03446cam a2200385 4500 246933598 TxAuBib 20151130120000.0 ||||||s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781483070711 1483070719 79cea9d1-f8ec-4eb1-b1cb-f59275c08a43 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9781982490089 118633 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib KING, TABITHA. Candles Burning [Libby Audiobook]. Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2006. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 439MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 439MB. HTML:<p>Author Michael McDowell, known for his chilling Blackwater series, left behind the unfinished manuscript of Candles Burning upon his death in 1999. His close friend, Tabitha King, has taken up where he left off, weaving a Southern gothic fabric of murder, guilt, innocence, corruption, and survival, in the voices of the living and the dead.</p> <p>Seven-year-old Calley Dakin is daddy's little girl, but her well-born mother persists in her contempt for the Dakin name. When her daddy is tortured and murdered by two women with no discernible motivation, Calley and her mother find themselves caught up in inexplicable events that exile them to Pensacola Beach. There, another woman awaits their presence, a woman who knows what Calley is and who seeks to control her—for Calley is no ordinary little girl.</p>. Seven-year-old Calliope "Calley" Dakin opens the story with a horrific description of how two women tortured and murdered her father. Afterwards, she is taken by her emotionally abusive mother, Roberta Ann, to Pensacola, where her talent for speaking to the dead comes to the fore. Carrington MacDuffie has her work cut out for her as the story switches abruptly from the past to the present. MacDuffie portrays the child Calley with a little girl voice and a mild Southern accent yet still manages to convey a child who is smarter than her years. Roberta Ann comes across as a sharp-tongued, bitter woman. As the story develops, King and MacDuffie slowly reveal the how and why of Calley's gift. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine. AudioFile Magazine. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-11-30 20:00:02. MCDOWELL, MICHAEL. MacDuffie, Carrington. http://camellia.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=79cea9d1-f8ec-4eb1-b1cb-f59275c08a43 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/118633-CandlesBurning.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/118633-CandlesBurning.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=79CEA9D1-F8EC-4EB1-B1CB-F59275C08A43&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/118633-CandlesBurning.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/118633-CandlesBurning.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=79CEA9D1-F8EC-4EB1-B1CB-F59275C08A43&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)