Audio Books

All My Life

A Memoir

Susan Lucci with Laura Morgan, read by the author

HarperAudio: $39.99 (12 hours)

What better to fill the coming void of “All My Children” leaving the airwaves?

(available now)

The American Heiress

A Novel

Daisy Goodwin, read by Katherine Kellgren

Macmillan Audio: $39.99 (13 hours)

The debut novel from British columnist and television producer Daisy Goodwin has an American heiress marrying England’s prime catch in a Gilded Age union that, alas, quickly turns into a gilded cage. (June)

The Corner Office

Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed

Adam Bryant, read by Oliver Wyman

Macmillan Audio: $19.99 (5 hours)

The New York Times deputy national editor interviews denizens of the corporate suite to glean the secrets of how to succeed in business by really trying.

(available now)

The Investment Answer

Learn to Manage Your Money & Protect Your Financial Future

Daniel C. Goldie and Gordon S. Murray, read by LJ Ganser

Hachette Audio: $18.98 (2 hours)

How to make five key decisions that will help secure your financial future. (available now)

Revolt!

How to Defeat Obama and Repeal his Socialist Programs

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, read by the authors and Pete Larkin

HarperAudio: $39.99 (10 hours)

Political guru Dick Morris and his wife, Eileen McGann, draw a blueprint for Republican victory in 2012 with a strategy that upends many of President Obama’s reforms. (available now)

Rawhide Down

The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan

Del Quentin Wilber, read by Jason Culp

Macmillan Audio: $39.99 (8 hours)

After a 1981 lunchtime speech in Washington D.C., President Reagan walked outside to an eruption of gunfire, but no one at the scene had any idea how serious the assassination attempt by John Hinckley was. This account by a Washington Post reporter re-creates that fateful event

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

An Autobiography

Rob Lowe, read by the author

Macmillan Audio: $29.99 (9 hours)

If you can get past that grizzled gaze on the box to actually open it, Rob Lowe’s memoir of a lifetime in Hollywood reveals that he’s more than just a pretty face. (available now)

Started Early, Took My Dog

A Novel

Kate Atkinson, read by Graeme Malcolm

Hachette Audio: $34.98 (12.5 hours)

Private eye Jackson Brodie (“Case Histories”) is back, investigating a long-ago adoption in Yorkshire while the chief of security at a local shopping mall considers some adopting of her own. (available now)

The Twelfth Insight

The Hour of Decision

James Redfield, read by Bruce Thomas

Hachette Audio: $29.98 (7.5 hours)

James Redfield (“The Celestine Prophecy”) is back with Wil and his fellow seeker investigating a mysterious and fragmented manuscript that questions the apocalyptic aura of the Mayan calendar. (available now)

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