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ID: 115595

Title: Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

Author: John O'Connor, Mark Felt

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:22:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-30-06

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, History & Culture

Summary:

In 1974, Mark Felt was given the code name 'Deep Throat' and shared intelligence on the Watergate break-in with a young reporter from the Washington Post named Bob Woodward. Thus began the greatest political scandal in the twentieth century, which would besmirch an entire administration and bring down a presidency.

A patriotic man, Felt only revealed his role in our national history as he neared the end of his

life. Based on his personal recollections, Mark Felt chronicles his FBI career, from the end of the

great American crime wave and World War II to the culture wars of the 1960s and his penetration

of the Weather Underground; provides rich historical and personal context for his role in the

Watergate scandal; and depicts how he came to feel that the FBI needed a 'Lone Ranger' to

protect it from White House corruption.

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ID: 296164

Title: Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women and Rivalry

Author: Susan Shapiro Barash

Narrator: Shelly Frasier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:35:16

Language: English

Release date: 03-17-06

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

Tripping the Prom Queen is an investigation of the dark secret of female friendships-the deep vein of female rivalry. Based on interviews with women across the social spectrum, Susan Shapiro Barash has exploded the myth that women are generally supportive of one another. In fact, the competition between women is more vicious precisely because it is covert. She tells us: Why women can't and won't admit to rivalry. How women are trained from an early age to compete with one another. In which areas women most heatedly compete. How rivalry is different among women than among men. The differences between competition, envy, and jealousy. When competition is healthy and when it isn't. Why women find it irresistible to trip the prom queen. Useful strategies to stop the competition and forge a new kind of relationship with other women. Tripping the Prom Queen is an engrossing exploration of bad behavior that all women will identify with, and a beacon of hope for a better, more promising future.

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ID: 295701

Title: World to Come

Author: Dara Horn

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:15:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-08-06

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, General

Summary:

An intoxicating combination of mystery, spirituality, redemption, piety, and passion, The World To Come is Dara Horn's follow-up to her breakout, critically acclaimed debut novel In the Image. Using a real-life art heist as her starting point, Horn traces the life and times of several characters, including Russian-born artist Marc Chagall and the New Jersey–based Ziskind family.

Benjamin Ziskind, a former child prodigy, now spends his days writing questions for a television trivia show. After Ben's twin sister, Sara, forces him to attend a singles cocktail party at a Jewish museum, Ben spots Over Vitebsk, a Chagall sketch that once hung in the twins' childhood home. Convinced the painting was stolen from his family, Ben steals the work of art and enlists Sara to create a forgery to replace it. While trying to evade the police, Ben attempts to find the truth of how the painting got to the museum.

From a Jewish orphanage in 1920s Soviet Russia where Marc Chagall brought art to orphaned Jewish boys, to a junior high school in Newark, New Jersey, with a stop in the jungles of Da Nang, Vietnam, Horn weaves a story of mystery, romance, folklore, history and theology into a spellbinding modern tale. Richly satisfying and utterly unique, her novel opens the door to 'the world to come'-not life after death, but the world we create through our actions right now.

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ID: 103142

Title: Holmes on the Range

Author: Steve Hockensmith

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-06

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western

Summary:

1893 is a tough year in Montana, and any job is a good job. When Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer sign on as ranch hands at the secretive Bar-VR cattle spread, they're not expecting much more than hard work, bad pay, and a comfortable campfire around which they can enjoy their favorite pastime: scouring Harper's Weekly for stories about the famous Sherlock Holmes.

When another ranch hand turns up in an outhouse with a bullet in his brain, Old Red sees the perfect opportunity to put his Holmes-inspired detective talents to work and solve the case. Big Red, like it or not (and mostly he does not), is along for the wild ride in this clever, compelling, and completely one-of-a-kind mystery.

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ID: 103140

Title: Thin Place

Author: Kathryn Davis

Narrator: Shelly Frasier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:01:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-15-06

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

The prize-winning author of Versailles tells the story of a small New England village unsettled by a young girl's unearthly gift. In Varennes, a town near the Canadian border, three girls come across the body of a dead man on the local lake's beach. Two of them run to get help, but twelve-year-old Mees Kipp stays with the body and somehow, inexplicably, brings it back to life. Her mysterious gift is at the center of this haunting and transcendent novel. The Thin Place is the story of these girls, their town, and the worldly and otherworldly forces that come into play there over one summer. Writing at the peak of her powers, Kathryn Davis draws on commonplace forms-police blotters, garden almanacs, Sunday sermons, horoscopes, and diaries-to convey the rich rhythms of life in Varennes. From the ladies in the old-folks' home to trappers, lawyers, teachers, ministers, drug addicts-even the dogs and cats, beavers and bears-she peoples this novel with astonishingly vivid beings. The extraordinary comes to visit an ordinary town.

