Resistance: Turbulence, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Samit Basu
• Narrated By Satarj Garewell

Several years after the events of Turbulence, when the passengers of flight BA142 from London to Delhi disembarked the plane to discover they possessed extraordinary powers linked to their innermost desires, Resistance transports the blockbuster action to New York, and introduces a brand-new cast of super-powered characters.

The Pack Rules: Complete Boxed Set: The Pack Rules Shifters, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Michele Bardsley
• Narrated By Cynthia Hemminger

Every 20 years, the Shadow Pack arrives in the small desert community of Bleed City, Nevada. To honor the pact made 150 years ago with the werewolves, the town offers up their eldest daughters for the Choosing - a ceremony where the shifters pick their virgin brides.

Blood and Bane: The Dragon Sage Chronicles

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 10 mins)
• By C J McKee
• Narrated By Wendy Anne Darling

In an ancient world, ruled by Dragons... "...the land has been twisted, defiled, and you are responsible. What more can we do, but banish you from the Realms of Arydd... forever" Galddor the Dragon Sage has been tasked with the magical tutelage of three humans. Each apprentice has their own paths to seek from their training: One wishes to become a Stave for the Elvish people of Fid Gow. Another rejects his lot in life to stand alone.

The Blasted Lands: Seven Forges

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 52 mins)
• By James A. Moore
• Narrated By David de Vries

The Empire of Fellein is in mourning. The Emperor is dead, and the armies of the empire have grown soft. Merros Dulver, their newly-appointed - and somewhat reluctant - commander, has been tasked with preparing them to fight the most savage enemy the world has yet seen. Meanwhile, a perpetual storm ravages the Blasted Lands, and a new threat is about to arise - the Broken are coming, and with them only Death.

Hybrid: Brier Hospital, Book 7

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Lawrence W. Gold, MD
• Narrated By Joe Hempel

Denise Berg, a professor of psychology, and her molecular biologist husband, Gabe, expected an intelligent child. When Denise gave birth to Zack, they were thrilled. They were not surprised to find that Zack had physical and mental gifts but were astounded by their magnitude. By every parameter Zack was extraordinarily gifted, and they took pride in their genes and their good fortune.

Twilantia: The Making of a King, Part One

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 51 mins)
• By B. T. Browning
• Narrated By Larry Matsko

Levi Zebrowski is an average, every day American who is called to duty. Haunted by the memories of his parents' horrific deaths, he joins the military to ensure that the light of the good is never extinguished.

Blue Moon: The Ring of Mer (Volume 2)

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Geraldine Allie, Punch Audio
• Narrated By Alex Hyde-White

Cora's life is in danger. From the sea a young man of mystery and lore will be born. He is of a land deep below the waves, a world of power connected to the ring she wears--the Ring of Mer. He is a protector, a guardian, linked to the same destiny as Cora.

The Dagger's Path

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Glenda Larke
• Narrated By Will Damron

Ardhi, Sorrel, and the excommunicated cleric Saker Rampion, stow away on a ship to the Spice Islands. They must return stolen items of great power to Ardhi's home, but there are ruthless men after this power, men who will kill to possess it. At home in Ardrone, an army of demonic origin runs amok while Saker's superiors in the church struggle to quell it.

Destination Unknown: Wings of Steele, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Jeffrey J. Burger
• Narrated By Kevin Clay

Jack Steele is an ex-big-city cop that left the department after losing a friend in the line of duty. Recovering from a tough divorce, he reinvents himself with a love of flying and restructures his life as a pilot for hire. Accompanied by his ever-present German Shepherd, Fritz, Jack will fly almost anything anywhere, shuttling new and used planes for clients all over the world. He had never been a Boy Scout, but he is a man who likes to stay prepared and in control of whatever life throws at him. But nothing could have prepared Jack and his copilot for how life suddenly goes drastically and violently sideways...

Wolves and the River of Stone (Vesik)

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Eric Asher
• Narrated By William Dufris

Philip, Zola's boyfriend from 150 years ago, is not nearly as dead as we thought. I really wish he was. Not only has he kidnapped Zola, but he's raising an army to scour humanity from the earth. Hopefully the local werewolf pack will help. What could possibly go wrong?

The John Carter Trilogy of Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars; The Gods of Mars; A Warlord of Mars

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Finn J.D. John, Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Narrated By Finn J.D. John

The first of these novels, A Princess of Mars, was Burroughs' first book, and he wrote the next two novels in quick succession. Together they tell the story of John Carter of Mars - how he came to Mars, met the love of his life, and quickly found himself occupied full-time defending her and saving his adopted planet from interplanetary evildoers.

