2006

Mitch Cullin. Read by Simon Jones. A Slight Trick of the Mind

2005

Russell Banks. Ready by Mary Beth Hurt. The Darling

A major new novel from the author of "The Sweet Hereafter" follows an American woman in Liberia and her struggle to save endangered chimpanzees amidst the violence of civil unrest. (Unabridged CD)

2004

Ruth Ozeki. Read by Anna Fields. All Over Creation

Meet Yumi Fuller. A Japanese American prodigal daughter, Yumi (aka Yummy) is returning home to the Idaho potato farm she ran away from twenty-five years earlier. Then a freewheeling hippie chick, Yumi is now a fairly responsible parent and a professor with a side gig selling lava lots in Hawaii. But can she possibly be prepared to face her dying father, her Alzheimer's-devastated mother, and Cass, the best friend she left behind? And there's the former lover whose agribusiness client has banished him to Idaho, where he lands in the small-town community he once offended and in Yumi's life. (Unabridged CD)

2003

Jeffrey Eugenides. Read by Kristoffer Tabori. Middlesex

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. (Unabridged Cassette & CD)

2002

Stephen King and Peter Straub. Read by Frank Muller. The Talisman

Thirteen-year-old Jack Sawyer has been chosen for a quest across America and into another realm. To save his mother's life, Jack must search for a prize in an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, incredible dangers, and even more incredible truths. (Unabridged CD)

2001

Tom Robbins. Read by Keith Szarabajka. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government, a pacifist who carries a gun, a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy, a cyberwiz who hates computers ..." (Unabridged Cassette)

2000

Wally Lamb. Read by George Guidall. I Know This Much Is True

1999

John Irving. Read by George Guidall. A Widow for One Year

A novel about a family marked by tragedy and the "difficult" women who survive. Richly comic as well as deeply disturbing, this is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief. (Unabridged Cassette)

1998

Kit Denton. Read by Terence Donovan. The Breaker

1997

Stephen King. Read by Frank Muller. The Green Mile

The story revolves around a guard's remembrances of the green corridor leading to the electric chair at a Southern prison in 1932. (Unabridged Cassette & CD)

1996

Earl Hamner, Jr. Read by Richard Thomas. The Homecoming

When Clay Spencer fails to arrive home at the expected hour on Christmas Eve of 1933, his family grows concerned. While his seven brothers and sisters and his mother keep vigil the older son, Clay-boy, goes in search of his father. But on his journey through the snowbound Virginia hills, the boy experiences a series of hazardous, touching and hilarious adventures. Basis for the TV series The Waltons. (Unabridged Cassette)