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When you lose it / Roxy and Gay Longworth.

A sharp-witted thirteen-year-old girl with a tendency towards self-destruction, Roxy Longworth's life implodes before her teenage years have even really begun. Her sisters, her father, and above all her mother, Gay, end up buried in the shrapnel, desperately trying to claw their way out. The fault lies with the vulturous older boys who have been circling Roxy for months, pecking away at her spirit. Or perhaps it lies with the blank-faced head teacher who let them get away with it. Or it lies with the counsellor, the professional who should have known better than to push her further into delusion and paranoia. Or does it lie with her mother, who was so hurt that she didn't notice all the signs in time? The woman who never fully understood. Or with Roxy, after all she was the one who pressed send on those photos.
Author: Longworth, Roxy
Published: Rearsby : Clipper Audiobooks, 2023.
10 CDs (723 min.) : digital, stereo

Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01110857X

The White lady / Jacqueline Winspear.

1947. Miss Elinor White, known locally as 'the White lady', is living a quiet life in a grace-and-favour cottage in the Kent countryside. Unbeknownst to her neighbours, she is the veteran of two world wars, a trained killer and an ex-spy. This private and seemingly tranquil life conceals past trauma and Elinor finds herself drawn into the predicament of a local man who is entangled with one of the most dangerous crime families in London. A treacherous path lies ahead, but it may be one that ultimately leads Elinor to a future unshackled from her own painful history.
Author: Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Published: Rearsby : Lamplight Audiobooks, 2023.
9 CDs (653 min.) : digital, stereo

Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01105747X

Pages from my passport / Amelia Dalton.

Amelia Dalton, fresh from touring the Scottish islands, takes on the world and sets up exclusive holidays in remote places for a new cruise ship. As she scopes out her itineraries, she explores inaccessible islands and survives a hotel fire, a bomb in a palace, being stung by a scorpion and thrown into jail. Meanwhile, she's being wooed from afar by a mysterious stranger who turns up in the most unexpected places.
Author: Dalton, Amelia
Published: Rearsby : Clipper Audiobooks, 2023.
8 CDs (563 min.) : digital, stereo

Broughty Ferry Library - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01105745X

Cleopatra & Julius / Joanna Courtney.

Consecrated at birth as a royal goddess, Cleopatra learns early on that to rule means to fight. Politically astute, her deep love for Egypt means she'll do everything in her power to retain its autonomy from the all-devouring Romans. Julius Caesar is a legendary warrior whose might helped secure the Egyptian throne for Cleopatra's father. Years later, when he encounters the now Queen of Egypt, it is more than a meeting of rulers - it is a meeting of souls. In Julius, Cleopatra finds the first person who challenges and respects her fiercely brilliant mind, understands her duty and shares her passionate nature. Their union, forged in conflict, seems unbreakable, but are the bonds binding them to their countries even stronger? In a choice between love and duty, only one can win.
Author: Courtney, Joanna (Novelist)
Unabridged edition.
Published: Oxford : ISIS Audio Books, 2023.
10 CDs (10 hr., 49 min.) : digital, stereo

Broughty Ferry Library - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01110816X

Reasonable people / Caroline Hulse.

After a kid's party faux-pas, mother Janine anonymously vents about her father-in-law's behaviour on internet forum Am I The Villain Here? When the community is invited to take sides the post goes viral, with mild-mannered Roy ending up in the national newspapers and sparking protests at his local library. 'Reasonable People' explores how judging others reveals our deepest, most unreasonable selves.
Author: Hulse, Caroline, 1977-
Unabridged edition.
Published: Oxford : ISIS Audio Books, 2023.
8 CDs (8 hr., 34 min.) : digital, stereo

Blackness Library - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01110822X

The trap / Catherine Ryan Howard.

