Other People's Children

Joanna Trollope
Abridged on 2 Cassettes, $9.95

British author and reader are perfect for each other in this multi-layered contemporary tale of broken homes and family imperfections.

Trollope's bestseller in England mirrors American step-families, as well.

Higgins's work at London's ...

Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies

John Murray
unabridged on 7 Cassettes, $17.95

In this remarkably assured and satisfying debut collection, John Murray seamlessly meshes fact with fiction, taking his inspiration from the worlds of science, medicine, and nature. The stories are set in intriguing locations across the globe -- a ch ...

Corrections

Jonathan Franzen
Abridged on 6 Cassettes, $12.95

The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century —a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unf ...

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

Kaye Gibbons
Abridged on 4 Cassettes, $11.95

As she tells her story in 1900, she is still prey to her childhood, to the memories of a life that was made bearable in the main by the indomitable family servant Clarice. She secedes from the control of her overbearing father to marry Quincy Lowell, ...

Virtuous Woman

Kaye Gibbons
Abridged on 2 Cassettes, $9.95

When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disas ...

More Tales of the Unexpected

Roald Dahl
Unknown or N/A on 3 CDs, $34.95

Following the first Radio Collection release, Tales of the Unexpected, eight more Roald Dahl short stories are brought to life here by readers Tom Hollander, William Hootkins and Geoffrey Palmer.

Cane River

Laleta Tademy
Abridged on 4 Cassettes, $10.95

Lalita Tademy was a corporate vice president at a Fortune(r) 500 company when she decided to give notice and embark upon an odyssey to uncover her family's past. Through her exhaustive research, she would find herself transported back to the early 18 ...

Move to Strike

Laural Merlington
Abridged on 4 Cassettes, $13.95

Nina's not sleeping much these days. She's recovering from a great loss, haunted by a killer who may still be tracking her, and working on a tough new case. Her client is a sixteen-year-old girl charged with first-degree murder. Nikki Zack is a rebel ...

Writ of Execution

Laural Merlington
Abridged on 4 Cassettes, $12.95

Nina Reilly's latest case begins when she is called away from a very personal visit to her investigator Paul Van Wagoner's hotel room to meet with a desperate new client at her office. The frightened young Washoe Indian woman gives her name as Jessie ...

Bombay Ice

Leslie Forbes
abridged on 2 Cassettes, $7.95

A dazzling novel of murder and monsoons, of poison and seduction, of long-buried secrets and lethal betrayals...

Rosalind Benegal is a BBC correspondent who has spent years distancing herself from surreal memories of a childhood spent in India. Bu ...