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| Title | ISBN | Review Snippet |
| The Ghost War by Alex Berenson | 978-0-14-314285-0 | This sequel to Alex Berenson's 2006 novel "The Faithful Spy" brings back CIA agent John Wells. Back in Washington and fully recovered, Wells |
| Rabbit Ears Treasury of Storybook Classics: Volume One: Pecos Bill, Puss in Boots by Rabbit Ears | 0-7393-5063-3 | Two classic children's tales performed by two of the best in the business. First we have the story of Pecos Bill who was raised by coyotes |
| The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want by Sonja Lyubomirsky | 978-0-14-314297-3 | What makes us happy? Its a question psychologists and sociologists have been struggling with for a very long time. Using her own research, |
| In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan | 978-0-14-314274-4 | As someone with a chronic weight problem, I can tell you that the solution of "diet and exercise" is permanently etched in my mind. Its easy |
| The Shooters by W.E.B. Griffin | 978-0-14-314245-4 | W.E.B. Griffin gives us the fourth novel in his series of Presidental Agent series. Delta Force officer Charley Castillo and his team have |
| The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin | 0143142879 | In this sequel to "Mistress of the Art of Death", our Medievel forensic scientist Adelia Aguilar is summoned by King Henry II to investigate |
| Beverly Hills Dead by Stuart Woods | 978-0-14-314289-8 | Set in the post-War era, this story revolves around the movers and shakers at Centurion Studios. Former Beverly Hills cop Rick Barron is now |
| The Water's Lovely by Ruth Rendell | 978-0-7393-4296-1 | The Grand Dame of British mysteries is back with a chilling story of two murders a decade or more apart from each other. Ismay and Heather |
| What Matters Most by Luanne Rice | 978-0-7393-4358-6 | Romance writer Luanne Rice returns to form with "What Matters Most". Its the story of two characters from her novel "Sandcastles", Tom Kelley |
| Straight from the Heart by Tami Hoag | 978-0-7393-5772-9 | Alas, poor Rebecca Bradshaw is facing that dilmena of what to do when that old boyfriend/girlfriend suddenly appears. She knew baseball player |
| Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson | 978-0-7393-5046-1 | For those of us who loves movies, our vision of Jim will forever be that baby-faced Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery is Long John Silver. Listening |
| Secrets of Dripping Fang, Book #1: The Onts by Dan Greenberg | 978-0-7393-4887-1 | Here's a rare audiobook produced for youngsters in grades 3-5. Its the comical story of the Shluffmuffin twins, Wally and Cheyenne. The two |
| The Essential Barack Obama by Barack Obama | 978-0-7393-7594-5 | This is a two-book set, featuring the books by Barack Obama, "Dreams From My Father", and "The Audacity Of Hope". In "Dreams From My Father", |
| Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana by Anne Rice | 978-0-7393-1603-0 | Anne Rice takes us back to the time of Jesus again. It is the winter before he is baptized by John The Baptist and he has been living a quiet |
| Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman | 978-0-7393-0723-6 | Criminal psychologist Alex Deleware is called on once again to assist LAPD detective Milo Sturgis when a series of women are murdered. The |
| Santa Fe Dead by Stuart Woods | 978-0-14-314318-5 | This third audiobook from Stuart Woods' thrillers featuring Ed Eagle, the attorney in New Mexico, begins with Ed and his girlfriend Susannah |
| Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen | 0143143050 | Several years after she was abandoned by her mother, poor Ruby Cooper is forced by social workers to move in with her sister Cora and her husband |
| Song Yet Sung by James McBride | 978-0-14-314291-1 | Set in the years just before the Civil War, "Song Yet Sung" tells the story of Liz Spocott, a young runaway slave in Maryland who dreams of |
| Somebody Else's Daughter by Elizabeth Brundage | 978-0-14-314346-8 | When Nate Golding and his girlfriend had a child some seventeen years ago, they were drifting around San Francisco, using drugs, and too poor |
| The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin | 978-0-14-314321-5 | This historical novel tells the story of Lilly Nelly Aphrodite who was born just before 1900 in Berlin. Following the murder of her parents, |
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