I’ve thought a little bit about what I want and I think the basic requirements are:

• Remove duplicate songs
• Fix misspelled song titles, artist names
• Find missing titles, genres, artist info and attach it to each song
• Find missing artwork and attach it to each song
• Do all the above really well and automatically

Looking around on the Google I’ve found a couple of candidates: Tidysongs and TuneUp.  Both cost $20-30, but I’m planning on buying both and having a little shootout to find the best one.

I figure I’ll use a spare hard drive to make a back up of my iTunes collection and run both software packages on the collection to see which is the best music organizer.

If you have suggestions for a music organizer please let me know.

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Click here to get the free report(aff).

Of all the questions I get about podcasting, one question seems to be almost universal. That question is can you make money podcasting? That’s the question people want the know about.

At the last Blogworld conference, I learned that there are people making money. The key is having your own product and using your content to promote your product.

The reason I revisit this, is that I just read a great report by a guy named Gideon Shalwick. I’had never heard of Gideon before, but I saw his report referred to by a number of people I know. So, I signed up and got his report. It’s free, so why not.

What I found was really interesting. Gideon has taken the next step in the business model. Gideon shows how to turn your video podcast into a business.

He combines YouTube, a video blog, an email list and a product into a business model. He calls the process Rapid Video Blogging. And he shows you how to do it in his free report.

The report is 95 pages long and covers a lot of material.

The report shows you how to

• Select a niche to build your product
• Create high quality videos
• Connect YouTube, your blog and email
• And how to monetize the setup

And if you want more, he’s offering a coaching class to help you turn your podcast into a business.

I highly recommend getting the free report, even if you just want to be more successful in growing and engaging your audience. The report has lots of good ideas for every video podcaster, and I’m sure the same ideas apply to people doing audio too. Just bypass the hype and dig out what helps you.

Click here to get the free report(aff).

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Stieg Larsson’s three “The Girl…” audiobooks are right up there too.

Coming in at #12 is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which was this week’s free audiobook.

Hope you find an audiobook you like.

1. The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Unabridged) by James Lee Burke

Summary: James Lee Burke’s eagerly awaited new novel finds Detective Dave Robicheaux back in New Iberia, Louisiana, and embroiled in the most harrowing and dangerous case of his career. Seven young women in neighboring Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. While the crimes have all the telltale signs of a serial killer, the death of Bernadette Latiolais, a high-school honor student, doesn’t fit: she is not the kind of hapless and marginalized victim psychopaths usually prey upon. Robich…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Unabridged) audiobook…

2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Unabridged) by Stieg Larsson

Summary: A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue…. It’s about the disappearance 40 years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden…and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance…and about Lisbeth Salander, a…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Unabridged) audiobook…

3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Unabridged) by Stieg Larsson

Summary: Lisbeth Salander lies in Intensive Care with a bullet lodged in her head. She will face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence. Salander is now ready to fight back.

Click to hear an audio sample of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Unabridged) audiobook…

4. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged) by Stieg Larsson

Summary: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" The Washington Post ), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged) audiobook…

5. Water for Elephants (Unabridged) by Sara Gruen

Summary: An atmospheric tale of life and love in a Depression-era traveling circus. Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It’s the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. There he meets the freaks, grifters, and misfits that populate this world. Jacob introduces us to Marlena, beautiful star of the equestrian act; to August, her charismatic but twisted husband (and t…

Click to hear an audio sample of Water for Elephants (Unabridged) audiobook…

6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Unabridged) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Summary: In the more than 100 years since Doyle created the immortal Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, no other mystery writer has come close to eclipsing him as the standard bearer in crime fiction. A brilliant London-based "consulting detective," Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning, and inference to solve difficult cases. Holmes is at the height of his powers here in this collection of 12 of his mo…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Unabridged) audiobook…

7. The Forgotten Garden (Unabridged) by Kate Morton

Summary: A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, a maze, an aristocratic family, a love denied, a mystery – The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric, and a compulsive listen about the past, ghosts, family, and memories from best-selling author Kate Morton. Thirty-eight year old Cassandra is lost, alone, and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident 10 years ago, feels like she has lost everyt…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Forgotten Garden (Unabridged) audiobook…

8. The Dark Horse: A Walt Longmire Mystery (Unabridged) by Craig Johnson

Summary: The Denver Post hails Craig Johnson’s Walt Longmire mystery series as a must-read. Joining the four previous novels – all of which have been Book Sense picks – The Dark Horse puts a unique Wyoming twist on the classic British village mystery. Sheriff Longmire investigates when his instincts tell him something isn’t right about a prisoner accused of killing her husband. Wade Barsad, a man with a dubious past, locked his wife’s horses in their barn and burned the animals alive. In return, …

Click to hear an audio sample of The Dark Horse: A Walt Longmire Mystery (Unabridged) audiobook…

9. The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower I (Unabridged) by Stephen King

Summary: Eerie, dreamlike, set in a world that is weirdly related to our own, The Gunslinger introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, of In-World that was, as he pursues his enigmatic antagonist to the mountains that separate the desert from the Western Sea in the first volume of The Dark Tower series. Roland, the last gunslinger, is a solitary figure, perhaps accursed, who with a strange single-mindedness traverses an exhausted, almost timeless landscape of good and evil. The people he encounters ar…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower I (Unabridged) audiobook…

10. The Heir (Unabridged) by Johanna Lindsey

Summary: The grandson of a Scottish clan laird, Duncan MacTavish is shocked to learn that his other grandfather was an English marquis whose title and London estate he is now required to take on. Worse still, he is engaged to a stranger who has mocked him in public. But his bride-to-be, Ophelia, has been guiding a lovely and witty, if dreadfully inexperienced, country girl named Sabrina through the latter’s all-important first coming-out season. The enchanting Sabrina enthralls Duncan much more than h…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Heir (Unabridged) audiobook…

11. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations (Unabridged) by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Summary: In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan’s Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time: Greg Mortenson’s one-man mission to counteract extremism b…

Click to hear an audio sample of Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations (Unabridged) audiobook…

12. Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans (Unabridged) by Brian Fagan

Summary: Best-selling author Brian Fagan brings early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling. Cro-Magnon reveals human society in its infancy, facing enormous environmental challenges – including a rival species of humans, the Neanderthals. For ten millennia, Cro-Magnons lived side by side with Neanderthals, an encounter that Fagan fills with drama. Using their superior intellects and tools, these ingenious problem solvers s…

Click to hear an audio sample of Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans (Unabridged) audiobook…

13. The Search (Unabridged) by Nora Roberts

Summary: To most people, Fiona Bristow seems to have an idyllic life: a quaint house on an island off Seattle’s coast, a thriving dog-training school, and a challenging volunteer job performing canine search and rescue. Not to mention her three intensely loyal Labs. But Fiona got to this point by surviving a nightmare. Several years ago, she was the only survivor of a serial killer – a madman who stalked and abducted young women, strangled them, and left them buried with a red scarf on their bodies….

Click to hear an audio sample of The Search (Unabridged) audiobook…

14. The Odessa File (Unabridged) by Frederick Forsyth

Summary: Frederick Forsyth’s spellbinding novels are the natural outgrowth of an adventuresome career in international investigative journalism. Written in Austria and Germany during the fall of 1971, The Odessa File is based on its author’s life experiences as a Reuters man reporting from London, Paris, and East Berlin in the early 1960s. The "Odessa" of this title is an acronym for the secret organization that has protected the identities and advanced the destinies of former members of Hitler’s dr…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Odessa File (Unabridged) audiobook…

15. Private (Unabridged) by Kate Brian

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Reed Brennan wins a scholarship to Easton Academy—the golden ticket away from her pill-popping mother and run-of-the-mill suburban life. But when she arrives on the beautiful, tradition-steeped campus of Easton, everyone is just a bit more sophisticated, a bit more gorgeous, and a lot wealthier than she ever thought possible. Reed realizes that even though she has been accepted to Easton, Easton has not accepted her. She feels like she’s on the outside, looking in. Until sh…

Click to hear an audio sample of Private (Unabridged) audiobook…

16. The Shack (Unabridged) by William P. Young

Summary: Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds the…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Shack (Unabridged) audiobook…

17. Loitering With Intent: Stone Barrington (Unabridged) by Stuart Woods

Summary: Dumped by his glamorous Russian girlfriend during dinner at Elaine’s, and running low on cash, Stone Barrington is having a bad week. So his luck seems to be improving when he’s hired to locate the missing son of a very wealthy man – lucky because the job pays well, and because the son is hiding in the tropical paradise of Key West. But when Stone and his sometime running buddy Dino Bacchetti arrive in the sunny Keys, it appears that someone has been lying in wait. When Stone very nearly lose…

Click to hear an audio sample of Loitering With Intent: Stone Barrington (Unabridged) audiobook…

18. All Together Dead: Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery #7 (Unabridged) by Charlaine Harris

Summary: Anthony Award-winning author Charlaine Harris has earned a devoted fan base with her USA Today and New York Times best-selling Sookie Stackhouse mystery series. All Together Dead features more dark but frequently hilarious adventures of buxom, blonde, beautiful, and telepathic cocktail waitress Sookie, who prefers the company of vampires to that of the living.

Click to hear an audio sample of All Together Dead: Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery #7 (Unabridged) audiobook…

19. Elegance of the Hedgehog (Unabridged) by Muriel Barbery

Summary: An enchanting New York Times and international best seller and award-winner about life, art, literature, philosophy, culture, class, privilege, and power, seen through the eyes of a 54-year-old French concierge and a precocious but troubled 12-year-old girl. Renee Michel is the 54-year-old concierge of a luxury Paris apartment building. Her exterior (short, ugly,and plump) and demeanor (poor, discreet, and insignificant) belie her keen, questing mind and profound erudition. Paloma Josse is …

Click to hear an audio sample of Elegance of the Hedgehog (Unabridged) audiobook…

20. In Defense of Food (Unabridged) by Michael Pollan

Summary: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food , the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore’s Dilemma . Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists-all of whom have much to…

Click to hear an audio sample of In Defense of Food (Unabridged) audiobook…

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In the PSA, USA Network has one of its main characters talking about the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and it’s impact. (the full press release is below.)

This would be great given the impact the ADA has had leveling the playing ground except they use a guy who can see to play a blind person.

A sighted person is playing a blind person, and there are not any real blind actors on the show that I know of.

What does that say about their real respect for the ADA.

If they wanted to make this about people with disabilities why not extend the principles they claim and find a blind actor to play the part. After all, if the CIA can do it why not Hollywood.

When this was about actors coloring their faces to play people of different colors this unacceptable, but when sighted people are used to play blind people this ok?

Are blind people incapable of acting? What would the ADA say about that?

But somehow the “American Association of People with Disabilities” thinks this ok according to USA Network’s PR machine.

I’m sorry, but I call BS.

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USA’S ‘COVERT AFFAIRS’ PARTNERS WITH

THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

TO HONOR THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT

As Part of Network’s Characters Unite Campaign, Series Star Christopher Gorham to be Featured in an Original PSA on Combating Discrimination

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – July 27, 2010 – As part of its Characters Unite campaign to combat prejudice and discrimination, USA Network and its new, hit series COVERT AFFAIRS are teaming up with the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), it was announced today by Alexandra Shapiro senior vice president, brand marketing and digital, USA Network. COVERT AFFAIRS premiered on July 13, 2010, and is the #1 cable scripted series premiere in the important A18-49 demographic and also showed growth in total viewers for its second episode.

