I listen to audio books all day long and mix in music, tech podcasts, and old time radio shows. I post what I'm listening to, and my opinion of it when I finish the item. Abbreviations: (GA) = Graphic Audio.net; (JDL) = Public library system; (Podiobooks) = Podiobooks.com; (Librivox) = Librivox.org; (TTS) = Text to Speech conversion.
Monday, May 31, 2010
(2850) OTR, Podcasts & Music by Various Performers
Podcast: Le Jazz Affair 402 (10-04-09)
Podcast: Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy #580
Music: Olivia Newton-John. Gold Disc 1
Music: John Williams, Star Wars & Close Encounters of the Third Kind soundtrack
Podcast: this WEEK in TECH - MP3 Edition, 206-Mold Happens
Podcast: Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy #580
Music: Olivia Newton-John. Gold Disc 1
Music: John Williams, Star Wars & Close Encounters of the Third Kind soundtrack
Podcast: this WEEK in TECH - MP3 Edition, 206-Mold Happens
Starting (2849) Body of Lies; A Novel by David Ignatius. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Next item in my queue: (2849) Body of Lies; A Novel by David Ignatius. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2849) Body of Lies; A Novel by David Ignatius
Publisher's Summary
Roger Ferris is one of the CIA's soldiers in the war on terrorism. He has come out of Iraq with a shattered leg and an intense mission: to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as "Suleiman". Ferris' plan for getting inside Suleiman's tent is inspired by a masterpiece of British intelligence during World War II: he prepares a body of lies, literally the corpse of an imaginary CIA officer who appears to have accomplished the impossible by recruiting an agent within the enemy's ranks.This scheme binds friend and foe in a web of extraordinary subtlety and complexity, and when it begins to unravel, Ferris finds himself flying blind into a hurricane. His only hope is the urbane head of Jordan's intelligence service - a man who might be an Arab version of John le Carre's celebrated spy, George Smiley. But can Ferris trust him?
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Body-Lies-Novel-Movie-Tie/dp/0393334295/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273438804&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_TANT_000390&BV_SessionID=@@@@0347570459.1273437906@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadekggkkfhfcefecekjdffidflm.0
Music Interlude:
Best of The Righteous Brothers
Various Artists, Radio May 1982 Disc 02
Starting (2848) The Survivalist #02; The Nightmare Begins by Jerry Ahern. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Next item in my queue: (2848) The Survivalist #02; The Nightmare Begins by Jerry Ahern. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2848) The Survivalist #02; The Nightmare Begins by Jerry Ahern
Summary:
World War III is now a bloody page in American history. With nuclear holocaust killing more than a quarter-billion people worldwide and the United States just a memory, John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert and survival authority is enduring the ultimate test.
Soviet Occupation Forces have landed and must begin the "pacification" of America. They will start by liquidating any prominent Americans who could become a rallying point for armed resistance. The first name on the list is Samuel Chambers, the lone surviving member of the Presidential cabinet. And as the American KGB invades Texas to find Chambers, they find Rourke there as well.
With his young friend Paul Rubenstein, Rourke is fighting his way back to continue the search for his missing wife and children. Paramilitary armies, heavily armed brigands, a beautiful KGB infiltrator, an unending stream of War refugees, and a land gone mad with violence block his path. The birth of U.S. II has begun and the quest continues for John Thomas Rourke, The Survivalist.
On Graphic Audio: http://www.graphicaudio.net/p-318-2-the-nightmare-begins.aspx
World War III is now a bloody page in American history. With nuclear holocaust killing more than a quarter-billion people worldwide and the United States just a memory, John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert and survival authority is enduring the ultimate test.
Soviet Occupation Forces have landed and must begin the "pacification" of America. They will start by liquidating any prominent Americans who could become a rallying point for armed resistance. The first name on the list is Samuel Chambers, the lone surviving member of the Presidential cabinet. And as the American KGB invades Texas to find Chambers, they find Rourke there as well.
With his young friend Paul Rubenstein, Rourke is fighting his way back to continue the search for his missing wife and children. Paramilitary armies, heavily armed brigands, a beautiful KGB infiltrator, an unending stream of War refugees, and a land gone mad with violence block his path. The birth of U.S. II has begun and the quest continues for John Thomas Rourke, The Survivalist.
On Graphic Audio: http://www.graphicaudio.net/p-318-2-the-nightmare-begins.aspx
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Next item in my queue: (2847) Heart of the Dragon by Gena Showalter. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2847) Heart of the Dragon by Gena Showalter
Publisher's Summary
Searching for her missing brother, Grace Carlyle never dreamed she would discover a secret world populated by mythological monsters - or find herself facing a sword-wielding being whose looks put mortal men to shame. But there he was, Darius en Kragin, one of a race of shape-shifting warriors bound to guard the gates of Atlantis, and kill all travelers who strayed within its borders. Now Grace's life was in his hands, and Darius had to choose between his centuries-old vow and the woman who had slipped beneath his defenses and stolen the heart of Atlantis's fiercest dragon.On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Dragon-Atlantis-Gena-Showalter/dp/0373775253/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273438590&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_HARL_000283&BV_SessionID=@@@@0347570459.1273437906@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadekggkkfhfcefecekjdffidflm.0
Starting (2846) The Pirates of Ersatz by Murray Leinster. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Next item in my queue: (2846) The Pirates of Ersatz by Murray Leinster. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2846) The Pirates of Ersatz by Murray Leinster
Publisher's Summary
An impulsive action, on his part? Hardly. Bron Hoddan went to the ship that landed on his native planet of Zan, the ship whose heartless crew was intent on lining up all his relatives for execution... and he stowed away.Bron had planned it all long before, hoping to escape to the planet Walden, a place of wealth and peace where he might have a chance to prove himself as an electrical engineer, then find the beautiful wife of his dreams.
And compared with Zan, home of space pirates, Walden turns out to be a fine place indeed, where he quickly establishes himself with his brilliant work - until suddenly the police broke down his door!
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Pirates-Ersatz-Murray-Leinster/dp/1153780089/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273438495&sr=1-2
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_ADBL_000842&BV_SessionID=@@@@0347570459.1273437906@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadekggkkfhfcefecekjdffidflm.0
Starting (2845) The Last Man On the Moon by Eugene Cernan. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Next item in my queue: (2845) The Last Man On the Moon by Eugene Cernan. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2845) The Last Man On the Moon by Eugene Cernan
Publisher's Summary
This is the story of a unique American hero who came of age as an astronaut during the few dramatic years when man reached the moon. Cernan's career spanned the entire Apollo program, from the tragic fire that killed three of his comrades on Apollo 1, through the moment when he left man's last footprint on the moon as commander of Apollo 17.This is the inside story of how space was conquered, and at what price. Cernan writes candidly not only about the program, but about the high divorce rate among the astronauts, the loss of family privacy that came with celebrity, and the ever-present shadows of death and failure.
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Moon-Astronaut-Americas/dp/0312263511/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273438385&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_BRLL_001783&BV_SessionID=@@@@0347570459.1273437906@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadekggkkfhfcefecekjdffidflm.0
Friday, May 28, 2010
Next item in my queue: (2844) Victory, Volume 2 by Stephen Coonts. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2844) Victory, Volume 2 by Stephen Coonts
Publisher's Summary
A stirring tribute to the Greatest Generation of Americans, Victory brings together today's best military, espionage, and techno-thriller writers with all-original tales of World War II. Join these best-selling authors in a five-volume collection filled with short novels of courage, skill, daring, and sacrifice. In gripping stories of war as it really was, here you will meet the men and women who fought and won World War II and truly made the world safe for democracy.David Hagberg's V5 sends the OSS and MI6 behind enemy lines in Germany to stop the one weapon that can win the war for Hitler and Nazi Germany, an electromechanical guidance system that can launch missiles not only across countries but across the ocean and hit the United States.
In Honor, Ralph Peters's follows a German officer in the starving days after World War II as he makes his way on foot back home, where a defeat more terrible than the Allied victory awaits him.
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Victory-Into-Fire-Stephen-Coonts/dp/1559278897/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273438286&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_AREN_000314&BV_SessionID=@@@@0347570459.1273437906@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadekggkkfhfcefecekjdffidflm.0
Starting (2843) Uranium; War, Energy, & the Rock by Tom Zoellner. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Next item in my queue: (2843) Uranium; War, Energy, & the Rock by Tom Zoellner. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2843) Uranium; War, Energy, & the Rock That Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner
Publisher's Summary
Uranium is a common element in the earth's crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order---whoever could master uranium could master the world. Marie Curie gave us hope that uranium would be a miracle panacea, but the Manhattan Project gave us reason to believe that civilization would end with apocalypse.Slave labor camps in Africa and Eastern Europe were built around mine shafts, and America would knowingly send more than 600 uranium miners to their graves in the name of national security. Fortunes have been made from this yellow dirt; massive energy grids have been run from it. Fear of it panicked the American people into supporting a questionable war with Iraq, and its specter threatens to create another conflict in Iran. Now, some are hoping it can help avoid a global warming catastrophe.
In Uranium, Tom Zoellner takes readers around the globe in this intriguing look at the mineral that can sustain life or destroy it.
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Uranium-Energy-Rock-Shaped-World/dp/B002KAORWU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273438125&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_TANT_000946&BV_SessionID=@@@@0347570459.1273437906@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadekggkkfhfcefecekjdffidflm.0
Music Interlude:
Culture Club Greatest Hits
John Williams, Return of The Jedi
Starting (2842) Star Trek; Captain's Blood by William Shatner. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Next item in my queue: (2842) Star Trek; Captain's Blood by William Shatner. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2842) Star Trek; Captain's Blood by William Shatner
Publisher's Summary
Following the explosive events of Star Trek: Nemesis, the Romulan Star Empire is in disarray, and Ambassador Spock attempts to render aid by launching a last-ditch effort to reunify the Romulans with their distant forebearers, the Vulcans. But when Spock is publicly assassinated at a Romulan peace rally, Starfleet and the Federation are unable to search for the criminals responsible without triggering an intergalactic war.Thus, it falls to James T. Kirk, now retired, to investigate his beloved friend's murder. Given clandestine assistance by Captain Will Riker of the Starship Titan, and accompanied by his good friend Jean-Luc Picard, Kirk travels to Romulus as a civilian, along with his five-year-old child, Joseph, the cantankerous Doctor McCoy, retired Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, as well as several members of Picard's crew, still waiting to return to duty on the badly damaged U.S.S. Enterprise NCC1701-E. But on Romulus' sister world, Remus, Kirk unexpectedly encounters an alluring enemy from his past as Picard and he discover Spock's apparent murder hides an even deeper mystery, reaching beyond the limits of the galaxy.
Trapped on a deadly, alien world on the eve of a Romulan civil war that could plunge the galaxy into a civilization-ending conflict, Kirk's investigation brings him to the heart of a staggering conspiracy. As he discovers the true threat facing the Romulans, he realizes that he must sacrifice the freedom of his son, whose very blood holds the secret to his destiny. Captain's Blood brings together both generations in a battle for the existence of all life in this galaxy, and beyond.
