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PASADENA (DL)
by DAVID EBERSHOFF
FICTION
CONTEMPORARY
Published by BLACKSTONE AUDIOBOOKS
Performed By ORNA RAVER,
1230 minutes,
Full Length,
Cost $140.80
Download Cost $35.20
Pasadena, David Ebershoff's sweeping, richly imagined novel, is set against the backdrop of Southern California during the first half of the twentieth century and charts its rapid transformation from frontier to suburb. At the story's center is Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm in San Diego's North County, and the three men who upend her life and vie for her affection: her pragmatic farming brother, Edmund; Captain Willis Poore, a Pasadena rancher with a heroic military past; and Bruder, the mysterious young man Linda's father brings home from World War I. Pasadena spans Linda's adventurous and romantic life, weaving the tales of her Mexican mother and her German-born father with those of the rural Pacific Coast of her youth and of the small, affluent city, Pasadena, that becomes her home. When Linda's father returns from the war to the fishing hamlet of Baden-Baden-by-the-Sea with the darkly handsome Bruder, she glimpses love and a world beyond her own. Linda follows Bruder to the seemingly greener pastures of Pasadena, where he is the foreman of a flourishing orange ranch, the homestead and inheritance of the charming bachelor Willis Poore. "Lorna Raver performs with great intelligence and enthusiasm." AudioFile magazine
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BUREAU (DL)
by RONALD KESSLER
NON-FICTION
HISTORICAL
Published by BLACKSTONE AUDIOBOOKS
Performed By RAYMOND TODD,
960 minutes,
Full Length,
Cost $114.40
Download Cost $28.60
Ronald Kessler has produced a work examining the FBI unlike any other. The Bureau will take readers from the FBI's creation in 1908 to the present day. Based on exclusive interviews, Kessler reveals the inside story surrounding the events of September 11th and the investigation into the anthrax mailings. The Bureau delves deep within the agency, presenting the organization in its historical context and answering questions concerning its somewhat checkered past. This incredible book includes: the first definitive evidence that Hoover blackmailed Congress with information from his secret files; the source of Senator Joseph McCarthy's bogus claims that there were 205 Communists in the State Department; the truth about J. Edgar Hoover's sexual orientation; the disastrous Freeh years and Robert Mueller's efforts to correct the problems created by Freeh. "A must-read... a compelling account." Philadelphia Inquirer
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TALIBAN (DL)
by AHMED RASHID
NON-FICTION
CURRENT EVENTS
Published by BLACKSTONE AUDIOBOOKS
Performed By NADIA MAY,
570 minutes,
Full Length,
Cost $70.40
Download Cost $17.60
Read By Nadia May TALIBAN by Ahmed Rashid CD format Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Talibanthe world's most extreme and radical Islamic organizationinto sharp focus in this enormously insightful book. He offers the only authoritative account of the Taliban available to English language readers, explaining the Taliban's rise to power, its impact on Afghanistan and the region, its role in oil and gas company decisions, and the effects of changing American attitudes toward the Taliban. He also describes the new face of Islamic fundamentalism and explains why Afghanistan has become the world center for international terrorism. "Anyone contemplating new adventures in Afghanistanwhether to save its women from persecution, rescue the state from further fragmentation, or save themselves from terrorist backlashmight first consult Rashid's book." Paula R. Newberg, San Francisco Chronicle "The broader story here is powerful... a great deal from Mr. Rashid's book about the nature of local Central Asian politics and the consequences of interference by outside powers...valuable and informative work." Richard Bernstein, New York Times
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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (DL)
by FRANK ABAGNALE
NON-FICTION
BIOGRAPHY
Published by BLACKSTONE AUDIOBOOKS
Performed By BARRETT WHITNER,
540 minutes,
Full Length,
Cost $70.40
Download Cost $17.60
Read By Barrett Whitener CATCH ME IF YOU CAN by Frank Abagnale CD format Now a major motion picture coming soon! Frank W. Abagnales, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con-men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilots uniform and copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practiced law without a license, passed himself off as a college sociology professor, and cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks, all before he was twenty-one. Known by the police of twenty-six foreign countries and all fifty states as "The Skywayman," Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the lamuntil the law caught up with him. Now recognized as the nations leading authority on financial foul play, Abagnale is a charming rogue whose hilarious, stranger-than-fiction international escapades and ingenious escapesincluding one from an airplanemake Catch Me If You Can an irresistible tale of deceit.
