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Title: Wild Child, and Other Stories

Author: T.C. Boyle

Narrator: T.C. Boyle

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Release date: January 21, 2010

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

There may be no one better than T. C. Boyle at engaging, shocking, and ultimately gratifying readers while at the same time testing his characters’ emotional and physical endurance. The fourteen stories in this rich new collection display T. C. Boyle’s astonishing range and imaginative muscle. Nature is the dominant player in many of these stories, whether in the form of a catastrophic mudslide that allows a cynic to reclaim his humanity or in Boyle’s powerfully original retelling of the story of Victor, the feral boy who was captured running naked through the forests of Napoleonic France—a moving and magical investigation of what it means to be human. Other tales range from the drama of a man who spins Homeric lies in order to stop going to work, to that of a young woman who must babysit for a $250,000 cloned Afghan, to the sad comedy of a child born to Mexican street vendors who is unable to feel pain. Brilliant, incisive, and always engaging, Boyle’s short stories showcase the mischievous humor and socially conscious sensibility that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.

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Title: The Farmer’s Daughter

Author: Jim Harrison

Narrator: Kirsten Potter, Ray Porter, Lloyd James

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Release date: January 20, 2010

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Jim Harrison's numerous works have established him as one of the most beloved and popular authors in American fiction. His novel The English Major was a National Indie Bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Notable Title, and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. This collection of novellas finds him writing at the height of his powers—and in fresh and audacious new directions. The three stories in The Farmer's Daughter are as different as they are unforgettable. Written in the voice of a home-schooled fifteen-year-old girl in rural Montana, the title novella is an uncompromising, beautiful tale of an extraordinary character whose youth intersects with unexpected brutality and the reserves she must draw on to make herself whole. In another, Harrison's beloved recurring character Brown Dog, still looking for love, escapes from Canada back to the States on the tour bus of an Indian rock band called Thunderskins. And finally, a retired werewolf, misdiagnosed with a rare blood disorder brought on by the bite of a Mexican hummingbird, attempts to lead a normal life but is nevertheless plagued by hazy, feverish episodes of epic lust, physical appetite, athletic exertions, and outbursts of violence under the full moon. The Farmer's Daughter is a memorable portrait of three decidedly unconventional American lives. With wit, poignancy, and an unbounded love for his characters, Jim Harrison has again reminded us why he is one of the most cherished and important authors at work today.

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Title: Barroom Brawls

Author: Garcia Mann

Narrator: Michael Scott

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Garcia Mann represents the genre of independent writers that follow in the classic vein of story telling. Barroom Brawls is an eclectic sampling from his latest collection of short stories and poems. The stories address the modern dilemmas of life occasionally tapping into surreal metaphysical absurdities, yet always nested in a familiar and contemporary setting.

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Title: Cruel Miracles: Tales of Death, Hope, and Holiness

Series: #4 of The Maps in a Mirror Series

Author: Orson Scott Card

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki, John Rubinstein, Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Release date: December 31, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

This fourth volume in Orson Scott Card's five-book anthology of short stories features tales with religious themes, exploring the mysteries of ritual, sacrifice, faith, and death. Mortal GodsIn our mortality lies our greatness. Saving GraceA story of TV faith healers and those who follow them. Eye for EyeAn abused child has the gift of creating illness and death in those he is angry with. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1988. St. Amy's TaleA family destroys all technology. KingsmeatWhen flesh-eating aliens take over a human colony world, one human forestalls total doom by feeding them non-essential bits of his fellow colonists. HolyA seemingly pointless mission to bring an offering to another culture's shrine takes on unexpected meaning. 'I believe that speculative fiction—science fiction in particular—is the last American refuge of religious literature. Real religious literature, I think, explores the nature of the universe and discovers the purpose behind it.'—Orson Scott Card, from his introduction

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Title: Flux: Tales of Human Futures

Series: #2 of The Maps in a Mirror Series

Author: Orson Scott Card

Narrator: Paul Boehmer, Stefan Rudnicki, Scott Brick, Arte Johnson, Don Leslie

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Release date: December 30, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

