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Title: Angelica

Author: Arthur Phillips

Narrator: Susan Lyons

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-07

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Sensing the presence of supernatural evil in the house, she calls upon a spiritualist to combat the threats she sees to her life and child, and becomes distraught as her domestic life deteriorates into disorder and perceived danger. But is Constance right?

In four sections, each taking a different character's point of view, Angelica proceeds to weave a tapestry of parallel and sometimes conflicting interpretations of the lives of Constance, Anne Montague, the spiritualist in whom Constance places her deepest trust, Joseph, and, finally, Angelica. Nothing here is as it seems, but everything fits together beautifully and is vastly entertaining.

Members Reviews:

Breathless

The four-pronged approach to the story is genius. We are led down a merry path initially and we think we have all the answers...until the narrator switches. I was held spellbound by this tale of madness and ghosts.

Loved This Book

I found it difficult to stop listening to this one. The mystery of what was really ahppening to poor Constance was addictive and kept me reading. Phillips unravels this story slowly building suspense, first Constance's story is told, then the psychic, her husband, and finally her daughter. If you think you'd enjoy a gothic, ghost story, you should give this one a try.

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Title: The Burning of the Flag

Subtitle: A Story from 'Jesus Out to Sea'

Author: James Lee Burke

Narrator: Ron McLarty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-31-07

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In his moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast proves to be a versatile setting for Burke's stories, which cover the scope of the human experience from love and sex to domestic abuse to war and death and friendship.

Critic Reviews:

"Burke demonstrates impressive range, sensitivity and polish in these smaller-scale gems." (Publisher's Weekly)

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Title: Mist

Subtitle: A Story from 'Jesus Out to Sea'

Author: James Lee Burke

Narrator: Ron McLarty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-31-07

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In his moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast proves to be a versatile setting for Burke's stories, which cover the scope of the human experience from love and sex to domestic abuse to war and death and friendship.

Critic Reviews:

"Burke demonstrates impressive range, sensitivity and polish in these smaller-scale gems." (Publisher's Weekly)

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Title: Boomsday

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Christopher Buckley

Narrator: Janeane Garofalo

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-07

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Cassandra Devine, a straight-A student, was like any other 17-year-old Yale hopeful, until she was forced to join the Army because her father spent her tuition money on a dotcom start-up. Years later, Cassandra has become a Washington spin doctor and blogger who rails against the "Un-greatest" generation's mishandling of Social Security debt. When she learns that her father remarried and bought his dim-witted son's way into Yale, she suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75.

This proposal catches on with outraged citizens and a senator seeking the youth vote for his presidential bid. With the help of Washington's greatest PR strategist, Cassandra and the senator try to ride the issue of euthanasia to the White House. Their opposition includes the president, who's running for reelection; a pro-life preacher, who may have killed his mother; and of course, Baby Boomers.

Critic Reviews:

"This satire combines the serious and the ridiculous with dead-on aplomb." (The New York Times)

"The humor is wicked and the satire incisive." (Boston Herald)

Members Reviews:

Buckley channels a good deal of Jonathan Swift or William Gibson

Truer than today. If only today had that sense of humor. But maybe that's just what we need in today's wacko political world. For a comic writer, Buckley channels a good deal of Jonathan Swift or William Gibson, in looking at today's world, and extrapolating how much stranger it's likely to become. Soon!

Painfully close-to-reality satire

Christopher Buckley's humor is so close to real that it's sometimes hard to laugh -- but then, you do anyway. For anyone who follows politics -- and especially anyone who is still idealistic in the face of the creeping virus of unavoidable cynicism -- Buckley speaks for you. I find I want to compare him to Hiaasen, but it's an unjust comparison. Carl Hiaasen is comical and outrageous in his plot-lines and characterizations. When I read Hiaasen I feel like I do when I read Harry Potter. It's unreal in its bigness and broadness. Buckley is not like that. He is just a bit-beyond-the-completely-typical, which makes his work hysterically funny. Plus, it also flatters readers by intimating that they are "in on" something -- privy to a secret truth; the truth of how close he gets to reality without just writing current events or parody. Much like a very smart inside joke that you hoard for its delight and for the status if confers on you, if you get it.

Different premise. Who is going to pay for all ...

Different premise. Who is going to pay for all the increasing number of elderly. The young are going to get taxed and taxed. There is going to have to be a fundamental change. However no politician that values his job is going to do anything. Besides congress has their program for themselves and do not have to live with what the rest of us do. In case you aren't aware, look at all the perks that congress has, even if they serve 1 term, for the rest of their life.

Lighter side of satire

Boomsday is not a biting satire, but it is entertaining none the less. Mr. Buckley has written more subtle books, but his nuance of Washington life and intrigue is probably uncomfortably spot on. Too often we look at our national leaders as demigods, as opposed to people who lead lives very similar to our own.

