Bob the Gambler audiobook

"A wise and funny tale"--New York Times Book Review

"A novel of surprising heart and soul."--Kirkus Reviews

"The genius of Barthelme's jazzed-up comic art is to look at life's familiar, junky stuff and, by some act of affection, make it mysteriously new."--The New Yorker

"In his lovingly detailed focus on American life in the fast-food lane, Barthelme achieves a kind of updated American Gothic."--New York Times

"Adams Morgan does author Frederick Barthelme a distinct favor: In the tradition of unexpressive performance style, he gets out of the way....Bob the Gambler has enough quirkiness all by itself and doesn't need any added complications."--AudioFile

A New York Times Notable Book

In this darkly funny story, Ray and Jewel Kaiser try (and push) their luck at the Paradise casino. What curious events ensue, what tricks of fortune and misfortune, make up the fabric of this novel about wising up better late than never.

Jewel's fourteen-year-old daughter, Ray's dead father, and a mother convinced that a sitcom star is visiting across the street from her house feature in the Kaiser's adventures. Dazed casino denizens, a lusty grocery-store manager, body-pierced children, and hourly employees in full revolt enhance the setting. This is the story of a couple who, after tumbling headfirst out of their middle-class Garden of Eden, discover they've landed in an even more fertile garden outside its walls.

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Written By : Frederick Barthelme

Narrated By : Adams Morgan

Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc

Length : 6 hours

Category : Fiction

Download Price : $14.95

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Are You Afraid of the Dark? (Abridged) audiobook

All around the globe, people are being reported dead or missing.

In Berlin, a woman vanishes from the city streets. In Paris, a man plunges from the Eiffel Tower. In Denver, a small plane crashes into the mountains. In Manhattan, a body washes ashore from the East River. At first these seem to be random incidents, but the police soon discover that all four of the victims are connected to Kingsley International Group (KIG), the largest think tank in the world.

Kelly Harris and Diane Stevens -- young widows of two of the victims -- encounter each other in New York, where Tanner Kingsley, the head of KIG, assures them that he is using every resource to solve the mysterious deaths of their husbands. But he may be too late. Someone is intent on murdering both women, and they suffer a harrowing series of close escapes. Who is trying to kill them and why?

Forced together for protection, and suspicious of each other and everyone around them, the two widows embark on a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse against the unknown forces out to destroy them.

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Written By : Sidney Sheldon

Narrated By : Marsha Mason

Published By : Harper Collins US

Length : 6 hours

Category : Crime

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Winner of the Orange Award for New Writers

For Ronit Krushka, thirty-two and single and living on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Orthodox

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estranged father, the preeminent rabbi of the London Orthodox Jewish community in which

she was raised, she leaves behind her Friday-night takeout, her troublesome romance, and her

boisterous circle of friends to return home. Her dual mission there is to mourn her father and to

collect a single heirloom of her mother's. But as she reconnects with old acquaintances and the

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Set at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, Disobedience explores a devout and

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Written By - Naomi Alderman

Narrated By - Roe Kendall

Published By - Blackstone Audio Inc

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Category - Fiction

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