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by Tony Abbott.
It’s a dangerous time in Droon. Ko
and Gethwing are about to wage war.
Young Sparr is on a risky undercover
mission to try to defeat the evil
emperor from within. And a wicked
ancient sorcerer named Shadowface
is vowing to wake the infamous
Warriors of the Skorth to aid Ko’s
army of beasts. It’s up to Eric, Julie,
Neal, and Keeah to stop him—no
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LEIGH
by Lyn Cote.
At eighteen, Linda
Leigh Sinclair watches
the powers that be
collide with the
radical causes of the
1960s. Choosing
the dangerous path
of a journalist, she
witnesses and
writes about
the protests and
riots against
segregation
and the war
in Vietnam.
Can she become
the strong and capable woman that
her family—and the world—needs? Unabridged.
540 min. (Cassette)
• Order # T1534
THE RECKONING
by Beverly Lewis.
Unknown to Katherine Mayfield, her long-lost
love, Daniel Fisher, is desperate to locate his
“sweetheart girl,” only to be frustrated at nearly
every turn. Once again, Katherine is compelled
to face the heritage of her past and recognize
that God’s love is always present. Unabridged.
420 min. (Cassette)
• Order # T1532
CARLY
by Lyn Cote.
Carly Leigh Sinclair grew up in the last
decades of the twentieth century in the
home of her independent, ambitious
mother Leigh. Scarred by a childhood
trauma, Carly finds that hiding her fears
from her mother only causes them to
mount. In an attempt to face them head
on, Carly decides to join the army. Prairie
Legacy #3. Unabridged. 450 min. (Cassette)
• Order # T1589
A QUIET STRENGTH
by Janette Oke.
Virginia Simpson knows that when God allows
something to be taken from you, He replaces
it with something better. The long-awaited
return of Jonathan and their renewed
courtship, with a wedding soon to follow, are
proof of God’s loving ways. But the inner
strength that God has been forming in Virginia’s
life through trials and disappointments is far
from completion. Heritage of Lancaster Co. #3.
Unabridged. 420 min. (Cassette)
• Order # T1533
A SEARCHING HEART
by Janette Oke.
Recently graduated from high school, Virginia
Simpson thought she would feel differently—
like an adult, with an inner knowledge that she
is on the edge of the nest, ready to try her own
wings. And then circumstances begin swirling
around her making her rethink her plans and
reevaluate her priorities. Prairie Legacy #2.
• Order # T1536
THE SHUNNING
by Beverly Lewis.
In the quiet Amish community of Hickory
Hollow, Pennsylvania, time has stood still while
cherished traditions and heartfelt beliefs have
flourished. But a secret lies buried that could
shatter the tranquility its inhabitants have grown
to love. Heritage of Lancaster Co. #1. Unabridged.
750 min. (Cassette)
• Order # T1530
LIKE GOLD
REFINED
by Janette Oke.
Virginia loves her life,
living on the farm
with her beloved
Jonathan and their
children, not far
from her parents
and her grandparents. But a
change that is
tearing at her
heart is the
gradual but
steady physical
decline in
Grandma Marty and
Grandpa Clark. She cannot imagine their
familiar farm home without their welcoming
smiles and words of wisdom that arise from
decades of life experiences and a solid faith in
God. Prairie Legacy #4. Unabridged. 540 min.
(Cassette)
• Order # T1531
THE CONFESSION
by Beverly Lewis.
Katie Lapp’s identity has been shattered ever since
she was painfully torn from her close-knit
community in the frightening ordeal called the
shunning. Katie—now Katherine Mayfield—
sets out to find the ailing birth mother she has
never known. Heritage of Lancaster Co. #2.
• Order # T1535
THE TENDER YEARS
by Janette Oke.
Caught in that difficult period between childhood and adulthood, Virginia struggles against
what she considers to be unreasonable restrictions
and expectations. A lively new girl arrives at
school, and Jenny seems to represent everything
that Virginia is longing for—her looks, her
daring, and her alluring freedom from constraints.
But then comes the day neither girl will ever
forget. Prairie Legacy #1. Unabridged. 750 min.
(Cassette)
• Order # T1529
BETTE
by Lyn Cote.
Lyn Cote weaves a powerful story of love, secrets,
betrayal, and passion during the tumultuous
years of World War II. Unabridged. 480 min.
(Cassette)
• Order # T1537
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CRISS CROSS
by Lynne Rae Perkins.
Fourteen-year-old Debbie wishes on her
necklace that something exciting will happen
to her. In another area of town Hector
wonders about his potential. And the two,
along with their close friends, feel the subtle
push and pull of blooming love, new
opportunities and changes in the order of the
universe as the necklace tries to work its magic.
Unabridged. 330 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1651
ISLAND OF
THE BLUE
DOLPHINS
by Scott O’Dell.
Left alone on a
beautiful but isolated
island off the coast
of California, a
young Indian girl
spends eighteen
years, not only
merely surviving
through her
enormous
courage and
self-reliance,
but also finding
a measure of happiness in her
solitary life. Unabridged. 270 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1777
MOSSFLOWER
by Brian Jacques.
In the land of Mossflower, Tsarmina, a cruel
wildcat queen demands obedience and offers
the castle’s dungeon to those who defy her.
Enter the heroic mouse Martin, a warrior who
arrives n the forest bearing only his courage
and broken sword. Will he find a weapon
mighty enough to help him conquer the
wicked queen and her minions? Unabridged.
705 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1549
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Kids
THE CRICKET
IN TIMES
SQUARE
by George Selden.
When Chester
Cricket falls asleep
in a picnic basket,
he awakens to find
himself in the
middle of the
Times Square
subway station
in New York
City. Making
some unlikely
friends, Chester
discovers a talent hidden
deep inside him. Unabridged. 195 min.
(Digital)
• Order # T1760
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD
by Avi.
In the small, 14th-century English village a boy
has grown up with no name of his own. But
when his mother dies, the boy learns from the
village priest that long ago he was baptized as
Crispin. The priest gives Crispin a lead cross
inscribed with a secret he can neither read nor
understand—a secret that soon has him fleeing
for his life. Unabridged. 375 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1650
MAXIMUM RIDE:
SCHOOL’S OUT—FOREVER
by James Patterson.
Bird-girl Max is back and so is her flock of flying
friends, heading south on a journey to reunite
with their families. So far, the children have
evaded the deadly maws of the wolf-like Erasers
who hunt them. But now they have a new
problem: an FBI agent discovers them and
sends them back to school. There, Max learns
she has a dangerous clone who must be stopped
at all cost. Unabridged. 630 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1646
THE OUTSIDERS
by S. E. Hinton.
Even though his parents died in a car accident,
Ponyboy gets to live with his brothers—as long
as they behave. Sometimes Ponyboy wishes he
lived someplace where he didn’t have to worry
about walking alone at night, or that the Socs
might jump him. Would he always be
looking over his shoulder, always afraid, always
an outsider? Unabridged. 330 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1773
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SHADOWLAND
by Meg Cabot.
Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon is a mediator
who can see and speak with ghosts. As a bridge
between the living and the dead, she gets called
on to help troubled ghosts take care of
unfinished business. Soon after she and her
mother move from New York City to sunny
California, Suze meets the sexiest boy she’s ever
seen. But there are two problems: he’s a ghost,
and he’s haunting her room. Unabridged.
360 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1649
AL CAPONE DOES MY SHIRTS
by Gennifer Choldenko.
Twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan leaves behind
his friends in San Francisco so that his sister
has the chance to get into a special school.
Moose’s sister Natalie, has autism. Because of
this, he has to give up much of his childhood
to take care of her. But after all of his sacrifices,
Natalie is rejected by her new school. Now,
Moose feels it’s up to him to get her accepted.
• Order # T1648
JUST LISTEN
by Sarah Dessen.
Her sister suffers from anorexia, her mom
struggles with depression, and Annabel is
a social outcast hiding behind a cheerful
facade. And then she meets eccentric Owen
Armstrong. Can this music-obsessed youth
with his fervent commitment to truth
convince Annabel to reveal a dark secret
and bravely confront reality? Unabridged.
720 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1774
PREP
by Curtis Sittenfeld.
Fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves Indiana
to enroll at the prestigious Ault School of
Massachusetts. Surrounded by beautiful and
wealthy students, Lee immediately feels like an
outsider. Both repulsed and captivated by her
classmates, she carves out a niche for herself.
But everything falls apart when Lee’s private
thoughts become public information—leading
to her ostracism. Unabridged. 1065 min.
(Digital)
• Order # T1776
Fiction
by Robin Cook.
Two young, healthy
people have died after
minor surgical
procedures at the
same hospital. As
the body count
rises, New York
City medical
examiners Laurie
and Jack’s
investigation
places them
directly in peril.
Unabridged.
975 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1645
RAVEN’S GATE
by Anthony Horowitz.
Punished for a crime he didn’t commit, Matt
is sent to a sinister town where he can sense
the wickedness surrounding him. Long ago, a
great evil was banished from the town by the
power of five children. Now that vile people
are trying to let the evil back in, Matt must
summon his own courage to fight the growing
menace—before it’s too late. Unabridged.
435 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1627
TEN BIG ONES
by Janet Evanovich.
Indulging her nachos jones at a local
deli when it’s robbed by the notorious
Red Devils, bounty hunter Stephanie
Plum is the eye witness who could put
the gang leader, known as the Junkman,
behind bars... if he just lets her live long
enough. Unabridged. 585 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1647
THE TENTH CIRCLE
by Jodi Picoult.
With The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult
crafts the tale of a brokenhearted teenage
girl and the father who will do anything
to protect her. Unabridged. 810 min.
(Digital)
• Order # T1656
HARD TRUTH
by Nevada Barr.
Anna Davidson’s mettle is immediately tested
as the new district ranger at Rocky Mountain
National Park. Three young girls have gone
missing, and when only two return a month
later—wearing filthy undergarments and
bearing deep psychological scars—the signs
point to a mysterious religious organization
that guards its secrets closely. Unabridged.
805 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1659
ANGELS & DEMONS
by Dan Brown.
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is
shocked to find proof that the legendary secret
society, the Illuminati--dedicated since the
time of Galileo to promoting the interests of
science and condemning the blind faith of
Catholicism--is alive, well, and murderously
active. Unabridged. 1110 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1660
EVERYMAN
by Philip Roth.
The hero of Everyman is
obsessed with mortality.
He cannot help
himself. He is the
ex-husband of three
marriages gone
wrong. He is the
father of two sons
who detest him,
despite a
daughter who
adores him.
And as his
health worsens,
he is the envious
brother of a much fitter man.
• Order # T1657
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HANNIBAL
RISING
by Thomas Harris.
Hannibal Lecter’s
uncle finds him in a
Soviet orphanage
and brings him to
France, where
Hannibal will live
with his uncle and
his uncle’s
beautiful and
exotic wife. But
Hannibal’s
demons visit
him and
torment him. When he
is old enough, he visits them in turn. He
discovers he has gifts beyond the academic,
and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter
becomes death’s prodigy. Unabridged.
420 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1744
THE ULTIMATE GIFT
by Jim Stoval.
The narrative comes from an eighty-year old
attorney who is reading the will of a very
successful long-term client who had become a
close, dear friend. As part of the inheritance,
the old man’s grand-nephew, a spoiled brat
sort of young man, is given a special bequest.
Each month he is to return to the attorney’s
office for a learning assignment. If he stays
with the program successfully, meeting the
approval of the attorney, he gains the Ultimate
Gift. If he quits or doesn’t meet the grade at
any time, he loses his opportunity for the
Ultimate Gift. Unabridged. 150 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1741
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THE PHOTOGRAPH
by Penelope Lively.
Glyn Peters, a famous British
archeologist, discovers a compromising
photograph of his wife, Katherine
Targett, sealed in an envelope in a closet at
home. The envelope is marked “DON’T
OPEN—DESTROY.” But Kath’s
husband does not heed the warning. The
mystery of the photograph, and of Kath
herself and her recent death, propels him
on a journey of discovery. Unabridged.
435 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1742
CROSS
by James Patterson.
Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington,
DC, Police Department when an unknown
shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front
of him. Years later, a new case triggers a
connection to Maria’s death, giving Alex a
chance to catch his wife’s murderer. Is this
a chance for justice at long last? Or the
culminating scene in his own deadly
obsession? Unabridged. 435 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1740
WICKED
by Gregory Maguire.
Heralded as an instant
classic of fantasy
literature, Maguire
has written a
wonderfully
imaginative retelling
of The Wizard of
Oz told from the
Wicked Witch’s
point of view.
Unabridged.
1185 min. (Digital)
• Order #
T1758
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Fiction
BROTHER
ODD
by Dean Koontz.
Having lost his soul
mate, Odd Thomas
leaves the little
desert town of Pico
Mundo to embrace
the solitude and
peace of an
isolated monastery
high in the
western
mountains as
he tries to find
a way to live
fully again. But a killer is
stalking the ancient holy halls, and Odd is
about to encounter an enemy who eclipses any
he has yet encountered. Unabridged. 720 min.
(Digital)
• Order # T1739
FINGERSMITH
by Sarah Waters.
Orphaned as an infant, Susan Trinder was
raised by Mrs. Sucksby, “mother” to a host of
pickpockets and con artists. To pay her debt
for the food and boarding, the now
17-year-old girl joins legendary thief
Gentleman in swindling an innocent
woman out of her inheritance. But the
two women form an unanticipated
bond, which leads to the exposure of
Gentleman’s actual motives. Unabridged.
1410 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1780
WINTER HOUSE
by Carol O’Connell.
Never has Mallory faced as many surprises as
in the case before her now. It seems cut-anddried at first: a burglar has been caught in the
act and killed by an ice pick-wielding
homeowner. Except that the home owner
turns out to be the most famous lost child in
NYPD history, missing for almost sixty years,
thought to have been kidnapped following the
massacre of her family. Nearly the entire
household wiped out...with an ice pick.
• Order # T1735
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RIDERS OF THE
PURPLE SAGE
by Zane Grey.
Lassiter has been hired on to Jane Withersteen’s
ranch. Through battles with gun slinging
cattle-rustlers, cut-throats and the calculating
Mormans, Lassiter unveils his tale of an
endless search for a woman abducted long ago.
Grey unfolds his story of seduction, secrecy,
captivity and escape on the dust swept purple
plains. Unabridged. 675 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1737
WILD FIRE
byNelson DeMille.
Custer Hill Club is a men’s club set in an
Adirondack hunting lodge whose members
include some of America’s most powerful
business leaders, military men, and
government officials. It is a place to relax with
old friends. But one fall weekend, the club’s
Executive Board gathers to talk about 9/11—
and finalize a retaliation plan, known only by
its code name: WILD FIRE. Unabridged.
1110 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1738
THE BIG
BAMBOO
by Tim Dorsey.
Before Tinseltown
knows what’s hit it,
Serge A. Storms has
already made an
unforgettable foray
to the Playboy
Mansion, faceddown Japanese
Yakuza, and eaten
a delicious lunch.
And then things
start to get
serious. Serge
feels that
movie-makers have been slack in
their treatment of his native Florida—and he
wants to deliver his critique personally.
• Order # T1765
Fiction
by Robert Penn
Warren.
The fictionalized
account of
Louisiana’s
colorful—and
notorious—
governor Huey
Pierce Long,
follows the
startling rise and
fall of Willie
Stark, a
country lawyer
in the Deep South of the
1930s. Beset by political enemies, Stark seeks
aid from his right-hand man Jack Burden,
who will bear witness to the cataclysmic
unfolding of this very American tragedy.
• Order # T1766
CRISIS
by Robin Cook.
Talented physician Craig Bowman enjoys a
successful practice providing “concierge”
medicine for patrons wealthy enough to afford
this exclusive service. But when a hypochondriac patient dies and a malpractice suit is
launched, the good doctor’s life is sent into
a tailspin. Startling evidence comes to
light—and there are those who will
stop at nothing to keep this information
buried. Unabridged. 855 min.
(Digital)
• Order # T1767
ATONEMENT
by Iam McEwan.
In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old
Briony Tallis wildly misinterprets the
relationship between her sister Cecilia
and Robbie Turner, childhood friends
home from Cambridge. So when her
young cousin is assaulted, Briony gives in
to her hyperactive imagination and blames
the atrocity on Robbie. It is a terrible
decision that alters lives and fills Briony with
an everlasting sense of guilt. Unabridged.
855 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1771
THE MYSTERIOUS FLAME
OF QUEEN LOANA
by Umberto Eco.
When book dealer Yambo suffers amnesia, he
loses all sense of who he is, but retains
memories of all the books, poems, songs and
movies he has ever experienced. To reclaim his
identity, he retreats to the family home and
rummages through the old letters, photographs
and mementos stored in the attic. Yambo’s
mind swirls with thoughts, and he struggles to
retrieve the one memory that may be most
sacred—his first love. Unabridged. 900 min.
(Digital)
• Order # T1761
ONE FOR
THE MONEY
by Janet Evanovich.
You’ve lost your job
as a department
store lingerie buyer,
your car’s been
repossessed, and
most of your
furniture and
small appliances
have been sold
off to pay last
month’s rent.
Now the rent is
due again and
you live in New
Jersey. What do you do? If you’re
Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter.
• Order # T1764
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TOMB OF THE
GOLDEN BIRD
by Elizabeth Peters.
Amelia Peabody
and her husband
Emerson are on
the brink of one
of the greatest
archaeological finds
in history—the
tomb of King
Tut. But the
path to discovery
is strewn with
dangers. Lured
into a perilous
trap, Emerson and his
son Ramses manage to escape unharmed.
But Emerson begins to suspect his charming
half brother Sethos might be more involved
than he admits. Unabridged. 825 min.
(Digital)
• Order # T1653
DAY OF TEARS
by Julius Lester.
As did his father before him, Pierce Butler
treats his plantation slaves like family. But
massive gambling debts force him to sell 429
“family” members. Based on the largest slave
auction in U.S. history, this poignant montage
is the fictionalized account of that 1859 Georgia
tragedy. Unabridged. 180 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1655
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ALL THE
KING’S MEN
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Non-Fiction
THE INNOCENT MAN
1776
by John Grisham.
If you believe that in America you are innocent
until proven guilty, this audiobook will shock
you. If you believe in the death penalty, this
audiobook will disturb you. If you believe the
criminal justice system is fair, this audiobook
will infuriate you. Unabridged. 750 min.
(Digital)
• Order # T1743
by David McCullough.
McCullough heavily researched both
American and British archives to craft
the full story of 1776. The result is a
brisk and thrilling narrative history, read
by the author himself, that tells all the
stories of that fateful year—from the
colonial farmer to the British commander.
• Order # T1654
MAYFLOWER
by Nathaniel Philbrick.
Nathaniel Philbrick delivers a fresh, riveting
narrative of Pilgrims and Indians struggling for
peaceful co-existence. Unabridged. 765 min.
(Digital)
• Order # T1661
THE GLASS
CASTLE
by Jeannette Walls.
Jeannette Walls’ father
was a charismatic but
alcoholic man who
greatly preferred
poker to gainful
employment and
wasn’t above
stealing the family
grocery money to
purchase liquor.
His wife could
barely be
bothered to
raise her children.
So Walls and her siblings had to fend
for themselves, providing their own food,
shelter and clothing—even if it meant picking
through dumpsters. Unabridged. 675 min.
(Digital)
• Order # T1782
WINNING
by Jack Welch with Suzy Welch.
