Collection Two (1990 - 1999) - Danielle Steel torrent

Category: Adults, General Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Contemporary devotion Historical Infidelity Love Revenge. Fantasy

Written by Danielle Steel
Read by various
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Mixed

Between 1990 – 1999 Danielle Steel wrote 23 novels. I have found most of them and several are abridged and some unabridged are only 4-5hrs long.

A few are recordings for the blind but by the late 1990’s commercial recording were made. Most of the books were originally on tape, a 10hr book would be costly to produce so abridged was common. Most books were recorded by BDD, Bantam Doubleday Dell and often the chapters were not numbered. Some are as I found them and some are edited. Bit-rate was as low as 16k and up to 128k.

I hope collection 2 will fill in gaps for the Danielle Steel fans. There may not be a third collection. I work on it now-and-then. It takes me a long time to put them together and most are now readily available, plus she now write five a year!

1990 - Message From Nam (abridged) Richard Thomas (3hrs)
As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience Vietnam firsthand. We follow her from high school in Savannah to college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon.
For the soldiers she knew and met there, Viet Nam would change her’s and their lives in ways they could never have imagined.

1991 - Heartbeat – RNIB - Denise Perby (16hrs 30nin)
Two lives…
Bill Thigpen, writer producer of the No.1 daytime TV drama was so busy watching his career soar that he never noticed his marriage collapse… Top of the chart ratings, good-natured casual affairs, and special vacations with his two young sons. His life is in perfect balance, he thinks. Adrian Townshed thought she had everything: a job she liked as a TV production assistant and a handsome husband who was a rising star in his own field. In as enviable life they’d worked hard for — the American Dream. Until she got pregnant. Suddenly all she had was chaos and Steven’s ultimatum. Him or the baby. The question was: did he mean it? He did.

1991 - No Greater Love – CNIB - Julie Hooker (10hrs 32min)
It was the maiden voyage of the Titanic, the greatest ship ever built, and in one fatal, unforgettable night, the sea shattered the lives and future of an extraordinary family, the Winfields. Edwina Winfield, returning from her engagement trip to England with her fiance and her family, instantly loses her parents, the man she loved and her dreams. Without even time to mourn, she courageously defies convention to run her family’s California newspaper and care for her five younger siblings. Unable to forget her fiance Charles, she is determined never to marry, to keep her family together, and to fight to survive as a woman alone.

1992 - Jewels (abridged) Tim Curry (3hrs)
On Sarah Whitfield’s seventy-fifth birthday, memories take her back to New York in the 1930s. To a marriage that ends after a year, leaving Sarah shattered. On their honeymoon, the newlyweds buy an old French chateau, but not long after, the war begins. William joins the allied forces, leaving Sarah, their first child, an infant, and their second child on the way, in France. .. unwavering in her belief that her missing-in-action husband is still alive. After the war, as a gesture of goodwill, the Whitfields start buying jewels offered for sale by impoverished war survivors. In Jewels, Danielle Steel takes the reader through five eventful decades that include war, passion, international intrigue, and the strength of family through it all.

1992 – Mixed Blessings - do not have

1993 - Vanished (abridged) Boyd Gaines (3hs)
Vanished tells the story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable tragedy—the mysterious abduction of their son. On the eve of Teddy’s disappearance, Marielle runs into her first love, American expatriate Charles Delauney. And when Teddy is kidnapped, Charles is first blamed, then arrested. But as the search for Teddy widens, even Marielle is scrutinized by the FBI and special agent John Taylor. Suspicions and accusations mingle with terror and heartbreak as every threat, every failure, every fear, is remembered, examined, explored.

1994 - Accident - Do not have

1994 - Lightning (abridged) - Howard McGillin (6hrs 36min)
As a partner at one of New York’s most prestigious law firms, Alexandra Parker barely manages to juggle husband, career, and the three-year-old child she gave birth to at forty. But Alex feels blessed with her life and happy marriage—until lightning strikes her. Suddenly a routine medical check-up turns her world upside down when tests reveal shattering news. Sam Parker is a star venture capitalist, a Wall Street whiz kid, and is as proud of his longtime marriage to Alex as he is of his successful career. As a major player in New York’s financial world, Sam is used to being in control—until he is caught off guard by Alex’s illness. Terrified of losing his wife and family, and haunted by ghosts from his past, Sam is unable to provide any kind of emotional support to Alex.

