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Title: Holiday Flirts! 5 Romantic Short Stories

Subtitle: The Flirts! Short Stories Collections

Author: Lisa Scott

Narrator: Tamara McDaniel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-13

Publisher: Lisa Scott Macdonough

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Get in the holiday spirit any time of year with these funny, sweet romantic short stories. Discover the loose thread that connects the stories and ties up in a perfect happy ending, bringing together characters from all the stories.

The stories include:

"Spooked by Love:" After divorcing her husband, Marnie's afraid to trust her heart again. Her ex is moving on fine, but she hasn't even been on her first post-divorce date. She can't handle another break-up. Then she meets a hot single dad at her daughter's Halloween party and he's got his eye on Marnie. The only problem: he claims he's just out for fun. Is anything scarier than giving romance a second chance?

"Holiday Rush:" A Black Friday shopping-trip-gone-wrong loses Lindy her job, her guy, and her dignity. Then it gets worse - she has no choice but to take a job she loathes. But there's one bonus in the deal: a seriously hot boss who might help her feel that holiday rush again.

"Missing Christmas:" Is Ginny just homesick, or did she make the mistake of her life? Ginny's spending her first Christmas away from home, but she's not feeling the spirit of the season. She moved down south to be with her boyfriend, and now she's having serious regrets about leaving her family and friends behind. Does new love trump twenty-three years of holiday tradition?

"Tingle All The Way:" Jessica has never bought into the magic of Christmas, but when a mistaken call to 911 ruins the holiday for Morgan, the little girl next door, Jessica will do everything she can to make it up to her - and to Morgan's hottie uncle. Can Jessica turn her worst Christmas ever into the best one yet?

"Giving Up Guys:" Three friends, one vow, and a drunken toast. These gals are giving up guys for their New Year's resolution. During the next six weeks, they'll pursue something besides men - like new hobbies and classes. Good luck with that, ladies.

Members Reviews:

Exactly what it sells itself to be

I know that 4 stars is usually a great review and although these are 5 short stories by the same author, there is no false advertising. There are 5 romantic short stories with a holiday theme. Cute characters and cute plotlines. There is a common thread between all the stories about characters coming from the same town. I thoroughly enjoyed this bundle and can recommend it to those into light, romantic short stories.

Lisa hits a Holiday home run

If you have read the other Flirts you'll love this one. It puts the Holiday spirit in your heart. You smile non-stop while reading and you get that warm feeling as each story is connected to the other and they all come together in the end. Read Holiday Flirts and get your holiday season off to a good start. The stories are short enough to read while standing in line for that special Christmas present and you may find a few ideas for gifts just from reading the stories. If this is your first Flirts, go back and read the other two. You'll fall in love with Lisa and find yourself waiting for her next book.Kindle Keyboard, Wi-Fi, 6" E Ink Display - includes Special Offers & Sponsored Screensavers

Holiday Flirty Fun

This seasonal entry in Lisa Scott's Flirts! series takes us from Halloween to Valentine's Day with 5 interconnected stories.

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Title: Ph.D in Murder

Subtitle: A Cozy Mystery Short

Author: R. Barri Flowers

Narrator: Mary Price

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-13

Publisher: R. Barri Flowers

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Ph.D in Murder is a cozy mystery short by best-selling author R. Barri Flowers. A doctoral student's independent study reenactment of the well-known and still unsolved murder of Marilyn Sheppard ends with a modern day murder and killer on the loose.

Also includes a bonus mystery suspense short, "Kill and Say Goodbye." A woman discovers a dead woman on the beach that bears a striking resemblance to herself.

Members Reviews:

Ph D in Murder...plus

Any additional comments?

This short story was pretty good.It should have been longer!I fear if I say anythging that I'll reveal something! Mary Price was 'priceless' as narrator!

"I was provided this audiobook at no charge by the author, publisher and/or narrator in exchange for an unbiased review via AudiobookBlast dot com"

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Title: The Best Australian Bush Stories

Author: Jim Haynes

Narrator: Kate Hood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-13

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Australia's national character and spirit have always been defined, rightly or wrongly, by 'the bush'. This entertaining, thought-provoking, humorous, nostalgic, and, above all, highly readable collection of stories for the modern reader shows why the romance endures.

