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Rabbi Gabrielle Commits a Felony

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs)
• By Roger Herst
• Narrated By Dina Pearlman

A prized Torah scroll is stolen from Ohav Shalom. The FBI determines the event to be a "Hate Crime" and initiates an investigation. But Rabbi Gabrielle unearths clues into the theft that lead in another direction. While intensely active in her daily rabbinical duties, her attention is drawn back 65 years to the origin of the stolen Torah in the Ukraine. The discovery brings this liberal rabbi into conflict with the powerful and well-organized Orthodox Jewish community in New York. Internecine warfare between Jewish denominations must be pacified before Rabbi Gabrielle can return to her post at Ohav Shalom.

Ash Child: A Montana Mystery featuring Gabriel Du Pré, Book Nine

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Peter Bowen
• Narrated By Jim Meskimen

Crystal meth, brushfires, and a murderer on the loose threaten Du Pré’s tranquil Montana town. Drought has come to Toussaint, Montana, and appendicitis has stricken the Mtis Indian tracker and investigator Gabriel Du Pré. His appendix is bad enough, but what really hurts is being trapped in the hospital when he learns that Maddy Collins has been killed. As far as Du Pré knows, no one in town had cause to dislike the harmless old coot, much less bash her head in with a cast-iron hatchet. When the doctors release him, he goes looking for answers.

Spillover

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 47 mins)
• By David Quamman
• Narrated By Jonathan Yen

The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia - but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world.

Monster of God

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 35 mins)
• By David Quamman
• Narrated By Brian Holsopple

For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the very nature of our existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate position on the food chain; instead we survey it invulnerably from above - so far above that we are in danger of forgetting that we even belong to an ecosystem.

Chicken Soup for the Soul - Billy Graham & Me: 101 Inspiring Personal Stories from Presidents, Pastors, Performers, and Other People Who Know Him Well

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Steve Posner, Amy Newmark
• Narrated By Allen O'Reilly

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Billy Graham & Me contains 101 fascinating stories from all the living U.S. presidents, well-known pastors, country singers and other celebrities, and world leaders, relating their personal experiences with Billy Graham. Renowned Evangelical preacher Billy Graham has touched tens of millions of lives, inspiring faith and hope around the world. And you will get to know the beloved preacher better in these inspiring personal stories by the people who know him best. You will meet the real Billy Graham, the man behind the public figure.

Women at the Ready: The Remarkable Story of the Women's Voluntary Services on the Home Front

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson
• Narrated By Patience Tomlinson

From the summer of 1938, British women from all walks of life joined the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS). This disparate band of women came together for the common good - to help serve and protect their communities. By 1941 a million women had enrolled. These brave and dutiful women played a vital role in Britain's victory. The positive impact of the WVS on wartime society was universally acknowledged. They were instrumental in implementing the large-scale evacuation of children from bomb-targeted cities, in the care of the wounded, and in keeping those in war service fed.

How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Chris Impey
• Narrated By Andy Caploe

In this vibrant, eye-opening tour of milestones in the history of our universe, Chris Impey guides us through space and time, leading us from the familiar sights of the night sky to the dazzlingly strange aftermath of the Big Bang. Because it takes time for light to travel, we see more and more distant regions of the universe as they were in the successively greater past. Impey uses this concept - "look-back time" - to take us on an intergalactic tour that is simultaneously out in space and back in time.

Invasion: California: Invasion America, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Vaughn Heppner
• Narrated By Mark Ashby

The invasion of California has begun, threatening to trigger World War III.

Greater China and its South American allies control Mexico, and their armies are poised on the Rio Grande, ready for the next phase of the North American conquest. It is 2039. The Chinese are launching their secret weapon against the American border fortifications. At the same time, an amphibious fleet steams toward San Francisco. The Chinese have formed the Pan Asian Alliance and signed a war-pact with the South American Federation. Glacial cooling has brought the Earth to the brink of starvation. Now, U.S. soil is the most valuable commodity in the world....

Primetime Princess

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Lindy DeKoven
• Narrated By Angela Dawe

Chauvinism. Cutthroat competition. It’s all in a day’s work for Alexa Ross, vice president of comedy development at Hawkeye Broadcasting System. After years of fighting her way through the Hollywood boys’ club, Alexa thinks she’s finally free of Jerry Kellner, her sleazy ex-boss - until she learns that Jerry is her newest employee. Now it’s all-out war at HBS, and Jerry is determined to destroy Alexa. Good thing Alexa has her charming boyfriend, Gordon, and her best girlfriends for emotional support. But the pressure in her life forces her to a breaking point, and she finds herself wondering what matters most....

