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Title: Need for Speed

Author: Brian Kelleher

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-14

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A near-impossible cross-country race against time - one that begins as a mission for revenge, but proves to be one of redemption.

Based on the most successful racing video game franchise ever with over 140 million copies sold, Need for Speed captures the freedom and excitement of the game in a real-world setting, while bringing to life the passion for the road that has made Americas love of cars so timeless.This audiobook inspired by the Dreamworks film - starring Aaron Paul as Tobey Marshall - centers around a blue-collar mechanic who races muscle cars on the side in an unsanctioned street-racing circuit. Struggling to keep his family-owned garage afloat, he reluctantly partners with the wealthy and arrogant ex-NASCAR driver Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper). But just as a major sale to car broker Julia Maddon (Imogen Poots) looks like it will save Tobey's shop, a disastrous race allows Dino to frame Tobey for a crime he didnt commit, sending Tobey to prison while Dino expands his business out West.

Two years later, Tobey is released and set on revenge - but he knows his only chance to take down his rival Dino is to defeat him in the high-stakes race known as De Leon - the Super Bowl of underground racing. However to get there in time, Tobey will have to run a high-octane, action-packed gauntlet that includes dodging pursuing cops coast-to-coast as well as contending with a dangerous bounty Dino has put out on his car. With the help of his loyal crew and the surprisingly resourceful Julia, Tobey defies odds at every turn and proves that even in the flashy world of exotic supercars, the underdog can still finish first.

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Title: Selected Stories From the O. Henry Prize Stories 2002

Author: Larry Dark, Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Ron McLarty, David Pittu, Barbara Caruso

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-02

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 37 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Established early in the last century as a memorial to O. Henry, this annual collection has consistently offered a remarkable sampling of contemporary short stories. Each year stories are chosen from large and small literary magazines and a panel of distinguished writers is enlisted to award the top prizes. The result is a superb collection of inventive, full-bodied stories representing the very best in American and Canadian fiction.

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Critic Reviews:

"Interesting and unconventional." (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

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Title: The Alexandria Connection

Author: Adrian dHagé

Narrator: Sean Mangan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-14

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A New World Order is upon us....

In the shifting desert sands of Egypt, rumours abound of a lost papyrus that will reveal the true purpose of the Pyramids of Giza. Could these ancient monoliths be the source of a new kind of energy, one that comes at no cost to the planet?

CIA agent Curtis O'Connor and archaeologist Aleta Weizman are determined to find out. Close by, a shadowy and powerful group known as Pharos meets in Alexandria, its membership a closely guarded secret.

Its first order of business: to orchestrate chaos on international financial markets with a series of spectacular terrorist attacks on the world's fossil-fuel supplies.

And in Cairo, amid the anarchy of Tahrir Square, thieves have broken into the famed Museum of Antiquities and stolen one of the world's priceless artifacts: the mask of Tutankhamun. Is the audacious theft linked to the Pharos Group?

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Title: The Book of Why

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Nicholas Montemarano

Narrator: Brian Troxell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-22-13

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A novel that asks if love ever really has to die...

The power to solve your problems is within you - with the right sense of belief, the mind's ability to create success, happiness, and health is limitless.

At least that's the philosophy of self-help author Eric Newborn, whose books and lectures have spawned a legion of devoted followers who swear that his ideas have pulled their lives from the brink. But after the traumatic loss of his wife, Eric is left to face the darker side of his own teachings, living as a recluse in the home they shared on Martha's Vineyard, struggling to reconcile his worldview with the pain he has suffered. It's a fundamental question that haunts him: Why?

When a fan with questions forces Eric to face the world once again, he's put on a path that might lead him toward the closure he seeks, but in astounding ways he could never begin to dream.

At once a stirring portrait of a soul laid bare by grief and a celebration of coincidence and the magic of real connection, The Book of Why explores the deep powers of the heart and mind to shape the world around us, blurring the lines between loss and love, fate and free will, and despair and joy.

Critic Reviews:

"Nicholas Montemarano is a brilliant storyteller with a poet's heart - and The Book of Why is an intricately constructed narrative, part riveting, part reverie, entirely beautiful. I wanted this novel to last forever, and still I could not bear to put it down - kind of like life itself." (Claudia Emerson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Late Wife)

"Remarkable...deft storytelling and ruthless honesty...as dark and dazzling as a mine shaft studded with diamonds." (The New York Times Book Review on Nicholas Montemarano)

"An American stylist capable of redeeming our darkest dreams." (Jayne Anne Phillips on Nicholas Montemarano)

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Title: Sniper

Subtitle: The Al Anbar Chronicles: First Marine Expeditionary Force - Iraq, Book 3

Author: Jonathan P. Brazee

Narrator: Seth Paul

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-17

Publisher: Jonathan Brazee

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Noah Lindt heard the call of duty after the tragic events of 9/11.

Despite a hampering medical condition that kept him on the outskirts of his high school class, he was accepted into the Marines where he found out he had a singular skill.

He could outshoot almost anyone. Marksmanship alone is not enough to be a successful scout sniper.

Teamwork and mental discipline are paramount, and the self-professed loner has problems adjusting to his spotter as well as the rest of his platoon when they deploy to Ramadi, "the most dangerous city on earth".

As a HOG, a "Hunter of Gunmen", Corporal Lindt has to break through his personal barriers and become not only a marksman, but an NCO of Marines, if his team will make it through numerous engagements with an enemy who has put a bounty on all American snipers.

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