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  • The Help
    By Kathryn Stockett
    Narrated by Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell
    4.80  (965 ratings)
    Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Aibileen is a black maid raising her 17th white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is the sassiest woman in Mississippi: a wonderful cook with a gossip's tongue. Graduate Skeeter returns from college with ambitions, but her mother will not be happy until she's married. Although world's apart, Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny's lives converge over a clandestine project that will change the town of Jackson forever.
    4.80  (965 ratings)
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  • One Foot in the Grave: Night Huntress, Book 2
    By Jeaniene Frost
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert
    4.80  (70 ratings)
    You can run from the grave, but you can't hide. Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is now Special Agent Cat Crawfield, working for the government to rid the world of the rogue undead. She's still using everything Bones, her sexy and dangerous ex, taught her. But when Cat is targeted for assassination, the only man who can help her is the vampire she left behind.
    4.80  (70 ratings)
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    Jeaniene Frost
  • Destined for an Early Grave: Night Huntress, Book 4
    By Jeaniene Frost
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert
    4.80  (55 ratings)
    Since half-vampire Cat Crawfield and her undead lover Bones met six years ago, they've fought against the rogue undead, battled a vengeful Master vampire, and pledged their devotion with a blood bond. Now it's time for a vacation. But their hopes for a perfect Paris holiday are dashed when Cat awakes one night in terror. She's having visions of a vampire named Gregor, who's more powerful than Bones and has ties to her past that even Cat herself didn't know about.
    4.80  (55 ratings)
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    Jeaniene Frost
  • Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
    By Eoin Colfer
    Narrated by Nathaniel Parker
    4.80  (40 ratings)
    Artemis Fowl has constructed a super-computer from stolen fairy technology. In the wrong hands it could be fatal for humans and fairies alike. But no need to worry, Artemis has a plan. He's just going to show it to a ruthless American businessman!
    4.80  (40 ratings)
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    Eoin Colfer
  • The Help
    Written by: Kathryn Stockett
    Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell
    4.8 (965 ratings)
    Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Aibileen is a black maid raising her 17th white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is the sassiest woman in Mississippi: a wonderful cook with a gossip's tongue. Graduate Skeeter returns from college with ambitions, but her mother will not be happy until she's married. Although world's apart, Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny's lives converge over a clandestine project that will change the town of Jackson forever.
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  • The Snow Child
    Written by: Eowyn Ivey
    Narrated by: Debra Monk
    3.5 (2 ratings)
    A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on making a fresh start for themselves in a homestead 'at the world's edge' in the raw Alaska wilderness. But as the days grow shorter, Jack is losing his battle to clear the land, and Mabel can no longer contain her grief for the baby she lost many years before. The evening the first snow falls, their mood unaccountably changes.
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  • The Betrayal of Trust: Simon Serrailler 6
    Written by: Susan Hill
    Narrated by: Steven Pacey
    4.0 (16 ratings)
    Simon Serrailler is faced with that most complicated of investigations - a cold case. Freak weather and flash floods all over southern England. Half of Lafferton is afloat. A landslip on the Moor has closed the bypass and, as the rain slowly drains away, a shallow grave - and a skeleton - are exposed. It doesn't take long to identify the remains as those of the missing teenager, Harriet Lowther, last seen carrying a tennis racket while waiting for a bus. But that was 16 years ago.
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  • Before I Go To Sleep
    Written by: S J Watson
    Narrated by: Susannah Harker
    4.2 (185 ratings)
    As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I'm still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me ...'Memories define us.So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep?Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overnight.And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story.Welcome to Christine's life.
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  • The Somnambulist
    Written by: Essie Fox
    Narrated by: Annie Aldington
    3.0 (1 ratings)
    Some secrets are better left buried.... When 17-year-old Phoebe Turner visits Wilton's Music Hall to watch her Aunt Cissy performing on stage, she risks the wrath of her mother Maud who marches with the Hallelujah Army, campaigning for all London theatres to close. there, Phoebe is drawn to a stranger, the enigmatic Nathaniel Samuels, who heralds dramatic changes in the lives of all three women. When offered the position of companion to Nathaniel's reclusive wife, Phoebe leaves her life in London's East End for Dinwood Court a house that may well be haunted....
