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RUNAWAY BEST-SELLER! General Fiction William P. Young. The Shack Donald McCaig. Rhett Butler’s People Mackenzie Allen Philips’s Fully authorised by the Margaret youngest daughter, Missy, Mitchell estate, Rhett Butler’s has been abducted during a is the long-awaited novel People family vacation, and that parallels the Great American evidence that she may have Novel, “Gone With The Wind”. been brutally murdered is Through the storytelling mastery found in an abandoned of award-winning writer Donald shack deep in the Oregon McCaig, the life and times of the dashing Rhett Butler unfolds. wilderness. Four years later, Through Rhett’s eyes we meet the in this midst of his great people who shaped his sadness, Mack receives a personality: Langston Butler, suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack Rhett’s unyielding father; Rosemary his steadfast sister; Tunis for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on Bonneau, Rhett’s best friend and a onetime slave; Belle Watling, the wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he woman for whom Rhett cared long before he met Scarlett O’Hara at finds there will change his life forever. Twelve Oaks Plantation, on the fateful eve of the Civil War. “When the imagination of a writer and the passion of a theologian And of course Katie Scarlett O’Hara, the headstrong, passionate cross-fefertilize the result is a novel on the order of The Shack. This woman whose life is inextricably entwined with Rhett’s: more like him book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan’s than she cares to admit; more in love with him than she’ll ever know... Pilgrim’s Progress did for his. It’s that good!” – Eugene Peterson 14CD UA $69.95 Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd 7CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Roger Mueller

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Alice Sebold. The Almost Moon Barbara Taylor Bradford. The Heir “When all is said and done, killing Edward Deravenel is the king of my mother came easily.” his company at last: a man who

A woman steps over the line into sought and won a business the unthinkable in this brilliant, empire – and the favors of many powerful and unforgettable new women. Now it is 1918, the war novel by the author of The is over, an influenza epidemic is Lovely Bones. sweeping England, and Edward For years, Helen Knightly has has a family and a business to given her life to others: to her protect. He must thread his way haunted mother, to her enigmatic between his loyal brother Richard father, to her husband and now- and the treacherous middle grown daughters. When she brother of the family, George. finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a And the politics of inheritance are intense, as different family factions way she never could have imagined. vie for the honor. The choices include a loyal caretaker, a jealous Unfolding over 24 hours, this searing novel explores the ties between rumormonger, a charming young woman, a sickly boy, and the scion of mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion and the family Edward ousted from power years before. the line between love and hate. 13CD UA $79.95 Narrated by John Lee 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Joan Allen Jan Karon. A New Song Andrea Barrett. The Air We Breathe When Father Tim retires, he In Fall 1916, Americans debate agrees to serve as interim whether to enter the European minister of a small church on war. “Preparedness parades” Whitecap Island. He and his wife, Cynthia, soon find that Whitecap march and headlines report has its own unforgettable German spies. But in an isolated characters: a church organist town in the Adirondacks, the with a mysterious past; a lovelorn danger is barely felt. At Tamarack bachelor placing personal ads; a Lake, the focus is on the sick. mother battling paralyzing Wealthy tubercular patients live in depression. In this fifth novel of private cure cottages; charity the beloved Mitford series, fans patients, mainly immigrants, fill the old and new will discover that a public sanatorium. trip to Mitford “and” Whitecap is twice as good for the soul. An enterprising patient initiates a discussion group. But when his well- 15CD UA $69.95 Narrated by John McDonough meaning efforts lead instead to a tragic accident and a terrible betrayal, the war comes home, bringing with it anti-immigrant prejudice and Walter Mosley. Fortunate Son vigilante sentiment. Tommy’s nickname is Lucky, but 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Jeff Woodman no one would think this crippled boy was blessed. Cursed with Greg Boggaerts; Ian MacDonald; Harold Mally; Ryan health problems and drawn into Trickey; Garry Richardson; Jim Kent; Kim Raward; Vanessa Holt; trouble more often than not, Des Burge; Ray Penny; John Holton; S. M. Braint. Tommy is the recipient of pity Slippery When Wet: rather than admiration. He is nothing like his stepbrother Eric. A Collection of Australian Short Stories Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced From the Slippery When Wet by a seemingly endless supply of Short Story Competition, good fortune - he is charming, a sponsored by Australian star athlete, and a magnet for Roadside Services Pty. Ltd. anyone in his sphere. Yet in spite of these differences, Eric and Tommy

Includes: are as close as two humans can be. The Cab and the Cockroach; After tragedy rips their makeshift family apart, the lives of these boys The Reluctant Truck; Roadhouse split. Tommy and Eric forge their separate ways in the world. For Tommy this means dropping out of school, selling drugs, living on the Blues; Dusty Roads; The Beddy; streets, and somehow creating a family of his own. Motherless, African- Up the Track; The Wennengatta American, and impoverished, Tommy has nothing but feels lucky every Wombat; A Truck Load of Logs; day of his life. For Eric, the golden youth, life means athletics, sexual Michael and the Truck; Maple attraction, excellent grades, prosperity, and the uncertainty that comes Leaf; The Laser; The Awesome with prizes won too easily. Given everything, he trusts nothing. Load; Cruise Control; The Eric and Tommy’s parallel lives are an astonishing story of self- Highway Man. determination and the true measure of fortune. When circumstances 2CD UA $24.95 Narrated by Daniel Jackson, Bob reunite Eric and Tommy after years apart, their distinct approaches to Dalvean, Alex Ruschanow, Lyn life may be the only thing that can save them from forces that threaten Thomson, Jack Buckingham, Dannielle to destroy them for good. Bowe, Brian Le Marquand 8CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Lorraine Toussaint

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Mary Wesley. A Sensible Life Maureen Lee. Mother Of Pearl Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old Pretty Amy Curran was just misfit, despised by her selfish eighteen years old when she met and indolent parents, and left to Barney Patterson, the love of her wander the streets of a small life, on Southport pier in 1939. French town whilst her parents Their romantic, passionate prepare to depart for life in marriage was made in heaven, or colonial India. There she so they both believed. But when befriends the locals, acquires an Britain declared war on extensive vocabulary of French Germany, Barney hastily foul language and encounters the volunteered to fight, and the privileged lifestyle of the elegant middle-class British families holidaying couple were eventually separated for five long years. When he in 1920s France. Introduced for the first time to kindly, civilised and, returned to Liverpool after VE Day he wasn’t the same person - and above all caring people, Flora falls helplessly and hopelessly in love neither was Amy. But how could things have become so twisted that with not one but three young men. Over the next forty years Flora will one day Amy would kill the husband she once so adored? And what grow from an awkward schoolgirl into a stunning beauty and explore, happened to their little girl, Pearl, just five years old at the time? consummate and finally resolve each of these affairs. By 1971 Amy has spent twenty years in prison for Barney’s murder. 3CD $39.95 Narrated by Anna Massey Now she is about to be released - and the greatest question Pearl must ask herself is this: can she ever love her mother after what she did? Kristin Hannah. Firefly Lane 4CD $45.00 Narrated by Jacqueline King In the summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her Tom Keneally. The Widow And Her Hero place at the bottom of the When Grace married the genial eighth-grade social food chain. and handsome Captain Leo Then, to her amazement, the Waterhouse in Australia in 1943, “coolest girl in the world” moves they were young, in love - and at in across the street and wants war. Like many other young men to be her friend. Tully Hart and women, they were ready, seems to have it all - beauty, willing and able to put the war brains, ambition. On the effort first. They never seriously surface they are as opposite as doubted that they would come two people can be: Kate, through unscathed. doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at But Leo never returned from a every turn; Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret commando mission masterminded by his own hero figure, an eccentric that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by and charismatic man who inspired total loyalty from those under his summer’s end they’ve become TullyandKate. Inseparable. command. Grace was left, like so many widows, to bear the pain of So begins Kristin Hannah’s magnificent novel. Spanning more than losing the love of her life and wonder what it had all been for. three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Sixty years on, Grace is still haunted by the tragedy of her doomed Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two hero when the real story of his ill-fated secret mission is at last women and the friendship that becomes the mainstay of their lives. unearthed. As new fragments of her hero’s story emerge, Grace is 15CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Susan Ericksen forced to keep revising her picture of what happened to Leo and his fellow commandoes - until she learns about the final piece in the Maureen Lee. The Leaving Of Liverpool jigsaw, and the ultimate betrayal. It is a cold February night in 1925 8CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Beverley Dunn with David when two teenage sisters escape Tredinnick from their home in a tiny Irish village. Their beloved mother Mary Wesley. The Vacillations Of Poppy Carew dead, the girls have suffered Poppy Carew, smarting and in shocking abuse at the hands of shock because her live-in lover their father.With sensitive, has left her for a richer woman, creative Annemarie so is called to the bedside of her traumatised she can barely dying father, a wonderful remember her name, Mollie loveable eccentric who dies decides they should make a new life for themselves and she takes her laughing. He asks as his last younger sister to Liverpool where they will board a ship to New York. request that he be buried in There, she thinks, they will be safe. But the smallest, cruellest twist of style by an undertaker who fate conspires to separate the girls just as the boat is about to sail, specialises in fun funerals. He leaving Mollie stranded in Liverpool and Annemarie at the mercy of also astonishes Poppy by strangers in America.The subsequent paths of their lives could not be leaving her a large sum of money. As news of her good fortune more different. Annemarie discovers her future and her fortune, while spreads, other friends of friends, acquaintances of her dead father Mollie, devastated by guilt and grief at the loss of her sister, eventually (who appears to have made his fortune by being nice to old ladies) carves out a new life in Liverpool. Then the Second World War looms - and, not least, her ex-lover emerge. Suddenly there are too many with surprising consequences for the two sisters... choices for Poppy Carew... 4CD $45.00 Narrated by Jacqueline King 3CD $39.95 Narrated by Anna Massey

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Peter Carey. His Illegal Self Jodi Picoult. Change Of Heart Raised in isolated privilege by his In Change of Heart, Picoult New York grandmother, Che is explores two explosive topics – the precocious seven-year-old capital punishment and the son of radical student activists at separation of church and state – Harvard in the late sixties. with an unforgettable tale of Yearning for his famous outlaw justice and atonement. parents, denied all access to Shay Bourne shattered June television and the news, he takes Nealon’s life when he murdered hope from his long-haired, her husband and daughter. Now, teenage neighbour who predicts: as New Hampshire’s first death They will come for you, man. They’ll break you out of here.Soon Che row inmate in 58 years, his last too is an outlaw; fleeing down subways, abandoning seedy motels at request is one he believes might night, he is pitched into a journey that leads him to a hippy commune in bring him salvation. Shay wants the jungle of tropical Queensland. Here he slowly, bravely, confronts to donate his heart to June’s other, ailing daughter. But since he is his life, learning that nothing is what it seems. Who is his real mother? scheduled for lethal injection, this not possible. Further complications Was that his real father? If all he suspects is true, what should he do? arise when Shay begins performing miracles in full view of witnesses – Never sentimental, “His illegal Self” is an achingly beautiful story of the including his Catholic spiritual advisor. love between a young woman and a little boy. It may make you cry more than once before it lifts your spirit in the most lovely, artful, 12CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Nicole Poole, Stafford unexpected way. Clark-Price, James Frangione, Danielle 7CD UA $45.00 Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki Ferland, Jennifer Ikeda a l s o a v a i l a b l e i n a b r i d g e d f o r m a t Cormac McCarthy. No Country For Old Men 4CD $39.95 Narrated by Greta Scacchi Set in west Texas in 1980, No Country for Old Men focuses Patrick Taylor. An Irish Country Village on the intersecting lives of a Welcome to the Village of hunter who discovers 2.4 Ballybucklebo. Come and say million dollars in abandoned hello to Dr O’Reilly’s odd-as-two- drug money, a Texas county left feet patients, his sheriff who must protect an housekeeper, Mrs “Kinky” innocent couple, and heavily Kinkaid, and O’Reilly’s pets, armed men who are determined Arthur Guinness, the beer- to reclaim the money at any swilling black Lab and Lady cost. As their paths carry them MacBeth, the demonically up and down the U.S./Mexican possessed white cat. And of border, each person must course, to young Dr Barry confront what it means to abandon a life. Filled with the harsh Laverty. After Barry’s first month landscapes and lyrical language that have earned McCarthy literary as an assistant to crusty Dr O’Reilly, he has been offered a permanent fame, this novel is an enduring meditation on the beliefs and hope that spot. But Laverty’s excitement is dashed when one of his patients inform people’s decisions and shape their destinies. unexpectedly dies. The damage to his reputation is enormous, and he 7CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Tom Stechschulte and O’Reilly must work to resolve the question of Barry’s responsibility for the death. They also have to figure out how to save the 400-year- J. G. Ballard. Empire Of The Sun old village pub. Based on J. G. Ballard’s own Beautifully evocative of a gentler, simpler time, “An Irish Country childhood, this is the Village” magically captures the charm, wit, and ribald humor of a extraordinary account of a vanished Irish countryside and its people. boy’s life in Japanese– 11CD UA $69.95 Narrated by John Keating occupied wartime Shanghai – a mesmerising, Kurt Vonnegut. Cat’s Cradle hypnotically compelling is Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle novel of war, of starvation satirical commentary on modern and survival, of internment man and his madness. camps and death marches. It An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features blends searing honesty with a midget as the protagonist; a an almost hallucinatory complete, original theology vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. created by a calypso singer; and Rooted as it is in the author’s own disturbing experience of war in our a vision of the future that is at time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will once blackly fatalistic and be not only remembered but judged. hilariously funny. “A brilliant fusion of history, autobiography and imaginative speculation. One of Vonnegut’s most highly An incredible literary achievement and almost intolerably moving.” – praised novels. Anthony Burgess 6CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Tony Roberts 3CD $35.00 Narrated by Samuel West

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Thomas Keneally. The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith Jeffrey Archer. Twelve Red Herrings Jimmie Blacksmith is the son of An imprisoned man is certain an Aboriginal mother and a white that his supposed murder father. A missionary shows him victim is very much alive... what it means to be white - A female driver is pursued already he is only too aware of relentlessly by a menacing what it means to be black. figure in another vehicle... Exploited by his white employers A young artist gets the and betrayed by his white wife, biggest break of her career... Jimmie cannot take any more. A restless beauty manages He must find a way to express the perfect birthday his rage. celebration... The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is based on an actual incident that An escaped Iraqi on Saddam Hussein’s death list pays an involuntary occurred at the turn of the century. Set against the background of a visit to his homeland... turbulent Australian history, Thomas Keneally records with clarity the How will they react? How would you? chant of one troubled man. 5CD $45.00 Narrated by Alec McCowen 6CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Bruce Kerr Jeffrey Archer. A Quiver Full Of Arrows Alexander McCall Smith. The Miracle At Speedy This collection of 12 short Motors stories will draw the listener It has never occurred to Precious into each story, whether it is Ramotswe that there might be Old Love, the tale of two disadvantages to being the best- undergraduates at Oxford in known lady detective in the 1930s and their bitter Botswana. But when she rivalry that ends in a receives a threatening memorable love story or anonymous letter, she is Broken Routine, which tells compelled to reconsider her of an insurance claim advisor unconquerable belief in a kind and his surprising encounter world and good neighbours. on the train home to Sevenoaks, or Henry’s Hiccup, the story of The While she ponders the identity of Grand Pasha and how his plans for the most perfect honeymoon go the letter-writer Mma Ramotswe awry. has a further set of problems to solve, both professional and personal. From The Grand Pasha to a British diplomat in China, a backgammon There is an adopted child’s poignant search for her true family, and Mr match to a one night stand, Jeffrey Archer spins an intricate web of J. L. B. Matekoni’s pursuit of an expensive miracle for their own foster tales that prove that his really is the master of storytelling. daughter Motholeli. 6CD $45.00 Narrated by Martin Jarvis 5CD $45.00 Narrated by Adjoa Andoh Kate Jacobs. Comfort Food Jeffrey Archer. A Prisoner Of Birth Shortly before turning the big Danny Cartwright and 5-0, boisterous party planner Spencer Craig were born on and Cooking with Gusto! different sides of the track. personality Augusta “Gus” Danny, an East End Simpson finds herself planning Cockney, leaves Clement a birthday party she’d rather Attlee Comprehensive not – her own. She’s getting School at the age of 15 to tired of being the hostess, the take up a job at a local mother hen, the woman who garage. He falls in love with has to plan her own birthday Beth, the boss’ daughter, and party. What she needs is time asks her to marry him. on her own with enough Spencer Craig resides in the West End, a graduate of an English public distance to give her loved ones school and Cambridge University. After leaving university he becomes the ingredients to put together successful lives without her. Assisted by a criminal barrister and is soon tipped to be the youngest Queen’s a handsome up-and-coming chef, Oliver, Gus invites a select group to Counsel of his generation. take an on-air cooking class. But instead of just preaching to the foodie Danny and Beth travel up to the West End to celebrate their masses, she will teach regular people how to make rich, sensuous engagement. They end the evening in a wine bar where Spencer Craig meals – real people making real food. Gus decides to bring a vibrant is also celebrating – his 30th birthday, along with a select group of cast of friends and family on the program: Sabrina, her fickle daughter; university chums. Troy, Sabrina’s ex-husband; Anna, Gus’s timid neighbor; and Carmen, Although the two young men don’t meet, their lives will never be the Gus’s pompous and beautiful competitor at the Cooking Channel. And same again. when she begins to have more than collegial feelings for her sous-chef, For, an hour later, one of them is arrested for murder, while the other Gus realises that she might be able to rejuvenate not just her ends up as the Prosecution’s chief witness in an Old Bailey trial. professional life, but her personal life as well... 6CD $45.00 Narrated by Roger Allam 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

