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Cutting for Stone: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Abraham Verghese
• Narrated By Sunil Malhotra
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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics - their passion for the same woman - that will tear them apart.

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Jeannette Walls
• Narrated By Jeannette Walls
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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination. Rose Mary painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing for her family; she called herself an "excitement addict."

Second Glance

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Jodi Picoult
• Narrated By George Guidall

An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it's a burial ground. When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there's nothing spiritual about the property.

The God of the Hive: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Laurie R. King
• Narrated By Jenny Sterlin
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New York Times best-selling author Laurie R. King enjoys immense popularity and a resounding chorus of critical acclaim for her exquisite mysteries. The God of the Hive continues the thread King began in The Language of Bees, in which Mary Russell and her famous husband, Sherlock Holmes, face trouble with Scotland Yard and the deadliest of adversaries.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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Dorian Gray, a handsome and narcissistic young man, lives thoughtlessly for his own pleasure. One day, after having his portrait painted, Dorian makes a frivolous Faustian wish: that he should always remain as young and beautiful as he is in that painting, while the portrait grows old in his stead.

The wish comes true, and Dorian soon finds that none of his wicked actions have visible consequences. Realizing that he will appear fresh and unspoiled no matter what kind of life he lives, Dorian becomes increasingly corrupt. Only the portrait grows degenerate and ugly, a powerful symbol of Dorian's internal ruin.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: The Millennium Trilogy, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Stieg Larsson
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority.

Presumed Innocent

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Scott Turow
• Narrated By Edward Herrmann
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Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of crimes. Prosecutor Rusty Sabich is transformed from accuser to accused when he is handed an explosive case - that of the brutal murder of a woman who happens to be his former lover.

The Painted Veil

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 19 mins)
• By W. Somerset Maugham
• Narrated By Kate Reading
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First published in 1925, The Painted Veil is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive. Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, it is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to a remote region of China ravaged by a cholera epidemic.

The Fifth Woman: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Henning Mankell
• Narrated By Dick Hill
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In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered, and the death of the unknown woman is covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two strange murders with an elusive connection to the fifth woman.

The Poisonwood Bible

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Barbara Kingsolver
• Narrated By Dean Robertson
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The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them all they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil.