Helmars

The Great Hurricane: 1938

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Cherie Burns
• Narrated By Anna Fields
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On the night of September 20, 1938, the news on the radio was full of Hitler's pending invasion of Czechoslovakia. Severe weather wasn't mentioned; only light rain was forecast for the following day. In a matter of hours, however, a hurricane of unprecedented force would tear through one of the wealthiest and most populated stretches of coastline in America, obliterating communities from Long Island to Providence, destroying entire fishing fleets from Montauk to Narragansett Bay.

Ordinary Heroes: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Scott Turow
• Narrated By Edward Herrmann

Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how David Dubin (as his father had Americanized the name that Stewart later reclaimed) had rescued Stewart's mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancee, and learns of his father's court-martial and imprisonment, he is plunged into the mystery of his family's secret history.

Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Michael Cunningham
• Narrated By Scott Brick

In this celebration of one of America's oldest towns (incorporated in 1720), Michael Cunningham, author of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours, brings us Provincetown, one of the most idiosyncratic and extraordinary towns in the United States, perched on the sandy tip at the end of Cape Cod.

Cell

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Campbell Scott

The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone's cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature...and then begins to evolve.

Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by National Public Radio's Correspondent

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Anne Garrels
• Narrated By Anne Garrels
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One of only sixteen unembedded American journalists who stayed in Baghdad's now-legendary Palestine Hotel throughout the American invasion of Iraq, NPR's Anne Garrels was at the very center of the storm. She brings us the sights, sounds, and smells of our latest war with unparalleled vividness and immediacy.

The Company: A Novel of the CIA

• UNABRIDGED (40 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Robert Littell
• Narrated By Scott Brick

"If Robert Littell didn't invent the American spy novel," says Tom Clancy, "he should have." In this spectacular Cold-War-as-Alice-in-Wonderland epic, Littell, "the American le Carre," takes us down the rabbit hole and into the labyrinthine world of espionage that has been the CIA for the last half-century. "Ostensibly a single novel, [The Company] can also be read as an anthology of cracking good spy stories," says Publishers Weekly.

Dreamcatcher

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Jeffrey DeMunn

"The genius shines through...flat-out riveting." (Publishers Weekly)
"Makes for great midnight reading." (The New York Times)
"Dreamcatcher is a comeback and an infusion of rich new blood into King's body of work." (Amazon.com)

Click the sample icon to hear an extended excerpt from Chapter One of Dreamcatcher!

Young Men and Fire

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Norman Maclean
• Narrated By John MacLean

Norman MacLean spent the last 14 years of his life determined to sift through grief and controversy in search of the truth behind the Mann Gulch tragedy, one of the worst disasters in the history of the Forest Service. Young Men and Fire is the culmination of his investigations. It is a story about honor, death, compassion, and the human spirit.

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Richard P. Feynman
• Narrated By Dan Cashman
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"This marvelous collection of talks, interviews, and essays offers a memorable sample of the wit, brilliance, and irreverence of the most celebrated physicist of our time," says Alan Guth, author of The Inflationary Universe. "The more one reads of Feynman, the more one falls in love with his refreshingly enthusiastic view of the world."

Slow Dance with the Planet

• ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Todd Jarrell
• Narrated By Todd Jarrell

"Someday I will quit all this and sail the world!" Who hasn't weighed that dream, at least once in their lives? Responding to an ad calling for a sailing ship's crew, two landlocked brothers did just that, realizing long-held dreams of tall ships on the high seas. This is the story of their incredible journey.