Stranded on a dark road in the middle of the night, a young woman accepts a lift from a passing stranger. It's a nightmare that every girl is warned about, and she knows the dangers all too well - but what choice does she have? As they drive, she alternates between fear and relief - one moment thinking he is just a man doing a good thing, the next convinced he's a monster. But when he delivers her to her destination, she realises her fears were unfounded. And her heart sinks. Because a monster is what she's looking for. Inspired by a series of unsolved disappearances, 'The Trap' is a startling thriller.
Author: Howard, Catherine Ryan
Unabridged edition.
Published: Oxford : ISIS Audio Books, 2023.
8 CDs (8 hr., 44 min.) : digital, stereo

Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01110821X

Triggers / Stephen Leather.

Marianne is an assassin. One of the best in the business. Except killing isn't her business - it's her way of getting revenge. Revenge that has been a long time coming. But there are dark forces who want to use Marianne for their own ends. Dark forces who will do whatever is necessary to acquire her skills. But what they don't know is that Marianne has a secret. A secret that could be the death of them all.
Author: Leather, Stephen
Unabridged edition.
Published: Oxford : ISIS Audio Books, 2023.
9 CDs (9 hr., 35 min.) : digital, stereo

Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Onloan - Due: 16 Dec 2023 - C01110825X

The fine art of uncanny prediction / Robert Goddard.

Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances. Keen to avoid a similar fate, Wada chooses the cases she takes very carefully. A businessman who wants her to track down his son offers what appears to be a straightforward assignment. But she should have known that the simplest cases are never simple at all. Soon she finds herself pulled into a labyrinthine conspiracy with links to a 27-year-old investigation by her late employer and to the chaos and trauma of the dying days of the Second World War. As Wada uncovers a dizzying web of connections between then and now, it becomes clear that someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep the past buried. And the deeper Wada digs, the more danger she finds herself in.
Author: Goddard, Robert
Unabridged edition.
Published: Oxford : ISIS Audio Books, 2023.
12 CDs (12 hr., 18 min.) : digital, stereo

Blackness Library - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01110819X

The mistress of Ashmore Castle / Cynthia Harrod-Eagles.

England, 1903. Giles, the Earl of Stainton, has fled from his stifling duties to resume his research in Egypt, leaving behind his wife Kitty, and his infant son. Kitty, still reeling from Giles' sudden departure, struggles to keep spirits high in the castle and establish herself as the true mistress of the house, an impossible task given how many secrets the inhabitants are hiding from her. The Earl's younger sisters, Rachel and Alice, are both pursuing forbidden romances, and his brother Richard begins a new business venture, spurred on by his clandestine lover. And below stairs, a shocking crime sends distrust rippling through the staff, more so when one of their own is accused. Kitty must draw on her strength to keep the castle from crumbling around her, but with her marriage to Giles left uncertain, and a surprise of her own to conceal, can she ever take her rightful place as true head of her household?
Author: Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Unabridged edition.
Published: Oxford : Soundings Audio Books, 2023.
16 CDs (17 hr., 23 min.) : digital, stereo.
Ashmore Castle series

Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01110829X

The traitor's wife / Sarah Steele.

Inspired by the incredible stories of the heroines of the Italian Resistance, this is a heart-wrenching dual-timeframe story which is a portrait of war and a powerful exploration of how far we will go to protect our families, set between World War II Naples and the glamorous Golden Age of Hollywood.
Author: Steele, Sarah (Freelance editor)
Unabridged edition.
Published: Oxford : Soundings Audio Books, 2023.
11 CDs (11 hr., 20 min.) : digital, stereo

Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01110833X

House of Odysseus / Claire North.

