Heritage of Cyador: Saga of Recluce, Book 18

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 5 mins)
• By L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
• Narrated By Kirby Heyborne

Scarcely a year after the events of Cyador's Heirs, Lerial uses his mastery of Order and Chaos, the competing natural forces that shape his world and define the magic that exists within it, to utterly destroy an Afritan military force crossing into Cigoerne. Five years later, Lerial, now an overcaptain and a field commander of Cigoerne's Mirror Lancers, must lead three companies of troops into Afrit on a mission of mutual interest.

The Vanishing Girl

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Laura Thalassa
• Narrated By Rachel Vivette

Each night after Ember Pierce falls asleep, she disappears. She can teleport anywhere in the world: London, Paris, her crush's bedroom, or wherever her dreams lead her. Ten minutes is all she gets, and once time's up, she returns to her bed. It's a secret she's successfully kept for the last five years. But now someone knows.

Ourselves: The Nahan Series

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 21 mins)
• By S. G. Redling
• Narrated By Will Damron

An ancient, nature-loving race, the Nahan have protected their secret world by cultivating the myths of fanged, bloodsucking monsters that haunt legends. Yet they walk through our world as our coworkers and our neighbors, hiding in plain sight and coexisting in peace. They survive... and they prosper.

Panther Prowling: Otherworld/Sisters of the Moon, Book 17

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Yasmine Galenorn
• Narrated By Cassandra Campbell

We're the D'Artigo sisters: savvy half-human, half-Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Camille is a wicked-good witch with three gorgeous husbands. Menolly is a vampire married to a werepuma. And me? I'm Delilah, a two-faced werecat and a Death Maiden.

Unremembered

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Jessica Brody
• Narrated By Julia Whelan

When Freedom Airlines flight 121 went down over the Pacific Ocean, no one ever expected to find survivors. Which is why the 16-year-old girl discovered floating among the wreckage - alive - is making headlines across the globe. Even more strange is that her body is miraculously unharmed and she has no memories of boarding the plane. She has no memories of her life before the crash. She has no memories period. No one knows how she survived. No one knows why she wasn't on the passenger manifest.

Inside a Silver Box

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Walter Mosley
• Narrated By Dion Graham

Walter Mosley's talent knows no bounds. Inside a Silver Box continues to explore the cosmic questions entertainingly discussed in his Crosstown to Oblivion. From life's meaning to the nature of good and evil, Mosley takes listeners on a speculative journey beyond reality. In Inside a Silver Box, two people brought together by a horrific act are united in a common cause by the powers of the Silver Box.

The Silent History

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 1 min)
• By Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, Kevin Moffett
• Narrated By Gabra Zackman, LJ Ganser

It begins as a statistical oddity: a spike in children born with acute speech delays. Physically normal in every way, these children never speak and do not respond to speech; they don't learn to read, don't learn to write. As the number of cases grows to an epidemic level, theories spread. Maybe it's related to a popular antidepressant; maybe it's environmental. Or maybe these children have special skills all their own.

Bound by Flames: Night Prince, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Jeaniene Frost
• Narrated By Tavia Gilbert

Leila's years on the carnie circuit were certainly an education. What she didn't learn: how to be a vampire, or how to be married to the most famous vampire of them all. Adjusting to both has Leila teetering on a knife edge between passion and peril, and now the real danger is about to begin...

Z14: Zombie Rules, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 8 mins)
• By David Achord
• Narrated By Graham Halstead

Zach Gunderson and his friends have carved out a life for themselves in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by zombies. But survival is a daily struggle. In addition to frequent encounters with hostile humans, Zach has discovered something very sinister about the zombies.

Scepters: Corean Chronicles, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (28 hrs and 52 mins)
• By L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
• Narrated By Kyle McCarley

Alucius is happy to be back on his nightsheep stead with his beloved wife Wendra, who is expecting their first child. But the country is beset by enemies on all sides. Although the Lord Protector of Lanachrona keeps his promise not to order Alucius back to active duty, Alucius finds his request for help no easier to ignore.

