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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Narrated By Stephen Hoye
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Written by cancer physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies is a stunning combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that transforms our understanding of cancer and much of the world around us. Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a novelist's richness of detail, a historian's range, and a biographer's passion.

Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Maria Semple
• Narrated By Kathleen Wilhoite
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Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.

Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle - and people in general - has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands.

Run

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Ann Patchett
• Narrated By Peter Francis James
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Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children, all of his children, safe.

On Chesil Beach

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Ian McEwan
• Narrated By Ian McEwan
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It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come.

Getting Rid of Matthew

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Jane Fallon
• Narrated By Adjoa Andoh

What to do if Matthew, your secret lover, finally decides to leave his wife and move in, just when you're thinking that you might not want him anymore? Plan A: stop shaving your armpits; stop having sex with him; pick holes in the way he dresses; don't brush your teeth, or your hair. Plan B: accidentally on purpose, bump into his wife; give yourself a fake name and identity; befriend her; actually begin to really like her; befriend Matthew's children. Watch your whole plan go absolutely, horribly wrong.

The Flamenco Academy

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Sarah Bird
• Narrated By Alyssa Bresnahan

Rae's life falls apart when her father dies of cancer and her mother joins a religious cult. The only person who understands Rae is local bad girl Didi, who is experiencing a similar loss. Both girls fall in love with handsome flamenco guitarist Tomás Montenegro, whose aunt teaches at the university's flamenco academy. Rae and Didi take the class and become obsessed with the dance.