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Title: The Best of Edgar Allan Poe

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Release date: December 20, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 17

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

The name Edgar Allan Poe conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, and of love that extends beyond the grave. The richness of Poe's writing, however, includes much more than horror, loss, and death. Poe's stories teem with irony and black humor, in addition to plot twists and surprise endings. Living by their own rules and charged with passion, Poe's characters are instantly recognizable—even though we may be appalled by their actions, we understand their motivations. This collection contains eleven of Poe's best stories. They are 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Pit and the Pendulum,' 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' 'The Cask of Amontillado,' 'The Premature Burial,' 'Ligeia,' 'The Black Cat,' 'The Oval Portrait,' 'Berenice,' 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,' and 'The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether.'

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Title: Atlantis and Other Places: Stories of Alternate History

Author: Harry Turtledove

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Release date: December 14, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

A famous naturalist seeks a near-extinct species of bird found only on the rarest of lands in "Audubon in Atlantis." A young American on a European holiday finds himself storming an enchanted German castle in "The Catcher in the Rhine." The philosopher Sokrates plays a key role in the Athenian victory over the Spartans in "The Daimon." Centaurs take a sea voyage aboard "The Horse of Bronze" to a land where they encounter a strange and frightening tribe of creatures known as man. London's most famous detective, Athelstan Helms, and his assistant, Dr. James Walton, are in Atlantis investigating a series of murders in "The Scarlet Band." Atlantis and Other Places includes these and seven more amazing stories of ancient eras, historical figures, mysterious events, and out-of-this-world adventure from the incomparable Harry Turtledove. Track List for Atlantis and Other Places: Disc 1 "Audubon in Atlantis"—Track 1 Disc 3 "Bedfellows"—Track 1 "News from the Front"—Track 5 Disc 4 "The Catcher in the Rhine"—Track 4 "The Daimon"—Track 18 Disc 6 "Farmers' Law"—Track 22 Disc 7 "Occupation Duty"—Track 10 "The Horse of Bronze"—Track 22 Disc 9 "The Genetics Lecture"—Track 20 "Someone Is Stealing the Great Throne Rooms of the Galaxy"—Track 22 Disc 10 "Uncle Alf"—Track 5 Disc 11 "The Scarlet Band"—Track 1

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Title: Fangs: The Vampire Archives, Volume 2

Series: #2 of Vampire Archives

Author: Kim Newman, Otto Penzler

Narrator: Carrington Macduffie, Steve West, Peter Altschuler, Robin Sachs, Bob Walter, Susan Duerden, Susan Denaker, Erik Davies, Simon Vance, Scott Brick, Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 27 minutes

Release date: November 23, 2010

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

The second immortal volume in this dark and fantastic series, Fangs is a scintillating and sinister collection of vampire stories and part of the now legendary Vampire Archives. Including Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Many Many More. . . Featuring: ·        bloody fangs ·        dark and foreboding crypts ·        mysterious nighttime apparitions ·        languid ladies

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Title: Palo Alto: Stories

Author: James Franco

Narrator: Stacey Miller, James Franco

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Release date: October 19, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Now a “provocative” and “impressive” (Variety) film from director Gia Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola’s granddaughter)—starring Emma Roberts, James Franco, Nat Wolff, and Val Kilmer—the fiction debut from James Franco that Vogue called “compelling and gutsy.” James Franco’s story collection traces the lives of a group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism. In “Lockheed” a young woman’s summer—spent working a dull internship—is suddenly upended by a spectacular incident of violence at a house party. In “American History” a high school freshman attempts to impress a girl with a realistic portrayal of a slave owner during a classroom skit—only to have his feigned bigotry avenged. In “I Could Kill Someone,” a lonely teenager buys a gun with the aim of killing his high school tormentor, but begins to wonder about his bully’s own inner life. These “spare and riveting” (O, The Oprah Magazine) stories are a compelling portrait of lives on the rough fringes of youth. Palo Alto is, “a collection of beautifully written stories” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) that “capture with perfect pitch the impossible exhilaration, the inevitable downbeatness, and the pure confusion of being an adolescent” (Elle). Features a bonus essay by James Franco on Gia Coppola's film adaptation.

