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The Headmaster's Wager
By: Vincent Lam
Narrated by: Feodor Chin
Length: 15 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
From Giller Prize winner, internationally acclaimed, and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War.
Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler and an... Read more
Pale Blue
By: Thomas Meinecke
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
Length: 11 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The United States has long congratulated itself on being the world’s melting pot, but during a long, hot summer in coastal North Carolina, three young people will put that theory to the test.Our protagonist is Tillmann, a German vacationing in the States and corresponding with both his ex-girlfriend about the genesis of techno and an African... Read more
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The Constant Gardener
By: John le Carre
Narrated by: Michael Jayston
Length: 17 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by New York Times bestselling author John le Carré, one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time.
The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle -- young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on... Read more
HHhH
By: Laurent Binet
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
HHhH: "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The most dangerous man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich was known as the "Butcher of Prague." He was feared by all and loathed by most. With his cold Aryan features and implacable cruelty, Heydrich seemed indestructible—until two men, a Slovak and a Czech... Read more
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Fool
By: Frederick Dillen
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
“For Christ sake don’t become a fluffmeister” are the last words Barnaby Griswold’s father utters to him. But despite trying to turn out otherwise, Barnaby is indisputably a fool. A well-educated, well-connected investments player on the one hand, but an entitled money-driven fool on the other.Barnaby Griswold’s life changes almost overnight... Read more
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This Is How It Ends
By: Kathleen MacMahon
Narrated by: Caroline Lennon
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
This is when it begins
Fall, 2008.
This is where it begins
The coast of Dublin, Ireland.
This is why it begins
Bruno, an American, has come to Ireland to search for his roots. Addie, an out-of-work architect, is recovering from heartbreak while taking care of her infirm father. When their worlds collide, they experience a connection unlike... Read more
Vengeance
By: Benjamin Black
Narrated by: John Keating
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In Vengeance, a bizarre suicide leads to a scandal and then still more blood, as Benjamin Black reveals a world where money and sex trump everything.
It's a fine day for a sail, and Victor Delahaye, one of Ireland's most successful businessmen, takes his boat far out to sea. With him is his partner's son—who becomes the sole witness when Delahaye... Read more
Parade's End
By: Ford Madox Ford
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 38 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy set in England during World War I is widely considered one of the best novels of the twentieth century.
First published as four separate novels (Some Do Not…, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and The Last Post) between 1924 and 1928, Parade’s End explores the world of the English ruling class as it descends... Read more
In the Shadow of the Banyan
By: Vaddey Ratner
Narrated by: Greta Lee
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A beautiful celebration of the power of hope, this New York Times bestselling novel tells the story of a girl who comes of age during the Cambodian genocide.
You are about to read an extraordinary story, a PEN Hemingway Award finalist “rich with history, mythology, folklore, language and emotion.” It will take you to the very depths of despair... Read more
The Dog Stars
By: Peter Heller
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
“Leave it to Peter Heller to imagine a postapocalyptic world that contains as much loveliness as it does devastation. His hero, Hig, flies a 1956 Cessna (his dog as copilot) around what was once Colorado, chasing all the same things we chase in these pre-annihilation days: love, friendship, the solace of the natural world, and the chance to... Read more
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The Dead Do Not Improve
By: Jay Caspian Kang
Narrated by: Feodor Chin
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Hailed as The Awl’s 2012’s novel to anticipate, this glorious debut stars hippie detectives, a singular city, and an MFA student on the run.
