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The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 26 mins)
• By James Surowiecki
• Narrated By Grover Gardner
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In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant. Groups are better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.

Magic Time: Angelfire

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Marc Scott Zicree
• Narrated By Mark Bramhall, Anne Marie Lee, Robertson Dean, and others
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The world has changed forever. Across America, technology has been eclipsed by magic, and people are changing into the embodiments of their darkest desires and deepest fears. In this new time, former lawyer Cal Griffin has united a small group of outcasts to battle the chaos.

Classical Music 101

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Fred Plotkin
• Narrated By Fred Plotkin

In clear and entertaining prose, Plotkin explores a thousand years of music, introduces listeners to more than 100 great works, and profiles in depth many significant composers, including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Dvoxak, and Mahler. He describes all the musical instruments in the orchestra, defines major musical terms, and makes music theory comprehensible for the uninitiated. There are also conversations with important musicians who offer fascinating insights about their art.

Ill Wind: An Anna Pigeon Novel

• ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Nevada Barr
• Narrated By Joanna Gleason

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 21 mins)
• By James W. Loewen
• Narrated By Brian Keeler

This national best seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students. Lies My Teacher Told Me won the American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship.

While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 29 mins)
• By John Marsden
• Narrated By Suzi Dougherty

The town of Wirrawee is emerging from war, slowly, like a flower after a cold snap. Businesses are starting to reopen, the school has re-commenced classes, and local farmers are gradually repossessing their land. But it's not the same Australia as before the war. A new nation exists just a few miles away, a new border that separates Australia from its invaders. Or does it?

Weeping

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Shelly Reuben
• Narrated By Anna Fields
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In the entire canon of tough-girl sleuths, gumshoes, PIs, detectives, and investigators, there's no one quite like Fritillary Quilter. A New York arson investigator, a sassy, fresh spirit with a nose for arson and an eye for dubious burn patterns, "Tilly" pushes the envelope of the traditional female investigator with a young, hip outlook and indefatigable zeal.

Gilbert and Sullivan Set Me Free

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Kathleen Karr
• Narrated By Carmen Viviano-Crafts, the Full Cast Family

Libby Dodge is in a place she's never been before: prison.

The Birchbark House

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Louise Erdrich
• Narrated By Nicolle Littrell

With exquisite care, National Book Critics Circle Award winner Louise Erdrich has fashioned a story rich in the way of life and heritage of the Ojibwa people, a story that begs to be told out loud. As each season in a year of Omakayas' life is lovingly portrayed, the satisfying rhythm of her days is shattered when a stranger visits the lodge one night, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever.

Wild Magic: The Immortals, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Tamora Pierce
• Narrated By Tamora Pierce
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When Daine comes down from the mountains, she carries with her two things: a dark secret about her own past, and a strangely powerful magic that even she doesn't understand.