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Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge

Author: Flannery O’Connor

Narrator: Karen White, Bronson Pinchot, Lorna Raver, Mark Bramhall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Release date: September 15, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.46 of Total 13

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 5

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

This collection of nine short stories by Flannery O’Connor was published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment. The title story is a tragicomedy about social pride, racial bigotry, generational conflict, false liberalism, and filial dependence. The protagonist, Julian Chestny, is hypocritically disdainful of his mother’s prejudices, but his smug selfishness is replaced with childish fear when she suffers a fatal stroke after being struck by a black woman she has insulted out of oblivious ignorance rather than malice. Similarly, “The Comforts of Home” is about an intellectual son with an Oedipus complex. Driven by the voice of his dead father, the son accidentally kills his sentimental mother in an attempt to murder a harlot. The other stories are “A View of the Woods,” “Parker’s Back,” “The Enduring Chill,” “Greenleaf,” “The Lame Shall Enter First,” “Revelation,” and “Judgment Day.” Flannery O’Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.

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Title: UR

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Holter Graham

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 0 minutes

Release date: August 16, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.94 of Total 18

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

FIRST TIME ON AUDIO... An Unabridged Novella Unavailable In Any Collection! Tapping into our primal fears of modern technology that made Cell a #1 bestseller, Stephen King sets his sights on the latest high-tech gadget in UR, in which a mysterious e-book reader opens a disturbing window into other worlds. Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: 'Why can't you just read off the computer like everyone else?' He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities he had never before imagined, discovering literary riches beyond his wildest dreams...and all-too-human tragedies that surpass his most terrible nightmares. From vintage cars (Christine and From a Buick 8) to household appliances (Maximum Overdrive) to exercise equipment (Stationary Bike), Stephen King has mesmerized us with tales of apparently ordinary machines that take on lives of their own. UR gives this classic theme an up-to-the-minute spin, resulting in a horror masterpiece for our time and for the ages.

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Title: American Salvage: Stories

Author: Bonnie Jo Campbell

Narrator: Ken Marks, Jeffrey Brick, Andrea Gallo, Stevie Ray Dallimore

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Release date: May 21, 2010

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

The fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell has been honored with the Pushcart Prize, the AWP Award for Short Fiction, and Southern Review’s Eudora Welty Prize. In this stunning collection—a National Book Award finalist—Campbell paints unapologetically frank portraits of broken souls striving for redemption.In rural Michigan, the American dream, if it ever existed, lies discarded like so much rusty scrap metal. For the inhabitants of Campbell’s tales, the real truth of life can be found in industrial accidents, soul-deadening labor, and the comfort of five drinks too many. But even amid the despair of meth labs and empty pocketbooks, Campbell’s characters yearn for something, anything, to raise them above it all—and sometimes, impossibly, they find it.“Readers … will feel salvaged and transformed by this gutsy book’s fierce compassion.”—Booklist, starred review

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Title: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories

Author: Karen Russell

Narrator: Various

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 0 minutes

Release date: May 18, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent. In the collection’s title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns. In “Haunting Olivia,” two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab. In “Z.Z.’s Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers,” a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to a summer camp for troubled sleepers (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Sleep Apneics; Cabin 3, Somnambulists . . . ). And “Ava Wrestles the Alligator” introduces the remarkable Bigtree Wrestling Dynasty—Grandpa Sawtooth, Chief Bigtree, and twelve-year-old Ava—proprietors of Swamplandia!, the island’s #1 Gator Theme Park and Café. Ava is still mourning her mother when her father disappears, his final words to her the swamp maxim “Feed the gators, don’t talk to strangers.” Left to look after seventy incubating alligators and an older sister who may or may not be having sex with a succubus, Ava meets the Bird Man, and learns that when you’re a kid it’s often hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them. Russell’s stories are beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, but it is the emotional precision behind their wondrous surfaces that makes them unforgettable. Magically, from the spiritual wilderness and ghostly swamps of the Florida Everglades, against a backdrop of ancient lizards and disconcertingly lush plant life—in an idiom that is as arrestingly lovely as it is surreal—Karen Russell shows us who we are and how we live. List of Readers Ava Wrestles the Alligator--Arielle Sitrick Haunting Olivia--Zach McLarty Z.Z.’s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers--Patrick Mackie The Star-Gazer’s Log of Summer-Time Crime--Nick Chamian from Children’s Reminiscences of the Westward Migration--Jesse Bernstein Lady Yeti and the Palace of Artificial Snows--J.B. Adkins The City of Shells--Kathe Mazur Out To Sea--Arthur Morey Accident Brief, Occurrence # 00/422--Kirby Heyborne St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves--Deirdre Lovejoy

