Three Cups of Tea

Three Cups of Tea ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Patrick Lawlor
11 discs

Three Cups of Tea traces Mortenson’s decade-long odyssey to build school especially for girls, throughout the region that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to Al Qaeda. While he wages war with the root causes of terrorism, poverty and ignorance, Mortenson survives kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, death threats from Americans who consider him a traitor, and wrenching separations from his family.

Oh, but I do not care for Patrick Lawlor’s slight scratchy voice quality, good thing the book was compelling.

The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat

The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by David Hyde Pierce

After his valiant but frail mother leaves him in search for food and never returns, the starving kitten is taken, hissing and spitting, to a frightening room with cages and men in white coats. Facing the specter of eternal sleep, the homeless cat is adopted by a woman he later calls “Warm.” (“All cats like to make up strange names for things.”) From here Foudini shares splendid tales of his unlikely but ultimately poignant friendship with Sam the Dog; their trips between Cold House in the city and Mouse House in the country; his mystical experiences with famous felines of the past; his near-death in a raging river that leads to a profound act of sacrifice; and his introduction to a silly young thing named Grace, which evolves into something completely unexpected.

Amanda’s Wedding

Amanda’s Wedding ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Tanya Eby

Melanie and Fran are two charmingly wisecracking young Londoners who simply can’t believe it when their old schoolfriend Amanda, Satan’s own PR agent, manages to get herself hitched to Scottish lord, Fraser McConnel.   All Amanda,  the social -climbing queen of preen, cares about is the title she’ll soon have. She’s got Fraser by the nuptials, and she has no intention of letting go. Gentle, decent Fraser is completely innocent Amanda’s wiles, so Mel and Fran join forces with Fraser’s adorable younger brother Angus to sabotage the mismatch of the century.

The Pushcart War

The Pushcart War ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by George Guidall

The pushcarts have declared war! New York City’s streets are clogged with huge, rude trucks that park where they want, hold up traffic, and bulldoze into anything that is in their way, and the pushcart peddlers are determined to get rid of them. But the trucks are just as determined to get rid of the pushcarts, and chaos results in the city.

The Mermaid Chair

The Mermaid Chair ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Eliza Foss
11 discs

Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion.   Jessie Sullivan is called home to Egret Island to cope with her mother performs a startling and enigmatic act of violence at the abbey.   Amid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeks Jessie becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows. What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother’s tormented past and put her own marriage in jepoardy.

Cause Celeb

Cause Celeb ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Bernadette Quigley

Twenty-something Rosie Richardson leaves her hotshot boyfriend the glitzy life of London’s celebrity scene for a job running a refugee camp in the African jungle. After a struggle, Rosie learns that the only way to bring in the food is to call on the celebrity clout of the people she left behind.

I am America! (and so can you)

I am America! (and so can you) ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Stephen Colbert
3 discs

A humorous collection of the authors most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on the American family, race, religion, sex and sports written in the style of a typical pundit’s “fight for the traditional values” and serving comentary and satire along the way.

The Reader

The Reader ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Campbell Scott
4 discs

When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time  he begins an affair with this emotionally remote older woman and then she inexplicably disappears.  Years later, when he is a law student and she is on trial, Michael discovers that Hanna is a “survivor” of the Holocaust.

The Rule of Four

The Rule of Four ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Jeff Woodman
11 discs

On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the five-hundred-year-old Hypnerotomachia may finally reveal its secrets.  Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with the book, and Paul Harris, whose future in academia depends on it, find that as the deadline looms and their research has stalled events begine to turn deadly.

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Carolyn McCormick
9 discs

In the Capitol of Panem, a nation that lies in the ruins of North America, sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, for whom survival is second nature, steps forward to what she sees as a death sentence when she takes her younger sister’s place in the Capitol’s annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.