David Adam

Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Randy Chandler, Cheryl Mullenax, Jeff Strand, and others
• Narrated By Joe Hempel
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Editors Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax put the call out to horror writers and editors of extreme stories, the hardcore stuff that breaks boundaries and trashes taboos, the transgressive tales you can't "unread" (as Chuck Palahniuk says). Some of the stories you'll find here are loaded with very graphic descriptions of violence, sex, and depravities, while others may contain only one shocking moment of brutality. In others, the hardcore aspect may be less graphic and subtler than you might expect.

The Gods of H. P. Lovecraft

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Martha Wells, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, and others
• Narrated By David Stifel

The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft: a brand new anthology that collects the 12 principal deities of the Lovecraftian Mythos and sets them loose. Featuring the biggest names in horror and dark fantasy, including many New York Times best sellers; full of original fiction; and individual commentary on each of the deities by Donald Tyson.

Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 12 mins)
• By John Joseph Adams (edited by), George R. R. Martin, Junot Díaz, and others
• Narrated By J. Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Campbell, Orson Scott Card, and others
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse is a new anthology of postapocalyptic literature from some of the most renowned authors in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres today, including George R. R. Martin, Hugh Howey, Junot Díaz, David Brin, and many more. This eclectic mix of tales explores famine, death, war, pestilence, and harbingers of the biblical apocalypse.

Guys Read: Funny Business

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Jon Scieszka, Mac Barnett, Eoin Colfer, and others
• Narrated By Michael Boatman, Kate DiCamillo, John Keating, and others
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Funny Business is based around the theme of - what else? - humor, and if you’re familiar with Jon and the Guys Read Library, you already know what you’re in store for: 10 hilarious stories from some of the funniest writers around. Before you’re through, you’ll meet a teenage mummy; a kid desperate to take a dip in the world’s largest pool of chocolate milk; a homicidal turkey; parents who hand over their son’s room to a biker; and more.

The Man Who Couldn't Stop

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 53 mins)
• By David Adam
• Narrated By Daniel Philpott

In this captivating fusion of science and personal memoir, writer David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind. David has suffered from OCD for twenty years, and The Man Who Couldn’t Stop is his honest attempt to understand the condition. At what point does a harmless idea become a blinding blizzard of unwanted thoughts? Drawing on the latest research on the brain, as well as historical accounts of patients and their treatments, this is an audiobook that will challenge the way you think.

The World of Myth: An Anthology

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 51 mins)
• By David Adams Leeming
• Narrated By Jeremy Arthur

Hercules, Zeus, Thor, Gilgamesh - these are the figures that leap to mind when we think of myth. But to David Leeming, myths are more than stories of deities and fantastic beings from non-Christian cultures. Myth is at once the most particular and the most universal feature of civilization, representing common concerns that each society voices in its own idiom.

Episode 54: Syria, the World’s Nightmare

• ORIGINAL (56 mins)
• By David Remnick, Adam Davidson, Omar Dawood, and others

What began as an Arab Spring uprising has turned into a grinding six-year civil war and the worst humanitarian crisis of the twenty-first century...

Doctor Who - Short Trips Volume 01

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 14 mins)
• By George Mann, David A McEwan, Jamie Hailstone, and others
• Narrated By David Troughton, William Russell, Sophie Aldred, and others

Get ready for eight fantastic new adventures in space and time with the Doctor and his companions, featuring stories from many of Doctor Who's most popular authors from the worlds of television, print, comics and audio as well as new talent and fresh voices...and read by your favourite Big Finish actors! 'Rise and Fall' by George Mann. Read by William Russell. On a distant planet, faces bloom in the air for a fraction of a second before disappearing. Will the Doctor and Ian solve the puzzle?

See You in Court

• ORIGINAL (55 mins)
• By Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Adam Liptak, and others

With the president and the judiciary at odds over the travel ban, the term "constitutional crisis" is ubiquitous. Why it should be deployed carefully...

Supreme Court Nomination; Ursula Burns

• ORIGINAL (53 mins)
• By Charlie Rose, Adam Liptak, Jan Crawford, and others

Tonight on the program, a discussion about President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch. Charlie is joined by Adam Liptak of the New York Times, Jan Crawford of CBS News, former solicitor general Paul Clement, and David Boies, chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner.

We conclude with Ursula Burns, chairman and former C.E.O. of Xerox.