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?

The City Stained Red

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Sam Sykes
• Narrated By David DeSantos

Step up to the gates. After years in the wilds, Lenk and his companions have come to the city that serves as the world's beating heart. The great charnel house where men die surer than any wilderness. They've come to claim payment for creatures slain, blood spilled at the behest of a powerful holy man. And Lenk has come to lay down his sword for good. But this is no place to escape demons.

Stars & Stripes Forever: A Novel of Alternate History

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Harry Harrison
• Narrated By Robin Bloodworth

In a war room in Washington, William Tecumseh Sherman and General Robert E. Lee huddle together and plan their next, joint military operation. In the jungles of Mexico, Ulysses S. Grant is locked in brutal combat with the best of the British Army. And in the heart of the new American South a fragile peace is threatened...

Deadeye: The Mutant Files, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 47 mins)
• By William C. Dietz
• Narrated By Christina Delaine

In the year 2038, an act of bioengineered terrorism decimated humanity. Those who survived were either completely unaffected or developed horrible mutations. Across the globe, nations are now divided between areas populated by “norms” and lands run by "mutants" - Detective Cassandra Lee of Los Angeles's Special Investigative Section has built a fierce reputation taking down some of the city's most notorious criminals.

Man with the Iron Heart: The Donner Grimm Adventures, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Mat Nastos
• Narrated By Ewan MacRae

Dropped into the heart of Nazi-occupied Prague on a mission to kill its leader, Ian MacAndrew finds himself thrust into a battle of myth and legend itself. With the marble-skinned warrior Donner Grimm at his side, MacAndrew must face off against necromancers, Nazi berserkers, and the power of the demons known as the Jotnar, all vying to bring about Ragnarok and the end of humanity.

Shadowline: Starfishers, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Glen Cook
• Narrated By Oliver Wyman

The vendetta in space had started centuries before "Mouse" Storm was born, with his grandfather's raid on the planet Prefactlas, the bloodbath that freed the human slaves from their Sangaree masters. But one Sangaree survived--the young Norborn heir, the man who swore vengeance on the Storm family and their soldiers,in a carefully mapped plot that would take generations to fulfill. Now Mouse's father, Gneaus, must fight for an El Dorado of wealth on the burning half of the planet Blackworld.

Star's End: Starfishers, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Glen Cook
• Narrated By Oliver Wyman

The Fortress on the edge of the galaxy was called Stars' End, a planet built for death, but by who? It lay on the outermost arm of the Milky Way, silent, cloaked in mystery, self-contained and controlled, tantalizingly close to the harvesting Starfishers. If they could gain control of that arsenal, the Starfishers would never need to fear the Confederation's navy or the forces of the human-like Sangaree. But intelligent life everywhere now needs the might of Stars' End--and the knowhow of agents Storm and BenRabi.

The Memory Machine

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Bryan Kollar
• Narrated By Steven Morgan

Meet Nathan Hickling aka Blake Stone, a modern day superhero. Blake is about to solve some of the major problems of today's world, problems like murders, robberies, rapes, and kidnappings. With his new invention, The Memory Machine, Blake can see crimes happening as if he is personally witnessing them, even though the crimes that happened may have been years in the past. No one can keep any memory hidden from Blake Stone.

Dark Star II

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Robert Stetson
• Narrated By Lynn Benson

Read the continuing adventures of Beryl Stone. Dark Star uses psychological methods, trickery, and technology to evoke justice while maintaining his secret identity. Humor, romance, action, adventure, suspense, danger, mystery.

An Apple a Day Keeps Murder Away: A Mellow Summers Paranormal Mystery, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Janet McNulty
• Narrated By Christy Crevier

Mel wakes up covered in blood and with a knife in her hand. She has no memory of what happened. Rachel gets word about it in the spirit world and decides to assist Mel. Now the prime suspect in a murder investigation, it is up to Mel's friends to prove her innocence.

The Hobbit

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 8 mins)
• By J. R. R. Tolkien
• Narrated By Rob Inglis
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?