Audiobooks Reviews Archive

Dead Watch
by John Sandford
Putnam Adult
ISBN: 0399153543

The author of the excellent tales that have the word “Prey” in the titles moves into a different title...[more]

The Glimmer Palace
by Beatrice Colin
Penguin Audio
ISBN: 978-0-14-314321-5

This historical novel tells the story of Lilly Nelly Aphrodite who was born just before 1900 in Berlin...[more]

Somebody Else's Daughter
by Elizabeth Brundage
Penguin Audio
ISBN: 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 to support their baby...[more]

Song Yet Sung
by James McBride
Penguin Audio
ISBN: 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 a future where slavery is a thing of the past, but where African Americans still face a world of woe...[more]

The Ghost War
by Alex Berenson
Penguin Audio
ISBN: 978-0-14-314285-0

This sequel to Alex Berenson's 2006 novel "The Faithful Spy" brings back CIA agent John Wells...[more]

Santa Fe Dead
by Stuart Woods
Penguin Audio
ISBN: 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 Wilde watching a trial on TV in San Diego in which Ed's ex-wife Barbara is charged with the murder of two people she mistook for Ed and Susannah...[more]

Lock and Key
by Sarah Dessen
Penguin Audio
ISBN: 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 Jamie who live in a posh section of town...[more]

Compulsion
by Jonathan Kellerman
Random House Audio
ISBN: 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...[more]

Rabbit Ears Treasury of Storybook Classics: Volume One: Pecos Bill, Puss in Boots
by Rabbit Ears
Listening Library
ISBN: 0-7393-5063-3

Two classic children's tales performed by two of the best in the business...[more]

The Essential Barack Obama
by Barack Obama
Random House Audio
ISBN: 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"...[more]

Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana
by Anne Rice
Random House Audio
ISBN: 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 life thusfar, despite the rumors of the "virgin birth"...[more]

The Water's Lovely
by Ruth Rendell
Random House Audio
ISBN: 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...[more]

What Matters Most
by Luanne Rice
Random House Audio
ISBN: 978-0-7393-4358-6

Romance writer Luanne Rice returns to form with "What Matters Most"...[more]

Straight from the Heart
by Tami Hoag
Random House Audio
ISBN: 978-0-7393-5772-9

Alas, poor Rebecca Bradshaw is facing that dilmena of what to do when that old boyfriend/girlfriend suddenly appears...[more]

Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Listening Library
ISBN: 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...[more]

Secrets of Dripping Fang, Book #1: The Onts
by Dan Greenberg
Listening Library
ISBN: 978-0-7393-4887-1

Here's a rare audiobook produced for youngsters in grades 3-5...[more]

The Serpent's Tale
by Ariana Franklin
Penguin Audio
ISBN: 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 the murder of his mistress, Rosamund Clifford...[more]

Beverly Hills Dead
by Stuart Woods
Penguin Audio
ISBN: 978-0-14-314289-8

Set in the post-War era, this story revolves around the movers and shakers at Centurion Studios...[more]

The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
by Sonja Lyubomirsky
Penguin Audio
ISBN: 978-0-14-314297-3

What makes us happy? Its a question psychologists and sociologists have been struggling with for a very long time...[more]

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
by Michael Pollan
Penguin Audio
ISBN: 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...[more]