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Sometimes it makes sense to go back to the first book in a series, rather than start in the middle. In this series for young adults, Alexa and her friends have faced evil before and prevailed. In this book, in which they face new dangers, having read the earlier work provides definite advantages. Aasne Vigesaa brings a sense of adventure and enthusiasm to her narration. She... Read More
Parents can definitely get a lot out of Emily Kaufman's chatty advice for family travel. GOOD MORNING AMERICA's "Travel Mom" has many tips for planning vacations, from initial conversations about destinations to notes on actual family-friendly resorts. She moves through her sensible, and often invaluable, ideas at a rapid rate, and the warmth in her voice overcomes a strident... Read More
The biblical Book of Job is an ideal subject for full-cast performance, with its various viewpoints, which are essentially a series of soliloquies. Full-Cast Audio needs to be saluted for taking on such a project. Job was a successful landowner and family man until his faith in God was put to the test. With his wealth, his health, and his family taken from him, Job is... Read More
The latest entry in Dunning's series about Cliff Janeway, ex-policeman turned antiquarian book dealer, has Janeway investigating a murder in the Colorado Rockies. The victim's widow has confessed, but only an impossibly dim deputy sheriff believes her confession. The assemblage of characters doesn't really test George Guidall's remarkable range, yet all are convincing. His... Read More
Marcus Sedgwick's creepy, foreboding fantasy centers around a magician's desperate search for a book against an approaching deadline--the new year. Valerian and his servant, Boy, comb an unnamed, fading European city, following clues and digging up graves, culminating their search in an underground city square. Roger Rees helps maintain the uneasy tone, differentiating the... Read More
Marcus Sedgwick's creepy, foreboding fantasy centers around a magician's desperate search for a book against an approaching deadline--the new year. Valerian and his servant, Boy, comb an unnamed, fading European city, following clues and digging up graves, culminating their search in an underground city square. Roger Rees helps maintain the uneasy tone, differentiating the... Read More
Deepak Chopra solidifies his position as a cutting-edge personal growth teacher with this highly developed course on personal change. Going beyond the constraints of mental health and traditional religion, his secrets represent an elegant evolution of his teachings on authentic living. Starting with the basic idea of being open to internal experience, he is positively eloquent... Read More
Fictional author Joe Goffman wrote his autobiographical book about his hometown as a way of dealing with painful memories. But when he returns to Bush Falls as a bestselling author, he faces the animosity of the outraged townspeople. Most residents shun him or worse, but he uneasily renews his friendships with his high school girlfriend, Carly, and best friend, Wayne, who now... Read More
Life is hard, but comedy is harder. Just ask Joe Goffman. His version of small-town Connecticut life made him a bestselling novelist, but the people he wrote about didn't take kindly to his take on the truth. Scott Brick captures the ironic tone, drug-addled vibe, and oversexed characters of Jonathan Tropper's splendid novel. If you grew up in the 1980s, believed Bruce... Read More
In an audio that is as much a historical work as it is a pure Bible reading, a father-and-son team present all 150 Psalms and additional Bible passages in 365 segments--one for each day of the year. Aimee Lilly presents the biblical and historical context of each passage with clarity, warmth, and grace. The introductions contain contextual and interpretive information that... Read More
This book of swashbuckling pirate adventures may be for children, but the narration has little to recommend it to them. Ralph Cosham's voice is indifferent to the adventures he is reading. There is no indication of when one story stops and another begins. Character differentiation is also confusing, leaving the listener thoroughly frustrated. J.F.M. (c) AudioFile 2004,... Read More
A fine book deserves a fine presentation. Such is true of Lloyd Alexander’s THE BOOK OF THREE, the first novel of the Prydain Chronicles. The author himself provides opening remarks to set the scene. As Taran the Assistant Pig Keeper quests after his escaped charge, the mates who join his entourage expand Taran’s horizons both literally and figuratively as he comes to see his... Read More
A fine book deserves a fine presentation. Such is true of Lloyd Alexander's THE BOOK OF THREE, the first novel of the Prydain Chronicles. The author himself provides opening remarks to set the scene. As Taran the Assistant Pig Keeper quests after his escaped charge, the mates who join his entourage expand Taran's horizons both literally and figuratively as he comes to see his... Read More