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James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet. Jodi Picoult. Harvesting The Heart Sundays At Tiffany’s Written with astonishing clarity As a little girl, Jane has no one. and evocative detail, convincing Her mother has no time for her. in its depiction of emotional pain, But she does have one friend – love, and vulnerability, Michael – and no one can see Harvesting the Heart recalls the him but her. But Michael can’t writing of Alice Hoffman and Sue stay with Jane forever, and on Miller. Paige has only a few vivid her eighth birthday, her imaginary memories of her mother, who left friend must leave her. when she was five. Now, having When Jane is in her thirties, she left her father behind in Chicago is just as alone as she was as a for dreams of art school and child. Her boyfriend hardly knows marriage to an ambitious young she’s there and is more doctor, she finds herself with a interested in what Vivienne can do for his career. Her mother child of her own. But her mother’s absence, and shameful memories of practically treats her as a slave in the office, despite the great success her past, make her doubt both her maternal ability and her sense of of Jane’s first play. Then she finds Michael – smart, funny, just the self worth. same as she remembers him… only now he’s not imaginary. For once 15 CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Cassandra Campbell in her life, Jane is happy – but even Michael doesn’t know why they’ve really been reunited. Miss Read. Over The Gate 5CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Ellen Archer “The story of the village goes back a long, long time, and it still Ben Elton. Blind Faith goes on. I have listened to my Imagine a world where everyone neighbours’ accounts of tales knows everything about everybody. long ago, and with what unfailing Where what a person ‘feels’ and ‘truly curiosity I observe the believes’ is protected under the law, happenings of today!” while what is rational, even provable From an unusual weight-losing is condemned as heresy. A world recipe found in an old notebook - where to question ignorance and and used with alarming intolerance is to commit a Crime consequences - to the queen of copy-cats who drives her neighbour against Faith. mad with anger, OVER THE GATE is a hugely entertaining collection On a hot Sagittarian morning in the year 56 ATF, Denver Sewell of tales from Fairacre, past and present. struggles to work through the usual crowds of near-naked, tattooed Miss Read, the school mistress, continues to attract odd stories and people. He is confronted by the intimidating figure of his Parish village folklore, and retells them with her characteristic compassion and Confessor. Why has Denver not been streaming his every moment of humour. sexual intimacy onto the community website like everybody else? Does 4CD $45.00 Narrated by Carole Boyd he think he’s different or special in some way? Ben Elton’s dark, savagely comic story imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a confessional sex M ystery obsessed, self-centric culture to create a world where nakedness is modesty, ignorance is wisdom and privacy is a dangerous perversion. Anne Perry. Buckingham Palace Gardens 4CD $45.00 Narrated by Michael Maloney The Prince of Wales has asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their Eileen Goudge. Domestic Affairs elegant wives to the palace to discuss “Rosie and Abigail are like family”, a fantastic idea: the construction of a Ina Merriweather used to say. That six-thousand-mile railroad that would is, until the day Ina abruptly cast stretch the full length of Africa. But out her housekeeper, Rosie, and alas, the prince’s gathering proves her 15-year-old daughter Abigail. disastrous when the mutilated body of Abigail felt deeply betrayed, a prostitute hired for a late-night frolic especially by Ina's daughter Lila, (after the wives have retired to bed) who was her closest friend. Only turns up among the queen’s Lila's twin brother Vaughn, with monogrammed sheets in a palace whom Abigail had been exploring linen closet. the joys and heartaches of first With great haste, Thomas Pitt, brilliant mainstay of Special Services, is love, showed any compassion. summoned to resolve the crisis. The Pitts’ cockney maid, Gracie, is Now, 25 years later, an old score is about to be settled, and an old love also recruited - to pose as a palace servant and listen in on the guests’ rekindled. Abigail is now a self-made woman who has built an empire conversations, scan their bedrooms, and scrutinise their troubled faces out of the homemaking skills learned from her mother. When Lila, who for clues to hidden rivalries and attachments that could have led to married well and for decades lived the glittering life of a Park Avenue murder. If Pitt and Gracie fail to find out who brutally murdered the socialite, suffers a tragic reversal of fortune, an opportunity to right an young woman - as seems increasingly likely- Pitt’s career will be over, old wrong lands squarely in Abigail's lap. and the scandal may just cause the monarchy to fall. 15CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Susan Ericksen 11CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Michael Page

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Sue Grafton. E Is For Evidence Peter Robinson. Caedmon’s Song ‘Anyone who knows me will tell When she awakes in you that I cherish my hospital, she has no unmarried state. I’m female, recollection of that brutal twice divorced, no kids and no night. But then, slowly and close family ties. I’m perfectly painfully, details reveal content to do what I do...’ themselves - dreams of two It was two days after figures, one white and one Christmas when Kinsey black, hovering over her, Millhone received the bank slip wisps of a strange and showing a credit for five haunting song; the unfamiliar thousand dollars. The account texture of a rough and deadly number was correct but Kinsey hadn’t made the deposit. Then came hand...In another part of England, Martha Browne arrives in Whitby, the phone call and suddenly everything became clear. The frame-up posing as an author doing research for a book. But her research is of a was working and Kinsey was trapped.... particularly macabre variety. Who is she hunting with such deadly determination? And why? 3CD $40.00 Narrated by Lorelei King 3CD $40.00 Narrated by Emilia Fox Sue Grafton. F Is For Fugitive Seventeen years had passed Peter Robinson. Not Safe After Dark & Other since Jean Timberlake’s body Works – Vol. 1 had been found at the foot of 3CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir, Stephen the sea wall. At the time, Hoye, Stefan Rudnicki Bailey Fowler, an ex-boyfriend of hers, pleaded guilty to Peter Robinson. Not Safe After Dark & Other voluntary manslaughter. Works – Vol. 2 Now he’s changed his tune. In this second volume of What seemed like a simple heart-thumping tales, open-and-shut case is unexpected twists make the anything but that. Kinsey darkness less friendly than Millhone is called in to solve the case, and in the process, she we had hoped… Includes: stumbles on the dark secrets of a family’s buried past ... The Good Partner: 3CD $40.00 Narrated by Lorelei King Missing in Action; April in Paris; Sue Grafton. T is for Trespass Some Land in Florida; tres-pass \’tres-p s\ n: a In Flanders Field; transgression of law involving Memory Lane. one’s obligations to God or to ‘Short stories offer a wonderful opportunity for the series writer to spread his wings and fly to new, exotic places, to meet different people one’s neighbor; a violation of and to try his hand at different styles.’ – Peter Robinson moral law; an offense; a sin 4CD UA $45.00 Narrated by Robert Glenister and David -”Webster’s New International Dictionary “(second edition, Shaw Parker unabridged) Peter Robinson. Not Safe After Dark & Other In what may be her most unsettling Works – Vol. 3 novel to date, Sue Grafton’s T is The third and final CD for Trespass is also her most volume of heart-thumping direct confrontation with the forces of evil. Beginning slowly with the short stories from the author day-to-day life of a private eye, Grafton suddenly shifts from the of the Inspector Banks perspective of Kinsey Millhone to that of Solana Rojas, introducing series. listeners to a chilling sociopath. Rojas is not her birth name. It is an Listeners will surreptitiously identity she cunningly stole, an identity that gives her access to private be watching the door – for care-giving jobs. The true horror of this novel builds with excruciating within these stories, we tension as the listener foresees the awfulness that lies ahead. The discover that the contents of wrenching suspense lies in whether Kinsey Millhone will realize what is our lives are not always as happening in time to intervene. faithful as they seem. Friends, neighbours, enemies, the conscience we thought we had, the T is for Trespass - dealing with issues of identity theft, elder abuse, dark we thought we trusted… there are secrest and surprises lurking in betrayal of trust, and the breakdown in the institutions charged with every creak of the floorboards. caring for the weak and the dependent - targets an all-too-real rip in the Stories include: social fabric. Grafton takes us into far darker territory than she has ever Going Back; Gone to the Dawgs; The Duke’s Wife; Two Ladies of Rose traversed, leaving us with a true sense of the horror embedded in the Cottage; Fan Mail. seeming ordinariness of the world we think we know. 5CD UA $55.00 Narrated by Robert Glenister, David 12CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Judy Kaye Shaw Parker, Lisa Kay

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Michael Connelly. Blood Work Lee Child. Killing Floor Thanks to a heart transplant, All is not well in Margrave, former FBI agent Terrell McCaleb Georgia. is enjoying a quiet retirement, The sleepy, forgotten town hasn’t renovating the fishing boat he seen a crime in decades, but lives on in Los Angeles Harbor. within the span of three days it But McCaleb’s calm seas turn witnesses events that leave choppy when a story in the “What everyone stunned. An Happened To?” column of the LA unidentified man is found beaten Times brings him face-to-face and shot to death on a lonely with the sister of the woman country road. The police chief whose heart now beats in his and his wife are butchered on a chest. From her, McCaleb learns quiet Sunday morning. Then a a terrible truth: that the donor of bank executive disappears from his home, leaving his keys on the table his heart was not killed in an accident, as he’d been told, but was and his wife frozen with fear. murdered. The easiest suspect is Jack Reacher - an outsider, a man just passing Wracked with guilt over the fact that he’s alive because another human through. But Reacher is not just any drifter. He is a tough ex-military being was killed, McCaleb embarks on a private investigation of his policeman, trained to think fast and act faster… donor’s murder - a crime as horrific as anything he ever encountered 12CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Dick Hill as a serial killer investigator for the FBI.. 11CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Dick Hill Lee Child. Nothing To Lose Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope Ian Rankin. The Complete Rebus – Part One and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher Once John Rebus was a Para, never turns back. It’s not in his served in the elite SAS. Now he’s nature. All he wants is a cup of an Edinburgh policeman who coffee. What he gets is big trouble. spends time evading his memories, It wasn’t the welcome Reacher missing promotion opportunities, expected. He was just passing and right now ignoring a series of through. But within minutes of his crank letters. But as the murders arrival a deputy is in the hospital go on happening right under his and Reacher is back in Hope, nose, Rebus cannot ignore the presence of a serial killer stalking setting up a base of operations the streets any longer... against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off industrial site does From the first book in the “Rebus” mysteries something nobody is supposed to see, where a small plane takes off This set contains the first ten “Rebus” titles: Knots and Crosses; Hide & every night and returns seven hours later, where a garrison of well- Seek; Tooth & Nail; Strip Jack; The Black Book; Mortal Causes; Let It trained and well-armed military cops – the kind of soldiers Reacher 6Bleed; Black and Blue; The Hanging Garden; Dead Souls. once commanded – waits and watches… where above all two young 32CD $299.95 Narrated by James Macpherson, Bill men have disappeared and two frightened young women wait and Paterson hope for their return. 11CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Dick Hill

Patricia Cornwell. The Front D.A. Monique Lamont has a Walter Mosley. Blonde Faith th special job for Massachusetts The 10 Easy Rawlins thriller. state investigator Win Garano. As Easy Rawlins, L.A.’s most part of a new public relations reluctant detective, comes home campaign about the dangers of one day to find Easter, the declining neighbourhoods, she’s daughter of his friend, Christmas sending him to Watertown to Black, left on his doorstep. Easy acome up with a drama, a and knows that this could only mean she thinks she knows just the that the ex-marine Black is case that will serve. Garano is probably dead, or will be soon. very skeptical, because he knows Easter’s appearance is only the that Watertown is also the home beginning of his problems. The base for a loose association of love of his life is marrying municipal police departments called the FRONT, set up in order that another man and his friend they don’t have to be so dependent on the state – much to Lamontas Mouse is wanted for the murder of a father of 12. anger. He senses a much deeper agenda here, but he has no idea just Easy’s investigation brings him to a blonde woman whose past is as how deep it goes. In the days that follow, he’ll find that Lamont’s task, dark as her beauty is bright. As Easy begins to put the pieces together, and the places it leads him, will resemble a house of mirrors – he realizes that Black’s dissappearance has its roots in Vietnam, and everywhere he turns, he’s not quite sure if what he’s seeing is true. that the woman, Faith, might be in a world of danger. 4CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Kate Reading 6CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Michael Boatman

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J. D. Robb. Portrait in Death Dick Francis. High Stakes After a tip from a reporter, Eve Steven Scott is relatively Dallas finds the body of a young new to horses. A woman in a Delancey Street successful, wealthy dumpster. Just hours before, the inventor, he takes up horse news station had mysteriously racing as a hobby-a hobby received a portfolio of that soon brings him winner professional portraits of the after winner under the woman. The photos seemed to inspired guidance of his be nothing out of the ordinary for trainer, Jody Leeds. any pretty young woman starting a modeling career. Except that Currently both their she wasn’t a model. And that reputations are wrapped up these photos were taken after she had been murdered. in a beautiful black hurdler 10CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Susan Ericksen named Energise. But just when Steven is winning at both women and horses, he discovers deceit in his own stables. Termination of the J. D. Robb. Creation in Death troublemaker marks Steven for his own termination - and much sooner than he can imagine... Eve has seen this crime scene before: the artfully arranged body “[Francis] has the uncanny ability to turn out simply plotted yet of a young brunette, arms spread, charmingly addictive mysteries.”-The WALL STREET JOURNAL palms up, body marked by the 5CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Geoffrey Howard signs of prolonged and painful torture. Carved into her torso is Dick Francis. Enquiry the time it took her to die - in Jockey Kelly Hughes and hours, minutes, and seconds. And trainer Dexter Cranfield had on the third finger of her left hand been barred from racing - a has been placed a silver ring. devastating event for them Eve is catapulted back to a case 9 both. The charge at the years earlier, when a man whom the media tagged The Groom put the secret enquiry? Throwing a city on edge with a killing spree that took the lives of four women in 15 race for personal profit. It days. Eve and her partner couldn’t stop him before he disappeared, was a vicious frame-up and, only to resurface in other parts of the world to kill and kill again. But worse, they had nowhere to now The Groom seems to have come back to where he started. turn to clear their names. Still 10CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Susan Ericksen Hughes refused to take the phony verdict lying down - Dick Francis. The Danger even though his personal A kidnapping case should be easy enquiry might have him lying down permanently.... to crack. That is, after all, Andrew “Enquiry contains everything required in a modern thriller... an Douglas’s business, and he’s one intricate plot that unravels skillfully, mayhem, sex, suspense, of the best. But when beautiful Alessia Canci, one of the top excitement, and surprise denouements.” women jockeys in the world, and – The New York Times Book Review the child of a derby winner, and 5CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Geoffrey Howard the senior steward of the Jockey Club are all nabbed, Andrew’s Dick Francis & Felix Francis. Dead Heat professional skills are challenged. Max Moreton’s Newmarket Dick Francis knows that horses restaurant has brought him and money can mean trouble as he masterfully weaves together the great acclaim. But when nearly complex emotions and motivations of everyone involved. all the guests who enjoyed one 9CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Tony Britton of his meals at a private catered affair fall victim to Dick Francis. Twice Shy severe food poisoning, his A friend gives Jonathan Derry reputation takes quite a hit. some musical tapes. But the tapes Scrambling to meet his next are really an elaborate obligation, Max must overcome computerized betting system that the previous evening’s disaster can make their owner a rich man - and provide the new American or a dead one, as Jonathan sponsors of the year’s first unfortunately discovers. When his Classic race with a day to remember. Then a bomb blast rips through the friend is brutally murdered, Jonathan must find the tapes’ real private boxes, killing some of Max’s trusted staff and many of the guests. owner before he meets the same Two close calls are too close for comfort, and Max vows to protect his fate. Nonstop action, a wicked name, and himself, before it’s too late. villain, and a suspenseful plot combine for a dazzling tale that races to 3CD $39.95 Narrated by Martin Jarvis the finish line. also available as unabridged 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Tony Britton 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Martin Jarvis

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Adrian McKinty. Dead Yard J. A. Jance. Hand of Evil The mercenary Michael Forsythe With his hand trapped in the door is forced to infiltrate an Irish of a speeding car, a man struggles terrorist cell, confronting murder, to remain upright as he’s dragged mayhem, and the prospect of his along a deserted stretch of San own execution. Juan Road in Phoenix’s South While on holiday in Spain, Mountain Preserve. It’s the perfect Michael Forsythe is arrested in place to drive a man to his grave - the chaos of a soccer riot and literally. Starting with a crime so hauled off to jail. Back on the gruesome even prowling coyotes wrong side of the law, the Belfast keep their distance from the native has no hope of release – remains, a killer begins until a seductive female British crisscrossing the Southwest on a Intelligence Agent makes Michael an offer he can’t refuse: Avoid jail spree of grisly murders. time in a Mexican hellhole by taking on a special FBI assignment and A hundred miles away, Ali Reynolds is dealing with personal and infiltrating a dangerous Irish terrorist cell back in the States. Within professional trouble; a family member to whom she owes everything hours Michael is thrust into the nightmarish world of madmen known for asks her for a meeting, but before she can satisfy her curiosity about their distinctive brands of torture and revenge – all while trying to hide why, Ali receives another startling call: a friend’s teenage daughter has his true identity. Coming face-to-face with murder, deceit, and lustful disappeared. Ali offers to help, but in doing so, she unknowingly begins desire in all the wrong places, Michael knows that in order to survive he a quest that will reveal a deadly ring of secrets… must kill… or be killed. 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Karen Ziemba 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Gerard Doyle Kay Hooper. Blood Dreams Jeffery Deaver. The Sleeping Doll He’s the kind of killer we instinctively Special Agent Kathryn Dance is fear the most. A killer without sent to interrogate the convicted boundaries, without conscience, killer Daniel “Son of Manson” Pell without fear. His latest victim is as a suspect in a newly terrifying proof that no one is safe: unearthed crime. Pell is serving a the daughter of a powerful U.S. life sentence for brutal murders senator. The national media is years earlier that mirrored those calling for justice and a grief-stricken perpetrated by Charles Manson father is seeking vengeance, but in the 1960s. But Pell and his cult Bishop and his FBI Special Crimes members left behind a survivor Unit find themselves in a unique who - because she was in bed situation. hidden by her toys - was dubbed Dani Justice knows all about monsters. They haunt her nightmares. But the Sleeping Doll. she never expected to find herself doggedly on the trail of a real flesh- Pell has been both reticent and unrepentant about the crime. But and-blood predator of such cunning. She doesn’t want to risk the life Dance sees an opportunity to pry a confession from him for the recent she’s made for herself, or her hard-won peace. But she doesn’t have a murder – and to learn more about his depraved mind. But Dance’s choice. This killer’s bloody rampage has hit far too close to home, and plan goes terribly wrong and Pell escapes, leaving behind a trail of Dani alone commands a weapon powerful enough to destroy him. dead and injured. 7CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Joyce Bean 13CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Anne Twomey Val McDermid. Beneath The Bleeding Jeffery Deaver. The Broken Window Tony Hill, criminal profiler and hero of Lincoln Rhyme and partner/lover TV’s Wire in the Blood, is back in a Amelia Sachs return to face a terrifying psychological thriller from criminal whose ingenious staging bestselling author Val McDermid. of crimes is enabled by a A city is mourning. Bradfield terrifying access to information... Victoria’s star midfielder has been When Lincoln’s estranged cousin murdered, bizarrely poisoned in an Arthur Rhyme is arrested on apparently motiveless killing. Then a murder charges, the case is bomb blast rips through the football perfect – too perfect. Forensic stadium. Dozens lie dead, many more injured. Is it a terrorist attack or evidence from Arthur’s home is a vendetta against the Vics? Or something even more sinister? found all over the scene of the As he lies in a hospital bed, Hill struggles to make sense of the crime, and it looks like the fate of fragments of information he manages to gather. But his customary ally, Lincoln’s relative is sealed. DCI Carol Jordan, is being pushed to the margins of the investigation But soon Lincoln and Amelia uncover a string of similar murders and by intelligence services determined to prove themselves indispensable. rapes with perpetrators claiming innocence and ignorance – despite It wouldn’t be so bad if Tony and Carol could agree about who they’re ironclad evidence at the scenes of the crime. Rhyme’s team realizes looking for. But even their relationship has its dislocations and dark this “perfect” evidence may actually be the result of masterful identity places. Beneath the Bleeding sets Tony and Carol at odds as they theft and manipulation. have never been before…. 12CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris 5CD $39.99 Narrated by Shaun Dooley

