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When did well-known, bestselling books become the only writers worth paying attention to?

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Ricochet & Vortex: New Audiobooks This Week!

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5/14/2013

NEW UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK

VORTEX

By Allan Cole & Chris Bunch

Sten Series, book 7

Read by Jerry Sciarrio

The Eternal Emperor was back and ready to save his Empire from collapse.

Only Sten guessed that something was rotten at the core. The Empire is in chaos. The once-great Imperial Navy has been shattered in battle and lies burning in space, driven by a civil war that threatens to engulf humanity’s future. For the revered Eternal Emperor is not the man his subjects thought him to be—and may not even be human at all. And it is Sten—Imperial bodyguard, spy, assassin, renegade—who now leads humanity’s fight for survival. Taking command of the last rebel fleet, he sets out on a desperate quest to seek and destroy the dark source of his former master’s power. Denounced as a traitor, hunted by forces loyal to the Emperor, Sten must risk everything to annihilate the Empire he vowed to protect.

NEW UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK

RICOCHET

By Thom Nicholson

Man Killer Series, book 2

Read by Milton Bagby

BLOOD MONEY!

There’s a three-thousand dollar bounty on James Bennett’s head, and Marty Keller intends to collect it. Deep in the Oklahoma badlands, Keller pins down his quarry with warning shots, but a ricocheting bullet strikes Bennett in the back and mortally wounds him.

Keller returns to Fort Wayne to collect his reward, only to be branded a back shooter by the townsfolk. Then, to his surprise, Bennett’s widow pleads with him to escort her and her young son to their new home in Wyoming Territory. As he sets out to lead them across countless miles of mountains and prairies, Keller is determined to protect his charges from any danger that may befall them – both natural and human.

“A Western that moves with the speed and force of an avalanche.” – Seven-Time Spur Award Winner Elmer Kelton

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New Audiobook Releases 5-8-13

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NEW UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK

CLOSER THAN BLOOD

By NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR GREGG OLSEN

Read by Terry Rose

The first time was easy. No one ever suspected the victim had been murdered. The crime long buried, the dark passions guiding the killer’s hand are still alive. But the need for revenge cannot be denied. Only one person can stop the killing. Only one person can identify the killer. Only one person knows the face of death — is as close as the face in the mirror…

NEW UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK

HAWK

By DUSTY RHODES

Read by Rusty Nelson

Officially, the American Civil War ended with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. However, many “sympathizers” on both sides of the issue continued to wage their own “private wars.” This is the story of the “Hawk” family who were caught up in the bitterness and aftermath of the war. Jubal Hawk served four years as a captain in the Confederate cavalry. He returned home to find his home burned to the ground, his father hanged, and his family missing. Night-riders sympathetic to the Union cause and backed by a land hungry rancher, were extracting their own brand of “justice.” Will Jubal be forced to fight the war all over again?

NEW UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK

SWEET MASTERPIECE

By CONNIE SHELTON

Samantha Sweet Series, Book 1

Read by Andrea Bates

Samantha Sweet breaks into houses for a living – all perfectly legal as a caretaker for the USDA. But her real dream is to open her own pastry shop, Sweet’s Sweets. Life is a little crazy for Sam right now. At one of her break-in properties a dying woman insists that she take a small wooden box. Sam doesn’t realize that the old woman was known locally as a bruja, a witch, until she begins to feel some strange effects from the box, herself.

Meanwhile, at another property, she finds an unmarked grave and the authorities come to investigate. The property owner disappeared a few months earlier and Sam wonders – who is the body in the grave? A small mural in the house leads to a connection with a famous artist; a bogus will points to possible fraud; and the handsome deputy investigating the case seems completely enchanted with Sam.

While Sam scrambles to fill bakery orders and keep her properties in order, she’s equally intrigued with the idea of a new romance. It all makes for a delightful romantic mystery with elements of the paranormal.

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3 Audiobooks with Drama, Action and Adventure!