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Title: Great Classic Science Fiction

Author: James Schmitz, Lester Del Rey, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Frank Herbert, Fritz Leiber, H.G. Wells, Philip K. Dick

Narrator: Robert Fass, Stephen Thorne, Nick Sullivan, Gregory Itzin, Katherine Kellgren, Simon Vance, Scott Brick, Barbara Rosenblat

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Release date: April 12, 2010

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

This superlative collection of futuristic tales explores ground-breaking supernatural themes from the founding heroes of the science-fiction genre. The short story form is perfect for capturing the atmospheric tension of these legendary stories. This collection includes the following stories: 'The Door in the Wall' by H. G. Wells—A man must choose between the rationality of science and the magic of imagination.'All Cats Are Gray' by Andre Norton—A down-on-his-luck spaceman and a mysterious woman and her cat take off to explore and bring back a derelict ship said to hold great treasure.'A Martian Odyssey' by Stanley G. Weinbaum—A four-man crew lands on Mars and makes a startling discovery.'Victory' by Lester del Rey—A victorious captain returns to his home planet after an alien war and finds that victory has a very steep price.'The Moon Is Green' by Fritz Leiber—On post-apocalyptic Earth, a woman comes face-to-face with humanity exposed to catastrophe.'The Winds of Time' by James H. Schmitz—When the spaceship is battered by an unknown force, the pilot has to investigate—and what he finds could alter his life forever.'The Defenders' by Philip K. Dick—Years after nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union has contaminated the Earth's surface, soldier robots continue the fight on humanity's behalf.'Missing Link' by Frank Herbert—Lewis Orne is sent to investigate a missing ship and runs into 'native' trouble on the planet Gienah III.

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Title: Gator A-Go-Go: A Novel

Series: #12 of Serge Storms

Author: Tim Dorsey

Narrator: Oliver Wyman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Release date: January 26, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

That's right: Serge and Coleman do spring break! It's been a long time coming, but they're at the party now—and you'll never look at a Frisbee the same way again. One spring break location obviously isn't enough for Serge, so he must hit them all, traveling through various historic locales, spewing nuggets of history at anyone who won't run away and dispensing his own signature brand of Sunshine State justice. Along the way he and his sidekick, Coleman, attract a growing following of the nation's top college students . . . and a mysterious gang that leaves a trail of young bodies in their wake. Are the kids safer under Serge's protection? Or does being with him put them in more peril? The classroom and the pot brownies never prepared them for this. Which raises more questions: Who's the guy studying satellite photos? Where did the protected witness go? When did Coleman get all those trophies? Why are the Feds hot on everyone's trail? How did the burnt corpse end up by the pool? What's the best way to keep beer cool on the beach? Then there are the coke smugglers gone legit and a pair of the most dangerously sexy bartenders to ever mix a rum runner. Throw in some dirty dancing contests, illicit drugs, rockin' tunes, screamin' sports cars, bungee rides, pawned class rings, and church breakfasts, and you've got a potent concoction that keeps the hotel's concierge up all night stopping people from falling off the balconies. Want even more? Serge says, ''You got it!'' After years of quiet, a legendary Miami kingpin from the anything-goes eighties is suddenly back in the news . . . along with one of the state's most psychotic homicidal monsters, every bit as criminally insane as Serge—except without the morals. The mysteries continue to mount: How did Coleman end up with even more disciples than Serge? Can kids successfully climb fences while carrying pizzas? Will Serge survive the carnage, armed with a GPS and a kiddie pool? All will soon be answered—and of course every last moment is caught on tape as Serge creates his most excellent documentary ever, the making of Gator A-Go-Go. Pack the cooler, load the car, and head to where the water is warm for a spring vacation you won't soon forget—no matter how much you might try!