by Karen Rose • Read by Marguerite Gavin
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A cold case reopened—and a murderer reemerging more deadly than ever before Baltimore homicide detective Stevie Mazzetti has suffered losses no woman should have to endure, but she’s still a fighter. When she learns that her ex-partner might have miscarried justice, she’s determined to put the past to rights, even when she becomes a target. It’s former marine Clay Maynard’s job to see the risk in every situation, and he doesn’t have to look hard to find the danger surrounding Stevie. Since the minute he first saw her, Clay has wanted to protect the wounded officer, and he started loving her not long after that. So when Stevie attracts the attention of a vicious psychopath, Clay will do whatever it takes to keep her alive.
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Do or Die
The Reluctant Heroes Series, Book 1 by Suzanne Brockmann • Read by Patrick Lawlor and Melanie Ewbank From a master of romantic suspense comes the first in a hot new series that spins off her wildly popular Troubleshooters books, featuring sexy Navy SEALS and pulse-pounding romance.
(7607) 16 hours • 14 CDs • 2 MP3 CDs • Fiction / Romance / Suspense 9978-1-4829-5755-6 $123.00
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The Mangle Street Murders
The Gower Street Detectives Series, Book #1 by Martin Kasasian Read by Lindy Nettleton
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The first in a charming, evocative, and sharply plotted Victorian crime series starring a detective duo to rival Holmes and Watson
(7912) 19.5 hours • 16 CDs • 2 MP3 CDs 978-1-4829-5687-0 $123.00
Dark and riveting, Carthage is a powerful addition to the Joyce Carol Oates canon, one that explores the human capacity for violence, love, and forgiveness and asks if it’s ever truly possible to come home again.
Zeno Mayf ield’s daughter has gone missing. When the community of Carthage joins the frantic search for the girl, they discover the unlikeliest of suspects—a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family. As grisly evidence mounts against the troubled war hero, the family must wrestle with the possibility of having lost a daughter forever. (baj4) 19.5 hours • 15 CDs • Fiction / General
978-1-4829-5688-7 $44.95 978-1-4829-7179-8 $74.99
In 1882, after her father dies, March Middleton moves to London to live with her guardian, Sidney Grice, the country’s most famous private detective. No sooner does March arrive than a case presents itself: a young woman has been murdered, and her husband is the only suspect. The investigation leads the pair to the darkest alleys of the East End.
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(9469) 9 hours • 7 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Science / Earth Sciences / Seismology & Volcanism
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The San Andreas Fault is everywhere—and primed for a colossal quake. For decades scientists have warned that such a sudden shifting of the earth’s crust is inevitable. In fact, it is a geologic necessity. Even among scientists, however, few appreciate that the San Andreas is a transient, evolving system that is key to our understanding of earthquakes worldwide.
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In this compelling book, Dvorak reveals the San Andreas Fault’s fascinating history—and its volatile future.
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With everything happening on Helen Peppe’s backwoods Maine farm—ferocious sibling rivalry, rock-bottom poverty, feral male chauvinism, sex in the hayloft—life was out of control, even for the animals. Despite the chaos, in telling her family’s story, Peppe manages deadpan humor, an unerring eye for the absurd, and a touching compassion for her utterly overwhelmed parents.
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There is humor, poignancy, and kick-ass action that will keep your blood pumping. The name Brockmann means romantic suspense!
New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to the supernatural adventures of Rachel Morgan in the penultimate book of the Hollows series
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Former Navy SEAL Ian Dunn has been tasked by a mysterious government agency with rescuing two children believed to have been taken prisoner in a South American embassy. Leading the mission alongside Phoebe Kruger, the new hire at the prestigious law firm where Dunn is a client, Dunn will embark on a race against time while simultaneously dealing with an equally pressing danger: being hunted by the mob. In the midst of all this, Phoebe gets sucked deeper and deeper into Dunn’s clandestine world, and Dunn faces some surprises of his own as he slowly becomes aware of Phoebe’s sharp intelligence, keen sense of humor, and generous heart.
