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Breaking Dawn: The Twilight Saga, Book 4

Jake — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:09:08 +0000

To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare, woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife to reach the ultimate turning point.

Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs.

Now Bella has made her decision, and a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella’s life - first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse - seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed…forever?

The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic.

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Author: Stephenie Meyer

Publisher: Listening Library

20 hours and 29 min.

Retail Price: $42.00 Our price: $7.49

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Eclipse: The Twilight Saga, Book 3

Jake — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:04:55 +0000

As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?

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Author: Stephenie Meyer

Publisher: Listening Library

16 hours and 26 min.

Retail Price: $39.95 Our price: $7.49

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Anthony Robbins’ Personal Power II: The Driving Force!

Jake — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:41:19 +0000

For nearly two decades, Anthony Robbins has dedicated his life to discovering the most advanced principles for producing accelerated change. He is the nation’s foremost expert in the psychology of peak performance and personal, professional, and organizational “turnaround,” and has led the way in providing cutting-edge tools for individuals wanting to make radical improvements in their careers, emotional well-being, relationships, finances, time management, health and vitality, and professional growth. In this exciting, best selling audio guide, he’ll show you how to control the force that directs your life, shape your destiny, and unleash you Personal Power. This download contains the first four days of Robbins’ 30-day Program for Unlimited Success.

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Author: Anthony Robbins

Publisher: Audio Renaissance

ISBN: 1-55927-420-4

3 hours and 2 min.

Retail Price: ~~$29.95~~ Our price: $20.97

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We Were the Mulvaneys

Jake — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:48:42 +0000

The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet: a hardworking father, a loving mother, three fine sons, and a bright, pretty daughter. They are confident in their love for each other and their position in the rural community of Mt. Ephraim, New York. But something happens on Valentine’s Day, 1976 - an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home - that rends the fabric of their family life.

As the years pass the secrets they keep from each other threaten to destroy them, but ultimately they bridge the chasms between them and reunite in the spirit of love and healing. Rarely has such an acclaimed writer made such a startling and inspiring statement about the value of hope and compassion.

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Publisher: HighBridge Audio

ISBN: 1-56511-495-7

7 hours

Retail Price: $34.95 Our price: $24.47

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The Sound and the Fury (Unabridged)

Jake — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:48:42 +0000

First published in 1929, Faulkner created his “heart’s darling”, the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers: the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin, and the monstrous Jason.

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Author: William Faulkner

Publisher: Random House Audio

ISBN: 0-7393-2535-3

8 hours and 57 min.

Retail Price: $19.95 Our price: $13.97

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Unabridged)

Jake — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:48:42 +0000

Carson McCullers was all of 23 when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her “the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced.” The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter tells an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s.

Richard Wright was astonished by McCullers’s ability “to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness.” Hers is a humanity that touches all who come to her work, whether for the first time or, as so many do, time and time again. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, most enduring best.

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Author: Carson McCullers

Publisher: Harper Audio

ISBN: 0-060764-86-4

12 hours and 32 min.

Retail Price: ~~$39.95~~ Our price: $27.97

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The Corrections

Jake — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:48:42 +0000

After almost 50 years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson’s disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly in his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain on an affair with a married man - or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home.

Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Frazen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.

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Author: Jonathan Franzen

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

ISBN: 0-7435-1000-3

9 hours

Retail Price: $35 Our price: $24.5

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Tara Road (Unabridged)

Jake — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:48:42 +0000

Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he was leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend. By a chance phone call, Ria meets Marilyn, a woman from New England unable to come to terms with her only son’s death and now separated from her husband. The two women exchange houses for the summer with extraordinary consequences, each learning that the other has a deep secret that can never be revealed.

Drawn into lifestyles vastly differing from their own, at first each resents the news of how well the other is getting on. Rita seems to have become quite a hostess, entertaining half the neighborhood, which at first irritates the reserved and withdrawn Marilyn, a woman who has always guarded her privacy. Marilyn seems to have become bosom friends with Ria’s children, as well as with Colm, a handsome restaurateur, whom Ria has begun to miss terribly. At the end of the summer, the women at last meet face-to-face. Having learned a great deal, about themselves and about each other, they find that they have become, firmly and forever, good friends.

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Author: Maeve Binchy

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio

ISBN:

18 hours and 28 min.

Retail Price: $39.95 Our price: $27.97

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Stones from the River

Jake — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:48:42 +0000

Trudi Montag is a Zwerg - a dwarf - short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share, from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he’s a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi, the award-winning author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm, brings us a timely and unforgettable story that weaves together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth.

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Author: Ursula Hegi

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

ISBN: 0-671-57705-0

5 hours and 16 min.

Retail Price: ~~$23~~ Our price: $16.1

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Open House (Unabridged)

Jake — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:48:42 +0000

Samantha Morrow’s husband has left her, and now she must strive to reconstruct a life for herself and her 11-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. A new friend suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember - and reclaim - the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage.

Open House is the unforgettable story of how a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening her house to strangers and her heart to the simple miracle of possibility.

Author: Elizabeth Berg

Publisher: HighBridge Audio

ISBN:

6 hours and 18 min.

Retail Price: $34.95 Our price: $24.47

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