July 24th, 2008
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A wondrous journey through the realms of magic.
They call him Lump. Ugly, misshapen - more goblin than human child - abandoned as an infant and taken in by a witch, he is nursed by a bear, tutored by a djinn; his only playmates are the creatures of the forest, whose language he learns to speak.
But when Lump inevitably stumbles into the human world, his innocence is no match for the depths of people’s cruelty, which turns Lump’s heart to stone, and fuels a vengeance that places him and his witch mother in deadly peril. Yet these disasters also send Lump on a journey of self-discovery to realms deep within the earth and far beyond mortal imagination.
In this stunning fantasy debut, Michael Gruber has created a world of cruelty, beauty, legend, truth, and above all, wonder.
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July 23rd, 2008
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Disarmed and leaderless after a savage Russian sneak attack, the United States is united no longer. But a lone warrior of the skies has emerged to lift America from the ashes of defeat. He is Hawk Hunter - The Wingman. The armies of freedom now control the western U.S., but the evil New Order is raising a huge force to reclaim America. Only Hawk Hunter can prevent disaster. But full-scale victory calls for an ingenious surprise attack - and that means infiltrating the New Order’s inner circle to decimate every last enemy of the free world - and save the only thing worth dying for: the future of America.
Written by Mack Maloney and read by Terence Aselford
Terence Aselford has narrated over 150 audiobooks. His acting career has included regional theater roles ranging from Shakespeare to Neil Simon, on-camera work in NBC’s Unsolved Mysteries, national television commercials, industrial videos and voice-overs.
Director: Richard Rohan
Produced in the studios at The Cutting Corporation
Abridgment: Geoff Schackert
Executive Producers: Alisa Weberman, Alfred Martino, Anji Cornette
Cover Art: Broeck Steadman
Cover Design: Dan Sorge, The Cutting Corporation
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July 22nd, 2008
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When the Zon spaceshuttle plummeted to earth it should have been the war’s end. Instead, Ace fighter-pilot Hawk Hunter crash landed into an alternate world - to light histories most infamous battles again. On this earth, World War II has never ended and The Wingman’s struggle for survival is just beginning. The Panama Canal, Hawaii and the American fleet at Pearl Harbor have been destroyed in sneak attacks, while South America has been conquered by the Japanese. The planet is at war and now Hawk Hunter and the Free World must strike back!
Written by Mack Maloney and read by Terence Aselford
Terence Aselford has narrated over 150 audiobooks. His acting career has included regional theater roles ranging from Shakespeare to Neil Simon, on-camera work in NBC’s Unsolved Mysteries, national television commercials, industrial videos and voice-overs.
Director: Richard Rohan
Produced in the studios at The Cutting Corporation
Abridgment: Geoff Schackert
Executive Producers: Alisa Weberman, Alfred Martino, Anji Cornette
Cover Art: Broeck Steadman
Cover Design: Dan Sorge, The Cutting Corporation
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July 21st, 2008
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The recently reunited American continent is divided once again. While an army of Nordic conquerors occupies the lands of the east, a band of raging Asian mercenaries seeks to dominate the American west. Worse yet, America’s greatest champion, top-gun pilot Hawk Hunter, last seen flying his F-16XL fighter on a suicide mission against the air armada that destroyed most of the United American aircraft, has seemingly vanished into thin air. To many, the idea of recapturing America’s hard-won freedom seems lost! But rumors persist that Hawk Hunter has been sighted, and stories are whispered across the land that elements of scattered United American troops are gathering at a top-secret rallying point. The days of vengeance against the oppressor warlords is near - and citizens look to the skies and hope!
Terence Aselford has narrated over 150 audiobooks. His acting career has included regional theater roles ranging from Shakespeare to Neil Simon, on-camera work in NBC’s Unsolved Mysteries, national television commercials, industrial videos and voice-overs.
Director: Richard Rohan
Produced in the studios at The Cutting Corporation
Abridgment: Geoff Schackert
Executive Producers: Alisa Weberman, Alfred Martino, Anji Cornette
Cover Art: Broeck Steadman
Cover Design: Dan Sorge, The Cutting Corporation
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July 20th, 2008
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“In this collection of new and recently published short fiction, Elmore Leonard demonstrates the superb characterizations, dead-on dialogue, vivid atmosphere, and driving plotting that have made him a household name.
Federal marshal Karen Sisco, from the bestselling novel Out of Sight, returns in “”Karen Makes Out,”" once again inadvertently mixing pleasure with business. In “”Fire in the Hole,”" Raylan Givens, last seen in Riding the Rap and Pronto, meets up with an old friend, but they’re now on different sides of the law. In the title story, “”When the Women Come Out to Dance,”" Mrs. Mahmood gets more than she bargains for when she conspires with her maid to end her unhappy marriage. In all nine stories — each unique in their own right — reluctant heroes and laid-back lowlifes struggle for power, survival, and their fifteen minutes of fame. And as always, the stories ring true with Leonard’s signature deadpan social observations and diabolical eye for the foibles of the good guys and the bad.
