Carolyn Alessio

THE SHORT HISTORY OF A PRINCE By Jane Hamilton, Random House Audiobooks, 4 hours, abridged, $24. Read by Robert Sean Leonard. Jane Hamilton honors the Midwest by setting this remarkable...

IRISH SHORT STORIES Selected by Colm Toibin, Penguin Audiobooks, 6 hours, $23.95. Read by Kate Binchy, Aidan Gillen, et al. In Mary Beckett's trenchant story "A Belfast Woman," a Catholic...

By George Bernard Shaw, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishers, 225 minutes, $22. Read by Ralph Fiennes, Juliet Stevenson, et al. Fifty years after it was the first drama to be...

THE BEST OF NPR: A LIFE IN THE ARTS Time Warner Audiobooks, approximately 90 minutes, $12.98. This vibrant anthology includes National Public Radio interviews with such artistic luminaries as Broadway...

THE DADDY CLOCK By Judy Markey, Nova Audio/Brilliance, approximately 3 hours, $17.95. Read by David Colacci and Susan Ericksen. Local allusions abound in this quirky story of a bumpy romance...

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER By Alex Kotlowitz, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, 315 minutes, abridged, $24.95. Read by Stanley Tucci. Stanley Tucci reads with a mix of measured...

THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP By Charles Dickens, Dove Audio, approximately 6 hours, abridged, $20. Read by Paul Scofield. `Thee's" and "thou's" come quite naturally to British actor Paul Scofield in...

BELLE PRATER'S BOY By Ruth White, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, 200 minutes, $19.99. Read by Alison Elliott. Set in Coal Station, Va., during the 1950s, this lovely tale centers...

Edited by Otto Penzler, Dove Audio, approximately 6 hours, $25. Read by Dan Lauria, Jason Priestley, Eric Roberts, et al. Eric Roberts provides a convincing performance of Stephen King's chilling,...

TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE By Mitch Albom, Nova/Brilliance Corp., 4 hours, $23.95. Read by the author. A surprisingly unsentimental account of sportswriter Mitch Albom's visits with his former college mentor, Brandeis...