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May 19, 2006

Better in Audio Book List

Could a book be better in audio? The audiobooks on the Better in Audio book list prove that sometimes listening can be better. Selections include fiction, nonfiction and children's/young adult titles.

Anita Diamant. Read by Kate Nelligan. Last Days of Dogtown
Based loosely on a true story of a historic community, this novel is set on Cape Ann in the early 1800s. Peopled with widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, free Africans, and "witches," it resurrects a forgotten sector of society. (Unabridged CD)

John Berendt. Read by Jeff Woodman. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilarious black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A prominent antiques dealer. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a "walking streak of sex". These are some of the real residents of Savannah, Georgia, a city whose eccentric mores are unerringly observed and whose dirty linen is gleefully aired in this utterly irresistible book. At once a true-crime murder story and a hugely entertaining and deliciously perverse travelogue, this work is as intoxicating as a half-a-dozen mint juleps. (Unabridged Cassette)

Garth Nix. Read by Tim Curry. Sabriel (Book 1)
Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead. (Unabridged Cassette)