Talking Book Topics, Vol. 64, No. 3, May-June 1998 Talking Book Topics May-June 1998 Volume 64, Number 3 National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped _Talking Book Topics_ is published bimonthly in large-print, cassette, and disc formats and distributed free to blind and physically handicapped individuals who participate in the Library of Congress free reading program. It lists recorded books and magazines available through a network of cooperating libraries and covers news of developments and activities in library services. The annotated list in this issue is limited to titles recently added to the national collection, which contains thousands of fiction and nonfiction titles, including classics, biographies, gothics, mysteries, and how-to and self-help guides. To learn more about the wide range of books in the national collection, readers may order catalogs and subject bibliographies from cooperating libraries. Librarians can check other resources for titles and answer requests for special materials. To order books, contact your local cooperating library. Correspondence regarding editorial matters should be sent to: Publications and Media Section, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20542 Library of Congress, Washington 1998 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 60-46157 ISSN 0039-9183 Contents: In Brief Books for Adults Cassettes--Nonfiction Cassettes--Fiction Books for Children Cassettes--Nonfiction Cassettes--Fiction Foreign Language Books Spanish Talking Book Magazines ### _In Brief_ Letter from National Advisory Group The members of the National Advisory Group on Collection-Building Activities wish to thank their fellow patrons and librarians for their input on the NLS program. Please be assured that your ideas and suggestions were thoroughly discussed and incorporated into the recommendations that the committee made during its deliberations in September 1997. Copies of recommendations from the September meeting and NLS responses to the suggestions are available upon request by writing to Consumer Relations, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Washington, DC 20542 or by e-mail to nls@loc.gov. Please indicate whether you prefer large-print, audio cassette, or braille format. The group meets again at NLS on September 16-18, 1998. Please continue to assist us by contacting committee members or your cooperating library with your suggestions. Certain suggestions, such as the addition of a recommended book, are time-consuming to implement because of the many production and quality-checking steps in the audio recording and brailling processes. Do not let these time constraints discourage you from forwarding your comments. Input from readers is a key ingredient in the success of our program. The NLS National Advisory Group represents you. Members of the National Advisory Group on Collection-Building Activities Representatives from Consumer Organizations American Council of the Blind Mr. Tom Mitchell 1019 East Foxhill Road North Salt Lake, UT 84054 Blinded Veterans Association Mr. Ellsworth "Skip" Sharpe 1110 Fidler Lane Silver Spring, MD 20910 National Federation of the Blind Mrs. Barbara Walker 2224 South 35th Street Lincoln, NE 68506 Reader-at-large Representatives Midlands Region--includes the following: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin Mr. Edward Legge 1309 Heritage Hills Jefferson City, MO 65101 Northern Region--includes the following: Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and West Virginia Ms. Barbara Wysocki c/o Cora J. 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The recording is in the form of a conversation between a disabled student and a counselor from the department's Federal Student Aid Information Center. In their dialog, the student and specialist discuss federal financial aid programs and also talk about state and private sources of funds for eligible students. For a cassette or compact-disc copy of the publication, write Student Aid Audio Guide, Federal Student Aid Information Center, P.O. Box 84, Washington, DC 20044-0084. ### _Books for Adults_ Books listed in this issue of _Talking Book Topics_ were recently sent to cooperating libraries. The complete collection contains books by many authors on fiction and nonfiction subjects, including biographies, classics, gothics, mysteries, romances, and others. Contact your cooperating library to learn more about the wide range of books available in the collection.Cassette books are labeled with the code RC and play at 15/16 ips. To order books, contact your cooperating library. _Note:_ For the information of the reader, a notice may appear immediately following the book description to indicate occurrences of strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, or violence. The word "some" before any of these terms indicates an occasional or infrequent occurrence, as in "some strong language." _Cassettes Nonfiction_ A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II. RC 40825. by Nancy Baker Wise and Christy Wise. read by Barbara Rappaport. 2 cassettes. Nancy Baker Wise was among the many women who stepped into jobs left vacant by World War II soldiers. She and her daughter interviewed 137 others like her to describe that experience. The women discuss the types of jobs taken, the training provided, the attitudes of male co-workers and supervisors, the effects on the women's home life, and their displacement after the war. 1994. RC 40825. ## Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy. RC 40826. by Tim Weiner and others. read by Gary Telles. 2 cassettes. Three _New York Times_ reporters tell how the CIA bureaucrat sold information to the Soviets from 1985 to 1994. Basing their account on interviews with dozens of the people involved and on documentary sources, they probe Ames's motives and the CIA's tardiness in detecting his betrayal. 1995. RC 40826. ## Minding the Children: Child Care in America from Colonial Times to the Present. RC 40846. by Geraldine Youcha. read by Susan McInerney. 4 cassettes. A general survey with personal accounts. Youcha maintains that American child care has varied more than is commonly supposed. Colonial tradesmen reared their apprentices, older children cared for slave babies while "mammies" brought up the owner's children, utopian societies used communal systems, and the rich sent their offspring to boarding schools. 1995. RC 40846. ## Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem. RC 40906. by David Blankenhorn. read by Phil Regensdorf. 3 cassettes. The founder of the Institute for American Values decries the erosion of the patriarchal role in American life, presenting this decline as the cause of poverty, violence against women, and child abuse. He cites unsatisfactory fatherhood models and describes the "good family man." He then proffers twelve proposals for shoring up fatherhood as a vital male role. 1995. RC 40906. ## Human Wishes. RC 40909. by Robert Hass. read by Marilyn Gleason. 1 cassette. Short poems and poetic sketches by a United States poet laureate. "Spring Drawing" reflects the difficulty of capturing life in art, "Vintage" presents impressions and fleeting thoughts while visiting a deli and a liquor store on Sixth Avenue, and "A Story about the Body" tells how a composer loses interest in a painter when he learns she has had a double mastectomy. 1989. RC 40909. ## Saddam Hussein: Absolute Ruler of Iraq. RC 40910. by Rebecca Stefoff. read by Phil Regensdorf. 1 cassette. Begins with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, then recounts Hussein's early life of abandonment, poverty, and abuse. Continues by interweaving Hussein's life story with the history of Iraq and concludes with an account of Desert Storm. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1995. RC 40910. ## Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything. RC 40918. by Steven Levy. read by Jeff Halberstadt. 2 cassettes. The author of _Hackers (RC 22832)_ and _Artificial Life (RC 36701)_ tells how enthusiastic, iconoclastic "nerds" seized upon bit-mapping and the mouse to create the friendly, popular Macintosh personal computer. Anecdotes about Steve Jobs, Jef Raskin, Bill Gates, John Sculley, and others portray eccentricities, conflicts, and brilliance. 1994. RC 40918. ## The Jury: Trial and Error in the American Courtroom. RC 40932. by Stephen J. Adler. read by Phil Regensdorf. 2 cassettes. The legal editor of the _Wall Street Journal_ examines how seven juries reached their decisions. He concludes that jurors' inadequacies are leading to wrong verdicts and proposes changes to improve the system: making jury duty more convenient, eliminating peremptory challenges, giving juries fuller and clearer instructions, and allowing them to take notes. 1994. RC 40932. ## Grace Happens: Stories of Everyday Encounters with Grace. RC 40997. by Bob Libby. read by Arnie Warren. 1 cassette. A collection of stories in which the author sees the influence of God's grace in everyday life. Relates incidents of forgiveness and reconciliation, courage, healing, or a change in life's direction. Includes reflections, Scripture verses, and prayers. 1994. RC 40997. ## Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel: A Biography. RC 41116. by Judith and Neil Morgan. read by Conrad Feininger. 2 cassettes. Biography of the noted author and illustrator of whimsical children's books. Geisel, who wrote under the pseudonyms Dr. Seuss and LeSieg (Geisel spelled backward), first published his drawings in college in Dartmouth's humor magazine. He went on to Oxford to study literature but was convinced by classmate and future wife, Helen Palmer, to concentrate on drawing. 1995. RC 41116. ## Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence. RC 41210. by John Hockenberry. read by Ray Hagen. 3 cassettes. Hockenberry has been a reporter, commentator, and host for National Public Radio and television. He writes of the nineteen years since a car accident left him paraplegic at nineteen. His frustration and humor come through in describing such incidents as a construction crew's placing orange cones around him after a spill from his chair. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1995. RC 41210. ## Nine Lives: From Stripper to Schoolteacher; My Year-Long Odyssey in the Workplace. RC 41302. by Lynn Snowden. read by Celeste Lawson. 2 cassettes. Convinced that "what you do during the day determines who you are at night," a freelance journalist describes the effect of taking nine very different jobs in one year. She was a roadie for a heavy metal band, a publicist, a factory worker, a substitute teacher, a stripper, a housewife, a cocktail waitress, an ad writer, and a volunteer at a rape crisis center. Some strong language. 1994. RC 41302. ## The Old Farmer's Almanac Book of Everyday Advice. RC 41560. edited by Judson D. Hale. read by June Carter. 2 cassettes. Since its first edition in 1792, _The Old Farmer's Almanac_ has been giving advice. Editor-in-chief Hale again provides advice for your home and for your life. Contains humorous hints on how to stop snoring, avoid dying, and get rich without doing any work. Other examples are how to make George Washington's Christmas eggnog, what to eat for various holidays, and how to grow the tastiest tomatoes. 1995. RC 41560. ## Nature Crafts with a Microwave. RC 41561. by Dawn Cusick. read by Miriam Wagner. 1 cassette. Microwave ovens can be used to dry fruits, vegetables, flowers, herbs, mosses, fungi, cones, pods, seeds, and nuts. These items can be shaped with floral wire, picks, pins, tape, and glue to form objects such as wreaths, birdhouses, jewelry, and ornaments, or made into potpourri, lip balm, tea, and clothing dye. Included are general and specific instructions and designer tips for more than eighty projects. 1994. RC 41561. ## Roommates: My Grandfather's Story. RC 41562. by Max Apple. read by Arnie Warren. 2 cassettes. From three generations living under the same roof in Michigan, young Max chose his grandfather, Rocky, for a roommate. A Jewish baker from Lithuania, Rocky finally accepted the sad fact that Max was not cut out to be a rabbi. In graduate school, Max again shared his apartment with feisty, widowed, ninety-three-year-old Rocky. A woman broke the duo up, but until Rocky died at 106, he remained a central figure in Max's life. Some strong language. 1994. RC 41562. ## The Strange Case of Dr. Kappler: The Doctor Who Became a Killer. RC 41564. by Keith Russell Ablow. read by Arnie Warren. 2 cassettes. While on vacation in 1990, retired anesthesiologist John Kappler purposely drove his car into two pedestrians, killing one. He claimed he was responding to voices in his head. Kappler had attempted to kill patients more than once during his career but was allowed to continue working. Ablow, a psychiatrist, journalist, and friend of Kappler's victim, discusses the case. Some strong language and some violence. 1994. RC 41564. ## Complete and Utter Failure: A Celebration of Also-Rans, Runners-Up, Never-Weres, and Total Flops. RC 41576. by Neil Steinberg. read by John Lescault. 2 cassettes. A _Chicago Sun-Times_ reporter's comic musings. He ponders failed products like Premier smokeless cigarettes and Corfam fake shoe leather and dissects the National Spelling Bee, which, he says, produces 8,999,999 losers. He also discusses the motivating force of "tippytopness," which drew Sir Edmund Hillary to the top of Mt. Everest and others to frozen graves. 1994. RC 41576. ## Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. RC 41663. by Paul Monette. read by Ray Hagen. 3 cassettes. An account of the author's final two years with his companion and "beloved friend" Roger Horwitz, who died of AIDS in 1986. The poet and novelist chronicles the suffering endured in the months between the diagnosis and death of his lover, with whom he had spent more than ten years. Prequel to _Becoming a Man (RC 41664)_. 1988. RC 41663. ## Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story. RC 41664. by Paul Monette. read by Ray Hagen. 2 cassettes. Author of _Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir (RC 41663)_ explains in this sequel how he wasted years of his life before he came out of the closet. Monette's self-portrait depicts his resentment of the duplicity in his life, his struggle to come to terms with his homosexuality, and the relief he felt once he met Roger, his longtime companion. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1992. RC 41664. ## Red Hot Mamas: Coming into Our Own at Fifty. RC 42873. by Colette Dowling. read by Barbara Rappaport. 2 cassettes. Dowling asserts that as Baby Boomers reach their fifties, they are faced with new challenges and new opportunities. Dowling presents eight "choice points" that she feels women must consider: social barriers, physical appearance, aging parents, work, love, sex, money, and hormone therapy. 1996. RC 42873. ## See Naples: A Memoir. RC 43135. by Douglas Allanbrook. read by David Hartley-Margolin. 2 cassettes. An American harpsichordist and composer who spent 1943-1945 with the U.S. infantry in Italy recounts those years and adds memories of his other visits to Naples: five years later as a Fulbright fellow and eighteen years after that on a personal quest. He tells of his lover, his first wife, and, mostly, of his army buddies. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. 1995. RC 43135. ## Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974. RC 43349. by James T. Patterson. read by Ralph Lowenstein. 7 cassettes. A historical overview of post-World War II America. Tracks and explains key political, economic, and social events through periods of economic boom, cold war tension, and social turbulence. Traces declines in public optimism and trust of government from the early 1970s. 1996. RC 43349. ## After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence. RC 43398. by James Bailey. read by Michael Consoli. 2 cassettes. Projects a future in which the traditional method of problem solving using sequential math will be eclipsed by computerized parallel processing on a large scale. The evolution of computer "intelligence" that is basically different from human thought will transform both our understanding of the world and our role in it. 1996. RC 43398. ## Quest for Perfection: The Drive to Breed Better Human Beings. RC 43452. by Gina Maranto. read by Mary Woods. 3 cassettes. Discusses the efforts of societies through the ages to control the outcome of human reproduction. Traces the ancient practice of infanticide, the eugenics experiments of the Nazis, and the development of modern birth technologies. Ponders the ethical and political implications of trying to manage evolution. 1996. RC 43452. ## _Better Homes and Gardens_ New Cook Book. RC 43582. edited by Jennifer Dorland Darling. read by Patricia McDermott. 9 cassettes. Twelve hundred recipes designed to reflect the healthier eating habits sought by many Americans. After a chapter covering cooking basics, twenty sections range from appetizers to vegetables, with nutritional information for each recipe. Where applicable, recipes are marked as quick to prepare or low in fat. 1996. RC 43582. ## In-Line Skating. RC 43585. by Mark Powell and John Svensson. read by Randy Wieck. 1 cassette. Introductory guide for both novice and advanced skaters. The authors advise on fundamental topics such as safety, skate maintenance, stopping, turning, and gliding, as well as on advanced activities such as racing, roller hockey, and dance. 1993. RC 43585. ## Mary Renault: A Biography. RC 43706. by David Sweetman. read by Peter Gil. 3 cassettes. Reviews the life and works of a historical novelist and key figure in the sexual revolution of the mid-twentieth century. Traces her early years at Oxford as a nurse, her literary career, and her later life in South Africa. Explores parallels between her own life and themes of her writings. 1993. RC 43706. ## Buffalo Nickel: A Memoir. RC 43711. by Floyd Salas. read by Robert Sams. 3 cassettes. The author recounts his hardscrabble youth in depression-era California. Describes his inner struggle between the influences of his older brothers, one Harvard educated and the other a street criminal. Culminates in a brutal boxing-ring showdown. Strong language and violence. 1992. RC 43711. ## Jihad vs. McWorld. RC 43728. by Benjamin R. Barber. read by Ted Stoddard. 3 cassettes. Examines the forces of political fragmentation ("jihad") and economic homogenization ("McWorld") that pervade post-cold war societies and discusses the relationship between these forces. Concludes that "neither . . . offers us a future that is other than bleak." 1995. RC 43728. ## Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer. RC 43748. by Louise Barnett. read by Robert Sams. 4 cassettes. A life portrait of the legendary figure of the June 25, 1876, Battle of the Little Bighorn. Examines the events of that day and the decisions leading up to the decimation of Custer's forces. Attributes Custer's lasting recognition to the ceaseless efforts of his wife, Libbie Custer. Violence. 1996. RC 43748. ## Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality. RC 43797. edited by Marilyn Sewell. read by Carole Jordan Stewart. 2 cassettes. More than three hundred selections of poetry and prose by women authors, all addressing religion and spirituality. Sections such as "Mothering," "Generations," "The Will toward the Good," and "Images of the Divine" include works by Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Sexton, and others. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1991. RC 43797. ## A Hero All His Life: A Memoir by the Mantle Family. RC 43806. by Merlyn Mantle and others. read by Art Metzler. 2 cassettes. A portrait of baseball legend Mickey Mantle from the perspective of his family. Recounts his early days of glory with the New York Yankees, his troubled family life, his chronic dependency on alcohol, and the controversial liver transplant that he received just before his death in 1995. 1996. RC 43806. ## The Making of a Country Lawyer. RC 43814. by Gerry Spence. read by Randy Atcher. 4 cassettes. Chronicles Spence's first forty years, before he gained fame for winning a multimillion-dollar verdict on behalf of the dead plutonium worker Karen Silkwood. Tells of his mother's suicide when Spence was ten, his own alcoholism, and his affair with the woman who became his second wife. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1996. RC 43814. ## Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension. RC 43819. by Michio Kaku. read by Butch Hoover. 3 cassettes. Describes a universe of ten dimensions using a superstring theory of hyperspace that synthesizes relativity and quantum theories. Views the basic forces of the cosmos--gravity, electromagnetism, and nuclear forces--as vibrations in a higher dimensional space, thus accounting for their varying mathematical descriptions. 1994. RC 43819. ## The Moral Compass: Stories for a Life's Journey. RC 43820. edited by William J. Bennett. read by Janis Gray. 7 cassettes. In this companion volume to _The Book of Virtues (RC 37818)_, Bennett uses stories and poems to provide examples that will inspire and instruct people of all ages. The book is arranged according to life stages from "home and hearth" through "into the world" to "citizenship and leadership." It includes selections from Hans Christian Andersen, John Milton, James Baldwin, Martin Luther, and Thomas Jefferson. Bestseller 1995. RC 43820. ## Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific. RC 43849. by Eric Bergerud. read by Lewis Grenville. 4 cassettes. Recounts the experiences of Allied soldiers in South Pacific battles against the Japanese from 1942 to 1944. Depicts the harsh conditions of climate, terrain, and disease that exacerbated the difficulties of fierce, close-in combat. Describes the campaign as unique in this century. Violence. 1996. RC 43849. ## The Lost Gospel of the Earth: A Call for Renewing Nature, Spirit, and Politics. RC 43859. by Tom Hayden. read by Gordon Gould. 2 cassettes. Asserts that the origins of today's environmental crisis are rooted in humankind's perceived dominion over nature, a belief supported by Western religious traditions. Calls for a new ethic of nature mysticism, which regards the earth as alive and sacred. Advocates public policies that respect the environment. 1996. RC 43859. ## Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. RC 43877. by Barack Obama. read by Bob Moore. 3 cassettes. Obama, his father a Kenyan student and his mother a white Kansan, struggles with issues of identity and ethnicity. A Harvard Law School graduate, community organizer, and civil rights lawyer, Obama recounts a life-changing pilgrimage to Kenya to meet relatives from his father's other marriages. Some strong language. 1995. RC 43877. ## Tomorrow, God Willing: Self-Made Destinies in Cairo. RC 43903. by Unni Wikan. read by Gabriella Cavallero. 3 cassettes. An anthropologist examines everyday life among the poor of Cairo. Chronicles one family's struggle to survive its squalid existence. Avers that these poor do not suffer from a "poverty of spirit" but avoid the moral decay that seems to pervade poor districts in many other cities. 1996. RC 43903. ## Operation Solo: The FBI's Man in the Kremlin. RC 43917. by John Barron. read by David Hartley-Margolin. 3 cassettes. An account of the FBI's Cold War espionage operation against the Soviet Union using double agent Morris Childs. As a high official of the American Communist Party from the 1950s to the 1970s, Childs was privy to super-secret Soviet information, which he passed to the FBI. Recounts times when Childs was almost exposed. 1996. RC 43917. ## Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians, and Mexico's Road to Prosperity. RC 43923. by Andres Oppenheimer. read by Jake Williams. 3 cassettes. A journalist's account of political and economic changes in Mexico during the mid-1990s. Gives perspective on the 1994 Zapatista rebellion and political assassinations, the NAFTA accords, and more. Explains the importance of the United States's southern neighbor in the post-cold war era. 1996. RC 43923. ## Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life. RC 43929. by Gail Sheehy. read by Martha Harmon Pardee. 4 cassettes (Reissue). Explores the developmental stages of adults between eighteen and fifty based on interviews and research. Includes such stages as "The Trying Twenties" and the "Urge to Merge," "Catch Thirty," "The Age Forty Crucible," "The Sexual Diamond," and finally, "Self-Renewal." Prequel to _New Passages (RC 40839)_. Bestseller. 1976. RC 43929. ## The Sea Hunters. RC 43934. by Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo. read by Bob Askey. 3 cassettes. A hunter of shipwrecks documents the discovery or survey of twelve major ships in deep waters. Each ship's story begins with an account of its final voyage, then describes how the ship was found. Featured are the Confederate submarine _Hunley_ and the Allied troop transport _L‚opoldville_, among others. 1996. RC 43934. ## Personal History. RC 43945. by Katharine Graham. read by Barbara Caruso. 6 cassettes. Memoir of the celebrated woman publisher of the _Washington Post_. Recounts her father's purchase of the _Post_ in 1934 and her marriage to Phil Graham, who managed the newspaper until his suicide in 1963. Katharine reluctantly took over and became by some accounts "the most powerful woman in the world." Bestseller 1997. RC 43945. ## Don't Know Much about the Civil War: Everything You Need to Know about America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned. RC 44025. by Kenneth C. Davis. read by Terence Aselford. 3 cassettes. Depicts the Civil War from a humanistic point of view. Examines the causes, events, and aftermath of the war, citing dramatic, firsthand accounts of both prominent and obscure persons who were involved. Avers that the divisive legacy of the Civil War continues to plague American politics, society, and life. 1996. RC 44025. ## Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood. RC 44041. by Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters. read by Kerry Cundiff. 4 cassettes. In 1989 Sony made the controversial purchase of Columbia Pictures. The authors chronicle how the staggering sums spent by Sony and the huge amounts lavished by studio heads Peters and Guber led to one of the worst losses in Japanese corporate history. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1996. RC 44041. ## Tax Options and Strategies: A State-by-State Guide for Persons with Disabilities, Senior Citizens, Veterans, and Their Families. RC 44044. by Bruce E. Bondo. read by Kerry Cundiff. 2 cassettes. A self-help handbook to aid disabled persons, senior citizens, and veterans in accessing federal, state, and local tax benefits. Covers earned income credits, medical deductions, sales tax exemptions, and other opportunities for tax relief. 1995. RC 44044. ## Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War. RC 44046. by Ernest B. Furgurson. read by Bruce Huntey. 3 cassettes. A "people's history" of the capital of the Confederacy and its role as the South's military, industrial, and administrative center during the Civil War. Furgurson includes firsthand accounts from the city's diverse residents: slave dealers, spies, nurses, preachers, politicians, and refugees. Some strong language. 1996. RC 44046. ## Horace's Hope: What Works for the American High School. RC 44050. by Theodore R. Sizer. read by John Richardson. 2 cassettes. Builds upon its prequel, _Horace's School (RC 37206)_, in addressing educational deficiencies in American high schools. Indicts standardized testing as a poor gauge of achievement, stressing the value of individual project "exhibitions." Proposes measures for improving the educational system. 1996. RC 44050. ## With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America. RC 44054. by William Martin. read by Lou Harpenau. 4 cassettes. Traces the rise of Christian fundamentalism since World War II as a major force in American political life. Assesses the influence of Christian activists on such public policy issues as school prayer, abortion, and gay rights. Predicts a coming era of conflict and diminished freedom for religion in America. 1996. RC 44054. ## Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business. RC 44064. by Peter Lynch and John Rothchild. read by Lou Harpenau. 2 cassettes. Believing America's high schools have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all--investing--the authors offer a guide for first-time investors, young or old. Explains the value of investing early in life, how to pick a company, how to read stock pages and balance sheets, and how to make a profit. For senior high and older readers. Bestseller 1995. RC 44064. ## Health against Wealth: HMOs and the Breakdown of Medical Trust. RC 44066. by George Anders. read by Butch Hoover. 3 cassettes. Portrays the transformation of the American health-care industry from the traditional fee-for-service model to managed care. Avers that managed care may reduce paperwork and curtail superfluous medical procedures, but can also restrict both patients' choices and doctors' treatments. Suggests ways to improve managed care. 1996. RC 44066. ## Through Fire and Water: An Overview of Mennonite History. RC 44074. by Harry Loewen and Steven Nolt. read by Butch Hoover. 2 cassettes. History and tenets of the Mennonite Church. The authors discuss its roots in New Testament Christianity and Anabaptist origins in sixteenth-century Switzerland. They also look at the impact of reforms led by Menno Simons and the spread of the faith throughout Europe and eventually to the other continents of the world. 1996. RC 44074. ## Raising Our Children's Children. RC 44075. by Deborah Doucette-Dudman. read by Madelyn Buzzard. 2 cassettes. Handbook for grandmothers as primary caregivers of their grandchildren. The authors discuss the under-reported problem of "kinship care" as they present case histories augmented by guidelines for dealing with such issues as conflict management, drug addiction, and physical and sexual abuse. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1996. RC 44075. ## Six Years of Hell: Harpers Ferry during the Civil War. RC 44076. by Chester G. Hearn. read by Randy Atcher. 2 cassettes. Chronicles the destruction and harassment inflicted on the small Virginia town, which was always near the front lines and changed hands frequently. Recounts events from John Brown's arrival in 1859 through the end of the war, during which the town became part of West Virginia, a new Union state. 1996. RC 44076. ## Waist-High in the World: A Life among the Nondisabled. RC 44084. by Nancy Mairs. read by Sharon Murray. 2 cassettes. A Tucson writer describes her experiences with multiple sclerosis. Having lived as both nondisabled and disabled, Mairs hopes her observations and responses will "make the terrain seem less alien, less perilous, and far more amusing than the myths and legends about it would suggest." 1996. RC 44084. ## Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism. RC 44098. by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Incorporated. read by Butch Hoover. 3 cassettes. Third edition of the basic text for Alcoholics Anonymous, commonly known as "The Big Book." Describes the recovery program and includes a doctor's testimony and the personal histories of forty-four recovered alcoholics. 1986. RC 44098. ## Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. RC 44113. by Michael J. Behe. read by Frank Coffee. 2 cassettes. Argues that advanced life could not have evolved by gradual evolutionary steps because of the myriad elements that would have had to change simultaneously. Uses explanations of how the human body functions to support his thesis. Attributes the design of higher organisms to an intelligent agent such as God. 1996. RC 44113. ## Naked. RC 44134. by David Sedaris. read by Ray Hagen. 2 cassettes. A humorous memoir of bizarre and absurd experiences with family, friends, and strangers. The title essay recounts the author's visit to a nudist colony, where he painfully faces coming to terms with his naked self. Strong language. Bestseller 1997. RC 44134. ## The Truth about Money. RC 44135. by Ric Edelman. read by Lou Harpenau. 4 cassettes. A guide to financial planning for the late 1990s, a time in which the "rules of money have changed" from earlier decades in terms of taxation, personal longevity, and other factors. Explains bonds, equities, insurance, real estate, and investment strategies for managing assets. Bestseller 1996. RC 44135. ## Do It! Let's Get off Our Buts. RC 44145. by John-Roger and Peter McWilliams. read by John Rayburn. 2 cassettes. "How-to" book on successful living urges the reader to discover a dream, pursue it with passion, break out of old habits, live with joy, and more. Includes practical advice and pithy quotes from famous writers and personalities. Bestseller 1991. RC 44145. ## Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book: Making Informed Choices about Menopause. RC 44147. by Susan M. Love. read by Jill Ferris. 3 cassettes. Explores the process of menopause as a natural stage in a woman's life. Discusses symptoms, consequences, and alternatives for treatment; evaluates the benefits and risks of hormone therapy. Includes an in-depth questionnaire to help women make individual decisions concerning menopause. Bestseller 1997. RC 44147. ## Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't. RC 44169. by George Lakoff. read by Bill Wallace. 