Audiobooks narrated by Maria Tucci

Walk and Talk FLORENCE Discover Florence through four intimate, guided audio walking tours of the city's most historic and enchanting quarters ... PLUS essential Italian words and phrases every traveler wants to know. Four maps included! WALK and TALK Audio Guides Get ready for a one-of-a-kind audio experience: four guided walking 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 to Florence-or plug in, sit back, and let your imagination take you there-with WALK AND TALK FLORENCE. **Contact Customer Service for Additional Material**

Anne Holler (Author), Maria Tucci (Narrator)

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Walk & Talk: Rome

Walk and Talk ROME Discover Rome through four intimate, guided audio walking tours of the city's most historic and enchanting quarters ... PLUS a bonus of essential Italian words and phrases every traveler wants to know. Four maps included! WALK and TALK Audio Guides Get ready for a one-of-a-kind audio experience: four guided walking 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 bestselling 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 to Rome-or plug in, sit back, and let your imagination take you there-with WALK AND TALK ROME. **Contact Customer Service for Additional Material**

Anya Shetterly (Author), Maria Tucci (Narrator)

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Walk & Talk: Venice

Walk and Talk VENICE Discover Venice through four intimate, guided audio walking tours of the city's most historic and enchanting quarters ... PLUS bonus audio of essential Italian words and phrases every traveler wants to know. Four maps included! WALK and TALK Audio Guides Get ready for a one-of-a-kind audio experience: four guided walking 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 to Venice-or plug in, sit back, and let your imagination take you there-with WALK AND TALK VENICE. **Contact Customer Service for Additional Material**

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

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The Iliad

Dating to the ninth century BC, Homer's timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb Introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. He maintains the drive and metric music of Homer's poetry, and evokes the impact and nuance of the Iliad's mesmerizing repeated phrases in what Peter Levi calls "an astonishing performance."

Homer, Robert Fagles (Author), Derek Jacobi, Maria Tucci (Narrator)

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The Wrong Hostage: A Novel

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

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

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Always Time to Die

The powerful Quintrell family of New Mexico has spent decades in the public eye. Now the recent death of the clan's patriarch has placed his son, Governor Josh Quintrell, squarely in the spotlight as he prepares his run for the highest political office in the land. It is not a good time to be rattling skeletons in the family's closets. Researching personal histories isn't just Carolina "Carly" May's profession, it's her passion. But digging into the past is raising troubling questions about the would-be president's private life. And it soon becomes frighteningly apparent that someone is determined to remove the inquisitive genealogist from the picture by any means necessary. Carly realizes that there is no one whom she dares to trust -- perhaps least of all Dan Duran, a dangerous and haunted mystery man who's somehow tied to the Quintrells' past. But she will need an ally to survive because following the bloodlines of the wealthy and power-hungry can be a bloody business ... Performed by Maria Tucci

Elizabeth Lowell (Author), Maria Tucci (Narrator)

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Moving Target Low Price

"When your read this, I'll be dead" These are the troubling words Serena Charter's grandmother has written on a note accompanying four pages of a centuries-old illuminated manuscript delivered after the old woman's passing. Seeking clues to the mystery laid out before her, Serena turns to Erik North, a reclusive manuscript appraiser with a passion for the past. Erik's examination of the vellum pages raises perplexing questions – about Serena's legacy, the possible location of the remainder of the manuscript, and the senseless murder of an eccentric old woman. Suddenly, Serena and Erik find themselves in the center of a firestorm that rages between two worlds, a past long dead yet living on in an ancient text and a contemporary landscape fraught with terror. Now, there is no one they trust except each other as they get closer to a shocking revelation about what is really at stake and how far a killer will go to possess a vanished treasure.

Elizabeth Lowell (Author), Maria Tucci (Narrator)

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Die in Plain Sight

When Lacey Quinn inherits the striking landscapes done by her late, much-loved grandfather, she believes they are as good as anything hanging in museums. 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! Lacey begins researching her grandfather's past, and is rocked almost immediately by a strange series of violent events. Someone wants to steal her inheritance, to reduce the paintings to unrecognizable ashes in a suspicious blaze. Someone wants to prevent Lacey from examining her grandfather's work too closely . . . by any means necessary. Ian Lapstrake, a security specialist, has taken an interest in Lacey's inheritance . . . and in her. Troubled by what he sees, he becomes Lacey's shadow, as her search for answers leads them both down an ever-darkening road paved with lies, blood, and devastating secrets.

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.' John Cheever, John O'Hara, Lorrie Moore, Irwin Shaw, Woody Allen, Laurie Colwin, Saul Bellow, J. D. Salinger, Jean Stafford, Vladimir Nabokov--they and many other stellar literary guides to the city will be found in these pages. 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. The five boroughs are the five continents. New York is every great and ordinary place. Each life in it, and each life in Wonderful Town, is the life of us all. From the Hardcover edition.

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

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Violin

Anne Rice's Violin tells the story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation. At the novel's center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana, and the demonic fiddler Stefan, a tormented ghost who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin to draw her into a state of madness. But Triana sets out to resist Stefan, and the struggle thrusts them both into a terrifying supernatural realm. Violin flows abundant with the history, the drama, and the romantic intensity that have become synonymous with Anne Rice at her incomparable best. Anne Rice is the author of eighteen books. She lives in New Orleans.

Anne Rice (Author), Bernadette Dunn, Maria Tucci (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Maria Tucci