Audiobooks narrated by Maria Tucci

"Get ready for a one-of-a-kind audio experience: discover Rome through intimate, guided audio walking tours of the city's most historic and enchanting quarters. There are four guided tours for you to listen to as you walk through Rome, plus essential Italian words and phrases that every traveler wants to know. Based on the acclaimed classic guidebook Romewalks, and featuring an exclusive traveler's Italian tutorial from best-selling language instructor Dr. Robert Blair, Walk and Talk Rome offers the expert guidance that can make you feel at home in this enchanting city, helping you to speak the language as you enjoy the history and beauty of Rome as never before. Make the most of your trip, or plug in, sit back, and let your imagination take you there, with Walk and Talk Rome."

Anya Shetterly (Author), Maria Tucci (Narrator)

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Walk and Talk Florence

"Get ready for a one-of-a-kind audio experience: discover Florence through intimate, guided audio walking tours of the city's most historic and enchanting quarters. There are four guided tours for you to listen to as you walk through Florence, plus essential Italian words and phrases that every traveler wants to know. Based on the acclaimed classic guidebook Florencewalks, and featuring an exclusive traveler's Italian tutorial from bestselling language instructor Dr. Robert Blair, Walk and Talk Florence offers the expert guidance that can make you feel at home in this enchanting city, helping you to speak the language as you enjoy the history and beauty of Florence as never before. Make the most of your trip, or plug in, sit back, and let your imagination take you there, with Walk and Talk Florence."

Anne Holler (Author), Maria Tucci (Narrator)

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Walk and Talk Venice

"Get ready for a one-of-a-kind audio experience: discover Venice through intimate, guided audio walking tours of the city's most historic and enchanting quarters. There are four guided tours for you to listen to as you walk through Venice, plus essential Italian words and phrases that every traveler wants to know. Based on the acclaimed classic guidebook Venicewalks, and featuring an exclusive traveler's Italian tutorial from bestselling language instructor Dr. Robert Blair, Walk and Talk Venice offers the expert guidance that can make you feel at home in this enchanting city, helping you to speak the language as you enjoy the history and beauty of Venice as never before. Make the most of your trip, or plug in, sit back, and let your imagination take you there, with Walk and Talk Venice."

Allessandro Glannatasio, Chas Carner (Author), Maria Tucci (Narrator)

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Thalia Book Club: Emma Donoghue's Room

"Emma Donoghue discusses her extraordinary new novel with author Michael Cunningham (The Hours and By Nightfall). This wondrous book is told from the point of view of a five-year-old boy who lives with his mother in an 11-by-11 foot room. Performance playlist: Reading by Michal Friedman, a conversation between Emma Donoghue and Michael Cunningham, and a discussion with the audience."

Emma Donoghue (Author), John Connolly, Maria Tucci, Michael Cunningham (Narrator)

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A Touch of Magic

"By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element. - Andrew Lam's 'The Palmist', performed by James Naughton. A chance encounter on a bus between a fortune-teller and a teenage boy. - W. W. Jacobs' 'The Monkey's Paw', performed by John Lithgow. A wonderful ghost story about a trinket with terrible powers. - Saki's 'The Occasional Garden', performed by Daniel Gerroll. If you can't grow a garden; poof! - you can rent one. - Donald Barthelme's 'The Balloon', performed by Maria Tucci. There's something suddenly in the sky in midtown Manhattan.... - Kevin Brockmeier's 'The Year of Silence', performed by Anthony Rapp. What if everything went quiet? - Jonathan Safran Foer's 'The Sixth Borough', performed by Jerry Zaks. Yes, New York had a Sixth Borough, but it drifted away.... - Aimee Bender's 'Drunken Mimi', performed by Bernadette Quigley. A romance between a mermaid and an imp. - Haruki Murakami's 'The Little Green Monster', performed by Dana Ivey. A piece of Murakami magic: Is this a monster I see before me?"

