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Strong for Potatoes - Abridged
By: Cynthia Thayer
Narrated by: Amanda Karr
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A striking literary debut reminiscent of Barbara Kingsolver and Dorothy Allison.Blue, a lonely adolescent, overcomes a disfiguring accident and misguided parents to create a rich life on her own terms. Aided by her Native American grandfather— a Passamaquoddy basket-maker— and the memory of a twin who died at birth, Blue... Read more
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Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of the enigmatic Kurtz and his outpost in deepest Congo as told by Marlow is an adventure story that examines the intent and effects of colonization. It remains one of the most controversial and profound writings of world literature.
Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski, on December 3, 1857, in Russian... Read more
The Ambassadors
By: Henry James
Narrated by: Walter Zimmerman
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Introduction by Colm Tóibín
One of the final masterpieces from one of the world’s greatest authors, Henry James’s The Ambassadors is now available for the first time in a Modern Library edition, with a new Introduction by acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín. A keenly observed tale of a man’s awakening to life, this dark comic novel follows Lewis... Read more
Common Sense
By: Thomas Paine
Narrated by: Adrian Cronauer
Length: 1 hour 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"When my country, into which I had just set foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir," wrote Paine. This pamphlet, which he had published in 1776, put into print the word every man was thinking but no man dared say: Independence! It captured the imagination of the colonists as no other document had. Read more
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Ahab's Wife - Abridged
By: Sena Jeter Naslund
Narrated by: Maryann Plunkett
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature -- along with "Call me Ishmael." And Una Spenser, the transcendent hero at the center of Ahab's Wife may well become every bit as memorable as Ahab.
Inspired by a brief passage, in Moby, Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an entirely new universe -- an... Read more
Raj
By: Gita Mehta
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 16 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Raj is the remarkable story of a woman of royal birth coming of age during India’s fight for independence.Jaya Singh, the intelligent, beautiful and compassionate daughter of the Maharajah and Maharani of Balmer, has been raised in the thousand-year-old tradition of purdah, a strict regime of seclusion, silence, and submission. But with the... Read more
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True At First Light
By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: Brian Dennehy
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Both a revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer.
A blend of... Read more
Duane's Depressed
By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Surrounded by his children, who all seem to be going through life crises, and his wife, who is wrestling with her own demons, small-town Texas local Duane Moore can't seem to make sense of his life anymore. To the perplexity of his family and friends, he ditches his pickup, starts walking everywhere, and moves to a crude shack six miles out of... Read more
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Turn of the Century - Abridged
By: Kurt Andersen
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
As big and exciting as the next century, this is a novel of real life at our giddy, feverish, topsy-turvy edge of the millennium. Turn of the Century is a good old-fashioned novel about the day after tomorrow--an uproarious, exquisitely observed panorama of our world as the twentieth century morphs into the twenty-first, transforming family,... Read more
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Close Range
By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Frances Fisher, Campbell Scott & Bruce Greenwood
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time.
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below,"... Read more
Falling Bodies - Abridged
By: Andrew Mark
Narrated by: Dylan Baker
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An eloquent illumination of the condition, Falling Bodies is an extraordinary debut novel of love and loss, despair and renewal, and the promise -- and limitations -- of the laws of physics.
Jackson's wife and two children are gone -- taken away in the blink of an eye by a terrible car accident. A professor of physics, Jackson can mathematically... Read more
Bucking the Sun - Abridged
By: Ivan Doig
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bucking the Sun is the story of the Duff family, homesteaders driven from the Montana bottomland to work on one of the New Deal’s most audacious projects—the damming of the Missouri River.
Through the story of each family member—a wrathful father, a mettlesome mother, and three very different sons, and the memorable women they marry—Doig conveys... Read more
Der kleine Prinz (Gekürzt) - Abridged
By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Narrated by: Ulrich Mühe
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut. Das Wesentliche ist für die Augen unsichtbar." Der Kleine Prinz lebt zusammen mit seiner Rose auf dem Planeten Asteroid B 612 und besucht die Erde. Hier lernt er neben dem Erzähler, der mit seinem Flugzeug in der Wüste notlandete, unter anderem den Fuchs kennen, der ihm das Vertraut-machen erklärt: "Du bist... Read more
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The Rum Diary - Abridged
By: Hunter S. Thompson
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary—a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book—is Hunter S. Thompson’s brilliant love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent lust in the Caribbean.
Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy,... Read more
Mama Flora's Family - Abridged
By: Alex Haley & David Stevens
Narrated by: Debbi Morgan
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
In the tradition of Roots and Queen, Mama Flora's Family is a sweeping epic of contemporary American history, culled from the unpublished works of award-winning writer Alex Haley. It is the poignant story of three generations of an African-American family who start out as destitute sharecroppers in Tennessee.
Mama Flora is the heart and strength... Read more
The Mermaids Singing - Abridged
By: Lisa Carey
Narrated by: Jan Maxwell
Length: 2 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
There is an island off the west coast of Ireland called Inis Muruchthe Island of the Mermaidsa world where myth is more powerful than truth, where the sea sings with the healing and haunting voices of women, and where death is never as strong as the redemptive power of family and love. It is here that Lisa Carey sets her lyrical and sensual... Read more
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On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon - Abridged
By: Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by: Polly Holliday
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate is a woman at war with herself. Born to privilege on a James River plantation, she grows up increasingly aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to the institution of slavery.
As she tells her story in 1900, she is still prey to her childhood, to the memories of a life... Read more
The Wedding - Abridged
By: Dorothy West
Narrated by: Regina Taylor
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
From Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, The Wedding is an intimate glimpse into African American middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, this is the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie. Within this inner... Read more
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The Bull from the Sea - Abridged
By: Mary Renault
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Set in classical Greece, this is the riveting sequel to Mary Renault' s The King Must Die.Slaying the minotaur was only the beginning. Theseus's legendary exploits continue in this magnificent tale of mythological adventure in classical Greece. Picking up where The King Must Die left off, this stirring sequel recounts Theseus's... Read more
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Night Train - Abridged
By: Martin Amis
Narrated by: Linda Hamilton
Length: 3 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Chain-smoking, deep-voiced fifteen-year veteran of the force Detective Mike Hoolihan is a tough woman. Now she has her worst assignment yet. Jennifer Rockwell—astrophysicist and darling of the community—had everything to live for: brains, looks, the world's best lover, and unlimited career horizons. When Jennifer takes her own life, no one is... Read more
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Our Mutual Friend
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: David Case
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights “Noddy” Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk... Read more
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Tuning to Wisdom: 25 years of New Dimensions Part 4 of 4
By: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
This is part 4 of 4 parts of an extraordinary audio collection of excerpts of some of the finest moments in the history of New Dimensions Radio from 1973 to 1998. Read more
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Tuning to Wisdom: 25 years of New Dimensions Part 3 of 4
By: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
This is part 3 of 4 parts of an extraordinary audio collection of excerpts of some of the finest moments in the history of New Dimensions Radio from 1973 to 1998. Read more
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Tuning to Wisdom: 25 years of New Dimensions Part 2 of 4
By: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
This is part 2 of 4 parts of an extraordinary audio collection of excerpts of some of the finest moments in the history of New Dimensions Radio from 1973 to 1998. Read more
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