Publisher: Books on Tape
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/22/2009
ISBN-13: 9781415965474
ISBN-10: 1415965471

Science Fiction. In this return to the dystopian world of Oryx and Crake, the "Waterless Flood" predicted by Adam One, founder of the environmentalist God's Gardeners cult, has come to pass in the form of a manmade viral apocalypse. The only survivors are two women, former fast-food employee Toby and sex worker Ren, who escaped their fate through sheer luck. However, plenty of transgenic organisms remain, from the lethal liobams (lamb-lion hybrids) to pigs with human DNA. Should Ren and Toby venture out of their respective safe havens to search for other humans? And if they stay put, will they be any safer? For a haunting glimpse of an all-too-plausible future, check out The Year of the Flood.

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Publisher: Harper Audio
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/06/2009
ISBN-13: 9780061842375
ISBN-10: 0061842370

The best-selling author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and a Pulitzer Prize winner questions what it means to be a man today in a series of interlinked autobiographical series of reflections, regrets, and reexaminations, each sparked by an encounter, in the present, that holds some legacy of the past.

Publisher: Penguin Audio
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/29/2009
ISBN-13: 9780143144908
ISBN-10: 0143144901

Ending her relationship with a man who turns out to be in love with a reclusive singer, Annie initiates an e-mail friendship with the musician that reveals their mutual loneliness, his concerns about his young son, and his plans to release an acoustic version of his most successful album. By the E. M. Forster-winning author of About a Boy.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/06/2009
ISBN-13: 9780743597227
ISBN-10: 0743597222

Presents a novel based on the life of the author's grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, who learned to break horses in childhood, journeyed five hundred miles as a teen to become a teacher, and ran a vast ranch in Arizona with her husband while raising two children.

Movember (Mustache + November) is a month-long event in which people grow mustaches to raise awareness about men's health issues. In honor of Movember and in general celebration of the 'stache, here are some great audiobooks that feature mustaches.

Publisher: Time Warner Audiobooks
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9781586210465
ISBN-10: 1586210467

Speeches. An inspiring collection featuring the milestone speeches of one of the greatest orators of the 20th century.Throughout the 1950s and 60s, the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., led the Civil Rights movement, inspiring generations of Americans and transforming the future of the United States. This collection includes the text of Dr. Kings best-known oration, I Have A Dream, his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and Beyond Vietnam, a compelling argument for ending the ongoing conflict.

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Publisher: Audio Partners
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/10/2005
ISBN-13: 9781572704572
ISBN-10: 1572704578

Mystery Fiction. Hercule Poirot has been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters, so before he retires, he makes up his mind to accept just twelve more cases - his self-imposed "labours".

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Publisher: Recorded Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/10/2007
ISBN-13: 9781428149342
ISBN-10: 1428149341

Biography. A narrative portrait based on the complete body of Einstein's papers offers insight into how the iconic thinker's mind worked as well as his contributions to science, in an account that describes his two marriages, his receipt of the Nobel Prize, and the influence of his discoveries on his personal views about morality, politics, and tolerance.

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Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9781433257339
ISBN-10: 1433257335

Mystery Fiction. Reggie is thrilled when he learns that his new office is in the same space where famous sleuth Sherlock Holmes used to ply his trade. However, when he starts to receive mysterious mail, written for Holmes, his excitement soon turns into intrigue. As Reggie's brother, Nigel, begins to investigate one of these letters, he inexplicably disappears. Now, Reggie must find his brother while simultaneously solving a murder case.

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Awarded annually by the Audio Publishers Association since 1996, the Audies recognize excellence in audiobooks.

Publisher: Books on Tape
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/29/2008
ISBN-13: 9780739368435
ISBN-10: 0739368435

Fiction. Not long after the end of WWII, London newspaper columnist Juliet Ashton receives a letter from Dawsey Adams, a farmer on the small Channel Island of Guernsey. Soon his letters are joined by those of the island's other inhabitants, who write to Juliet to tell her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club hastily invented during the German Occupation that soon became a defiant celebration of friendship and community during a dark time in history.

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Publisher: Harper Children's Audio
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9781436158848
ISBN-10: 1436158842

Young Adult Fiction. In this supernatural take on Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, a toddler escapes the man who murders his entire family by taking refuge in a nearby cemetery. Adopted by its ghostly denizens, Nobody "Bod" Owens grows up in the graveyard, where his mysterious mentor Silas teaches him everything he needs to know to survive. But even a graveyard full of friends may not be enough to protect him from the killer, who's still searching for him. Read by the author, The Graveyard Book is fun listening experience for all ages.

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Publisher: Recorded Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/22/2008
ISBN-13: 9781436101905
ISBN-10: 1436101905

Horror Fiction. After Edgar Freemantle loses his arm in a work-related accident and his wife during his rehabilitation (she leaves him after his uncontrollable rages turn violent), he decides to start over by moving to Duma Key. Once he sets up house on the lush, largely uninhabited Gulf Coast island, Edgar develops a strange compulsion to create art--and some unusual abilities to go along with it. Are these changes the result of his accident, or is there a more sinister force at work? This chiller by Stephen King will appeal to fans of his other works, such as The Shining.

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Publisher: Books on Tape
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/19/2009
ISBN-13: 9781415954522
ISBN-10: 1415954526

Historical Thriller. Set in the Soviet Union in 1953, Child 44 is the story of MGB (State Security Force) officer Leo Demidov, an honest man whose promising career is derailed by politics. Demoted and dispatched to a remote village in the Ukraine, Leo uncovers the existence of a serial killer who's targeting local children. But in Stalin's Russia, where things like serial killers are not supposed to exist, it's a crime against the State to suggest that one is on the loose. If you like thrillers with detailed historical settings, you'll love this suspenseful and atmospheric debut by Tom Rob Smith. And don't miss Smith's second Leo Demidov book, The Secret Speech.

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