Best-selling author and legendary General
Electric CEO Jack Welch is an internationally
recognized expert on corporate management.
He and his wife Suzy, former editor of Hanvard
Business Review, have crafted a book Bill Gates
hails as “a candid and comprehensive look at
how to succeed in business.” Unabridged. 690
min. (Digital)
• Order # T1658
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NIGHT
by Elie Wiesel.
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the
Congressional Gold Medal, Holocaust survivor
Elie Wiesel offers an unforgettable account of
Hitler’s horrific reign of terror in Night.
• Order # T1652
HALSEY’S TYPHOON
by Bob Drury & Ton Clavin.
December 1944, The Pacific Theater. General
Douglas MacArthur has vowed to return to the
Philippines. He will need the help of Admiral
William “Bull” Halsey’s Pacific Fleet. But at the
height of the invasion, Halsey’s ships are blindsided by a typhoon of unprecedented strength
and scope. Unabridged. 645 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1736
CODEPENDENT NO MORE
by Melody Beattie.
Whether you feel controlled by your spouse or
child, feel responsible for a parent, or feel
anything else that prevents you from caring
about yourself, Beattie’s indispensable guide to
breaking the codependency cycle will help you
get your life back on track. Unabridged. 510
min. (Digital)
• Order # T1775
THE PLACES IN BETWEEN
by Rory Stewart.
Setting off in 2000, Rory Stewart began walking
the Muslim world, traveling through Iran,
Pakistan, India and Nepal. In the course of his
travels, he met colorful characters from all walks
of life, including rebels, thieves, soldiers and
tribal elders. Unabridged. 540 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1778
1-800-426-READ
RICH DAD’S
GUIDE TO
INVESTING
by Robert T. Kiyosaki
& Sharon L. Lechter,
C.P.A.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
and Sharon L.
Lechter presents
useful strategies for
getting rich and
living well. An
extraordinary
resource for
investors, Rich
Dad’s Guide
to Investing teaches everything
you need to know about investing in stocks,
properties, and businesses. Unabridged.
960 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1756
FOUNDING BROTHERS
by Joseph J. Ellis.
The Ford Foundation Professor of History at
Mount Holyoke College, Joseph J. Ellis draws
on his expertise to craft an engaging portrait of
the men who shaped democracy. Unabridged.
810 min. (Digital)
• Order # T1779
ANGELA’S ASHES
by Frank McCourt.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and nominated for
the PEN/Faulkner award, Angela’s Ashes is an
unflinching vision of life on the dole in Ireland.
It is also a powerful testament to the resilience
of the human spirit. Unabridged. 900 min.
(Digital)
• Order # T1784
HIS EXCELLENCY
by Joseph J. Ellis.
From the French and Indian War to Mount
Vernon, from the American Revolution to the
presidency, Ellis delivers what will stand the test
of time as the definitive biography of George
Washington, the greatest American icon.
• Order # T1769
Audio: Language
LEARN A LANGUAGE CASSETTES
The first pre-loaded digital audio book. Simply plug in
your earphones and enjoy. No cassettes or CDs.
Master all the phrases for civilized travel, quickly and easily,
before you ever leave home. These cassettes provide you
with the authentic pronunciation as well as everyday phrases
for the most common travel situations. Programs include
cassette and phrase book.
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FRENCH (Pimsleur)
GERMAN (Pimsleur)
ITALIAN (Pimsleur)
JAPANESE (Pimsleur)
SPANISH (Pimsleur)
SPANISH CASSETTES
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BEGINNERS SPANISH, SERIES 1
BEGINNERS SPANISH, SERIES 2
BREAKTHROUGH SPANISH
ESSENTIAL SPANISH FOR HEALTHCARE
ESSENTIAL SPANISH FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
INSTANT IMMERSION SPANISH
INSTANT IMMERSION SPANISH, ADVANCED
JUST LISTEN ‘N LEARN SPANISH
LYRIC LANGUAGE MORE SPANISH
LYRIC LANGUAGE SPANISH
SPANISH
SPANISH FOR GRINGOS, LEVEL ONE
SPANISH FOR GRINGOS, LEVEL TWO
T0045 TEACH ME EVEN MORE SPANISH
ENGLISH CASSETTES
FOR SPANISH SPEAKERS
T0042 CÓMO PRONUNCIAR INGLÉS CORRECTAMENTE
T0037 INGLES PARA LATINOS
T0026 INSTANT IMMERSION INGLES
LANGUAGE 30 CASSETTES
The following Language/30 tapes are designed for rapid
learning, stressing conversationally useful words and phrases.
90 minutes of guided practice in greetings, introductions,
requests and general conversation at hotels, restaurants and
places of business and entertainment.
T0008 ARABIC
T0005 GERMAN
T0007 HEBREW
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T0032 TURKISH
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T0006 LATIN
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ALBANIAN (Pimsleur)
CANTONESE
ENGLISH FOR RUSSIAN SPEAKERS (Pimsleur)
FAST & EASY MANDARIN
FRENCH (Pimsleur)
HAITIAN CREOLE (Pimsleur)
KOREAN
QUICK & SIMPLE ITALIAN (Pimsleur)
RUSSIAN (Pimsleur)
TEACH ME MANDARIN CHINESE (ages 2-12)
COMPACT DISC.
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DR. BLAIR’S FRENCH IN NO TIME
DR. BLAIR’S SPANISH IN NO TIME
FRENCH
FRENCH (Pimsleur)
FRENCH IN 30 DAYS
FRENCH WITH MICHEL THOMAS
INSTANT IMMERSION FRENCH
INSTANT IMMERSION GERMAN
INSTANT IMMERSION INGLES
INSTANT IMMERSION ITALIAN
INSTANT IMMERSION JAPANESE
INSTANT IMMERSION JAPANESE
(2 CDs with Talk Now CD-ROM)
INSTANT IMMERSION SPANISH
INSTANT IMMERSION SPANISH, ADVANCED
SING AND LEARN ENGLISH!
SING AND LEARN FRENCH!
SING AND LEARN GERMAN!
SING AND LEARN ITALIAN!
SING AND LEARN JAPANESE!
SPANISH WITH MICHEL THOMAS
TEACH YOURSELF INSTANT SPANISH
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Audio/Video Catalog
NEW! PLAYAWAY AUDIO BOOKS
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
THINGS HOPED FOR
by Andrew Clements.
When Gwen’s grandfather disappears from
their New York City home, he leaves Gwen a
message telling her not to worry. But Gwen
is already nervous about her upcoming violin
auditions at Julliard. Being accepted there
would be a dream come true. How can she do
it without her grandfather’s support?
Unabridged. 285 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1446
CURSE OF THE BANE
by Joseph Delaney.
Thirteen-year-old Tom Ward has developed a
talent for ridding the countryside of witches
and other dark creatures. But the line between
light and dark blurs when it comes to Tom’s
friend Alice, who’s a witch herself. Alice releases
the evil Bane in order to save innocent people
from the clutches of the Quisitor. But in the
process, she becomes bound to the Bane. Can
Tom find a way to destroy the Bane before it
reaches its full power and takes complete
control of Alice? Unabridged. 480 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1445
THE END
by Lemony Snicket.
This farewell
installment to the
ridiculously (and
deservedly!) popular A
Series of Unfortunate
Events places Violet,
Klaus, and Sunny
right where we last
left them: on a
large, wooden boat
in the middle of
the ocean, trapped
with their nemesis
Count Olaf, who
has armed himself with a helmet-full of
deadly Medusoid Mycelium. Unabridged. 360
min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1447
Kids
ESCAPE FROM
CASTLE CANT
by K. P. Bath.
In their land, a war
rages over chewing
gum. The nobles
enjoy it, and the
revolutionaries want
to destroy it. With
bounty hunters all
around, Pauline
and Lucy must be
careful if they
want to reach the
Outlands in time
to stop the corrupt gum
trade. But hot on their heels is Lucy’s arch
nemesis—the dreadful Vladimir Orloff.
• Order # T1450
THE BEASTS OF
CLAWSTONE CASTLE
by Eva Ibbotson.
Madlyn and Rollo are staying with their GreatAunt and Uncle at Clawstone Castle, famous
for its mysterious herd of wild white cattle. But
it seems that the fancy castle down the road is
getting all the attention from tourists, and
now Clawstone may not survive. To liven
up the castle tours, Madlyn and Rollo invite
some gruesome ghosts. Things are great—
until someone kidnaps the entire herd!
• Order # T1444
PETER PAN IN SCARLET
by Geraldine McCaughrean.
After twenty years, Wendy and the Lost Boys
return to Neverland and find Peter Pan as
youthful and rascally as ever. Now that they’ve
arrived, Peter tells them about all the fun they’re
going to have. And so, the old friends get into
all sorts of exciting swashbuckling mischief
while encountering scores of new characters,
including the mysterious Mr. Ravello and his
circus. Unabridged. 435 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1448
THE KING OF ATTOLIA
by Megan Whalen Turner.
Told from a soldier’s perspective, The King of
Attolia explores the palace intrigue that swirls
around the enigmatic stranger who’s won the
hand of the queen but not the heart of her
subjects. Unabridged. 630 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1478
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COPPER SUN
by Sharon M. Draper.
Fifteen-year-old Amari witnesses the murder of
her family and the destruction of her remote
African village. She struggles through endless
days of backbreaking work and daily
degradation on a plantation. But Amari’s hopes
and dreams survive because there are moments
of kindness from an indentured white girl,
Polly, and the gentle wife of the plantation
owner. Amari and Polly find that by working
together, freedom could be possible. Unabridged.
540 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1470
PRETTIES
by Scott Westerfeld.
Tally Youngblood has never felt like the other
Pretties—she almost didn’t become one. Then
Tally meets Zane and things start to make
sense. After they uncover sinister clues about
the Pretty surgery, they stumble upon a possible
cure for the Pretty-mindedness and a possible
escape from the City. But that cure could have
deadly consequences. Unabridged. 675 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1471
MY HAUNTED
HOUSE
by Angie Sage.
Araminta Spookie
(Minty) lives in a
haunted house with
her aunt and uncle.
Minty loves the
creepy place, but her
aunt wants to move.
Minty won’t give
up her home
without a fight.
All she needs is a
little help from a
haunted suit of armor
and a ghost named Edmund. Unabridged.
• Order # T1449
WHITE FANG AND
THE CALL OF THE WILD
by Jack London.
Jack London’s adventurous nature, intuitive
feeling for animal life, and superb storytelling
skills give his tales a striking vitality and force.
Thrilling action and a sense of justice
characterize the classic stories in this collection.
• Order # T1564
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Kids
by Alisa ValesRodriguez.
Comic book artist
Rudolfo Archuleta
just got his big
break—a major
production
company wants to
turn his creation
into a feature film.
This means big
changes for his
daughter Paski.
Soon, the two are
moving to glamorous Los
Angeles. There, Paski has to adapt to a new
school and hopefully new friends. She must
trust her intuition to navigate the hallways in a
school filled with nothing but haters.
• Order # T1474
DEAD CONNECTION
by Charlie Price.
Teenager Murray Keifer’s only friends are
“Dearly” and “Beloved”—dead people buried
in the local cemetery. But Murray’s peaceful
and unusual world is torn asunder when she
hears the voice of missing teen Nikki Parker,
buried in someone else’s grave.
Murray’s one living friend, Pearl
believes in his special gift and is
determined to give Nikki justice.
Meanwhile Deputy Roman Gates draws
closer to solving the mystery behind
Nikki’s disappearance. Unabridged.
• Order # T1472
VAMPIRATES
by Justin Somper.
It’s the year 2505 and the world’s oceans have
risen dramatically. In this new age, the vile
practice of piracy is gaining ground, threatening
seafarers of all types. During a mighty storm,
twins Connor and Grace are separated when
their boat is smashed. Each is rescued by a
different ship. Connor is captured by a
notorious band of pirates and forced to become
one of them. Facing a different fate, Grace winds
up on a ship of dark mysteries, imprisoned by
its captain. Unabridged. 435 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1473
GINGERBREAD
by Rachel Cohn.
After being expelled from her stuffy
boarding school, teenager Cyd Charisse
is coping with her new circumstances as
best she can in San Francisco. But Cyd’s
mom, disturbed by Cyd’s rebellious
attitude and choice of friends, sends Cyd
back east to live with her real dad in New
York who she met only once. How will Cyd
adjust to a new life and new family?
• Order # T1475
VOICES
by Ursula K. Le Guin.
A brutish people, the Alds believe that reading
and writing are evil and go to great lengths to
eliminate all literature. But the people of Ansul
have not lost all hope. They stash books in the
Oracle House, which also becomes a refuge for
a young girl named Memer. And then one day
the poet Orrec and his wife arrive in the city.
Together they inspire a new courage within
Memer, her family and the other citizens of
Ansul to rise up against the Alds. Unabridged.
• Order # T1479
ENTHUSIASM
by Polly Shulman.
Julie and her best
friend Ashleigh’s
favorite book is Jane
Austen’s Pride and
Prejudice. Before
Julie knows what hit
her, she and Ash are
decked-out in
19th-century
garb, smelling
like mothballs,
and crashing the
local all-boys
prep school
formal dance.
Their mission is to
find their personal Misters Darcy.
• Order # T1477
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DRAWING
LESSONS
by Tracy Mack.
Twelve-year-old Rory
is an artist like her
father. Together
they plan to paint a
beautiful mural for
Rory’s mother.
When Rory finds
her father kissing
his model,
she is devastated
and stops
painting
altogether.
Finally, she
realizes that she has to talk to
her father. Unabridged. 150 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1575
AFTER THE WRECK, I PICKED
MYSELF UP, SPREAD MY
WINGS, AND FLEW AWAY
by Joyce Carol Oates.
After the car wreck on the bridge that killed her
mother, Jenna slips deep inside herself, because
outside the pain and guilt tear at her until
there’s almost nothing left. Then she meets a
boy named Crow—he’s different, a mystery.
She can tell him things she’d never tell anyone
else. And she finds herself coming closer to
the moment she can face her emotions again.
• Order # T1476
HANS BRINKER,
OR THE SILVER SKATES
by Mary Mapes Dodge.
Set in The Netherlands, young Hans and Gretel
work toward two goals: finding the doctor who
can restore their father’s memory, and winning
the competition for the silver skates. Their
good deeds help to bring about good fortune
for their whole family. Unabridged. 540 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1588
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HATERS
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Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
Fiction
THE RETURN OF TARZAN
DOLLAR DAZE
FIRESTORM
by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan is sent on special assignment to
North Africa. While escaping a new
Russian enemy he discovers Opar, the
city of gold, buried in the midst of his
Jungle. But beneath the tranquil facade,
he encounters brutal men, savage women
and a blood stained altar of sacrifice. Tarzan
must lead a tribe of primitive warriors
through the ancient crypts to escape the
evils of Opar! 532 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1336
by Karin Gillespie.
Traveling love’s
rocky road keeps
the Bottom Dollar
Girls busy, and
these best friends
discover the joys
and heartbreak of
romance through
laughter and
tears. 510 min.
Unabridged.
(Compact
Disc.)
• Order #
T1376
by Nevada Barr.
As a raging forest fire dwindles and the camp
demobilizes, park ranger Anna Pigeon stays
behind with a small crew to rescue an injured
man. Suddenly a thunderstorm whips the
remaining embers into a deadly firestorm.
After the inferno passes, Anna discovers a
crew member didn’t make it—but a knife, not
the fire, killed him. 555 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1391
THE NEXT
MRS. BLACKTHORNE
by Joan Johnston.
This summer, Clay Blackthorne and Jocelyn
Montrose will be married. Before walking
down the aisle, however, Jocelyn learns that her
betrothed’s bitter rival, North Grayhawk, is
planning a hostile takeover of the Blackthorne
family business. So she offers her body to
North—if he’ll call off his plans. But Jocelyn’s
actions and the emergence of an old flame
confuse Clay and cast doubt on who will be the
next Mrs. Blackthorne. 660 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1372
BONES OF THE
BARBARY COAST
by Daniel Hecht.
A friend and homicide inspector asks Cree Black
to help investigate a human skeleton recently
unearthed in the foundation of a fine Victorian
home, apparently the bones of a victim of the
1906 earthquake. The bones have intrigued the
forensic anthropology team at UC Berkeley with
their peculiar anatomical deformities. They call
the skeleton Wolfman. Who was the Wolfman?
870 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1374
THE QUILLER MEMORANDUM
by Adam Hall.
Quiller is the hero of an extraordinary novel
that shows how a spy works, how messages are
coded and decoded, how contacts are made,
how a man reacts under the influence of truth
drugs, and that traces the story of a vastly
complex, entertaining, convincing, and sinister
plot. 450 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1380
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THE ROAD
by Cormac McCarthy.
America is a barren landscape of smoldering
ashes, devoid of life except for those people still
struggling to scratch out some type of existence.
Amidst this destruction, a father and his young
son walk, always toward the coast, but with no
real understanding that circumstances will
improve once they arrive. Still they persevere,
and their relationship comes to represent
goodness in a world that is utterly
devastated. 405 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1393
RICOCHET
by Sandra Brown.
There’s no love lost between Detective
Sergeant Duncan Hatcher and Judge Cato
Laird after the judge orders a mistrial for a
hardened criminal Hatcher has spent months
trying to put away. Resentment still boiling in
his veins, Hatcher investigates the shooting of
an alleged burglar at the judge’s home—a
shooting perpetrated by Laird’s wife Elise.
Suspicious, and undeniably attracted to Elise,
Hatcher finds himself embroiled in a case that
tests his better judgment and threatens to spell
his doom. 780 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1392
THE ROGUE’S RETURN
by Jo Beverley.
This tale follows Simon St. Bride and his new
wife as a forced marriage turns into one hot
with passion. 690 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1368
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CAT ON THE SCENT
by Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown.
A Civil War re-enactment has Crozet all abuzz.
Muskets are loaded and uniforms abound.
Meanwhile, a popular local businessman
and his private plane disappear. Before the
staged battle is over, real bullets fell one of the
“soldiers,” and Mrs. Murphy discovers an aerial
map that could change Crozet’s future. It will
take careful paws to find the clues that tie these
seemingly unrelated events together. 525 min.
Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1390
THE SHAPE
OF WATER
by Andrea
Camilleri.
Early one morning,
Silvio Lupanello,
a big shot in the
village of Vigàta, is
found dead in his
car with his pants
around his knees.
The car happens
to be parked
in a rough
part of town
frequented
by prostitutes and drug dealers.
Inspector Salvo Montalbano goes into battle
against the powerful and the corrupt who are
determined to block his path to the real killer.
• Order # T1377
Fiction
by Tabitha King
& Michael
McDowell.
Seven-year-old
Calley Dakin is
daddy’s little girl,
but her well-born
mother persists
in her contempt
for the Dakin
name. When
her daddy is
tortured and
murdered by
two women
with no discernible motivation,
Calley and her mother find themselves caught
up in inexplicable events that exile them to
Pensacola Beach. There another woman awaits
their presence, a woman who knows what Calley
is and who seeks to control her. 960 min.
• Order # T1388
REMEMBER ME
by Mary Higgins Clark.
In the hopes of saving their failing marriage,
Menley and her attorney husband Adam rent
a home known as Remember House on the
Cape Cod shore. After the tragic loss of their
first son, their newborn daughter is revitalizing
their relationship. Then Adam takes on a
client charged with murder, who can’t seem to
remember the details of that tragic day. Does
Remember House somehow connect them all?