Christopher Gorham, who portrays a blind CIA operative (Auggie) in COVERT AFFAIRS, will be featured in an original Public Service Announcement (PSA) that highlights the progress of the ADA, which barred discrimination in employment against qualified individuals with disabilities. The PSA will premiere in the July 27th episode of COVERT AFFAIRS, the day after the 20th anniversary of when the landmark bill was signed into law.

“Thanks to the ADA, millions of people with disabilities like Christopher Gorham’s character have been able to work in virtually every field and every type of business, even the CIA,” Shapiro said. “But we also know that barriers for people with disabilities remain and we are proud to partner with the AAPD in our Characters Unite campaign to raise awareness and encourage viewers to join the fight against persisting discrimination.”

In addition to the PSA, USA will provide information for visitors online at charactersunite.com, including facts and statistics on people with disabilities in the workplace and links to important resources such as the AAPD and The Job Accommodation Network (JAN), a free service that offers advice and information about workplace accommodations.

“As we celebrate 20 years of enforcement of ADA, we at AAPD are delighted to partner with the USA Network’s Characters Unite campaign and the ‘Covert Affairs’ team to promote authentic depictions of disabled characters on television,” said Andrew J. Imparato, president and CEO of AAPD. “This exciting new program will help change attitudes, and the PSA being launched this week will accelerate and amplify the show’s inclusive message.”

In COVERT AFFAIRS, USA’s newest original series, we meet Annie Walker (Piper Perabo), a young CIA trainee who is thrust into the inner sanctum of the agency when she is unexpectedly promoted to field operative. While it appears that she has been plucked from obscurity for her exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from her past that her CIA bosses are really after. The series also stars Christopher Gorham, Peter Gallagher, Kari Matchett, Anne Dudek and Sendhil Ramamurthy. From Universal Cable Productions, COVERT AFFAIRS is executive produced by Doug Liman and David Bartis through Dutch Oven and written and co-executive produced by Matt Corman and Chris Ord. James Parriott is the show’s executive producer and showrunner.

The PSA can be viewed via the following link: http://www.soapyfilm.com/reel.php?tx_user=ada&tx_pass=psa&sb_submit=Login

The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), the country’s largest cross-disability membership organization, organizes the disability community to be a powerful voice for change – politically, economically and socially. AAPD was founded in 1995 to help unite the diverse community of people with disabilities, including their family, friends and supporters, and to be a national voice for change in implementing the goals of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). AAPD operates programs in five core areas: Political Participation, Leadership Development, Employment & Mentoring, Advocacy, Membership & Member Benefits. To learn more, visit the AAPD website: www.aapd.com

USA Network is the #1 network in all of basic cable and is seen in over 98.5 million U.S. homes. A division of NBC Universal, USA is the cable television leader in original series and home to the best in blockbuster theatrical films, acquired television series and entertainment events. The award-winning USA website is located at www.usanetwork.com. Characters Welcome.

USA Network is a program service of NBC Universal Cable a division of NBC Universal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories that were originally published as single stories in Strand Magazine.

The audiobook has been formated into a 4 volume set, each with three of the short stories. You can listen to them in any order and they still work great.

The audiobook has been formated for iPod, iPad and iPhone. An mp3 version is also available for other players.

Click here to get your free The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Audiobook.

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Considering what how they made this short film the video is excellent. At the end, they show you how they made the movie. That part is especially fun to watch.

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And here’s the rebutal.

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Jeremiah does lots of good work exploring what’s going on the social tech industry and usually has lots of good content.  I really like this post however, because it sets the stage for some focused innovation on some of the issues that need to be addressed to make social tech more useful and productive.

A good list to provoke some innovation if you ask me.

Here’s his list of ten challenges he thinks the industry needs to address:

1. Noise overwhelms signal
2. Amateurism threatens expertise
3. Power shift to participants
4. Fast moving industry creates confusion
5. Risk of overhype
6. Lack of qualified talent
7. Measurement elusive
8. Disparate Data and Irregular Standards.
9. Culture shift creates an internal rift inside institutions.
10. Privacy Woes scare companies and consumers.

He does a good job of expanding on these topics in his matrix. I think this is a good list of issues for the industry, although I’m not so sure about #2. I don’t see amateurism threatening expertise as a challeng. I’ve seen lots of “experts” are anything but experts, and plenty of amateur who know what they’re talking about.

It’s worth checking out his post if you’re looking for some ideas about where innovation is needed.

Click here to see the post.

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And I’m sure my daughter will want the newest Twilight book, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. Apparantly, it’s a must have before seeing Eclipse, the Movie.

And don’t forget Father’s Day is coming up in the US. Audiobooks make a great present.

Here’s the top sellers for the week. I hope you find something you enjoy.

1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Unabridged) by Stieg Larsson
Summary: Lisbeth Salander lies in Intensive Care with a bullet lodged in her head. She will face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence. Salander is now ready to fight back.
Click to hear an audio sample of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Unabridged) audiobook…

2. The Burning Wire: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel (Unabridged) by Jeffery Deaver
Summary: Lincoln Rhyme is back, on the trail of a killer whose weapon of choice cripples New York City with fear. The weapon is invisible and omnipresent. Without it, modern society grinds to a halt. It is electricity. The killer harnesses and steers huge arc flashes with voltage so high and heat so searing that steel melts and his victims are set afire. When the first explosion occurs in broad daylight, reducing a city bus to a pile of molten, shrapnel-riddled metal, officials fear terrorism. Rhym…
Click to hear an audio sample of The Burning Wire: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel (Unabridged) audiobook…

3. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella (Twilight Saga) (Unabridged) by Stephenie Meyer
Summary: Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by this riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character first introduced in Eclipse , and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits. In another irresistible combination of danger, mystery, and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of Bree and the newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to an unforgettable conclusion.

Click to hear an audio sample of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella (Twilight Saga) (Unabridged) audiobook…

4. 61 Hours: A Reacher Novel (Unabridged) by Lee Child
Summary: Jack Reacher is back. The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. Number-one New York Times best-selling author Lee Child’s latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense. Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare. A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s goi…
Click to hear an audio sample of 61 Hours: A Reacher Novel (Unabridged) audiobook…

5. The Passage (Unabridged) by Justin Cronin
Summary: Just one credit through July 7, 2010. "It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born." First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear – of …
Click to hear an audio sample of The Passage (Unabridged) audiobook…

6. The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home (Unabridged) by Dan Ariely
Summary: The provocative follow-up to the New York Times best seller Predictably Irrational Why can large bonuses make CEOs less productive? How can confusing directions actually help us? Why is revenge so important to us? Why is there such a big difference between what we think will make us happy and what really makes us happy? In his groundbreaking book Predictably Irrational , social scientist Dan Ariely revealed the multiple biases that lead us into making unwise decisions. Now, …

Click to hear an audio sample of The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home (Unabridged) audiobook…

7. Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Objective (Unabridged) by Eric Van Lustbader
Summary: Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne’s impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engraved ringA-A- – an artifact of such powerful significance that people have killed to obtain it. Now he’s determined to find the ring’s owner and purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he’ll discover he committed when he digs in…
Click to hear an audio sample of Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Objective (Unabridged) audiobook…

8. Innocent (Unabridged) by Scott Turow
Summary: The sequel to the genre-defining, landmark best seller Presumed Innocent , Innocent continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once again, 20 years later, pitted against each other in a riveting psychological match after the mysterious death of Rusty’s wife. Rusty is the prime suspect. Reunited with his charismatic lawyer Sandy Stern, he will do anything to convince his beloved son, Nat, of his innocence. But what is he hiding? In an explosive trial which will expose …
Click to hear an audio sample of Innocent (Unabridged) audiobook…

9. Vows, Vendettas, and a Little Black Dress (Unabridged) by Kyra Davis
Summary: The peach taffeta Bridesmaid dress- that should be Sophie’s problem. Not attempted murder. Overjoyed at Maryanne’s engagement, amateur sleuth Sophie Katz can’t wait for the wedding vows and party toasts to begin. But then Dena – best friend, bridesmaid, and all-around vixen – is mysteriously shot just after the announcement. Leave this to the authorities? No way. Dena may never walk again, and Sophie vows to marry her fists with the shooter’s face. Problem is, the number of suspects i…
Click to hear an audio sample of Vows, Vendettas, and a Little Black Dress (Unabridged) audiobook…

10. The Spy: An Isaac Bell Adventure (Unabridged) by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
Summary: Detective Isaac Bell, hero of The Chase and The Wrecker , returns in the remarkable new adventure from the number-one New York Times best-selling author. It is 1908, and international tensions are mounting as the world plunges toward war. When a brilliant American battleship-gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide, the man’s grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father’s name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case,…
Click to hear an audio sample of The Spy: An Isaac Bell Adventure (Unabridged) audiobook…

11. The Lion (Unabridged) by Nelson DeMille
Summary: In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The Lion’s Game , John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, is back. And, unfortunately for Corey, so is Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist otherwise known as "The Lion". Last we heard from him, Khali had claimed to be defecting to the US only to unleash the most horrific reign of terrorism ever to occur on American soil. While Corey and his partner, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, chased him across…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Lion (Unabridged) audiobook…

12. Storm Prey: A Lucas Davenport Novel (Unabridged) by John Sandford
Summary: The brilliant new Lucas Davenport thriller from the number-one New York Times -best-selling author. "Sandford’s track record as a best-selling author is amazing, but it’s not an accident," wrote Booklist of Wicked Prey . "His plotting is sharp, his villains are extraordinarily layered, and his good guys are always evolving. And this time, there’s a storm brewing…Very early, 4:45, on a bitterly cold Minnesota morning, three big men burst through the door of a hospital pharmacy, du…
Click to hear an audio sample of Storm Prey: A Lucas Davenport Novel (Unabridged) audiobook…

13. The Help (Unabridged) by Kathryn Stockett
Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…
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14. Bullet: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 19 (Unabridged) by Laurell K. Hamilton
Summary: The all-new novel in the number-one best-selling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. The triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude, necromancer Anita Blake, and werewolf Richard Zeeman has made Jean-Claude one of the most powerful vampires in the U.S. He’s consolidating power in himself and those loyal to him, doing in America what Belle Morte did in Europe when she was at her height of power. She almost owned Europe, and there was those who are determined that Jean-Claude won’t do …