On the island of Ithaca, queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband Odysseus sailed to war with Troy and never returned. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning to keep the peace - but this is shattered with the arrival of Orestes, King of Mycenae. Orestes, son of Agamemnon, is mad. Wracked with guilt for putting his own mother to death, he grows ever more unhinged. But a king cannot be seen to be weak. To keep him safe from the ambitious men of Mycenae, his sister Elektra brings him to Ithaca to recover under the protection of Penelope. But no sooner has Orestes arrived then his uncle Menelaus, the blood-soaked king of Sparta, comes looking for him. Menelaus hungers for Orestes' throne - and if he can seize it, no one will be safe from his violent whims.
Author: North, Claire
Unabridged edition.
Published: Oxford : ISIS Audio Books, 2023.
13 CDs (13 hr., 54 min.) : digital, stereo.
Songs of Penelope

Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Onloan - Due: 12 Dec 2023 - C01110826X

Ripe / Sarah Rose Etter.

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie is trapped in a corporate nightmare. She struggles to reconcile the promise of a city where obscene wealth lives alongside abject poverty. Ivy League grads complain about the snack selection from a conference room with a view of houseless people bathing in the bay. Startup burnouts leap into the paths of commuter trains. Though isolated, Cassie is never alone. From her earliest memory, the black hole has been her constant companion. It feeds on her depression and anxiety, changing in size relative to her distress. Its relentless pull draws Cassie ever closer as the world around her unravels. When her CEO's demands become illegal and she ends up unexpectedly pregnant, Cassie must decide whether the tempting fruits of Silicon Valley are worth the pain, or succumb to the black hole.
Author: Etter, Sarah Rose
Unabridged edition.
Published: Oxford : ISIS Audio Books, 2023.
7 CDs (6 hr., 36 min.) : digital, stereo

Lochee Library - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01110817X

Fifteen reasons to kill / Michelle Kidd.

Eighty-one-year-old Eddie Wakefield is found brutally murdered at the nursing home where he lives. Crudely carved into his flesh - while he was still alive - is the number 15. Detective Jack MacIntosh and his team are determined to track down the ruthless killer of this frail elderly man. But the investigation is leading nowhere. Then the second body is discovered. The victim was stabbed to death in their own home. Again, the number 15 is etched into the dead man's flesh. What is the significance of the number 15 - and is Jack prepared for the horrifying truth?
Author: Kidd, Michelle
Unabridged edition.
Published: Oxford : ISIS Audio Books, 2023.
12 CDs (12 hr., 22min.) : digital, stereo

Broughty Ferry Library - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01110824X

Someone like her / Awais Khan.

Multan, Pakistan. A conservative city where an unmarried woman over the age of 25 is considered a curse by her family. Ayesha is 27. Independent and happily single, she has evaded an arranged marriage because of her family's reduced circumstances. When she catches the eye of powerful, wealthy Raza, it seems like the answer to her parents' prayers. But Ayesha is in love with someone else, and when she refuses to give up on him, Raza resorts to unthinkable revenge. Ayesha travels to London to rebuild her life and there she meets Kamil, an emotionally damaged man with his own demons. They embark on a friendship that could mean salvation for them both, but danger stalks Ayesha in London. With her life thrown into turmoil, she is forced to make a decision that could change her and everyone she loves forever.
Author: Khan, Awais (Novelist)
Unabridged edition.
Published: Oxford : ISIS Audio Books, 2023.
11 CDs (11 hr., 51 min.) : digital, stereo

Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Onloan - Due: 11 Dec 2023 - C01110823X

Just like mother / Anne Heltzel.

The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in. For two decades, Maeve has worked hard to build a normal life in New York City, where she keeps everything - and everyone - at a safe distance. When Andrea suddenly reappears, Maeve regains the only true friend she's ever had. Soon she's spending more and more time at Andrea's remote Catskills estate, not minding that her cousin's wealthy work friends clearly disapprove of her single lifestyle. After all, Andrea has made her fortune in the fertility industry - baby fever comes with the territory. What worries Maeve is that the more she immerses herself in Andrea's world, the more her long-buried memories flood to the surface. But confronting the terrors of her childhood may be the only way for Maeve to transcend the nightmare still to come.
Author: Heltzel, Anne
Unabridged edition.
Published: Oxford : ISIS Audio Books, 2023.
10 CDs (10 hr., 13 min.) : digital, stereo

Kirkton Library - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01110820X

Miriam / Linda O'Byrne.

