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  • Play Bring Up the Bodies
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    Bring Up the Bodies
    By Hilary Mantel
    Narrated By Simon Vance
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    By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith's son, is far from his humble origins. Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes have risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry's second wife, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church. In Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn.
    UNABRIDGED 14 hrs and 26 mins
    Winner 2012 Man Booker Prize
  • Play Sweet Tooth
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    Sweet Tooth
    By Ian McEwan
    Narrated By Juliet Stevenson
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    Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency.
    UNABRIDGED 12 hrs and 6 mins
    Political Fiction Book of the Year, Political Book Awards 2013
  • Play Society's Child: My Autobiography
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    • by Janis Ian
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    • Length:12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release Date:07/06/2012
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    Society's Child: My Autobiography
    By Janis Ian
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    Janis Ian was catapulted into the spotlight in 1966 at the age of 15, when her soul-wrenching song "Society's Child" became a hit. But this was only the beginning of a long and illustrious career. In Society's Child, Janis Ian provides a relentlessly honest account of the successes and failures - and the hopes and dreams - of an extraordinary life.
    UNABRIDGED 12 hrs and 10 mins
    Grammy Award Winner, Best Spoken Word Album, 2013
  • Play The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
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    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
    By Charles Dickens
    Narrated By Simon Vance
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    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is closely modelled on the 18h-century novels that Charles Dickens loved as a child, such as Robinson Crusoe, in which the fortunes of a hero shape the plot. The likeable young Nicholas, left penniless on the death of his father, sets off in search of better prospects.
    UNABRIDGED 30 hrs and 34 mins
    The 2012 Audies Winner
  • Play Maggot Moon
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    Maggot Moon
    By Sally Gardner
    Narrated By Robert Madge
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    Narrated against the backdrop of a ruthless regime determined to beat its enemies in the race to the moon, Maggot Moon is the stunning new novel from award-winning author Sally Gardner. When his best friend, Hector, is suddenly taken away, Standish Treadwell realises that it is up to him, his grandfather and a small band of rebels to confront and defeat the ever-present oppressive forces of the Motherland. Utterly original and stunning, it is impossible not to be moved by Maggot Moon's powerful story and the unforgettable heroism of Standish.
    UNABRIDGED 3 hrs and 38 mins
    Winner 2012 Costa Children's Book Award
  • Play A Tiny Bit Marvellous
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    A Tiny Bit Marvellous
    By Dawn French
    Narrated By Dawn French
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    Everyone hates the perfect family. So you'll love the Battles. Mo is about to hit the big 50, and some uncomfortable truths are becoming quite apparent: She doesn't understand either of her teenage kids, which as a child psychologist, is fairly embarrassing. She has become entirely grey, inside, and out. Her face has surrendered and is frightening children....
    UNABRIDGED 8 hrs and 39 mins
    Popular Fiction Book of the Year, 2011 Galaxy British Book Awards
  • Play I Claudius
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    I Claudius
    By Robert Graves
    Narrated By Nelson Runger
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    Here is one of the best historical novels ever written. Lame, stammering Claudius, once a major embarrassment to the imperial family and now emperor of Rome, writes an eyewitness account of the reign of the first four Caesars: the noble Augustus and his cunning wife, Livia; the reptilian Tiberius; the monstrous Caligula; and finally old Claudius himself. Filled with poisonings, betrayal, and shocking excesses, I Claudius is history that rivals the most exciting contemporary fiction.
    UNABRIDGED 16 hrs and 48 mins
    The 2012 Audies Winner
  • Play Shatner Rules: Your Key to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large
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    Shatner Rules: Your Key to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large
    By William Shatner, Chris Regan
    Narrated By William Shatner
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    Admit it. You want to BE William Shatner. This collection of rules, illustrated with stories from Bill's illustrious life and career, will show you how Bill became WILLIAM SHATNER, larger than life and bigger than any role he ever played. Shatner Rules is your guide to becoming William Shatner. Or, more accurately, beautifully Shatneresque.
    UNABRIDGED 4 hrs and 27 mins
    The 2012 Audies Winner
  • Play The Song of Achilles
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    The Song of Achilles
    By Madeline Miller
    Narrated By David Thorpe
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    Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Yet one day, Achilles takes the shamed prince under his wing. As they grow into young men their bond blossoms into something far deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother. When word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, the men of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name.
    UNABRIDGED 11 hrs and 35 mins
    Winner 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction
  • Play The Barefoot Executive: The Ultimate Guide to Being Your Own Boss and Achieving Financial Freedom
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    The Barefoot Executive: The Ultimate Guide to Being Your Own Boss and Achieving Financial Freedom
    By Carrie Wilkerson
    Narrated By Carrie Wilkerson
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    Don't think you have what it takes to run a business? It's time to reconsider. Carrie Wilkerson offers the opportunity to live life on your terms. Want to start your workday with e-mail and coffee on the back patio? Want the flexibility of joining your fourth grader on an all-day field trip? Are you ready to take that vacation you've been planning for years? Then you have a choice to make, and The Barefoot Executive will help jump-start your transition. You'll learn: Your "why." The most important question.