3 cassettes. Examines the opposing positions of liberals and conservatives in terms of metaphorical concepts. Asserts that while both groups use a family model for evaluating political issues, one adheres to a "strict father" standard, while the other sees government as a "nurturant parent." 1996. RC 44169. ## The Great Boom Ahead: Your Comprehensive Guide to Personal and Business Profit in the New Era of Prosperity. RC 44174. by Harry S. Dent. read by John Rayburn. 2 cassettes. Forecasts a thriving economy starting in 1994 and continuing into the next century. Bases this prediction on the influences of the maturing baby-boom generation on spending, innovation, and organizations. Offers advice on achieving business and investment success during the growth period. 1993. RC 44174. ## It's Better to Laugh: Life, Good Luck, Bad Hair Days, and QVC. RC 44186. by Kathy Levine. read by Pam Ward. 2 cassettes. Author humorously describes her personal life and her career as host of the cable home shopping service QVC. She laments her weight and her "bad hair" and discusses things she "would never say on television." Some strong language. 1995. RC 44186. ## Living with Lupus: All the Knowledge You Need to Help Yourself. RC 44188. by Sheldon Paul Blau. read by Jill Ferris. 2 cassettes. Self-help handbook on treating lupus, an autoimmune disease of unknown origin. Examines the difficulty of diagnosing lupus; the use of corticosteroids and other drugs for treatment; accompanying problems, such as osteoporosis and anemia; and practical tips regarding diet, exposure to sunlight, and use of cosmetics. 1993. RC 44188. ## Bad Land: An American Romance. RC 44190. by Jonathan Raban. read by Bob Askey. 2 cassettes. Depicts the stark, barren world of the northern Great Plains. By the 1930s, many of the homesteaders who were enticed by the offer of free federal land in Ismay, Montana, had moved on. The author takes stock of those early settlers and relates their legacy to their independent, antigovernment descendants. 1996. RC 44190. ## His Name Is Ron: Our Search for Justice. RC 44206. by Goldman Family. read by James DeLotel. 3 cassettes. A memoir by the family of murder victim Ron Goldman, portraying the "legal and emotional hurricane" that enveloped them following the fateful events of June 12, 1994. Recounts their family life before the tragedy, the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials, and the aftermath. Calls for reform of the criminal justice system. Strong language and violence. Bestseller 1997. RC 44206. ## Fate Is the Hunter. RC 44215. by Ernest K. Gann. read by Fred Major. 3 cassettes (Reissue). Autobiography of the author during his flying days as a commercial pilot and with the Air Transport Command during World War II. Gann writes of the early time when he learned to fly, of becoming a seasoned pilot, and of the missions he flew during the war. His account also portrays many other pilots. Strong language. 1961. RC 44215. ## Eight Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power. RC 44268. by Andrew Weil. read by Rick Rohan. 2 cassettes. Presents a holistic regimen "for improving health and gaining access to the power of spontaneous healing." Recommends a series of steps over eight weeks that involve diet, supplements, exercise, mental and spiritual activities, and various projects. Suggests some healthful recipes. Bestseller 1997. RC 44268. ## My Dark Places. RC 44271. by James Ellroy. read by Jeff Baker. 3 cassettes. A mystery writer's dark memoir of his mother's murder when he was ten years old, and his youthful decline into crime, substance abuse, and alienation. Obsessed with his mother's memory, he investigates her death--and her life--thirty-six years after the fact. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1996. RC 44271. ## Journey into Darkness: Follow the FBI's Premier Investigative Profiler as He Penetrates the Minds and Motives of the Most Terrifying Serial Criminals. RC 44273. by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. read by Terence Aselford. 3 cassettes. A former FBI agent explains the technique of behavioral profiling of violent criminals to gain understanding of their motives and actions. Recounts cases in which this technique was used. Strong language and violence. Bestseller 1997. RC 44273. ## Uproar at Dancing Rabbit Creek: Battling over Race, Class, and the Environment. RC 44277. by Colin Crawford. read by Robert Sams. 3 cassettes. A lawyer's account of the social, political, and legal struggle to bring a toxic-waste disposal facility to poor and largely black Noxubee County, Mississippi, in 1992. Portrays the bitter conflict that ensued between proponents of economic progress and those for environmental preservation. 1996. RC 44277. ## Web Search Strategies. RC 44283. by Bryan Pfaffenberger. read by Annie Wauters. 3 cassettes. Guidebook for finding information on the World Wide Web and the Internet. The author covers such topics as preparing your browser; using Boolean operators; using Lycos, Infoseek, and other Web search engines; searching library catalogs and periodicals; and finding software, people, jobs, news, and government information on the Web. 1996. RC 44283. ## Love You to Bits and Pieces: Life with David Helfgott. RC 44372. by Gillian Helfgott. read by Corrie James. 2 cassettes. Describes the dramatic comeback of the Australian child musical prodigy, who suffered a mental breakdown caused by a tormented and troubled childhood. Written by his astrologer wife, who helped him recover, this account served as the basis for the highly acclaimed motion picture, _Shine_. 1996. RC 44372. ## Girlfriends: Invisible Bonds, Enduring Ties. RC 44418. by Carmen Renee Berry and Tamara Traeder. read by Barbara Pinolini. 2 cassettes. The authors stress that close relationships with other women are vital to a woman's development and quite different from relationships with men. Opinions and stories about "girlfriends" include childhood friends; the bonds of friendship, especially those that outlast transitions; mothers as friends; and ways to remember a special friend. Bestseller 1995. RC 44418. ## This Damn House! My Subcontract with America. RC 44423. by Margo Kaufman. read by Nanette Savard. 2 cassettes. A California freelance writer humorously describes the problems she faced while remodeling her Venice Beach bungalow. Architects ignored her twenty-thousand dollar budget and instead suggested four-hundred-thousand-dollar projects. Even after a reasonable designer was finally located, the haggling continued right down to the final doorknob. Some strong language. 1996. RC 44423. ## What If You Could Unscramble an Egg?. RC 44452. by Robert Ehrlich. read by Steven Carpenter. 2 cassettes. A series of witty dialogs on the nature of life and the universe as they are and as they might have been. Poses "what if" questions that delve into and illuminate a variety of scientific topics relating to physics, space, human behavior, and natural disasters. 1996. RC 44452. ## Off Stage. RC 44458. by Betty Comden. read by Nanette Savard. 2 cassettes. Comden and her collaborator, Adolph Green, composed the music for many Broadway and movie musicals. Here she reminisces about her personal life from her Brooklyn childhood in the 1920s through her long marriage, widowhood, and the death of her son. Interspersed are essays about such topics as aging and following fashion and tributes to her friends. 1995. RC 44458. ## Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster. RC 44525. by Jon Krakauer. read by Roy Avers. 2 cassettes. A journalist's firsthand report on the ill-fated Mt. Everest expedition of May 1996 in which a freak storm claimed the lives of nine adventurers. Describes the grueling ascent of the climbers, their sense of elation at reaching the peak, and the tragic events that followed. Strong language. Bestseller 1997. RC 44525. ## Monster: Living off the Big Screen. RC 44526. by John Gregory Dunne. read by Fred Major. 2 cassettes. A Hollywood screenwriter with twenty-five years in the business chronicles the eight years it took to develop his script for _Up Close & Personal_ into a movie starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Dunne provides an insider's account of Hollywood's backstage dealings. Some strong language. Bestseller 1997. RC 44526. ## Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1. RC 44643. by Neale Donald Walsch. read by Bill Wallace. 2 cassettes. Walsch states that in the spring of 1992, "God began talking with you. Through me." Here he discusses with God people's questions about marriage and family, health, money, power, and the hereafter. Prequel to _Conversations with God, Book 2 (RC 44644)_. Bestseller 1995. RC 44643. ## Success Is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life. RC 44675. by Rick Pitino and Bill Reynolds. read by John Rayburn. 2 cassettes. A noted college basketball coach presents a formula for reaching one's dreams and becoming a winner in life. Discusses ten steps involving attitudes and behaviors that provide both a code of conduct and a "plan of attack" for setting goals and achieving personal success. Bestseller 1997. RC 44675. ## Three Tall Women: A Play in Two Acts. RC 44679. by Edward Albee. read by Martha Harmon Pardee. 1 cassette. Three women--A, B, and C--confront each other in A's sickroom. In the first act, the elderly A, going in and out of lucidity, recounts her life to her lawyer C and her caregiver B. In act II the old woman is comatose after a stroke. A, B, and C become the old woman at ages 92, 52, and 26. Each explains and justifies the person she is. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Pulitzer prize. 1994. RC 44679. ## Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. RC 44695. by Christine Leigh Heyrman. read by Nanette Savard. 3 cassettes. A historical account of the rise of evangelical religion as a major social force in the American South. Asserts that its strict religious tenets were initially at odds with Southern views on race, gender, and class. Shows that the evangelical movement began to flourish only after it accommodated to the prevailing culture and values. 1997. RC 44695. ## ### _Cassettes Fiction_ The Rest of Life: Three Novellas. RC 40704. by Mary Gordon. read by Laura Giannarelli. 2 cassettes. Stories that relate ways women's lives are altered by love. In "Immaculate Man," a middle-aged woman tells of her passion for a Catholic priest and her feelings of guilt when he breaks his vow of celibacy. "Living at Home" details a psychiatrist's love for a war correspondent who prefers the world's hot spots. And in "The Rest of Life," an elderly woman returns to her homeland after years in exile. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1993. RC 40704. ## One True Thing. RC 40750. by Anna Quindlen. read by Susan McInerney. 2 cassettes. Ellen's father demands her return from a fledgling journalism career to care for her terminally ill mother. Her two brothers are in college, and no one else will do. During the months that follow, Ellen turns into nurse and housekeeper, recognizes her mother as the "one true thing," and slowly becomes aware of her father's shortcomings. When the end comes, Ellen is accused of mercy killing and fights the charge. Strong language. 1994. RC 40750. ## Shadow Queen. RC 40841. by Tony Gibbs. read by Jennifer Mendenhall. 2 cassettes. An elderly librarian contacts a historical-romance writer, claiming to have the long-missing Casket Letters supposedly written by Mary Stuart. The librarian also has a family Bible that proves her reclusive daughter, Marie, is the rightful heir of the Scottish queen. While the writer's New York publishing firm frantically tries to authenticate the letters, an Irish terrorist plots to make this discovery work for his cause. Strong language. 1992. RC 40841. ## Snow Angels. RC 40845. by Stewart O'Nan. read by John Lescault. 2 cassettes. Annie Marchand, who always had a difficult life, was at one time Arthur Parkinson's baby-sitter. Their lives were complicated by the death of her small daughter, Tara, whose body was found by Arthur. When Arthur was fifteen, Annie's husband murdered her. Each year as Arthur returns to Butler, Pennsylvania, for Christmas, he relives the events of 1974, hoping to finally comprehend what happened but knowing he never will. Strong language. 1994. RC 40845. ## The Stranger. RC 40902. by Albert Camus. read by Phil Regensdorf. 1 cassette. An existential novel originally published in 1942, set in Algiers, about a man who resists any commitment, rendering his life meaningless. He does not react to his mother's death nor to a killing he commits, and he becomes a placid prisoner convicted of murder. His own impending death, however, leads him to some realizations. 1988. RC 40902. ## The Last Unicorn. RC 40903. by Peter S. Beagle. read by Mimi Bederman. 2 cassettes (Reissue). A beautiful white unicorn worries that she is the last of her species, and so sets out in search of any surviving relatives. Accompanied by a second-rate magician and a sad, thin woman, the unicorn has fairy-tale adventures and finds her family enslaved by a wicked king. 1968. RC 40903. ## _The __Fifth Column_ and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War. RC 40905. by Ernest Hemingway. read by Graci Ragsdale. 1 cassette (Reissue). Contains the author's only full-length play, which conveys the feverish life in Madrid under siege. The accompanying stories grew from Hemingway's experience as a foreign correspondent. Some strong language and some violence. 1938. RC 40905. ## The Babysitter III. RC 40912. by R.L. Stine. read by June Carter. 1 cassette. In the sequel to _Babysitter II (RC 36925)_, Jenny Jeffers is still terribly upset about her experience babysitting Donny Hagen. Donny's father had threatened Jenny by phone and then died while trying to kill her. Jenny, spending the summer with her cousin Debra, is not surprised when Debra begins receiving calls from Mr. Hagen while she babysits. Jenny knew he would come back from the grave. For junior and senior high readers. 1993. RC 40912. ## The Prairieton Raid. RC 40915. by Lauran Paine. read by Don Emmick. 1 cassette. Three men plan to rob the bank in Prairieton. They ride in separately and take jobs: Henry at the blacksmith's, Buff at the stable, and Boice as a stage driver. But before they can pull off the heist, the stage carrying a large deposit is robbed and driver Boice is injured. Buff and Henry join a posse to help the bank recover the money, so they can go ahead with their original scheme. Strong language and some violence. 1994. RC 40915. ## Happy Policeman. RC 40920. by Patricia Anthony. read by Anne Mullen. 2 cassettes. Six years ago aliens came to the small Texas town of Coomey and sealed it off from whatever might remain of the rest of the world. The aliens are mysterious but apparently harmless, and the townsfolk have resumed their normal lives as much as possible. But when one of the citizens is found dead, police chief DeWitt Dawson faces a mystery with consequences far greater than simple murder. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1994. RC 40920. ## Sydney, Invincible. RC 40921. by Colby Rodowsky. read by June Carter. 1 cassette. In this sequel to _Sydney, Herself (RC 31872)_, Sydney dreads having her mother as her history teacher and looks forward to classes with the new writing instructor. Then Sydney is hit with big news. She is to be the editor of the school paper--and her mother, who married Sydney's last writing teacher, is pregnant. Sydney finds support from boyfriend Wally, but he is dealing with his own problems. For junior and senior high readers. 1995. RC 40921. ## Gold Unicorn. RC 40922. by Tanith Lee. read by June Carter. 1 cassette. Sixteen-year-old Tanaquil is taken captive by the conquering army of Empress Veriam, who turns out to be her half sister, Lizra. Lizra has constructed a huge, mechanical, gold-plated unicorn as a symbol of her power, but only Tanaquil's talents can make it work. And Tanaquil finds the unicorn is much more than a machine of war. Sequel to _Black Unicorn (RC 37074)_. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1994. RC 40922. ## Swamp. RC 40925. by Peter Tremayne. read by Phil Regensdorf. 2 cassettes. Two amateur hunters plan to illegally shoot a manatee in the Florida Everglades National Park. Instead they kill a monstrous-looking biped that was swimming in the swamp. Immediately an even larger monster emerges from the water and attacks them. Meanwhile two fugitives and their hostage make their way to the same swamp, ironically thinking it a safe place. Strong language and violence. 1985. RC 40925. ## Send No Blessings. RC 40998. by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. read by June Carter. 