Audio Books

A Great and Terrible Beauty

A Great and Terrible Beauty is a Victorian supernatural mystery novel with a sixteen-year-old girl, Gemma Doyle, as its main protagonist. It start…

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Boys Will Put You on a Pedestal (So They Can Look Up Your Skirt)

Written with much passion and good humor, this work is a delight to share, and in its audiobook version (read by the author), deserves an audience well b…

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Break Through Pain

Shinzen Young is an interesting man. As a youth, he attended Japanese school after public school was closed for the day. This is a common practice among…

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David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall

This live performance was recorded in October, 2002.  David Sedaris reads his work to an adoring audience and he does a great job.  Three of the stories…

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Dear Zoe,

In this short novel (under 5 hours in unabridged audiobook), fifteen-year-old Tess addresses her dead half-sister Zoe.  Little Zoe was killed in a car ac…

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Down the Rabbit Hole

Down the Rabbit Hole is a mystery story for teens and possibly pre-teens, but it will entertain some adults too.  Ingrid is a thirteen-year-old gi…

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Dr. Andrew Weil's Mindbody Toolkit

Dr Andrew Weil's Mindbody Tool Kit comes in a box with 2 audio CDs, a short workbook, and 25 "mind-training" cards.  The book…

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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

By now, David Sedaris is practically a household name, at least in the bl…

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Falling Man

Don DeLillo is one of the major novelists working in the USA, so his novel about September 11 deserves attention.  Yet it is a difficult work, despi…

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Forest of the Pygmies

Forest of the Pygmies is the third of a trilogy of books by Isabel Allende. These adventure stories featuring magic, various exotic cultures, and…

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God Is Dead

Ron Currie's God is Dead is a collection of connected stories set in the same world, which is not very different from our world.  It st…

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Grayson

Grayson tells the story of a morning in the mid-1970s when Lynne Cox met a lost baby whale and helped it look for its mother on the Californian co…

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Harmless

In the author interview at the end of this audiobook, Dana Reinhardt explains that she wanted to write a book about teenagers who get into serious troubl…

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He's Just Not That Into You

You have to wonder whether a self-help book based on an episode of Sex and the City is going to be very profound.  He's Just Not That Into You…

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Healthy Aging

Andrew Weil is such a well-known personality these days that it is easy to take his work for granted.  It may be difficult to get excited about another b…

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Life of Pi

Yann Martel's wonderful novel Life of Pi is first and foremost a gripping adventure, but it is also a unique meditation on nature, theology, and t…

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Living Your Dream

To understand what this program is about and its use, it is essential to distinguish recovery from stress and to see the need for both in an activ…

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Meditation in a New York Minute

Meditation in a New York Minute comes in two formats, a book and a 2 CD audiobook.  Yet the audiobook is not a reading of the book: rather, the au…

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Mindfulness for Beginners

This is a 2 CD set with Jon Kabat-Zinn talking about the benefits of meditation on the first CD and going through some meditation exercises on the second…

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Mommies Who Drink

Brett Paesel has acted in several TV shows, including Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Gilmore Girls, and The Real Live Brady Bunch…

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Nina: Adolescence

Four years ago, Nina's four-year-old brother drowned accidentally in the back yard.  Nina had been looking after him, while their artist mother…

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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

For those who have seen the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, their memory of Ken Kesey's novel will be dominated by images of Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.  So listening to this abridged version of the novel, read by Kesey herself, is fascinat…

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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

For those who have seen the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, their memory of Ken Kesey's novel will be dominated by images of Jack Nicholson…

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Stress Relief

On this audio CD, Michael Reed Gach guides the listener in short exercises to reduce stress.  They are from seven to twenty minutes each, and involve dee…

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Ten Minutes to Relax

Paul Overman, co-author of another relaxation CD The Ultimate Brain, provides this guided imagery CD to help listeners to relax.  The first journe…

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The Consciousness Plague

This is the story of Dr. Phil D'Amato, a NYPD forensic investigator who is drawn to investigate not only a disturbing series of murders but also the…

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The End

Readers who have read the previous 12 books in the Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket will approach The End with considerable a…

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The Erotic Edge

In this collection, Lonnie Barbach chose erotica that should appeal to both men and women.  Much of her career has been based on making available erotic…

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The Heart of Yoga

This is a collection of two double audio CDs.  Yoga Chant is largely by Shiva Rea, and features two programs.  On the first CD is an "Engergi…

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The Language Of Yoga

The Language of Yoga is a rather unusual book and CD package that demonstrates the pronunciation of terms frequently found in yoga, and gives som…

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The Narrows

The Narrows is in some ways a sequel to Michael Connelly's earlier novel The Poet, since it features many of the same characters, and espec…

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The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place should immediately win a place among the favorites of literature for smart children.  It is a wonderfully clever…

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The Witch's Boy

The Witch's Boy is a fantasy novel for young people about a goblin boy who is adopted by a witch and nursed by a bear.  He is given the name Lump,…

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Transformation

Wayne Dyer explains that he is "uncovering the metaphysical," so that makes him a philosopher.  Unfortunately, he is a muddled thinker and most…

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Unless

Unless is a novel about a Canadian woman, a writer and a mother, by the Canadian writer and mother Carol Shields.  The novel is narrated by Reta W…

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We Are Totally Normal

We Are Totally Normal is a YA novel set on the west coast. Nandan is from an Indian family in an Indian community, but the story is basically about sex and partying. Nandan is a junior in high school, and he spends a lot of his time hooking up, trying to

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Will They Ever Trust Us Again?

Will They Ever Trust Us Again? is a collection of letters from soldiers and their families sent to Michael Moore through his website…

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Yoga Sanctuary

Yoga Sanctuary is a collection of 2 audio CDs.  They consist of instructions for yoga practices, given by Shiva Rea.  The first disc is a Solar Pr…

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