Title: True Grit
Genre: Fiction Audio Books
Description:
Since the original Book-of-the Month Club was founded in 1926, book clubs and reading groups have been an integral part of print publishing and a consummate advocate of the writing craft. And yet, this type of advocacy has never found its way into the audio medium ... until now. Recorded Books Unabridged is proud to introduce the Author Pick book club, an exclusive stand alone audio series in which best-selling authors handpick and oftentimes actually narrate their favorite books. The first title in The Author's Bookshelf series will be True Grit by Charles Portis, as narrated by Donna Tartt. True Grit is Portis' most famous novel. First published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne (for which he won his only Academy Award), it tells the story of Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, who sets out in the winter of eighteen seventy-something to avenge the murder of her father. Since not even Mattie (who is no self-doubter) would ride into Indian Territory alone, she "convinces" one-eyed "Rooster" Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshall, to tag along with her. As Mattie outdickers and outmaneuvers the hard-bitten types in her path, as her performance under fire makes them eat their words, her indestructible vitality and harsh innocence by turns amuse, horrify, and touch the reader. What happens-to Mattie, to the gang of outlaws unfortunate enough to tangle with her-rings with the dramatic rightness of legend and the marvelous overtones, the continual surprises, of personality. True Grit is as eccentric, cool, straight and unflinching as Mattie herself. Narrator: N/A
Length: 6 hour(s), 30 minute(s) EAN: 9781419396649
Media Type: This audio book is on Compact Disc

Title: How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients
Genre: Business & Economics Audio Books
Description:
A rainmaker is someone who knows how to sell any product. Fox, the quintessential rainmaker, takes the listener along for the ride in the pursuit of the almighty dollar, delivering smart tips in his customary sharp, biting, and witty style. Narrator: N/A
Length: 2 hour(s), 0 minute(s) EAN: 9781559276740
Media Type: This audio book is on Compact Disc

Title: C.S. Lewis: The Signature Classics Audio Collection: The Screwtape Letters, the Great Divorce, the Problem of Pain, Mere Christianity
Genre: Religion Audio Books
Description:
The Problem of Pain: Why must humanity suffer? In this elegant and thoughtful work, C.S. Lewis questions the pain and suffering that occur everyday and how this contrasts with the notion of a God that is both omnipotent and good?the answer to this critical theological problem is within these pages.
Mere Christianity: Uncovers common ground upon which all those who have Christian faith can stand together.
The Screwtape Letters: At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man.
The Great Divorce: C.S. Lewis takes us on a profound journey through both heaven and hell in this engaging allegorical tale. Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, Lewis introduces us to supernatural beings who will change the way we think about good and evil.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis's classic novel and Christian allegory about four children who find a magical path to the land of Narnia. Narrator: N/A
Length: 1 hour(s), 20 minute(s) EAN: 9780060825782
Media Type: This audio book is on Compact Disc

Title: How to Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds or Less
Genre: Business & Economics Audio Books
Description:
A former CBS television talent and casting director tells listeners how to get their points across quickly--whether it's writing a letter or memo, making a speech, asking for a raise or promotion, or closing a sale. Narrator: N/A
Length: 1 hour(s), 0 minute(s) EAN: 9780671581916
Media Type: This audio book is on Compact Disc

Title: The Hobbit
Genre: Fiction Audio Books
Description:
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit", begins J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classic, introducing readers to the world of Middle-earth, an enchanting land of elves, goblins, trolls and an endearing race of little people called hobbits. From his comfortable hobbit hole, Bilbo Baggins embarks on a great adventure with 13 dwarves and a powerful wizard. It is a journey that takes Bilbo over snowy mountains and through darks forests. Before he can return home again, Bilbo will face down a dragon and fight epic battles. And he will come into possession of a very magical ring ... Narrator: N/A
Length: 0 hour(s), 11 minute(s) EAN: 9780788789823
Media Type: This audio book is on Compact Disc

Title: Lolita
Genre: Fiction Audio Books
Description:
With an Introduction by Martin Amis
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness.
Awe and exhilaration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation. "From the Hardcover edition. Narrator: N/A
Length: N/A EAN: 9780739322062
Media Type: This audio book is on Compact Disc

Title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer
Genre: Juvenile Fiction Audio Books
Description:
Read by Jim Dale
8 hours 17 minutes, 6 cassettes
Harry Potter has no idea how famous he is. That's because he's being raised by his miserable aunt and uncle who are terrified Harry will learn that he's really a wizard, just as his parents were. But everything changes when Harry is summoned to attend an infamous school for wizards, and he begins to discover some clues about his illustrious birthright. From the surprising way he is greeted by a lovable giant, to the unique curriculum and colorful faculty at his unusual school, Harry finds himself drawn deep inside a mystical world he never knew existed and closer to his own noble destiny. Narrator: N/A
Length: 8 hour(s), 0 minute(s) EAN: 9780807281758
Media Type: This audio book is on Analog Audio Cassette

Title: The Six Fundamentals of Success: The Rules for Getting It Right for Yourself and Your Organization
Genre: Business & Economics Audio Books
Description:
Aimed at business people and entrepreneurs at all levels, whether they work in companies large or small, this audiobook provides the smart, action-oriented guidance people need in today's challenging climate. Unabridged. 2 CDs. Narrator: N/A
Length: 3 hour(s), 0 minute(s) EAN: 9781400103218
Media Type: This audio book is on Compact Disc

Title: The Hard Way
Genre: Fiction Audio Books
Description:
Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money. And Edward Lane, the man who paid it, will pay even more to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any amount of money and any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And then he'll turn Jack Reacher loose with a vengeance - because Reacher is the best man hunter in the world.
On the trail of a vicious kidnapper, Reacher is learning the chilling secrets of his employer's pastand of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He's beginning to realize that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: he's already in way too deep to stop now.
Narrator: N/A
Length: N/A EAN: 9781423306399
Media Type: This audio book is on Compact Disc

Title: Speaking Effective English!: Your Guide to Acquiring New Confidence in Personal and Professional Communication
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines Audio Books
Description:
The definitive listen-and-learn speech program, this audiobook teaches listeners how to make a knockout first impression, to minimize accents and dialects, and overcome stage fright. It also includes powerful public speaking strategies, job interview strategies, voicemail do's and don'ts, and the top ten vocal sins. Foreword by Edward Asner. Narrator: N/A
Length: 3 hour(s), 0 minute(s) EAN: 9780671044015
Media Type: This audio book is on Analog Audio Cassette