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15. The Eyes of Darkness (Unabridged) by Dean Koontz
Summary: A year had passed since little Danny’s death – A year since his mother began the painful process of acceptance. But Tina Evans could have sworn she just saw her Danny in a stranger’s car…Then she dreamed that Danny was alive. And when she awoke, she found a message waiting for her in Danny’s bedroom – Two disturbing words scrawled on his chalkboard: NOT DEAD. Was this someone’s grim joke? Her mind playing tricks on her? Or something …more? For Tina Evans, it was a mystery she couldn’t e…
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16. Heart of the Matter (Unabridged) by Emily Giffin
Summary: Tessa Russo is the mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon. Despite her own mother’s warnings, Tessa has recently given up her career to focus on her family and the pursuit of domestic happiness. From the outside, she seems destined to live a charmed life. Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlie – a boy who has never known his father. After too many disappointments, she has given up on romance – and even, to some degree, fr…
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17. Fever Dream (Unabridged) by Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston
Summary: At the old family manse in Louisiana, Special Agent Pendergast is putting to rest long-ignored possessions reminiscent of his wife Helen’s tragic death, only to make a stunning – and dreadful – discovery. Helen had been mauled by an unusually large and vicious lion while they were big game hunting in Africa. But now, Pendergast learns that her rifle – her only protection from the beast – had been deliberately loaded with blanks. Who could have wanted Helen dead…and why? With Lieutenant Vi…
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18. Deliver Us from Evil (Unabridged) by David Baldacci
Summary: In South America, a 96-year-old man of great wealth reads a book late one night and an hour later he lies dead in his bed, the secrets of his past starkly revealed. Six months later, another mystery man lies dead at the bottom of his pool in a villa in Provence. This time, however, there’s a witness at the scene: Shaw, the shadowy operative from The Whole Truth who barely escapes with his life. Meanwhile, a half a world away, photojournalist Katie James is working on a story of internat…
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19. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Unabridged) by James W. Loewen
Summary: This national best seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students. Lies My Teacher Told Me won the American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. James W. Loewen, a sociology professor and distinguished critic of history education, puts 12 popular textbooks under the microscope, and what he discovers will surprise you. In his opinion, every one of these texts fails to m…

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20. How We Decide (Unabridged) by Jonah Lehrer
Summary: Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we "blink" and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, they’re discovering that this is not how the mind works. Our best decisions are a finely tuned blend of both feeling and reason – and the precise mix depends on the situation. When buying a house, for example, it’s best to let our unconscious mull…
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The panelists at the conference were:
Michael Pachter, Man. Dir., Ent. Research, Wedbush Morgan Securities
Nanea Reeves, SVP & COO, Global Online, Electronic Arts
Brian Ward, SVP, Worldwide Studios, Activision Blizzard
Teemu Huuhtanen, EVP, Business Dev. and COmmunications, Sulake Inc. (Habbo Hotel)
Phil Rosenberg, SVP, Bus. Dev., Sony Computer Entertainment America (PlayStation)
Moderator: Eric Goldberg, Managing Director, Crossover Technologies

Michael Pachter opened the session by observing that we are in a state of flux right now. Games used to be in a packaged goods industry, but the digital side is growing fast. It has gone from 0 to $10 billion in the last 10 years. Packaged products are experiencing 2-4% growth. Digital is growing at 25-30% rates and will quickly over take the packaged goods business.

Nanea Reeves is the SVP/COO of EA’s Global Online team that centralizes many of the online services used across the company. From her perspective, they have made a significant investment in digital. In aggregate, the EA online business is now $500 million and should be at $1b by end of 2011. Most of that comes from a player putting a disc in a tray. One of the challenges is to find other ways to connect and acquire customers.

Teemu Huuhtanen says that Habbo Hotel is now on Facebook. The next big thing will be a Facebook game that can get to 150 million users. Habbo is now at 20 million. He is somewhat cautious about Facebook. He says you need to be careful with Facebook because you can never predict what they will do. He says that it can be a great source for acquiring customers, but can be unpredictable if you run 100% on the Facebook platform.

Next generation blockbusters in the console world are defined differently in the packaged world where it takes 1 million units to ship to be a real blockbuster.

The digital blockbuster of tomorrow will come from big revenue – ($150 -300 million). 15 million unique users per month is the target for digital blockbusters in social games (at $1 per month per user). Zynga for example is running at $450-600 million.

The growth of the online side will lead to much more focus on measurement and mining the data to understand sources of value and how you manage the value drivers. Habbu always knows cost of acquisition, acquisition cost by source etc. That means that they can be much more focused on how to drive value.

The largest audience has been teenagers through young men. The second biggest market is 30-50 year old women. Game mechanics are critical to getting women more involved. The bottom line is that women and girls like “good games”, even WOW and Call of Duty should be appealing to women.

We are in the midst of a social sea change with games like Farmville opening up more of the market with much simpler games, although this may not be appreciated by the developers of “hard core” games.

Facebook has been a big open market, although it is getting harder to market there. Pachter says that the Android market is exploding and with HP acquiring Palm there may be another platform available for developers.

Lessons learned about sales from subscription users after the digital download include timing of releases of upgrade packs and how to test new IP experiences. Some of the other big lessons have come from improvements in measurement, such as being able to identify the core customers within the first 7 days of online play.

Overall, the panel was quite positive about the state of the industry and the future ahead. Good news for gamers.

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Lots of big words. It kind of makes your head hurt just to read those words, but these concepts are some of the most important underpinnings of economic understanding about how prices get set.

Haque paraphrases the Efficient Market Hypothesis as:

“The EMH, originally put forth by Eugene Fama of the University of Chicago in the 1960s, states that the prices of securities reflect all known information that impacts their value. No matter what definition is used, the hypothesis does not claim that the market price is always right.”

The italics were added by Haque.

So, basically prices are set by what is known at the time and that can mean that prices should reflect value but may not.

Haque puts forward the Efficient Community Hypothesis:

where efficient markets incorporate “all known information,” efficient communities incorporate “the best known information.”

Haque argument seems to be that if we only had efficient communities, the problems of the efficient market may be solved, after all markets are communities and communities can be markets.  But it seems to me that the “efficient community” is already at work incorporating the “best known information”.  The hedge fund managers, Wall Street traders and investors churn through tons of information applying what they think is the “best known information.”

The real reason why the markets (and their communities) have failed us so badly, is not because of their failure to use “best known information”.

The problem is the exploitation of the “black boxes” of information by special interests within the community/market.

It is the lack of transpancy into how these black boxes work and the ability of special interests to manipulate them so that the special interest can extract money from the community/market.  That’s “Why Are 25 Hedge Fund Managers Worth Make As Much As 658,000 teachers?” (cross outs and italics mine – how much someone gets paid has nothing to do with how much their worth).

Take the most recent financial melt down, and examine the impact of specials interests manipulating the system.

We start with politicians forcing Fredie Mac and Fannie Mae to guarantee mortgages to people who cannot repay them.

Then, we have the bankers who bundle all these crappy loans into BBB bonds(high risk). Then, these same bankers bundle a bunch of these BBB rated bonds into collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) that magically transform this BBB risk into a mixture of BBB risk and AAA risk based on black box models from ratings agencies.  Then, the bankers take the BBB rated portions of the CDOs and bundle them together to create another “synthetic”   CDO which by the magic of “diversification” has some more AAA rated parts and BBB rated parts according to the black box models from ratings agencies.  All of this allows the bankers to turn lead (BBB ratings) into gold (AAA ratings).

This was a crazy house of cards built by special interests who made vast sums of money by exploiting and arbitraging the lack of information transparancy and the  failures of the black box models used the rating agencies whose job it was to protect the community from exactly this kind of information risk.  (BTW the hedge fund managers who made the most in the crash were the people who saw this “inefficiency” being exploited and bet against the market.) If more people knew that the ratings models used didn’t take into account the impact that falling home prices would have on deliquency rates, maybe more of us would have bet with the hedge fund managers who shorted the market.  (read or listen to The Big Short if you really want to know more.)

We need to start saying no more “black boxes” of information.  What’s in a bond should be known and shared.  Market makers and ratings models should be open to examination, comment, review and demands to fix issues raised by the community.

And this should not just apply to our financial markets, but also to the biggest information market of all – the Internet, where special interests are hard at work exploiting the “black boxes of internet ratings” (think Google search ranking algorithm) with all kinds of “black hat” techniques and link spamming.

If we want truly efficient markets and communities that work well we need much, much more transparency.

Update:   I just read about Goldman Sachs being accused of civil fraud – “The government has accused Goldman Sachs & Co. of defrauding investors by failing to disclose conflicts of interest in mortgage investments it sold as the housing market was faltering”

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My personal recommendation is The Big Short audiobook.  It tells you how the banks and hedge funds destroyed Wall Street with their greed and shenanigans.  If you want to understand what happened to cause the current recession, this book is a must listen.

Next up for me is Daemon Audiobook, where technology takes over.  I’ve heard it’s really good.

And for Jim Butcher fans, a brand new audiobook for the Changes: Dresden Files Audiobook series.

Hope you find something you like.

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1. Changes: The Dresden Files, Book 12 (Unabridged) by Jim Butcher

Summary: The new novel in the #1 New York Times best-selling Dresden Files series. Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden’s lover – until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it. Now Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered a secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it – agai…

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2. Deception: An Alex Delaware Novel (Unabridged) by Jonathan Kellerman

Summary: Masterly storytelling and expert insight into the darkest of human compulsions make number-one New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware novels as compelling as they are addictive. And just when you think he has taken his spellbinding tales of mystery and psychological suspense to the limit, with Deception he takes a bold leap into terrifying and uncharted new territory. Her name is Elise Freeman, and her chilling cry for help to whoever may be listening comes…

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3. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Unabridged) by Michael Lewis

Summary: Featuring an exclusive audio interview with Michael Lewis When the crash of the U.S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine, and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real-estate derivative markets, where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class American…

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4. Caught (Unabridged) by Harlan Coben

Summary: From the number-one New York Times best-selling master of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive. Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three month…

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5. The Help (Unabridged) by Kathryn Stockett

Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…

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6. A River in the Sky: The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 19 (Unabridged) by Elizabeth Peters

Summary: Elizabeth Peters brings back beloved Egyptologist and amateur sleuth Amelia Peabody in an exciting tale set amid the ancient temples and simmering religious tensions of Palestine on the eve of World War I. August 1910. Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, are relaxing at home in Kent, enjoying the tranquil beauty of summer. But adventure soon beckons when they are persuaded to follow would-be archaeologist Major George Morley on an expedition to Palestine. Searching for the vanished tre…

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7. House Rules (Unabridged) by Jodi Picoult

Summary: They tell me I’m lucky to have a son who’s so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there’s a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn’t know how. Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with …

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8. Storm Front: The Dresden Files, Book 1 (Unabridged) by Jim Butcher

Summary: My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I’m a wizard. I work out of an office in midtown Chicago. As far as I know, I’m the only openly practicing professional wizard in the country. You can find me in the yellow pages, under Wizards. Believe it or not, I’m the only one there. With rent past due and a decent meal becoming an issue of some importance, Harry needs work, and soon. A call from a distraught wife, and another from Lt Murphy of the Chicago PD…

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9. Blood Rites: The Dresden Files, Book 6 (Unabridged) by Jim Butcher

Summary: Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, takes on a case as a favor to his friend Thomas – a vampire of dubious integrity – only to become the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders.

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10. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged) by Stieg Larsson

Summary: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (“An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller” The Washington Post ), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern…

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11. Dead Beat: The Dresden Files, Book 7 (Unabridged) by Jim Butcher

Summary: When a killer vampire threatens to destroy head of Special Investigations Karrin Murphy’s reputation, unless Harry delivers the powerful Word of Kemmler to her, he has no choice. Now Harry is in a race against time to find the Word before Chicago experiences a Halloween night to wake the dead.