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Captains-Blood-Star-William-Shatner/dp/0671021303/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273438011&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_SANS_002246&BV_SessionID=@@@@0347570459.1273437906@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadekggkkfhfcefecekjdffidflm.0
Starting (2841) Warbreaker Part 1 by Brandon Sanderson. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Next item in my queue: (2841) Warbreaker Part 1 by Brandon Sanderson. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2841) Warbreaker Part 1 by Brandon Sanderson
Summary:
After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris, and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is today’s leading master of what Tolkien called “secondary creation,” the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their own.
Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn’t like his job, and the immortal who’s still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago.
Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren’s capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people.
By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker. (Part 1 of 3)
On Graphic Audio: http://www.graphicaudio.net/p-527-warbreaker-1-of-3.aspx
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Warbreaker-Tor-Fantasy-Brandon-Sanderson/dp/0765360039/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273437863&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_RECO_003419&BV_SessionID=@@@@0347570459.1273437906@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadekggkkfhfcefecekjdffidflm.0
After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris, and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is today’s leading master of what Tolkien called “secondary creation,” the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their own.
Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn’t like his job, and the immortal who’s still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago.
Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren’s capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people.
By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker. (Part 1 of 3)
On Graphic Audio: http://www.graphicaudio.net/p-527-warbreaker-1-of-3.aspx
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Warbreaker-Tor-Fantasy-Brandon-Sanderson/dp/0765360039/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273437863&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_RECO_003419&BV_SessionID=@@@@0347570459.1273437906@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadekggkkfhfcefecekjdffidflm.0
Starting (2840) OTR, Podcasts & Music by Various Performers. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Next item in my queue: (2840) OTR, Podcasts & Music by Various Performers. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2840) OTR, Podcasts & Music by Various Performers
Podcast: Le Jazz Affair 401 (09-30-09)
Podcast: Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy #579
Music: Various Artists, Radio December 1981 Disc 03
Music: Tanya Tucker Live At Billy Bob's Texas
Podcast: Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy #579
Music: Various Artists, Radio December 1981 Disc 03
Music: Tanya Tucker Live At Billy Bob's Texas
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Next item in my queue: (2839) Freedom Series Bk #3; Freedom's Challenge by Anne McCaffrey. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2839) Freedom Series Bk #3 ; Freedom's Challenge by Anne McCaffrey
Publisher's Summary
Kris Bjornsen has come a long way since alien slave ships scooped her up in Denver with thousands of others. Dropped off on an apparently uninhabited world with the rest, she has fallen in love with Zainal, a renegade Catteni, and has made a comfortable life for herself and her new family. But she feels a soldier's duty to escape Botany and rejoin the struggle for freedom.As the Eosi overlords continue to drop captives on Botany, the colonists learn that there are freedom fighters on every captured world, and Earth is full of pockets of resistance. There are even rebels among the warlike Catteni. Now the colonists have the technology they need to go back to war with the deadly Eosi - with a surprise strike at the enslaved planet Earth itself!
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Freedoms-Challenge-Anne-McCaffrey/dp/0441006256/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273335018&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_BRLL_000584&BV_SessionID=@@@@1800949507.1273334449@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccckadekgfjkgmhcefecekjdffidfkk.0
Next item in my queue: (2838) Revolt in 2100 by Robert A. Heinlein. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2838) Revolt in 2100 by Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher's Summary
After the fall of the American Ayatollahs (as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land) there is a Second American Revolution; for the first time in human history there is a land with Liberty and Justice for All.On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Revolt-2100-Future-History-Vol/dp/B000IDSW36/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273334858&sr=1-3
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_ADBL_000932&BV_SessionID=@@@@1800949507.1273334449@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccckadekgfjkgmhcefecekjdffidfkk.0
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Next item in my queue: (2837) Victory, Volume 1 by Stephen Coonts. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2837) Victory, Volume 1 by Stephen Coonts
Publisher's Summary
A stirring tribute to the Greatest Generation of Americans, Victory brings together today's best military, espionage, and techno-thriller writers with all-original tales of World War II. Join these best-selling authors in a five-volume collection filled with short novels of courage, skill, daring, and sacrifice. In gripping stories of war as it really was, here you will meet the men and women who fought and won World War II and truly made the world safe for democracy.Stephen Coonts asks what happens when you load a Catalina flying boat with five tons of bombs, a half-dozen machine guns, and a crew that walks a fine line between valor and suicide. In the Pacific theater of war, the Japanese Navy is about to discover the answer to that question in The Sea Witch.
Jim DeFelice takes us to the height of the war when information was bought dearly on both sides. When an American pilot parachutes into Germany to gather information, he lands right in the middle of the viper's nest – a place more deadly than anything he could have found in the skies above.
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html/ref=sr_1_1?location=http://www.audible.com/adbl/store/welcome.jsp%3Fsource_code=WSAZS01001102000%26entryRedirect=/entry/offers/productPromo2.jsp%26entryParams=^productID~BK_AREN_000313&token=9C510153835443186B63A5734B33D7BA1741991C
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_AREN_000313&BV_SessionID=@@@@1800949507.1273334449@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccckadekgfjkgmhcefecekjdffidfkk.0
Next item in my queue: (2836) Arctic Drift by Cussler, Clive. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2836) Arctic Drift by Cussler, Clive
Publisher's Summary
A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming, a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia, a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war.... NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to find it before events escalate out of control.Their only real clue might just be a mysterious silvery mineral traced to a long-ago expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. But no one survived from that doomed mission; captain and crew perished to a man - and if Pitt and his colleague Al Giordino aren't careful, the very same fate may await them.
