You can purchase these Phyllis A. Whitney books in CD format or as MP3 downloads for your iPod or MP3 player. These are the full, unedited versions of the books, with each book providing more than seven hours of listening entertainment. For some titles such as Amethyst Dreams and Woman Without a Past, you can choose between versions with different narrators. To form an initial impression of each narrator's tone of voice and reading style, you can listen to audio samples of the books. Also, on each product page, you can see the different formats available for purchase -- typically, your choice of a 7 CD set, a single MP3 CD, or a downloadable MP3 version (the last being the least expensive). At the bottom of this book list, you can read about my impression of the 7 CD library version of Feather on the Moon. Enjoy! -- Philip Tyo, Founder and Webmaster of The Official PHYLLIS A. WHITNEY Web site |
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Amethyst
Dreams For several years, time and circumstance have managed to separate Hallie Knight and her old friend Susan Trench. But when Susan disappears from her grandfather's seaside home on historic Topsail Island, it is Hallie whom Nicholas Trench calls for help. Read more and listen to a sample. |
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Amethyst
Dreams For several years, time and circumstance have managed to separate Hallie Knight and her old friend Susan Trench. But when Susan disappears from her grandfather's seaside home on historic Topsail Island, it is Hallie whom Nicholas Trench calls for help. Read more and listen to a sample. |
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Daughter
of the Stars Lacey Elliot has been a woman without a past since the day her mother whisked her off to Charlottesville, refusing for 30 years to speak of her father, her family, or her history. But when Lacey intercepts a desperate letter from an aunt in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, she sees her chance to confront the past that has terrified her mother and to fill in the gaps in her own life. Read more and listen to a sample. |
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Feather
on the Moon Jennifer still vividly remembers the day when, momentarily distracted, she left her three-year-old daughter, Debbie, unattended in a grocery cart. When she turned back, the child had vanished. Read more and listen to a sample. |
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Flaming Tree Recovering from the death of her son and the end of her marriage, Kelsey Stewart goes to stay with her aunt at her seaside inn in Carmel, California looking only for retreat. But a local emergency unexpectedly brings Kelsey's troubled heart back to life again. Read more and listen to a sample. Note from Philip -- I visited some of the sites featured in Flaming Tree and you can read about my visit here! |
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Star
Flight The lush, secluded mountains of North Carolina's Lake Lure had drawn Lauren Castle into their spell. It was here, in 1938, that Hollywood's most beloved glamour girl, Victoria Frazer, drowned during a scandalous affair with actor Roger Brandt. Few knew about the baby spirited away into the night. That baby was Lauren's mother. Read more and listen to a sample. |
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The
Ebony Swan Twenty-five years ago, Susan Prentice lost her mother to a tragic accident. Now she is returning home for the first time to Virginia's eastern shores and the ancestral house whose front steps her mother fell down to her death. Read more and listen to a sample. |
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Woman Without a Past Successful author Molly Hunt, the adopted daughter of Long Island parents, is stunned when a handsome man she meets in her publisher’s office makes a startling declaration: that he is about to marry her twin sister. Molly soon discovers that she is actually the long-lost child of the wealthy Mountfort family of Charleston, South Carolina. Eager to solve the puzzle of her birth, Molly begins a fateful journey south. Read more and listen to a sample. |
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Woman Without a Past Successful author Molly Hunt, the adopted daughter of Long Island parents, is stunned when a handsome man she meets in her publisher’s office makes a startling declaration: that he is about to marry her twin sister. Molly soon discovers that she is actually the long-lost child of the wealthy Mountfort family of Charleston, South Carolina. Eager to solve the puzzle of her birth, Molly begins a fateful journey south. Read more and listen to a sample. |
My impression of the audio version of Feather on the Moon I've read all of Phyllis A. Whitney's books, but there are so many of them that it's easy for me to forget the storylines over time (which make rereading them all the more enjoyable!). I recall one time when Phyllis, herself, was rereading one of her older books and found that she also forgot the plot of the story. After all, she wrote so many books, articles, short stories, book reviews, and more in her lifetime. In a letter that I received some years ago from Phyllis, she wrote about rediscovering one of her earlier books and how she was fascinated by what she was reading. At one point in the letter she wrote that the suspense in the book held her "breathless"!
The narrator, Anna Fields, created more than 12 voices to bring the characters in the book to life. Whenever I begin listening to an audiobook I find that I need time to get used to the narrator's rendition of character voices -- voices that I prefer to create in my own imagination. This was true of this audiobook as well. At first, I felt that Anna's male voices sounded a bit strained and flat –- one dimensional. The voices of Kirk (the mysterious chauffeur) and Joel (the family physician) sounded alike. Anna did much better creating distinct voices for the female characters. In time, however, as the story progressed I grew comfortable with Anna's characterizations and her ability to slip between the various voices with ease. I found that I was looking forward to my drive to work just so that I could continue with the story. When it was finished, I realized how much I enjoyed listening to this reading of the book. It provided a pleasant and relaxing commute to work, and made the trips go much more quickly. I look forward to hearing more of Phyllis A. Whitney's stories this way. |
So, I was excited to revisit the story of Feather on the Moon -- this time in audio format from Blackstone Audio -- to experience the story in a new way. This was the first of Phyllis A. Whitney's books to be released on CD, and I received the lovely 7 CD Library Edition from Blackstone Audio. It arrived in a glossy CD plastic case with some pretty artwork. The CDs were bound within the case, and each CD was stored in a protective sleeve. For about two weeks, I listened to the book as I traveled to and from my job. As I listened to the narration, I could not resist being drawn into the story in a new and enjoyable way.