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ID: 296173

Title: Fallen

Author: David Maine

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:01:28

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-05

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Religious & Inspirational, Sagas

Summary:

A provocative epic of a story we know so well-or do we?

Once expelled from the Garden, Adam and Eve had to find their way past recriminations and bitterness to build a new life in a harsh land.

In Fallen, David Maine has drawn a convincing, enthralling portrait of a family-one driven (and riven) by familiar passions and jealousies. The result is a staggering achievement an intimate, hilarious, and utterly original telling of temptation and murder and of exile and loss.

Praise for The Preservationist:

'Inventive re-imagining of the Biblical flood tale for a 21 st-century audience.' - People

'An elegant, inventive book... [that] envisions the events in Noah's life with awe and realism.' - The New York Times

'A brilliant, kaleidoscopic analysis of the situation...this debut is a winner.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

'Author David Maine brings motive and inner dialogue to the story, and narrator Simon Vance brings those elements alive.' AudioFile Magazine

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ID: 103123

Title: Fever

Author: Sean Rowe

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-05

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Espionage

Summary:

In this blisteringly fast debut thriller - James M. Cain meets Elmore Leonard - hijacking a cruise ship is just the first step in one man's sprint to deliverance - or destruction.

Matt 'Loose Cannon' Shannon is an ex-FBI agent turned security chief for the world's largest cruise line. It's a career move that owes more to personal weaknesses than to his fondness for the Miami sun. In the novel's explosive opening, Shannon's stepbrother, Jack Fontana, puts his back against the wall. At a waterfront reunion, Fontana gives Shannon what looks like a game controller - and before he knows what's he's done, Shannon has sunken a freighter in Miami's shipping lane, and his fingerprints are on the device that sent the signal. Only once he's cornered does Shannon learns his stepbrother's real plan - a cruise ship heist that could make enough money to last their lifetimes. Fever is the story of Shannon's race to unravel the deadly labyrinth he's trapped in. With the help of a mysterious woman and his own instincts, he might find the one path that could allow him to survive.

'Dufris, an award-winning narrator with more than 200 audiobooks to his credit, transforms much of this unabridged production of Rowe's striking debut fiction into riveting sequences that come close to simulating a full-cast recording.' - Publishers Weekly

'I read a lot of books, hoping for one like Fever to come along.

Sean Rowe does just about everything right - think Ocean's Eleven meets Carl Hiaasen, except Fever is better than that.' - James Patterson

'Fever is a rock-steady, hard-edged thriller, elevated by humor and genuine humanity. A notable debut from Sean Rowe.' - George Pelecanos

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ID: 103124

Title: Secret Society of Demolition Writers

Author: Aimee Bender, Alice Sebold, Anna Quindlen, Benjamin Cheever, Chris Offutt, Elizabeth Mccracken, John Burnham Schwartz, Lauren Slater, Marc Parent, Michael Connelly, Rosie O'donnell, Sebastian Junger

Narrator: Alan Sklar, Ellen Archer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-05

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Essays & Anthologies

Summary:

What would you write if no one knew who you were?

In the spirit of the demolition derby, where drivers take heedless risks with reckless abandon, welcome to the first convocation of the Secret Society of Demolition Writers. Here is a one-of-a-kind collection by famous authors writing anonymously-and dangerously. With the usual concerns about reputations and renown cast aside, these twelve daredevils have each contributed an extreme, no-holds-barred unsigned story, each shining as brightly and urgently as hazard lights.

Unconventional and unapologetic, this publishing equivalent of a whodunit features an eclectic group of fictional characters, including a delusional schizophrenic narrator, an egg donor with second thoughts about her decision, a pharmacist who forms a weird crush on a woman who beat both of her parents to death, and a little girl who understands that an old safe is the threshold to another, ghostly, world. Equally diverse and surprising are the authors themselves: Aimee Bender, Benjamin Cheever, Michael Connelly, Sebastian Junger, Elizabeth McCracken, Rosie O'Donnell, Chris Offutt, Anna Quindlen, John Burnham Schwartz, Alice Sebold, Lauren Slater, and Marc Parent, the editor of the collection. Never before has such a wide-ranging and talented group of authors been assembled to such explosive and entertaining effect.

The Secret Society of Demolition Writers is an intriguing puzzle in itself, but it's also an important addition to the careers of some of our finest storytellers-even if we never really know who wrote what. Its boundary-smashing fiction offers exhilarating proof that for an artist, withholding your identity can mean gaining your freedom.