2 cassettes. Beth Herndon, fifteen, lives in a trailer with her parents and eight brothers and sisters. Beth longs for a better life than her parents have and hopes her typing ability will be the key to a better future away from West Virginia. But her father wants Beth to quit school when she turns sixteen and to marry twenty-two-year-old Harless. For junior and senior high readers. 1990. RC 40998. ## His Father's House. RC 41115. by D.J. Meador. read by Michael Kramer. 3 cassettes. When his father dies in 1973, Robert Trepnitz Kirkman finds among his father's papers a letter, a photograph, and an account of an event that took place during World War I. Kirkman's compulsion to find the woman to whom the letter was addressed takes him on an odyssey through East and West Germany and into the lives of a German family. He compares the divided Germany to the American South after the Civil War. 1994. RC 41115. ## Theory of War. RC 41117. by Joan Brady. read by Kimberly Schraf. 2 cassettes. Brady draws on her grandfather's experience to tell of a white boy sold into slavery after the Civil War. Four-year-old Jonathan Carrick begins a life few animals could endure. But he makes his way with the help of the railroad, a friend, a preacher, and some education. Later, years of adversity tell on Carrick and produce serious consequences within his family. Winner of Britain's Whitbread Award. Strong language and some violence. 1993. RC 41117. ## We Are Eternal. RC 41244. by Pierrette Fleutiaux. read by Laura Giannarelli. 5 cassettes. Contemporary gothic novel set in France after World War II. Estelle Helleur is the sole living member of her family. Burdened by secrets, she recounts her tragic, incestuous family history to a mythical "madame." It is a foreboding and passionate tale, centering around her younger brother Dan, the love of her life and a dancer like their mother. Estelle begs madame to use her story to create a dramatic opera. Some strong language. 1990. RC 41244. ## _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ and _Those_ _Extraordinary Twins_. RC 41298. by Mark Twain. read by Chuck Young. 2 cassettes (Reissue). Two novels by the American humorist. In _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ Twain provides a complex, ironic, and morally disturbing account of human nature under slavery as a brilliant and inventive nineteenth-century lawyer attempts to prove his case by using the newfangled science of fingerprinting. _Those Extraordinary Twins_ is about Siamese twins who share many amusing problems. 1894. RC 41298. ## The Hills of Homicide. RC 41471. by Louis L'Amour. read by Gary Telles. 2 cassettes. The noted western writer presents eight of his "hard-boiled" detective stories. In the title story, a private eye is sent to the small western town of Ranagat to clear Blacky Caronna of wealthy Jack Bitner's murder. Three other stories feature Kip Morgan, a prize-fighter turned private investigator. L'Amour includes an author's note with most of the stories. Some strong language and some violence. 1983. RC 41471. ## Walkabout. RC 41555. by James Vance Marshall. read by Susan McInerney. 1 cassette (Reissue). An Aboriginal boy, who is on his ritual walkabout in Australia's remote Northern Territory, encounters a brother and sister from South Carolina who have just survived a plane crash. Although the Aborigine is supposed to complete his walkabout alone, he realizes he must save the children. But when the girl looks at him in fear, he thinks she has seen the spirit of death and that he will soon die. For junior and senior high readers. 1959. RC 41555. ## A Visit to Highbury. RC 41557. by Joan Austen-Leigh. read by Jennifer Mendenhall. 1 cassette. The great-great-grand-niece of Jane Austen has taken some of the minor characters from Austen's _Emma (RC 23490)_ and allowed them to come into the spotlight. Letters between Mrs. Goddard, the school headmistress in Highbury, and her recently remarried sister, Mrs. Pinkney, in London speculate on events in the lives of residents of both locations--especially a few romances. 1993. RC 41557. ## Out to Pasture (but Not over the Hill). RC 41559. by Effie Leland Wilder. read by Mimi Bederman. 1 cassette. Like herself, eighty-five-year-old Wilder's protagonist, Hattie, is in a home for the elderly. After fourteen months there, Hattie is compelled to jot down the often amusing and sometimes sad situations she and her neighbors get into. She uses these notes to help convince an old college friend, whose name is almost to "the top of the list," that the home is a good place to live. 1995. RC 41559. ## A Marriage Made at Woodstock. RC 41563. by Cathie Pelletier. read by June Carter. 3 cassettes. Woodstock. For Fred and Lorraine it was a way of life as well as a part of the landscape. But now, twenty-one years later, the love that blossomed there is strained. Fred, onetime poetry-loving hippie, has turned into a compulsive yuppie, while Lorraine, now known as Chandra, continues to fight for the betterment of humanity. Still, Chandra's decision to call the marriage quits shocks Fred. Strong language. 1994. RC 41563. ## The Wisest Man in America. RC 41568. by W.D. Wetherell. read by Phil Regensdorf. 2 cassettes. New Hampshire native Ferris and columnist Max Thomas have known each other since 1952. It was back then, as the two men spent a day talking, that Thomas realized Ferris understood the way America was moving and asked him to predict the election results. Ferris was correct then, and has been correct ever since. Now in 1996, Thomas is back for the latest forecast. As they talk, they uncover interesting facts about each other. 1995. RC 41568. ## _Georgia on My Mind_ and Other Places. RC 41666. by Charles Sheffield. read by Gary Telles. 3 cassettes. Collection of fourteen science fiction stories covering a wide range of topics and settings. The title piece is the 1993 Nebula Award-winning novelette about Charles Babbage's analytical engine of 1850, the forerunner of the modern computer. Other stories include "Beyond the Golden Road," "Humanity Test," "Destroyer of Worlds," "Millennium," "The Fifteenth Station of the Cross," and "Health Care System." 1995. RC 41666. ## Anything for Love. RC 42575. by Janelle Taylor. read by Ann Hodapp. 2 cassettes. Rachel Gaines has been a widow for fifteen years and, at forty-seven, is tired of doing charity work and attending ladies' luncheons. Her chance for a change of pace comes at a class reunion. There she again meets Quentin Rawls, whom she cut out of her life more than twelve years earlier. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1995. RC 42575. ## Hostile Witness. RC 42592. by William Lashner. read by Ray Foushee. 4 cassettes. Fresh out of law school, Victor Carl joined with two friends to form their own firm. But after six years, their future is bleak. Then well-known Philadelphia lawyer William Prescott offers Carl the opportunity of a lifetime. It sounds too good to be true--and it is. Explicit descriptions of sex, strong language, and some violence. 1995. RC 42592. ## Come in from the Cold. RC 43049. by Marsha Qualey. read by Gary Tipton. 1 cassette. In 1969, Maud is seventeen and her older antiwar activist sister has just been killed in a bomb blast. Meanwhile in another Minnesota town, seventeen-year-old Jeff steps up his own protests against the Vietnam War after his brother is killed in battle. The two meet and find solace in each other. Some descriptions of sex. For junior and senior high readers. 1994. RC 43049. ## Keeper of the House. RC 43104. by Rebecca T. Godwin. read by Annie Wauters. 2 cassettes. A maid's forty-year chronicle of life in an infamous South Carolina brothel. Sent there in 1929 to work as a housekeeper at age fourteen, Minyon Manigault tells of the powerful clients, the prostitutes, and the white madam, whom Minyon eventually succeeds as "keeper of the house." Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1994. RC 43104. ## Death and the Maiden. RC 43222. by P.N. Elrod. read by Jim Zeiger. 2 cassettes. Set just before the Revolutionary War, this sequel to _Red Death (RC 43221)_ finds British colonist Jonathan Barrett trying to live a normal life with his family as he adjusts to his vampire needs and abilities. When the growing tensions of the coming conflict threaten his sanctuary and loved ones, Jonathan is forced to call up the powers of the undead. 1994. RC 43222. ## A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories. RC 43403. by Ursula K. Le Guin. read by Ted Stoddard. 2 cassettes. Eight tales that delve into the relationship between perception and reality, and explore the "churten" effect, a way of moving objects and people between distant worlds at the speed of light. In the title story, a churten researcher is flung backward in time to face a choice of alternative futures. Some strong language. 1994. RC 43403. ## Cosette: The Sequel to _Les Mis‚rables_. RC 43461. by Laura Kalpakian. read by George Holmes. 5 cassettes. Cosette, Jean Valjean's adopted daughter, and Marius, a freedom fighter rescued by Valjean, continue the struggle begun in Victor Hugo's _Les Mis‚rables (RC 35363)_. They rear their two children and publish a revolutionary newspaper as a brief, disappointing French Republic gives way to the Second Empire. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. 1995. RC 43461. ## Five Hundred Years After. RC 43533. by Steven Brust. read by Erik Sandvold. 4 cassettes. Phoenix guard Khaavren and his swashbuckling companions Aerich, Tazendra, and Pel again come to the aid of the aging Emperor Tortaalik. They face Dragonlord Adron, who schemes to claim the throne of Dragaera for himself. But Adron's beautiful and ambitious daughter Aliera has plans of her own. Sequel to _The Phoenix Guards (RC 43532)_. 1994. RC 43533. ## Malice Prepense. RC 43593. by Kate Wilhelm. read by Madelyn Buzzard. 3 cassettes. In this sequel to _The Best Defense (RC 39424)_, lawyer Barbara Halloway defends Teddy Wendover, who has mental retardation, in a murder charge. When the evidence clears Teddy, suspicion shifts to his father, who has a motive. In a tense courtroom contest, Halloway uncovers several other links. 1996. RC 43593. ## Footsteps. RC 43597. by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. read by Graeme Malcolm. 3 cassettes. This sequel to _Child of All Nations (RC 44104)_ is set in the early-twentieth-century Dutch East Indies, later Indonesia. Minke leaves his medical studies to become a crusading journalist and political activist in the struggle against Dutch rule. 1990. RC 43597. ## Everyone's Gone to the Moon. RC 43609. by Philip Norman. read by Steven Crossley. 4 cassettes. Louis Brennan writes for a hip magazine in "Mod London" at the height of the "swinging sixties." He and his married editor, Jack Shildrick, are both having an affair with the same secretary. Brennan is torn between his loyalty to the older, stodgier Shildrick and his desire to gain acceptance from his younger, talented colleagues. Some strong language. 1995. RC 43609. ## The Wood Beyond. RC 43624. by Reginald Hill. read by George Holmes. 3 cassettes. While picketing a drug-research lab, animal-rights demonstrators stumble upon a generations-old corpse. In the course of the investigation, Inspector Peter Pascoe links the unearthed remains to his grandfather's shameful court martial in World War I. Strong language. 1996. RC 43624. ## The Gulf. RC 43633. by David Poyer. read by L.J. Ganser. 3 cassettes. While deployed in the Persian Gulf, the guided-missile frigate USS _Turner Van Zandt_ is ordered to lead a convoy of supertankers through mined waters. When hostile fire sinks a navy destroyer, the _Van Zandt_'s commanding officer sees the opportunity to avenge past wrongs. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. 1990. RC 43633. ## Variations on Night and Day. RC 43634. by 'Abd al-Rahman Munif. read by Robert Blumenfeld. 3 cassettes. In the final novel of the Cities of Salt trilogy, Sultan Khureybit rises to power in the Persian Gulf nation-state of Mooran in the 1930s. During his reign, Khureybit--who is aided by the underhanded British--battles rival clans and squelches internal opposition using bribery and brutality. Sequel to _The Trench (RC 35743)_. 1989. RC 43634. ## The Wandering Arm. RC 43642. by Sharan Newman. read by Robert Blumenfeld. 2 cassettes. Medieval France. When the theft of a reliquary is linked to some of their friends and family, a former nun and her husband launch a discreet search. Upon the murder of one suspect, a Jewish merchant, the case becomes even more complex and their investigation increasingly perilous. 1995. RC 43642. ## Tiger's Tail. RC 43644. by Gus Lee. read by Ed Blake. 3 cassettes. In 1974, Chinese American Captain Jackson Kan is ordered to the Korean demilitarized zone to find a missing army prosecutor. Kan liberates a hell-hole prison, deposes the power-mad commander, and defuses a plot to incite a war, all while dealing with his own problems as a Vietnam veteran and as a Chinese son. Strong language and violence. 1996. RC 43644. ## Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories. RC 43699. by Gina Berriault. read by Annie Wauters. 3 cassettes. Short stories that depict the human condition through a variety of characters in real-life situations. In one story, a librarian becomes suspicious of a homeless man who wants him to interpret a poem. The librarian later realizes that the man was simply seeking guidance for his life. 1996. RC 43699. ## Pope Joan. RC 43715. by Donna Woolfolk Cross. read by Nanette Savard. 4 cassettes. Born in ninth-century Europe, Joan aspires to an education, a privilege then denied to girls. When her brother is killed in a Viking raid, she assumes his identity as a male, enters a monastery, and rises through the ranks of the church to the Throne of Saint Peter itself. 1996. RC 43715. ## In Heaven as on Earth: A Vision of the Afterlife. RC 43744. by M. Scott Peck. read by Gregory Gorton. 1 cassette. The tale of a man's journey into the afterlife. Upon dying, he finds himself in a small room where "greeters" introduce him to his new life. He is reunited with departed loved ones and has an encounter with Satan in the form of an enticing young woman. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1996. RC 43744. ## The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant. RC 43750. by Mavis Gallant. read by Mitzi Friedlander. 8 cassettes. Selected stories on such themes as life crises, disillusionment, and the ability to adjust and go on living under a new set of personal myths. In "The Other Paris," a woman who enters a doomed marriage on romantic impulse later "reminisces" about a joyful past that never happened. 1996. RC 43750. ## Brothers. RC 43809. by Ben Bova. read by Andy Chappell. 3 cassettes. Dr. Arthur Marshak makes a biomedical discovery that enables the body to regenerate injured or diseased organs. Some extol it as a great scientific breakthrough; others see it as blasphemy. When a scientific court convenes to weigh the merits of his work, Marshak is pitted against his brother, Jesse, a humanitarian physician. Some strong language. 1996. RC 43809. ## The Passage. RC 43815. by David Poyer. read by Fred Major. 4 cassettes. Lieutenant Dan Lenson boards a destroyer for its shakedown cruise in the Caribbean. As he works to correct the ship's advanced electronic systems, he finds that greater problems plague his new command. Lenson's limits are tested as he rescues Cuban refugees from a stormy sea and confronts a mutinous crew. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1995. RC 43815. ## The Rag Nymph. RC 43818. by Catherine Cookson. read by Carol Dines. 2 cassettes. At the age of seven, Millie Forester finds herself alone in the world. Her mother has committed suicide, and her father disappeared long ago. She is taken in by Raggie Aggie Winkowski and Ben, a young man Aggie opened her home to years before. Millie is free-spirited and often finds herself in difficult situations--especially with men. Ben quietly stays in the background and rescues her when the need arises. 1991. RC 43818. ## The Emerald Flame: Land of the Far Horizon, Book 3. RC 43828. by Patricia Hickman. read by Martha Harmon Pardee. 2 cassettes. In 1800 twelve-year-old Kelsey McBride is torn from her beloved Ireland and sent to Australia with her mother, a convicted dissident. Kelsey wants to return to Ireland, but the love of the Prentice family changes her mind. And Rachel Langley finally returns to Sydney Cove, where surprises await her. Sequel to _Angel of the Outback (RC 43827)_. 1996. RC 43828. ## Grand Jury. RC 43847. by Philip Friedman. read by John Stratton. 