From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific Australian authors, comes a collection of classic and iconic stories from the remote outback, cattle station, wheat farm, and rural town. The bush is where our iconic characters are found living in, taking refuge or exploring, whether an Aborigine, explorer, squatter, bushranger, or stockman. Here are the big names of Australian bush writing and the lesser known writers who have been forgotten, but whose reputations are long overdue for revival. Enjoy these bush gems by Henry Lawson, Marcus Clarke, Banjo Paterson, Henry Handel Richardson, Steele Rudd, Kenneth Cook, Brian James, EO Schlunke, AC McCay, D'Arcy Niland, and more.

Members Reviews:

Great read.

Good Australian stories of the Bush. Love reading anything about it.

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Title: Testaments Betrayed

Author: Milan Kundera

Narrator: Graeme Malcolm

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-18-13

Publisher: Canongate Faber

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Milan Kundera has established himself as one of the great novelists of our time with such books as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

In Testaments Betrayed, he proves himself a brilliant defender of the moral rights of the artist and the respect due to a work of art and its creator's wishes. The betrayal of both - often by their most passionate proponents - is the principal theme of this extraordinary work.

Readers will be particularly intrigued by Kundera's impassioned attack on society's shifting moral judgments and persecutions of art and artists, from Mayakovsky to Rushdie.

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Title: Little America (Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction)

Author: Diane Simmons

Narrator: Rachel Stander

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-13

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Little America is for anyone who has ever considered just getting in the car and driving away. Here the ribbon of Western road is a metaphor for the heart's strange longings, providing hard, sometimes hilarious, lessons on the improbability of escape, the possibility of salvation, and the elusiveness of self-knowledge.

In "Yukon River," young lovers with a seedy past risk everything to be purified in the Alaska outback; they encounter instead the ruthless opportunism and alluring corruption of oil boom Fairbanks. In "Suitcase," a modern "Heart of Darkness," the road meanders from California down through impoverished Mexico and then sinks into a deadly Guatemalan jungle where the idealism of an earlier era gently rots. "Roll starts in a truck on a cliff top in Idaho, one wheel off the edge. "Little America" travels with grifters on the lam who choke up at the sight of an Oregon wheat field at sunrise; later, in Wyoming, they are made solemn by the grandeur of the world's biggest truck stop and pause to ponder: Why would anyone willingly stay in one place?

With deadpan humor, perfect pitch voice, and keen love of place, Simmons's stories illuminate the abiding American desire to "light out" - if not necessarily for something better, at least for something new.

The book is published by The Ohio State University Press.

The Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction.

Critic Reviews:

"Simmons tells her stories with a rich, earthy humor that miraculously manages to honor the people for their self-awareness and struggle even as they are repeatedly caught and trapped by the failures and limitations of their lives." (Meredith Sue Willis, author of In the Mountains of America)

"Diane Simmons's Little America is a contemporary Western, reminiscent of stories by E. L. Doctorow, Richard Bausch, and Richard Ford." (Chris Fink, Editor, Beloit Fiction Journal)

Members Reviews:

Take Your Time

There's a reason a short story is a short story. You're supposed to read a short story in one sitting. I took three or four, and sometimes when I was lucky,five or six sittings to finish a story. I didn't want the story to end. Not one or two. Or some. Or most. But all.

I'm particular about short stories. They have to be just right. These are.

I'm not even interested in trying to describe what I read and what I believe it may mean. These are good stories. Great ones.

Primarily because they're about people, human beings. Some we've known. Some we wish we had. Some like me.

Primarily (I realize I'm repeating myself) this is a writer who is a storyteller. Whatever she may have learned along the way I suspect she already knew. Knew more than she was being taught, but no doubt learned it well again anyway.

There's not a story in little america I wish I hadn't written. And there's not a story that couldn't be the opening of a novel you couldn't put down.

Don't take my word for it. Buy the boook. Read the stories. And hope she writes more.

A Fresh Take on the Highway

I first encountered Diane Simmons' story "Yukon River" in the Missouri Review and was swept away by its quirky characters and its great story-telling voice.

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Title: Painting the Corners

Subtitle: A Collection of Off-Center Baseball Stories

Author: Bob Weintraub

Narrator: Andy Caploe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Bob Weintraubs marvelous collection of baseball stories goes directly to the core of what the game does for us when we watch it being played on the field, and shows how its heroes and villains can reach into a persons life and remain a part of us for the rest of our days. The stories are told from various perspectives, including those of the player, manager, general manager, coach, scout, owner, writer, broadcaster, and fan. Each strives for its own sense of authenticity, seeks to introduce characters wed be comfortable spending time with, and in many cases ends with an unexpected twist. In these and other stories, Weintraub infuses baseball with humanity, originality, humor and compassion, and raises the game to a new level of understanding and love.

