Mark Adam

Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Mark Adams
• Narrated By Andrew Garman
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Writer for the New York Times and GQ, Mark Adams is also the acclaimed author of Mr. America. In this fascinating travelogue, Adams follows in the controversial footsteps of Hiram Bingham III, who’s been both lionized and vilified for his discovery of the famed Lost City in 1911—but which reputation is justified?

A Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Adam Morgan, Mark Barden
• Narrated By Mark Barden

An inspiring yet practical guide for transforming limitations into opportunities, A Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages and Why It's Everyone's Business is a book about everyday, practical inventiveness, designed for the constrained times in which we live. It describes how to take the kinds of issues that all of us face today - lack of time, money, resources, attention, know-how - and see in them the opportunity for transformation of oneself.

Meet Me in Atlantis: My Quest to Find the 2,000-Year-Old Sunken City

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Mark Adams
• Narrated By Andrew Garman
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A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. Then he made a second, stranger discovery: Amateur explorers are still actively searching for this sunken city all around the world, based entirely on the clues Plato left behind.

American Assassin

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Mark Adam, Nathan Meyer
• Narrated By Mike Jacobs
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On the west coast a man of utterly lethal capabilities and an intense sense of purpose loses everything important to him. As his life crumples around him he goes to extreme lengths for vengeance.

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...

Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Mark Tercek, Jonathan Adams
• Narrated By Clinton Wade
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In Nature’s Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan Adams argue that nature is not only the foundation of human well-being, but also the smartest commercial investment any business or government can make. The forests, floodplains, and oyster reefs often seen simply as raw materials or as obstacles to be cleared in the name of progress are, in fact as important to our future prosperity as technology or law or business innovation.

Killing CIA Informants, China Stifled U.S. Spying

• UNABRIDGED (8 mins)
• By Mark Mazzetti, Adam Goldman, Michael S. Schmidt, and others
• Narrated By Kristi Burns

The Chinese government systematically dismantled CIA spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward.

"Killing CIA Informants, China Stifled U.S. Spying" is from the May 20, 2017 International section of The New York Times. It was written by Mark Mazzetti, Adam Goldman, Michael S. Schmidt and Matt Apuzzo and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Trump Adviser's Visit to Moscow Got the FBI's Attention

• UNABRIDGED (10 mins)
• By Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti, Adam Goldman
• Narrated By Kristi Burns

Ever since FBI investigators discovered in 2013 that a Russian spy was trying to recruit an American businessman named Carter Page, the bureau maintained an occasional interest in Page. So when he became a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign last year and gave a Russia-friendly speech at a prestigious Moscow institute, it soon caught the bureau’s attention.

"Trump Adviser's Visit to Moscow Got the FBI's Attention" is from the April 19, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti and Adam Goldman and narrated by Kristi Burns.

FBI Blockades Oregon Wildlife Refuge, Urges Remaining Occupiers to Leave

• UNABRIDGED (9 mins)
• By Sarah Kaplan, Adam Goldman, Mark Berman
• Narrated By Sam Scholl

"FBI Blockades Oregon Wildlife Refuge, Urges Remaining Occupiers to Leave" is from the National section of The Washington Post. It was written by Sarah Kaplan, Adam Goldman and Mark Berman and narrated by Sam Scholl.

Mystery Men (& Women): Volume Two

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Gregory Bastianelli, Mark Halegua, Andrew Salmon, and others
• Narrated By Joe Formichella
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In Volume One of this series, we introduced pulp fans to four original pulp heroes by today's leading writers of pulp fiction. Now, we proudly present the second installment and another brand new quartet of fresh and exciting heroes cast in the mold of the classic adventurers of the past.

The New Yorker, July 11th and 18th 2016: Part 1 (George Saunders, Adam Gopnik, Mark Singer)

• HIGHLIGHTS (2 hrs and 7 mins)
• By George Saunders, Adam Gopnik, Mark Singer
• Narrated By Todd Mundt, Christine Marshall

In this issue: "Trump vs. 'Trump'" by Mark Singer; "Trump Days" by George Saunders; "Cool Runnings" by Adam Gopnik; "Empathy for the Devil" by Emily Nussbaum; and "Family Ties" by Anthony Lane.

