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The Informationist: A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novel, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Taylor Stevens
• Narrated By Hillary Huber
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Vanessa “Michael” Munroe deals in information - expensive information - working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Munroe took up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew when she was just fourteen. As his protégé, she earned the respect of the jungle's most dangerous men, cultivating her own reputation for years until something sent her running. After almost a decade building a new life and lucrative career from her home base in Dallas, she's never looked back. Until now....

Lush Life: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 1 min)
• By Richard Price
• Narrated By Bobby Cannavale
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What do you do? Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter...But now he's 35 years old and he's still living downtown, still in the restaurant business, working night shifts and serving the people he always wanted to be. What does Eric do? He manages.

Dead I Well May Be

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Adrian McKinty
• Narrated By Gerard Doyle
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Young Michael, an illegal immigrant escaping the troubles in Northern Ireland is strong and fearless and clever, just the fellow to be tapped by Darkey, a crime boss, to join a gang of Irish thugs struggling against the rising Dominican powers in Harlem and the Bronx. The time is pre-Giuliani New York, when crack rules the city, squatters live furtively in ruined buildings, and hundreds are murdered each month.

Nineteen Minutes

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Jodi Picoult
• Narrated By Carol Monda
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Jodi Picoult delivers the riveting tale of one small town's entanglement with high-school violence.

New York Superior Court Judge Alex Cormier is assigned to preside over the case of the alleged Sterling High School shooter. Lawyer Jordan McAffee represents Peter, the boy who, on the day of the shooting, was found in the corner of the gymnasium holding a gun to his head with a shaky hand. Detective Patrick DuCharme has one star witness, but her story keeps changing. And then there's the biggest problem of all: the star witness happens to be Judge Cormier's daughter.

Undead and Unreturnable: Queen Betsy, Book 4

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 23 mins)
• By MaryJanice Davidson
• Narrated By Nancy Wu

Though she's the vampire queen, Betsy Taylor is much more like a princess. In MaryJanice Davidson's novels, this high-maintenance monarch is finally coming to terms with her new status.

Empress Orchid

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Anchee Min
• Narrated By Alexandra O'Karma

Seventeen-year-old Orchid belongs to an aristocratic family that has fallen on hard times. Unexpectedly, she is chosen as one of the emperor's lesser concubines. Within the Forbidden City are thousands of women hoping to bear the emperor a son and become his empress. Orchid, determined and resourceful, schemes her way into the royal bed and seduces the emperor. But as the opium trade erodes the might of the Ch'ing dynasty, Orchid find herself at the center of a crumbling nation.