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Agatha Christie. The Big Four Robert Crais. The Monkey’s Raincoat A vicious international quartet of When Ellen Lang’s husband criminals known as “The Big Four” disappears with their son, she hires pursues world domination but first Elvis Cole to track him down. A quiet must eliminate the only man who can and seemingly submissive wife, foil them: Hercule Poirot. In the most Ellen can’t even write a check dangerous case of his career, the without him. All she wants is to get little detective will not be diverted by him and her son back - no questions poison, a falling tree, electrocution, asked. or a hit-and-run. Poirot appears to The search for Ellen’s errant meet his end when a bomb explodes husband leads Elvis into the seamier in his apartment. Hastings, side of Hollywood. He soon learns devastated, vows to avenge him – but can he succeed without Poirot? that Mort Lang is a down-on-his-luck 5CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Hugh Fraser talent agent who associates with a schlocky movie producer, and the last place he was spotted was at a Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown. party thrown by a famous and very well-connected ex-Matador. But no Cat’s Eyewitness one has seen him since - including his B-movie girlfriend. A controversial miracle in At the same time the police find Mort in his parked car with four Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains gunshots in his chest - and no kid in sight - Ellen disappears. Now sparks religious fervor-and a nothing is what it seems, and the heat is on. It’s up to Elvis Cole and suspicious death. Now the his partner Joe Pike to find the connection between sleazy Hollywood indefatigable felines Mrs. Murphy players and an ex-Matador. and Pewter, along with the 7CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Patrick G. Lawlor dogged corgi Tee Tucker, must trust their animal instincts to sniff Kerry Greenwood. Trick or Treat out the worst of human nature. Amateur sleuth and baker With the holidays approaching, extraordinaire Corinna Chapman Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen is upstaged when the hot new and her best friend, Susan bread chain, Best Fresh Bread, Tucker, take a much-needed opens just down the street from time-out at the mountain monastery of Mount Carmel. There, under the her own bakery, Earthly Delights. benevolent gaze of the statue of the Virgin Mary, their worldly worries Meanwhile Daniel’s tall, blonde are soon overshadowed. For in front of their very eyes the statue and gorgeous old friend is begins to cry tears of blood. staying with him while she Legend has it that Mary’s crimson tears are harbingers of crises. And establishes a base and a though skeptical, the ever-practical Harry can already see one on the business in Melbourne. horizon. If leaked, news of the so-called miracle could turn the When Daniel starts making excuses, Corinna begins to worry about his monastery and the town of Crozet into a circus. What Harry doesn’t absences and also the strange outbreak of madness which seems to foresee is murder... be centred on Lonsdale Street. Will Corinna win through a maze of 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by George Guidall health regulations, missing boyfriends, sinister strangers, fraudulent companies and back alley ambushes? Or will this be the end for the Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown. Earthly Delights Bakery? The Purrfect Murder 8CD UA $34.95 Narrated by Louise Siversen This entry in the wildly popular Mrs Murphy series is a riveting Nevada Barr. Winter Study tale from Emmy winner Rita Mae The 14th in Nevada Barr’s best- Brown and her cat Sneaky Pie. selling Anna Pigeon mystery This time around, the sleepy series sends the dauntless park hamlet of Crozet, Virginia, is ranger to the remote haven of thrown into turmoil when autumn Lake Superior’s frigid Isle brings a bountiful harvest – and Royale, where she comes face- murder most foul. to-face with wolves and finds Harry Haristeen is busily herself in imminent peril. preparing her gardens for winter Since her home base of Rocky when a local ob-gyn is killed by a Mountain National Park might sniper. Then haughty upper- soon receive a pack of its own, cruster Carla Paulson – in the middle of building her extravagant new Anna joins the Isle Royale’s wolf home – ruffles a few feathers and winds up dead as a doornail. It research team to study the doesn’t look good for architect Tazio Chappars, who is found standing maligned creatures. But soon after her arrival, things get strange. Giant over Carl’s body holding a knife. But Harry and her four-legged friends wolf footprints are found, DNA of a possible wolf-dog hybrid is know better. discovered, and a female researcher is savaged. Convinced a killer is The Browns fill this cozy with twists aplenty as Harry, her two cats, and stalking her, Anna braces against the biting cold and the malicious her dauntless corgi rake through the autumn leaves to sniff out a killer. designs of an unseen menace... 7CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Kate Forbes 11CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

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Kerry Greenwood. Death By Water M. C. Beaton. Death of a Glutton The divine Phryne Fisher returns Maria Worth has started to in the fifteenth seductive detest her partner, Peta instalment in the classic Phryne Gore, who has become the Fisher whodunnit series. bane of her otherwise The nice men at P&O are successful business life. worried. A succession of When Peta turns up at a jewellery thefts from first class gathering in a remote village, passengers is hardly the best everyone bands together in advertisement for their cruise mutual loathing - but does liners, particularly when it is likely someone hate her enough to that it is a passenger who is kill her? Hamish Macbeth doing the stealing. Phryne Fisher, with her Lulu bob, green eyes, investigates... Cupid’s bow lips and Chanel travelling suits, is exactly the sort of 6CD UA $99.95 Narrated by Davina Porter elegant sleuth to take on a ring of jewellery thieves aboard the high seas - or at least, aboard the SS Hinemoa on a luxury cruise to New M. C. Beaton. Death of a Prankster Zealand. With the Maharani – the Great Queen of Sapphires - as the When Hamish Macbeth hears bait, Phryne rises magnificently to the challenge. There are shipboard that there has been a murder romances, champagne cocktails, erotic photographers, jealous at the home of the practical husbands, mickey finns, blackmail and attempted murder, all before the joker Arthur Trent, he doesn’t thieves find out - as have countless love-smitten men before them - race to the scene of the crime. that where the glamorous and intelligent Phryne is involved, resistance The last time he was called to is futile. investigate a death at the 7CD UA $34.95 Narrated by Stephanie Daniel manor, the viCtim turned out to be a manservant covered in Peter James. Not Dead Enough fake blood. Ready for another On the night Brian Bishop prank, Hamish arrives to find murdered his wife, he was 60 Trent most decidedly dead... miles away, asleep in bed at 4CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Davina Porter the time. At least, that’s the way it looks to Detective M. C. Beaton. Death of a Snob Superintendent Roy Grace Hamish Macbeth is miserable. who is called in to investigate It’s Christmas, and he is alone the kinky slaying of beautiful with a terrible head cold. So young Brighton socialite, when the beautiful Jane Katie Bishop. Weatherby asks him to spend oon, Grace starts coming to the holiday at her Scottish the conclusion that Bishop has performed the apparently impossible island retreat, Hamish is glad feat of being in two places at once. Has someone stolen his identity, or to accept. But something is is he simply a very clever liar? As Grace digs deeper behind the façade very wrong at this colorful of the Bishops outwardly respectable lives, it starts to become clear resort - something that will that all is not as it first seemed. And then he digs just a little too far, and soon claim the life of one of suddenly the fragile stability of his own troubled, private world is facing the guests. Now it’s up to destruction… Hamish to find out who did it. 4CD $40.00 Narrated by Neil Pearson 4CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Davina Porter

M. C. Beaton. Death of a Travelling Man John Mortimer. Rumpole and the Age of Miracles Hamish Macbeth’s life is The loveable, irreverent, claret- going to pot. He’s been swigging, Wordsworth-spouting promoted, his boss is a criminal lawyer returns to the dunce, and to add insult to fray to fight new battles against injury, a sinister, self- injustice. proclaimed gypsy and his Mortimer skillfully steers the girlfriend have parked their immortal Rumpole through the rusty eyesore of a van in the terrors inflicted by the bench village. Hamish smells judges, most notably the Mad Bull judge Bullingham, the trouble and as usual he’s continuous battle of wits with right. The doctor’s drugs go She Who Must be Obeyed (his missing. Money vanishes. Neighbours grow suddenly un-neighbourly. wife Hilda) at their matrimonial mansion flat, and the health giving Hamish regrets it only because he feels it in his bones that the killer claret swigging session at Jack Pommeroy’s distinguished legal may be one of his friends... watering hole. 4CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Davina Porter 8CD UA $126.95 Narrated by Patrick Tull

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Perri O’Shaughnessy. Move To Strike Nina’s not sleeping much these days. Thrillers She’s recovering from a great loss, Greg Iles. Third Degree haunted by a killer who may still be Laurel Shields knows that her tracking her, and working on a tough husband Warren has been under new case. Her client is a sixteen-year- pressure – he’s been informed that old girl charged with first-degree the IRS that his medical practice murder. Nikki Zack is a rebel, a thief, was being audited. But Laurel and the best friend of Nina’s son, Bob. herself has major problems – she’s Did she steal something from her just discovered she’s pregnant, and uncle, a prominent plastic surgeon, hasn’t any idea about whether the and then kill him with an ancient father is her husband or her lover… samurai sword? So begins the most terrifying day in To help find out, Nina calls in private investigator Paul Van Wagoner, the history of a marriage, one that in her ex-lover and constant ally, whose bravado doesn’t betray his own less than five hours will make the sleepless nights. As they work through the twisting lies surrounding Shields house the vortex of a nerve-wracking siege. While a nervous Nikki, it becomes brutally clear to Nina that she must pull an ace out of ring of armed men awaits its chance to storm the suburban home, her sleeve in the courtroom to save her client, and solve the mystery inside the house the clock ticks down on exposure of Laurel’s terrible surrounding Paul to save herself. secret. But she is not alone in her lies… 10CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Laural Merlington 11CD UA $69.95 Narrated by David Colacci

Ruth Rendell. Not In The Flesh Lisa Scottoline. Lady Killer A new Chief Inspector Wexford Mary DiNunzio is strong, smart, and mystery from the author who she’s got plenty of attitude. She’s “Time” magazine has called “the become a big-time business-getter best mystery writer in the English- at Rosato & Associates, but the last speaking world”. person she expects to walk into her When the truffle-hunting dog starts office is Trish Gambone, her high to dig furiously, his master’s first school rival. Trish’s life has taken a reaction is delight at the size of the horrifying turn. She’s terrified of her clump the dog has unearthed: at live-in boyfriend, who’s an abusive, the going rate, this one truffle gun-toting drug dealer for the South might be worth several hundred Philly mob. There’s only one pounds. Then the dirt falls away to problem – Mary remembers the guy, reveal not a precious mushroom too, and had a major crush on him. but the bones and tendons of what is clearly a human hand. Before Mary knows it, Trish vanishes. Then a dead body turns up in an In “Not in the Flesh”, Chief Inspector Wexford tries to piece together alley, and Mary is plunged into a nightmare. She goes on a one-woman events that took place eleven years earlier, a time when someone was crusade to unmask the killer, and on the way, finds new love in a very secretly interred in a secluded patch of English countryside. Now unexpected place. But before the novel’s shocking surprise ending, Wexford and his team will need to interrogate everyone who lives Mary is forced to confront some very uncomfortable truths about her nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the dead man among the own past, and the profound effects of lifelong love – and hate. eighty-five people in this part of England who have disappeared over 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat the past decade. Then, when a second body is discovered nearby, Wexford experiences a feeling that’s become a rarity for the veteran Patricia Highsmith. The Talented Mr Ripley policeman: surprise. One of the great crime novels of the 5CD $49.95 Narrated by Tim Curry 20th century, Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley is a blend Lynda La Plante. The Red Dahlia of the narrative subtlety of Henry Detective Anna Travis is working on James and the self- reflexive irony a horrific, brutal murder case that has of Vladimir Nabokov. Tom Ripley is created a media frenzy. The victim, chosen by the wealthy Herbert Louise Pennel, a 24-year-old, single, Greenleaf to retrieve Greenleaf’s ‘fun-loving’ girl, was last seen in a son, Dickie, from his overlong London night club wearing a sojourn in Italy. Dickie, it seems, is sequinned mini-dress and a red rose held captive both by the in her hair. In an eerie mirror image Mediterranean climate and the attractions of his female companion, but of the famous LA murder case of Mr Greenleaf needs him back in New York to help with the family Elizabeth Short in the l930s known as business. With an allowance and a new purpose, Tom leaves behind the Black Dahlia, her body was found his dismal city apartment to begin his career as a return escort. But dumped by the River Thames... Tom, too, is captivated by Italy. He is also taken with the life and looks severed in half and brutalised beyond of Dickie Greenleaf. He insinuates himself into Dickie’s world and soon recognition. Anna Travis must summon all the strength and guile for finds that his passion for a lifestyle of wealth and sophistication which she became so well known in ABOVE SUSPICION to hunt down transcends all moral compunction. Tom will become Dickie Greenleaf - this sadistic killer. at all costs. 5CD $39.95 Narrated by Janet McTeer 7CD UA $49.95 Narrated by David Menkin

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Andy McNab. Crossfire David Baldacci. The Whole Truth Bodyguarding a TV crew on “Matt, I need a war.” the streets of war-torn Basra, So begins David Baldacci’s new ex-deniable operator Nick book – a thriller unlike any he’s Stone seems certain to die written before. “Matt” is Mathew when insurgent gunmen Pender, of Pender Associates – attack. Only the reporter’s a shadowy organization that swift action saves his life. specializes in managing When the reporter vanishes seemingly impossible situations within hours, presumed for its clients. Sometimes, those kidnapped, Stone is asked by services extend to managing – the Intelligence Service to and creating – armed conflict. find him. The trail leads from Iraq to London, Dublin, and ultimately When Matt Pender is asked by Kabul - the dark and brutal city where governments, terrorism and big his client – the largest defense contractor in the world – to manipulate business inexorably collide. Caught in the crossfire, Stone’s nightmare two nations against each other, a shocking and surprising series of is only just beginning - for the hunter has suddenly become the hunted. events are set in motion that will possibly bring the world to the brink of 3CD $49.95 Narrated by Jason Flemyng World War III. In this epic thriller with a global backdrop, David Baldacci delivers all Robert Harris. The Ghost the twists and turns, compelling characters, and can’t-put-it-down Dashing, captivating Adam Lang pacing that readers have come to expect from this master storyteller. was Britain’s longest serving and 12CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Ron McLarty most controversial prime minister of the last half century, whose career Kate Mosse. Sepulchre ended in tatters after he sided with October 1897: on the Eve of All America in an unpopular war on Saint’s, a young Parisian girl, terror. Now, after stepping down in Leonie Vernier, disappears disgrace, Lang is hiding out in the without trace from her Aunt’s wintry ghost town of Martha’s country estate, the Domaine de Vineyard to finish his much sought- la Cade. That same night, in a after, potentially explosive memoir. tiny village across the valley, an But the project runs aground when elderly reclusive priest is brutally his ghostwriter suddenly disappears murdered. All that links the two and later washes up, dead, on the island’s deserted shore. events is the music heard Enter Lang’s new ghostwriter – cynical, mercenary, and quick with a echoing in the ancient woods and the painted Tarot card pressed line of deadpan humour. Accustomed to working with fading rock stars between the bloodied fingers of the dead man’s hand. Card XV, Le and minor celebrities, he jumps at the chance to be the new ghost of Diable - The Devil. Adam Lang’s memoirs, though it doesn’t take long to realize he has October 2007: Meredith Martin arrives at the Domaine de la Cade and made a fatal error in judgement. When the Ghost begins to unearth the is captivated by the tragic history of the house and the fate of Leonie bone-chilling circumstances of his predecessor’s death he discovers Vernier. But when Meredith stumbles upon an ancient sepulchre that the ex-prime minister is a dark, tortured man with haunting secrets hidden deep within the grounds, and hears ghostly music echoing in his past – secrets with the power to alter world politics and to kill. through the woods at night, she realises the story is far from dead and 12CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Roger Rees buried. And against her will, she finds herself caught up in a race against time to solve the mystery of Leonie’s disappearance. David Baldacci. Stone Cold 6CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Lorelei King Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back in their most Ian Fleming. From Russia with Love A N D Moonraker dangerous adventure yet a FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE war on two fronts. Casino Russia’s lethal SMERSH king Jerry Bagger from The organisation – the Soviet organ Collectors is hunting of vengeance, interrogation, Annabelle Conroy, the torture and death – has targeted beautiful woman who conned Bond for elimination. They lay him out of millions. Stone their trap with an enticing lure: and his colleagues Reuben, the irresistible Tatiana Milton, and Caleb marshal all Romanova. But when Bond their resources to protect Annabelle. Yet all their skills may not be walks willingly into the trap, a enough when a deadly new opponent rips off the veneer of Stone’s game of cross and double-cross own mysterious past: Bagger’s menace pales next to newcomer Harry ensues. Finn’s lethality. Passing as a normal family man, Finn has already killed MOONRAKER three men, with more targets to come. When Finn sets his bull’s-eye on When James Bond is asked to settle a dispute involving the Stone, his reason will be the greatest shock of all, causing readers to unimpeachable Sir Hugo Drax, head of the multimillion-dollar reconsider their views of good and evil. As bodies and institutions Moonraker missile programme, he discovers a bizarre and terrifying topple, the story rockets toward a shattering finale that will leave the truth and Drax and Moonraker that could prove fatal – not only for survivors of this explosive tale changed forever.. Agent 007, but for millions. 5CD $55.00 Narrated by Michael Brandon 12CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Simon Vance

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John Grisham. The Appeal Dan Fesperman. The Amateur Spy In a crowded courtroom in Burned out by years of humanitarian Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking aid work, Freeman and Mila Lockhart verdict against a chemical company have retreated to an idyllic Greek accused of dumping toxic waste into island. But their new life is disturbed a small town’s water supply, causing when three strangers break in and the worst “cancer cluster” in history. blackmail him into spying on an old The company appeals to the Palestinian friend in Jordan. Mississippi Supreme Court, whose Overnight, Freeman is plunged into nine justices will either approve the the maelstrom of the Middle East verdict or reverse it. and is quickly in over his head. Who are the nine? How will they In suburban Washington, D.C., a vote? Can one be replaced before prosperous Palestinian-American the case is ultimately decided? couple, Abbas and Aliyah Rahim, are still grieving for their daughter, The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl accidentally killed while vacationing abroad. Abbas blames her death Trudeau, who’s convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With on the bureaucratic machinations of overly suspicious officials. Aliyah judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat fears he may be reeling toward fanaticism, and her efforts to avert this on the Court. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his take her to Jordan. political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They As their paths converge, Freeman and Aliyah must swiftly separate fact finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mould him into a from illusion, enemy from friend. The consequences of failure could be potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice. catastrophic. 10CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Michael Beck 12CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Phil Gigante

