| Adult Books on Cassette - Fiction
Cinnamon roll murder
Fluke, Joanne, 1943-
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2012.
CAS FLUKE
The tour bus carrying the Cinnamon Roll Six overturns, sending the band members to the hospital--and the keyboard player to a bizarre and untimely death. Soon Hannah discovers the victim's surprising secret--and becomes determined to bring the killer to justice.
Force of nature
Box, C. J.
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2012.
CAS BOX
Trouble comes calling from Nate Romanowski's past in the Special Forces, and the colleague he once called friend won't stop until those who know a deadly secret are silenced. Everyone close to Nate is at risk, including Joe Pickett and his family. To save them, Nate will have to convince law-abiding Joe to finally break a few rules along the way.
Lone wolf
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2012.
CAS PICOULT
Twenty-four-year-old Edward Warren, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: his dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara. With her father's chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father's organs. Is he motivated by altruism or revenge?
Adult Books on CD - Fiction
Betrayal
Steel, Danielle.
Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, c2012, p2011.
CDB NEW STEEL
At thirty-nine, Tallie Jones is a Hollywood legend. As Tallie is in the midst of directing the most ambitious film she has yet undertaken, small disturbances begin to ripple through her well-ordered world and she soon finds herself dangerously seeking to trap a predator who is stalking her in plain sight.
The bird sisters
Rasmussen, Rebecca.
Old Saybrook, CT : Tantor Audio, cp2012.
CDB NEW RASMUSSEN
Whenever a bird flies into a window in Spring Green, Wisconsin, sisters Milly and Twiss get a visit. Twiss listens to the birds' heartbeats, assessing what she can fix and what she can't, while Milly listens to heartaches of the people who've brought them. These sisters have spent their lives nursing people and birds back to health. But back in the summer of 1947, Milly and Twiss knew nothing about trying to mend what had been accidentally broken. That was the summer their golf-pro father got into an accident that cost him both his swing and his charm, and their mother, the daughter of a wealthy jeweler, finally admitted their lives wouldn't change. It was the summer that a boy named Asa finally caught Milly's eye. And, most unforgettably, it was the summer their cousin Bett came down from a town called Deadwater and changed the course of their lives forever.
Bridge of dreams
Bishop, Anne.
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2012.
CDB NEW BISHOP
"When wizards threaten Glorianna Belladonna and her work to keep Ephemera balanced, her brother, Lee, sacrifices himself in order to save her-- and ends up an Asylum inmate in the city of Vision, far away from all he knows. At the same time, a darkness is spreading through Vision--a darkness that hides its nature from the Shamans, who tend the city and its people. Danyal, one of the Shamans, oversees the Asylum. A man whose heart is searching for its own dreams, he is intrigued by Lee's ravings about Bridges and Landscapers and wizards. With the help of Zhahar, a Handler with her own dark secrets, Lee's body and mind improve, and his words begin to make a terrible kind of sense-- giving Danyal and Zhahar a glimpse of a world unlike anything they have seen.As Danyal, Lee, and Zhahar work together to uncover the danger threatening Vision, they will be forced to look both beyond and within themselves to discover who they are...and how dangerous they can be" -- Provided by publisher.
Carry the one
Anshaw, Carol, 1946-
Old Saybrook, CT : Tantor Media, c2012.
CDB NEW ANSHAW
Carry the One begins in the hours following Carmen's wedding reception, when a car filled with stoned, drunk, and sleepy guests accidently hits and kills a girl on a dark country road. For the next 25 years, those involved, including Carmen and her brother and sister, connect and disconnect and reconnect with each other and their victim.
Celebrity in death
Robb, J. D., 1950-
Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, p2011.
CDB NEW ROBB
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating The Icove Agenda, a film based on one of her famous cases. It's a little spooky seeing the actress playing her, who looks almost like her long-lost twin. Not as unsettling, though, as seeing the actress who plays Peabody drowned in the lap pool on the roof of the director's luxury building. Now, she must step into the role she was born to play: cop.
Chasing midnight
White, Randy Wayne.
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2012.
CDB NEW WHITE
Sneaking an underwater look at a notorious Russian black marketeer's fancy yacht, Doc Ford emerges to discover that the marketeer's private island has been taken over by environmental extremists who threaten to kill a hostage every hour until their demands are met.
Cinnamon roll murder
Fluke, Joanne, 1943-
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2012.
