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Don't Vote - It Just Encourages the Bastards

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 53 mins)
• By P. J. O'Rourke
• Narrated By Christopher Lane
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In Don't Vote - It Just Encourages the Bastards, best-selling humorist P. J. O’Rourke delivers a hilarious theory of politics.

America’s most subversive conservative, O’Rourke describes government as a devil’s bargain between power, freedom, and responsibility, and goes on to hilariously skewer the politicians who have bargained with us to consolidate power, and the many mini-bargains and evasions that citizens have made with the consequences of their choices.

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Mike Brown
• Narrated By Ryan Gesell
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a 10th planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto. But instead of its resulting in one more planet being added to our solar system, Brown's find ignited a firestorm of controversy that riled the usually sedate world of astronomy and launched him into the public eye.

The Lost Fleet: Dauntless

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Jack Campbell
• Narrated By Christian Rummel, Jack Campbell
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Captain John "Black Jack" Geary's legendary exploits are known to every schoolchild. Revered for his heroic "last stand" in the early days of the war, he was presumed dead. But a century later, Geary miraculously returns from survival hibernation and reluctantly takes command of the Alliance fleet as it faces annihilation by the Syndics.

Appalled by the hero-worship around him, Geary is nevertheless a man who will do his duty. And he knows that bringing the stolen Syndic hypernet key safely home is the Alliance's one chance to win the war. But to do that, Geary will have to live up to the impossibly heroic "Black Jack" legend.

Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage

• ABRIDGED (8 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Jeff Benedict
• Narrated By Maggi-Meg Reed

Suzette Kelo was just trying to rebuild her life when she purchased a broken-down Victorian house perched on the waterfront in New London, CT. The house wasn't particularly fancy, but with lots of hard work Suzette was able to turn it into a home that was important to her, a home that represented her new found independence. Little did she know that the City of New London, desperate to revive its flailing economy, wanted to raze her house and the others like it that sat along the waterfront.