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Title: The Dirty Book Club

Author: Lisi Harrison

Narrator: Joy Osmanski

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-17

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From the author of the number one New York Times best-selling series The Clique comes Lisi Harrison's debut adult novel about four modern-day strangers who inherit a dirty book club that was started in the 1960s.

M. J. Stark's life is picture-perfect - she has a dream job as a magazine editor, a sexy doctor boyfriend, and a glamorous life in Manhattan. But behind her success, she can't shake a deep sense of loneliness. So when her boyfriend offers her a completely new life in California after a promotion does not go her way, she decides to give it try. Once there, M. J. is left to fend for herself in a small California beach town, with only the company of her elderly neighbor, Gloria.

One day M. J. receives a mysterious invitation and a copy of Prim: A Modern Woman's Guide to Manners. She recognizes the book as an outdated classic, but when she opens it, she discovers that it's actually a copy of Fear of Flying by Erica Jong, and the invitation is to join Gloria's secret book club - one that reads only erotic books. Out of curiosity, M. J. goes to the meeting at a local bookstore and discovers three other women who have also been selected by the club's original members - who have suddenly left the country to honor a 50-year-old pact. As these unlikely friends bond over naughty best sellers, each woman shares not only the intimate details of her own sex life but all areas of her life. Inspired by the characters in the novels they read - and the notes passed down by the club's original members - the new members of The Dirty Book Club help each other find the courage to rewrite their own stories and risk it all for a happy ending.

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Title: Surrender the Pink

Author: Carrie Fisher

Narrator: Carrie Fisher

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 86 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The victim of a painful past and a fatherless childhood, Dinah Kaufman is searching for love that will last - or at least, a reasonable facsimile that comes with a warranty. She nearly found it in her marriage to hugely successful playwright Rudy Gendler. But when she fights to hold on to that now-extinct romance - or at least prevent Rudy from falling for someone new - Dinah finds herself in a variety of wild situations. She also discovers some hard-learned truths as she seeks to bridge the eternal chasm between men and women. Actress Carrie Fisher (the Star Wars trilogy, When Harry Met Sally) reads this follow-up to Postcards from the Edge, her stunning literary debut.

Copyright ©1990 by Carrie Fisher; Copyright (P)1990 by Dove Books on Tape, Inc.

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Title: Diary

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrator: Martha Plimpton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-03

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 487 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Diary is a dark, hilarious, and poignant act of storytelling from America's favorite, most inventive nihilist.

Critic Reviews:

"...[the author's] last minute switching of gears...can turn a darkly ominous story into a source of heart-tugging inspiration." (The New York Times)

"A creative, unusual tale...the story is fresh." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Beside Myself

Author: Ann Morgan

Narrator: Lisa Coleman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-14-16

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1053 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

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Six-year-old Helen and Ellie are identical twins, but Helen is smarter, more popular, and their mother's favorite. Ellie, on the other hand, requires special instruction at school, is friendless, and is punished at every turn. Until they decide to swap places - just for fun, and just for one day - and Ellie refuses to switch back. Everything of Helen's, from her toys to her friends to her identity, now belongs to her sister.

With those around her oblivious to her plight, the girl who used to be Helen loses her sense of self and withdraws into a spiral of behavioral problems, delinquency, and mental illness. In time, she's not even sure of her memory of the switch. Twenty-five years later, she receives a call that threatens to pull her back into her sister's dangerous orbit. Will she take this chance to face her past?

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Title: Martin Marten

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Brian Doyle

Narrator: Travis Baldree

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-30-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Dave is 14 years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood (or as he prefers to call it, like the Multnomah tribal peoples once did, Wy'east). Dave will soon enter high school, with adulthood and a future not far off - a future away from his mother, father, his precocious younger sister, and the wilderness where he's lived all his life.

And Dave is not the only one approaching adulthood and its freedoms on Wy'east that summer. Martin, a pine marten (of the mustelid family), is leaving his own mother and siblings and setting off on his own as well.

As Dave and Martin set off on their own adventures, their lives, paths, and trails will cross, weave, and blend. Why not come with them as they set forth into the forest and crags of Oregon's soaring mountain wilderness in search of life, family, friends, enemies, wonder, mystery, and good things to eat?

Martin Marten is a braided coming-of-age tale like no other, told in Brian Doyle's joyous, rollicking style.

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Title: Mrs. Mike

Author: Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 456 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Recently arrived in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, after a long, hard journey from Boston, 16-year-old Katherine Mary O'Fallon never imagined that she could lose her heart so easily or so completely. Standing over six feet tall, with "eyes so blue you could swim in them", Mike Flannigan is a well respected sergeant in the Canadian Mounted Police and a man of great courage, kindness, and humor. Together, he and his beloved Kathy manage to live a good, honest life in this harsh, unforgiving land and to find strength in a love as beautiful and compelling as the wilderness around them.

©2002 Benedict and Nancy Freedman; (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic Reviews:

"Only once in a long while does the lover of books come across a novel like this one. Mrs. Mike is an unforgettable story." (Boston Herald)

"It is the personality of Sgt. Mike blowing through this account like a clear breeze that gives it a refreshing quality. Everyone's dream of a cop, he was also a romantic and understanding husband, the fondest of fathers, a man of honor and humor." (The New York Times)

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Title: A Bend in the River

Author: V.S. Naipaul

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-04

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 366 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In this incandescent novel, V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man, an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.

©1979 V.S. Naipaul; (P)2004 Blackstone Audiobooks

Critic Reviews:

"A brilliant novel." (The New York Times)

"Confirms Naipaul's position as one of the best writers now at work." (Newsweek)

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Title: Again to Carthage

Author: John L. Parker Jr.

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-24-09

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 147 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Quenton Cassidy thought he had left his athletic career far behind as he built a successful professional career in south Florida. But as several personal tragedies and the wear and tear of life began to weigh upon him, he wonders if perhaps he hasn't given up a special part of his life too soon. His return to the world of competitive running is dramatic and revelatory to both the protagonist and the listener, as is his desperate, all-out attempt to make on last Olympic team.

©2010 Brilliance Audio, Inc.; ©2010 John L. Parker Jr.

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