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Title: Family Tree

Author: Barbara Delinsky

Narrator: Becket Royce

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-07

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The only way to repair the damage done is for Dana to track down the father she never knew and to explore the possibility of African American lineage in his family history. Dana's determination to discover the truth becomes a poignant journey back through her past and her husband's heritage that unearths secrets rooted in prejudice and fear.

Barbara Delinsky's Family Tree is an utterly unforgettable novel that asks penetrating questions about race, family, and the choices people make in times of crisis - choices that have profound consequences that can last for generations.

Critic Reviews:

"Delinsky gets the political and personal dynamics right." (Publishers Weekly)

"Delinsky delves deeper into the human heart and spirit with each new novel." (Cincinnati Enquirer)

Members Reviews:

Family Tree

This was a good book.Becket Royce did a nice job narrating.A baby is born to a white couple.The issue?The baby is not white.This leads to accusations and family revelations.I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher

Plain yet Entertaining

This would not be my first choice for a book pick. However, it is entertaining and will hold your interest.

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Title: Field of 13

Author: Dick Francis

Narrator: Tony Britton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-06

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Dick Francis has written 36 best selling novels, one autobiography, and one biography. With Field of 13, he turns his hand to the short story. The settings range from the national Hunt at Cheltenham, where a middle-aged owner falls in love with her jockey, to the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, where demon drink and wilting willpower take their toll.

©1999 Dick Francis (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd.

Members Reviews:

Another Dick Francis Classic

Another Dick Francis Classic. Great with a fast moving engaging plots in short story form, a page turner,a great companion for anyone.

rubbish

wouldn't recommend to anyone totally lost the plot would like my money back please Mr audible

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Title: The Time In Between

Author: David Bergen

Narrator: Anna Fields

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-27-06

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Ada and her brother, Jon, follow their missing father to Vietnam. Their search for him tears them apart in ways they never could have guessed, and Vietnam finds its way in. As the story shifts between Charles' and Ada's points of view, their journeys become increasingly colorful and complex. The suspense builds, dreamlike, to a paradoxical climax of revelation and obfuscation, love and grief.

This is a hauntingly beautiful story of family ties and human longing by the prize-winning, critically acclaimed Canadian author David Bergen.

Critic Reviews:

"Anna Fields' performance is brave." (AudioFile)

"With his thoughtful dialogue, Bergen makes the characters' heartache seep off the page." (Time)

"[Bergen] preserves the exquisiteness of the Vietnamese culture, lending a unique beauty to the story." (Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

Remains "In Between" to its End

There's promise . . . more promise . . . and then it's over. The piquancy that stirs the narrative to life never quite achieves poignance.

Five Stars

One of the best books I've ever read. Truly.

Life simply doesn't go the way you expect

David Bergen's The Time in Between sticks closely to life's meandering, unfathomable randomness and unknowability. Very few writers have the courage to put it down as such, preferring to develop a little definitive dramatic action with something resembling a wrap at the end. Not Bergen. It's just life, here. Nothing goes right. Nothing entirely makes sense. Some of the scenes leave you shaking your head, saying, "Really?" But then, yes, really. That is how things go. They don't go right. You're too late. You can't catch a corner. Your interests aren't, in fact, aligned with everyone else's.

Poor Charles Boatman and his family, struggling to figure it out. And failing, mostly. And that's life.

Bergen successfully gets it down on paper without making it incomprehensible or too depressing to read. An excellent effort. I'd give it four-and-a-half stars, but Amazon doesn't do halves, so four stars.

Sensitive, elegant, beautiful writing. Very highly recommended

Canadian novelist David Bergen's THE TIME IN BETWEEN is simply one of the most riveting, unputdownable books I have read in a long time. He writes in a starkly elegant style reminiscent of Hemingway. In fact, though there are few similarities, I kept rememberingA Farewell To Armsas I marveled my way through Bergen's book. Probably because this is a book about war and the long-lasting and far-reaching effects that war wreaks on its survivors and their families.

Charles Boatman was eighteen when he went to war in Vietnam. One moment in that war changed him. A instinctive trigger-pull that left him a tortured, guilt-ridden man for the rest of his life.

"He shot a young boy. The boy was standing in the doorway of a hut and he shot him. That's what he did ... he saw right away that it was a young boy and not a soldier ... they chased the remaining villagers out into the fields and called in an air strike. And everything disappeared. The boy that he had shot. The old woman that someone else had shot. All of that disappeared.

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Title: Angel's Rest

Author: Charles Davis

Narrator: Christian Rummel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-06

Publisher: Harlequin Books S.A.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 164 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Growing up in Virginia's Allegheny Mountains, 11-year-old Charlie York lives at the foot of an endless peak called Angel's Rest, a place his momma told him angels rested before coming down to help folks. In 1967 his town was a poor boy's paradise...until a shotgun blast killed Charlie's father and put his mother on trial for murder.