Seventy Two Hours: The Valkyrie Chronicles

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Erik Schubach
• Narrated By Hollie Jackson

Upon hearing news of the destruction of the Ragnarok civilization by the Frost Giants of Jotunheim, the Valkyrie, Kara, and the combined races must prevent the same fate from befalling Folkvangr. The invention of the Bifrost may hold the key to Valhalla's survival. Secrets are revealed, and unexpected friendships are formed.

Alien Arrivals: The Galactic Mage Series, Book 4

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 49 mins)
• By John Daulton
• Narrated By David Bodtcher

The populations on several worlds have discovered themselves to be but part of a galaxy filled with other sentients. Book 4 of the Galactic Mage series begins a new phase of existence for the people of those worlds, and it follows the lives of Altin and Orli, Roberto, Queen Karroll, Blue Fire, Shadesbreath, and, of course, Pernie as they begin to discover what roles they have in the redefined universe.

Dark Matter Tiding

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Chance Maree
• Narrated By Hollie Jackson

As civilization begins to crumble from the pathological effects of Dark Matter, one woman, a drone engineer, cannot trust herself or others, yet must choose whether to use deadly technology against fellow human beings, or risk the destruction of all she cherishes.

Lieutenant: The United Federation Marine Corps, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Jonathan P. Brazee
• Narrated By Daniel F. Purcell

As a certified Federation "hero," Sergeant Ryck Lysander is offered a commission as a second lieutenant. Only, he doesn't feel like a hero, and his tendency to jump into a fight himself is at odds with his mission as a junior office. Accepting his commission might have been a big mistake. When contact with an alien species is finally made, that contact is not peaceful, and Ryck is thrust back into combat, combat that does not end well and plunges Ryck into an emotional crisis.

When Elves Die

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Richard Poche
• Narrated By Matt Weight

Every single elf will disappear from the face of the earth." Princess Carella reads this prophecy in the book of Arcanscape and knows that the dark queen will stop at nothing to make it come true. Carella travels with a group of missionaries across the land to offer her gift of healing and recruit other elven tribes to help join the war against the dark queen. When Carella and her missionary group go missing, the village cleric, Ricmorn, hires an old barbarian named Kelroar to find them.

Naught Point Naught: Symbiosis, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Samuel J. M. King
• Narrated By Jeffrey S. Fellin

Book 2 of the Symbiosis Series. Sergeant Mike Richardson loves to fight - or so he thinks. He's at home in the Symbiont Safety Patrol. An underground railroad of sorts, the organization rescues sentient non-humans - his people - from abusive human owners. He loves the action; the "cause" is secondary until a routine rescue mission turns deadly.

Radium Halos, Part 2: The Senseless Series

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 54 mins)
• By W .J. May
• Narrated By Joette Marie

Everyone needs to be a hero at one point in their life. The small town of Elliot Lake will never be the same again after Zoe, a high school senior from Elliot Lake, and five of her friends take shelter in an abandoned uranium mine during a violent thunderstorm. Over the next few days, Zoe's hearing sharpens drastically - to supernatural levels. She tells her friends, only to learn that four others have an increased sense as well.

Great New World

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Axol O'Lerpler
• Narrated By Axol O'Lerpler

When he was in his first year of secondary school, something extraordinary happened. He stumbled, completely by accident, into a Great New World, a world of fantastic sex, opportunity, and Fetus Factories. That's what this book's about. And it's written by the man himself, Axol O'Lerpler.

Vanishing Ink

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Scott Wiser
• Narrated By Brandon Wainwright

A "fantastical adventure" about Von Gold, a washed-up Magician who has to save the world from disappearing. Disney and DreamWorks artists have praised it as "beautiful and unique!" and "...an imaginative world of magic & mystery...a fantastical adventure for the whole whole family!"

The Hobbit

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 8 mins)
• By J. R. R. Tolkien
• Narrated By Rob Inglis
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Like every other hobbit, Bilbo Baggins likes nothing better than a quiet evening in his snug hole in the ground, dining on a sumptuous dinner in front of a fire. But when a wandering wizard captivates him with tales of the unknown, Bilbo becomes restless. Soon he joins the wizard’s band of homeless dwarves in search of giant spiders, savage wolves, and other dangers. Bilbo quickly tires of the quest for adventure and longs for the security of his familiar home. But before he can return to his life of comfort, he must face the greatest threat of all.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Stephen Fry

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last 15 years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

The Martian

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Andy Weir
• Narrated By R. C. Bray
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills—and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?"