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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (DL)
by IAN FLEMING
FICTION
ESPIONAGE
Published by BLACKSTONE AUDIOBOOKS
Performed By ROBERT WHITFIELD,
540 minutes,
Full Length,
Cost $76.99
Download Cost $19.25
Read By Robert Whitfield FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE by Ian Fleming CD format The light nudge at his ankle wakes Bond. He doesn't move. His senses come to life like an animal's. . . . What has woken him? The spectral eye of the nightlight casts its deep velvet sheen over the little room. No sound comes from the upper bunk. By the window, Captain Nash sits in his place, his book open on his lap, a flicker of moonlight from the edge of the blind showing white on the double page. He is looking fixedly at Bond. Bond registers the intentness of the violet eyes. The black lips part. There is a glint of teeth. "Sorry to disturb you, old man, I feel in the mood for a talk." What is there new in the voice? Bond puts his feet softly down to the floor. He sits up straighter. Danger, like a third man, is standing in the room. . . . S.M.E.R.S.H. is the Soviet organ of vengeance: of interrogation, torture and death. James Bond is dedicated to the destruction of its agents wherever he finds them. Then the cold eye of S.M.E.R.S.H. focuses on James Bond, and far away in Moscow a trap is laid for him-a death-trap with an enticing lure. . . .
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ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DL)
by MARK TWAIN
CHILDREN'S (ELEM)
CLASSICAL LITERATURE
Published by BLACKSTONE AUDIOBOOKS
Performed By TOM PARKER,
570 minutes,
Full Length,
Cost $70.40
Download Cost $17.60
Read By Tom Parker THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain CD format Huck Finn is a homeless rebel who loves freedom more than respectability. He isn't above lying and stealing, but he faces a battle with his conscience when he meets up with a runaway slave named Jim. Jim is trying to escape to a free state in the North while his owner wants to sell him to a slave trader down river. Huck knows that helping Jim will bring trouble, but can he turn in a man who only wants to be free?
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SURELY YOU`RE JOKING MR FEYNMAN (DL)
by RICHARD P FEYNMAN
NON-FICTION
BIOGRAPHY
Published by BLACKSTONE AUDIOBOOKS
Performed By RAYMOND TODD,
630 minutes,
Full Length,
Cost $88.00
Download Cost $22.00
Read By Raymond Todd SURELY YOU'RE JOKING, MR. FEYNMAN! by Richard P. Feynman CD format Subtitled Adventures of a Curious Character, the title comes from the response his eyebrow-raising behavior once provoked from a Princeton dean's wife. Feynman, who won the Nobel Prize in physics, was surely the only person in history to solve the mystery of liquid helium, to be commissioned to paint a naked female toreador, and to crack the uncrackable safes guarding the atomic bomb's most critical secrets. He traded ideas with Einstein and Bohr, discussed gambling odds with Nick the Greek, and accompanied a ballet on the bongo drums. Here, woven with his scintillating views on modern science, is Feynman's astonishing life story-a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, eternal skepticism, and raging chutzpah. "A chain reaction is not a bad analogy for Feynman's life. From a critical mass of gray matter it goes off in all directions, producing both heat and light."-Time
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Maria
by Jorge Isaacs
(SPANISH)
Published by YOYO Music
Performed By Fabio Camero,
180 minutes,
This audiobook is read in Spanish.
La historia de amor de América
La novela romántica colombiana y de América por excelencia, María ha deleitado y conmovido a sus lectores por más de un siglo, ya que en esta obra están no solo el tierno y trágico idilio de Efraín y María, sino también el paisaje vallecaucano en todo su esplendor. Esta obra de Isaacs, un descendiente de judíos provenientes de Curazao, se ha distinguido también por su hermoso lenguaje y lo acertado de su desarrollo argumental, que dentro de su gran sencillez, revela a un autor que sabe como llegar a lo más profundo de sus personajes. La voz de Fabio Camero, célebre actor de radio y de televisión, sabe mostrar el drama de esta consagrada obra maestra.
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