Mimi and Her Mirror
By: Uyen Nicole Duong
Narrated by: Leslie Bellair
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
International Book Award Winner, Fiction: Multicultural.Vietnamese American attorney Mimi Sean Young turns forty and has it all: a partnership in a leading Houston law firm, a sexy younger boyfriend, Brad, also a successful attorney, and all the trappings of a woman who has made it big. When her firm becomes embroiled in what could be an... Read more
View audiobookBooze and Burn
By: Charlie Williams
Narrated by: James Clamp
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
In this darkly comedic follow-up to Charlie Williams’ breakthrough novel Deadfolk, Hoppers head doorman Royston Blake is once again up to his eyeballs in trouble of the worst kind. Since his face-off with the Munton brothers, Blake has been enjoying life as a “pillar” of the Mangel community. Sure, it’s a bleak and rather dodgy town, but it’s... Read more
View audiobookBrown
By: James Polster
Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Former Boston sportswriter McGee Brown is traveling cross-country with his fiancée when they call it quits somewhere around Nevada. With no job and no girl, Brown pushes on to California, where a fruitless job hunt lands him on his old buddy Fillmore’s doorstep. Fillmore is an accomplished clinical psychologist (and part-time bartender) whose... Read more
View audiobookDeclaring Spinsterhood
By: Jamie Lynn Braziel
Narrated by: Johanna Parker
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Emma Bailey is thirty years old and single. No problem for her, but a point of round-the-clock contention for her mother, her family, and too many of her friends. In Jamie Lynn Braziel’s Declaring Spinsterhood, the terminal illness known as “old maid” is explored from every angle, and the result is a compassionate, compelling, and wickedly funny... Read more
View audiobookEmpire of Dreams
By: Giannina Braschi
Narrated by: Adriana Sananes
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
An intriguing and hypnotizing work of postmodern fiction from groundbreaking Hispanic-American writer Giannina Braschi, Empire of Dreams chronicles a decade-long love affair with 1980s New York and all its contradictions. The city’s perversions and passions, power and marginality, grandeur and squalor come vibrantly to life in each of the book’s... Read more
View audiobookSold
By: Patricia McCormick
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all... Read more
View audiobookIlluminations
By: Mary Sharratt
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Skillfully interweaving historical fact with psychological insight and vivid imagination, Sharratt's redemptive novel, Illuminations, brings to life one of the most extraordinary women of the Middle Ages: Hildegard von Bingen, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath.
Offered to the Church at the age of eight, Hildegard was entombed in a small... Read more
Catcher, Caught
By: Sarah Collins Honenberger
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
After an earth-shattering diagnosis of leukemia, 15-year-old Daniel Landon sees a reflection of himself in the words of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Inspired by Holden Caulfield, Daniel begins to question the intentions and authority of those around him in his own search for identity as he faces death. Tired of his cramped... Read more
View audiobookClassic Christmas Stories
By: Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain, O. Henry, ...
Narrated by: Robin Sachs
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Catch the holiday spirit with this magical collection of beloved Christmas tales. Christmas favorites from Mark Twain, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte and others are lovingly recorded and presented here in one enchanting volume. Read more
View audiobookThe Translation of the Bones
By: Francesca Kay
Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Faith or delusion? Fantasy or fact? From the winner of the 2009 Orange New Writers Award comes a profound meditation on the nature of faith and a riveting story of religious passion gone tragically wrong in London.
