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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Narrated By Mirron Willis

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. Far from the sun, tiny, and eccentric in orbit, it's a wonder Pluto has any fans. Yet during the mounting debate over Pluto's status, Americans rallied behind the extraterrestrial underdog.

Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Christopher Moore
• Narrated By Euan Morton
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In July 1890, Vincent van Gogh went into a cornfield and shot himself. Or did he? Why would an artist at the height of his creative powers attempt to take his life... and then walk a mile to a doctor's house for help? Who was the crooked little "color man" Vincent had claimed was stalking him across France? And why had the painter recently become deathly afraid of a certain shade of blue? These are just a few of the questions confronting Vincent's friends who vow to discover the truth of van Gogh's untimely death.

Goliath

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Scott Westerfeld
• Narrated By Alan Cumming

Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek’s throne as Prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the war (and crown). And the love thing would be a lot easier if Alek knew Deryn was a girl. (She has to pose as a boy in order to serve in the British Airforce.) And if they weren’t technically enemies.

The tension thickens as the Leviathan steams toward New York City with a homicidal lunatic on board....

Childhood's End

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Arthur C. Clarke
• Narrated By Eric Michael Summerer, Robert J. Sawyer
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The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city - intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.

The Lost Symbol

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Dan Brown
• Narrated By Paul Michael
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Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol. Within minutes of his arrival, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object is discovered in the Capitol Building. The object is an ancient invitation, meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of hidden esoteric wisdom. And when Langdon's mentor is kidnapped, Langdon's only hope of saving him is to accept this invitation and follow wherever it leads him.

The Persistence of Vision

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 29 mins)
• By John Varley
• Narrated By Peter Ganim

On the surface, this Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic is about a drifter who comes to stay in a New Mexico commune founded by a group of deaf-blind people. But beneath the story, author John Varley examines deep, universal issues. What is the nature of communication? What does an individual gain - or lose - by subsuming himself to the whole? Can an outsider ever truly "belong"?

Lord of Light

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Roger Zelazny
• Narrated By Victor Bevine

It is long after the death of Earth. A band of men and women on a colony planet has gained control of technology. With it, they have given themselves immortalty and godlike powers, and they rule their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon: Kali, Goddess of Destruction; Yama, Lord of Death; Krishna, God of Lust. All are opposed by him who was Siddhartha, who is now Mahasamatman, Binder of Demons, Lord of Light.

The Count of Monte Cristo

• UNABRIDGED (47 hrs)
• By Alexandre Dumas
• Narrated By John Lee
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Dashing young Edmond Dantès has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman. But his perfect life is shattered when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him. Falsely accused of a political crime, Dantès is locked away for life in the infamous Chateau d'If prison. But it is there that Dantès learns of a vast hidden treasure.

Captains Courageous

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Rudyard Kipling
• Narrated By David Stuart
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Young Harvey Cheyne is rich, spoiled, prejudiced, and totally lacking in the real experiences of life. When the 15-year-old is accidentally washed overboard a great ocean liner headed for Europe, he is picked up by a fisherman and brought aboard the fishing schooner We're Here. Harvey's stories of privilege and wealth mean nothing aboard this hard-working vessel, and the boy receives many lessons in self-reliance, values, and hard-bitten reality in the words of Long Jack.

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.