Many years have passed since the dramatic events of 'Pride and Prejudice'. In 'The Cousins of Pemberley' series we follow a new generation of heroines - cousins with lives as different and interesting as those enjoyed by their mothers. Mary Bennet - overlooked, laughed at, despised - married a missionary and vanished into a life of service out in Africa. But now Miriam, her daughter, is coming to England, disliking everything she has been told about her family. Her aunts and cousins are expecting someone quiet, dull and bookish, just like her mother, not the quick-tempered, impulsive girl who arrives. How can this adventurous girl with her desire for freedom possibly fit into their well ordered world? And what havoc will she cause as she tries?
Author: O'Byrne, Linda
Unabridged edition.
Published: Oxford : Soundings Audio Books, 2023.
7 CDs (7 hr., 39 min.) : digital, stereo.
Cousins of Pemberley

Kirkton Library - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01110831X

Viking wolf / Griff Hosker.

Jarl Dragon Heart has taken to the seas. With his wolf warriors he raids further afield than ever before as he seeks his destiny. He has to fight new enemies as well as treacherous former allies. The Norns weave their webs and the Vikings discover the Middle Sea and Africa before they find themselves at the court of Nikephoros 1, the Emperor of Byzantium. A vast moving novel filled with battles both at sea and on land as the Viking Wolf unleashes his pack on the world.
Author: Hosker, Griff
Published: Rearsby : Lamplight Audiobooks, 2023.
8 CDs (577 min.) : digital, stereo.
Dragonheart ; 5.

Lochee Library - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01107584X

The cottage by the shore / Rachael Lucas.

Small animal vet Sophie Jones has seen her daughter off to university in the USA. As a single parent with an empty nest, she surprises herself - taking a job in a tiny village of Applemore in the Highlands of Scotland. Hundreds of miles from home, she can try to escape the fear that her past might come back to haunt her.
Author: Lucas, Rachael
Published: Rearsby : Lamplight Audiobooks, 2023.
7 CDs (464 min.) : digital, stereo.
Applemore series ; 5.

Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Onloan - Due: 06 Dec 2023 - C01105750X

George Russell : a biography / James Gray.

Sports journalist and author of 'Max Verstappen', James Gray, traces how George Russell has been setting the racing track alight since the age of seven and how he is now destined to become the successor to the crown of British motor racing.
Author: Gray, James (Sportswriter)
Published: London : Icon Books, 2023.
8 CDs (540 min.) : digital, stereo

Broughty Ferry Library - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01107582X

Witching pool / John Pilkington.

England, 1617. Susanna Cobbett, teenage daughter of a powerful Worcester landowner, is found dead in a gloomy woodland pond which has an evil reputation as the Witching Pool. The girl is said to have drowned herself, driven to madness by a local widow named Agnes Mason, who is arrested on a charge of witchcraft. If found guilty, she will hang at the next Assizes. But Justice Belstrang, shrewd ex-magistrate and sceptic, does not believe a word of it. And when Agnes's family beg him to help, he finds himself caught up in an ever-darkening mystery. Another death follows: that of Susanna's lover, a young shepherd. He too is reported to have drowned himself at the Witching Pool, unable to face life without his beloved. But from local woodsman Ned Berritt, Belstrang learns there's more to it - and when Berritt too is found dead soon after, he becomes even more determined to uncover the truth.
Author: Pilkington, John, 1948 June 11-
Published: Rearsby : Lamplight Audiobooks, 2023.
6 CDs (422 min.) : digital, stereo.
Justice Belstrang mystery ; 2.

Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Onloan - Due: 12 Dec 2023 - C01105749X

Grave intentions / R.V. Raman.

