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Shutter Island

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Dennis Lehane
• Narrated By Tom Stechschulte
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Summer, 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them.

But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry?

No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs)
• By Harry Markopolos
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Harry Markopolos, Frank Casey, and others
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No One Would Listen is the exclusive story of the Harry Markopolos-lead investigation into Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme. While a lot has been written about Madoff's scam, few actually know how Markopolos and his team - affectionately called "the Fox Hounds" by Markopolos himself - uncovered what Madoff was doing years before this financial disaster reached its pinnacle. Unfortunately, no one listened, until the damage of the world's largest financial fraud ever was irreversible.

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Julian Hawthorne (editor)
• Narrated By Scott Woodside
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In the six volumes of the Library of the World’s Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this 1907 collection for the first time translated into English, and many of them come from unexpected sources, such as the letters of Pliny the Younger, or a Tibetan manuscript. In the first volume, we find stories written by American authors.

The Twelve Caesars

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Suetonius
• Narrated By Charlton Griffin

The Twelve Caesars was written based on the information of eyewitnesses and public records. It conveys a very accurate picture of court life in Rome and contains some of the raciest and most salacious material to be found in all of ancient literature. The writing is clear, simple and easy to understand, and the numerous anecdotes of juicy scandal, bitter court intrigue, and murderous brigandage easily hold their own against the most spirited content of today's tabloids.

Blasphemy

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Douglas Preston
• Narrated By Scott Sowers

The world's biggest supercollider is locked in an Arizona mountain. The Torus was built to unlock the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the creation of the universe? Or will it, as some predict, suck the earth into a mini black hole? Or is the Torus a Satanic attempt, as a powerful televangelist decries, to challenge God Almighty on the very throne of heaven?

The Twilight Zone Companion, 2nd Edition

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Marc Scott Zicree
• Narrated By Tom Weiner

The Twilight Zone Companion is the complete show-by-show guide to one of television's greatest series. Zicree's well-written account is fascinating reading for even the casual fan. Coverage of each episode includes a plot synopsis, Rod Serling's opening narration, behind-the-scenes stories from the original artists who created the series, and a complete list of cast and credits.

Terrible Swift Sword: The Centennial History of the Civil War, Vol. 2

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Bruce Catton
• Narrated By Nelson Runger

Terrible Swift Sword (Vol. 2): The dismissal of George McClellan and the rise of Ulysses S. Grant.

The Coming Fury: The Centennial History of the Civil War, Volume 1

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Bruce Catton
• Narrated By Nelson Runger

>The New York Times hailed this trilogy as “one of the greatest historical accomplishments of our time”. With stunning detail and insights, America’s foremost Civil War historian recreates the war from its opening months to its final, bloody end. Each volume delivers a complete listening experience. The Coming Fury (Volume 1) covers the split Democratic Convention in the spring of 1860 to the first battle of Bull Run.

Go the F--k to Sleep

• UNABRIDGED (6 mins)
• By Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (cover illustration)
• Narrated By Samuel L. Jackson

Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) rocks this mock bedtime story, capturing a hilarious range of emotions as the voice of a father struggling to get his child to sleep. Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland.

Mildred Pierce

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs)
• By James M. Cain
• Narrated By Christine Williams
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Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.

Never Call Retreat: The Centennial History of the Civil War, Volume 3

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Bruce Catton
• Narrated By Nelson Runger

The final work in this series begins in December of 1862. Four months before, the Union Army tasted long-awaited victory at the bloody battle of Antietam. Grant continued on towards Vicksburg, Mississippi. The grim battles that lay ahead would be costly: the Vicksburg campaign, Chattanooga, the Battle of the Wilderness, the Battle of Atlanta and the March to the Sea, the siege of Petersburg. There would be two and a half more years of war before Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.