Audio Book Titles
Added to the Braille and Talking Book
Library in November 1998
Please contact the Braille and Talking Book Library for details on how to borrow these titles.
BARKER, Elspeth BRADFORD, Barbara Taylor BROWN, Sandra CLANCY, Tom CLEAVER, Carey COOKSON, Catherine DIEHL, William FALCONER, Colin LIFTON, Betty Jean MCMAHON, Katherine MORRISON, Toni RHODES, Elvi SHELDON, Sidney
O Caledonia
Narrated by Anne Jackson
Detective or mystery stories
At the foot of the stairs of Auchnasaugh castle lies Janet, sixteen years old and oddly attired in her mother's high heels and black lace evening dress... Who killed her?.
6 cassettes Accession number: S5493 (WABL)
A woman of substance
Narrated by Joan Minchin
Family chronicles
In 1905, Emma Hart is sixteen, single and pregnant. By
1968, she is one of the richest women in the world, ruler of a business empire stretching from Yorkshire to America and Australia. Emma is a woman of substance-but what is the price she has paid?.
28 cassettes Accession number: S5482 (WABL)
** Content warning: Explicit sexual description.
Fat Tuesday
Narrated by Susan Lehman
Crime stories
It's Mardi Gras week in the French Quarter, a perfect time for narcotics cop Burke Basile to avenge the acquittal of his partner's murderer by kidnapping the defence attorney's sheltered wife.
10 cassettes Accession number: S5489 (WABL)
** Content warning: Explicit sexual description, violence and strong language.
Tom Clancy's power plays : politika
Narrated by Harry Fenwick
Suspense
The sudden death of Russia's president has plunged the former Soviet Union into chaos. Against this turmoil, American businessman Roger Giordian finds his company in jeopardy. How far will some terrorists go, and who is
writing these is the question.
7 cassettes Accession number: S5494 (WABL)
The wishing tree
Narrated by Anne Gardiner
Romance
A charming and fast-paced novel of Irish life, set in the 1950's.
7 cassettes Accession number: S5487 (WABL)
The lady on my left
Narrated by Dr. Valerie Casey
Romance
Part-mystery, part love story set in the world of antiques in the 1960's.
5 cassettes Accession number: S5488 (WABL)
Thai horse
Narrated by Pip Leake
War stories
American navy flier Murphy Cody disappeared in Vietnam fifteen years before. The navy gave him up for dead, but
his father and a friend still believe him to be alive.
14 cassettes Accession number: S5490 (WABL)
** Content warning: Violence.
Disappeared
Narrated by Kit Hynes
Suspense
Explores the terrifying and lasting effects on a middle-class Argentinian family of a single night in the summer of 1976 when some of their number are 'disappeared' by the ruling military junta.
10 cassettes Accession number: S5485 (WABL)
Journey of the adopted self: a quest for wholeness
Narrated by Diana Walker
Psychology
Case studies of adoptees, birthparents and parent and
child in the United States.
10 cassettes Accession number: S5492 (WABL)
Confinement
Narrated by Judy Meagher
Historical fiction
The plight of a 19th century schoolteacher, trapped by her
duty to her job, is mirrored by a modern-day woman's fight to escape the shackles of a broken marriage.
9 cassettes Accession number: S5483 (WABL)
Paradise
Narrated by Dawn Campbell-Kelly
General fiction
Set in a small town in Oklahoma during the mid-1970's, and tells of four women who form a peaceful community in a former convent, and of the town's growing hatred towards this refuge.
9 cassettes Accession number: S5491 (WABL)
** Content warning: Strong language.
Portrait of Chloe
Narrated by Frances Dharmalingam
Historical fiction
From a very early age Chloe always got what she wanted. At the age of eighteen the northern town of her birth was definitely not what she wanted. So she moved south to Brighton where life was more to her liking but not always as
she thought it might be.
12 cassettes Accession number: S5486 (WABL)
The best laid plans
Narrated by Maureen Taylor
Political fiction
Tells the story of ambitious Leslie Stewart, who learns that
for some men power is the greatest aphrodisiac; and of Oliver Russell, the handsome governor of a small southern state, who finds out why hell has no fury like a woman scorned.
7 cassettes Accession number: S5484 (WABL)
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