Mobilis

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Mary Roach
• Narrated By Sandra Burr

Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? Have sex? Smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk? Is it possible for the human body to survive a bailout at 17,000 miles per hour?

In the Woods

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Tana French
• Narrated By Steven Crossley
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children, unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.

Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a 12-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery.

The Passage

• UNABRIDGED (36 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Justin Cronin
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Adenrele Ojo, Abby Craden
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.

Room: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Emma Donoghue
• Narrated By Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff, and others
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, but what she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.

13 Bullets: A Vampire Tale

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 24 mins)
• By David Wellington
• Narrated By Bernadette Dunne

All the official reports say they are dead—extinct since the late ’80s, when a fed named Arkeley nailed the last vampire in a fight that nearly killed him. But Arkeley knows what most people don’t: there is one left. In an abandoned asylum she is rotting, plotting, and biding her time in a way that only the undead can. When state trooper Laura Caxton calls the FBI looking for help in the middle of the night, it is Arkeley who gets the assignment.

Mount Dragon

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
• Narrated By David Colacci
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Guy Carson is a brilliant scientist at GeneDyne, one of the world's foremost biochemical companies. When he is transferred to Mount Dragon, GeneDyne's high-security genetic engineering lab, his good fortune seems too good to be true.

Carson soon finds that it is. He learns that GeneDyne geneticists are tinkering with a common virus with an eye on the enormous profit to be had from a cure for the flu. Their cure involves permanently altering DNA in humans. What's more, Mount Dragon harbors another secret that puts the world at horrifying risk.

The Boleyn Inheritance

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Philippa Gregory
• Narrated By Lucy Scott, Emma Powell, Candida Gubbins

It is 1539, and the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful at the moods of the ageing, sickly king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry has to take another wife. The dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves, who has her own reasons for agreeing to marry a man old enough to be her father. Although fascinated by the glamour of her new surroundings, Anne senses a trap closing around her.

All About Vee

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs)
• By C. Leigh Purtill
• Narrated By Stephanie Wolf

Veronica May ("Big Vee") is a bubbly, gorgeous, confident, 18-year-old theater actress from Chester, Arizona. She also weighs 200 pounds. She puts off college, her life, and her questions about her mother's death 12 years earlier to care for her widowed father. Then, Daddy announces that he's going to remarry and Veronica feels replaced. She decides, then and there, it's time for Big Vee to shine!

Train Man

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 20 mins)
• By P. T. Deutermann
• Narrated By Bruce Reizen

Only six major rail bridges cross the Mississippi River and connect one half of our country to the other. When one of them collapses as a freight train is crossing, the FBI sends agents Hush Hanson and Carolyn Lang to investigate. Hush and Carolyn suspect a bomb, but there are no clues to suggest who planted it.

Killer Instinct

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Joseph Finder
• Narrated By Scott Brick
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Jason Steadman is a 30-year-old sales executive living in Boston and working for an electronics giant, a competitor to Sony and Panasonic. He's a witty, charismatic guy who's well liked at the office, but he lacks the "killer instinct" necessary to move up the corporate ladder. To the chagrin of his ambitious wife, it looks as if his career has hit a ceiling. Jason's been sidelined.