Icy Sparks
January 30, 2012
Unabridged by Gwyn Hyman Rubio. Narrated by Kate Miller
Our Price: $ 24.47
Summary:
Rural Kentucky in the 1950s is not an easy place to grow up, and it’s especially hard for 10-year-old Icy Sparks, an orphan suffering from undiagnosed Tourette Syndrome, who lives with her grandparents. Icy’s adolescence is marred by the humiliation of her illness. Its all-too-visible signs are the source of endless mystery and hilarity as everyone around her offers an opinion about what’s troubling the girl. Eventually, Icy finds solace in the company of Miss Emily, an obese woman who knows what it’s like to be an outcast in this tight-knit community. Narrated by now-grown Icy, this novel shimmers with warmth and humor as it recounts a young girl’s painful and poignant journey into womanhood – and the many lives she touches and enriches along the way.
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Length: 7 hour 4 min
Release date: 19-OCT-2001
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Ellen Foster
January 30, 2012
Unabridged by Kaye Gibbons. Narrated by Kaye Gibbons
Our Price: $ 14.6
Summary:
When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy.
So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons’ first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise, funny, affectionate and true, Ellen Foster is, as Walker Percy called it, “The real thing. Which is to say, a lovely, sometimes heart-wrenching novel…[Ellen Foster] is as much a part of the backwoods South as a Faulkner character, and a good deal more endearing.”
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Length: 2 hour 56 min
Release date: 11-MAY-2000
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Cry, the Beloved Country (Unabridged)
January 30, 2012
Unabridged by Alan Paton. Narrated by Michael York
Our Price: $ 22.99
Summary:
This is the most distinguished novel that has come out of South Africa in the 20th century, and it is one of the most important novels that has appeared anywhere in modern times. Cry, the Beloved Country is in some ways a sad book; it is an indictment of a social system that drives the native races into resentment and crime; it is a story of Fate, as inevitable, as relentless, as anything of Thomas Hardy’s. Beautifully wrought with high poetic compassion, Cry, the Beloved Country is more than just a story, it is a profound experience of the human spirit. And beyond the intense and insoluble personal tragedy, it is the story of the beautiful and tragic land of South Africa, its landscape, its people, its bitter racial ferment and unrest.
Sample:
Length: 9 hours and 47 min.
Release date: 15-DEC-1999
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Mother of Pearl
January 30, 2012
Unabridged by Melinda Haynes. Narrated by Nana Visitor
Our Price: $ 21
Summary:
Set in small town Mississippi in the late 1950s, Mother of Pearl is populated by wonderfully rich and original characters with themes of identity and the true meaning of family interwoven throughout. The story revolves around 28-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Komer, a 15-year-old white girl who is the daughter of the town whore and an unknown father. Their paths cross through Joody Two Sun, a seer, who becomes Even’s lover. Both Even and Valuable are seeking the family, love, and commitment they never had, and their search ultimately takes both of them to places they never dreamed they’d go.
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Length: 9 hours
Release date: 18. Feb 00
Publisher: Phoenix Audio
We Were the Mulvaneys
January 30, 2012
Unabridged by Joyce Carol Oates. Narrated by J. Todd Adams
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Summary:
The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet: a hardworking father, a loving mother, three fine sons, and a bright, pretty daughter. They are confident in their love for each other and their position in the rural community of Mt. Ephraim, New York. But something happens on Valentine’s Day, 1976 – an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home – that rends the fabric of their family life.
As the years pass the secrets they keep from each other threaten to destroy them, but ultimately they bridge the chasms between them and reunite in the spirit of love and healing. Rarely has such an acclaimed writer made such a startling and inspiring statement about the value of hope and compassion.
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Length: 6 hours and 56 min.
Release date: 12. Jun 01
Publisher: HighBridge Company
