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A Dirty Job

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Christopher Moore
• Narrated By Fisher Stevens
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People start dropping dead around Charlie, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death.

Cinnamon and Gunpowder: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Eli Brown
• Narrated By James Langton
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The year is 1819, and the renowned chef Owen Wedgwood has been kidnapped by the ruthless pirate Mad Hannah Mabbot. He will be spared, she tells him, as long as he puts exquisite food in front of her every Sunday without fail. To appease the red-haired captain, Wedgwood gets cracking with the meager supplies on board. His first triumph at sea is actual bread, made from a sourdough starter that he leavens in a tin under his shirt throughout a roaring battle, as men are cutlassed all around him. Soon he’s making tea-smoked eel and brewing pineapple-banana cider.

Dark Matter

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Michelle Paver
• Narrated By Jeremy Northam

January 1937. Jack Miller has just about run out of options. His shoes have worn through, he can't afford to heat his rented room in Tooting, and he longs to use his training as an specialist wireless operator instead of working in his dead-end job. When he is given the chance to join an arctic expedition, as communications expert, by a group of elite Oxbridge graduates, he brushes off his apprehensions and convinces himself to join them.

After Earth

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Peter David
• Narrated By David H. Lawrence XVII
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Experience the vast tapestry of After Earth in a novelization unlike any other: a 1,000-year saga featuring original content from the mind of Peter David, the veteran sci-fi author who helped develop the movie’s richly imagined world. This is the complete, never-before-seen chronicle of the extraordinary family that’s been across the universe and back - from humanity’s last days on Earth through the events of the epic film! Raige runs in the family....

Bill the Vampire

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Rick Gualtieri
• Narrated By Christopher John Fetherolf

There are reasons we fear the night. He isn't one of them. Bill Ryder was a dateless dweeb...then he died. Unfortunately for him that was just the beginning of his troubles. He awoke to find himself a vampire, one of the legendary predators of the night. Unfortunately for him, he was still at the bottom of the food chain. Now he finds himself surrounded by creatures stronger, deadlier and a whole lot cooler than he is. Worst yet, they all want him dead...permanently this time.

Call of the American Wild: A Tenderfoot's Escape to Alaska

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Guy Grieve
• Narrated By Steve West

Trapped in a job he hated and up to his neck in debt, Guy Grieve’s life was going nowhere. But with a stroke of luck, his dream of escaping it all to live in remote Alaska suddenly came true. Miles from the nearest human being and armed with only the most basic equipment, Guy built a log cabin from scratch and began carving a life for himself through fishing, hunting, and diligently avoiding bears. Packed with adventure, humor, and insight, this is the gripping story of an ordinary man learning the ways of the wild.

Monument 14

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Emmy Laybourne
• Narrated By Todd Haberkorn
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In Emmy Laybourne’s action-packed debut novel, six high school kids (some popular, some not), two eighth graders (one a tech genius), and six little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside. While outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemical weapons spill, seems to be tearing the world - as they know it - apart.

Skarlet

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Thomas Emson
• Narrated By Arthur Darvill

Fear grips London as dozens of clubbers die after taking a sinister new drug. But that's only the beginning. 48 Hours later, the dead clubbers wake up - and it's open season on the living, which are butchered for their blood. Soon, London gives a name to its terror: Vampires. Jake Lawton, bitter and betrayed after the Iraq War, finds himself fighting another battle - against the growing army of immortal hunters and their human cohorts.

Wildside

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Steven Gould
• Narrated By Paul Boehmer
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Forget the lottery. Teenager Charlie Newell has just discovered something that will make him and his friends billionaires. What if a world existed in which no humans ever evolved? No cities. No pollution. No laws. A fantastic world filled with unimaginable riches in which everything - everything - was yours just for the taking?

Charlie has found that world. And he plans to use it to make him and his friends rich.There is a problem: How do you keep something this big a secret?

This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 54 mins)
• By David Wong
• Narrated By Nick Podehl
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Warning: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. This is not a metaphor. You will dismiss this as ridiculous fearmongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fearmongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection - the creature secretes a chemical into the brain to stimulate skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That’s just as well, since the “cure” involves learning what a chain saw tastes like. You can’t feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings.

Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Jacob Tomsky
• Narrated By Jacob Tomsky
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Jacob Tomsky has worked in hotels for more than a decade, doing everything from valet parking to manning the front desk. He's checked you in, checked you out, separated your white panties from the white bed sheets, parked your car, tasted your room service, cleaned your toilet, denied you a late check out, given you a wake-up call, eaten M&Ms out of your mini-bar, laughed at your jokes, and taken your money. And in Heads in Beds, he pulls back the curtain on the hospitality business.