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Between Good and Evil: A Master Profiler's Hunt for Society's Most Violent Predators

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Roger L. Depue, Susan Schindehette
• Narrated By Paul Michael

In this first-person account of becoming the FBI's top serial-killer hunter and a member of a religious order in an attempt to discern the true nature of good and evil, Roger L. Depue searches for an understanding of how evil develops. Between Good and Evil is Depue's look back at a life spent apprehending criminals, especially serial killers, first as a small-town police chief, then an FBI-SWAT team member, Behavioral Sciences Unit chief, and a developer of revolutionary law enforcement programs.

Harsh Cry of the Heron: The Last Tale of the Otori

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Lian Hearn
• Narrated By Julia Fletcher, Henri Lubatti
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

16 years of peace and prosperity have passed since Lord Otori Takeo united the Three Countries. Takeo and his beloved consort, Kaede, have three daughters and a happy family life. Their success has attracted the attention of the distant Emperor and his general, the warlord Saga Hideki, who covet the wealth of the Countries. Meanwhile, the violent acts and betrayals of the past will not lie buried, and other secrets will not stay hidden. Everything that Takeo and Kaede have achieved is threatened.

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Julian Rubinstein
• Narrated By Eric Bogosian, Demetri Martin, Tommy Ramone, and others

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber tells the hilarious and improbable true story of Attila Ambrus, the Robin Hood of Eastern Europe. He's the onetime pelt smugger, goaltender (possibly the worst in the history of pro hockey), pen salesman, Zamboni driver, gravedigger, church painter, roulette addict, building superintendent, whiskey drinker, and native of Transylvania who's decided that the best thing to do with his time is to rob as many banks as possible.

Gone

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Jonathan Kellerman
• Narrated By John Rubinstein

It's a story tailor-made for the nightly news: Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of them are found in the remote mountains of Malibu, battered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor.

Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 3 mins)
• By John Grogan
• Narrated By John Grogan

John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wriggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same.

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Simon Winchester
• Narrated By Simon Winchester

The international best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive force.

Broken for You

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Stephanie Kallos
• Narrated By Anna Fields
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

When we meet septuagenarian Margaret Hughes, she is living alone in a mansion in Seattle with only a massive collection of valuable antiques for company. Enter Wanda Schultz, a young woman with a broken heart who has come to Seattle to search for her wayward boyfriend. Both women are guarding dark secrets and have spent many years building up protective armor against the outside world.

The Palace Tiger

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Barbara Cleverly
• Narrated By Terry Wale

India 1922. When a tiger, turned man-eater, starts terrorizing the northern villages of Ranipur, Governor Sir George Jardine dispatches Joe Sandilands, war hero and Scotland Yard detective, to join in a hunt for the beast as the guest of the maharajah. But Joe's suspicions are soon roused about the true nature of his trip.

The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Jacques Pepin
• Narrated By Michel Chevalier

In this captivating memoir, the man whom Julia Child has called "the best chef in America" tells the story of his rise from a frightened apprentice in an exacting Old World kitchen to an Emmy Award-winning superstar who taught millions of Americans how to cook and shaped the nation's tastes in the bargain.

The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 41 mins)
• By David M. Buss
• Narrated By Michael Prichard
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

As acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, "People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils never forget." Though we may like to believe that murderers are pathological misfits and hardened criminals, the vast majority of murders are committed by people who, until the day they kill, would seem to be perfectly normal.

Tender at the Bone

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs)
• By Ruth Reichl
• Narrated By Ruth Reichl