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The Ruby in the Smoke: Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Philip Pullman
• Narrated By Anton Lesser

In search of clues to the mystery of her father's death, 16-year-old Sally Lockhart ventures into the shadowy underworld of Victorian London. Pursued by villains at every turn, the intrepid Sally finally uncovers two dark mysteries, and realizes that she herself is the key to both.

I Don't Know How She Does It

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Allison Pearson
• Narrated By Juliet Aubrey

Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. She can juggle nine different currencies in five different time zones and get herself and two children washed and dressed and out of the house in half an hour. A victim of time famine, Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. As she hurtles between appointments, a manipulative nanny, a long-suffering husband, and e-mail lover, you have a woman juggling so many balls that some day soon something's going to hit the ground.

Holes

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Louis Sachar
• Narrated By Kerry Beyer
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Stanley Yelnats isn't so surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a juvenile detention center. After all, his family has been ridden with bad luck ever since a one-legged gypsy put a curse on his great-great grandfather. He is told that the hard labor he must perform, digging five-foot holes in the dried up soil where Green Lake once sat, is meant to build character. But it soon becomes clear to Stanley that the warden is really using the boys to search for something very valuable.

Death in Holy Orders

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs)
• By P.D. James
• Narrated By Charles Keating
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Atop a sweep of low cliffs stands the small theological college of St. Anselm's. Not far away, smothered beneath a fall of sand, lies the body of one of the school's young ordinands. When Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to investigate the death, the college is torn apart by another death, a sacrilegious and horrifying murder.

The Woman in White

• UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Wilkie Collins
• Narrated By various

Eragon: The Inheritance Cycle, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Christopher Paolini
• Narrated By Gerard Doyle
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself.

A Christmas Carol [Listening Library Version]

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs)
• By Charles Dickens
• Narrated By Jim Dale
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This is Jim Dale's incomparable telling of the beloved A Christmas Carol, a "little book," as Charles Dickens himself called it, which has been treasured by generations since December of 1843. Listeners of all ages will be enthralled as they meet for the first time, or are reunited with, that miser of all misers, Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge.

The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Philip Pullman
• Narrated By Philip Pullman, full cast
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When Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon decide to spy on a presentation her uncle, the commanding Lord Asriel, is making to the elders of Jordan College they have no idea that they will become witnesses to an attempted murder, and even less that they are taking the first steps in a journey that will lead them into danger and adventure unlike anything Lyra's unfettered imagination has conjured up.

Bleak House

• UNABRIDGED (33 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Charles Dickens
• Narrated By Simon Vance

First published in monthly parts from March 1852 to September 1853, this novel follows the fortunes of three pedestrian characters; Esther Summerson, Ada Clare, and Richard Carstone. The story they tell embondies Dickens' merciless indictment of the Court of Chancery and its bungling, morally corrupt handling of the endless case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, giving the novel its scope and meaning.