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Death at La Fenice

by Donna Leon ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Series series Commissario Brunetti Mysteries
Unabridged

9 hours 33 min

There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, history and decay. But the evil that does occasionally rear its head is the jurisdiction of Guido Brunetti, the suave, urbane vice-commissario of policeand a genius at detection. Now all of his admirable abilities must come into play in the deadly affair of Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned ... Read more

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There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, history and decay. But the evil that does occasionally rear its head is the jurisdiction of Guido Brunetti, the suave, urbane vice-commissario of policeand a genius at detection. Now all of his admirable abilities must come into play in the deadly affair of Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned
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The Breast

by Philip Roth ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Unabridged

1 hour 50 min

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral: Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed—into a 155-pound breast. What follows is “terrific…inventive and sane and very funny (The New York Times Book Review).A deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of David Kepesh’s metamorphosis—a ... Read more

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral: Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed—into a 155-pound breast. What follows is “terrific…inventive and sane and very funny (The New York Times Book Review).A deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of David Kepesh’s metamorphosis—a
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The Year Without Summer

1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History

by William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Unabridged

11 hours 27 min

1816 was a remarkable year—mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the Northeastern US and Europe in the summer of 1816.In the US, the extraordinary weather produced food shortages, religious revivals, and ... Read more

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1816 was a remarkable year—mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the Northeastern US and Europe in the summer of 1816.In the US, the extraordinary weather produced food shortages, religious revivals, and
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Third Degree

by Greg Iles ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Unabridged

12 hours 44 min

Sometimes the gravest dangers—and the darkest souls—live right beside us….In the span of twenty-four hours, everything Laurel Shields believes about her life and her marriage to a prominent doctor will be shattered—if she survives a terrifying ordeal. The day begins with the jarring discovery that, soon after ending an affair, Laurel is pregnant. But when she returns home to find her husband ashen ... Read more

$42.99 USD

Sometimes the gravest dangers—and the darkest souls—live right beside us….In the span of twenty-four hours, everything Laurel Shields believes about her life and her marriage to a prominent doctor will be shattered—if she survives a terrifying ordeal. The day begins with the jarring discovery that, soon after ending an affair, Laurel is pregnant. But when she returns home to find her husband ashen
... Read more
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Sitting Bull's War

The Battle of Little Big Horn and the Fight for Buffalo and Freedom on the Plains

by Paul L. Hedren ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Unabridged

18 hours 16 min

In this account of America's greatest Indian war, listeners are quickly immersed in the world of Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes and their struggle in the 1870s to retain their lives on the buffalo prairie. Those impassioned Northern Indians faced a succession of white invaders—railroaders, borderland surveyors, prospectors, and ultimately the US Army. In the best of days they turned back George ... Read more

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In this account of America's greatest Indian war, listeners are quickly immersed in the world of Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes and their struggle in the 1870s to retain their lives on the buffalo prairie. Those impassioned Northern Indians faced a succession of white invaders—railroaders, borderland surveyors, prospectors, and ultimately the US Army. In the best of days they turned back George
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Out of the Shadows

Understanding Sexual Addiction

by Patrick J. Carnes ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Unabridged

6 hours 17 min

Sex is at the core of our identities. And when it becomes a compulsion, it can unravel our lives. Out of the Shadows is the premier work on this disorder, written by a pioneer in its treatment. Revised and updated to include the latest research--and to address the exploding phenomenon of cybersex addiction--this third edition identifies the danger signs, explains the dynamics, and describes the ... Read more

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Sex is at the core of our identities. And when it becomes a compulsion, it can unravel our lives. Out of the Shadows is the premier work on this disorder, written by a pioneer in its treatment. Revised and updated to include the latest research--and to address the exploding phenomenon of cybersex addiction--this third edition identifies the danger signs, explains the dynamics, and describes the
... Read more
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Numero Zero

by Umberto Eco ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Unabridged

5 hours 14 min

Numero Zero is the feverish and delightfully readable tale of a ghostwriter in Milan whose work pulls him into an underworld of media politics and murderous conspiracies (involving the cadaver of Mussolini's double, naturally.) This novel is vintage Eco-corrupt newspapers, clandestine plots, imaginary histories-and will appeal to his many readers and earn him legions of new ones. Umberto Eco is ... Read more

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Numero Zero is the feverish and delightfully readable tale of a ghostwriter in Milan whose work pulls him into an underworld of media politics and murderous conspiracies (involving the cadaver of Mussolini's double, naturally.) This novel is vintage Eco-corrupt newspapers, clandestine plots, imaginary histories-and will appeal to his many readers and earn him legions of new ones. Umberto Eco is
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So Shall You Reap

by Donna Leon ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Series series Commissario Brunetti Mysteries
Unabridged

9 hours 11 min

Guido Brunetti is baffled by the apparent murder of a seemingly innocuous immigrant man, until a connection to his own youthful past resolves the story of the man’s death and a decades-old disappearanceOn a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice’s ... Read more

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Guido Brunetti is baffled by the apparent murder of a seemingly innocuous immigrant man, until a connection to his own youthful past resolves the story of the man’s death and a decades-old disappearanceOn a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice’s
... Read more

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A Worse Place than Hell

How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation

by John Matteson ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Unabridged

21 hours

Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America.December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose ... Read more

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Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America.December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose
... Read more

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Friends in High Places

A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

by Donna Leon ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Series series Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries
Unabridged

8 hours 54 min

Winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Friends in High Places is the ninth novel in Leon's bestselling and highly acclaimed Commissario Guido Brunetti series.“Leon tells the story as if she loves Venice as much as her detective does, warts and all. The plot and subplots unfold elegantly; beauty and the beast march hand in hand, and the result is rich entertainment.” —The Sunday ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Friends in High Places is the ninth novel in Leon's bestselling and highly acclaimed Commissario Guido Brunetti series.“Leon tells the story as if she loves Venice as much as her detective does, warts and all. The plot and subplots unfold elegantly; beauty and the beast march hand in hand, and the result is rich entertainment.” —The Sunday
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Unto Us a Son is Given

by Donna Leon ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Series series Commissario Brunetti Mysteries
Unabridged

9 hours 20 min

"Your situation is always ambiguous, isn't it, Guido?", his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, observes of Donna Leon's soulful detective, Guido Brunetti, at the beginning of her superb 28th Brunetti novel, Unto Us A Son Is Given. "The world we live in makes that necessary," Brunetti presciently replies. Count Falier was urging his Venetian son-in-law to investigate, and preferably intervene in, ... Read more

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"Your situation is always ambiguous, isn't it, Guido?", his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, observes of Donna Leon's soulful detective, Guido Brunetti, at the beginning of her superb 28th Brunetti novel, Unto Us A Son Is Given. "The world we live in makes that necessary," Brunetti presciently replies. Count Falier was urging his Venetian son-in-law to investigate, and preferably intervene in,
... Read more

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Trace Elements

by Donna Leon ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Series series Commissario Brunetti Mysteries
Unabridged

10 hours 2 min

A woman’s cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entireregion in Donna Leon’s haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novelWhen Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wantsto speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague Claudia Griffoni waste no time in responding.“They killed ... Read more

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A woman’s cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entireregion in Donna Leon’s haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novelWhen Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wantsto speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague Claudia Griffoni waste no time in responding.“They killed
... Read more

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