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Thursday, June 13, 2013

New Audiobooks!

The Execution of Noa P. Singleton, by Elizabeth L. Silver
Visited by a high-powered attorney who has initiated a clemency petition on her behalf and who is also the mother of her victim, death-row inmate Noa is slowly persuaded to share the events surrounding the murder in spite of her reluctance to reveal the whole story or have her life extended. 



The King's Deception, by Steve Berry
When escalating political tensions between the United States and England put his son, Gary, in the hands of a man with a shadowy and intensely personal agenda, Cotton Malone finds himself confronting a baffling historical mystery that questions the legitimacy of Elizabeth I.


Silver Star, by Jeanette Walls
Abandoned by their artist mother at the age of 12, Bean and her older sister, Liz, are sent to live in the decaying antebellum mansion of their widowed uncle, where they learn the truth about their parents and take odd jobs to earn extra money before an increasingly withdrawn Liz has a life-shattering experience.



The Hare With Amber Eyes, by Edmund de Waal
Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 264 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.

 Sweet Salt Air, by Barbara Delinsky - out 6/18
Two childhood friends reunite at a summer retreat, each harboring a horrible secret that would test the bounds of their longtime relationship if revealed in this new novel from the author of Threats and Promises.



 Island Girls, by Nancy Thayer -out 6/18
When the will of a recently deceased ladies' man mandates a summer-long reunion for his daughters from different marriages at his posh Nantucket house, the three sisters are forced to confront long-festering resentments and misunderstandings as well as challenges in their private and professional lives, a situation that is complicated by a shocking revelation and the arrival of their mothers.

 The Engagements, by Courtney Sullivan
A sharply observed tale inspired by the highs and lows of marriage explores the marital foibles of such characters as a long-time wife who looks back on the dissolution of her previous marriage, a paramedic who lives under the shadow of his wife's disapproving family and a woman who has vowed never to marry after seeing too many disastrous weddings and marriages. 

 The Heist, by Janet Evanovich - out 6/18
A first entry in a new collaborative comic suspense series by the best-selling author of the Stephanie Plum mysteries and the best-selling author of the Monk tales finds FBI Special Agent Kate Winslow using her own schemes to outmaneuver charming con man Danny Cole, who becomes an unlikely partner when her next mission pits her against a formidable adversary.


 9th Girl, by Tami Hoag -out 6/18
Taking over a serial murder case that has already claimed nine lives, Minneapolis investigators Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska struggle to identify the latest victim and follow clues to the bullies who tormented her and the twisted family dynamics that may have caused her death.



 Deeply Odd, by Dean Koontz
A follow-up to Odd Apocalypse finds Odd struggling with visions of a multiple homicide surrounding a menacing, rhinestone-studded cowboy who compels him to race across California and Nevada, where he rallies a series of eccentric allies in a battle against a shadowy network of anonymous killers.


















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