Seasoned detective Harith Athreya is back, this time to investigate suspicious incidences on a riverside dig in the heart of remote Bundelkhand. In this place, rich in myth and history, the legend goes that anyone who sets foot on nearby island Naaz Tapu would be cursed forever. When an archaeologist defies local folklore, the fallout is swift and deadly. Is the death a result of the ancient curse, or is it a more down-to-earth case of murder? Athreya needs to unravel the truth from legend before the curse strikes again.
Author: Raman, R. V.
Published: London : Pushkin Vertigo, 2023.
8 CDs (564 min.) : digital, stereo.
Harith Athreya mystery ; 2.

Ardler Library - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01107578X

The man in black / Lynn Shepherd.

London, 1850. The Dickensian streets grow darker by the day. Private investigator Charles Maddox is surprised when he is approached by Edward Tulkinghorn for help. The feared and shadowy attorney offers Charles a handsome price he can't refuse to do some sleuthing for a client. Charles learns that Sir Julius Cremorne has been receiving threatening letters, and now Tulkinghorn wants him to find and stop whoever is responsible. But what starts as a simple, open-and-shut case swiftly escalates into something bigger and much darker. As he cascades toward a collision with powerful forces, Charles will need all the assistance he can get.
Author: Shepherd, Lynn, 1964-
Published: Rearsby : Clipper Audiobooks, 2023.
10 CDs (723 min.) : digital, stereo.
Detective Charles Maddox ; 2.

Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Onloan - Due: 16 Dec 2023 - C01107579X

The life cycle : 8,000 miles in the Andes by bamboo bike / Kate Rawles.

Pedalling hard for 13 months, eco adventurer Kate Rawles cycled the length of the Andes on an eccentric bicycle she built herself. 'The Life Cycle' charts her mission to find out why biodiversity is so important, what's happening to it, and what can be done to protect it. From the Pacific Ocean to rainforests and salt flats, Kate learns that armadillos can cross rivers by holding their breath, that Colombia has more species of birds than North America and Europe combined, and that in threatening species and ecosystems, we're tearing down our own life support system. En route, she witnesses the devastation of goldmining and oil drilling but finds hope in the incredible people working to regenerate habitats and communities. As she reaches the 'end of the world', she realises that to tackle biodiversity loss we all have a role to play.
Author: Rawles, Kate
Published: Rearsby : Clipper Audiobooks, 2023.
13 CDs (52740 min.) : digital, stereo

Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01107583X

Sleep when you're dead / Jude O'Reilly.

Michael North is the man you call when there's nothing left to lose. He executes every mission with determination, skill and a certain amount of flair. There's just one problem: the bullet lodged in his brain. If it moves, he will die - and so will the mission. Now North's been sent to infiltrate a doomsday cult on a remote island off the coast of Scotland to stop the terrorist attack its leader is planning on the mainland. Together with teen hacker FangFang, North must face down the forces of evil on behalf of his country.
Author: O'Reilly, Jude
Published: Rearsby : Clipper Audiobooks, 2023.
10 CDs (655 min.) : digital, stereo.
Michael North series

Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01107580X

Blue eyes and a wild spirit / Jane Wellesley.

Dorothy Wellesley was a poet, gardener, traveller and heiress; she was also bisexual and a rebel. She became the lover of Vita Sackville-West, wrecking her marriage to the Duke of Wellington. She was the intimate friend of W.B. Yeats in his final years. On the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group, she had a unique view of these iconic writers and artists. The biography draws on unpublished material, including private Wellesley family papers and hitherto unknown source materials. This is a riveting story of a complex and fascinating woman.
Author: Wellesley, Jane
Published: Rearsby : Clipper Audiobooks, 2023.
13 CDs (912 min.) : digital, stereo

Blackness Library - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01105746X

An ambush of widows / Jeff Abbott.