Robert Crais. Hostage Michael Palmer. The First Patient Jeff Talley was a good husband and Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard father, and a frontline negotiator with were roommates at the Naval LAPD’s SWAT unit. But the stress of the Academy years ago. Today, Gabe is a job causes Talley to hit bottom. His country doctor and his friend Andrew marriage ends, he resigns from SWAT, has gone from war hero to governor to and he struggles to escape from his President of the United States. former life by taking the chief-of-police One day, Marine One lands on Gabe’s job in a sleepy community far from the Wyoming ranch, and President crime of Los Angeles. Stoddard delivers a disturbing But Talley’s pursuit of peaceful small- revelation and a startling request. His town life is about to change when three personal physician has mysteriously young men, fleeing a robbery, invade a tightly secured home, and take disappeared, and he desperately the family hostage. Plunged back into the high-pressure world that he needs Gabe to take the man’s place. It is not until he is ensconced in has desperately been trying to put behind him, Talley finds his the White House medical office that Gabe realizes there is strong nightmare has barely begun, because this isn’t just any house. Soon, evidence that the President is going insane. Facing a crisis of all involved are held hostage by the exigencies of fate and the only one conscience - as President Stoddard’s physician, he has the power to capable of diffusing the crisis is the least stable of them all. invoke the Twenty-fifth Amendment to transfer presidential power to 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by James Daniels the Vice President - Gabe uncovers increasing evidence that his friend’s condition may not be due to natural causes… Vince Flynn. Protect and Defend 10CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Phil Gigante Billions of dollars are being spent in Iran on the development of a Tom Cain. The Accident Man nuclear program. No longer willing For a certain sum of money, to wait for the international Samuel Carver will arrange a community to stop its neighbouring death. A ruptured gas line, an enemy, Israel launches a creative automobile crash, a fall from a and daring operation that leaves a window; anything can look like radioactive tomb in the middle of an accident. But when Carver is Iran’s second largest city. An to carry out a job in a tunnel in outraged Iranian government Paris, and when the job goes publicly blames both Israel and the wrong for him, and when he is U.S., and demands retribution. pursued by the very forces that Enter Mitch Rapp, America’s top counterterrorism operative. Rapp hired him, Carver must execute convinces President Josh Alexander to sign off on a risky operation his most daring feat yet. A thriller that will push Iran to the brink of revolution. But when Iran recruits of the grandest and most Hezbollah master terrorist Imad Mukhtar, and a CIA effort goes exhilarating sort, The Accident Man races above and below the disastrously wrong, Rapp and Mukhtar are set on a collision course streets of Paris, across Europe, and through storms at sea. It is also a that threatens to engulf the entire region in war. With the clock ticking, startling introduction to a hero engaged in acts of moral violence. With Rapp is given twenty-four hours, no questions asked, to do whatever it the dissolution of world powers, with everything and anything for sale, takes to stop Mukhtar, and avert an unthinkable catastrophe. how does one justify death? 9CD UA $79.95 Narrated by George Guidall CD UA $69.95 Narrated by John Lee

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Andrew Britton. The Invisible Joy Fielding. Charley’s Web Ryan Kealey, once a captain in the Charley Webb is a beautiful single U.S. Army’s third Special Forces mother who writes a controversial Group, then as a contract operative column for the Palm Beach Post. with the CIA, is called for a mission She’s spent years building an with little hope of success… emotional wall against scathing Tensions between Pakistan and critics, snooty neighbours and her India are complicated by the disapproving family. But when she disappearance of twelve American receives a letter from Jill Rohmer, climbers in the snow-capped peaks on death row for the murders of of Pakistan’s Hindu Kush range. As three small children, her the conflict escalates, Brynn boundaries slowly begin to fade. Jill Fitzgerald departs Washington D.C. wants Charley to write her on her first official trip as acting secretary of state. Her goal is to ensure biography so that she can share the many hidden truths about the case all efforts are being made in the search for the missing American that failed to surface during her trial. Seeing this as a once-in-a-lifetime climbers. When Fitzgerald’s motorcade is ambushed on the outskirts of opportunity, Charley begins her journey into the mind of this deeply Islamabad, and the secretary of state has vanished without a trace, troubled woman. Kealey’s operation goes into high gear. Once again, he is joined by Her path takes a twisted turn, however, when the anonymous letters Naomi Kharmai, the British-born analyst who has taken on a daring sheas recently received from an angry reader evolve into threats, new role with the Agency. But Kharmai is becoming as unpredictable targeting her son and daughter. As Charley races against time to save as the man they’re going after... her family, she begins to understand the value of her seemingly intrusive neighbours, friends, and relatives… 13CD UA $69.95 Narrated by J. Charles 11CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Susan Ericksen John Lescroart. Betrayal Dismas Hardy agrees to clean up the T. Jefferson Parker. Laguna Heat caseload of recently disappeared Laguna, where every day the sun attorney Charlie Bowen, but one of the makes a promise the nighttime cases is far from small-time - the breaks, while the super-rich live appeal to overturn the murder out expensive fantasies in posh conviction of National Guard reservist beach houses and drown their Evan Scholler, sentenced to life without memories in Cuervo Gold parole for the murder of an ex-Navy margaritas - where trouble has SEAL and private contractor named swept in like a Santa Ana wind, Ron Nolan. Two rapid-fire events in blowing the cover off a world of Iraq conspired to bring the men into torture, murder, and blood-red fatal conflict: Nolan’s relationship with secrets - where a crazed killer has Evan’s girlfriend, Tara, followed by a deadly incident in which Nolan’s turned paradise into a Disneyland apparent mistake results in the death of an innocent Iraqi family as well of depraved violence with a fiery vengeance, and where homicide cop as seven men in Evan’s platoon. As the murky relationship between Tom Shephard unravels a grisly mystery that reaches back across 40 the U.S. government and its private contractors plays out, and the years of sordid sex, blackmail and suicide into the dark corners of his consequences for Evan become a desperate matter of life and death, own past, and sweats out a deadly truth in the sweltering Laguna Heat. Dismas Hardy begins to uncover a terrible and perilous truth that takes 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Christopher Lane him far beyond the case and into the realm of deadly treason. 12CD UA $59.95 Narrated by David Colacci Harlan Coben. Hold Tight Tia and Mike Baye never thought James Rollins. Black Order they’d become the type of A sinister fire in a Copenhagen overprotective parents who spy on bookstore ignites a relentless hunt their kids. But their 16-year-old son across four continents. Arson and Adam has been unusually distant murder reveal an insidious plot to lately, and after the suicide of his steal a Bible that once belonged to classmate Spencer Hill, they can’t Charles Darwin. And Commander help but worry. They install a Gray Pierce dives headlong into a sophisticated spy program on mystery that dates back to Nazi Adam’s computer, and within days Germany... and to horrific are jolted by a message from an experiments performed in a now- unknown correspondent addressed abandoned laboratory in Poland. to their son: “Just stay quiet and all safe.” A continent away, madness ravages a remote monastery in Nepal, as Browsing through an online memorial for Spencer put together by his Buddhist monks turn to cannibalism and torture. Lisa Cummings, an classmates, his mother is struck by a photo that appears to have been American doctor investigating the atrocity, is suddenly a target of a taken on the night of her son’s death… and he wasn’t alone. She thinks brutal assassin. Lisa’s only ally is Painter Crowe, director of SIGMA it’s Adam Baye standing just outside the camera’s range; but when Force, who already shows signs of the baffling malady. Now it is up to Adam goes missing, it becomes clear that something deep and sinister Gray Pierce to save them both as SIGMA Force races to expose a has infected their community. For Tia and Mike Baye, the question is: century-old plot that threatens to destroy the current world order… When it comes to your kids, is it possible to know too much? 12CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Grover Gardner 10CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Scott Brick

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Stuart Woods. Santa Fe Dead Robert Ludlum; Gayle Lynds. The Hades Factor: Ed Eagle had been the target of A Covert-One Novel a murder-for-hire plot A homeless man in Boston, an orchestrated by his wife, Army major in California, and a Barbara, the ultimate black teenage girl in Atlanta all die widow. But when Barbara suddenly and painfully – each a escapes from police custody, Ed victim of a hitherto unknown, fast- knows that not only will his life acting viral agent. Col. Jonathon be in danger but also the life of Smith, a combat doctor attached his new girlfriend, and, of to the United States Army course, of any rich man unlucky Research Institute of Infectious enough to be lured into Disease assigned to investigate Barbara’s web. To add to his the virus, is first warned off by a troubles, Ed has taken on a new shadowy FBI contact, then barely client, Don Wells, who may or may not have murdered his own wife survives an attempt on his life. and son. Not knowing where to turn or whom to trust, Smith assembles a private From the posh resorts of southern California to the New Mexico desert team to aid his search for the truth behind the deadly virus – a quest and the seedy hotels of Tijuana, Ed Eagle will follow every lead and that leads them to the darkest corners of the world. hope that he doesn’t wind up “Santa Fe Dead”. 6CD $39.95 Narrated by Joseph Campanella 7CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Michael Kramer John Sandford. Phantom Prey Stuart Woods. Deep Lie A widow comes home to her large Sifting through reams of house in a wealthy, exclusive seemingly unrelated intelligence, suburb to find blood on the walls, CIA analyst Katherine Rule no body – and her college-age discovers a chilling pattern: an daughter missing. She’s always knonw that her daughter ran with ultrasecret Baltic submarine a bad bunch. What did she call base... a crafty Russian spy- them – Goths? And now this. master in command... a carefully But the police can’t find the girl, planned invasion about to be alive or dead, and when a second launched from dark waters. Goth is found slashed to death in Her suspicions, however, are Minneapolis, the widow truly dismissed by those higher up; her panics. She asks Lucas Davenport, a big deal with the police, to get theory, they say, is too crazy to be involved. Lucas begins to investigate only reluctantly – but then when a true. But to Katherine, it’s just third Goth is slashed in what is now looking like a Jack-the-Ripper crazy enough to succeed - unless she can stop it. If she’s right, an series of killings, he starts working it hard. The clues don’t seem to add attack sub has already penetrated friendly waters. Worse yet, the up, though. And then there’s the young Goth who keeps appearing and enemy has penetrated deep into her own life, so deep she can touch disappearing: Who is she? Where does she come from and, more him. And in this game, one wrong touch can mean Armageddon. important, where does she vanish to? And why does Lucas keep 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by James Daniels getting the sneaking suspicion that there is something else going on here… something very, very bad indeed? Dale Brown. Shadow Command 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Richard Ferrone Following their success in crushing Iran’s hostility in Strike John Saul. Black Lightning Force, General Patrick For five years Seattle journalist Anne McLanahan’s new “Aerospace Jeffers has pursued the horrifying Battle Force” has grown into a story of a sadistic serial killer’s full-fledged space-based task bloody reign, capture, trial, and force, based in orbit on the appeal – crusading to keep the Armstrong Space Station. But not wheels of justice churning toward the everyone is supporting electric chair. Now the day of McLanahan and his Force. execution has come. A convicted Russia argues that the program killer will meet his end. Anne believes is a threat to international peace her long nightmare is over. But she’s and security. Under pressure dead wrong… from Russia, the United Nations, and the liberal American press, newly Within days, a similar murder stuns elected US President Joseph Gardner cuts off all funding for this the city. As the butcher stalks his next victims, creeping ever closer to provocative force and dismisses McLanahan. her, Anne is seized by an icy unease, a haunting sense of connection With the ABF decommissioned, Russia sends 125,000 troops into to these unspeakable crimes. And, relentlessly, she hears the eerie Turkmenistan and Iran and fills the Persian Gulf with its warships. echo of the dead man’s last words to her: “Today won’t end it. How will McLanahan is faced not only with battling the Russians, but also with you feel, Anne? When I’m dead, and it all starts again, how will you exposing the corruption behind the President himself… feel?” 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Phil Gigante 11CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Phil Gigante

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Sebastian Faulks. Devil May Care Charles Cumming. A Spy By Nature (A James Bond novel) Alec Milius is young, smart, and Bond is back. With a vengeance. ambitious. A chance encounter leads ‘There’s something I need your him to MI6, the elite British Secret help with. The details are a little Intelligence Service, handing him an hazy at the moment, but I sense opportunity to play center stage in a that it’s going to be something big. dangerous game of espionage. Caught Very big indeed. Have you heard between British and American of Dr Julius Gorner?’ Intelligence, Alec finds himself It’s a name that will become threatened and alone, unable to seared into James Bond’s confide in even his closest friend. His consciousness - a man who life as a spy begins to exact a terrible price, both on himself and on knows no master but his own those around him. power-crazed ego, whose wealth 10CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Simon Vance is exceeded only by his greed and who will stop at nothing until he has destroyed the very heart of Great Britain. Tom Rob Smith. Child 44 A savage execution in the desolate outskirts of Paris sets in motion a It is a society that is, officially, a chain of events designed to lead only to global catastrophe, as a tide of paradise. Stalin’s Soviet Union is a lethal narcotics threatens to engulf Sixties Britain, a British airliner goes haven for its citizens, providing for missing over Iraq and the thunder of coming war echoes round the all of their needs: education, health Middle East... care, security. In exchange, all that Bond finds a willing accomplice in the shape of a glamorous Parisian called Scarlett Papava. He will need all her help in a life-and-death is required is their hard work and struggle with his most dangerous adversary yet. their loyalty and faith to the Soviet 8CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Jeremy Northam State. A rising, prominent oficer in the State Security force, Leo Demidov C. J. Box. Blood Trail is a former war hero whose only When the call comes in on the ambition is to serve his country. To guarantee a secure life for his radio, Joe Pickett can hardly parents, and for his wife Raisa, Leo has spent his career guarding believe his ears: game wardens against threats to the State. Ideological crimes – crimes of thought, have found a hunter dead at a crimes of disloyalty, crimes against the revolution – are forcefully camp in the mountains - strung up, suppressed, without question. gutted, and flayed, as if he were the Tthen the impossible happens. A different kind of criminal – a murderer elk he had been pursuing. A spent – is on the loose. At the same time, Leo finds himself demoted and cartridge and a poker chip lie next denounced by his enemies, all but sentenced to death. The only way to to his body. salvage what remains of his life is to uncover this criminal. But in a Ripples of horror spread through society that is officially paradise, it’s a crime against the state to the community, and with a possibly suggest that a murderer – much less a serial killer – is in their midst. psychotic killer on the loose 11CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris Governor Rulon is forced to end the hunting season early for the first time in state history. Are the murders the work of a deranged anti- Jonathon Kellerman. Compulsion hunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta? A tipsy young woman seeking aid 8CD UA $49.95 Narrated by David Chandler on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired John Grisham. A Time to Kill; The Firm; The Client schoolteacher is stabbed to death in A Time to Kill. For ten days, with broad daylight. Two women are burning crosses and the crack of butchered after closing time in a sniper fire spreading through the small-town beauty parlor. These streets of Clanton, the nation sits and other bizarre acts of cruelty and spellbound as young defense psychopathology are linked only by attorney Jake Brigance struggles to the killer’s use of luxury vehicles save his client’s life... and then his and a baffling lack of motive. The own... ultimate whodunits, these crimes demand the attention of LAPD The Firm. When an ambitious law detective Milo Sturgis and his collaborator on the crime beat, student from Harvard chooses the psychologist Alex Delaware. Memphis tax firm of Bendini, What begins with a solitary bloodstain in a stolen sedan quickly spirals Lambert & Locke, he finds himself caught between the FBI, who wants outward in odd and unexpected directions, leading Delaware and an informant inside the firm, and the firm itself, which will make him a Sturgis from the well-heeled center of L.A. society to its desperate very rich man-or a very dead one. edges; across the paths of commodities brokers and transvestite The Client. 11-year-old Mark Sway witnesses the bizarre suicide of a hookers; and as far away as New York City, where the search thaws New Orleans attorney. Just before he dies, the lawyer tells Mark a out a long-cold case and exposes a grotesque homicidal crusade. The deadly secret about the recent murder of a Louisiana senator whose killer proves to be a fleeting shape-shifter, defying identification, leaving accused killer, Mafia thug Barry Muldanno, is about to go to trial. behind dazed witnesses and death-and compelling Alex and Milo to 11CD $49.95 Narrated by Michael Beck, D. W. confront the true face of murderous madness. Moffett, Blair Brown 8CD UA $69.95 Narrated by John Rubinstein

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David Stone. The Orpheus Deception Michael Gruber. The Forgery of Venus CIA cleaner Micah Dalton returns Chaz Wilmot makes his living for another go-round of cranking out old-master parodies international espionage, for ads and magazine covers. government cover-ups, and high- Offered a job restoring a Venetian intensity pursuit that has palace fresco, he is at first sceptical cemented this series in the best – he immediately sees it is more a of spy fiction. A breathtaking forgery than a restoration. But he’s assassination attempt on the soon seduced by the challenge and rainy streets of Venice sets CIA throws himself into the work, doing agent Micah Dalton on a collision the job brilliantly. course with a vengeful Serbian This attracts the attention of warlord. Werner Krebs, a shady art dealer Dalton tries to uncover the links who becomes Wilmot’s friend and between an act of brutal piracy in the South China Sea, a missing CIA patron. Wilmot’s suddenly working with a fervour he hasn’t felt in years, agent, and the real nature of an elusive hospital ship known only as but without warning, he finds himself reliving moments from his past – The Orpheus. As he seeks to unlock the shattering secret that binds not as “memories” but as if they are happening all over again. Soon, he such deceptions together, Dalton is once again ensnared in an believes he can travel back to the 17th century where he lived as the international chase that takes him from Venice to Bangkok to Spanish artist Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez. Wilmot begins to Washington, D.C., and finally to a violent confrontation with Serbian fantasize that as Velazquez, he has created a masterpiece and when terrorists in the Port of Chicago. the painting actually turns up, he doesn’t know if he painted it or if he 12CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Erik Davies imagined the whole thing. Little by little, Wilmot enters a secret world of gangsters, greed and murder, with his mystery patron at the center of it all, either as the Eric van Lustbader. Robert Ludlum’s mastermind behind a plot to forge a painting worth hundred of millions, The Bourne Betrayal or as the man who will save Wilmot from obscurity and madness. Two months after Jason Bourne’s 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Eric Conger second wife has died, he learns that Martin Lindros, his only friend in the CIA, went missing in Africa Classics where he was tracking shipments Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray of yellowcake uranium. After “If it were I,” exclaims Dorian, Bourne finds him, Martin returns “who were always to be young to the U.S., but only after he and that picture that was to persuades Bourne to go to grow old . . . I would give my Odessa to penetrate the soul for that.” clandestine world of terrorist With that spoken, the tale of this money men there. young hero of amazing beauty, In Odessa, Bourne is hampered Dorian Gray, begins. His pact by confusing flashes of memories. He becomes convinced that they’re with evil allows his portrait to false, but who planted them and why? And how can he function if he take on his many sins and can’t rely on his own memories? Eventually, Bourne figures out that the degradations while his physical man he saved in Africa isn’t his friend but a double, a terrorist intent on appearance remains youthful. Over the years as he becomes cruel and sending Bourne off on a wild goose chase while he himself steals U.S. vicious, even murderous, Dorian’s young and perfect body is no longer intelligence and uses the information to coordinate an attack against a enough to salvage his deteriorating mind and morality. Will justice and major U.S. city using nuclear devices. good prevail? 15CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Jeremy Davidson 7CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Michael Page

