Western writer Louis L'Amour never disappoints.  Reader Edoardo Ballerini does an excellent job of reading this title which is a 4 disc audiobook set.  The characters include a wrongly accused honest man, escaped prisoners, a beautiful woman, and Yacqui Indians pursuing the group as they cross treacherous terrain and fifty miles of desert to try to reach a boat waiting for them in the Gulf.  Who will live and who will die?  The suspense continues until the final chapter answers that question!

Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he’s the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the “everyday” world is actually full of strange and magical things — and most of them don’t play well with humans. That’s where Harry comes in. Takes a wizard to catch a — well, whatever.

There’s just one problem. Business, to put it mildly, stinks. So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry’s seeing dollar signs. But where there’s black magic, there’s a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry’s name. And that’s when things start to get… interesting.

What happens when you take the tried and true detective genre and mix in a little magic? The Dresden Files, that's what. Murder, mayhem, and magic rule the world in Jim Butcher's Storm Front. The first installment in the Dresden Files series, Storm Front is a fun, fast-paced read that will keep you on the edge of your seat!

This read is about a character Kendra Michaels who spent most of her childhood and early adult year's blind, learning to use her other senses' as a secure foundation for everyday life as well as helping solve murder's, now that she has her sight again, she can not only see but she still has her amazing other sense's to help her on her path of stopping a killer.  This book has everything, humor, suspense, little bit of romance, but best of all it has really good and likeable characters.  Enjoy !!

This novel takes place in a not-so-distant future in which humans are taught to quit listening to their inner voice - "The Doubt" - and allow a smart phone app named Lux to make every decision for them. When Rory is accepted into the exclusive high school that her deceased mother also attended, she has hopes of learning more about her mom. What she uncovers is far more than her family history. She also finds that the creators of Lux may have sinister plans for the human race.

This exciting tale of high adventure on the South China Sea as well as across parts of Asia begins with the listener meeting Derrick, an American teen raised in China, son of murdered missionaries.  The time is the 1930s, between wars.  He has been placed in the care of his uncle, Terence Sullivan, Captain of The Wanderer.  Derrick soon experiences his first encounter with a typhoon and the narrator conveys the danger onboard The Wanderer in its desperate struggle to survive the storm.   His uncle and an elderly cousin, Professor Ayrton, an archaeologist, have decided Derrick’s formal education must be attended to, so he must be sent off to school.  However, he is to embark with them on one last journey before school to travel the Silk Road to the city of Samarcand.  We meet other memorable characters including Li Han, the ship’s cook; Ross, the Scottish business partner of Capt. Sullivan; Olaf Svenssen; Chingis, and a massive dog named Chang. They travel through areas patrolled by hostile warlords, and Red Hat monks, brave snow and ice, close encounters with unseen Yeti, and trecherous mountain regions.  Derrick receives an education in life experiences, just as important as scholarship. The narrator does an outstanding job of bringing the action-packed story alive for the listener. Patrick O’Brian is the author of many well-written seafaring tales, the best known being Master and Commander.  The Road to Samarcand is also available in print format at the library.

Veterinary intern Emily can’t believe she wound up in the small town of Sunshine, Idaho, instead of the Los Angeles clinic she had always imagined. Now she has to put her plans to move to L.A. on hold for a whole year while she fulfills the obligation of her vet school scholarship. Then Wyatt, her gorgeous one-night stand from a Reno vet conference, introduces himself as her new boss. And Emily is just as drawn to his seductive looks and quiet strength as she was on that very steamy night. She soon learns that Wyatt isn’t just a laid-back doctor, but a delicious alpha male tempting her away from her carefully laid-out plans...

Then Came You is book five is Jill Shalvis’ Animal Magnetism series. I loved this book because of how funny Wyatt was throughout the book. Emily is determined not to give in to their attraction. She just wants to finish her internship and get back to her life in L.A.. Wyatt uses his quick wit to keep her on her toes. I highly recommend this series. VCPL owns the first 4 books in this series in paperback so it is easy to read them in order and catch up to this new release! 

Sometimes finding your destiny comes in a way that you do not expect.  Brenda Spahn, a successful business woman found her destiny after losing her business and almost going to prison.  After having this experience she made a committment to God to follow the destiny she knew as a child and founded a "wholeway house" for women who had been in prison.  Brenda comes to love the women she wants to help and along the way realizes that she needs them as much as they need her.  A heartwarming and inspiring story of courage, faith, and even a little craziness.

It was a dark and stormy night when Josef Tock suddenly sat up in his death bed and spoke his final words: five days, he predicted, five terrible, terrible days that his newly born grandson, Jimmy, would have to endure. The first would occur in Jimmy’s twentieth year, the last in his thirtieth. But what, exactly, Jimmy would have to endure, the Tock family could only guess.

Fast forward to the present and the first of the five terrible days is fast approaching. With the help of his family, Jimmy Tock has spent every day preparing himself for whatever horrors might come. Of course, when you don’t know what those horrors will be, there is only so much that can be done.

What terrifying events await Jimmy? What challenges must he survive? The path Jimmy follows will defy every expectation and will take all the love, humor, and courage he possesses. For who he is and what he must accomplish on the five days his grandfather predicted is a mystery more dangerous and wondrous than Jimmy could ever have imagined.