Search this site      Courtship After Marriage Romance Can Last a Lifetime Author: Zig Ziglar ISBN: 1-56207-208-0 Format: 6 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Zig Ziglar Corporation Published: January 1991 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 Silent Honor Author: Steel, Danielle / Gaines, Boyd (Narrator) ISBN: 0-553-47761-7 Format: 4 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Random House Audio Published: November 1, 1996 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 From Publishers Weekly: The doyenne of bestseller lists weaves another romantic story in her 38th novel, a tale of separated families and shattered lives set against one of the most morally reprehensible events in U.S. history: the internment of Japanese-Americans during WW II. In 1941, 18-year-old Hiroko Takashimaya, the beautiful, painfully shy daughter of a modern-thinking professor and a tradition-bound mother, is sent from her home in Kyoto to live in California with her American cousins and attend a prestigious women's college. Terribly homesick yet determined to make her parents proud, dutiful Hiroko begins to adjust to her new life and even does the unthinkable when she falls in love with Peter Jenkins, a handsome American professor. The joys of Peter's love painfully contrast with the humiliation Hiroko suffers at the hands of her racially prejudiced school mates, but worse is to come when war breaks out and Hiroko and her cousins are sent to segregated camps. Separated from Peter, now a soldier fighting in Europe, Hiroko sheds her sheltered, girlhood innocence and evolves into a strong, independent woman. Steel's slapdash prose and stereotypical characterization produce a formulaic tale, albeit more earnest and didactic than her usual fare, but she does succeed in telling a poignant story. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Steel's latest, a departure of sorts, tells of a young, resilient Japanese woman who is confined to an American internment camp during World War II. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.   Nowhere to Run Author: Daley, Robert / Hill, Dick (Narrator) ISBN: 1-56100-710-2 Format: 5 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Riviera Productions Published: October 1, 1996 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 Amazon.com: Former NYPD deputy commissioner Daley must have taken lots of notes before he retired to write such powerful thrillers as Prince of the City, To Kill A Cop and Wall of Brass. His portraits of police officers cracking under political pressure are absorbing and totally believable, and his latest adds a touch of exotic romance on the French Riviera. Ex-New York detective Jack Dilger and former Nice inspector Madeline Leclerq are both out of work because they crossed the wrong superiors, so it's not surprising that they wind up in danger as well as in bed. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly: Returning to the southern French setting of his novel The Dangerous Edge (1983), Daley (Wall of Brass) crafts a crisp and intricate thriller about two detectives and two police systems that, for all its high-spirited writing, turns seriously dark at the end. Detective Jack Dilger has alienated some powerful NYPD superiors with his freewheeling ways. When his bust of a crooked art dealer and a couple of Colombian drug agents turns into a disastrous shootout, he's forced off the job. In immediate peril from the surviving drug dealer and with his marriage crumbling, Jack takes off for the French Riviera. There he hooks up with former Nice inspecteur Madeleine Leclerq, who herself has been forced out of her job, her case against some crooked politicians and industrialists quashed from on high. Jack and Madeleine begin an affair and soon realize that each is being stalked by enemies. Daley's leads are likable and believable, his French local color is first-rate and his complicated plot turns, buoyed by tension and splashed with violence, work beautifully. The ending isn't happy, but it rings true. Daley, once deputy commissioner of the NYPD, again proves that as far as cop novels go, he's still the top brass around. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Casino Love & Honor in Las Vegas Authors: Pileggi, Nicholas / Liebman, Ron / Neumann, Fred / Weitzman, Ken ISBN: 0-671-53456-4 Format: 2 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Audioworks Published: November 1, 1995 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Amazon.com: The author of the best-selling Wiseguy gives us this true and brilliantly-told story of love, marriage, adultery, murder, revenge, and how it led to the Mafia's finally losing its stranglehold on the Las Vegas casinos. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly: The basis for the Martin Scorsese movie of the same name, Pileggi's true-crime account charts the rise and fall of a pair of Vegas hoods. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Five Days in Paris Author: Steel, Danielle / Garber, Victor (Narrator) ISBN: 0-553-47429-4 Format: 6 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Random House Audio Published: November 1, 1995 Condition: Price: USD $2.49 Amazon.com: Peter Haskell, the debonair star of Five Days in Paris, has it all: a beautiful wife, three children, and a dreamy job. He's a magnate at one of the world's largest pharmaceutical conglomerates, Viotec, on the brink of revolutionizing cancer treatment. "It would be Peter's one major contribution to the human race," says the narrator--and if he can get it on the fast track toward approval by the Food and Drug Administration, he can mitigate the hell of chemotherapy for patients worldwide. Heady stuff, but it's nothing compared to what Peter finds in Paris at his favorite hotel, the Ritz, which he likens to heaven. "The brocades on the wall were a warm peach ... the fireplace apricot marble and the window and bedcoverings were in the same matching silks and satins." All Peter needs now is a beauty to match such decor, and he finds her in lovely Olivia Thatcher, the neglected wife of Anderson Thatcher, a powerful senator. Peter and Olivia meet at the Ritz, fall head over heels at Place Vendome, and have a 120-hour affair in the city of love. Back home, they find they cannot live without each other--a secret that, once revealed, could wreak havoc. Swirling with lust, politics, love, and epicurean appetites for the best life has to offer, Five Days in Paris has all the essentials of a classic Steel entertainment. From Publishers Weekly: FIVE DAYS IN PARIS Danielle Steel. Steel's 36th novel, an 18-week PW bestseller, is a tale between two Americans in Paris who are married to other people. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. The Whispering Outlaw Author: Brand, Max / Bond, Jim (Narrator) ISBN: 1-56100-584-3 Format: 3 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Golden West Literary Agency Published: December 1, 1994 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Book Description: "Steady, Borgen," said a terrible and familiar murmur behind him. "Steady, man. If you turn, I shoot." There was a tidal wave of crime, of murder, of robbery. Here and there, separated at distances of five hundred or even a thousand miles, crimes were committed which were carefully prepared with a painful and laborious hand; and then they were executed in an instant by one or two bold spirits directed by one man - one quiet-voiced, uncannily brilliant outlaw who seemed to know everything before it happened - the Whisperer. Who was this whispering outlaw who could so easily slip through the hand of the lawmen Kenworthy and even baffle the seasoned and brutal gunman Lew Borgen, whom he drew to his ranks? What dark vengeance choreographed the far-flung criminal schemes of such a mysterious and evil genius? Find out in Max Brand's masterful classic western - "The Whispering Outlaw." Airframe Author: Crichton, Michael / Brown, Blair (Narrator) ISBN: 0-679-45266-4 Format: 4 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Random House Audio Published: November 27, 1996 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Amazon.com: Cruising 35,000 feet above the earth, a twin-engine commercial jet encounters an accident that leaves 3 dead, 56 wounded, and the cabin in shambles. What happened? With a multi-billion-dollar company-saving deal on the line, Casey Singleton is sent by her hard-driving boss to uncover the mysterious circumstances that led to the disaster before more people die. But someone doesn't want her to find the truth. Airframe bristles with authentic information, technical jargon, and the command of detail Crichton's readers have come to expect. From Publishers Weekly: Like his role model, H.G. Wells, Crichton likes to moralize in his novels. In this slight, enjoyable thriller, the moral is the superficiality of TV, especially of its simplistic news coverage. Readers willing to overlook the irony of this message being broadcast by the man who created TV's top-rated drama (E.R.) will marvel again at Crichton's uncanny commercial instincts. The event that launches the story, conceived long before TWA Flight 800's last takeoff, is an airline disaster. Why did a passenger plane "porpoise"-pitch and dive repeatedly-enroute from Hong Kong to Denver, killing four and injuring 56? That's what Casey Singleton, v-p for quality assurance for Norton Aircraft, has to find out fast. If Norton's design is to blame, its imminent deal with China may collapse, and the huge company along with it. With Casey as his unsubtle focus-she's one of the few Crichton heroines, an all-American gal who's more plot device than character-Crichton works readers through a brisk course in airline mechanics and safety. The accretion of technical detail, though fascinating, makes for initially slow reading that speeds up only fitfully when Casey is menaced by what seem to be union men angry over the Chinese deal. But as she uncovers numerous anomalies about the accident, and as high corporate intrigue and a ratings-hungry TV news team enter the picture, the plot complicates and suspense rises, peaking high above the earth in an exciting re-creation of the flight. It's possible that Crichton has invented a new subgenre here-the industrial thriller-despite elements (video-generated clues, for one) recycled from his earlier work. It's certain that, while this is no Jurassic Park, he's concocted another slick, bestselling, cinema-ready entertainment. 2,000,000 first printing; Literary Guild main selection; film rights sold to Disney for a reported $8-$10 million; simultaneous large-print edition and Random House audio and CD editions. