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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Mary Roach
• Narrated By Shelly Frasier
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For two thousand years, cadavers have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.

Pawn of Prophecy: The Belgariad, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 25 mins)
• By David Eddings
• Narrated By Cameron Beierle

Long ago, so the Storyteller claimed, the evil god Torak sought dominion and drove men and Gods to war. But Belgrath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected the West. So long as it lay at Riva, the prophecy went, men would be safe. That was only a story, and Garion did not believe in magic dooms, even though the man without a shadow had haunted him for years.

Dark Prince: Dark Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Christine Feehan
• Narrated By Juanita Parker

Mikhail Dubrinsky is the prince of his people, the Carpathians. But they are dying out, falling prey to vampires or are choosing the soulless life. Mikhail is no longer sure he can bear the bleak future laid before him. The only thing that can add light to his life, can relieve his terrible loneliness, is to find a life mate. But he has given up believing one exists. He vents his centuries-old despair in an anguished cry that fills the waning night. And then, incredibly, a life-saving voice answers him.

Traitor's Moon: Nightrunner, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Lynn Flewelling
• Narrated By Raymond Todd

Master spies Seregil and Alec are no strangers to peril. Their assignments, night running for wizards and nobles, have led them into many deadly situations. But sometimes the greatest danger can lurk beneath a traitor's moon.

Taliesin: The Pendragon Cycle, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Stephen R. Lawhead
• Narrated By Wanda McCaddon

It was a time of legend, the last shadows of the mighty Roman conqueror faded from the captured Isle of Britain. While, across a vast sea, bloody war shattered a peace that had flourished for 2,000 years in the doomed kingdom of Atlantis. This is the remarkable adventure of Charis, the courageous princess from Atlantis who escapes the terrible devastation of her land, and of the fabled seer and druid prince Taliesin, singer at the dawn of the age. It is a story of an incomparable love that joins two astonishing worlds....

Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 4

• ABRIDGED (5 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Nana Visitor

Anil's Ghost

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Michael Ondaatje
• Narrated By Alan Cumming
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Anil Tissera is a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to work with local Sri Lankan officials to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. Bodies are discovered. Skeletons. And particularly one, nicknamed "Sailor." What follows is a story about love, family, and identity, about the unknown enemy and the quest to unlock the hidden past - all propelled by a riveting mystery.

Lost Boys

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki

Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children move to Steuben, North Carolina, with high hopes. But Step's new job with a software company turns out to be a snake pit, and 8-year-old Stevie's school is worse. As Stevie retreats into himself, focusing more and more on a mysterious computer game and a growing troop of imaginary friends, the Fletchers' concern turns to terror.

Rising From the Plains: Annals of the Former World, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 32 mins)
• By John McPhee
• Narrated By Nelson Runger

Rising From the Plains takes McPhee to the high country of Utah along the Continental Divide. His guide is David Love, "the grand old man of Rocky Mountain geology". Helping McPhee see the physical changes that have shaped this region over millions of years, Love also traces his own family's history in this oil-rich, windswept land.

In Suspect Terrain: Annals of the Former World, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 30 mins)
• By John McPhee
• Narrated By Nelson Runger

John McPhee's Pulitzer Prize-winning Annals of the Former World takes readers on mind-expanding adventures in geology. In the first book, Basin and Range, McPhee traveled to Nevada with a proponent of plate techtonics. Now, an engaging sceptic working for the United States Geological Survey is his guide to some of eastern America's most fascinating geologic formations.

Basin and Range: Annals of the Former World, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 56 mins)
• By John McPhee
• Narrated By Nelson Runger

To geologists, rocks are beautiful, roadcuts are windowpanes, and the earth is alive, a work in progress. The cataclysmic movement that gives birth to mountains and oceans is ongoing and can still be seen at certain places on our planet. One of these is the Basin and Range region centered in Nevada and Utah.