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Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson
• Narrated By Marsha Mercant, Joe Barrett
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Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell? Backed by years of research and delivered in lively, energetic prose, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) offers a fascinating explanation of self-deception.

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Alfred Lansing
• Narrated By Simon Prebble
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In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world.

Inherent Vice

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Thomas Pynchon
• Narrated By Ron McLarty
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It's been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy", except that this one usually leads to trouble.

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Aimee Bender
• Narrated By Aimee Bender

On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother - her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother - tastes of despair and desperation.

The Broken Teaglass

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Emily Arsenault
• Narrated By Eileen Stevens, Oliver Wyman, Therese Plummer
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The dusty files of a venerable dictionary publisher, a hidden cache of coded clues, a story written by a phantom author, an unsolved murder in a gritty urban park: all collide memorably in Emily Arsenault's magnificent debut, at once a teasing literary puzzle, an ingenious suspense novel, and an exploration of definitions: of words, of who we are, and of the stories we choose to define us.

Calculating God

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Robert J. Sawyer
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis, Robert J. Sawyer
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In this Hugo-nominated novel, an alien walks into a museum and asks if he can see a paleontologist. But the arachnid ET hasn't come aboard a rowboat with the Pope and Stephen Hawking (although His Holiness does request an audience later). Landing at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the spacefarer, Hollus, asks to compare notes on mass extinctions with resident dino-scientist Thomas Jericho.

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!