JFK REMEMBERED
JOHN F. KENNEDY: A PERSONAL STORY Biography/A&E Audio Books, 100 minutes, $9.95. Read by Jack Perkins. Despite the recent onslaught of films and books about JFK, this biography distinguishes itself...
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A LESSON IN DYING
MY BROTHER By Jamaica Kincaid, Penguin Audiobooks, 6 hours, $24.95. Read by the author. Novelist Jamaica Kincaid blends the medical with the magical in this riveting memoir of her younger...
DELIGHTFUL `SECRET’
THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA By Robert Crichton, Blackstone Audiobooks, 15 hours, $69.95. Read by Christopher Hurt. Charming rendering of the 1966 novel about an Italian town in World War...
A FETCHING FELINE
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FOUDINI M. CAT By Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Random House Audiobooks, 3 hours, abridged, $18. Read by David Hyde Pierce Even non-cat-lovers will be won over by actor...
A WINNING COMBINATION
SULA By Toni Morrison, Random House Audiobooks, approximately 6 hours, $25.95. Read by the author. Toni Morrison's speaking voice contains the same musicality as her prose, and the combination of...
COMFORT AND COUNSEL
Seminar by Anne Lamott, Writer's AudioShop (Austin, Texas), 2 hours 40 minutes, $17.95. Not available in print form. Writing a first draft of a story is like taking a Polaroid...
PICKWICK’S PERILS
THE PICKWICK PAPERS By Charles Dickens, Penguin Audiobooks, 6 hours, abridged, $23.95. Read by Dinsdale Landen. Samuel Pickwick, an earlier-day, human equivalent of Winnie the Pooh, calls on his bumbling...
MESMERIZING MEMOIR
ANGELA'S ASHES By Frank McCourt, Simon & Schuster Audio, approximately 15 hours, $50. Read by the author. Fifteen hours whip by when listening to Pulitzer Prize winner McCourt read his...
LOVE AND HEALING
THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF EATING DISORDERS By Peggy Claude-Pierre, Random House Audiobooks, 3 hours, $18. Read by the author. Peggy Claude-Pierre, founder of Canada's Montreux Clinic for eating disorders and...
ONE QUIRKY CAMPUS
STRAIGHT MAN By Richard Russo, Random House AudioBooks, 3 hours, abridged, $18. Narrated by Hal Linden. Tragically underpublished novelist Hank Devereaux Jr., head of a college English department, makes "Good...