A new cache from Random House audio books.

• Position: AUDIO BOOKS - Audiobook review

Even though our afternoons relaxing by the pool are pretty much over, we still find plenty of time to listen to audio books. Here are a few of the latest titles from Random House:

Tom Kizzia's Pilgrim's Wildeness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier (read by Fred Sanders) is the bizarre and utterly fascinating story of how Robert "Papa Pilgrim" Hale and his 15-child self-named Pilgrim family came to settle deep in one of the most remote parts of Alaska, motivated by a belief that a simple pioneer life could he lived there in the 21st century. Celebrated by locals for his anti-establishment ways, Hale eventually was exposed as a cult leader-like sociopath with an extraordinary criminal past who brutalized his wife and children and kept them isolated, ignorant, and under his control. The story combines a portrait of Hale from his early life in the countercultural 1960s through his latter years as the messianic Christian "Papa Pilgrim" (who would employ beatings, psychological torture, and sexual abuse to rule over his children) with an examination of how the Pilgrim family at first was embraced by Alaskans, who were flattered by the way Papa Pilgrim embodied their own pioneer myths, before any hints of trouble emerged. The audio climaxes with a gripping saga of how the oldest Pilgrim children turned against their father and escaped from the wilderness homestead, with Hale eventually being tracked by state troopers and imprisoned on multiple counts of assault, rape, and incest. The author expertly interweaves insights into the Pilgrims and Alaska gleaned from his personal experience as a longtime Alaska newspaper reporter who himself built a cabin in the area where the Pilgrim family settled.

From New York Times best-selling romance author Jude Deveraux comes True Love, the sexy first entry in The Nantucket Brides trilogy, set on fictional Kingsley Lane on the magical island of Nantucket (read by Tavia Gilbert). Alix Madsen is just finishing her degree in architecture when she's bequeathed the use of a charming 18th-century home in Nantucket for one year. Planning to use the time to study for her exams, Alix discovers that nearly everyone has an agenda regarding how she should spend her days, but all she wants to do is meet Jared Montgomery, the attractive man living in the guest house on the property. Thrilled to discover he's a world famous architect living mere footsteps from her, she's determined to impress him. As...