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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Steep Approach to Garbadale Author: Iain Banks Narrator: Peter Kenny Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins Language: English Release date: 03-20-07 Publisher: Hachette Audio UK Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 105 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: The Wopuld family built their fortune on a board game called Empire, now a wildly successful computer game. So successful, in fact, that the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the Wopulds out. Alban, who has been evading the family tentacles for the last few years, thinks Spraint should be treated with suspicion, but he also has other things on his mind. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he yet over Sophie, his teenage love, who'll be present at the forthcoming family gathering - part birthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting - in their highland castle? ©2007 Iain Banks; (P)2007 Hachette Audio Critic Reviews: "The most

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Coronado Subtitle: Unabridged Stories Author: Dennis Lehane Narrator: Stanley Tucci Format: Abridged Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins Language: English Release date: 09-05-06 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 21 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: A young girl, caught up in an inner-city gang war, crosses the line from victim to avenger...An innocent man is hunted by government agents for an unspecified crime. A boy and a girl fall in love while ransacking a rich man's house during the waning days of the Vietnam War...A compromised psychiatrist confronts the unstable patient he slept with...A father and a son wage a lethal battle of wits over the whereabouts of a stolen diamond and a missing woman...Along with completely original material, this new collection is a compilation of the best of Dennis Lehane's previously published short stories. At turns suspenseful, surreal, romantic, and

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Carry Me Down Author: M.J. Hyland Narrator: Gerard Doyle Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 07-20-06 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 23 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: With an obsession for the Guinness Book of World Records, a keenly inquisitive mind, and a kind of faith, John is like a tuning fork, sensitive to the vibrations within himself and his family's shifting dynamics. From his changing voice, body, and psyche to his parents' disheartening marital difficulties, this is a trying year in a fragile young boy's life, and when his sanity reaches near collapse, a frightening family catastrophe threatens to ruin what little they have. Carry Me Down is a restrained, emotionally taut, and sometimes outrageously funny portrait whose drama drives toward, but narrowly averts, an unthinkable disaster. Critic Reviews: "A spa

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Hunting Unicorns Author: Bella Pollen Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir, Christopher Cazenove Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins Language: English Release date: 05-09-06 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 19 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: Rory, the youngest son, runs a business that rents out the grand mansions for weddings and tours to help the owners pay upkeep on their dilapidated estates. Enter Maggie, an American TV journalist sent to London to do an expose on the aristocracy. She hires Rory to get her access to the most private families. The two immediately clash, bickering until a romance springs up where it seemed least likely. A delightfully funny love story exploring loyalty and family, Hunting Unicorns is ultimately about having the courage to risk everything in the pursuit of what really counts. Critic Reviews: "[Pollen] hits the spot every time wi

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Challenger Park Author: Stephen Harrigan Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 04-26-06 Publisher: Books on Tape Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 16 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: At the novel's center: Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut married to an astronaut, the loving mother of two young children, with a fierce ambition to excel in the space program. Her husband, Brian, a rigorous man whose dreams of glory have been blighted by two star-crossed missions. And Walt Womack, the steady, unflappable leader of the training team that prepares Lucy for her first shuttle flight. Lucy has devoted years of intense and focused effort to win her place on a mission, but as her lifelong dream of flying in space comes true, her familiar world appears to be falling apart around her. Her marriage is deteriorating. Her son's asthma is growing more ser

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Specimen Days Author: Michael Cunningham Narrator: Alan Cumming Format: Abridged Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins Language: English Release date: 06-17-05 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: Specimen Days is a genre-bending, haunting, and transformative ode to life in our greatest city, a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today. Critic Reviews: "Engaging Walt Whitman as his muse, Cunningham weaves a captivating, strange, and extravagant novel of human progress and social decline....This is daring, memorable fiction." (Publishers Weekly) "Brilliantly conceived, empathic, darkly humorous, and gorgeously rendered, Cunningham's galvanizing novel about the quest for justice and freedom, the parameters of the soul, the hunger for beauty, and the fluid interface between the natural and the enginee

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Big Bounce Author: Elmore Leonard Narrator: Campbell Scott Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins Language: English Release date: 02-03-05 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 50 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: Jack Ryan always wanted to play pro ball. But he couldn't hit a curveball, so he turned his attention to less legal pursuits. A tough guy who likes walking the razor's edge, he's just met his match, and more, in Nancy. She's a rich man's plaything, seriously into thrills and risk, and together she and Jack are pure heat ready to explode. But when simple housebreaking and burglary give way to the deadly pursuit of a really big score, the stakes suddenly skyrocket. Because violence and double-cross are the name of this game, it's going to take every ounce of cunning Jack and Nancy possess to survive...each other. © Elmore Leonard; (P)2004 HarperCollins Publishers

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Sea-Hawk Author: Rafael Sabatini Narrator: John Bolen Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins Language: English Release date: 05-07-03 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 49 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: Tessilian converts to Islam and becomes the Barbary Corsair, Sakr-el-Bahr, "Hawk of the Sea." He invades the coast of England on a captured Spanish ship and kidnaps the woman whose love for him had been poisoned by deceit and whose unforgiving repugnance had kept him form returning home. This 1923 best seller, doused with pirates, sea battles, villainy, romance and revenge, is considered one of the great classic swashbucklers of all time. Editorial Reviews: Rafael Sabatini's The Sea-Hawk tells the story of an Elizabethan Englishman who, after being betrayed by his half-brother and sold into slavery, joins the swashbuckling pirates of the Barbary Coast. Historic an

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Thursday's Child Author: Sandra Brown Narrator: Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins Language: English Release date: 12-21-01 Publisher: Random House AudioBooks Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 120 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: Allison was far too logical to believe in love at first sight, but there was nothing logical about the way she was responding to Spencer Raft. The dark-haired, blue-eyed mystery man had an assurance that Allison found positively maddening. And by the end of the evening, she couldn't help feeling that Spencer had been attracted to a carefully constructed illusion. She was certain that the handsome adventurer wouldn't give her a second look if he knew her as she really was. But Spencer Raft was a man of many talents - and seeing below the surface of things was one of them. He sensed the flesh-and-blood woman beneath the elaborate charade, and after years