The Leaving of Things

A Cold War

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Alan Russell
• Narrated By Teri Clark Linden
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Nina Granville believes her business trip to Alaska will give her a short respite from the merry-go-round that came with her engagement to Congressman Terrence Donnelly. But instead of allowing her the peace she craves, Nina's getaway from the public eye means that no one witnesses her abduction into a very cold hell.

Younger

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Suzanne Munshower
• Narrated By Joyce Bean
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When PR pro Anna Wallingham gets dumped by her last client, she finds herself running out of options in LA, where looks trump experience. Desperate to prove she is still relevant, the fiftysomething accepts a shady job offer from Pierre Barton, secretive billionaire owner of Barton Pharmaceuticals. Isolated in a facility outside London, she agrees to test a new top-secret product guaranteed to make her look thirty years younger.

A Calculated Life

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Anne Charnock
• Narrated By Susan Duerden
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Big business is booming and state institutions are thriving thanks to advances in genetic engineering, which have produced a compliant population free from addictions. Violent crime is now a rarity. Mayhew McCline, a major corporation that analyzes global trends, has hired a genius: Jayna. A brilliant mathematical modeler, she has the ability to produce accurate predictions that are both good for the world and good for the bottom line. Her latest coup: finding a link between northeasterly winds and violent crime.

The Perfect Son

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Barbara Claypole White
• Narrated By Justine Eyre
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From a distance Felix Fitzwilliam, the son of an old English family, is a good husband and father. But, obsessed with order and routine, he's a prisoner to perfection. Disengaged from the emotional life of his North Carolina family, Felix has let his wife, Ella, deal with their special-needs son by herself.

What Doesn't Kill Her: A Thriller

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Max Allan Collins
• Narrated By Dan John Miller
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Jordan Rivera is an ordinary kid with an ordinary family, until a vicious killer takes it all away, sparing her, but leaving her broken. The murders of her father, mother, and brother destroy something inside Jordan, who spends ten long, mute years in an institution. Catching a glimpse of a news report about another family slaying, Jordan at last breaks her silence. Now she's out, and she molds herself - body and mind - into an instrument of justice.

Damocles

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 33 mins)
• By S. G. Redling
• Narrated By Angela Dawe
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When Earth is rocked by evidence that extraterrestrials may have seeded human DNA throughout the universe, a one-way expedition into deep space is mounted to uncover the truth. What linguist Meg Dupris and her crewmates aboard the Earth ship Damocles discover on Didet - a planet bathed in the near-eternal daylight of seven suns - is a humanoid race with a different language, a different look, and a surprisingly similar society. But here, it’s the "Earthers" who are the extraterrestrial invaders, and it’s up to Meg - a woman haunted by tragedy and obsessed with the power of communication - to find the key to establishing trust between the natives and the newcomers.

Cassidy Lane

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Maria Murnane
• Narrated By Tanya Eby
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From the author who brought us the unforgettable Waverly Bryson and the best-selling Perfect on Paper series. Best-selling author Cassidy Lane walks into her 20th high school reunion with several novels under her belt, but no date on her arm, and deep down she still feels like the smart girl no one asked to the prom. Then handsome Brandon Forrester confesses his teenage crush, and soon Cassidy finds herself swept up in a modern-day fairytale romance not unlike the tales she spins for a living.

After You Left

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Carol Mason
• Narrated By Elizabeth Knowelden
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When Justin walks out on Alice on their honeymoon, with no explanation apart from a cryptic note, Alice is left alone and bewildered, her life in pieces. Then she meets Evelyn, a visitor to the gallery where she works. It's a seemingly chance encounter, but Alice gradually learns that Evelyn has motives, and a heartbreaking story, of her own. And that story has haunting parallels with Alice's life. As Alice delves into the mystery of why Justin left her, the questions are obvious. But the answers may lie in the most unlikely of places...

Love You Better

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Natalie K. Martin
• Narrated By Heather Wilds
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A few months ago, Effie Abbott was left heartbroken; now she has everything she ever wanted. After a whirlwind romance and a dream wedding, she's starting a new life with a new man. Oliver is caring, sophisticated and trustworthy - everything Smith, her reckless ex, wasn't.

The Secrets of Married Women

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Carol Mason
• Narrated By Sarah Coomes
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When Jill's husband discovers he can never have children, it tears a hole in their marriage that Jill doesn't know how to repair. Frustrated, she seeks comfort in her friends: fierce Leigh, with her high-powered career and doting family, and sweet, uncomplicated Wendy, who has a rock-solid marriage any woman would envy.

Eight Minutes

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Lori Reisenbichler
• Narrated By Tanya Eby
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On the night Shelly Buckner finally became a mother, she very nearly became a widow. Her husband, Eric, seriously injured in a car accident on the way to the hospital, was dead for a full eight minutes before being revived--all while Shelly was in labor. Those eight minutes changed everything Shelly thought was possible.

House of Eight Orchids

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 21 mins)
• By James Thayer
• Narrated By Will Damron
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In 1912, John Wade and his brother, William - children of the American consul - were kidnapped off the street in Chungking, China, and raised in the house of Eunuch Chang, the city's master criminal. Twenty-five years later, John is the eunuch's most valuable ward, a trained assassin and swindler, and William has become a talented forger. On the brink of World War II, China is in chaos. When William betrays Eunuch Chang and escapes to central China, a place of ferocious warlords and bandits, John begins a desperate search to save his brother.

