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Title: Julip

Author: Jim Harrison

Narrator: William Hughes, Ray Porter, Hillary Huber

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Release date: October 9, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Jim Harrison takes us on a journey of the human heart in three novellas in which the irresistible pull of nature becomes a magnificent backdrop for exploring the toughest questions about life and love. Julip follows a bright and resourceful young woman as she tries to spring her brother from a Florida jail after he shot three of her former lovers “below the belt.” The Seven-Ounce Man continues the picaresque adventures of Brown Dog, a Michigan scoundrel who loves to eat, drink, and chase women, all while sailing along in the bottom ten percent. The Beige Dolorosa is the haunting tale of an academic who, recovering from the repercussions of a sexual-harassment scandal, turns to the natural world for solace.

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Title: The Suicide Run: Five Tales of the Marine Corps

Author: William Styron

Narrator: Mark Deakins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Release date: October 6, 2009

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Before writing his memoir of madness, Darkness Visible, William Styron was best known for his ambitious works of fiction–including The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie’s Choice. Styron also created personal but no less powerful tales based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine. The Suicide Run collects five of these meticulously rendered narratives. One of them–“Elobey, Annobón, and Corisco”–is published here for the first time. In “Blankenship,” written in 1953, Styron draws on his stint as a guard at a stateside military prison at the end of World War II. “Marriott, the Marine” and “The Suicide Run”–which Styron composed in the early 1970s as part of an intended novel that he set aside to write Sophie’s Choice–depict the surreal experience of being conscripted a second time, after World War II, to serve in the Korean War. “My Father’s House” captures the isolation and frustration of a soldier trying to become a civilian again. In “Elobey, Annobón, and Corisco,” written late in Styron’s life, a soldier attempts to exorcise the dread of an approaching battle by daydreaming about far-off islands, visited vicariously through his childhood stamp collection. Perhaps the last volume from one of literature’s greatest voices, The Suicide Run brings to life the drama, inhumanity, absurdity, and heroism that forever changed the men who served in the Marine Corps.

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Title: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Author: David Foster Wallace

Narrator: Cory Stoll, Lou Taylor Pucci, Max Minghella, Chris Messina, Malcolm Goodwin, Denis O'hare, Ben Shenkman, Josh Charles, John Krasinski, Will Forte, Joshua Ferris, Joey Slotnick, Michael Cerveris, Bobby Cannavale, Christopher Meloni

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 0 minutes

Release date: September 8, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 12

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person,' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World,' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,' a dark, hilarious series of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the absurd, the surprising, and the illuminating from every situation. This collection will enthrall DFW fans, and provides a perfect introduction for new readers.

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Title: The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Narrator: Rebecca Burns

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Release date: August 17, 2009

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Rudyard Kipling's 'The Man Who Would Be King' is one of literature's greatest and most famous adventure stories. This stirring tale of two happy-go-lucky British ne'er-do-wells trying to carve out their own kingdom in the remote mountains of Afghanistan has also proved over time to be a work of penetrating and lasting political insight—amidst its raucous humor and swashbuckling bravado is a devastatingly astute dissection of imperialism and its heroic pretensions. Written when he was only twenty-two years old, the tale also features some of Kipling's most crystalline prose and one of the most beautifully rendered, spectacularly exotic settings he ever used. Best of all, it features two of his most unforgettable characters: the ultra-vivid Cockneys Peachy Carnahan and Daniel Dravot, who impart to the story its ultimate, astonishing twist. Also included in this collection are 'Wee Willie Winkie,' 'The Drums of the Fore and Aft,' 'Mary Postgate,' and 'The Maltese Cat.'

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Title: The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction

Author: Elizabeth Spencer

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 40 minutes

Release date: June 19, 2009

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Since 1944, when she published her first story, Elizabeth Spencer has been acclaimed as a writer of short fiction in the great tradition of Welty, Chopin, and Mansfield. The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction, her first collection in almost fifteen years, restores to print the author’s most masterful stories and novellas including The Light in the Piazza—and publishes more than ten new stories for the first time. This collection celebrates a six-decade career devoted to the art of the story and the novella—a literary event for the lover of short fiction.

