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Three new books chronicle businesses where executive self-enrichment at the expense of workers -- and sometimes the law -- prevails. It's been 14 years since Goldman Sachs was vilified as [...]

THE LOST TOMB: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder Douglas Preston, David Grann [Fore.] Read by Will Collyer Will Collyer's narration will hook listeners as author Douglas [...]

ZELENSKY: A Biography Serhii Rudenko, Michael M, Naydan, Alla Perminova [Trans,] Read by Mike Lenz Mostly, Mike Lenz narrates in a low-key, evenhanded way. Still, he becomes excited as he [...]

THE FACEMAKER: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I Lindsey Fitzharris Read by Daniel Gillies Daniel Gillies sounds weary at times as he narrates [...]

BIG DIRTY MONEYThe Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar CrimeBy Jennifer Taub Donald Trump is not the ostensible subject of ''Big Dirty Money,'' Jennifer Taub's polemic against America's [...]

CHARLES ADDAMS: A Cartoonist's Life Linda H. Davis Read by Steve Menasche Steve Menasche sounds astonished as he narrates tales of Charles Addams sleeping in a coffin. They're not true, [...]

READ THIS TO GET SMARTER: About Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More Blair Imani Read by Blair Imani Author/narrator Blair Imani brings a personal touch to her primer on cultural [...]

A WORLD WITHOUT SOIL: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet Jo Handelsman, Kayla Cohen Read by Rosemary Benson Narrator Rosemary Benson expresses alarm as [...]

THE JUDGE'S LIST John Grisham Read by Mary-Louise Parker, John Grisham [Intro.] Narrator Mary-Louise Parker contrasts the two featured characters in Grisham's latest: a frightened professor who's trying to stop [...]

THE GOLDEN PASSPORT Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite By Duff McDonald 657 pp. Harper Business/ HarperCollins Publishers. $35. When the [...]

TINY HABITS: The Small Changes That Change Everything BJ Fogg Read by BJ Fogg BJ Fogg starts off by addressing an issue with this audiobook: his voice. He's the first [...]

ELEMENTS OF FICTION Walter Mosley Read by Mirron Willis Walter Mosley's contemplative essays give narrator Mirron Willis room to put emotion into the discussion of writing fiction. Willis brings sensitivity [...]

As Susan Greer was walking her golden retriever one morning near her home, in Morristown, New Jersey, she heard footsteps behind her. It was just after six, on a warm [...]

POWERHOUSEThe Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists AgencyBy James Andrew Miller707 pp. Custom House/William Morrow. $32.50. James Andrew Miller's ''Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency'' has a [...]

A WALKING LIFE Antonia Malchik Read by Eliza Foss When Antonia Malchik examines the human connections that arise from walking, listeners can hear the warmth in narrator Eliza Foss's voice. [...]

NEVER ENOUGH Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success By Michael D'Antonio Illustrated. 389 pp. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press. $26.99. As pure entertainment, the race for the Republican presidential [...]

Byline: BY JAMES B. STEWART A FIGHT AT THE OPERA Peter Gelb has a bold vision. Can the Met afford it? On February 26, 2014, Peter Gelb, the general manager [...]

PALACES FOR THE PEOPLEEric KlinenbergRead by Rob ShapiroSociologist Eric Klinenberg wants listeners to understand his call for a national investment in social infrastructure, the environment that affects our human interactions. [...]

FLASH BOYS A Wall Street Revolt By Michael Lewis 274 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $27.95. For Brad Katsuyama, then a young equities trader at Royal Bank of Canada, [...]

IN PURSUIT OF MEMORY: The Fight Against Alzheimer's Joseph Jebelli Read by Thomas Judd Joseph Jebelli's interest in Alzheimer's research is personal. He recalls his grandfather's struggle with memory loss [...]

THE DANGER WITHIN US: America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It Jeanne Lenzer Read by Jeanne Lenzer Oil worker Dennis Fagan's war against health [...]

THE LONG HAUL: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road Finn Murphy Read by Danny Campbell Author Finn Murphy started driving on a college break. Now he's passed 50, [...]

WHAT IS IT ALL BUT LUMINOUS: Notes From an Underground Man Art Garfunkel Read by Art Garfunkel Art Garfunkel, who is known for both music and acting, has kept count [...]

SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND: The Album, the Beatles, and the World in 1967 Brian Southall Read by Johnny Heller Brian Southall makes the case that Sgt. Pepper's Lonely [...]

A prerogative of being a billionaire is the freedom to go anywhere, anytime. For decades, Julian H. Robertson, Jr., who founded Tiger Capital Management, in 1980, and turned an eight-million-dollar [...]

On June 18, 2007, Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chairman and chief executive of the Blackstone Group, and his driver approached the Fifth Avenue entrance of the New York Public Library. [...]

A north Bristol couple trying to spice up their sex-lives were shocked to find a package they had ordered online had been tampered with. The couple ordered a sex toy [...]

MARTIN LUTHER KING'S BIBLICAL EPIC: His Final, Great Speech Keith D. Miller Read by Andrew L. Barnes Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, last speech isn't one of his most famous. However, [...]

ON THIS DATE: From the Pilgrims to Today, Discovering America One Day at a Time Carl M. Cannon Read by Dan Woren Cannon has a story for every day of [...]

WHEN THE WORLD STOPPED TO LISTEN: Van Cliburn's Cold War Triumph and Its Aftermath Stuart Isacoff Read by Stefan Rudnicki Pianist Van Cliburn wowed the Soviet Union in a Tchaikovsky [...]

THE UNRULY CITY: Paris, London, and New York in the Age of Revolution Mike Rapport Read by Neil Dickson In the late eighteenth century, New York and Paris were homes [...]

(EA) CAESAR'S LAST BREATH: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us Sam Kean Read by Ben Sullivan Sam Kean opens with the classic argument that the 'ghosts of breaths [...]

Leaks are inevitable in business and politics, but as acts of defiance they are maddening to those who prize order and control. At Hewlett-Packard, under the tumultuous stewardship of Carly [...]

MODIFIED: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future Caitlin Shetterly Read by Caitlin Shetterly Caitlin Shetterly still doesn't know what caused her debilitating illness, but she [...]

THE ROAD HOME: News From Lake Wobegon Garrison Keillor Read by Garrison Keillor 'Your anticipation makes what happens wonderful.' That line from a Garrison Keillor monologue describes a Garrison Keillor [...]

On the evening of May 26th last year, the financier Alberto Vilar attended an Internet conference, sponsored by Goldman Sachs, at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas. During [...]

102 MINUTES The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers. By Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn. Illustrated. 322 pp. Times Books/ Henry Holt & Company. $26. [...]

Warp Speed America in the Age of Mixed Media. By Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel. 193 pp. New York: The Century Foundation Press. $24.95. In his preface to ''Warp Speed: [...]

FINDING NORTH: How Navigation Makes Us Human George Michelsen Foy Read by Tom Zingarelli The author's frustrating experiences with getting lost are read with hearty, modest humor by Tom Zingarelli. [...]

MILLION YEARS IN A DAY: A Curious History of Everyday Life From the Stone Age to the Phone Age Greg Jenner Read by Matthew Lloyd Davies Everything you do during [...]

FIRST DADS: Parenting and Politics From George Washington to Barack Obama Joshua Kendall Read by Johnny Heller What kind of record would James Garfield have had as president if he [...]

GHOST BOY: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body Martin Pistorius Read by Simon Bubb What was life like for Martin Pistorius, who spent years [...]

RAZZLE DAZZLE: The Battle for Broadway Michael Riedel Read by Peter Berkrot The author starts off with a story about 'ice'--ticket corruption for sold-out shows--from the 1960s. Even as dishonesty [...]

SCENTS AND SENSIBILITY: Chet and Bernie, Book 8 Spencer Quinn Read by Jim Frangione Private eye Bernie and his canine partner, Chet, investigate a murder over a cactus. Jim Frangione [...]

THE WIND IN THE REEDS: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken Wendell Pierce, Rod Dreher Read by Wendell Pierce Wendell Pierce was in New [...]

FORTRESS AMERICA The American Military and the Consequences of Peace. By William Greider. 202 pp. New York: Public Affairs. $22. THIS book doesn't read like a polemic, but the sheer [...]