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12. WWW: Watch (Unabridged) by Robert J. Sawyer

Summary: Webmind is an emerging consciousness that has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH – the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any threat to the United States – and they’re fully aware of Caitlin’s involvement in its awakening. WATCH is convinced that Webmind represents a risk to national security and wants it purged from cyberspace. But Caitlin believes in Webmind’s capacity for compassion -…

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13. The Silent Sea: A Novel of the Oregon Files (Unabridged) by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul

Summary: Another thrilling adeventure from the number-one New York Times best-selling author. Clive Cussler’s tales of the Oregon and its crew -”the clever, indefatigable Juan Cabrillo and his merry band of tough, tech-savvy fighting men and women” ( Publishers Weekly ) – have made fans of hundreds of thousands of readers and listeners. But the Oregon ’s sixth adventure is its most remarkable one yet. On December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the coast of Washin…

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14. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) by Stephen King

Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when–or if–it will go awa…

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15. Daemon (Unabridged) by Daniel Suarez

Summary: Technology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire world economy. Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives, trafficking e-mail, transferring money, and monitoring power grids. For the most part, daemons are benign, but the same can’t always be said for the pe…

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16. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand: A Novel (Unabridged) by Helen Simonson

Summary: You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson’s wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, Major Pettigrew is one of the most indelible characters in contemporary fiction, and from the very firs…

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17. Worst Case (Unabridged) by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge

Summary: One by one, children of New York’s wealthiest are taken hostage. But the criminal doesn’t crave money or power – he only wants to ask the elite if they know the price others pay for their luxurious lifestyles. And, if they don’t, he corrects their ignorance – by killing them. To Detective Michael Bennett, it becomes clear that these murders are linked and must be part of a greater, more public demonstration. With the city thrown into chaos, he is forced to team up with FBI agent Emily Parke…

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18. The Lost Symbol (Unabridged) by Dan Brown

Summary: The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown’s follow-up to The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown’s writing shows us why he is the one of the world’s most popular author of thrillers. Just like the Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol is thrilling race to find the secret. Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon is once again needed to meet the challenge. He must search the hidden codes, unravel the secrets while avoiding the bad guys.

Set within the underground of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol races through a t…

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19. Bite Me: A Love Story (Unabridged) by Christopher Moore

Summary: “The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge, shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public. Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. “‘Cept there’s no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they’re vampires. Good thing th…

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20. Presumed Innocent (Unabridged) by Scott Turow

Summary: Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of crimes. Prosecutor Rusty Sabich is transformed from accuser to accused when he is handed an explosive case – that of the brutal murder of a woman who happens to be his former lover.

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Clive Cussler is at the top of this week’s best selling audiobooks. For you political junkies, Karl Rove’s Courage and Consequence audiobook was just released and hits the charts at number 4. My pick from this week’s list is the Rework audiobook by the founders of 37 Signals and the creators of Ruby on Rails.

1. The Silent Sea: A Novel of the Oregon Files (Unabridged) by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul

Summary: Another thrilling adeventure from the number-one New York Times best-selling author. Clive Cussler’s tales of the Oregon and its crew -"the clever, indefatigable Juan Cabrillo and his merry band of tough, tech-savvy fighting men and women" ( Publishers Weekly ) – have made fans of hundreds of thousands of readers and listeners. But the Oregon ’s sixth adventure is its most remarkable one yet. On December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the coast of Washin…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Silent Sea: A Novel of the Oregon Files (Unabridged) audiobook…

2. House Rules (Unabridged) by Jodi Picoult

Summary: They tell me I’m lucky to have a son who’s so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there’s a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn’t know how. Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with …

Click to hear an audio sample of House Rules (Unabridged) audiobook…

3. The Help (Unabridged) by Kathryn Stockett

Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Help (Unabridged) audiobook…

4. Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight by Karl Rove

Summary: From the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked America’s political stage. He ran the national College Republicans at 22, and turned a Texas dominated by Democrats into a bastion for Republicans. He launched George W. Bush to national renown by unseating a popular Democratic governor, and then orchestrated a GOP White House win at a time when voters had little reason to throw out the incumbent party. For engineering victory after unlikely victory, Rove became known as the Architect. …

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5. Rework (Unabridged) by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

Summary: From the founders of the trailblazing software company 37signals, here is a different kind of business book one that explores a new reality. Today, anyone can be in business. Tools that used to be out of reach are now easily accessible. Technology that cost thousands is now just a few bucks or even free. Stuff that was impossible just a few years ago is now simple.That means anyone can start a business. And you can do it without working miserable 80-hour weeks or depleting your life savings….

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6. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) by Stephen King

Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when–or if–it will go awa…

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7. Worst Case (Unabridged) by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge

Summary: One by one, children of New York’s wealthiest are taken hostage. But the criminal doesn’t crave money or power – he only wants to ask the elite if they know the price others pay for their luxurious lifestyles. And, if they don’t, he corrects their ignorance – by killing them. To Detective Michael Bennett, it becomes clear that these murders are linked and must be part of a greater, more public demonstration. With the city thrown into chaos, he is forced to team up with FBI agent Emily Parke…

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8. No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller (Unabridged) by Harry Markopolos

Summary: No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller is exactly what the title promises. This is more than another book about the Bernie Madoff scandal, this is a fast-paced, blow-by-blow, true-crime story that you have to hear to believe. In a true David and Goliath tale, the underdog number cruncher uncovers the largest financial fraud in history, and has to fight everything and everyone in the system to bring it down. Harry Markopolos and his team of financial sleuths tell first-hand how they…

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9. The Lost Symbol (Unabridged) by Dan Brown

Summary: The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown’s follow-up to The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown’s writing shows us why he is the one of the world’s most popular author of thrillers. Just like the Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol is thrilling race to find the secret. Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon is once again needed to meet the challenge. He must search the hidden codes, unravel the secrets while avoiding the bad guys.

Set within the underground of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol races through a t…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Lost Symbol (Unabridged) audiobook…

10. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged) by Stieg Larsson

Summary: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" The Washington Post ), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern…

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11. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Unabridged) by Michael Lewis

Summary: Featuring an exclusive audio interview with Michael Lewis When the crash of the U.S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine, and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real-estate derivative markets, where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class American…

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12. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Unabridged) by Stieg Larsson

Summary: A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue…. It’s about the disappearance 40 years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden…and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance…and about Lisbeth Salander, a…

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13. Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Backlash (Unabridged) by Aaron Allston

Summary: Repercussions from the dark side’s fatal seduction of Jacen Solo and the mysterious plague of madness afflicting young Jedi continue to wreak havoc galaxy-wide. Having narrowly escaped the deranged Force worshippers known as the Mind Walkers, and a deadly Sith hit squad, Luke and Ben Skywalker are in pursuit of the now masterless Sith apprentice. It is a chase that leads to the forbidding planet Dathomir, where an enclave of powerful dark-side Force-wielders will give Vestara the edge she ne…

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14. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Unabridged) by Jack Weatherford

Summary: The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege. From the story of his rise through the…

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15. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (Unabridged) by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Summary: "This shit would be really interesting if we weren’t in the middle of it."–Barack Obama, September 2008 In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama…. The shocking fall of the House of Clinton – and the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obama’s partner and America’s face to the world…. The mercurial p…

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16. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Unabridged) by Dan Heath, Chip Heath

Summary: Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict thats built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed best seller Made to Stick . Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems, the rational mind and the emotional mind, that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The …

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17. The Man from Beijing (Unabridged) by Henning Mankell

Summary: The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller. January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjvallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andrns, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andrn family in Nevada has also been murdered. She then discov…

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18. Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs: Jane Jameson, Book 1 (Unabridged) by Molly Harper White

Summary: Maybe it was the Shenanigans gift certificate that put her over the edge. When children’s librarian and self-professed nice girl Jane Jameson is fired by her beastly boss and handed $25 in potato skins instead of a severance check, she goes on a bender that’s sure to become Half Moon Hollow legend. On her way home, she’s mistaken for a deer, shot, and left for dead. And thanks to the mysterious stranger she met while chugging neon-colored cocktails, she wakes up with a decidedly unladylike t…

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19. The Pacific (Unabridged) by Hugh Ambrose

Summary: In this companion to the HBO miniseries – executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman – Hugh Ambrose reveals the intertwined odysseys of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot during World War II. Between America’s retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur’s airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. From the debacle in …

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20. Fantasy in Death: In Death, Book 30 (Unabridged) by J. D. Robb

Summary: Bart Minnock, founder of the computer gaming giant U-Play, enters his private playroom, and eagerly can’t wait to lose himself in an imaginary world, to play the role of a sword-wielding warrior king, in his company’s latest top-secret project, Fantastical. The next morning, he is found in the same locked room, in a pool of blood, his head separated from his body. It is the most puzzling case Eve Dallas has ever faced, and it is not a game. Lt. Eve Dallas is having as much trouble figuring…

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I received a notice this morning about a free webinar on Mobile Social Media and Mobile Marketing that will be held Tonight at 8pm Eastern – 5PM pacific. That is Tuesday, March 9 at 8pm Eastern.

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This one should be pretty cool because the guest will be Dan Hollings. This guy knows a LOT about internet marketing but has been testing and tweaking new MOBILE marketing strategies for months now.

Dan says the the biggest misconception most people have is that they think Mobile Marketing is just Internet Marketing on a smaller screen.

You really should join Dan and Brad Fallon Tuesday night on the call and they’ll give you some great new mobile strategies and tactics you’ll be able to use right off the bat.

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My personal recommendation is at number 15. The audiobook is Switch, which focuses on why change is hard. I’m just finishing the authors previous audiobook, Made to Stick, which deals with why some ideas stick and other don’t. If you like Gladwell, these two are worth checking out.

Hope you find something you enjoy.

1. Fantasy in Death: In Death, Book 30 (Unabridged) by J. D. Robb
Summary: Bart Minnock, founder of the computer gaming giant U-Play, enters his private playroom, and eagerly can’t wait to lose himself in an imaginary world, to play the role of a sword-wielding warrior king, in his company’s latest top-secret project, Fantastical. The next morning, he is found in the same locked room, in a pool of blood, his head separated from his body. It is the most puzzling case Eve Dallas has ever faced, and it is not a game. Lt. Eve Dallas is having as much trouble figuring…
Click to hear an audio sample of Fantasy in Death: In Death, Book 30 (Unabridged) audiobook…

2. The Broken Teaglass (Unabridged) by Emily Arsenault
Summary: The dusty files of a venerable dictionary publisher, a hidden cache of coded clues, a story written by a phantom author, an unsolved murder in a gritty urban park. All collide memorably in Emily Arsenault’s magnificent debut, at once a teasing literary puzzle, an ingenious suspense novel, and an exploration of definitions: of words, of who we are, and of the stories we choose to define us. In the maze of cubicles at Samuelson Company, editors toil away in silence, studying the English langu…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Broken Teaglass (Unabridged) audiobook…

3. House Rules (Unabridged) by Jodi Picoult
Summary: They tell me I’m lucky to have a son who’s so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there’s a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn’t know how. Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with …
Click to hear an audio sample of House Rules (Unabridged) audiobook…

4. The Help (Unabridged) by Kathryn Stockett
Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…
Click to hear an audio sample of The Help (Unabridged) audiobook…

5. Shutter Island (Unabridged) by Dennis Lehane
Summary: Summer, 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe’s radical approach to psychiatry; an approach that may include drug experimentat…
Click to hear an audio sample of Shutter Island (Unabridged) audiobook…

6. The Man from Beijing (Unabridged) by Henning Mankell
Summary: The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller. January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjvallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andrns, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andrn family in Nevada has also been murdered. She then discov…
Click to hear an audio sample of The Man from Beijing (Unabridged) audiobook…