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When the price of an unusual picture called a spirit photograph, which some Victorian spiritualists claimed was a photograph of the departed taken during a seance, sells at auction for over a thousand dollars, Flynn Keirnan is determined to discover the story behind it. She soon learns the ghostly images of the woman and two men in the picture were the subjects of a sensational murder trial in 1875 Chicago. A young architect was accused of killing his wife and best friend in what the local press dubbed The Free Love Murders. Flynn tracks the story through many sources, including the trial transcript, a journal kept by one of the victims, and notes from a jailhouse interview with the husband conducted by feminist firebrand Victoria Woodhull for her radical newspaper. Woodhull, also known as a spiritualist, was asked by the accused to contact the spirits of his wife and friend to obtain details about the deaths. Was it a double homicide, a double suicide, or a murder-suicide and, if so, who killed whom? Flynn Keirnan discovers the key to solving the Free Love murders lies in learning the provenance of the photograph itself. When she does she finds that, like Victoria, her own outlook on love has changed.

DOWNLOAD ISBN: 978-1-61453-354-2
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Running Time: Approx. 9.42 Hrs.
Read by Kris Faulkner
Rated PG

Death and Deception (aka Sindrome) is an action/adventure novel about the life of beautiful Eden O’Shea, a young woman caught up in an international struggle between the spiritual leader, Sai Rabah, and the evangelical ruler, Billi T. Tyler. With the help of a handsome government agent, Hans Dusson, she survives the danger and destruction planned for her, as she dares to seek the truth about the murder of her parents and her own identity. Eden is out, not only to expose the false prophets, but to find her natural mother, who was victimized by one of them. There is romance, political intrigue and a touch of glitz, as Eden travels to Great Britain, Amsterdam, Rome, and the walled city of Quebec, in her quest.

DOWNLOAD ISBN: 978-1-61453-374-0
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Running Time: Approx. 6.47 Hrs.
Read by Jennifer Hille
Rated PG

Golden Hawk hires out to lead a band of tenderfeet through a maze of mountains and dead-end gullies ruled by the proud Blackfoot nation. To complicate matters, the great Blackfoot warrior chief Black Feather has vowed to take Golden Hawk’s scalp. Further bloodying the waters is a raging tribal war in which Golden Hawk has to take sides and take lives, while a mountain man named Elias Hogwood proves a white man can be as savage as a redskin and twice as treacherous…

DOWNLOAD ISBN: 978-1-61453-380-1
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Running Time: Approx. 4.24 Hrs.
Read by Maynard Villers
Rated PG

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New Audiobooks this week!

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For ten years Kal Hakala has been the Bureau of Supernatural Investigation’s top man, the longest surviving agent in its blood-soaked history. The World At Large has no idea that The World Under exists. And its vampires, demons, zombies, and mythic monsters are growing increasingly restless. In all Kal’s time with the Bureau, there has been no case he couldn’t crack, no monster he couldn’t kill. Then a plague of zombies comes to Denver, along with a vicious serial killer dubbed The Organ Donor. A childhood encounter with a legendary monster has left Kal with an endless supply of rage and hatred for all things Supernatural. But now the target is on his forehead, and the Un-Dead don’t die easy. The Bureau has a few aces of its own-a few magicians, a cyber-ghost. Unfortunately Kal is a perennial loner … And the World Under is wise to his tricks.

DOWNLOAD ISBN: 978-1-61453-346-7
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Running Time: Approx. 10.4 Hrs.
Read by Damon Abdallah
Rated R

After losing the love of his life to drug dealers, Matt decides to seek revenge and take on the Mexican drug cartel single handily. His background in police work aids him in the ins and outs of their daily workings within the cartel. With the information he gained from the police department, will Matt be able to pull it off? Listen as Matt seeks revenge on those that took his beloved and if he’s able to do enough damage to put the drug cartel out of business, forever.

DOWNLOAD ISBN: 978-1-61453-294-1
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Running Time: Approx. 6.1 Hrs.
Read by Damon Abdallah
Rated R

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It started when a gravely injured trapper named Pete Foxwell stumbled into Hawk’s cabin. Before he died, he showed Hawk a bagful of gold coins, and told him about a hidden hoard of them. But he didn’t say where. Hawk should have buried those coins with Pete’s corpse, but instead he spent them on supplies and let slip the story of the treasure waiting to be found. Suddenly Hawk found himself the most wanted man in the West as a band of sea-going land pirates decided they would nail his hide and grab the gold…

DOWNLOAD ISBN: 978-1-61453-358-0
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Running Time: Approx. 4 Hrs.
Read by Maynard Villers
Rated PG

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New Audiobooks! Westerns of the week!