The Name of the Wind: Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1

• UNABRIDGED (27 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Patrick Rothfuss
• Narrated By Nick Podehl
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

This is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.

Saint Odd: Odd Thomas, Book 7

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Dean Koontz
• Narrated By David Aaron Baker

Odd Thomas is back where it all started…because the time has come to finish it. Since he left his simple life in the small town of Pico Mundo, California, his journey has taken him to places strange and wonderful, mysterious and terrifying. Across the land, in the company of mortals and spirits alike, he has known kindness and cruelty, felt love and loss, saved lives and taken them - as he's borne witness to humanity's greatest good and darkest evil.

The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Helene Wecker
• Narrated By George Guidall
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Helene Wecker's dazzling debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures who appear mysteriously in 1899 New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a strange man who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. When her master dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York Harbor. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian Desert. Trapped in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop.

A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (33 hrs and 50 mins)
• By George R. R. Martin
• Narrated By Roy Dotrice
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In a time long forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons off balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. As the cold returns, sinister forces are massing beyond the protective wall of the kingdom of Winterfell. To the south, the king's powers are failing, with his most trusted advisor mysteriously dead and enemies emerging from the throne's shadow.

The Night Circus

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Erin Morgenstern
• Narrated By Jim Dale
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

The Fellowship of the Ring: Book One in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 11 mins)
• By J. R. R. Tolkien
• Narrated By Rob Inglis
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The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume in the trilogy, tells of the fateful power of the One Ring. It begins a magnificent tale of adventure that will plunge the members of the Fellowship of the Ring into a perilous quest and set the stage for the ultimate clash between the powers of good and evil.

1984: New Classic Edition

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 26 mins)
• By George Orwell
• Narrated By Simon Prebble
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police - a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live tepid lives by rote. Winston Smith, a hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. But living in a social system in which privacy does not exist and where those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death, he knows there is no hope for him.

Stardust

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Neil Gaiman
• Narrated By Neil Gaiman
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Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester. One crisp October night, as they watch, a star falls from the sky, and Victoria promises to marry Tristran if he'll retrieve the star and bring it back for her. It is this promise that sends Tristran on the most unforgettable adventure of his life.

Ender's Shadow

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, a Full Cast
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Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this book, Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean, the one who became Ender's right hand, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. Bean's past was a battle just to survive. His success brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters.

Outlander

• UNABRIDGED (33 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Diana Gabaldon
• Narrated By Davina Porter
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Why we think it’s a great listen: An all-time Audible favorite that mixes historic fiction, adventure, and romance with one of the most fascinating literary devices: time travel. Outlander introduces an exhilarating world of heroism and breathtaking thrills as one woman is torn between past and present, passion and love. In 1945, former combat nurse Claire Randall returns from World War II and joins her husband for a second honeymoon. But their blissful reunion is shattered....

The Two Towers: Book Two in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 40 mins)
• By J. R. R. Tolkien
• Narrated By Rob Inglis
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The Two Towers is the second volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic saga, The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship has been forced to split up. Frodo and Sam must continue alone towards Mount Doom, where the One Ring must be destroyed. Meanwhile, at Helm’s Deep and Isengard, the first great battles of the War of the Ring take shape. In this splendid, unabridged audio production of Tolkien’s great work, all the inhabitants of a magical universe - hobbits, elves, and wizards - spring to life. Rob Inglis’ narration has been praised as a masterpiece of audio.

Hard Magic: Book I of the Grimnoir Chronicles

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Larry Correia
• Narrated By Bronson Pinchot

Jake Sullivan is a licensed private eye with a seriously hardboiled attitude. He also possesses raw magical talent and the ability to make objects in his vicinity light as a feather or as heavy as depleted uranium, all with a magical thought. It's no wonder the G-men turn to Jake when they need someoneto go after a suspected killer who has been knocking off banks in a magic-enhanced crime spree.

Leviathan Wakes

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 10 mins)
• By James S.A. Corey
• Narrated By Jefferson Mays
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James S.A. Corey delivers compelling SF that ranks with the best in the field. In Leviathan Wakes, ice miner Jim Holden is making a haul from the rings of Saturn when he and his crew encounter an abandoned ship, the Scopuli. Uncovering a terrifying secret, Jim bears the weight of impending catastrophe. At the same time, a detective has been hired by well-heeled parents to find a missing girl, and the investigator’s search leads him right to the Scopuli.

Hyperion

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Dan Simmons
• Narrated By Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, and others
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On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.

