New Adult Books-on-CD

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.

In the ancient Turkish city of Ruin, American journalist Liv Adamsen lies in an isolation ward, staring at walls as blank as her memory. Something strange is stirring within her, whispering that she is 'the key.' But the key to what? Hunted across continents and caught up in events that defy explanation, Liv turns to a trusted charity worker named Gabriel Mann. Together their paths lead to a shocking discovery that will tear them apart and change the world forever.

Jason Kolarich is in a bad way; physically wounded and emotionally wrecked after his last case, he's self medicating with prescription painkillers, too much alcohol, and brief affairs. When one of these affairs turns sour, Kolarich is left fending off the advances of a beautiful, nefarious woman who may be more than she appears. And Kolarich's next client isn't going to make life any easier. Marshall Renfro is the prime suspect in a string of serial murders, and hires Kolarich as his defender.

Manchester challenges the assumption that Churchill's finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932-1940, he was tested as few men are. Pursued by creditors-at one point he had to put up his home for sale-he remained solvent only by writing an extraordinary number of books and magazine articles. He was disowned by his own party, dismissed by the BBC, Fleet Street, and the social and political establishments as a warmonger, and twice nearly lost his seat in Parliament. Churchill stoo

For Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne, the news from an old law-enforcement friend sends a shiver down his spine. A connection between the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob. Russian girls are being smuggled in to work in the sex trade, and now some of them are dying or just disappearing. The trail leads right to Philadelphia, where Payne learns that's not all. Teenage girls are being lured from foster homes. Police department sources are turning up dead.

More than anything, Joel wants to be a Rithmatist. Chosen by the Master in a mysterious inception ceremony, Rithmatists have the power to infuse life into two-dimensional figures known as Chalklings. Rithmatists are humanity's only defense against the Wild Chalklings, merciless creatures that leave mangled corpses in their wake. Having nearly overrun the territory of Nebrask, the Wild Chalklings now threaten all of the American Isles.

It is 1970. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister Liz is fifteen when their artistic mother Charlotte, a woman "who flees every place she's ever lived at the first sign of trouble," takes off to "find herself." She leaves her girls enough money for food to last a month or two. But when Bean gets home from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz board a bus from California to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying antebellum mansion that's

It has been more than sixty years since Elaine Greenstein's twin sister, Barbara, ran away, cutting off contact with her family forever. Elaine has made peace with that loss. But while sifting through old papers as she prepares to move to Rancho Man~ana or the "Ranch of no tomorrow" as she refers to the retirement community, she is stunned to find a possible hint to Barbara's whereabouts all these years later. And it pushes her to confront the fierce love and bitter rivalry of their youth durin

Experience one of television's greatest science fiction series: The Twilight Zone. This collection of episodes is fully dramatized for audio and features a full cast, music, sound effects, and narration by some of today's biggest celebrities. Episodes include The After Hours; Mr. Dingle, the Strong; The Lonely; Mr. Garrity and the Graves; Of Late I Think of Cliffordville; and The Bard.