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Golden Hawk. Half white man, half Comanche. Mountain man. Pathfinder. Wagon master. Army scout. A legend in his own time. An awesome nemesis to his ememies. But a bulwark and a haven to those facing the terrors of that raw, savage land. Perhaps this is why Kathleen MacLennan was so anxious to convince Hawk to act as guide for her wagon train. It’s destination lay straight through Indian country where a murderous horde of Bannock Indians were attacking and killing wagontrain immigrants…

DOWNLOAD ISBN: 978-1-61453-372-6
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Running Time: Approx. 4.4 Hrs.
Read by Maynard Villers
Rated PG

“The grizzly stepped back, caught Hawk with his left paw, and flung him aside like a piece of carrion. Hawk landed heavily on his back, managing somehow to hang on to the bowie knife. Dazed, bleeding from his wounds, he stared up at the slavering, bleeding jaws of the huge grizzly, no longer confident that he or his bowie could do anything more than irritate the monster. Rearing up onto his hind legs, the bear uttered a fearsome roar, then came down hard and shambled forward to finish off Hawk…”

DOWNLOAD ISBN: 978-1-61453-366-5
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Running Time: Approx. 4.1 Hrs.
Read by Maynard Villers
Rated PG

In Our American West, Volume 1, discover humor, tragedy and courage in every one of these delightful stories. Gary McCarthy has been writing about the American West for thirty years and these are some of his favorite topics written – not for the expert or scholar – but for all the armchair admirers of thing historically written. Some of these exciting subjects are fairly well known such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but even here you will discover things about these daring outlaws that you probably didn’t know. Stories of coyotes, burros, jackrabbits and mustangs – the “untamed ones” that are oh so very important threads in the rich and textured tapestry of our western heritage. Black Bart, the gentle stagecoach robber, Lola Montez, the famous “Spider Dancer,” Charles Russell was famous for his art, but one of his dearest friends, Will Rogers thought of him as an equally gifted storyteller. “Bet A Million” Gates whose bold Texas wager transformed the entire face and future of the American West. In this fascinating listen, you will learn about explorers, adventurers, the famous and almost famous, and about legends like Joaquin Murieta.

DOWNLOAD ISBN: 978-1-61453-362-7
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Running Time: Approx. 3.76 Hrs.
Read by Rusty Nelson
Rated G

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Western Audiobooks! NEW: Man Killer and Blood Hunt

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EYE FOR AN EYE

Out of the ashes of a Confederate defeat, soldier Martin Keller heads west for a new life as a rancher. But hard times like these call for more practical means of survival – such as riding posse alongside the Texas Rangers. It’s not a job that comes without risk or enemies, as Keller discovers the hard way when his family is brutally murdered. Hopped up on rage and burning for revenge, Keller severs ties with the Rangers, tracks the cutthroats into the Indian Nations, and restyles himself as an unforgiving bounty hunter with no rules or remorse. To good citizens and desperadoes alike he’s known as the Man Killer. And he’s not giving up until the men who murdered his family are planted in boot hill…

DOWNLOAD ISBN: 978-1-61453-368-9
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Running Time: Approx. 8.5 Hrs.
Read by Milton Bagby
Rated PG

Milton Bagby is a veteran radio and television voiceover talent. An original member of Nashville’s renowned Actors Bridge Ensemble, Milton has played in everything on stage from Greek tragedy to Steve Martin comedies, as well as having done a turn or two in independent films. Milton has written or edited three non-fiction books and his byline has appeared on dozens of national and regional magazine articles. Is there a work of fiction in Milton’s future? “If so, ” he says, “I know who will narrate it.”

Milton Bagby Audiobooks

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A mocking Comanche warrior butchered the sable-haired woman in front of Golden Hawk’s eyes; then confirmed that his beautiful, golden haired sister Annabelle was still the captive of a brutal Blackfoot chief. Golden Hawk’s one man war flamed with fresh fury. No man fought the Indians as fiercely, for he had a terrible blood-score to settle. Along with a wanderer named Bill Williams and a pack of hard-as-nails mountain men, Golden Hawk was ready for action against the most murderous tribes in the West.

DOWNLOAD ISBN: 978-1-61453-370-2
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Running Time: Approx. 3.75 Hrs.
Read by Maynard Villers
Rated PG

For more great audiobooks by author Will C. Knott, click here.