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Malice Author: Steel, Danielle / Culp, Jason (Narrator) ISBN: 0-553-47667-X Format: 4 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Random House Audio Published: April 1, 1996 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 Amazon.com: Only veteran author Danielle Steel can make dysfunction this fashionable! In Malice, her 37th potboiler, the gloves come off. Life is no fairy tale for teenager Grace Adams. The preternaturally quiet and dowdy daughter of Watseka's favorite son, lawyer John Adams, and his lovely, cancer-stricken wife Ellen, Grace has an ugly little secret that she's kept for four years. When her father brutally rapes her following her mother's funeral, Grace kills him. Only 17 years old, she faces the death penalty in a town all too willing to perpetrate the fiction of John Adams, even when it means prison for Grace. Upon release two years later, Grace heads for Chicago where life starts looking up when she finds a job as a receptionist in a downtown modeling agency. Unfortunately, Grace encounters an unscrupulous photographer and a slimy parole officer. As soon as her parole is over, Grace escapes again, running to New York City to disappear among the hordes. Working as a secretary in a law firm, she's asked to work for a partner. After a rocky start, Charles Mackenzie and Grace establish a comfortable routine. But when Grace is brutally beaten by the husband of a woman in the crisis center where she volunteers, Charles is at her side constantly, arranging for the finest medical care and talking her out of her coma. Love blooms as Grace slowly recuperates. Finally whole again, inside and out, Grace and Charles marry and start a family. Life couldn't get much better as Charles enters politics and Grace tends to their growing family. But when tabloids release the story of Grace's sordid past and explicit photos of Grace taken while she was drugged, their family is left reeling, with Charles's campaign in shambles and Grace's life crumbling around her. Danielle Steel doesn't even pretend that Malice is a piece of romantic fiction, but loyal fans will happily make the transition as she charts a new course! --Alison Trinkle From Publishers Weekly: Sexual abuse in myriad forms imbues Steel's new novel with uncharacteristically dark tones. The narrative covers more than 20 painful years in the life of Grace Adams, an incest victim who, at age 17, shoots dead her abusive father. Sent to prison, Grace is rescued from a lesbian gang-rape by a pair of women who provide protection during her two-year sentence. Once released, she heads to Chicago, where she lands a job in a modeling agency, only to be sexually harassed by a series of men, including her parole officer, her boss and a wicked photographer. After her probation ends, Grace moves to New York; there, she works as secretary in a major law firm and volunteers in a shelter for abused women. Steel is careful not to let the nearly fatal beating that follows mar her heroine's good looks, or future. Grace emerges from a coma to find handsome Charles Mackenzie, her high-powered lawyer boss, at her bedside. A happy ending?which follows some satisfying vengeance on Grace's part?doesn't minimize the aura of victimization that surrounds this heroine. Only in a Danielle Steel novel would a 19-year-old ex-con show up at her first job interview in a "little Chanel knockoff" suit?but neither pseudo-high fashion nor the high-handed conclusion keep this yarn from being, ultimately, a big downer that earns its title in more ways than one. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Ironweed Authors: Kennedy, William / Robards, Jason ISBN: 1-57815-186-4 Format: 2 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Media Books Audio Publishing Published: June 2000 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Book Description: Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike. He ran away again after accidentally -- and fatally -- dropping his infant son. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town, roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and the present. "A powerfully affecting work, abounding in humor and heartbreak." (Chicago Tribune Bookworld) IRONWEED is last in the Albany Trilogy, preceeded by LEGS and BILLY PHELAN'S GREATEST GAME. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. Beyond the Great Snow Mountains Author: L' Amour, Louis / Mann, Terrence (Narrator) ISBN: 0-553-52619-7 Format: 4 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Random House Audio Published: May 4, 1999 Condition: Price: USD $2.29 From Publishers Weekly: Written in the 1940s and '50s, the 10 stories in this collection, none previously published in book form, come complete with curvy Hopper-like heroines "shaped to please" whose "eyes you could lose yourself in." The heroesAboxers, detectives and gunslinging cowboysAsleuth, shoot and slug their way valiantly through plots that seem like dress rehearsals for the full-blown L'Amour novels. Surprisingly, there is just one true western, a melodramatic horse opera loaded with cattle rustlers, gunfighters and hayseed dialogue. "Meeting at Falmouth," an unconvincing historical fiction, imagines a proud and tragic Benedict Arnold on a rainy night in 1794. "The Money Punch" and "Sideshow Champion" make prizefighting (an early occupation of L'Amour's) the theater for drama, suspense and moral conflict as ambition calls the loyalty and honesty of two young boxers into question. The collection's most successful story, "Under the Hanging Wall," is a clever whodunit with a chiseled gumshoe investigating a murder in a California mining town. Smart foreshadowing and snappy plotting reveal L'Amour to be a skilled mystery writer. Though not sophisticated psychologically, L'Amour's brassy women and dusty men keep the action of these cinematic stories hot. Entertaining and of interest to the devotees of L'Amour's 100-plus books, these adventure tales offer their share of the high drama L'Amour is famous for. Three more collections of yet-unpublished work will follow. FYI: Louis L'Amour, who wrote 90 novels, was the only novelist to receive both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. There are more than 260 million copies of his books in print. