war. He embodies the dynamism of the high-tech world rather than the public corpse of England's MI-6. Dante is as dashing as James in his prime, as charming as Italy herself, as bold and fearless as we imagine ourselves to be. Passoni brings nail-biting suspense, fun and fresh air wherever he goes. If you love Italy, its food, drink, cars and women; if you love adventure and romance touched by an occasional whiff of the outrageous; if you're in need of something legal that will quicken your pulse and reignite your senses Save Italy! is for you.

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