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The Magician's Guild: The Black Magician Trilogy: Book One

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Trudi Canavan
• Narrated By Richard Aspel
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Sonea is caught up in a confrontation between the hated Guild magicians and the angry youth of the slums. To her dismay, she discovers that she possesses the same powers as the reviled magicians. To avoid capture, she must seek protection from the city's feared underworld, The Thieves. In return, she must use her powers for them, but her magic never seems to do quite what she intends it to.

Sufficient Grace

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Darnell Arnoult
• Narrated By Cynthia Darlow

Gracie Hollaman finally decides to follow the voices in her head. She leaves behind her family for the small African-American town of Rockrun to join Mama Toot and Mattie. Together, the three will learn to shed their pasts to begin life anew.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
• Narrated By Paul Baymer, Susan Dewidan, Roselyn Landor, and others

Why we think it’s a great listen: The best book club you’ve never heard of – but will be eager to join, courtesy of a full cast of true characters. January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb....

The Art of Racing in the Rain

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Garth Stein
• Narrated By Christopher Evan Welch
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Why we think it’s a great listen: If you’ve ever loved a dog - or even patted a dog - this book, told from the perspective of man’s best friend, will tug at your heartstrings...and won’t let go until long after Welch performs the last word. Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively and by listening very closely to the words of his master.

First Family

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 35 mins)
• By David Baldacci
• Narrated By Ron McLarty
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Camp David, USA. A birthday party turns into a nightmare when a child is snatched after the celebrations. The First Lady enlists the services of Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to bring the child home safely. But she and King share a past. Years ago he saved her then senator husband from political disaster. And this may not be all that passed between them. With Michelle still battling her own demons, the two are pushed to the limit, with forces aligned on all sides against them.

Peony in Love: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Lisa See
• Narrated By Janet Song

For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green tea, and jasmine, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera, a live spectacle few females have ever seen. Like the heroine in the drama, Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family, trapped like a good-luck cricket in a bamboo-and-lacquer cage.

Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Alison Goodman
• Narrated By Nancy Wu
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Twelve-year-old Eon has been training for years. His intensive study of Dragon Magic, based on Oriental astrology, involves two kinds of skills: sword-work and magical aptitude. He and his master hope that he will be chosen as a Dragoneye - an apprentice to one of the 12 energy dragons of good fortune.

But Eon has a dangerous secret. He is actually Eona, a 16-year-old girl who has been masquerading as a 12-year-old boy for the chance to become a Dragoneye.

Ender's Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison

Why we think it’s a great listen: It’s easy to say that when it comes to sci-fi you either love it or you hate it. But with Ender’s Game, it seems to be you either love it or you love it.... The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Enter Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the result of decades of genetic experimentation.

The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Diane Setterfield
• Narrated By Bianca Amato, Jill Tanner
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

All children mythologize their birth... So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's beloved collection of stories, long famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale. The enigmatic Winter has always kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old and ailing, she summons a biographer to tell the truth about her extraordinary life: Margaret Lea, a young woman for whom the secret of her own birth remains an ever-present pain.

Changelings: Twins of Petaybee, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• Narrated By Robert Ramirez

Nebula Award-winning duo Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough add another thrilling chapter to their sweeping Petaybee saga with Changelings. Yana and Sean are beside themselves with joy over the arrival of their twins Ronan and Murel. But the children's shape-changing abilities attract unwanted attention from an off-world scientist. Now Yana and Sean will do anything to protect their precocious youths from danger.