Audiobooks: Fiction

Decadence [electronic resource]
Eric Jerome Dickey.
Four years have passed since the events of Pleasure, and Nia's success as a writer has grown, bringing her from Atlanta to Los Angeles. But she remains on a quest to quiet her inner storm, to draw on her well of emotions and explore them fully before leaving this season of her life and moving on to what could be the next stage: marriage and motherhood. Drawn to an exclusive pleasure palace, where patrons try on roles as they actively shun their respective realities, Nia's ability to balance truth and fantasy becomes increasingly blurred. What has happened to the compartments she has so carefully created for the different aspects of her life? Will her relationship with the mysterious, often unavailable Prada survive the countless temptations? Will her successful literary career be given over to impulse indulgence? Does decadence know any bounds? When Nia's past comes back to mingle with her present, and when her staid public persona clashes with her fantasy life of decadence, listeners will be stunned by the outcome. Eric Jerome Dickey's newest tale of excess --and its sky-high costs--is a thrilling portrait of a glittering world.
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The Cartel 4 [electronic resource]
by Ashley JaQuavis.
The Diamond family has survived murder, deceit, and betrayal. Through it all, they're still standing tall, and a new era has begun. After surviving an attempt on her life, Breeze has moved into the queen's position by Zyir's side. Zyir has taken over the empire and locked down Miami's streets; the world is in his hands. But there is always new blood ready to overthrow the throne. Young Carter has retired and moved away from the madness--that is, until he gets an unexpected visitor at his home. This person shakes up the whole family, causing chaos that threatens to bring down the Cartel for good.
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The Cartel 3 [electronic resource]
by Ashley JaQuavis.
Miamor is fighting for her life in the belly of the beast. She's been kidnapped, and she's staring death in the eye. Is the reign over for the head of the Murder Mamas? Carter is in federal custody and leaves the Diamond empire to Zyir and Mecca. When the past comes back to haunt Mecca and the truth finally comes to light, will the Cartel rise or fall? Breeze is in the clutches of the crazed Ma'tee, and she desperately searches for a way out. Will she escape or die his love slave?
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Honor thy thug [sound recording]
by Wahida Clark.
Following the action of Justify My Thug, the story rejoins the saga's favorite couple, Tasha and Trae, as they try to overcome their troubles and make their marriage work. In the torrid world of sex, drugs, and crime, Wahida Clark continues the definitive hip-hop soap opera that fans have come to love.
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A touch of crimson [sound recording]
Sylvia Day.
Angel Adrian Mitchell tries to convince Lindsay Gibson that she is actually Shadoe, the woman he loves and keeps losing, in a new body, while dealing with a pack of rogue vampires and a lycan revolt.
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Best kept secret [sound recording] : a novel
Jeffrey Archer.
This is the third book in the Clifton Chronicles series. Opens a moment after the end of The Sins of the Father, with the resolution of the trial and the triumphant marriage of Harry Clifton and Elizabeth Barrington, finally uniting their family.
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The perfect marriage [sound recording]
Kimberla Lawson Roby.
Denise and Derrek Shaw are the perfect American couple. Happily married for 15 years, they have a wonderful daughter, successful careers, and a beautiful house. They also have a shocking secret: a dangerous addiction to drugs.
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Tapestry of Fortunes [sound recording]
by Elizabeth Berg.
Cecilia Ross is a motivational speaker who encourages others to change their lives for the better. Why can't she take her own advice? Still reeling from the death of her best friend, and freshly aware of the need to live more fully now, Cece realizes that she has to make a move. She downsizes her life, sells her suburban home, and moves into a beautiful old house in Saint Paul, complete with a garden, chef's kitchen, and three housemates. All four women embark on a journey together in an attempt to connect with parts of themselves long denied.
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Stepping stone [sound recording] ; The love machine : two short novels from crosstown to oblivion

Stepping stone: Truman is a gentle unassuming soul, he has worked in the mailroom of a corporation for decades without making waves, until the day he spots a mysterious woman in yellow. A woman nobody else can see. Love Machine: The brainchild of an eccentric, possibly deranged scientist, the Love Machine can merge individual psyches and memories into a collective Co-Mind. Tricked into joining the Co-Mind, Lois Kim struggles to adapt to her new reality and abilities.