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(9470) 10 hours • 9 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
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Witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan knows magic—and that knowledge has saved her life more than once. But now something—or someone—is attacking Cincinnati and the Hollows, causing spells to backfire or go horribly wrong while living vampires attack humans and Inderlanders alike. The pressures build when the city is quarantined to contain the unreliable magic, and Rachel must stop the attacks before the undead vampire masters who keep the rest of the undead under control are lost and it becomes all-out supernatural war. The only way to do so is through the ancient elven magic, but that carries its own perils—for magic always has a price, and gods do not come lightly when called. I wouldn’t miss a Kim Harrison book for anything. —CHARLAINE HARRIS, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR
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A towering epic to rank with Douglas Preston’s Blasphemy and Michael Crichton’s Prey
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Pandemic drought, skyrocketing oil prices, and dwindling energy supplies threaten the planet. Only four people can prevent global chaos: Gary Morgan, a brilliant renegade scientist who believes in a space elevator—a pillar to the sky that could make space flight fast and affordable; Eva Morgan, a brilliant scientist of Ukranian descent with a lifelong obsession to build a pillar to the sky to mine the power of the sun; Gunther Rothenberg, the revered rocket scientist who helped create the first rockets; and Franklin Smith, the eccentric billionaire who will champion their cause. This journey to the stars will be a tumultuous struggle—and humanity’s salvation hangs in the balance. (7590) 11.5 hours • 10 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Thrillers 978-1-4829-5841-6 $105.00
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Turn to Stone takes place in the days immediately preceding the events of The Cold Nowhere. On his way back to Duluth, Jonathan Stride stops to visit the grave of his mother in Wisconsin. After a shocking occurrence in the cemetery, Stride becomes enmeshed in a gruesome and suspenseful search for a killer who knows things no one else alive should know.
(8350) 22 hours • 19 CDs • Fiction / Literary
(9477) 6 hours • 5 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense 978-1-4829-9560-2 $55.00
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Thom and Jennifer Harlow are the perfect couple, with three perfect children. They maybe two of the biggest mega movie stars in the world, but they’re also great parents, philanthropists, and just all-around good people. When they disappear without a word from their ranch, facts are hard to find. They live behind such a high wall of security and image control that even world-renowned private investigator Jack Morgan can’t get to the truth. But as Jack keeps probing, secrets sprout thick and fast—and this golden couple may emerge as hiding behind a world of desperation and deception that the wildest reality show couldn’t begin to unveil. Murder is only the opening scene.
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A Novel by Molly McAdams Read by Sophie Eastlake and Kris Koscheski
The business marketing genius at the forefront of today’s entertainment marketing revolution helps corporate America get hip to today’s new consumer—the tan generation.
(9488) 9 hours • 8 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Business & Economics / Marketing / General 978-1-4829-9751-4 $90.00
(baju) 9 hours • 7 CDs • Fiction / Romance / Contemporary 978-1-4829-9627-2 $59.99
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Chasing Morgan
Drinking and Dating
The Hunted Series, Book 4 by Jennifer Ryan Read by Coleen Marlo
P.S. Social Media Is Ruining Romance by Brandi Glanville • Read by Brandi Glanville Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville takes readers on a wild ride through her dating life in this highly entertaining relationship book.
(8346) 9 hours • 8 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Thrillers
978-1-4829-9561-9 $29.95
The Tanning of America
How Hip-Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy by Steve Stoute • Read by Kerry Washington
Private investigator Jack Morgan investigates the disappearance of the biggest superstar couple in Hollywood.
This novella from master of suspense Brian Freeman, winner of the International Thriller Writers Award, is not to be missed.
One hundred fifty years of Roses’ Tolivers, Warwicks, and DuMonts! We begin in the antebellum South on Plantation Alley in South Carolina, where Silas Toliver, deprived of his inheritance, joins up with his best friend Jeremy Warwick to plan a wagon train expedition to the “black waxy” promise of a new territory called Texas.
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The prequel to the bestselling Roses once again brings back Gone with the Wind—but this time with a dash of The Help.
Private L.A.