7. Black Magic Sanction: Rachel Morgan, Book 8 (Unabridged) by Kim Harrison
Summary: In New York Times best-selling author Kim Harrison’s most complex and nuanced adventure yet, bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan fights a deadly battle – mind, body, and soul. Rachel Morgan has fought and hunted vampires, werewolves, banshees, demons, and other supernatural dangers as both witch and bounty hunter – and lived to tell the tale. But she’s never faced off against her own kind, until now. Denounced and shunned for dealing with demons and black magic, her best hope is life i…

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8. Worst Case (Unabridged) by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
Summary: One by one, children of New York’s wealthiest are taken hostage. But the criminal doesn’t crave money or power – he only wants to ask the elite if they know the price others pay for their luxurious lifestyles. And, if they don’t, he corrects their ignorance – by killing them. To Detective Michael Bennett, it becomes clear that these murders are linked and must be part of a greater, more public demonstration. With the city thrown into chaos, he is forced to team up with FBI agent Emily Parke…
Click to hear an audio sample of Worst Case (Unabridged) audiobook…

9. The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1 (Unabridged) by Rick Riordan
Summary: Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school…again. No matter how hard he tries, he can’t seem to stay out of trouble. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself against his pre-algebra teacher when she turns into a monster and tries to kill him? Of course, no one believes Percy about the monster incident; he’s not even sure he believes himself. Until the Minotaur chases him to summe…
Click to hear an audio sample of The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1 (Unabridged) audiobook…

10. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) by Stephen King
Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when–or if–it will go awa…

Click to hear an audio sample of Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) audiobook…

11. Split Image (Unabridged) by Robert B. Parker
Summary: The body in the trunk was just the beginning. Turns out the stiff was a foot soldier for local tough guy Reggie Galen, now enjoying a comfortable "retirement" with his beautiful wife, Rebecca, in the nicest part of Paradise. Living next door are Knocko Moynihan and his wife, Robbie, who also happens to be Rebecca’s twin. But what initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Stressed by the case, his faile…
Click to hear an audio sample of Split Image (Unabridged) audiobook…

12. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Unabridged) by Jack Weatherford
Summary: The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege. From the story of his rise through the…
Click to hear an audio sample of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Unabridged) audiobook…

13. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (Unabridged) by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
Summary: "This shit would be really interesting if we weren’t in the middle of it."–Barack Obama, September 2008 In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama…. The shocking fall of the House of Clinton – and the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obama’s partner and America’s face to the world…. The mercurial p…

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14. The Lost Symbol (Unabridged) by Dan Brown
Summary: The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown’s follow-up to The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown’s writing shows us why he is the one of the world’s most popular author of thrillers. Just like the Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol is thrilling race to find the secret. Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon is once again needed to meet the challenge. He must search the hidden codes, unravel the secrets while avoiding the bad guys.

Set within the underground of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol races through a t…
Click to hear an audio sample of The Lost Symbol (Unabridged) audiobook…

15. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Unabridged) by Dan Heath, Chip Heath
Summary: Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict thats built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed best seller Made to Stick . Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems, the rational mind and the emotional mind, that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The …
Click to hear an audio sample of Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Unabridged) audiobook…

16. Big Jack (Unabridged) by J. D. Robb
Summary: In New York City in 2059, someone is pursuing missing gems from a decades-old heist…someone who’s willing to kill for them. Sharp-witted and sexy, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is used to travelling in the shadowy corners outside the law. And in a future where crime meets cutting-edge technology, she will attempt to track down the diamonds once and for all – and stop the danger and death that have surrounded them for years.
Click to hear an audio sample of Big Jack (Unabridged) audiobook…

17. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged) by Stieg Larsson
Summary: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" The Washington Post ), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern…
Click to hear an audio sample of The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged) audiobook…

18. UR (Unabridged) by Stephen King
Summary: Tapping into our primal fears of modern technology, which made Cell a number-one best seller, Stephen King sets his sights on the latest high-tech gadget in UR , in which a mysterious e-book reader opens a disturbing window into other worlds. Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend’s parting shot: "Why can’t you just read off the computer like everyone else?" He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds…
Click to hear an audio sample of UR (Unabridged) audiobook…

19. No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller (Unabridged) by Harry Markopolos
Summary: No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller is exactly what the title promises. This is more than another book about the Bernie Madoff scandal, this is a fast-paced, blow-by-blow, true-crime story that you have to hear to believe. In a true David and Goliath tale, the underdog number cruncher uncovers the largest financial fraud in history, and has to fight everything and everyone in the system to bring it down. Harry Markopolos and his team of financial sleuths tell first-hand how they…

Click to hear an audio sample of No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller (Unabridged) audiobook…

20. The Sea of Monsters: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2 (Unabridged) by Rick Riordan
Summary: After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson, a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere, making it hard for Percy to have any "normal" friends.
Click to hear an audio sample of The Sea of Monsters: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2 (Unabridged) audiobook…

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If you want to buy audiobooks for ipod, I recommend shopping at my audiobooks for iPod store called Castlibrary.com. Castlibrary works in partnership with Audible (a division of Amazon) and Ingram Books to provide the widest selection of audiobooks for iPod and iPhones possible. I also have an audiobooks for iPod store for the UK and can also point you to audiobook stores for Germany and France. And you can also buy them from iTunes, but I find that you can get better deals on audiobooks from Castlibrary.

In addition, Digital Podcast lists about 2,000 free audiobooks for ipod, iPhone and MP3 players in our downloadable audiobook section. These audiobooks have been organized into podcasts so you can subscribe to them as podcasts.

You can also buy audiobooks on CD, and then import them into iTunes and then listen to them via your iPod. The process works like importing music from a music CD. However, if you get your audiobooks from Castlibrary the process is almost automatic, with the books forming one or two files that are easily navigated using your iPod music menu.

Options for Buying Audiobooks for iPod

Buying a single audiobook is expensive. Some audiobooks, like the Harry Potter books, can go for as much as $50-60 per audiobook. Fortunately, there is a better option called a subscription plan. The deal that Castlibrary has with Audible allows you to start getting audiobooks for only $7.49. Talk about great savings. The way it works is that you pay the $7.49 and get one credit for an audiobook. You can then exchange the credit for one of the audiobooks in the library and the audiobook you download is yours to keep, even if you decide to cancel. If you want more, the next two months are only $7.49 per month for 2 more audiobooks. After that the price goes up to about $15 per month, still a fantastic deal compared to the full price of audiobooks and you can cancel anytime you want with no further payments. And yes, you get to keep the audiobooks you download.

On the other hand, if a subscription is not for you and you want to buy a single audiobook, I suggest checking both Castlibrary and iTunes to find the best deal. Just remember, that for the price of one audiobook you could have received 2-3 audiobooks for your iPod via the subscription service.

CastLibrary’s audiobooks for iPod, iPhone and MP3 players are easily searchable and organized by tags, best sellers and new audiobooks. If find the tags and best seller lists to be great ways to find new audiobooks for my iPod. If I know what I want, I just use the easy search feature to find the audiobook for iPod.

Here’s a video I made showing how to find an audiobook, download it and get it onto to your iPod.

The subscription service has a big advantage over the iTunes Music Store, because you can re-download the audiobook if you lose it. The subscription service keeps a library of books you buy and you can download them again if needed. With iTunes, you need to be careful to make a backup.

If you want to buy an audiobook for your ipod on iTunes, then you can find them in the iTunes Music Store.

At the time I write this post, you can find a link to audiobooks in the banner in the iTunes Music Store next to the Podcast link. It seems to move around over time so you may need to hunt it down to find them.

Listening to your Audiobook on Your iPod

Both services format the audiobooks for iPod and iPhones and make then easy to navigate and re-start via automatic bookmarking of an audiobook made for iPods. You can listen, stop it, and come back later to the same place to re-start the audio. It’s a real nice feature of audiobooks for iPod.

The bookmarks are also included when you sync your iPod with iTunes, which means that you can listen to the audiobook on your PC just like on your iPod.

After you sync up your iPod and iTunes, if the audiobooks are made for iPods you can find the audiobooks in the Audiobook section of the Music menu, if not then you will have to search for them via artist or song title.

The audiobooks for iPod play like music files and if you want you can even speed them up.

In all, I recommend getting audiobooks that are designed for your iPod or iPhone, as you will get to experience audiobooks for iPod the way they were meant to be played.

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2. Worst Case (Unabridged) by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
Summary: One by one, children of New York’s wealthiest are taken hostage. But the criminal doesn’t crave money or power – he only wants to ask the elite if they know the price others pay for their luxurious lifestyles. And, if they don’t, he corrects their ignorance – by killing them. To Detective Michael Bennett, it becomes clear that these murders are linked and must be part of a greater, more public demonstration. With the city thrown into chaos, he is forced to team up with FBI agent Emily Parke…

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3. Killing Floor (Unabridged) by Lee Child
Summary: All is not well in Margrave, Georgia. The sleepy, forgotten town hasn’t seen a crime in decades, but within the span of three days it witnesses events that leave everyone stunned. An unidentified man is found beaten and shot to death on a lonely country road. The police chief and his wife are butchered on a quiet Sunday morning. Then a bank executive disappears from his home, leaving his keys on the table and his wife frozen with fear. The easiest suspect is Jack Reacher – an outsider, a man …
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4. Outlander (Unabridged) by Diana Gabaldon
Summary: This stunning blend of historical romance and time traveling adventure has captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world and catapulted author Diana Gabaldon to the top of the New York Times best seller list. Outlander introduces an exhilarating world of heroism and breathtaking thrills as one woman is torn between past and present, passion and love. In 1945, former combat nurse Claire Randall returns from World War II and joins her husband for a second honeymoon. Their blis…
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5. The Black Echo: Harry Bosch, Book 1 (Unabridged) by Michael Connelly
Summary: For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch – hero, maverick, nighthawk – the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal. The dead man, Billy Meadows, was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who fought side by side with him in a nightmare underground war that brought them to the depths of hell. Now, Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city to the torturous link that…

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6. River God: A Novel of Ancient Egypt (Unabridged) by Wilbur Smith
Summary: Ancient Egypt. Land of the Pharaohs. A kingdom built on gold. A legend shattered by greed. Now the Valley of Kings lies ravaged by war, drained of its lifeblood, as weak men inherit the cherished crown. On the eve of the festival of Osiris, the loyal subjects of the Pharaoh gather in Thebes to pay tribute to their leader. Exploding with all the passion and rage of a bygone time, River God is a masterpiece of historical writing.
Click to hear an audio sample of River God: A Novel of Ancient Egypt (Unabridged) audiobook…

7. The Camel Club (Unabridged) by David Baldacci
Summary: It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. Their simple goal is to find the "truth" behind their country’s actions. One man leads this aging, ragtag crew. He has no known past and has taken the name "Oliver Stone". Day and night, Stone and his friends study wild conspiracy theories, current events, and the machinations of government, hoping to discover some truth that will hold America’s…
Click to hear an audio sample of The Camel Club (Unabridged) audiobook…

8. Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Book 1 (Unabridged) by Charlaine Harris

Summary: Though a small town at heart, Lawrenceton, Georgia, has its dark side – and its crime buffs. One of them is librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden, a member of the Real Murders Club, which meets once a month to analyze famous cases. It’s a harmless pastime – until the night she finds a member killed in a manner that eerily resembles the crime the club was about to discuss. As other brutal "copycat" killings follow, Roe will have to uncover the person behind the terrifying game, one that casts all…
Click to hear an audio sample of Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Book 1 (Unabridged) audiobook…

9. The Modern Scholar: The Anglo-Saxon World by Prof. Michael D. C. Drout

Summary: Had the Angles and Saxons not purposefully migrated to the isles of the Britons and brought with them their already-well-developed use of language, Angelina Jolie may never have appeared in the movie Beowulf . Professor Michael D.C. Drout is at his best when lecturing on the fascinating history, language, and societal adaptations of the Anglo-Saxons. He not only presents their storytelling abilities using their own words; he does so in their own voice – the incredibly melodious Old English.
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10. The Hunger Games (Unabridged) by Suzanne Collins
Summary: Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don’t live to see the morning? In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by 12 outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who l…
Click to hear an audio sample of The Hunger Games (Unabridged) audiobook…

11. Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Unabridged) by Jeff Lindsay
Summary: Jeff Lindsay is one of the most exciting voices to explode onto the literary scene in quite some time. From his boundless imagination comes the tale of a serial killer like no other, hailed by Booklist in a starred review as "one of the genre’s most original, compelling characters to appear in years". Dexter Morgan appears to be the perfect gentleman. He is handsome and polite, and has been in a relationship for nearly a year and a half. Yet appearances can be deceiving, for Dexter is a ser…
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12. Rain Fall: John Rain Thrillers (Unabridged) by Barry Eisler

Summary: Meet John Rain. Assassin. He follows his own code – he needs no one, trusts no one – until betrayal transforms him from hunter into hunted and loner into loyal friend. Haunted by the past, Rain kills to order and leaves no trace, but the death at his hand of an old man has unforeseen complications – and soon Rain is trying to protect not just his carefully preserved anonymity but his own life and those of the people he cares for. A stunning, page-turning reinvention of the hitman thriller, R…
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13. Destroyermen: Into the Storm, Book I (Unabridged) by Taylor Anderson
Summary: Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the USS Walker—a Great-War vintage "four-stacker" destroyer—finds itself in full retreat from pursuit by Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, knows that he and his crew are in dire straits. In desperation, he heads Walker into a squall, hoping it will give them cover—and emerges somewhere else. Familiar landmarks appear, but the water teems with monstrous, vicious fish. And there …

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14. The Cold Dish: A Walt Longmire Mystery (Unabridged) by Craig Johnson
Summary: Award-winning author Craig Johnson’s critically acclaimed debut Western mystery takes listeners to the breathtaking mountains of Wyoming for a tale of cold-blooded vengeance. Two years earlier, four high-school boys were given suspended sentences for raping a Cheyenne girl. Now, two of the boys have been killed, and only Sheriff Walt Longmire can keep the other two safe.
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15. Mistress of Magic: The Mists of Avalon: Book 1 (Unabridged) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Summary: In the tradition of T. H. White’s The Once and Future King , the author makes use of the prerequisites of the Arthurian legend: Excalibur, the Holy Grail, Lancelet’s illicit love for Gwenhwyfar, the destruction of Camelot, but with a twist – she presents the entire panoramic story from the female point of view. No passive by-standers, these earthy priestesses from Avalon literally breathe life into a musty, oft-told tale. In Book One: Mistress of Magic , the Lady of the Lake – Viviane – br…
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16. Kitty and The Midnight Hour: Kitty Norville, Book 1 (Unabridged) by Carrie Vaughn
Summary: Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station—and a werewolf in the closet. Sick of lame song requests, she accidentally starts "The Midnight Hour," a late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. After desperate vampires, werewolves, and witches across the country begin calling in to share their woes, her new show is a raging success. But it’s Kitty who can use some help. With one sexy werewolf hunter and a few homicidal undead on her tail, Kitty may have …

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17. Red Hot Lies (Unabridged) by Laura Caldwell
Summary: "Usually I pride myself on my intuition. I listen to that voice that says, ‘Something bad is happening…’ or maybe ‘Get out. Now.’ But on that Tuesday at the end of October, my psyche must have been protecting the one remaining day I still believed life was orderly and the universe liked me. Because I didn’t hear that voice. I never saw it coming." They say bad things happen in threes. When her fiance, Sam, disappears on the same day her mentor and biggest client is killed, hotshot Chicago a…
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18. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) by Stephen King
Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when–or if–it will go awa…
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19. Until Proven Guilty: J.P. Beaumont Series, Book 1 (Unabridged) by J. A. Jance
Summary: The little girl was found murdered, her pink nightgown twisted around her throat. She was only five. The woman who came to the funeral to throw a single rose on the coffin was very much alive, and beautiful. The kind of beautiful that homicide detective J. P. Beaumont couldn’t resist. But lurking in the dark corners of this bizarre case was not just a demented mind obsessed with murder, but secrets so deadly, so close to Beaumont’s own life, that even a street tough cop could die guessing at …
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20. The Help (Unabridged) by Kathryn Stockett
Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…
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ABOUT THE MEETUP:

February 17, 2010 – 7PM at GoCatalyst.org, 430 E. First Street, Long Beach, CA

Creating a podcast is an effective way of communicating your organizations and personal opinions to a large audience. In this meetup podcasting expert, Alex Nesbitt (publisher of DigitalPodcast.com) will detail how to produce your podcast, as well as the numerous techniques you can employ at each stage of production to get your podcast to as many people as possible. We will also detail best practices for marketing and outreach for your podcast giving you optimal visibility online.

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn:

1. Types of podcast and which will best suit your needs
2. Types of platforms and how to use them
3. Best practices for creating and maintaining your podcast
4. Ways to get your podcast noticed
5. Search Engine Optimization for the podcasting community

Event should run 60-90mins.

About The Presenter

Speaker: Alex Nesbitt, Publisher of DigitalPodcast.com. Alex started Digital Podcast in 2004 at the birth of podcasting. With more that 100,000 visitors each month, Digital Podcast is now one of the leading podcast directories. Digital Podcast also powers 500,000 podcast searches each month on Nokia phones and other web sites. In addition to publishing Digital Podcast, Alex actively advises companies in the social and new media value chain who need to more successfully monetize their businesses. He focuses on turning communities into economies, engaging and activating super fans and on the advertising supply chain.

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1. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (Unabridged) audiobook by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Summary: "This shit would be really interesting if we weren’t in the middle of it."–Barack Obama, September 2008 In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama…. The shocking fall of the House of Clinton – and the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obama’s partner and America’s face to the world…. The mercurial p…
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2. The First Rule (Unabridged) by Robert Crais
Summary: The organized criminal gangs of the former Soviet Union are bound by what they call the thieves’ code. The first rule is this: A thief must forsake his mother, father, brothers, and sisters. He must have no family – no wife, no children – because only other criminals are his family. If any of the rules are broken, it is punishable by death. Frank Meyer had the American dream – a wife and family he adored, a successful business – until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdere…
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3. The Swan Thieves (Unabridged) by Elizabeth Kostova
Summary: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life–solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient. In response, Marlowe finds himself going beyond his own legal and ethical boundaries to understand the secret that torments this genius, a journey that will lead him into the lives of the women closest to Robert Ol…
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4. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) by Stephen King
Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when–or if–it will go awa…

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5. The Help (Unabridged) by Kathryn Stockett
Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…
Click to hear an audio sample of The Help (Unabridged) audiobook…

6. Impact (Unabridged) by Douglas Preston
Summary: Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world. A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater. A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated, the data missing. High resolution NASA images reveal an…
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7. The Lost Symbol (Unabridged) by Dan Brown
Summary: The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown’s follow-up to The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown’s writing shows us why he is the one of the world’s most popular author of thrillers. Just like the Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol is thrilling race to find the secret. Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon is once again needed to meet the challenge. He must search the hidden codes, unravel the secrets while avoiding the bad guys.

Set within the underground of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol races through a t…
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8. I, Alex Cross (Unabridged) by James Patterson
Summary: Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington’s wildest scenes. And she was not this killer’s only victim. The hunt for her murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to a place where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in. Alex and Bree are soon facing down …
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9. Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion (Unabridged) by Gary Vaynerchuk
Summary: Do you have a hobby you wish you could indulge in all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take that passion and make a living doing what you love. In Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion , Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. Then one day he turned on a video …

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10. Flip It: How to Get the Best Out of Everything (Unabridged) by Michael Heppell
Summary: It seems we’re all growing more negative. Bad news on the TV and in the papers makes us all feel fed up, and we find it easier to talk about what’s wrong instead of looking for what’s good. But imagine knowing a simple trick that you could use to help you feel better about everything. No matter how bad, how upsetting, how annoying or how frustrating the situation, wouldn’t it be great if you had the power to take it on and make it better? Well, that simple trick does exist, and it’s time t…
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11. U Is for Undertow: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (Unabridged) by Sue Grafton
Summary: Calling T is for Trespass "taut, terrifying, transfixing and terrific", USA Today went on to ask, "What does it take to write 20 novels about the same character and manage to create a fresh, genre-bending novel every time?" It’s a question worth pondering. Through 20 excursions into the dark side of the human soul, Sue Grafton has never written the same book twice. And so it is with this, her 21st. Once again, she breaks genre formulas, giving us a twisting, complex, surprise-filled, and …
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12. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (Unabridged) by Malcolm Gladwell

Summary: Over the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has become the most gifted and influential journalist in America. In The New Yorker, his writings are such must-reads that the magazine charges advertisers significantly more money for ads that run within his articles. With his #1 best sellers, The Tipping Point , Blink and Outliers , he has reached millions of readers. And now the very best and most famous of his New Yorker pieces are collected in a brilliant and provocative anthology. Among th…
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13. Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage (Unabridged) by Elizabeth Gilbert
Summary: At the end of her best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love , Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who’d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous horrific divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which -…
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14. Deeper Than the Dead (Unabridged) by Tami Hoag
Summary: Tami Hoag is in a class by herself, beloved by readers and critic s alike, with more than 22 million copies of her books in print. With Hoag’s first novel for Dutton, she proves anew why the Chicago Tribune called her "one of the most intense suspense writers around." California, 1984. Three children, running in the woods behind their school, stumble upon a partially buried female body, eyes and mouth glued shut. Close behind the children is their teacher, Anne Navarre, shocked by this di…
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15. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged) by Stieg Larsson
Summary: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" The Washington Post ), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern…
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16. The Lovely Bones (Unabridged) by Alice Sebold
Summary: Now read by the author, this edition also includes an interview with Alice Sebold and the first chapter of her new book, The Almost Moon . When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This was before milk carton photos and public-service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed things like that didn’t happen. In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of he…

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17. Freedom (TM) (Unabridged) by Daniel Suarez
Summary: Here is the propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times best seller Daemon . In one of the most buzzed-about debuts of 2009, Daniel Suarez introduced a terrifying vision of a new world order, controlled by the Daemon, an insidious computer program unleashed by a hi-tech wunderkind, Daemon captured the attention of the tech community, became a New York Times and Indie best seller, and left readers hungry for more. Well, more is here, and it’s even more gripping than i…
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18. Pirate Latitudes (Unabridged) by Michael Crichton
Summary: From one of the best-loved authors of all time comes an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates in the New World, a classic story of treasure and betrayal. The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. In this steamy climate there’s a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease – or by dagg…
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19. Daemon (Unabridged) by Daniel Suarez
Summary: Technology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire world economy. Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives, trafficking e-mail, transferring money, and monitoring power grids. For the most part, daemons are benign, but the same can’t always be said for the pe…
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20. Lucifer’s Hammer (Unabridged) by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Summary: The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival – a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known….
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A bad disaster, a bad ad – you have to ask Intel what were you thinking?