The Atrocity Archives: A Laundry Files Novel

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Charles Stross
• Narrated By Gideon Emery
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic. But for some reason, he is.

A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (37 hrs and 18 mins)
• By George R. R. Martin
• Narrated By Roy Dotrice
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war.

The Return of the King: Book Three in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 18 mins)
• By J. R. R. Tolkien
• Narrated By Rob Inglis
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The Return of the King is the towering climax to J. R. R. Tolkien’s trilogy that tells the saga of the hobbits of Middle-earth and the great War of the Rings. In this concluding volume, Frodo and Sam make a terrible journey to the heart of the Land of the Shadow in a final reckoning with the power of Sauron. In addition to narrating the prose passages, Rob Inglis sings the trilogy’s songs and poems a capella, using melodies composed by Inglis and Claudia Howard, the Recorded Books studio director.

Hard Magic: Book I of the Grimnoir Chronicles

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Larry Correia
• Narrated By Bronson Pinchot

Jake Sullivan is a licensed private eye with a seriously hardboiled attitude. He also possesses raw magical talent and the ability to make objects in his vicinity light as a feather or as heavy as depleted uranium, all with a magical thought. It's no wonder the G-men turn to Jake when they need someoneto go after a suspected killer who has been knocking off banks in a magic-enhanced crime spree.

Hyperion

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Dan Simmons
• Narrated By Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, and others
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On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.

Exile: Star Force, Book 11

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 29 mins)
• By B.V. Larson, David VanDyke
• Narrated By Mark Boyett

Lost and cut off from Earth, the crew of the starship Valiant seeks a way home. In the 11th book of the Star Force series Cody Riggs collides with the overwhelming power of the Ancients. They fly incomprehensible ships and consider humans to be curiosities. Caught between ghosts of the past and demons of the present, Cody is abandoned by everyone. His girl, his crew, and even his ships change sides, exiling him in the cold depths of space.

Steel World: Undying Mercenaries, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 45 mins)
• By B. V. Larson
• Narrated By Mark Boyett
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In the 20th century Earth sent probes, transmissions, and welcoming messages to the stars. Unfortunately, someone noticed. The Galactics arrived with their battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined their vast Empire. Swearing allegiance to our distant alien overlords wasn't the only requirement for survival. We also had to have something of value to trade, something that neighboring planets would pay their hard-earned credits to buy. As most of the local worlds were too civilized to have a proper army, the only valuable service Earth could provide came in the form of soldiers....

Wool: Silo, #1; Wool, #1-5

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Hugh Howey
• Narrated By Amanda Sayle
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In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo’s rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside.

Agent to the Stars

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 49 mins)
• By John Scalzi
• Narrated By Wil Wheaton
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The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. So getting humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal. Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents.

A Crucible of Souls: The Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Mitchell Hogan
• Narrated By Oliver Wyman
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When Caldan’s parents are brutally slain, he is raised by monks and taught the arcane mysteries of sorcery. Vowing to discover for himself who his parents really were, and what led to their violent end, he is thrust into the unfamiliar chaos of city life. With nothing to his name but a pair of mysterious heirlooms and a handful of coins, he must prove his talent to earn an apprenticeship with a guild of sorcerers. But he soon learns the world outside the monastery is a darker place than he ever imagined, and his treasured sorcery has disturbing depths. As a shadowed evil manipulates the unwary and forbidden powers are unleashed, Caldan is plunged into an age-old conflict that brings the world to the edge of destruction.

My Life as a White Trash Zombie

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Diana Rowland
• Narrated By Allison McLemore
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Teenage delinquent Angel Crawford lives with her redneck father in the swamps of southern Louisiana. She's a high school dropout, addicted to drugs and alcohol, and has a police record a mile long. But when she's made into a zombie after a car crash, her addictions disappear, except for her all-consuming need to stay "alive".

Calculating God

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Robert J. Sawyer
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis, Robert J. Sawyer
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In this Hugo-nominated novel, an alien walks into a museum and asks if he can see a paleontologist. But the arachnid ET hasn't come aboard a rowboat with the Pope and Stephen Hawking (although His Holiness does request an audience later). Landing at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the spacefarer, Hollus, asks to compare notes on mass extinctions with resident dino-scientist Thomas Jericho.

Ark Royal

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Christopher G. Nuttall
• Narrated By Ralph Lister
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Seventy years ago, the interstellar supercarrier Ark Royal was the pride of the Royal Navy. But now, her weapons are outdated and her solid-state armour nothing more than a burden on her colossal hull. She floats in permanent orbit near Earth, a dumping ground for the officers and crew the Royal Navy wishes to keep out of the public eye. But when a deadly alien threat appears, the modern starships built by humanity are no match for the powerful alien weapons.

