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The Full Cupboard of Life: More from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Alexander McCall Smith
• Narrated By Lisette Lecat
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New York Times best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith's critically acclaimed No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series continues in this engaging book that won the first ever Saga Award for Wit, given to the wittiest British book of the year.

The Condition

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Jennifer Haigh
• Narrated By Jennifer Van Dyck
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The Condition tells the story of the McKotches, a proper New England family that comes apart during one fateful summer. One day on the beach, Frank McKotch is struck by an image he cannot forget: his 13-year-old daughter, Gwen, strangely infantile in her child-sized bikini, standing a full head shorter than her younger cousin Charlotte. At that moment, he knows a truth that he can never again unknow: something is terribly wrong with his only daughter.

Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Christopher Buckley
• Narrated By Christopher Buckley

Just as Calvin Trillin and Joan Didion gave readers solace and insight into the experience of losing a spouse, Christopher Buckley offers consolation, wit, and warmth to those coping with the death of a parent, while telling a unique personal story of life with legends.

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Alexander McCall Smith
• Narrated By Lisette Lecat
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When she asks her dependable husband, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, to fix her tiny white van, Precious Ramotswe fears he might just sell the vehicle and buy her something more modern. And so he does. But this will not do. So Precious tries to track her beloved van down - and learns it has already been stolen from its new owner.

Escape

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer
• Narrated By Ann Marie Lee
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When she was 18 years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger - a man 32 years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn's heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church.

The Christmas Quilt

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Jennifer Chiaverini
• Narrated By Christina Moore
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It has been more than 50 years since master quilter Silvia Compson decked the halls of Elm Creek Manor, and with all her family gone, she intends to observe a quiet Christmas. But her young quilting partner, Sarah McClure, has other ideas.

New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini delivers a spirited holiday yarn.

Old Friends

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Tracy Kidder
• Narrated By Lowell George Seibel

The narrative takes place entirely in a nursing home and focuses on two old men struggling with their circumstances, their memories, and their mortality.

The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Erma Bombeck
• Narrated By Barbara Rosenblat

In The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck rides the train to the suburbs. In lands like the Suburbian Gems subdivision, settlers from the city brave endless cul-de-sacs and overly helpful insurance salesmen. Picture windows bring new meaning to the term "neighborly". A poorly timed trip to the restroom results in a promotion to Girl Scout Cookie Captain.

The World According to Bertie

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Alexander McCall Smith
• Narrated By Robert Ian MacKenzie

i>The World According to Bertie is the fourth in the series and revolves around the many colorful characters that come and go at No. 44 Scotland Street. McCall Smith handles the characters with his customary charm and deftness - the stalwart Tory chartered surveyor, the pushy mother, and, most importantly in this novel, the beleaguered Italian-speaking prodigy, Bertie. This is classic McCall Smith - clever, witty and entertaining - and beautifully illustrated.

Bringing Elizabeth Home: A Journey of Faith and Hope

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Ed Smart, Laura Morton, Lois Smart
• Narrated By Sandra Burr, Mel Foster
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At 3:58 in the morning of June 5, 2002, Ed and Lois Smart awoke to the sound of their nine-year-old daughter Mary Katherine's frightened voice. "She's gone. Elizabeth is gone." At first they thought she was having a bad dream about her older sister, but Mary Katherine's "bad dream" would quickly become their worst nightmare. Their daughter Elizabeth was gone.

They were not sure why the media picked up on Elizabeth's story, but after their daughter was kidnapped she became the whole world's daughter.

The Life and Work of Marcel Proust

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Neville Jason
• Narrated By Neville Jason

This, the first audio-biography of Marcel Proust, tells the story of one of the world's most original and admired literary geniuses. From his youth in the salons of Belle Epoque Paris, we follow his progress through to his later years when, as a near recluse, he writes through the nights in his cork-lined bedroom.