• Order # T1389
NUTMEG OF CONSOLATION
by Patrick O’Brian.
Shipwrecked on a remote island, Captain Jack
Aubrey and the crew of the Diane fashion a
schooner from the wreck, only to have their
makeshift vessel burned in an attack by Malay
pirates. Their escape from this predicament is
one that only the ingenuity of Patrick O’Brian
or Stephen Maturin could devise. 660 min.
• Order # T1386
THE LAST REFUGE
by Chris Knopf.
Sam Acquillo is a middle-aged corporate
dropout living in a ramshackle cottage
in Southampton’s North Sea. Sam has
abandoned friends, family, and a big-time
career to sit on his porch, drink vodka,
and stare at the Little Peconic Bay. But
then the old lady next door ends up floating
dead in her bathtub, and it seems that Sam
is the only one who wonders why. Despite
himself, Sam finds himself uncovering secrets
no one could have imagined. 660 min.
• Order # T1384
TORPEDO
by Jeff Edwards.
An accident at a German nuclear plant, an
illegal arms deal, and a biological warfare attack
on the British Embassy in Washington, D. C.,
combine to ignite an international crisis that
threatens to draw Western Europe, the Middle
East, and the United States into all-out war.
• Order # T1383
OUTSIDE
CHANCE
by Lyndon Stacey.
Ben Copperfield is a
freelance journalist
who specializes in all
things unique, so
when he is called
with the news that
the hot favorite for
the Cheltenham
Gold Cup has
been kidnapped,
just a few weeks
before the race,
he wastes
no time in
following the story up.
Where could a valuable racehorse be hidden
for so long? And what is the secret from the
owner’s past that he is keeping from the police?
• Order # T1398
THE GAMBLER
by Colin Bateman.
No sooner does Dan Starkey move into his
new Belfast home, than his best friend Mouse
is murdered—leaving him to catch a killer,
become editor of the obscenely successful
scandal magazine Belfast Confidential, and
compile the much-coveted Power List. 750 min.
• Order # T1394
by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
At the casino in Roulettenburg, Germany,
a Russian family awaits news that a wealthy
relative from Petersburg has died. But to their
dismay, Granny (far from dead) arrives and
begins gambling away their inheritance at an
alarming rate. Meanwhile Alexey Ivanovitch, a
notorious gambler, longs for a member of the
family, Polina Alexandrovna—but fate seems
determined to keep them apart. 360 min.
• Order # T1396
PRAYERS FOR THE ASSASSIN
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM
BELFAST CONFIDENTIAL
by Robert Ferrigno.
In the year 2040 everyone believes that the
United States was split (Islamic Republic in the
north and a Christian Republic in the south)
after a Zionist conspiracy detonated two nuclear
bombs in New York City and Washington,
DC. When historian Sarah Dougan makes
an important discovery that reveals the true
architects of the attack, she knows that it could
shake the foundations of both countries.
• Order # T1395
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by Ernest Hemingway.
Thomas Hudson’s life is one of shifting
fortunes. We first meet him in the 1930s as an
artist living on the island of Bimini, where he
and his sons share an important rite of passage.
Shortly after, tragedy strikes, and Thomas takes
to drowning his sorrows in the Cuban bar. But
the reality of World War II cannot be avoided,
and soon Thomas is serving as an unofficial
patrolman aboard his private yacht. 810 min.
• Order # T1397
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CANDLES
BURNING
Audio: CD
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
A MOVEABLE FEAST
This 2006 recording is the closest we can get
to time-traveling back to Paris in the 1920s, a
place where great art, beautiful women, and
literary lions like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude
Stein, and Ezra Pound compete for the attention
of an ambitious young Hemingway. 270 min.
• Order # T1399
A MAN CALLED TRENT
by Louis L’Amour.
Dick Moffitt lies dead where he was killed by
King Bill Hale’s riders. His son Jack and adopted
daughter Sally, who witnessed the murder, go
for safety to a cabin owned by a man called
“Trent,” an alias for Kilkenny, who is seeking to
escape his reputation as a gunfighter. 300 min.
• Order # T1385
COMPANY
by Max Barry.
Nestled among
Seattle’s skyscrapers,
The Zephyr Holdings
Building gives no
hint of Zephyr’s
business. No one
has ever seen the
CEO or glimpsed
his office. A
young recruit,
Stephen Jones
does his best to
fit in with his
fellow workers
but he is
nagged by a feeling
that the company is hiding something.
Something that explains why nobody in the
company knows what it does. 630 min.
• Order # T1409
THE ISLAND
OF DOCTOR MOREAU
by H. G. Wells.
Montgomery, a brilliant but twisted biologist,
is delivering exotic animals to his private island,
when he rescues a shipwrecked man. An act of
compassion or another addition to his collection?
• Order # T1406
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Fiction
THE TWILIGHT ZONE,
COLLECTION 1
w/Stacy Keach.
These exciting multi-cast stereo productions, complete with music and ambient
sound effects, take the art of audio drama
to the next level. They will transport
you to a fifth dimension beyond which is
known to man to an area which we call...
The Twilight Zone! 240 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1411
FEAR
by Jeff Abbott.
What creates a nightmare? For federal witness
Miles Kendrick it is the crippling memory of
killing his best friend. For teenager Amanda
Groote it is the terror of being trapped in a
car wreck next to her mother’s mangled body.
They are both patients of psychiatrist Dr. Alison
Vance, who is testing an experimental drug that
may erase their fears. But when Dr. Vance is
murdered, Miles must leave the witness protection
program to track down someone who would
sacrifice anything to acquire the drug. 705 min.
• Order # T1400
THE NOSY NEIGHBOR
by Fern Michaels.
Fed up with her job as a prominent trial attorney, Lucy Baker left New York, and now spends
much of her time gardening. Then something
happens that shocks Lucy to her core—the FBI
reveals that her fiance, Jonathan St. Clair, is
leading a double life! Reeling over the betrayal,
Lucy finds solace in an unexpected place—the
arms of Wylie Wilson, the handsome man next
door. 645 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1370
VILLETTE
by Charlotte Brontë.
Left with no family and no money, Lucy Snowe
goes against her own timid nature and travels
to the small city of Villette, France, where she
becomes a school teacher in Madame Beck’s
school for girls. It is Lucy’s task to do more
than just teach young girls English. She must
steel herself to their attempts at manipulation,
all the while knowing that Madame Beck
is watching closely. 525 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1401
1-800-426-READ
THE TWILIGHT
ZONE:
COLLECTION 2
w/Stacy Keach.
These exciting multicast stereo productions, complete
with music and
ambient sound
effects, take the
art of audio
drama to the
next level. They
will transport
you to a fifth
dimension
beyond which
is know to man to an area which we
call...The Twilight Zone. 240 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1412
MUCH ADO ABOUT MAGIC
by Patricia Rice.
Because Lady Lucinda Pemroke’s paintings have
a reputation for being prophetic, her picture
of a handsome man laughing as a ship sinks
causes widespread gossip. Londoners are sure
it must by Sir Trevelyan Rochester, gloating
as his wealthy cousin drowns. Lucinda hides
from the gossip at a remote cottage—only to
encounter Rochester there. She begins another
painting, hoping to repair his reputation. But
Rochester’s nearness creates colorful waves of desire.
• Order # T1367
DARK SECRET
by Christine Feehan.
Carpathian vampire hunter Rafael De La Cruz
must win the heart and soul of willful rancher
Colby Jansen before it’s too late. 900 min.
• Order # T1369
CHAPTER AND HEARSE
by Catherine Aird.
This collection of mysteries contain the following
short stories: A Change of Heart; Due Diligence;
Time, Gentlemen, Please; Cold Comfort; Chapter
and Hearse; The Widow’s Might; Handsel Monday;
Preyed in Aid; A Different Cast of Mind;
Examination Results; Child’s Play; Like to Die;
Dead Letters; Gold, Frankincense and Murder;
The Trouble and Strife; Losing the Plot; A Soldier
of the Queen; Touch Not the Cat; Exit Strategy;
The Wild Card; Coup de Grâce and Dummy Run.
• Order # T1405
Fiction
Audio: CD
THE CEMETERY YEW
TWO TIME
by Steve Hockensmith.
Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer have
signed on as ranch hands at the secretive Bar
VR cattle spread. When the boys come across
a dead body that looks a whole lot like the leftovers of an unfortunate encounter with a cattle
stampede, Old Red sees the perfect opportunity
to employ his Sherlock Holmes detective skills.
Putting his ranch work squarely on the back
burner, he sets out to solve the case. 570 min.
• Order # T1408
by Cynthia Riggs.
Victoria Trumbull may be ninety-two,
but she is as sharp and as sharp-eyed as
the proverbial tack. So when Victoria
is the only one who spots something
amiss among the gravestones of the West
Tisbury cemetery, it’s no surprise that the
police chief listens. 450 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1426
by Chris Knopf.
Set against the backdrop of Southampton,
Long Island, Two
Time is full of moody
sunsets, beach front
properties, and
beautiful people
with an extraordinary amount of
money and very
dangerous secrets.
600 min.
Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order #
T1423
MARCH TO
THE STARS
by David Weber
& John Ringo.
Ever since an
attempt on his life
marooned him with
his bodyguards on
the hostile planet
Marduk, with its
unending series of
threats, obstacles,
and adventures,
Prince Roger
McClintock
has evolved
from a spoiled,
petulant heir into a true
leader of humans and aliens alike. As Rober
comes nearer to making his way home, he
learns that his assassination was part of a larger
plot. 630 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1425
ABIDING DARKNESS: THE
BLACK OR WHITE CHRONICLES
by John Aubrey Anderson.
It is 1945 in Mississippi’s cotton country,
and Missy Parker is seven years old. Her best
friend, Junior Washington and her big brother
Bobby, are inseparable. However, the Parkers
and the Washingtons are of differing faiths
and different races. An enthralling struggle
between good and evil emerges when a demon
targets Missy and creates havoc throughout her
family and community. 690 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1421
ANONYMOUS LAWYER
by Jeremy Blachman.
Meet Anonymous Lawyer: with a billable rate
of $675 an hour. He’s also got a few problems
that require attention. There’s The Jerk, his
rival at the firm. There’s Anonymous Wife,
spending money as fast as he can make it. And
there’s the secret blog he’s writing, which is fun
until someone inside the firm discovers he’s the
author. 420 min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1424
THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER
& OTHER STORIES
by Mark Twain.
Twain’s last novel took twelve years to finish and
is unlike anything else he wrote. This dark story,
set in medieval Austria, hinges on unearthly and
hidden mental powers. It also gives an insight
to the author’s psyche during his final days.
• Order # T1404
PARIS STORIES
by Mavis Gallant.
Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking,
these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise
children and straying saints. They comprise a
secret history, both intimate and panoramic, of
modern times, offering a kaleidoscopic impression
of the world within a world that is Paris. 1020
min. Unabridged. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1422
THE TWILIGHT ZONE:
VOLUME 1
w/Stacy Keach.
Experience one of television’s greatest sciencefiction series, The Twilight Zone-fully dramatized
for audio. This collection features 10 stereo
recordings. 480 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1431
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THE TWILIGHT ZONE:
VOLUME 2
w/Stacy Keach.
• Order # T1432
THE TWILIGHT ZONE:
VOLUME 3
w/Stacy Keach.
• Order # T1433
THE TWILIGHT ZONE:
VOLUME 4
w/Stacy Keach.
• Order # T1434
THE TWILIGHT ZONE:
VOLUME 5
w/Stacy Keach.
• Order # T1435
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Audio/Video Catalog
HOLMES ON THE RANGE
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
RIDERS OF THE DAWN
by Louis L’Amour.
A young gunslinger is changed for the better by
a meeting with a beautiful woman. A classic
range-war western, this novel features that
powerful, romantic, strangely compelling vision
of the American West for which L’Amor’s fiction
is known. 480 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1430
THE SPLENDOR OF SILENCE
by Indu Sundaresan.
From internationally best-selling author Indu
Sundaresan comes a heart rendering tale of
tragic love and clashing cultures in World War
II India. 960 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1429
THE
TRUELOVE
A British whaler has
been captured by
an ambitious chief
in the Sandwich
Islands at French
instigation, and
Captain Aubrey is
dispatched with
the Surprise to
restore order.
But stowed
away in the
cable-tier is
an escaped
female convict. Only
Aubrey’s friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin,
can fathom Clarissa Harvill’s secrets. 540 min.
• Order # T1437
THE PAINTED VEIL
by W. Somerset Maugham.
First published in 1925, The Painted Veil is an
affirmation of the human capacity to grow,
change, and forgive. Set in England and
Hong Kong in the 1920s, it is the story of the
beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane. When
her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he
forces her to accompany him to a remote region
of China ravaged by a cholera epidemic.
• Order # T1428
46
Fiction
THE RIGHT ATTITUDE
TO RAIN
by Alexander McCall Smith.
Isabel’s life is thrown for a few loops
when her cousin Mimi arrives from
Dallas with her husband Joe. Though
Mimi and Joe, Isabel meets Texas hotshot
Tom Bruce, who is about to marry
someone Isabel suspects of gold-digging.
Further complicating matters, Tom seems to
have an unusual level of interest in Isabel.
• Order # T1461
RELATIVE DANGER
by Charles Benoit.
Young Doug Pearce, just fired from his steady
job in the brewery, has never strayed far from
home. But he’s always been fascinated by
stories of his dead Uncle Russ, the family black
sheep. So when an old friend of his uncle
invites him up to Toronto, he accepts. On
arrival, he learns that wealthy and glamorous
Edna has an agenda: she has assembled enough
clues to solve the murder of Russell Pearce and
to recover a legendary red diamond he was
thought to be smuggling. 490 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1438
LISEY’S STORY
by Stephen King.
The bittersweet story of a tormented widow’s
journey through her deceased husband’s
imaginary world, Lisey’s Story is a parable of
enduring love. Unabridged. 1140 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1464
THE BOOK OF FATE
by Brad Meltzer.
Wes Holloway once worked for the president of
the United States. While at a campaign event,
an assassin fired off three rounds, wounding
Wes and killing Ron Boyle, a friend of the
president. Eight years later, at a speaking event
in Malaysia, Wes has a chance encounter with
a man who he recognizes as Boyle, risen from
the dead. Shocked, Wes begins searching for
answers and soon uncovers a 200-year-old
mystery that involves the Freemasons and a plot
to control the fates of millions. Unabridged.
• Order # T1465
1-800-426-READ
UNDER
ORDERS
by Dick Francis.
Jockeys didn’t usually
reach the finish line
with three .38
rounds in the chest.
Just moments
before the gruesome
discovery, former
champion jockey
Sid Halley had
been called on
by Lord Enstone
to make discreet
inquiries into
why his horses
appeared to be on a
permanent losing streak. Are races being fixed?
Are bookies taking a cut? And if so, are trainers
and jockeys playing a dangerous game, with
stakes far higher than they realize? Unabridged.
• Order # T1455
THE COLLECTORS
by David Baldacci.
A murder at the Library of Congress marks the
beginning of the Camel Club’s focus on rogue
CIA agent Roger Seagraves, who is selling
classified political information to the highest
bidder. Caleb Shaw, an ex-CIA assassin, and
the other members of the Club must stop
Seagraves before his deals demolish the
foundation of national security for good.
• Order # T1463
THE INTERPRETATION
OF MURDER
by Jed Rubenfeld.
A sadist is preying on young women in New
York City. As a young American psychologist
enlists Sigmund Freud’s aid in recovering the
memory of one victim, the madman continues
his grisly crusade. It will take a delicate
combination of psychoanalysis and ruthlessness
to nab this villain. Unabridged. 870 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1457
FEAR OF THE DARK
by Walter Mosely.
Fearless Jones and Paris Minton, stars of the
bestsellers Fearless Jones and Fear Itself, return in
a high-velocity, larger-than-life thriller about
family, betrayal, and revenge. Unabridged.
• Order # T1454
Fiction
by Gillian Flynn.
Camille Preaker has managed to leave
her damaged past behind and now works
for a third-rate Chicago newspaper.
When she is sent back to her small
Missouri home town to get a humaninterest story about a murder, Camille
begins to uncover sinister forces at work
in the town. Unabridged. 570 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1456
ROMEO & JULIET
by William Shakespeare.
In this timeless tragedy, two young lovers from
warring families defy fate to be together. Juliet
is a Capulet, Romeo a Montague, but the two
star-crossed lovers nevertheless swear eternal
devotion to each other. Unabridged. 480 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1466
SKELETON
COAST
by Clive Cussler.
Juan Cabrillo and the
crew of the covert
combat ship Oregon
intercept a mayday
from a defenseless
boat under fire off
the African coast.
Cabrillo takes
action, saving
Sloane Macintyre.
But what
surprises Cabrillo
is her story
about a crazy
fisherman who claims to
have been attacked on the open sea by giant
metal snakes in the same area. What begins as a
snake hunt leads Cabrillo onto the trail of a far
more lethal quarry. Unabridged. 930 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1453
HENRY V
“Prince Hal” has ascended to the throne of
England. After a land dispute, Henry decides
to invade France, leading inevitably to the
bloody Battle of Agincourt—and providing
a stage for Shakespeare to comment on the
human condition. Unabridged. 540 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1462
SILVER
SPRINGS
by Carolyn Lampman.
Though Alexis and
Angelica Brady are
identical twins,
they are complete
opposites. So
when Alexis begs
for her sister’s help
in avoiding an
arranged marriage,
Angelica
reluctantly
agrees to
switch places,
and drive
the unwanted suitor away.
Disguised as Alexis, Angelica is shocked to
discover the prospective bridegroom is none
other than Ox Bruford, the only male who has
ever touched her heart. Unabridged. 570 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1488
MORAL DISORDER
by Margaret Atwood.
In ten interrelated stories, Margaret
Atwood follows one Canadian family
through 60 years. The opening story
centers on Nell and Gilbert, a couple
facing growing uncertainties and
insecurities in their old age. Succeeding
tales move back in time to Nell’s childhood,
adolescence, and earlier life with Gilbert.
• Order # T1451
SMALL TOWN GIRL
by LaVyrle Spencer.
Tess “Mac” McPhail returns to Wintergreen,
Missouri, after 20 years away finding fortune
and fame as a country music superstar. Home
again, she discovers her family wounded by her
long absence. Even the townsfolk—especially
Kenny Kroneck, whom she taunted when
they were children—seem indifferent to her
presence. But when she discovers that Kenny’s
daughter is a budding country music talent,
Tess assumes the role of mentor and things
being to change for her in some very special
ways. Unabridged. 840 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1373
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THE MEPHISTO CLUB
by Tess Gerritsen.
A young woman’s body is discovered in her
apartment on Christmas morning. Severed
limbs, candles, bloody inscriptions—all point
to some unholy ritual perpetrated by a madman.
But when Boston homicide detective Jane
Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles
discover the Mephisto Club, their search for
the killer takes an unexpected metaphysical
turn. Unabridged. 660 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1452
DARK PRINCE
Mikhail Dubrinsky is the prince of his people,
the Carpathians. But the only thing that can
add light to Mikhail’s life, can relieve the terrible
haunting loneliness, is to find a life mate. As
the beast rages inside, threatening to consume
him, he vents his centuries-old despair in an
anguished cry that fills the waning night...and
then, incredulously, a life saving voice answers
him. Unabridged. 750 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1487
THE
EXPEDITION
by Loren Robinson.
