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Title: Sting of the Black Widow

Subtitle: Checkmate Series, Book 2

Author: Loren Robinson

Narrator: Cameron Beierle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-21-12

Publisher: Books In Motion

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In the not too distant future, cars are driven in the air. Ground cars run on electric highways. Telephone poles with miles of wire are only seen in history books. Electrical energy supplies the worlds needs from satellites. Space stations, scattered throughout the cosmos are peopled with scientists and engineers. Cargo shuttles that leave Earths gravity on their own power, deliver supplies on a regular schedule. Still there are remnants of the past in rural areas that cling to the disappearing life of yesteryear. And yet, there are terrorists, reborn out of the days of Islamic al Qaeda. A reorganization, under the name of Defenders of Islam, has made its mark on the free world.

Colonel Harmon Steele has felt the wrath of these terrorists. Accused and convicted of destroying a space station, the only way he can prove his innocence is to find the terrorists who did plant the bomb, but standing in his way is a beautiful assassin called the Black Widow.

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Title: Palawan

Author: C. D. Williams

Narrator: Gene Engene

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-21-12

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Palawan is an adventure story that has it all. There is an exotic tropical island location. There are Muslim terrorists, missionary hostages, a millionaires daughter, mercenaries, Borneo pirates and a struggle for survival. Its a story of friendship, courage, life, death and love played out under extreme conditions. The story begins half a world away in the Philippine jungle, continues in Las Vegas and has its unexpected climax on a ranch in the Arizona High desert.

Members Reviews:

Review by someone who actually bought and read this book

My boyfriend bought this book for me as a present before our sailing trip from Boracay to Palawan. The author certainly follows the adage of "write what you know", from the detailed descriptions of weaponry and small details of Filipino culture (I actually used his description of how to cook fish on a beach to, well, cook fish on a beach).

Other than that, the plot and dialogue was ridiculous, this book is really fun to read aloud because it's so silly. Many times I contemplated tossing it overboard to reduce the weight on our boat. I also contemplated giving it to the locals as a thank you for their hospitality but thought it would be a too offensive description of Palawan.

In the end, I finished it while actually in Palawan, and left it at the Book Exchange in Discovery Island Resort in Coron, if you want to read it without buying it.

Tight and fun...

Palawan

C D Williams

A little under 250 pages with a nice tropical scene on the over might lead you to believe that this was a fluffy little novel about romance in the South Seas. And that is just the point of the cover, to lure you into this rip-roaring thriller with Islamic terrorists and 'Nam vets. Locals as diverse as the lush tropical jungle of the Philipines and Sin City aka Las Vegas add to a nice mixture here.

This is a great thriller that never once drags anywhere. The pace is quick, the novel is well laid out and the editing is better than most mass market paperbacks. The fact that Williams has pulled off a timely terrorist thriller with more pace and less verbiage than the mighty Tom Clancy is to be applauded.

This is a perfect novel for someone flying from the East Coast of the US to Vegas. A perfect travel novel that has enough to get you distracted but not enough to get turgid. I highly recommend this novel and feel almost intimidated that this is Williams' debut.

The novel would make a perfect movie, as long as Williams could make sure the baddies stay the same. Methinks there is a great script right below the surface. Let me assure you that it does not read like a script made into a novel.

If you are in search of a good novel to while away a few hours before you sleep at night might I suggest Palawan?

Action, Excitement, Well Written book that brought back great memories of the Philippines

This is a real treasure of a book. I am a person that has traveled extensively throughout the Philippines and it is very obvious as you read that this writer has definitely spent a lot of time there. I felt like I was right in the thick of things and it was great to see how the Philippines from some interesting expat viewpoints. When I got the book I wasn't sure what to expect. I thought it was going to be more about a history of Palawan or maybe sort of a travel book. This is an awesome action story and I got so into the characters I felt I was sitting there with them.

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Title: Two Cows and a Van Full of Smoke

Author: Peter Benson

Narrator: Kristopher Milnes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-16-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When young Elliot gets a labourer's job at Mr Evans' after being sacked from a pig farm for liberating six sows, he thinks he'll have even more opportunities to lean on gates or stare at fields. But Elliots best mate Spike keeps getting him into trouble, first by showing him what is being grown in a tucked-away polytonal, and then turning up at his caravan with a van full of weed.

As Elliot tries to help his friend get rid of the hot merchandise, they find themselves at the receiving end of a cruel cat-and-mouse game.

Members Reviews:

wonderful!