Filled with the breathtaking suspense and audacious imagination that have become his hallmarks, this is a tour de force - further proof that when it comes to adventure writing, nobody beats Clive Cussler.
On Amazon; http://www.amazon.com/Arctic-Drift-Clive-Cussler/dp/0425231453/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273334441&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_PENG_001386&BV_SessionID=@@@@1800949507.1273334449@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccckadekgfjkgmhcefecekjdffidfkk.0
Starting (2833) Serrano Legacy Bk #1; Hunting Party (Part 2) by Elizabeth Moon. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Next item in my queue: (2833) Serrano Legacy Bk #1; Hunting Party (Part 2) by Elizabeth Moon. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2833) Serrano Legacy Bk #1; Hunting Party (Part 2) by Elizabeth Moon
Summary:
Heris Serrano—formerly a commander in the Regular Space Service—must take whatever job she can get after her resignation under a cloud. What she can get is the captaincy of a rich old lady's space yacht...a rich old horsewoman, who has little liking for the military, and whose spoiled nephew Ronnie (and his equally spoiled friends) have been foisted on her after his folly embarrassed the family. Lady Cecelia's only apparent interest is horses—she intends to go fox hunting on the private pleasure planet of a friend of hers, Lord Thornbuckle. But events conspire to make it far more than a fox hunt. (Part 2 of 2)
On Graphic Audio: http://www.graphicaudio.net/p-339-1-hunting-party-2-of-2.aspx
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Party-Elizabeth-Moon/dp/0671721763/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273330640&sr=1-1
Heris Serrano—formerly a commander in the Regular Space Service—must take whatever job she can get after her resignation under a cloud. What she can get is the captaincy of a rich old lady's space yacht...a rich old horsewoman, who has little liking for the military, and whose spoiled nephew Ronnie (and his equally spoiled friends) have been foisted on her after his folly embarrassed the family. Lady Cecelia's only apparent interest is horses—she intends to go fox hunting on the private pleasure planet of a friend of hers, Lord Thornbuckle. But events conspire to make it far more than a fox hunt. (Part 2 of 2)
On Graphic Audio: http://www.graphicaudio.net/p-339-1-hunting-party-2-of-2.aspx
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Party-Elizabeth-Moon/dp/0671721763/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273330640&sr=1-1
Starting (2832) The Lost Fleet Bk #6; Victorious by Jack Campbell. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Next item in my queue: (2832) The Lost Fleet Bk #6; Victorious by Jack Campbell. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2832) The Lost Fleet Bk #6; Victorious by Jack Campbell
Publisher's Summary
The Lost Fleet: Relentless found its way onto the New York Times best-seller list...Now Victorious leads the charge again - and "Black Jack" Geary is in command....As war continues to rage between the Alliance and Syndicate Worlds, Captain "Black Jack" Geary is promoted to admiral - even though the ruling council fears he may stage a military coup. His new rank gives him the authority to negotiate with the Syndics, who have suffered tremendous losses and may finally be willing to end the war. But an even greater alien threat lurks on the far side of the Syndic occupied space.
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Victorious-Lost-Fleet-Book-Campbell/dp/0441018696/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273330505&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_ADBL_001276&BV_SessionID=@@@@0805849834.1273328755@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccckadekgfjkgmhcefecekjdffidfkk.0
Starting (2831) Homesick (Podiobooks) by Paul J. Joseph. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Next item in my queue: (2831) Homesick (Podiobooks) by Paul J. Joseph. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2831) Homesick (Podiobooks) by Paul J. Joseph
Summary:
The mission to New Ontario, is not going as planned. The first landing ends in disaster when the American astronaut, Scott Anderson, goes down alone and dissappears. Captain Sally Buds, Ian Merryfield, Vladamir Coronov must put aside their personal differences and attempt an umarmed rescue unsure of what awaits them below.
On the surface, they find only the remnants of a civilization. Buildings are rotting and the remains of human-like bodies are scattered around what may once have been streets. But the rescue trail leads them to a Nazi-style concentration camp populated with crowds of human cattle living in squalor. The camp has no walls or barbed wire, but no one is trying to escape. In fact, the workers are smiling. There among them is Scott Anderson. To rescue him, they must face an unspeakably cruel regime with no concept of mercy.
But this turns out to be only the beginning. The Masters have discovered vital information about Earth, its technology, and location. Will the same madness that consumed New Ontario ultimately engulf Earth? Sally and Ian must risk their lives to prevent it.
On Podiobooks: http://www.podiobooks.com/title/homesick
The mission to New Ontario, is not going as planned. The first landing ends in disaster when the American astronaut, Scott Anderson, goes down alone and dissappears. Captain Sally Buds, Ian Merryfield, Vladamir Coronov must put aside their personal differences and attempt an umarmed rescue unsure of what awaits them below.
On the surface, they find only the remnants of a civilization. Buildings are rotting and the remains of human-like bodies are scattered around what may once have been streets. But the rescue trail leads them to a Nazi-style concentration camp populated with crowds of human cattle living in squalor. The camp has no walls or barbed wire, but no one is trying to escape. In fact, the workers are smiling. There among them is Scott Anderson. To rescue him, they must face an unspeakably cruel regime with no concept of mercy.
But this turns out to be only the beginning. The Masters have discovered vital information about Earth, its technology, and location. Will the same madness that consumed New Ontario ultimately engulf Earth? Sally and Ian must risk their lives to prevent it.
On Podiobooks: http://www.podiobooks.com/title/homesick
Starting (2830) OTR, Podcasts & Music by Various Performers. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
(2830) OTR, Podcasts & Music by Various Performers
Podcast: Le jazz affair #400 (09-23-09)
Music: Michey Salter Live
Music: Celine Dion (My Love Ultimate Essential Collection Disc 2
Podcast: Windows Weekly-116-Bring on the Bugs
Music: Michey Salter Live
Music: Celine Dion (My Love Ultimate Essential Collection Disc 2
Podcast: Windows Weekly-116-Bring on the Bugs
Started (2828) The Charlemagne Pursuit by Berry, Steve. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Next item in my queue: (2828) The Charlemagne Pursuit by Berry, Steve. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2828) The Charlemagne Pursuit by Berry, Steve
Publisher's Summary
As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told that his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic. But now he wants the full story. He asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files. What he learns stuns him: His father's sub was a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly classified mission beneath the ice shelves of Antarctica. But Malone isn't the only one after the truth.Twin sisters Dorothea Lindauer and Christl Falk are fighting for the fortune their mother has promised to whichever of them discovers what really became of their father, who died on the same submarine that Malone's father captained. The sisters know something Malone doesn't: Inspired by strange clues discovered in Charlemagne's tomb, the Nazis explored Antarctica before the Americans, as long ago as 1938.
Now Malone discovers that cryptic journals penned in the language of heaven; inscrutable conundrums posed by an ancient historian, and the ill-fated voyage of his father are all tied to a revelation of immense consequence for humankind.
In an effort to ensure that this explosive information never rises to the surface, Langford Ramsey, an ambitious navy admiral, has begun a brutal game of treachery, blackmail, and assassination.
As Malone embarks on a dangerous quest with the sisters, one that leads them from an ancient German cathedral to a snowy French citadel to the unforgiving ice of Antarctica, he will finally confront the shocking truth of his father's death and the distinct possibility of his own.
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Charlemagne-Pursuit-Novel-Steve-Berry/dp/0345485807/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273329916&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_RAND_001672&BV_SessionID=@@@@0805849834.1273328755@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccckadekgfjkgmhcefecekjdffidfkk.0
Music Interlude:
Barry Manilow Greatest Hits Disc 2
Various Artists, Hey Good Lookin' Disc 2
Friday, May 21, 2010
Next item in my queue: (2827) Children of Dune by Herbert, Frank. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2827) Children of Dune by Herbert, Frank
Publisher's Summary
The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy. Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides's twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions - but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens.On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Children-Dune-Chronicles-Book/dp/0441104029/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273328953&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_AREN_000764&BV_SessionID=@@@@0805849834.1273328755@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccckadekgfjkgmhcefecekjdffidfkk.0
Music Interlude:
Ferrante & Teicher, Hot Latin Nights
Kenny Rogers, We've Got Tonight
Starting (2826) Rogue Angel #12; The Soul Stealer by Alex Archer. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
(2826) Rogue Angel #12; The Soul Stealer by Alex Archer
Summary:
Annja Creed jumps at the chance to join a fellow archaeologist on a quest to find a relic. But she's not so thrilled about northern Siberia, where they are hoping to discover something buried in the long-undisturbed soil of Russia's frozen terrain. When they reach the town of Jakutsk, Annja is put off by its gray landscape and highly superstitious inhabitants. They claim they are being hunted. Then one of the Villagers goes missing.
The locals blame the Khosadam, a ghost of a fallen goddess said to ingest the souls of the departed. But there are no fresh graves. She is now hunting the living. When Annja seeks to destroy the apparition, she discovers an even more horrifying truth—and may have hit a dead end.
The locals blame the Khosadam, a ghost of a fallen goddess said to ingest the souls of the departed. But there are no fresh graves. She is now hunting the living. When Annja seeks to destroy the apparition, she discovers an even more horrifying truth—and may have hit a dead end.
Approximate Run Time: 5 hours
On Graphic Audio: http://www.graphicaudio.net/p-423-12-the-soul-stealer.aspx
Next item in my queue: (2826) Rogue Angel #12; The Soul Stealer by Alex Archer. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Next item in my queue: (2825) The Last Centurion by Ringo, John. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2825) The Last Centurion by Ringo, John
Publisher's Summary
In the second decade of the 21st century, the world is struck by two catastrophes: a new mini-ice age and a plague to dwarf all previous experiences. Rising out of the disaster is the character known to history as "Bandit Six", an American Army officer caught up in the struggle to rebuild the world and prevent the fall of his homeland - despite the best efforts of politicians, both elected and military.The Last Centurion is a memoir of one possible future, a world that is a darkling mirror of our own. Written "blog-style", it pulls no punches in its descriptions of junk science, bad strategy, and organic farming.
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Centurion-John-Ringo/dp/1439132917/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272221340&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_BRLL_000539&BV_SessionID=@@@@1537027125.1272219059@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciadekfehmlkmcefecekjdffidfij.0
Music Interlude:
101 Strings Orchestra, Million Dollar Movie Music Disc 1
Celine Dion, My Love Ultimate Essential Collection Disc 1
Next item in my queue: (2823) The Doomsday Key by Rollins, James. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2823) The Doomsday Key by Rollins, James
Publisher's Summary
At Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in St. Peter's Basilica. In Africa, a U.S. senator's son is slain outside a Red Cross camp. The three murders on three continents bear a horrifying connection: all the victims are marked by a Druidic pagan cross burned into their flesh.The bizarre murders thrust Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force into a race against time to solve a riddle going back centuries and to a ghastly crime against humanity hidden within a cryptic medieval codex.
