Frozen Dinners
By | May 5, 2010
Max is trapped. A freak snowstorm has him sealed in his uncle’s mountain cabin, along with his brother Mark and sister Teresa. But Uncle Shoe is missing, and no one’s coming to rescue them. Should they take their chances and hike down the mountain to safety? Max doesn’t think so, especially not since he found those huge tracks in the snow. Then there’s that inhuman howling coming from the woods.
Now barricaded behind the cabin door, Max thinks he knows what it might be. He’s found some old reports that the Abominable Snowman, the yeti, was sighted there fifty years earlier. Has it returned? The kids aren’t taking any chances. They’ve boarded up the cabin, because as much as they want to get out . . . Something else wants in.
Author: Engle and Barnes
Narrator: Various
Length: 2 hours (abridged)
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Gotta Keep On Trying
By | May 5, 2010
Gayle Saunders and Patricia Reid have been lifelong friends, as close as sisters. When they were teens their dreams led them down separate paths and away from each other. But they reunited as adults, drawn back together by a bond of friendship that stood the test of time.
Now Pat and Gayle co-own the Ell & Me Company, a business they founded based on a character Gayle created years ago for her daughter. Things are going well, but real-life dramas ensue as each must face issues from the past in order to protect the future.
Pat and Marcus look like the perfect twenty-first-century couple – smart, talented, each at the helm of a high-profile enterprise and at the top of their game. But behind closed doors their marriage is challenged by the stresses of a two-entrepreneur household. Will their professional pursuits leave them time for each other and a family, or carry them into the arms of others? Will a paternity claim prove to be too much of an obstacle to overcome?
Gayle faces her own family drama and struggles to maintain control of her life. Despite dating other men, has she ever really gotten over her ex-husband, Ramsey, the gambler who left her and their daughter, Vanessa, in financial ruin? Gayle bends over backward to provide a stable, comfortable home for Vanessa, and support her dream of becoming a dancer. And Vanessa, a rebellious and hurtful teen, seems just as devoted to making Gayle pay for every mistake she has ever made. And what ever happened to Ramsey?
In Gotta Keep on Tryin’, Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant bring us heroines who remind you, for better and worse, of women everywhere – women who know that true friendship keeps us grounded. And when things get rough the bond between women can be stronger than any trials we face.
Authors & Narrators: Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant
Length: 10 hours (abridged)
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The Ultimate David Sedaris Box Set
By | May 5, 2010
David Sedaris has delighted National Public Radio listeners for years and was hailed by the New Yorker as one of the funniest writers in America, “whose satirical brazenness holds up to Twain and Nathaniel West.” This updated box set collection of Sedaris’s hilarious audio programs, includes his most recent releases Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and Live at Carnegie Hall.
DRESS YOUR FAMILY IN CORDUROY AND DENIM is the most recent unforgettable collection. The program received a 2004 Grammy award nomination for Best Comedy Album, as well as a huge response from critics around the country.
DAVID SEDARIS LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL was recorded live on October 22nd, 2002, in New York City. The program went on to receive a 2004 Grammy Award nomination for Best Comedy Album, and made Entertainment Weekly’s Must List.
ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY combines pieces that have appeared in Esquire and the New Yorker with extraordinary new material and uproarious live performances. These essays combine poignancy and humor in equal measure.
NAKED is a riotous compilation of stories performed by David and Amy Sedaris. Publishers Weekly praised this program and named it one of “the best of the best” tapes of the year and “worthy of multiple listens.”
HOLIDAYS ON ICE skewers the absurd conventions and contrivances of the holiday season, with hilarious effect. Listener-favorite “SantaLand Diaries” joins new material in a bevy of holiday cheer that sparkles with imagination.
BARREL FEVER AND OTHER STORIES is Sedaris’s first collection of comic stories and essays and is described by the New York Post as “a nuclear barrage of humor you could never replicate by reading this material on your own.”
Author: David Sedaris
Narrator: Various
Length: 22 hours
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As You Like It
By | May 5, 2010
As You Like It is quintessential Shakespearean comedy, complete with a loquacious clown, lovers, disguises, rifts and reconciliations, and all within the atmospheric confines of the enchanted Forest of Arden. As the title suggests, As You Like It is a play in which everyone gets their way, where sinners are redeemed and where love holds sway over all. And because it is Shakespeare, even so light a comedy contains a wealth of keen observations about humanity in general, and in particular about the age-old tension between so-called civilized society and the state of nature from which it evolved. No less poetically-accomplished than Shakespeare’s more serious works, As You Like It is a stimulating literary pleasure from start to finish.
Author: William Shakespeare
Narrator: Full cast production
Length: 2.5 hours (unabridged)
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Hidden Riches
By | May 5, 2010
When Dora Conroy, a Philadelphia antiques dealer, purchases a curious selection of auction items – objects she judges to be humorous novelties, she unknowingly becomes the deadly focus of an international smuggler.
When robberies and death surround her merchandise, Dora seeks help from her intriguing upstairs tenant, former cop Jed Skimmerhorn.
They discover a shadowy path leading across the continent to the smuggler, a man who will stop at nothing to recover his hidden riches.
Like the treasures he craves, Dora and Jed find they are susceptible to his crushing grasp.
Author: Nora Roberts
Narrator: Sandra Burr
Length: 14.5 hours (unabridged)
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