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by William R. Forstchen • Read by Grover Gardner
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(bajt) 10 hours • 8 CDs • Fiction / Romance / Suspense
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978-1-4829-9625-8 $59.99
978-1-4829-9641-8 $49.99
The author of Elegance and The Debutante returns with stunning new novel about secrets, desire, memory, and the power of scent.
(bajw) 12 hours • 10 CDs • Fiction / Historical 978-1-4829-9631-9 $59.99
Heart Trouble
The Callahan Garrity Mysteries, Book 5 by Mary Kay Andrews Reader to be announced The fifth book in the exciting Callahan Garrity series sees the cleaning lady/sleuth tracking down the murderer of a woman whom the entire city loved to hate.
(bad8) 12 hours • 9 CDs • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths 978-1-4829-9192-5 $59.99
Taking Chances
by Molly McAdams Read by Anadelle Waters Her first year away is turning out to be nearly perfect, but one weekend of heated passion will change everything.
(bajz) 13 hours • 10 CDs • Fiction / Romance / Contemporary 978-1-4829-9637-1 $59.99
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A Novel by Charlotte Williams • Read by Alison Larkin Exclusive
Smart, stylish, and suspenseful, The House on the Cliff announces the arrival of a winning female protagonist in Jessica Mayhew and an exciting new crime writer in Charlotte Williams.
(bak4) 9 hours • 7 CDs • Fiction / Crime 978-1-4829-9647-0 $59.99
The Hunted Series, Book 3 by Jennifer Ryan • Read by Coleen Marlo
With mesmerizing emotional intensity and stunning evocations of Africa’s beauty and horror, Minot gives us her most brilliant and ambitious novel yet.
978-1-4829-9633-3 $59.99
The Story of Music
From Babylon to the Beatles: How Music Has Shaped Civilization by Howard Goodall • Read by Simon Vance Exclusive
Howard Goodall’s beautifully clear and compelling account is both a hymn to human endeavor and a groundbreaking map of our musical journey.
(9467) 11.5 hours • 9 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Social Science / Popular Culture 978-1-4829-9529-9 $100.00
978-1-4829-9528-2 $29.95
This literary tour de force is the story of two extraordinary young women: Esther, a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army and forced to commit unspeakable acts, and Jane, an American journalist traveling in Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther. (8734) 9 hours • 8 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Literary 978-1-4829-5855-3 $90.00
From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Bill and Home before Dark comes a major reassessment of the life and work of one of America’s preeminent twentieth-century poets.
If you’re considering a low-carb diet, read this book first. It will change the way you think about what you eat.
(8851) 7 hours • 6 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Biography & Autobiography / Literary
978-1-4829-5856-0 $29.95
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The low-carb universe Dr. Atkins brought into being continues to expand. Low-carb diets are still the go-to method for weight-loss for millions and share two crucial components: the condemnation of “carbs” and an emphasis on meat and fat for calories. This book outlines where the low-carb proponents get it wrong. (9441) 4 hours • 4 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Health & Fitness / Nutrition 978-1-4829-9073-7 $49.00
978-1-4829-9072-0 $19.95
In I Always Loved You Robin Oliveira brilliantly re-creates the irresistible world of belle epoque Paris, writing with grace and uncommon insight into the passion and foibles of the human heart.
(bak2) 9 hours • 7 CDs • Fiction / Thrillers 978-1-4829-9643-2 $59.99
Coincidence
A Novel by J. W. Ironmonger Reader to be announced Simultaneous Release 2/18
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Five years in the making, Golden State is both a political thriller and a meditation on marriage, love, and loyalty.
San Francisco is in chaos as Californians vote on a controversial ballot initiative that will change history. An injured Dr. Julie Walker must make her way across the city to the Veterans Administration Hospital, where her sister is in labor. There a brutal scene is unfolding as a man who shares an intimate past with Julie begins to take his revenge.
Lucky Like Us
What I Had Before I Had You is a deeply poignant story that captures the joys and sorrows of growing up and learning to let go.
The Hunted series continues as Special Agent Sam Turner discovers that protecting the FBI’s star witness is more difficult than he thought.