Aimee Bender, Andrew Lam, Donald Barthelme, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kevin Brockmeier, Saki, W.W. Jacobs (Author), Anthony Rapp, Bernadette Quigley, Dana Ivey, Daniel Gerroll, James Naughton, Jerry Zaks, John Lithgow, Maria Tucci, Rene Auberjonois (Narrator)

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The Wrong Hostage

"New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell returns with a chilling tale of the law gone wrong and a kidnapping that threatens more than one life. Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law -- lives it, breathes it. She has always been buttoned up and buttoned down. Except once. Joe Faroe has learned that laws are made by politicians, and politicians are all too human. He believes in the innocents, the ones getting ground up by governments that are too corrupt to protect their own citizens. He's been through the political meat grinder himself. It cost him his career, his freedom, and the woman who still haunts him. Since then Faroe has worked outside the rules as a kidnap specialist for St. Kilda Consulting, a Manhattan-based global business that concentrates on the shadow world. He is good at his work -- intelligent, confident, ruthless. Until a friend dies trying to kill him. Now Faroe is out of the business. Then Grace comes to him and Faroe finds himself sucked back into the shadows, tracking a violent killer who holds the life of Grace's son in his bloody hands."

Elizabeth Lowell (Author), Maria Tucci (Narrator)

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Welcome to the Monkey House

"Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Titan in 1959 and established him as ''a true artist''* with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, ''one of the best living American writers.'' Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. *The New York Times"

Kurt Vonnegut (Author), David Strathairn, Maria Tucci (Narrator)

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Edith Wharton

"Selected Shorts has toured The Mount, the stately and elegant home of the great American writer Edith Wharton, for the last several summers, presenting Broadway and Hollywood actors reading stories by Wharton and others. Selected Shorts now presents a collection of four of Edith Wharton's short stories, recorded live at the Mount, and featuring acclaimed actresses Kathleen Chalfant, Christina Pickles, Maria Tucci, and Brenda Wehle."

Edith Wharton (Author), Brenda Wehle, Christina Pickles, Kathleen Chalfant, Maria Tucci (Narrator)

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Always Time to Die: A Novel

"The sensational New York Times bestselling author of The Color of Death is back with an exhilarating novel of danger, romance, and suspense Carolina May—Carly to her friends—never knew her biological family. Ironic, considering she a successful family historian. Recently hired by the eccentric aunt of New Mexico’s multi-millionaire governor Quintrell, the future looks bright. Until things start going wrong . . . and Carly begins to learn the true meaning of fear. Daniel Duran made a career out fighting for other people’s beliefs—principles they’d given their lives for. But now he wants some meaning of his own. Yearning for a reason to live, he’s come back to Taos, the town where he grew up. Soon, the lawyer and the historian’s paths cross. While Carly’s investigation into the Quintrell family amuses Dan it also chills him, because he knows a dark truth Carly doesn’t: in New Mexico, tracing bloodlines is a deadly sport. . . ."

Elizabeth Lowell (Author), Maria Tucci (Narrator)

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Timeless Classics

"This 2007 Audie Award finalist features more than three hours of some of the greatest shorts stories of all time. - James Thurber's 'The Night the Ghost Got In' performed by Isaiah Sheffer Comic Mayhem is unleashed when a family hears a ghost in the night... and calls in the police. - Edith Wharton's 'Roman Fever' performed by Maria Tucci Two women reflect on romance and intrigue, long ago in Rome. - Jack London's 'Make Westing' performed by Steven Gilborn Danger, adventure, corruption and secrecy dog a ship as it rounds Cape Horn. - D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner' performed by John Shea A dark fable of a magical toy helping a little boy cope with family troubles. - Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' performed by Marian Seldes In Jackson's classic nightmare of society and sacrifice, someone will be the chosen one. - Raymond Carver's 'Cathedral' performed by James Naughton A subtle and intimate portrait of a man during a visit from his wife's blind friend."