Henry North is a down-on-his-luck cybersecurity expert from New Orleans. Adam Zhang is the cofounder of one of Austin's most successful venture capitalist firms. These two men didn't know each other. They had never met. Yet they died together, violently, in a place neither had any business being. When Henry doesn't return from a business trip, his wife, Kirsten, panics - and then gets an anonymous phone call: 'Your husband is dead in Austin'. Flora knew Adam was keeping secrets from her. She suspected an affair, but had decided she could forgive him for his weakness - until her husband ended up dead. And with no explanation for her husband's murder, the police begin to suspect her. Together, these two widows will face a powerful foe determined to write a false narrative about the murders. In doing so, neither Flora nor Kirsten will remain the women the world thought they were.
Author: Abbott, Jeff
Published: Rearsby : Clipper Audiobooks, 2023.
11 CDs (750 min.) : digital, stereo

Coldside Library - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Onloan - Due: 19 Dec 2023 - C01110855X

The black crescent / Jane Johnson.

Hamou Badi is born in a mountain village with the magical signs of the zouhry on his hands. In Morocco, the zouhry is a figure of legend, a child of both humans and djinns, capable of finding all manner of treasure: lost objects, hidden water. But instead, Hamou finds a body. This unsolved murder instils in Hamou a deep desire for order and justice: he trains as an officer of the law, working for the French in Casablanca. But the city is trapped in the turmoil of the nationalist uprising, and soon he will be forced to choose between all he knows and all he loves.
Author: Johnson, Jane, 1960-
Published: Rearsby : Lamplight Audiobooks, 2023.
12 CDs (834 min.) : digital, stereo

Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01110859X

Tuscan warlord / Griff Hosker.

Sir John Hawkwood has almost all that he needs. He is the most respected and feared mercenary leader in Italy but he is surrounded by those who would do him and his family harm. He faces betrayal from friend and foe alike. His constants are his company and the leaders who fight for him. Treading a tightrope between warring factions that include the Pope and the Lord of Milan, Sir John Hawkwood decides to make the White Company into a warband and he becomes a warlord.
Author: Hosker, Griff, 1950-
Published: Rearsby : Lamplight Audiobooks, 2023.
8 CDs (571 min.) : digital, stereo.
Sir John Hawkwood ; 5.

Ardler Library - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01110861X

Our American friend / Anna Pitoniak.

Tired of covering the grating dysfunction of Washington and the increasingly outrageous antics of President Henry Caine, White House correspondent Sofie Morse quits her job and plans to leave politics behind. But when she gets a call from the office of First Lada Lara Caine, asking Sofie to come in for a private meeting with Lara, her curiosity is piqued. Sofie, like the rest of the world, knows little about Lara - only that Lara was born in Soviet Russia, raised in Paris, and worked as a model before moving to America and marrying the notoriously brash future president. When Lara asks Sofie to write her official biography, and to finally fill in the gaps of her history, Sofie's curiosity gets the better of her. She begins to spend more and more time in the White House, slowing developing a bond with Lara - and eventually a deep and surprising friendship with her.
Author: Pitoniak, Anna
Published: Rearsby : Clipper Audiobooks, 2023.
11 CDs (742 min.) : digital, stereo

Menzieshill Library - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01110856X

Lady Caroline Lamb : a free spirit / Antonia Fraser.

From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. As the niece of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, she was already well connected, and her courtly skills resulted in her marriage to the Hon. William Lamb (later Lord Melbourne) at the age of 19. For a few years they enjoyed a happy marriage, despite Lamb's siblings and mother-in-law detesting her and referring to her as 'the little beast'. In 1812 Caroline embarked on a well-publicised affair with the poet Lord Byron - he was 24, she 26. Her phrase 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' became his lasting epitaph. When he broke things off, Caroline made increasingly public attempts to reunite. Her obsession came to define much of her later life, as well as influencing her own writing, and Byron's.
Author: Fraser, Antonia, 1932-
Published: Rearsby : Lamplight Audiobooks, 2023.
6 CDs (400 min.) : digital, stereo

Blackness Library - (Dundee) - Adult talking books - Available - C01105751X