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The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 28 mins)
• By James Shreeve
• Narrated By Grover Gardner
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On May 10, 1998, biologist Craig Venter, director of the Institute for Genomic Research, announced that he was forming a private company that within three years would unravel the complete genetic code of human life, seven years before the projected finish of the U.S. government's Human Genome Project. Venter hoped that by decoding the genome ahead of schedule, he would speed up the pace of biomedical research and save the lives of thousands of people. He also hoped to become very famous and very rich.

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows: A Flavia de Luce Novel

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Alan Bradley
• Narrated By Jayne Entwistle

It’s Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce—an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving—is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces’ decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern.

Taken: An Elvis Cole - Joe Pike Novel, Book 15

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Robert Crais
• Narrated By Luke Daniels
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When Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing adult daughter, she isn’t afraid, even though she’s gotten a phone call asking for ransom. She knows it’s a fake, that her daughter is off with the guy Nita will call only “that boy,” and that they need money: "Even smart girls do stupid things when they think a boy loves them." But she is wrong....

Labyrinth

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Kate Mosse
• Narrated By Donada Peters

July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery: two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth; between the skeletons, a stone ring, and a small leather bag.

The Broker

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 4 mins)
• By John Grisham
• Narrated By Michael Beck

In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world's most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.

Dragonfly in Amber

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Diana Gabaldon
• Narrated By Geraldine James

The Bonesetter's Daughter

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Amy Tan
• Narrated By Amy Tan, Joan Chen

Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes. Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, brilliantly presents "storytelling in its oldest and truest form".

The Ivy Chronicles

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Karen Quinn
• Narrated By Julia Gibson
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Fans of New York Times best seller The Nanny Diaries will rejoice in this wickedly hilarious novel, which acclaimed author Katharine Weber says is "much funnier and darker". Optioned for a major motion picture starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, The Ivy Chronicles skewers the twisted priorities of America's well-heeled elite.

Horizon Storms: The Saga of Seven Suns, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Kevin J. Anderson
• Narrated By George Guidall

Kevin J. Anderson is one of the most popular and acclaimed science fiction writers in the world. He is a New York Times best-selling author with more than 11 million copies of his books in print. Now the epic saga he began with Hidden Empire continues in this breathtaking novel.

From Potter's Field

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Patricia Cornwell
• Narrated By C.J. Critt

Edgar Award winner Patricia Cornwell is the internationally acclaimed, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Kay Scarpetta mystery series. From Potter's Field finds criminal pathologist Kay Scarpetta in Central Park investigating the crime scene of a bloody homicide. Kay has an eerie feeling the murder was committed by a maniacal killer from her past, Temple Gault, and that he is trying to force her into one final showdown.