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Title: Laminar Flow

Subtitle: The Book of Drachma, Book 1

Author: Timothy H. Cook

Narrator: Kyle Brower

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-12

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

What does being a doctor really feel like? What is it like to get called out in the middle of the night to care for a desperately ill patient, to be the one everyone depends on? Bob Gilsen knows only too well. And what does a 15th-century physician, who gets called out in the middle of the night in winter, possibly have to offer his patient? This is the beginning of The Book of Drachma, a novel of medicine, murder, fantasy, and self-discovery, set in two times and places. It is a novel for the curious, for those who really wish to know what it means to be a doctor, in this, as well as past ages.

In Part One, Laminar Flow, readers find the two stories have a commonality that transcends the barriers of time and place, and leads to the two tales coming together under the watchful eye of the mysterious Drachma.

Members Reviews:

Enjoyed it!!

Really loved the book. It leaves you hanging and I can't wait to start book number two to find out what happens.

Enjoyed!

Very much enjoyed! Different from anything that's out there. I really felt connected to the characters.

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Title: The Great Squanderland Roof

Subtitle: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

Author: Julian Gough

Narrator: Adjoa Andoh, full cast

Format: Original Recording

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-12

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Jude lives in a henhouse with no roof, in the bankrupt Republic of Squanderland. Purchased for ten million euro at the height of the credit bubble, his henhouse has been rated the asset in Europe most likely to default. To solve this small but symbolic problem and restore confidence in the markets, Europe's leaders need a plan. Sadly, putting a roof on Jude's henhouse quickly escalates out of control. Soon they are committed to building a roof over the entire country, half a mile above the startled voters... But what happens when a structure that's too big to fail finally fails? To the horror of Europe's bankers and politicians, Jude comes up with a dramatic (and rather romantic) solution to the Eurozone crisis... Starring Rory Keenan as Jude, with Dermot Crowley, James Lailey, Adjoa Andoh, Clare Corbett and Stephanie Flanders. Written by Julian Gough. Director Di Speirs.

Members Reviews:

Spot on

Excellent story about the experts of the financial world have not got a clue about finance

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Title: The Book of Right and Wrong

Subtitle: Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction

Author: Matt Debenham

Narrator: Colin MacQueen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Matt Debenham's stories are for people who think they don't like short stories. These stories don't leave off in mid-breath; instead, they feature characters who seem to live on even after their closing pages. The humor in The Book of Right and Wrong makes the jarring moments that much more jarring, and the tender moments that much more tender.

At once heartbreaking and hilarious, the 11 stories in The Book of Right and Wrong capture their characters at the defining moments of their lives. A mother finds herself defending her son's biggest bully from a tormentor of his own; a young man watches as his cape-wearing former high-school classmate proves himself more adept at making friends; a social worker gambles everything on expediting an adoption-and causes unforeseen consequences for every person in her life; a boy standing in for Jimmy Carter in his elementary school's mock-election inadvertently starts a bloody playground war; an ex-con single father finds himself on the inside of his town's social circle, with no clue as to how the game is played.

With lively storytelling and empathy to spare, The Book of Right and Wrong defies the notion that full, memorable characters live only in novels.

Critic Reviews:

"This is a stunning debut from a distinctive new presence in American storytelling, among the best collections I have read." (Amy Greene, author of Bloodroot)

"Outrageous, tender, hilarious, bewildered: Matt Debenham's The Book of Right and Wrong is so full of life that it's a miracle the binding can hold it all together. A spectacular debut." (Paul Lisicky, author of Lawnboy and Famous Builder)

Members Reviews:

Compact, evocative, lyrical.

Matt Debenham knows how to evoke characters and moods in a minuscule amount of space. His collection of short stories lives at ground level, in a broken-in world that never feels contrived. The quirks and twists that come and go throughout this collection are never there for show. Just like the oddities and grotesqueness that inevitably happen to you or me in the course of living and interacting with real people in the real world seem, in hindsight, to be inexorable. Is there drama? Yes, some of it bordering on the horrific. Is there pathos? Yes, gut-wrenching emotions in spades. The characters that populate Debenham's stories are most of all real. Flawed, loving, oblivious, cruel, misguided, hopeful, tragic though they may be they are never cardboard cut outs. The worst and best thing I can say about this book is it doesn't overstay it's welcome, it pulls up to your driveway and unloads its cargo, then rumbles off to parts unknown, leaving you wanting more. Like a lot of other aspects of life, sometimes, you just get what you get. The comfort here is that Mr. Debenham will continue to produce quality work like this for years to come.

"Roller Coaster" Isn't Right

As I was reading this The Book of Right and Wrong, I kept thinking of how to describe it, and kept coming to the cliche of a reader "going on a roller-coaster ride" -- as back-to-back stories can be so different from one another. Funny stories, tragic ones, stories of social ignorance.

And by threading these together, The Book of Right and Wrong assembles a weird community of stories about the truest people dealing with the unfortunate realities of life.

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Title: The Cutting Season

Author: Attica Locke

Narrator: Lachele Carl

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-12

Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Just after dawn Caren walks the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house in Louisiana that she has managed for the past four years. Today she sees nothing unusual, apart from some ground that has been dug by the fence bordering the sugar cane fields. Assuming an animal has been out after dark, she asks the gardener to tidy it up. Not long after, he calls her to say it's something else. Something terrible. A young woman lying face down in a shallow grave, her throat cut clean.

Now she has police on site, an investigation in progress, and a member of staff no one can track down. And Caren keeps uncovering things she will wish she didn't know. As she's drawn into the dead woman's story, she makes shattering discoveries about the plantation's past, its future and a killer who may be a lot closer than she thinks...

A taut, devastating story of the American South, The Cutting Season brings history face-to-face with modern America.

Members Reviews:

Not the best buy...

Not very well written, but would have been passable had it not been for excruciatingly stilted reading.

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Title: Pictures at an Exhibition

Author: Camilla Macpherson

Narrator: Penelope Freeman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-12

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

'An enchanting debut'

Woman's Own

November 1942

Dear Elizabeth,

I've got myself a new project, to cheer myself up a bit. It has absolutely nothing to do with the war effort. We're completely starved of art in London these days. Anything decent was stashed away by the authorities years ago. But the National Gallery is going to dust off one masterpiece each month, put it on display, and allow us masses to trail in front of it. I've promised myself solemnly that I will go along each month to see whichever painting it is that has been chosen, then write and tell you all about it. So, what do you think? It must be better than knitting socks for sailors or collecting old tin to turn into Spitfires.

Love Daisy

Seventy years later, Daisy's words have an unimagined effect on Claire. Devastated after a miscarriage she has distanced herself from her own life, and from her husband, Rob. Unable to deal with her own reality, Claire becomes obsessed with Daisy, and as she traces her life, month-by-month, painting-by-painting, she starts to notice intriguing parallels between their lives. But Daisy is from another time, and though the paintings remain as beautiful as ever, Claire needs to accept that the past cannot be changed and that she must let Daisy go if she is ever to move on.

Members Reviews:

Dual time story

Claire in the present day is struggling with something that has caused her marriage to suffer, and finds similarities with her problems and those that Daisy suffered during the war. Using letters written by Daisy as a guide, Claire looks at a different picture in the National Gallery each month. It's an unusual side to a dual time story and it was fascinating in some ways but I got a bit fed up with Claire!

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Title: The Manicurist

Author: Phyllis Schieber

Narrator: Joyce Feurring

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-12

Publisher: BelleBooks, Inc.

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Tessa and Walter have, by all appearances, the perfect marriage. And they seem to be ideal parents for their somewhat rebellious teenage daughter, Regina. Without warning, however, their comfortable lives are thrown into turmoil when a disturbing customer comes into the salon where Tessa works as a manicurist. Suddenly, Tessa's world is turned upside down as revelations come to light about the mother she thought had abandoned her in childhood and the second sight that she so guardedly seeks to keep from others. A magical novel of secrets revealed and a family in turmoil, searching together for new beginnings.

Phyllis Schieber's first novel, Strictly Personal, for young adults, was published by Fawcett-Juniper. Willing Spirits was published by William Morrow. The Sinner's Guide to Confession was published by Berkley Putnam in 2008. Her short story, The Stocking Store, appears in Bell Bridge Books' 2011 anthology, The Firefly Dance.

Married and a mother, Phyllis Schieber lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. www.phyllisschieberauthor.com

Members Reviews:

Please Do not buy without previewing!