Here’s the ad and a bit of the Sky News clip.

UPDATE:

Kari Aakre from Intel reached out to me to let me know Intel realized the issue and took action to remove the add. It’s good to see them respond responsibly and quickly. Apparently, Intel is working on technology to help deal with situations where two way communications have been interrupted/destroyed by situations like the Haiti earthquake. I hope they succeed.

Here’s Kari’s comment for reference:

The timing of Intel’s ad about its disaster communications technology research is unfortunate. While the media buy was made months ago, we are sensitive to the current situation and the people of Haiti, and pulled this ad as quickly as we could.

Separately, the Intel Foundation will match Intel employee donations to help support the people of Haiti during this difficult time.

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Here are a couple of charities to start with if you can spare any help:

World Vision

Oxfam

Samaritan’s Purse

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1. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged)

Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when–or if–it will go awa…

Click to hear an audio sample of Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) audiobook…

2. U Is for Undertow: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (Unabridged)

Summary: Calling T is for Trespass “taut, terrifying, transfixing and terrific”, USA Today went on to ask, “What does it take to write 20 novels about the same character and manage to create a fresh, genre-bending novel every time?” It’s a question worth pondering. Through 20 excursions into the dark side of the human soul, Sue Grafton has never written the same book twice. And so it is with this, her 21st. Once again, she breaks genre formulas, giving us a twisting, complex, surprise-filled, and …

Click to hear an audio sample of U Is for Undertow: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (Unabridged) audiobook…

3. I, Alex Cross (Unabridged)

Summary: Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington’s wildest scenes. And she was not this killer’s only victim. The hunt for her murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to a place where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in. Alex and Bree are soon facing down …

Click to hear an audio sample of I, Alex Cross (Unabridged) audiobook…

4. The Lost Symbol (Unabridged)

Summary: The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown’s follow-up to The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown’s writing shows us why he is the one of the world’s most popular author of thrillers. Just like the Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol is thrilling race to find the secret. Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon is once again needed to meet the challenge. He must search the hidden codes, unravel the secrets while avoiding the bad guys.

Set within the underground of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol races through a t…

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5. The Paris Vendetta: A Novel (Unabridged)

Summary: When Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile in 1821, he took to the grave a powerful secret. As general and emperor, he had stolen immeasurable riches from palaces, national treasuries, and even the Knights of Malta and the Vatican. In his final days, his British captors hoped to learn where the loot lay hidden. But he told them nothing, and in his will he made no mention of the treasure. Or did he? Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone isn’t looking for trouble when it comes knocking a…

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6. The Help (Unabridged)

Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Help (Unabridged) audiobook…

7. Going Rogue: An American Life

Summary: One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is. As chief executive of America’s largest state, Sarah Palin had built a record as a reformer who pushed through changes other politicians only talked about: energy independence, ethics reform, and the biggest private-sector energy infrastructure project in U.S. history. While revitalizing public school funding and ensuring the state met its res…

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8. Pirate Latitudes (Unabridged)

Summary: From one of the best-loved authors of all time comes an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates in the New World, a classic story of treasure and betrayal. The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. In this steamy climate there’s a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease – or by dagg…

Click to hear an audio sample of Pirate Latitudes (Unabridged) audiobook…

9. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged)

Summary: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (“An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller” The Washington Post ), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern…

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10. Witch & Wizard (Unabridged)

Summary: The world is changing – the government has seized control of almost everything and kids are disappearing. For 15 year-old Wisty and her older brother, Whit, life turns upside-down when they are hauled out of bed one night, separated from their parents, and thrown into a secret compound for no reason they can comprehend, except that the new government is clearly trying to suppress Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Imprisoned together in a decrepit cell, Wisty and Whit cling to the…

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11. Too Big to Fail (Unabridged)

Summary: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times reporter. Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true, behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South K…

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12. Nanny Returns: A Novel (Unabridged)

Summary: Nan is back. After living abroad for 12 years, she and her husband, Ryan, aka H.H., have returned to New York to make a life for themselves. In the midst of getting her new business off the ground and fixing up their fixer-upper, Ryan announces his sudden desire to start a family. His timing simply couldn’t be worse. To compound the mounting construction and marital chaos, her former charge, Grayer X, now 16 years old, makes a drunken, late-night visit, wanting to know why she abandoned him …

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13. SuperFreakonomics (Unabridged)

Summary: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in 35 languages and changing the way we look at the world. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics , and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we…

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14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (Unabridged)

Summary: Of all of John Irving’s books, this is the one that lends itself best to audio. In print, Owen Meany’s dialogue is set in capital letters; for this production, Irving himself selected Joe Barrett to deliver Meany’s difficult voice as intended. In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys — best friends — are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy’s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn’t beli…

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15. Breathless (Unabridged)

Summary: Grady Adams lives a simple, solitary life deep in the Colorado mountains. Here the 35-year-old carpenter works out of a converted barn, crafting exquisite one-of-a-kind furniture. There’s little about this strong yet gentle man to suggest the experiences that have alienated him from the contemporary world. But that is about to change. One day, while hiking, Grady spots a pair of stunningly beautiful furred animals unlike anything he’s ever seen. They flee the instant they detect his presence…

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16. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Unabridged)

Summary: A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue…. It’s about the disappearance 40 years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden…and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance…and about Lisbeth Salander, a…

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17. Wolf Hall (Unabridged)

Summary: Winner of the prestigious Man Booker prize for fiction. In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII’s court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king’s favor and ascend to the heights of political powerEngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the king’s freedo…

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18. The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time (Unabridged)

Summary: Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light , was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times best-selling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan’s editor – his wife, Harriet McDougal – to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents The Gath…

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19. True Blue (Unabridged)

Summary: A mysterious high-profile homicide in the nation’s capital collides with the dark side of national security in David Baldacci’s new, heart-stopping thriller. Mason “Mace” Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything – her badge, her career, her freedom-and spent two years in prison. Now she’s back on the outside and focused on one mission: to be a cop once more. Her only shot to be a true blue again is to solve a major …

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20. Lucifer’s Hammer (Unabridged)

Summary: The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival – a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known….

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1. Going Rogue: An American Life

Summary: One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is. As chief executive of America’s largest state, Sarah Palin had built a record as a reformer who pushed through changes other politicians only talked about: energy independence, ethics reform, and the biggest private-sector energy infrastructure project in U.S. history. While revitalizing public school funding and ensuring the state met its res…

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2. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged)

Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when–or if–it will go awa…

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3. I, Alex Cross (Unabridged)

Summary: Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington’s wildest scenes. And she was not this killer’s only victim. The hunt for her murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to a place where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in. Alex and Bree are soon facing down …

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4. The Lost Symbol (Unabridged)

Summary: The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown’s follow-up to The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown’s writing shows us why he is the one of the world’s most popular author of thrillers. Just like the Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol is thrilling race to find the secret. Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon is once again needed to meet the challenge. He must search the hidden codes, unravel the secrets while avoiding the bad guys.

Set within the underground of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol races through a t…

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5. Good Omens (Unabridged)

Summary: The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch , the world’s only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing and everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. Put New York T…

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6. The Wrecker (Unabridged)

Summary: In The Chase , Clive Cussler introduced an electrifying new hero: the tall, lean, no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell, who, driven by his sense of justice, travels early-20th-century America pursuing thieves and killers – and sometimes criminals much worse. It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn send…

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7. True Blue (Unabridged)

Summary: A mysterious high-profile homicide in the nation’s capital collides with the dark side of national security in David Baldacci’s new, heart-stopping thriller. Mason "Mace" Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything – her badge, her career, her freedom-and spent two years in prison. Now she’s back on the outside and focused on one mission: to be a cop once more. Her only shot to be a true blue again is to solve a major …

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8. The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time (Unabridged)

Summary: Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light , was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times best-selling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan’s editor – his wife, Harriet McDougal – to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents The Gath…

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9. Pursuit of Honor: Mitch Rapp Series (Unabridged)

Summary: The action begins six days after a series of explosions devastated Washington, D.C., targeting the National Counterterrorism Center and killing 185 people, including public officials and CIA employees. It was a bizarre act of extreme violence that called for extreme measures on the part of elite counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his trusted team member, Mike Nash. Now that the initial shock of the catastrophe is over, key Washington officials are up in arms over whether to make friend…

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10. SuperFreakonomics (Unabridged)

Summary: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in 35 languages and changing the way we look at the world. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics , and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we…

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11. Open: An Autobiography (Unabridged)

Summary: From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography. Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of 13, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon. He dyes his hair, pierces his ears, dresses like a punk rocker. By the time he…

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12. David Sedaris: Live for Your Listening Pleasure

Summary: LIVE recordings of new, previously unreleased David Sedaris stories! "Cat and Baboon" Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre in Denver, Colorado "Author, Author" Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City "Innocence abroad" Durham Performing Arts Center, in Durham, North Carolina "Laugh, Kookaburra" Royce Hall, UCLA in Los Angeles, California Diary entries Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia

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13. The Help (Unabridged)

Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…

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14. Nine Dragons: Harry Bosch, Book 15 (Unabridged)

Summary: LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life. Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li, the store’s owner, hits Bosch hard, and he promises Li’s family that he’ll find the killer. The world Bosch steps into next is unknown territory. He brings in a detective from the Asian Gang Unit for help with translation–not just of languages but also of the cul…

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15. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (Unabridged)

Summary: Over the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has become the most gifted and influential journalist in America. In The New Yorker, his writings are such must-reads that the magazine charges advertisers significantly more money for ads that run within his articles. With his #1 best sellers, The Tipping Point , Blink and Outliers , he has reached millions of readers. And now the very best and most famous of his New Yorker pieces are collected in a brilliant and provocative anthology. Among th…

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16. The Copper Bracelet (Unabridged)

Summary: LIMITED-TIME OFFER: The Copper Bracelet is on sale for only $9.95 till November 24, 2009. A peaceful picnic in the French countryside explodes in violence. A mysterious assassin hisses a deadly threat. And events are set in motion that could propel India and Pakistan down the road to nuclear confrontation. Two years after the events of the Audiobook of the Year – The Chopin Manuscript – former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton and his Volunteers once again must crack a secreti…

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17. Let the Great World Spin (Unabridged)

Summary: In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in best-selling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaim…

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18. Twilight: The Twilight Saga, Book 1 (Unabridged)

Summary: The Twilight Saga begins with Stephenie Meyer’s book Twilight. A classic tale of danger and romance set against violence of vampires and werewolfs. Bella Swan is forced to move to a remote village to live with her dad. As she gets to know Forks, she begins to discover its secrets and the secrets of a mysteries boy she finds in school, Edward. As their passion for one another grows, Edward’s secret is discovered by Bella.

