"Omerta"
by Mario Puzo
Running time: 10 hours, 6 cassettes; unabridged
Running time: 5 hours, 3 cassettes; abridged
Running time: 5 hours, 5 CDs; abridged
In "Omerta," the late Mario Puzo triumphantly concludes his Mafia trilogy, complete with a dead don, a nuke-toting drug lord, twin assassins, good bad girls, and bad good guys.
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"Hot Six"
by Janet Evanovich
Running time: 3 hours, 2 cassettes; abridged
Yo! Stephanie Plum, righteous New Jersey bounty hunter, is back and better than ever in Janet Evanovich's latest murder by numbers, "Hot Six."
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"Beowulf"
by Seamus Heaney
Running time: 2.25 hours, 2 cassettes; unabridged
Running time: 2.25 hours, 2 CDs; unabridged
Seamus Heaney's "Beowulf" is both a triumph of the translator's art and a superlative work of poetry. No wonder the Nobel laureate's version--an eloquent and alliterative updating of this Anglo-Saxon action adventure--was a hands-down winner of England's Whitbread Prize.
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"Living on the Fault Line"
by Geoffrey A. Moore
Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes; abridged
Geoffrey Moore's first two books, "Crossing the Chasm" and "Inside the Tornado," were gospel to a generation of high-tech managers. The challenge those books addressed was how to market and sell according to what he called the "Technology Adoption Life Cycle." In "Living on the Fault Line," Moore takes his message to a very different group of execs, those who have never had to worry about marketing technology but who now face the biggest and most disruptive technology life cycle of all--the Internet.
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"Me Talk Pretty One Day"
by David Sedaris
Running time: 2.25 hours, 2 cassettes; unabridged
In "Me Talk Pretty One Day," David Sedaris continues the humorous hot streak he began with "Barrel Fever" and "Naked." This time the sublime funster goes abroad, where his collision with French manners and morals (and verbs and nouns) is the source of endless, acidic comedy.
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"In a Sunburned Country"
by Bill Bryson
Running time: 12 hours, 7 cassettes; unabridged
Running time: 12 hours, 10 CDs; unabridged
Having previously crisscrossed the British and American outbacks, Bill Bryson now makes his first journey Down Under. "In a Sunburned Country" is his account of Australia, and as expected, the author records his impressions with high style and deep hilarity.
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BESTSELLING AUDIO DOWNLOADS FROM AUDIBLE.COM
This month's bestselling audio downloads from audible.com include "The Cluetrain Manifesto" by Rick Levine, Stephen King's "Blood and Smoke," and J.R.R. Tolkien's classic adventure, "The Hobbit." Visit audible.com to find free sound samples, audiobook downloads, speeches, public radio programs, newspapers, and more!
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AFFORDABLE AUDIO FOR KIDS
Every summer, parents face the daunting challenge of keeping the children occupied and their minds active. Not only do audiobooks accomplish both, but this collection of children's classics from Listening Library is priced low, too--great for the kids and the pocketbook. Calm your children's restless spirits with these audiobooks for kids.
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