Cassette Books 1999

National Library Service for the
Blind and Physically Handicapped 

Washington 1999

Bestsellers

Full annotations for these books can be found in the
category or categories listed. 

Nonfiction

Adventures of a Psychic: The Fascinating and Inspiring True-
Life Story of One of America's Most Successful Clairvoyants 
RC 47251
by Sylvia Browne and Antoinette May
Occult

Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing 
RC 45739
by Caroline Myss
Psychology and Self Help

Bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury, a Mother's Sacrifice 
RC 45728
by Ann Rule
Crime

Brain Droppings  RC 44750
by George Carlin
Humor

The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet: The Powerful Foods,
Supplements, and Drugs That Can Save Your Life  RC 47383
by Robert Arnot
Medicine and Health

Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul: 101 Stories to Open the
Heart and Rekindle the Spirit  RC 45709
edited by Jack Canfield and others
Inspiration

Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul: Stories about Pets as
Teachers, Healers, Heroes, and Friends  RC 46429
edited by Jack Canfield and others
Animals and Wildlife

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest  RC 46857
by Anatoli Boukreev and G. WestonDeWalt
Adventure

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge  RC 46359
by Edward O. Wilson
Science and Technology

Death of a Princess: The Investigation  RC 45846
by Thomas Sancton and ScottMacLeod
Journalism and the Media

The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on
American Ideals  RC 46905
by William J. Bennett
Government and Politics

Die Broke: A Radical, Four-Part Financial Plan  RC 45740
by Stephen M. Pollan and MarkLevine
Consumerism

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly  RC 46844
by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Blindness and Physical Handicaps

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and It's All Small Stuff: Simple
Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life 
RC 45257
by Richard Carlson
Psychology and Self Help

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff with Your Family: Simple Ways to
Keep Daily Responsibilities and Household Chaos from Taking
Over Your Life  RC 46533
by Richard Carlson
Psychology and Self Help

Eat Right for Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to
Staying Healthy, Living Longer, and Achieving Your Ideal
Weight  RC 46076
by Peter J. D'Adamo
Cooking and Food

Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost
Generation Love Story  RC 46802
by Amanda Vaill
Biography

The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed
the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels; the Hinges of History,
Volume 2  RC 46335
by Thomas Cahill
World History

Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual 
RC 45551
by Dennis Prager
Psychology and Self Help

The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the
Bible  RC 45959
by Jonathan Kirsch
Religion

High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case against Bill Clinton 
RC 47084
by Ann H. Coulter
Crime

His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina  RC 47039
by Danielle Steel
Biography

A History of the American People  RC 46010
by Paul Johnson
U.S. History

How Good Do We Have to Be? A New Understanding of Guilt and
Forgiveness  RC 45710
by Harold S. Kushner
Religion

If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being
Human, as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul  RC 47127
by Chrie Carter-Scott
Inspiration

In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love That You Want 
RC 46360
by Iyanla Vanzant
Marriage and Sex

Jackie after Jack: Portrait of the Lady  RC 45845
by Christopher Andersen
Biography

Joy of Cooking  RC 45254
by Irma S. Rombauer and others
Cooking and Food

Leonardo DiCaprio: Modern-Day Romeo  RC 45716
by Grace Catalano
Stage and Screen

The Long Hard Road out of Hell  RC 45881
by Marilyn Manson
Music

The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a
Family  RC 46336
by Dave Pelzer
Social Sciences

Making Faces  RC 45297
by Kevyn Aucoin
Women's Concerns

Marilu Henner's Total Health Makeover: Ten Steps to Your
B.E.S.T.* Body (*Balance, Energy, Stamina, Toxin-Free) 
RC 46858
by Marilu Henner
Cooking and Food

Monica's Story  RC 47474
by Andrew Morton
Biography

A Monk Swimming: A Memoir  RC 46334
by Malachy McCourt
Biography

Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith  RC 45436
by William F. Buckley
Religion