A truly truly fantastic listen. Great writing - poetic yet pacy. Really cared about the characters and the reading is brilliant. Refers to another book by the author - Isabel's Skin - in a very clever way. Would have given it even more stars if I could.

Absolutely Brilliant !

If you could sum up Two Cows and a Van Full of Smoke in three words, what would they be?

Believable, Entertaining, Enthralling

What was one of the most memorable moments of Two Cows and a Van Full of Smoke?

Man in the woods

Have you listened to any of Kristopher Milness other performances? How does this one compare?

No

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

When his girlfriend was injured

Any additional comments?

I thoroughly enjoyed this and was drawn in from the first paragraph, was gutted when my journey had to break. Found myself driving more slowly so that I could eke out the tale. Entertaining with laugh out loud moments it is extremely well narrated. Believable characters, wonderful folklore, beautiful descriptives that enthral and bring the landscapes alive. Excellent narration.

I can't believe that anyone would not enjoy this and highly recommend.

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Title: Jimbo's Last Dive

Author: Everett Peacock

Narrator: Joe Roark

Format: Unabridged

Length: 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-12

Publisher: Everett Peacock

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Gulf of Mexico, 1982: A crew of professional hard-hat divers and deck hands head out to the pristine waters of the Flower Gardens reef to enjoy a few days of recreational diving and fishing.

One of their dives served up a twist that no one had expected - least of all Jimbo.

Members Reviews:

Fast Read but Only OK

Nothing spectacular about this short story. There are a few errors, the formatting is not conducive to easy reading, and it seems to be knocked together quickly to get it on Amazon.

bleh

I can't believe a publisher read this book and agreed to spend money to print it. It's like a Jr high school jock wrote it in a spiral notebook and somehow made it into print.

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Title: Saving Angelfish

Author: Michele Matheson

Narrator: Xe Sands

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-12

Publisher: Iambik Audio Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A part-time actress and full-time junkie, Maxella Gordons life is unraveling fast. Shes estranged from her parents, in debt to the neighborhood dealer, and in frequent conversation with an angel figurine she ripped off from the local Rite-Aid. After an unfortunate incident, Max is forced to sell for another dealer, the vicious, legless Carlotta. Struggling to get out of debt, off drugs, and away from Carlotta, Max is increasingly desperate to find a way out.

Drugs and violence haunt everyone in Maxs world, yet still they draw together: her parents, still holding each other up though their marriage ended years ago; her tutu-clad buyer, who joins them for Christmas dinner; and Maxs own attempt to help Carlottas son Albert break away from his mother.

Honest and unpredictable, laced with flashes of wit and poignancy, Saving Angelfish is a gritty portrait of the dark world simmering just below LAs gleaming surface.

Critic Reviews:

"Matheson's sharp, highly detailed prose thrusts readers in the driver's seat of an out-of-control life." (Publishers Weekly)

"This is a flawlessly executed study of a life that's fully dissolved." (Los Angeles Times)

"Her novel of addiction, of coming close to bottoming outrings as true as any memoir I've read." (Russ Harvey, KQED)

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

5 stars!

Saving Angelfish

Who would have thought kicking an addiction would be so witty and inventive? Yes, harrowing, too, but this book represents a triumph of sort of the human spirit. Matheson creates amazing characters, too. A terrific first novel.

Deserves ten stars.

Having reviewed books both professionally for newspapers and as a hobby on the net I have run across hundreds of first time writers. The great majority have just the one book in them and they are never heard from again. Sometimes thankfully for those of us who love and read books continually. So it is always awkward when a new book comes your way as you want to be kind and you want to be truthful. Michele Matheson makes that easy.

Had I not seen a publisher's blurb that this is a first book I would have thought Ms. Matheson an old hand. (She's really quite young.) Saving Angelfish is an excellent read and shows a quality that tells the reader this is a new author here to stay. The story revolves around a young actress who is heavily involved in the drug world. This may seem like a familiar theme, however there is a freshness in the way the topic is handled.

Maxella Gordon, known as Max, comes from a broken home that was not typical to begin with. The reader is drawn into not just Max's world but also her mother Phyllis and father Eddie. Both parents love her and their relationship with each other complicates their ability to help their daughter overcome her addictions and ability to return to the real world . Gradually as you read the book you will be presented scenes of events that caused Max to be where she is. Highly traumatic is an attack on her mother that influences all their lives. There are also some of the most colorful, but not necessarily nice, characters who share their addictions with Max.

There is a great deal of symbolism in the writing as seen though the eyes of an artificial angel that comes alive at key moment in the story. The title itself, Saving Angelfish, has symbolic meaning as will be evident in one of the subplots and at the book's conclusion.

