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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.

Summer Lightning

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 24 mins)
• By P. G. Wodehouse
• Narrated By John Wells

While Blandings Castle sleeps in the summer sun, the Hon. Galahad Threepwood, brother of the Earl of Emsworth, is busily engaged in writing his Reminiscences, and they look set to be as warm as the weather, if not warmer. For Galahad has led a thoroughly misspent life, and his acquaintances can all too easily recall their past follies in his company. Reputations are at stake and even the nobility and gentry are beginning to panic.

Elegy for Eddie: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, Book 9

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Jacqueline Winspear
• Narrated By Orlagh Cassidy
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

To the costermongers of Covent Garden Eddie Pettit was a gentle soul with a gift for working with horses. When Eddie is killed in a violent accident, the grieving costers are skeptical about the cause of his death. Who would want to kill Eddie - and why? Maisie Dobbs' father, Frankie, had been a costermonger, so she had known the men since childhood. She remembers Eddie fondly and is determined to offer her help. But it soon becomes clear that powerful political and financial forces are equally determined to prevent her from learning the truth behind Eddie's death.

The Diary of a Nobody

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 51 mins)
• By George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith
• Narrated By Martin Jarvis
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The Diary of Nobody (1892) created a cultural icon, an English archetype. Anxious, accident-prone, occasionally waspish, Charles Pooter has come to epitomize English suburban life. His diary chronicles encounters with difficult tradesmen, the delights of home improvements, small parties, minor embarrassments, and problems with his troublesome son. The suburban world he inhabits is hilariously and painfully familiar in its small-mindedness and its essential decency.

The White Tiger: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Aravind Adiga
• Narrated By John Lee
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life - having nothing but his own wits to help him along. Through Balram's eyes, we see India as we've never seen it before: the cockroaches and the call centers, the prostitutes and the worshippers, the water buffalo and, trapped in so many kinds of cages that escape is (almost) impossible, the white tiger.

With a charisma as undeniable as it is unexpected, Balram teaches us that religion doesn't create morality and money doesn't solve every problem.

The Magnificent Ambersons

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Booth Tarkington
• Narrated By Peter Berkrot

Set in the Midwest in the early 20th century---the dawn of the automobile age---The Magnificent Ambersons begins by introducing the Ambersons, the richest family in town. Exemplifying aristocratic excess, the Ambersons have everything money can buy - and more. But George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled grandson of the family patriarch, is unable to see that great societal changes are taking place.

More Information Than You Require

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 48 mins)
• By John Hodgman
• Narrated By John Hodgman

Welcome to the paperless (or "audiobook") edition of More Information Than You Require, a further compendium of COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE assembled and illumined by John Hodgman, a Famous Minor Television Personality. It contains all of the half-truths, fake trivia, amazing made-up facts, and molemanic lore as the paper edition, narrated here by Resident Expert John Hodgman, occasionally interrupted by this veritable extravaganza of illustrious and sometimes presumptuous guests.

In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks...: And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Adam Carolla
• Narrated By Adam Carolla

It's a sad and eerie harbinger of our times that the Oprah-watching, crystal-rubbing, Whole Foods-shopping moms and their whipped attorney husbands have taken the ability to reason away from the poor schlub who makes the Bloody Marys. What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we now settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers. Adam Carolla has had enough of this insanity and he's here to help us get our collective balls back.

Wife of the Gods: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Kwei Quartey
• Narrated By Simon Prebble

Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, a good family man and a remarkably intuitive sleuth, is sent to the village of Ketanu---the site of his mother's disappearance many years ago---to solve the murder of an accomplished young AIDS worker. While battling his own anger issues and concerns for his ailing son, Darko explores the motivations and secrets of the residents of Ketanu.

Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip - Confessions of a Cynical Waiter

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 12 mins)
• By The Waiter
• Narrated By Dan John Miller
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

According to The Waiter, 80 percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining 20 percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths.

Waiter Rant offers the server's unique point of view, replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogant misbehavior, and unseen bits of human grace transpiring in the most unlikely places.