The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 49 mins)
By Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated By Stephen Hoye
Whispersync for Voice-ready
Overall
(1753)
Performance
(998)
Story
(992)
Written by cancer physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies is a stunning combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that transforms our understanding of cancer and much of the world around us. Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a novelist's richness of detail, a historian's range, and a biographer's passion.
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
UNABRIDGED (14 hrs)
By Laura Hillenbrand
Narrated By Edward Herrmann
Whispersync for Voice-ready
Overall
(8310)
Performance
(4526)
Story
(4530)
Why we think it’s a great listen:Seabiscuit was a runaway success, and Hillenbrand’s done it again with another true-life account about beating unbelievable odds. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared.....
The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One’s prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight. The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age. Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks, a slayer of wolves, and the responsibilities of leadership. All the while, an unseen foe is slowly pulling a noose tight around his neck....
Jacob says:
"Doesn't wrap as nicely as Gathering Storm"
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 57 mins)
By Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
Narrated By Allyson Johnson, Jonathan Davis, Christopher Ryan
Whispersync for Voice-ready
Overall
(1224)
Performance
(757)
Story
(752)
Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science - as well as religious and cultural institutions - has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fidelity. But this narrative is collapsing....
Mark says:
"too much focus on academic in-fighting"
In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings listeners inside the Texas governor's mansion on the night of the hotly contested 2000 election; aboard Air Force One on 9/11, in the hours after America's most devastating attack since Pearl Harbor; at the head of the table in the Situation Room in the moments before launching the war in Iraq; and behind the Oval Office desk for numerous historic and controversial decisions.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Signature Performance by Elijah Wood
UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 12 mins)
By Mark Twain
Narrated By Elijah Wood
Whispersync for Voice-ready
Overall
(1588)
Performance
(1146)
Story
(1119)
A Signature Performance: Elijah Wood becomes the first narrator to bring a youthful voice and energy to the story, perhaps making it the closest interpretation to Twain’s original intent.
As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies, cowardly legislators, or clueless home buyers? According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America's most acclaimed business journalists, the real answer is all of the above-and more. Many devils helped bring hell to the economy.
Shapeshifting mercenary Aralorn leads a dangerous existence. Now she must return home for her noble father, the Lyon of Lambshold, has passed away. But when Aralorn and her companion Wolf arrive, they find he's not dead, but ensorcelled by the ae'Magi, using him as a conduit to destroy Aralorn and Wolf. She must overcome this mysterious mist or fall to the blackest of magic.
Siobhan says:
"Excellent listen that left me longing for the next"
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 10 mins)
By Tim Wu
Narrated By Marc Vietor
Overall
(590)
Performance
(310)
Story
(311)
Could history repeat itself, with one giant entity taking control of American information? Most consider the Internet Age to be a moment of unprecedented freedom in communications and culture. But as Tim Wu shows, each major new medium, from telephone to cable, arrived on a similar wave of idealistic optimism only to become, eventually, the object of industrial consolidation profoundly affecting how Americans communicate.
Neil says:
"Very interesting history, biased conclusions"
When a murder disrupts the Irish vacation she is taking with her husband, Roarke, Eve realizes that no place is safe - not an Irish wood or the streets of the manic city she calls home. But nothing prepares her for what she discovers upon her return to the cop shop in New York City....
Mary says:
"Good story, great Eve/Roarke relationship"
