Baron

The Da Vinci Code

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Dan Brown
• Narrated By Paul Michael
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, a baffling cipher found near the body. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, sort through the bizarre riddle, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci, clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Christopher Cazenove, Gabrielle de Cuir, and others
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In a not-too-distant future that is not quite ours, there has been a major scientific breakthrough. It is a way to open windows into the past, permitting historical researchers to view, but not participate, in the events of the past.

In one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card interweaves a compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing.

Daemon

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Daniel Suarez
• Narrated By Jeff Gurner
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives, trafficking e-mail, transferring money, and monitoring power grids. For the most part, daemons are benign, but the same can't always be said for the people who design them.

The Wordy Shipmates

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Sarah Vowell
• Narrated By Sarah Vowell, Eric Bogosian, T. Bone Burnett, Jill

Sarah Vowell's special brand of armchair history makes the bizarre and esoteric fascinatingly relevant and fun. She takes us from the modern-day reenactment of an Indian massacre to the Mohegan Sun casino, from old-timey Puritan poetry, where "righteousness" is rhymed with "wilderness," to a Mayflower-themed waterslide. Throughout, The Wordy Shipmates is rich in historical fact, humorous insight, and social commentary by one of America's most celebrated voices.

Anathem

• UNABRIDGED (32 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Neal Stephenson
• Narrated By Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, and others
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In celebration of the week-long, once-in-a-decade rite of Apert, the fras and suurs prepare to venture outside the concent's gates - opening them wide at the same time to welcome the curious "extras" in. During his first Apert as a fra, Erasmus eagerly anticipates reconnecting with the landmarks and family he hasn't seen since he was "collected". But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the perilous brink of cataclysmic change.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

• UNABRIDGED (32 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Susanna Clarke
• Narrated By Simon Prebble

English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory.

Altered Carbon

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Richard K. Morgan
• Narrated By Todd McLaren
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In the 25th century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve") making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.

A Scanner Darkly

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Philip K. Dick
• Narrated By Paul Giamatti
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D, which Arctor takes in massive doses, gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself.

Le Show, 1-Month Subscription

• NONE (1 hr)
• By Harry Shearer
• Narrated By Harry Shearer

Le Show is a program of satire, humor, and commentary about the week's news. Comedy sketches written and performed by multi-talented multimedia artist Harry Shearer, interwoven with an eclectic, ever-changing blend of music; from world to pop, soul to jazz. Shearer says about Le Show, "I do it because I don't do standup, and I don't do sitcoms, and the radio broadcast enables me to do what I think is funny in a broadcast medium without having to listen either to network executives or Canadian producers."

Life of Pi

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Yann Martel
• Narrated By Jeff Woodman
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Pi Patel has been raised in a zoo in India. When his father decides to move the family to Canada and sell the animals to American zoos, everyone boards a Japanese cargo ship. The ship sinks, and 16-year-old Pi finds himself alone on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger.