Winter Listening: New Audiobook Selections

The holiday season is finally over and it's time to get back to your reading list. If you've never tried audiobooks now's a great time to do so. Audiobooks are great for; long commutes, exercising, house cleaning or just relaxing in your favorite chair. If the weather is frightful all of these are available for download at www.mymediamall.net 

After Alice
By Gregory Maguire
Read by Katherine Kellgren, 7 hours 15 minutes
Take a fanciful trip down the rabbit hole with narrator Katherine Kellgren in After Alice. This adaptation tells the story of Alice's friend, Ada and her experience in Wonderland. The narrator does a magnificent job animating each unusual voice. The tone, pace and emotion makes for an enjoyable listen.

Avenue of Mysteries
By John Irving
Read by Armando Duran, 21 hours

How does the environment shape the development of an artist? Juan Diego was a "dump kid" in Oaxaca, Mexico with a smashed foot and a sister with mystical powers. As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. Sometimes, we live more fiercely in the past than in the present. The narrator affects a friendly, curious tone as the episodic events of Juan's life enlighten and entertain.

Career of Evil
By Robert Galbraith
Read by Robert Glenister, 17 hours
(3rd in the Comoran Strike novels)

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is shocked to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Cormoran Strike, war vet turned PI must look to his past to determine who is behind the vile package. Robert Glenister narrator of the first two books in the series is spot on with real-life pacing and vocal differences between characters.

Dark Corners
By Ruth Rendell
Read by Ric Jerrom, 7 hours 15 minutes

Carl Martin's life begins to unravel when a friend he sold homeopathic diet pills to turns up dead and his new tenant, Dermot McKinnon, begins to blackmail him. Ruth Rendell expertly lures the reader into the dark corners of the twisted and disturbing mind of a psychopath and narrator Jerrom keeps things superbly sinister with this fine performance.

Slade House
By David Mitchell
Read by Thomas Judd and Tania Rodrigues, 6 hours 54 minutes

Dynamic narrators Thomas Judd and Tania Rodrigues give remarkable performances of David Mitchell's original characters and peculiar situations. Every nine years, Slade House appears in an alley in London, and every nine years, somebody disappears into it, never to be seen again.