A. J. Mcdonald

The View from Saturday

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 41 mins)
• By E. L. Konigsburg
• Narrated By Jenna Lamia, Jan Maxwell
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Did Mrs. Olinsky choose the four members of the sixth grade Academic Bowl Team, or did they choose her--and one another? Four stories-within-in-a-story, interspersed with the ongoing narrative of the team's triumphant march to the state championship, introduce each member of the team in his own her own voice, and bring the dynamics of the group into focus.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Winifred Watson
• Narrated By Frances McDormand

Miss Pettigrew is a down-on-her-luck, middle-aged governess sent by her employment agency to work for a nightclub singer rather than a household of unruly children. Over a period of 24 hours, as she becomes caught up in the life of Delysia LaFloss, her own life is changed - forever. This charming, funny, light-hearted 1938 novel was a bestseller on its first appearance. Read by Academy Award winning actress Frances McDormand, who stars in the 2008 film as Miss Pettigrew.

Looking for Alaska

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 11 mins)
• By John Green
• Narrated By Jeff Woodman
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words - and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.

Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another.

Shepherds Abiding

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Jan Karon
• Narrated By John McDonough

Since he was a boy growing up in Mississippi, Father Tim has lived what he calls "the life of the mind". Except for cooking and gardening and washing his dog, he never learned to savor the work of his hands. And then he finds a derelict nativity scene: twenty figures, including a flock of sheep, that have suffered the indignities of time and neglect.

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows: A Flavia de Luce Novel

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Alan Bradley
• Narrated By Jayne Entwistle

It’s Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce—an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving—is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces’ decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern.

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Mary E. Pearson
• Narrated By Jenna Lamia
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers?

Beyond Tuesday Morning

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Karen Kingsbury
• Narrated By Kathy Garver

It's been three years since the terrorist attacks on New York City, but FDNY widow Jamie Bryan keeps waking up to the same aching pain of that one Tuesday morning, when she lost her husband, Jake.

Paint the Wind

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Pam Munoz Ryan
• Narrated By Kathleen McInerney

A puzzling photograph, a box filled with faded toy horses, and a single fractured memory are all that Maya has left of her mother. In Grandmother's house in California, she lives like a captive, tethered by Grandmother's rules: no talk of her mother, no friends, no foolishness of any kind...until a shocking event changes everything.

Anna Karenina

• UNABRIDGED (33 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Leo Tolstoy
• Narrated By Nadia May

Considered by some to be the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina contains two plots: the tragedy of Madame Karenina, in love with a man who is not her husband; and the story of Konstantine Levin, a sensitive man whose personal philosophy is Tolstoy's reason for writing about him.

Longitude: The True Story of a Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Dava Sobel
• Narrated By Kate Reading

In 1714, England's Parliament offered a huge reward to anyone whose method of measuring longitude could be proven successful. The scientific establishment, from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton, had mapped the heavens in its certainty of a celestial answer. In stark contrast, one man, John Harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solution, a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had been able to do on land. And the race was on.