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Emma - Abridged
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Penguin Classics presents Jane Austen's Emma, adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actress Fiona Shaw.
'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall'
Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly... Read more
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
By: Tom Wolfe
Narrated by: Harold N. Cropp
Length: 4 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In these two devastatingly funny essays, Tom Wolfe examines political stances, social styles, "black rage," and "white guilt" in our status-minded world.In "These Radical Chic Evenings," Wolfe focuses primarily on one symbolic event: a gathering of the politically correct at Leonard Bernstein's duplex apartment on Park Avenue to meet spokesmen... Read more
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Vlad
By: Carlos Fuentes
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Vlad' is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. In this sly sequel, Vlad really is undead. More than a postmodern riff on 'the vampire craze,'Vlad' is also an anatomy of the Mexican bourgeoisie, as well as our culture's ways of dealing with death. For - as in Dracula - Vlad has need of... Read more
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Sorry Please Thank You
By: Charles Yu
Narrated by: A Full Cast
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Notable Book author Charles Yu wrote the best-selling novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. In his stunning, often humorous collection Sorry Please Thank You, Yu draws on pop culture and science to make incisive observations about society- and offer touching insight into the human condition. In two of Yu's... Read more
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The Blue Asylum
By: Kathy Hepinstall
Narrated by: Kate Forbes
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A first-rate choice for fans of intelligent historical romances."-- Library Journal , starred review Amid the mayhem of the Civil War, Iris Dunleavy is put on trial by her husband, convicted of madness, and sent to Sanibel Asylum to be restored to a compliant Virginia plantation wife. But her husband is the true criminal; she is no lunatic, only... Read more
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This One and Magic Life
By: Anne C. George
Narrated by: Linda Stephens
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
In the deep South, where love and hatred run deep and close, dissension often summers just beneath the surface. When a family gathers for a funeral as its old homestead above the waters of Mobile Bay, it must carry out the last wish of the aunt and sister whom it has come to mourn. It is a wish that will unearth a terrible secret, one that will... Read more
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That Printer of Udell’s
By: Harold Bell Wright
Narrated by: Richard Powers
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
As a boy, Dick Falkner ran away from abject poverty and an abusive alcoholic father. Sixteen years later, he finds himself hungry of body and empty of spirit in a Midwestern town. Although he finds no help in this so-called Christian town, he is eventually taken in by George Udell, a local publisher and kindhearted man. Through hard work and... Read more
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Bitterroot
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Following his acclaimed bestseller Purple Cane Road, James Lee Burke returns with a triumphant tour de force.
Set in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life, as well as to xenophobes dedicated to establishing a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia, Burke’s novel features Billy Bob Holland,... Read more
Office Girl
By: Joe Meno
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
No one dies in Office Girl. Nobody talks about the international political situation. There is no mention of any economic collapse. Instead, this novel is about young people doing interesting things in the final moments of the last century. Odile is a lovely twenty-three-year-old art-school dropout, a minor vandal, and a hopeless dreamer. Jack... Read more
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Tigers in Red Weather
By: Liza Klaussmann
Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives':... Read more
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Creole Belle
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 18 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
“America’s best novelist” James Lee Burke returns with another New York Times bestselling entry in the Dave Robicheaux thriller series (The Denver Post).
Set against the events of the Gulf Coast oil spill, rife with “the menaces of greed and violence and man-made horror” (The Christian Science Monitor), Creole Belle finds Dave Robicheaux... Read more
Creole Belle - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“America’s best novelist” James Lee Burke returns with another New York Times bestselling entry in the Dave Robicheaux thriller series (The Denver Post).
Set against the events of the Gulf Coast oil spill, rife with “the menaces of greed and violence and man-made horror” (The Christian Science Monitor), Creole Belle finds Dave Robicheaux... Read more
Hey Rube
By: Hunter S. Thompson
Narrated by: Scott Sowers
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Sports, politics, and sex collide in Hunter S. Thompson’s wildly popular ESPN.com columns. From the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and father of “Gonzo” journalism comes Hey Rube.
