For 10 summers, the extended Seton family met at their country home in New Hampshire to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and drinking gin and tonic on the homestead porch to celebrate the end of the season. But during the 11th summer, everything changes. A hidden, partially loaded hunting rifle winds up in exactly the wrong hands at precisely the wrong time, leading to an inadvertent but terrible accident that tests the values uniting the family and the convictions that might pull it apart.
Rich with unforgettable characters and great depth of feeling, Before You Know Kindness also adds a warmly human dimension to some of the most controversial issues of our time.
When his father dies, writer Solomon Wilberforce is forced to break the disconected, cyclical patterns of his life to attend the funeral....
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There are some lifelong quests that all women have in common: meaningful work, true love, and a bra that doesn't leave red marks on your skin....
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Set in the backdrop of the teeming Atlanta Metropolitan Area, Freaknic is a gripping, unsettling novel of suspense that will also titillate the sexual sensibilities....
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Neve and her daughter share a love for the beauty of Rhode Island's South County. But as winter gives way to spring and summer, a secret will emerge that has lain buried just offshore for decades....
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Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili....
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During a bitterly cold winter in a snowy northern city, a selfconfessed thief has just tried to commit suicide by hanging himself from a tree in the local park....
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Bishop T.K. Wilson is a pillar of the community, pastor of the largest AfricanAmerican church in Queens, NY, and has always tended to he needy....
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Months after his mysterious disappearance from a routine fishing trip, no one really expects overthehill Texas housewife Lory Latchley to find her missing husband especially her husband....
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When cub reporter Lesley is sent to Venice to interview a worldrenowned violinist, the journalist is told she can ask Paolo Levi anything about his life and career as a musician....
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Cassandra, a young Washington blogger, suggests that Baby Boomers be given incentives to kill themselves by age 75. The idea catches on with outraged citizens and a senator running for president....
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Twenty years after the publication of his first novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, Nick Cave brings us the final days of Bunny Munro, a salesman in search of a soul....
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Eldritch Swan is a dead man. Or at least that is what his nephew Stephen has always been told. Until one day Eldritch walks back into his life after 36 years in an Irish prison.....
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Nestled among Seattle's skyscrapers, The Zephyr Holdings Building is a bleak rectangle topped by an orangeandblack logo that gives no hint of Zephyr's business....
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Cree bush pilot Will Bird lies comatose in a hospital, while his wayward niece Annie arrives to sit in silent vigil by his side....
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The First Lady is the tale of a preacher's wife who learns she's dying and vows to find her husband another woman....
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Why I Recommend
Audible by Alan Twigg
Audible (an Amazon.com company) is the world's leading online
audio-book provider. Audible is responsible for supplying audio
content to Apple's ITunes service. I have been listening,
enjoying and creating audio books for many years. With
the arrival of the internet and portable digital devices,
audio-books began to become availalbe for download.
Having tried most of
the other download services myself, I finally came to
the conclusion that Audible offers the best and most
reliable service. Whether you are using an IPod, IPhone,
mobile phone, Dune or one of the many other MP3 players
availalbe, Audilbe makes downloading great quality audio
content easy and umcomplicated.
In addition to this, Audible also boasts the most comprehensive collection
of audio books anywhere. Depending on the promotion currently on
offer, you can download any audiobook of your
choice for free (including almost
certainly the title on this
page, too).
This link will take you to Audible...
All about Audiobooks and how they can make your life more
enjoyable.
Books in audio format are a fantastic alternative to reading.
Indeed, now that the digital age is upon, listening to your
favourite novel, biography or factual book has become
incredibly easy. Digital audiobooks weigh nothing and can be
easily downloaded in mp3, wma or other format to an almost
limitless number of mobile devices, including ipods, iphone,
zune, android, laptops, PCs and mobile phones.
Just imagine listening to a bestselling classic while
driving. Good audiobooks really do take the boredom out of
travel and long car journeys. Thanks to Ipod and co. you
don’t even need a CD player anymore! And there are many
thousands of great audiobooks to choose in an incredibly
diverse range of categories. From comedy to business and
from children’s to Adult, you are guaranteed to find your
downloadable favourite.
Here at Playtime Books we offer lots unabridged talking
books that can be downloaded from audible. At audible
audiobooks you get your own online library, which makes
downloading a piece of cake. You can then easily move them
over to your Ipod or mp3 player. You can also sign up for
the trial and get a
free audiobook.
