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Colonial Radio Theatres thrilling 15 chapter serial set on the high seas! Packed with nail-biting suspense, action, and adventure, Yankee Clipper will have you hooked until its thrilling conclusion!StarringJ.T.TurnerJoseph Zamparelli Jr.Jeremy BensonShane ClarkeCraig CiampaLincoln ClarkSam DonatoJim MurphyAnd the Colonial Radio PlayersExecutive Producer Mark Vander BergMusic By Jeffrey GageWritten, Produced and Directed By Jerry RobbinsIn this episode,the Golden Sphinx is stolen, and Captain Hawk suspects Luther Penrose of The Black Arrow as the thief; and sets sail to get it back.Publisher: Colonial Radio Theatre On The AirAuthor: Jerry RobbinsNarrator: Full Cast ProductionISBN: Download Price: $1.50

Millions of readers the world over have been held spellbound by this valiant tale vividly told.

Now, enter Terry Goodkind's world, the world of The Sword of Truth.

In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary seeking help...and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence.

In their darkest hour, hunted relentlessly, tormented by treachery and loss, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword-to invoke within himself something more noble. Neither knows that the rules of battle have just changed...or that their time has run out.

This is the beginning. One book. One Rule. Witness the birth of a legend.

"Wonderfully creative, seamless, and stirring."
-Kirkus Reviews
Publisher: Brilliance Audio IncAuthor: Terry GoodkindNarrator: Jim BondISBN: 1597109924Download Price: $29.95

Clive Merrison

and

Michael Williams

star as Holmes and Watson in the fourth collection of stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon.



Wisteria Lodge -

Mr John Scott Eccles wakes to find that his host and all the domestic staff have vanished and, downstairs, the police find grim evidence of voodoo rites.




The Cardboard Box -

The morning mail brings Miss Susan Gushing a gruesome surprise. Who would want to send a gentle spinster two severed human ears!




The Red Circle -

A local landlady has an eccentric lodger who is causing her grave concern especially after her husband was abducted, obviously mistaken for someone else.




The Bruce Partington Plans -

Holmes is asked by his brother, Mycroft, to uncover how top secret plans for the Bruce Partington submarine could have been stolen from the Woolwich Arsenal.

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks LtdAuthor: Arthur Conan DoyleNarrator: VariousISBN: 1405626224Download Price: $18.49

Hawk Hunter has awakened to an alternate world where World War II has never ended. The London Blitz still rages, but the British capital is a Nazi-occupied site with the American shores targeted for invasion by German forces. Their weapon is the A-bomb! Now, there's only one way for Hawk Hunter to save the future of America by winning World War II again!

Written by Mack Maloney and read by Terence Aselford

Terence Aselford has narrated over 150 audiobooks. His acting career has included regional theater roles ranging from Shakespeare to Neil Simon, on-camera work in NBC's Unsolved Mysteries, national television commercials, industrial videos and voice-overs.
Director: Richard Rohan
Produced in the studios at The Cutting Corporation
Abridgment: Geoff Schackert
Executive Producers: Alisa Weberman, Alfred Martino, Anji Cornette
Cover Art: Broeck Steadman
Cover Design: Dan Sorge, The Cutting CorporationPublisher: Defiance AudioAuthor: Mack MaloneyNarrator: Terence AselfordISBN: Download Price: $5.99

Tom Converse was the kind of man to pull a Colt from his back pocket faster than the seasoned gunslingers could draw from a hip holster. It seemed to come easy to him - like breathing in and out. But was he also the kind of man to make a whole town trigger-happy with fear? Did he hide behind a dark mask and come back for vengeance? Was he The Shadow? Sylvia didn't think so. "I'm the only one who knows the face of the real Shadow," she said.
A dappled chestnut with black points is the only clue to the identity of a town's secret horror. It could be a case of mistaken identity, but yet, again . . . This early Max Brand classic features the mysterious and ambiguous figure of The Shadow, a masked and lonely gunslinger who foreshadows great Western legends like Zorro and the Lone Ranger.
Publisher: Brilliance Audio IncAuthor: Max BrandNarrator: Buck SchirnerISBN: 9781423335016Download Price: $24.95

Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when both his mother and father disappear under suspicious circumstances. He grows up to become a renowned detective, and more than 20 years later, returns to Shanghai to solve the mystery of the disappearances.

Within the layers of the narrative told in Christopher's precise, slightly detached voice are revealed what he can't, or wont, see: that the simplest desires -- a child's for his parents, a man's for understanding -- may give rise to the most complicated truths.