Astronauts James
Parker and Michael
Murphy, aboard
the space shuttle
Charger II, were
wrapping up a
routine mission.
Just prior to
re-entry, they
encountered
a mysterious
cloudbank in
space and
were never
heard from again.
Two years later, a metal box was
unearthed at a construction site in St. Louis. In
it was an authentic journal of the historic Lewis
and Clark expedition—written by astronaut
James Parker. Did Parker and Murphy alter
history, or did they save it? Unabridged. 450
• Order # T1486
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Audio/Video Catalog
SHARP OBJECTS
Audio: CD
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
Fiction
THE THIRTEENTH TALE
ON AGATE HILL
SEARCH AND WAR
by Diane Setterfield.
Vida Winter has always been reclusive,
publishing popular “autobiographies” that are
anything but the truth. Now, Vida is nearing
death, and she wants to tell her last tale. Struck
by curious parallels to her own life story,
Margaret Lea agrees to help Vida and reveal the
truth. Travelling to an aging an haunted estate,
Margaret is unprepared for the heartache that
will accompany Vida’s deepest secrets—and
what they will reveal about her own past.
• Order # T1468
by Lee Smith.
In this rich and bittersweet tale, award-winning
author Lee Smith follows the shifting fortunes of
a young North Carolina girl whose life is shattered
by the Civil War. Unabridged. 360 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1467
by Loren Robinson.
When time-warped, astronaut Jim Parker
found another astronaut’s flight jacket on a
Comanche brave in 1860, he knew he was not
the only one who had been thrown back in
time. If the astronaut was live, Jim had to find
him. But another event was about to interrupt
his search -- the Civil War. Unabridged. 420
• Order # T1480
MOTOR
MOUTH
by Janet Evanovich.
Racing spotter
Alexandra “Barney”
Barnaby figures her
hunky NASCAR
driver and
sometimes love
Sam Hooker
should have
grabbed the
checkered flag at
his latest race.
But Sam took
second, and
Barney smells
a cheater on the circuit.
She needs a peek under the hood of the
winning car so she and Sam steal the 18-wheeler
carrying the suspect vehicle. But their hot
hauler holds an unexpected bit of cargo, too—
a dead body. Unabridged. 540 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1469
WINDS OF TEXAS
by Loren Robinson.
Jim Parker had been an United States astronaut
until a space fog threw him back in time over
two hundred years. Now he lives in a time
period where only he knows the future. Not
only that, the space cloud had changed his
DNA, and he can’t age. He will be 35 forever,
never able to stay in one place without raising
suspicion, never able to get close to anyone
again. Then he meets Sam Houston, and a
cause to live for. Unabridged. 440 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1483
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MEADOWLARK
by Carolyn Lampman.
Becky White was at the end of her rope, with
no home, no money, and no father for her
unborn baby. Then, like some gruff angel from
heaven, Garrick Swenson came to her aid,
offering the protection of his name, no strings
attached. But the more time she spent with
Garrick, the more Becky found herself craving
a true marriage in every sense of the word.
• Order # T1485
I WENT TO VASSAR...FOR THIS?
by Naomi Neale.
When modern-day Cathy Voorhees is
transported to 1959, she’s appalled at the
shocking conditions--the sexual
harassment, the cramped living
quarters, and the granny panties she
finds herself forced to wear. With the
aid of only her contemporary wits and
the handsome comic-book illustrator
from downstairs, can she find her way
back to the future? Unabridged. 570 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1484
CHILDREN OF THE LENS
by E. E. “Doc” Smith.
Kimball Kinnison and his wife Clarrissa
have been born five children. These are
the ‘Children of the Lens’ the offspring of
uncounted generations of selected matings.
The most capable, the most brilliant minds in
the universe. Their job is the conclusion of
the Boskonian war. Unabridged. 665 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1482
THE MAN WHO SMILED
by Henning Mankell.
A disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander is
thrown back into the fray as both hunter and
hunted in this new adventure from Sweden’s
master of crime and mystery. Unabridged.
• Order # T1513
1-800-426-READ
THE SKIRT MAN
by Shelly Reuben.
Every small town has an eccentric or two, and
Killdeer, New York, is no exception. Morgan
Mason attracts more than a few stares and local
resentments when he drives through town on
his tractor wearing a skirt. But minor smalltown annoyances become more serious when
the Skirt Man is killed in a tragic house fire in
what some say is a case of spontaneous human
combustion. Unabridged. 360 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1507
THE
FUGITIVE
HEART
by Jane Orcutt.
Growing up on the
Kansas prairie,
Samantha Martin
cherished two
desires: to love
god and marry
her childhood
sweetheart. But
the War between
the States took
nearly everything,
including
Nathan, her
love. When he returns
six years later, she is shocked to discover he’s
no longer the gentle boy she’s always adored.
Instead, he is a scarred man on the run,
dodging charges of theft...and murder.
• Order # T1481
Fiction
by Diane Noble.
Since childhood,
Juliet Rose
Dearbourne has
planned to leave
the dull land of
her ancestors.
But when her
mother is killed
in an accident,
Juliet must
bear the
burden of
caring for her younger sisters. But
that doesn’t thwart her desire to run away to be
a star on the stage. Taking her sisters, she heads
to New York where her journey to stardom is
swift, but the price of fame is dear. Unabridged.
• Order # T1493
DARK GUARDIAN
For centuries, Lucian Daratrazanoff has
been the dark guardian of his people,
living a bleak existence of violence and
horror. But now his kind, the
Carpathians, are dying out or falling prey
to the souless life of vampires. Only by
finding and claiming his destined life
mate can Lucien stave off the ever present
lure of the souless evil. Unabridged. 780
• Order # T1496
DARK DESIRE
by Chrintine Feehan.
Drawn to the Carpathian mountains, surgeon
She O’Halloran found a ravaged, raging man, a
being like no other. In his burning eyes, his icy
heart, she recognized the beloved stranger who’d
already become a part of her. This imperious
Carpathian male had compelled Shea to his
side. But was she to be his healer...or his prey?
His victim...or his mate? Unabridged. 750
• Order # T1495
DARK MAGIC
Young Savannah Dubrinsky was a
mistress of illusion, a world-famous
magician capable of mesmerizing
millions. But there was one-Gregori, the
Dark One-who held her in terrifying thrall.
Whose cold silver eyes and heated sensuality
sent shivers of danger, of desire, down her
slender spine. Unabridged. 735 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1494
BOO WHO
by Rene Gutteridge.
It appears that everyone in Skary, Indiana, is
having an identity crisis of epic proportions,
including the town itself. Once known as the
haunt of the world’s most popular horror writer,
Wolfe “Boo” Boone, Skary started losing tourist
business after Boo abruptly abandoned his
career. Now the little town with the big
marketing hook is up a creek...and on the
brink of bankruptcy. Unabridged. 705 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1492
THE RIVER
KILLINGS
by Merry Jones.
On summer vacation
from her job, Zoe
takes a sculling class
with her best friend,
Susan. One
evening, while her
daughter waits
with Susan’s
children at the
boathouse on
the banks of the
Schuylkill
River, the two
mothers row
off to practice for an
upcoming regatta. But when their boat
capsizes, Zoe and Susan find themselves flailing
about amongst a throng of floating corpses.
Someone along Boathouse Row is a murderer.
But who? Unabridged. 590 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1503
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RUMPOLE’S
LAST CASE
by John Mortimer.
These seven
irresistible stories run
the gamut from
simple thievery
to murder and
espionage.
Rumpole recalls
three delightful
battles with his
arch-enemy, the
Mad Bull;
indulges his
knowledge of
bloodstains
and typewriters; and uses the
refined taste of a garage mechanic to discover the
reasons for the robbery of a case of wine.
• Order # T1498
WHEN THE
FAR HILLS BLOOM
by Diane Noble.
Aislin Byrne harbors a powerful love for the wild,
untamed lands of Rancho La Paloma. The
threat of its financial ruin only strengthens her
feelings and seals her resolve to save her home.
But the fight to rescue the rancho will draw her
into a drama rife with conflict and secret
sorrow, and send her on a desperate journey
that will test her mettle, and change her life
forever. Unabridged. 750 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1491
THE BLOSSOM
AND THE NETTLE
by Diane Noble.
Emmeline Amity Callahan is a feisty charmer
with a needy heart. Emmeline’s an ugly
duckling. At least that’s what she thinks, that
is until she receives a gift that leads her to
California’s Big Valley where she makes a
surprising discovery. Unabridged. 760 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1490
PARADISE LOST
by John Milton.
Often considered the greatest epic in any
modern language, Paradise Lost tells the story
of the revolt of Satan, his banishment from
Heaven, and the ensuing fall of man and his
expulsion from Eden. Unabridged. 540 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1501
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AT PLAY
IN THE
PROMISED
LAND
Audio: CD
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
Fiction
WHAT WAS SHE THINKING?
STRIPPED
by Zoë Heller.
Barbara Covett is a schoolteacher at St. George’s
school. She has recently befriended a new
pottery teacher named Sheba Hart. But
Barbara is unprepared for the secret she will
learn: that Sheba has begun a passionate affair
with an underage male student. Barbara’s
confusion, disapproval, and jealousy are helpless
to prevent the coming disaster. Unabridged.
• Order # T1506
by Brian Freeman.
Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial are
both investigating high-profile murders
in Las Vegas. When the cases converge,
Jonathan and Serena find themselves
racing the clock against a determined serial
killer and searching for a connection to the
unsolved murder of a show girl years earlier.
• Order # T1505
THE WINTER OF
FRANKIE MACHINE
by Rene Gutteridge.
When a soccer field complex springs to life
seemingly overnight in the sleepy community
of Skary, Indiana, and the local coffee shop
begins offering computer access along with its
suddenly overpriced beverages; nerves start
getting edgy all over town. Is it possible new
comer, soccer mom, Katelyn Downey is
hatching a diabolic plot to turn their town into
a den of hip suburban iniquity, or might this
be the perfect solution to the community’s
financial woes? Unabridged. 580 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1497
by Don Winslow.
Frank Machianno is a retired hit man. Years
ago, Frank consigned his Mob ties to the past,
which is where he wants them to stay. But a
favor being called in now by the local boss is one
Frank can’t refuse, and soon he’s sucked back
into the treacherous currents of his former life.
Someone from the past wants him dead. He
has to figure out who, and why, and he has to do
it fast. Unabridged. 540 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1504
THE PRESTIGE
by Christopher Priest.
In 1878, two young
stage magicians clash
in the dark during
the course of a
fraudulent séance.
From this moment
on, their lives
become webs
of deceit and
revelation as they
vie to outwit and
expose each
other. Their
rivalry will
take them to
the peaks of their
careers—but with terrible consequences.
• Order # T1511
THE TAILOR’S DAUGHTER
by Janice Graham.
The Tailor’s Daughter is a richly detailed
historical novel of an unconventional tailor’s
daughter who is swept up in a suspenseful
drama of passion and intrigue. Unabridged.
• Order # T1499
50
BOO HISS
THE CHRISTMAS CANDLE
by Max Lucado.
Every twenty-five Christmases, an angel has
visited Edward Haddington’s home and
touched one of his candles, and every person
who has received this candle has experienced a
miracle in their lives. Twenty-four years have
passed since the angel last came, and Edward
and his wife, Bea, wonder if the angel will come
again. If the angel does visit, to whom should
they give the candle? Many people in their
village could use a miracle—including Edward
and Bea themselves. Unabridged. 90 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1512
THE LEGEND OF
SLEEPY HOLLOW
by Washington Irving.
Schoolmaster Ichobod Crane arrives in Tarrytown,
New York, a region of shadows that is better
known as Sleepy Hollow. Local superstitions
abound with tales of the Woman in White,
Major Andre’s Ghost, and the most fearsome of
all, the Headless Horseman. Ichabod sets out
for the Harvest Frolic being held at the Van
Tassels, but encounters a huge misshapen figure
on a large black horse, gigantic...and headless.
• Order # T1515
1-800-426-READ
THE HOUNDS
AND THE
FURY
by Rita Mae Brown.
“Sister” Jane Arnold,
master of the
Jefferson Hunt
Club, must
contend with
unruly Crawford
Howard, who
purchases his
own pack of
hounds and
establishes a
rival club.
Then, things
really get interesting. During
the audit of a local company, millions of dollars
are reported missing. It’s not long before there’s
a body count connected to the missing money,
and the violence hits a little too close to home
for Sister’s liking. Unabridged. 510 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1540
MORNING SPY, EVENING SPY
by Colin Mackinnon.
An Afghan resistance fighter of the 1930s, once
on the CIA payroll, has come back to haunt the
agency. Kareem has become an enemy working
with al-Qaeda and the Taliban. CIA officer Paul
Patterson, who had run Kareem as an agent
during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan,
sets out to track him down. Unabridged.
• Order # T1510
THE GODS OF NEWPORT
by Jon Jakes.
Railroad mogul and former robber baron Sam
Driver wants to make his mark on Newport,
Rhode Island—the highest of high society and
playground for the fabulously wealthy. He’s also
determined to find a prestigious husband for is
beautiful daughter Jenny. But the old-money
folks who rule Newport have little respect for the
nouveau riche. And when Jenny loses her heart
to a charming, lower-class Irishman, it seems all
Sam’s hopes and ambitions will come to nothing.
• Order # T1525
Audio: CD
Fiction
THE INNOCENT MAN
by Bernard Cornwell.
In this 21st installment of the action-packed
Sharpe series, Captain Richard Sharpe and his
men help defend the last bastion of Spanish
independence from Napoleon’s siege.
• Order # T1524
by John Grisham.
When Ron Williamson returns to his
small hometown after a soured baseball
career, he is aimless and disturbed. The
rape and murder of a young cocktail
waitress has been an open case for five
years until, with no evidence the flimsiest
of testimonies, Williamson is convicted of
the crimes and sent to death row. Unabridged.
• Order # T1520
THIRTEEN MOONS
by Charles Frazier.
Will Cooper, a 12-year-old boy, has been
installed as a “hound boy” at a remote trading
post at the edge of the Cherokee Nation. There,
he will find his fortune—and a woman whose
fate will be intertwined with his for the rest of
his life. Unabridged. 960 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1522
STOLEN MAGIC
by M. J. Putney.
Simon Malmain, the
Earl of Falconer and
chief enforcer of the
Guardians, must
confront Lord
Drayton, a rogue
Guardian. But the
diabolical lord
gains the upper
hand, using his
evil magic to
transform
Simon into
a unicorn.
Saved by Lord
Drayton’s servant
Meg, Simon returns the favor by
releasing Meg from the spell she is under.
Together, they vow to bring Lord Drayton
down before his wicked plans turn disastrous.
• Order # T1551
STARDUST
by Neil Gaiman.
Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win
the cold heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch
her the star they watch fall from the night sky.
But to do so, he must enter the unexplored
lands on the other side of the ancient wall that
gives their tiny village its name. But beyond
that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faerie—
where nothing, not even a fallen star, is what he
imagined. Unabridged. 360 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1521
THE SHAPE
SHIFTER
by Mitch Albom.
For One More Day is the story of a mother and
a son, and a relationship that lasts a lifetime and
beyond. It explores the question: What would
you do if you could spend one more day with a
lost loved one? Unabridged. 210 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1519
by Tony Hillerman.
In 1965, fugitive
Ray Shawnack was
supposed to have
died in a blaze that
consumed a
trading post. But
many hears later,
Lt. Joe Leaphorn
is sent a picture
of a tribal rug
that was also
thought to
have burned
in the fire. If
the rug survived, could the
supposedly dead Shawnack have escaped the
conflagration as well? Unabridged. 540 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1526
ECHO PARK
MACBETH
FOR ONE MORE DAY
by Michael Connelly.
It’s been thirteen years since Marie Gesto
disappeared after walking out of a supermarket
in Hollywood. Thirteen years later LAPD
detective Harry Bosch learns that he and his
partner missed a clue that could have led them
to Gesto’s killer—and that would have prevented
all the murders that followed. Now his whole
being as a cop begins to crack. Unabridged.
• Order # T1518
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF
THE THUNDERBOLT KID
by Bill Bryson.
Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the 20th
century in Iowa into a middle-class family.
From that solid perch, Bryson recounts his
childhood. Capturing an America that is
as mythic as it is familiar, Bryson adds his
humorous touch to this unforgettable memoir.
• Order # T1523
CULTURE WARRIOR
by Bill O’Reilly.
Watched by millions of viewers on Fox News’
The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly is a staunch
defender of traditional values. In Culture
Warrior, he warns against the secular-progressive
movement that threatens to erode these values.
• Order # T1517
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Shakespeare’s bloody tale opens with the
famous “Weird Sisters” and proceeds to tell the
story of Macbeth’s violent path to kingship.
Indeed, the title character proves to be the most
memorable of all of literature. Unabridged.
• Order # T1516
COPPER RIVER
by William Kent Krueger.
Part Irish, part Native-American, Sheriff Cork
O’Connor serves the remote territory of
Tamarack County, Minnesota. But big trouble
is brewing: a powerful man believes O’Connor
killed his son. Now there’s a price on the
sheriff’s head, and a bullet in his leg. Unabridged.
• Order # T1544
THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE
by Philippa Gregory.
After her damning testimony results in the
execution of both her husband and her sisterin-law, Anne Boleyn, Jane continues her ruthless
scheming as she serves as lady-in-waiting to
Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII’s reviled Bavarianborn fourth wife, and naive, doomed sixth wife,
Catherine Howard. Unabridged. 1080 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1542
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SHARPE’S FURY
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
Fiction
PRETTY WOMAN
LET IT BE LOVE
by Fern Michaels.
A story of self-discovery and personal triumph,
Pretty Woman introduces a remarkable heroine
who finds her life in need of a drastic turnaround.
• Order # T1543
by Victoria Alexander.
Jonathon Effington, Marquess of
Helmsley, beds one woman on the eve of
each family Christmas celebration. But
when Jonathon goes off to meet the
woman he has chosen for this secret tryst,
he instead finds Fiona Fairchild. Fiona has
stepped in for the would-be lover in order
to offer a marriage proposal. But Jonathon
isn’t quite ready to settle down yet.
• Order # T1552
HALF MOON STREET
by Anne Perry.
As the misty fog curls off the Thames, Inspector
Thomas Pitt looks upon a murder victim
unlike any other. The man’s arms and legs are
chained to the punt he was found drifting in—
and that’s not the strangest element. Striking a
curiously feminine pose, the victim wears the
tattered remains of a green dress. Pitt will have
to plunge deep into the bohemian subculture to
launch his most delicate investigation yet.
• Order # T1538
CITIZEN VINCE
by Jess Walter.
Citizen Vince is a witty social satire about a man
conflicted by love, politics, and his past set
against the backdrop of the 1980 presidential
election. Unabridged. 555 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1541
ACT OF TREASON
by Vince Flynn.
In Act of Treason, Vince Flynn shows
readers the underside of political power,
where mercenaries are born and thrive
and betrayal is business as usual.
• Order # T1528
THE PRICE
by Joan Johnston.
Instead of running his family’s ranch, Luke
Creed is an attorney at Houston’s most
prestigious law firm. The demands of his job
have cost him his marriage and family, but he is
determined to succeed. Taking on the defense
of a pharmaceutical company in a controversial
case, he is stunned when he discovers that the
opposing attorney is Amy Nash, his first love.
• Order # T1553
52
WHERE ARE
THE CHILDREN?
by Mary Higgins Clark.