The Hunted Series, Book 2 by Jennifer Ryan • Read by Coleen Marlo
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978-1-4829-9629-6 $59.99
978-1-4829-9621-0 $59.99
Saved by the Rancher
Fireball
The Hunted Series, Book 1 by Jennifer Ryan Read by Coleen Marlo
Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3 by Robert Matzen • Read by Tavia Gilbert Exclusive
A sizzling, suspenseful new series from bestselling author Jennifer Ryan
(7631) 8 hours • 7 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Contemporary Women 978-1-4829-5694-8 $76.00
What I Had Before I Had You
A Novel by Sarah Cornwell • Read by Karen White
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This gripping page-turner is a story of accomplishment, bravery, sacrifice, and loss.
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978-1-4829-7216-0 $59.99
(bajy) 11 hours • 9 CDs • Fiction / Romance / Suspense
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The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, her fierce determination wavers. Her father is begging her to return to Philadelphia to find a husband, her sister is falling mysteriously ill, and worse, Mary is beginning to doubt herself. Then a friend introduces her to Edgar Degas and her life changes forever. Years later she will learn that he had begged for the introduction, but in that moment their meeting seems a miracle. So begins the defining period of her life and the most tempestuous of relationships. 978-1-4829-5698-6 $90.00
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A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima by James Mahaffey • Read by Tom Weiner
Annihilation
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If J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a novel . . . it might be this awesome.
A true-life tale of German espionage and terror on American soil during World War I, and the NYPD Inspector who helped uncover the plot—the basis for the film to be produced by and starring Bradley Cooper
At the page-turning pace of a spy thriller, Dark Invasion tells the remarkable true story of New York Police Department Tom Tunney and his pivotal role in discovering, and delivering to justice, a ruthless ring of German terrorists determined to annihilate the United States. 978-1-4829-9639-5 $59.99
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Atomic Accidents
(bak0) 10 hours • 8 CDs • History / Military / World War I
(8711) 10 hours • 9 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Historical
978-1-4829-9667-8 $105.00
Dark Invasion
1915: Germany’s Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America by Howard Blum • Read by Pete Larkin
A Story of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas by Robin Oliveira • Reader to be announced
Prophecy is prologue.
A Novel by Michelle Richmond Read by Käthe Mazur
978-1-4829-9635-7 $59.99
I Always Loved You
by Glenn Cooper Read by David Doersch
978-1-4829-9645-6 $59.99
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978-1-4829-7204-7 $59.99
The Keepers of the Library
(bak3) 12 hours • 9 CDs • Fiction / Literary
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E. E. Cummings’ radical experimentation with form resulted in his creation of a new, idiosyncratic means of poetic expression. In this new biography, Susan Cheever traces the development of the poet and his work—from his childhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to his life in Greenwich Village.
Golden State
By T. Colin Campbell, PhD, with Howard Jacobson, PhD Read by Don Hagen
A Life by Susan Cheever Read by Stefan Rudnicki
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The Low-Carb Fraud
E. E. Cummings
by Susan Minot Read by Robin Miles
The sizzling third installment in The Hunted series by bestselling author Jennifer Ryan
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A Novel by Kathleen Tessaro • Reader to be announced
The Right Bride
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The Perfume Collector
by Jeff VanderMeer • Read by Carolyn McCormick
A gripping narrative of nuclear mishaps and meltdowns around the globe, all of which have proven pivotal to the advancement of nuclear science
From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters. Mahaffey looks at each incident in turn and analyzes what happened and why, often discovering where scientists went wrong. (9468) 18.5 hours • 15 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Science / History 978-1-4829-9546-6 $123.00 978-1-4829-9547-3 $44.95
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Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. After eleven unsuccessful expeditions to survey the area—most of which ended in the death of every team member—the twelfth expedition is ready to go. The group is made up of an anthropologist, a surveyor, a psychologist, and a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, collect specimens, record all their observations, and above all, avoid being contaminated. They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms beyond understanding—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything. (8509) 6 hours • 5 CDs • 1 MP3 CD • Fiction / Literary 978-1-4829-5673-3 $55.00
978-1-4829-5674-0 $29.95
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