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Title: Fine Just The Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3

Author: Annie Proulx

Narrator: Will Patton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

2009 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx, an 'unforgettable' (Miami Herald) and 'vivid' (Oprah Daily) collection of stories set in Wyoming. Winner of two O. Henry Prizes, Annie Proulx has been anthologized in nearly every major collection of great American stories. Her bold, inimitable language, her exhilarating eye for detail, her dark sense of humor, and her compassion inform this profoundly compelling collection of stories. Proulx creates a fierce, visceral panorama of American folly and fate in these nine dazzling stories about multiple generations of Americans struggling through life in the West. Each character is a pioneer of a sort—some are billionaires, some are escapists, and some just think the rest of the country has it wrong. Deeply sympathetic to the men and women fighting to survive in this harsh place, Proulx turns their lives into fiction with the power of myth, leaving the reader in awe.

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Title: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Tales

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 0 minutes

Release date: September 8, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 12

Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the greatest American writers, is best known for The Great Gatsby, considered by many to be the most important novel of the twentieth century. But Fitzgerald also made his living as a short story writer, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Tales collects four of his best. The title story is a fantasy tale about a man who is in his seventies at birth and progressively ages backwards. The other stories included in this collection are 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,' 'Tarquin of Cheapside,' and 'O Russet Witch!'

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Title: The Mercedes Coffin

Series: #17 of Decker/Lazarus Novels

Author: Faye Kellerman

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Release date: August 12, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 14

Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

A cold case turns red hot, threatening to consume detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus in the spellbinding new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman. Billionaire genius Genoa Greeves never got over the shocking death of her favorite teacher, Bennett ''Dr. Ben'' Alston Little, murdered execution-style and stuffed into the trunk of his Mercedes Benz. No arrests were ever made. Fifteen years later, the high-tech CEO reads about another execution-style murder. The case is eerily similar and Genoa offers the L.A.P.D. a substantial financial ''incentive'' if justice is finally served. Lieutenant Peter Decker resents having to commit valuable manpower to a fifteen-year-old open case. Still, the recent murder does bear a disturbing resemblance to Dr. Ben's case and Decker can't help but wonder about a connection. Decker's team of investigators includes his newly minted Hollywood detective daughter, Cindy Kutiel, while wife Rina Lazarus continues to be his backbone of support. Rina's worries and fears begin to build as past and present collide with a vengeance, catapulting an unsuspecting Decker closer and closer to the edge of an infinite dark abyss. A relentlessly gripping tale spun by a master, Faye Kellerman's The Mercedes Coffin races through a dangerous urban world, where truth and justice are fine lines between life and death.

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Title: Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Short Stories

Author: Bret Harte

Narrator: John Bolen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Release date: August 4, 2008

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Society has forgiven Jo Corbin for killing a man, but can he forgive himself? Will the postmistress lose all in a bid to help a friend escape justice? Will the new teaching assistant's unorthodox ways tame the unruly pioneer children? These are just three of the nine wonderful short stories from Bret Harte, set in wild and woolly nineteenth-century California. Bret Harte's witty, sometimes heart-rending tales of frontier California earned him acclaim during the 1860s as the new prophet of American letters. His books—The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, and M'liss—helped establish the foundations of western American fiction. This book includes the following classic tales: —'Colonel Starbottle's Client' —'The Postmistress of Laurel Run' —'A Night at Hays' —'Johnson's Old Woman' —'The New Assistant at Pine Clearing School' —'In a Pioneer Restaurant' —'A Treasure of the Galleon' —'Out of a Pioneer's Trunk' —'The Ghosts of Stukeley Castle'

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Title: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

Author: Z.Z. Packer

Narrator: Shirley Jordan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Release date: June 23, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Audie® Award Finalist! A remarkable debut short-story collection by a fresh and captivating new voice in American literature.

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Title: My Parent's Bedroom (A Story from Say You're One of Them)

Author: Uwem Akpan

Narrator: Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 0 minutes

Release date: June 9, 2008

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

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.

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Title: Law of the Desert Born

Author: Louis L'Amour

Narrator: A Full Cast

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Release date: May 6, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

A PRIZED COLLECTION OF AMERICAN FICTION—FROM AMERICA’S FAVORITE STORYTELLER   This first-rate collection of short stories by the incomparable Louis L’Amour showcases the legendary writer at his very best: spinning a fascinating and wholly authentic set of unforgettable tales. In these extraordinary stories, we meet a man who is forced to defend himself by taking another’s life—and must pay for his actions in a most punishing manner; a young thrill-seeker who finally finds a place he can call home, and vows to stay there—regardless of the man who tries to stand in his way; and a drifter who honors a deathbed promise to a stranger by embarking on an unlikely mission of mercy.   Complete with revealing author’s notes, the stories in Law of the Desert Born are historically precise, and filled with L’Amour’s trademark humor and adventure. They are nothing less than modern classics of the American West, told by one of the most beloved storytellers of our time.

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Title: The Gingerbread Girl

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Mare Winningham

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Release date: May 6, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.01 of Total 74

Ratings of Narrator: 4.82 of Total 11

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

In the emotional aftermath of her baby's sudden death, Em starts running. Soon she runs from her husband, to the airport, down to the Florida Gulf and out to the loneliest stretch of Vermillion Key, where her father has offered the use of a conch shack he has kept there for years. Em keeps up her running -- barefoot on the beach, sneakers on the road -- and sees virtually no one. This is doing her all kinds of good, until one day she makes the mistake of looking into the driveway of a man named Pickering. Pickering also enjoys the privacy of Vermillion Key, but the young women he brings there suffer the consequences. Will Em be next?

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Title: Tales From My Table

Author: Ann Tudor

Narrator: Ann Tudor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Release date: May 1, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Tales from My Table is a collection of twelve true stories about food. Bittersweet, funny, and thought-provoking, the stories explore the way food influences our lives and our memories. We learn about relationships, about life, and about the thrill of eating what you love to eat and cooking what you love to cook. Imagine Anne Lamott and Garrison Keillor meeting under a full moon for a midnight picnic. As author Ann Tudor says: "I value food prepared and served with love. And I value the memories that we store in our taste buds. Not all those memories are welcome ones. It would not serve us to recall only the times of sweet plenty and glorious love. We need also to taste bitterness and to feel our salt tears. We taste the salt, we taste the bitter. And then we find the sweet."

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Title: Rosie And The Angels

Author: Ann Tudor

Narrator: Ann Tudor

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Release date: May 1, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

This original audio program offers seven tales of near-disaster, reminders that youth, strange circumstances, or a moment of stupidity can lead to catastrophe. And yet Rosie evades the frightening consequences of her foolishness and continues, unscathed, on her journey. Rosie's beautifully narrated adventures will linger in your imagination. In every situation, Rosie has a close encounter with disaster. Some of the stories hinge on a faulty vehicle ('Midnight Breakdown'), some involve a faulty driver ('Young Drivers'), and some show Rosie using faulty judgment (Hawaiian Angels). In retrospect, even Rosie would have to admit that she had great luck'or was it angelic intervention? May we all be as lucky as Rosie, or may our own angels be as competent and obliging as Rosie's. The humour and warmth of these beguiling stories make this an ideal CD for the spoken-word market.