5 cassettes. In this sequel to _Inadmissable Evidence (RC 36253)_, grand juror Susan Linwood senses something odd about the government's drug case against an elderly Chinese couple. Herself of Chinese descent, Linwood enlists the help of another juror to probe the matter privately. What they uncover imperils their very lives. Descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1996. RC 43847. ## Mason's Retreat. RC 43854. by Christopher Tilghman. read by Christopher Hurt. 2 cassettes. Faced with declining fortunes in England, Edward Mason moves his family to Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1936. As war threatens and Edward returns to England on business, family conflicts and betrayals lead to tragedy and loss of birthright. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1996. RC 43854. ## Prayers for the Dead: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel. RC 43860. by Faye Kellerman. read by Richard Davidson. 3 cassettes. When renowned Dr. Azor Sparks is found brutally murdered in an alley, LAPD detective Peter Decker gets the case. Decker's probe reveals that Sparks's secret life belied his upright image and made him some powerful and dangerous enemies. The trail of clues leads to Decker's own family. Strong language and violence. 1996. RC 43860. ## Warrior Scarlet. RC 43867. by Rosemary Sutcliff. read by Tom Martin. 2 cassettes (Reissue). A tale set in England during the Bronze Age. A boy aspires to wear the warrior's scarlet, the sign of manhood in his tribe. To do so, he must first slay a wolf. But with a withered spear arm, he faces a formidable challenge. For junior and senior high readers. Violence. 1958. RC 43867. ## Crisis on Doona. RC 43872. by Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye. read by Mary Woods. 2 cassettes. For twenty-five years, humans and the catlike Hrrubans have lived in harmony on the planet Doona. Human diplomat Todd Reeve and his inseparable Hrruban friend, Hrriss, symbolize the peaceful relationship between the two races. But xenophobic politicians, who want to disrupt the peace, target Todd and Hrriss with trumped-up charges of theft and treason. Sequel to _Decision at Doona (RC 43871)_. 1992. RC 43872. ## Death in the Andes. RC 43874. by Mario Vargas Llosa. read by Peter Gil. 2 cassettes. When three men vanish from a remote mountain village, two Peruvian soldiers are sent to search. In their efforts to solve the disappearances, the troopers encounter the horrors of human sacrifice, cannibalism, and guerrilla violence. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. 1996. RC 43874. ## Selected Stories. RC 43878. by Alice Munro. read by Mary Kane. 5 cassettes. Twenty-eight short stories first published from 1961 through 1994 by the renowned Canadian writer. Lake Huron's small towns and farms provide the setting for stories that feature elaborate personalities in seemingly ordinary circumstances. Includes "Dance of the Happy Shades," "The Beggar Maid," "The Progress of Love," and "Vandals." 1996. RC 43878. ## Sandra Nichols Found Dead. RC 43885. by George V. Higgins. read by Gregory Gorton. 2 cassettes. When Sandra Nichols is found murdered, her ex-husband is charged with wrongful death, and attorney Jerry Kennedy agrees to try the case. Kennedy becomes guardian for the orphaned children, sedulously gathers the needed evidence, and assails the ex-husband's alibi. Strong language. 1996. RC 43885. ## To Kill the Leopard. RC 43886. by Theodore Taylor. read by Gregory Gorton. 2 cassettes. In March 1941, American merchant marine officer Sully Jordan survives the sinking of his oil tanker by a German U-boat. After the same U-boat torpedoes another tanker from under him one year later, Jordan takes command of an armed decoy Q-ship, hoping to settle the score. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. For senior high and older readers. 1993. RC 43886. ## Best Kept Secrets. RC 43890. by Sandra Brown. read by Laura Giannarelli. 3 cassettes. Alexandra Gaither has convinced her district attorney boss to let her reopen a twenty-five-year-old murder case in Purcell, Texas. The victim was Alexandra's mother, Celina, and the suspects are wealthy rancher Angus Minton and Celina's close friends Junior and Reede Lambert. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1989. RC 43890. ## The King's Bishop: An Owen Archer Mystery. RC 43893. by Candace Robb. read by Vanessa Maroney. 3 cassettes. In 1367 King Edward III dispatches Owen Archer on a covert mission to persuade two major abbeys to support the king's choice for bishop of Winchester. When his mission is interrupted by murder and his friend stands accused, Archer follows a path of clues that leads him back to the royal court. Violence. 1996. RC 43893. ## The Nun's Tale: An Owen Archer Mystery. RC 43894. by Candace M. Robb. read by Vanessa Maroney. 3 cassettes. In fourteenth-century England, a woman who claims the identity of a deceased nun is trading in stolen relics and miracles. When she is linked to a series of deaths and treason against the crown, Owen Archer is called to investigate. Violence. 1995. RC 43894. ## Snow Wolf. RC 43906. by Glenn Meade. read by Chuck Benson. 4 cassettes. In 1953 President Eisenhower receives alarming reports of Joseph Stalin's deteriorating mental health and of a heightened risk of war. Ike authorizes the CIA to kill Stalin, and two agents are dropped in Moscow. When the plot goes awry, the agents come under threat from both sides and find an unlikely ally. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. 1995. RC 43906. ## Mount Dragon. RC 43919. by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. read by Jim Zeiger. 3 cassettes. Genetic scientist Guy Carson's assignment at the elite Mount Dragon biomedical lab in New Mexico is to find a permanent cure for the flu by altering human DNA. But his discoveries take a tragic turn, putting the whole world at horrifying risk. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1996. RC 43919. ## Written in Blood: A Chief Inspector Barnaby Mystery. RC 43927. by Caroline Graham. read by David Hartley-Margolin. 3 cassettes. The eccentrics in a writers' group are pleased to get author Max Jennings as a guest speaker--except for the reclusive host, who begs not to be left alone with him. As everyone is leaving, Jennings rushes back inside and bars the door. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1995. RC 43927. ## Ebola: A Documentary Novel of Its First Explosion. RC 43938. by William T. Close. read by Jim Zeiger. 3 cassettes. Fictional account of the devastating effects of the ebola virus at the Catholic Mission of Yambuku in Africa. Dr. Close spent sixteen years in the Republic of Zaire and worked closely with the Flemish nuns and others who dealt with the disease, which struck the country in 1976. He recounts the story of a local teacher who arrived at the clinic with a raging fever and the tragic results of his visit. Bestseller 1995. RC 43938. ## Eyes of Eagles. RC 44011. by William W. Johnstone. read by Jack Fox. 3 cassettes. In this prequel to _Dreams of Eagles (RC 44012)_, Jamie MacCallister is captured by Indians at age seven and later escapes to a Kentucky settlement, where he soon finds himself charged with murder. Fleeing westward, he joins with Jim Bowie, Sam Houston, and other Texans at the beleaguered Alamo. Strong language. 1993. RC 44011. ## The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams. RC 44040. by William Carlos Williams. read by David Palmer. 3 cassettes. Insightful short stories by a physician-writer, often on medical themes, about the lives of immigrant and working-class people. In one vignette, "The Use of Force," a doctor is driven to coercive measures as he diagnoses a violently resistant child whose life is at risk. Some strong language. 1996. RC 44040. ## Shades of Twilight. RC 44045. by Linda Howard. read by Carole Jordan Stewart. 3 cassettes. When her parents and aunt die in an accident, Roanna Davenport and her conniving, illegitimate cousin, Jessie, move to their grandmother Lucinda's Alabama estate. Lucinda's great-nephew and heir, Webb, marries Jessie, much to Roanna's secret sorrow. Then Jessie's past rips the family apart. Strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. Bestseller 1996. RC 44045. ## The Mulching of America. RC 44051. by Harry Crews. read by Roy Avers. 2 cassettes. Traveling soap salesman Hickum Looney wins the annual sales contest that his tyrannical boss has dominated for twenty-five years. As his reward, Looney is degraded and ejected near-naked into the parking lot, where his life takes a bizarre turn for the better. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. 1995. RC 44051. ## Black Lightning. RC 44052. by John Saul. read by Ray Foushee. 3 cassettes. Journalist Anne Jeffers is partially responsible for serial killer Richard Kraven's execution. When Kraven dies, Jeffers's husband has a near-fatal heart attack and then begins acting oddly. Meanwhile a copycat killer tries to gain the same notoriety as Kraven. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1995. RC 44052. ## Gideon's Torch. RC 44053. by Charles Colson and Ellen Vaughn. read by John Polk. 4 cassettes. When an abortion-clinic doctor is murdered, a federal crackdown is mounted to find the killer. Then a protest group gets a shocking abortion video on the evening news, terrorists bomb a fetal research center, and the president declares martial law. Violence. 1995. RC 44053. ## War Drums. RC 44058. by John Vornholt. read by Gary Tipton. 2 cassettes. On the colony world of Selva, a small band of Klingons, survivors of a long-ago space wreck, have reverted to a savage state and are attacking the human settlement. Lieutenant Worf of the starship _Enterprise_ leads a landing party to contact the Klingons. An all-out war between the Klingons and the human colonists appears to be inevitable. In addition, Worf learns that a more deadly force is at work on the planet. A Star Trek: The Next Generation novel. 1992. RC 44058. ## The Book of Mercy. RC 44065. by Kathleen Cambor. read by Ann Hodapp. 2 cassettes. Retired fireman Edmund Mueller's lonely life is haunted by melancholy memories of his runaway wife and estranged children. Mueller practices alchemy, hoping to restore his lost past. His psychiatrist daughter uncovers the secret of her father's obsession and realizes that her own life is also a futile quest for happiness. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1996. RC 44065. ## The Ringworld Throne. RC 44067. by Larry Niven. read by James DeLotel. 3 cassettes. This sequel to _The Ringworld Engineers (RC 17471)_ begins with a tour of the habitat of six hundred trillion square miles that rings a distant sun. When explorer Louis Wu returns to save Ringworld from colliding with its sun, he finds a society beset by violence. Violence. 1996. RC 44067. ## Roanoke: The Lost Colony; Keepers of the Ring, Volume 1. RC 44069. by Angela Elwell Hunt. read by Mitzi Friedlander. 3 cassettes. Using John White's 1587 voyage to America, Hunt creates a fictional account of the founding of Roanoke colony. Jocelyn White is reluctant to join her uncle's expedition, but he and Jocelyn's father insist she accompany her cousin, Eleanor, recently married and pregnant. John also makes sure a future husband for Jocelyn is aboard. 1996. RC 44069. ## The Crying Child. RC 44073. by Barbara Michaels. read by Madelyn Buzzard. 2 cassettes. Mary Fraser's grief after losing yet another child through miscarriage has brought her to the brink of madness. Mary's husband begs her sister, Joanne, to join them on the tiny Maine island of his ancestors and try to help Mary, who claims to hear a child crying. Joanne truly fears her sister is losing her mind--until she also hears a cry in the night. 1971. RC 44073. ## The Wedding. RC 44078. by Julie Garwood. read by Ann Hodapp. 3 cassettes. In twelfth-century Scotland, Lady Brenna is on her way to an arranged marriage with Laird MacNare when her party is attacked by Laird MacAlister. MacAlister, to whom she proposed when she was just a child, forces Lady Brenna to marry him. Explicit descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some violence. Bestseller 1996. RC 44078. ## The Bookmakers. RC 44085. by Zev Chafets. read by Randy Wieck. 2 cassettes. When Mack Green brazenly foils an attempted holdup, the burned-out writer realizes he wants to die. So he proposes writing a suicide diary of his final year, his agent likes the idea, and Mack's offbeat project begins. But Mack finds love and a reason to live, and the scheme goes awry. Strong language. 1995. RC 44085. ## Wish List. RC 44087. by Fern Michaels. read by Sharon Murray. 2 cassettes. Ariel Hart is approaching the big Five-O, and two husbands and a brilliant acting career have not made her happy. Now she is on the skids, and her "wish list" is growing. If only she could recapture the way she felt at sixteen when she and Felix Sanchez were secretly married in Tijuana. Perhaps if she returns to her childhood home of Chula Vista, life will improve. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1996. RC 44087. ## Nebula Awards 29: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. RC 44096. edited by Pamela Sargent. read by Roy Avers. 3 cassettes. Includes the 1993 choices of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for best novel, novella, novelette, and short story. Nonfiction entries include the Rhysling Awards for poetry, essays on new science fiction and fantasy works, memorials to deceased authors, and a survey of 1993 movies. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sex. 1995. RC 44096. ## Burr. RC 44097. by Gore Vidal. read by Roy Avers. 4 cassettes (Reissue). A fictional memoir of Aaron Burr, a hero of the American Revolution, which describes the struggles and endless intrigues of the new United States. Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton emerge as questionable politicians. Bestseller 1973. RC 44097. ## Tapes of the River Delta. RC 44108. by Peter Cunningham. read by Graeme Malcolm. 2 cassettes. Theo Shortcourse escapes from the mental hospital where he is held after committing murder. He hides out in the river delta, where he long ago swam with boyhood friends, one of whom is now Ireland's prime minister. Theo reveals the chilling story of his tragic life by talking into a tape recorder. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. 1995. RC 44108. ## Last Orders. RC 44117. by Graham Swift. read by Graeme Malcolm. 2 cassettes. Three British World War II veterans and drinking mates set out to fulfill a friend's dying request: that his ashes be scattered into the sea at Margate. En route, the men reflect on love, war, marriage, and business, as they reveal the failed hopes of their own lives. Strong language. 1996. RC 44117. ## Halo. RC 44122. by John Loveday. read by John Stratton. 2 cassettes. A boy comes of age while en route to Oregon on a wagon train in the mid 1800s. He chronicles the daily routine, his discovery of art, and his sexual awakening with a mother and daughter. The blissful peace of the trail is lost when the party reaches Halo, a raucous frontier town. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1992. RC 44122. ## Winter Games. RC 44128. by John Feinstein. read by Christopher Hurt. 2 cassettes. Rytis Buzelis, a Lithuanian-born basketball star, is wooed by college coaches across the country. When journalist Bobby Kelleher finds the body of an old friend and coach who had been vying to sign Buzelis, Kelleher ventures into the sinister world of big-money sports to find the killer. Strong language. 1995. RC 44128. ## Her Majesty's Wizard. RC 44132. by Christopher Stasheff. read by Erik Sandvold. 3 cassettes. When postgraduate student Matthew Mantrell deciphers the runes on an ancient parchment that he finds in the university library, he is transported to a medieval-like world where reciting verses can work magic. Matt is good at reciting verses, so he takes on the job of wizard and attempts to rescue a princess from an evil sorcerer. 1986. RC 44132. ## Vegas Rich. RC 44137. by Fern Michaels. read by Martha Harmon Pardee. 4 cassettes. In this spinoff from Michaels's Texas trilogy, Sallie Coleman comes to Las Vegas and, because she is kind to an old man, suddenly finds herself very rich. The story continues with accounts of Sallie's grandchildren. Prequel to _Vegas Heat (RC 44138)_. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1996. RC 44137. ## _A_ _Man of Mystery_ and Other Stories. RC 44149. by Shiva Naipaul. read by Gabriella Cavallero. 2 cassettes. Eight variously humorous and tragic tales that comment on the human condition. The title story describes the simple lives of a shoemaker and his wife until she has their house torn down and builds another and he lives in his shop and the neighborhood bar. 1984. RC 44149. ## Le Divorce. RC 44152. by Diane Johnson. read by Martha Harmon Pardee. 