Years ago, Nancy Harmon faced a firestorm
of allegations after the grisly deaths of her two
children. Now remarried and living in Cape
Cod with her new family, Nancy has changed
everything in her life, including the color of
her hair. But then one morning, her little boy
and girl disappear from her back yard. The
nightmare has returned, and this time, Nancy
may not be able to survive the terror that is
revisited upon her. Unabridged. 690 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1550
HARDLY A
HUSBAND
by Rebecca
Hagan Lee.
Sarah Eckersley, the
daughter of the late
rector in Bedsforshire, has lost her
father, been forced
to move from her
home, and is
doggedly pursued
by the loathsome
Lord Dunbridge.
Her only course
of action is to
become a
renowned courtesan.
And Jarrod Shepherdston is just the man to
become Sarah’s first lover. For Jarrod, who’s
taken great pains to avoid marriage his entire
life, the offer is quite tempting. Unabridged.
• Order # T1548
1-800-426-READ
THE RABBIT
FACTORY
by Marshall Karp.
Dean Lamaar is the
architect of an
entertainment
empire and the
creator of iconic
characters like
Rambunctious
Rabbit and
McGreedy the
Moose. His
new amusement
park is opening
in Las Vegas
called Familyland. But mere days before
the grand opening, an actor playing Rambunctious
Rabbit is found dead on the park grounds and
everyone senses foul play. Unabridged. 900 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1547
WRONG PLACE,
WRONG TIME
by Andrea Kane.
Sally Montgomery works for the Pierson
business empire. When Frederick Pierson takes
Sally to his cabin for the weekend, she enjoys
the first evening. But returning from an early
walk the next morning, she finds Frederick’s
battered body. Sally calls her ex-husband Pete
for help. Pete investigates the Piersons. The
deeper he digs, the more he suspects they
harbor deadly secrets tied to the magnificent
show horses they breed. Unabridged. 705 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1546
OBLIVION
by Peter Abrahams.
Oblivion is the deftly plotted tale of a man
thrust into a desperate situation while beset
with memory loss. Unabridged. 675 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1545
THREAT
by David Poyer.
Working with a team to analyze and defeat
external threats to U.S. security, Navy
commander Dan Lenson must deal with a
terrorist plot to smuggle in dirty-bomb material
using the established drug-cartel methods.
• Order # T1562
Fiction
by Stephen R. Lawhead.
For centuries, the legend of Robin Hood and
his band of thieves has captivated the Western
imagination. Now the familiar tale takes on
new life, fresh meaning, and an unexpected
setting. Unabridged. 750 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1561
QUILLER SALAMANDER
by Adam Hall.
Quiller is sent on a rogue mission to Cambodia,
where chaos abounds as the deadline approaches
for the United Nations-supervised elections.
There is fear that Pol Pot, creator of the
infamous “killing fields,” will fight to return
to power the murderous Communist party,
known as the Khmer Rouge. Quiller’s only ally
is Gabrielle Bouchard, a sexy photojournalist
who is waging her own personal war against
the Khmer Rouge. Unabridged. 480 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1560
BLISS
by O. Z. Livaneli.
Told from the
alternating viewpoints
of these three travelers,
who change each
other, this novel by
an eminent Turkish
writer and member
of Parliament
tells a gripping
contemporary
story that
gets behind
stereotypes of
exotic Islam to
reveal the
diversity in individual
people and the secrets and lies, cruelty
and love, in family, friendship, and public life.
• Order # T1556
THE TWENTIETH WIFE
by Indu Sundaresan.
An enchanting historical epic of grand passion
and adventure, this debut novel tells the
captivating story of one of India’s most
controversial empresses, a woman whose
brilliance and determination trumped myriad
obstacles and whose love shaped the course of
the Mughal Empire. Unabridged. 840 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1558
LIBERATION
MOVEMENTS
by Olen Steinhauer.
In 1975, a People’s Militia homicide
investigator is on a plane for Istanbul
when it is hijacked and blown up by
Armenian terrorists. Two investigators, are
assigned to the case. Both believed that
their superiors are keeping them in the dark,
but they can‘t figure out why...until they
begin to realize that everything is connected
to a seven-year-old murder with far-reaching
consequences. Unabridged. 390 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1557
FACELESS KILLERS
by Henning Mankell.
It was a crime of senseless violence. On a cold
night in a remote Swedish farmhouse, an
elderly farmer was bludgeoned to death, his
wife left to die. The dying woman’s last word,
Ystad police inspector Kurt Wallander’s only
tangible clue, was “foreign.” If publicized, it
could be the match that would inflame Sweden’s
already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments.
• Order # T1554
SYRUP
by Maxx Barry.
When Scat comes up with the idea for the
hottest new soda ever, he’s sure he’ll retire as the
next savvy marketing success story. But in the
treacherous waters of corporate America, there
are no sure things. Suddenly Scat finds himself
scrambling to save not only his idea, but his yetto-be-realized career. Unabridged. 630 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1571
THE SECRET LOVERS
by Charles McCarry.
Early one morning in West Berlin, a nervous
courier delivers the handwritten manuscript of
a dissident Russian novel to Paul Christopher.
Minutes after the handoff, the courier is killed.
As Paul secretly arranges the publication of a
novel that could bring the Soviet system to
its knees, he races to identify the leak that
compromised his messenger—and possibly
the entire mission. Unabridged. 660 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1570
www.ncrl.org
SOUTH
BEACH
SHAKEDOWN
by Don Bruns.
Someone is about
to make a killing in
the music industry.
Why would song
writing legend
Gideon Pike
disappear just z
as his 30-year
career turns a
multimilliondollar profit?
Music columnist
Mick Sever
goes looking for his missing
friend Gideon Pike in the gritty back rooms of
Miami’s nightclubs, dodging suicide speedboats
and running from sniper fire. Unabridged.
• Order # T1567
HONOR & GLORY
by Kim Murphy.
In this second novel in Kim Murphy’s Civil
War trilogy, sisters Amanda and Alice struggle
to reconcile political and family loyalties.
• Order # T1569
A CHARLES DICKENS
CHRISTMAS
by Charles Dickens.
This dramatization by The Colonial Radio
Theatre on the Air presents four classic holiday
tales by the great Charles Dickens, complete
with a full cast, music, and sound effects.
• Order # T1566
SLEIGHT OF HAND
by Kate Wilhelm.
When a seemingly simple case turns complicated,
respected attorney Barbara Holloway must
rethink her game plan. Gregarious Las Vegas
entertainer and ex-con Wally Lederer claims
he’s turned his life around. But when a murder
takes place and the police name Wally as their
prime suspect, Barbara knows he is in serious
trouble. Unabridged. 600 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1563
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HOOD
Audio: CD
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
Fiction
THE AENEID
THE GARDEN OF EDEN
by Virgil.
Following the Greeks’ triumphant siege of Troy,
the glorious city is a smoldering ruin. Aeneas
flees the devastation and makes his way to
Carthage, where he begins a love affair with
Queen Dido. Eventually, Aeneas abandons
the queen, sparking her wrath. He visits the
underworld and encounters the ghost of his
father, Anchises, before settling in Italy, where
success in battle allows him to found the
settlements that will become Rome.
• Order # T1580
Young author David Bourne and
his new wife Catherine are blissfully
honeymooning in the 1920s Cote d’Azur.
Jealous of David’s writing, Catherine
hopes the trip will awaken new passions
in her husband. But as the two Americans
abroad enjoy carefully prepared Tom
Collinses, David struggles to reclaim his
manhood. Unabridged. 390 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1578
A SIN AND A SHAME
PÉRE GORIOT
by Honoré de Balzac.
One of renowned French author Honoré de
Balzac’s finest works, Pére Goriot provides a
fascinating glimpse into Parisian life of the
early 19th century. The rich character studies
and themes of class, personal ambition, and
materiality make this insightful novel as
compelling today as when it was first published.
• Order # T1579
THE BEST
REVENGE
by Sol Stein.
The Best Revenge
takes us on a vastly
entertaining
excursion behind
the scenes of the
Great White Way,
where the drama
is often more
suspenseful than
anything that
happens
onstage and
where the best
revenge is,
of course, success.
• Order # T1574
THE WINE-DARK SEA
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a
heavy American privateer through the Great
South Sea. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also
a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic
complications from Maturin’s mission, which is
to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America.
• Order # T1573
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by Victoria Christopher Murray.
Living in the Big Apple, Jasmine has shed
twenty-five pounds and filled her expensive
apartment with designer clothes, all to begin
her man-finding mission. She quickly meets
her dream mate, a preacher, who falls head
over heels in love with her. Surely, God is good!
But things start slipping when another man
from Jasmine’s past refuses to stay there and an
unexpected pregnancy threatens to sabotage
all of her dreams. Unabridged. 600 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1577
THE DRACO TAVERN
by Larry Niven.
Aliens have set up a permanent spaceport in
Siberia. Their presence attracted many, and a
few grew conspicuously rich from secrets they
learned from talking to the aliens. One of these
men, Rick Schumann, established a tavern
catering to all the various species of visiting
aliens, a place he named the Draco Tavern.
• Order # T1576
SONGMASTER
by Orson Scott Card.
Kidnapped at an early age, Ansset has been
raised in isolation at a mystical retreat called the
Songhouse. His life is filled with music, and
having only songs for companions, he develops
a voice that is unlike any other. But Ansset’s
voice is both a blessing and a curse—for it
reflects all the hopes and fears of his audience,
and, by magnifying their emotions, can be
used either to heal or to destroy. Unabridged.
• Order # T1572
1-800-426-READ
WHERE LATE
THE SWEET
BIRDS SANG
by Kate Wilhelm.
When the first warm
breeze of Doomsday
came wafting over
the Shenandoah
Valley, the Sumners were ready.
The family
had forged an
isolated post
holocaust
citadel. But
the family was
soon plagued
by sterility, and the creation
of clones offered the only answer. And that
final pocket of human civilization lost the
very human spirit it was meant to preserve as
man and mannequin turned on one another.
• Order # T1597
THE SUN ALSO RISES
Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley are among
the American and English ex-patriots living in
Paris following the devastation of World War I.
Suffering from a war wound that renders him
impotent, Jake is nonetheless caught up in an
unusual relationship with Brett, who is engaged
to the affluent Mike Campbell. As Jake and his
traveling companions head to Pamplona, Spain,
to fish and take in the bullfighting scene,
amateur boxer Robert Cohn and bullfighter
Pedro Romero also find themselves falling for
the enigmatic Brett. Unabridged. 495 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1581
PROPHECY BE DAMNED
by Patricia Lucas White.
Long ago, the youngest of the gods fell into the
clutches of an ambitious mortal, a vain usurper
who almost destroyed the world. The Elderkin,
the old gods, imprisoned the mortal in the
heart of a mountain and took away the young
god’s beauty, name, and tears. Then they fled
the earth, leaving man godless. But they left a
prophecy behind: that if the Nameless God’s
birthright is returned to him before the mortal
breaks free, the Elderkin will return. Unabridged.
• Order # T1595
Audio: CD
Fiction
by Thomas Perry.
Thirteen bodies are found in a
Louisville restaurant. When the police
can find no suspect or motive, the family
of one of the victims seeks the services
of the enigmatic and solitary specialist
Roy Prescott, known for his ability to
find people who don’t want to be found.
• Order # T1594
THE WHITE MONKEY
by John Galsworthy.
Fleur and Michael Mont begin to question
their marriage when their good friend, author
Wilfred Deset, can no longer contain his
passion for Fleur. Meanwhile, Soames Forsyte
must root out the rumored indiscretions of a
manager’s dubious dealings with the Germans.
The whole while, he is haunted by a painting
of a white monkey with rinds of crushed fruit
flung about it and eyes searching for something
more. Unabridged. 570 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1593
THE LAST
KING OF
SCOTLAND
by Giles Foden.
Shortly after his
arrival in Uganda,
Scottish doctor
Nicholas Garrigan is
called to the scene
of a car accident
involving Idi
Amin. When
Garrigan tends
to Amin,
the dictator
appoints him
as his personal
physician. So begins a
fateful dalliance with the African leader
whose Emperor Jones-style autocracy would
transform into a reign of terror. Unabridged.
• Order # T1592
THE BELOVED
LAND
by Janette Oke &
T. Davis Bunn.
The American
Revolution has
created turmoil on
two continents,
dividing nations,
people, and
sometimes even
families. Anne
in England and
Nicole in the
New World
have little
hope of seeing
one another again in the
foreseeable future. Then a letter finds its way to
both sisters with news that sends them on a
frantic and harrowing journey to the Beloved
Land. Unabridged. 480 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1607
IT’S SUPERMAN!
by Tom De Haven.
It’s Superman! follows Clark Kent from
rural 1930s Kansas across America to
Hollywood in its golden age and then
to New York City. He meets a worldly
Lois Lane and conniving political boss
Lex Luthor and begins his battles against
criminal masterminds, mad scientists, and
super villains. Unabridged. 990 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1591
THE MERRY ADVENTURES
OF ROBIN HOOD
by Howard Pyle.
Here are the beloved adventures of the mischievous
hero Robin Hood and his brave and merry
band of outlaws, who forged a chivalrous code
to protect the oppressed and despoil the oppressors.
• Order # T1590
CHLOE
by Lyn Cote.
Becoming a young woman, Chloe Lorraine
Kimball still lacks the one thing she wants
above all else: unconditional love from her
parents. With the help of friends, Chloe strikes
out on her own, determined to stand apart
from her family. She embraces marriage and
a career, but not even motherhood brings her
what she longs for. 510 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1606
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THE COMMODORE
Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are
sent on a mission to the fever-ridden lagoons
of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave
trade, but their ultimate destination is Ireland.
There the French are mounting an invasion
that will test Aubrey’s seamanship and Maturin’s
resourcefulness. Unabridged. 600 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1604
CARLY
by Lyn Cote.
Scarred by a childhood trauma, Carly Leigh
Sinclair finds that hiding her fears from her
mother only causes them to mount. In an
attempt to face them head on, Carly decides
to join the Army. Although military life is
a shocking change for Carly, she begins to
dismantle her self-doubt. Unabridged.
• Order # T1603
GALACTIC
PATROL
The Galactic Patrol’s
Lensmen are the most
feared peacekeepers
in the Galaxy. The
“Lens”, a telepathic
jewel matched
to the ego if its
wearer, is the
ultimate weapon
in the war
against the
merciless pirate
Boskone and
his forces
of lawlessness. The
only problem is the Galactic Patrol isn’t
sure how to capitalize on the Lens’ incredible
powers, but new graduate Kimball Kinnison
is determined to learn. The Lensman, Book 3.
• Order # T1627
THE DOGS OF RIGA
by Henning Mankell.
On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims
of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered
in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, no
crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated
and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case
as mysterious as it is heinous. Unabridged.
• Order # T1599
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PURSUIT
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
Fiction
TYRANNY’S PRISONER
CATEGORY FIVE
by J. A. Wildkins & R.R. Draude.
Outlaw privateer Amanda Callin craves power
and revenge. Revenge for the life she believes
others have forced her to live, and the power to
control the colonies of Earth. Everything falls
within her grasp when she kidnaps Alex Ballard,
the colonies’ foremost computer developer.
• Order # T1617
by Philip S. Donlay.
In the Atlantic Ocean, hurricane Helena
is gathering strength, becoming the most
powerful storm in recorded history. In
a bold attempt to diffuse the power of
the hurricane, Eco-Watch is called upon
to conduct a final flight above the massive
fury, where the jet suffers a catastrophic
engine failure. Now the only option is to
maneuver the crippled airplane into the
calm of Helena’s eye. Unabridged. 570 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1611
A KILLING IN QUAIL COUNTY
by Jameson Cole.
With the help of two of his friends, fifteenyear-old Mark Stoddard is determined to win
the respect of his older brother Jess, the local
deputy sheriff, by catching a local bootlegger.
When a man is murdered, and Jess looks like
a suspect, Mark must catch the real killer and
clear his brother’s name. Unabridged. 600
• Order # T1616
DIRE STRAITS
by Cliff Garnett.
A ruthless extremist
dedicated to turning
Turkey from the
West has declared
war against all who
dare oppose him,
and threatens to
ignite nuclear war.
While the country
teeters on the
edge of anarchy,
TALON Force
is called in to
find the madman and his
fanatical organization
and stop his doomsday plans.
• Order # T1614
THE SHEPHERD
OF THE HILLS
by Harold Bell Wright.
Strangers aren’t well received in the Mutton
Hollow neighborhood of the Ozarks. But there
was something different about this old gentleman.
He carried himself with the unconscious air of
one long used to power and influence. No one
knew his past, or why he came to the hollow.
But his quiet presence was soon to be felt by
every family in Mutton Hollow. Unabridged.
• Order # T1613
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SEA FIRE
by Cliff Garnett.
A Russian nuclear sub has been hijacked by
an ultra-radical wing of the IRA that wants to
continue the fight with Britain. With London
under the threat of nuclear destruction and a
political powder keg ready to blow, TALON
Force is called in to re-take the sub, disarm the
nuclear payload, and deal with the extremists
the only was they know how. Unabridged.
• Order # T1605
BETTE
by Lyn Cote.
Married life is not the happy dream Bette
imagined. Sent overseas, her husband, Curt,
falls in love with a young Frenchwoman and
leaves Bette alone and pregnant. When Curt
finally returns to beg for reconciliation, Bette
must decide whether or not she can trust him
again, and if marriage to him is truly what is
right for her and her daughter. Unabridged.
• Order # T1609
THE DARK DOOR
by Kate Wilhelm.
Private investigator Charlie Meiklejohn is called
in by insurance companies to follow the trail of
a suspected serial arsonist. Meiklejohn begins
following the criminal trail, but finds himself
teaming up with his quarry to face the source
of these strange outbreaks: a malfunctioning
alien space probe. Unabridged. 480 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1608
1-800-426-READ
SPIRIT FLIGHT
by P. R. Fittante.
Frank Farago, steelyeyed test pilot, was
always in control,
until he lost control
of a two billion
dollar B-2 Spirit
stealth bomber.
His search for
the cause reveals
conspiracy,
cover-up, and
a past he had
long forgotten.
Unabridged.
370 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1625
NIGHTMARE HOUSE
by Douglas Clegg.
Psychic manifestations, poltergeist activity,
hallucinations, and other residue of terror
have all been documented in Harrow. It has
been called Nightmare House. It is a nest for
the restless spirits of the dead. When Ethan
Gravesend arrives to inherit Nightmare House,
he does not suspect the horror that awaits
him—the nightmare of the woman trapped
within the walls of the house, or the endless
crying of an unseen child. Unabridged.
• Order # T1626
THE MAN FROM THE BRAZOS
by Ermal Walden Williamson.
When Matt Jorgensen learns that the man who
helped him hone his deadly skills with a pistol
is gunned down, he vows to bring the killer to
justice. Unabridged. 510 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1624
HAVEN
by Irene Bennett Brown.
Life in Venture is anything but boring. Laila
Mitchell is faced with the hardships of frontier
life, guardianship of an abandoned child,
and a reluctant attraction to Ash Corbett,
the owner of a peach ranch, who is currently
engaged to a beautiful socialite. But, Ash finds
himself drawn to Laila as well, and battles his
conflicting emotions and questions his future.
• Order # T1623
Fiction
BREED
by Geoffrey Huntington.
Long before the days of Madman Jackson Muir,
a witch named Isobel the Apostate made war
upon her fellow sorcerers, the noble order of the
Nightwing. Burned at the stake for her crimes,
Isobel vowed to return to conquer the world.
