Midwest Lady

How to Marry a Duke

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Vicky Dreiling
• Narrated By Elizabeth Jasicki

In Vicky Dreiling’s enchanting Regency romance debut, Tristan - the rakish duke of Shelbourne - wants to marry and sire an heir. To help him choose among the dizzying array of wealthy but witless candidates, he secures the services of prim and proper matchmaker Miss Tessa Mansfield. But as Tessa seeks the perfect mate, the duke finds himself distracted by Tessa’s considerable charms.

Princess Elizabeth's Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Susan Elia MacNeal
• Narrated By Susan Duerden
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Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill's Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain's beloved royals against an international plot - one that could change the course of history. As World War II sweeps the continent and England steels itself against German attack, Maggie Hope, former secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, completes her training to become a spy for MI-5.

Slave to Sensation: Psy-Changeling Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Nalini Singh
• Narrated By Angela Dawe
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Nalini Singh dives into a world torn apart by a powerful race with phenomenal powers of the mind - and none of the heart. Born a Psy, Sascha Duncan must hide the emotions that mark her as flawed. But a passionate Changeling will tempt her to reveal everything - and risk her very soul.

Miss Tonks Turns to Crime: The Poor Relation, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 47 mins)
• By M. C. Beaton
• Narrated By Davina Porter
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The poor relations, those genteel paupers of society who live on little more than their dignity, have banded together and started The Poor Relation hotel, hoping to be bought out by their embarrassed relations - but as the hotel prospered, they began to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Now once more they are in need of funds. To stoop to crime in their days of poverty was one thing, but to turn to it again when they have enjoyed a certain amount of success is quite another. But they all agree: the hotel must go on.

Scarlet: The Lunar Chronicles, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Marissa Meyer
• Narrated By Rebecca Soler
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Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the best-selling Lunar Chronicles. She's trying to break out of prison - even though if she succeeds, she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn't know about her grandmother or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life.

Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Marissa Meyer
• Narrated By Rebecca Soler
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Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.... Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.

Mrs. Budley Falls from Grace: The Poor Relation, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 9 mins)
• By M. C. Beaton
• Narrated By Davina Poter
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Eliza Budley is a beautiful widow whose husband gambled away his fortune. Lady Fortescue reminds the others that, to be fair, Mrs. Budley has no relatives on whom she can call. Gentle Mrs. Budley thinks she has escaped her fate until Sir Philip comes up with a plan: He has heard that the elderly Marquess of Peterhouse is senile, a widower, extremely rich, and unlikely to remember whether Mrs. Budley is a relative or not. So off Mrs. Budley goes. But the marquess turns out to be not so old, hardly senile, and, in fact, quite handsome.

Etiquette & Espionage

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Gail Carriger
• Narrated By Moira Quirk
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Fourteen-year old Sophronia is the bane of her mother's existence. More interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette at tea - and god forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy - Mrs. Temminnick is desperate her daughter become a proper lady. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.

But little do Sophronia or her mother know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish all right - but it's a different kind of finishing.

Lady Fortescue Steps Out: The Poor Relation, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 48 mins)
• By M. C. Beaton
• Narrated By Davina Porter
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Life is not easy for the poor relations of England’s upper crust, but fate and clever schemes bring them together. Lady Fortescue and Colonel Sandhurst hatch a plan: What if they were to transform her decrepit Bond Street home into a posh hotel, offering their guests the pleasure of being waited upon by nobility? With the help of other down-and-out aristocrats, they do just that, and London’s newest hotel, The Poor Relation, is born. The establishment is an immediate hit with London’s most illustrious citizens, save the Duke of Rowcester....

Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Lyndsay Faye
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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Breathless and painstakingly researched, this is a stunning debut mystery in which Sherlock Holmes unmasks Jack the Ripper. Lyndsay Faye perfectly captures all the color and syntax of Conan Doyle’s distinctive nineteenth-century London.

Skinwalker: Jane Yellowrock, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Faith Hunter
• Narrated By Khristine Hvam
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Jane Yellowrock is the last of her kind-a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who can turn into any creature she desires and hunts vampires for a living. But now she's been hired by Katherine Fontaneau, one of the oldest vampires in New Orleans and the madam of Katie's Ladies, to hunt a powerful rogue vampire who's killing other vamps.