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Título: La debutante [The Rookie]

Autor: Lola Beccaria

Narrador: Sonia Román

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 4 hrs and 19 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 07-26-12

Editor: Audiomol

Categorías: Fiction, Contemporary

Resumen del editor:

Desde el éxito y la vanagloria, la protagonista de esta novela recuerda los pasos que, de la nada y a través del crimen, la llevaron a triunfar en una sociedad, en la que ser 'de baja ralea y escasos posibles' no es un impedimento para hacer fortuna. A partir del reconocimiento de esta 'verdad' indiscutible, nace, tras años y años de existencias gris y turinaria, una heroína poco convencional. Una heroína que, a diferencia de otras insignes oportunistas, no tiene el menor glamour...ni siquiera el glamour del mal.

El debutante propone, en fin, una revisión de ciertos estereotipos femeninos y patrones culturales que sorprenderá al lector por la originalidad de su tratamiento, tanto como por el pulso brioso y acelerado de su prosa vengativa.

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Title: Access Road

Author: Maurice Gee

Narrator: Heather Bolton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-12

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

As she watches her brother losing the battle with his memories, Rowan wonders how long she can keep her own past at bay. The old family home in Access Road, where Lionel, Roly and Rowan grew up, is crumbling away - but after more than fifty years Lionel and Roly are back. Rowan too, otherwise safe in her 'upper crusty' suburb, is drawn more and more strongly 'out west'. The past is dangerously alive. Clyde Buckley - violent as a boy; enigmatic, subterranean as an old man - returns to his childhood territory. What does he want? What crimes does he hide? And how is Lionel involved? Rowan must abandon safety if she is to find out Maurice Gee is a master storyteller. Access Road is at once a novel of chilling tension and expansive humanity; both a beautifully crafted work of literature and an effortlessly seductive family story.

Critic Reviews:

"Access Road is a novel of chilling tension and expansive humanity; a beautifully crafted work of literature and a seductive family story." (New Zealand Book Council)

"Gee is our greatest writer." (Paula Morris, NZ Listener)

"Once again Gee scratches below the surface, finding the menace behind the mundane, the evil behind the everyday. A solid addition to a remarkable writing career." (WildTomato)

Members Reviews:

An excellent, brooding tale of family relationships and dark secrets

Widely considered `New Zealand's greatest living author', Nelson-based Maurice Gee has penned dozens of beloved tales, ranging from children's to adult, fantasy to realism. The near-octogenarian's latest (and reportedly, perhaps last) adult novel, Access Road, may be slim in size (200 pages), but it's still a very good read, packed with trademark Gee themes, style, and moments.

Elderly Rowan Pinker narrates a brooding tale of family relationships and dark secrets, shifting back and forth in time as she searches her memory for reasons behind her bedridden brother Lionel's silence. Rowan lives a somewhat-contented life with her "silly old git" of a husband Dickie, a cheerful drunk, in "upper crusty" Takapuna - but regularly visits her siblings Roly and Lionel, who've moved back to the old family home in Access Road, Loomis (a fictionalised West Auckland). Visits that spark a flood of memories, not all of them pleasant; particularly those involving sinister childhood friend Clyde Buckley. Is he the key to Lionel's troubles?

Gee writes with spare elegance, ably evoking the landscape (natural and human) of small-town Loomis. He is a maestro at creating layered characters full of ambiguity, depth and conflict; shades of grey rather than black and white. Rowan is a geriatric everywoman, but has she compromised her morality in the past, allowing darkness to flourish? Once again Gee scratches below the surface, finding the menace behind the mundane, the evil behind the everyday. A solid addition to a remarkable writing career.

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Title: The Day You Saved My Life

Author: Louise Candlish

Narrator: Juanita McMahon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-19-12

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Her whole world hinged on the moment one man jumped.... On a perfect summer's day in Paris, tourists on a river trip watch in horror as drama unfolds. A small boy has fallen overboard and disappeared below the surface of the water. As his mother stands frozen to the spot, another passenger jumps....

This is the story of how a single act of courage transforms the lives of all those involved. Louise Candlish returns with her most page-turning and emotional story to date.

Members Reviews:

Well worth your credit

Where does The Day You Saved My Life rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

This would be in the top 10 of the books I have read

Have you listened to any of Juanita McMahons other performances before? How does this one compare?

She is always very good.

Who was the most memorable character of The Day You Saved My Life and why?

The grandmother she was strong all through the story.

Any additional comments?

I loved it, initially the first half hour was a little boring but after the story settled it was a really good read.