Adam Liptak; Dev Patel; 'A United Kingdom'

• ORIGINAL (52 mins)
• By Charlie Rose, Jeff Glor, Adam Liptak, and others

A look at President Trump's controversial immigration order with guest host Jeff Glor and Adam Liptak of The New York Times.

We continue with Oscar-nominated actor Dev Patel, the star of the new film Lion, which tells the true story of Saroo Brierley, a young Indian boy who gets separated from his brother at a train station and ends up more than 1,000 miles from home.

DNC Cyber-attack; Steven Brill

• ORIGINAL (53 mins)
• By Charlie Rose, Adam Segal, Raj De, and others
• Narrated By Charlie Rose

Tonight on the program, an update on the last month's cyber-attack on the Democratic National Committee. Charlie is joined by Adam Segal of the Council on Foreign Relations; Raj De, former general counsel at the National Security Agency; Michael Riley of Bloomberg News; and David Sanger of the New York Times.

We conclude with Steven Brill discussing his article in The Atlantic, "Are We Any Safer?"

Tails of the Apocalypse

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Michael Bunker, Nick Cole, Edward Robertson, and others
• Narrated By Maxwell Zener
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The Doomsday siren calls on civilization's last day. Natural disaster. Nuclear war. Pandemics. These are the ways the world ends. Now, in the aftermath of ruined cities and humanity gone savage, mankind will once again find his oldest allies and closest friends amidst the debris of all that once was. The Walking Dead meets The Incredible Journey in 14 incredible tales of nobility, self-sacrifice, and unconditional love as told by today's most talented independent authors.

Facing the Hunter

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 29 mins)
• By David Adams Richards
• Narrated By Ken Maxon

In his brilliant non-fiction, David Adams Richards - first and foremost one of Canada's greatest and best-beloved novelists - has been writing a kind of memoir by other means. Like his previous titles Lines on Water, about his pursuit of angling, and Hockey Dreams, about the game his disabled body prevented him from playing, Facing the Hunter explores the meaning of a sport and the way in which it touches lives, not least that of the author.

God Is: My Search for Faith in a Secular World

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 14 mins)
• By David Adams Richards
• Narrated By Bernard Cetaro Clark
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In this invaluable contribution to the continuing debate about religious belief, David Adams Richards offers an exhilaratingly fresh perspective and a voice more impassioned, heartfelt, and sometimes furious, than anything written about God by an atheist. David Adams Richards, one of Canada’s most beloved and celebrated authors, has been wrestling with questions of morality, faith, and religion ever since he was a child.

Mercy Among the Children: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 51 mins)
• By David Adams Richards
• Narrated By Bernard Clark

Sydney Henderson is a truly great man. As a young man, Sydney, believing he has accidentally killed a friend, makes a pact with God, promising never to harm another if the boy's life is spared. In the years that follow, the almost pathologically gentle Sydney holds true to his promise - at terrible cost to himself and his family. Stunningly beautiful and haunting, scenes from this magisterial novel will remain etched in the mind forever.

Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 8 mins)
• By David Adams Richards
• Narrated By Allen Robertson

Highly charged and profoundly important, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul is a new masterpiece from one of Canada’s greatest writers. On a bright morning in June 1985, a young Micmac man starts his first day of work—but by noon he is dead, killed mysteriously in the fourth hold of the cargo ship Lutheran. Hector Penniac had been planning to go to university, perhaps to study medicine. Roger Savage, a loner who has had to make his own way since his youth, comes under suspicion of killing Hector over a union card and a morning’s work.

Lines on the Water: A Fly Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 8 mins)
• By David Adams Richards
• Narrated By Bob Brewster

Writing with the same mastery that has won him praise for his fiction, Richards takes us - even those unfamiliar with days spent in chilly waters - on an unforgettable journey to the famed Miramichi River. Casting new light on the mysterious and elegant world of fly fishing, it teems with lore and wisdom, humor, and most of all, passion.

River of the Brokenhearted

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 59 mins)
• By David Adams Richards
• Narrated By Steve Coulter

Janie McCleary runs one of the first movie theatres in New Brunswick. A successful woman in a world of men, she is ostracized, a victim of double-dealing and overt violence. She trusts no one outside her family. Spanning generations, River of the Brokenhearted explores the life of this formidable woman, a pioneer before the age of feminism, and her legacy as it unfolds tragically in the lives of her son and grandchildren.