A feat of narrative skill and soaring imagination, When We Were Orphans is Kazuo Ishiguro at his brilliant best.Publisher: Harper Collins USAuthor: Kazuo IshiguroNarrator: John LeeISBN: 0 06 082489 1Normal Price: $39.95Download Price: $25.95

Pendergast has taken Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies.
At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. Pendergast agrees to take up the search.
The trail leads him and Constance to the maiden voyage of the Queen Victoria, the world's largest and most luxurious passenger liner-and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror.
Publisher: Hachette AudioAuthor: Douglas Preston & Lincoln ChildNarrator: Rene AuberjonoisISBN: 1594839425Normal Price: $49.98Download Price: $37.99

Scarlet Feather is set in contemporary Dublin, and is the story of Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather, who go into business together as caterers.
Tom is the son of a builder and his fanatically devout wife, both of whom are disappointed that he hasn’t joined the family building firm.
Cathy’s father is an inveterately optimistic gambler on the horses, and her mother, Lizzie, is a domestic cleaner. I
n particular Lizzie cleans the house of Cathy’s mother-in-law, the fearsome Hannah Mitchell. Hannah is furious that her clever lawyer son, Neil, should have married her maid’s daughter, and is even more outraged when Cathy sets up Scarlet Feather with Tom.
Tom’s hopelessly obsessive love for his beautiful, ambitious model girlfriend, Marcella, and Cathy’s increasingly distant marriage to Neil, form the heart of the emotional tangles in the story.
Against a background of hilarious catering triumphs and disasters, these key relationships begin to crumble, and the aphrodisiac of shared business trials and tribulations starts its inevitable work on Cathy and Tom.
Meanwhile, around them, a magical supporting cast of classic Binchy characters weaves its spell; a comically dreadful but endearing set of twin children; a lonely man looking for the foster daughter he had to hand back to her real parents years earlier and the glamorous aunt whose financial backing of Scarlet Feather has a dubious source.
These and many more wend their way through a story of love and heartbreak and laughter – Maeve Binchy at her most beguiling.Publisher: Orion Publishing GroupAuthor: Maeve BinchyNarrator: Kate BinchyISBN: 9780752888309Download Price: $15.99

Texas. They took the most contrary bunch of frontiersmen, ranchers, farmers,
cowpokes, shiftless no-accounts, shootists, rascals, and politicians, jumbled them together, and
somehow formed a state. They called it Texas, but for defenseless women and children, it was hell.

Texas Rangers. Although they were outnumbered a thousand to one, the Texas Rangers fought
a holding action against the complete breakdown of law and order, often paying for peace with their lives.
But one county held out against attack after attack, a place so mean that a saint would have turned bad.

Into this valley of death rode Ranger Vaughn Steel, hungering for revenge, thirsting for justice, and determined
to wipe out the rustlers of Pecos County.

Zane Grey (1872–1939), born in Ohio, was practicing dentistry in New York when he and his wife published his first novel themselves. Grey presented the West as a moral battleground, in which his characters are destroyed because of their inability to change or be redeemed through a final confrontation with their past. The man whose name is synonymous with Westerns made his first trip west in 1907, at age thirty-five. Motion picture rights brought in a fortune, with 109 films based on his work.

Austin native Jim Gough's distinctive voice is well known in the Southwest through his hundreds of commercials and radio shows. He has also appeared in feature films including Urban Cowboy, Places in the Heart, and JFK. When not entertaining folks with his western swing band, The Cosmopolitan Cowboys, Jim is recording audiobooks and writing.Publisher: Blackstone Audio IncAuthor: Zane GreyNarrator: Jim GoughISBN: 0-7861-5402-0Download Price: $16.95

"L'Amour never writes with less than a saddle creak in his sentences and more often
with a desert heatwave boiling up from a sunbaked paragraph. A master storyteller....for reading under
the stars."Kirkus Reviews

"L'Amour is the kind of storyteller who makes the wolves come out of the woods to listen."People

"A strong case can be made that L'Amour was the most popular American writer of the 20th century.His
books embody heroic virtues that seem to matter now more than ever."Wall Street Journal

Lance Kilkenny's gun is believed to be the fastest in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears.
Most folks don't even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny's life after he was
shot up. Now Davis needs Kilkenny's help. He has filed a claim on a water hole near Lost Creek in the live
oak country. The district is dominated by two wealthy cattlemen, Webb Steele and Chet Lord, each one
desiring for himself the water hole that Davis claims. Beautiful Nita Riordan owns the local saloon, and
between her charms and the feuding ranchers, Lance Kilkenny has his work cut out for him.

