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Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Maria Semple
• Narrated By Kathleen Wilhoite
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Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.

Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle - and people in general - has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands.

1861: The Civil War Awakening

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Adam Goodheart
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis
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As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and original account of how the Civil War began. 1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring a new generation to reject their parents' faith in compromise and appeasement, to do the unthinkable in the name of an ideal.

Into the Wild

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Jon Krakauer
• Narrated By Philip Franklin
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In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself.

The Shooting Salvationist: J. Frank Norris and the Murder Trial that Captivated America

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 34 mins)
• By David R. Stokes
• Narrated By R. C. Bray

The Shooting Salvationist chronicles what may be the most famous story you have never heard. In the 1920's, the Reverend J. Frank Norris railed against vice and conspiracies he saw everywhere to a congregation of more than 10,000 at First Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, the largest congregation in America, the first "megachurch".

Back to Blood: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Tom Wolfe
• Narrated By Lou Diamond Phillips
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As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay - with officer Nestor Camacho on board - Tom Wolfe is off and running. Here is a big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous best-selling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.

The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Philip Carlo
• Narrated By Michael Prichard
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Richard "The Ice Man" Kuklinski led a double life beyond anything ever seen on The Sopranos, becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins in American history while hosting neighborhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey. Now, after 240 hours of face-to-face interviews with Kuklinski and his wife and daughters, author Philip Carlo tells his extraordinary story.