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ID: 248442

Title: Killer Cousins

Author: June Shaw

Narrator: Beth Richmond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:58:56

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-13

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Spunky young grandma Cealie Gunther tries to avoid her hunky sometimes-ex lover Gil Thurman so she can rediscover herself. She also wants to avoid relatives so she won't become dependent on them. But a cousin who antagonized her in childhood pleads for Cealie to come to Gatlinburg, TN, needing Cealie's help or she'll face dire consequences. And Gil couldn't be opening another of his Cajun Delights restaurants there-could he? Torn between flying off for her planned exotic vacation or landing in the hills of Tennessee, Cealie knows where she must go. She can't believe what she finds once she gets there and fears someone she knows may be implicated and attack more victims. Murder and mayhem blend with quirky characters in this full-filled romp.

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ID: 203565

Title: Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov

Author: Andrea Pitzer

Narrator: Susan Boyce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:14:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-13-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, History & Culture

Summary:

A startling and revelatory examination of Nabokov's life and worksnotably Pale Fire and Lolitabringing new insight into one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic authors.

Novelist Vladimir Nabokov witnessed the horrors of his century, escaping Revolutionary Russia then Germany under Hitler, and fleeing France with his Jewish wife and son just weeks before Paris fell to the Nazis. He repeatedly faced accusations of turning a blind eye to human suffering to write artful tales of depravity. But does one of the greatest writers in the English language really deserve the label of amoral aesthete bestowed on him by so many critics?

Using information from newly-declassified intelligence files and recovered military history, journalist Andrea Pitzer argues that far from being a proponent of art for art's sake, Vladimir Nabokov managed to hide disturbing history in his fictionhistory that has gone unnoticed for decades. Nabokov emerges as a kind of documentary conjurer, spending the most productive decades of his career recording a saga of forgotten concentration camps and searing bigotry, from World War I to the Gulag and the Holocaust. Lolita surrenders Humbert Humbert's secret identity, and reveals a Nabokov appalled by American anti-Semitism. The lunatic narrator of Pale Fire recalls Russian tragedies that once haunted the world. From Tsarist courts to Nazi film sets, from CIA front organizations to wartime Casablanca, the story of Nabokov's family is the story of his centuryand both are woven inextricably into his fiction.

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ID: 167418

Title: Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling

Author: Becca Stevens

Narrator: Becca Stevens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:57:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-13

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Religious & Inspirational

Summary:

'In the world of snake oils, you have to see the world a little differently. Where others see poverty, you see riches; where others see weeds, you see flowers; where others see sickness, you see openness.'

Becca Stevens calls herself a 'snake oil seller': She takes natural oils, mixes them with a good story, sells them in an open market and believes they help to heal the world. Becca is the founder of Thistle Farms, one of the most successful examples in the US of a social enterprise whose mission is the work force. She is also the founder of its residential program, Magdalene. The women of Magdalene/Thistle Farms have survived prostitution, trafficking and addiction, and the natural body care products they manufacture-balms, soaps, and lotions-aid in their own healing as well as that of the people who buy them. The book weaves together the beginnings of the enterprise with individual stories from Becca's own journey as well as 20 women in the community.

In Snake Oil, Becca tells how the women she began helping fifteen years ago have been the biggest source of her own healing from sexual abuse and her father's death as a child. Wise and reflective, Snake Oil offers an empowering narrative as well as a selection of recipes for healing remedies that readers can make themselves.

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ID: 168663

Title: Escape Theory

Author: Margaux Froley

Narrator: Amanda Dolan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:54:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Teen, Mystery & Thriller, Tough Topics

Summary:

Sixteen-year-old Devon Mackintosh has always felt like an outsider at Keaton, the prestigious California boarding school perched above the Pacific. As long as she's not fitting in, Devon figures she might as well pad her application to Stanford's psych program. So junior year, she decides to become a peer counselor, a de facto therapist for students in crisis. At first, it seems like it will be an easy fly-on-the-wall gig, but her expectations are turned upside down when Jason Hutchins (a.k.a. 'Hutch'), one of the Keaton's most popular students, commits suicide.

Devon dives into her new role providing support for Hutch's friends, but she's haunted by her own attachment to him. The two shared an extraordinary night during their first week freshman year; it was the only time at Keaton when she felt like someone else really understood her. As the secrets and confessions pile up in her sessions, Devon comes to a startling conclusion: Hutch couldn't have taken his own life. Bound by her oath of confidentialityand tortured by her unrequited loveDevon embarks on a solitary mission to get to the bottom of Hutch's death and the stakes are higher than she ever could have imagined.

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ID: 171472

Title: Bay of Fires: A Novel

Author: Poppy Gee

Narrator: Cynthia Barrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:49:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-13

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, Psychological

Summary:

Sarah Avery's reckless behavior has cost her a job, her boyfriend, and the independence she desperately craves. Reluctantly home for the holidays in the Bay of Fires, a tiny seaside town on the Tasmanian coast, she hopes for a calm, quiet visit, with time to reflect on all that's gone wrong. Those hopes are crushed when, early one morning, she discovers the body of a young female backpacker washed up on the shore.

A year earlier, another woman went missing and hasn't been seen since. Now everyone wonders: is there a killer in the brush? Or were these women victims of Tasmania itself? The island is place of savage beauty: pristine sand beneath orange-lichen covered granite boulders; heaving shadowy kelp fields; sweeping cold currents; crackling bush beyond the seashore. It's also a landscape as flawed, vulnerable and vengeful as any human. Once its fragile peace is shattered, the locals' anxiety fuels a string of speculations about happened to the women - and who might be the next victim.