Louis L'Amour (1908-1988), born in Jamestown, North Dakota, began his career as a writer in the 1940s and became a best-selling author of more than one hundred books that were authentic portrayals of frontier life. More than thirty of his books formed the basis of films. In 1983, he was awarded a National Gold Medal by the U.S. Congress for lifetime literary achievement, and in 1984 he received the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the nation.

Austin native Jim Gough's distinctive voice is well known in the Southwest through his hundreds of commercials and radio shows. He has also appeared in feature films including Urban Cowboy, Places in the Heart, and JFK. When not entertaining folks with his western swing band, The Cosmopolitan Cowboys, Jim is recording audiobooks and writing.Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc

A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. "The Widow Bride of The Falls, " as Ariah comes to be known, begins a relentless, seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side throughout, confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby is unexpectedly transfixed by the strange, otherworldly gaze of this plain, strange woman, falling in love with her though they barely exchange a word. What follows is their passionate love affair, marriage, and children - a seemingly perfect existence.
But the tragedy by which their life together began shadows them, damaging their idyll with distrust, greed, and even murder. What unfurls is a drama of parents and their children; of secrets and sins; of lawsuits, murder and eventually redemption.
Set against the mythic historic backdrop of Niagara Falls, Joyce Carol Oates explores the American family in crisis, but also America itself in the mid-twentieth century. The Falls is a love story gone wrong and righted and it alone places Joyce Carol Oates definitively in the company of the great American novelists.Publisher: Harper Collins USAuthor: Joyce Carol OatesNarrator: Anna FieldsISBN: 0 06 074188 0Normal Price: $39.95Download Price: $21.95

A new kind of thriller, gritty, vivid and menacing, with a pace that never lets up.
Nick Stone left the Special Air Service in 1988, soon after the shooting of three IRA terrorists in Gibraltar. Now working for British Intelligence on deniable operations, he discovers the seemingly senseless murders of a fellow SAS soldier and his family in Washington, DC. Only a seven-year-old daughter, Kelly, has survived – and the two of them are immediately on the run from unidentified pursuers. Stone doesn’t even know which of them is the target.

On his own, Stone stands a chance of escape. But he needs to protect the girl and together they plunge into a dark world of violence and corruption in which friend cannot be told from foe. As events draw to their blazing and unexpected climax, Stone discovers the shocking truth about governments, terrorism and commerce – and the greed that binds the three together…

Remote Control is a new kind of thriller, gritty, vivid and menacing, with a pace that never lets up. Other thriller writers talk the talk. Only McNab has the walk.Publisher: Harper Collins UKAuthor: Andy McNabNarrator: Jack DavenportISBN: 0-00-105633-6Download Price: $12.75

She has locked up her heart, convinced that no one - including God - could love her. Four unlikely people - Alzheimer's patients - find the cracks in Ashley's heart and slowly help her remember.

Then comes the nightmare of September 11, which forever changes the lives of the Baxter family, causing them to remember what is important and leading them to make decisions that are both heartbreaking and hope-filled.

Landon Blake, who has loved Ashley since he was a teenager, tries to dull the pain of her rejection by immersing himself in the rescue efforts at Ground Zero.

Tragedy and healing. Hurt and forgiveness. Redemption. And powerful lessons about remembering.

Novelist Karen Kingsbury and relationship expert Gary Smalley have teamed up to bring you an inspiring series of stories that explore the relationship principles Gary has been teaching for more than thirty years.Publisher: Brilliance Audio IncAuthor: Karen Kingsbury with Gary SmalleyNarrator: Sandra BurrISBN: 9781597379717Download Price: $24.95

Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human...But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who - or what - is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?
Publisher: Brilliance Audio IncAuthor: Douglas Preston and Lincoln ChildNarrator: David ColacciISBN: 9781423330431Download Price: $24.95

The Information Age is OVER

Life at Night is a 10 part Audio download

Elliot, middle-aged and cast-off,  wakes up without a job. 
Twenty years of corporate service and now this: all his cube belongings fit into a single paper grocery bag....... Suddenly he's lost on the street where real characters and real emotions interplay with real light and sound.
Elliot responds in an intoxicated stream of prose, music and sound and finally comes back with a poetic revision of his city in LIFE AT NIGHT. 
Nominated in the category Best Web Film at Cannes 2001. Supported in Part by the American Composers Forum with a Grant form the McKnight Foundation.Publisher: John OBrienAuthor: Not KnownNarrator: Not KnownISBN: Download Price: $10.00

