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The Innocent: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 14 mins)
• By David Baldacci
• Narrated By Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
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Will Robie may have just made the first - and last - mistake of his career.... It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable: He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people.

Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a 14-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway....

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Winifred Watson
• Narrated By Frances McDormand

Miss Pettigrew is a down-on-her-luck, middle-aged governess sent by her employment agency to work for a nightclub singer rather than a household of unruly children. Over a period of 24 hours, as she becomes caught up in the life of Delysia LaFloss, her own life is changed - forever. This charming, funny, light-hearted 1938 novel was a bestseller on its first appearance. Read by Academy Award winning actress Frances McDormand, who stars in the 2008 film as Miss Pettigrew.

Intelligence: A Novel of the CIA

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Susan Hasler
• Narrated By Susan Hasler, Joe Barrett, Rachel Butera, and others
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Maddie James and her colleagues are terrorism experts working in a crumbling intelligence agency. They are certain another terrorist attack is coming, but in a post-9/11 election year the Administration is stressing its victories in the War on Terror - and few want to hear the team's warnings. Reluctantly, Maddie's given a team of five analysts to focus on the impending threat. The crew labors through bureaucratic obstacles, personal problems, and a blossoming romance between its senior members. They come heartbreakingly close to stopping the attack....

The Last Kingdom: The Saxon Chronicles, Book 1

• ABRIDGED (5 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Bernard Cornwell
• Narrated By Jamie Glover

From Bernard Cornwell, the New York Times best-selling author whom the Washington Post calls "perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today", comes a saga of blood, rage, fidelity, and betrayal. In the 9th and 10th centuries, King Alfred and his heirs fought to secure the survival of the last outpost of Anglo-Saxon culture by battling the ferocious Vikings, whose invading warriors had already captured and occupied three of England's four kingdoms.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Bill Bryson
• Narrated By Bill Bryson
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Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.”

Nemesis

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Jo Nesbø
• Narrated By Thor Knai
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Captured on closed-circuit television: A man walks into an Oslo bank, puts a gun to a cashier’s head, and tells her to count to 25. When he doesn’t get his money fast enough, he pulls the trigger. The young woman dies—and two million Norwegian kroner disappear without a trace.