No one could understand why Colin and Roy were best friends. Colin was so shy; Roy was so popular. Colin was nervous around girls; Roy was a ladies' man. Colin was fascinated by Roy - and Roy was fascinated by death. Then one day Roy ...
Doctored Evidence: A Commissario Guid...
Donna Leon...[Comissario Guido Brunetti's] ambles through the city are a delight; but it is this peculiar insistence on turning every case into a morality tale that gives Leon's fiction its subtlety and substance and makes us follow Brunetti wh...
Mickey Dade hates deskwork, but that's all he's been doing at Wyatt Hunt's private investigative service, The Hunt Club. His itch to be active is answered when a body is discovered: It's Dominic Como, one of San Francisco's most high-...
The Magician's Nephew (Radio Theatre:...
C. S. LewisFully dramatized and produced with cinema-quality sound design and music, each title in Radio Theatre's Chronicles of Narnia is now available in a travel-friendly size. Hosted by Douglas Gresham, stepson of C. S. Lewis, these timeless...
Abandoned by their ill-humored parents to the care of an odious nanny, Tim, the twins, Barnaby A and Barnaby B, and their sister, Jane, attempt to fulfill their roles as good oldfashioned children. Following the models set in lauded t...
A powerfully emotional and beautifully written story of heartbreaking loss and undying love He was a fishing guide and struggling artist from a south George trailer park. She was the beautiful only child of South Carolina's most power...
In Daniel Mason's lyrical novel, a young girl with prophetic powers leaves her village and goes searching for her brother in the teeming chaos of the country's major city. Mason writes with emotional and spiritual force, and his haunt...
Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons f...
Michael MedvedNationally syndicated talk-radio host and noted film critic Michael Medved has taken an extraordinary journey from liberal activist to outspoken conservative. Along the way he has earned millions of admirers—and more than his share ...
“MILLER WEAVES HER THEMES OF SECRECY, BETRAYAL AND FORGIVENESS INTO A NARRATIVE THAT SHINES.”–Time“FASCINATING . . . Despite having a loving husband, three vivacious daughters, a beautiful home in rural Massach...
Sheepfarmer's Daughter (The Deed of P...
Elizabeth MoonPaksenarrion, a simple sheepfarmer's daughter, yearns for a life of adventure and glory, such as was known to heroes in songs and story. At age seventeen she runs away from home to join a mercenary company and begins her epic life . ....
Frank Balenger, the resolute but damaged hero of David Morrell's acclaimed Creepers, now finds himself trapped in a nightmarish game of fear and death. To save himself and the woman he loves, he must play by the rules of a god-like Ga...
Complacency can make a person careless, and Sharon McCone, who makes crime her business, should know that better than most. One minute she's riding high with her detective agency expanding, her bank account growing, and her only 'prob...
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Maggie O'FarrellIris Lockhart is busy tending to the everyday business of her vintage clothing shop and her complicated love affairs when she receives a stunning phone call. Her great-aunt Esme, whom she never even knew existed, is being released fro...
On a rainy London evening in 1917, three Oxford undergraduates mourning the murder of a professor are approached by an odd man who gives one of them a book to safeguard; the book that was the reason the professor was murdered. Chased ...
Touching factual reminiscences are woven with historical hardboiled fiction in this account of Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier in baseball, written by the author of the bestselling Spenser, PI series. Injured at Guadal...
No Graves As Yet of World War I
Anne PerryOn a sunny afternoon in late June, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley is summoned from a student cricket match to learn that his parents have died in an automobile crash. Joseph's brother, Matthew, an officer in the Intelligence Servi...
Fearless public Speaking: with Steve ...
Steve PoolWith a quarter-century of experience, including over 70 appearances on ABC's Good Morning America, Steve provides straight talk for stress-free communication. Subjects include: Getting Started, Preparing to Speak, Overcoming Fear, Pe...
Religious Literacy: What Every Americ...
Stephen ProtheroThere is a critical gap in the education of young Americans today, says Boston University professor Stephen Prothero, and it's the teaching of information about religions. Prothero would change that, citing the importance of the Bible...
Reason: WHY LIBERALS WILL WIN THE BAT...
Robert B. ReichIn a passionate call to revitalize America's traditional two-party system, the author of The Future of Success offers a forceful argument that the tenets of liberalism must become part of the national political agenda in order to batt...
John Houck joined the Marine Corps to find honor and escape the painful childhood trauma that tore his family apart. As a member of the Marine Corps elite First Recon division, he was trained to slip far behind enemy lines and kill wi...
Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant hunting for a ruthless killer. In over ten years on the force, she's seen it all - and knows that her survival depends on her instincts. And she's going against every warning telling her not ...
When Decius, the highborn commander of the local vigils of Rome, investigates the garroting of a lowly ex-slaved and the disembowelment of a foreign merchant, he uncovers a world of corruption at the highest levels of his government.
Archaeologist Callie Dunbrook travels to a construction site where a set of 5,000-year-old human bones has been uncovered. Now overseeing the site, Callie must deal with disaster after disaster--leading some to believe that the site i...
Kitty Sewell's Ice Trap starts with a bombshell. Dafydd Woodruff, who's desperately been trying to conceive a child with his wife, receives a letter: 'Dear Doctor Woodruff, I hope you don't mind me writing to you. I think I'm your dau...
Now the sassy southern New York Times bestseller that started it all is available on CD!Meet Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Diane, and Linda—five women who’ve been best friends through thirty years since high school. Sit in when th...
Four mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever.By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they kn...
Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boa...
Reiki Meditations for Self-Healing
Bronwen StieneMost people know the system of Reiki as a healing art for treating others, but few realize that this increasingly popular energy practice also focuses on meditations for self-healing and personal empowerment. With Reiki Meditations fo...
It is widely accepted that meditation can result in reduced stress, greater health and a sense of calmness and balance. Studies show that in states of meditation we produce a greater quantity of slow frequency theta brainwaves. Pulses...
Annihilation (Southern Reach Trilogy...
Jeff VanderMeer[Read by Carolyn McCormick]If J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a novel . . . it might be this awesome. -- Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the la...