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From School Library Journal Grade 7 Up-Eight stories of adventure by Louis L'Amour. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. A Hell of a Woman Author: Thompson, Jim ISBN: 0-931969-22-0 Format: 2 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Book of the Road Published: December 1985 Condition: Price: USD $3.99 Inside Flap Copy: Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldn't bring himself to use. But when Mona told him about the vicious aunt who had turned her into something little better than a prostitute--and about the money the old lady has stashed away--Dillon found it surprisingly easy to kill for her. About the Author: (1906 - 1977) James Meyers Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detective when he was only fourteen. Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals. Thompson also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films "The Killing" and "Paths of Glory"). An outstanding crime writer, the world of his fiction is rife with violence and corruption. In examining the underbelly of human experience and American society in particular, Thompson's work at its best is both philosophical and experimental. Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet (1955), and The Grifters (1963). Natural Science and Planet Earth Authors: Newman, Edwin / Hassell, Mike / Childs, Pat ISBN: 0-938935-73-9 Format: 2 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Carmichael & Carmichael Published: March 1993 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Story of Electricity Authors: Newman, Edwin / Hassell, Mike / Sommer, Jack ISBN: 1-56823-000-1 Format: 2 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Carmichael & Carmichael Published: June 1994 Condition: Price: USD $2.99 Chemistry and Enlightenment Authors: Newman, Edwin / Hassell, Mike / Sommer, Jack ISBN: 0-938935-72-0 Format: 2 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Knowledge Products Published: March 1993 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 Exploring and Mapmaking Authors: Newman, Edwin / Hassell, Mike / Sommer, Jack ISBN: 0-938935-68-2 Format: 2 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Knowledge Products Published: March 1993 Condition: Price: USD $2.69 From AudioFile: If I could expose my school-age children to only one audiobook series, the Audio Classics Series would be it. The approach is always the same: A skilled narrator lays out the subject in concise, nicely written phrases; actors interspersed play the parts of luminaries of the tale. Exploring and Mapmaking brings us back to the Phoenicians of 3000 years ago, then traces the problems and solutions that voyagers have faced throughout history. Television personality Edwin Newman provides the voice of authority with his steady, clear, informal style. The narrator takes a more prominent role, but we hear the "voices" of Aristotle and Darwin, among others. These learning experiences are some of the best among audio adaptations. D.W. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine Science In Antiquity Authors: Newman, Edwin / Hassell, Mike / Sommer, Jack ISBN: 0-938935-66-6 Format: 2 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Carmichael & Carmichael Published: March 1993 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 From AudioFile: For 2,000 years the study of astronomy dominated science from the Mesopotamian era to the Greek philosophers. The Greeks added concepts such as atoms, deductive and inductive reasoning, the scientific method, and logic. Edwin Newman dominates the narration, with his sandy, familiar voice guiding listeners through past millennia without haste. He handles the vocabulary of earlier civilizations and foreign places with ease. Six additional narrators aid Newman by speaking the quotes taken from the writings of the famous personalities mentioned. Their exaggerated portrayals of how these great men spoke proves entertaining. J.A.H. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine Monetarism & Supply Side Economics Free Market Thought in the Late 20th Century Authors: Kirzner, Israel M. / Hassell, Mike / Rukeyser, Louis ISBN: 0-938935-43-7 Format: 2 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Knowledge Products Published: August 1992 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 From the Publisher: From classical economics to monetarism and supply side ideas, these presentations express the views of history's most important economists. Particular emphasis is placed on explaining each thinker's attitude toward capitalism. Arthur Schopenhauer Germany (1788-1860) Authors: Heston, Charlton (Narrator) / McElroy, Wendy / Smith, George H. ISBN: 0-938935-25-9 Format: 2 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Carmichael & Carmichael Published: October 1994 Condition:   Price: USD $1.99 Book Description: Schopenhauer was the most articulate and influential pessimist in the history of human thought. He believed the space and time of ordinary life are illusions and that we can flourish only at each other's expense. Life therefore is evil to the core and pain and suffering are unavoidable; the price of escape is the total surrender of ambition desire and choice.   Soren Kierkegaard Denmark Authors: Heston, Charlton (Narrator) / McElroy, Wendy / Smith, George H. ISBN: 0-938935-26-7 Format: 2 Audio Cassettes Publisher: Carmichael & Carmichael Published: December 1990 Condition: Price: USD $1.99 BUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKSBUY4LESSBOOKS Buy4LessBooks Free Classified Ads