A Thousand Beauties

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Mark Adam Kaplan
• Narrated By David Rollins
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Some love affairs are not the story book kind. Not even the second time around. Rupert Ruskin vows to give his dying ex-wife as beautiful a send off as he can. But getting her to do what he wants has always been like cornering a hurricane. Besides, she has her own ideas of how she plans to go out. If he's not careful, they'll stretch Ruskin's very soul to its limits.

Fight for the Remote

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Mark Adams, Julia Dawn
• Narrated By Andrew Hayden-Smith, Ayesha Antoine, Helen Oakleigh, and others

Fight for the Remote is a new seven-part audio comedy series from Fantom Films. Fighting for the remote are Jon and Alice, a 20-something couple living together in London. Alice enjoys socialising; Jon hates meeting people. While Alice is climbing her career ladder, Jon is quite content on the bottom rung of his. They are constantly caught in the middle ground between settling for what they have and wanting more and wondering whether what they have together is worth fighting for.

Solano

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Mark Adams
• Narrated By Jonathan Keeble
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Chief Inspector Alex Stirling, an officer in the Metropolitan Police’s Arts and Antiques Unit, receives an urgent late-night phone call at his flat in London: Ivan Macek, a Croatian Holocaust survivor and Nazi-hunter, has been murdered at Tyburn Convent. A gold bar found next to the body apparently links the crime to the Ustashi, a long-thought dead Croatian nationalist movement.

SHE

• UNABRIDGED (39 mins)
• By Mark Adam
• Narrated By Audrey Lusk

Down in the delta black water rolls damp and hot as sweat between the thighs of a dangerous woman. In the historical shadow of exploitation and violence a voodoo priestess empowered with dark, sexual magics sets out to extract a horrific equity and free her family from decades of abuse.

Thunder Kiss: Veronica North

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 57 mins)
• By Mark Adam
• Narrated By Joe Pike

Hell in High Heels. Bel Air, 1968. Flower children and Hollywood elite alike throw themselves into LSD and free love. Across the Pacific grunts fight an increasingly vicious counter-insurgency. Into a cesspool of sex, drugs, glamor, and violence comes a private detective both coolly lethal and stunningly sultry.

Fight for the Remote, Episode 6

• ORIGINAL (37 mins)
• By Mark Adams
• Narrated By Ayesha Antoine, Andrew Hayden-Smith, Helen Oakleigh

Alice gets her one client, Camp Raymond, a career-boosting gig reading his best-selling children’s novel on tape, leaving Jon at home to clean the house (with a little help from his sci-fi fan friends). While Jon is embroiled in an all-day Star Wars marathon, Alice battles with Camp Raymond’s expressive eccentricities to distract her from wondering where her life is going.

Fight for the Remote: Episode 5: The Big Night Out Debacle

• ORIGINAL (31 mins)
• By Mark Adams, Julia Dawn
• Narrated By Ayesha Antoine, Andrew Hayden-Smith, Helen Oakleigh, and others

The dangling testicles of fate have tea-bagged me yet again." Alice and Keren are coming to the end of the three-hour getting-ready ritual, in preparation for a rare big night out with old mates. Jon is trying his best to get out of it with the help of the not-so-bright Grub. As the countdown begins, the wine is drunk, the hair sprayed stiff, and Jon made to change his shirt, but who will make it out of the house in time?

Fight for the Remote: Episode 7: The Wake-Up Call

• ORIGINAL (31 mins)
• By Mark Adams, Julia Dawn
• Narrated By Ayesha Antoine, Andrew Hayden-Smith, Helen Oakleigh

"God, I need to be bereaved. I could do with losing a few pounds". Jon, Keren, and Grub accompany Alice to the funeral of a uni friend called Boris. Jon wants to know how good a friend the deceased was; Alice wants to know how he died. Will their respective quests for knowledge end in tears or laughter?