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ID: 54130

Title: Illuminata: Prayers for Everyday Life

Author: Marianne Williamson

Narrator: Marianne Williamson

Format: Abridged

Length: 1:12:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-08

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Prayer, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Marianne Williamson's bestselling A Return to Love ended with a prayer in which she asked God to help us "find our way home, from the pain to peace, from fear to love, from hell to Heaven." Now, in this stunning new collection of thoughts, prayers, and rites of passage, Marianne Williamson returns to prayer.

Prayer is practical, Williamson tells us. "To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living." Illuminata brings prayer into our daily lives, with prayers on topics from releasing anger to finding forgiveness, from finding great love to achieving intimacy. There are prayers for couples, for parents, and for children; prayers to mend broken relationships and prayers to overcome obsessive and compulsive love. There are prayers to heal the soul, prayers to heal the body, and prayers for work and creativity.

Williamson also gives us prayers for the healing of America, including two prayers that have had powerful effects on audiences at her lectures: a prayer of amends on behalf of European Americans to African-Americans and one to Native Americans. How, Williamson asks, can we expect anyone to forgive when we have made no formal apology?

Another section includes rites of passage, ceremonies of light for the signal events in our lives: blessing of the newborn, coming of age, marriage, and death. There is also a ceremony of the elder, for moving into midlife, and a ceremony of divorce, in which a gentle transition is provided for both the couple and their children.

"Read my prayers or someone else's," Williamson says. "By all means, create your own." Illuminata is a way to bring prayer into practical use, creating a sweeter, more abundant life for yourself and the people you care for. "No conventional therapy," she says, "can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world."

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ID: 54095

Title: Bears on Hemlock Mountain

Author: Alice Dalgliesh

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:36:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-02-08

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Classics, Humor

Summary:

Are there bears on Hemlock Mountain? One boy is about to find out in this classic tale.

People have always told Jonathan that there are no bears on Hemlock Mountain, no bears at all. So he isn’t afraid to set out alone over the mountain. But as Jonathan discovers one cold winter night, people aren’t always right…There are bears on Hemlock Mountain!

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ID: 252301

Title: Child 44

Author: Tom Rob Smith

Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris

Format: Abridged

Length: 6:40:45

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-08

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

Now a major movie, directed by Daniel Espinosa and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman.

 

For fans of Robert Harris, John Le Carre and Martin Cruz Smith comes a gripping thriller set in Moscow, 1953. Under Stalin's terrifying regime families live in fear. When the all-powerful State claims there is no such thing as crime, who dares disagree? 

 

An ambitious secret police officer, Leo Demidov has spent his career arresting anyone who steps out of line. Suddenly his world is turned upside down when he uncovers evidence of a killer at large. Now, with only his wife at his side, Leo must risk both their lives to save the lives of others.

 

Inspired by a real-life investigation, Child 44 is a relentless story of love, hope and bravery in a totalitarian world. It is a thriller unlike any you have ever read.

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ID: 54207

Title: Private Patient

Author: P. D. James

Narrator: Rosalyn Landor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:46:03

Language: English

Release date: 11-18-08

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Detective Stories

Summary:

Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed, she had every expectation of a successful operation and a pleasant week recuperating.

Two days later she was dead, the victim of murder.

To Commander Adam Dalgliesh, who with his team is called in to investigate the case, the mystery at first seems absolute. Few things about it make sense. Yet as the detectives begin probing the lives and backgrounds of those connected with the dead woman—the surgeon, members of the manor staff, close acquaintances—suspects multiply all too rapidly. New confusions arise, including strange historical overtones of madness and a lynching 350 years in the past. Then there is a second murder, and Dalgliesh finds himself confronted by issues even more challenging than innocence or guilt.

P. D. James has gained an enviable reputation for creating detective stories of uncommon depth and intricacy, combined with the sort of humanity and perceptiveness found only in the finest novelists. The Private Patient ranks among her very best.

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ID: 53857

Title: Mercy

Author: Toni Morrison

Narrator: Toni Morrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:26:22

Language: English

Release date: 11-11-08

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In “one of Morrison’s most haunting works” (The New York Times), the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter—a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.

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ID: 54048

Title: Elmer and the Dragon

Author: Ruth Stiles Gannett

Narrator: Robert Sevra

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:46:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-11-08

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Classics

Summary:

A stand-alone sequel to My Father’s Dragon, in which Elmer Elevator and the flying baby dragon help the king of the canaries find treasure.

