Regina Karhunen

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Jonathan Safran Foer
• Narrated By Jeff Woodman, Barbara Caruso, Richard Ferrone

Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated, wowed critics on its way to winning several literary prizes, including Book of the Year honors from the Los Angeles Times. It has been published in 24 countries and will soon be a major motion picture. Foer's talent continues to shine in this sometimes hilarious and always heartfelt follow-up.

Atlas Shrugged

• UNABRIDGED (63 hrs)
• By Ayn Rand
• Narrated By Scott Brick

In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of judgment has its value gone unrecognized, its brilliant inventor punished rather than rewarded for his efforts? In defense of those greatest of human qualities that have made civilization possible, one man sets out to show what would happen to the world if all the heroes of innovation and industry went on strike.

Started Early, Took My Dog: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Kate Atkinson
• Narrated By Graeme Malcolm
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Waterhouse leads a quiet, ordered life as a retired police detective - a life that takes a surprising turn when she encounters Kelly Cross, a habitual offender, dragging a young child through town. Both appear miserable and better off without each other-or so decides Tracy, in a snap decision that surprises herself as much as Kelly. Suddenly burdened with a small child, Tracy soon learns her parental inexperience is actually the least of her problems, as much larger ones loom for her and her young charge.

Lay Down My Sword and Shield

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 45 mins)
• By James Lee Burke
• Narrated By Will Patton

Against the backdrop of growing civil rights turmoil in a sultry border town, the hard-drinking ex-POW attorney Hackberry Holland yields to the myriad urgings of his wife, his brother, and his so-called friends to make a bid for a congressional seat - and finds himself embroiled in the seamy world of Texas powerbrokers.

Peter and the Starcatchers: The Starcatchers, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson
• Narrated By Jim Dale
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In an evocative and fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island an orphan boy named Peter and his mysterious new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe and save the world from evil.

People of the Book

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Geraldine Brooks
• Narrated By Edwina Wren
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This ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in 15th-century Spain.

When it falls to Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, to conserve this priceless work, the series of tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient binding - an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair - only begin to unlock its deep mysteries.

Dexter Is Delicious

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Jeff Lindsay
• Narrated By Jeff Lindsay
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Dexter is experiencing some major life changes - don't we all? And they're mostly wrapped up in the eight-pound curiosity that is his newborn daughter. Family bliss is cut short, however, when Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a 17-year-old girl who has been running with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves to be vampires. As Dexter gets closer to the truth of what happened to the missing girl, he realizes they are not really vampires so much as cannibals.

The Passage

• UNABRIDGED (36 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Justin Cronin
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Adenrele Ojo, Abby Craden
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First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.

Road Dogs

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Elmore Leonard
• Narrated By Peter Francis James
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Jack Foley is serving a 30-year sentence in a Miami penitentiary, but he's made an unlikely friend on the inside who just might be able to do something about that. Fellow inmate Cundo Rey, an extremely wealthy Cuban criminal, arranges for Foley's sentence to be reduced from 30 years to three months, and when Jack is released just two weeks ahead of Cundo, he agrees to wait for him in Venice Beach, California.