Aided by two women from his past, one his ex-lover, the other his new partner, Gray must piece together the horrifying truth. But the revelations come at a high cost, and to save the future, Gray will have to sacrifice one of the women at his side.
That alone might not be enough, as the true path to salvation is revealed in a dark prophecy of doom. The ultimate nightmare is locked within a talisman buried by a dead saint, an ancient artifact known as the Doomsday Key
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-Key-Novel-Sigma-Novels/dp/0061231401/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272221180&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-Key-Novel-Sigma-Novels/dp/0061231401/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272221180&sr=1-1
Music Interlude:
Various Artists, Radio July 1982 Disc 1
Ray Stevens Collector's Series
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Starting (2821) Kiss of the Highlander by Moning, Karen Marie. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Next item in my queue: (2821) Kiss of the Highlander by Moning, Karen Marie. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2821) Kiss of the Highlander by Moning, Karen Marie
Publisher's Summary
A laird trapped between centuries...Enchanted by a powerful spell, Highland laird Drustan MacKeltar slumbered for nearly five centuries hidden deep in a cave, until an unlikely savior awakened him. The enticing lass who dressed and spoke like no woman he'd ever known was from his distant future, where crumbled ruins were all that remained of his vanished world.
Drustan knew he had to return to his own century if he was to save his people from a terrible fate. And he needed the bewitching woman by his side.
A woman changed forever in his arms....
Gwen Cassidy had come to Scotland to shake up her humdrum life and, just maybe, meet a man. How could she have known that a tumble down a Highland ravine would send her plunging into an underground cavern - to land atop the most devastatingly seductive man she'd ever seen? Or that once he'd kissed her, he wouldn't let her go?
Bound to Drustan by a passion stronger than time, Gwen is swept back to 16th-century Scotland, where a treacherous enemy plots against them...and where a warrior with the power to change history will defy time itself for the woman he loves.
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Highlander-Book-4/dp/044023655X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272220618&sr=1-1
On Audible; http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_BRLL_000310&BV_SessionID=@@@@1537027125.1272219059@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciadekfehmlkmcefecekjdffidfij.0
Starting (2820) OTR, Podcasts & Music by Various Performers. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Next item in my queue: (2820) OTR, Podcasts & Music by Various Performers. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2820) OTR, Podcasts & Music by Various Performers
Starting (2819) Outlanders #021; Devil in the Moon by James Axler. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Next item in my queue: (2819) Outlanders #021; Devil in the Moon by James Axler. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2819) Outlanders #021; Devil in the Moon by James Axler
Summary:
Two centuries after a nuclear conflagration destroyed one way of life and spawned a far deadlier one, all that stands between extinction of the human race and freedom is a band of renegades who have declared war against the ominous forces that claimed Earth aeons ago. More than a struggle for survival, it is a fight to salvage the collective soul of humanity from the sinister architects of mankind.
As the ruling oligarchy of nine barons rebuilds what was once the United States after an internecine war for power, a mysterious entity is attempting to impose a dark destiny on Earth. Kane and Grant, once part of the brutal police machine of a feudalistic order, are now leaders in a rebellion by those who once served the malevolent imposers. But the tides of battle turn once more with the discovery of a functional pre-dark moon base, whose human defenders are all that stand between Earth and its obliteration. (The Dragon Kings - Book #1 of 2)
On Graphic Audio: http://www.graphicaudio.net/p-198-21-devil-in-the-moon.aspx
Next item in my queue: (2818) Sweepers by P. T. Deutermann. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2818) Sweepers by P. T. Deutermann
Publisher's Summary
In 1969, a Navy SEAL, a trained assassin on a confidential mission, is dropped off in the Vietnam jungle. Days later, a U.S. gunboat returns to pick him up, but the boat's young captain panics under fire and leaves the SEAL behind.Twenty years later, that young captain is now a Pentagon admiral as the SEAL returns to Washington, D.C. with his own career change: he's become a sweeper - a clandestine cleaner of secret messes. And he's come back to claim "some things of value" - things the admiral can't afford to lose.
Navy Commander Karen Lawrence - sharp, smart, and savvy - is assigned to investigate the bad things that start happening to the admiral. She finds herself caught between one man's boundless ambition and another's relentless quest for revenge.
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sweepers-P-T-Deutermann/dp/0312964471/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272219972&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_BRLL_000612&BV_SessionID=@@@@1537027125.1272219059@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciadekfehmlkmcefecekjdffidfij.0
Music Interlude:
Fourplay, Fourplay
Johnny Mathis, Magic Moments Disc 2
Starting (2816) Starship Bk #5; Flagship by Mike Resnick. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Next item in my queue: (2816) Starship Bk #5; Flagship by Mike Resnick. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2816) Starship Bk #5; Flagship by Mike Resnick
Publisher's Summary
The date is 1970 of the Galactic Era, almost 3,000 from now, and the Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, finds itself in an all-out war against the Teroni Federation, an alliance of races that resent Man's growing military and economic power. The rebel starship, the Theodore Roosevelt, under the command of Wilson Cole, is preparing to lead Cole's ragtag armada into the Republic, even though he is outnumbered thousands to one.Cole is convinced that the government has become an arrogant and unfeeling political entity and must be overthrown. The trick is to avoid armed conflict with the vast array of ships, numbering in the millions, in the Republic's Navy. For a time, Cole's forces strike from cover and race off to safety, but he soon sees that is no way to conquer the mightiest political and military machine in the history of the galaxy. He realises that he must reach Deluros VIII, the headquarters world of the Republic (and of the race of Man), in order to have any effect on the government at all - but Deluros VIII is the best-protected world in the Republic.