The New Rules of Money: Eighty-eight Strategies for
Financial Success Today  RC 45955
by Ric Edelman
Business and Economics

A Night without Armor: Poems  RC 47007
by Jewel Kilcher
Poetry

The Nine Steps to Financial Freedom  RC 46126
by Suze Orman
Business and Economics

Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here  RC 46017
by Joseph Heller
Biography

Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed
Los Angeles and the LAPD  RC 45697
by Lou Cannon
Legal Issues

Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the
Hamptons  RC 46848
by Steven Gaines
U.S. History

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65  RC 45816
by Taylor Branch
U.S. History

A Pirate Looks at Fifty  RC 46339
by Jimmy Buffett
Adventure

Protein Power  RC 46907
by Michael R. Eades and Mary DanEades
Cooking and Food

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II 
RC 45548
by Iris Chang
World History

The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands 
RC 46271
by Nicholas Clapp
Travel

The Roaring 2000s: Building the Wealth and Lifestyle You
Desire in the Greatest Boom in History  RC 47081
by Harry S. Dent
Business and Economics

The Royals  RC 44844
by Kitty Kelley
Biography

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea  RC 46507
by Gary Kinder
Adventure

The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family 
RC 45258
by Matt Groening
Humor

Slaves in the Family  RC 46018
by Edward Ball
U.S. History

Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self  RC 47128
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Psychology and Self Help

Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine  RC 46183
by Howard Kurtz
Journalism and the Media

Stanley Kubrick: A Biography  RC 45030
by John Baxter
Stage and Screen

Still Me  RC 46341
by Christopher Reeve
Blindness and Physical Handicapa

Sugar Busters! Cut Sugar to Trim Fat  RC 46504
edited by H. Leighton Steward and others
Cooking and Food

Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World  RC 46845
by Carl Hiaasen
Business and Economics

Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table  RC 46069
by Ruth Reichl
Cooking and Food

Tough Jews  RC 46505
by Rich Cohen
Crime

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's
Greatest Lesson  RC 44849
by Mitch Albom
Inspiration

Understanding Men's Passages: Discovering the New Map of
Men's Lives  RC 46534
by Gail Sheehy
Social Sciences

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the
Appalachian Trail  RC 46519
by Bill Bryson
Travel

We Are Our Mothers' Daughters  RC 46340
by Cokie Roberts
Women's Concerns

Why People Don't Heal and How They Can  RC 47079
by Caroline Myss
Medicine and Health

Working with Emotional Intelligence  RC 47192
by Daniel Goleman
Psychology and Self Help

Fiction

About a Boy  RC 46225
by Nick Hornby
Human Relationships

All through the Night  RC 46911
by Mary Higgins Clark
Mystery and Detective

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton 
RC 46078
by Jane Smiley
Historical 

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned  RC 45769
by Walter Mosley
Short Stories

Amistad  RC 45847
by Alexs Pate
Historical 

An Angel for Emily  RC 45678
by Jude Deveraux
Romance

The Angel of Darkness  RC 44855
by Caleb Carr
Suspense

Animal Husbandry  RC 45756
by Laura Zigman
Human Relationships

Another City, Not My Own: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir 
RC 45552
by Dominick Dunne
Legal Themes

Bag of Bones  RC 46711
by Stephen King
Gothic

Barney's Version: With Footnotes and an Afterword by Michael
Panofsky  RC 45462
by Mordecai Richler
Humor

Birds of America: Stories  RC 47005
by Lorrie Moore
Short Stories

Black and Blue  RC 45715
by Anna Quindlen
Suspense

Blood Work  RC 45883
by Michael Connelly
Suspense

Blue Light  RC 47311
by Walter Mosley
Science Fiction

Bridget Jones's Diary  RC 46267
by Helen Fielding
Humor

Brooke: Orphans, Volume 3  RC 47235
by V.C. Andrews
Family

Butterfly: Orphans, Volume 1  RC 47233
by V.C. Andrews
Family

The Cat Who Sang for the Birds  RC 46432
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Mystery and Detective