Now, she is back, and the only person who can
prevent hell on earth is fourteen-year-old Devon
March. Unabridged. 610 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1621
by Owl Goingback.
An ancient evil is awaken in the
Tolomato Cemetery, and is intent on
stalking and destroying the citizens of
the town. The evil creature, a Shiru, was
believed to be a mythical beast from
ancient Indian legend. Now the Shiru is
determined to get revenge on the human
race, and to breed with a strong woman with
an ancient blood line. Unabridged. 540 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1618
FIRST LENSMAN
As the first Lensman, Virgil Samms helps to
form the Galactic Patrol, a battalion of Lensmen
who are larger-than-life heroes. These soldiers
are the best of the best, with incredible skill,
stealth and drive. They are dedicated and
incorruptible fighters who are willing to die
to protect the universe from the most horrific
threat it has ever known. Lensman Series, Vol. 2.
• Order # T1620
ASHES
TO ASHES
by Don Pendleton.
Ashton Ford has
powers. Sometimes,
he can see the future.
He uses these powers to either make
people’s lives a lot
easier-or a whole
lot harder. Now
Ford’s been hired
by a beautiful
and vulnerable
woman
desperate
for a cure
for her erotic failures.
Ford can’t resist the chance to aid her, and
invite untold danger. Unabridged. 275 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1622
COME SPRING
by Charlotte Hinger.
A powerful drama about the conflict between
the homesteaders hewing a perilous existence
from the stubborn sod and the ambitious
and often unscrupulous town builders with
their secret ties to the burgeoning railroads.
• Order # T1619
ANNE OF THE ISLAND
by L. M. Montgomery.
Anne is growing up and leaving the Island to
spend four years of her life at Redmond College.
She meets a wonderful new friend in Philippa
Gordon, offspring to an old and exclusive
“bluenose” family. Phil’s family ties, combined
with her beauty and charm, open the gates of
all the social cliques and clubs at Redmond.
• Order # T1634
THE OUTCAST BRIGADE
by Jason Elder.
A former Apache scout shunned by his tribe, an
ex-Union Army major, a former Confederate
captain, and two army deserters, are all forced
to band together to stay alive. That is, as long
as they could avoid killing each other. But
could they bury their anger and work together
long enough to do what they had to do?
• Order # T1633
MOJAVE SHOWDOWN
by Larry Jay Martin.
The Mojave was out of Sheriff Ned Cody’s
jurisdiction. But his two best friends were
being toted face down across a couple of
Mangas Saragosa’s mules-still breathing, but
just barely—and Cody was willing to take on
the Devil himself to set them free. Unabridged.
• Order # T1632
TRIPLANETARY
From the atomic age in Atlantis to a world
remote in space and time, two incredible
ancient races, the Arisians and the Eddorians,
are in the midst of an interstellar war—with
Earth as the prize. Unabridged. 600 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1629
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TIN ANGEL
by Kat Martin.
Jessica Taggart had
come West seeking
adventure, and no
hard-drinking,
easy-living rogue
like Jake Weston
was going to stop
her from finding
it--even if it
meant being his
partner in the
Tin Angel, the
most notorious
brothel on the
Barbary coast.
Even if she had to resist
his sensual seduction. Unabridged. 610
• Order # T1635
BLACKFOOT MASSACRE
by David Thompson.
Life in the savage Rockies was not easy on
Nathaniel King. With all the dangers, Nate
never expected any trouble from a missionary
bent on converting the hostile tribesmen. But
when the Reverend John Burke was trapped in
perilous Blackfoot territory, Nate had to save
the man, or he’d bear the brand of a coward
until the day he died. Unabridged. 310 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1631
CRIMSON CITY
by Liz Maverick.
From the extravagant appetites of the vampire
world above, to the gritty defiance of the
werewolves below, the specter of darkness lives
around every corner, the hope of paradise in
every heart. All walk freely with humans in a
tentative peace, but to live in Los Angeles is to
balance on the edge of a knife. Unabridged.
• Order # T1630
THE THUNDERING HERD
by Zane Grey.
Mile upon mile of prairie covered by great
buffalo herds; reckless, hard riding plainsmen,
buffalo hunters, Indians, bandits—the whole
colorful epoch of the pioneer, in a story which
centers around the destruction of the thundering
herds of buffalo. Unabridged. 700 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1628
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DEMON WITCH
Audio: CD
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
KINGFISH
by Richard D. White, Jr..
From the moment he took office as governor
in 1928 to the day an assassin’s bullet cut him
down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but
dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana.
And het, as governor and later as senator,
Huey did more good for the state’s poor and
uneducated than any politician before or since.
• Order # T1387
MARIE ANTOINETTE
by Evelyne Lever.
Drawing upon her diaries, letters, court records,
and memoirs, Evelyne Lever paints a vivid portrait of Marie Antoinette, her inner circle, and
the lavish court life at Versailles. What emerges
is a surprisingly average woman thrust into a
position for which she was wholly unprepared,
a combination that proved disastrous both for
her and for France. 870 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1381
PACO’S STORY
by Larry Heinemann.
The only man in alpha
Company to survive a
cataclysmic Vietcong
attack, Paco Sullivan
is sent back to the
U.S. with his legs full
of pins, daily rations
of Librium and
Valium, and no
sense of what to
next. Paco’s Story
plunges the reader
into the violence
and casual cruelty
of the Vietnam War, and the ghostly aftermath
that often dealt the harshest blows. 420 min.
• Order # T1382
HEALTHY AT 100
Non-Fiction
DOCTOR
YOURSELF
by Andrew Saul, Ph.D.
Dr. Saul explodes the
myth that an army
of medical specialists
and pharmaceutical
drugs are necessary
to maintain our
health. Using the
protocols laid out
in Doctor Yourself,
you not only can
prevent disease
from getting a
foothold in the first place,
you can also cure yourself of illness already in
progress, without resorting to drugs or surgery.
• Order # T1379
JAMES HERRIOT’’S
CAT STORIES
by James Herriot.
This warm and joyful volume of stories
collects some of the Yorkshire vet’s favorite
tales about one of his favorite animals—
each account as memorable and heartwarming as the last. 180 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1353
THE WORLD OF THE
ANCIENT MAYA
by John S. Henderson.
John Henderson explores the entire Maya
cultural tradition, from the earliest traces of
settlement through the period of the Spanish
conquest in the sixteenth century. His wideranging account treats diverse aspects of the
Maya world, from religion and philosophy to
the environments of the various Maya peoples,
using deciphered Maya texts to reconstruct
the ancient societies. 630 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1378
by John Robbins.
Why do some people age in failing health and
sadness, while others grow old with vitality and
joy? In this revolutionary book, best-selling
author John Robbins present us with a bold
new paradigm of aging, showing us how we
can increase not only our lifespan but also our
health span. 450 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1439
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AIDA
by Giuseppe Verdi.
Aida is the opera that has it all. The story is
exciting. The music is splendid and, from start
to finish, memorably melodic. But the ultimate
grandeur in Aida is the supreme genius of Verdi,
experienced here in peak form. 210 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1415
THE SOCIOPATH NEXT DOOR
by Martha Stout, Ph.D.
We are accustomed to think of sociopaths as
violent criminals, but Harvard psychologist
Martha Stout reveals that a shocking 4% of
ordinary people—one in twenty-five—have
an often undetected mental disorder, the chief
symptom of which is that the person possesses
no conscience—no ability whatsoever to feel
shame, guilt, or remorse—and is secretly a
sociopath. 450 min. Unabridged. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1403
THE
SHANGRI-LA
DIET
by Seth Roberts, Ph.D.
Imagine a diet that’s as
easy as “a spoonful of
sugar” (or extra-light
olive oil) twice a day.
A diet that actually
reduces your appetite and cravings,
and puts you at
peace with food.
A diet that’s based
on a wealth of
scientific findings but is
simple enough for anyone to stick to. 240 min.
• Order # T1407
CARMEN
by Georges Bizet.
The Black Dog Opera Library presents the
world’s most beloved operas written by the
most respected composers and performed by
the most talented vocalists, conductors, choirs,
orchestras and philharmonics. Everybody
knows Carmen—the great melodies from
Georges Bizet’s score are among the most
recognized melodies in all of music. 210 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1413
Non-Fiction
by Giacomo Puccini.
Madama Butterfly is
a tragic story of love,
misunderstanding,
cultural mismatching, honor, and
dishonor. A
seemingly simple
tale about a careless
young Japanese girl
and her love for an
American soldier,
Madama Butterfly
is brought to life by Puccini’s
powerfully heartbreaking music. 630 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1417
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The Marriage of Figaro is the result of
one of the greatest creative collaborations
in history. Mozart’s musical genius, da
Ponte’s skillful realism and Beaumarchais’
courageously honest subject matter combine
to create perhaps the most successful opera
buffs of
all time. 210 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1416
LA BOHÈME
by Giacomo Puccini.
There is no better place to begin exploring opera
than with La Bohème. It tells an irresistible
story that is charming, sexy, and, ultimately,
heartrending. It is an experience to cherish, to
relive again and again. 210 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1414
THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS
OF A TEAM
by Patrick Lencioni.
Lencioni begins by telling the fable of a woman
who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley
firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive
committee and helped its members succeed
as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers
explicit instructions for overcoming the human
behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt
teams (absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of
commitment, avoidance of accountability and
inattention to results). 225 min. Unabridged.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1436
IL TROVATORE
by Giuseppe Verdi.
Gypsies and troubadours, love and revenge
are all characters in Il Trovatore‚one of the
most memorable of Verdi’s masterworks
Brooding reminiscences and thundering
orchestration surround the famous Anvil
Chorus in this opera which came right at
the midpoint of Verdi’s career. 210 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1420
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
by Gioacchino Rossini.
An opera in the classic sense, The Barber of
Seville is dynamic without being confusing,
funny without being preposterous, touching
without being melodramatic and full of some of
the most fantastic music in 19th-century opera.
• Order # T1418
THE SIX-DAY
FINANCIAL
MAKEOVER
by Robert Pagliarini.
Are you treading
water financially?
Or worse, are you
sinking? Do creditcard interest, loan
payments, and the
cost of living take
too big a bite out
of your income?
Let professional
financial planner
Robert Pagliarini give
you the six-day financial makeover. Unabridged.
• Order # T1502
LA TRAVIATA
by Giuseppe Verdi.
Verdi achieved a magical and delicate balance
between a tragic love story, a socially and
politically courageous plot and some of the
most powerful and heartbreaking music ever
written. 210 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1419
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BEATING
BACK THE
DEVIL
by Maryn McKenna.
In this riveting
narrative, Maryn
McKenna follows
the first class of
disease detectives to
come to the CDC
(Centers for Disease
Control) after 9/11.
She goes on
scene with these
talented young
researchers, who trade two years
of low pay and extremely long hours for the
chance to be part of the group who heroically
tries to stop epidemics - before they stop us.
• Order # T1410
THE NEW RULES
OF COLLEGE ADMISSIONS
edited by Stephen Kramer & Michael London.
Getting into and paying for college has never
been harder. Now America’s number one
educational consulting company offers a
comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to
find, apply, get accepted to, and pay for college.
• Order # T1440
SONGS ON BRONZE
by Nigel Spivey.
Songs on Bronze is the first major retelling of
Greek mythology in half a century; a set of
lively, racy, dramatic versions of the great myths,
which, in a multicultural society, are recognized
more than ever as stories without equal.
• Order # T1427
BOLD SPIRIT
by Linda Lawrence Hunt.
Desperate. Determined. Unwaveringly
confident. In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant
named Helga Estby dares to cross 3500 miles of
the American continent to win a $10,000 wage.
On foot. Unabridged. 370 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1489
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MADAMA
BUTTERFLY
Audio: CD
Audio/Video Catalog
Audio: CD
Non-Fiction
ZODIAC
by Robert Graysmith.
Since 1968, Zodiac has terrified the city of
San Francisco and the Bay Area with a string
of brutal killings. Zodiac, in taunting letters
sent to the newspapers, has hidden clues to his
identity by using cunning ciphers that have
defied the greatest code breaking minds of the
CIA, the FBI, and NSA. This is the shocking
true story of the nation’s most bizarre mass
murderer. Unabridged. 630 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1500
OPERATION HOMECOMING
by Andrew Carroll.
To encourage U.S. troops and their families to
record their experiences and reflections on the
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the National
Endowment for the Arts organized a series of
writing workshops in the summer of 2004
led by prominent authors. The result is this
extraordinary volume of first-hand letters,
poems, journals, memoirs, and e-mails from the
men and women directly involved in battle and
their families back home. Unabridged. 1020
• Order # T1509
THE FIVE LOVE
LANGUAGES
by Gary Chapman.
Dr. Gary Chapman
identifies five basic
languages of love:
Quality Time, Words
of Affirmation,
Receiving Gifts, Acts
of Service, and
Physical Touch.
Learn to speak
and understand
your mate’s love
language, and in
no time you will be
able to effectively love and truly feel loved in
return. Unabridged. 300 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1514
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AMERICA
ALONE
by Mark Steyn.
In America Alone
Steyn’s acerbic wit and
relentless pursuit of
politically incorrect
truths show how
Islam is gradually
conquering the
West by reverse
assimilation, aided
and abetted by
global-warming
ecochondriacs,
craven multiculturalist, and
self-detonating Islamists of the Muslim baby
boom. Unabridged. 600 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1559
ROBERT KENNEDY: HIS LIFE
by Evan Thomas.
In a clear and fast-paced narrative, Evan Thomas
cuts through the mythology to reveal a character
who, though he died young just as he was
reaching for ultimate power, remains one of the
century’s most fascinating men. Unabridged.
• Order # T1508
BASEBALL
by George Vecsey.
Growing from a sport played in open fields
and in big-city streets, baseball has seen its
share of innovators and detractors, heroes
and villains. Vecsey details them all, from
the scandalous Black Sox of 1919 and modern
steroid abusers to icons like Babe Ruth, Jackie
Robinson, and the countless underdogs that
came out of nowhere to capture the imaginations
of fans everywhere. Unabridged. 435 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1539
POINT TO POINT
NAVIGATION
by Gore Vidal.
Winner of both the National Book Award and
the National Book Critics Circle Award, New
York Times best-selling author Gore Vidal is one
of the true masters of American letters. In this
extraordinary memoir, Vidal recalls his
accomplishments and defeats, discusses the
friends and enemies he has made, and
contemplates the nature of mortality.
• Order # T1527
1-800-426-READ
EISENHOWER
by John Wukovits.
John Wukovits skillfully demonstrates how
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s evolution as a
commander, his military doctrine, and his
diplomatic skills are crucial to the understanding
of modern warfare. Unabridged. 420 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1555
11 DAYS IN DECEMBER
by Stanley Weintraub.
11 Days in December tells the unforgettable
story of one of the grimmest points of World
War II and its Christmas Eve turn toward
victory. Unabridged. 330 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1565
AFTER FIDEL
by Brian Latell.
In this compelling, behind-the-scenes account,
former top CA officer and Cuba expert Brian
Latell examines the extraordinary Castro
brothers and the impending dynastic succession
of Fidel’s younger brother, Raul. Unabridged.
• Order # T1568
THE GREAT
FORMULA
by Mark Joyner.
The Great Formula has
been used by every
great business success
in history. It works
because it stresses
simplicity and
focuses only on
those actions that
get results. It’s
real-world, downto-earth selling
advice that’s so
straight- forward
even the smartest people often overlook it...but
great businesses, whether they know it or not,
use this formula everyday. 420 min. (Compact
Disc.)
• Order # T1582
Audio: CD
Non-Fiction
THE BARON SON
by Vicky Therese Davis.
Investigating a legend from centuries past,
set in the desert region Mh’ki, three students
seek to unravel the mysteries of the most
prosperous man the world had come to know.
Their pursuit reveals the core principles necessary
for personal and business achievement.
• Order # T1586
by Lee H. Whittlesey.
In September 1870,
Truman Everts was
separated from one of
the first exploratory
parties in what is
now Yellowstone
National Park.
With little food,
equipment, or
cold-weather
clothing Everts
spent more than
a month wandering the
wilderness before two mountaineers found him
alive. Unabridged. 120 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1610
by Nido Qubein.
Boost your selling power. Polish your selling
savvy. Propel your career to better productivity,
performance, and profitability. This complete
course is for the pro and novice alike. 210 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1587
THE FOUR SPIRITUAL LAWS
OF PROSPERITY
THE TRUTH
ABOUT MUHAMMAD
by Edwene Gaines.
Edwene Gaines shares with you the secrets for
acquiring wealth and living abundantly, and
guarantees that following these principles will
change your life from one of deprivation and
want into one of abundance and freedom.
• Order # T1584
THE PASSION TEST
by Janet Bray Attwood
& Chris Attwood.
Chris and Janet Attwood wrap fascinating
stories of the ups, downs, twists and turns of
living passionately around fun and practical
exercises that will have you living your own
passionate life by the time you finish this
audio program. 360 min. (Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1583
THINKING FOR A LIVING
by Thomas H. Davenport.
Knowledge workers are the innovators,
designers and marketers of your company’s
products and services. They are the highly paid
strategists, executives, and IT specialists whose
ideas and expertise fuel your success. But are
they delivering their best performance?
• Order # T1585
CLOSE LIKE A PRO
by Robert Spencer.
Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest
and telling portrait of the founder of Islam,
unbounded by fear and political correctness,
unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts
about Muhammad’s life that continue to affect
our world today. Unabridged. 420 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1596
FULL
THROTTLE:
THE LIFE
AND FAST
TIMES OF
NASCAR
LEGEND
CURTIS
TURNER
EPICENTER
by Joel C. Rosenberg.
In a riveting book
about the dramatic
changes that will
transform the world as
we know it, Rosenberg
explains the enormous
political, economic,
and spiritual
changes that are
underway in the
world’s most
important
countries.
Unabridged. 540 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1600
BLOOD DIAMONDS
by Greg Campbell.
Blood Diamonds is the gripping story of how
diamond smuggling works, how the rebel war
has effectively destroyed Sierra Leone and its
people, and how the policies of the diamond
industry—institutionalized in the 1880s by the
De Beers cartel—have allowed it to happen.
• Order # T1602
HIMALAYA
by Michael Palin.
In a journey rarely, if ever, attempted before,
Michael Palin took on the full length of the
Himalaya, including the Khyber Pass, the
hidden valleys of the Hindu Kush, ancient cities
like Peshawar and Lahore, the mighty peaks
of K2, Annapurna and Everest. This book,
compiled from his diaries, records the pleasure
and pain of an extraordinary journey. 692 min.
• Order # T1402
by Robert Edelstein.
Edelstein’s gripping
biography thrillingly
recreates the life
of this American
legend, from his days
as a teenage moonshine runner in Virginia,
through millions earned (and just as quickly
spent) in fearless finance deals, to his incredible
comeback after for years of being banned from
the NASCAR circuit. Unabridged. 720 min.
(Compact Disc.)
• Order # T1601
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Audio/Video Catalog
LOST IN THE
YELLOWSTONE
Audio/Video Catalog
Video: DVD
ROBIN HOOD,
MOST WANTED EDITION
Heroic Robin Hood—along with his
trusted companion Little John and his
devoted band of merry men—conjures
up one famously funny and daring deed
after another to outfox greedy Prince John
and bring happiness to the residents of
Sherwood Forest. A Disney animated
video. (2006) G. 83 min.