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Title: The Ring of Thoth and Other Tales

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: John Bolen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 0 minutes

Release date: June 15, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

In 'The Ring of Thoth,' Mr. John Vansittart Smith, a British student of Egyptology, goes to the Egyptian Room of the Louvre to study. There he meets a curious looking attendant, but he is otherwise alone in the great hall. Not long afterwards, the quiet surroundings and his inability to concentrate cause him to drift off to sleep. When Smith wakes, it is the middle of the night and he is locked inside the darkened museum. Soon he becomes aware that someone else is there, too. A mysterious figure holding a light has come into the hall and opened the case of one of the mummies. Smith realizes that it is the attendant that he saw earlier in the day, and as he watches from the shadows, he becomes involved in the extraordinary story of the ring of Thoth. In addition to 'The Ring of Thoth,' this collection of short stories by the masterful Arthur Conan Doyle contains 'The Captain of the Polestar,' 'J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement,' 'The Great Kleinplatz Experiment,' 'The Man from Archangel,' 'That Little Square Box,' 'John Huxford's Hiatus,' 'A Literary Mosaic,' 'John Barrington Cowles,' and 'Elias B. Hopkins.'

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Title: Between the Assassinations: A Novel in Stories

Author: Aravind Adiga

Narrator: Harsh Nayyar

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 0 minutes

Release date: June 9, 2009

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

From the New York Times-bestselling winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008 -- a powerful and striking new collection Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the brightest minds and the poorest morals, the up-and-coming and the downtrodden, and of an India that modern literature has rarely addressed. A twelve-year-old boy named Ziauddin, a gofer at a tea shop near the railway station, is enticed into wrongdoing because a fair-skinned stranger treats him with dignity and warmth. George D'Souza, a mosquito-repellent sprayer, elevates himself to gardener and then chauffeur to the lovely, young Mrs. Gomes, and then loses it all when he attempts to be something more. A little girl's first act of love for her father is to beg on the street for money to support his drug habit. A privileged schoolboy sets off an explosive in a Jesuit-school classroom in protest against casteism. And the loneliest member of the Marxist-Maoist Party of India falls in love with the one young woman, in the poorest part of town, whom he cannot afford to wed. A blinding, brilliant, and brave mosaic of Indian life as it is lived in a place called Kittur, Between the Assassinations, with all the humor, sympathy, and unflinching candor of The White Tiger, showcases the most beloved aspects of Aravind Adiga's writing to brilliant effect and enlarges our understanding of the world we live in today.

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Title: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories

Author: Richard Matheson

Narrator: Conrad John Shuck, Jay Karnes, Julia Campbell, Malcolm Hillgartner, Christine Williams, Richard Powers, Ray Porter, Yuri Rasovsky, Lorna Raver, Ned Schmidtke, Arte Johnson, Lawrence Pressman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Release date: June 1, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

One of the finest and most influential horror writers of the twentieth century, Richard Matheson has left his stamp on the collective imagination. Here are more than twenty of Matheson's most memorable tales of fear and paranoia, personally selected by the author himself. Many of these stories have already entered into popular culture, including the title story, which became a landmark episode of The Twilight Zone, and 'Duel,' the nail-biting tale of man versus machines that inspired Steven Spielberg's first film. Other stories include 'First Anniversary,' 'Dress of White Silk,' 'Witch War,' 'Dance of the Dead,' 'Mad House,' 'Prey,' 'Blood Son,' 'Crickets,' 'Wet Straw,' 'The Children of Noah,' 'Through Channels,' 'Old Haunts,' 'Disappearing Act,' 'The Holiday Man,' 'Legion of Plotters,' 'The Distributor,' 'Long Distance Call,' 'Slaughter House,' and 'The Likeness of Julie.' Find out why Stephen King (who writes the introduction) has called Matheson one of his favorite writers.

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Title: Selected Stories: The Alligators, A & P, Pigeon Feathers, The Family Meadow, Witnesses, Separating

Author: John Updike

Narrator: John Updike

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Release date: May 12, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the hundred-odd he has published. "A&P", recounting a moral crisis on the checkout counter, is his most anthologized story. "Pigeon Feathers," the longest story included, tells of a fourteen-year-old boy's fear of death and the answer he finds. "The Family Meadow" describes a piece of America, a picnic reunion in New Jersey. "The Witnesses" and "The Alligators" both deal with love, as felt by a middle-aged man and a fifth-grade boy. "Separating" recounts the June day when Richard and Joan Maple separate, in front of their four children. Mr. Updike, when asked to described his method of reading aloud, said "I try to picture the things describes, and to speak the words distinctly, and to let the emotion come through on its own." The method works beautifully.

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Title: The Afterlife and Other Stories: Unabridged Selections: The Man Who Became a Soprano, The Afterlife, The Other Side of the Street, Farrell's Caddie, Grandparenting

Author: John Updike

Narrator: John Updike

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Release date: May 12, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

A fantastic short story collection from critically acclaimed, and bestselling author, John Updike.