2 cassettes. Isabel Walker is in Paris to help her pregnant stepsister, Roxy, whose French husband has left her for another woman. The two sisters, their family, and Roxy's in-laws attempt to work things out, hampered by vast differences in attitudes. The ownership of a valuable painting that Roxy gave to her husband as a wedding present further complicates matters. Some strong language. Bestseller 1997. RC 44152. ## Tristessa. RC 44155. by Jack Kerouac. read by David Hartley-Margolin. 1 cassette. A rambling story relating an American's stuporous escapades in the slums of Mexico City in 1952. This stream-of-consciousness tale interweaves observations of a rooster, a cat, a chihuahua dog, and a ravished drug addict in homes, shops, and on the streets of the city. 1960. RC 44155. ## Holding the Dream. RC 44156. by Nora Roberts. read by Martha Harmon Pardee. 2 cassettes. In this sequel to _Daring to Dream (RC 42829)_, accountant Kate Powell is stunned to be accused of skimming money from her clients. Suspended and working in the shop she co-owns with her cousin and friend, Kate's anxiety leads to illness. Her unlikely savior is suave Byron De Witt, a manager in Kate's uncle's hotel chain. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1997. RC 44156. ## The Outside Man. RC 44157. by Richard North Patterson. read by Jim Zeiger. 2 cassettes. Ever since attorney Adam Shaw migrated from the North to his new southern home, he has felt like a stranger. Then his best friend disappears, and the friend's wife is found dead. Shaw aims to solve the crime and risks everything to penetrate the social facade that conceals the mystery. Strong language and violence. 1981. RC 44157. ## To Love Again. RC 44158. by Bertrice Small. read by Martha Harmon Pardee. 3 cassettes. Britain, A.D. 453. Cailin Drusus is a young woman when her family is destroyed and she must flee to her maternal grandfather. Forced to spend the night with Wulf Ironfist, a guest of her grandfather's, Cailin, with Wulf's help, develops a plan to regain her lost lands. But soon afterwards, Cailin is drugged and sold into slavery. Explicit descriptions of sex and some violence. 1993. RC 44158. ## The Black Tower. RC 44163. by P.D. James. read by David Hartley-Margolin. 2 cassettes (Reissue). Mystery set in England about convalescent Adam Dalgliesh, who goes to Dorset and discovers that the priest who had summoned him is dead. Adam becomes involved in intrigue and murder when more deaths occur at a nearby home for disabled people. 1975. RC 44163. ## Captive Bride. RC 44168. by Johanna Lindsey. read by Gabriella Cavallero. 2 cassettes. Seventeen-year-old Christina Wakefield's first London season in 1883 is ruined by the arrogant Philip Caxton. Soon afterwards her brother is ordered to Cairo, and Christina travels with him. On her first night there, Christina is abducted by Sheik Abu, a.k.a. Philip Caxton. Explicit descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some violence. 1977. RC 44168. ## No Survivors. RC 44175. by Will Henry. read by Jim Zeiger. 2 cassettes. A fictionalized account of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, as recorded in the journal of its sole survivor, Colonel John Clayton. Clayton, who is captured and adopted by the Sioux, faces a crisis of identity when his tribe rides against the army in which he once served. Violence. 1950. RC 44175. ## Go Ask Alice. RC 44179. by Anonymous. read by Martha Harmon Pardee. 1 cassette (Reissue). Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old girl who turned to drugs because of her feelings of loneliness and rebellion against the world. Though she tries to stop, she dies of an overdose three weeks after her seventeenth birthday. Strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 1971. RC 44179. ## The Fearful Summons. RC 44180. by Denny Martin Flinn. read by Chuck Benson. 2 cassettes. The Thraxians, a little-known race on the galactic frontier, kidnap the crew of the Federation starship _Excelsior_ and demand powerful weapons in exchange for the release of the hostages. Captain Kirk and the former officers of the starship _Enterprise_ reunite to undertake a rescue mission. A Star Trek novel. 1995. RC 44180. ## Shameless. RC 44184. by Jennifer Blake. read by Gabriella Cavallero. 2 cassettes. Camilla Greenley Hutton's divorce is almost final when her husband, Keith, decides he doesn't want to let her go. It seems Cammie may be heiress to the town's paper mill (currently owned by Reid Sayers), because of an old feud between two Louisiana families. Then Keith is found murdered and Cammie and Reid become suspects. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1994. RC 44184. ## So Big. RC 44189. by Edna Ferber. read by Jill Ferris. 2 cassettes (Reissue). A farm woman's indomitable spirit and quick response to beauty are unquenched by years of hardship--all for the sake of her son. Pulitzer Prize. Originally published in 1924. 1995. RC 44189. ## Independence Day. RC 44192. by Richard Ford. read by Jamie Horton. 4 cassettes. Seven years ago Frank Bascombe, of _Sportswriter (RC 37166)_, got divorced, yet he is still in his "existence period." Perhaps things will change this Fourth of July weekend. After a brief trip to see his longtime girlfriend, who may take him into a "permanent period," Frank plans to take his son, Paul, fifteen and recently arrested for shoplifting, to visit several sports halls of fame. But fate steps in along the way. Strong language. Bestseller 1995. RC 44192. ## Ticktock. RC 44204. by Dean Koontz. read by James DeLotel. 2 cassettes. Thirty-year-old novelist Tommy Phan arrives home one day to find a mysterious rag doll at his front door. That night Tommy hears strange noises coming from the doll, which springs to life and turns its diabolical powers on him. Tommy flees in desperation to escape the fiend's clutches. Bestseller 1996. RC 44204. ## A Thin Dark Line. RC 44208. by Tami Hoag. read by Mitzi Friedlander. 4 cassettes. When a murder prosecution is vitiated by an officer's failure to list key evidence on a search warrant, an irate detective decides to take the law into his own hands. Deputy Annie Broussard joins forces with the rogue detective in tracking the elusive killer. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1997. RC 44208. ## Karma. RC 44214. by Mitchell Smith. read by Fred Major. 3 cassettes. When architect Evan Scott watches a female construction worker plunge seventy stories from a skyscraper frame, he realizes it was no accident. His investigation threatens powerful interests on both sides of the law and leads him on a perilous mission of vengeance. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. 1994. RC 44214. ## True Grit. RC 44219. by Charles Portis. read by Terry Hayes Sales. 1 cassette (Reissue). Fifty years afterward, a woman tells how, as a girl of fourteen, she, a federal marshal, and a Texas Ranger tracked her father's murderer from Arkansas into Indian territory. Some violence. 1968. RC 44219. ## Lost Island. RC 44220. by Phyllis A. Whitney. read by Carole Jordan Stewart. 2 cassettes (Reissue). Lacey Ames returns to Hampton, an island off the coast of Georgia, where she spent her childhood and where her youthful romance with Giles Severn ended in disappointment. Unable to forget Giles, Lacey hopes to exorcise the spell of the island and of Giles. 1970. RC 44220. ## Infernal Affairs. RC 44285. by Jane Heller. read by Annie Wauters. 2 cassettes. The night her husband leaves her, overweight, graying, real estate agent Barbara Chessner unknowingly makes a deal with the devil. The next morning she wakes up blond and shapely, and she even makes an impossible sale to a gorgeous man. But when Barbara learns she's a darksider, she wants her old life back. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1996. RC 44285. ## Evening Class. RC 44308. by Maeve Binchy. read by Anne Flosnik. 3 cassettes. For many people in Dublin, life is the same day after day, but that changes dramatically for forty-eight-year old Aidan Dunne, when he is passed over for a school principal position. He and Nora O'Donoghue, just returned from twenty-six years in Italy, begin teaching Italian in a series of evening classes. Together, they help many other Dubliners make transitions, too. Some strong language. 1996. RC 44308. ## Small Vices. RC 44310. by Robert B. Parker. read by Ray Foushee. 2 cassettes. As a district attorney, Rita Fiore won a murder conviction for convicted sex offender Ellis Alves. Two years later, now as part of a major law firm, Fiore has doubts about Alves's guilt, and convinces her firm to hire Spenser to investigate his claims of innocence. But soon after Spenser begins work, a "man in gray" takes him down with three shots. Strong language and some violence. Bestseller 1997. RC 44310. ## The Night Crew. RC 44311. by John Sandford. read by Madelyn Buzzard. 2 cassettes. As Anna Batory and her TV camera crew patrol the nocturnal streets of Los Angeles, the night turns deadly. Following the filming of a drugged teen's suicide and the mysterious death of her cameraman, Anna realizes that she is the next target of a psychotic killer. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1997. RC 44311. ## 3001: The Final Odyssey. RC 44314. by Arthur C. Clarke. read by John Stratton. 2 cassettes. After being killed and abandoned in space, twenty-first-century astronaut Frank Poole is revived a thousand years in the future. He finds that humanity has spread throughout the solar system and lives in a state of near utopia. But all is not well in the third millenium. The mysterious black monoliths are still present and may now pose a threat. Sequel to _2061: Odyssey Three (RC 26047)_. 1997. RC 44314. ## Crooked Little Heart. RC 44316. by Anne Lamott. read by Suzanne Toren. 3 cassettes. In this sequel to _Rosie (RC 20356)_, young tennis star Rosie Ferguson is beset by the anxieties of early adolescence and the unwanted attentions of a menacing, middle-aged, court-side spectator. When tragedy strikes close to her family, Rosie rises to confront her fears. Strong language and descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1997. RC 44316. ## Nothing but You: Love Stories from the _New Yorker_. RC 44363. edited by Roger Angell. read by Faith Potts. 4 cassettes. An anthology of romantic stories by postmodernists, ironists, and other authors recounting their personal encounters with love. In "The Diver," a young man accidentally falls into the river. A kindly Parisian seamstress seduces the hapless fellow as she helps him change his wet clothes. Descriptions of sex. 1997. RC 44363. ## The Tin Can Tree. RC 44373. by Anne Tyler. read by Mary Kane. 2 cassettes (Reissue). A novel following the few days after the death of a little girl, exploring the effects on her older brother, on her mother who neglects the boy in her grief, and on their neighbors. 1965. RC 44373. ## High Rising. RC 44375. by Angela Thirkell. read by Anne Flosnik. 2 cassettes. Now that her three older sons are self-supporting, forty-five-year-old widowed novelist Laura Morland need only worry about young Tony, who "has a splendid natural resistance to learning in any form." But money complications make way for social ones as almost everyone in Laura's circle of acquaintances--from her publisher to her secretary--becomes involved in convoluted romances fraught with misunderstandings. 1933. RC 44375. ## The Blue Wall. RC 44448. by Kenneth Abel. read by Christopher Walker. 2 cassettes. Already reeling from a broken marriage, NYPD detective Dave Moser probes a brutal murder involving a crime family. As he presses the case, Moser runs afoul of the mob, the department, and a federal sting of city police corruption. Strong language and violence. 1996. RC 44448. ## Pretend You Don't See Her. RC 44529. by Mary Higgins Clark. read by Carol Dines. 2 cassettes. Lacey Farrell, a Manhattan real estate agent, is forced to assume a new identity when she accidentally witnesses the murder of a woman whose daughter had recently died in an apparent accident. The woman's dying act is to give Lacey her daughter's journal--which she photocopies before giving it to the police. Bestseller 1997. RC 44529. ## Deep Waters. RC 44530. by Jayne Ann Krentz. read by Ann Hodapp. 2 cassettes. Charity Truitt, twenty-nine, walks out on her engagement party and escapes to Whispering Waters Cove, Washington. Although their marriage meant a merger between two large Seattle firms, her fianc‚ was just too big a man for Charity. In her new life, Charity meets Elias Winters, a man who seems to be just the right size. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1996. RC 44530. ## Plum Island. RC 44551. by Nelson DeMille. read by Fred Major. 4 cassettes. While NYPD detective John Corey is recuperating from wounds on Long Island, two research biologists are found shot on nearby Plum Island. Corey joins the case and finds himself in a perilous world of germ warfare, buried treasure, avarice, and murder. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1997. RC 44551. ## Before the Storm: The Black Fleet Crisis, Book 1. RC 44589. by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. read by Jim Zeiger. 2 cassettes. Since the Empire has been vanquished, the New Republic has entered an era of tranquil harmony under the leadership of the Jedi Knights. Then a series of events disrupts the peace: Luke ventures off on a perilous rescue mission to his mother's homeworld, Lando confronts a menacing spacecraft, and Leia attempts to avert a war. Prequel to _Shield of Lies (RC 44590)_. 1996. RC 44589. ## Shield of Lies: The Black Fleet Crisis, Book 2. RC 44590. by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. read by Jim Zeiger. 2 cassettes. In this sequel to _Before the Storm (RC 44589)_, Lando is abducted aboard an unidentified spacecraft, while Leia contends with a threat to the stability of the New Republic. Han departs on a deep-space voyage, where he engages a fleet of warships in a battle that could doom civilization. Bestseller 1996. RC 44590. ## The Folly: Being the Fourth Volume of the Daughters of Mannerling. RC 44591. by Marion Chesney. read by Jill Ferris. 1 cassette. Rachel Beverley, the next sister in line to try to regain the lost family home, Mannerling, hopes to make a good impression on the latest owner, Charles Blackwood. But Rachel gets off to a bad start when she reprimands him for leaving his children in the charge of a spiteful governess. Sequel to _The Deception (RC 42439)_. 1996. RC 44591. ## McNally's Gamble. RC 44593. by Lawrence Sanders. read by Chuck Benson. 2 cassettes. As chief of discreet inquiries in his father's law firm, Archy McNally investigates the validity of a Faberg‚ Imperial egg. Client Edythe Westmore wants to buy the egg as an investment, but her children are strongly opposed. McNally uncovers greed, passion, and murder amidst the residents of Palm Beach. Some strong language. Bestseller 1997. RC 44593. ## Cow Country. RC 44594. by Will James. read by Jim Zeiger. 1 cassette. Eight short stories that capture the hardships, adventures, and spirit of the American cowboy. The selections tell of wild mustangs, ornery steers, lonesome drifters, and fancy dudes of the West in the early 1900s. 1995. RC 44594. ## The Waiting Time. RC 44609. by Eugenia Price. read by Gabriella Cavallero. 2 cassettes. Coastal Georgia, late 1850s. When Abigail Banes of Boston marries plantation-owner Eli Allyn, she doesn't mind Eli's owning slaves because she knows he will treat them well. But then Eli drowns, and Abby is left to run the plantation. As Abby and her overseer, Thaddeus Green, become abolitionists, Thad becomes Abby's helpmate. Bestseller 1997. RC 44609. ## Chasing C‚zanne. RC 44634. by Peter Mayle. read by Fred Major. 2 cassettes. Andre Kelly, a freelance photographer for _DQ_ magazine, is in France to photograph a Russian woman's icons. While there he decides to visit an old friend. He arrives and discovers his friend is not at home, but the hired man seems to be removing a C‚zanne painting. Kelly follows and finds himself involved in an art-forgery scam. Bestseller 1997. RC 44634. ## The Actual. RC 44636. by Saul Bellow. read by James DeLotel. 1 cassette. Semiretired Harry Trellman, a man alienated from life and love, is abruptly hired to join the "brain trust" of a billionaire. There Harry reencounters the flame of his youth, who is now divorced and widowed. In a testimonial of hope, Harry seeks to reclaim his lost love. Strong language and descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1997. RC 44636. ## Princess Charming. RC 44680. by Jane Heller. read by Martha Harmon Pardee. 2 cassettes. Since her divorce, Elaine Zimmerman mistrusts men and has no interest in romance. So she is not thrilled when her two friends drag her on a Caribbean cruise. Her qualms disappear when she meets appealing tablemate Sam Peck, but return when she learns that either she or one of her friends has been targeted for murder by an ex-husband. Some strong language. 