Randy Wayne White. Black Widow Charlotte Brontë. Villette When Doc Ford’s goddaughter, Now considered by many to be Shanay, called one day, he Charlotte Brontë’s best novel, assumed it was with details of her though unlikely to eclipse Jane imminent wedding, but the news Eyre in fame and popularity, was anything but cheerful. She Villette is largely concerned with and her bridesmaids had thrown a the experiences of Lucy Snowe in pretty wild bachelorette party - a girl’s boarding school in a and someone had secretly fictionalised Belgium. Lucy flees unhappiness in England only to videotaped it. Now that person find more abroad. Her love for Dr was threatening to blow up her John unrequited, she slowly future unless she came across realises that a deeper attachment with enough money. Ford knew it is growing between her and her irascible domineering mentor and was a mistake to trust the extortionist and not to tell her not to tell her colleague, M. Paul Emanuel. The promise of fulfilment and the fiancé - and the blackmailer took the money and released the tape on realisation of love with a man with whom she might live on something the Internet anyway. An agent of corruption like no one they have ever like equal terms hangs in the balance in a story that dwells on powerful met, the black widow is just getting started. emotions without ever lapsing into sentimentality. 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by George Guidall 16CD UA $115.95 Narrated by Mandy Weston

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Charles Dickens. Great Expectations Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Lady Audley’s Secret Narrated in the first person, Great One of Victorian England’s most Expectations tells the story of sensational novels! Philip Pirrip (known as Pip) from Dealing with bigamy, murder and his disadvantaged start as an madness it begs the question: can orphan in the Kent marshes to the women and men ever really depend improvement in his position on one another, even within following an anonymous marriage? When young Lucy allowance. Pip moves to London Graham marries Sir Michael Audley, where, only after many trials, does he is thoroughly devoted to his new he learn humility and the value of bride, although his daughter Alicia sees through her new stepmother’s loyalty. Key Dickens characters girlish ways. Shortly afterwards, Sir Michael’s nephew, the attractive abound – the convict Magwitch, but lazy barrister Robert Audley, welcomes back to England an old the eccentric Miss Havisham and the pompous Pumblechook. friend of his, George Talboys. George has returned after three years of The abridged version of Great Expectations, released in the first year fortune-hunting in Australia and is anxious to get news of his wife, of Naxos AudioBooks, won one of the leading awards in the UK, and whom he had to leave when their financial situation became desperate. rightly so. During the award ceremony, the opening, with the He was hoping to return to her with Australian gold, but he reads in the remarkable contrasting voices of Pip and Magwitch held the audience newspaper that she has died, and suffers a breakdown. It is left to spellbound. Ever since then, Anton has been keen to record the work Robert Audley to care for his friend, and hoping to distract him, he complete and, at last, here it is – a truly outstanding reading of this takes George to visit Audley Court. But George mysteriously work. disappears, and Robert Audley takes up his case with a newfound 15CD UA $139.95 Narrated by Anton Lesser passion and energy. Like the best detective novels, the plot unravels at great pace, until the truth is revealed about Lady Audley’s secret. H. G. Wells; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Joseph Conrad; 4CD $59.95 Narrated by Juliet Stevenson Saki; R. L. Stevenson; E. A. Poe; Rudyard Kipling; Oscar Wilde. The Orson Welles Library Anonymous, translated by Benedict Flynn. Orson Welles’s remarkable Sir Gawain and the Green Knight career as director, producer, It’s Christmas at Camelot and screenwriter, author, and actor King Arthur won’t begin to feast may have caused some to forget until he has witnessed a marvel of his days in radio theatre. This set chivalry. A mysterious knight, is a wonderful reminder. Welles’s green from head to toe, rides in marvelous voice, moving in pitch and brings the court’s wait to an and tone, is closer to music than end with an unusual challenge to speech. Best of all are Welles’s the Round Table: he will allow any introductions to the stories, in of the knights to strike him once, particular that of H. G. Wells, as with a battle-axe no less, on the Orson recalls his historic radio condition that he is allowed to reading of The War of the return the blow a year hence. Worlds. A delightful collection and a tribute to Welles’s talent. This new translation keeps all the poetic power of the original’s Contains: Wakefield by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Red Room and extraordinary alliteration. In doing so it brings the saga vividly to life, The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells; The Secret Sharer by Joseph and in a manner that demands to be heard. Conrad; Sredni Vashtar by Saki; Letter to the Reverend Dr Hyde by One of the greatest stories of English literature from any period, Sir Robert Louis Stevenson; The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe; The Gawain and the Green Knight is a magical medieval combination of Way through the Woods, Mandalay, Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard the epic and the uncanny to be enjoyed in this new verse translation. Kipling; The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde. 2CD $31.95 Narrated by Jasper Britton 4CD $29.95 Narrated by Orson Welles Anonymous, translated by J. R. R. Tolkien. Elizabeth Gaskell. Cranford Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Pearl; Sir Orfeo In the village of Cranford, Another translation of the splendid decorum is maintained at all mediæval tale, by Tolkien. times. Despite their poverty, the Accompanying the Sir Gawain ladies are never vulgar about and the Green Knight are Sir money (or their lack of it), and Orfeo, a mediæval version of the always follow the rules of story of Orpheus and Eurydice, a propriety. love so strong that it overcame But this discretion and gentility death, and Pearl, the moving tale does not keep away tragedy; and of a man in a graveyard mourning when the worst happens, the his baby daughter, lost like a pearl Amazons of Cranford show the that slipped through his fingers. Worn out by grief, he falls asleep and true strength of their honest dreams of meeting her in a bejwelled fantasy world. affections. J. R. R. Tolkien’s vivid and definitive verse translations of these A masterpiece of social comedy, Cranford is as moving as it is funny, fourteenth-century poems are brought to life by mediæval scholar and and as sharp as it is tender. former Python Terry Jones. 6CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Clare Wille 4CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Terry Jones

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Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich Dean Koontz. Life Expectancy “How it happened it is impossible Jimmy Tock comes into the world to say because it came about on the very storm-tossed night his step by step, unnoticed, but in grandfather Josef leaves it. At the the third month of Ivan Iych’s very height of the storm’s fury, illness, his wife, his daughter, his Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed son, his acquaintances, the and speaks coherently for the frist doctors, the servants, and above and last time since his stroke. all he himself, were aware that What he says before he dies is the whole interest he had for that there will be five dark days in other people was whether he the life of his grandson – five dates would soon vacate his place, and whose terrible events Jimmy will at last release the living from the have to prepare himself to face. discomfort caused by his presence and be himself released from his Josef also predicted the time of his grandson’s birth to the minute, as sufferings.” well as his exact height and weight, and the fact that Jimmy would be Drawing on the experience of his own struggle to find enlightenment born with syndactyly – the unexplained anomal of fused digits – on his and a deeper spiritual understanding of life, Tolstoy in The Death of left foot. Suddenly the old man’s predictions take on a chilling Ivan Ilych takes us on the final journey towards death with Ivan Ilych, significance. who, falling victim to an incurable illness, ponders on his own life – its What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? shallowness, its materialistic viewpoint and lack of compassion, 10CD UA $89.95 Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd wondering what is the meaning of it all. At times sombre, at times satirical, Tolstoy’s novel raises questions about the way we live and Dean Koontz. Brother Odd how we should strive even at the end to seek final redemption. It is a Loop me in, odd one. The words, powerful masterpiece of psychological exploration. spoken in the deep of night by a 3CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Oliver Ford Davies sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles favourite phrase of Stormy Tess Durbeyfield is forced by her Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy family’s poverty to claim kinship is dead, gone forever from this with the wealthy D’Urbervilles. world. In the haunted halls of the Violated by the son, Alec, her isolated monastery where he had hopes of rebuilding her life with sought peace, Odd Thomas is the gentle and bookish Angel stalking spirits of an infinitely Clare founder when he learns of darker nature. her past. St. Bartholomew’s Abbey sits in Set among the lush pastures and majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of California’s high Sierra, a bleak uplands of Hardy’s haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those imagined Wessex, and filled with seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again. unforgettable images of But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto tenderness and tragedy, the story examines conventional morality his path in the form of the sinister bodachs he has met previously, the through Tess herself, one of the best-loved characters in English black shades who herald death and disaster. literature. 8CD UA $49.95 Narrated by David Aaron Baker Socially critical and emotionally complex, Tess of the D’Urbervilles is Hardy’s masterpiece. Ambrose Bierce; B. M. Croker; F. Marion Crawford; 14CD UA $169.95 Narrated by Anna Bentinck J. Sheridan le Fanu. The Moonlit Road and other chilling stories These five chilling nineteenth- century ghost stories from both Horror sides of the Atlantic include some Dean Koontz. Winter Moon of the best in the genre. Bierce is Deepest night, Montana. An well-known, but To Let by B. M. eerie light proclaims the arrival of Croker and The Upper Berth a mysterious watcher in the provide moments to tingle the woods. And one solitary man spine, as does An Account of begins a desperate battle against Some Strange Disturbances by something unknown - and Le Fanu. This collection, which is unknowable. further enhanced by suitably Broad daylight, Los Angeles. chilling music, was originally An ordinary morning erupts in released under the title Classic Chilling Tales III. cataclysmic violence. A young An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street, by family is shattered in a heartbeat. J.S. Le Fanu; That Damned Thing, by Ambrose Bierce; The Moonlit Fate will lead this family to an Road, by Ambrose Bierce; The Upper Berth, by F. Marion Crawford; isolated Montana ranch, but their To Let, by B.M. Croker. sanctuary will become their worst nightmare. For there they will face a 2CD UA $31.95 Narrated by Jonathan Keeble, Clare chillingly ruthless enemy, from which no one - living or dead - is safe. Anderson, Garrick Hagon and Kate 10CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Christopher Lane Harper

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Stephen King. Duma Key Louis L’Amour. Ride the Dark Trail A terrible construction site Filled with exciting tales of the accident takes Edgar frontier, the chronicle of the Freemantle’s right arm and Sackett family is perhaps the scrambles his memory and his crowning achievement of one of mind, leaving him with little but our greatest storytellers. In Ride rage as he begins the ordeal of the Dark Trail L’Amour tells the rehabilitation. A marriage that story of Logan Sackett, a cynical produced two lovely daughters drifter who changes his ways to suddenly ends, and Edgar begins help a widow keep her land from to wish he hadn’t survived the falling into the wrong hands.... injuries that could have killed Logan Sackett was wild and him. He wants out. His rootless, riding west in search of psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a “geographic cure,” a new life easy living. Then he met Emily distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from Talon, a fiery old widow who was even wilder than he was. Tall and scratch. And Kamen suggests something else. lean, Em was determined to defend herself against the locals who were “Edgar, does anything make you happy?” trying to steal her land. “I used to sketch.” Logan didn’t want to get involved, until he found out that Em had been “Take it up again. You need hedges... hedges against the night.” born a Sackett. Em was bucking overwhelming odds, but Logan Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly wouldn’t let her stand alone. For even the rebellious drifter knew that beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. Now Edgar part of being a Sackett was backing up your family when they needed paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a you. weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. 5CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Terrence Mann When Elizabeth’s past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating. Louis L’Amour. The Sky-Liners 18CD UA $75.00 Narrated by John Slattery Flagan and Galloway Sackett are heading west from Tennessee to seek their fortunes. That’s when W esterns they came across an old Irish Louis L’Amour. Keep Travelin’, Rider trader who offered them two fine Tack Gentry has been away for a horses if they would agree to year when he returns to the familiar escort his granddaughter, Judith, to buildings of his uncle John Gentry’s her father in Colorado. Flagan saw G Bar. To his amazement and nothing but trouble in the fiery concern, the ranch has a new young woman, but they needed the owner, who is unimpressed when horses. Unfortunately, Flagan was right, for Judith had fallen for Tack explains that his uncle was a James Black Fetchen, a Quaker, didn’t believe in violence, charismatic gunman whose courtship hid the darkest intentions. and never carried a gun. His advice Now Fetchen and his gang are racing the Sackett brothers to Colorado to Tack is to make tracks. – leaving behind a trail of betrayal, robbery, and murder. Flagan and But Tack has other plans. Galloway can only guess why Judith is so important to Fetchen and 1CD UA $19.95 Narrated by William Dufris what awaits them at her father’s ranch. One thing Flagan knows for sure: The tough and spirited woman has won his heart. But can he Louis L’Amour. Trio of Tales: McQueen of the trust her with his life? Tumbling K, Big Medicine, and Dutchman’s Flat 5CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Jason Culp In McQueen of the Tumbling K, Ward McQueen, foreman for the Louis L’Amour. The Sackett Brand Tumbling K Ranch, rides into Tell Sackett and his bride Ange town and is shot down by came to Arizona to build a home gunmen and left for dead. But and start a family. But on Black they made a critical mistake, Mesa something goes terribly because McQueen is not dead— wrong. Tell is ambushed and badly and he’s looking to get even. injured. When he finally manages In Big Medicine, old Billy to drag himself back to where he Dunbar has discovered the best left Ange, she is gone. Desperate, gold-bearing gravel he had found cold, hungry, and with nothing to in a year, but now he is lying defend himself, Tell is stalked like a face down in a ravine, hiding from Apaches. He’s going to need a good wounded animal. Hiding from his strategy to get out of this one alive. attackers, his rage and frustration In Dutchman’s Flat, a posse of six heads into the desert after a mount as he tries to figure out who squatter named Lock who shot a man in the back. Once they catch the men are, why they are trying to kill him, and what has happened to him, there won’t be any trial. But Lock knows the desert better than his wife. Discovering the truth will be risky. And when he finally does, it they do and knows how to pick them off one by one. will be their turn to run. 2CD UA $29.95 Narrated by William Dufris 4CD UA $39.95 Narrated by David Strathairn

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Louis L’Amour. Bowdrie Passes Through; Where Steve Hockensmith. The Black Dove Buzzards Fly; No Man’s Land Mystery series of the Old West, Bowdrie Passes Through: “Holmes on the Range” Llegendary Texas Ranger Chick In the summer of 1893, Gustav Bowdrie takes up the cause of “Old Red” Amlingmeyer and his Josh Pettibone, a stubborn loner brother Otto (a.k.a. “Big Red”) who faces the hangman’s noose. find themselves down and out Bugs Tatum wants Pettibone’s in San Francisco. Though land – and he’s willing to do cowpokes by training, the anything to get it. But Bowdrie can brothers are devotees of the not rest until justice is served! late great Sherlock Holmes and Where Buzzards Fly: Texas his trademark method of Ranger Chick Bowdrie tracks the “deducifying”. But when they set out to land jobs as professional killers of an infamous Mexican detectives, they land themselves in hot water, instead. outlaw, Zaparo and 14 of his desperadoes. With scarcely a clue to the First their friend Dr. Chan mysteriously takes a potshot at them, fatally ruthless ambush, Bowdrie is led to the K-Bar Ranch, and the beautiful wounding Big Red’s new hat. Then a secretive young woman from their girlfriend of the last living member of Zaparo’s gang, only to find his past pops up and convinces them that Chan’s in trouble – and they’re prime suspect is closer to the Texas Rangers than he ever dreamed. just the men to get him out of it. Unfortunately, they’re too late: By the No Man’s Man: Passion and the promise of $5000 drives Lou Morgan time they track Chan down again, he’s dead. The police call it a to the town of Battle Basin where the wildly irresistible Nana Maduro suicide. Old Red calls that a lie. When he and his brother set out to lives. Morgan had loved her enough to kill for her, but she’d walked prove it, they put themselves on a collision course with shady S.F.P.D. from him without a word. Now, bitter but still caught in her spell, cops, brutal Barbary Coast hoodlums and the deadly Chinatown tongs. Morgan hires on with one of Nana’s suitors to eliminate that man’s rival. But when Morgan finds himself the target of two brutal killers, he 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by William Dufris can’t help but wonder what Nana’s admirers are really after... or if he’ll live to find out. Elmore Leonard. Western Roundup 3CD $29.95 Performed by cast Set against a breathtaking landscape painted with eloquent Classic Radio WESTERN. Frontier Gentleman stories, here are the extraordinary characters, the desperate odds, Join John Dehner as J.B. Kendall, a British reporter for the London and the spirit of a wild frontier as Times who writes and fights his only Elmore Leonard can evoke way through the Wild West. them. In these three classic novels, Roaming the territories in search of Leonard has crafted raw, hard- “colourful and unusual accounts”, bitten tales of courage, treachery, and his notoriously delayed and redemption. paycheck, he has regular brushes The Bounty Hunters: a with both the famous and the cavalryman turned Indian scout infamous. In exacting encounters rides after an Apache renegade, while he himself is pursued by a hate- and treacherously tight spots, filled relationship with a powerful army commander. Kendall can hold his own. While Forty Lashes Less One: two prisoners search for a way out of a this Frontier Gentleman may be hellhole of hatred and suffering – and find it in a crazed, violent contest. well spoken and meticulously Gunsights: an Arizona land war draws a carnival of reporters, mannered, that doesn’t mean he can’t handle himself with a gun. And photographers, and spectators, while it puts two fierce frontier fighters he’s no slouch when it comes to cards either! and best friends on opposite sides of a deadly serious fight. This 8 hour collection from 1958 features the first 16 episodes + the 4CD $39.95 Narrated by Peter Renaday audition recording of this classic adult Western. 8CD UA $59.95 Performed by John Dehner and cast Joseph M. Marshall III. Hundred in the Hand Seeking to complete the compelling Robert B. Parker. Resolution story of the American West, best- Everett Hitch, gun-for-hire, takes a selling Lakota author Joseph job as a lookout at Amos Wolfson’s Marshall brings a new slant to the Blackfoot Saloon in the dusty town traditional Western: historical fiction of Resolution. It’s a relief when his written from the Native American friend Virgil Cole arrives in town – viewpoint. because trouble is on the way. This riveting novel takes place Greedy mine owner Eamon during the Battle of the Hundred in O’Malley is threatening the loose the Hand, otherwise known as the coalition of local ranches and Fetterman Massacre of 1866. The buying up Resolution’s few story is told through the eyes of businesses. Hitch and Cole find Cloud, a dedicated warrior who themselves in the middle of a fights alongside a young Crazy Horse, as well as the white soldiers makeshift war between O’Malley’s men and the ranchers. In a place who mistake Cloud’s redheaded wife for a captive. Beautifully written where law and order don’t exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, and reminiscent of the oral tradition, Hundred in the Hand brings new guided by their sense of duty, honour and friendship. depth to the story of the battle and the Lakota people. 4CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Titus Welliver 8CD UA $119.95 Narrated by Author

