Far North: A Novel by Marcel Theroux (Audiobook, MP3)
by Marcel Theroux, 2009 National Book Award Finalist
My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He’d say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our world had gone north, truly gone north, and just how far north I was beginning to learn.
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence (Unabridged Audiobook) 2012
The Gift of Fear - Unabridged on 11 CD's. Gavin de Becker is the nation's leading expert on predicting violent behavior. His clients include celebrities, corporations, and political organizations, and he serves as an advisor to the CIA and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Gift of Fear has been translated into 14 languages worldwide. According to Gavin de Becker, the experience of fear can be an urgent intuitive message. Its directions to us-to avoid that stranger, to leave the room, to call for help-can, if heeded, save our lives.
In The Pickwick Papers, his first novel, Dickens displays the talents and skills that became his trademark; observational humour, pathos and social comment abound as we follow Mr Pickwick and Sam Weller, his sharp-tongued cockney servant, travelling around England with his friends in search of adventure and knowledge. Brilliantly comic scenes at the Eatanswill election, and the trial of Mrs Bardell vs Pickwick contrast with the horrors of the debtors prison. It was Thackeray who described the novel as ‘that great contemporary history’, and it presents a nostalgic view of England just before the coming of the railway.
In the near future, bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Immediately snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interrogated separately in neutral Ikea-like chambers, and then released as 15-minute-celebrities into a world driven almost entirely by the internet, these five unforgettable people endure a barrage of unusual and highly 21st-century circumstances. A charismatic scientist with dubious motives eventually brings the quintet together, and their shared experience unites them in a way they could never have imagined.
A Lily of the Field (Audiobook) Unabridged edition 2011
Spanning the tumultuous years 1934 to 1948, John Lawton's A Lily of the Field is a brilliant historical thriller from a master of the form. The book follows two characters—Méret Voytek, a talented young cellist living in Vienna at the novel's start, and Dr. Karel Szabo, a Hungarian physicist interned in a camp on the Isle of Man. In his seventh Inspector Troy novel, Lawton moves
