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Loving Frank

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Nancy Horan
• Narrated By Joyce Bean

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them.

Second Grave on the Left: Charley Davidson, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Darynda Jones
• Narrated By Lorelei King
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

When Charley is rudely awakened in the middle of the night by her best friend who tells her to get dressed quickly and tosses clothes out of the closet at her, she can’t help but wonder what Cookie’s up to. Leather scrunch boots with a floral miniskirt? Together? Seriously? Cookie explains that a friend of hers named Mimi disappeared five days earlier and that she just got a text from her setting up a meet at a coffee shop downtown....

Cry to Heaven

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs)
• By Anne Rice
• Narrated By Tim Curry

Best selling author Anne Rice reveals the dark, eerie beauty of the 18th-century Italian society of the castrati: the castrated males - sterile yet sexually functional - who were celebrated and adored for their glorious soprano voices. She draws the listener into the castrati's strange and luminous world of extraordinary decadence, opulence, and brutality.

Ice Blue

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Anne Stuart
• Narrated By Gabra Zackman

Museum curator Summer Hawthorne considered the exquisite ice-blue ceramic bowl given to her by her beloved Japanese nanny a treasure of sentimental value, until somebody tried to kill her for it.

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Christopher Cazenove, Gabrielle de Cuir, and others
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In a not-too-distant future that is not quite ours, there has been a major scientific breakthrough. It is a way to open windows into the past, permitting historical researchers to view, but not participate, in the events of the past.

In one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card interweaves a compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing.

The Turn of the Screw

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Henry James
• Narrated By Simon Vance, Vanessa Benjamin
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

One of the world's most famous intellectual ghost stories, The Turn of the Screw is a haunting tale of suspected supernatural possession. A governess at a country house claims that Miles and Flora, two orphaned children in her care, are being controlled by spirits for some evil purpose. No one else can see the ghosts, and the children themselves are silent. Are they being dominated by spectral forces, or are they hiding something? Is the governess simply paranoid, or is something else going on?

Ice Storm

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Anne Stuart
• Narrated By Lauren Fortgang

The powerful head of the covert mercenary organization The Committee, Isobel Lambert is a sleek, sophisticated professional who comes into contact with some of the most dangerous people in the world. But beneath Isobel's cool exterior a ghost exists, haunting her with memories of another life...a life that ended long ago.

Wintersmith: Discworld Childrens, Book 4

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Terry Pratchett
• Narrated By Stephen Briggs
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

At nine, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland. At 11, she banished an ancient body-stealing evil. At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're 13. But the Wintersmith isn't exactly a boy. He is winter itself.

The House at Riverton

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Kate Morton
• Narrated By Caroline Lee
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again....Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken, and memories, long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks.

Monsters of Templeton

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Lauren Groff
• Narrated By Nicole Roberts

In the wake of a disastrous affair with her married archeology professor, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned-born-again-Christian's house in Templeton, New York - a storybook town her ancestors founded on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass. Upon her arrival, a prehistoric monster surfaces in the lake, bringing a feeding frenzy to the quiet town. And Willie learns she has a mystery father her mother has kept secret for Willie's entire life.

Rose Cottage

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Mary Stewart
• Narrated By Samantha Eggar

In the summer of 1947, Kate Herrick, widowed by the war, returns to Rose Cottage, her childhood home. A tiny thatched dwelling nestled in an idyllic country setting, Rose Cottage at first appears the picture of tranquility. But Kate soon discovers that someone has broken in; the papers that are the object of her have disappeared, and the village seethes with gossip. How harmless are her elderly neighbors, who are suspected of witchcraft?