This second volume of Orson Scott Card's five-book anthology of short stories features seven tales exploring possible future scenarios for the human race. A Thousand Deaths In Soviet-occupied America, Jerry Crove is found guilty and convicted of knowing about the planned assassination of a Russian high official and not reporting it to the authorities. Instead of a forced confession and apology on television, he gives a speech on American freedom. His sentence is to be repeatedly put to death and brought back to life until he apologizes convincingly. Clap Hands and Sing An old man travels back in time to fall in love with a women he let get away. Dogwalker A man hacks into a government database using a system administrator's password. But getting the code right turns out to be very wrong. But We Try Not to Act like It A man complains to the television office that he cannot turn off his TV and that it—especially the soap operas—disturbs him in his attempts to read, his preferred activity. He's told that he'll be allowed to turn off the TV only if he changes his social status by making some friends or developing a sexual relationship. I Put My Blue Genes Earth, now an uninhabitable wasteland of biological warfare, is revisited by a contingent of humans who find a small band of 'not-quite-human' beings still fighting an enemy that has long since been annihilated. In the Doghouse Aliens from a doomed planet relocate to Earth, having preserved only their intellectually superior minds. Forbidden by their moral code from killing another sentient being, they choose Earth's widely beloved dogs as their new vessels—but they soon find out what it means to 'be in the doghouse.' The Originist In this story set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe, a brilliant scientist working on a thorny problem is referred to the Galactic Library, an indexing project of astonishing breadth.

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Title: Identity Theft

Author: Robert J. Sawyer

Narrator: Anthony Heald

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Release date: December 23, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Identity Theft is a hard-boiled detective novella set on Mars, writtenby the man Anne McCaffrey calls 'an absolutely marvelous writer.' Cassandra and Joshua Wilkins are fossil hunters who have both recently transferred their minds into artificial bodies, but now Joshua has mysteriously disappeared. Cassandra must hire Alex Lomax, the only private detective on the Red Planet, to locate Joshua before sinister forces get to him. The novella Identity Theftis a nominee for both the Nebula Award and Hugo Award and has been optioned for film.

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Title: His Last Bow

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Ian Whitcomb

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 0 minutes

Release date: November 30, 2009

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, Sherlock Holmes was a brilliant London-based consulting detective, famous for his intellectual prowess and powers of deductive reasoning. His Last Bow is the fourth of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short story collections and features eight mysterious tales: "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge," "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box," "The Adventure of the Red Circle," "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans," "The Adventure of the Dying Detective," "The Disappearance of Lady Francis Carfax," "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot," and the title story, "His Last Bow." It is in this last story that Holmes emerges from a retirement of beekeeping to stop the spy Baron Von Bork from disclosing secret English documents at the approach of World War I.

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Title: Three Short Stories

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Donada Peters

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Release date: November 30, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Charles Dickens is known not only for his novels but also for his shorter works. Particularly notable are his five Christmas novellas, especially A Christmas Carol. In this genre, Dickens's stories had a powerful commercial impulse, for it became an annual tradition for the author to publish one in time for the holiday season between 1843 and 1847. Three Short Stories brings together a trio of the celebrated author's Christmas stories: The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man. All three lay emphasis on family love and the delights of home, but there is more to these stories than surface sentimentality. Each year, a whole nation would eagerly anticipate these tales, telling us much about the age Dickens lived in. And these stories never would have survived without roots and power.

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Title: A Good Fall: Stories

Author: Ha Jin

Narrator: Carrington Macduffie, Eddie Lopez, Tai Sammons, Malcolm Hillgartner, Richard Powers, Ray Porter, A Full Cast, Bernadette Dunne, Robertson Dean, Anthony Heald, Kate Reading, Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Release date: November 24, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

National Book Award-winner Ha Jin brings us a collection of stories that delve into the experiences of Chinese immigrants in America. All of Ha Jin’s characters struggle in situations that stir their conflicting desires to remain attached to their native land and traditions while also exploring their newfound social and economic freedoms. A lonely composer takes comfort in the songs of his girlfriend’s parakeet; a group of young children declare their wish to change their names so that they might sound more “American,” unaware of how deeply this will sadden their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the help of a reluctant former student. In each of these deeply moving, acutely insightful, and often strikingly humorous stories we are reminded again of the storytelling prowess of this superb writer.

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Title: Say You're One of Them

Author: Uwem Akpan

Narrator: Kevin R. Free, Dion Graham, Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Release date: November 3, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.87 of Total 15

Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

An Oprah's Book Club selection: this "electrifying" book (Washington Post) pays tribute to the wisdom and resilience of children even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances.  Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa. Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing short of transcendent. One of the best books of the year: Wall Street Journal, People, Bloomberg News, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post Book World, and Entertainment Weekly