Nicola Barber

Departure

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 6 mins)
• By A.G. Riddle
• Narrated By Nicola Barber, Scott Aiello
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En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind. Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the world they've crashed in is very different from the one they left. But where are they? Why are they here? And how will they get back home?

Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Jennifer Worth
• Narrated By Nicola Barber
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At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums. The colorful characters she met while delivering babies all over London - from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lived to the woman with 24 children who couldn't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city’s seedier side - illuminate a fascinating time in history.

Stalking Jack the Ripper

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Kerri Maniscalco, James Patterson
• Narrated By Nicola Barber

Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. Audrey's work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags her into the investigation of a serial murderer.

I Let You Go

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Clare Mackintosh
• Narrated By Nicola Barber, Steven Crossley
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I Let You Go follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past. At the same time, the novel tracks the pair of Bristol police investigators trying to get to the bottom of this hit-and-run.

Hunting Prince Dracula

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Kerri Maniscalco
• Narrated By Nicola Barber, Nicola Barber
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Following the grief and horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper's true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but to flee London and its memories. Together with the arrogant yet charming Thomas Cresswell, she journeys to the dark heart of Romania, home to one of Europe's best schools of forensic medicine...and to another notorious killer, Vlad the Impaler, whose thirst for blood became legend.

Lock and Key: The Gadwall Incident

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 53 mins)
• By Ridley Pearson
• Narrated By Nicola Barber
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In The Gadwall Incident, listeners get a glimpse into James' life a mere 24 hours before the tipping point - before life as he knows it changes irrevocably and his childhood slips into the shadows. Listeners will come to know the dangers that surround the Moriartys before James and Moria are sent off to the hallowed halls of Baskerville Academy, where they first meet the insufferable, inexhaustible Sherlock Holmes.

Shadows of the Workhouse: Call the Midwife, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Jennifer Worth
• Narrated By Nicola Barber
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When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood';s most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle of the twentieth century.

Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End: Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Jennifer Worth
• Narrated By Nicola Barber
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When 22-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End is the last book in Worth's memoir trilogy, which the Times Literary Supplement described as "powerful stories with sweet charm and controlled outrage" in the face of dire circumstances.

Murphy's Law

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Rhys Bowen
• Narrated By Nicola Barber
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Molly Murphy always knew she'd end up in trouble, just as her mother predicted. So, when she commits murder in self-defense, she flees her cherished Ireland, under cover of a false identity, for the anonymous shores of late 19th-century America. When she arrives in New York and sees the welcoming promise of freedom in the Statue of Liberty, Molly begins to breathe easier. But when a man is murdered on Ellis Island, a man Molly was seen arguing with, she becomes a prime suspect in the crime.

For the Love of Mike

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Rhys Bowen
• Narrated By Nicola Barber
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Molly Murphy is starting to think the cards are stacked against her. She's determined to be a private detective, but hampering her investigations is the fact that she's finding many places in turn-of-the-century New York City where women are not welcome, something that's as frustrating to her fiery Irish pride as it is to her rapidly emptying pocketbook. Then two business opportunities pop up simultaneously. An aristocratic family in Dublin fears their daughter has fled to the New World with her unsavory boyfriend, and they hire Molly to track the two down and send the young woman back home.

Death of Riley

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Rhys Bowen
• Narrated By Nicola Barber
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Molly Murphy has finally begun to forget the unpleasant murder of a would-be rapist back in Ireland, not to mention her investigation into the murder of a fellow recent Irish immigrant, and is finally free to begin her life in New York City. Given her experiences so far in the New World, Molly has decided that her first order of business is to become a private investigator, a people finder of sorts, working for families in Europe who've lost touch with relatives in America.

The Wildcat's Claw: Spirit Animals: Fall of the Beasts, Book 6

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Varian Johnson
• Narrated By Nicola Barber
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The four heroes of Erdas are fugitives on the run in this new chapter of the New York Times best-selling series! Confidential until October 2017!

The Rose Garden

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs)
• By Susanna Kearsley
• Narrated By Nicola Barber
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Acclaimed author Susanna Kearsley's previous works have won the RT Book Reviews Reviewers Choice Award, and finaled for both the UK Romantic Novel of the Year and the RITA awards.

Eva Ward is a modern woman thrown back three centuries to 1715 - only to find that might be exactly where she belongs. There, she finds true love with Daniel Butler, but the discord surrounding Hanoverian King George plunges the lovers into a world of intrigue, treason, and romance.

The Finisher

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 57 mins)
• By David Baldacci
• Narrated By Nicola Barber
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Fourteen-year-old Vega Jane lives in the village of Wormwood, where life is nasty, brutish, and short. Villagers have been told that there is nothing outside of Wormwood except for the Quag, a foul forest filled with terrifying beasts. No one comes, no one goes, and Wormwood has stayed this way for generations. Until Vega's friend Quentin Herms disappears. Quentin leaves Vega a secret message hinting that there's a way out of Wormwood and something extraordinary on the other side.

The Dire King: A Jackaby Novel

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 1 min)
• By William Ritter
• Narrated By Nicola Barber
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The fate of the world is in the hands of detective of the supernatural R. F. Jackaby and his intrepid assistant, Abigail Rook. An evil king is turning ancient tensions into modern strife, using a blend of magic and technology to push Earth and the Otherworld into a mortal competition. Jackaby and Abigail are caught in the middle as they continue to solve the daily mysteries of New Fiddleham, New England - like who's created the rend between the worlds, how to close it, and why zombies are appearing around town.

Tell Me, Pretty Maiden

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Rhys Bowen
• Narrated By Nicola Barber
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It’s wintertime in New York, and for the first time since Irish immigrant Molly Murphy started her early-twentieth-century detective agency, she is completely snowed in with work. While she’s proving to be quite the entrepreneur and is very much in demand by some of Broadway’s brightest stars and Fifth Avenue’s richest families, she has to grudgingly admit that if she’s going to work more than one case at a time, then she’s going to need some help.

Jackaby

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 21 mins)
• By William Ritter
• Narrated By Nicola Barber
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Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1890, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary - including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant.

A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower Sellers

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Hazel Gaynor
• Narrated By Nicola Barber
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1876. Among the filth and depravity of Covent Garden's flower markets, orphaned Irish sisters Flora and Rosie Flynn sell posies of violets and watercress to survive. It is a pitiful existence, made bearable only by each other's presence. When they become separated, the decision of a desperate woman sets their lives on very different paths.

Wild Born: Spirit Animals, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Brandon Mull
• Narrated By Nicola Barber
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Four children separated by vast distances all undergo the same ritual, watched by cloaked strangers. Four flashes of light erupt, and from them emerge the unmistakable shapes of incredible beasts - a wolf, a leopard, a panda, a falcon. Suddenly the paths of these children - and the world - have been changed forever.