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McCall Smith, Alexander. The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon. (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Bk. 14). 8 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 9 3/4 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2013. ISBN 9781470368340. $92.75; Playaway [...]

Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein unabridged. Blackstone Audiobks. 2000. Pt. 1:11 cassettes. 16 1/2 hrs. ISBN 0-7861-1876-8. $76.95; Pt. 2:8 cassettes. 12 hrs. ISBN 0-7861-1894-6. $56.95. F [...]

Sharpe's Trafalgar by Bernard Cornwell 10 cassettes. unabridged. 11 hrs. Chivers Audio Bks. 2001. ISBN 0-7540-0564-X. $84.95. F Here's something special: the novel about the Battle of Trafalgar that C.S. [...]

Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard 6 cassettes, unabridged. 7 1/2 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2000. ISBN 0-7887-4945-5. $57. F One of the great pleasures of Leonard's novels is his knack for [...]

Blandings Castle by P.G. Wodehouse 8 cassettes, unabridged. 9 hrs. Chivers Audiobks. 2001. ISBN 0-7540-0586-0. $69.95. F Originally published in 1935, this book contains 12 short stories, only half of [...]

Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC by Bernard Cornwell 14 cassettes. unabridged. 16 1/4 hrs. Chivers Audiobks. 2000. ISBN 0-7540-0507-0. $110.95. F Cornwell is best known for his novels about [...]

Hornblower and the Crisis by C.S. Forester 4 cassettes. unabridged. 4 1/4 hrs. Chivers Audiobks. 2000. ISBN 0-7540-0482-1. $39.95. F When Forester died in 1966, he was working on his [...]

Lord Emsworth and Others by P.G. Wodehouse 6 cassettes, unabridged. 8 hrs. Chivers Audiobks. 2000. ISBN 0-7540-0473-2. $54.95. HUMOR First published in 1937, this book contains nine mostly excellent Wodehouse [...]

Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois 12 cassettes, unabridged. 16 hrs. Chivers Audiobks. 2000. ISBN 0-7927-2328-7. $96.95. F The author of the Lewis Cole mysteries, DuBois has written something quite different [...]

The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse 5 cassettes, unabridged. 7 1/2 hrs. Blackstone Audiobks. 2000. ISBN 0-78611740-0. $39.95. HUMOR It's getting harder and harder to find mediocre recordings of Wodehouse's [...]

Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Comwell 9 cassettes, unabridged. 13 1/2 hrs. Blackstone Audiobks. 2000. ISBN 0-78611731-1. $62.95. F Cornwell's popular Richard Sharpe novels have marched his army hero through India [...]

The Kid & The Big Hunt by Elmore Leonard 1 cassette, unabridged. 90 min. S. & S. Audio. 1999. ISBN 0-671-04372-2. $9.95. These two titles are extracted from The Tonto [...]

California Fire and Life by Don Winslow 9 cassettes, unabridged. 12 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2000. ISBN 0-7887-3770-8. $80. Taking its title from a fictional insurance company, California Fire and Life [...]

The Cat Who Robbed a Bank by Lilian Jackson Braun 2 cassettes. abridged. 3 hrs. Putnam Berkley Audio. 1999. ISBN 0-399-14582-6. $17.95. F The murder victim in this 22nd installment [...]

P.G. Wodehouse: A Biography by Frances Donaldson 10 cassettes, unabridged. 15 hrs. Blackstone Audiobks. 1999. ISBN 0-78611639-0. $69.95. BIOG During humorist Wodehouse's long and comparatively uneventful life, his idea of [...]

Memories and Adventures by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 10 cassettes, unabridged. 15 hrs. Blackstone Audiobks. 1999. ISBN 0-7861-7655-2. $69.95. AUTOBIOG One might expect any autobiography by Doyle (1859-1930), the creator [...]

Uncle Dynamite by P.G. Wodehouse 8 cassettes, unabridged. 8 hrs. Chivers Audiobks. 2000. ISBN 0-7540-0417-1. $69.95. HUMOR We might save everyone trouble by not bothering to review Wodehouse audiobooks. Instead, [...]

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson 3 cassettes, abridged. 5 ° hrs. Random Audio. 1999. ISBN 0-375-40882-7. $25. NAT HIST One [...]

Sharpe's Fortress by Bernard Cornwell 10 cassettes, unabridged, 11Ω hrs. Chivers Audiobks. 1999. ISBN 0-7540-0391-4. $84.95. F After marching his hard-fighting British rifleman Richard Sharpe through innumerable campaigns in the [...]

Bagombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut 4 cassettes, abridged. 6 hrs. HighBridge Audio. 1999. ISBN 1-56511-329-2. $26.95. F Last year Vonnegut distressed his fans by saying that Timequake was his [...]

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 2 cassettes. abridged. 3 hrs. HarperCollins UK, dist. by Trafalgar Square. 2000. ISBN0-00-104786-8. $14.95. F Set in Scotland in the mid-18th century, Kidnapped is a [...]

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 4 cassettes. abridged. 5 1/5 hrs. Naxos Audiobks. 1999. ISBN 9-62634-675-2. $22.98. F Uncle Tom's Cabin perfectly exemplifies Mark Twain's definition of a [...]

Lord Hornblower by C.S. Forester 8 cassettes. 8 1/3 hrs. Chivers Audiobks. 1999. ISBN 0-7540-0363-9. $69.95. F First published in 1946, this book is the tenth in the 11-volume Hornblower [...]

A Pelican at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse 6 cassettes, unabridged. 7 hrs. Chivers Audiobks. 1999. ISBN 0-7540-0359-0. $54.95. HUMOR One of Wodehouse's most popular characters, the addled Lord Emsworth, is [...]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 7 cassettes, unabridged. 111/2 hrs. Audio Partners. 1999. ISBN 1-57270-111-0. $29.95. F With at least six unabridged recordings of Huckleberry Finn already available, [...]

Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse 5 cassettes, unabridged. 7 1/2 hrs. Blackstone Audiobks. 1999. ISBN 0-7861-1614-5. $39.95. HUMOR So many audio recordings of Wodehouse books are available that only [...]

The Clicking of Cuthbert by P.G. Wodehouse 5 cassettes, unabridged. 7 1/2 hrs. Blackstone Audiobks. 1998. ISBN 0-78611515-7. $39.95. F Among Wodehouse's best early works, The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922) [...]

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang 2 cassettes, abridged. 3 hrs. Penguin Audiobks. 1999. ISBN 0-14-086856-9. $17.95. HIST When Japan occupied China in 1937, its army subjected Nanking--then China's [...]

Be Cool by Elmore Leonard 6 cassettes, unabridged. 8 hrs. Recorded Bks. 1999. ISBN 0-7887-2916-0. $49. F A sequel to Get Shorty, Be Cool draws movie producer and ex-loan shark [...]

Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke 9 cassettes, unabridged. 13 hrs. Recorded Bks. 1998. ISBN 0-7887-2592-0. $72. F Often compared to Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, Burke's (Cimarron Rose, Audio Reviews, [...]

Thread of the Silkworm by Iris Chang 8 cassettes, unabridged. 12 hrs. Blackstone Audiobks. 1998. ISBN 0-7861-1418-5. $56.95. BIOG Few Americans remember Tsien Hsueshen, the subject of this book. Born [...]

The Castle by Franz Kafka 8 cassettes. 12 hrs. ISBN 0-7861-14240-X. $56.95. Kafka's posthumously published The Trial and The Castle rank among the 20th century's most influential novels. Along with [...]

The Trial by Franz Kafka 6 cassettes. 9 hrs. ISBN 0-7861-1439-8. $44.95. ea. vol: unabridged. Blackstone Audiobks. 1998. F Kafka's posthumously published The Trial and The Castle rank among the [...]

* Zacks, Richard. Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour. Doubleday. Apr. 2016.464p. photos, notes, bibliog. index. ISBN 9780385536448. $30; ebk. ISBN 9780385536455. lit Zacks [...]

Marston, Edward. Murder on the Brighton Express, 9 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 8 hrs. AudioGO (formerly BBCAA). 2010. ISBN 9780792772316. $89.95; digital download. F This fifth title in Marston's 'Railway [...]

* Quartey, Kwei. Wife of the Gods. 8 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 9 1/2 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2010. ISBN 978-I-4001-4341-2. $89.99; 8 CDs. retail ed.; 1 MP3-CD. retail ed.; Playaway [...]

Morris, Roy, Jr. American Vandal: Mark Twain Abroad. Belknap: Harvard Univ. Mar. 2015.288p. notes, index. ISBN 9780674416697. $27.95. LIT A little-known fact about Mark Twain (1835-1910) is that he spent [...]

Dick, Philip K. The Early Stories of Philip K. Dick. 10 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 121/2 hrs. Dreamscape Media. 2014. ISBN 9781629236537. $39.99; 2 MP3-CDS. retail ed.; digital download. F [...]

* London, Jack. The Call of the Wild. 3 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 3 3/4 hrs. Naxos AudioBooks. 2009. ISBN 978-962-634-923-6. $22.98; digital download. CLASSIC London's classic tale of survival, […]

Clarke, Arthur C. & Frederik Pohl. The Last Theorem. 10 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 12 1/2 hrs. Books on Tape. 2008. ISBN 978-14159-5970-1. $100. SF Completed days before the 2008 [...]

Grisham, John. Playing for Pizza. 6 CDs. unabridged. 7 hrs. Books on Tape. 2007. ISBN 978-1-4159-4663-3. $60. F Unlike anything else Grisham has written, this almost whimsical novel will baffle [...]

Ferguson, Andrew. Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America. 9 CDs. unabridged. 11 hrs. Tantor Audio. 2007. ISBN 978-1-4001-0432-1. $34.99. HIST New books about Abraham Lincoln appear so often that [...]

Gabler, Neal. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. 26 CDs. unabridged. 33 1/2 hrs. Books on Tape. 2006. ISBN 978-1-4159-3258-2. $149. FILM Although Disney's name is popularly associated […]

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. 30 cassettes, unabridged. 42 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2006. ISBN 1-4193-6459-6 [ISBN 978-1-4193-6459-4]. $107.95; 34 CDs. ISBN 1-4193-6461-8 [ISBN [...]

* Powers, Ron. Mark Twain: A Life. 6 cassettes, abridged. 11 hrs. S. & S. Audio. 2005. ISBN 0-7435-4705-5. $35. LIT Few American authors have attracted more biographical studies than [...]

Leonard, Elmore. The Hot Kid. 6 cassettes. unabridged. 8 1/4 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2005. ISBN 1-4193-4054-9. $69.75; 7 CDs. ISBN 1-4193-4056-5. $89.75. F A defining characteristic of Leonard's fiction is [...]

by Brian M. Sobel 10 cassettes, unabridged. 15 hrs. Blackstone Audiobks. 2001. ISBN 0-7861-2083-5. $69.95. HIST A book titled The Singing Sinatras that devotes 90 percent of its space to [...]

by Mark Twain 2 cassettes. unabridged. 2 hrs. High-Bridge Audio. 2001. ISBN 1-56511-505-8. $18.95. F The core of this little book is a gimmicky mystery that Twain wrote for a [...]

The Diamond Age; or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson ISBN 1-58621-114-5. ea. vol: 12 cassettes. unabridged. 18 hrs. Time Warner Audiobks. 2001. $49.98. F Diamond Age, a [...]