Barbarous Coast, The (MP3)(English) In The Barbarous Coast, Lew Archer's pursuit of a girl who jackknifed too suddenly from high diving to high living leads him to an ex-fighter with an unexplained movie contract, a big time gambler who died by his own knife, and fi ...
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2003
Battle Flag (MP3)(English) Distinguishing himself at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck�s career is jeopardized through the suspicion and hostility of his brigade commander, the grandiose General Washington Faulconer. Their si ...
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2003
Big Sur ( MP3)(English) "Big Sur's a humane, precise account of the extraordinary ravages of alcohol delirium tremens on Kerouac, a superior novelist who had strength to complete his poetic narrative, a task few scribes so afflicted have accomplished-oth ...
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2003
Cold Sassy Tree (MP3)(English) The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around-fast. If the preacher's wife's petticoat shows, the ladies will make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things take a scandalous turn. That i ...
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2003
Day of Infamy (MP3)(English) Day of Infamy is Walter Lord's gripping, vivid re-creation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941. The reader accompanies Admiral Nagumo's task force as it sweeps toward Hawaii; looks on while warning a ...
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2003
Find a Victim (MP3)(English) Find a Victim
by Ross Macdonald
read by Tom Parker
Unabridged
"[The] American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald."- New York Times Book Review
The hitchhiker ...
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2007
Letters From Atlantis (MP3)(English) It was a legendary island, a fantastic island. Atlantis. Or as its prince called it, Athilan.
Roy had traveled through time with his partner, Lora, to find it-and now he was tantalizingly close to its shore.
Time travel allo ...
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2003
On the Road (MP3)(English) Credited as the book that launched Jack Kerouac's career, On the Road epitomized to the world the generation that Kerouac himself named as "beat." It created a sensation by chronicling a spontaneous and wandering way of life in a ...
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2003
Promise Of Glory (MP3)(English) Robert E. Lee knew that he had to keep the momentum of the Confederate forces moving forward, bringing the Army of Northern Virginia and the war itself north into Union territory. A decisive string of victories might embolden fore ...
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2003
Sparring with Charlie (MP3)(English) When Christopher Hunt set off in search of Vietnam's notorious Ho Chi Minh Trail, he hardly expected to end up on a rickety, Russian-made motorcycle navigating 5,000 kilometers of paths rarely traveled by tourists and on roads mis ...
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2003
The Drowning Pool (MP3)(English) When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes this case in the Los Angeles s ...
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2003
The Raft (MP3)(English) On the afternoon of January 16, 1942, three men boarded a TBD Devastator aircraft-a low-wing, single-engine torpedo-bomber-for an antisubmarine patrol flight. Although it was to be a relatively short flight, they became lost. When ...
