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Friday, July 18, 2008

Audiobooks

Audiobooks have become rather common
Audible.com offers a variety.  I checked their search box for Texas and over a hundred titles emerged- fiction, non-fiction, each usually several hours of sound.  You'll also find old radio bits, "Tales of the Texas Rangers" narrated by Joel McCrae back in the 1950's.  Try
Texas City, 1947: A Story from 'Jesus Out to Sea' (Unabridged)  By: James Lee Burke   short story from James Lee Burke's story collection, Jesus Out to Sea. Burke is one of the country's most acclaimed and popular novelists....
or Goodnight, Texas (Unabridged)   By: William J. Cobb   Goodnight is slowly being swallowed by an increasingly lifeless sea....
or
God's Man in Texas  By: David Rambo  A pointed look at organized, merchandised religion... 
or A Strong West Wind (Unabridged)   By: Gail Caldwell   Caldwell was born in Texas, in a land of plains so vast they frightened her. Turning to books for each poignant change in her life, she eventually became what her mother could not: a writer.... 
 

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