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ID: 53791

Title: Beacon Street Girls Special Adventure: Isabel's Texas Two-Step

Author: Annie Bryant

Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:37:28

Language: English

Release date: 10-21-08

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

Isabel’s sister Elena Maria is turning fifteen, and the Martinez family is planning her quinceañera–at Uncle Hector’s ranch in San Antonio!

¡Hóla!

Everything about San Antonio is awesome (except for my annoying cousin Ricardo)! The Southwestern art is giving me all sorts of ideas for new drawings.

But Elena has turned Quincezilla–you’d think no one has ever turned fifteen before–and it’s like I’m invinsible. It’s a good thing there’s so much to see and do around here. And you won’t believe what I discovered when my cousin and I got stranded in a cave during a thunder and lightning storm!

Un beso,

Isabel

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ID: 132984

Title: Champlain's Dream

Author: David Hackett Fischer

Narrator: Edward Herrmann

Format: Abridged

Length: 10:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-08

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, World, North America, History & Culture

Summary:

Winner of the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing

In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain—soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New France.

Born on France's Atlantic coast, Champlain grew to manhood in a country riven by religious warfare. The historical record is unclear on whether Champlain was baptized Protestant or Catholic, but he fought in France's religious wars for the man who would become Henri IV, one of France's greatest kings, and like Henri, he was religiously tolerant in an age of murderous sectarianism. Champlain was also a brilliant navigator. He went to sea as a boy and over time acquired the skills that allowed him to make twenty-seven Atlantic crossings without losing a ship.

But we remember Champlain mainly as a great explorer. On foot and by ship and canoe, he traveled through what are now six Canadian provinces and five American states. Over more than thirty years he founded, colonized, and administered French settlements in North America. Sailing frequently between France and Canada, he maneuvered through court intrigue in Paris and negotiated among more than a dozen Indian nations in North America to establish New France. Champlain had early support from Henri IV and later Louis XIII, but the Queen Regent Marie de Medici and Cardinal Richelieu opposed his efforts. Despite much resistance and many defeats, Champlain, by his astonishing dedication and stamina, finally established France's New World colony. He tried constantly to maintain peace among Indian nations that were sometimes at war with one another, but when he had to, he took up arms and forcefully imposed a new balance of power, proving himself a formidable strategist and warrior.

Throughout his three decades in North America, Champlain remained committed to a remarkable vision, a Grand Design for France's colony. He encouraged intermarriage among the French colonists and the natives, and he insisted on tolerance for Protestants. He was a visionary leader, especially when compared to his English and Spanish contemporaries—a man who dreamed of humanity and peace in a world of cruelty and violence.

This superb biography, the first in decades, is as dramatic and exciting as the life it portrays. Deeply researched, it is illustrated throughout with many contemporary images and maps, including several drawn by Champlain himself.

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ID: 53793

Title: Chet Gecko, Private Eye: Book 3 - The Big Nap

Author: Bruce Hale

Narrator: Jon Cryer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:37:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-08

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Mystery & Fantasy, Humor

Summary:

Grammar school—it's all about eating and sleeping. Well, for Chet Gecko, anyway.

To Chet, nothing is more divine than a plate of Mrs. Bagoong's Mothloaf Surprise followed by a sweet bit of shut-eye on the playground. (Besides a few Pillbug Crunch bars and a monthlong holiday, that is.)

In this hilarious mystery from Chet's tattered casebook, he and his mockingbird partner, Natalie Attired, must catch a cafeteria thief, foil the sinister plans of a weaselly zombie master . . . and still take part in the Nations of the World PTA assembly. (Fourth-grade detectives get no respect.)

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ID: 53951

Title: Misty of Chincoteague

Author: Marguerite Henry

Narrator: Edward Herrmann

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:31:51

Language: English

Release date: 10-07-08

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Marguerite Henry’s beloved story of a wild horse’s gentle colt—winner of a Newbery Honor!

On the island of Chincoteague, off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland, lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Among them is the most mysterious of all, Phantom, a rarely-seen mare that eludes all efforts to capture her—that is, until a young boy and girl lay eyes on her and determine that they can’t live without her.

The frenzied roundup that follows on the next Pony Penning Day does indeed bring Phantom into their lives, in a way they never would have suspected. Phantom would forever be a creature of the wild. But her gentle, loyal colt Misty is another story altogether...

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