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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Avi Steinberg
• Narrated By Dustin Rubin

Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing. And his romantic existence as a freelance obituary writer just isn’t cutting it. Seeking direction - and dental insurance - Steinberg takes a job as a librarian in a tough Boston prison.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Stephen King
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The prolific, perennially best selling author recounts his early life and writing struggles, gives advice on the crucial aspects of the writing art, and talks about his much-publicized, near-fatal accident.

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Michael Pollan
• Narrated By Michael Pollan
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In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements - fire, water, air, and earth - to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. Apprenticing himself to a succession of culinary masters, Pollan learns how to grill with fire, cook with liquid, bake bread, and ferment everything from cheese to beer. In the course of his journey, he discovers that the cook occupies a special place in the world....

The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Steven Pressfield
• Narrated By George Guidall
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Internationally best-selling author of Last of the Amazons, Gates of Fire and Tides of War, Steven Pressfield delivers a guide to inspire and support those who struggle to express their creativity. Pressfield believes that “resistance” is the greatest enemy, and he offers many unique and helpful ways to overcome it.

The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen
• Narrated By Roger Wayne
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In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected - a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness. Eric Schmidt is one of Silicon Valley’s great leaders, having taken Google from a small startup to one of the world’s most influential companies. Jared Cohen is the director of Google Ideas and a former adviser to secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.

Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Dan Schultz
• Narrated By Arthur Morey

On a sunny May morning in 1998 in Cortez, Colorado, three desperados in a stolen truck opened fire on the town cop, shooting him 20 times; then they blasted their way past dozens of police cars and disappeared into 10,000 square miles of the harshest wilderness terrain on the North American continent. Self-trained survivalists, the outlaws eluded the most sophisticated law enforcement technology on the planet and a pursuit force that represented more than 75 local, state, and federal police agencies with dozens of SWAT teams, U.S. Army Special Forces....

McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Misha Glenny
• Narrated By John Lee
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Like many other things, organized crime has been globalized. In McMafia, Misha Glenny discusses, among other groups, the Russian mafia, Colombian drug cartels, and Chinese labor smugglers, explaining how organized crime exploits the developing world's poverty, as well as new technologies. He makes clear that global crime and terrorism are rooted in the West's material affluence.

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Mary Roach
• Narrated By Emily Woo Zeller

Best-selling author Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. Roach takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: The questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts?

Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Robin Nagle
• Narrated By Mary Kane
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America’s largest city generates garbage in torrents - 11,000 tons a day on average. But New Yorkers don’t give it much attention. They leave their trash on the curb or drop it in a litter basket, and promptly forget about it. And why not? On a schedule so regular you could almost set your watch by it, someone always comes to take it away.

But who, exactly, is that someone? And why is he - or she - so unknown?

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Sheryl Sandberg
• Narrated By Elisa Donovan
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Sheryl Sandberg - Facebook COO, ranked eighth on Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business - has become one of America's most galvanizing leaders, and an icon for millions of women juggling work and family. In Lean In, she urges women to take risks and seek new challenges, to find work that they love, and to remain passionately engaged with it at the highest levels throughout their lives.

Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Antonio Mendez, Matt Baglio
• Narrated By Dylan Baker
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On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a midlevel agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them. Armed with foreign film visas, Mendez and an unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders traveled to Tehran....