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Recent Arrival from Radio Repertory Company of America

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The latest installment of the entertaining Anne Manx radio drama series!

Anne Manx and the Empress Blair Project
Starring Claudia Christian, Ellen Muth, and Robin Atkin Downes
2 CD’s – 2 hours – [AUDIO DRAMA]
Publisher: RRCA (Radio Repertory Company of America)
Published: 2009
ISBN: 0977134210
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Before she meets the Empress Blair, Anne Manx (Claudia Christian) wants nothing more than to spend her quiet vacation getting a tan. Empress Blair (Ellen Muth), though, has a compelling problem. Her father has been killed, and she fears she’s next. If Anne Manx can keep the Empress alive for mere two months, she’ll reach her eighteenth birthday and take over for her father. Complicating things is Mr. Logan (Robin Atkin Downes), who shows up just in time – but whose side is he on? Nothing is ever easy for Anne Manx, and she’s rapidly running out of lives.

For more info on this and other Anne Manx titles, visit the RRCA (Radio Repertory Company of America)

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Recent Arrivals from Penguin Audio

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Lover Avenged
A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
By J.R. Ward; Read by Jim Frangione
19 CDs – 16 Hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: 2009
ISBN: 9780143144625

J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood novels have introduced readers to a “different, creative, dark, violent, and flat-out amazing” (All About Romance) world. Now, as the vampire warriors defend their race against their slayers, one male’s loyalty to the Brotherhood will be tested—and his dangerous mixed blood revealed . . .

Medusa
A Novel from the NUMA FILES
By Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos; Read by Scott Brick
11 CDs – 14 Hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: 2009
ISBN: 9780143144540

For seven books, Clive Cussler has dazzled readers with the “spine-tingling adventures” (Chicago Tribune) of Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA® Special Assignments Team, but in Medusa the NUMA® team faces what may be its most perilous mission of all.

In the Micronesian Islands, a top secret, U.S. government– sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly . . . disappears. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless a half mile below the surface, its passengers—including Zavala—left to die. Only Kurt Austin’s heroic measures save them from a watery grave, but, suspecting a connection, Austin puts the NUMA® team on the case. He has no idea what he’s just gotten them all into. A hideous series of medical experiments . . . an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization . . . a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic. Austin and Zavala have been in tight spots before, but this time it’s not just their own skins they’re trying to save—it’s the lives of millions.

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Lovecraftian Tales from the Table

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The Bradford Players present Lovecraftian Tales from the Table

This DVD-ROM contains hours and HOURS of entertainment. Listen as the Bradford players play the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. I haven’t heard all of this yet, but it is PACKED with features – 8 Gigabytes!

* Both HotOE & Masks games at the highest quality MP3s available. Many hours of entertainment audio.
* Interviews with the game and adventure developers including Sandy Petersen (author of Call of Cthulhu), Greg Stafford (founder of Chaosium), Charlie Krank (Head of Chaosium), Larry DiTillio (author of Masks of Nyarlathotep) and members of the Cthulhu Conglomerate (authors of Horror on the Orient Express).
* Quick Start Start Guide to Call of Cthulhu and PDF character sheets.
* Music by Alex Otterlei (HotOE) and Darkest of the Hillside Thickets.
* Photo Gallery and Player & Keeper interviews.
* Prop Documents by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.
* Artwork by Earl Geier, Eric M. Smith, Francois Launet and others.
* “Best of” Yog Radio (including interviews with Robin “Wicker Man” Hardy & Bob “Dr. Phibes” Fuest).
* Post-game discussions by the players of both HotOE and Masks.
* Videos, handouts, previously unreleased extras and easter eggs!
* The Freeport Trilogy and Cults of Freeport gaming supplements by Green Ronin Publishing.
* 8 page full colour DVD booklet designed by the HPLHS.

Wow! Click here for more details and ordering information!

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Recent Arrivals from Brilliance Audio

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Hyperion
By Dan Simmons; Read by Various
19 CDs – 21 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 2009
ISBN: 9781423381402

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of Time Tombs, where huge brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope–and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.

A stunning tour-de-force filled with transcedent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable new science fiction epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man.

Genesis
By Bernard Beckett; Read by Becky Wright
4 CDs – 4 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 2009
ISBN: 9781423381501

Candidates for The Academy must endure a grueling entrance exam, and young Anaximander has chosen as her special subject the life of Adam Forde, her long-dead hero. She begins by telling Forde’s story:

Late in the twenty-first century the island Republic has managed to survive a devastating worldwide plague by isolating its citizens completely from outside contact. For many years, approaching ships and planes are gunned down, refugees are shot on sight. No one is allowed in or out. The islanders are safe, but not free. Until a man named Adam Forde rescues a girl from the sea…

“Anaximander, we have asked you to consider why it is you would like to join The Academy. Is your answer ready?”