Guardians of Stone: The Relic Seekers, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Anita Clenney
• Narrated By Renee Raudman
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The BrainsKendall Morgan, a relic expert born with the family gift for sensing the history and location of ancient artifacts. The BucksNathan Larraby, the enigmatic billionaire who has hired Kendall to locate four powerful relics. The BrawnJake Stone, the tough, sexy mercenary with a mysterious past, contracted to protect Kendall. Every mission Kendall accepts carries certain hazards, but Nathan’s latest is proving to be the most dangerous yet. Kendall’s attraction to Jake - and to Nathan - is making it hard to stay focused, and none of them can afford the distraction. Because there’s someone else hunting the relics....

Heart of a Highland Warrior

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 1 min)
• By Anita Clenney
• Narrated By Sue Pitkin
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Brave, beautiful, and haunted by her past, demon hunter Anna MacKinley will do anything to help the Connors. Under divine orders, the headstrong warrior travels the world, slaying demons and vampires. When she stumbles upon a hidden stone fortress while searching for her clan’s lost Book of Battles, dark forces swiftly imprison her - and she discovers her cell mate is a gorgeous Scottish warrior who has no memories, but looks strikingly familiar.

The Gift

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Dave Donovan
• Narrated By Jeff Cummings
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When an elite team of specialists receives a long-awaited first contact from an alien race, it’s nothing like what they’d imagined. The "gifts," from a long-dead but seemingly benevolent alien race, have been sent to help humanity defend itself against an imminent threat. It’s clear that the gifts are intended to help, but at what price? Caught in the middle is Sam Steele, a high-level programmer and veteran with a tragic past, up against the arrogant, intransigent Colonel Eric Web, who considers Steele a loose cannon and is most concerned with giving the United States an edge in the upcoming battle.

Artful: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Peter David
• Narrated By James Langton
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Oliver Twist is one of the most well-known stories ever told, about a young orphan who has to survive the mean streets of London before ultimately being rescued by a kindly benefactor.

But it is his friend, the Artful Dodger, who has the far more intriguing tale, filled with more adventure and excitement than anything boring Oliver could possibly get up to. Throw in some vampires and a plot to overthrow the British monarchy, and what you have is the thrilling account that Charles Dickens was too scared to share with the world.

Crow Hollow

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Michael Wallace
• Narrated By Rosemary Benson
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Prudence Cotton has recently lost her husband and is desperate to find her daughter, captured by the Nipmuk tribe during King Philip's war. She's convinced her daughter is alive but cannot track her into the wilderness alone. Help arrives in the form of James Bailey, an agent of the crown sent to Boston to investigate the murder of Prudence's husband and to covertly cause a disturbance that would give the king just cause to install royal governors.

Starship Grifters: Rex Nihilo, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Robert Kroese
• Narrated By Kate Rudd
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A space-faring ne'er-do-well with more bravado than brains, Rex Nihilo plies the known universe in a tireless quest for his own personal gain. But when he fleeces a wealthy weapons dealer in a high-stakes poker game, he ends up winning a worthless planet - and owing an outstanding debt more vast than space itself! The only way for Rex to escape a lifetime of torture on the prison world Gulagatraz is to score a big payday by pulling off his biggest scam.

P.S. from Paris: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Marc Levy, Sam Taylor - translator
• Narrated By Tim Campbell
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On the big screen, Mia plays a woman in love. But in real life, she's an actress in need of a break from her real-life philandering husband - the megastar who plays her romantic interest in the movies. So she heads across the English Channel to hide in Paris behind a new haircut, fake eyeglasses, and a waitressing job at her best friend's restaurant.

While the Savage Sleeps

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Andrew E. Kaufman
• Narrated By Luke Daniels
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Cameron Dawson’s got a past he can’t seem to shake, but he’s hoping to change that. He’s moved back home to Faith, New Mexico, and taken a job as assistant sheriff. What he doesn’t realize is that his newest nightmare’s about to begin. Strange things are happening. People are disappearing, and for others, it’s far worse...

Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Mark Sullivan
• Narrated By Will Damron
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Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls - but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier - a move they think will keep him out of combat.

Last Train to Istanbul: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Ayse Kulin
• Narrated By Sanjiv Jhaveri
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Born into privilege to one of the last Ottoman pashas, beautiful, spirited Selva is the brightest jewel in her father’s household - until she falls in love with Rafael Alfandari. Though Turkey has long been a safe haven for Jews, marriage between a high-ranking Muslim girl and a Jewish boy is strictly forbidden. Yet young love will not be denied, and Selva and Rafael defy their parents and marry, fleeing to Paris in hopes of a better life - only to find themselves trapped in the path of the invading Nazis.

Out of Sorts

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Aurélie Valognes, Wendeline A. Hardenberg - translator
• Narrated By Jeff Cummings
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Ferdinand Brun hasn't always been a grumpy old man. Many years ago, he was a grumpy young man. Now he'd much rather spend time with his canine companion, Daisy, than any of his nosy neighbors. But as his behavior becomes increasingly peculiar, his daughter grows concerned and begins to consider moving him into a retirement home.

The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds: The Malayan Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Selina Siak Chin Yoke
• Narrated By Christine Rendel
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Facing challenges in an increasingly colonial world, Chye Hoon, a rebellious young girl, must learn to embrace her mixed Malayan-Chinese identity as a Nyonya - and her destiny as a cook, rather than following her first dream of attending school like her brother. Amidst the smells of chillies and garlic frying, Chye Hoon begins to appreciate the richness of her traditions, eventually marrying Wong Peng Choon, a Chinese man. Together, they have ten children.