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The Blossom sisters [sound recording]
Fern Michaels.
Gus Hollister owes all his success to his feisty grandmother, Rose, and he knows it. It was Rose and her two sisters, Iris and Violet, who raised Gus, sent him to the best schools, and helped him start his own accounting business. Rose even bought the house Gus lives in with his wife, Elaine. But now, Gus stands to lose everything; his home, his car, and his business.
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The moonlit mind [sound recording] : a tale of suspense
Dean Koontz.
Twelve-year-old Crispin has lived on the streets since he was nine, with only his wits and his daring to sustain him, and only his silent dog, Harley, to call his friend. The city he roams has things unexplainable and maybe unimaginable; Crispin has seen ghosts in the dead of night, and sensed dimensions beyond reason in broad daylight. Hints of things disturbing and strange nibble at the edges of his existence.
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Wind Chime Point [sound recording]
Sherryl Woods.
Facing a personal crisis, ambitious and driven Gabriella Castle retreats to the welcoming arms of her family. Everything she's worked for has been yanked out from under her, and she seeks the serenity of her grandmother's home on the North Carolina coast. With difficult decisions to make about her future, the last thing she wants is an unexpected love. Wade Johnson fell for Gabi the first time he saw her. It's not the only time he's found himself in the role of knight in shining armor, but Gabi isn't looking for a rescuer. To get her to stay, Wade will need a whole lot of patience and gentle persuasion, and maybe the soothing sound of wind chimes on a summer breeze.
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Highlander most wanted [sound recording]
Maya Banks.
Genevieve McInnis is locked behind the fortitied walls of McHugh Keep, captive of a cruel laird who takes great pleasure in ruining her for any other man. Yet when Bowen Montgomery storms the gates on a missio of clan warfare, Genevieve finds that her spirit is bent but not broken. Genevieve opts for the peaceful life of an abbess. But Bowen's rugged sensuality stirs something deep inside her that longs to be awakened by his patient, gentle caress-something warm, wicked, and tempting.
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Safe in his arms [sound recording]
Colleen Coble.
When Margaret's father hires Daniel Cutler as a new foreman, she's frustrated and suspicious. Daniel swears he's turned over a new leaf and isn't involved with the thieves he used to run with, but Margaret is not convinced. When she finds out he's an undercover Texas Ranger, sparks fly. Can she help Daniel extricate his younger brother who is still involved? And can Daniel convince her he's the safe haven he's promised for her heart.
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The great Gatsby [sound recording]
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
"Elegant, enigmatic Jay Gatsby yearns for his old love, the beautiful Daisy. But she is married to the insensitive if hugely successful Tom Buchanan, who won't let her go despite having a mistress himself. In their wealthy haven, these beguiling lives are brought together by the innocent and entranced narrator, Nick -- until their decadent deceits spill into violence and tragedy. Part morality tale, part fairy tale, The Great Gatsby is the consummate novel of the Jazz Age. Its tenderness and poetry make it one of the great works of the 20th century."--Publisher's website.
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Love in plain sight [sound recording]
Debbie MacOmber.
Stephanie, who works as an assistant at Lockwood Industries in Minneapolis, is temporarily assigned to the boss, Jonas Lockwood himself. Jonas lives up to his reputation as a tyrant, dictator, and grouch. But Stephanie's colleagues, romance readers and all, decided that he's really the classic lonely hero.
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The house girl [sound recording] : a novel
Tara Conklin.
A stunning debut that intertwines the story of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia with that of an ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York, and in so doing asks questions of justice, love and family, in slave-holding Virginia and today.
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Life after life [sound recording]
Kate Atkinson.
On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, and lets out a lusty wail. As she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny?
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Lover at last [sound recording] : a novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
J.R. Ward.
"Qhuinn, son of no one, is used to being on his own. Disavowed from his bloodline, shunned by the aristocracy, he has finally found an identity as one of the most brutal fighters in the war against the Lessening Society. But his life is not complete. Even as the prospect of having a family of his own seems to be within reach, he is empty on the inside, his heart given to another.... Blay, after years of unrequited love, has moved on from his feelings for Qhuinn. And it's about time: The male has found his perfect match in a Chosen female, and they are going to have a young--just as Qhuinn has always wanted for himself. It's hard to see the new couple together, but building your life around a pipe dream is just a heartbreak waiting to happen. As he's learned firsthand. Fate seems to have taken these vampire soldiers in different directions, but as the battle over the race's throne intensifies, and new players on the scene in Caldwell create mortal danger for the Brotherhood, Qhuinn finally learns the true definition of courage, and two hearts that are meant to be together finally become one"-- Provided by publisher.
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Maya's notebook [sound recording]
Isabel Allende.
Maya, a young American on the run, is sent to Chiloe, in a remote part of Chile, her grandmother's homeland, where she records in her diary her adjustment to a new country, her drug problems, her romantic life, and other developments.
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The apple orchard [sound recording]
Susan Wiggs.
Set to inherit half of Bella Vista, a 100-acre apple orchard in a town called Archangel, along with a half-sister she's never heard of, Tess Delaney, who makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners, discovers a world filled with the simple pleasures of food and family.
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The hit [sound recording]
David Baldacci.
No one else can match will Robie's talents as a hitman. No one, except Jessica Reel. A fellow assassin, Reel is every bit as lethal as Robie. And now, she's gone rogue, turning her gun sights on other members of their agency. To stop one of their own, the U.S. government looks once again to Robie. His mission: bring in Reel, dead or alive. Only a killer can catch another killer, they tell him. but as Robie pursues Reel, he quickly finds that there is more to her betrayal than meets the eye.
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Disclosure [sound recording] : The McCaffertys
Lisa Jackson.
The McCaffertys: Slade McCafferty was a bachelor, too busy raising hell to settle down. Case in point: fifteen years ago daredevil Slade had taken wild child Jamie Parsons's innocence, and then had broken her heart. But Jamie is back in town, a lawyer, all confidence and polished professionalism. The McCaffertys: Randi is hiding the identity of her child's father worth risking her life? Randi McCafferty seems to think so, but investigator Kurt Striker is hell-bent on changing her mind.
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Balancing act [sound recording]
Fern Michaels.
All She Can Be Rita Bellamy has had enviable success as an author, but it came at the expense of her marriage. Now she's starting over in a small lakeside cottage, slowly rebuilding her confidence that was shattered. But is the younger man next door a fun, frivolous diversion or something much more?
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Sidney Sheldon's the tides of memory [sound recording]
Tilly Bagshawe.
Fixtures on the society pages, in international boardrooms, and in the highest echelons of government, the members of the powerful De Vere family lead charmed and envied lives, moving between their London mansion, Oxfordshire country house, and exclusive Martha's Vineyard estate, when they are not jet-setting around the globe. But beneath their gilded facade and seemingly unbreakable familial bonds lie secrets, ugly, dirty, and deadly.
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Wild invitation [sound recording] : a psy/changeling collection
Nalini Singh.
An exciting anthology of Psy-changeling stories, featuring two never-before published novellas.
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Wedding night [sound recording]
Sophie Kinsella.
Lottie is 33, and is sick of boyfriends who don't want to commit to marriage. When her old boyfriend Ben reappears after fifteen years and reminds her of their pact to marry each other if they are both single after 30, Lottie jumps at the chance. But not everyone is pleased with Lottie and Ben's arrangement, and family and friends are determined to intervene. Will they make Lottie and Ben's wedding night one to remember--or one to forget?
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The forgotten [electronic resource]
David Baldacci.
John Puller investigates the death of his Aunt Betsy. Though her death seems to have been an accident, Puller received a letter from her before her death that may indicate otherwise.
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The black box [electronic resource]
Michael Connelly.
In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing through the wreckage after a plane crash, Bosch searches for the 'black box,' the one piece of evidence that will pull the case together.
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12th of never [electronic resource]
James Patterson & Maxine Paetro.
Detective Lindsay Boxer just gave birth to her daughter a week ago, but already she is being forced to return to work. Not only is a rising star football player the prime murder suspect, but an English professor has been having dreams about a murder that he is convinced are real. At first Lindsay doesn't believe the professor, but then a shooting occurs and it fits the professor's description to the last detail.