Insightful, incendiary, outrageously brilliant, such was the man who galvanized American journalism with his radical ideas and gonzo tactics. For over half a... Read more
True Believers
By: Kurt Andersen
Narrated by: Vanessa Hart
Length: 18 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle
In True Believers, Kurt Andersen—the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and Turn of the Century—delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its wit and effervescent insight, this kaleidoscopic tour de force of... Read more
Chicago Confidential
By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
It’s 1950 in Chicago, P.I. Nate Heller’s old stomping grounds. But things are different now, and the wind is blowing in a different, decidedly more dangerous direction. Congressman-with-a-cause and presidential-hopeful Estes Kefauver creates the Committee on Organized Crime to put the squeeze on the mob—and anyone who ever associated with them.... Read more
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Lime Creek
By: Joe Henry
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A Grammy-winning lyricist and accomplished poet, Joe Henry turns his immense talent to the novel form in this moving debut. Spencer Davis and his wife Elizabeth have carved out a rewarding existence on the fierce plains of Wyoming, where they raise three sons alongside herds of cattle. But as their oldest son Luke comes of age and begins testing... Read more
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Juliet in August
By: Dianne Warren
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Juliet, Saskatchewan, is a blink-and-you-miss-it kind of town—a dusty oasis on the edge of the Little Snake sand hills. It's easy to believe that nothing of consequence takes place there. But the hills vibrate with life, and the town's heart beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people: the rancher afraid to accept responsibility for... Read more
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Gold
By: Chris Cleave
Narrated by: Emilia Fox
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The latest novel from Chris Cleave—the award-winning and international #1 bestselling author of Little Bee—is “a heartstring-tugger with an adrenaline-fueled plot” (People) that asks: how much are we willing to sacrifice for the people we love?
IT’S THE ULTIMATE TEST OF A MOTHER’S LOVE . . .
IF your dreams pull you in one direction and your heart... Read more
Alif the Unseen
By: G. Willow Wilson
Narrated by: Sanjiv Jhaveri
Length: 15 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients—dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups—from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif—the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind. The aristocratic woman Alif loves has jilted him... Read more
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The Good Dream
By: Donna VanLiere
Narrated by: Donna VanLiere
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In this full-length novel from the New York Times Bestselling author of The Christmas Hope series Donna VanLiere has written a beautifully rendered and poignant story about one woman's unlikely path to motherhood and the healing power of love.
Tennessee, 1950: Still single and in her early thirties, Ivorie Walker is considered an old maid; a... Read more
Crooken Sands
By: Bram Stoker
Narrated by: Don Hagen
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Crooken sands is a short fantasy horror story following a London merchant on his mysterious adventure to Scotland. Read more
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The Next Best Thing
By: Jennifer Weiner
Narrated by: Olivia Thirlby
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Blockbuster #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner returns with an irresistible story about a young woman trying to make it in Hollywood…
At three years old, Ruth Saunders miraculously survives the car crash that takes her parents’ lives on the icy Massachusetts Turnpike. Her eccentric grandmother, who comes out of Florida... Read more
The Next Best Thing - Abridged
By: Jennifer Weiner
Narrated by: Olivia Thirlby
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Blockbuster #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner returns with an irresistible story about a young woman trying to make it in Hollywood…
At three years old, Ruth Saunders miraculously survives the car crash that takes her parents’ lives on the icy Massachusetts Turnpike. Her eccentric grandmother, who comes out of Florida... Read more
The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.
By: Nichole Bernier
Narrated by: Angela Brazil
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Summer vacation on the island was supposed to be a restorative time for Kate, who'd lost her close friend Elizabeth in a sudden accident. But when she inherits a trunk of Elizabeth's journals, they reveal a woman far different than the cheerful wife and mother Kate had known. The complicated portrait of Elizabeth—her upbringing, her marriage,... Read more
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