Members Reviews:

Could have been better

Good but not great. Disappointed that the story "Just One to Go" was not in the edition I received. It would be nice if the product description matched the item.

Charmingly Odd Baseball Stories

Bob Weintraub has put together several unlikely but highly engaging stories, all of which held my interest. They are off-beat and quirky, and the reader knows, almost from the start of each, that the circumstances are highly unlikely. Nevertheless I never put the book down in the middle of any of the stories. I Congratulate the author. He has succeeded where so many before him have failed to write fictional stories about baseball that are genuinely engaging and entertaining.I generally dislike baseball books, but I heartily recomended this book to friends.

A Wonderful Welcome For The Baseball Season

I thoroughly enjoyed these "baseball feeling" baseball stories.

I liked the fact that "even I" sometimes couldn't anticipate the ending for the story.

And they "felt" like I was inside the baseball game(s), hearing/sensing/viewing what was "really going on" inside the stadium, playing field, clubhouse.

I've been pleased to share this book with friends. and I've enjoyed their favorable comments, too,

Five Stars

Weintraub is a fun baseball writer. Worth the read.

Stats and Moneyball too much? This is for you!

I have never considered myself a short story fan. Until "Painting the Corners." Bob Weintraub has skillfully and affectionately captured the human side of baseball with some surprising changeups. If you know the meaning of the title and what neetsfoot oil is, you'll really enjoy this book.

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Title: Final Vinyl Days

Subtitle: Stories

Author: Jill McCorkle

Narrator: Allison McLemore, Therese Plummer, Margaret Daly, Mark Boyett, Allyson Johnson, Gabra Zackman, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Elizabeth Evans

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

When Jill McCorkle feels a short story coming on, she goes right ahead and "wastes" wonderful ideas instead of hoarding them for a novel. The result is another extraordinary collection of stories and characters. In "It's a Funeral! RSVP," the storyteller is a woman who takes up self-styled "careers" that suit her circumstances. Now she's stumbled onto one that's so successful that she just can't quit. It's planning funerals, what she calls Going Out Parties, in which the clients are the soon-to-be-deceased themselves. In "Life Prerecorded," perhaps McCorkle's finest short piece to date, the pregnant narrator finds the real meaning of new life by visiting with a very old neighbor who's waiting, too, for his own new life. In these and the rest of the nine stories, Jill McCorkle acts on her penchant for taming the outrageous, humanizing the forbidden, and grounding the hilarious.

Members Reviews:

Among her Best

As always, McCorkle's stories are terrific, full of human emotion without ever being over the top, combined with a sometimes playful wit and great command of language. Some of these stories are among her very best (and that's a high bar).

She's just wonderful. Baby Boomers will especially relate

I have all of Jill McCorkle's short story collections. She's just wonderful. Baby Boomers will especially relate.

Stories About People Coping

What I found most interesting about this author was her writing voice. It was free-flowing and uninhibited, perfectly suited to characters whose lives are consistent with an unpredictable world. McCorkle draws on a variety of settings and lifestyles. After reading a published piece elsewhere, I tracked down this book, whose catchy, 1950s style cover made me think I would be transported to another era...not so. There was no over-arching theme, each story was crafted as a stand-alone. I did not like the first two and almost stopped reading, but once I moved past them, I was drawn in by the audacious directness of the narrators. The stories are focused on the quirky, dyfunctional side of life and lets us into the heads of those who either seem to feel perfectly comfortable in that world, or get dumped there by circumstance. A few engender serious sympathy, others come out looking like losers. McCorkle's characters spill out information in a bantering rhythm that resembles the lilt of coveted gossip passed between co-conspirators. By employing a first person narrator, (which makes the storyteller a character), the writer needs to keep the language appropriate and therefore, not literary. I found that a drawback.

You know these folks!

Every once in a while I find a short story collection that totally entrances me--this is one of them. I read one story a day for about a week, so as to be able to spread out my pleasure.

McCorkle has such a wonderful and clever way with words, and has great insight into the human condition. I felt as if I knew these people she was writing about!

I especially liked "Your Husband Is Cheating On Us", a very clever monlogue. The mistress's humor is so natural and honest.

I think short stories are very difficult to write as the author has to accomplish so much with so few words.