• Order # V4028
THE WILD
When a band of furry friends escape from the
city zoo, they discover that New York City is
the biggest, craziest jungle of all. A Disney
animated video. (2006) G. 82 min.
• Order # V4030
BARNYARD
This laugh-filled adventure stars Otis, a carefree
cow who spends his days singing, dancing and
playing tricks on humans....much to the
dismay of his father, Ben. Animated. (2006)
PG. 89 min.
• Order # V4078
AIR BUDDIES
w/Michael Clarke
Duncan, Richard
Karn, Don Knotts.
Air Bud is now the
proud father of five
adorable puppies
with an unbelievable
secret: they can talk!
And the hilarious,
hair-raising exploits
of these barking,
talking, ballplaying pups will
have you cheering
as they run off on a daring
rescue mission to save their parents! A Disney
video. (2006) PG. 80 min.
• Order # V4036
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Kids
HOW TO
EAT FRIED
WORMS
w/James Rebhorn,
Kimberly WilliamsPaisley, Tom
Cavanagh.
On his first day
at a new school,
11-year-old Billy
has a run-in with
the class bully.
Determined to
stand up for
himself, Billy
accepts a
gross-out dare...EAT
10 WORMS IN ONE DAY! (2006)
PG. 74 min.
• Order # V4066
THE ANT BULLY
w/Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage,
Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti
When young Lucas aims his water pistol at
some hapless ants, they retaliate with a secret
potion that shrinks “the Destroyer” to their
size...and turns an anthill into a mountain of
thrills, action and laughs! Animated. (2006)
PG. 89 min.
• Order # V4055
DRAGON HUNTERS:
UNWELCOME GUESTS
Gwizdo, Lian-Chu and Hector are about
to lose their cushy quarters at Jennyline’s
Inn when wealthy Otis Criblecrocker
shows up. When Gwizdo’s plan to scare
him away causes the Inn to be infested by
shape-changing dragons, nothing is a it seems!
Animated. (2005) Ages 7 & up. 75 min.
• Order # V4094
DRAGON HUNTERS:
DON’T LOOK NOW
When a bizarre chameleon dragon attacks,
there’s little chance for the depressed Gwizdo
to ponder his future, even with Lian-Chu and
Hector picking up the slack and the contract
negotiations. And after everyone at the tavern
is turned to stone by a rare dragon, it’s Lian-Chu
who realizes that sometimes to win, all you
need to do is make the enemy look at itself.
(2005) Ages 7 & up. 75 min.
• Order # V4093
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CINDERELLA III:
A TWIST IN TIME
When her evil stepmother gets hold of Fairy
godmother’s magic wand and turns back the
hands of time, Cinderella must try to find
Prince Charming and break through the new
spell. A Walt Disney animated video. (2006)
G. 74 min.
• Order # V4099
PETER PAN
Fantastic adventures await Wendy and her
brothers when Peter Pan, the hero of their
stories, whisks them away to the magical world
of Never Land. A Walt Disney animated video.
(2007) G. 77 min.
• Order # V4101
JUMBO BOX OF
STORYBOOK CLASSICS 2
Magical songs, captivating animation, award
winning authors, and hours of classic children’s
stories in one Jumbo Box. Stories included are:
Curious George Rides a Bike; The Wheels on the
Bus; Good Night, Gorilla; Corduroy; How Do
Dinosaurs Say Good Night? and Tikki Tikki
Tembo. Not Rated. 318 min.
• Order # V4102
THE WORLD
ACCORDING
TO SESAME
STREET
In more than 120
countries all over
the globe, Sesame
Workshop and an
international team
of Muppets tackle
the world’s most
challenging
issues for
3 to 5 year olds
including:
HIV/AIDS in
South Africa,
post conflict resolution
in a divided Kosovo, school and play for
kids in Bangladesh where kids start working
at 5 years old. (2006) Not Rated. 99 min.
• Order # V4062
Kids
Describing and sorting common threedimensional shape according to the
properties. A multimedia standards-based
math curriculum for Kindergarten and First
Grade. (2006) Not Rated. 10 min.
• Order # V4040
THE NUMBER CREW:
COUNTING OBJECTS
Counting at least 20 objects and understanding
that if the objects are rearranged the number
stays the same. A multimedia standards-based
math curriculum for Kindergarten and First
Grade. (2006) Not Rated. 10 min.
• Order # V4041
THE FOX
AND THE
HOUND 2
Tod and Copper
still go together like
an itch and a scratch,
but when Copper
gets a shot at the
big time with a
nutty group of
hound dog howlers,
their purebred
friendship is put
to the test. A
Disney animated
video. (2006) G.
69 min.
• Order # V4035
THE NUMBER CREW:
HALVES AND QUARTERS
Finding one half and one-quarter of shapes
and small numbers of object. A multimedia
standards-based math curriculum for
Kindergarten and First Grade. (2006)
Not Rated. 10 min.
• Order # V4042
THE NUMBER CREW:
READING AND WRITING
NUMBERS
ZOOM:
ACADEMY
FOR SUPERHEROES
w/Tim Allen.
Buckle up and
prepare for a ride
that’s out of this
world! When
Earth is threatened
with imminent
destruction, an
out-of-shape,
out-of-work and
over-the-hill
former superhero is called back into
action to save the day. (2006) PG. 88 min.
• Order # V4097
THE NUMBER CREW:
RECOGNIZING TW0DIMENSIONAL SHAPES
Describing and sorting common twodimensional shapes according to their
math curriculum for Kindergarten and
First Grade. (2006) Not Rated. 10 min.
• Order # V4044
THE NUMBER CREW:
UNITS OF TIME
Understanding and using vocabulary related
to time and units of time. A multimedia
Not Rated. 10 min.
• Order # V4045
THE NUMBER CREW:
RECOGNIZING THREEDIMENSIONAL SHAPES
Describing and sorting common threedimensional shapes according to their
math curriculum for Kindergarten and
First Grade. (2006) Not Rated. 10 min.
• Order # V4058
Reading and writing the numbers up to 20. A
multimedia standards-based math curriculum
for Kindergarten and First Grade. (2006)
Not Rated. 10 min.
• Order # V4043
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THE NUMBER CREW:
SOLVING NUMBER PROBLEMS
Solving numerical problems; recognizing
simple patterns or relationships; generalizing
and making predictions. A multimedia
Not Rated. 10 min.
• Order # V4059
THE NUMBER CREW:
TELLING TIME TO THE
HOUR, HALF HOUR AND
QUARTER HOUR
Reading the time to the hour, half hour,
and quarter hour on both analog and digital
clocks. A multimedia standards-based math
curriculum for Kindergarten and First Grade.
(2006) Not Rated. 10 min.
• Order # V4060
PUFF THE
MAGIC
DRAGON
Based on the hit song
by Peter, Paul, and
Mary. A shy boy,
Jackie Draper, learns
the value of courage
from his beloved
companion, Puff
the Magic Dragon.
Also included:
Puff in the Land
of Living Lies;
and Puff and Z
the Incredible
Mr. Nobody. Animated. (1978) Not
Rated. 71 min.
• Order # V4104
OPEN SEASON
Boog, a domesticated grizzly bear with no
survival skills, has his perfect world turned
upside down when he meets Elliot, a scrawny,
fast-talking mule deer. They join forces to
unite the woodland creatures and take the
forest back into nature’s control! Animated.
(2006) PG. 86 min.
• Order # V4123
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Audio/Video Catalog
THE NUMBER CREW:
SHAPE SORTING
Video: DVD
Audio/Video Catalog
Video: DVD
DRAGON HUNTERS:
THERE’S NO PLACE
LIKE HOME!
Gwizdo’s bar tab is growing and Jennyline’s
patience is growing short! She kicks him out
of the tavern and he vows not to come back
until he is rich—even if he, Lian-Chu and
Hector freeze to death battling a rare and
dangerous dragon—the snow salamander!
Then, an old friend shows up the a tough
problem...his fiancée’s village is being attacked.
However, the Dragon Hunters discover the
surprising truth about the dragon’s identity!
• Order # V4113
HAPPY FEET
Kids
FLUSHED
AWAY
Pampered pet mouse
Roddy St. James
thinks he’s got it
made...until he’s
literally flushed
away to a bustling
underground world
of ninja frogs,
hench-rats and
singing slugs.
Animated. (2006)
PG. 84 min.
• Order #
V4122
Emperor penguins are
born to sing. All
except young Mumble,
who was born to
dance...tap dance.
Such un-penguin-like
behavior eventually
gets Mumble kicked
out of Emperor
Land and into the
big, cold world.
Mumble embarks
on an epic journey
and ultimately
proves that by
being true to yourself, you can make all
the difference in the world! Animated. (2006)
PG. 108 min.
• Order # V4117
CHARLOTTE’S WEB
THE CAVE OF THE
YELLOW DOG
THE NUMBER CREW:
HALVES AND QUARTERS
AS PARTS OF A WHOLE
The Cave of the Yellow Dog is a thoughtprovoking mix of documentary and drama
that tells the story of the age-old bond between
man and dog, a bond which experiences a new
twist through the eternal cycle of reincarnation
in Mongolia. (2006) G. 93 min.
• Order # V4141
64
Share the magic as a tiny spider spins a great
tale of friendship and adventure in this
dazzling film version of E.B. White’s
beloved children’s book. (2006) G. 96
min.
• Order # V4121
LET’S EXPLORE
AUTUMN AND WINTER
This video teaches your child or student
about the different aspects of two of our
most impressive seasons. This playful and
informative look at the world around us
through video, photos, animation and unique
music created just for One Smart Cookie
makes learning fun. (2005) Not Rated.
• Order # V4103
Beginning to recognize that two halves or four
quarters make a whole, and that two quarters
and one-half are equialent. A multimedia
kindergarten and first grade, the Number
Crew introduces students to the concepts of
number, place value, shapes and patterns.
• Order # V4149
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LET’S EXPLORE
SPRING AND SUMMER
Let’s Explore Spring and Summer contains the
following sections: Spring Weather, Animals
in Spring, Spring Plants and Trees, Summer
Weather, Seasonal Foods, Recreation, Danger,
and Insects. (2006) Not Rated.
• Order # V4109
DRAGON HUNTERS:
DEAD DRAGON WALKING
Dragon hunting isn’t for everyone. When Zaza
decides to chase the rewards of dragon slaying,
she ends up being captured and it’s up to Lian-Chu,
Gwizdo, and Hector to save her! But is the
dragon the enemy or is it the greedy farmer?
• Order # V4111
CHESTNUT,
HERO OF
CENTRAL
PARK
w/Abigail Breslin.
Orphaned young
sisters Sal and Rae
think their dreams
have come true
when they find
an adorable,
abandoned Great
Dane puppy and,
on the same day,
learn that they’ve
been adopted. But,
when the girls arrive at their posh new
Manhattan apartment, they discover the
building has one strict rule: NO DOGS
ALLOWED! (2006) G. 87 min.
• Order # V4096
Fiction
w/Matthew
McConaughey,
Sarah Jessica Parker.
Tripp is 35-years-old
and still living with
his parents. Desperate
to get him out of
the house, his
parents hire a
gorgeous woman,
Paula, to give him
a little...push.
They just didn’t
expect Tripp would push back!
(2006) PG-13. 96 min.
• Order # V4009
AMERICAN DREAMZ
w/Hugh Grant Dennis Quaid,
Mandy Moore, Willem Dafoe.
The TV show “American Dreamz” is
sweeping the ratings, and everyone wants
to be a “Dreamer.” But when two
scheming, hopeful contestants face off in
the final showdown, the audience gets an
eyeful of on-air fireworks. (2006) PG-13.
108 min.
• Order # V4008
A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
w/Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones,
Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lindsay
Lohan, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly,
Maya Rudolph, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin.
Go backstage with A Prairie Home Companion
in this magical, fictional account of the
legendary show’s final radio broadcast. As
cast and crew assemble one last time to sing,
tell stories and reminisce, the result is an
unforgettable homage to a beloved American
treasure. (2006) PG-13. 106 min.
• Order # V4013
THE SENTINEL
w/Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland,
Eva Longoria, Kim Basinger.
There’s never been a traitor in the United States
Secret Service...until now. And the evidence
points to Pete Garrison, one of the most
trusted agents on the force. Now on the run,
with two relentless federal investigators hot on
his heels. Garrison must fight to clear his name
and thwart an attempt on the President’s life
before it’s too late! (2006) PG-13. 108 min.
• Order # V4016
THE BREAK-UP
w/Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Aniston.
After two years together, Gary and Brooke’s
relationship seems to have taken a comical
wrong turn on the way to happily after.
Now the break-up is on, the lines have been
drawn, and their honest feelings for each
other are coming out. (2006) PG-13. 107
min.
• Order # V4011
POSEIDON
w/Josh Lucas, Kurt Russel,
Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum.
It’s New Year’s Eve on the Poseidon. Partying
voyagers lift glasses to toast the future. The
future comes in a rush: a 150-foot rogue wave
flips the cruise ship over...and a desperate
struggle to survive begins. (2006) PG-13.
98 min.
• Order # V4014
CLICK
w/Adam Sandler,
Kate Beckinsale,
Christopher Walken.
A harried workaholic,
Michael Newman
doesn’t have time for
his wife and children.
So when he meets
Morty, a loopy sales
clerk, he gets the
answer to his
prayers: a magical
remote that allows
him to bypass
life’s little
distractions with increasingly hysterical
results. (2006) PG-13. 107 min.
• Order # V4012
HIDDEN PLACES
w/Sydney Penny, Jason Gedrick,
Shirley Jones.
Widowed with two children and beginning
to lose her faith, Eliza Wyatt must bring in
the harvest before the bank forecloses on her
family’s home. Just when things can’t get any
worse, fate brings along hope in the form of
Gabe Harper. Together Eliza and Gabe
overcome the odds to save Wyatt Orchard
with the help of stubborn but lovable Aunt
Batty and a few generous townfolk. (2006)
Not Rated. 86 min.
• Order # V4023
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THE LAKE
HOUSE
w/Keanu Reeves,
Sandra Bullock
Dr. Kate Forster has
finally found romance.
Trouble is, it’s a longdistance relationship.
She’s in downtown
Chicago. He’s in
a remote lakeside
suburb. And
there’s more: She’s
in 2006. He’s in
2004. Can they
ever meet? What would happen
if they tried? (2006) PG. 98 min.
• Order # V4007
AN AMERICAN HAUNTING
w/Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek,
James D’Arcy, Rachel Hurd-Wood
Based on a true story of The Bell Witch of
Tennessee, An American Haunting is the story
of a spirit who brutally attacked the Bell family
causing the death of one of its members. Years
later, we are taken back to the most horrific of
nights to find out the truth of the spirit’s nature
and origin...the night it was born. (2005)
PG-13. 83 min.
• Order # V4015
X-MEN: THE LAST STAND
w/Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle
Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen.
After a controversial “cure” is discovered,
mutants can choose to retain their superhuman
abilities or give up their unique gifts and become
“normal.” When peaceful mutant leader
Charles Xavier clashes with his militant
counterpart, Magneto, the battle lines are
drawn for the war to end all wars. (2006)
PG-13. 104 min.
• Order # V4017
JUST MY LUCK
w/Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine.
Ashley is the luckiest girl in Manhattan. But
little does she know, her good fortune is about
to change. When Ashley shares a kiss at a party
with Jake, a bad luck magnet, they miraculously
switch paths. Suddenly Ashley is plagued by
one hilarious disaster after another, and Jake is
headed for fame instead of failure. (2006) G.
103 min.
• Order # V4027
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Audio/Video Catalog
FAILURE
TO LAUNCH
Video: DVD
Audio/Video Catalog
Video: DVD
BANDIDAS
w/Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz.
Determined to avenge the deaths of their
fathers, Sara Sandoval and Maria Alvarez
vow to seize the ill-gotten gains of robber
baron Tyler Jackson. So, with the help from a
retired bank robber and a jittery criminologist,
these two beauties become unlikely outlaws,
blazing a trail of larceny and laughter across
Mexico! (2006) PG-13. 92 min.
• Order # V4131
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN:
DEAD MAN’S CHEST
w/Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom,
Keira Knightley.
Captain Jack Sparrow’s got a debt to pay—he
owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones,
ghostly Ruler of the Ocean Depths...but evercrafty Jack isn’t about to go down without a
fight. (2006) PG-13 150 min.
• Order # V4033
MY SUPER
EX-GIRLFRIEND
w/Uma Thurman,
Luke Wilson.
Matt Saunders thinks
he’s found the perfect
girlfriend in Jenny
Johnson, who just
happens to be
smart, sexy...and a
superhero. But
when Jenny turns
out to be a needy,
neurotic mess,
Matt wants to
call it quits. Jenny is
crushed by the news and will stop at nothing
to exact sweet revenge. (2006) PG-13 96 min.
• Order # V4038
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN:
THE CURSE OF THE
BLACK PEARL
w/Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush,
Orlando loom, Keira Knightley.
Captain Jack Sparrow’s idyllic pirate life
capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain
Barbossa, steals his ship the Black Pearl,
and later attacks the town of Port Royal,
kidnapping the governor’s daughter Elizabeth.
(2006) PG-13 143 min.
• Order # V4034
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Fiction
THE
GUARDIAN
w/Kevin Costner,
Ashton Kutcher.
Reeling with grief in
the wake of a mission
gone tragically
wrong, legendary
Coast Guard Rescue
Swimmer Ben
Randall is given a
mission he doesn’t
want—training
raw recruits.
Once there, he
knocks heads with cocky Jake
Fischer, a swimming champ driven by a painful
secret, who’s more interested in breaking Ben’s
records than saving lives. (2006) PG-13. 139
min.
• Order # V4048
COVERT ONE:
THE HADES FACTOR
w/Stephen Dorff, Mira Sorvino.
When an unknown deadly virus begins to
surface, disease specialist and former secret
agent for Covert One, Colonel Jonathan
Smith is called into action to find and isolate
the source before the outbreak endangers
millions of lives. (2006) Not Rated. 165 min.
• Order # V4063
THE LIBRARIAN: RETURN
TO KING SOLOMON’S MINES
w/ Noah Wyle.
You know how riled a librarian gets when
Treasure Island is two days overdue? Imagine
what happens when villains nab the Librarian’s
Map to King Soloman’s mines, the hiding
place of fabulous ancient treasures! (2006)
Not Rated. 92 min.
• Order # V4037
LADY IN THE WATER
w/Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard.
An apartment manager who finds an otherworld
water nymph named Story in the pool, then
sets out to help her return to her home, The
Blue World. It’s a dangerous mission because
fierce Blue World monsters prowl nearby,
determined to destroy Story and anyone who
aids her. (2006) PG-13. 1099 min.
• Order # V4056
1-800-426-READ
PULSE
w/Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder,
Christina Milian.
When the dead discover a means to contact the
living through electronic devices, cell-phones
and computers become open gateways to
monstrosities and destruction. (2006) PG-13
87 min.
• Order # V4032
INVINCIBLE
w/Mark Wahlberg.
Vince Papale has seen better days. But then
the Philadelphia Eagles’ new coach Dick
Vermeil calls an unprecedented open tryout,
and the 30-year-old bartender who never
played college ball makes the cut. Now Vince
needs every bit of his gritty attitude and
enormous heart to survive in the high-stakes
world of professional football. A Walt Disney
video. (2006) PG. 104 min.
• Order # V4047
STEP UP
w/Channing Tatum.
