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Before the Fall
Booktrack Edition
By Noah Hawley
Narrated by Robert Petkoff / 12 hours 55 minutes
Before the Fall
“When a private plane plunges into the ocean off Martha's Vineyard, the media and the government want answers. The two survivors -- a middle-aged artist along for the ride and the 4-year-old son of a prominent and powerful family - have little to say. Before the Fall takes the reader on a thrilling ride through the past lives of the other passengers and the aftermath of the crash. As the deepest secrets of the wealthy and those who surround them surface, no one is safe. A brilliant and relentless thriller.”
Geoffrey Jennings, Rainy Day Books
Holidays on Ice
Stories
By David Sedaris
Narrated by David Sedaris, Ann Magnuson & Amy Sedaris / 4 hours 19 minutes
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the... Read More »
Me Talk Pretty One Day
By David Sedaris
Narrated by David Sedaris / 5 hours 51 minutes
A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one... Read More »
Code Girls
The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
By Liza Mundy
Narrated by Erin Bennett / 14 hours 4 minutes
Code Girls
“There is so much arguing these days over the existence of women in STEM fields and whether they should be allowed to be there. 'Oh honey,' says Code Girls, wrapping an arm around your shoulder, 'we never left.' In riveting prose, Mundy shows the presence of these women from the very beginning -and then how they were almost forcibly forgotten after the war was over. Women who once had only a life of school-teaching to look forward to (even with a PhD) became people who saved lives and sunk ships. This book exists to remind us that women have always been in these stories, even if they're not shown.”
Alice Ahn, Water Street Bookstore
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Essays and Arguments
By David Foster Wallace
Narrated by Paul Garcia / 17 hours 46 minutes
In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity,... Read More »
Since We Fell
A Novel
By Dennis Lehane
Narrated by Julia Whelan / 12 hours 1 minute
Since We Fell follows Rachel Childs, a former journalist who, after an on-air mental breakdown, now lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel’s marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked... Read More »
The Mandela Plot
By Kenneth Bonert
Narrated by Dennis Kleinman / 15 hours 32 minutes
As the 1980s draw to a close, South Africa is a maelstrom of political violence with the apartheid regime in its death throes. Young Martin Helger is the struggling odd duck at an elite private boys school in Johannesburg, with his father a rough-handed scrap dealer and his brother a mysterious legend. When a beautiful and manipulative American... Read More »
The Blood of Flowers
A Novel
By Anita Amirrezvani
Narrated by Shohreh Aghdashloo / 13 hours 16 minutes
A sensuous and richly-imagined historical novel that centers on a skilled young carpet weaver, her arranged marriage, and her quest for self-determination in 17th-century Persia.
In 17th-century Iran, a 14-year-old woman believes she will be married within the year. But when her beloved father dies, she and her mother find themselves alone and... Read More »
The Devil's Highway
A True Story
By Luis Alberto Urrea
Narrated by Luis Alberto Urrea / 14 hours 28 minutes
In a new 10th anniversary edition: "The single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic).
In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years... Read More »
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
By Adam Rutherford & Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by Adam Rutherford / 12 hours 13 minutes
A National Geographic Best Book of the Year In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species—births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away—until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard... Read More »
This Is Water: The Original David Foster Wallace Recording
Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
By David Foster Wallace
Narrated by David Foster Wallace / 24 minutes
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. This is the audio recording of David Foster Wallace delivering that very address. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of... Read More »
Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded)
How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
By John Medina
Narrated by John Medina / 9 hours 26 minutes
What's the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a child's brain? What's the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know.
In his New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina showed us how our brains really work—and why we ought to redesign our workplaces and schools. Now, in Brain... Read More »
Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded)
12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
By John Medina
Narrated by John Medina / 8 hours
Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know—like the need for physical activity to get your brain working its best.
How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so... Read More »
Brain Rules for Aging Well
10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp
By John Medina
Narrated by John Medina / 8 hours 38 minutes
How come I can never find my keys? Why don’t I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Aging Well, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts—and the prescription to age well—in his signature engaging style.
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The Dance of the Possible
By Scott Berkun
Narrated by Scott Berkun / 2 hours 26 minutes
This short, fast paced, irreverent guide to creativity is for everyone who wants better ideas and to finish projects they inspire. In 21 short chapters you'll discover a fresh way to understand creative thinking, how ideas work, plus insights from decades of study on both how to be more productive and creative at the same time.
With challenging... Read More »
David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words
By David Foster Wallace
Narrated by David Foster Wallace / 8 hours 52 minutes
"[DFW's] delivery is dead-on and fresh, the words often springing from his mouth as if conceived on the spot.... an audible confirmation that modern American writing continues to gain strength." -Publishers Weekly on Consider the Lobster
Collected here for the first time are the stories and speeches of David Foster Wallace as read by the author... Read More »
On Tennis
Five Essays
By David Foster Wallace
Narrated by Robert Petkoff / 5 hours 59 minutes
David Foster Wallace's extraordinary writing on tennis, collected for the first time in an exclusive digital-original edition.
A "long-time rabid fan of tennis," and a regionally ranked tennis player in his youth, David Foster Wallace wrote about the game like no one else. ON TENNIS presents David Foster Wallace's five essays on the sport,... Read More »
Consider the Lobster (A Story from Consider the Lobster)
And Other Essays
By David Foster Wallace
Narrated by Robert Petkoff / 15 hours 8 minutes
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person?
David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000... Read More »
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
By David Foster Wallace
Narrated by John Krasinski, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Cerveris, Josh Charles, Will Forte, Malcolm Goodwin, Christopher Meloni, Chris Messina, Max Minghella, Denis O'Hare, Lou Taylor Pucci, Ben Shenkman, Joey Slotnick, Cory Stoll & Joshua Ferris / 4 hours 17 minutes
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, he combined hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford. Read More »
The Pale King
By David Foster Wallace
Narrated by Robert Petkoff / 19 hours 15 minutes
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling.... Read More »
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