When word gets out that Mary-Margaret O’Reilly, a somewhat slow-witted but apparently harmless young woman, may have been witness to... Read more
Torch
By: Cheryl Strayed
Narrated by: Cheryl Strayed
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The debut novel from the internationally acclaimed author of Wild weaves a searing and luminous tale of a family's grief after unexpected loss. • "A deeply honest novel of life after catastrophe, of intimacy lost and found." —O, The Oprah Magazine
"Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!" is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares with the listeners of her... Read more
Fujisan
By: Randy Taguchi
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
From acclaimed Japanese author Randy Taguchi come four unforgettable stories of redemption, discovery, loss, and remembrance anchored by one of the world’s holiest peaks. Mount Fuji has been a source of spiritual inspiration since it was first ascended by a monk over a millennium ago.“Blue Summit” introduces a former cult member struggling to... Read more
View audiobookAdressat unbekannt
By: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
Narrated by: Stephan Schad & Matthias Brandt
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: No
"Adressat unbekannt" von Kathrine Kressmann Taylor ist eine Novelle in Briefform, geschrieben als Korrespondenz zwischen dem Deutschen Martin und dem amerikanischen Juden Max zwischen 1932 und 1934. Eine zunächst innige Freundschaft in Zeiten des Dritten Reichs, zwischen zwei Menschen, die eigentlich unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Doch... Read more
View audiobookMein erster Selbstmord - Abridged
By: Carola Wolff
Narrated by: Caroline du Fresne
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Wenn Sie immer schon mal wissen wollten, aber sich nicht zu fragen trauten:Wie sich manischer Sex anfühlt. Warum die englische Küche besser ist als ihr Ruf. Was passiert, wenn man vom Europa Center springen will. Und wenn Sie auf Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll stehen (nicht unbedingt in dieser Reihenfolge). Dann fragen sie Maxi. Maxi Winter,... Read more
View audiobookLeukämie - Ein poetisches Tagebuch - Abridged
By: Günter Erdmann & Frida Feld
Narrated by: Frida Feld
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
""Die Texte entstanden nicht in meinem Kopf, sie wurden vielmehr in meinem Inneren geboren und schrieben sich wie von selbst, indem sie mir die geschwächte Hand führten und sich - kaum lesbar- auf das Papier niederließen". Feld intensiv mit spirituellen Erlebnissen und schrieb. Was zunächst als Krisenbewältigung. angefangen hatte, führt zu... Read more
View audiobookThe Man on the Third Floor
By: Anne Bernays
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Walter Samson is a successful book editor in post–World War II New York. He has more than enough money, an interesting wife, two smart children, and reason to believe he's leading the good American life—until a chance meeting with Barry Rogers. Barry is blue-collar, handsome, single, and poor.Walter is instantly drawn to Barry and, despite the... Read more
View audiobookThe World as We Know It
By: Joseph Monninger
Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the acclaimed novel Eternal on the Water, whose style is described as "Henry David Thoreau meets Nicholas Sparks" (Publishers Weekly), comes a novel about two brothers who save a girl from drowning when they are young—an experience that intertwines their destinies and changes their lives forever.On an early spring afternoon... Read more
View audiobookEternal on the Water
By: Joseph Monninger
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
From the day Cobb and Mary meet kayaking on Maine's Allagash River and fall deeply in love, the two approach life with the same sense of adventure they use to conquer the river's treacherous rapids. But rivers do not let go so easily—and neither does their love. When Mary's life takes the cruelest turn, she vows to face those rough waters on... Read more
View audiobookDaughters Of The River Huong
By: Uyen Nicole Duong
Narrated by: Leslie Bellair
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Daughters of the River Huong by Vietnam-born, Houston-based writer Uyen Nicole Duong is a richly woven tapestry of family, country, conflict, and redemption. A saga spanning four generations of Vietnamese women, we discover lives inextricably tied to their country’s struggle for independence. Narrated by the teenaged Simone, a girl who flaunts... Read more
View audiobookSweet Tooth
By: Ian McEwan
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of such prestigious honors as the Booker Prize and Whitbread Award, Ian McEwan is justifiably regarded as a modern master. Set in 1972, Sweet Tooth follows Cambridge student Serena Frome, whose intelligence and beauty land her a job with England's intelligence agency, MI5. In an attempt to monitor writers' politics, MI5 tasks Serena with... Read more
View audiobookThe Lawgiver
By: Herman Wouk
Narrated by: Peter Riegert & Zosia Mamet
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"A lighthearted and delightful tour de force" (The Washington Times).
A romantic and suspenseful epistolary novel about a group of people trying to make a movie about Moses in the present day, The Lawgiver is a story that emerges from letters, memos, e-mails, journals, news articles, Skype transcripts, and text messages.
At the center of The... Read more
Dead Stars
By: Bruce Wagner
Narrated by: Bruce Wagner
Length: 19 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times best-selling author Bruce Wagner is also a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and a notable contributor to the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. With Dead Stars, Wagner delivers uproarious and sharply critical views on the sex- and money-obsessed world of Hollywood through the story of Telma, a 13-year-old girl who's also the world's youngest... Read more
View audiobookSigns and Wonders
By: Alix Ohlin
Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn, Morgan Hallett & Graham Rowat
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
These sixteen stories by the much-celebrated Alix Ohlin illuminate the connections between all of us-connections we choose to break, those broken for us, and those we find and make in spite of ourselves. Read more
View audiobookThe Polish Boxer
By: Eduardo Halfon
Narrated by: Armando Durán
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbidden heritage; a Mayan poet is torn between his studies and filial obligations; a striking young... Read more
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