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Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton

• ABRIDGED (5 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Philip Kerr
• Narrated By Byron Jennings

Skillfully weaving history with mystery, Philip Kerr sets this thrilling story in the 1696 Tower of London, where Sir Isaac Newton, warden of the Royal Mint (a post he actually held), and his apprentice Christopher Ellis (also a real person) track down a counterfeiting ring and, as the body count increases, a murderer. "An illuminating, often crackling exploration into the mysteries of science, mathematics, religion, and human nature," raves Booklist in a starred review.

The Society of S: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Susan Hubbard
• Narrated By Joyce Bean

Ariella Montero is seeking the true identities of her mother - and father and of herself. She's been taught literature, philosophy, science, and history, but she knows almost nothing about the real world and its complexities. Her world is one in which ghosts and vampires commune with humans, where Edgar Allan Poe and Jack Kerouac are role models, and where every time a puzzle seems solved, its last piece changes the entire picture.

Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Morgan Spurlock
• Narrated By Morgan Spurlock

Can man live on fast food alone? Morgan Spurlock tried to do just that. For 30 days, he ate nothing but three "squares" a day from McDonald's as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. The resulting documentary won him resounding applause and a worldwide release that broke box-office records. Audiences were captivated by Spurlock's experiment, during which he gained 25 pounds, his blood pressure skyrocketed, and his libido all but disappeared.

Eleanor Roosevelt's Crusade for Freedom in the Fascist Era

• NONE (1 hr and 15 mins)
• By Blanche Wiesen Cook

Holy Fools

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Joanne Harris
• Narrated By Suzanne Bertish

In the year 1605, a young, pregnant widow seeks sanctuary at the Abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-mer. After the birth of her daughter, she takes up the veil, and a new name, Soeur Auguste. But the peace she has found is shattered five years later by the events that follow the death of her kind benefactress, the Reverend Mother.

Haunted Ground

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs)
• By Erin Hart
• Narrated By Jennifer McMahon
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

When farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery, the perfectly intact body of a young woman with long red hair, archaeologist Cormac O'Callaghan and pathologist Nora Gavin are thrown together by their shared scientific interest in human remains. Because of the preservative effect of the bog, it is difficult to tell whether the body has lain there for two decades, two centuries, or two millennia.

Sense and Sensibility

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Jane Austen
• Narrated By Jill Masters
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Rule by head or rule by heart? Elinor Dashwood is a great believer in "sense," while her exuberant younger sister Marianne feels keenly that only "sensibility" (what today we'd call passion) serves to guide the heart. Through vicissitudes and, in the case of Marianne, outright betrayal by her lover, these two women learn the value in the other's outlook, and thereby prepare themselves for later domestic bliss that is the hallmark resolution of Jane Austen's novels.