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Sleight of hand [sound recording] : a novel of suspense
Phillip Margolin.
Ten years ago, Horace Blair fell in love with Carrie, the prosecutor in his DUI trial. After a torrid courtship, he persuaded her to marry him and to sign a pre-nuptial agreement guaranteeing her twenty million dollars if she remained faithful during the first ten years of their marriage. The week before their tenth anniversary, Carrie disappears and Horace is charged with her murder. Desperate to clear his name, the millionaire hires one of D.C.'s most brilliant and ruthless defense attorneys - Charles Benedict. Meanwhile, private investigator Dana Cutler is in the Pacific Northwest on the trail of a stolen relic, a medieval scepter dating from the Ottoman Empire.
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12th of never [sound recording]
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.
Detective Lindsay Boxer just gave birth to her daughter a week ago, but already she is being forced to return to work. Not only is a rising star football player the prime murder suspect, but an English professor has been having dreams about a murder that he is convinced are real. At first Lindsay doesn't believe the professor, but then a shooting occurs and it fits the professor's description to the last detail.
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The Ophelia cut : a novel
John Lescroart.
Brittany McGuire is the beautiful, twenty-three-year-old daughter of Susan Weiss and Moses McGuire--and the niece of defense attorney Dismas Hardy. Popular and pretty, Brittany has always moved easily from one boyfriend to the next, but her most recent ex, a young man named Rick Jessup, can't seem to get over her. His abuse escalates, culminating in a terrible night when Brittany is raped. Within twenty-four hours, Rick Jessup is dead, Moses McGuire is the prime suspect in the investigation, and Dismas Hardy has been hired to defend his old friend. Making things even more complicated, this case threatens to bring to light old secrets that could destroy the careers of Hardy and police lieutenant Abe Glitsky. As the overwhelming evidence against Moses piles up, Dismas Hardy focuses on planting doubt in the minds of the jurors--until, in a feat of legal ingenuity that is staggering in both its implications and its simplicity, Hardy sees a new way forward that might just save them all. But at what price? For the first time since 2009, the author's most popular protagonist returns in a masterful novel that bears all the hallmarks of John Lescroart's extraordinary storytelling gifts: a cast of flesh-and-blood characters, morally complex situations with no easy answers, and--of course--relentless, nail-biting suspense that will leave you breathless.
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Calculated in death [sound recording]
J.D. Robb.
"On Manhattan's Upper East Side a woman lies dead at the bottom of the stairs, stripped of all her valuables. Most cops might call it a mugging gone wrong, but Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows better. A well-off accountant and a beloved wife and mother, Marta Dickenson doesn't seem the type to be on anyone's hit list. But when Eve and her partner, Peabody, find blood inside the building, the lieutenant knows Marta's murder was the work of a killer who's trained, but not professional or smart enough to remove all the evidence. But when someone steals the files out of Marta's office, Eve must immerse herself in her billionaire husband Roarke's world of big business to figure out who's cruel and callous enough to hire a hit on an innocent woman. And as the killer's violent streak begins to escalate, Eve knows she has to draw him out, even if it means using herself as bait" -- from publisher's web site.
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Halo. Silentium [sound recording]
Greg Bear.
In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood--a horrifying shape-changing parasite--has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses. Too little, too late, the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the Master Builder and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect testimony from the Librarian and both Didacts: the Ur-Didact, treacherously abandoned in a Flood-infested system, and the Bornstellar Didact, who accompanies the Librarian as she preserves specimens against the dire possibility of Halo extermination. Facing the imminent collapse of their civilization, the Librarian and the Ur-Didact reveal what they know about the relationship between the long-vanished Precursors and the Flood.
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Hellhole [sound recording] : awakening
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
Hellhole is the worst of the worst, a colony devastated by asteroid impacts and a slew of reoccurring natural disasters. But when Adolphus, an exiled general, settles on Hellhole, he transforms the planet into a place his fellow colonists are proud to call home. But as Hellhole becomes more settled, its remarkable secrets are uncovered.
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