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ID: 61991

Title: Who Shot Goldilocks?

Author: William D. Rutherford

Narrator: Bryan Earl

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:48:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-06

Publisher: Big Happy Family Audio

Genres: Business & Economics

Summary:

In WHO SHOT GOLDILOCKS? William D. Rutherford outlines in detail the economic and policy decisions that helped create the greatest generation of wealth in American history ' and the incredible actions that ultimately destroyed it. WHO SHOT GOLDILOCKS? presents a clear-eyed view of the inner workings of the American economy, explains how policy decisions affecting millions are made, and shows how the people responsible for maintaining the course of the economy failed.

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ID: 133231

Title: Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Author: Howard Pyle

Narrator: David Thorn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-06

Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorks

Genres: Kids, Action & Adventure, Classics

Summary:

Howard Pyle's exciting and hilarious tales of Robin Hood and his merry band of Outlaws who reigned over Sherwood Forest doing many good deeds for the poor, and deserved misdeeds for the pompous and haughty rich.

Table of Contents:

Author's Preface

Chapter 01: How Robin Hood Came to Be an Outlaw

Chapter 02: Robin Hood and the Tinker

Chapter 03: The Shooting Match at Nottingham Town

Chapter 04: Will Stutely Rescued by His Companions

Chapter 05: Robin Hood Turns Butcher

Chapter 06: Little John Goes to Nottingham Fair

Chapter 07: How Little John Lived at the Sheriff's

Chapter 08: Little John and the Tanner of Blyth

Chapter 09: Robin Hood and Will Scarlet

Chapter 10: The Adventure with Midge the Miller's Son

Chapter 11: Robin Hood and Allan a Dale

Chapter 12: Robin Hood Seeks the Curtal Friar

Chapter 13: Robin Hood Compasses a Marriage

Chapter 14: Robin Hood Aids a Sorrowful Knight

Chapter 15: How Sir Richard of the Lea Paid His Debts

Chapter 16: Little John Turns Barefoot Friar

Chapter 17: Robin Hood Turns Beggar

Chapter 18: Robin Hood Shoots Before Queen Eleanor

Chapter 19: The Chase of Robin Hood

Chapter 20: Robin Hood and Guy of Gisbourne

Chapter 21: King Richard Comes to Sherwood Forest

Epilogue

AUTHOR

Howard Pyle was born on March 5, 1853 in Wilmington, Delaware. From the time he was a very small boy he loved pictures, especially the pictures in storybooks. Among his favorites were Grimm's German Fairy Tales and Arabian Nights. At the age of twenty-one, Pyle began to contribute illustrations and fables to St. Nicholas magazine and later went on to write and illustrate books for children. His first was The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood in 1883. Many more books followed, including Pepper and Salt; or, Seasoning for Young Folk, Otto of the Silver Hand, Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, and The Story of King Arthur and His Knights. He also taught illustration at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and later set up his own art school in Wilmington. He died on November 9, 1911, in Florence, Italy.-Amazon.com

COMMENTARY

Reviews for Alcazar AudioWorks' production of The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Narrator David Thorn breathes fresh life into the classic tales of Robin Hood in this frolic through Sherwood Forest. A faithful rendition of his noble deeds displays the robber's timeless appeal, overcoming some archaic language and countless references to ale. The songs and ballads, ably performed by Thorn, add to the production's merit. Individual exploits within this extensive audiobook create plenty of stopping places, as listeners meander leisurely through medieval England. Thorn's booming voice chronicles the excitement of archery matches and skirmishes with the Sheriff of Nottingham, which make Robin Hood a perennial favorite with adventure lovers. Despite an unassuming package, this audiobook is a stirring retelling of a well-loved story. C.A. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine [Published: JUN/ JUL 07]

Jolly good

Having read, listened to, and viewed multiple versions of the Robin Hood story, this is, to me, the jolliest version. It must be the writing that was used for the Errol Flynn movie, Robin and Marion, and many others since. However, this reading is the best so far. Fun adventures, well told, and well read.

Listener Review - Audible.com

Good voices. Great pacing.

Our kids (ages 6 up to 14) enjoyed this, asking for it in the car, snagging the Garmin Nuvi to listen in the house.

