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Author: Roberto Bolaño, Multi-Voice Production

Unforgettable characters converge on Santa Teresa – a fictional Juarez – on the U.S.-Mexico border. Here, hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared. This impressive work is divided into five tales, each focusing on an interweaving story. Winner of the 2008 National Book Critic's Circle Award for Fiction. "A consummate display of literary virtuosity."—Kirkus Reviews

Unabridged, 1 Playaway, Fiction-Modern, Literary, NP9553, 9781433279553, $119.99
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Author: Maria Beaumont, Reader: Kate Reading

At 37, this desperate housewife meets midlife with a full-blown crisis. To her relief, her closest friends come to her rescue. She learns to thank them for her salvation – not because they are there for her, but because she discovershow to be there for them. Winner of a Listen Up award from Publishers Weekly. "Reading's bravura performance nails down every character... [Her] performance turns this amiable novel into a tour de force performance that is funny, fast-moving, and fearless."—Publishers Weekly

Unabridged, 1 Playaway, Fiction-Modern, Women's, MP7530, 9781606407530, $64.99
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Absolute Fear
Author: Lisa Jackson, Reader: Joyce Bean

For the past three months, Eve Renner has struggled to remember the night she was nearly killed and her lover was tried for murder. She remembers getting the anxious call from a friend from her past: "Meet me at the cabin. I've got evidence." She remembers seeing that friend lying in a pool of blood. And she remembers a horrifying glimpse of her lover Cole Dennis's face as a gunshot plunged her into darkness. Now, her memory and emotions scarred, Eve has returned to New Orleans to forget the past. But the past will not be forgotten. Eve's shattered memory has helped Cole walk on murder charges just as a new series of killings begins.

The latest murders are bizarre and baffling. The victims are killed i

Unabridged, 1 Playaway, Fiction-Modern, Romantic Suspense, MP9190, 9781606409190, $84.99
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Absurdistan
Author: Gary Shteyngart, Reader: Arte Johnson

The uproarious and poignant story of one very fat ex-Russian and one very small country. Caught in the tiny, oil-rich nation of Absurdistan when civil war breaks out, big Misha soon finds himself covered in oil, fighting for his life, falling in love, and wondering if a normal life is still possible in the 21st century. "Graphic, slapstick satire... madcap."—Publishers Weekly

Unabridged, 1 Playaway, Fiction-Modern, Humorous, MP6540, 9781606406540, $64.99
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The Accidental
Author: Ali Smith, Reader: Multiple Narrators

Amber, an eerie, exotic woman, invades the Smarts' summer vacation. As she insinuates herself into the family with lies and cleverness, they begin to see themselves through her eyes. When she is finally banished, she disappears from their sight, but not from their profoundly altered lives. "The readers successfully create an atmosphere of hypnotic appeal infused with seductive tension."—Booklist

Unabridged, 1 Playaway, Fiction-Modern, Literary, NP2100, 9781598952100, $54.99
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Adam Resurrected
Author: Yoram Kaniuk, Reader: Stefan Rudnicki

Once he entertained thousands of other Jews as they entered the gas chamber. Now he is the ringleader at an asylum for Holocaust survivors, struggling to live in a world in which the line between sanity and madness is blurred. The movie stars Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe. "Rudnicki's narration seems more like a poem than a novel... It's as if he alone were born to read these words."—AudioFile

Unabridged, 1 Playaway, Fiction-Modern, Historical, MP8853, 9781433278853, $69.99
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Against the Day
Author: Thomas Pynchon, Reader: Dick Hill

In this sprawling historical saga, myriad characters battle and love, experiment and adventure in the years between 1893 and just after WWI. With that disaster looming, it is a time of corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. "Hill works wonders as he portrays this cast of hundreds who wend their way through a dense yet always intriguing story... immensely rewarding."—AudioFile

Unabridged, 1 Playaway, Fiction-Modern, Literary, MP8687, 9781605148687, $184.99
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The Age of Shiva
Author: Manil Suri, Reader: Josephine Bailey

Caught up in the passion of a love at first sight, a 17-year-old Indian girl dives into an ill-considered marriage that pleases no one. No one, that is, until she gives birth to a son who fulfills her completely. This story of modern Indiais richly layered with themes from Hindu mythology. From the author of The Death of Vishnu. "Bailey is true to Meera's character, giving depth to her passion but holding it in check."—AudioFile

Unabridged, 1 Playaway, Fiction-Modern, Literary, MP7847, 9781615457847, $69.99
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