When Tyler Gage
finds himself doing
community service
at a school for the
performing arts,
he also finds Nora,
a beautiful and
privileged classically
trained dancer
who’s searching
for a temporary
replacement for
her injured dance
partner. Spying
Tyler’s smooth moves, Nora decides to
take a chance on him. But as they begin
training, tension builds, tempers flare and the
differences in their backgrounds explode.
(2006) PG-13 103 min.
• Order # V4050
THE ILLUSIONIST
w/ Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti,
Jessica Biel.
The acclaimed illusionist Eisenheim has not
only captured the imaginations of all of
Vienna, but also the interest of the Crown
Prince Leopold. But when Leopold’s new
fiancée rekindles a childhood fascination with
Eisenheim, the Prince’s interest evolves into
obsession...and suddenly the city’s chief
inspector finds himself investigating a shocking
crime. (2006) PG-13 97 min.
• Order # V4053
Fiction
w/Meryl Streep,
Anne Hathaway.
As assistant to
impossibly demanding
New York fashion
magazine editor
Miranda Priestly,
young Andy Sachs
has landed a job
that “a million girls
would die for.”
Unfortunately,
her heaven-sent
appointment as Miranda’s
personal shipping girl just might be the death
of her! (2006) PG-13. 109 min.
• Order # V4057
JET LI’S FEARLESS
w/Jet Li.
When an ill-advised fight destroys the reputation
of a renowned martial arts champion and his
family, his difficult path to redemption will bring
him face-to-face with the most ferocious fighters
in the world. (2006) Not Rated. 104 min.
• Order # V4049
TALLADEGA NIGHTS
w/Will Ferrell.
Ricky Bobby is one of the greatest drivers in
NASCAR history. But Ricky’s turbo-charged
lifestyle hits an unexpected speed bump when
he’s bested by flamboyant Euro-idiot Jean
Girard and reduced to a fear-ridden wreck.
Losing his wife and job to best bud and fellow
fool, Cal Naughton, Jr., Ricky must kick some
serious asphalt if he’s to get his career back on
the track. (2006) PG-13 108 min.
• Order # V4051
THE COVENANT
w/ Steven Strait, Laura Ramsey,
Sebastian Stan, and Taylor Kitsch.
To the students of the Spenser Academy, the
Sons of Ipswich are the baddest boys on
campus. The four friends also share a 300year-old secret; they’re warlocks, the teenage
descendants of a 17th-century coven of
witches. So when the long-banished fifth son
suddenly appears and threatens to kill their
loved ones, they realize they must face their
enemy in order to prevent him from stealing
their powers and shattering the Covenant
forever. (2006) PG-13 97 min.
• Order # V4052
GRIDIRON GANG
w/Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson stars in this
gritty and inspirational movie based on
a true story about a group of teenage
delinquents given a second chance to redeem
themselves by playing football. (2006)
PG-13 125 min.
• Order # V4054
MATERIAL GIRLS
w/Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff,
Anjelica Huston.
Sisters Tanzie and Ava’s life has been one big
party since inheriting their dad’s cosmetic
company...but the party ends when a product
scandal leaves the celebutantes without a penny
to their name. It’s a hilarious riches-to-rags tale
as the girls go from maximum fun to minimum
wage. (2006) PG. 98 min.
• Order # V4055
ROCKY
w/Sylvester Stallone.
Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who
seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke
of fate puts him in a ring with the world heavyweight champion, Rocky knows that it’s his
one shot at the big time. (1976) PG. 120 min.
• Order # V4061
SCOOP
w/Woody Allen,
Hugh Jackman,
Scarlett Johansson,
Ian McShane.
When an inquisitive
college journalist
stumbles upon
new clues to a
string of murders,
her investigation
leads directly
to a handsome
businessman who
draws her in with
his mysterious charm. Could a
whirlwind romance with the subject of her
search also become the most dangerous scoop
of a lifetime? (2006) PG-13. 96 min.
• Order # V4067
ONE NIGHT WITH THE KING
w/Peter O’Toole, Tiffany DuPont,
Luke Goss, Omar Sharif.
One Night With the King is a sweeping epic
about Hadassah, the young Jewish orphan who
becomes the biblical Esther, Queen of Persia.
(2006) PG. 124 min.
• Order # V4071
JOYEUX NOEL
THE CROCODILE HUNTER:
COLLISION COURSE
w/Diane Kruger, Benno Furmann,
Guillaume Canet, Daniel Bruhl.
Joyeux Noel tells the true-life story of the
spontaneous Christmas Eve truce declared by
Scottish, French and German troops in the
trenches of World War I. Enemies leave their
weapons behind for one night as they band
together in brotherhood and forget about the
brutalities of war. (2006) PG-13. 116 min.
• Order # V4068
w/Steve Irwin.
To save a very large crocodile from poachers,
Steve and his wife Terri set out on a deathdefying journey through the outback to nab
the big fella and relocate him to a safe river.
But what they don’t know is that the angry
reptile has swallowed a top-secret U.S. satellite
beacon, making them all targets of American
special agents! (2002) PG. 89 min.
• Order # V4024
FACING THE GIANTS
SAVANNAH SMILES
w/Michael C. Catt, Jim McBride,
Terry Hemmings.
In his six years of high school football, coach
Grant Taylor has never led his Shiloh Eagles to
a winning season. When faced with seemingly
insurmountable professional and personal
crises, the idea of giving up has never come
easier. It’s only after an unexpected visitor
challenges him to trust in the power of faith
that he discovers the strength to persevere.
(2006) PG. 111 min.
• Order # V4070
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w/Mark Miller, Donovan Scott,
Bridgette Andersen.
Alvie and Boots are a pair of bumbling felons
searching for the ultimate score after a daring
prison escape. But when six-year-old Savannah
runs away from home and hides in Boots and
Alvie’s getaway car, the small-time crooks are
suddenly mistaken for big-time kidnappers!
Can they find a foolproof way to collect the
$100,000 ransom? (1982) PG. 100 min.
• Order # V4081
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THE DEVIL
WEARS PRADA
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FLYBOYS
w/James Franco.
Inspired by the true story of the legendary
Lafayette Escadrille, this action-packed epic
tells the tale of America’s first fighter pilots.
(2006) PG-13. 139 min.
• Order # V4072
GOAL! THE DREAM BEGINS
w/Kuno Becker.
Santiago Munez, a young immigrant living in
the barrios of Los Angeles, ha an impossible
dream—playing soccer for a world-class team.
Unexpectedly getting a tryout with one of
England’s premier soccer club, Santiago finds
himself totally alone in a world where soccer
is a religion and the players are gods. (2006)
PG-13. 118 min.
• Order # V4073
LOVE’S
ENDURING
PROMISE
w/January Jones,
Mackenzie Astin,
Logan Bartholomew.
Missie Davis is
devoted equally to
teaching school and
doing her fair share
on the farm. When
a handsome
railroad heir starts
to woo her, Missie
is nearly swept off
her feet. That is, until a mysterious
stranger with a troubled past shows up. (2004)
Not Rated. 87 min.
• Order # V4074
LOVE’S LONG JOURNEY
w/Erin Cottrell, Logan Bartholomew,
John Savage, Dale Midkiff.
Missie and her husband, Willie, have headed west
in a covered wagon, leaving behind the prairie
home of Missie’s parents. Missie copes with
the challenges, and cherishes the rewards of her
new homestead. (2005) Not Rated. 85 min.
• Order # V4077
THE SONG OF THE LARK
w/Alison Elliott.
A young woman escapes from rural Colorado
to become a world-famous opera singer in
Willa Cather’s powerful tale of an artist’s selfdiscovery. (1999) Not Rated. 120 min.
• Order # V4090
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Fiction
THE KING
AND I
w/Deborah Kerr,
Yul Brynner.
Rodgers &
Hammerstein’s regal
classic is based on the
true story of Anna
Leonowens, an
English widow who
comes to Bangkok
in the 1860s to
serve as governess
to the many
children of the
King of Siam. (1956) G. 133 min.
• Order # V4085
LOVE’S ABIDING JOY
w/Erin Cottrell, Logan Bartholomew,
Dale Midkiff.
Following a treacherous journey West, Missie
and her husband have set up a homestead where
they’ve begun to raise a family. Now that a
railroad line connects the states, Missie’s father
is able to visit. But when the reunion is
interrupted by tragedy, the faith and love of
this family is once again challenged. (2006)
PG. 87 min.
• Order # V4079
THE PRESTIGE
w/Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale,
Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson,
David Bowie.
Two young, passionate magicians are friends
and partners until one fateful night when
their biggest trick goes terribly wrong. Now
the bitterest of enemies, they will stop at
nothing to learn each other’s secrets. (2007)
PG-13. 130 min.
• Order # V4095
MISTER ROBERTS
w/Henry Fonda, James Cagney,
William Powell, Jack Lemmon.
The USS Reluctant carries cargo along World
War II’s forgotten Pacific seaways. Beyond the
horizon, the real war passes its stir-crazy crew
by. Mister Roberts is the classic story of men
fighting to survive not war’s dangers but its
indignities. (1955) Not Rated. 122 min.
• Order # V4080
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A STAR IS BORN
w/Judy Garland, James Mason.
Singer Esther Blodgett is an undeniable talent
on the rise. She catches the eye of Norman
Maine, an alcoholic actor in career decline.
Their intense love transforms them both, but
only one will survive Hollywood’s slings and
arrows. (1954) PG. 176 min.
• Order # V4087
THE READING ROOM
w/James Earl Jones, Joanna Cassidy.
Fulfilling his beloved wife’s dying wish, William
Campbell restores an abandoned building they
own into a reading room for depressed community
notorious for its ineffectual high school and
street gangs. Against all odds he’s determined
to give them a sense of self-respect. (2006)
PG. 87 min.
• Order # V4098
SERGEANT YORK
w/Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie.
Sergeant York tells of a religious man’s moral
crisis, heroics and subsequent return to the
rural life he loved, refusing to capitalize on the
adulation heaped upon him. (1941) B&W.
Not Rated. 134 min.
• Order # V4088
SCHOOL FOR
SCOUNDRELS
w/Billy Bob Thornton,
Jon Heder.
When unlucky loser
Roger takes a confidencebuilding class taught
by an egomaniacal
teacher, the two
are pitted in an
outrageous battle
to determine the
ultimate guy’s guy.
When the rivalry
spirals uproariously
out of control, nothing is
off limits. (2006) PG-13. 101 min.
• Order # V4100
WITH SIX YOU GET EGGROLL
w/Doris Day, Brian Keith.
When Abby and Jake meet, fall in love and
marry, it’s a union perfectly suited for towels
marked “His” and “Hers” - that is, until his and
her kids bring chaos and turmoil into the house
as they attempt to blend into a single family
unit. (1968) G. 94 min.
• Order # V4089
Fiction
w/Alison Lohman, Tim
McGraw, Maria Bello.
All 16-year-old Katy
McLaughlin longs for
is to work on her
family’s mountainside
horse ranch, yet her
father insists she
finish boarding
school. So when
Katy finds a
mustang in the
hills, she sets out
to tame the horse
and prove she can one day
take over the struggling ranch. (2006) PG.
95 min.
• Order # V4129
THE MALTESE FALCON
w/Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor,
Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez,
Bette Davis, Warren William.
Deluxe 3-Disc edition of one of the greatest
movie mystery yarns of all time. Enjoy all 3
Warner Bros. screen versions, especially John
Huston’s 1941 masterpiece that shot
Humphrey Bogart to stardom, restored and
digitally remastered. (1931, 1941) B&W.
Not Rated. 78, 74 & 100 min.
• Order # V4105
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
w/Catherine O’Hara, Harry Shearer,
Parker Posey.
Director Christopher Guest reunites his starpacked team from A Mighty Wind, Best in
Show and Waiting for Guffman for this
hilarious, keen-edged comedy set in a town
where “Oscar® is the backbone of an industry
not known for having a backbone.” (2007)
PG-13. 86 min.
• Order # V4118
STRANGER THAN FICTION
w/Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin
Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson.
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose
mundane existence is transformed when he
hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.
With the help of Professor Jules Hilbert,
Harold discovers he’s the main character in a
novel-in-progress and that the voice belongs to
an eccentric author famous for killing her main
characters. (2007) PG-13. 113 min.
• Order # V4119
A GOOD YEAR
THE QUEEN
w/Russell Crowe.
When ruthless businessman Max Skinner
inherits a vineyard in the south of France,
he begins to slow down and embrace the
simple—and most precious—pleasures of
life. (2006) PG-13. 118 min.
• Order # V4120
w/Helen Mirren.
Dame Helen Mirren
gives a spellbinding
performance in
The Queen, the
provocative story
behind one of the
most public
tragedies of our
time—the sudden
death of Princess
Diana. (2006)
PG-13. 103 min.
• Order #
V4142
THE GRUDGE 2
w/Amber Tamblyn, Sara Michelle Gellar.
When Aubrey Davis learns her sister Karen has
been hospitalized, she immediately flies to
Tokyo. Once there, she learns her sister’s
horrifying story and discovers that the fatal
supernatural curse has been unleashed. (2007)
PG-13. 102 min.
• Order # V4124
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL
w/Zac Efron, Vanessa Anne Hudgens.
Troy, the popular captain of the basketball
team, and Gabriella, the brainy and beautiful
member of the academic club, break all the
rules of East High society when they secretly
audition for the leads in the school’s musical.
(2006) TV-G. 98 min.
• Order # V4125
EMPLOYEE
OF THE
MONTH
w/Dane Cook,
Jessica Simpson,
Dax Shepard.
For years Zack
Bradley has been
working hard at
hardly working at
the local Super
Club. That’s until
a hottie named
Amy becomes the
new cashier.
After discovering she’s willing to
date the next guy to become “Employee of the
Month,” Zack takes on current titleholder to
see who will win the honor, and Amy’s heart.
(2006) PG-13. 108 min.
• Order # V4130
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THE CUTTING EDGE
w/D. B. Sweeney, Moira Kelly.
She’s a rich and refined pairs figure skater
whose prima donna attitude has her skating
solo. He’s a brash, blue-collar hockey
champion with a new injury and no future.
With nothing in common but their dream of
reaching the Olympics, Kate and Doug are
each other’s last resort. (1992) PG. 102 min.
• Order # V4126
MARIE ANTOINETTE
w/Kirsten Dunst.
Kirsten Dunst portrays the ill-fated child
princess who married France’s young
indifferent King Louis XVI. Feeling isolated
in a royal court rife with scandal and intrigue,
Marie Antoinette defied both royalty and
commoner by living like a rock star, which
served only to seal her fate. (2007) PG-13.
123 min.
• Order # V4127
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OFF TO WAR
From the farms and fields of Arkansas to the
deadly streets of Baghdad, Off to War tracks the
citizen soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard
as they come face to face with the horrors of
war. (2005) Not Rated. 452 min.
• Order # V4019
THOU SHALT LAUGH
w/Patricia Heaton.
Join seven of the country’s funniest Christian
comedians blessed with the gift of humor as
they share hilarious observations of everyday
life. Looking for funny? Your prayers have
been answered. (2006) Not Rated. 98 min.
• Order # V4025
MARIE ANTOINETTE
This film traces Marie Antoinette’s journey
from the splendors of her childhood in the
palaces of the mighty Austro-Hungarian
Empire to her final hours in a squalid French
prison cell. (2005) Not Rated. 120 min.
• Order # V4026
WHO KILLED
THE ELECTRIC
CAR?
Narrated by Martin
Sheen, Who Killed
the Electric Car? is
a murder mystery
like no other, as it
unravels the puzzling
demise of a vehicle
that could have
saved the
environment
and America’s
dangerous
addiction to
foreign oil. (2006) PG. 93 min.
• Order # V4069
TALKING TO HEAVEN
w/Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen,
Diane Ladd, Michael Moriarty,
Queen Latifah, Jack Palance.
In death, seven young boys have appeared
before James. Each of them has ties to another
boy named Eddie who first came to James
many years ago in search of help. When James
turns to Detective Karen Condrin to help him
identify the children, they both embark on a
remarkable journey toward solving the crime,
and helping the lost boys continue their path
toward heaven. (2001) PG-13 175 min.
• Order # V4031
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WORDPLAY
w/Will Shortz.
Wordplay is a journey into the world of Will
Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor at The New
York Times. Meet Shortz’s fans—including
President Bill Clinton, Senator Bob Dole,
Jon Stewart, Ken Burns, the Indigo Girls, and
Mike Mussina—and discover why over 50
million Americans do crosswords every week.
(2006) PG. 85 min.
• Order # V4029
HE CHANGED OUR WORLD:
STEVE IRWIN MEMORIAL
TRIBUTE
He Changed Our World: The Steve Irwin
Memorial Tribute DVD celebrates the
incredible achievements of this inspirational
Australian, highlighting his passion and
dedication to his family, his work, the
environment and his beloved country.
• Order # V4064
DARFUR DIARIES:
MESSAGE FROM HOME
This documentary serves not only to educate
the world about the genocide being committed
on a daily basis in Darfur, but also as a
message that we as a global society must come
together and make a difference by helping
those who are suffering. (2006) Not Rated.
55 min.
• Order # V4039
DRUGS: IT’S OKAY
TO ASK FOR HELP
Featuring Ginger Katz of the Courage to Speak
Foundation, this program is an invaluable
resource that promotes the establishment of
open lines of communication. Viewers will
learn how alcohol and other drugs can negatively
impact their lives, a well as why it is important
to ask for help in situations involving abuse or
addiction. (2006) Not Rated. 35 min.
• Order # V4082
EATING DISORDERS:
RECOGNITION & PREVENTION
Recognize the signs of eating disorders in teens
and learn intervention strategies to prevent
tragedy. Students will learn that eating
disorders affect both men and women and that
they are life-threatening illnesses that require
patience, responsive care, and extensive
rehabilitation. (1997) Not Rated. 29 min.
• Order # V4083
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UNDERSTANDING CATS
Here television’s top feline presenter and cat
expert Roger Tabor reveals why cats behave the
way they do and shows us how we can learn to
understand and appreciate their impact on our
lives. (1997) Not Rated. 80 min.
• Order # V4086
A FLEA MARKET
DOCUMENTARY
Flea Markets across America are extraordinary
gathering spots. These amazing places attract
unusual people and fascinating merchandise.
And this lively documentary takes you to a few
of the best, from the giant First Monday Trade
Days in Texas to the parking-lot-sized Fremont
Market in Seattle. (2006) Not Rated. 60 min.
• Order # V4092
REDUCE
SPEED: A
FILM ABOUT
CRYSTAL
METH
Expose the realities of
crystal methamphetamine abuse. This
hard-hitting
program interviews
recovering youth
addicts who share
their experiences
with the drug:
getting high,
funding their addiction,
and the subsequent physical and mental pain
of withdrawal. Police officers and street
outreach workers are also featured, giving
students the grim facts about meth abuse form
all perspectives. (2006) Not Rated. 23 min.
• Order # V4084
BORDER WAR
The combination of human and drug trafficking
across the United States-Mexico border has been
called “the illegal immigration invasion.”
Dangers are escalating on both sides of the issue,
and Border War document the lives of five
individuals affected by the massive rise in illegal
immigration—primarily via the porous U.S.
southern border. (2006) Not Rated. 95 min.
• Order # V4112
TIMELESS
Timeless features breathtaking cinematography
from the magnificent National Parks of North
America. (2002) Not Rated. 50 min.
• Order # V4046
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