The Red Daughter
By: John Burnham Schwartz
Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Mark Bramhall & John Burnham Sch...
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
Running from her father’s brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin’s daughter defects to the United States during the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel and unexpected love story is inspired by the remarkable life of Svetlana Alliluyeva.
“The Red Daughter does exactly what... Read more
The Wooden Guest
By: Vladimir Odoyevsky
Narrated by: Fred Wolinsky
Length: 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The Wooden Guest is an odd little tale by Prince Vladimir Odoyevsky. It starts off as a kind of fairy tale for grownups and develops into a brief lesson in philosophy, with frightening implications when it comes to human nature. Read more
View audiobookLie With Me
By: Philippe Besson
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The Advocate’s Best Gay Novel of 2019
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
O, The Oprah Magazine’s Best LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2019
The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Books You’ll Want to Read this Spring
Out's Best Queer Books of April 2019
TheSkimm’s LGBTQ+ books to celebrate Pride
“Stunning and... Read more
Spring
By: Ali Smith
Narrated by: Juliette Burton
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
On the heels of Autumn and Winter comes Spring, the continuation of Ali Smith's celebrated Seasonal Quartet, a series of stand-alone novels, separate but interconnected (as the seasons are), wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories. Read more
View audiobookThe Abolitionist's Daughter
By: Diane C. McPhail
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
On a Mississippi morning in 1859, Emily Matthews begs her father to save a slave, Nathan, about to be auctioned away from his family. Judge Matthews is an abolitionist who runs an illegal school for his slaves, hoping to eventually set them free. One, a woman named Ginny, has become Emily's companion and often her conscience—and understands all... Read more
View audiobookThe Weight of Smoke
By: George Robert Minkoff
Narrated by: Nigel Gore
Length: 18 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Four hundred years after the founding of Jamestown, the lives of Captain John Smith, Powhatan, and Pocahontas assume their true dimensions in this far-ranging saga of the beginnings of the British Empire. The English came to the New World to found a utopia. Instead they founded a slave state. The only English voice of reason and the first true... Read more
View audiobookA 2-Leg Called Nedran
By: Anna Gomez Cunningham
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
"Anyone who loves heartfelt stories of love with pets like Marley and Me will enjoy this book." Major 48-8 finds a wild, infant 2-leg and, with the help of the family, raises Nedran to become the Waterside Woodland Community's most famous and beloved member.
A 2-Leg Called Nedran is a story of lifelong friendship and offers layers of meaning to... Read more
The Necessary Hunger
By: Nina Revoyr
Narrated by: Jin Yang
Length: 13 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Two high-school girls growing up in the inner city, one Japanese-American, the other African-American, hunger for basketball stardom and a life beyond South Central Los Angeles. As a star basketball player in her last year of high school, Nancy Takahiro's life is about to change forever. Facing the fear of leaving home and wondering where her... Read more
View audiobookLivet på landet enligt Sophie Manie
By: Linda Netsman
Narrated by: Camilla Nilsson Jern
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Ibland blir inte livet som man tänkt sig. Sophie Manie har vanligtvis många järn i elden, men när hon en dag får reda på att hon visst ska gifta sig blir hon inte bara förvånad, utan skräckslagen. Hur kan det komma sig att man inte känner till sitt eget bröllop? Det går plötsligt upp för Sophie att saker har spårat ur och hon fattar ett... Read more
View audiobookStormens barn
By: Solveig Hall
Narrated by: Lotta Nilsson
Length: 4 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Catarina och Claus träffas mitt under ett brinnande krig. Deras kärlek är het och passionerad. Nazisterna håller just på med sin intensiva utplåning av judar och Claus, som är judisk, tvingas gömma sig. Catarinas pappa är sjömanspräst i Tyskland och har sett att hjälpa Claus att undfly Gestapos dödsklor, men istället blir Catarina ett mål för... Read more
View audiobookWar Serenade
By: Jill Wallace
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Pietro Saltamachio is on top of the world as a bon vivant Italian opera star until he's forced to fly planes for his country in World War II. Shot down, captured and confined in an Allied POW camp in South Africa, though Pietro' injuries mend, his spirit remains broken. He's lost his passion for music and has nothing left to live for—until he... Read more
View audiobookThe Iron Orchard
By: Tom Pendleton
Narrated by: Ned Van Zandt
Length: 17 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Originally published in 1966 under the pen name Tom Pendleton, The Iron Orchard garnered a cult following for its authentic representation of the people and business of the Texas and American Southwest oil fields. Now available as an audio book, The Iron Orchard tells the story of a young Texan, Jim McNeely, who is desperate to make a name for... Read more