1994 -The Gift - Ron McLarty (6hrs 30min)
The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was, very nearly, everything. The place is a small midwestern town with a high school and a downtown, a skating pond and a movie house. And on a tree-lined street in the heartland of America, an extraordinary set of events begins to unfold. And gradually what seems serendipitous is tinged with purpose. A happy home is shattered by a child’s senseless death. A loving marriage starts to unravel. And a stranger arrives—a young woman who will touch many lives before she moves on. She and a young man will meet and fall in love. Their love, so innocent and full of hope, helps to restore a family’s dreams. And all of their lives will be changed forever by the precious gift she leaves them.

1994 - Wings - Laurel Lefkow – RNIB originally Isis Audio Books (12hrs 19min)
From a house on the edge of her family’s dusty farmland airstrip near Chicago, the child Cassie O’Malley would sneak into the night to look at the planes sitting shimmering in the moonlight. Her World War I veteran father wanted his son to be a pilot, not his reckless, red-haired daughter. But it was Cassie who had the gift.. Observing all the while was her father’s junior partner, Nick “Stick ” Galvin, a fellow war ace and airborne daredevil. Nick would become her confidant and best friend, willing to break all the rules to teach her to fly, knowing that the greatest gift he could give her was the freedom of flying. When California entrepreneur Desmon Williams sees Cassie in a local airshow, he invites her to California where she breaks new ground as a test pilot. Soon Cassie’s record-breaking flights make her a media darling. ..

1995 - Five Days in Paris (6hrs 49min) - Victor Garber
As president of a major pharmaceutical empire, Peter Haskell has everything. Power, position, a career and a family, which mean everything to him, and for which he has sacrificed a great deal. Olivia Thatcher is the wife of a famous senator. She has given to her husband’s ambitions and career until her soul is bone dry. She is trapped in a web of duty and obligation, married to a man she once loved and no longer even knows. When her son died, a piece of Olivia died too. Accidentally, on the night of a bomb threat, they meet in Paris, at the Ritz. Their totally different lives converge for one magical moment in the Place Vendôme…Five days in Paris is all they have.

!996 - Malice - Jason Culp – abridged (5hrs)
At seventeen, the night of her mother’s funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. It is not the first time, and a brutal crime ensues. And to everyone’s horror, Grace will not tell the truth. She is a young woman with secrets too horrible to tell, with hurts so deep they may never heal. When Grace meets Charles Mackenzie, a New York lawyer, she has found a man who wants nothing from her-except to heal her, to hear her secrets, and to give her the family she so desperately wants. But,…

1996 - Silent Honor - Boyd Gaines – abridged (6hrs) note, this is so well-edited it followed the text perfectly.
A man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife’s belief in ancient traditions. His eighteen-year-old daughter, Hiroko, torn between her mother’s traditions and her father’s wishes, boarded the SS Nagoya Maru to come to California for an education. It was August 1941. From the ship, she went to the Palo Alto home of her uncle, Takeo, and his family. To Hiroko, California was a different world…And much to Hiroko’s surprise, Peter Jenkins, her uncle’s assistant at Stanford, became an unexpected link between her old world and her new.

On December 7, Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese. Within hours, war is declared and suddenly Hiroko has become an enemy in a foreign land……On February 19, Executive Order 9066 is signed by President Roosevelt, giving the military the power to remove the Japanese from their communities at will. Takeo and his family are given ten days to sell their home, give up their jobs, and report to a relocation center, along with thousands of other Japanese and Japanese Americans, to face their destinies there. Families are divided, people are forced to abandon their homes, their businesses, their freedom, and their lives.