'A delightful, surprise-filled narrative: Davis's best yet.'-Kirkus Review(starred review)

'Cosmic in her vision, provocative and comic in her storytelling, Kathryn Davis draws on sources as diverse as quantum physics and tales of saints and miracles and makes place a key element in her exploratory fiction.'-Booklist (starred review)

'Never has Davis' prose seemed more effortless...The Thin Place is a bright, shimmering book.'-Chicago Sun-Times

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ID: 103136

Title: Company

Author: Max Barry

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-06

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General, Humor

Summary:

Nestled among Seattle's skyscrapers, The Zephyr Holdings Building is a bleak rectangle topped by an orange-and-black logo that gives no hint of Zephyr's business. Lack of clarity, it turns out, is Zephyr's defining characteristic. The floors are numbered in reverse. No one has ever seen the CEO or glimpsed his office on the first (i.e., top) floor. Yet every day people clip on their ID tags, file into the building, sit at their desks, and hope that they're not about to be outsourced.

Stephen Jones, a young recruit with shoes so new they squeak, reports for his first day in the Training Sales Department and finds it gripped by a crisis involving the theft of a donut. In short order, the guilty party is identified and banished from the premises and Stephen is promoted from assistant to sales rep. He does his best to fit in with his fellow workers-among them a gorgeous receptionist who earns more than anyone else, and a sales rep who's so emotionally involved with her job that she uses relationship books as sales manuals-but Stephen is nagged by a feeling that the company is hiding something. Something that explains why when people are fired, they are never heard from again; why every manager has a copy of the Omega Management System; and, most of all, why nobody in the company knows what it does.

'Always entertaining, Dufris reads this story of corporate revolt with comic timing and tongue firmly planted in cheek, making it an ideal audiobook to enjoy on one's way to work.' -AudioFile

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ID: 133229

Title: Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Author: Washington Irving

Narrator: Bobbie Frohman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:05:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-06

Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorks

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

Washington Irving's two most famous stories are combined here. One tells of Rip Van Winkle who escaped the dreadful life of a hen-pecked husband by magical means and the other of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman on their midnight ride. Experience the fright of poor Ichabod when assailed by the headless horseman and laugh at poor Rip who spends a lot of time sleeping to try to escape the headache of a nagging and ungrateful wife.

AUTHOR

Washington Irving (1783-1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, magazine editor and diplomat.

Born in Manhattan at the end of the American Revolution, he was named for George Washington, whom he met as a child of six. As a teenager, Irving lived further upstate and became familiar with the surroundings that provided the setting for his best known works, ""Rip Van Winkle"" and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"""

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ID: 129536

Title: Daisy Miller

Author: Henry James

Narrator: Bobbie Frohman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:29:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-06

Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Henry James' signature theme, the American abroad, centers on a beautiful but flawed daughter of a wealthy Schenectady industrialist. Daisy Miller travels through Europe with her doting, vapid mother and rambunctious young brother. Daisy falls for the sophisticated Mr. Winterbourne, another expatriate, but their romance is threatened by Daisy's behavior. The mores and traditional social customs were something Daisy managed to ignore and caused more than a few eyebrows to be raised throwing her reputation into question. The story has a tragic and unexpected ending.

AUTHOR

Henry James (1843-1916) was an American novelist, a 19th century master of literary realism, a movement to portray ordinary lives and situations devoid of romanticism or stylization.

Born in Manhattan to a prominent family, Henry James traveled extensively, and eventually settled in England. The cultural differences between Americans and Europeans were a favorite subject of his.

COMMENTARY

Reviews for Alcazar AudioWorks' production of Daisy Miller

""This early work by James, one of his first ""American abroad"" stories, was his first real success. Telling the story of an American girl, the eponymous character, confronted with Europe's mores and customs, James concisely draws powerful characters confronting their preconceptions."" © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: FEB/ MAR 08]

Quotes about Daisy Miller

""Mr. Henry James...has given us more, and more finely, yet strongly, differenced heroines than any novelist of his time, but at the mention of his name a single creation of his will come so prominently to mind that Daisy Miller will for the moment make us forget all her sisters."" (William Dean Howells, Heroines of Fiction)

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ID: 131976

Title: King Arthur and His Knights

Author: Howard Pyle

Narrator: David Thorn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:32:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-06

Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorks

Genres: Kids, Action & Adventure, Classics, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

Howard Pyle (who also wrote The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood) weaves the tales of chivalrous Knights, the magic sword of Excalibur, the Magician Merlin the Wise, and the legendary Arthur, later to become King of Britain. Pyle describes bouts of jousting, and knightly jealousies played out in grand style. Even in our present day, these stories last and challenge us to be our best, truthful, brave, and always wanting to right wrongs to those who cannot speak up for themselves.