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ID: 129548

Title: Mystery of Edwin Drood

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: David Thorn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:54:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-06

Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

Published after his death, Dickens brilliantly brings to life a broad cast of colorful characters in the never solved mysterious disappearance of one Edwin Drood, all set in the rural hamlet of Cloisterham around the Cathedral close.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is Charles Dickens's brilliant contribution to the field of crime and detection. In fact, the novel is even more of a mystery than Dickens himself intended, for he died before completing it, making it a favorite of literary detectives.

Against a background of opium dens, nocturnal graveyard visits, and moldering monastic crypts, Dickens weaves a tightly knit plot centered on the ominous disappearance of young Edwin Drood. Suspected of foul murder are John Jasper, a drug-addicted choir-master who hungers after Drood's fiancée, and Neville Landless, a Ceylonese who had previously quarreled violently with the missing man. With dark, brooding atmosphere and masterful characterization, Dickens is at the height of his powers in this final work.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 01: The Dawn

Chapter 02: A Dean, and a Chapter Also

Chapter 03: The Nuns' House

Chapter 04: Mr. Sapsea

Chapter 05: Mr. Durdles and Friend

Chapter 06: Philanthropy in Minor Canon Corner

Chapter 07: More Confidences Than One

Chapter 08: Daggers Drawn

Chapter 09: Birds in the Bush

Chapter 10: Smoothing the Way

Chapter 11: A Picture And A Ring

Chapter 12: A Night With Durdles

Chapter 13: Both at Their Best

Chapter 14: When Shall These Three Meet Again?

Chapter 15: Impeached

Chapter 16: Devoted

Chapter 17: Philanthropy, Professional and Unprofessional

Chapter 18: A Settler in Cloisterham

Chapter 19: Shadow on the Sun-Dial

Chapter 20: A Flight

Chapter 21: A Recognition

Chapter 22: A Gritty State of Things Comes On

Chapter 23: The Dawn Again

AUTHOR

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Landport, Portsmouth, England, the second of eight children in a family continually plagued by debt. A legacy brought release from the nightmare of debtors' prison and child labor and afforded him a few years of formal schooling. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his early writings brought him the amazing success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. He was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters.

COMMENTARY

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David Thorn reads Dickens's last, incomplete, novel, a dark romance involving a disappearance and possible murder, with a variety of voices and accents worthy of a multicast performance and an extraordinary range of color and expression. His reading, complex but neither forced nor affected, is both intimate and vivid, enlivening passages that might have been dull. One quibble: Some voices don't match Dickens's description. Thorn attempts the audacious tactic of maturing Drood and his betrothed, Rosa, by subtly altering their voices over time. He miscalculates only in starting them too callow and silly; by the time the change comes (and it succeeds remarkably), it's too little too late. A pity this is only a fragment. W.M. 2006 Audie Award Finalist © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine [Published: FEB/ MAR 06]

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ID: 133260

Title: Understood Betsy

Author: Dorothy Canfield

Narrator: Bobbie Frohman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:52:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-06

Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorks

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

Elizabeth Ann was orphaned at an early age and raised by her maiden aunts in the busy city. Sudden illness forces the aunts to send Betsy to other relatives, The Putnams, who live in the country on a farm. Betsy learns all about the farm and making butter and applesauce and dearly loves her new life. When one of the aunts comes back and wants to take Betsy back to the city. . . such a dilemma!

Children can readily relate to Betsy who is a real girl in a real world where fortune seems to direct her life. She so loves being on the farm and doing all the things a farm girl does, including going to school. When fate again intervenes and tries to take her away from the life she loves, some manner of common sense hitcomes into play and Betsy, though torn, bounds into another day of farmlife, full of caring love for all she comes in contact with, and grows into a beautiful young lady.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 01. Aunt Harriet Has a Cough

Chapter 02. Betsy Holds the Reins

Chapter 03. A Short Morning

Chapter 04. Betsy Goes to School

Chapter 05. What Grade is Betsy?

Chapter 06. If You Don't Like Conversation in a Book Skip this Chapter!

Chapter 07. Elizabeth Ann Fails in an Examination

Chapter 08. Betsy Starts a Sewing Society

Chapter 09. The New Clothes Fail

Chapter 10. Betsy Has a Birthday

Chapter 11. ""Understood Aunt Frances""

AUTHOR

Dorothy Canfield

Dorothea Frances Canfield (1879-1958) was an American author and both an child and adult educational activist. Canfield worked closely with Maria Monterssori in Italy, and was greatly influential in promoting education in the United States.

