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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Allison Hoover Bartlett
• Narrated By Judith Brackley
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John Charles Gilkey is an obsessed, unrepentant book thief who has stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of rare books from book fairs, stores, and libraries around the country. Ken Sanders is the self-appointed "bibliodick" (book dealer with a penchant for detective work) driven to catch him. Journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett befriended both eccentric characters and found herself caught in the middle of efforts to recover hidden treasure.

Faithful Place: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Tana French
• Narrated By Tim Gerard Reynolds
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New York Times best-selling author Tana French has won the prestigious Edgar, Barry, Macavity, and Anthony awards. As her third novel featuring the Dublin Murder Squad opens, 19-year-old Frank Mackey is waiting in vain for Rosie, who he’s supposed to run away to London with. But when she doesn’t show, Frank leaves Dublin without her—thinking never to return.

Junkyard Dogs: A Walt Longmire Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Craig Johnson
• Narrated By George Guidall
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Craig Johnson’s rough-and-tumble hero Walt Longmire is quickly becoming a fan-favorite and a critical success. Here Walt has his hands full as greedy land developers employ shady, violent methods to reverse their fortunes in recession-racked Wyoming.

In the Woods

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Tana French
• Narrated By Steven Crossley
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As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children, unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.

Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a 12-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery.

Death Without Company: A Walt Longmire Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Craig Johnson
• Narrated By George Guidall
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When an elderly local woman is found poisoned, Sheriff Walt Longmire begins an investigation that soon has him ensnared in a deadly spider's web. From Craig Johnson, author of the acclaimed novel The Cold Dish, comes this enthralling Sheriff Longmire mystery. With a distinctive literary flair, Johnson leads us into the wide open space of Absaroka County, Wyoming.

My Antonia

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Willa Cather
• Narrated By Jeff Cummings
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Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride, Antonia's desperately homesick father and self-indulgent mother, and the coy Lena Lingard. Holding the pastoral society's heart, of course, is the bewitching, free-spirited Antonia.

Anna Karenina

• UNABRIDGED (33 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Leo Tolstoy
• Narrated By Nadia May

Considered by some to be the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina contains two plots: the tragedy of Madame Karenina, in love with a man who is not her husband; and the story of Konstantine Levin, a sensitive man whose personal philosophy is Tolstoy's reason for writing about him.

Skippy Dies

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Paul Murray
• Narrated By Nicola Barber, Fred Berman, Clodagh Bowyer, and others

This touching and uproarious novel by author Paul Murray made everyone’s best fiction of 2010 lists, including The Washington Post, Financial Times, Village Voice, and others. Why Skippy dies and what happens next is the mystery that links the boys of Dublin’s Seabrook College (Ruprecht Van Doren, the overweight genius obsessed with string theory; Carl, the teenager drug dealer and borderline psychotic; Philip Kilfether, the basketball-playing midget) to their parents and teachers in ways that no one could have imagined.

The Lincoln Lawyer

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Michael Connelly
• Narrated By Adam Grupper
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Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense pro who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, to defend clients at the bottom of the legal food chain. It's no wonder that he is despised by cops, prosecutors, and even some of his own clients. But an investigator is murdered for getting too close to the truth and Haller quickly discovers that his search for innocence has taken him face to face with a kind of evil as pure as a flame.

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Jamie Ford
• Narrated By Feodor Chin
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In the opening pages of Jamie Ford's stunning debut, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol.

The Great Gatsby

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 44 mins)
• By F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Narrated By Tim Robbins

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of the Jazz Age in all its decadence and excess, is, as editor Maxwell Perkins praised it in 1924, "a wonder". It remains one of the most widely read, translated, admired, imitated, and studied 20th-century works of American fiction.