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The Botany of Desire

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Michael Pollan
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers' genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship.

The Jungle Effect: The Healthiest Diets from Around the World - Why They Work and How to Make Them Work for You

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Daphne Miller, M.D., Andrew Weil, M.D. (foreword)
• Narrated By Heather Hathaway
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Daphne Miller, M.D., travels around the world in search of native cuisines to address the Western ailments that plague her patients. This exciting culinary adventure reveals the health and well-being benefits of eating a less processed, more natural diet and how one can incorporate native foods into everyday living.

1Q84

• UNABRIDGED (46 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (translator), Philip Gabriel (translator)
• Narrated By Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....

The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 33 mins)
• By David J. Linden
• Narrated By Sean Pratt
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A leading brain scientist's look at the neurobiology of pleasure-and how pleasures can become addictions. Whether eating, taking drugs, engaging in sex, or doing good deeds, the pursuit of pleasure is a central drive of the human animal. In The Compass of Pleasure Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David J. Linden explains how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level: in our brain.

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Malcolm Gladwell
• Narrated By Malcolm Gladwell
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In The Tipping Point, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in society happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave, or a satisfied customer fill the empty tables of a new restaurant. These are social epidemics, and the moment when they take off, when they reach their critical mass, is the Tipping Point.

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
• Narrated By Bill O'Reilly
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The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history—how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of increasingly harrowing battles. President Abraham Lincoln's generous terms for Robert E. Lee's surrender are devised to fulfill Lincoln's dream of healing a divided nation. But one man and his band of murderous accomplices are not appeased....

Bossypants

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Tina Fey
• Narrated By Tina Fey
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Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey's story can be told....

The Help

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Kathryn Stockett
• Narrated By Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and others
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Why we think it’s a great listen: The most celebrated performance in all of Audible’s history, The Help has nearly 2,000 5-star reviews from your fellow listeners. We hear the print book’s not bad, either. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another.

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

• UNABRIDGED (26 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
• Narrated By Jeff Cummings

J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Richard P. Feynman
• Narrated By Raymond Todd
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With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife of a Princeton dean to remark, "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" But the many scientific and personal achievements of this Nobel Prize-winning physicist are no laughing matter. Here, woven with his scintillating views on modern science, Feynman relates the defining moments of his accomplished life.