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ID: 198863

Title: Polar Shift

Author: Clive Cussler

Narrator: Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-05

Publisher: Penguin Audio

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

Summary:

The most exciting NUMA(r) Files novel yet.

Unabridged CD - 12 CDs, 13 hours

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ID: 198864

Title: Lost City

Author: Clive Cussler

Narrator: Len Cariou

Format: Abridged

Length: 06:08:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-05

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

The key to eternal life has been found beneath two thousand feet of icy water in an area known as the 'Lost City.' To a family of ruthless French arms dealers, the Lost City is the key to world domination. To Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team, and his colleague Joe Zavala, it may be their greatest—and deadliest—challenge of all.

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ID: 296177

Title: Controlled Burn: Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men

Author: Scott Wolven

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-05

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Action & Adventure

Summary:

Once or twice a decade, an unknown short-story writer blazes onto the literary scene with work that is thrilling and new. Scott Wolven is such a talent, and his raw, blistering tales of hard-bitten convicts, dodgy informers, and men running from the law make for 'the most exciting, authentic collection of short stories I have read in years,' says George Pelecanos.

Brooding, edgy, and sometimes violent, Controlled Burn's loosely linked stories are each in some way a distillation of hard time - spent either in prison, the backwoods of Vermont, or the badlands of the American West. Peopled by boxers, drunks, truck drivers, murderers, bounty hunters, drifters traveling under assumed names, and men whose luck ran out a thousand miles ago, these stories feel hard-won from life, and if they are moody and stark, so too are they filled with human longing.

Controlled Burn is divided into two sections: 'The Northeast Kingdom' and 'The Fugitive West.' In each, Scott Wolven reveals a broken world where there is no bottom left to hit. In the haunting 'Outside Work Detail,' convicts stoically dig graves for their fellow prisoners yet reserve their deepest grief for the senseless death of a deer. 'Crank' introduces Red Green, a maniacally brilliant addict who brews his own crystal meth in a backwoods lab, and whose high-energy antics inspire both cautious admiration and mortal fear in his business associates. In 'Ball Lightning Reported,' Red Green's ultimate fate is revealed. In 'Atomic Supernova,' a revenge-obsessed sheriff deputizes a known cop-killer to help him hunt down a counterfeiter and drug lord. The unexpectedly tender and heartbreaking 'The Copper Kings' concerns a father facing the dark truth behind his son's disappearance. And in 'Vigilance,' a hunted man struggles to escape his past, always yearning for an honorable yet perhaps unreachable future.

Powered by a spare, ruminative prose style that recalls the best of Denis Johnson and Thom Jones, Controlled Burn is an unforgettable debut.

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ID: 103115

Title: China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World

Author: Ted C. Fishman

Narrator: Alan Sklar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-05

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, History, Asia, Sales & Retail

Summary:

China today is visible everywhere - in the news, in the economic pressures battering America, in the workplace, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential, this dramatic account of china's growing dominance as an industrial super-power by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the global economic order has occurred - and why it already affects us all.

How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism? What does it mean that China now grows three times faster than the United States? That China uses 40 percent of the world's concrete and 25 percent of its steel? What is the global impact of 300 million rural Chinese walking off their farms and heading to the cities in the greatest migration in human history? Why do nearly all of the world's biggest companies now have large-scale operations in China? What does the corporate march into China mean for workers left behind in America, Europe, and the rest of the world?

Meanwhile, what makes China's emerging corporations so dangerously competitive? What could happen when China will be able to manufacture nearly everything - computers, cars, jumbo jets, and pharmaceuticals - that the United States and Europe can, at perhaps half the cost? How do these developments reach around the world and straight into the lives of all Americans?

These are ground-shaking questions, and China, Inc. provides answers.Veteran journalist and former commodities trader Ted C. Fishman paints a vivid picture of the megatrends radiating out of China. Fishman's account begins with the burgeoning output of China's vast low-cost factories and the swelling appetite of its 1.3 billion consumers, both of which are being driven by historically unprecedented infusions of foreign capital and technological know-how. Traveling through China's frenetic landscape of growth, Fishman visits the factories, markets, streets, stores, towns, and cities where the story of Chinese capitalism is being lived by one-fifth of all humanity. Fishman also draws on interviews with Chinese, American, and European workers, managers, and executives to show how China will force all of us to make big changes in how we think about ourselves as consumers, workers, citizens, and even as parents. The result is a richly engaging work of penetrating, up-to-the-minute reportage and brilliant analysis that will forever change how readers think about America's future.

