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Before the Fall
By: Noah Hawley
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2017 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL and the 2017 INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING CREATOR OF FARGO COMES "ONE THE YEAR'S BEST SUSPENSE NOVELS" (NEW YORK TIMES).
On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed... Read More »
Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded)
By: John Medina
Narrated by: John Medina
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No
Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know—like the need for physical activity to get your brain working its best.
How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so... Read More »
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Code Girls
By: Liza Mundy
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post).
Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more ... Read More »
Holidays on Ice
By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris, Ann Magnuson & Amy Sedaris
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the... Read More »
Brain Rules for Aging Well
By: John Medina
Narrated by: John Medina
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
How come I can never find my keys? Why don’t I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Aging Well, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts—and the prescription to age well—in his signature engaging style.
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
By: David Sedaris
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one... Read More »
The Devil's Highway
By: Luis Alberto Urrea
Narrated by: Luis Alberto Urrea
Length: 14 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
In a new 10th anniversary edition: "The single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic).
In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years... Read More »
Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded)
By: John Medina
Narrated by: John Medina
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
What's the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a child's brain? What's the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know.
In his New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina showed us how our brains really work—and why we ought to redesign our workplaces and schools. Now, in Brain... Read More »
Since We Fell
By: Dennis Lehane
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Since We Fell follows Rachel Childs, a former journalist who, after an on-air mental breakdown, now lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel’s marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked... Read More »
Ink and Bone
By: Rachel Caine
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
In an exhilarating new series, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine rewrites history, creating a dangerous world where the Great Library of Alexandria has survived the test of time ...
Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Alchemy allows... Read More »
The Velveteen Rabbit
By: Margery Williams
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling children's classic with millions sold around the world. This version, read by Xe Sands, will delight listeners of all ages with its story of wisdom and boundless love.
"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having... Read More »
Call Them By Their True Names
By: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, "with so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursuing power and profit at the point of a gun... Read More »
This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording
By: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: David Foster Wallace
Length: 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. This is the audio recording of David Foster Wallace delivering that very address. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of... Read More »
The Dance of the Possible
By: Scott Berkun
Narrated by: Scott Berkun
Length: 2 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
This short, fast paced, irreverent guide to creativity is for everyone who wants better ideas and to finish projects they inspire. In 21 short chapters you'll discover a fresh way to understand creative thinking, how ideas work, plus insights from decades of study on both how to be more productive and creative at the same time.
With challenging... Read More »
Fly Girls
By: Keith O'Brien
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multi-day events, and cities vied with one another to host them. The pilots themselves were hailed as dashing heroes who cheerfully stared death in the face. Well, the men were hailed. Female pilots were more often ridiculed... Read More »
Consider the Lobster (A Story from Consider the Lobster)
By: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 15 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person?
David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000... Read More »
This House of Sky
By: Ivan Doig
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A nominee for the National Book Award, Ivan Doig’s brilliant memoir shares the experiences and culture that shaped his early years and made him fall in love with the West. From his childhood in a family of homesteaders through the death of his mother and his move to Montana to herd sheep, Doig shows his intimate connection with the... Read More »
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
By: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: Paul Garcia
Length: 17 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity,... Read More »
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
By: Adam Rutherford & Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A National Geographic Best Book of the Year In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species—births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away—until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard... Read More »
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
By: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: John Krasinski, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Cerveris, Josh Charles, Will Forte, Malcolm Goodwin, Christopher Meloni, Chris Messina, Max Minghella, Denis O'Hare, Lou Taylor Pucci, Ben Shenkman, Joey Slotnick, Cory Stoll & Joshua Ferris
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, he combined hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford. Read More »
By Its Cover
By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Donna Leon' s critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series has attracted readers the world over with the beauty of its setting, the humanity of its characters, and its fearlessness in exploring politics, morality, and contemporary Italian culture. In the pages of Leon' s novels, the beloved conversations of... Read More »
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
By: Alexander McCall Smith
Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
This remarkably fresh and charming best-seller took the WD by storm upon its publication. It has since earned two Booker Judges’ Special Recommendations and was voted one of the “International Books of the Year and the Millennium” by the Times Literary Supplement. Mma “Precious” Ramotswe sets up a detective agency in Botswana on the edge ... Read More »
My Struggle, Book 1
By: Karl Ove Knausgaard
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 16 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
My Struggle: Book One introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that... Read More »
What Angels Fear
By: C. S. Harris
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III's England. Then a beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol found at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man-Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin,... Read More »
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