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Thérèse Raquin

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs)
• By Emile Zola
• Narrated By Kate Winslet
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Once upon a time, a teenaged Kate Winslet (The Reader, Titanic, Revolutionary Road) received a gift that would leave a lasting impression: a copy of Emile Zola’s classic Thérèse Raquin. Six Academy Award nominations and one Best Actress award later, she steps behind the microphone to perform this haunting classic of passion and disaster.

Listening Is an Act of Love

• ABRIDGED (55 mins)
• By Dave Isay
• Narrated By Dave Isay

Drawn from the work of StoryCorps, the largest and most ambitious private oral history project in American history, comes this tapestry of the stories Americans have been sharing from their lives to leave behind to their loved ones.

The Good Earth

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Pearl S. Buck
• Narrated By Anthony Heald
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own downfall. The working people riot, breaking into the homes of the rich and forcing them to flee. When Wang Lung shows mercy to one noble and is rewarded, he begins to rise in the world, even as the House of Hwang falls.

Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Conor Grennan
• Narrated By Conor Grennan
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In search of adventure, 29-year-old Conor Grennan traded his day job for a year-long trip around the globe, a journey that began with a three-month stint volunteering at the Little Princes Children's Home, an orphanage in war-torn Nepal. Conor was initially reluctant to volunteer, unsure whether he had the proper skill, or enough passion, to get involved in a developing country in the middle of a civil war. But he was soon overcome by the herd of rambunctious, resilient children.

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Succesful Investing

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Malkiel Burton
• Narrated By Kerin McCue

More than a million copies of this indispensible investment classic have been sold since its first publication. This fresh version is completely revised by author Burton G. Malkiel to reflect modern financial concerns and trends.

Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Sue Johnson
• Narrated By Sandra Burr
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In Hold Me Tight, Dr. Johnson shares her groundbreaking and remarkably successful program for creating stronger, more secure relationships. The message of Hold Me Tight is simple: Forget about learning how to argue better, analyzing your early childhood, making grand romantic gestures, or experimenting with new sexual positions. Instead, get to the emotional underpinnings of your relationship.

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through His Son's Meth Addiction

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 27 mins)
• By David Sheff
• Narrated By Anthony Heald
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David Sheff's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view, a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope.

Before meth, Sheff's son, Nic, was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who stole money from his eight-year-old brother and lived on the streets. With haunting candor, Sheff traces the first warning signs, the attempts at rehabilitation, and, at last, the way past addiction. He shows us that, whatever an addict's fate, the rest of the family must care for one another, too, lest they become addicted to addiction.

Free Food for Millionaires: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Min Jin Lee
• Narrated By Shelly Frasier
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Casey Han's four years at Princeton gave her many things, "But no job and a number of bad habits." After graduation, she discovers the reality of having expensive habits without the means to sustain them. As she attempts to navigate Manhattan, we explore her life and New York City's milieu of haves and have-nots.

City of Thieves

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 29 mins)
• By David Benioff
• Narrated By Ron Perlman
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A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won't talk about it, but his grandfather reluctantly consents. The result is the captivating odyssey of two young men trying to survive against desperate odds. Lev Beniov considers himself "built for deprivation." He's small, smart, and insecure, a Jewish virgin too young for the army, who spends his nights working as a volunteer firefighter with friends from his building.

The Female Brain

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Louann Brizendine
• Narrated By Louann Brizendine
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Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can't remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts? These and other questions have stumped both sexes throughout the ages. Now, pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think and what they value.