BBC RADIO PRESENTS THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: VOLUMES 1-3
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, BDD Audio, 480 minutes, $29.95. Read by Clive Merrison and Michael Williams. The varied and plentiful sound effects here range from the neighing of a...
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FUN IN NEW ORLEANS
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES By John Kennedy Toole, Blackstone Audiobooks, 15 hours, $69.95. Read by Barrett Whitener. This compelling rendering of the late John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece tells the...
UNLIKELY DUO
OSCAR AND LUCINDA By Peter Carey, Random House Audio, 4 hours, abridged, $24. Read by Ralph Fiennes. Read with wit and vigor by Ralph Fiennes, who plays Oscar in the...
A NEW COUNTRY
THE IRISH IN AMERICA Edited by Michael Coffey, with text by Terry Golway, Simon & Schuster Audio, 4 1/2 hours, abridged, $25. Narrated by Colm Meaney, with essays written and...
INTRIGUING `JUSTICE’
A CERTAIN JUSTICE By P.D. James, Random House Audiobooks, 15 1/2 hours, $44.95. Read by Michael Jayston. The latest in James' superb series of Adam Dalgliesh mysteries, "A Certain Justice"...
A YOGA GUIDE
HEALING YOGA By Kelly Piper, Dove Audio, approximately 1 hour, $13. Read by the author. Kelly Piper, an experienced practitioner of yoga who has specialized in working with the physically...
FAREWELL, MINNESOTA
WOBEGON BOY By Garrison Keillor, Penguin HighBridge Audio, 6 hours, abridged, $29.95. Read by the author. John Tollefson, the agreeable protagonist from "Lake Wobegon Days," moves from Minnesota, where he...
VICTORIOUS 6TH GRADERS
THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY By E.L. Konigsburg, Listening Library Inc., 4 hours 47 minutes, $23.98. Read by Rick Adamson, L.J. Ganser, Agnes Hermann, Aasif Mandvi, Barbara Rosenblat and Jeff Woodman....
AN AFFECTING TALE OF ARTISTS
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS By Allan Gurganus, Random House Audiobooks, 3 hours, abridged, $18. Read by the author. Allan Gurganus' antic, Southern-accented voice enlivens this supremely affecting tale of a...
LIFE WITH JANE
JANE EYRE By Charlotte Bronte, Brilliance Corp., 20 hours, $21.95. Read by Susan Ericksen. Reader Susan Ericksen portrays a convincingly passionate but beleaguered Jane as we follow her from severe...