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July 19th, 2008
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This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart.
For more than seventeen years, this devoted and ambitious doctor has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young - a humble and touchingly loyal woman, whom he visits in order to ask, again and again, for a divorce. In a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition and family still hold sway and where adultery discovered by the Party can ruin lives forever, Lin’s passionate love is stretched ever more taut by the passing years. Every summer, his compliant wife agrees to a divorce but then backs out. This time, Lin promises, will be different.
Tracing these lives through their summer of decision and beyond, Ha Jin vividly conjures the texture of daily life in a place where the demand of human longing must contend with the weight of centuries of custom. Waiting charms and startles us with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves us with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love.
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July 18th, 2008
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This is a complete story taken from the acclaimed Fears For Fears anthology, which is also available on the Spoken Network.
Nathan lived in a pretty regular neighborhood until the day his new neighbours arrived. Nathan soon discovers that being nosy can have dire consequences.
Written by Peter Sellers and performed by a full cast.
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July 18th, 2008
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In March 2005, Ashley Smith made headlines around the globe when she miraculously talked her way out of the hands of alleged courthouse killer Brian Nichols after he took her hostage for seven hours in her suburban Atlanta apartment. In this moving, inspirational account, the 27-year-old widowed mother of a six-year-old girl shares for the first time the little-known details of her traumatic ordeal, and expands on how her faith and the bestselling book The Purpose-Driven Life helped her survive and bring the killer’s murderous rampage to a peaceful end.
Like her captor, Smith too, has faced darkness and despair. Yet even during the most desolate times of her life, she yearned for something better. Seeking a new life, she moved to Atlanta, got a job, enrolled in a medical assistant training program, and was beginning to find her way to becoming the kind of mom she wanted her little girl to have.
Then Brian Nichols took her hostage. Just hours earlier, he d allegedly shot to death a judge, a court reporter, a deputy, and a federal agent, and escaped in a stolen vehicle. Ashley had paid only passing attention to media coverage of the unfolding manhunt. Now she found herself face to face with Nichols, a desperate, heavily armed man with nothing left to lose. Unlikely Angel is Ashley s gripping, powerful account of how this nightmare scenario developed into a remarkable connection between a man wanted for multiple murders and a single mother struggling to make a fresh beginning from her checkered and tragic past. Juxtaposing the minute-by-minute tale of her experience with the never-before-told tragedies and triumphs of her own life, Unlikely Angel is a story that will leave no reader untouched.
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July 17th, 2008
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Tristram Shandy is an ironic masterpiece, a work of extraordinary originality, wit and learning. It is a work of considerable philosophical complexity but at the same time it is just a piece of flim-flam: it has been called the longest shaggy-dog story in English Literature. It is both a classic novel and an antinovel. It includes passages of seemingly serious theology - but it can also be read as an elaborate bawdy joke.
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July 16th, 2008
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Holmes comes-up against a troublesome female villain and a gang of intimidators when he offers to help the widow of a past client who has received a suspicious offer to sell her house and everything in it.
"…to refer to David’s Sherlock Holmes productions as simply dramatic readings is a major understatement, as he brings a wonderful range of distinctly unique voices into play as he essays each of the characters, creating a marvelously layered and rich listening experience that showcases Arthur Conan Doyle’s masterful use of language." - Charles Prepolec, bakerstreetdozen.com
"…David Ian Davies’s reading of The Tangled Skein is a full-blooded theatrical performance that does justice to his near-namesake’s gripping narrative. - Roger Johnson, Editor District Messenger Newspaper, The Sherlock Holmes Society of London
"…To call this only a reading of the classic Sherlock Holmes story, would be to devalue the beauty of this performance. Although you may have heard recordings of the Sherlock Holmes work read before with distance and haughty affectation, none of that is present in Mr. Davies storytelling performance. This features one man, many voices and a hefty portion of talent. This performance is fresh, approachable and inviting. - Sam Buvala, Storyteller.net, Reviews
"Mr. Davies’s reading of The Hound of the Baskervilles adds mastery to a masterpiece! Mr. Davies is an absolute virtuoso of voices and dialects. It is difficult to believe that this unabridged narration of Sir Arthur’s most famous Holmes case is done only by one man and not being performed by a troupe of actors and actresses. Limited space doesn’t allow us to do full justice to describe this recording, but suffice it to say that Mr. Davies’s performance has received "raves" from independent reviewers. Even when you hear it, you won’t believe it! - sherlock-holmes.com
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