This production is as close to perfection as it gets with respect to story and narration. This is a glimpse at history so vivid you feel it in your bones. Seventeen-year-old Edmund finds himself forced into a commitment to Sir Nigel, a knight on his way to the Holy Crusades to serve with Richard the Lionheart. Along the way he experiences the drama of many a colorful exotic... Read More
This humorous essay follows fast on the heels of the author's bestselling GOOMBA'S GUIDE TO LIFE. Trading on his image as a featured player in "The Sopranos," Schirripa provides a mock sociological exegesis on the love life of the Italian-American working-class male of New York and Vegas, replete with illustrative reminiscences. From momma to the wife to the girl on the side,... Read More
It seems like Resnick's episodic science fiction novel should make an ideal audiobook. Though it covers the next several thousand years of human history, he tells his sweeping story in a series of adventures that illustrate single, focused ideas in clear, accessible prose. However, Adams Morgan's narration doesn't fit the work, and so diminishes its appeal. Morgan's voice is... Read More
Bill Gates, David Packard, Thomas J. Watson, Michael Eisner, Jack Welch--the business writings of these and other CEO legends are condensed in this richly produced volume. Each segment contains a respectful biography that introduces the upcoming leader without romanticizing him. The range of topics is balanced and will hold the attention of a wide range of listeners,... Read More
Oh, what a tangled web Paul Auster weaves in this mesmerizing tale of death and resurrection and love. Professor David Zimmer is drinking himself to death over the death of his family in a plane crash when one night he sees a clip from a film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Mann vanished in 1929, but his films have begun to reappear anonymously in film archives around the... Read More
Jill Conner Browne offers up a philosophy and way of life that has become a run-away best-seller and guide to living for fans everywhere. In her first book, Connor Browne lays out her personal brand of Southern wisdom covering topics ranging from love to cooking to dressing and declaring yourself the Queen. She does so with a slow Southern drawl, adding a gentleness of voice... Read More
Children love stories with danger, animals, and interesting characters. This collection of Bible and inspirational tales has it all. The middle-aged narrators, Barrie Youngfellow and Sam Freed, alternate reading. Youngfellow has a quiet, slow, and gentle voice with no discernible accent. Freed's deep and resonating voice has precise enunciation--his "t's" really pop. You can... Read More
Composed originally as liturgical music performed in the ancient Israelite temple, the Psalms are the most musical and thus euphonic works in the Bible. Though most poetic in the original Hebrew, the King James translation is the next best choice, having been written with a special ear to retaining the poetic quality of the original. The star of LOGAN'S RUN, CABERET, and THE... Read More
This is not your average thriller. Its plot concerns a modern-day conspiracy against the Catholic Church by a group of Manichaeans, followers of early Christians who threatened the church's power and its hold over Christian doctrine. Narrator Arthur Addison reads with a deliberate, nasal-tinged voice that morphs into numerous characters and accents. The problem is that his... Read More
Billed as a 30-day program to cleanse the mind and release the spirit, the audio aims to help us resist the judgments that keep us from enjoying the here-and-now mysteries of the awakened life. Worrying about the past or future, being controlled by our addictions and strivings, or competing with others only separates us from the natural self that we were meant to manifest. The... Read More
The editor summarizes recent books by 10 well-known Wall Street legends. Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, George Soros, and Martin Zweig are in the group, along with some lesser-known experts on such things as cultural stock predictors, futures trading, and contrary thinking. The program is very well done and gives a nice range of current opinion on today's investment... Read More
Gup may have succeeded in humanizing the CIA. He has done this by telling the stories of some of the deaths of CIA operatives. Muller's reading clearly communicates the tragedies told. With his reading, we sense the emotions of surviving family members and of frustrated and sometimes forsaken agents in the field. Muller's deep voice sounds like that of a veteran gumshoe... Read More
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