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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Candice Millard
• Narrated By Paul Michael
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At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.

Nineteen Minutes

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Jodi Picoult
• Narrated By Carol Monda
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Jodi Picoult delivers the riveting tale of one small town's entanglement with high-school violence.

New York Superior Court Judge Alex Cormier is assigned to preside over the case of the alleged Sterling High School shooter. Lawyer Jordan McAffee represents Peter, the boy who, on the day of the shooting, was found in the corner of the gymnasium holding a gun to his head with a shaky hand. Detective Patrick DuCharme has one star witness, but her story keeps changing. And then there's the biggest problem of all: the star witness happens to be Judge Cormier's daughter.

The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Fred Siegel
• Narrated By Brian Emerson

In the first post-9/11 account of the career of the man who established himself as "America's Mayor" in the dark days after America was attacked, Fred Siegel shows how Rudy Giuliani's successes in New York set a promising example for the rejuvenation of our major cities.

The Lincoln Lawyer

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Michael Connelly
• Narrated By Adam Grupper
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Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense pro who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, to defend clients at the bottom of the legal food chain. It's no wonder that he is despised by cops, prosecutors, and even some of his own clients. But an investigator is murdered for getting too close to the truth and Haller quickly discovers that his search for innocence has taken him face to face with a kind of evil as pure as a flame.

Her Father's House

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Belva Plain
• Narrated By Karen White

Her Father's House is Belva Plain's most powerful and unforgettable novel yet. Donald Wolfe, a young lawyer, arrives in New York City. Idealistic and ambitious, he marries Lillian out of infatuation and little else. Their marriage is shaky, but they have a child, Tina, and for her, Donald would give up everything. When his flawed marriage begins to fail, he must consider a step that would force him into flight and a life of hiding.

The Preservationist

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 34 mins)
• By David Maine
• Narrated By Barbara Rosenblat, Tyler Bunch, Full Cast
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In this brilliant debut novel, Noah's family (or Noe, as he's called here), his wife, sons, and daughters-in-law, tell what it's like to live with a man touched by God, while struggling against events that cannot be controlled or explained. When Noe orders his sons to build an ark, he can't tell them where the wood will come from. When he sends his daughters-in-law out to gather animals, he can offer no directions, money, or protection.

So B. It

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Sarah Weeks
• Narrated By Cherry Jones
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You couldn't really tell about Mama's brain just from looking at her, but it was obvious as soon as she spoke. She had a high voice, like a little girl's, and she only knew 23 words. I know this for a fact, because we kept a list of the things Mama said tacked to the inside of the kitchen cabinet. Most of the words were common ones, like good and more and hot, but there was one word only my mother said, soof.

Shadow Divers: Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of WWII

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Robert Kurson
• Narrated By Michael Prichard
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In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat, complete with its crew of 60 men, not too far off the New Jersey coast. The divers, realizing the momentousness of their discovery, began probing the mystery. Over the next six years, they became expert and well-traveled researchers, taught themselves German, hunted for clues in Germany, and constructed theories corrective of the history books, all in an effort to identify this sunken U-boat and its crew.

Company Man

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Joseph Finder
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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Nick Conover, the son of a factory worker, is the CEO of a major corporation in a company town. Nick, once the most admired man in Fenwick, Michigan, is now, having presided over massive layoffs, the most despised. A single parent since the recent death of his wife, he's struggling to insulate his 10-year-old daughter and angry 16-year-old son from the town's hostility.

The Egyptologist

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Arthur Phillips
• Narrated By Gianfranco Negroponte, Simon Prebble, Gerard Doyle, and others

Howard Carter has just made one of the great discoveries of all time, the unveiling of Tutankhamun's tomb. At the same time, Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush finds himself in a slightly less spectacular position. He has staked everything on a scrap of hieroglyphic pornography. Halfway around the world, an Australian detective sets off on a globetrotting quest to find a murderer. Or two. Or three. These events, seemingly unrelated, are about to collide in a spectacular yet utterly unpredictable fashion.