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  • Full House
    Written by: Maeve Binchy
    Narrated by: Kate Binchy
    4.5 (2 ratings)
    Dee loves her children very much, but now they are all grown up, shouldn't they leave home? Rosie moved out when she got married, but it didn't work out, so now she is back with her parents. Helen is a teacher, and doesn't earn enough for a place of her own. Anthony writes songs, and is just waiting for the day when someone will pay him for them. Until then, all three are happy at home. It doesn't cost them anything, and surely their parents like having a full house?
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  • The Soldier's Wife
    Written by: Joanna Trollope
    Narrated by: Julia Franklin
    3.5 (2 ratings)
    Dan Riley is a major in the British Army. After a six month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. The outside world sees those reunions as a taste of heaven after months of hell.But are they? Can a man trained to fight adjust again to family and domestic life? And how will the family cope, if he can't?
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  • The Sense of an Ending
    Written by: Julian Barnes
    Narrated by: Richard Morant
    3.9 (106 ratings)
    Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour, and wit. Maybe Adrian was more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove.
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  • My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
    Written by: Louisa Young
    Narrated by: Dan Stevens
    4.4 (137 ratings)
    Set on the Western Front, in London and in Paris, My Dear I Wanted to Tell You is a moving and brilliant novel of love, class, and sex in wartime, and how war affects those left behind as well as those who fight.
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  • Me Before You
    Written by: Jojo Moyes
    Narrated by: Jo Hall, Anna Bentinck, Steve Crossley, Alex Tregear, Owen Lindsay, Andrew Wincott
    4.1 (17 ratings)
    Lou Clark knows a lot of things. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop, and she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live, and now everything feels small and joyless. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.
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  • The Book Thief
    Written by: Markus Zusak
    Narrated by: Allan Corduner
    4.5 (290 ratings)
    When nine-year-old Liesel arrives outside the boxlike house of her new foster parents at 33 Himmel Street, she refuses to get out of the car. Liesel has been separated from her parents, "Kommunists", forever, and at the burial of her little brother, she steals a gravedigger's instruction manual, which she can't read. It is the beginning of her illustrious career.
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  • Devil's Gate: NUMA Files, Book 9
    Written by: Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
    Narrated by: Scott Brick
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    A Japanese cargo ship bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster - when their boat explodes. What is happening? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of NUMA's Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginably audacious plan to extort the world's major nations.
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  • Highland Storms
    By Christina Courtenay
    Narrated by Angela Darcy
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    Betrayed by his brother and his childhood love, Brice Kinross needs a fresh start. So he welcomes the opportunity to leave Sweden for the Scottish Highlands to take over the family estate. But there's trouble afoot. The estate is in ruin and money is disappearing. He discovers an ally in Marsaili Buchanan, the beautiful redheaded housekeeper, but can he trust her?
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  • The Secret Chamber
    By Patrick Woodhead
    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble
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    When a brilliant young English doctor vanishes into the impenetrable forests of the northern Congo, intelligence chief Jack Milton sends a message to his godson, Luca Matthews, in the Himalayas, asking him to go to Africa and find Joshua. Reluctantly, Luca obeys; but he is no longer the man he once was. Meanwhile in Africa, brilliant pilot Beatrice (Bear) Makuru, also wants to brave the northern wilderness.
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  • A Perfect Proposal
    By Katie Fforde
    Narrated by Jilly Bond
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    Sophie Apperly has spent her whole life pleasing others - but when she realises her family see her less as indispensable treasure and more as general dogsbody, she decides she's had enough. So when an old friend offers her the chance of a lifetime, she decides to swap Little England for the Big Apple, and heads off to the land of opportunity.

    From the moment Sophie hits the bright lights of Manhattan she's determined to enjoy every minute of her big adventure.

