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Friday, February 2, 2018
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An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
Read by Sean Crisden and Elsa Davis.
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American dream and the new South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined when Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit.
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A Dangerous Game
by Heather Graham
Read by Saskia Maarleveld.
Criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan is accosted one day by a desperate woman who shoves an infant into her arms and flees. Investigating on her own, Kieran uncovers a deadly enterprise.
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The Escape Artist
by Brad Meltzer
Read by Scott Brick.
Nola Brown's body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she's dead. The US government confirms it. But Jim "Zig" Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive.
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The Flight Attendant
by Chris Bohjalian
Read by Erin Spencer, Grace Experience, and Mark Deakins.
Set amid the captivating world of those whose lives unfold at forty thousand feet, The Flight Attendant unveils a spellbinding story of memory, of the giddy pleasures of alcohol and the devastating consequences of addiction, and of murder far from home. A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man, and no idea of what happened.
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The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
Read by Julia Whelan.
By the author of the bestselling book The Nightingale. It is 1974 when Leni Allbright's impulsive father Ernt decides the family is moving to Alaska. But the Alaskan winter is just as unforgiving as Ernt, and life quickly becomes a struggle for survival.
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Halsey Street
by Naima Coster
Read by Bahni Turpin.
When Penelope moves into the attic apartment of the affluent Harpers, she thinks she's found a semblance of family - and maybe even love. But her world is upended again when she receives a postcard from her mother asking for reconciliation. As old wounds are reopened, and secrets revealed, a journey across an ocean of sacrifice and self-discovery begins.
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The Third Victim
by Phillip Margolin
Read by Thérèse Plummer.
Legendary attorney Regina Barrister has agreed to defend a man charged with the murder of two women. But Regina has a secret that could threaten her reputation and her clients. Young attorney Robin Lockwood agrees to work for Barrister, but the details in the case don't quite add up.
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