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On the Jellicoe Road

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Melina Marchetta
• Narrated By Rebecca Macauley

Taylor Markham is now a senior at the Jellicoe School, and has been made leader of the boarders. She is responsible for keeping the upper hand in the territory wars with the townies, and the cadets who camp on the edge of the school's property over summer. She has to keep her students safe and the territories enforced and to deal with Jonah Griggs - the leader of the cadets and someone she'd rather forget. B ut what she needs to do, more than anything, is unravel the mystery of her past and find her mother.

Blameless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Gail Carriger
• Narrated By Emily Gray

Gail Carriger’s best-selling Parasol Protectorate series reimagines Victorian England with vampires, werewolves, and a dash of steampunk. Blameless is the third in the series starring the parasol-wielding Lady Alexia Maccon, formerly Alexia Tarabotti. After news spreads of her delicate condition—a surprise to everyone since she’s married to a werewolf—Alexia is desperate to escape the London gossip. So she heads to Italy for a change of scenery.

Song of Solomon

• ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Toni Morrison
• Narrated By Toni Morrison

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel Garcia Marquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.

Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Gail Carriger
• Narrated By Emily Gray
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Victorian romance mixes seamlessly with elegant prose and biting wit—and werewolves—in Gail Carriger’s delightful debut novel. Soulless introduces Alexia Tarabotti, a parasol-wielding Londoner getting dangerously close to spinster status. But there are more important things than finding a husband. For Alexia was born without a soul, giving her the ability to render any vampire or werewolf completely powerless.

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Mary Roach
• Narrated By Sandra Burr
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The study of sexual physiology has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs, and Alfred Kinsey's attic.

Mary Roach, "The funniest science writer in the country", devoted the past two years to stepping behind those doors. In Bonk, Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to slowly make the bedroom a more satisfying place.

The Mischief of the Mistletoe: A Pink Carnation Christmas

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Lauren Willig
• Narrated By Kate Reading

Arabella Dempsey's dear friend Jane Austen warned her against teaching. But Miss Climpson's Select Seminary for Young Ladies seems the perfect place for Arabella to claim her independence while keeping an eye on her younger sisters nearby. Just before Christmas, she accepts a position at the quiet girls' school in Bath, expecting to face nothing more exciting than conducting the annual Christmas recital. She hardly imagines coming face to face with French aristocrats and international spies....

A Wind in the Door

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Madeleine L'Engle
• Narrated By Madeleine L'Engle

Just before Meg Murry's little brother, Charles Wallace, falls deathly ill, he sees dragons in the vegetable garden. The dragons turn out to be Porginoskes - cherubim composed of wings and eyes, wind and flame. It is up to Meg and Porginoskes, along with Meg's friend Calvin, to save Charles Wallace's life. To do so, they must travel deep within Charles Wallace and attempt to defeat the Echthroi, those who hate, and restore brilliant harmony and joy to the rhythm of creation, the song of the universe.

A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present

• UNABRIDGED (34 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Howard Zinn
• Narrated By Jeff Zinn

A classic since its original landmark publication in 1980, Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is the first scholarly work to tell America's story from the bottom up - from the point of view of, and in the words of, America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers.

Casanova

• ABRIDGED (5 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Giacomo Casanova
• Narrated By Benedict Cumberbatch

The first part of the Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova, a special film tie-in version. The film, starring Heath Ledger as Casanova with Jeremy Irons and Sienna Miller, will be released in UK February 2006.