    UNABRIDGED 6 hrs and 26 mins
    The 2012 Audies Winner
  • Play Atlas Shrugged
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    Atlas Shrugged
    By Ayn Rand
    Narrated By Scott Brick
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    In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of judgment has its value gone unrecognized, its brilliant inventor punished rather than rewarded for his efforts? In defense of those greatest of human qualities that have made civilization possible, one man sets out to show what would happen to the world if all the heroes of innovation and industry went on strike.
    UNABRIDGED 63 hrs
    The 2012 Audies Winner
  • Play The Sense of an Ending
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    The Sense of an Ending
    By Julian Barnes
    Narrated By Richard Morant
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    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.
    UNABRIDGED 4 hrs and 40 mins
    Winner 2011 Man Booker Prize
  • Play A Visit from the Goon Squad
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    A Visit from the Goon Squad
    By Jennifer Egan
    Narrated By Roxana Ortega
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    Jennifer Egan brings her unique gifts as a novelist and short story writer to a compulsively readable narrative that centers on Bennie Salazar, an aging punk rocker and record executive, and the beautiful Sasha, the pasionate, troubled young woman he employs. Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, but the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other people whose paths intersect with theirs in the course of nearly 50 years.
    UNABRIDGED 10 hrs and 5 mins
    2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner
  • Play Daughter of Smoke and Bone
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    Daughter of Smoke and Bone
    By Laini Taylor
    Narrated By Khristine Hvam
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    In general, Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand, she's a 17-year-old art student in Prague; on the other, errand-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. Raised half in our world, half in 'Elsewhere', she has never understood Brimstone's dark work - buying teeth from hunters and murderers - nor how she came into his keeping. She is a secret even to herself, plagued by the sensation that she isn't whole.
    UNABRIDGED 12 hrs and 31 mins
    The 2012 Audies Winner
  • Play Django: World's Greatest Guitarist
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    Django: World's Greatest Guitarist
    By Bonnie Christensen
    Narrated By George Guidall
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    From extreme poverty in a gypsy camp, through a debilitating injury, Django Reinhardt overcame tremendous obstacles to become a world-renowned, much beloved and highly acclaimed jazz guitarist. This production captures the spirit of the man, his music and his inspiring life story.
    UNABRIDGED 18 mins
    The 2012 Audies Winner
  • Play The Tiger's Wife
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    The Tiger's Wife
    By Tea Obreht
    Narrated By Robin Sachs, Susan Duerden
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    A tiger escapes from a zoo, padding through the ruined streets and onwards, to a ridge above the Balkan village of Galina. His visits hold the villagers in a terrified thrall. But for one boy, the tiger is a thing of magic - Shere Khan awoken from The Jungle Book. Natalia is the granddaughter of that boy. Now a doctor, she is visiting orphanages after another war has devastated the Balkans. On this journey, she receives word of her beloved grandfather's death, far from their home, in circumstances shrouded in mystery.
    UNABRIDGED 11 hrs and 29 mins
    Winner 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction
  • Play Osama
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    Osama
    By Lavie Tidhar
    Narrated By Jeff Harding
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    In a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante...Joe's quest to find the man takes him across the world, from the backwaters of Asia to the European Capitals of Paris and London, and as the mystery deepens around him there is one question he is trying hard not to ask: who is he, really, and how much of the books is fiction?
    UNABRIDGED 8 hrs and 27 mins
    Winner 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
  • Play Pure
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    Pure
    By Andrew Miller
    Narrated By Jonathan Aris
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    Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it. At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own.
    UNABRIDGED 9 hrs and 46 mins
    Winner 2011 Costa Book Awards
  • Play The Stranger's Child
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    The Stranger's Child
    By Alan Hollinghurst
    Narrated By James Daniel Wilson
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    In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her a poem which will become a touchstone for a generation, an evocation of an England about to change for ever.
    UNABRIDGED 19 hrs and 56 mins
    UK Author the Year, 2011 Galaxy British Book Awards
  • Play 1861: The Civil War Awakening
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    1861: The Civil War Awakening
    By Adam Goodheart
    Narrated By Jonathan Davis
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    As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and original account of how the Civil War began. 1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring a new generation to reject their parents faith in compromise and appeasement, to do the unthinkable in the name of an ideal.
    UNABRIDGED 18 hrs and 54 mins
    The 2012 Audies Winner
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