1997 - Special Delivery – abridged - Richard Poe (5hrs)
At 59, Jack Watson owns one of the most successful boutiques in Beverly Hills, has two adult children who are the light of his life,… After a failed marriage in the distant past, and a brief, tragic affair years afterward, Jack has become the perfect bachelor. And he loves it. Amanda Robbins knew Jack Watson only as her daughter’s father-in-law, an incurable playboy whom she dislikes intensely. But when she becomes a widow unexpectedly, twenty-six years after she retired from Hollywood stardom to become a wife and mother, Amanda finds herself on unfamiliar ground, and is surprised to find herself both befriended by, and attracted to, Jack Watson. Worse yet, she likes him. There is a lot more to him than she previously suspected.

1997 – The Ghost - Joe Grifasi (11hrs 25min)
With a wife he loves and an exciting London-based career, architect Charles Waterston’s life seems in perfect balance. Nothing in his comfortable existence prepares him for the sudden end to his ten-year marriage–or his unwanted transfer to his firm’s New York office. …Christmas is approaching when Charlie leaves New York, heading to Vermont to ski. But a sudden, blinding snowstorm strands him in a small Massachusetts town. There, as if by chance, Charlie meets an elderly widow who offers to rent him her most precious possession: a remote, exquisite lakeside chateau. Hidden deep in the woods, it once belonged to a woman who lived and died there two centuries before. Her name was Sarah Ferguson.

It is Christmas Eve when Charlie first glimpses her, a beautiful young woman with jet black hair. He thinks it is a neighbor playing a joke on him, until he finds her diaries hidden away in an old trunk. … Sarah’s first entry is dated 1789, the year she arrived in America. …–as she builds her home in the wilderness and meets a man who will transform her life. His name is François de Pellerin, a French nobleman adopted by Indians and drawn into the battle for the growing nation. Their fateful union is a testament to a love so powerful it reaches across the centuries. …

1997 - The Ranch - Ron McLarty (14hrs 12min)
They had been inseparable in college, Mary Stuart, Tanya, and Zoe. But in the more than twenty years that followed, the three had moved on with their lives…. By chance, each would find herself alone for a few weeks one summer, wrestling with the present and the past. At a sprawling ranch in the foothills of Wyoming’s Grand Teton Range.

Mary Stuart Walker, married for twenty-two years to a Manhattan lawyer, kept herself busy with volunteer work, and now masks the loneliness that consumes her life. … Tanya Thomas, an award winning singer and rock star, enjoys all the trappings of fame and success—a mansion in Bel Air, legions of fans, and a broken heart. … Dr. Zoe Phillips has her hands full as a single mother to an adopted two-year-old, and as a doctor at an AIDS clinic in San Francisco. Predictably, as they all know, she is as liberal as she ever was, and marriage was never a dream she coveted or shared with them.

1998 - Mirror Image (15hrs 20min) - John Fleming
Olivia and Victoria were the beloved daughters of a man who never fully recovered from his wife’s death bearing them in 1893. Shy, serious Olivia, born eleven minutes before her sister, had taken over the role of mother in their lush New York estate, managing not only a household but her rebellious twin’s flights of fancy. Free-spirited Victoria wanted to change the world…. Then, in the girls’ twenty-first year, as the first world war escalated overseas, a fateful choice changed their lives forever.

It began when Victoria’s life was about to become a public scandal. It led to a painful decision, and brought handsome lawyer Charles Dawson into the Henderson’s life and family. Hand-picked by the twins’ father to save his daughter’s reputation, Charles was still mourning his wife’s death aboard the Titanic, …Charles wanted to believe that, for the sake of his son, he could make an unwanted marriage work. But in an act of deception that only Olivia and Victoria could manage, the twins took an irrevocable step, which changed both their lives forever;..

1998 - The Wedding - J.R. Horne (13hrs 8min)
Simon Steinberg and Blaire Scott are among the most respected couples in Hollywood. He is a major producer, she an award-winning writer for television. Their oldest daughter, Allegra, is an entertainment lawyer with a career that consumes too much of her time, until a chance encounter with a New York writer turns her life upside down and she is suddenly planning a wedding. As preparations begin and the ever-increasing anxiety of the preparations brings out both the best and the worst in everyone, couples in each generation of the Steinberg family struggle with broken vows, new hopes, and the real meaning of Allegra’s wedding….