1997. RC 44680. ## Then Came Heaven. RC 45146. by LaVyrle Spencer. read by Annie Wauters. 2 cassettes. In 1950s Browerville, Minnesota, Eddie Olczak, devastated by the death of his wife, and Sister Regina, his children's teacher, come to terms with the special feelings they have for each other. Some strong language. Bestseller 1997. RC 45146. ## The Best Revenge. RC 45147. by Stella Cameron. read by Madelyn Buzzard. 3 cassettes. Rae Faith flees her abusive childhood home and, for ten years, leads a decent life, marrying a salesman. Then one day her husband doesn't return home, and his brother-in-law, Dallas Calhoun, accuses them both of embezzlement. Hoping to clear her own name, Rae follows Dallas--and falls in love. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1998. RC 45147. ## ### _Books for Children_ Books listed in this issue of _Talking Book Topics_ were recently sent to cooperating libraries. The complete collection contains books by many authors on fiction and nonfiction subjects, including animals, geography, nature, mystery, sports, and others. Contact your cooperating library to learn more about the wide range of books available in the collection. Cassette books are labeled with the code RC and play at 15/16 ips. To order books, contact your cooperating library. _Cassettes Nonfiction_ Women of Peace: Nobel Peace Prize Winners. RC 40901. by Anne Schraff. read by Marilyn Gleason. 1 cassette. Since 1901, the annual Nobel Prizes for outstanding achievements have included an award for promoting peace. Only nine women have received this honor, and most of them made great personal sacrifices in their work toward peace and justice. One recipient is Mother Teresa, who, at an advanced age, continues to care for poor people in India. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 1994. RC 40901. ## Black Stars in Orbit: NASA's African American Astronauts. RC 41667. by Khephra Burns and William Miles. read by Chuck Young. 1 cassette. In 1983 Guion Bluford became the first African American astronaut to fly in space. This book traces the history leading to that milestone, including the Tuskegee Airmen, the first black astronaut in the space program, and the important scientific and support contributions by blacks. It also tells how African American men and women continue the legacy in the 1990s. For grades 6-9. 1995. RC 41667. ## Janice VanCleave's The Human Body for Every Kid: Easy Activities That Make Learning Science Fun. RC 43479. by Janice VanCleave. read by Margaret Strom. 1 cassette. Exercises, experiments, and activities designed to teach basic concepts in human anatomy and physiology. Topics for learning include cell structure, the senses, balance, movement, genetics, and the respiratory, circulatory, digestive, and musculoskeletal systems. For grades 5-7. 1995. RC 43479. ## The Search for the Right Whale. RC 44072. by Scott Kraus and Kenneth Mallory. read by Butch Hoover. 1 cassette. Scientists for the New England Aquarium rediscover the extremely rare North Atlantic right whale off the coast of Maine. They then study the migration patterns of the whales as they travel from one end of the coast to the other. They also speculate about the chances for survival of an animal that was once hunted nearly to extinction. For grades 4-7. 1993. RC 44072. ## I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment. RC 44161. by Jerry Stanley. read by Jim Zeiger. 1 cassette. Tells of Shi Nomura, who, along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants, was imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II. Describes Nomura's unhappy stay at the Manzanar internment camp in California and discusses the hostility and fear experienced by those who came to America in search of a better life. For grades 5-8. 1994. RC 44161. ## Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales: Adventures in Human-Animal Communication. RC 44209. by George and Linda Harrar. read by Butch Hoover. 1 cassette. The Harrars show how researchers have developed sign languages for talking with chimps, gorillas, and dolphins, thus proving these species have intelligence. For grades 5-8. 1989. RC 44209. ## A. Nonny Mouse Writes Again!. RC 44647. selected by Jack Prelutsky. read by Madelyn Buzzard. 1 cassette. Following the success of their first collaboration in _Poems of A. Nonny Mouse (RC 31528)_, A. Nonny Mouse and Mr. Prelutsky have selected a new group of poems for your pleasure. These include poems about a kitten named Louie, a hippopotamus whose face is as big as his bottom, and the wizard of Oz. For grades K-3. 1993. RC 44647. ## ### _Cassettes Fiction_ The Magic Finger. RC 40827. by Roald Dahl. read by Jennifer Mendenhall. 1 cassette (Reissue). When an eight-year-old girl is cross, the forefinger on her right hand starts to tingle. The last time that happened, her teacher turned into a cat. Now she's put the magic finger on the whole Gregg family, next door, because she's angry with them for hunting animals. When the Greggs wake up, they realize they are tiny birds, and their house has been taken over by large ducks. For grades 2-4 and older readers. 1966. RC 40827. ## The Midwife's Apprentice. RC 40833. by Karen Cushman. read by Kimberly Schraf. 1 cassette. The only name she has ever known is Brat. She does not know how old she is--probably twelve or thirteen; she has no family or home; and she is unwashed, hungry, and unloved. Brat is discovered sleeping in a dung heap by the town's midwife, who reluctantly gives her many jobs to do in return for a piece of dry bread and stale cheese. But Brat soon determines to become a midwife herself. For grades 6-9. 1995. RC 40833. ## Lucy's Summer. RC 40904. by Donald Hall. read by Arnie Warren. 1 cassette. School is out for the summer, and Lucy Wells's mother has decided to open a millinery shop in the front parlor. Lucy and Caroline help her make the hats. They also help can the fruits and vegetables for the coming winter. Just before school starts again, Lucy and her mother make a trip to Boston, Massachusetts. Companion to _Lucy's Christmas (RC 40911)_. For grades K-3. 1995. RC 40904. ## Mister Fred. RC 40908. by Jill Pinkwater. read by June Carter. 1 cassette. Anya Murray, formerly a nobody, has been elected class president of 6-A, she has Miss Cintron for a teacher, and several of her best friends are in her class. Life is wonderful. Then Miss Cintron announces she is leaving. The sixth graders band together and terrorize every substitute--until Goldberg Fred arrives. He is so unlike any teacher they have ever had that the students begin to think he is from outer space and try to prove it. For grades 5-8. 1994. RC 40908. ## Lucy's Christmas. RC 40911. by Donald Hall. read by Arnie Warren. 1 cassette. The leaves on the trees are beginning to turn red, and Lucy Wells knows it is time to start planning for Christmas. Her parents order a Glenwood kitchen range from Sears Roebuck in Chicago, and during the fall and winter Lucy makes presents for her family and friends to share at the South Danbury Christian Church Christmas celebration. Companion to _Lucy's Summer (RC 40904)_. For grades K-3. 1994. RC 40911. ## Re-Elect Nutty!. RC 40923. by Dean Hughes. read by Arnie Warren. 1 cassette. Even though Nutty Nutsell was lousy as student council president in the fifth grade, in _Nutty for President (RC 18906)_, he has decided to run again. His competition includes Mindy Marshall, and he thinks she's the one behind the fliers that have been circulating listing embarrassing things about Nutty. Unfortunately the reports are all true. Nutty is going to have to do something to stop Mindy. For grades 4-7. 1995. RC 40923. ## The Secret of the Ruby Ring. RC 40927. by Yvonne MacGrory. read by Marilyn Gleason. 2 cassettes. Lucy, an Irish girl, will be eleven on Sunday, and her grandmother has brought her a special present--a star ruby ring that is handed down to the women in the family. According to legend, the ring has magical powers, and Lucy learns she can make two wishes. When Lucy wishes for a bigger house, she is transported back to 1885 and to a nearby castle where she becomes nursemaid to two young children. For grades 4-7. 1991. RC 40927. ## Your Move, J.P.!. RC 40988. by Lois Lowry. read by M.E. DePalma. 1 cassette. James Priestly Tate, twelve, has an overwhelming urge, for the first time in his life, to use deodorant. Why? Because J.P. is in love with Angela Patricia Galsworthy, a new girl in his class. But his attempts to impress her soon lead to even stranger behavior. For grades 6-9. 1990. RC 40988. ## The Royal Nap. RC 41469. by Charles C. Black. read by Laura Giannarelli. 1 cassette. Every afternoon at one o'clock, King Gordo takes a two-hour nap, and during that time the castle must be completely silent. But one afternoon the king hears a hic...hic...hic from deep within the castle and cannot get to sleep. Soon the palace guards are searching the castle high and low. For preschool-grade 2. 1995. RC 41469. ## The Sugaring-Off Party. RC 41470. by Jonathan London. read by Laura Giannarelli. 1 cassette. As the Sugar Moon rises in the sky, Grand-mere tells Paul about the first sugaring-off party she attended sixty years ago. She recounts the journey to Tante Loulou's home, the big feast, the dancing, and finally "la tire"--the sticky, gooey maple syrup that is poured on the snow to make taffy. For grades K-3. 1995. RC 41470. ## Little Salt Lick and the Sun King. RC 41550. by Jennifer Armstrong. read by Laura Giannarelli. 1 cassette. In the palace at Versailles, young Paul is the second assistant rotisserie turner in the department of roasted meats. While Paul is working, his arms get so sweaty the palace dogs lick the salt off them. Paul likes dogs, but he doesn't like being slobbered on or being called Salt Lick. When the king returns from a journey, Paul gets an unexpected chance to change his life. For grades K-3. 1994. RC 41550. ## Twelve Tales. RC 41551. by Hans Christian Andersen. read by Barbara Rappaport. 1 cassette. Translator Erik Blegvad, a native Dane who grew up hearing Andersen's stories, has retained the "old-fashioned" language of Andersen's time. The collection includes well-known tales such as "The Princess and the Pea," "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," and "The Emperor's New Clothes" and lesser-known stories such as "The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep" and "The Pixie at the Grocer's." For grades 3-6. 1994. RC 41551. ## The Snow Speaks. RC 41554. by Nancy White Carlstrom. read by Celeste Lawson. 1 cassette. From the first snowfall of the season, the children listen to the snow speak. It squeaks and crunches under their feet, blows in waves and spray, and tells of magic in the woods. And just when the snow finally seems silent, it begins to whisper and then sing of Christmas. For preschool-grade 2. 1992. RC 41554. ## Grams, Her Boyfriend, My Family, and Me. RC 41565. by Pat Derby. read by Phil Regensdorf. 1 cassette. Fifteen-year-old Andy is surrounded by sisters and chaos. Dennie is a senior, Molly has skipped a grade to become a freshman, and the twins, Anne and Alice, have taken Andy's room from him. Now his mother has decided to get a job, his opinionated Grams has moved into their crowded house while hers is being restored, and his parents are using the living room as a bedroom. For grades 6-9. 1994. RC 41565. ## The Mona Lisa of Salem Street. RC 41566. by Jan Marino. read by Marilyn Gleason. 1 cassette. Since their parents died, Nettie and her little brother, John Peter, have been shuffled from relative to relative but always end up with their cross Grandma Bessie. Now Grandma is sending them to their widowed grandfather in Massachusetts. Grandma Bessie said their grandfather is wealthy, but Nettie soon realizes he's not. Although John Peter is very happy there, Nettie is sure they will be sent away. For grades 5-8. 1995. RC 41566. ## McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm: Three Tall Tales. RC 41575. by Sid Fleischman. read by Michael Kramer. 1 cassette. Josh McBroom, his wife, and their eleven children are heading west when they are offered a farm in Iowa. The farm is under water, but a dry spell soon turns it into one acre of land with very rich soil. Crops grow in minutes, trees in hours. The McBrooms love their new farm, but they must fight wind that carries off small children and grasshoppers that eat anything green. For grades 3-6. 1966. RC 41575. ## Welcome Back, Sun. RC 41662. by Michael Emberley. read by Celeste Lawson. 1 cassette. A little girl lives with her parents in a small village in Norway. It is March now, and since October the sun has not come out. This time of the year is called _murketiden_, or the murky time. This year the girl wants her parents to take her with the other villagers on the ceremonial hike up the mountain to welcome the sun back. For grades K-3. 1993. RC 41662. ## The Seeing Stick. RC 41665. by Jane Yolen. read by Kimberly Schraf. 1 cassette. The emperor in Peking has a young daughter named Princess Hwei Ming, whom he showers with riches. But because the princess is blind, she is unhappy. The emperor offers a reward to the person who can make Hwei Ming see. An old blind man journeys to Peking with a piece of wood he calls a seeing stick. The stick's wonderful carved images allow a blind person to grow "eyes on the tips of her fingers." For grades K-3. 1977. RC 41665. ## This Is a Great Place for a Hot Dog Stand. RC 43068. by Barney Saltzberg. read by Gary Tipton. 1 cassette. Izzy hates his job at the toy factory--he would rather be outdoors. One day he decides to set up his own hot dog stand. When he finally opens for business on a vacant lot between two big office buildings, Madame Moola Moo wants to tear down his stand to build a mall. For preschool-grade 2. 1995. RC 43068. ## Crazy Weekend. RC 43722. by Gary Soto. read by Rick Rohan. 1 cassette. Hector and his friend Mando go to Fresno to visit Hector's photographer uncle. On a photo shoot together, they inadvertently photograph a robbery by a pair of bumbling thugs. After bragging to a reporter, the two seventh-graders must evade the robbers' inept attempts to teach them a lesson. Prequel to _Summer on Wheels (RC 44022)_. For grades 5-8. 1994. RC 43722. ## Mr. Lincoln's Drummer. RC 43741. by G. Clifton Wisler. read by Terence Aselford. 1 cassette. Ten-year-old Willie Johnston is a drummer for the Union Army during the Civil War. Because of the bravery he displays--particularly during a fierce battle at Savage's Station, Virginia, where he is the only boy to keep his drum during retreat--Willie becomes the youngest person ever to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. Based on a true story. For grades 5-7. 1995. RC 43741. ## Mennyms under Siege. RC 43742. by Sylvia Waugh. read by Pam Ward. 1 cassette. In this sequel to _Mennyms in the Wilderness (RC 42035)_, the teenage Pilbeam ventures out to the theater, where she encounters a prying neighbor. After a series of such close calls, the Mennyms hole up at home to avoid scrutiny. But a tragedy means the family must face their mortality. For grades 4-6. 1995. RC 43742. ## A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple. RC 43743. by Kathryn Lasky. read by Corrie James. 1 cassette. On October 1, 1620, after sailing more than a thousand miles, "Mem" Whipple, twelve, begins keeping a journal of her journey to America. She recounts daily problems aboard the _Mayflower_ and then continues her journal for another year after the colonists land in America. An epilogue follows Mem's descendants up to 1850. For grades 4-7. 1996. RC 43743. ## Happy Birthday, Kirsten! A Springtime Story. RC 43754. by Janet Shaw. read by Janis Gray. 1 cassette. Young pioneer Kirsten, her extended family, and the local teacher take shelter in a root cellar when a tornado threatens. While they are there, Miss Winston tells the cousins about her friendship quilt. After the disaster passes, the girls begin their own quilting projects--and their friends catch on! Sequel to _Kirsten's Surprise (RC 43753)_. For grades 2-4. 1987. RC 43754. ## Happy Birthday, Molly! A Springtime Story. RC 43834. by Valerie Tripp. read by Pam Ward. 1 cassette. During World War II, Emily Bennett, an English girl Molly's age, has come to stay. Molly is excited, but Emily is very quiet, and the girls have a hard time becoming friends. But they do, just in time for Molly's birthday. Then they can't agree on how to celebrate. Sequel to _Molly's Surprise (RC 43833)_. For grades 2-4. 