Dorothy Canfield was born in Kansas, but her family traveled as her father's academic career progressed, he eventually became president of Ohio State University. Canfield settled in Vermont with her husband and children, and continued writing professionally.

Understood Betsy, her best known work, takes place in a Montessori-style schoolhouse, expressing her educational philosphy, in the guise of an entertaining children's story.

COMMENTARY

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Understood Betsy stands near the top of the list of our favorite read-alouds, and so I must admit it was with mingled anticipation and skepticism that we approached this book-on-CD set.

It had one thing in its favor, right away - the word ""unabridged"" on the cover. But could the reader do it justice?

The answer is a resounding, ""Yes!""

Alcazar AudioWorks has done a marvelous job of bringing Understood Betsy to CD. This CD set was an instant success at our house, from the cheerful man who introduces the book in general and each chapter in particular, to the charming music between chapters (our middle daughter just came into the room, especially to say, ""I like that music!"") to the magic of Bobbie Frohman's reading, bringing the story to life and giving each character an individual voice.

Understood Betsy is the story of Elizabeth Ann, an orphan who is torn from the only home she's known, from the tender care of her maiden aunts in the city.

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ID: 103134

Title: Rasputin's Daughter

Author: Robert Alexander

Narrator: Josephine Bailey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-06

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Espionage

Summary:

With the same riveting historical narrative that made The Kitchen Boy a national bestseller and a book club favorite, Robert Alexander returns to revolutionary Russia for the harrowing tale of Rasputin's final days as told by his youthful and bold daughter, Maria. Interrogated by the Provisional Government on the details of her father's death, Maria vividly recounts a politically tumultuous Russia, where Rasputin's powerful influence over the throne are unsettling to all levels of society, and the threats to his life are no secret.

With vast conspiracies mounting against his father, Maria must struggle with the discovery of Rasputin's true nature-his unbridled carnal appetites, mysterious relationship with the Empress, rumors of involvement in secret religious cults-to save her father from his murderers. Swept away in a plot much larger than the death of one man, Maria fmds herself on the cusp of the Russian Revolution itself. With Rasputin's Daughter, Robert Alexander once again delivers an imaginative and compelling story, fashioned from one of history's most fascinating periods that, until now, has been virtually unexplored in fiction.

'The combination of Alexander's research and his rich characterizations produces an engaging historical fiction that offers a Rasputin who is neither beast nor saint, but merely, compellingly human.'-Publishers Weekly

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ID: 296166

Title: Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son

Author: Peter Manseau

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:00:31

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-05

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, Christianity, Religious & Inspirational

Summary:

The 1950s was a boom time for the Catholic Church in America, with large families of devout members providing at least one son or daughter for a life of religious service. Boston was at the epicenter of this explosion, and Bill Manseau and Mary Doherty - two eager young parishioners from different towns - became part of a new breed of clergy, eschewing the comforts of homey parishes and choosing instead to minister to the inner-city poor. Peter Manseau's riveting evocation of his parents' parallel childhoods, their similar callings, their experiences in the seminary and convent, and how they met while tending to the homeless of Roxbury during the riot-prone 1960s is a page-turning meditation on the effect that love can have on profound faith.

Once married, the Manseaus continued to fight for Father Bill's right to serve the church as a priest, and it was into this situation that Peter and his siblings were born and raised to be good Catholics while they witnessed their father's personal conflict with the church's hierarchy. A multigenerational tale of spirituality, Vows also charts Peter's own calling, one which he tried to deny even as he felt compelled to consider the monastic life, toying with the idea of continuing a family tradition that stretches back over 300 years of Irish and French Catholic priests and nuns.

It is also in Peter's deft hands that we learn about a culture and a religion that has shaped so much of American life, affected generations of true believers, and withstood great turmoil. Vows is a compelling tale of one family's unshakable faith that to be called is to serve, however high the cost may be.

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ID: 296165

Title: My Hero: Extraordinary People on the Heroes Who Inspire Them

Author: The My Hero Project

Narrator: Alan Sklar, Ellen Archer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:25:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-05

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Self Development, Management & Leadership, Health & Wellness

Summary:

In the tradition of Marlo Thomas's The Right Words at the Right Time, My Hero is a stunning collection of essays by American heroes-including Michael J. Fox, Senator John McCain, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, astronaut John Glenn-about their heroes, inspiring examples of the best that we can be.