This secret puts her in danger from Edward and his entire clan of…

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19. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged)

Summary: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" The Washington Post ), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern…

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20. Eclipse: The Twilight Saga, Book 3 (Unabridged)

Summary: Eclipse, book 3 of the Twilight saga, yet again brings the romance and drama to life. Stephenie Meyer’s masterful saga continues in Seattle. Horrible things are happening. Killings and revenge are everywhere. Danger threatens Bella like never before. Even while dealing with the danger of her environment, Bella has to choose between Edward, her lover vampire, and her friendship for Jacob. Bella knows that she is the key to restarting one of histories longest battles, between vampire and w…

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1. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged)

Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when–or if–it will go awa…

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2. The Lost Symbol (Unabridged)

Summary: The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown’s follow-up to The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown’s writing shows us why he is the one of the world’s most popular author of thrillers. Just like the Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol is thrilling race to find the secret. Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon is once again needed to meet the challenge. He must search the hidden codes, unravel the secrets while avoiding the bad guys.

Set within the underground of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol races through a t…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Lost Symbol (Unabridged) audiobook…

3. Good Omens (Unabridged)

Summary: The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch , the world’s only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing and everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. Put New York T…

Click to hear an audio sample of Good Omens (Unabridged) audiobook…

4. The Copper Bracelet (Unabridged)

Summary: LIMITED-TIME OFFER: The Copper Bracelet is on sale for only $9.95 till November 24, 2009. A peaceful picnic in the French countryside explodes in violence. A mysterious assassin hisses a deadly threat. And events are set in motion that could propel India and Pakistan down the road to nuclear confrontation. Two years after the events of the Audiobook of the Year – The Chopin Manuscript – former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton and his Volunteers once again must crack a secreti…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Copper Bracelet (Unabridged) audiobook…

5. True Blue (Unabridged)

Summary: A mysterious high-profile homicide in the nation’s capital collides with the dark side of national security in David Baldacci’s new, heart-stopping thriller. Mason "Mace" Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything – her badge, her career, her freedom-and spent two years in prison. Now she’s back on the outside and focused on one mission: to be a cop once more. Her only shot to be a true blue again is to solve a major …

Click to hear an audio sample of True Blue (Unabridged) audiobook…

6. The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time (Unabridged)

Summary: Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light , was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times best-selling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan’s editor – his wife, Harriet McDougal – to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents The Gath…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time (Unabridged) audiobook…

7. Nine Dragons: Harry Bosch, Book 15 (Unabridged)

Summary: LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life. Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li, the store’s owner, hits Bosch hard, and he promises Li’s family that he’ll find the killer. The world Bosch steps into next is unknown territory. He brings in a detective from the Asian Gang Unit for help with translation–not just of languages but also of the cul…

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8. Open: An Autobiography (Unabridged)

Summary: From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography. Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of 13, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon. He dyes his hair, pierces his ears, dresses like a punk rocker. By the time he…

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9. Pursuit of Honor: Mitch Rapp Series (Unabridged)

Summary: The action begins six days after a series of explosions devastated Washington, D.C., targeting the National Counterterrorism Center and killing 185 people, including public officials and CIA employees. It was a bizarre act of extreme violence that called for extreme measures on the part of elite counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his trusted team member, Mike Nash. Now that the initial shock of the catastrophe is over, key Washington officials are up in arms over whether to make friend…

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10. SuperFreakonomics (Unabridged)

Summary: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in 35 languages and changing the way we look at the world. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics , and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we…

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11. The Lacuna (Unabridged)

Summary: From the Mexico City of Frida Kahlo to the America of J. Edgar Hoover, The Lacuna tells the poignant story of a man pulled between two nations. Born in the United States, but reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers and, one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed muralist Diego Rivera. When he goes to work for Rivera, his wife, exotic artist Kahlo, and exiled leader Lev Trotsky…

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12. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (Unabridged)

Summary: Over the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has become the most gifted and influential journalist in America. In The New Yorker, his writings are such must-reads that the magazine charges advertisers significantly more money for ads that run within his articles. With his #1 best sellers, The Tipping Point , Blink and Outliers , he has reached millions of readers. And now the very best and most famous of his New Yorker pieces are collected in a brilliant and provocative anthology. Among th…

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13. The Help (Unabridged)

Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Help (Unabridged) audiobook…

14. Ford County: Stories (Unabridged)

Summary: John Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his immensely popular first novel, A Time to Kill . This wholly surprising collection of stories reminds us once again why Grisham is America’s favorite storyteller.

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15. The Scarpetta Factor (Unabridged)

Summary: It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta – despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN – to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments…

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16. Kindred in Death: In Death, Book 29 (Unabridged)

Summary: In this novel from number-one New York Times -best-selling author J. D. Robb, the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious 16-year-old daughter, who stayed behind. Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaits them inside. Deena has been brutally murdered in her bedroom, and her body shows signs of trauma that horrify even the toughest of…

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17. The Lincoln Lawyer (Unabridged)

Summary: New York Times best-selling author Michael Connelly delivers his first legal thriller, an incendiary tale about a cynical defense attorney whose one remaining spark of integrity may cost him his life. Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn’t recognize innocence if it stood in front of him. Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense pro who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, to defend clients at the bottom of the legal food chain. It’s …

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18. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged)

Summary: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" The Washington Post ), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern…

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19. Too Big to Fail (Unabridged)

Summary: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times reporter. Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true, behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South K…

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20. The Chopin Manuscript: A Serial Thriller (Unabridged)

Summary: 15 thriller masters. 1 masterful thriller. Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frederic Chopin. But he is unaware that, locked within its handwritten notes, lies a secret that now threatens the lives of thousands of Americans. As he races from Poland to America to uncover the mystery of the manuscript, Middleton will be accused of murder, pursued by federal agents, and targeted by assassins. But the greatest threat will come from a shadowy f…

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1. Kindred in Death: In Death, Book 29 (Unabridged)

Summary: In this novel from number-one New York Times -best-selling author J. D. Robb, the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious 16-year-old daughter, who stayed behind. Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaits them inside. Deena has been brutally murdered in her bedroom, and her body shows signs of trauma that horrify even the toughest of…

Click to hear an audio sample of Kindred in Death: In Death, Book 29 (Unabridged) audiobook…

2. The Copper Bracelet (Unabridged)

Summary: LIMITED-TIME OFFER: The Copper Bracelet is on sale for only $9.95 till November 24, 2009. A peaceful picnic in the French countryside explodes in violence. A mysterious assassin hisses a deadly threat. And events are set in motion that could propel India and Pakistan down the road to nuclear confrontation. Two years after the events of the Audiobook of the Year – The Chopin Manuscript – former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton and his Volunteers once again must crack a secreti…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Copper Bracelet (Unabridged) audiobook…

3. The Lost Symbol (Unabridged)

Summary: The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown’s follow-up to The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown’s writing shows us why he is the one of the world’s most popular author of thrillers. Just like the Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol is thrilling race to find the secret. Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon is once again needed to meet the challenge. He must search the hidden codes, unravel the secrets while avoiding the bad guys.

Set within the underground of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol races through a t…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Lost Symbol (Unabridged) audiobook…

4. Ford County: Stories (Unabridged)

Summary: John Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his immensely popular first novel, A Time to Kill . This wholly surprising collection of stories reminds us once again why Grisham is America’s favorite storyteller.

Click to hear an audio sample of Ford County: Stories (Unabridged) audiobook…

5. The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time (Unabridged)

Summary: Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light , was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times best-selling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan’s editor – his wife, Harriet McDougal – to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents The Gath…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time (Unabridged) audiobook…

6. True Blue (Unabridged)

Summary: A mysterious high-profile homicide in the nation’s capital collides with the dark side of national security in David Baldacci’s new, heart-stopping thriller. Mason "Mace" Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything – her badge, her career, her freedom-and spent two years in prison. Now she’s back on the outside and focused on one mission: to be a cop once more. Her only shot to be a true blue again is to solve a major …

Click to hear an audio sample of True Blue (Unabridged) audiobook…

7. Nine Dragons: Harry Bosch, Book 15 (Unabridged)

Summary: LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life. Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li, the store’s owner, hits Bosch hard, and he promises Li’s family that he’ll find the killer. The world Bosch steps into next is unknown territory. He brings in a detective from the Asian Gang Unit for help with translation–not just of languages but also of the cul…

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8. The Chopin Manuscript: A Serial Thriller (Unabridged)

Summary: 15 thriller masters. 1 masterful thriller. Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frederic Chopin. But he is unaware that, locked within its handwritten notes, lies a secret that now threatens the lives of thousands of Americans. As he races from Poland to America to uncover the mystery of the manuscript, Middleton will be accused of murder, pursued by federal agents, and targeted by assassins. But the greatest threat will come from a shadowy f…

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9. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged)

Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when–or if–it will go awa…

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10. Pursuit of Honor: Mitch Rapp Series (Unabridged)

Summary: The action begins six days after a series of explosions devastated Washington, D.C., targeting the National Counterterrorism Center and killing 185 people, including public officials and CIA employees. It was a bizarre act of extreme violence that called for extreme measures on the part of elite counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his trusted team member, Mike Nash. Now that the initial shock of the catastrophe is over, key Washington officials are up in arms over whether to make friend…

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11. SuperFreakonomics (Unabridged)

Summary: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in 35 languages and changing the way we look at the world. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics , and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we…

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12. The Lacuna (Unabridged)

Summary: From the Mexico City of Frida Kahlo to the America of J. Edgar Hoover, The Lacuna tells the poignant story of a man pulled between two nations. Born in the United States, but reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers and, one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed muralist Diego Rivera. When he goes to work for Rivera, his wife, exotic artist Kahlo, and exiled leader Lev Trotsky…

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13. More Information Than You Require (Unabridged)

Summary: Welcome to the paperless (or "audiobook") edition of More Information Than You Require , a further compendium of COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE assembled and illumined by John Hodgman, a Famous Minor Television Personality. It contains all of the half-truths, fake trivia, amazing made-up facts, and molemanic lore as the paper edition, narrated here almost entirely by Resident Expert John Hodgman, occasionally interrupted by this veritable extravaganza of illustrious and sometimes presumptuous gues…

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14. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (Unabridged)

Summary: Over the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has become the most gifted and influential journalist in America. In The New Yorker, his writings are such must-reads that the magazine charges advertisers significantly more money for ads that run within his articles. With his #1 best sellers, The Tipping Point , Blink and Outliers , he has reached millions of readers. And now the very best and most famous of his New Yorker pieces are collected in a brilliant and provocative anthology. Among th…

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15. The Help (Unabridged)

Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…

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16. The Scarpetta Factor (Unabridged)

Summary: It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta – despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN – to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments…

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17. An Echo in the Bone: A Novel (Unabridged)

Summary: Diana Gabaldon’s immensely popular Outlander saga soars to new heights with this seventh novel, which takes listeners on a breathtaking journey to 1777 America. Jamie Fraser knows from his time-traveling wife Claire that, no matter how unlikely it seems, America will win the Revolutionary War. But that truth offers little solace, since Jamie realizes he might find himself pointing a weapon directly at his own son – a young officer in the British army. And Jamie isn’t the only one with a torme…

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18. Too Big to Fail (Unabridged)

Summary: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times reporter. Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true, behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South K…

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19. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged)

Summary: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" The Washington Post ), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern…

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20. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Unabridged)

Summary: A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue…. It’s about the disappearance 40 years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden…and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance…and about Lisbeth Salander, a…

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