Plug'n Play TravelPaks contain everything you need for many hours of audiobook listening. Each TravelPak comes with a cassette player,headphones, batteries, and 2 audiobooks. This is a wonderful and unique gift item. This TravelPak contains the 2 best selling stories by Nicholas Sparks; Message in a Bottle, and The Notebook. Message in a Bottle is read by Kathleen Quinlin and Bruce Boxleitner, while The Notebook is read by Kate Neligan and Campbell Scott. Terrific performances by a great cast. THE NOTEBOOK: As teenagers, Noah & Allie fell in love, but they were kept apart by Allies disapproving parents. Years later, on the eve of her wedding, Allie is drawn back to Noah by the echo of her first love, Now as the story unfolds, it is told by an elderly man, his voice straining as he reads to a woman who knows him only as a mysterious stranger. Each day he begins again, hoping that today the story in THE NOTEBOOK will once again lead to the miracle that has ! come to dominate both their lives. MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE: A 36-year-old single mother recovering from a wrecked marriage jogs along the shore of Cape Cod and finds a half-buried bottle containing a love letter. Upon reading the touching, heart-felt words a man had written to his darling Catherine only three weeks earlier, she decides to take a dramatic leap that will change her life forever. As she boards a plane, her future is uncertain, yet brims with the promise of self-discovery and the possibility of finding the deepest kind of love.