Material Girl: The Fancy Lives of the Lear Sisters, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Julia London
• Narrated By Natalie Ross

For socialite Robin Lear, being handcuffed in the back of a police car for a bogus crime is the cherry on top of the worst week ever. First, her father announces devastating news. Then, in a fit of tough love, he demotes Robin from her cushy job in the family business and reassigns her to work for an insufferable manager. Now, for the first time in her life, Robin will have to earn her place in the world - and the sexy new contractor renovating her house may be just the man to show her how.

Dummy

• UNABRIDGED (31 mins)
• By Bengt Ohlsson
• Narrated By Bengt Ohlsson

I novellen Dummy känner vi igen Bengt Ohlssons cyniska humor och samhällskritiska blick. Det är en skildring av arbetslivets villkor, där vi möter praktikanten Karin som genomlider sin första dag på jobbet och får ett inte helt lätt uppdrag... Bengt Ohlsson är författare och krönikör, bland annat för DN. Sedan debuten 1984 har han skrivit ett tiotal böcker och belönades 2004 med Augustpriset för romanen Gregorius.

Cool War: The Future of Global Competition

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Noah Feldman
• Narrated By Noah Feldman

The Cold War seemingly ended in a decisive victory for the West. But now, Noah Feldman argues, we are entering an era of renewed global struggle: the era of Cool War. Just as the Cold War matched the planet’s reigning superpowers in a contest for geopolitical supremacy, so this new age will pit the United States against a rising China in a contest for dominance, alliances, and resources. Already visible in Asia, the conflict will extend to the Middle East (U.S.-backed Israel versus Chinese-backed Iran), Africa, and beyond.

Chapters from My Autobiography

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Mark Twain
• Narrated By Richard Henzel

Mark Twain expected to create a new form of autobiography in which "I shall talk about the matter which for the moment interests me, and cast it aside and talk about something else the moment its interest for me is exhausted." These transcriptions of his off-the-cuff telling of his own history allow one to feel as if he is listening to the great storyteller one-on-one.

And the Mountains Echoed

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 1 min)
• By Khaled Hosseini
• Narrated By Khaled Hosseini, Navid Negahban, Shohreh Aghdashloo
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Khaled Hosseini, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations.

We Need New Names: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 4 mins)
• By NoViolet Bulawayo
• Narrated By Robin Miles

Darling is only 10 years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: She has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few.

Girls No More: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Caryl Rivers
• Narrated By Dara Rosenberg

Two best friends from high school, Peggy Morrison and Constance Masters, reunite in Washington and continue their indecent behavior. One becomes a Capitol Hill gossip columnist and the other is a prize-winning journalist, and both exploit their feminine wiles to get what they want.

Creatures of Habit: Stories

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Jill McCorkle
• Narrated By Claire Slemmer, Allyson Johnson, Allison McLemore, and others

Jill McCorkle's new collection of 12 short stories is peopled with characters brilliantly like us - flawed, clueless, endearing. These stories are also "animaled" with all manner of mammal, bird, fish, reptile - also flawed and endearing. She asks, what don't humans share with the so-called lesser species? Looking for the answer, she takes us back to her fictional home town of Fulton, North Carolina, to meet a broad range of characters facing up to the double-edged sword life offers hominids.

Curse of the Shadowmage: Forgotten Realms: The Harpers, Book 11

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 1 min)
• By Mark Anthony
• Narrated By Marty Moran

Mari Al'Marin and Caledan, the unlikely pair of heroes from The Crypt of the Shadowking, return to match wits against the revived legacy of the Shadowking, which threatens all of Faerun.

A Man Called Blessed: The Caleb Books, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Ted Dekker, Bill Bright
• Narrated By Benjamin L. Darcie

One man holds the key to locating the Ark of the Covenant - but he’s hidden deep in the desert and no one has seen him since he was a boy. In this explosive sequel to Blessed Child, Jewish soldier-turned-archaeologist Rebecca Soloman leads a team deep into the Ethiopian desert to find the one man who may know the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant. Such a discovery would bring hope back to her people. Her search brings excitement and danger - including unexpected love and a discovery far more powerful than even the holy artifact.