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FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Jim Powell
• Narrated By William Hughes
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In the minds of historians and the American public alike, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of our greatest presidents, not least because he supposedly saved America from the Great Depression. But as historian Jim Powell reveals in this groundbreaking book, Roosevelt's New Deal policies actually prolonged and exacerbated the economic disaster.

Forced to Kill

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Andrew Peterson
• Narrated By Dick Hill
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Bravery. Honor. Sacrifice. These are more than mere words to trained Marine sniper Nathan McBride. He’s never backed away from danger and he’s not about to start now, even if it means confronting the cold-blooded interrogator who tortured him to the brink of death more than a decade ago.

Threat Vector

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney
• Narrated By Lou Diamond Phillips
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Jack Ryan has only just moved back into the Oval Office when he is faced with a new international threat. An aborted coup in the People's Republic of China has left President Wei Zhen Lin with no choice but to agree with the expansionist policies of General Su Ke Quiang. They have declared the South China Sea a protectorate and are planning an invasion of Taiwan. The Ryan administration is determined to thwart China’s ambitions, but the stakes are dangerously high as a new breed of powerful Chinese anti-ship missiles endanger the US Navy's plans to protect the island.

Twisted (Selected Unabridged Stories)

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Jeffery Deaver
• Narrated By Boyd Gaines, Michele Pawk, Frederick Weller

Diverse, provocative, eerie, and inspired, this collection of Jeffery Deaver's best stories exhibits the amazing range and signature plot twists that have earned him the title "master of ticking-bomb suspense" by People. With nods to O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe, these beautifully crafted pieces pulse with subtle intrigue and Deaver's incomparable imagination.

Black List: Scot Harvath, Book 11

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Brad Thor
• Narrated By Armand Schultz
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Somewhere, deep inside the United States government, is a deadly list. Members of Congress never get to see it and only the president has the final say over it. Once your name is on the list, it doesn't come off - until you're dead. Someone has just added counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath's name to the list. Somehow, Harvath must evade the teams dispatched to kill him long enough to untangle who has framed him and why they want him out of the way.

The Fallen Angel

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Daniel Silva
• Narrated By George Guidall
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After narrowly surviving his last operation, Gabriel Allon, the wayward son of Israeli intelligence, has taken refuge behind the walls of the Vatican, where he is restoring one of Caravaggio's greatest masterpieces. But early one morning he is summoned to St. Peter's Basilica by Monsignor Luigi Donati, the all-powerful private secretary to his Holiness Pope Paul VII. The body of a beautiful woman lies broken beneath Michelangelo's magnificent dome.

The Lions of Lucerne

• ABRIDGED (4 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Brad Thor
• Narrated By Armand Schultz

In a daring and chilling debut, Brad Thor draws us into a sinister labyrinth of political intrigue and international terrorism, serving up an explosive cocktail of unrelenting action and a shattering climax, as one man is pushed to the edge.

On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the unthinkable has just become a nightmarish reality. Thirty Secret Service agents have been viciously executed, and the vacationing president of the United States has been kidnapped.

Einstein: His Life and Universe

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Walter Isaacson
• Narrated By Edward Herrmann
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Why we think it’s a great listen: You thought he was a stodgy scientist with funny hair, but Isaacson and Hermann reveal an eloquent, intense, and selfless human being who not only shaped science with his theories, but politics and world events in the 20th century as well. Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos.

The Shadow Patrol

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Alex Berenson
• Narrated By George Guidall
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In 2009, the CIA's Kabul Station fell for a source who promised to lead it to Bin Laden, but instead he blew himself up, taking the station's most senior officers with him. Now, more than two years later, the station is still floundering, agents are dying, and at Langley the CIA's chiefs wonder if the unthinkable has happened, if somehow the Taliban has infiltrated the station.

Locked On

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney
• Narrated By Lou Diamond Phillips
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Although his father had been reluctant to become a field operative, Jack Ryan Jr. wants nothing more. Privately training with a seasoned Special Forces drill instructor, he’s honing his skills to transition his work within The Campus from intelligence analysis to hunting down and eliminating terrorists wherever he can—even as Jack Ryan Sr. campaigns for re-election as President of the United States. But what neither father nor son knows is that the political and the personal have just become equally dangerous.