CDB NEW FLUKE
The tour bus carrying the Cinnamon Roll Six overturns, sending the band members to the hospital--and the keyboard player to a bizarre and untimely death. Soon Hannah discovers the victim's surprising secret--and becomes determined to bring the killer to justice.
Clair de Lune
Carleton, Jetta.
Grand Haven, Ml : Brilliance Audio, p2012.
CDB NEW CARLETON
In 1941, a young, single woman named Allen Liles has taken a job as a junior college teacher in a small town, though she dreams of living in New York City. In her seminar, she encounters two young men: George, a lanky, carefree spirit, and Toby, a dark-haired, searching soul with a wary look in his eyes. Soon the three strike up an innocent relationship until Allen and one of the young men push things too far sending her world spinning into a state of wrenching pain and jeopardy.
Un cuento de Navidad
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Ashland, OR : Blackstone Audio, p2011.
CDB NEW DICKENS
This is a full-cast recording of Charles Dickens' classic holiday favorite "A Christmas carol," the tale of miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge. Three ghosts take Scrooge on a tour or his own life in the hopes of reawakening his Christmas spirit, before he meets the fate of his deceased partner Jacob Marley.
The custom of the country
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, [2011].
CDB NEW WHARTON
Edith Wharton tells the story of Undine Spragg, a girl from a Midwestern town with unquenchable social aspirations. Though Undine is narcissistic, pampered, and incredibly selfish, she is a beguiling heroine whose marital initiation into New York high society from its trade-wealthy fringes is only the beginning of her relentless ambitions.
Death comes to Pemberley
James, P. D.
Westminster MD : Books on Tape., c2011.
CDB NEW JAMES
P.D. James draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel 'Pride and Prejudice' into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem, electrifying it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly crafted crime story.
Death of a kingfisher
Beaton, M. C.
North Kingston, RI : AudioGO, p2012.
CDB NEW BEATON
The quaint Scottish village of Braikie's bid for tourism is symbolized by a kingfisher, but when one of the birds is found hanging from a branch and a wave of vandalism ensues, the town turns to Hamish MacBeth.
Death of a village [a Hamish Macbeth mystery]
Beaton, M. C.
North Kingstown, RI : Sound Library/BBC Audiobooks America, p2003.
CDB NEW BEATON
Hamish Macbeth has more police work than he wants. As he investigates scams and burglaries he attracts the attention of his superiors. They feel a promotion and transfer will give him a wider playing field - but that's the last thing Macbeth wants.
Elegy for Eddie a Maisie Dobbs novel
Winspear, Jacqueline.
North Kingstown, RI : AudioGO, cp2012.
CDB NEW WINSPEAR
In this latest entry in Jacqueline Winspear's acclaimed, bestselling mystery series zless whodunits than why-dunits, more P.D. James than Agatha Christiey (USA Today) Maisie Dobbs takes on her most personal case yet, a twisting investigation into the brutal killing of a street peddler that will take her from the working-class neighborhoods of her childhood into London's highest circles of power. Perfect for fans of A Lesson in Secrets, The Mapping of Love and Death, or other Maisie Dobbs mysteries and an ideal place for new readers to enter the series Elegy for Eddie is an incomparable work of intrigue and ingenuity, full of intimate descriptions and beautifully painted scenes from between the World Wars, from one of the most highly acclaimed masters of mystery, Jacqueline Winspear.
Enchantments [a novel]
Harrison, Kathryn.
Westminster, MD : Books on Tape, p2012.
CDB NEW HARRISON
St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin's body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is sent to live at the imperial palace with Tsar Nikolay and his family, including the headstrong Prince Alyosha. Desperately hoping that Masha has inherited Rasputin's miraculous healing powers, Tsarina Alexandra asks her to tend to Alyosha who suffers from hemophilia, a blood disease that keeps the boy confined to his sickbed.
Exogene
McCarthy, T. C.
Ashland, OR : Blackstone Audio, 2012.
CDB NEW MCARTHY
Catherine is a soldier. Fast, strong, lethal, she is the ultimate in military technology. She's a monster in the body of an eighteen year old girl. Bred by scientists, grown in vats, indoctrinated by the government, she and her sisters will win this war, no matter the cost. And the costs are high. Their life span is short; as they age they become unstable and they undergo a process called the spoiling. On their eighteenth birthday they are discharged. Lined up and shot like cattle. But the truth is, Catherine and her sisters may not be strictly human, but they're not animals. They can twist their genomes and indoctrinate them to follow the principles of Faith and Death, but they can't shut off the part of them that wants more than war. Catherine may have only known death, but she dreams of life and she will get it at any cost.
