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
View audiobookHector and the Search for Lost Time
By: Francois Lelord
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The delightful third book in the multimillion-copy internationally bestselling seriesFirst he tackled happiness. Then he took on love. And now Hector, our endearing young French psychiatrist, confronts the persistent march of time.His patients lament that there is not enough time in the day. Or they feel that life is passing them by. And in one... Read more
View audiobookSlowness
By: Milan Kundera
Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
""Irresistible. . . . Slowness is an ode to sensuous leisure, to the enjoyment of pleasure rather than just the search for it."" — MirabellaMilan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French.Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the... Read more
View audiobookTriburbia
By: Karl Taro Greenfeld
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A group of fathers meets each morning at a local Tribeca coffee shop after walking their children to school. The sound engineer looks uncomfortably like the guy on the sex offender posters around the neighborhood; the memoirist is on the verge of being outed for fabricating his experiences; and the chef puts his quest for the perfect quail-egg... Read more
View audiobookIdentity
By: Milan Kundera
Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
""Kundera, master of the twosome, finds erotic and existential threads everywhere in daily behavior. Like his previous books, Identity is a cluster of jeweled observations. . . . But Identity has a special charm: suspense. . . . [It] gets us turning the pages in excitement and alarm, and Kundera's wit keeps us turning them to the very... Read more
View audiobookThe Light Between Oceans
By: M.L. Stedman
Narrated by: Noah Taylor
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Spielberg’s Dreamworks is “irresistible…seductive…with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on... Read more
The Neruda Case
By: Roberto Ampuero
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Roberto Ampuero's novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brulé are an international sensation. In The Neruda Case, listeners are introduced to Cayetano as he takes on his first case as a private eye. Set against the fraught political world of pre-Pinochet Chile, Castro's Cuba, and perilous behind-the-Wall East Berlin, this mystery... Read more
View audiobookParadise Dogs
By: Man Martin
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Georgia Author of the Year Award winner Man Martin delivers a riotous, briskly paced work that Atlanta Magazine honored as a Top Ten Pick. Erstwhile hot-dog-restaurant manager Adam Newman has a lot on his plate-and usually more than a bit in his drinking glass. With an ex-wife to win back, a fiancEe to lose, a son to mentor, and a load of... Read more
View audiobookLeaving Cecil Street
By: Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Narrated by: Saidah Arrika Ekulona
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author Diane McKinney-Whetstone has won such prizes as the Zora Neale Hurston Society award for creative contribution to literature. Set in 1969, Leaving Cecil Street takes place in a proud neighborhood of West Philadelphia. The block has just thrown a summertime street party. Joe and Louise have been married for awhile, and Joe... Read more
View audiobookThe Nautical Chart
By: Arturo Perez-Reverte
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 17 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
International best-selling author Arturo Perez-Reverte, a celebrated master of smart, gripping thrillers, draws favorable comparisons to such literary legends as Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, and Patrick O'Brian. Translated into 19 languages, his books have sold more than three million copies worldwide. At a maritime auction in Barcelona,... Read more
View audiobookTruth Like the Sun
By: Jim Lynch
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Internationally best-selling author and Washington State Book Award winner Jim Lynch's Truth Like the Sun was named one of Amazon's Best Books of the Month. In 1962, Roger Morgan became the golden boy behind the Seattle World's Fair. Nearly 40 years later, he's a shoo-in for mayor. But when an ambitious journalist begins digging into his past,... Read more
View audiobookEmma - 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
View audiobookSorry 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
View audiobookVlad
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
View audiobookThis 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
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookThat 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
View audiobookOffice 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
View audiobookBitterroot
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
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
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
View audiobookCreole 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
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