The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 11 mins)
• By James D. Watson
• Narrated By Grover Gardner, Roger Clark
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By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only 24, a young scientist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science's greatest mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of brilliant scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions, and bitter rivalries.

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.

Orphan Train: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Christina Baker Kline
• Narrated By Jessica Almasy, Suzanne Toren
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Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to "aging out" out of the foster care system. A community-service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren’t as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.

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 Atlantis Plague: The Origin Mystery, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 7 mins)
• By A. G. Riddle
• Narrated By Stephen Bel Davies

In Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead--and those the Atlantis Plague doesn't kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve. As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge. Industrialized nations offer a miracle drug, Orchid, which they mass produce and distribute to refugee camps around the world. But Orchid is merely a way to buy time. It treats the symptoms of the plague but never actually cures the disease.

First to Kill

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Andrew Peterson
• Narrated By Dick Hill
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When you're the best at what you do, it's not always easy to walk away. Nathan McBride was retired. The trained Marine sniper and covert CIA operative had put the violence of his former life behind him. But not anymore. A deep-cover FBI agent has disappeared along with one ton of powerful Semtex explosive, enough to unleash a disaster of international proportions. The U.S. government has no choice but to coax Nathan out of retirement.

The Things They Carried

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Tim O'Brien
• Narrated By Bryan Cranston
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Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

The Serpent's Shadow: Elemental Masters

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Mercedes Lackey
• Narrated By Michelle Ford
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From the magical mysteries of India to the gaslit streets of Victorian London, Mercedes Lackey's unique departure from her Valdemar series follows a young woman doctor as she searches for the secret behind the sorcery in her blood.

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Eric H. Cline
• Narrated By Andy Caploe
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In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh’s army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians.

Dead Eye: A Gray Man Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Mark Greaney
• Narrated By Jay Snyder
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Ex-CIA master assassin Court Gentry has always prided himself on his ability to disappear at will, to fly below the radar and exist in the shadows - to survive as the near-mythical Gray Man. But when he takes revenge upon a former employer who betrayed him, he exposes himself to something he’s never had to face before. A killer who is just like him. Code-named Dead Eye, Russell Whitlock is a graduate of the same ultra-secret Autonomous Asset Program that trained and once controlled Gentry.

The Great Gatsby

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 49 mins)
• By F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Narrated By Jake Gyllenhaal
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel of the Roaring Twenties is beloved by generations of readers and stands as his crowning work. This new audio edition, authorized by the Fitzgerald estate, is narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain). Gyllenhaal's performance is a faithful delivery in the voice of Nick Carraway, the Midwesterner turned New York bond salesman, who rents a small house next door to the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby....

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Brene Brown
• Narrated By Lauren Fortgang
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Each day we face a barrage of images and messages from society and the media telling us who, what, and how we should be. We are led to believe that if we could only look perfect and lead perfect lives, we'd no longer feel inadequate. So most of us perform, please, and perfect, all the while thinking, What if I can't keep all of these balls in the air? Why isn't everyone else working harder and living up to my expectations? What will people think if I fail or give up? When can I stop proving myself?

Dead Six

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Larry Correia, Mike Kupari
• Narrated By Bronson Pinchot
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Michael Valentine, veteran and former member of an elite private military company, has been recruited by the government to conduct a secret counter-terror operation in the Persian Gulf nation of Zubara. The unit is called Dead Six. Their mission is to take the fight to the enemy and not get caught. Lorenzo, assassin and thief extraordinaire, is being blackmailed by the world's most vicious crime lord. His team has to infiltrate the Zubaran terrorist network and pull off an impossible heist or his family will die.

Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 45 mins)
• By John Payne (translator)
• Narrated By Bernard Cetaro Clark
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The original story of Aladdin is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It concerns an impoverished young man named Aladdin. He is recruited by a sorcerer from the Maghreb, who passes himself off as the brother of Aladdin's late father and convinces Aladdin and his mother of his goodness by making arrangements to set up the lad as a wealthy merchant. His real motive is to persuade young Aladdin to retrieve a wonderful oil lamp from a booby-trapped magic cave.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Signature Performance by Elijah Wood

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Mark Twain
• Narrated By Elijah Wood
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A Signature Performance: Elijah Wood becomes the first narrator to bring a youthful voice and energy to the story, perhaps making it the closest interpretation to Twain’s original intent.

Steelheart

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Brandon Sanderson
• Narrated By Macleod Andrews
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Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his wills. Nobody fights the Epics...nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them. And David wants in. He wants Steelheart - the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David's father.

Winter is Coming: Symbols and Hidden Meanings in A Game of Thrones

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Valerie Estelle Frankel
• Narrated By Oliver Wyman

Game of Thrones fans watch in delight as the epic battle of Lannister and Stark entangles the Seven Kingdoms. But only the sharpest notice how these houses echo Lancaster and York in the War of the Roses. Druids, Catholics, and even Zoroastrians wander through Westeros, reframing their religions for a new world of fantasy. But how medieval is Westeros? Did lady knights and pirates really battle across Europe? The audiobook Winter is Coming: Symbols and Hidden Meanings in A Game of Thrones explores all this and more, from the echoes of history to the symbols and omens our beloved characters.

Tied with Me: With Me in Seattle, Book 6

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Kristen Proby
• Narrated By Jennifer Mack
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A man whose lifestyle is so different from her own…Nic Dalton’s cupcake bakery is thriving. She serves both rock stars and locals alike, content with her growing business. But one adventurous night out with her best friend, Bailey, turns her life upside down. She meets a handsome stranger who makes her skin sizzle and her heart race. Their one night together is explosive and unexpected, but when he has to suddenly leave without taking her phone number, Nic resigns herself to never seeing him again.…What will it take to trust and submit to his every desire?

Come Away with Me

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Kristen Proby
• Narrated By Jennifer Mack
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Being confronted on the beach by a sexy stranger wasn't part of Natalie Conner's plans for a peaceful morning taking photos. And why on earth would he think she's taking pictures of him, anyway? Who is he? One thing’s for sure, he’s hot, and incredibly romantic, feeding Natalie’s wounded soul.

On Target: A Gray Man Novel

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Mark Greaney
• Narrated By Jay Snyder
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Four years ago, assassin Court Gentry was betrayed by his handlers in the CIA. Now, an old comrade returns to haunt him - and to force him on a mission against his will. With his ruthless employers on one side, his former friends on the other, and a doomed mission ahead, Court Gentry would kill to get out of this one alive.