Paul Michael Garcia

Necronomicon

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 1 min)
• By H. P. Lovecraft
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia, Bronson Pinchot, Stephen R. Thorne, and others

Originally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s, H. P. Lovecraft's astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when first published. This tome brings together all of Lovecraft's harrowing stories, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were when first released.

The Last Town: Wayward Pines, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Blake Crouch
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia
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Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town's creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed. But Ethan has discovered the astonishing secret of what lies beyond the electrified fence that surrounds Wayward Pines and protects it from the terrifying world beyond.

The Ringworld Throne: The Ringworld Series, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Larry Niven
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia

Come back to the Ringworld - the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. A place of untold technological wonders, home to myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written.

The human Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee: legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is going on with the protectors.

Pines

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Blake Crouch
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia
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Wayward Pines, Idaho, is quintessential small-town America — or so it seems. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in search of two missing federal agents, yet soon is facing much more than he bargained for. After a violent accident lands him in the hospital, Ethan comes to with no ID and no cell phone. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels…off. As the days pass, Ethan’s investigation into his colleagues’ disappearance turns up more questions than answers. Why can’t he make contact with his family in the outside world? Why doesn’t anyone believe he is who he says he is? And what’s the purpose of the electrified fences encircling the town? Are they keeping the residents in? Or something else out? Each step toward the truth takes Ethan further from the world he knows, until he must face the horrifying possibility that he may never leave Wayward Pines alive…

Pygmy

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Chuck Palahniuk
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia

"Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67, on arrival Midwestern American airport....Code name: Operation Havoc." Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the U.S. disguised as exchange students to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified attack of massive terrorism

Psycho

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Robert Bloch
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia

It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy at the Bates Motel. Exhausted, lost, and at the end of her rope, she was eager for a hot shower and a bed for the night. Her room was musty, but clean, and the manager seemed nice, if a little odd.

Wayward: Wayward Pines, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Blake Crouch
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia
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Welcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. Nestled amid picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden - except for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 24/7, and the relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture. None of the residents know how they got here. They are told where to work, how to live, and who to marry. Some believe they are dead. Others think they're trapped in an unfathomable experiment. Everyone secretly dreams of leaving, but those who dare face a terrifying surprise.

The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Nicholas Carr
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia

"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question in an Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: as we enjoy the Internet’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration yet published of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences.

Extinction Reversed: Robot Geneticists, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 36 mins)
• By J. S. Morin
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia
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Charlie7 is the progenitor of a mechanical race he built from the ashes of a dead world - Earth. He is a robot of leisure and idle political meddling - a retirement well-earned. Or he was, until a human girl named Eve was dropped in his lap. Geneticists have restored Earth's biome and have begun repopulation. But primate cloning is in its infancy; human cloning is banned. Far from a failed genetics experiment, Eve is brilliant, curious, and heartbreakingly naïve about her species' history.

When Nietzsche Wept

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Irvin D. Yalom
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia

Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the headaches and other ailments that plague him. When he agrees to treat Nietzsche with his experimental "talking cure", Breuer never expects that he, too, will find solace in their sessions. Only through facing his own inner demons can the gifted healer begin to help his patient.

Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Erik Vance
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia
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This riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds. Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains? Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations and beliefs influence our bodily responses to pain, disease, and everyday events.

Immortality of the Gods: Legends, Mysteries, and the Alien Connection to Eternal Life

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Nick Redfern
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia
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Each of us are alive for a very limited time. Or are we? What if we could live not just for a century, but for millennia? What if there were a way for us to never die? Is such a thing even remotely possible? It may not only be feasible; it may very well have been achieved in the distant past. Ancient aliens may well have uncovered the secrets behind slowing, and ultimately completely stopping, the aging process.

The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Dan Savage
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia

Dan Savage’s mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says “no thanks” because he doesn’t want to act like a straight person. Their six-year-old son, D.J., says his two dads aren’t “allowed” to get married but that he’d like to come to the reception and eat cake. Throw into the mix Dan’s straight siblings, whose varied choices form a microcosm of how Americans are approaching marriage these days, and you get a rollicking family memoir that will have everyone—gay or straight, right or left, single or married—howling with laughter.

The Ringworld Engineers: The Ringworld Series, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Larry Niven
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia
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It’s been 20 years since the quixotic and worldsweary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. Now he and SpeakertoAnimals are going back, captives of the Hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader.

Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Gregory Coles, Wesley Hill - foreword
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia

Let's make a deal, you and me. Let's make promises to each other. I promise to tell you my story. The whole story. I'll tell you about a boy in love with Jesus, who, at the fateful onset of puberty, realized his sexual attractions were persistently and exclusively for other guys. I'll tell you how I lay on my bed in the middle of the night and whispered to myself the words I've whispered 1000 times since: "I'm gay." I'll show you the world through my eyes.

The Number of the Beast

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Robert A. Heinlein
• Narrated By Bernadette Dunne, Emily Durante, Malcolm Hillgartner, and others

The wickedest, most wonderful science fiction story ever created in our - or any - time. Anything can begin at a party in California - and everything does in this bold masterwork by a grand master of science fiction. When four supremely sensual and unspeakably cerebral humans - two male, two female - find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies - and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller-coaster ride of adventure, danger, ecstasy, and peril.

Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 35 mins)
• By William Carlsen
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia
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In 1839 rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world's most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood sailed together out of New York Harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rainforests of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. What they found would rewrite the West's understanding of human history.

Invisible Monsters Remix

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Chuck Palahniuk
• Narrated By Chuck Palahniuk, Anna Fields, Paul Michael Garcia

Injected with new material, Invisible Monsters Remix fulfills Chuck Palahniuk’s original vision for his 1999 novel, moving a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry even further into a wildly unique listening experience. Palahniuk’s fashion-model protagonist has it all - boyfriend, career, loyal best friend - until an accident destroys her face, her ability to speak, and her self-esteem. Enter Brandy Alexander, queen supreme, one operation away from becoming a bonafide woman.

The Best of Richard Matheson

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Richard Matheson, Victor LaValle - editor/introduction
• Narrated By Donald Corren, Peter Berkrot, Paul Michael Garcia, and others
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Among the greats of 20th-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known by many for novels like I Am Legend and his 16 Twilight Zone episodes, Matheson truly shines in his chilling, masterful short stories. Since his first story appeared in 1950, virtually every major writer of science fiction and fantasy has fallen under his influence, including Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, and Joe Hill, as well as filmmakers like Stephen Spielberg and J. J. Abrams.