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Humorous Fiction P.G. Wodehouse. Ukridge “Laddie… write my Garrison Keillor. Prairie Home Christmas biography. Bung it down on It’s Christmas at the old radio show, paper… at a conservative a sweet time when the lords leap and estimate, we should clean the pipers pipe and the Hopeful up at least fifty thousand Gospel Quartet sings and J.S. Bach pounds apiece.” sturggles to write his Oratorio and Scrooge learns the meaning of Bah- Thus spake Stanley Feather- Humbug and Pat Donohue plays a Stonehaugh Ukridge to his blue Silent Night and the shepherds long-suffering friend Corky watch their flocks and Jessica burns Corcoran. Corky, whose the lobster bisque and everyone literary efforts to date have sings O Little Town of Bethlehem with a whistling chorus. consisted of weekly newspaper articles of the type, “Should Curates Christmas Time’s a Comin’; Jordan Carols; Shop for Christmas Kiss?”, and a single music hall song, “Mother, She’s Pinching My Leg,” Presents;Scrooge; Children, go Where I Send Thee; Christmas Gifts for the is reluctant. Nonetheless he grudgingly admits that if the leading Staff; If It Doesn’t Snow on Christmas; Settin’ By the Fire; Nothing But a Child; Christ Child’s Lullaby; Nowel: Owt of Your Sleep; Bach’s Christmas Oratorio; incidents of S.F. Ukridge’s disreputable career are to be given to the Polish Christmas with Walter Bobbie; Det Kimmer Nu; Oh How Lovely is the public and not, as some might suggest, decently hushed up, then he is Evening; Silent Night; Nine Lessons and Carols; Carol of the Children; Mr. the man to do it. Bergy’s Christmas; Solstice Medley; Christmas Pageant; There are Angels Ukridge, we learn, has flitted about the world like a snipe, leaving a trail Hovering Round; O Little Town Of Bethlehem of havoc and disaster in his wake. His efforts to make money are all 2CD UA $36.95 Performed by Garrison Keillor & inspired, and all mysteriously doomed. hundreds of friends and acquaintances 6CD UA $94.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson

Tim Dorsey. Atomic Lobster Jimmy Buffett. Swine Not? “Sunshine State” historian and spree When Southern belle Ellie killer Serge Storms is back for another McBride moves her twins from weird and manic adventure. Vertigo, Tennessee to New York It’s reunion time in the Sunshine City, they wouldn’t dream of State, and we’re not just talking the family jamboree of that blood-soaked leaving behind the family pig criminal clan, the McGraws, whose Rumpy. But the posh hotel where nastiest, meanest member is finally Ellie has found work (and living released from prison and heads south space) has “No Pets” writ large bent on revenge. On top of it all, the on its portal. government is covering up a growing So hiding Rumpy from the hotel list of mysterious victims across Florida who may or may not be staff – especially the ultra- connected to a nefarious plot being hatched against national security. carnivorous hotel chef, who would like nothing better than to transform And who is the oddly familiar femme fatale named Rachael? Is Serge their pet into pork roast – becomes imperative! wrong that guns, drugs, and strippers don’t mix? What finally brings 5CD UA $49.95 Narrated by L. J. Ganser Coleman and Lenny together? Will they succeed in building the biggest bong ever? And can Serge surf a rogue wave to victory? AVAILABLE by the same author: Hurricane Punch; Torpedo Juice Romantic Suspsense 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Oliver Wyman Nora Roberts. Blood Brothers Book 1 of Sign of Seven Trilogy P.G. Wodehouse. Leave It To Psmith In the small village of Hawkins Dim-brained Hon. Freddie Hollow, three best friends who Threepwood wants to start a bookie share the same birthday sneak business and marry the beauteous off into the woods for a sleepover and elusive Eve Halliday, and his the evening before turning 10. Uncle Joe wants to raise some money on the quiet to help out his But a night of celebration turns runaway stepdaughter. Convincing into a night of horror as their his uncle that the solution to both blood brother oath unleashes a problems is to steal his wife’s three-hundred-year-old curse… necklace, Freddie enlists the services Twenty-one years later, Cal of dashing R. Psmith. Never one to Hawkins and his friends have hang back when adventure beckons, seen their town plagued by a Psmith is delighted to perform such a simple act of courtesy as week of unexplainable evil pinching Lady Constance’s juicy string of pearls. events two more times - every seven years. Quinn is a well known Sharply drawn characters, amusing plots and counterplots, and his investigative journalist, and despite Cal’s protests, she insists on own captivating brand of humor rank this infectious novel alongside the delving into the mystery. But when the first signs of evil appear months author’s immortal Jeeves. early, it’s not only the town Cal has to protect, but also his heart. 7CD UA $99.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson 9CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Phil Gigante

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Sandra Brown. Best Kept Secrets Catherine Coulter. Tailspin Alexandra Gaither is an attorney FBI Special Agent Jackson Crowne is who finally has the power to get flying renowned psychiatrist Dr the justice she needs. Twenty- Timothy MacLean back to five years before, her mother had Washington, D.C., to protect him and died a scandalous death. Alex discover who’s trying to kill him. But believes one of three powerful the plane crashes, and they barely men murdered her. Each is escape with their lives. charming, each is a suspect, and Their crash is witnessed by Rachael each tries to shield her from his Abbott, who’s just escaped from a past. But not one of them can murderous attack herself. stop her passionate search for When married couple / FBI agents the truth. Like her mother before Savich and Sherlock arrive, they’re her, Alex sparks controversy and excitement in this remote Texas sure Rachel is hiding something big. It only gets worse - Dr MacLean is town. Now, as she investigates her mother’s former lover, his best diagnosed with frontal lobe dementia, a disease that makes the victim friend, and the father figure to them both, she will risk everything to say whatever comes to mind with no regard to consequences. With a uncover their best kept secrets. patient list of Washington’s elite movers and shakers, MacLean has 11CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Dick Hill almost certainly compromised doctor-patient confidentiality, and one of his patients might just be out to shut him up… Sandra Brown. Mirror Image 10CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Joyce Bean, Paul Costanzo The crash of a Dallas-bound jet wasn’t just a tragedy to TV reporter Catherine Coulter. Double Take Avery Daniels; it was an act of fate The police are convinced that Julia that handed her a golden Ransom was guilty of the brutal opportunity to further her career. murder of her husband, renowned Mistaken for a glamorous, selfish psychic August Ransom. But after woman named Carole Rutledge, the six months of investigation and badly injured Avery would find that media frenzy, she is free of their plastic surgery had given her scrutiny, because of the lack of Carole’s face, the famous senatorial evidence. But that’s not the end of candidate for a husband, and a the nightmare. A respectable- powerful Texas dynasty for in-laws. looking stranger tries to throw her And as she lay helpless in the over the railing into San Fransisco hospital, she would make a shattering discovery: someone close to the Bay, and if it weren’t for Special senator planned to assassinate him. Now, to save the life of the man Agent Cheney Stone, Julia would have drowned. Cheney realizes the she loved, Avery must live another woman’s life - and risk her own... attempt on Julia’s life has to connect to the murder of her husband, and 13CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Dick Hill re-opens the investigation with the SFPD. In Maestro, Virginia, Sheriff Dixon Noble learns about a woman named Elizabeth Lowell. The Wrong Hostage Charlotte Pallack, whose extraordinary resemblance to his vanished A chilling tale of the law gone wife, Christie, gone for three years, sends him across the country. wrong and a kidnapping that Although in his heart he knows that this woman can’t possibly be his threatens more than one life. missing wife, Dix is compelled to see her with his own eyes… Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Sandra Burr, Phil Gigante clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of Elizabeth Lowell. Blue Smoke and Murder the most respected judges on the Jill Breck was just doing her job as federal bench. Grace believes in a river guide when she saved the the rule of law - lives it, breathes life of Lane Faroe, son of two of St. it. She has always been buttoned Kilda Consulting’s premier up and buttoned down. Except operators. But when a string of once. ominous events culminates in a Joe Faroe has learned that laws threat to her life, Jill reluctantly calls are made by politicians, and politicians are all too human. He believes in a favor. in the innocents, the ones getting ground up by governments that are Zach Balfour works part-time as a too corrupt to protect their own citizens. He’s been through the political consultant for St. Kilda. His meat grinder himself. It cost him his career, his freedom, and the expertise is gathering and woman who still haunts him. Since then Faroe has worked outside the analyzing information from unlikely and often dangerous sources. rules as a kidnap specialist for St. Kilda Consulting, a Manhattan-based Though he’s got the skills to be a highly effective bodyguard, being a global business that concentrates on the shadow world. He is good at bullet catcher isn’t his preferred way to spend time. his work – intelligent, confident, ruthless. Until a friend dies trying to Protecting Jill will take him into familiar territory – among a strange, kill him. savagely competitive bunch of collectors who’ll do anything to stay at Now Faroe is out of the business. Then Grace comes to him and Faroe the top. But Jill is in deeper waters than she’s ever known; as she soon finds himself sucked back into the shadows, tracking a violent killer discovers, the perils of running wild rivers are tame compared with the who holds the life of Grace’s son in his bloody hands. hidden dangers in the high-stakes game of art collecting. 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Maria Tucci 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Carol Monda

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Elizabeth Lowell. Autumn Lover Romance Returning to her Wyoming ranch at Danielle Steel. Amazing Grace the Civil War’s end, Elyssa Sutton On a warm May night in San finds it picked bare by scavengers Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom and coveted by determined men. shimmers with crystal and silver as a Yet the proud young woman vows celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a never again to abandon her Ruby charity dinner dance. But just before Mountain home, though it means midnight, the room begins to sway. enlisting the aid of a dark and Glass shatters. And as the lights go dangerous stranger who lives for out, people begin to scream. revenge alone. In the earthquake’s aftermath, the Hunter Maxwell has suffered from lives of four strangers will converge. the savagery of outlaws and the faithlessness of a woman. And he will Sarah Sloane, the beautiful wife of a trust no female - nor will he rest until the raiders who destroyed his financial whiz, watches her perfect family pay for their crimes. world fall to pieces. Grammy-winning singer Melanie Free, the events A woman in need, a man in pain, in fury and fire they must now stand headliner, comes to a turning point in her life and career. Photographer Everett Carson, a former war correspondent whose personal demons as one - to fight for something cherished, something lost ... and for a have demoted him to covering society parties, finds new purpose amid passion neither dreamed could live. the carnage, and Sister Maggie Kent, a nun who normally works in 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Laural Merlington jeans and high-tops with the homeless, searches through the rubble. As the city staggers back to life, a chain reaction of extraordinary Rachael Treasure. The Rouseabout events will touch each of the survivors. Kate Webster is a loveable larrikin 8CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Tom Dheere who likes to play hard now and worry about the consequences Danielle Steel. Honor Thyself later. She can’t help mucking up World-renowned actress Carole the opportunities life gives her. Barber has come to Paris to work on Rocked by the death of her her novel. On this cool November mother, she takes on a dare at evening, as her taxi speeds into a one of Australia’s wildest rural tunnel just past the Louvre, a fiery social events - a Bachelors & instant of terror shatters hundreds of Spinsters ball - to ‘scalp’ gorgeous lives - and leaves Carole alone, farm boy Nick McDonnell. It’s a unconscious and unidentified in a dare that changes everything. For just as Kate is ready to start her new Paris emergency room. life, away from her grieving father and the pressures of the family farm, Friends and family begin to make she discovers she is pregnant. inquiries, and the shock when they Now, several years later, with toddler Nell by her side, its time for Kate discover that Carole is and fighting to come home to face the music - and the father of her child. for her life has them praying for a miracle. A mysterious stranger is also 9CD UA $34.95 Narrated by Miranda Nation there to see the woman he once loved and never forgot. But when Carole wakes, she knows nothing of herself. Julie Garwood. Shadow Music It’s the most extraordinary experience, a second chance to count her For Princess Gabrielle of St. Biel, blessings, to piece together the past from the unintentional hurt inflicted Scotland is a land of stunning vistas, on her daughter, discovering a secret 15-year-old love affair, and to live a life that will truly honour others… beginning with herself. wild chieftains, treacherous glens, and steep shadows-skullduggery, 8CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Kyf Brewer betrayal, and now murder. Prized for her exquisite beauty, the daughter of Tami Hoag. Taken By Storm one of England’s most influential As a trauma nurse, Julia McCarver barons, Gabrielle is also a perfect is accustomed to dealing with life- bargaining chip for a king who needs and-death emergencies. But she is peace in the Highlands: King John the one in shock when she answers has arranged Gabrielle’s marriage to the door and finds the past standing there in the person of S. a good and gentle laird. But this T. “Storm” Dalton. Julia had marriage will never take place. painstakingly put her life together For Gabrielle, everything changes when she and her guards come not just once but three times in the upon a scene of unimaginable cruelty. With one shot from her bow and wake of his abrupt and devastating arrow, Gabrielle takes a life, saves a life, and begins a war. departures, and she has no Within days, the Highlands are aflame with passions as a battle royal intention of doing it a fourth time. flares between enemies old and new. Having come to Scotland to be Because that’s what S.T. promises he will do – break her engagement married, Gabrielle is instead entangled in Highland intrigue. For two to another man, her heart, and her future all over again. Except, of sadistic noblemen, underestimating Gabrielle’s bravery and prowess course, that’s not what he calls his plan to win her back. He gives may prove fatal. But thanks to a secret Gabrielle possesses, Colm himself two weeks to convince Julia that he’s changed, that she is still MacHugh, the most feared man in Scotland, finds a new cause for in love with him, and that – despite conventional wisdom – the fourth courage. Under his penetrating gaze, neither Gabrielle’s body nor heart time lightning struck can be a charm. is safe. 5CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Donna Rawlins 9CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Rosalyn Landor

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Johanna Lindsey. The Devil Who Tamed Her Johanna Lindsey. Love Only Once Ophelia Reid is an incomparable beauty The exquisite niece of Lord Edward who’s purposely wrecked the and Lady Charlotte Malory, Regina engagement to Duncan MacTavish Ashton is outraged over her abduction which her social-climbing father had by the arrogant, devilishly handsome arranged. On her journey back home, Nicholas Eden - and is determined to something unexpected happens... make the rogue pay... with his heart. The heir to a dukedom, Raphael Locke, A golden-haired seducer, Nicholas has Viscount Lynnfield is - in spite of his uninterest in marriage - the most sought- been hardened by a painful secret in after young lord in England. He instantly his past. And now that he has disliked Ophelia when she caused a besmirched Reggie’s good name, the scandal to avoid marriage to his friend hot-tempered lady has vowed to wed MacTavish, but having comforted her in a tearful moment, he begins to him. Her fiery beauty stirs Nicholas as no woman ever has - and the wonder if she’s not all bad. So when MacTavish claims that Ophelia will rake arouses Reggie’s passion to an unendurable level. Such never be anything but a spiteful beauty, Rafe bets his best friend that uncontrolled desires can lead only to dangerous misunderstandings... he can turn her hard heart into kindness. and, perhaps, to a love that can live only once in a lifetime. With her parents’ blessing, Rafe whisks Ophelia off to show his furious, 7CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Laural Merlington sharp-tongued “guest” the error of her ways, but soon discovers the surprising reasons for her bad behavior. Soon his daily lessons with Johanna Lindsey. Tender Rebel Ophelia take effect and he finds himself irresistibly attracted to her. But Scottish beauty Roslynn Chadwick has he softened her heart for another – or for himself? needs the safety of marriage to 8CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Laural Merlington protect her from an unscrupulous cousin and the fortune-hunting Johanna Lindsey. Gentle Rogue scoundrels who covet her wealth. Heartsick and desperate to leave her And Anthony Malory is precisely the sorrows on England’s shores, sort of handsome rogue she’s been innocent Georgina Anderson seeks warned against. passage on the gentleman’s ship, A cunning, ruthless, yet irresistible Maiden Anne, disguised as a cabin rake, Anthony’s sensual blue eyes boy. The captain, however, is no speak of pleasures beyond her gentleman; he’s the ex-pirate and irrepressible rake, James Malory. imagining - and Roslynn dearly The black sheep of a proud, wishes she dared to surrender to such a man. Believing his passionate tempestuous family, Malory soon promises will surely lead to disaster. But denying her heart may cost sees through Georgina’s masquerade the exquisite Highlands lady an unparalleled love hotter than flame and and is enchanted by the courageous, more precious than the rarest jewel. high-spirited lady he has forced into intimate servitude. But though he 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Laural Merlington has sworn he will never be enticed into matrimony, Captain Malory has finally met his match on the high seas - undone by the passionate heart Catherine Coulter. Mad Jack of this beauty whose love of freedom and adventure rivals his own. Dear Reader: 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Laural Merlington Mad Jack is lots of fun. You’re going to meet two of the Johanna Lindsey. No Choice But Seduction neatest people in 1811 When Sir Anthony Malory’s young London. In addition, you’ll daughter is abducted from London’s Hyde revisit the Sherbrookes - Park, her kidnapper mistakenly sends the Douglas and Ryder, and see ransom note to the home of Sir Anthony’s what’s going on with them eight brother, James. With James and his wife, years after you first met them. Georgina, in the Caribbean, the demands As for Sinjun, she and Colin are received by their houseguest - Kinross have been married for Georgina’s youngest brother, Boyd four years and Colin is in a real tizzy. Anderson. Searching for the girl with Mad Jack is in reality Winifrede Levering Bascombe, who, happily, has Anthony, the notoriously hot-headed her name changed very quickly in the story. She arrives in London with American sea captain fully intends to the aunts, Mathilda and Maude, to beg the assistance of Lord Cliffe, make the foolhardy villain pay. But he hardly expects to find exquisite Grayson St. Cyre. He welcomes the aunts, briefly spots the valet, Jack, Katey Tyler, recently a passenger on his ship, at the centre of the plot! and proceeds very quickly after their arrival to fall down the rabbit hole. Little does Katey realize that in having caught the attention of Boyd He catches the valet, Jack, stealing his horse, Durban, chases Jack Anderson - and in meeting up with the Malorys - she’s about to down, and then all sorts of interesting things happen. Enter Sinjun with experience more excitement than the typical young lady encounters on her frantic husband, Colin, on her trail. a grand tour, and her life will never be dull again. For a multitude of Amidst all the laughter, however, there lurks a deadly secret that’s surprises await Katey, from the startling truth about her mother’s early ready to leap out and crush both Jack and Gray. You’ll hold your breath life… to the lengths a man will go to win the affections of a lady who when a tough-brained Jack and a furious Gray get together and has every reason to despise him - but who can’t resist the seductive, discover the truth of the accusation that could do them in before they impassioned love he has to offer her. can even get started with their lives. 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Laural Merlington 9CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Anne T. Flosnik

