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The crisp precise language of the story irons out an implicit California-Palo Alto class structure, in addition to a real plot! A hairy doctor found dead in a $400 hotel room… a husband.

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"Look, Preacher, I don't need saving; I'm not interested in dating, and I'd just as soon not be your friend. So why don't you go peddle 'let's be friends' somewhere else," she tells Noah when he tries talking to her at lunchtime at school. We have the perfect subject of theJodi Thomas Welcome to Harmony Narrated by Julia Gibson

What a wonderful Upper West Side between Broadway and Central Park West in the 70s voice to listen to .... when you're on a boat to Kabul or Talibaq. Close your eyes and you can see the doormen, the yellow taxis, the short, balding, murderous psychoanalysts, walking their dogs betweenHope to Die by Lawrence Block

Michael Cantela is the youngest winner of the Investment Advisor of the Year at the elite investment firm of Saxton Silvers. He has a knack for making rich people richer, an apartment on Sutton Place, an unemployed wife, and an eight or nine figure personal portfolio. ThatMoney To Burn by James Grippando, narrated by Jonathan Davis

Who is this the multi tempered red-headed irish blooded vixen who drives mild-mannered priests and gentle men toward madness and reproduction... appearing over and again in Greeley's work-- ( Sister? Aunt? Teacher? Mother?) GET the nabridged narration by JONATHAN MAROSZ(!) and see how the girl on roof saves the Pope with aWhite Smoke by Andrew Greeley read by Jonathan Marosz

This is a charming very digestable story about one sister told by another. The sister in the spotlight is a freckled lovable morning news show host, with a perpetual trousseau of people who dress her, praise her, and advertise her friendship. A black limo brings herRise and Shine by Anna Quindlen read by Carol Monda

Short, spoiled and operatic is the 14 year old Persian Jewess who charms Gabe, the poor little rich foundling now living with Peter and Rena Decker. Gabe is a little lovable, a little weird, and very horny. But he is also a musical prodigy, with the lean blonde wits ofGun Games by Faye Kellerman read by Mitchell Greenberg

A Bruegellian world of busy little people working very hard and magical children repeating absolutely useless gestures: marvellous Maeve Binchy. Eddie's dressmaker mother is surrounded by patterns and perpetually draped in some nearly finished garment as she sews and listens to the radio. "Let's just agree that he didn't keepThe Copper Beech by Maeve Binchy read by Barbara Caruso

What begins as a story about a girly James Dean with two wicked sisters and a drunk mother becomes a story about a CPW apartment building and its history, its doorman, its neighbors. Tina Finn is outrageous and outraged, at everyone with a bank account or a stable identity, at herTwelve Rooms With A View by Theresa Rebeck read by Marguerite Gavin

A short sharp meditation on how we know what we know and how we decide what we decide by the director of the Center of Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. When I became director of the Max Planck institute of Human Development,Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer read by Dick Hill

A conspicuously intelligent society wife with perfect manners and an unfaithful husband is driving home from the country club and her BMW is hit by a huge truck. Stuck inside the car, she promises the Gods to do good, if only she does not go up in flames. She doesThe Social Climber of Davenport Heights by Pamela Morsi read by Isabelle Gordon

What begins as a semi-magical stay at a semi-magical cottage ends as another story about pregnant women at an English Women's Shelter.The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna Van Praag

Has anyone else noticed a spectacular and embarrassing silliness among the old guard of East Coast scribblers? As though they were trying to write comic books, and couldn't figure out how to convert text into images? Gone are the wry, dry, street talk, the inside cracks of persons, cities, institutions.Capture by Robert Tanenbaum read by Charles Leggett

Because this is a women's book you will read about a man, probably a husband, and he will be successful and fit and when he dies he will leave his wife betrayed, in debt and uninformed.Widow's Waltz by Sally Koslow

Wed Sep 08, 2004 After P. Cornwell it is impossible or almost impossible to fob off a respectable forensic report, fake a fictional autopsy, or counterfeit the routine day to day life of an imaginary female coroner. If you want to be taken seriously, that is. The rather silly scene thatBlindsided by Karen Slaughter

An English schoolboy's happy meal: a murder, a bit of Herodotus, a little masochism, a little colonialism, a shovelful of archaeology, a box of cheroots, a little petit bourgeois pettiness, a pretty but not too pretty girl who works with animals, a plain, uxurious police inspector, and a healthy dollopThe Lost Army of Cambysus by Paul Sussman read by Gordon Griffin

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