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Title: 15 Shades of Pink

Subtitle: 15 Romantic Short Stories from the Flirts! Collections

Author: Lisa Scott

Narrator: Tamara A. McDaniel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-13

Publisher: Lisa Scott Macdonough

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Romance comes in all shades, so try a little sweet love with these 15 sassy, funny, romantic shorts. You get three favorite Flirts! volumes bundled into one collection - for the price of two! What's better than a few good love stories and a sale? I'd throw in chocolate and wine if I could.

15 Shades of Pink includes all the stories from Flirts!, Beach Flirts!, and Fairy Tale Flirts! (That's five stories in each volume. But fair warning: the only cheeks that turn pink in these stories are the ones above the shoulders.)

Members Reviews:

Great short stories, ok performance

I love the stories. I bought them to read on the Kindle app, and just enjoyed them. When I saw that "15 Shades of Pink" was available on Audible I knew I had to have it! That said... I'm less than impressed with the performance. Considering Tamara did 15 short stories and was distinguishing between each character it wasn't bad, but I can't say I preferred it. It wasn't horrible, though, hence the willingness to buy the title despite having listened to the sample.

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Title: The Secret 6: #1 October 1934

Author: Robert J. Hogan, Will Murray (editor), Henry J. Gilcrist, John Stark, William Torrel

Narrator: Michael C. Gwynne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-13

Publisher: RadioArchives.com

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Will Murray's Pulp Classics line of audiobooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s.

The Secret 6 audiobook, #1 October 1934

Criminals quaked at the name The Secret 6. And for four glorious issues, this team of six crime fighters took on some of the weirdest and most fantastic antagonists that ever reared their heads in the pulp magazines. It was where weird menace met six normal men with no strange gadgets or outlandish skills. The utterly amazing stories were written by Robert J. Hogan, better known for writing the G-8 and his Battle Aces stories. But after four issues, the over-the-top action came to an end and Popular Publications pulled the plug on the series. These vintage pulp tales are now reissued for today's listeners as audiobooks.

Table of Contents:

The Red Shadow

by Robert J. Hogan

It struck out of the night, a phantom monster whose blood-red shadow brought death to everyone it touched. New York was panic-stricken. Beneath its reign of terror, the police were helpless. But grimly, out of the list of victims, rose six men - six men who vowed to track the scarlet killer to a murder showdown!

The Ghost Horse - A Thrilling Short Story

by Henry J. Gilcrist

What was the white thing that whinnied under the cottonwood trees at midnight?

Kiwi Flight - A Thrilling Short Story

by John Stark

The story of a kid who took a death ride and didn't know enough to be scared!

Shark Bait - A Thrilling Short Story

by William Torrel

A dramatic true story laid in Florida waters.

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Title: Still Riding on the Storm

Author: Robert G Barrett

Narrator: David Tredinnick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-13

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

This book was first published in 1996 under the title Rider on the Storm and Other Bits of Barrett. It was a one-off book that got under the radar and a lot of Robert G. Barrett's readers weren't aware of it.

Fifteen years later, to mark the 25th anniversary of the first Les Norton novel, this collection is being republished. It's the original stories re-edited, as well as some classic articles and columns on a range of subjects such as publishing, fame, dates, and the dole. Plus two brand new Les Norton short stories and a feature article, "Bowling for Bukowski", which is about the last three years of turmoil in the author's life.

As well as showing his usual sense of humour and astute observations, Robert G. Barrett also believes that he and a friend have come across a treatment for cancer that actually works!

Fiction or nonfiction, Still Riding on the Storm proves yet again why Robert G. Barrett is Australia's best-loved contemporary author.

Critic Reviews:

"The king of popular fiction." (

The Australian)

Members Reviews:

Even in his death...

I will always rate Roberts books a five! I have never read one that wasn't. Even though I knew the sad outcome of his passing, even before I read his words saying he was getting better, I laughed and laughed!

Robert was a true Australian story teller. Maybe the best!

No one reads one of his books...

...after you read one, you want to read them all!

Who will I read now?

The Great Robert G Barrett

Once again Bob has excelled with his portrail of his caracters, their persona's and hilarious antics, also this book he talks alot about himself which i really enjoyed reading about.

Highly reccomend, as allways a very enjoyable read.

I good insight to Bob's Life

I have read all of Robert G Barrett's books, loved all of the Les Norton books as well as his other titles.

I always wanted to write him a letter saying how much i loved his books, it's a shame he isn't with us anymore.

still riding the strom

Sadly Bob's last recount of his illness. A good book summarising his literary life and a few Les stories to boot.

A great free spirit remembers

Robert "lived" life to the full. Most live to survive, but fail ultimately. His books brought great humour to many.