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Catherine Coulter. Wizard’s Daughter Fern Michaels. Up Close and Personal When Ryder Sherbrooke finds a child For generations, the Windsors have lived nearly beaten to death in an alley in on the family’s grand estate in Eastbourne, he takes her home to Crestwood, South Carolina, as Brandon House. She doesn’t speak for six intertwined with local life as sweet tea months. Her first words are a haunting and pecan pie. Now, on the anniversary song: But I know of his death and her of her daughter Emily’s death, Sarabess grievous sin. Windsor believes she may be the last to She names herself Rosalind de la carry the family name - unless she can Fontaine since she can’t remember who find her second daughter, Trinity, who she is. In her first season in London in disappeared fifteen years ago. 1835, she meets Nicholas Vail, the 7th Trinity grew up as Trinity Henderson, Earl of Mountjoy, newly arrived from adopted by the Windsor foreman and his Macau. It is instant fascination on both their parts, but for different wife. Trinity was conceived not out of love, but out of Sarabess’s reasons. desperate attempt to prolong Emily’s life by providing a bone marrow With Grayson Sherbrooke, they are led to an ancient copy of a donor. On her fifteenth birthday, Trinity ran away and hasn’t been seen mysterious book written by a 16th-century wizard, in a baffling code in Crestwood since. But the town has never forgotten her...especially that only Rosalind can read. not handsome lawyer Jake Forrest. And although Jake has no desire to Strange things start happening. Both Nicholas and Rosalind know it help selfish Sarabess Windsor, the thought of seeing his childhood has to do with the old book and, perhaps, even her past, particularly friend again fills a void in his heart that Jake didn’t even know existed. the song she first sang as a child. The urgency builds as they realise 7CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Laural Merlington Rosalind is the key to a centuries-old mystery. 10CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Anne T. Flosnik Danielle Steel. Rogue Brilliant, charismatic and wholly Elizabeth Lowell. Untamed unpredictable, Blake Williams made A hero of the crusades, Dominic le millions and grabbed headlines as a Sabre has returned in glory and in dot-com entrepreneur. His only triumph to claim his reward: the shortcoming was as a husband - first beautiful Saxon bride awarded to him by his work, and then his never-ending the conqueror king. But Lady Margaret quest for fun kept him constantly on of the Blackthorne cannot yield to the the move. For five years, Blake and bold Norman invader. The beloved Maxine had worked out an odd but daughter of a sacred tribe of the Celtic amicable divorce, with friendly though mystics, she fears an ancient curse that infrequent visits, a yacht he lends her could bring further turmoil to her battle- every summer, and three children they scarred land... and sorrow to her both adore. Then everything changes. marriage bed. For Maxine, it starts when she falls in love with Dr Charles West, a man With a word, the lady could turn her wedding into war. But there awaits who is everything Blake is not - mature, grounded, and present. For in the noble knight’s embrace a promise of passion unbound - and a Blake, it begins when a devastating earthquake strikes near one of his love that neither violence nor treachery can tear asunder, a love both palatial foreign homes, and he sees hundreds of orphaned children in invincible and... untamed. need of shelter. Now, Blake wants Maxine in his life again - as a 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Anne T. Flosnik partner in a humanitarian project that could change countless lives. But Blake’s sudden transformation - from carefree playboy to Victoria Alexander. Secrets of a Proper Lady compassionate, responsible grown-up - raises questions. After all, Lady Cordelia Bannister simply Maxine is on the cusp of a new life, about to marry Charles, and almost cannot marry a man she has not certain that Blake Williams, a.k.a. the Rogue, is a man capable of doing chosen herself, no matter what her anything - except change. father decrees. So, pretending to be 8CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Brian Keith Lewis her own companion, she decides to seek out information about her Nora Roberts. Rising Tides intended by meeting with his Of three brothers, it was Ethan who secretary – a man who soon beguiles shared his father’s passion for the her. But Lady Cordelia doesn’t know Maryland shore. And now with his father the truth – the man she can’t resist is gone, Ethan is determined to make the really her intended, Daniel Sinclair. family boatbuilding business a success. Daniel has nearly won the wager he But amidst his achievements lie the most made with three of London’s most eligible bachelors. While two of his important challenges of his life. compatriots have surrendered to the shackles of marriage, he’s There is young Seth, who needs him remained free to woo any woman he chooses. Yet duty forces him to more than ever. And a woman he has consider Lady Cordelia – and determined to escape honour intact, he always loved but never believed he could continues the masquerade he started. have. But beneath Ethan’s seemingly still waters is a dark and painful Each find the other completely irresistible, but when they uncover their past. He must learn to see around the shadows to accept who he is. mutual mistaken identities, Daniel and Cordelia must make the most Because through Ethan’s past lies the future - and his one chance at important choice of all. happiness. 8CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Charlotte Parry 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by David Stuart

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Nora Roberts. Inner Harbor Ken Follett. World Without End Phillip’s brothers, Cameron and Ethan, On the day after Halloween, in are now happily married. The family the year 1327, four children slip boat building business is starting to away from the cathedral city of thrive. And the Quinns are closer than Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a ever to keeping Seth permanently bully, a boy genius and a girl protected from his errant mother who who wants to be a doctor. In the would sell her own son rather than forest they see two men killed. loving him the way the Quinns do. As adults, their lives will be Phillip Quinn understands Seth’s braided together by ambition, troubled past. He has the scars from love, greed and revenge. They his own rough and tumble childhood will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the on the streets of Boston. He spent his world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt days stealing and his nights doing anything to make a fast buck. Now nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other he’s a high-powered advertising executive who favors Armani suits and will pursue an impossible love. And always they will live under the long rare wines. When he meets educated, cultured Sybill, he figures he’s shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful found his perfect match. And when he discovers she has a family childhood day. connection to young Seth, they join forces to secure the boy’s future. 12CD $69.95 Narrated by Richard E. Grant 8CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Guy Lemonier Ariana Franklin. Mistress of the Art of Death Jude Deveraux. Secrets A chilling, mesmerising novel that When Cassandra Madden was combines the best of modern twelve years old, she fell in love with forensic thrillers with the detail Jefferson Ames, a young man she and drama of historical fiction. met at one of her mother’s business In mediaeval Cambridge, conferences. She was a lonely child, England, four children have been with a cold mother, and holding onto murdered. The crimes are her love for Jeff helped her cope immediately blamed on with her isolated life. prominent local Jews. When she grew up, she went to Hoping scientific investigation will college and even met a man she exonerate the Jews whose tax thought she’d marry, but Jeff was revenue is necessary for his still in her head. She broke off her treasury, England’s Henry I asks near engagement and went to Williamsburg, Virginia, where she for the King of Sicily’s finest “master of the art of death”, an early secretly got herself a job as a nanny to the widowed Jeff’s young child. version of the medical examiner. The Italian doctor chosen is a woman Even though Cassie was living in Jeff’s house, she still couldn’t seem – Adelia. to get his attention. But then, one day, she heard shots coming from As the irascible “mistress of the art of death” investigates, it becomes the mansion of Althea Fairmont, a woman the world called “the clear that there is a grisly serial murderer at work, probably one who greatest living actress”. Cassie ran to investigate and in an instant, her had been on crusade with the king... safe little life was turned upside down. She began to learn that all the 11CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Rosalyn Landor people around her weren’t who they claimed to be. Everyone had secrets, and until Cassie unravelled those secrets, there was no Katherine McMahon. The Rose of Sebastopol chance for happiness between her and Jeff. Russia, 1854: the Crimean 5CD $49.95 Narrated by Natalie Moore War grinds on, and as the bitter winter draws near, the Historical Fiction battlefield hospitals fill with dying men. In defiance of Ken Follett. The Pillars of the Earth Florence Nightingale, Rosa Set in the turbulent times of 12th Barr - young, headstrong century England where civil war, and beautiful - travels to famine, religious strife and battles Balaklava, determined to over royal succession tore lives and save as many of the families apart, The Pillars of the wounded as she can. Earth tells the story of the building of For Mariella Lingwood, Rosa’s cousin, the war is contained within the a magnificent cathedral. Against this pages of her scrapbook, in her London sewing circle, and in the letters richly imagined backdrop, filled with she receives from Henry, her fiancé, a celebrated surgeon who has intrigue and treachery, Ken Follett also volunteered to work within the shadow of the guns. draws the reader irresistibly into a When Henry falls ill and is sent to recuperate in Italy, Mariella wonderful epic of family drama, impulsively decides she must go to him. But upon their arrival at his violent conflict and unswerving lodgings, she and her maid make a heartbreaking discovery: Rosa has ambition. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, the disappeared. dreams, labours and loves of his characters come vividly to life. The Following the trail of her elusive and captivating cousin, Mariella’s epic Pillars of the Earth is, without doubt, a masterpiece - and has proved journey takes her from the domestic restraint of Victorian London to the to be one of the most popular books of our time. ravaged landscape of the Crimea and the tragic city of Sebastopol. 8CD $59.95 Narrated by Richard E. Grant 5CD $45.00 Narrated by Clare Wille

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Michael Cox. The Meaning of Night Conn Iggulden. Genghis: Birth of an Empire “After killing the red-haired man, I He was born Temujin, the son of a took myself off to Quinn’s for an khan, raised in a clan of hunters oyster supper.” migrating across the rugged steppe.

So begins the “enthralling” Temujin’s young life was shaped by a (“Booklist,” starred review) and series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighbouring tribe and the “ingenious” (“Boston Globe”) abandonment of his entire family, story of Edward Glyver, cruelly left to die on the harsh plain. But booklover, scholar, and Temujin endured – and from that murderer. A chance discovery moment on, he was driven by a singular convinces Glyver that greatness fury: to survive in the face of death, to awaits him. His path to win back kill before being killed, and to conquer what he considers is rightfully his enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon. leads him to Evenwood, one of England’s most enchanting country Blessed with ferocious courage, it was the young warrior’s ability to houses, and a woman who will become his obsession. learn, to imagine, and to judge the hearts of others that propelled him Set amongst the filthy streets, opium dens, brothels and high society of to greater and greater power. 1854 England, The Meaning of Night is reminiscent of the classic 12CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki Victorian novels of the 19th century, filled with unexpected twists and turns. Katie Hickman. The Aviary Gate 19CD UA $79.95 Narrated by David Timson Elizabeth Staveley sits in the Bodleian library, holding in her trembling hands a Robert Alexander. The Romanov Bride fragment of ancient paper. It is the key When the young wife of a to a story that has been locked away village man is shot and killed for four centuries, the story of a British by tsarist soldeirs during a sea captain’s daughter held captive in political demonstration, Pavel the sultan’s harem. dedicates his life to Constantinople, 1599. There are overthrowing the Romanovs. rumours and strange stirrings in the Pavel’s underground group sultan’s palace. The chief black eunuch assassinates Elisavyeta’s has been poisoned by a taste of a husband, the Grand Duke, beautiful ship made of spun sugar. The changing her life forever. sultan’s mother faces threats to her power from her son’s favourite

Grief-stricken, the Grand concubine, and a secret rebellion is rising within the palace. Duchess gives up her wealth Paul Pindar, secretary to the English ambassador, on his way to the and becomes a nun palace to present a gift, hears that the woman he once loved, Celia, dedicated to the poor people may be alive and hidden among the ranks of slaves in the sultan’s of Russia. When revolution harem. Can this really be the same Celia who disappeared in a finally sweeps Russia, Elisavyeta is the last Romanov captured, ripped shipwreck? And if it is, can the two be reunited? from her abbey in the middle of the night and shuttled to Siberia. It is 10CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Josephine Bailey here, in a distant woods on a moonlit eve, that Pavel is left to decide her fate. Historical M ystery 8CD UA $49.90 Narrated by Stephan Rudnicki & Gabrielle de Cuir C. J. Sansom. Dark Fire It is 1540, and the hottest summer of Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe’s Revenge the sixteenth century. Matthew It is 1814 and the defeat of Shardlake, believing himself out of Napoleon seems imminent-if the favour with Thomas Cromwell, is well-protected city of toulouse busy trying to maintain his legal can be conquered. For Richard practice and keep a low profile. But his involvement with a murder case, Sharpe, the battle turns out to be defending a girl accused of brutally one of the bloodiest of the murdering her young cousin, brings Peninsula Wars, and he must him once again into contact with the king’s chief minister - and a new draw on his last reserves of assignment...The secret of Greek Fire, the legendary substance with strength to lead his troops to which the Byzantines destroyed the Arab navies, has been lost for victory. centuries. Now, an official of the Court of Augmentations has But before Sharpe can lay down discovered the formula in the library of a dissolved London monastery. his sword, he must fight a When Shardlake is sent to recover it, he finds the official and his different sort of battle. alchemist brother brutally murdered - the formula has disappeared. Accused of stealing Napoleon’s personal treasure, Sharpe escapes Now Shardlake must follow the trail of Greek Fire across Tudor from a British military court and embarks on the battle of his life-armed London, while trying at the same time to prove his young client’s only with the unflinching resolve to protect his honour. innocence. But very soon he discovers nothing is as it seems.... 9CD UA $129.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson 6CD $50.00 Narrated by Anton Lesser

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Diana Gabaldon. Lord John and the Hand of Devils Wilbur Smith. The Quest In 1758, in the heart of the Seven “New York Times” bestselling Years’ War, Britain fights by the author Wilbur Smith returns with the side of Prussia in the Rhineland. eagerly awaited next installment in For Lord John and his titles his thrilling Egyptian series. brother Hal, the battlefield will be Following on from “River God, The a welcome respite from the Seventh Scroll” and “Warlock”, “The torturous mystery that burns Quest” continues the story of the poisonously in their family’s Warlock, Taita, wise in the lore of history. Seventeen years earlier, the ancient Gods and a master of Lord John’s late father, the Duck magic and the supernatural. of Pardloe, was found dead, a Egypt is struck by a series of pistol in his hand and accusations terrible plagues that cripple the of his role as a Jacobite agent Kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows – the Nile fails. The staining forever a family’s honor. Now unlaid ghosts from the past are waters that nourish and sustain the land dry up. Something stirring. Lord John’s brother has mysteriously received a page of their catastrophic is taking place in the distant and totally unexplored depths late father’s missing diary. Someone is taunting the Grey family with of Africa from where the mighty river springs. In desperation Pharaoh secrets from the grave, but Hal, with secrets of his own, refuses to sends for Taita, the only man who might be able to win through to the pursue the matter and orders his brother to do likewise. Frustrated, source of the Nile and discover the cause of all their woes. But none John turns to a man who has been both his prisoner and his confession have any idea of what a terrible enemy lies in ambush for The Warlock the Scottish Jacobite James Fraser. Fraser can tell many secrets – and in those mysterious lands at the end of their world. withold many others. But war, a forbidden affair, and Fraser’s own 19CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Simon Vance secrets will complicate Lord John’s quest. Until James Fraser yields the missing piece of an astounding puzzle, Lord John – caught between Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler. Black Wind his courage and his conscience – must decide whether his family’s In the waning days of World War II, honor is worth his life. the Japanese tried a last desperate 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Jeff Woodman measure - a different kind of kamikaze mission carried out by two Action / Adventure submarines bound for the West Coast of the United States, their Wilbur Smith. The Diamond Hunters cargo a revolutionary new strain of The Van Der Byl Diamond biological virus. Neither sub made it Company, willed by its to the designated target. But that founder to his son Benedict, does not mean they were lost. turns out to be a bequest of All that stands in the way of a hatred, for it is couched in fiendish plan are three people: a such terms as to offer him the marine biologist named Summer, a marine engineer named Dirk, and instrument of destruction of their father, Dirk Pitt, the new head of NUMA. Pitt has faced his bitterest rival. “Destroy devastating enemies before, has even teamed up with his children to Johnny” is the old man’s track them down. But never has he looked upon the face of pure evil... implacable message. until now. And so, consumed with envy 13CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Scott Brick for his own foster-brother, Benedict sets out in ruthless pursuit of this goal – and Johnny is plunged into a maelstrom of greed, vengeance Clive Cussler. The Chase and murder... April 1950: The rusting hulk of a 3CD $32.95 Narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Wilbur Smith. Elephant Song Inside is all that remains of three In the blinding light of men who died 44 years before… Zimbabwe’s Chiwewe 1906: For two years, the western National Park, Dr Daniel states of America have been Armstrong, world-famous TV suffering an extraordinary spree of naturalist, films the slaughter bank robberies by a single man who of a herd of elephant. In murders any and all witnesses and London, anthropologist Kelly then vanishes without a trace. The Kinnear is forced into violent government brings in the best man confrontation with the they can find - a tall, lean, no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell. shareholders of the most But Bell has never had a challenge like this one. From Arizona to powerful conglomerate in the Colorado to the streets of San Francisco during its calamitous City of London, warning them of the destruction of an African country. earthquake and fire, he pursues what is quickly becoming clear to him Now the time has come to act. Together Armstrong and Kinnear forge is the sharpest criminal mind he’s ever encountered, and the woman a passionate alliance - and begin the fight against the forces of greed, who seems to hold the key to the bandit’s identity. Using science, evil and corruption attacking a land they would both give their lives to deduction and intuition, Bell repeatedly draws near only to grasp at thin save... air. His quarry is getting angry, and has turned the chase back on him. 3CD $5.00 Narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith 10CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Scott Brick