Catherine and Amanda: The Calhoun Women, Book 1  RC 46063
by Nora Roberts
Romance

A Certain Justice  RC 45252
by P.D. James
Mystery and Detective

Charming Billy  RC 46014
by Alice McDermott
General

Cities of the Plain: The Border Trilogy, Volume 3  RC 46128
by Cormac McCarthy
Westerns

Cloudsplitter  RC 45966
by Russell Banks
Historical 

Coast Road  RC 46755
by Barbara Delinsky
Family

Come the Spring  RC 45564
by Julie Garwood
Romance

Critical Judgement  RC 45957
by Michael Palmer
Suspense

Cuba Libre  RC 45677
by Elmore Leonard
Suspense

Damascus Gate  RC 46430
by Robert Stone
Suspense

Day of Confession  RC 46975
by Allan Folsom
Suspense

Dead Even  RC 46762
by Brad Meltzer
Suspense

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood  RC 45768
by Rebecca Wells
Human Relationships

Dream a Little Dream  RC 45735
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Romance

The Eleventh Commandment  RC 46508
by Jeffrey Archer
Spies and Espionage

Enduring Love  RC 45887
by Ian McEwan
Psychological

Fear Nothing  RC 45719
by Dean Koontz
Suspense

Field of Thirteen  RC 47129
by Dick Francis
Mystery and Detective Short Stories

Finding the Dream  RC 45977
by Nora Roberts
Romance

The First Eagle  RC 46774
by Tony Hillerman
Mystery and Detective

Flight of Eagles  RC 46521
by Jack Higgins
War Stories

For Kings and Planets  RC 47086
by Ethan Canin
Human Relationships

Freedomland  RC 46431
by Richard Price
Mystery and Detective

The Ghost  RC 45158
by Danielle Steel
Romance

The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories  RC 47008
by Aimee Bender
Short Stories

Guilty Pleasures  RC 45879
by Lawrence Sanders
Family

The Hammer of Eden  RC 47044
by Ken Follett
Suspense

Here on Earth  RC 45717
by Alice Hoffman
Human Relationships

High Crimes  RC 46358
by Joseph Finder
Legal Themes

Homeport  RC 46181
by Nora Roberts
Romance

The Hours  RC 47310
by Michael Cunningham
General

I Know This Much Is True  RC 46124
by Wally Lamb
Family

Identity  RC 46357
by Milan Kundera
Human Relationships

Infinite Jest  RC 44028
by David Foster Wallace
General

An Instance of the Fingerpost  RC 47002
by Iain Pears
Mystery and Detective

The Investigators: Badge of Honor, Book 7  RC 46077
by W.E.B. Griffin
Mystery and Detective

Jack Maggs  RC 45849
by Peter Carey
General

The Klone and I: A High-Tech Love Story  RC 46518
by Danielle Steel
Romance

The Lazarus Child  RC 46908
by Robert Mawson
Suspense

Legacy of Silence  RC 46506
by Belva Plain
Family

Lilah and Suzanna: The Calhoun Women, Book 2  RC 46064
by Nora Roberts
Romance

The Loop  RC 46713
by Nicholas Evans
General

Low Country  RC 46909
by Anne Rivers Siddons
Family

The Magician's Assistant  RC 45426
by Ann Patchett
General

The Magician's Wife  RC 45585
by Brian Moore
Historical 

A Man in Full  RC 47041
by Tom Wolfe
General

The Mark of the Assassin  RC 46012
by Daniel Silva
Suspense

Mason and Dixon  RC 44857
by Thomas Pynchon
Historical 

The Masterharper of Pern  RC 45681
by Anne McCaffrey
Science Fiction

Message in a Bottle  RC 46179
by Nicholas Sparks
Romance

Monument Rock  RC 46597
by Louis L'Amour
Westerns

Moon Music  RC 46771
by Faye Kellerman
Mystery and Detective

The Most Wanted  RC 46773
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
General