On a residential Bay Area block struggling with the collision of gentrifier condos and longtime residents, stymied recent MFA grad Philip Kim is sleeping the night away when bullets fly through a... Read more
Requiem
By: Frances Itani
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A Washington Post Notable Book: A Japanese Canadian man is haunted by childhood memories of WWII internment camps in this "evocative and cinematic tale" (Maclean's). In 1942, in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Canadian government removes young Bin Okuma and his family from their home at a British Columbia coastal fishing village... Read more
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The Land of Decoration
By: Grace McCleen
Narrated by: Kate Harbour
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Ten-year-old Judith McPherson is a believer. She sees the world with the clear Eyes of Faith. Where others might see rubbish, Judith finds possibility and traces of the divine.But at school Judith’s difference marks her only for persecution at the hands of her classmates. And lately, even at home she struggles to find connection in a house... Read more
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Millroy the Magician
By: Paul Theroux
Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
Length: 16 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Jilly Farina is fourteen. Her father is drunk on the day of the Barnstable County Fair, so she goes by herself, and that night her life is transformed. When she walks into a tent to see Millroy the Magician, his eyes lighten from brown to green and fasten upon her. He performs miracles before her spellbound eyes. He tells her that he will train... Read more
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Mitz
By: Sigrid Nunez
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In the summer of 1934, “a sickly, pathetic marmoset” called Mitz came into the care of Leonard Woolf. He nursed her back to health and from then on was rarely seen without her on his shoulder. A ubiquitous presence in Bloomsbury society, Mitz moved with Leonard and Virginia Woolf and their circle, developing special relationships with such... Read more
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The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
By: W. P. Kinsella
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Gideon Clarke is a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world, as his father tried before him, that the world-champion Chicago Cubs traveled to Onamata, Iowa, in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against all-stars from the Iowa Baseball Confederacy, an amateur league. The game, which was to be short, pleasant, and, the Cubs thought,... Read more
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Me Times Three
By: Alex Witchel
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
During the 1980s, a disenchanted assistant editor at a women's magazine is devoted to her fiance, a Wall street moneyman who personifies all her yuppie lifestyle fantasies. However, her bubble bursts when she discovers he's secretly engaged to two other women. Crestfallen, the woman who hates her magazine job becomes devoted to it. Alex Witchel... Read more
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Lancelot
By: Walker Percy
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Lancelot Lamar, a disenchanted liberal lawyer, finds himself confined in a mental asylum with memories that don’t seem worth remembering—until a visit from an old friend and classmate gives him the opportunity to recount his journey of dark violence.It began the day he accidentally discovered he was not the father of his youngest daughter. That... Read more
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The Gombeen Man
By: Bram Stoker
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The Gombeen Man is an evil moneylender who several peasants owe money to. When the peasants find themselves unable to repay the wicked man on time, he is quick with his desire to take their land from them, refusing to take the payment from them in the future if they should be able to come up with it. The poor peasants are then forced to come up... Read more
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The Shadow Builder
By: Bram Stoker
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The Shadow Builder dwells in the gloomy nether regions of the universe, lonely and haunting in his realm. He dwells in the area beyond the Gate of Dread, where the great procession meets its final end. The Shadow Builder sees all from his gloom, happiness and sadness, hope and despair. He focuses intently on the relationship between a mother... Read more
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How 7 Went Mad
By: Bram Stoker
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A young boy, Tineboy, is having trouble his multiplication tables and the number seven. Bored in class one day, he falls asleep and dreams of a story told by his teacher about the number seven going mad. This leads to a world without the number seven and the confusion that comes from getting rid of a number. The schoolhouse bully and Tineboy’s... Read more
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Martin Eden
By: Jack London
Narrated by: Andrew Garman
Length: 14 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of such masterpieces as The Call of the Wild and White Fang, Jack London is one of American literature's most revered writers. In this semi-autobiographical tale, London tells the story of Martin Eden, a young sailor who, through self-education and determination, rises out of poverty to passionately pursue a dream of literary and... Read more
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The Long Valley
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Holter Graham
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A Penguin Classic
First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for... Read more
The Messenger
By: Stephen Miller
Narrated by: Graham Rowat
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Screenwriter, playwright, and novelist Stephen Miller crafts this harrowing tale about two people on opposite ends of the war on terror. Daria, an Iraqi refugee, has lost everything she holds dear- and now seeks revenge on those responsible. Recruited for a dangerous mission, she boards a plane to New York with instructions to make contact with-... Read more
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