tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123669562011-04-21T16:06:37.595-04:00AUDIOBOOKS * e-Books * Recommendations from a Power Consumer * New Audiobook Releases * New e-Book Releases* Excerpts * Audiobook news * e-Book News * e-Reader Reviewsthecurateurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16176321776415938248noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12366956.post-1117984186847341342005-06-05T11:09:00.000-04:002005-06-05T11:20:18.616-04:00

Audible is looking for new members. Help them spread the word and you could win $1000.Here are the details from Audible:"What kind of summer bash would you throw with $1,000? A monster barbeque? The pool party of a lifetime? The ultimate book club gathering complete with Audible audio? When you tell your friends about Audible, you could win $1,000 and throw any kind of party you want!"Your

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Devil’s Corner, Lisa Scottoline’s (Dead Ringer & Killer Smile) newest legal thriller, will be released next week in hardcover and on CD. You can read a sample chapter at Barnes & Noble.com. If you like what you read and pre-order a copy, the author will send you another of her books free – she even covers the shipping. If you order two, she’ll send you a tote bag. Here are the details

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I just couldn’t finish Blind Alley. The plot defies logic. No one is likeable. Everyone is angry and the conflicts are contrived. The story telling and stilted dialog are right out of a bad romance novel.The producers of this audio book clearly missed the exit. Author Iris Johansen tries to bring some intensity to her dialog by having speakers cut each other off in mid-sentence. The audio

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Velocity won't be released until May 24 but you can listen to an audio excerpt now at Koontz’ website. You can also hear clips of Odd Thomas, The Taking and Life Expectancy.

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"S" Is for Silence, the nineteenth novel in Sue Grafton’s alphabet series, is scheduled for release on December 6th. So far, there is no advance word on Kinsey's newest adventure.

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Pitted against an enemy with unfathomable paranormal power, two detectives have until dawn to save their own lives. They have no leads and know precious little about their tormentor, who is impossibly strong, impervious to weapons and can appear and disappear at will. Clearly, the usual police techniques will not work in Dragon Tears.The situation seems hopeless but the detectives run themselves

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I started listening to Broken Prey yesterday and couldn’t put it down. I walked miles on the treadmill, folded laundry, trimmed my citrus trees and hedges all to keep listening. Finally I had to stop because, so far, you can’t take an iPod into the shower.Broken Prey begins with a murder. A maniac is killing people in the most gruesome of ways. Lots of clues point to one man but he doesn’t fit

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Out of the dust bowl of Oklahoma, Leonard Elmore’s The Hot Kid arrives today.The story is set in depression era Oklahoma, where lawman number one meets outlaw wannabe number one.You can read an excerpt of The Hot Kid at Elmore's weblog. There is also a podcast interview with Elmore about The Hot Kid.This marks novel number 40 for the prolific Elmore whose books inspired the movies, Hombre, Get

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Dean Koontz is back with a new audio book sure to keep you on the edge of your car seat.This from Koontz' web site: "Koontz's next hardcover novel, VELOCITY, packs a wallop. With the pacing and tradition of Intensity, it is sure to be a reader favorite. Want an early glimpse into this breath-taking ride? Make sure you're signed up for the Dean Koontz e-newsletter. All members will receive three

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What if you woke up one day and everything you knew was wrong - even what you knew about yourself? This is Nicholas Bryson’s predicament.The CIA informs the retired “deep cover agent” that his 15 years of intelligence work were actually against not for his government. His foster-family had a hand in this deception and maybe in the deaths of his parents. His estranged wife was a Romanian secret

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Vampire fiction has taken off like a bat out of you-know-where. Author, Charlain Harris is keeping the pace with Dead As A Doornail, the fifth installment of her Southern Vampire series featuring the telepathic waitress, Sookie Stackhouse.Less intense than Laurell K. Hamilton's, Anita Blake vampire hunter series, Harris' novels are vampire-light. Where Anita is sarcastic, Sookie is comical (

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Harry Bosch is back on the job in The Closers. The new novel by Michael Connelly will be on on sale May 16th but you don't have to wait. You can listen to the first chapter at Connelly's website. You can also see a video preview, read an interview with H.B. and sign-up to receive a Harry Bosch special short story via e-mail.

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Books on CD are not organized like music CDs. There are no track or artist names to help you keep track of or sort them. Each book CD will be broken into about 15 tracks of 3 to 5 minutes long. They will be appear as track 1, track 2 etc. If you have songs on your iPod or in iTunes that are labeled that way, the book chapters will be scattered all over iTunes. Here’s how to keep the book

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It’s the weirdest day of the millennia for Arthur Dent. His home is demolished to make way for a bypass; his best friend turns out to be an alien; the earth is destroyed to make way for an interstellar highway; he is thrown out of an extraterrestrial craft into deep space only to be rescued by a criminal politician, who once lured away Arthur’s dream girl with the unlikely line, “I have my own

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Janet Evanovich fans, get your headphones ready. Stephanie Plum is on the loose again. You'll find her in bookstores June 21st. St. Martin's press will release a CD version of Eleven On Top along with the hardcover version.In the meantime, you can read chapter 1 and part of chapter 2 at Evanovich's website. (If you don't see the chapters right away, click on the "Plum Series" icon.)Barnes &

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Fiction • Broken Prey by John Sandford, May 5• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, May 3• Black Wind by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler, May 3• True Believer by Nicholas Sparks, May 3• The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman, May 3• Sideways by Rex Pickett, May 3• Terror's Echo by Ed McBain, Stephen King, and more, May 3• Last Witness by Jilliane Hoffman, May 5• The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard, May

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Broken Prey, the sixteenth installment of John Sandford's Prey series, will be on store shelves May 5th. The early word on the book is very good. You can sneak a peek at the first chapter of Broken Prey at Sanford's website. You can also see a synopsis and an early review there.Barnes & Noble $27.76Booksamillion $23.19Amazon $26.37 Audible

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I loaded my iPod with Lewis Black’s Nothing’s Sacred yesterdayand headed to the gym to ride the recumbent bike. (Why sit up straight when you can recline? A recumbent bike is like a theatre seat with pedals. It even has a cup holder.)I laughed out loud at Black’s smart-aleck rants about everything from the government to LSD and candy corn. I would have slipped off the bike a couple times if it

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If you're curious about past lives or life after death, this book is a good choice.The author, Brian Weiss, M.D. is as conservative as they come. A graduate of Columbia University with an M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine, he has taught at many universities. Dr. Weiss was the chairman of the Department Of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center and has authored numerous scientific

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One of my all time favorites is Vertical Run by Joseph Garber. Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Books. This one is tough to turn off. It’s a great for a long drive or a lot of yard work.Executive Dave Elliot reports to his corner office in a Manhattan high-rise where everyone is out to get him. Now, a lot of us have that experience at work but for Dave it’s literal.His boss starts the

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Books are artfully stacked on every flat surface in my home. I ran out of space on my bookshelves years ago so now I “decorate” with books - like Jackie O did. Yeah, that’s the ticket.I’d rather read than do almost anything else. I can easily spend the whole day in a chair with a book. I can but when I do, I have the guilty feeling that I should have used my time to get something done – like

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