The Honourable ManHigh FinanceThe Battle of Godfrey's CottageA Stripe for Frazer
From the annals of wartime Britain come four brilliantly funny episodes with Captain Mainwaring's fully trained Home Guard platoon, ever ready to strike terror into the heart of the Wehrmacht from their unit in Walmington-on-Sea. Always prepared to fight to the finish, this endearing team of characters are at their incompetent best in these wonderfully entertaining adventures specially adapted for radio.
So... Prepare for a goodwill visit from a hero of the Soviet Union, Corporal Jones' insolvency, the enemy in Godfrey's garden and Frazer's over-zealous pursuit of promotion.
Written ByJimmy Perry and David Crofts
First BroadcastBBC Radio 426 January 1974
Number of SeriesTwo
Last Broadcast7 September 1976Publisher: BBC Audiobooks LtdAuthor: Jimmy Perry and David CroftsNarrator: Full Cast PerformanceISBN: 0563401044Download Price: $13.49

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France.
But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course.
But why is the dead man wearing his son’s overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for?
Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse…Publisher: Harper Collins UKAuthor: Agatha ChristieNarrator: Hugh FraserISBN: 0-00724870-9Download Price: $18.75

Theatre Royal
In this episode from the series, Sir John Gielgud stars in a fully dramatised adaptation of the famous The Happy Hypocrite classic by Max Beerbohn.
First broadcast as an half-hour radio programme in the 1950's, this performance captures the marvellous theatrical style of post-war radio before the advent of television and offers the experience of vintage radio at its best.
The Happy Hypocrite:
An episode from the fine series of recordings, made in the early 1950's, and featuring the leading artists of the day in adaptations of many of the classics.
Lord George Hell, a heartless and wicked rake, falls deeply in love with a singer, Jennie Meer, whose voice is as beautiful as her face...
Publisher: Heritage Media LtdAuthor: Max BeerbohnNarrator: Sir John GielgudISBN: Download Price: $5.25

Amy Leatheran had never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a celebrated archaeologist, events prove stranger than she could ever have imagined.
Her patient’s bizarre visions and nervous terror seem unfounded, but as the oppressive tension in the air thickens, events come to a terrible climax – in murder.
With one spot of blood as his only clue, Hercule Poirot must embark on a journey across the desert to unravel a mystery which taxes even his remarkable powers…Publisher: Harper Collins UKAuthor: Agatha ChristieNarrator: Anna MasseyISBN: 0-00-724860-1Download Price: $20.49

For fans of The Birth of Venus, Girl with a Pearl Earring, and The Other Boleyn Girl, Amy Hassinger, author of Nina: Adolescence, delivers this historically lush, lyrical and thoroughly enthralling novel about the forbidden love between a woman and a holy man, and about the moral and spiritual struggles of faith.In 1896, the priest in a small village in southern France suddenly came into possession of immense wealth. This much is true. What no one knows for sure is where his money came from. The history of the region suggests that he may have stumbled upon clues to a hidden treasure of the Knights Templar. An even more tantalizing possibility is that he discovered coded documents hidden in the structure of his church, documents so threatening to the Catholic Church that he was paid to keep silent. At his death under mysterious circumstances in 1917, his secrets died with him.Yet there is one other person who may have known all--Marie Dernanaud, the priests housekeeper and, some say, his lover. Interweaving the history of France at the turn of the twentieth century, scenes of ancient Judea, and the romantic and religious journey of a spirited and intense heroine, The Priests Madonna gives Marie a chance to tell her version of what transpiredas well as her own story of belief, doubt, and illicit passions.AUTHORAmy Hassinger was born in Newton, MA, and graduated from Barnard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received her MFA in fiction writing. She is the author of two novels. Deemed "superb" by O, the Oprah Magazine and "truly penetrating" by Salon.com, Nina: Adolescence has been translated into Dutch and Portuguese and was named a semi-finalist for the 2005 Julia Peterkin Award. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Arts and Letters, Natural Bridge, and Blithe House Quarterly Online, and have been anthologized in Best Lesbian Love Stories. Publishing houses in Holland, Spain, and Indonesia have purchased the foreign rights to The Priest's Ma