But a new threat looms on the horizon. Cole, the Valkyrie, David Copperfield, Sharon Blacksmith, Jacovic, and the rest of the crew of the Teddy R face their greatest challenge yet, and the outcome will determine the fate of the entire galaxy.
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Flagship-Starship-Book-Mike-Resnick/dp/1591027888/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272219806&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_ADBL_001278&BV_SessionID=@@@@1537027125.1272219059@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciadekfehmlkmcefecekjdffidfij.0
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Next item in my queue: (2815) Eifelheim by Flynn, Michael. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2815) Eifelheim by Flynn, Michael
Publisher's Summary
In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and was never resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical-physicist girlfriend, Sharon, become interested. By all logic, the town should have survived, but it didn't. Why? What was special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than 600 years ago?In 1348, as the Black Death is gathering strength across Europe, Father Deitrich is the priest of the village that will come to be known as Eifelheim. A man educated in science and philosophy, he is astonished to become the first contact between humanity and an alien race from a distant star when their interstellar ship crashes in the nearby forest.
Tom, Sharon, and Father Deitrich have a strange and intertwined destiny of tragedy and triumph in this brilliant novel by the winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Award.
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Eifelheim-Michael-Flynn/dp/0765340356/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272219614&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_BLAK_002305&BV_SessionID=@@@@1537027125.1272219059@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciadekfehmlkmcefecekjdffidfij.0
Music Interlude:
Kenny Rogers, Eyes That See in the Dark
Styx, Paradise Theater
Friday, May 14, 2010
Next item in my queue: (2814) The First Patient by Palmer, Michael. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2814) The First Patient by Palmer, Michael
Publisher's Summary
Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were roommates at the Naval Academy in Annapolis years ago. Today, Gabe is a country doctor and his friend Andrew has gone from war hero to governor to President of the United States.One day, while the United States is embroiled in a bitter presidential election campaign, Marine One lands on Gabe's Wyoming ranch, and President Stoddard delivers a disturbing revelation and a startling request. His personal physician has suddenly and mysteriously disappeared, and he desperately needs Gabe to take the man's place. Despite serious misgivings, Gabe agrees to come to Washington.
It is not until he is ensconced in the White House medical office that Gabe realizes there is strong evidence that the President is going insane. Facing a crisis of conscience - as President Stoddard's physician, he has the power to invoke the 25th Amendment to transfer presidential power to the vice president - Gabe uncovers increasing evidence that his friend's condition may not be due to natural causes.
Who? Why? And how? The president's life is at stake. A small-town doctor suddenly finds himself in the most powerful position on earth, and the safety of the world is in jeopardy. Gabe Singleton must find the answers, and the clock is ticking.
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/First-Patient-Michael-Palmer/dp/031293775X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272219508&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_BRLL_000010&BV_SessionID=@@@@1537027125.1272219059@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciadekfehmlkmcefecekjdffidfij.0
Starting (2813) The Lost Fleet Bk #5; Relentless by Jack Campbell. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Next item in my queue: (2813) The Lost Fleet Bk #5; Relentless by Jack Campbell. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2813) The Lost Fleet Bk #5; Relentless by Jack Campbell
Publisher's Summary
After successfully freeing Alliance POWs, "Black Jack" Geary discovers that the Syndics plan to ambush the fleet with their powerful reserve flotilla in an attempt to annihilate it once and for all. And as Geary has the fleet jump from one star system to the next, hoping to avoid the inevitable confrontation, saboteurs contribute to the chaos.On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Relentless-Lost-Fleet-Book-5/dp/0441017088/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272219398&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_ADBL_000803&BV_SessionID=@@@@1537027125.1272219059@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciadekfehmlkmcefecekjdffidfij.0
Starting (2812) Executioner #308; Into the Fire by Don Pendleton. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Next item in my queue: (2812) Executioner #308; Into the Fire by Don Pendleton. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2812) Executioner #308; Into the Fire by Don Pendleton
Summary:
A hard probe into a merc compound deep in the Louisiana bayou goes to hell after the first shot, leaving the Bolan brothers with little more than a new wild card in the deck: a lady Fed. The trio tracks the Mafia connection to its final resting place, courtesy of a few well-aimed kill shots, but the big picture remains out of focus. As the cold trail stateside leads to international waters, a virulent enemy is baiting a new hook.
On Graphic Audio: http://www.graphicaudio.net/p-142-308-into-the-fire.aspx
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Into-Fire-Executioner-308-Pendleton/dp/037364308X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272219261&sr=1-1
An isolated firefight off the Gulf of Mexico disturbs Johnny Bolan enough to put in a call to big brother Mack. They discover mercenary collusion with local rebels on a tiny Caribbean island... and hints of Mob involvement in a run-of-the mill peasant rebellion.
On Graphic Audio: http://www.graphicaudio.net/p-142-308-into-the-fire.aspx
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Into-Fire-Executioner-308-Pendleton/dp/037364308X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272219261&sr=1-1
Starting The Jesuit, the Skull Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution by Amir D. Aczel. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Next item in my queue: The Jesuit, the Skull Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution by Amir D. Aczel. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2809) The Jesuit & the Skull Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, & the Search for Peking Man by Amir D. Aczel
Publisher's Summary
In December 1929, in a cave near Peking, a group of anthropologists and archaeologists that included a young French Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin uncovered a prehuman skull. The find quickly became known around the world as Peking Man and was acclaimed as the missing link between erect hunting apes and our Cro-Magnon ancestors. It also became a provocative piece of evidence in the roiling debate over creationism versus evolution.For Teilhard, both a scientist and a man of God, the discovery also exposed a deeply personal conflict between the new science and his faith. He was commanded by his superiors to deny all scientific evidence that went against biblical teachings, and his writing and lectures were censored by the Vatican. But his curiosity and desire to find connections between scientific and spiritual truth kept him investigating man's origins. His inner struggle and, in turn, his public rebuke by the Catholic Church personified one of the central debates of our time: How to reconcile an individual's commitment to science and his commitment to his faith.