When journalist Hall Flynn arrives to investigate, haunted by recent failures and yearning for a fresh start, he's determined to do whatever it takes to break the story, and Sarah is his best source of local information. But Sarah - like everyone else in this close-knit town - has secrets she's desperate to keep hidden. And one of those secrets leads straight to a killer's door.

Haunting, evocative, as wildly atmospheric as the remote island where it takes place, Bay of Fires is a startling and wholly original debut.

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ID: 171261

Title: Lords of Salem

Author: Rob Zombie

Narrator: Erin Bennett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:58:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-13

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

'The book offers a different experience from the film since it can obviously go into much more detail,' says Rob Zombie. 'The book and the film really complement each other.'

From the singular mind of horror maestro Rob Zombie comes a chilling plunge into a nightmare world where evil runs in the blood...

The Lords of Salem

Heidi Hawthorne is a thirty-seven-year-old FM radio DJ and a recovering drug addict. Struggling with her newfound sobriety and creeping depression, Heidi suddenly receives an anonymous gift at the station-a mysteriously shaped wooden box branded with a strange symbol. Inside the box is a promotional record for a band that identifies themselves only as The Lords. There is no other information.

She decides to play it on the radio show as a joke, and the moment she does, horrible things begin to happen. The strange music awakens something evil in the town. Soon enough, terrifying murders begin to happen all around Heidi. Who are The Lords? What do they want?

As old bloodlines are awakened and the bodies start to pile up, only one thing seems certain: all hell is about to break loose.

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ID: 197938

Title: Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War

Author: Dale Maharidge

Narrator: Pete Larkin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:47:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-13

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Military

Summary:

Sgt. Steve Maharidge, like many of his generation, hardly ever talked about the war. The only sign he’d served in it was a single black and white photograph of himself and another soldier tacked to the wall of his basement workshop. After Steve Maharidge’s death, his son Dale, now an adult, began a twelve-year quest to understand his father’s preoccupation with the photo. What had happened during the battle for Okinawa, and why had his father remained silent about his experiences and the man in the picture, Herman Mulligan? In his search for answers, Maharidge sought out the survivors of Love Company, many of whom had never before spoken so openly and emotionally about what they saw and experienced on Okinawa.In Bringing Mulligan Home, Maharidge delivers an affecting narrative of war and its aftermath, of fathers and sons, with lessons for the children whose parents are returning from war today.

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ID: 168733

Title: Crap Kingdom

Author: D. C. Pierson

Narrator: D. C. Pierson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:43:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Teen, General, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Summary:

The Chosen One must be retrieved from Earth.He will bring down the wall and restore the kingdom to glory.His name is Tom Parking.

With this mysterious yet oddly ordinary-looking prophecy, Tom's fate is sealed: he's been plucked from his life and whisked away to a magical kingdom to be its Chosen One.

There's just one problemthe kingdom is mostly made of garbage from Earth. Okay, well, two problems, the second being that the king hates Tom. Also, the princess likes to wear fake mustaches. And being Chosen One seems to consist mainly of cleaning out rats' noses at the Royal Rat-Snottery.

So, basically, the kingdom sucks.

When Tom turns down the job of Chosen One, he thinks he's making a smart decision. But when Tom discovers he's been replaced by his best friend Kyle, who's always been cooler, more athletic, and better with girls, Tom wants Crap Kingdom backat any cost. And the hilarity that ensues will determine the fate of the universe.

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ID: 203570

Title: Death on a Pale Horse: Sherlock Holmes on Her Majestys Secret Service

Author: Donald Thomas

Narrator: John Telfer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:40:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-06-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Action & Adventure

Summary:

In a momentous period of British history, Donald Thomas' latest Sherlock Holmes adventure pits the great detective and his faithful biographer, Dr. John Watson, against an international conspiracy led by a disgraced English officer. Colonel Hunter Moran bears upon him the 'Mark of the Beast'; his satanic ingenuity leaves a spectacular trail of devastation. It runs from the annihilation of a British armored column by Zulu tribesmenarmed only with shields and spearsto a life-and-death struggle on the sinking passenger steamer Comtesse de Flandre.

The heir to the French empire lies dead in the African dust. Europe is brought to the brink of war by forged dispatches, designed to enrich gun-runners and assassins. The gold fields and diamond mines of South Africa become the playground of organized crime. Only the detective genius of Holmes can prove a match for the unfolding criminality of Moran and his associates. With Watson and Mycroft at his side, Sherlock Holmes again demonstrates that although the powers of the state and the underworld may try to overpower him, they will never out-think his splendid analytical mind at the height of its powers.

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ID: 339712

Title: Beautiful Nate: A Memoir of a Family's Love, a Life Lost, and Heaven's Promises

Author: Dennis Mansfield

Narrator: Dennis Mansfield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:48:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-13

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, Christianity

Summary:

Even when you follow all the rules, life can go very wrong... Dennis Mansfield and his wife, Susan, planned for and expected every parent’s dream, but instead lived every parent’s nightmare. This haunting memoir tells the story of a father who diligently followed all the parenting rules that he learned from conservative Christian “experts” — yet life with his son Nate went terribly wrong when the young man died at twenty-seven of drug-related causes. It wasn’t that the principles Dennis followed were faulty; it was that the promised guarantee turned out to be void. The author, a national leader in the pro-family movement of the 1990s, reveals what did and did not work while raising a child within the evangelical framework. But rather than losing his faith and abandoning the God he’d trusted, Dennis eventually found new joy and purpose — with a more compassionate and realistic view of the roles parents play and the rules they follow. As you listen to this sobering yet refreshing account, you will find direction for your own parenting style and encouragement after life’s disappointments.

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