Reviews of audio books on tape, CD, and MP3 download from Library Journal.
Audio By Staff - 05/01/2008
Fiction Austin, Lynn . A Proper Pursuit . 14 cassettes. unabridged. 16¼ hrs. Recorded Bks. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4281-7465-8 . $98.75. F Twenty-year-old Violet Hayes returns home after graduating from a refined boarding school for young ladies to learn her father is remarrying. Her mother, whom Violet thought was recuperating from an unexplained illness in a sanitarium, had in truth abandone...
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Audio 04/15/2008
Fiction Brooks, Geraldine . People of the Book . 12 CDs. unabridged. 14 hrs. Blackstone Audio . 2008. ISBN 978-1-4332-1269-7 . $99; 10 cassettes. ISBN 978-1-4332-1268-0 . $79.95; 1 MP3 CD. ISBN 978-1-4332-1270-3 . $29.95. F Rare because haggadahs are seldom illuminated and precious for the quality of those illustrations, the Sarajevo Haggadah has survived the siege of that city, saved by a Mu...
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Audio 04/01/2008
Fiction Brownstein, Gabriel . The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W . 6 CDs. unabridged. 7½ hrs. Blackstone Audio . 2007. ISBN 978-1-4332-1055-6 . $55. F Set mostly on the Upper West Side of New York City in the 1970s, Brownstein's 2002 debut collection ranges from the unusual to the bizarre, with nine linked accounts of Davie Birnbaum's friends and neighbors.
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Audio 03/15/2008
Fiction Bock, Charles . Beautiful Children . 12 CDs. unabridged. 15 hrs. Books on Tape . 2008. ISBN 978-1-4159-4672-5 . $129. F When 12-year-old Newell runs away from home, his parents' lives are all but shattered. His mother lives on the hope that her son will return, while his father just wants his marriage restored.
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Audio 03/01/2008
Fiction Baldacci, David . Stone Cold . 9 CDs. unabridged. 10½ hrs. Books on Tape . 2007. ISBN 978-1-4159-4490-5 . $110. F Oliver Stone and the members of his justice-seeking Camel Club once again try to expose government corruption. Someone is murdering Oliver's former colleagues in Triple 6, the U.
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Audio By Staff - 02/15/2008
Fiction Anderson, Kevin J. Metal Swarm . 16 CDs. unabridged. 19 hrs. Brilliance Audio . 2007. ISBN 978-1-59737-228-2 . $132.25. F The "Saga of Seven Suns" continues with number six of the prolific Anderson's planned seven-part series. Unfortunately, like many of its predecessors (e.g., Scattered Suns), this is on autopilot.
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Audio 02/01/2008
Fiction Box, C.J. Free Fire . 10 cassettes. unabridged. 10¾ hrs. Recorded Bks. 2007. ISBN 978-1-4281-5748-4 . $82.75; 10 CDs. ISBN 978-1-4281-5750-7 . $123.75. F This mystery weaves together captivating scenes of Yellowstone National Park with details of the gruesome killing of four people there and the subsequent investigation.
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