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The Importance of Being Earnest (Dramatized)

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 59 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By James Marsters, Charles Busch, Emily Bergl, and others

This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag. Jack and Algernon are best friends, both wooing ladies who think their names are Ernest, "that name which inspires absolute confidence." Wilde's effervescent wit, scathing social satire, and high farce make this one of the most cherished plays in the English language.

Guns

• UNABRIDGED (49 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Christian Rummel
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In a pulls-no-punches essay intended to provoke rational discussion, Stephen King sets down his thoughts about gun violence in America. Anger and grief in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School are palpable in this urgent piece of writing, but no less remarkable are King's keen thoughtfulness and composure as he explores the contours of the gun-control issue and constructs his argument for what can and should be done.

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Lawrence Wright
• Narrated By Morton Sellers
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A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than 200 personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists - both famous and less well known - and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative ability to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology.

Carrion Comfort

• UNABRIDGED (39 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Dan Simmons
• Narrated By Mel Foster, Laural Merlington

The Past...Caught behind the lines of Hitler’s Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face-to-face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazis themselves...

The Devil in the White City

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Erik Larson
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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In a thrilling narrative showcasing his gifts as storyteller and researcher, Erik Larson recounts the spellbinding tale of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Also available abridged.

The Help

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Kathryn Stockett
• Narrated By Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and others
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Why we think it’s a great listen: The most celebrated performance in all of Audible’s history, The Help has nearly 2,000 5-star reviews from your fellow listeners. We hear the print book’s not bad, either. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another.

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Deborah Blum
• Narrated By Coleen Marlo
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In The Poisoner's Handbook, Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime.

Dead Until Dark: Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery #1

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs)
• By Charlaine Harris
• Narrated By Johanna Parker

Vampires have officially "come out of the coffin", and Miss Sookie can't wait for one to come her way.

Anne of Green Gables

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Narrated By Arika Escalona

When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables, Prince Edward Island, send for a boy orphan to help them out at the farm, they are in no way prepared for the error that will change their lives. The mistake takes the shape of Anne Shirley, a redheaded 11-year-old girl who can talk anyone under the table. Fortunately, her sunny nature and quirky imagination quickly win over her reluctant foster parents. Anne's feisty spirit soon draws many friends - and much trouble - her way.

Go the F--k to Sleep

• UNABRIDGED (6 mins)
• By Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (cover illustration)
• Narrated By Samuel L. Jackson

Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) rocks this mock bedtime story, capturing a hilarious range of emotions as the voice of a father struggling to get his child to sleep. Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland.

Hell House

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Richard Matheson
• Narrated By Ray Porter
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For over 20 years, Belasco House has stood empty. Regarded as the Mt. Everest of haunted houses, its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of unimaginable horror and depravity. All previous attempts to probe its mysteries have ended in murder, suicide, or insanity.

But now, a new investigation has been launched, bringing four strangers to Belasco House in search of the ultimate secrets of life and death. A wealthy publisher, brooding over his impending death, has paid a physicist and two mediums to establish the facts of life after death once and for all. For one night, they will investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townsfolk refer to it as the Hell House.