Christina Pickles
"At the door is an old lover, someone who broke your heart, who is in England on business and has tracked you down..." - From The Lone Pilgrim by Laurie Colwin
Romance is in the air, tempting the imagination. Stirring tales of love, longing and desire. A great gift for your loved ones!
Rick Bass's Fires
read by Ted Marcoux
In the Rockies a woman sets fire to a parched field to take the plunge into the pool of
...2) Travel Tales
"When I first saw New York I was twenty, and it was summertime and I got off a DC-7 at the old Idlewild temporary terminal in a new dress..." - From Goodbye to All That by Joan Didion
Hilarity, suspense and high drama are offered up in this new mix of tales of travel to locales familiar and exotic. Take a trip in a time machine with Madame Bovary, join a father and son on a sailing voyage that goes dangerously awry, retreat to a country
..."Mr. Pope had rigged up a reading light . . . and the horse read far into the night."
- From Ed Has His Mind Improved by Walter R. Brooks
A boon for booklovers, this set features funny, fantastical and poignant stories about people with unique and passionate connections to the written word.
Walter R. Brooks' Ed Has His Mind Improved
read by Tony Roberts
How Ed-a talking horse-became a voracious reader of adventure tales and hardboiled
..."Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet alone..." - From Xingu by Edith Wharton
Selected Shorts has toured to The Mount, the stately and elegant home of the great American writer Edith Wharton, for the last several summers, presenting Broadway and Hollywood actors reading stories by Wharton and other writers. Selected Shorts now presents a collection of four of Edith Wharton's short
..."Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet alone..." - From Xingu by Edith Wharton
Selected Shorts has toured to The Mount, the stately and elegant home of the great American writer Edith Wharton, for the last several summers, presenting Broadway and Hollywood actors reading stories by Wharton and other writers. Selected Shorts now presents a collection of four of Edith Wharton's short
...Our most popular volume! Over three hours of stories to tickle your funny bone.
Nicholson Baker's Subsoil
read by Thomas Gibson
A darkly comic thriller about a tractor historian besieged by man-eating potatoes.
John Updike's Farrell's Caddie
read by Charles Keating
An American golfer gets more than golfing tips from his Scottish caddie.
David Schickler's Jamaica
read by Isaiah Sheffer
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