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  • Spanish Aristocrat, Forced Bride
    By India Grey
    Narrated by Julia Franklin
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    Infamous playboy Tristan Romero meets ordinary Lily at a lavish ball and arrogantly predicts that she will wake up the following morning between his designer silk sheets! Powerless to resist this wicked billionaire, Lily knows Tristan is only offering one night. But then she discovers she's pregnant, and Tristan's aristocratic duty demands he take Lily as his bride. Lily's shame over accepting a loveless proposal is heightened when she realises that, as the Spaniard's wife, she'll be expected to fulfil his every need.
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  • Ablutions
    By Patrick deWitt
    Narrated by Garrick Hagon
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    .In a seedy bar in Hollywood, a whiskey-loving barman is drawn into the nocturnal world of his sociopathic clientele, with their squabbles, delusions, and bizarre acts of violence. In this brilliantly funny portrait of addiction and its consequences, escape offers the only chance of survival. Utterly absorbing and surprisingly tender, Ablutions is a startlingly bold and original debut.
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  • Amy's Diary
    By Maureen Lee
    Narrated by Alex Tregear
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    On 3 September, 1939, Amy Browning decided to start a diary. It was a momentous day for so many reasons: It was Amy's 18th birthday, her sister had just given birth, and on the radio it was announced that Great Britain was now at war. As the months went by, things began to change. The bombing started, and Amy's fears grew for her boyfriend, Ian, in the RAF....
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  • Waiting for Sunrise
    By William Boyd
    Narrated by Roger May
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    Vienna. 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist, Dr. Bensimon. He is sitting anxiously in the waiting room when an extraordinary woman enters.... Moving from Vienna to London's West End, the battlefields of France, and hotel rooms in Geneva, Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche, and a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe.
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  • Mile 81
    By Stephen King
    Narrated by Thomas Sadoski, Edward Herrman, Craig Wasson
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    A Stephen King original short story featuring an excerpt from 11.22.63, his latest full-length novel. With the heart of Stand by Me and the genius horror of Christine, Mile 81 is Stephen King unleashing his imagination as he drives past one of those road signs.... At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded-up rest stop, a place where high-school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high-school kids have always gotten into....
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  • Covenant of War
    By Cliff Graham
    Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki
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    The year is 993 BC. After years of bloody civil war, Eleazar son of Dodai, one of King David's most elite warriors, wants nothing more than to finally live peacefully in the land. But on the plains near the Great Sea, a terrifying army of Philistines has mobilized to crush the Hebrew tribes once and for all. In the sun-drenched valleys and dark forests of the hill country, Eleazar and his warriors make their stand against Israel's deadliest enemy.
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  • Aphrodite's Passion: The Protectors, Book 2
    By Julie Kenner
    Narrated by Vanessa Hart
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    Aphrodite's Girdle is missing, and the magical artifact will take all of Hale's superpowers to retrieve. The woman who found the belt-one Tracy Tannin-wasn't exactly Ms. Popular before donning it. Now everyone wants her, including some very nasty bad guys.
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  • A Good and Useful Hurt
    By Aric Davis
    Narrated by Luke Daniels
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    Mike is a tattoo artist running his own shop, and Deb is the piercing artist he hires to round out his studio's motley crew of four. The last either expects is romance, but that's what they get as they follow their off-kilter careers and love lives into complete and total disaster. When Mike follows a growing trend and tattoos the ashes of deceased loved ones into several customers' tattoos, he has no idea that it will one day provide the solution - and solace - he will sorely need.
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  • Sacred Hunger
    By Barry Unsworth
    Narrated by David Rintoul
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    1752, the Liverpool Merchant sets sail from Merseyside. A slaver, she is bound for Africa to buy men and transport them in chains across the Atlantic. But aboard ship disease thrives in the cramped hold, killing men and eating into profit. Captain Thurso insists on throwing the sick overboard, to the horror of Matthew Paris, ship's surgeon, who determines to prevent such barbarity. Meanwhile, back home, Erasmus Kemp, cousin of Paris and son of the Liverpool Merchant's owner, finds his fortune hanging in the balance: dependent on the success or failure of a single voyage....
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