To answer that deceptively simple question, Anaximander finds she must struggle with everything she has ever known about herself and her beloved Republic’s history. What is the nature of being human, of being conscious? What does it mean to have a soul? And when everything has been laid bare, she must confront The Republic’s last great secret, her own surprising link to Adam Forde, and the horrifying truth about her world.
Genesis is a provocative novel of ideas that forces us to contemplate the very essence of what it means to be human. You will want to finish it in one sitting, and you will want to listen to it again and again.

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Recent Arrivals from Tantor Media

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Both of these titles from Tantor Media arrived in MP3-CD format which is the finest audiobook format known to the human race. The audio contained in versatile DRM-free MP3 files that take just minutes to put on my iPod. When I’m done with the book, there’s no need for me to keep those MP3 files on a hard disk somewhere because the MP3-CDs are already in right format – instant backup! The audiobooks take 2 CDs rather than 20. And there’s nice cover art on the cases!

Imager (The First Book of the Imager Portfolio)
By L.E. Modesitt, Jr.; Read by William Dufris
2 MP3-CDs – 18 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 2009
ISBN: 9781400161805
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Although Rhennthyl is the son of a leading wool merchant in L’Excelsis, the capital of Solidar, the most powerful nation on Terahnar, he has spent years becoming a journeyman artist and is skilled and diligent enough to be considered for the status of master artisan—in another two years. Then, in a single moment, his entire life is transformed when his master patron is killed in a flash fire, and Rhenn discovers he is an imager—one of the few in the entire world of Terahnar who can visualize things and make them real.

Rhenn is forced to leave his family and join the Collegium of Imagisle. Because of their abilities (they can do accidental magic even while asleep) and because they are both feared and vulnerable, imagers must live separately from the rest of society. In this new life, Rhenn discovers that all too many of the “truths” he knew were nothing of the sort. Every day brings a new threat to his life. He makes a powerful enemy while righting a wrong, and he begins to learn to do magic in secret. Imager is the innovative and enchanting opening of an involving new fantasy story.

Revelation Space
By Alastair Reynolds; Read by John Lee
2 MP3-CDs – 22 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 2009
ISBN: 9781400159550
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Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason. And if that reason is uncovered, the universe—and reality itself—could be irrevocably altered.

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Recent Arrivals from Full Cast Audio

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If you like audiobooks and haven’t heard a Full Cast Audio production, then you are missing something special. Full Cast Audio produces unique, high quality full cast unabridged audiobooks that demand a listen. This is how full cast is done, folks.

Into the Land of the Unicorns
By Bruce Coville; Read by Bruce Coville and the Full Cast Family
4 CDs – 3 hours 45 minutes – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Full Cast Audio
Published: 2009
ISBN: 9781934180839

Book 1 of The Unicorn Chronicles.

On a snowy night Cara and her grandmother are pursued into St. Christopher’s church by an unknown man. Clutching her grandmother’s mysterious amulet, and following the old woman’s instructions, Cara escapes their pursuer and falls into Luster, the world of the unicorns. Attacked by a monstrous little creature called a “delver”, Cara is rescued by a shambling, manlike beast called “the Dimblethum.” Soon Cara has also met a rebellious young unicorn named Lightfoot, and a ridiculous little creature known as “the Squijum.” With their help, Cara embarks on a journey across Luster to deliver a message from her grandmother to the queen of the unicorns. But to survive the trip, Cara must come face to face with her greatest hope, and her greatest fear.

River Secrets
By Shannon Hale; Read by Mark Allen Holt and the Full Cast Family
8 CDs – 7 hours 30 minutes – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Full Cast Audio
Published: 2009
ISBN: 9781934180211

Volume 3 of The Books of Bayern.

The war with Tira is over, and Tira has lost. But simmering anger remains, and hostilities could erupt at any moment In a desperate attempt to maintain the peace, King Geric sends an ambassador to the Tiran capitol. Razo—short, impish, and not at all skilled at combat—is astounded when he is selected to be part of the delegation’s military guard, and even more astounded when he discovers the real reason for his inclusion.

All too soon Razo is up to his eyeballs in a simmering mix of danger and intrigue—not to mention an unexpected romance. But as the gruesome deaths mount everyone is a suspect—even the girl who has stolen Razo’s heart.

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