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Black Sun Rising: Coldfire Trilogy, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 51 mins)
• By C. S. Friedman
• Narrated By R. C. Bray

The Coldfire trilogy tells a story of discovery and battle against evil on a planet where a force of nature exists that is capable of reshaping the world in response to psychic stimulus. This terrifying force, much like magic, has the power to prey upon the human mind, drawing forth a person's worst nightmare images or most treasured dreams and indiscriminately giving them life. This is the story of two men. They are absolute enemies who must unite to conquer an evil greater than anything their world has ever known.

Red Country

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Joe Abercrombie
• Narrated By Steven Pacey
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

They burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own. And out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried.

The Sense of an Ending: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Julian Barnes
• Narrated By Richard Morant
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumor, and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He’s had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He’s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer’s letter is about to prove.

The Heroes

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Joe Abercrombie
• Narrated By Michael Page
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

They say Black Dow has killed more men than winter and clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls. The King of the Union, ever a jealous neighbor, is not about to stand by smiling while Black Dow claws his way any higher. The orders have been given, and the armies are toiling through the northern mud. Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley, and they've brought a lot of sharpened metal with them.

Candide

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Voltaire
• Narrated By Donal Donnelly

From the satirical pen of one of France's greatest cynics comes the story of Candide - young, innocent, guileless - who is cast upon the world after Baron Thunder-ten-trockh learns that his lusty daughter, Cunegonde, has tried to seduce the young man. The novel chronicles Candide's adventures with his blindly optimistic tutor, Dr. Pangloss, through any number of disastrous experiences, as they search for the answers to life's perennial questions.

The Spiritual Teachings of Seneca: Ancient Philosophy for Modern Wisdom

• ABRIDGED (1 hr and 36 mins)
• By Mark Forstater, Victoria Radin
• Narrated By David Troughton, Louisa Millwood Haig

Seneca was dedicated to Stoicism, and in his essays and letters he explained the stoic position on many fundamental issues: pleasure and the problem of desire, happiness, and contentment; anger, fear, living in the present, how to think for yourself, anxiety and tranquillity, goodness, freedom, trusting the universe; courage, opportunity, cruelty and how to deal with it, friendship, love and trust, death and how to live, learning , chance and fate, time, aspirations, wisdom - and more.

The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness

• ABRIDGED (1 hr and 30 mins)
• By Epictetus (translated by Sharon Lebell)
• Narrated By Richard Bolles