In My Hero, some of the most prominent heroes and leaders of our time will share-in their own words-their thoughts and stories about the people who have been the greatest source of strength and inspiration to them. In these uncertain times, these stories about the extraordinary people whose words and deeds made an indelible impression will serve as welcome beacons.

Find out from Michael J. Fox what sort of career woman would work tirelessly for years only to toss aside the spectacular profession she'd worked so hard and so long to achieve to run his foundation.

How did Dana Reeve come to find such grit and grace when her fairy tale prince was thrown from his real-life steed, paralyzed from the neck down?

What could Nelson Mandela possibly have in common with a happy little whale named Baby Beluga, the whimsical creation of songwriter Raffi?

How did Stan O'Neal, the grandson of a former slave, manage to become Chairman, President, and CEO of Merrill Lynch?

A book for young and old alike, My Hero is about the values that live in us all. It is a book that will inspire us to reach our own potential.

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ID: 296171

Title: Flying Through Midnight: A Pilot's Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions Over Laos During the Vietnam War

Author: John T. Halliday

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-05

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Military

Summary:

A Pilot's Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions Over Laos During the Vietnam War

Like Jarhead, We Were Soldiers Once..., and Young, John T. Halliday's combat memoir is gripping, novelistic, and startlingly candid, taking readers through the devastating trials and hard-won victories of flying in the Vietnam War.

The year is 1970, and John T. Halliday has just landed in the middle of the Vietnam War, primed to begin his assignment with the 606 Special Operations Squadron. But there's a catch: He's stationed in a kind of no-man's-land. No one on his base flies with ID, patches, or rank. Even as Richard Nixon firmly denies reporters' charges that the U.S. has forces in Laos, Halliday realizes that from his base in Thailand, he will be flying top-secret black ops night missions over the Laotian Ho Chi Minh Trail.

A naive yet thoughtful twenty-four-year-old, Halliday is utterly unprepared for the horrors of war. On his first mission, Halliday's aircraft dodges more than a thousand anti-aircraft shells. Nothing is as he expected-not the operations, not the way his shell-shocked fellow pilots look and act, and certainly not the squadron's daredevil, seat-of-one's-pants approach to piloting. But before long, Halliday has become one of those seasoned and shell-shocked pilots and finds himself in a desperate search for a way to elude certain death.

A powerhouse fusion of pathos and humor, brutal realism and intimate reflection, Flying Through Midnight is a landmark contribution to Vietnam War literature, revealing previously top-secret intelligence on the 606' s night missions. Fast-paced, thrilling, and bitingly intelligent, Halliday's writing illuminates it all: the heart-pounding air battles, the close friendships, the crippling fear, and the astonishing final escape that made the telling of it possible.

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ID: 160247

Title: King of the Mild Frontier

Author: Chris Crutcher

Narrator: Chris Crutcher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-13-05

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, Biography & Memoir, Tough Topics

Summary:

Do You Know:

•A good reason to be phobic about oysters and olives?

•That you can step inside a roaring coal furnace and feet cool?

•That Jesus had an older brother?

•How shutting your mouth can help you avoid brain surgery?

•How to avoid cow-pies during your baptism?

•How to survive in the winter wilderness with only a fishing pole and a sausage?

Chris Crutcher

knows the answers to these

things and more.

And once you have read about Chris Crutcher's life as a dateless, broken-toothed, scabbed-over, God-fearing dweeb, and once you have contemplated his ascension to the buckskin-upholstered throne of the King of the Mild Frontier, you will close this book, close your eyes and hold it to your chest, and say, "I, too, can be an author."

Hell, anyone can.

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ID: 201214

Title: Doctor's Wife

Author: Elizabeth Brundage

Narrator: Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:50:24

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-05

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

So begins The Doctor’s Wife, a stunning debut novel about four people and the cataclysmic intersection of their lives. Michael is a rising OB/GYN at a prominent private practice in Albany, New York; he also moonlights at a local women’s health clinic. But Annie, his wife, has become tired of her workaholic husband’s absences, and the soccer-mom lifestyle has worn thin. She begins a passionate love affair with bad-boy, fading celebrity painter Simon Haas—an affair that quickly goes awry when Simon’s wife Lydia, who is also the model upon whom he built his career, discovers the truth. Abortion, local evangelism, marital disenchantment, and the rifts of social class: Brundage takes on the fault lines of our era with a deft hand.

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