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ID: 103116

Title: Devil of Nanking

Author: Mo Hayder

Narrator: Josephine Bailey, Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-05

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, War & Military

Summary:

With the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-chilling characters of Thomas Harris, Mo Hayder's The Devil of Nanking, takes the reader on an electrifying literary ride from the palatial apartments of yakuza kingpins to deep inside the secret history of one of the twentieth century's most brutal events: the Nanking Massacre.

A young Englishwoman obsessed with an indecipherable past, Grey comes to Tokyo seeking a lost piece of film footage of the notorious 1937 Nanking Massacre, footage some say never existed. Only one man can help Grey. A survivor of the massacre, he is now a visiting professor at a university in Tokyo. But he will have nothing to do with her. So Grey accepts a job in an upmarket nightspot, where a certain gangster may be the key to gaining the professor's trust. An old man in a wheelchair surrounded by a terrifying entourage, the gangster is rumored to rely on a mysterious elixir for his continued health.

Taut, gritty, sexy, and harrowing, The Devil of Nanking is an incomparable literary thriller set in one of the world's most fascinating cities-Tokyo-from an internationally best-selling author.

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ID: 103121

Title: Lord Vishnu's Love Handles: A Spy Novel (Sort Of)

Author: Will Clarke

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-05

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, General, Humor

Summary:

Lord Vishnu's Love Handles is the story of a man who is teetering on the edge of financial ruin and insanity until a couple of secret agents teach him what it really means to lose his mind.

Travis Anderson has a psychic gift. Or so he thinks. So far he's milked his premonitions only to acquire an upper-middle-class lifestyle - pretty wife, big house, and a shiny Range Rover - without having to make any real effort. But recent visions threaten his yuppie contentment. Haunted by omens of impending cancers, stillborn babies, and personal train wrecks, he is compelled to make a series of inaccurate and horrifying prophecies that humiliate him in front of his fellow country club members. The IRS gets Travis's number, too, demanding an audit of his sloppy bookkeeping.

Drowning in mounting financial problems and apparent mental illness, Travis tries booze, pills, even golf to stay afloat, but nothing works. His wife and friends are forced to stage an intervention. Travis is in danger of losing his family, his career, and ultimately, his sanity. That is, until he meets a Hindu holy man in rehab who claims to be the final incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Suddenly, the tragically shallow Travis is saddled with the responsibility of bettering mankind and saving the world.

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ID: 296193

Title: Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg--And Why It Failed

Author: Tom Carhart

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-05

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, North America, Military, Philosophy

Summary:

A fascinating narrative-and a bold new thesis in the study of the Civil War-that suggests Robert E. Lee had a heretofore undiscovered strategy at Gettysburg that, if successful, could have crushed the Union forces and changed the outcome of the war.

The Battle of Gettysburg is the pivotal moment when the Union forces repelled perhaps America's greatest commander-the brilliant Robert E. Lee, who had already thrashed a long line of Federal opponents-just as he was poised at the back door of Washington, D.C. It is the moment in which the fortunes of Lee, Lincoln, the Confederacy, and the Union hung precariously in the balance.

Conventional wisdom has held to date, almost without exception, that on the third day of the battle, Lee made one profoundly wrong decision. But how do we reconcile Lee the high-risk warrior with Lee the general who launched 'Pickett's Charge,' employing only a fifth of his total forces, across an open field, up a hill, against the heart of the Union defenses? Most history books have reported that Lee just had one very bad day. But there is much more to the story, which Tom Carhart addresses for the first time.

With meticulous detail and startling clarity, Carhart revisits the historic battles Lee taught at West Point and believed were the essential lessons in the art of war-the victories of Napoleon at Austerlitz, Frederick the Great at Leuthen, and Hannibal at Cannae-and reveals what they can tell us about Lee's real strategy. What Carhart finds will thrill all students of history: Lee's plan for an electrifying rear assault by Jeb Stuart that, combined with the frontal assault, could have broken the Union forces in half. Only in the final hours of the battle was the attack reversed through the daring of an unproven young general-George Armstrong Custer.

Lost Triumph will be one of the most captivating and controversial history books of the season.

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