Random House Audio

Library Bookwatch, Dec, 2004

Random House Audio

1745 Broadway, New York NY 10019

www.randomhouse.com/audio

Random House consistently produces excellent, powerful audios for leisure listeners, and these selections are some top-rated picks. Peter Straub's In The Night Room (0739311867, $29.95) provides a gripping novel telling of a famous children's book author who realizes the facts of her existence itself are newly questionable. Veteran narrator Jason Culp provides the excellent and dramatic reading, with his theatrical performance background lending excitement to the story of a troubled woman and the ghost of a child. Tim LaHaye and Bob Phillips' Secret On Ararat (0739311158, $25.00) also enjoys Jason Culp's strong, revealing voice as it provides Book 2 in LaHaye and Phillips' 'Babylon Rising' series. A Biblical scholar uncovers secrets to Noah's ark which will change the meaning of the Bible itself--and possibly unleash evil upon mankind. Kinky Friedman's Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic (0739313037, $19.95) enjoys a reading by the author himself and provides a zany exploration of Texas culture and Austin's offbeat oddities. An uncommon 'walk' in Austin is documented in a fun and lively story. Steve Berry's thriller Romanov Prophecy (0739314815, $29.95) enjoys L.J. Ganser's smooth rendition as it provides a novel of espionage and political intrigue. Set in present-day Moscow, Miles finds himself shadowed by henchmen across countries as he searches for a mysterious Russian in this cat-and-mouse mystery.