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John Adams

• ABRIDGED (9 hrs and 53 mins)
• By David McCullough
• Narrated By Edward Herrmann

With the sweep and vitality of a great novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough presents the enthralling story of John Adams. This is history on a grand scale - an audiobook about politics, war, and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Read by History Channel host Edward Herrmann!

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Ben Macintyre
• Narrated By John Lee

As plans got under way for the Allied invasion of Sicily in June 1943, British counter-intelligence agent Ewen Montagu masterminded a scheme to mislead the Germans into thinking the next landing would occur in Greece. This extraordinary operation called for a dead body, dressed as a Royal Marine officer and carrying false information about a pending Allied invasion of Greece, to wash up on a Spanish shore near the town of a known Nazi agent.

Death Match

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Lincoln Child
• Narrated By Barret Whitener
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The Thorpes were the perfect couple: young, attractive, and ideally matched. But the veil of perfection can mask many secrets. When the Thorpes are found dead in their tasteful Flagstaff living room, having committed double-suicide, alarms go off in the executive offices of Eden, Incorporated, the worldwide matchmaking phenomenon that uses its astonishing artificial intelligence to create supercouples and guarantee its customers just one thing: lifelong happiness.

Fuzzy Navel: A Jacqueline 'Jack' Daniels Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 12 mins)
• By J. A. Konrath
• Narrated By Susie Breck, Dick Hill
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Chicago policewoman Jack Daniels is back, and this time she's locked up in her mother's home, along with her fiancé, her mom, and one of the scariest psychos ever to escape from prison.

They're being held hostage by a group of vigilantes on a murderous spree, who have gone from killing bad guys to wanting to take down a cop. And the suspense is killing everyone.

Water for Elephants

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Sara Gruen
• Narrated By David LeDoux, John Randolph Jones
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Why we think it’s a great listen: Some books are meant to be read; others are meant to be heard – Water for Elephants falls into the second group, and is one of the best examples we have of how a powerful performance enhances a great story. Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.

The Devil Wears Prada

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Lauren Weisberger
• Narrated By Bernadette Dunne
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Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, is hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the successful editor of Runway magazine. Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts Prada! Armani! Versace! at every turn. As things escalate from the merely unacceptable to the downright outrageous, Andrea begins to realize that the job a million girls would die for may just kill her. And even if she survives, she has to decide whether the job is worth the price of her soul.

New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Bill Maher
• Narrated By Bill Maher

Bill Maher first came to national attention as the host of the hit Comedy Central and ABC-TV program Politically Incorrect, where he offered a combustible mixture of irreverence and acerbic humor that helped him to garner a loyal following, as well as a reputation for being a hilarious provocateur.

The Fala Factor

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Stuart M. Kaminsky
• Narrated By Tom Parker

The year is 1942, and Eleanor Roosevelt is convinced that there is an imposter in the White House masquerading as Fala, FDR¿s prized Scottie. Positive that a shady veterinarian has absconded with the genuine pooch, Eleanor turns for help to that much-battered and near penniless private eye: Toby Peters.

State of Fear

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Michael Crichton
• Narrated By John Bedford Lloyd

Once again Michael Crichton gives us his trademark combination of page-turning suspense, cutting-edge technology, and extraordinary research. State of Fear is a superb blend of edge-of-your-seat suspense and thought provoking commentary on how information is manipulated in the modern world.

A Morbid Taste for Bones: The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Ellis Peters
• Narrated By Johanna Ward

Brother Cadfael is on a mission to his Welsh homeland to help obtain the bones of Saint Winifred, which now rest in a small village grave. The villagers are loath to part with the relics of a martyr said to have miraculous powers, but before an agreement can be reached, the one villager most outspoken in his dissent is found murdered. Carefully, kindly, and with cunning enough to please any mystery fan, the good monk sets out to solve his first case.