The family business
Weber, Carl.
Westminster, MD : Recorded Books, 2012.
CDB NEW WEBER
By day, the Duncans are an upstanding family who run a thriving car dealership in Queens. By night, they live a dangerous secret life.
Force of nature
Box, C. J.
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2012.
CDB NEW BOX
He never wanted to tell Joe Pickett about it, but Nate Romanowski always knew trouble was coming out of his past. Now it's here, and it may not only be the battle of his life-but of Joe's. In 1995, Nate was in a secret Special Forces unit abroad when a colleague did something terrible. Now high up in the government, the man is determined to eliminate anyone who knows about it, and Nate knows exactly how he'll do it-by striking at Nate's friends to draw him out. The entire Pickett family will be a target, and the only way to fight back is outside the law. Nate knows he can do it, but he isn't sure about his straight-arrow friend-and all their lives could depend on it.
Forgotten country
Chung, Catherine.
North Kingstown, RI : AudioGo, cp2012.
CDB NEW CHUNG
Learning on the night of her sister's birth that a daughter has been lost in every generation of her Korean family, Janie assumes a protective role over her sister while learning more cautionary stories from her optimistic father and mythology-minded mother.
The games
Kosmatka, Ted, 1973-
Prince Frederick, MD : Books on Tape, cp2012.
CDB NEW KOSMATKA
In a future where genetically modified 'gladiators' are created for international gladiatorial battles, each country strives against the others to be the top scientific society. Most countries tend to mash-up several different animals to create their gladiators; violent and blood-thirsty Frankenstein's monsters whose sole purpose is to kill the creature at the other end of the arena. But for this year's games, the US Games Committee has turned to a highly experimental supercomputer.
The good father [a novel]
Hawley, Noah.
Westminster, MD : Books on Tape, p2012.
CDB NEW HAWLEY
An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his 20-year old son.
Guilty wives
Patterson, James, 1947-
New York : Hachette Audio, p2012.
CDB NEW PATTERSON
Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender -- to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend moves into pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos, and beyond, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known. What happened last night? In the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened-- something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. And now the vacation of a lifetime becomes the fight of a lifetime-- for survival.
Illusion
Peretti, Frank E.
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2012.
CDB NEW PERETTI
Just when husband-and-wife magic duo Dane and Mandy Collins are about to retire after 30 years in the business, tragedy strikes in a devastating car wreck. Mandy dies and Dane is left alone. That is, until a friend takes him to see a dazzling new magic act. Not only is Dane transfixed by the amazing, almost supernatural acts being performed, but he's mesmerized by the young teen performing them, because she looks just like Mandy.
Jasper Jones
Silvey, Craig, 1982-
New York : Listening Library, c2012.
CDB NEW SILVEY
In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.
Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey the lost legacy of Highclere Castle
Carnarvon, Fiona, Countess of.
Old Saybrook, CT : Tantor Audio, cp2012.
CDB NEW CARNARVON
Tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes's Emmy Award-winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon.
The language of flowers a novel
Diffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Prince Frederick, MD : Books on Tape, p2011.
CDB NEW DIFFENBAUGH
The story of a woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own past.
Lone wolf [a novel]
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2012.
CDB NEW PICOULT
In the wild, when a wolf knows its time is over, when it knows it is of no more use to its pack, it may sometimes choose to slip away. Dying apart from its family, it stays proud and true to its nature. Humans aren't so lucky. Luke Warren has spent his life researching wolves. He has written about them, studied their habits intensively, and even lived with them for extended periods of time. In many ways, Luke understands wolf dynamics better than those of his own family .... His son, Edward, twenty-four, fled six years ago, leaving behind a shattered relationship with his father .... Then comes a frantic phone call ...
The lost wife
Richman, Alyson.
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, cp2012.
CDB NEW RICHMAN
During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry--only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war.
Lover reborn [a novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood]
Ward, J. R., 1969-
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2012.
CDB NEW WARD
Tohrment, a Black Dagger Brother, is given a second chance at love and life after losing everything.
Make death love me
Rendell, Ruth, 1930-
North Kingstown, RI : AudioGO.
CDB NEW RENDELL
Alan Groombridge was husband to a woman he didn't like, father to children he never wanted, and manager of a tiny bank. All that saved him was his fantasy of stealing enough of the bank's money to allow him just one year of freedom--a different kind of life. A brutal and chilling nightmare begins one day when the bank is robbed, and the manager and cashier disappear.
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