1989. RC 43834. ## Molly Saves the Day: A Summer Story. RC 43835. by Valerie Tripp. read by Pam Ward. 1 cassette. Molly and her friends are having a great time at summer camp during World War II, but each girl has a problem: Molly can't swim underwater, Susan can't paddle a canoe straight, and Linda is afraid of wiggly bugs. As the camp's Color War begins, each girl must overcome her obstacle. Sequel to _Happy Birthday, Molly! (RC 43834)_. For grades 2-4. 1988. RC 43835. ## How Chipmunk Got Tiny Feet: Native American Animal Origin Stories. RC 43880. retold by Gerald Hausman. read by Laura Giannarelli. 1 cassette. Seven stories that explain how the coyote, bat, lizard, hawk, horse, possum, and chipmunk came to be the animals we know today. Includes "How Coyote Got Yellow Eyes," "How Bat Learned to Fly," "How Lizard Got Flat," and "How Possum Lost His Tail." For grades K-3. 1995. RC 43880. ## Summer on Wheels. RC 44022. by Gary Soto. read by Rick Rohan. 1 cassette. In this sequel to _Crazy Weekend (RC 43722)_, Hector and his friend Mando decide to take a five-day bike trip from East Los Angeles to Hector's aunt's house in Santa Monica. Staying with relatives along the way, the boys are amazed at their good fortune. First Hector gets one hundred dollars for acting in a commercial, then he wins prime seats at a Dodgers game by being the millionth attendee. Includes a glossary of Spanish words. For grades 5-8. 1995. RC 44022. ## Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley. RC 44027. by Marguerite Henry. read by Margaret Strom. 1 cassette. Molly wants a horse more than anything. When her father finally agrees, she is heartbroken that he chooses an aging mare instead of the young colt she envisioned. But sadness turns to joy when the mare surprises them by giving birth to a beautiful mule. For grades 3-6. 1996. RC 44027. ## Tell Me Again about the Night I Was Born. RC 44029. by Jamie Lee Curtis. read by Laura Giannarelli. 1 cassette. A little girl asks her parents over and over to tell her favorite story--the one about the night she was born and they came to adopt her. For preschool-grade 2. 1996. RC 44029. ## Gift Horse. RC 44049. by Betty Levin. read by Gary Tipton. 1 cassette. When Matt's filmmaker great-uncle visits, he brings gifts for the children, not realizing that Matt isn't a baby anymore. When Uncle Oliver promises to replace the babyish ball with a real horse, Matt's family doesn't believe it will happen. But Matt begins preparing a place for the horse he knows is coming. For grades 4-7. 1996. RC 44049. ## Dog Friday. RC 44057. by Hilary McKay. read by Jack Fox. 1 cassette. Ten-year-old Robin Brogan is trying to overcome his fear of dogs. He gets some help when a bunch of kids move in next door with a dog as fierce as his name--Old Blanket. Then Robin finds an abandoned dog on the beach. The dog is nearly dead and Robin must decide if he is brave enough to nurse the dog back to health. For grades 4-7. 1994. RC 44057. ## Out of the Blue. RC 44062. by Sarah Ellis. read by Sharon Murray. 1 cassette. Because Megan's parents have been acting as if they're hiding something, Megan begins to snoop. She finds a brochure for a sailing trip and assumes her parents are giving it to her for her twelfth birthday. Instead, the surprise is that Megan has a half-sister who is twice as old as she is. For grades 5-8. 1994. RC 44062. ## Alice the Brave. RC 44063. by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. read by Kerry Cundiff. 1 cassette. In this sequel to _Reluctantly Alice (RC 35493)_, Alice and her friends are spending the summer before eighth grade at a swimming pool. Alice, who has always managed to hide her fear of deep water, is secretly terrified the boys will throw her in. Meanwhile, her two best friends wrestle with problems of their own. For grades 6-9. 1995. RC 44063. ## Mattimeo. RC 44070. by Brian Jacques. read by David Palmer. 3 cassettes. In this sequel to _Redwall (RC 29729)_, the evil fox Slagar abducts several young animals, including Mattimeo, son of the warrior mouse Matthias, from Redwall Abbey. Matthias and other fathers launch a daring rescue mission, leaving the Abbey vulnerable to the marauding crows. Violence. For grades 4-6. 1990. RC 44070. ## The Old Man Who Loved Cheese. RC 44083. by Garrison Keillor. read by Jack Fox. 1 cassette. Some men love money or fame, but Wallace P. Flynn chooses cheese. Unfortunately he likes the smelliest kinds of cheese, which are so offensive his family leaves him. When the cheese police finally arrest Mr. Flynn, he must choose between his cheese and freedom. For grades 2-4. 1996. RC 44083. ## Snowbound Mystery. RC 44112. by Gertrude Chandler Warner. read by Michael Pinney. 1 cassette. When the Alden children get a week off from school, they decide to spend it in a cabin even though it is winter. Their only neighbors, a family that owns a small store, have obviously been searching for something in the cabin. It takes a snowstorm for the Aldens to help them find it. For grades 4-6. 1968. RC 44112. ## Nate the Great and the Tardy Tortoise. RC 44115. by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and Craig Sharmat. read by John Stratton. 2 cassettes. Boy detective Nate the Great discovers a tortoise in his backyard. Realizing the flower-eating, slow-moving pet must be lost, Nate sets out to find its owner. For grades K-3. 1995. RC 44115. ## The Gifts of Wali Dad: A Tale of India and Pakistan. RC 44146. by Aaron Shepard. read by Erik Sandvold. 1 cassette. When old grass-cutter Wali Dad realizes he has saved more money than he needs, he buys a bracelet and has it delivered to the noblest lady in the world, the queen. Happy to be rid of his extra money, Wali Dad is horrified to receive an even more expensive gift from the queen. For grades K-3. 1995. RC 44146. ## Babar the King. RC 44154. by Jean De Brunhoff. read by Jamie Horton. 1 cassette (Reissue). King Babar and Queen Celeste are established as rulers of the country of the elephants. Since they have no capital city, King Babar orders everything he needs to build a magnificent capital. For grades K-3. 1935. RC 44154. ## Hop on Pop. RC 44160. by Dr. Seuss. read by Bob Askey. 1 cassette. Pairs of simple, rhyming words are introduced and used in bouncy nonsense sentences. "Day/Play/We play all day." "Night/Fight/We fight all night." For grades K-3. 1963. RC 44160. ## Phantom Victory. RC 44162. by Pamela F. Service. read by Pam Ward. 1 cassette. Terri Graff and her family are natives on South Bass Island, and Terri is working in the archaeological dig at the site of the old Victory Hotel that burned in 1919. Brian Cornwell, descendant of regular summer vacationers, has come to the island with his family. When Brian discovers an old diary containing clues to a hidden emerald-and-diamond necklace, he and Terri combine forces to hunt for it. For grades 5-7. 1994. RC 44162. ## Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move. RC 44167. by Judith Viorst. read by Jamie Horton. 1 cassette. Alexander's father has a new job far away. But Alexander is determined not to move and leave behind his best friend, his great sitter, his soccer team, and the cleaner who saves the gum wrappers from Alexander's pants pockets. Then his parents give Alexander some reasons to stay with his family. For grades K-3. 1995. RC 44167. ## The Black Stallion. RC 44178. by Walter Farley. read by Jamie Horton. 1 cassette (Reissue). When Alec Ramsay first sees the Black Stallion being forced aboard the ship on which he is a passenger, Alec has no idea that the magnificent creature will soon save his life. For grades 4-7. 1941. RC 44178. ## Our House: The Stories of Levittown. RC 44202. by Pam Conrad. read by Madelyn Buzzard. 1 cassette. Levittown is a suburban New York town built in 1947. Six fictional children from each following decade until the 1990s describe experiences growing up there. In his brand-new house, a boy puts his footprints in a new patio and then surprises his parents by falling through the kitchen ceiling. For grades 3-6. 1995. RC 44202. ## Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge. RC 44210. by Susan Shreve. read by Randy Wieck. 1 cassette. In this sequel to _The Flunking of Joshua T. Bates (RC 23113)_, Joshua is in the fifth grade and still having problems with bully Tommy Wilhelm. The last thing Joshua needs is to be assigned to help out Sean, a new classmate. Tommy, who thinks Sean is even more of a nerd than Joshua, organizes the other boys to torment him. For grades 3-6. 1993. RC 44210. ## Halloween Party. RC 44217. by Linda Shute. read by Madelyn Buzzard. 1 cassette. A mother and son put the finishing touches on their Halloween costumes and head to the neighborhood party where the decorations feature buckets of worms and bowls of slime and the guests include monsters, wizards, and wombats. For grades K-3. 1994. RC 44217. ## Local News. RC 44338. by Gary Soto. read by Michael Pinney. 1 cassette. Thirteen tales set in a Mexican American neighborhood in which young boys and girls share the embarrassment and disappointments they frequently endure at the hands of friends or siblings. Companion to _Baseball in April and Other Stories (RC 37667)_. For grades 5-8. 1993. RC 44338. ## Orp and the FBI. RC 44431. by Suzy Kline. read by Rick Rohan. 1 cassette. Orville and his friend Derrick call themselves the Famous Bathtub Investigators because that's where Orville thinks up mysteries to solve. But this time his sister comes up with the most intriguing puzzles: finding out who wrote the letter that made their mother cry and who the shadowy figure is in their neighbors' empty house. For grades 3-6. 1995. RC 44431. ## Whitefish Will Rides Again!. RC 44600. by Arthur Yorinks. read by Jamie Horton. 1 cassette. Whitefish Will is such a good sheriff that he scares all the criminals away. Not needing him anymore, the townfolk retire him. But years later, a bad man comes to town and they must bring the lawman back. For grades K-3. 1994. RC 44600. ## The Fear Place. RC 44615. by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. read by Jim Zeiger. 1 cassette. Doug is camping with his geologist parents and his hateful brother Gordon in Colorado for the summer. When their parents have to fly out for an uncle's funeral, the brothers argue until Gordon stalks off to camp by himself on his favorite ridge. Days pass and Gordon doesn't return, so, despite his fear of the ridge, Doug is forced to look for his brother. A surprisingly friendly cougar helps him face the "fear place." Some strong language. For grades 4-7. 1994. RC 44615. ## Peter and Veronica. RC 44702. by Marilyn Sachs. read by Michele Schaeffer. 1 cassette (Reissue). Despite his Jewish family's disapproval, Peter Wedemeyer is determined to keep his best friend, gentile tomboy Veronica Ganz. Sequel to _Veronica Ganz (RC 44746)_. For grades 4-7. 1969. RC 44702. ## The Trouble with Henriette!. RC 44709. by Wende and Harry Devlin. read by Laura Giannarelli. 1 cassette. Jolie's grandfather is going to give away Jolie's dog, Henriette, now that she can't sniff out truffles anymore. Jolie knows it is only because Grandfather makes Henriette sleep in the barn, so hay fever is affecting her smell. But how can she make Grandfather believe her? For preschool-grade 2. 1995. RC 44709. ## ### _Foreign Language Books_ The following cassette titles are available in the languages designated. _Spanish_ Las Sandalias del Pescador. RC 40899. por Morris West. le¡do por Juan Ramirez. 3 cassettes. Un campesino ucraniano que por muchos a¤os fue prisionero de los rusos es elegido Papa. Las reformas seglares y espirituales del nuevo Papa producen muchas controvers¡as en un momento en el que la Iglesia se ve forzada a jugar un papel m s amplio en los asuntos mundiales. (A Ukrainian peasant who was a prisoner of the Russians for many years is elected Pope. The secular and spiritual intersect as the new Pope attempts reforms at a time when the church is being forced to play a larger role in world affairs.) 1963. RC 40899. ## Franco: Caudillo de Espa¤a. RC 43405. por Paul Preston. le¡do por Juan Ramirez. 10 cassettes en 2 envases. Biograf¡a del dictador espa¤ol Francisco Franco, conocido por su victoria sobre las fuerzas republicanas durante la Guerra Civil Espa¤ola y por su r‚gimen de cuarenta a¤os sobre Espa¤a hasta su muerte en 1975. Recuenta su nacimiento, ni¤ez y principios de su carrera militar en Marruecos, su ascendencia al poder en los a¤os 1930 y el r‚gimen de Franco durante y despu‚s de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. (Biography of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, noted for his victory over Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War and for his forty-year rule over Spain until his death in 1975. Covers his birth, childhood, and early military career in Morocco, his rise to power in the 1930s, and the Franco regime during and after World War II.) 1994. RC 43405. ## Cruzando el Umbral de la Esperanza. RC 43951. por John Paul II. le¡do por Juan Ramirez. 2 cassettes. En conmemoraci¢n de quince a¤os de su papado, el Papa Juan Pablo II responde a preguntas sobre asuntos religiosos. Habla sobre el misterio de la oraci¢n, la existencia de Dios, la presencia del mal en el mundo y sobre la raz¢n por la cual Dios tolera el sufrimiento. Otros temas incluyen el papado, la salvaci¢n, la vida eterna, otras religiones, decisiones del Consejo del Vaticano, los derechos humanos y la esperanza. (To commemorate fifteen years of his papacy, Pope John Paul II responds to questions on religious matters. He talks about the existence of God; the presence of evil in the world; God's tolerance of suffering; and topics such as the papacy, other religions, decisions by the Vatican Council, human rights, and hope.) 1994. RC 43951. ## Del Amor y Otros Demonios. RC 43952. por Gabriel Garc¡a M rquez. le¡do por Juan Ramirez. 1 cassette. Toma lugar en un puerto de mar sudamericano durante la ‚poca colonial, con sus marcadas divisiones entre las clases ricas y pobres. Un perro rabioso muerde a Sierva Mar¡a de Todos Los Angeles, de doce a¤os de edad y la entregan para que la exorcicen a la Iglesia donde un cura estudioso la adora. Su amor prohibido se convierte en un s¡mbolo de barreras que se rompen y culturas que se mezclan. (Set in a South American seaport during the colonial era with its split between the rich and the poor. Twelve-year-old Sierva Maria de Todos los Angeles is bitten by a rabid dog and taken to the church for exorcism, where she is adored by a bookish priest. Their forbidden love symbolizes the breaking of barriers and blending of cultures.) 1994. RC 43952. ## ### _Talking Book Magazines_ _Discs_ These free direct-circulation magazines are produced for NLS. To be put on the mailing list, contact your cooperating library. American Heritage (8 issues) Analog Science Fiction and Fact (13 issues) The Atlantic Monthly (monthly) Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress (bimonthly) Computer Life (monthly) Consumer Reports (monthly) Contemporary Sound Track: A Review of Pop, Jazz, Rock, and Country (bimonthly) Diabetes Forecast (monthly) Discover (monthly) Eating Well (6 issues) Ebony (monthly) Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (11 issues) Good Housekeeping (monthly plus special issues) Health and Nutrition Newsletters (includes Dr. Andrew Weil's Self Healing, Healthline, The Johns Hopkins Medical Letter-- Health after Fifty, and Nutrition Action Healthletter, monthly) Magazine of the Month (monthly) Money (monthly plus special issues) The Musical Mainstream (quarterly) The Nation (47 issues) National Geographic (monthly) National Review (biweekly) New Choices: Living Even Better after Fifty (10 issues) The New York Times Book Review (weekly) Outdoor Life (monthly) People Weekly (weekly) QST (monthly) Quarterly Music Magazine (quarterly) Sports Illustrated (weekly plus special issues) Stereo Review (monthly) Talking Book Topics (bimonthly) Travel Holiday (10 issues) True West (monthly) U.S. News and World Report (weekly) Working Woman (10 issues) Cassette For a free subscription to these magazines, contact your cooperating library. Asimov's Science Fiction (11 issues) Das Beste aus Reader's Digest (monthly) Buenhogar (monthly) Choice Magazine Listening (on loan from cooperating libraries; bimonthly) Cricket (for children, on one cassette with National Geographic World, monthly) Le Journal Fran‡ais (monthly) National Geographic World (for children and teens, on one cassette with Cricket, monthly) Selecciones del Reader's Digest (monthly) S‚lections du Reader's Digest (monthly) Seventeen (monthly) Spider: The Magazine for Children (monthly) Sports Illustrated for Kids (monthly) Talking Book Topics (bimonthly) Young Adult Magazine of the Month (monthly) On Loan This magazine is available on loan from cooperating libraries. For more information, contact your cooperating library. Choice Magazine Listening (cassette bimonthly)