In The Jesuit and the Skull, best-selling author Amir D. Aczel vividly recounts the discovery of Peking Man, its repercussions, and how Teilhard de Chardin's scientific work helped to open the eyes of the world to new theories of humanity's origins that alarmed the traditionalists within the Church. A deft mix of narrative history and a poignant personal story, The Jesuit and the Skull brings fresh insight to a debate that still rages today
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/JESUIT-TEILHARD-CHARDIN-EVOLUTION-SEARCH/dp/B0027H7H9Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271595556&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_TANT_000516&BV_SessionID=@@@@0887297800.1271594684@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccccadekegllfjecefecekjdffidffg.0
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Next item in my queue: (2808) The Third Option by Vince Flynn. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2808) The Third Option by Vince Flynn
Publisher's Summary
When diplomacy has failed and military intervention is deemed inappropriate, our leaders often turn to a silent and dark community for results. This is a course of action not always taken by wise and honorable men. In certain circles it is known as "the third option."Fresh from retaking a battle-scarred White House after a vicious terrorist attack, Mitch Rapp, the C.I.A.'s top counter-terrorism operative, is sent on his final mission. His target: a well-known German industrialist who has been selling highly sensitive equipment to one of the world's most notorious sponsors of terrorism. As Rapp meticulously prepares to take the man out, he has no idea that there are forces within his own government who are plotting to use him.
The conspirators have devised a bold plan that will damage the president and ruin the career of the incoming director of the C.I.A.'s Counter-terrorism Center. Unfortunately, they have made one horrible miscalculation: they have chosen Mitch Rapp as their pawn. Their worst nightmare is about to be realized. They have enraged one of the most lethal and efficient killers the C.I.A. has ever produced - and he will stop at nothing to find out who set him up
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Third-Option-Vince-Flynn/dp/0671047329/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271595444&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_SANS_000244&BV_SessionID=@@@@0887297800.1271594684@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccccadekegllfjecefecekjdffidffg.0
Starting (2807) Freedom Series Bk #2; Freedom's Choice by Anne McCaffrey. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Next item in my queue: (2807) Freedom Series Bk #2; Freedom's Choice by Anne McCaffrey. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2807) Freedom Series Bk #2; Freedom's Choice by Anne McCaffrey
Publisher's Summary
Anne McCaffrey captured the interest and hearts of many with Freedom's Landing, as Catteni slaves unexpectedly became settlers establishing a new colony on Botany, presumably an uninhabited M-type planet. In Freedom's Choice, the saga progresses to an extraordinary level.The shipments of Catteni slaves continue, but they find that they are enjoyably reinventing the creature comforts of home, and searching for the origin of the Farmers who were the original occupants of Botany, all under the keen eyes of two very different observers.
When scouts for the Emassi come to retrieve Zainal, shanghaied in the original shipment of slaves, Botany changes irrevocably.
Listeners will delight in this continued adventure of survival, romance, and ingenuity.
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Freedoms-Choice-Anne-McCaffrey/dp/0441005314/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271595348&sr=1-1
On Audible: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_BRLL_000585&BV_SessionID=@@@@0887297800.1271594684@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccccadekegllfjecefecekjdffidffg.0
Starting (2805) Doomsday Warrior #13; American Paradise by Ryder Stacy. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Next item in my queue: (2805) Doomsday Warrior #13; American Paradise by Ryder Stacy. Details: http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com.
(2805) Doomsday Warrior #13; American Paradise by Ryder Stacy
Summary:
A surprise Russian thermonuclear first strike nearly a century earlier had transformed the United States into a decimated wasteland, its people enslaved by rampaging hordes of brutal Soviet invaders. But one man has refused to allow the flames of freedom to flicker out. The ultimate champion of a lost democracy, he is Ted Rockson—the Doomsday Warrior!
From the ruined California coast, Rockson and his Freefighters set sail for a remote Pacific Island. Acting on intelligence that the madman Killov has obtained a terrifying weapon from Polynesian locals, they must embark on a perilous journey across the raging ocean to New Tokyo.
With only days left before the weapon's reconstruction is complete, Rockson must wrest control of the doomsday device from the hands of a bloodthirsty lunatic. For if its awesome power is unleashed, the last hope for a reborn America will be trampled into the radioactive dust!
On Graphic Audio: http://www.graphicaudio.net/p-364-13-american-paradise.aspx
On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-Warrior-American-Paradise-13/dp/B001TNY6XE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271595007&sr=1-1
A surprise Russian thermonuclear first strike nearly a century earlier had transformed the United States into a decimated wasteland, its people enslaved by rampaging hordes of brutal Soviet invaders. But one man has refused to allow the flames of freedom to flicker out. The ultimate champion of a lost democracy, he is Ted Rockson—the Doomsday Warrior!
From the ruined California coast, Rockson and his Freefighters set sail for a remote Pacific Island. Acting on intelligence that the madman Killov has obtained a terrifying weapon from Polynesian locals, they must embark on a perilous journey across the raging ocean to New Tokyo.
With only days left before the weapon's reconstruction is complete, Rockson must wrest control of the doomsday device from the hands of a bloodthirsty lunatic. For if its awesome power is unleashed, the last hope for a reborn America will be trampled into the radioactive dust!
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