For mysterious reasons, his mother entrusts his care to an old black man named Lacy Albert Coe. Lacy tells simple stories about the good and the bad that compose life's sweetest music. But when Hollis Thrasher, a reclusive Korean War veteran, is linked to his father's death and Lacy is victimized by hate crimes, Charlie hears only silence. It's not until Charlie embarks on a dangerous midnight journey pitting him against his darkest fears that he finally hears his own song playing out.

In this remarkable debut, Charles Davis weaves together an unforgettable melody of a mother's love, a hero's return to the living, and a boy who discovers angels do exist.

Critic Reviews:

"A glorious mountain tale of love, hope, and redemption. I highly recommend this beautiful story." (Adriana Trigiani, author of Big Stone Gap)

Members Reviews:

A Good Listen

This was an good listen. The narrator was easy to listen to and the plot was engaging. The book ended with a bit of a whimper, rather than a bang, but I find a lot of authors seem to run out of steam near the end of a story. Worthwhile purchase.

Too sweet title for a seriously good book

What a strange book -- "strange", in the sense of unexpected and extraordinary.

I actually bought it some time ago, long enough that I'd forgotten what I expected from it, so I began listening with no preconceived ideas. That worked to my advantage.

At times, "Angel's Rest" echoes themes of "To Kill a Mockingbird" in its sensitivity to racial issues and toward people who live solitary lives. There's death and litigation, and a child narrator telling us how it was.

But 'Angel's Rest' is more of a page-turner. I actually cancelled an appointment so I could listen to the last hour. The main plot resolutions will probably be guessed by most readers, but not the nuances, and that's what makes it different.

I especially enjoyed the unusual red herrings the author threw in,like the "bratty kid" issue.

There's a point in the book in which most of us who are parents will probably be ready to tear our hair out over the antics of 11 year old "Charlie". Let's just say that up to now, I believed that the insufferable "Arch" -- teenage son of Goldie-The-Caterer from the Dianne Mott Davidson series -- held the world record for "most spoiled kid to appear in contemporary literature".

But "Charlie' outdoes 'Arch', several times over. Worst of all, in this book, that means he nearly brings down the whole household with him, not once, but several times over.

But ahhh. don't give up. It's so nice to be proven wrong once in a while.

And like Patricia Highsmith with her anti-hero 'Ripley', author Charles Davis makes us start pulling for the villains. Or maybe what we do is just change our minds about what a villain really is. Or isn't.

All in all, a thoroughly great listen. Not to be missed!

tremendously enjoyed

It was a great pleasure listening to this book.

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Title: High Society

Author: Ben Elton

Narrator: Rik Mayall

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-06

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The war on drugs has been lost but for want of the courage to face the fact that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast criminal network. From pop stars and princes to crack whores and street kids. From the Groucho Club toilets to the poppy fields of Afghanistan, we are all partners in crime. High Society is a story or rather a collection of interconnected stories that takes the reader on a hilarious, heart breaking, and terrifying journey through the kaleidoscope world that the law has created and from which the law offers no protection.

©2002 Ben Elton; (P)2002 Random House Audiobooks

Critic Reviews:

"A fix of high comedy from a writer who provokes almost as much as he entertains." (Daily Mail)

Members Reviews:

Top Class

Once again a smooth and gripping Ben Elton Story.Highly researched and completely believable.

The characters are just Top Drawer.

All brought together by a brilliant Rik Mayall.

Made a long boring drive to Grimsby most enjoyable..

class Act

I wanted to hear this title because the subject appealed to me on a political level. But even though this novel takes a good hard romp through the halls of power (be they in Westminster or a Birmingham brothel) the tragic and compelling human stories were interwoven so skillfully in this narrative that in the end, I cared more about the people than the issues.

Rik Mayall just nails it down to the shag rug. His accents and characterizations are convincing and enthralling. The best read audio book I've ever heard.

A laugh a minute from Ben Elton and Rik Mayall

Rik Mayall was a truly excellent choice to read this book and I found myself laughing not just at the great dialogue by Ben Elton but also by Rik Mayall's superb take on it. It's the combination of the writer and the narrator that really makes this wonderfully entertaining and if it doesn't have you laughing in short order I'd be surprised.

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Título: Manon

Autor: Prevost

Narrador: Santiago Munevar

Formato: Abridged

Duración: 3 hrs and 3 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 05-18-06

Editor: Yoyo USA, Inc

Categorías: Fiction, Contemporary

Resumen del editor:

This novel, although the author wanted it to be a moralizing book, caused a great scandal when it was published in the eighteenth century due to it's lurid portrait of a woman who only lives for pleasure and luxury, a concept which didn't have any literary antecedents at the time.