View audiobookChameleon
By: Mark Burnell
Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
Length: 14 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Trust no one but yourself… The second blockbuster thriller in the Stephanie Patrick series. The previous novel, The Rhythm Section, is soon to be a major motion picture from the producers of the James Bond film series, starring Jude Law and Blake Lively. She can’t escape her... Read more
View audiobookMishti, The Mirzapuri Labrador: Urf Mishti Ke Karname
By: Gillian Wright
Narrated by: Benaifer Mirza
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Mishti, a little golden labrador born in Mirzapur, on the banks of the Ganga, is adopted by two people from Delhi, called Gilly and Mark. It is the beginning of many adventures they will have as they learn to live together, and become a family. ©Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt Ltd. Read more
View audiobookThe Adivasi Will Not Dance
By: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
Narrated by: Meghan Sardar
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In this collection of stories, set in the fecund, mineral-rich hinterland and the ever-expanding, squalid towns of Jharkhand, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar breathes life into a set of characters who are as robustly flesh and blood as the soil from which they spring, where they live and into which they must sometimes bleed. ©Speaking Tiger Publishing... Read more
View audiobookMurder in Seven Acts
By: Kalpana Swaminathan
Narrated by: Benaifer Mirza
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Lalli, retired policewoman, intrepid detective, collects curiosities… that inevitably lead to murder. The curiosity of murder unfolds in seven acts. ©Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt Ltd. Read more
View audiobookThe Girl Who Couldn't Love
By: Shinie Antony
Narrated by: Neeti Wagh
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
An introverted, middle-aged spinster, Roo or Rudrakshi Sen, lives with her mother and teaches English at a local school. Roo's mother, semi-blind and a chronic invalid, lives most of the time in an imaginary world where she turns the grief of her husband's death and their bizarre relationship into the belief that theirs was a happy, conventional... Read more
View audiobookInstructions for a Funeral
By: David Means
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
"Poetic, insightful, and deeply moving. David Means is one of my very favorite writers." —Tara Westover, author of Educated
Following the publication of his widely acclaimed, Man Booker-nominated novel Hystopia, David Means here returns to his signature form: the short story. Thanks to his four previous story collections, Means has won himself an... Read more
Saratoga Trunk
By: Edna Ferber
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The basis for the classic film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, Saratoga Trunk is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's enthralling saga of love, greed, and power set in New Orleans and Saratoga during the late nineteenth century.Saratoga Trunk unfolds the story of Clio Dulaine, an ambitious Creole beauty who more than meets her... Read more
View audiobookSomething Like Breathing
By: Angela Readman
Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Friendship blossoms between an enigmatic girl and a whisky distiller's granddaughter on a remote Scottish island.
It's the 1950s, and Lorrie is unimpressed when her family moves to the remote Scottish island where her grandad runs a whisky distillery. She befriends Sylvie, the shy girl next door: ‘The slightest smile from Sylvie was a fluffy... Read more
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders & Joshua Ferris
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatches an unforgettable cast of characters, each struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world.... Read more
View audiobookI Remember Abbu
By: Humayun Azad
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A touching story of war, family, innocence, and memory from one of the top Bengali writers of all time. For the first time translated into English.Bangladesh, 1971: the war of independence from Pakistan has torn through peaceful villages and turned life upside down. In the midst of war, one young girl holds on as she discovers the world’s... Read more
View audiobookBodies of Men
By: Nigel Featherstone
Narrated by: Stephen Phillips
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards - FICTION
Longlisted for the 2020 ARA Historical Novel Prize
2019 Canberra Critics Circle Award - FICTION
'a beautiful, tender, captivating story' - Joanna Nell, author of The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village
'It is a tender, liberating love story, but, as Featherstone originally... Read more
A Gate at the Stairs
By: Lorrie Moore
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In her bestselling story collection, Birds of America (“[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability” —James McManus, front page of the New York Times Book Review), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about... Read more
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