D.H. Lawrence, Edith Wharton, Jack London, James Thurber, Raymond Carver, Richard Connell, Shirley Jackson (Author), Charles Keating, Isaiah Sheffer, James Naughton, John Shea, Maria Tucci, Marian Seldes, Steven Gilborn (Narrator)

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Die in Plain Sight

"The incomparable New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell explores the fine art of murder. Lacey Quinn is determined to prove that the striking landscapes she inherited, done by her late, much-loved grandfather, are as good as anything hanging in museums of California Impressionism today. But the paintings now in her possession are more than the works of a talented master; they are anguished voices from the grave . . . crying murder! Suddenly Lacey’s investigation into the life and death of the enigmatic artist is leading her down an ever-darkening road paved with lies, blood, and devastating secrets. It also leads her to Ian Lapstrake, a security specialist employed by the appraisal house Rarities Unlimited, who has taken an interest in Lacey’s inheritance . . . and in her safety. Because someone wants to prevent Lacey Quinn from examining her grandfather’s work too closely, by any means necessary. And clues to a series of horrific, unexplained killings may be hidden in the brushstrokes—clues that have now indelibly marked Lacey and Ian for death."

Elizabeth Lowell (Author), Maria Tucci (Narrator)

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Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker

"New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection of forty-four of its best stories from (so to speak) home. East Side? Philip Roth's chronically tormented alter ego Nathan Zuckerman has just moved there, in 'Smart Money.' West Side? Isaac Bashevis Singer's narrator mingles with the customers in 'The Cafeteria' (who debate politics and culture in four or five different languages) and becomes embroiled in an obsessional romance. And downtown, John Updike's Maples have begun their courtship of marital disaster, in 'Snowing in Greenwich Village.' Wonderful Town touches on some of the city's famous places and stops at some of its more obscure corners, but the real guidebook in and between its lines is to the hearts and the minds of those who populate the metropolis built by its pages. Like all good fiction, these stories take particular places, particular people, and particular events and turn them into dramas of universal enlightenment and emotional impact. Each life in it, and each life in Wonderful Town, is the life of us all. Including these stories from the magazine's most iconic writers: "The Five-Fourty-Eight" by John Cheever "Distant Music" by Ann Beattle "Sailor off the Bremen" by Irwin Shaw "Physics" by Tama Janowitz "The Whore of Mensa" by Woody Allen "What it was Like, Seeing Chris" by Deborah Eisenberg "Drawing Room B" by John O'Hara "A Sentimental Journey" by Peter Taylor "The Balloon" by Donald Barthelme "Another Marvellous Thing" by Laurie Colwin "The Failure" by Jonathan Franzen "Apartment Hotel" by Sally Benson "Midair" by Frank Conroy "The Catbird Seat" by James Thurber "I See You, Bianca" by Maeve Brennan "You're Ugly, Too" by Lorrie Moore "Signs and Symbols" by Vladimir Nabokov "Poor Visitor" by Jamaica Kincaid "In Greenwich, There Are Many Gravelled Walks" by Hortense Calisher "Some Nights When Nothing Happens Are the Best Nights in this Place" by John McNulty "Slight Rebellion Off Madison" by J. D. Salinger "Brownstone" by Renata Adler "Partners" by Veronica Geng "The Evolution of Knowledge" by Niccolo Tucci "The Way We Live Now" by Susan Sontag "Do the Windows Open?" by Julie Hecht "The Mentocrats" by Edward Newhouse "The Treatment" by Daniel Menaker "Arrangement in Black and White" by Dorothy Parker "Carlyle Tries Polygamy" by William Melvin Kelley "Children Are Bored on Sunday" by Jean Stafford "Notes from a Bottle" by James Stevenson "Man in the Middle of the Ocean" by Daniel Fuchs "Me Spoulets of the Splendide" by Ludwig Bemelmans "Over by the River" by William Maxwell "Baster" by Jeffrey Eugenides "The Second Tree from the Corner" by E. B. White "Rembrandt's Hat" by Bernard Malamud "Shot: A New York Story" by Elizabeth Hardwick "A Father-To-Be" by Saul Bellow "Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer" by S. J. Perelman "Water Child" by Edwidge Danticat "The Smoker" by David Schickler"

David Remnicki (Author), Joe Morton, Maria Tucci, Tim Jerome, Tyne Daly (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Maria Tucci