Song of Ice and Fire

Okay, so dragons are not as cuddly as normal Easter-related animals, but they still make for a great listen on your long weekend drive!  The rest of George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series has finally made it onto CD this week, so now you can gorge yourself on them.  Plus, you can get ahead of the curve for the TV show, which started season 2 last week.  Call or email to reserve your copy!

A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance With Dragons

We also carry Martin's short story collections in case you still haven't had enough after those five.

The Hunger Games is here

Now that the movie is out, why not catch up on the audiobooks of the wildly popular Hunger Games series?  Not for the faint of heart, this dystopian world in which teens are forced to fight for survival nonetheless makes for a compelling listen.  Plus, Katniss (the heroine) is way tougher than Bella ever was.  Want more reviews?  Here are a few:

 The Montreal Gazette
The Seattle Times
CBC News

And click here for the audiobook.  If you listen to it, you don't even have to put it down when you get in the car!

Fiction New Releases

I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella

Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her “happily ever after” begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect!  [read more]

Down the Darkest Road by Tami Hoag

Four years after the unsolved disappearance of her sixteen-year-old daughter, Lauren Lawton is the only one still chasing the ghosts of her perfect Santa Barbara life. The world has given her daughter up for dead. Her husband ended his own life in the aftermath. Even Lauren's younger daughter is desperate to find what's left of the childhood she hasn't been allowed to have.  [read more]

Gideon's Corpse by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of his at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose. [read more]

Robert Ludlum's The Janson Command by Paul Garrison

Reformed from his days of as a covert operative and assassin for the US government, Paul Janson has a new mission and a new partner. Working independently with highly skilled sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid, Janson only takes operations he believes contributes to the world's greater good. When his latest job rescuing a doctor abducted in international waters by African pirates goes haywire, Janson realizes he's caught in the middle of something much bigger.  [read more]

Private: #1 Suspect by James Patterson

Since former Marine Jack Morgan started Private, it has become the world's most effective investigation firm--sought out by the famous and the powerful to discreetly handle their most intimate problems. Private's investigators are the smartest, the fastest, and the most technologically advanced in the world--and they always uncover the truth.  [read more]

Private Games by James Patterson


Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect more than 10,000 competitors, who represent more than 200 countries.  [read more]

Raylan by Elmore Leonard

With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky, coalmines, marijuana has become the biggest cash crop in the state. A hundred pounds of it can gross three-hundred thousand dollars, but that's chump change compared to the quarter million a human body can get you - especially when it's sold off piece-by-piece...[read more]

Celebrity in Death by JD Robb

Her career in homicide has taken her into the darkest depths of New York City's underground - and sometimes Lieutenant Eve Dallas feels more comfortable in those kinds of places than in the high-rise, high-society world of her billionaire husband, Roarke. But while she's no party girl, she's managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating the debut of The Icove Agenda.  [read more]

Non Fiction New Releases

Wishes Fulfilled by Wayne Dyer

Wishes Fulfilled is designed to take you on a voyage of discovery, wherein you can begin to tap into the amazing manifesting powers that you possess within you and create a life in which all that you imagine for yourself becomes a present fact.  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer explores, for the first time, the region of your highest self; and definitively shows you how you can truly change your concept of yourself, embark upon a God-realized way of living, and fulfill the spiritual truth that with God all things are possible-and "all things" means that nothing is left out.  [read more]

Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith

From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of unparalleled scrutiny. But through the fog of glamour and gossip, how well do we really know the world's most famous monarch? Drawing on numerous interviews and never-before-revealed documents, acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls back the curtain to show in intimate detail the public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II...[read more]

The Obamas by Jodi Kantor

In The Obamas, Jodi Kantor takes us deep inside the White House as they try to grapple with their new roles, change the country, raise children, maintain friendships, and figure out what it means to be the first black President and First Lady.   Filled with riveting detail and insight into their partnership, emotions, and personalities, and written with a keen eye for the ironies of public life, The Obamas is an intimate portrait that will surprise even listeners who thought they knew the President and First Lady.  [read more]

Get Rich Click! Marc Ostrofsky

The Internet is arguably the most powerful business tool in the history of mankind. You can use it to make money, save money, and create new revenue streams quickly and easily, often with no start-up capital. The Internet is changing the way business is conducted and fortunes are made!  Get Rich Click! shows you how to jump in and begin making money online immediately.  [read more]

