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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Susan Casey
• Narrated By Kirsten Potter
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For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dis­missed these stories - waves that high would seem to violate the laws of physics. But in the past few decades, as a startling number of ships vanished and new evidence has emerged, oceanographers realized something scary was brewing in the planet’s waters. They found their proof in February 2000, when a British research vessel was trapped in a vortex of impossibly mammoth waves in the North Sea - including several that approached 100 feet.

Jobs That Could Kill You: True Stories of People Risking Their Lives to Make a Buck

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Tom Jones
• Narrated By David Marantz

Insight into the lives of people who work on the edge. Jobs That Could Kill You is a fascinating collection of candid and intimate conversations with 42 men and women who describe in gripping detail how physical risk is a familiar companion in their working lives, and how they deal with it.

Detroit: An American Autopsy

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Charlie LeDuff
• Narrated By Eric Martin
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In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest. Once the vanguard of America’s machine age - mass production, automobiles, and blue-collar jobs - Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, foreclosure, and dropouts.

With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark and the righteous indignation that only a native son can possess, journalist Charlie LeDuff sets out to uncover what has brought low this once-vibrant city, his city.

Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire - and How it All Came Crashing Down...

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Ben Mezrich
• Narrated By Sean Pratt
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Based on extensive insider interviews and participation, acclaimed author Ben Mezrich's Straight Flush tells the captivating rags-to-riches tale of a group of University of Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local dive bar into AbsolutePoker.com, one of the largest online companies in the world. But then the U.S. Department of Justice placed a bull's-eye on Absolute Poker. Did they fold - or double down and ride their hot hand?

Neuromancer

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 30 mins)
• By William Gibson
• Narrated By Robertson Dean
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Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene - it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology.Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing the way into the information age and Internet society.

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis
• Narrated By Arthur Morey
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We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman, and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term future, where exponentially growing technologies and three other powerful forces are conspiring to better the lives of billions of people. This book is an antidote to pessimism by tech-entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler.

Dad Is Fat

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Jim Gaffigan
• Narrated By Jim Gaffigan
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In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who’s best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children - everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to toddlers’ communication skills ("they always sound like they have traveled by horseback for hours to deliver important news"), to the eating habits of four-year-olds ("there is no difference between a four-year-old eating a taco and throwing a taco on the floor").

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.