I listened for only a few moments and realized what a huge mistake I had just made! I have purchased several hundred audible books in the past couple of years and should know better than to purchase without previewing a book being narrated by someone i didn't recognize! Regretfully, I did not, and now, I am more than ashamed with myself!

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Title: The Last Call of Mourning

Subtitle: An Oxrun Station Novel, Book 3

Author: Charles L Grant

Narrator: Lillian Rathbun

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-12

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Upon returning home to Oxrun Station from travelling Europe, Cynthia Yarrow notices that her family has changed. Her mother cuts herself but does not bleed. Her father lay dead before her eyes but is alright just hours later. Cynthia's suspicions lie with her family's new doctor, Dr. Kraylin. With her friend from years back, Ed, Cynthia must solve this mystery or die trying.

Members Reviews:

It's Charles L Grant. It's Great

Charles Grant was arguably the finest writer of horror in the 20th century, and he will be missed. In my opinion, his best writing was with the Oxrun Station series of stories, and this one is of Oxrun Station. Grant was always subtle with his horror, and he depended on story and character, never stooping to depending on spewing entrails or vomiting pea soup like so many of the modern writers. His stuff is scary for all the right reasons. Anything by Charles L Grant is worth reading.

Mystery/horror

Charles Grant's 3rd novel in his "Oxrun Station" series, reads quaint, in a post-SAW world; one could call Grant's prose florid, his story-construction painstakingly subtle, his characters and their arcs/drives almost soap-operatic. The story builds ever-so-slowly; and like the mystery it is, too, introduces clues that are only unpacked into full-blown horror, in the final act (a hallmark of his early Oxrun series). The pleasures here are not vivid scarlet splashes, or gut-wrenching terrors, or jaw-stretching spectacles: the reader is forewarned. But if you want to see the master of "quiet horror" working his magic -- come visit Yarrow's bookstore in Oxrun Station (I wonder if it's not closed up now, like all these other bookstores?) and browse a spell....

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Title: Tree of Freedom

Author: Nelson Lowhim

Narrator: Jim Abate

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-12

Publisher: nelson lowhim

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Two Iraq war veterans, Rick and King, find the tortured body of King's sister in France. Already living a life of crime, they set out for revenge. Rick, however, is not so certain about this life. They were once honorable veterans of Iraq, now they have thrown society's concerns aside and gone off on their own. First it was crime, now it's murder. Rick's girlfriend, Coralie, wants him to stop. But how can he let his friend down? Torn between the two, between his past and his future, he must choose soon or else risk losing everything that matters in life. This novel dives into the dark hearts of men back from war. It's an honest psychological portrait of the violence that soldiers and nations have committed, and that can linger in their actions.

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Title: Dip in the Pool: A Roald Dahl Short Story

Author: Roald Dahl

Narrator: Adrian Scarborough

Format: Unabridged

Length: 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-12

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Dip in the Pool, a short, sharp story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale. Read by the actor Adrian Scarborough. In Dip in the Pool, Roald Dahl, one of the worlds favourite authors, tells an unsettling story of human folly. Here, a man acts rashly and life-threateningly to ensure he wins a prize . . . Dip in the Pool is taken from the short story collection Someone Like You, which includes seventeen other devious and shocking stories, featuring the wife who serves a dish that baffles the police; a curious machine that reveals the horrifying truth about plants; the man waiting to be bitten by the venomous snake asleep on his stomach; and others.

This story is also available as a Penguin ebook. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahls Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahls stories continue to make readers shiver today.

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Title: Pig (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

Author: Roald Dahl

Narrator: Stephanie Beacham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-12

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of "Pig", a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. Read by the actress Stephanie Beacham. In "Pig", Roald Dahl, one of the worlds favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a boy who grows into an accomplished cook goes in search of a final, elusive recipe . . ."Pig" is taken from the short story collection Kiss Kiss, which includes ten other devious and shocking stories, featuring the wife who pawns the mink coat from her lover with unexpected results; the priceless piece of furniture that is the subject of a deceitful bargain; a wronged woman taking revenge on her dead husband, and others.

This story is also available as a Penguin ebook. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahls Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahls stories continue to make readers shiver today. Stephanie Beachams television work includes: Trollied, Mount Pleasant, Coronation Street, Sister Kate, Beverley Hills 90210, Bad Girls, The Colbys, Dynasty, Tenko her film work includes Love and Other Disasters, Unconditional Love, The Nightcomers, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.