Inspector Salvatore Montalbano wakes from strange dreams to find a gruesomely bludgeoned horse carcass in front of his seaside home. When his men come to investigate, the carcass has disappeared, leaving only a trail in the sand. Then his home is ransacked, and the inspector is certain that the crimes are linked. As he negotiates both the glittering underworld of horseracing and the Mafia's connection to it, Montalbano is aided by his illiterate housekeeper, Adelina, and a Proustian memory of linguate fritte. Longtime fans and new readers alike will be charmed by Montalbano's blend of unorthodox methods, melancholy self-reflection, and love of good food.

Product Description: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion--the good and the bad--before the days of law and order. With their texts restored to the state of their initial publication in magazines, here are three stories penned by America's favorite Western author: ''Man Riding West,'' ''The Black Rock Coffin Makers,'' and ''Showdown on the Hogback...read more

Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award [Read by Tom Parker --aka-- Grover Gardner] Jack D. Hunter's novel is a classic of war literature and a brilliant study of a pilot tortured by his naked ambition...read more

Product Description: Author Doug Lemov offers the essential tools of the teaching craft so that you can unlock the talent and skill waiting in your students, no matter how many previous classrooms, schools, or teachers have been unsuccessful. This must-have resource is filled with concrete, specific, and actionable classroom teaching techniques that you can start using in your classroom tomorrow...read more

Product Description: Howells' best-known work and a subtle classic of its time, The Rise of Silas Lapham is an elegant tale of Boston society and manners. After establishing a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston in order to improve his social position, the consequences of which are both humorous and tragic...read more

Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] **Best Novel 1970 Nebula Award **Best Novel 1971 Hugo Award **Locus Award Winner [Read by Tom Parker - aka - Grover Gardner] The artifact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its center...read more

Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] Howells' best-known work and a subtle classic of its time, The Rise of Silas Lapham is an elegant tale of Boston society and manners. After establishing a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston in order to improve his social position, the consequences of which are both humorous and tragic...read more

Product Description: One of the most popular and influential American novels, charting the escapades of a 13-year-old boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi Testing the patience of his Aunt Polly, the bold and sharp-witted Tom Sawyer frequently skips school in search of excitement, and the scrapes he gets into with his friend Huckleberry Finn range from innocent japes to more serious events such as the witnessing of a murder...read more

Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] For two moviegoing generations, Cary Grant was class--an effortless embodiment of gentlemanly grace and humor. But Cary Grant's greatest achievement was in creating himself and the irresistible character he became...read more

Montalbanos gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. There are many suspects, but it is a reclusive violinist who holds the key to the murder.

Product Description: [Read by Grover Gardner] Shards of Honor introduces Barrayar and Aral Vorkosigan, Beta Colony and Cordelia Naismith, thus beginning a multigenerational saga spanning time as well as space. Recognized as the current exemplar of character-based science fiction, Bujold debuts her beloved Vorkosigan saga with this tale about the future parents of Miles Vorkosigan...read more

Product Description: [Read by Grover Gardner] When Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts...read more

Product Description: [Read by Grover Gardner]*Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award In the character of Lew Archer, Ross Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin -- and in so doing, gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at...read more

Product Description: ''I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.''-- Babe Ruth He was the biggest man baseball has ever produced. Babe Ruth transcended the sport that brought him fame, money, and adulation, moving beyond the limits of baselines and outfield fences into the mainstream of American life...read more

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian uses the lives of the most influential people of all time to sum up human history with wit, knowledge, and a unique ability to explain events and ideas in simple, understandable terms. This brief history of civilization from ancient times to the dawn of the modern age is filled with life-enhancing wisdom and optimism.

Product Description: In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels over a six-year period that comes to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales...read more

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels over a six-year period that comes to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales. Twain reflects on his scuffling years mining silver in Nevada, working at a Virginia City newspaper, being down-and-out in San Francisco, reporting for a newspaper from Hawaii, and more. This humorous account is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the ''vigorous new vernacular'' of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of ''wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration'' whose satiric humor made ''pretension and false dignity ridiculous.'' Meticulously restored from a variety of original sources, this text adheres to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation.

Product Description: A #1 New York Times Bestseller Once an Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale. Damon is a professional who puts duty, honor, and the men he commands above self-interest...read more

Product Description: Five years ago, Matt Starks' drug addiction cost him his family, his job, everything. As bad off as he was, he could still tell that he was no longer able to care for Tara, the golden retriever puppy he had rescued and nursed back to health, so he took her to the shelter, which is where defense lawyer Andy Carpenter found her...read more

Product Description: The incredible true story of nine Hellcat submarines assigned to penetrate the dense minefields protecting the sea of Japan. In 1945-with no knowledge of the development of the atomic bomb- American submarine commanders, desperate to avoid an invasion of the home islands, believed that if the Japanese merchant fleet was sunk, the enemy would be forced to surrender...read more

Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] { Translated by Stephen Sartarelli } { Read by Grover Gardner } Witty and entertaining, the Montalbano novels by Andrea Camilleri--a master of the Italian detective story--have become favorites of mystery fans everywhere...read more