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Showbiz
by John Logan
Formats: Audio Download ($18.66) | Audio CD
Published:
December 2009
Showbiz is John Logan's harrowing tale of life and death in the theatre. It tells the story of the brilliant young director Julian, whose single minded determination drives those around him to personal and artistic extremes.
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Atomic Bombers
by Russell Vandenbroucke
Formats: Audio Download ($18.66) | Audio CD
Published:
November 2009
In 1943, something strange is going on in the New Mexican desert. By night, the starkly beautiful canyons of Los Alamos fill with the sound of exploding graphite - and by day, the crackle of scientific brainpower.
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The Baby Dance
by Jane Anderson
Formats: Audio Download ($18.66) | Audio CD ($20.76)
Published:
November 2009
A desperate L.A. professional couple, unable to have children, arrange to buy the unborn baby of a dirt-poor Louisiana pair.
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Born Guilty
by Ari Roth
Formats: Audio Download ($18.66) | Audio CD ($20.76)
Published:
November 2009
Based on the book of the same name, Born Guilty is a moving and elegiac play about one man's journey into the hearts of children raised by Nazi parents.
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Bus Stop
by William Inge
Formats: Audio Download ($18.66) | Audio CD ($25.95)
Published:
November 2009
In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travelers are going to have to hole up until morning.
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A Christmas Blizzard
by Garrison Keillor
Formats: Audio CD ($21.56)
Published:
November 2009
A wealthy and depressed man (thanks to the economy he’s not quite rich enough to expand his cache of paintings by Vincent Van Guy, the famed Dutch realist) bound for Christmas in the tropics is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota to visit an ailing aunt.
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David Sedaris: Live for Your Listening Pleasure
by David Sedaris
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($14.38)
Published:
November 2009
If you were lucky enough to have caught a performance on David Sedaris's most recent sold-out, 34-city tour, you already know that David Sedaris Live For Your Listening Pleasure is a must-have album!
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Each Day Dies with Sleep
by Jose Rivera
Formats: Audio Download ($18.66) | Audio CD ($25.95)
Published:
November 2009
Written by José Rivera, recent Academy Award Nominee for The Motorcycle Diaries, Each Day Dies with Sleep is the story of a young woman's struggle to find an identity apart from the two men in her life: her father and her husband.
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Forty-Two Stories
by Douglas Post
Formats: Audio Download ($18.66) | Audio CD
Published:
November 2009
Forty-Two Stories is a comedy about life in a high-rise condominium. A professional student from the University of Chicago is moonlighting as a janitor.
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Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($31.99)
Published:
November 2009
The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655.
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Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me
by Howie Mandel
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($24.00)
Published:
November 2009
A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal host's ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHD - and how it has shaped his life and career. Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainment - respected by his peers and beloved by audiences as the host of the enormously popular prime-time game show Deal or No Deal.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Formats: Audio Download ($18.66) | Audio CD
Published:
November 2009
This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag.
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Just Between Ourselves
by Alan Ayckbourn
Formats: Audio Download ($18.66) | Audio CD ($20.76)
Published:
November 2009
The first of Ayckbourn's darkly comic masterpieces involves a relentlessly cheerful handyman in a disastrously fractured marriage. Two couples develop an unlikely friendship in this painfully funny portrait of British suburban life.
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Last Words
by George Carlin
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($23.99)
Published:
November 2009
As one of America's preeminent comedic voices, George Carlin saw it all throughout his extraordinary 50-year career and made fun of most of it.
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The Lost World
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Formats: Audio CD ($18.95)
Published:
November 2009
Arthur Conan Doyle’s rollicking adventure tale follows a scientific expedition deep into the Amazon jungle – right back into the time of dinosaurs and cave men.
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Mimi's Guide
by Doris Baizley
Formats: Audio Download ($18.66) | Audio CD ($20.76)
Published:
November 2009
The sensuality of Louisiana's humid, jasmine-scented air permeates this love triangle about three people who are haunted by the memories of the Vietnam war.
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The Murder Business: How the Media Turns Crime Into Entertainment and Subverts Justice
by Mark Fuhrman
Formats: Audio Download ($17.47) | Audio CD ($19.96)
Published:
November 2009
Media and law enforcement work at cross-purposes. Law enforcement wants to solve a case as fast as possible and puts the guilty behind bars.
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Never the Sinner
by John Logan
Formats: Audio CD ($20.76)
Published:
November 2009
Two boys commit a murder – not for gain, or out of passion – just to do it, just to experience the thrill.
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Of One Blood
by Andrew White
Formats: Audio Download ($18.66) | Audio CD ($25.95)
Published:
November 2009
Of One Blood is a poignant and disturbing play about the infamous murder of three civil rights workers - James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner - in Mississippi in 1964.
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The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History
by John Ortved
Formats: Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Published:
November 2009
The Simpsons is one of the most successful shows to ever run on television.
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Steambath
by Bruce Jay Friedman
Formats: Audio Download ($18.66) | Audio CD
Published:
November 2009
A parade of unforgettable characters emerge from the steam in this hilarious, supernatural bathhouse.
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The Value of Names
by Jeffrey Sweet
Formats: Audio Download ($18.66) | Audio CD ($15.16)
Published:
November 2009
Benny Silverman, a retired, successful actor, seems to have surmounted the bitter time in his life when Leo Greshen, a good friend and colleague "named" him in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
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Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog
by Lisa Scottoline
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($23.99)
Published:
November 2009
A hilarious collection of stories from the life of the New York Times best-selling author of Look Again At last, together in one collection, are Lisa Scottoline's wildly popular Philadelphia Inquirer columns. In her column, Lisa lets her hair down, roots and all, to show the humorous side of life from a woman's perspective.
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American on Purpose
by Craig Ferguson
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($31.99)
Published:
October 2009
In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his mark...
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Art
by Yasmina Reza
Formats: Audio Download ($18.66) | Audio CD
Published:
October 2009
How much would you pay for a painting with nothing on it? Would it be art? Marc's best friend Serge has just bought a very expensive - and very white - painting. To Marc, the painting is a joke, and as battle lines are drawn, old friends use it to settle scores.
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