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Clive Cussler & Paul Kemprecos. The Navigator Katherine Mansfield; Kate Chopin; Virginia Woolf. Years ago, an ancient Phoenician Classic Women’s Short Stories statue known as the “Navigator” was ive stories from influential women stolen from the Baghdad Museum, writers of the nineteenth century and there are men who would do and the first decades of the anything to get their hands on it. twentieth century. New Zealand- Their first victim is a crooked born Katherine Mansfield settled antiquities dealer, murdered in cold in England where she wrote a blood. Their second very nearly is a series of short stories that are UN investigator who, were it not for widely recognised as among the the timely assistance of Kurt Austin finest of the twentieth century for and Joe Zavala, would now be at the their economy, clarity, sensitivity bottom of a watery grave. What’s so and effect. ‘The Garden Party’ is special about this statue? The search for answers will take the NUMA one of her most famous, while Special Assignments team on an astonishing odyssey through time ‘Daughters of the Late Colonel’ shows a wonderful sense of wit. Kate and space, one that encompasses no less than the lost treasures of Chopin, writing in the last years of the nineteenth century, broke new King Solomon, a mysterious packet of documents personally encoded ground with her daring view of women as individuals with human by Thomas Jefferson, and a top secret scientific project that could needs. ‘Lilacs’ and ‘Ma’ame Pelagie’ are sympathetic portraits of change the world forever. And that’s before the surprises really begin… women with differing dilemmas. Woolf’s ‘A Mark on the Wall’ shows, in 10CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Scott Brick short story form, the turmoil within the stillness which became such a mark of her later novels. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World 2CD UA $31.95 Narrated by Carole Boyd, Liza Ross, Somewhere in South America, Teresa Gallagher there is a plateau; and roaming in its forests are dinosaurs... Franz Kafka. The Trial Only one man has ever been The Trial is one of the great there, and his reports are so works of the twentieth century: astonishing that no-one is an extraordinary vision of one prepared to believe him; except man put on trial by an the extraordinary Professor Challenger. He decides to take a anonymous authority on an trip to prove beyond doubt that unspecified charge. this lost world really exists. Josef K, 30, lives in a large town With the daredevil journalist in an unspecified country. He is Edward Malone, meticulous, sceptical Professor Summerlee and the summonsed to answer a charge professional adventurer Lord John Roxton, Challenger sets out on a and appears in the court room for mission as dangerous as it is thrilling. his trial. Franz Kafka evokes all Inspiring endless imitations, The Lost World is Sir Arthur Conan the reality of trial without any of Doyle’s classic adventure of discovery. the specifics in a society that seems to have degraded into chaos: 7CD UA $54.95 Narrated by Glen McCready squalid environment, rats, yellow liquid shooting out of a hole in the wall. Guards, claustrophobia, anxiety – this is a gripping story and an allegory of modern life. This text remains just as relevant a century M odern Literary Fiction after it was written. Peter Høeg (trans. Nadia Christensen). The Quiet Girl 7CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Rupert Degas Set in Denmark in the here and now, “The Quiet Girl” centres Geraldine Brooks. People Of The Book around Kaspar Krone, a world- In 1996, a rare book expert is renowned circus clown with a offered the job of a lifetime: deep love for the music of Johann analysis and conservation of a Sebastian Bach, and an even mysterious, beautifully illuminated deeper gambling debt. Wanted for Hebrew manuscript created in the tax evasion and on the verge of 15th century and recently saved extradition, Krone is drafted into from destruction during the shelling the service of a mysterious order of Sarajevo’s libraries. When of nuns who promise him reprieve Hanna Heath discovers a series of from the international authorities tiny artefacts in the book’s binding, in return for his help safeguarding a group of children with mystical she begins to unlock the mysteries abilities – abilities that Krone shares. When one of the children goes of the books past. Brooks takes missing, Krone sets off to find the young girl and bring her back, Hanna and the reader on a richly imagined historical journey from making a shocking series of discoveries along the way about her Bosnia during WWII, to nineteenth century Vienna to Venice in 1609 identity and the true intentions of his young wards. The result is a fast- and finally to the book’s creation fifteenth century Seville. Hanna’s paced, philosophical thriller blending social realism with the literary investigations plunge her into the intrigues of fine art forgers and fantastic and pitting art and spirituality against corporate interests and ultranationalist fanatics. Her experiences will test her belief in herself nothing less than the will to war by the industrialised world. and the man she has come to love. 12CD UA $59.95 Narrated by James Gale 12CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Edwina Wren

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Virginia Woolf. To The Lighthouse Aldous Huxley. Brave New World Just before the First World War, 75th anniversary edition the Ramsay family go to their On the 75th anniversary of its holiday home in the Hebrides, publication, this outstanding work bringing several guests with of literature is more crucial and them. While they are there, one relevant today than ever before. of the children wants to visit a Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti- lighthouse. After a ten year gap, aging programs, and total social during which the war wreaks its control through politics, havoc on Europe, one of the programming and media – has guests returns to the house; and Aldous Huxley accurately another trip to the lighthouse is predicted our future? With a proposed. storyteller’s genius, he weaves Told from multiple viewpoints, in language that is precise, delicate and these ethical controversies in a allusive, To The Lighthouse gives unprecedented insight into the compelling narrative that dawns in minds of the characters, as well as telling a broader story of personal the year 632 A. F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard and social change in the world after the war. visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy To The Lighthouse is a landmark work of English fiction. Virginia humanity. Woolf explores perception and meaning in some of the most beautiful 7CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Michael York prose ever written. 6CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Juliet Stevenson Iain M. Banks. Matter The dazzling new Culture novel Science Fiction from the most exciting science fiction writer of modern times - a Philip K. Dick. Blade Runner tour-de-force of brilliant World War Terminus had left the storytelling, world-building and Earth devastated. Through its imagination. ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard There was nobody of her own stalked, in search of the renegade kind within several thousand light replicants who were his prey. years of where Djan Seriy When he wasn’t ‘retiring’ them with Anaplian sat. However, news his laser weapon, he dreamed of from her home world of owning a live animal - the ultimate Sursamen would still reach status symbol in a world all but her.Djan Seriy Anaplian is, after all, a member of Special bereft of animal life. Then Rick got Circumstances - a troubleshooter for the Culture, intervening when his chance: the assignment to kill necessary to ensure that order and balance is maintained throughout six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge the galaxy; and Special Circumstances get to hear about most things. reward. But in Deckard’s world things were never that simple, and his The news, unfortunately, is not good. Her father has died. Her brother assignment quickly turned into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge too, it seems. Both in the latest war against a neighbouring kingdom. and deceit - and the threat of death for the hunter rather than the Anaplian must journey home, but while she does so, another will seek hunted... her out. For someone on Sursamen believes her to be their last hope. 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Scott Brick 5CD $59.99 Narrated by Toby Longworth Ray Bradbury. Something Wicked This Way Stephenie Meyer. The Host Comes & A Sound of Thunder Melanie Stryder refuses to fade In Bradbury’s unforgettable away. The earth has been modern Gothic masterpiece, invaded by a species that take Something Wicked This Way over the minds of their human Comes, something evil arrives in hosts while leaving their bodies a small Midwestern town on the intact, and most of humanity has crest of the wind one autumn succumbed. night. A “dark carnival” with Wanderer, the invading “soul” who frightening attractions and has been given Melanie’s body, supernatural characters sets up knew about the challenges of stakes. It is up to two thirteen- living inside a human: the year-old boys, James Nightshade and William Holloway, to figure out a overwhelming emotions, the too way to save the souls of the town. vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn’t expect: In Bradbury’s short story, A Sound of Thunder, a small safari company the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her promises to transport adventurers back in time for a chance to hunt any mind. animal that ever existed. The animals are specially selected according Melanie fills Wanderer’s thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves to their natural time of death. Nothing else may be altered because it - Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself just might change the whole course of the future. When one foolish from her body’s desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she’s never met. hunter comes face to face with a Tyrannosaurus rex, the carefully As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set constructed safari goes awry and the future is up for grabs. off to search for the man they both love. 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki 20CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Kate Reading

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Laurell K. Hamilton. The Harlequin Fantasy Malcolm, head of the vampire Church of Jasper Fforde. Something Rotten Eternal Life, is no particular friend to Anita After spending her time chasing a Blake. So when he shows up in her office, stray Minotaur into pulp Westerns, to ask for her help against creatures so filling in for Joan of Arc, and raising feared that no vampire will willingly speak her infant son, Friday, ThursdayNext their name, Anita is surprised. Malcolm (time-travelling and fiction-jumping may not be a Master of the City, but he’s detective par excellence) needs a an old and powerful vampire, a leader of break in the real world. But her return men, and he does not easily ask for help. to Swindon is far from relaxing. That was the first warning of The Rogue fictioneer Yorrick Kaine and Harlequin. the evil multinational Goliath The second warning is presented like a Corporation are trying to rule the gift, left where she’d be sure to find it, with “Anita” printed on the box. world, and a deadly assassin called The flow of power that connects Anita Blake with Jean-Claude, vampire the Windowmaker is tracking Thursday’s every move. To top it all off, Master of the City, and with Richard, Ulfric of the werewolves, has her husband is still missing from time after being eradicated from the been growing and changing. Their power seems to have attracted timestream before they met. attention, and it’s a kind of attention no one would desire. Jean-Claude Fans of Douglas Adams and Monty Python won’t want to miss this! and Richard need to be strong allies now. And Anita will need to call on 11CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Emily Gray Edward, whose utterly human ruthlessness in her defense makes him the right man for the job. Christopher Brookmyre. Attack of the Unsinkable It is forbidden to speak of The Harlequin unless you’ve been contacted. Rubber Ducks And to be contacted by The Harlequin is to be under sentence of Jack Parlabane is dead. Or is he? death. In an unlikely twist of the 14CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Cynthia Holloway democratic process, he had been elected Rector of Glasgow’s Kelvin University, taking over the post Comedy/Humour from the celebrity psychic Gabrielle Various. Vintage British Comedy Vol. 1 Lafayette. Lafayette’s tenure had The classic British comedians deliver one unexpected outcome - the vintage laughter in the Great British establishment of a chair to Tradition. investigate, using rigorous 16 sketches including scientific controls, the causes of paranormal activity: mind-reading, levitating objects, speaking to the “The Fourth Firm at St Michaels” dead, all that sort of woo-woo. Due to his highly honed skills as a “The Laughing Policeman” sceptic, Jack is invited to be an official observer to the whole exercise. “The Lion and Albert” Delighted to have the opportunity to puncture the unquestioning faith of “The Loch Ness Monster” the true believers - the unsinkable rubber ducks - Jack accepts with “You Can’t Blame Me For That” alacrity. But the outcome of the experiment threatens to scupper his and more. own beliefs, and also his own survival. 1CD UA $7.95 Performed by Frankie Howerd, Gracie 5CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Billy Boyd Fields, John Tilley, Tommy Handley, Max Miller, Will Hay & His Scholars, Charlie Douglas Adams. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Penrose, Robb Wilton, Stanley Holloway, Agency – BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation Noel Coward, Sandy Powell, Charlie Dirk Gently has an unshakeable Higgins, Max Bacon, Billy Bennett, Norman belief in the interconnectedness of Evans, George Jackley all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking Various. Vintage British Comedy Vol. 2 down missing cats for old ladies. It’s ‘British’ comedy because it Then Dirk stumbles upon an old incorporates the sharpest powers of friend behaving bizarrely – and is perception, uniquely honed whit and drawn into afour-billion year old impeccable timing polished to mystery that must be solved if the perfection in what is the most human race is to avoid immediate accomplished college of comedy – extinction. “wink wink”. 13 sketches including Considered by many Adams fans to be as funny as, if darker than, “Twiddling with the Knobs on the Hitchhiker’s, the Dirk Gently novels reflect Douglas’s unique and funny Radio”, “I’m A Little Prairie Flower”, take on matters as wide-ranging as consciousness, conservation, “The Magna Charter”, “I’m a Mummy man’s place in the cosmos and crime. (An Old Egyptian Queen)” and more. The first series features everything from quantum physics to missing 1CD UA $7.95 Performed by Dorrie Dene, Robb Wilton, Arthur cats, via Coleridge, Bach and an Electric Monk. Askey, Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, 3CD UA $35.00 Performed by Harry Enfield, Bily Boyd, The Two Leslies, George Robey, Marriott Edgar, Mr Flotsam & Mr Jestam, Oliver Wakefield, Billy Andrew Sachs, Jim Carter, Olivia Danvers, Douglas Byng, Charlie Higgins, Max Colman, and cast Miller

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Various. Vintage British Comedy Vol. 3 Various. Vintage British Comedy Vol. 6 The Lords and Ladies of Laughter Have a good laugh with Frankie get you giggling in the Great Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Bud British tradition. Listen. And Flanagan and Chesney Allen, chortle, shriek, hoot, chuckle, among others, and enjoy the crow, cackle, snigger, snicker, cream of vintage British comedic titter and whoop away. 17 tradition. 17 sketches including “At sketches including “A Surrealist The Court of Good Queen Bess”, Alphabet”, “King Canute”, “In Bed “The Munitions Worker”, “I’ve with the Flu”, “Have you seen my Gone And Lost My Little Yo-Yo”, chickens?”, “The wives of “On Behalf of the Working commercial travellers”, “Chinese Classes”, “Parson of Puddle”, Laundry Blues” and more. “Champagne Charlie”, “The 1CD UA $7.95 Performed by Laurel & Hardy, Clapham & Wickedness of Men” and more. Dwyer, Gracie Fields, Stanley Holloway, Mr 1CD UA $7.95 Performed by Elsie & Doris Waters, Robb Wilton, Flotsam & Mr Jestam, Leonard Henry, Tommy Leslie Holmes & Company, Stanelli & His Handley & Jean Allistone, Lily Morris, Charlie Horn-Chestra, Billy Bennett, Charlie Higgins, Higgins, George Formby, Oliver Wakefield, Two Leslies, Stanley Holloway, Arthur Askey, Douglas Byng, Arthur Lucan & Kitty McShane, George Formby, Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Jack Train, Margaret Rutherford & Frankie Tommy Trinder, Bud Flanagan, Chesney Howerd Allen, Jack Train, Gracie Fields, Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford Various. Vintage British Comedy Vol. 4 It’s that uniquely British ability to Judith Holder. The Secret Diary Of A Grumpy laugh at oneself that makes Old Woman British comedy different. The ‘Obviously in a book this size I great classic comedic wouldn’t be able to share with performances are timeless and you ALL of my grumps. But I’ve now, years later, they still work decided to write down some of brilliantly. the secret thoughts that beset a 16 sketches including “It’s That woman of a certain age, some Man Again”, “Even A Crooner Must Eat”, “The Lost Policeman”, of the wicked things that occur “Three Cheers for the to a woman who takes a lot of Undertaker”, “The Stately Homes things to the dry cleaners, has of England”, “Narcissus” and to have her roots done every more. four weeks and finds it hard to wear high heels. And guess what: they 1CD UA $7.95 Performed by Will Hay & His Scholars, Tommy still fancy people, still have silly little crushes on people at work, still - Handley, Maxon Bacon, Sandy Powell, Gracie shock horror - have sex. You will discover that women of a certain age Fields, Leslie Sarony, Albert Burdon & are just as provocative and turned on as women in their twenties. Company, Stanley Holloway, Noel Coward, Probably more so. So get over it. Middle-aged women are sexy, funny The Western Brothers, Oliver Wakefield, Nellie and infinitely lovable. They are also taking over the world.’ Wallace, Ronald Frankau, Theophilus & His 3CD $39.99 Narrated by Author Operation, Cheerful Charlie Chester & His Gang, Joyce Grenfell & Norman Wisdom The Goons. The Goon Show, vol. 25: Various. Vintage British Comedy Vol. 5 The Saga of the Internal Mountain If you must giggle, let the Lords of Four more vintage episodes of Laughter - including Max Miller, the highly esteemed Goon Show. Marriott Edgar, Dorrie Dene and John Tilley among others - bring it The Fireball of Milton Street on. 16 sketches including “The (22 February 1955) Fire Station”, “I Had To Go And The End, or Confessions of a Draw Another Pound Out”, “The Secret Senna-Pod Drinker (22 Channel Swimmer”, “The Old March 1955) Sow”, “Mrs Worthington”, The Terrible Revenge of Fred “Weather Reports”, Nonchalant Fu-Manchu (5 December 1955) Nonsense”, “That Naughty Old The Saga of the Internal Man of Madrid”, “Art” and more. Mountain (29 March 1954)

1CD UA $7.95 Performed by Robb Wilton, Clarkson Rose, Gracie Fields, Horace Kenney, George Robey, GO ON – join Ned as he blasts off in a rocket to extinguish the fire in Leslie Sarony, Charlie Hggins, John Tilley, the sun… Learn all about Seagoon’s shameful senna-pod addiction… Noel Coward, Mr Flotsam & Mr Jestam, Thrill to the story of Fu-Manchu’s curious concoction, and listen to Vernon Watson, Dorrie Dene, Max Bacon, Neddie’s inspired plan to drill through Everest in order to climb it from Marriott Edgar, Ronald Frankin, Tommy the inside. Handley, Max Miller 2CD UA $29.95 Performed by The Goons

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The Goons. The Goon Show Compendium, Garrison Keillor. English Majors Volume 1 (Series 5, Part 1) ENGLISH MAJORS. You know Now, for the first time, this box set who you are and here is a collection presents the episodes double-CD celebrating the secret in chronological order of original society of those who, though they broadcast date. may be chauffeuring kids to swim This volume includes: lessons or writing Unix programs The Whistling Spy Enigma; The or frying cheeseburgers, still Last Gold Mine (of Charlotte); The could, if need be, write a term Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of paper on the water imagery in Bexhill-on-Sea), The Phantom “The Waste Land”. Head Shaver (of Brighton); The Includes the “Six-Minute Hamlet”, Affair of the Lone Banana, The Canal, Lurgi Strikes Britain! (aka Lurgi the “Ten-Minute MacBeth”, tributes to Hawthorne and Kerouac and Strikes Again); The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved); The Last Emily Dickinson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes an M.F.A. scam, Tram (from Clapham); The Booted Gorilla (found?); The Spanish the Ballad of John Henry (‘John Henry was an English major and Suitcase; Dishonoured or The Fall of Neddie Seagonn; Forog. poetry was his line. He sat by the window with his yellow legal pad and Also featured are some rare archive bonus items including out-taies he wrote one sentence at a time.’), and more. and the programme Me and My Shadows: Peter Sellers. 2CD UA $39.95 Narrated by the author, Allen Ginsberg, 7CD UA $120.00 Performed by Spike Milligan, Harry Billy Collins, Roy Blount Jr., Robert Bly, Secombe, Peter Sellers Donald Hall and Calvin Trillin

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