Blood of Innocents: The Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Mitchell Hogan
• Narrated By Oliver Wyman
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Anasoma, jewel of the Mahruse Empire, has fallen. As Caldan and his companions flee the city, horrors from the time of the Shattering begin to close in. With Miranda's mind broken by forbidden sorcery, Caldan is forced to disobey the most sacrosanct laws of the Protectors if he is to have any chance of healing her. But when one of the emperor's warlocks arrives to take control of him, he begins to suspect his burgeoning powers may be more of a curse than a blessing.

Legion: Skin Deep

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Brandon Sanderson
• Narrated By Oliver Wyman
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As the new story begins, Leeds and his "aspects" are hired by I3 (Innovative Information Incorporated) to recover a corpse stolen from the local morgue. But there's a catch. The corpse is that of a pioneer in the field of experimental biotechnology, a man whose work concerned the use of the human body as a massive storage device. He may have embedded something in the cells of his now dead body. And that something might be dangerous.

Spider's Bite: Elemental Assassin, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Jennifer Estep
• Narrated By Lauren Fortgang
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They call me the Spider. I'm the most feared assassin in the South -- when I'm not busy at the Pork Pit cooking up the best barbecue in Ashland. As a Stone elemental, I can hear everything from the whispers of the gravel beneath my feet to the vibrations of the soaring Appalachian Mountains above me. My Ice magic also comes in handy for making the occasional knife. But I don't use my powers on the job unless I absolutely have to. Call it professional pride.

Lock In (Narrated by Wil Wheaton)

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs)
• By John Scalzi
• Narrated By Wil Wheaton
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Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever, and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.

The Dragons of Dorcastle: The Pillars of Reality, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Jack Campbell
• Narrated By MacLeod Andrews

The Mechanics and the Mages have been bitter rivals, agreeing only on the need to keep the world they rule from changing. But now a Storm approaches, one that could sweep away everything humans have built. Only one person has any chance of uniting enough of Dematr behind her to stop the Storm, but the Great Guilds and many others will stop at nothing to defeat her.

The Atlantis Gene: The Origin Mystery, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 44 mins)
• By A. G. Riddle
• Narrated By Stephen Bel Davies
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Seventy thousand years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how.

Until now. The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity might not survive this time. The Immari are good at keeping secrets. For 2,000 years, they've hidden the truth about human evolution. They've also searched for an ancient enemy - a threat that could wipe out the human race. Now the search is over.

The Nelson Touch: Ark Royal, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Christopher G. Nuttall
• Narrated By Ralph Lister
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Ark Royal - the Royal Navy’s outdated space carrier - has won a smashing victory against the enigmatic aliens, capturing one of their starships and returning to Earth. Now, Admiral Theodore Smith and his crew are assigned to command a fleet charged with making a deep-penetration raid into alien territory, a fleet made up of carriers from four different nations. But with a crewman who isn't what he seems, untested pilots and international friction - and a new and dangerous alien plan - can Ted and his crew survive their mission?

Tokyo Raider: A Tale of the Grimnoir Chronicles

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 8 mins)
• By Larry Correia
• Narrated By Bronson Pinchot

With the Japanese Imperium at war with the Soviet Union, and the United States watching cautiously on the sidelines, Second Lieutenant Joe Sullivan of the U.S. Marines is sent on a dangerous mission to Tokyo. The Russians have Summoned a demon of epic proportions to attack the city, and all that stands in its deadly path is an untested Japanese super-robot. Now, Joe is at the controls, his gravity-spiking Power at the ready. But that is one huge, mean Demon....

A Beautiful Friendship: Star Kingdom, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 58 mins)
• By David Weber
• Narrated By Khristine Hvam
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Stephanie Harrington had always expected to be a forest ranger on her homeworld of Meyerdahl until her parents relocated to the frontier planet of Sphinx in the far distant Star Kingdom of Manticore. It should have been the perfect new home - a virgin wilderness full of new species of every sort, just waiting to be discovered. But Sphinx is a far more dangerous place than ultra-civilized Meyerdahl, and Stephanie's explorations come to a sudden halt when her parents lay down the law: no trips into the bush without adult supervision!

The Mime Order

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Samantha Shannon
• Narrated By Alana Kerr

As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, the mime-lords and mime-queens of the city's gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take center stage, but there are bitter fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around every corner. Then the Rephaim begin crawling out from the shadows. But where is Warden?