Table of Contents:

Book One: The Book of King Arthur

Part I: The Winning of Kinghood

Chapter 01: How Sir Kay did Combat in a Great Tournament at London Town and of How He Break His Sword. Likewise, How Arthur Found a New Sword For Him

Chapter 02: How Arthur Twice Performed the Miracle of the Sword Before Sir Ector and of How His Birthright Was Discovered Unto Him

Chapter 03: How Several Kings and High Dukes Assayed to Draw the Sword Out of the Anvil and How They Failed. Likewise How Arthur Made the Assay and Succeeded Therein

Part II: The Winning of a Sword

Chapter 01: How There Came a Certain Wounded Knight Unto the Court of King Arthur, How a Young Knight of the King's Court Sought To Avenge Him and Failed and How the King Thereupon Took That Assay Upon Himself

Chapter 02: How King Arthur Fought With the Sable Knight and How He Was Sorely Wounded. Likewise How Merlin Brought Him Safe Away From the Field of Batttle

Chapter 03: How King Arthur Found a Noble Sword In a Very Wonderful Manner. And How He Again Fought With It and Won That Battle

Part III: The Winning of a Queen

Chapter 01: How King Arthur Went to Tintagalon with Four of His Court, and How He Disguised Himself for a Certain Purpose

Chapter 02: How King Ryence Came to Cameliard and How King Arthur Fought With the Duke of North Umber

Chapter 03: How King Arthur Encountered Four Knights and of What Befell Thereby

Chapter 04: How the Four Knights Served the Lady Guinevere

Chapter 05: How King Arthur Overcame the Enemies of King Leodegrance, and How His Royalty Was Proclaimed

Chapter 06: How King Arthur Was Wedded in Royal State and How the Round Table Was Established

Book Two: The Book of Three Worthies

Part I - The Story of Merlin

Chapter 01: How Queen Morgana le Fay Meditated Evil Against King Arthur and How She Sent a Damsel Beguile the Enchanter, Merlin

Chapter 02: How Merlin Journeyed With Vivien Unto the Valley of Foyousness and How He Builded for Her a Castle at That Place.

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ID: 175370

Title: Fifty Famous Stories Retold

Author: James Baldwin

Narrator: Bobbie Frohman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:26:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-06

Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorks

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

Fifty legendary stories of heroism are retold in a short form for young people. Baldwin's tales tell of valor, bravery, and kindness as well as high adventure.

Fifty Famous Stories Retold include:

1. King Alfred and the Cakes

2. King Alfred and the Beggar

3. King Canute of the Seashore

4. The Sons of William the Conqueror

5. The White Ship

6. King John and the Abbot

7. The Story of Robin Hood

8. Bruce and the Spider

9. The Black Douglas

10. The Three Men of Gotham

11. Other Wise Men of Gotham

12. The Miller of the Dee

13. Sir Philip Sidney

14. Ungrateful Soldier

15. Sir Humphrey Gilbert

16. Sir Walter Raleigh

17. Pocahontas

18. George Washington and His Hatchet

19. Grace Darling

20. The Story of William Tell

21. Arnold Winkelreid

22. The Bell of Atre

23. How Napoleon Crossed the Alps

24. The Story of Cininnatus

25. The Story of Regulus

26. Cornelia's Jewels

27. Androclus and the Lion

28. Horatius at the Bridge

29. Julius Caesar

30. The Sword of Damocles

31. Damon and Pythias

32. A Laconic Answer

33. The Ungrateful Guest

34. Alexander and Bucephalus

35. Diogenes the Wise Man

36. The Brave Three Hundred

37. Socrates and His House

38. The King and His Hawk

39. Doctor Goldsmith

40. The Kingdoms

41. The Barmecide Feast

42. The Endless Tale

43. The Blind Men and the Elephant

44. Maximilian and the Goose Boy

45. The Inchcape Rock

46. Whittington and His Cat

47. Casabianca

48. Antonio Canova

49. Picciola

50. Mignon

AUTHOR

James Baldwin (1841 - 1925) was a pioneer of primary education, a teacher for many years and eventually an administrator and finally Editor-in-Chief of the American Book Company, specializing in educational text.

James Baldwin's lasting fame is for the children's literature he wrote, over 50 books, selling in the millions.

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