Great story - great narrator.

Where does The Day You Saved My Life rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

Top ten.

What did you like best about this story?

The depth of the story and the exploration of the characters - I looked forward to getting into my car and listening to the next chapter...

What does Juanita McMahon bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

I love her voice...she is very talented and I often choose a book simply because she is the narrator.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No extreme reaction...more of a prolonged enjoyment of the story.

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Título: Historia del pelo [The History of Hair]

Autor: Alan Pauls

Narrador: Enrique Aparicio

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 4 hrs and 51 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 07-17-12

Editor: Audiomol

Categorías: Fiction, Contemporary

Resumen del editor:

El héroe de esta comedia fúnebre es un enfermo del pelo. Tiene pelo de más, pelo para regalar. Pero tiene miedo de perderlo, o de ponerlo en las manos equivocadas, o de vivir siempre pendiente de su suerte, a merced de la moda, las chicas incompetentes que lavan o los peluqueros irresponsables. El pelo es su fetiche, su obsesión, su pesadilla frívola. Pero es también el nexo que lo liga a los tres personajes con los que se cruza en esta ficción desolada: Celso, un peluquero paraguayo genial, que un buen día desaparece sin aviso; Monti, un amigo de infancia que irrumpe de tanto en tanto en su vida, y el Veterano de guerra, que después de décadas de exilio europeo vuelve a Buenos Aires. Los cuatro náufragos de Historia del pelo vagan a la deriva y terminan aspirados por el enigma del libro, el gran agujero negro donde confluyen la historia de un país y el cuerpo singular de sus víctimas: la misteriosa suerte corrida por la peluca que usó una guerrillera célebre para secuestrar a un jerarca militar, ejecutarlo e inaugurar así la década más sangrienta de la historia argentina. Con este nuevo libro, Alan Pauls prosigue su trilogía de novelas independientes iniciada con Historia del llanto.

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Title: Shattered Wings

Author: Bryan Healey

Narrator: David Stifel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-12

Publisher: Bryan Healey

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

John holds the American dream: A man he loves, a beautiful little girl, a suburban home and a well-paying job...

And then a sudden layoff brings about unexpected financial and emotional strain. As he struggles to find new work, a growing sense of despair triggers a relapse into alcoholism and causes him to face his demons of addiction, discrimination, and regret as he tries desperately to recover before it's too late....

Members Reviews:

Review: Shattered Wings

A very slow read. It was depressing and heart wrenching. The battle of an alcoholic to gain sobriety and become the person he wanted to be to his spouse and his daughter. Losing a job is jarring and unsettling. I could relate to the insecurity that followed the event. Many salesmen friends have told me of the sense of insecurity in succeeding in the next deal. After a few dry calls they openly wonder if they'll ever be able to close another deal. The key is never giving up because everyone has someone counting on them.

Bold, courageous

Bryan Healey's novel, Shattered Wings, won me over completely. The descent of his protagonist, John, from his delightfully gay heaven--with a good job, an attractive and almost saintly lover, and an adopted daughter they both adore--to the hell his bigoted and yet knowing father had predicted all along (thus "shattered wings") is believable, intense, and tragic.

John has a drinking problem. In order to keep his partner, Charlie, and his daughter, Cassie--his family--John stops drinking but struggles to remain abstinent. Then, apparently a victim of the recent economic crisis, he loses his job.

The bookends to Healey's story seem quite right to me. The beginning immediately arouses dread. The ending boldly goes, in the confessional first person no less, where many writers would lack the courage to go.

Reading Shattered Wings is like viewing an Ed Norton movie, where we're thinking, we love you, man; you don't need to do what you're doing to yourself. Does his character hear our plea? Of course not. He's on the screen in a magnificent fall. We're on our couch.

Those of us who read and admire thoughtful, serious fiction know a John. We sometimes see him when we look in our mirrors. I readily gave him the benefit of every doubt, even as he refused to do what I wanted him to do. His struggle, emanating from his father's rejection, is too familiar and true for him not to capture our sympathy as if it were prey.

Readers should know that Healey handles his "sex" scenes with admirable restraint. I found it good to know that, yeah, John and Charlie are very much in love with one another that way, too. But Healey wisely knows he doesn't have to provide a play-by-play account in this kind of story. He can let us imagine the details, or not, as we see fit.

I'm looking forward to what Bryan Healey next has to offer his readers. I hope he continues to write realistic fiction.

The horror in an honest and realistic depiction of the world as we know it, as in Shattered Wings, can far exceed the make-believe horror in the genre realms.