Music in the Night  RC 45952
by V.C. Andrews
Family

"N" Is for Noose  RC 46116
by Sue Grafton
Mystery and Detective

Night Train  RC 45675
by Martin Amis
Mystery and Detective

No Safe Place  RC 47001
by Richard North Patterson
Political Themes

Numbered Account  RC 45891
by Christopher Reich
Suspense

Only Love  RC 45718
by Erich Segal
Romance

Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires  RC 46125
by Anne Rice
Occult and Horror

Paradise  RC 46272
by Toni Morrison
Human Relationships

A Patchwork Planet  RC 46222
by Anne Tyler
Human Relationships

Petals on the River  RC 45287
by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Romance

Point of Origin  RC 46520
by Patricia Cornwell
Suspense

The Poisonwood Bible  RC 46882
by Barbara Kingsolver
Human Relationships

Polgara the Sorceress  RC 45331
by David and Leigh Eddings
Fantasy

Public Secrets  RC 46013
by Nora Roberts
Suspense

The Reader  RC 46772
by Bernhard Schlink
Psychological

Reign in Hell  RC 45000
by William Diehl
Suspense

Rising Tides: Quinn Brothers Trilogy, Volume 2  RC 46842
by Nora Roberts
Family

Riven Rock  RC 45676
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Psychological

Sea Swept: Quinn Brothers Trilogy, Volume 1  RC 45679
by Nora Roberts
Family

A Season in Purgatory  RC 46542
by Dominick Dunne
Mystery and Detective

Secret Prey  RC 46129
by John Sandford
Suspense

Seeing a Large Cat  RC 44758
by Elizabeth Peters
Mystery and Detective

Sharp Edges  RC 46066
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Romance

Singing in the Comeback Choir  RC 45848
by Bebe Moore Campbell
Human Relationships

The Smithsonian Institution  RC 46016
by Gore Vidal
Science Fiction

Snow in August  RC 45815
by Pete Hamill
Human Relationships

Sudden Mischief  RC 46015
by Robert B. Parker
Mystery and Detective

Summer Sisters  RC 46337
by Judy Blume
Growing Up

Swimming to Catalina  RC 46180
by Stuart Woods
Suspense

Tell Me Your Dreams  RC 46776
by Sidney Sheldon
Suspense

Temple of the Winds: The Sword of Truth, Book 4  RC 41105
by Terry Goodkind
Fantasy

The Testament  RC 47382
by John Grisham
Legal Themes

Thrill!  RC 45720
by Jackie Collins
Romance

Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Balance of Power  RC 46356
by Tom Clancy and StevePieczenik
Suspense

Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Games of State  RC 46433
by Tom Clancy and StevePieczenik
Suspense

Toxin  RC 46224
by Robin Cook
Medical Themes

The Tribes of Palos Verdes  RC 45459
by Joy Nicholson
Human Relationships

Unspeakable  RC 46685
by Sandra Brown
Suspense

Vegas Sunrise  RC 45958
by Fern Michaels
Family

When the Wind Blows  RC 47042
by James Patterson
Suspense

Where Serpents Lie  RC 45680
by T. Jefferson Parker
Suspense

Where the Heart Is  RC 47380
by Billie Letts
Human Relationships

A Widow for One Year  RC 46127
by John Irving
Human Relationships

The Winner  RC 45162
by David Baldacci
Suspense

A Winter Wedding  RC 45746
by Janice Bennett and others
Romance

With This Ring  RC 46223
by Amanda Quick
Romance

Wizard and Glass: The Dark Tower, Volume 4  RC 45159
by Stephen King
Fantasy

Wobegon Boy  RC 45161
by Garrison Keillor
Humor