Marine pilot Cletus Frade is recruited by the OSS to investigate two interwoven German operations--the first to buy passage for Jews to Argentina and Uruguay from concentration camps and the second to find out where the money is going. Unabridged. 17 CDs.
In 1974, DeFrank, then a young correspondent for "Newsweek," interviewed Vice President Gerald Ford and made an agreement that formed the basis for their relationship for the next 32 years. Now, DeFrank reveals the real Ford in a book that is illuminating, entertaining, surprising, and even historic. Unabridged. 11 CDs.
The third and final installment in Puzo's epic chronicle of the Corleone crime family achieves a stunning crescendo with a story that imagines the role of the Mafia in the assassination of a young, charismatic president. Unabridged. 10 CDs.
In Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmarish, suspenseful, and deeply disturbing novel, Dr. Jekyll experiments with a drug that splits his personality into good and evil elements. Gradually, he loses control of the process and finds himself slipping more and more frequently into the guise of the evil and depraved Hyde. Finally, Hyde is accused of ...
A Disney Teacher of the Year offers 55 lessons and guidelines for living and interacting with others. Clark shows that with determination and discipline, the children teachers stick by will be the children people admire.
Cannell delivers non-stop action and intrigue in the latest installment of his New York Times bestselling Shane Scully seriesShane Scully and his partner are assigned to the case of "the Fingertip Killer"--a serial murderer preying on homeless veterans in Los Angeles. Every two weeks he strikes: he beats his victims, then shoots them in the back ...
The author of "Isolation Ward" takes listeners into the dark heart of medicine to tell a terrifying story of a billion-dollar medical breakthrough--and the side effects it unleashes. Abridged. 5 CDs.
When Jimmy Marcus's daughter is found dead, his childhood friend Sean Devine is assigned the case. Sean's personal life begins to unravel as his investigation takes him back into a world of violence and pain he thought he'd left behind. His quest also leads him on a collision course with Marcus--a man with his own dark past--and David Boyle, a man ...
This is the exciting sequel to the "New York Times" bestseller "Dune: The Butlerian Jihad," filled once again with vivid characters and complex plot twists. Unabridged.
Arthur C. Clarke is one of the greatest science fiction writers of the century, and surely the most celebrated science fiction author alive. He is -- with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein -- one of the writers who define the genre. Now, at the dawn of the year 2001, Sir Arthur C. Clarke has cooperated in the preparation of a ...
The Defection of A.J. Lewinter is a masterpiece of irony and intrigue, an unconventional and gripping anatomy of a defection. A.J. Lewinter is an American scientist, for years an insignificant cog in America's complex defense machinery. While at an academic conference in Tokyo, he contacts the KGB station chief and tells him he wants to defect. He ...
Author Mark Winegardner, best known for his literary fiction, switches genre in this continuation of the Mario Puzo legacy. THE GODFATHER RETURNS chronicles the Corleone family saga from 1955 to 1962--a period of time that falls between the original novel THE GODFATHER and the film GODFATHER II. Don Michael Corleone, head of the Corleone mob ...
Two friends, Miles and Jack, head out from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez wine country, in this raucous novel about men, women, wine, and human relationships.
In this sprawling and ambitious novel of the Cold War, acclaimed thriller writer Robert Littell tells the story of an epic mole hunt, and, in the process, revisits some of the CIA's major operations, from 1950s Berlin to '90s Russia.
Science fiction is rare in theatrical form, but with Posing As People, three unforgettable sci-fi stories by Orson Scott Card are adapted into powerful stage plays by three different writers. ?Clap Hands and Sing? shows us a lonely?but rich and powerful?old man who has only one wish before he dies. ?Lifeloop? pretends to be reality TV twenty-four ...
Rand's 1200-page novel is a hymn of praise to the concept of rugged individualism, personified in John Galt. This polemic for Rand's philosophy of "rational self-interest" has been a steady seller since it was published in 1957.
Decades after Herbert's original novels, the "Dune" saga was continued by Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert, an acclaimed SF novelist in his own right. Now, working from Frank Herbert's own notes, Brian reveals a pivotal epoch in the history of the "Dune" universe, the chapter of the saga most eagerly anticipated by readers: "The Butlerian Jihad. ...
Rand's 1200-page novel is a hymn of praise to the concept of rugged individualism, personified in John Galt. This polemic for Rand's philosophy of "rational self-interest" has been a steady seller since it was published in 1957.
Rand's 1200-page novel is a hymn of praise to the concept of rugged individualism, personified in John Galt. This polemic for Rand's philosophy of "rational self-interest" has been a steady seller since it was published in 1957.
Some have called him a Texas hero. Some called him the Devil himself. While he was alive, John Wesley Hardin was the deadliest man in Texas. A novel of uncompromising depth and power, the book recounts the wild days of Wes Hardin through the voices of those who encountered him during the 42 years of his life. Abridged.
Rand's 1200-page novel is a hymn of praise to the concept of rugged individualism, personified in John Galt. This polemic for Rand's philosophy of "rational self-interest" has been a steady seller since it was published in 1957.
Promise Me: It has been six years since entertainment agent Myron Bolitar last played superhero. In six years he hasna (TM)t thrown a punch. He hasna (TM)t held, much less fired, a gun. He hasna (TM)t called his friend Win, still the scariest man he knows, to back him up or get him out of trouble. All that is about to change...because of a ...
Meet the ruling class at BrazosVale High: rich kid "Young" Steward; glamour guy "Bobster" DeMarco; dumb-as-rocks jock "Coop" Cooper; and their supercool leader, Rob Haynes. Bored stiff, Rob takes super geek Simon Glass as his next reclamation project: he's going to make Simon popular. The willing Simon has his own agenda, and on his precipitous ...
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