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Darkness at Noon

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Arthur Koestler
• Narrated By Frank Muller

A fictional portrayal of an aging revolutionary, this novel is a powerful commentary on the nightmare politics of the troubled 20th century. Born in Hungary in 1905, a defector from the Communist Party in 1938, and then arrested in both Spain and France for his political views, Arthur Koestler writes from a wealth of personal experience.

Threat Vector

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney
• Narrated By Lou Diamond Phillips
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Jack Ryan has only just moved back into the Oval Office when he is faced with a new international threat. An aborted coup in the People's Republic of China has left President Wei Zhen Lin with no choice but to agree with the expansionist policies of General Su Ke Quiang. They have declared the South China Sea a protectorate and are planning an invasion of Taiwan. The Ryan administration is determined to thwart China’s ambitions, but the stakes are dangerously high as a new breed of powerful Chinese anti-ship missiles endanger the US Navy's plans to protect the island.

One Amazing Thing

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• Narrated By Purva Bedi, Soneela Nankani, Neil Shah
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Winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry and an American Book Award for her short stories, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores themes of women, immigration, and her vibrant Indian culture to great effect. Divakaruni expands on these ideas in One Amazing Thing, a project long in the making and full of electric prose.

The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.
• Narrated By Walter Dixon
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Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course The Science of Willpower, The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the new science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity. Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters.

The Panther

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Nelson DeMille
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, have been posted overseas to Sana'a, Yemen - one of the most dangerous places in the Middle East. While there, they will be working with a small team to track down one of the masterminds behind the USS Cole bombing: a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative known as The Panther. Ruthless and elusive, he's wanted for multiple terrorist acts and murders - and the U.S. government is determined to bring him down, no matter the cost.

The Tiger's Wife: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Tea Obreht
• Narrated By Susan Duerden, Robin Sachs

In a Balkan country mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission of mercy at an orphanage by the sea. By the time she and her lifelong friend Zóra begin to inoculate the children there, she feels age-old superstitions and secrets gathering everywhere around her. Secrets her outwardly cheerful hosts have chosen not to tell her. Secrets involving the strange family digging for something in the surrounding vineyards. Secrets hidden in the landscape itself.

Black Sea Affair

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Don Brown
• Narrated By James Adams
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As the U.S. Navy searches for weapons-grade plutonium that has been smuggled by terrorists out of Russia, a submarine mishap in the Black Sea brings the United States and Russia to the brink of nuclear war. It is a race against the clock, with Russian missiles activated and programmed for American cities.

All Cry Chaos: The Henri Poincaré Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Leonard Rosen
• Narrated By Grover Gardner
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All Cry Chaos is a masterful and gripping tale that literally reaches for the heavens. The action begins when mathematician James Fenster is assassinated on the eve of a long-scheduled speech at a World Trade Organization meeting. The hit is as elegant as it is bizarre. Fenster’s Amsterdam hotel room is incinerated, yet the rest of the building remains intact. The murder trail leads veteran Interpol agent Henri Poincaré on a high-stakes, world-crossing quest for answers.

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs)
• By Antony Beevor
• Narrated By George Guidall