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• Position: WHAT'S NEW? - 'The Aviator's Wife', 'Parlor Games', 'The Tin Horse' and 'Tenth of December'

Try as we might, it's hard to find the time to sit down and read. We look to the books on tape from Random House Audio to get us through our long commutes and endless hours waiting for kids at dance, sports practices, etc.--as well as those household projects that fill our weekends. Here are just a few of their latest titles:

Melanie Benjamin's The Aviator's Wife tells the story of one of America's most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The shy daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. Anne meets Col. Charles Lindbergh in Mexico City--fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic. Believing she is his kindred spirit, the two marry in a headline-making wedding. In the years that follow, despite her own major achievements--she becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the U.S.--Anne is viewed merely as the aviator's wife. Drawing on the rich history of the 20th century--from the late 1920s to the mid 1960s--and featuring cameos from such notable characters as Joseph Kennedy and Amelia Earhart, The Aviatoys Wife is a vividly imagined novel of a complicated marriage--revealing both its dizzying highs and its devastating lows.

Parlor Games, Maryka Biaggio's debut novel, is the sweeping historical tale of May Dugas, a beautiful con artist whose turn-of-the-century escapades take her around the world as she's doggedly pursued by detective Reed Doherty. At age 18, May ventures to Chicago to earn money to support her family, taking up residence at the city's most infamous bordello. She learns to use her considerable feminine wiles to extract not only sidelong looks but large sums of money from the men she encounters. Insinuating herself into Chicago's high society, May lands a well-to-do fiance, until Doherty intervenes. She eventually marries a wealthy Dutch Baron, but the detective never is far behind and continues to track May in a delicious cat-and-mouse game as the newly-minted Baroness' misadventures take her from San Francisco to Shanghai to London and points in between. Though she was branded a crafty blackmailer and ruthless seductress, to others she was the most glamorous woman to grace high society. Was the real May Dugas a cold-hearted swindler or simply a resourceful provider for her poor family?

Janice Steinberg's The Tin Horse is a rich multigenerational story about the intense, often fraught bond between sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the dreams and sorrows that lay at...