1998 - The Klone and I - Bobo Harrison – Isis Audio (6hrs)
Stephanie had a rat for a husband. But after 13 years of marriage and two kids, she was devastated when he left her for a younger woman… … Then a spur-of-the-moment trip to Paris changed everything….Peter Baker was a marvelously handsome high-tech entrepreneur also visiting the city. Stephanie was certain it couldn’t possibly work, back at the Long Island rental cottage she shared with her kids, Stephanie embarked on a bizarre and hilarious adventure beyond her wildest dreams. Peter, chairman of a bionic enterprise, was supposed to be away on business. Instead, he’s standing at her door, wearing day-glo satin and rhinestones. Naturally, Stephanie thinks it’s a joke—until the truth suddenly dawns: this isn’t Peter playing a role. This is his double! Calling himself Paul Klone, this wild, uninhibited creature isn’t even remotely like Peter except for his identically sexy good looks. This uproarious novel explores the outrageous love triangle that develops between Stephanie, Peter…and the Klone.

1998 - The Long Road Home (10hrs 52min) - Anthony Fusco
From her secret perch at the top of the stairs, Gabriella Harrison watches the guests arrive at her parents’ lavish Manhattan townhouse.  At seven, she knows she is an intruder in her parents’ party, in her parents’ life.  But she can’t resist the magic.  Later, she waits for the click, click, click of her mother’s high heels, the angry words, and the pain that will follow.  Gabriella already knows to hide her bruises…When her parents’ marriage collapses, Gabriella is given her first reprieve, as her father disappears, and then her mother abandons her to a convent.  There, Gabriella’s battered body and soul begin to mend.  Amid the quiet safety and hushed rituals of the nuns, Gabriella grows into womanhood in a safe, peaceful world.  Then a young priest comes into her life.  Father Joe Connors never questioned his vocation until Gabriella entered the confessional and shared her soul….

1999 – Bittersweet (abridged) -Rob Webb (5hrs 30min)
India Taylor lived in a world of manicured lawns and neatly maintained calendars: a merry-go-round of Little League, piano lessons, and Cape Cod summer vacations. With four wonderful children, India believed in commitment and sacrifice, just as she believed in Doug, the man she married 17 years before. For India, this was the promise she made, the life she had chosen—not the award-winning career as a photojournalist she once had. India couldn’t pinpoint the exact moment that changed. And then, she met Paul Ward. A Wall Street tycoon married to a bestselling author, Paul lived life on his own terms, traveling the world on his own yacht. India hadn’t planned to become Paul’s friend. …. …

1999 - Granny Dan (5hrs 16min) - Patrice Donnell , Lewis Arlt
In my eyes she had always been old, always been mine, always been Granny Dan. But in another time, another place, there had been dancing, people, laughter, love. . . . She had had another life before she came to us, long before she came to me. . . . She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate, and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a box wrapped in brown paper, tied with string. Inside, an old pair of satin toe shoes, a gold locket, and a stack of letters tied with ribbon. It was her legacy, her secret past, waiting to be discovered by the granddaughter who loved her but never really knew her. It was a story waiting to be told. . . . how Danina Petroskova was forced to make a heartbreaking choice—as the world around her was about to change forever.

1999 - Irresistible Forces (abridged) - Kfr Brewer (5hrs20min)
For fourteen years, Steve and Meredith Whitman have sustained a marriage of passion and friendship - despite the demands of two all-consuming careers. Meredith, an investment banker, has achieved partnership in one of Wall Street’s top firms. Steve A gifted physician, chose an urban trauma ward over the big money he could have earned elsewhere. The only thing missing in their lives is children. Meredith keeps putting off motherhood, saying she isn’t ready and doesn’t have time. Not yet. Especially now that she has been offered an extraordinary opportunity– in San Francisco, three thousand miles away. …..Weekends together, their lifeline, fall prey to their hectic schedules. Alone in San Francisco, Meredith is spending long hours at the office with her boss, charismatic entrepreneur Callan Dow. Steve working late shifts at the hospital, grabbing an occasional dinner with a new colleague, a doctor raising a daughter on her own.