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New Audio Books

  • The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats - William Geroux
  • Bones of Paradise - Jonis Agee
  • Three Sisters, Three Queens - Philippa Gregory
  • Sweet Tomorrows - Debbie Macomber
  • Truly Madly Guilty - Liane Moriarty
  • White Bone - Ridley Pearson
  • Scalia's Court - Antonin Scalia
  • The Black Widow - Daniel Silva
  • Wolf Lake - John Verdon
  • The Woman in Cabin 10 - Ruth Ware
  • Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon - Larry Tye
  • The Last One - Alexandra Oliva
  • The Dirt on the Ninth Grave - Darynda Jones
  • The Pursuit - Janet Evanovich
  • The Emperor's Revenge - Clive Cussler
  • Among the Wicked - Linda Castillo
  • Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens - Steve Olson
  • Jefferson's America - Julie Fenster
  • Beyond the Ice Limit - Preston & Child
  • Troublemaker - Linda Howard
  • Boar Island - Neveda Barr
  • The Defense - Steve Cavanaugh
  • Washington's Immortals - Patrick O'Donnell
  • 15th Affair - James Patterson
  • Red Platoon: True Story of American Valor - Clinton Romesha
  • The 14th Colony - Steve Berry
  • Poisonous - Allison Brennan
  • The Advocates' Daughter - Anthony Franze
  • Flawless - Heather Graham
  • Cold Barrel Zero - Matthew Quick
  • Darkness - Karen Robards
  • The Obsession - Nora Roberts
  • Extreme Prey - John Sandford
  • Most Wanted - Lisa Scottoline
  • Family Jewels - Stuart Woods
  • The Last Mile - David Baldacci
  • Gangster - Clive Cussler
  • Fool Me Once - Harlan Coben
  • Dark Money - Jane Mayer
  • The Total Package - Stephanie Evanovich
  • The Wolves - Alex Berenson
  • The Steel Kiss - Jeffery Deaver 
  • Playing With Fire - Tess Gerritsen
  • Clawback - Judith Jance
  • No Safe Secret - Fern Michaels
  • Deep Blue - Randy Wayne White
  • Private Paris - James Patterson
  • Find Her - Lisa Gardner
  • Descent - Tim Johnston
  • Blue - Danielle Steel
  • The History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah - Kenneth C. Davis
  • Mornings on Horseback - David McCullough
updated 09/23/16

New Non-Fiction Books


  • ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic
  • Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
  • Between the World and Me

  • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
  • The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
  • Wiley GAAP for Governments 2016
  • Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right for Half the Cost
  • Legal Writing in Plain English, Second Edition: A Text with Exercises
  • Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts
  • Garner's Modern English Usage
  • The Second Amendment: A Biography
  • The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
  • Everything but the Fenceposts: The Great Plains Grasshopper Plague of 1874-1877
  • Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professional and Communities
  • A Framework for Understanding Poverty; A Cognitive Approach
  • Harvey Houses of Kansas: Historic Hospitality from Topeka to Syracuse
  • Diary of a Waitress: The Not-So-Glamorous Life of a Harvey Girl
  • Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters
  • Bottled: A Mom's Guide to Early Recovery
  • To Leave a Shadow
  • Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation
  • Perfect Phrases for Writing Grant Proposals
  • The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need
  • Performance Budgeting for State and Local Government
  • Hidden Markets: The New Education Privatization
  • Diploma Mills: How For-Profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream
  • The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton
  • Managing and Measuring Performance in Public and Nonprofit Organizations: An Integrated Approach
  • Opposable Mind: Winning Through Integrative Thinking
  • Psychiatric Services in Correctional Facilities
  • The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know
  • The Human Cost of Welfare: How the System Hurts the People It's Supposed to Help
  • Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know
  • From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
  • First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies
  • Mental Illness and Crime
  • Animal Law in a Nutshell
  • The Copyright Handbook: What Every Writer Needs to Know
  • Animal Law in a Nutshell
  • Estate Planning Basics
  • Historic Preservation Law in a Nutshell
  • Privacy Law in a Nutshell
  • Executor's Guide, The: Settling a Loved One's Estate or Trust
  • Neighbor Law: Fences, Trees, Boundaries & Noise
  • U.S. Immigration Made Easy
  • The Campaign Manager: Running and Winning Local Elections
  • Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability: Getting & Keeping Your Benefits
  • Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
  • Pat and Dick: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage
  • Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness: Law and the Behavioral Sciences in Conflict
  • People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil
  • Mental Illness and Crime
updated 09/28/2016