Merry Christmas, Alex Cross [sound recording] by James Patterson

Twelve drummers drumming [sound recording]: a mystery by C.C.

Good summer listens engage you with love, romance, suspense or intrigue. A good fiction getaway is right here waiting for you to explore.

Carry the one [sound recording] by Carol Anshaw

The Gilly salt sisters [sound recording]: a novel by Tiffany Baker

Summerland (CD) [sound recording] by Elin Hilderbrand

Secrets of the lost summer [sound recording] by Carla Neggers

The Boy in the Suitcase [sound recording] by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis

Caleb's crossing [sound recording] by Geraldine Brooks

Damned [sound recording] by Chuck Palahniuk

A dance with dragons [sound recording] by George R.R.

June is Audiobook Month! Join our "green" friends to celebrate this occasion. Choose a format that suits you — books on CD, MP3-CD, Playaway, downloadable, or cassette. Rest your eyes and let your ears do the reading!

The Audio Publishers Association (APA) announced the finalists in the 2010 Audies competition, the only awards program devoted entirely to honoring spoken word entertainment. Who is going to win? We will have to wait until the winners are announced at the Audies Gala on May 25th, 2010, at the Museum of the City of New York. Wolf Hall, Anne Frank Remembered, True Compass, Viral Loop, and Elegance of the Hedgehog are among the nominees.

Here is where the landscape, the country, and the people all play a part in forming life-changing experiences in the real and fictional worlds of Africa!

• The challenge for Africa by Wangari Maathai
• A beautiful place to die by Malla Nunn
• Ivory's ghosts: the white gold of history and the fate of elephants by John F. Walker
• Playing the enemy: Nelson Mandela and the game that made a nation by John Carlin
• Cry, the beloved country by Alan Paton
• A change of altitude by Anita Shreve
• Tea time for the traditionally built by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips
• The laughter of dead kings by Elizabeth Peters
• Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad

What better way to learn to download ebooks from CPL's vast digital collection! Hop on the 18-wheeler of a bookmobile to get acquainted with the latest process and gadgetry! Come today, July 29, Wednesday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. You'll be in for a new experience, and also have a chance to win an iPod Nano!

The Book of the Dead

by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (CD and Playaway)

FBI Agent Pendergast is in a high security prison for a murder he did not commit while his psychotic brother is about to perpetrate a horrific crime. When the Tomb of Senef is unsealed in preparation for its gala reopening at a celebrity-studded New York gala, the killings and whispers of an ancient curse begin again. Read by Scott Brick.

Christine Falls

by Benjamin Black (CD)

Dublin pathologist Garret Quirke follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city's high Catholic society, among them members of his own family. Read by Timothy Dalton.

1776 by David McCullough

(CD and Cassette)

In this stirring audiobook, McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence when the whole American cause was riding on their success. Read by the author.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

(CD)

Utilizing diversified case studies, Gladwell reveals that what we think as decisions made in the blink of an eye are much more complicated than assumed. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, he shows how decision-making is based on the few particular details that we focus. Read by the author.

Amateur Marriage

(CD and Cassette)

by Anne Tyler: In the heat of World War II, young Michael and Pauline hastily get married. Pauline, impulsive and impractical, tumbles hit-or-miss through life, while Michael, cautious and judgmental, proceeds deliberately. In time their foolish quarrels take their toll. Read by Blair Brown.

The Birth of Venus

(CD)

by Sarah Dunat: In the late Renaissance Florence, young Alessandra, an unusually educated woman, must choose her own path: a marriage of convenience to her brother's homosexual lover, or a dangerous love affair with the house painter. Read by Kathe Mazur.

Bleachers

(CD and Cassette)

by John Grisham: Neely Crenshaw whose NFL prospects ended abruptly returns home for the first time in years to join a nightly vigil for his former coach Rake. Neely struggles to reconcile his conflicted feelings towards Rake, and to rekindle love in his ex-girlfriend. Fiction.

Blessings

(CD and Cassette)

by Anna Quindlen: A baby left at Blessings, a vast estate owned by an ancient matriarch named Lydia Blessing is discovered by Skip Cuddy, the handyman who happens to be an ex-con. He cares secretly for the baby for four months, in the process forming a bond with Mrs. Blessing. Fiction.

Bel Canto

(CD)

by Ann Patchett: Somewhere in South America at the home of the country's vice-president, a lavish party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. A band of terrorists breaks in during the performance of Roxanne, opera's most revered soprano. What begins as a life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different. Fiction.