The Start-Up of You by Reid Hoffman

The career escalator is jammed at every level. Unemployment rates are sky-high. Creative disruption is shaking every industry. Global competition for jobs is fierce. The employer-employee pact is over, and traditional job security is a thing of the past.  Here, LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Reid Hoffman and author Ben Casnocha show how to accelerate your career in today’s competitive world. The key is to manage your career as if it were a start-up business: a living, breathing, growing start-up of you.  [read more]

Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky

If Apple is Silicon Valley's answer to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, then author Adam Lashinsky provides listeners with a golden ticket to step inside. In this primer on leadership and innovation, the author introduces concepts like the "DRI" (Apple's practice of assigning a Directly Responsible Individual to every task) and the Top 100 (an annual ritual in which 100 up-and-coming executives were tapped, à la Skull Bones, for a secret retreat with company founder Steve Jobs).  [read more]

How by Dov Seidman

The flood of information, unprecedented transparency, increasing interconnectedness - and our global interdependence - are dramatically reshaping today's world, the world of business, and our lives. We are in the Era of Behavior and the rules of the game have fundamentally changed. It is no longer what you do that matters most and sets you apart from others, but how you do what you do.  [read more]

The Winner's Brain by Jeff Brown

Ever wonder why some people seem blessed with success? In fact, everyone is capable of winning in life - you just need to develop the right brain for it.  In The Winner's Brain, Drs. Jeff Brown and Mark Fenske use cutting-edge neuroscience to identify the secrets of those who succeed no matter what - and demonstrate how little it has to do with IQ or upbringing.  [read more]

Tapping the Source by William Gladstone

Easy to use, enjoyable to listen to, and effective, Tapping the Source presents a revolutionary new system for manifesting the harmony, abundance, love, and fulfillment you fully deserve. This modern, enhanced-power version of Charles Haanel’s legendary Master Key System combines short-form meditation techniques with new psychological insights. It will teach you how to tap into your personal potential through Daily Manifestation Sessions, each totaling no more than three to five minutes.  [read more]

Narrating an audiobook is scary business

Longtime audiobook listeners will no doubt have noticed that many are narrated by professional actors.  It's often better that way, because an actor can better capture the drama of a good mystery, or make the difference between a dull history book and a fascinating one.  Turns out that authors also have trouble when they read their own audiobook.  Check out this BBC article:

"Moran says she had to change her posture and voice, to cope with being watched by her publishers and a sound engineer.  "I thought if I look embarrassed, they'll be embarrassed and we'll get caught in a terrible spiral - a vortex of embarrassment - where we all might go, 'Ah, I can't stand it, I'm English.'"

Click here for the rest of the article.

New JK Rowling coming soon?

It's all over the news, but in case you missed it, JK Rowling has signed a deal to write books for adults!  Check out the USA Today story:

"The freedom to explore new territory is a gift that Harry's success has brought me, and with that new territory it seemed a logical progression to have a new publisher. I am delighted to have a second publishing home in Little, Brown, and a publishing team that will be a great partner in this new phase of my writing life."

Click here for the rest of the article.

Audiobooks for Valentine's Day

It's almost that time of year again!  We have some great suggestions for the perfect Valentine's inspired listen:

Heartwishes by Jude Devereux

A contemporary romance with a touch of the supernatural.  Scholar Gemma gets a dream job cataloging family documents from the wealthy Frazier family, and finds her dream man in the process thanks to a mysterious artifact that may offer more than just wishes.  [read more]

Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich

You can always count on Janet Evanovich for a laugh, and Stephanie Plum's eighteenth adventure delivers.  Stephanie goes on vacation to Hawaii to a murder and many complications with Ranger and Morelli, while sidekick Lula falls in love with a bounty.  [read more]

A Turn in the Road by Debbie Macomber

Debbie Macomber delivers another cozy romance--perfect if you're sensitive to graphic content.  A fun road trip for three generations of women turns into an opportunity for romance for all of them.  [read more]

Breaking the Rules by Suzanne Brockmann

Or, if you prefer your romance a little racier and with more action, you can always count on Suzanne Brockmann!  Navy SEAL Izzy struggles with his feelings for a lost love, when she reappears searching for her lost brother Ben.  When Ben befriends a troubled teen, everyone must work together to protect each other.  Fans of JD Robb should definitely check this one out.  [read more]

Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

Finally, if your tastes don't run to Valentine's Day at all, you could check out Stephen King's son, Joe Hill.  This one is not for the faint of heart, as an aging rocker buys a ghost in a heart-shaped box from the internet.  The ghost is not remotely happy about this arrangement, and things go just about as wrong as you'd expect.  [read more]