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Plain Truth

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Jodi Picoult
• Narrated By Christina Moore, Suzanne Toren

The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that 18-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life.

Sarah's Key

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Tatiana de Rosnay
• Narrated By Polly Stone
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Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a 10 year-old girl, is arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Michael Pollan
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance.

In Defense of Food

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Michael Pollan
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food. Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists-all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion.

The Shack

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Wm. Paul Young
• Narrated By Roger Mueller

Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare.

The Chopin Manuscript: A Serial Thriller

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Lee Child, David Corbett, Joseph Finder, and others
• Narrated By Alfred Molina

15 thriller masters. 1 masterful thriller! Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frederic Chopin. But he is unaware that, within it's handwritten notes, lies a secret that now threatens the lives of thousands of Americans. As he races from Poland to the U.S. to uncover the mystery of the manuscript, Middleton will be accused of murder, pursued by federal agents, and targeted by assassins.

Change of Heart

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Jodi Picoult
• Narrated By Nicole Poole, Stafford Clark-Price, Jim Frangione, and others
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Known for tackling hot-button issues in her timely fiction, Jodi Picoult has sold millions of books. Change of Heart explores capital punishment and organized religion through the tale of death row inmate Shay Bourne. Bourne's last request is to donate his heart to his victim's ailing sister. The situation gets more complicated when Bourne begins performing miracles in full view of witnesses - including his Catholic spiritual advisor.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
• Narrated By Paul Baymer, Susan Dewidan, Roselyn Landor, and others

Why we think it’s a great listen: The best book club you’ve never heard of – but will be eager to join, courtesy of a full cast of true characters. January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb....

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.

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
• Narrated By Patrick Lawlor
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In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time: Greg Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban.