Books in New Sound Box Library series

[Read by Tracey Leigh]Fledgling, the late Octavia E. Butler's final novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, fifty-three-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted -- and still wants -- to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of ''otherness'' and questions what it means to be truly human.

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media-has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 AF (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, Brave New World is both a warning to be heeded and thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment.

A brief but disastrous relationship with the gorgeous Reddy, an investment counselor who turns out to be a con man, causes Savannah belle BeBe Loudermilk to lose everything. All that's left is a ramshackle 1950s motor court on Tybee Island. Tybee is outside of Savannah, an eccentric beach town that calls itself a drinking village with a fishing problem. Breeze Inn is a place where BeBe wouldn't normally be caught dead, but there she is, unwilling to admit failure, fighting bankruptcy. With the help of friends, she soon has the motel spiffed up and attracting paying guests. Then there's a sighting of Reddy in Florida, and BeBe decides to go after him with a plan to carry out a sting that may be just a little bit outside the law but that, with any luck at all, will retrieve BeBe's fortune.