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Empire Falls
By: Richard Russo
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 20 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Richard Russo—from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man—has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country.
Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen better days,... Read more
Gourmet Rhapsody
By: Muriel Barbery
Narrated by: Barbara Caruso, Eliza Foss & Pete Larkin
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In the heart of Paris, in the posh building made famous in The Elegance of the Hedgehog, the greatest food critic in the world is dying. Revered by some and reviled by many, Monsieur Pierre Arthens has been lording it over the world’s most esteemed chefs for years. But now, during these, his final hours, his mind has turned to simpler things. He... Read more
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The Outlaw Album
By: Daniel Woodrell
Narrated by: Leslie Bellair & Brian Troxell
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" American master (Associated Press).
Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation-both material and psychological -- motivates his characters. A husband cruelly... Read more
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A palm reader notifies Lord Arthur that murder is in his future. But not his murder – he’s the murderer. This really throws a wrench into his wedding plans, for Lord Arthur is soon to be married to the most beautiful lady in London. In fact he loves her so much, he decides to postpone the wedding until his business is done. Now, for a tasteful... Read more
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The Night Strangers
By: Chris Bohjalian
Narrated by: Alison Fraser & Mark Bramhall
Length: 14 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story.
In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts.
The home's new owners are Chip and... Read more
Falling Together
By: Marisa de los Santos
Narrated by: Julia Gibson
Length: 14 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
“Her writing is both vividly descriptive and surprisingly insightful.”
—Boston Globe“It’s the three-dimensional men, women, and children who populate her fiction that I’ll remember for a very long time.”
—Nancy Pearl’s PicksFollowing the phenomenal success of her novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me, New York Times bestselling author Marisa de... Read more
A Sound Among the Trees
By: Susan Meissner
Narrated by: Susan Denaker
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
A house shrouded in time.
A line of women with a heritage of loss.As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn’t believe that Susannah’s ghost haunts the antebellum mansion looking for a pardon, but... Read more
The Cat's Table
By: Michael Ondaatje
Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the “cat’s table”—as far from the Captain’s Table as can be—with a ragtag group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the... Read more
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The Great Leader
By: Jim Harrison
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Author Jim Harrison has won international acclaim for his masterful body of work, including over thirty books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In his most original work to date, Harrison delivers an enthralling, witty, and expertly crafted novel following one man’s hunt for an elusive cult leader, dubbed the Great Leader.On the verge of... Read more
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The Visible Man
By: Chuck Klosterman
Narrated by: Annabella Sciorra & Scott Shepherd
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Downtown Owl, “the Ethicist” of the New York Times Magazine, Chuck Klosterman returns to fiction with his second novel—an imaginative page-turner about a therapist and her unusual patient, a man who can render himself invisible.
Therapist Victoria Vick is contacted by a cryptic,... Read more
Elizabeth Street
By: Laurie Fabiano
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Length: 11 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
“Basing her story on her own family narratives and a deep understanding of Italian Americans, [Fabiano] paints a vivid portrait not just of immigrants’ lives in the first ten years of the last century, but of the vicious criminals who preyed on them.” —Mike Dash, author of The First FamilyIn Elizabeth Street, Laurie Fabiano tells a remarkable,... Read more
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A Sleepwalk On The Severn
By: Alice Oswald
Narrated by: Emma Fielding, Ron Cook & Sam Dale
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
BBC Radio 4's extraordinary evocation of the experience of moonrise over the Severn Estuary, by award-winning poet Alice Oswald. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 10 March 2011. Set to original music by Roger Goula, the subject of 'A Sleepwalk on the Severn' is moonrise, which happens five times in different forms: new moon, half... Read more
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Mr. Fox
By: Helen Oyeyemi
Narrated by: Carole Boyd
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It is not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold... Read more
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Pastoral
By: Nevil Shute
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
She was from the hills of Yorkshire, country born and bred. He was a city boy. By the stream where they fished they were two young people falling in love. Overhead, the bombers roared, threatening to blow their idyllic world, so young, so fresh, to smithereens. Read more
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On the Beach
By: Nevil Shute
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Nevil Shute’s most powerful novel—a bestseller for decades after its 1957 publication—is an unforgettable vision of a post-apocalyptic world. After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone... Read more
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The Breaking Wave
By: Nevil Shute
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Allan had been away from Coombaragana, flying in the Royal Air Force. Now he has returned, wounded and disillusioned, to his ancestral home. Days before, Jessie Proctor had taken her own life. Why? Allan looked at the young face in the photograph in Jessie's passport and froze. He knew who she really was. Read more
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Ordeal
By: Nevil Shute
Narrated by: Ian Stewart
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Life in the Corbett family turned upside down when the first German bombs struck their well-ordered street. But life goes on through fire and destruction, life and love rising from the rubble of London and "the Blitz." Read more
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If Jack's in Love
By: Stephen Wetta
Narrated by: Scott Sowers
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Unabridged, 9 hoursRead by TBDA Crime in the Neighborhood told with the deadpan humor of Nick Hornby-a wonderful novel about a boy genius whose brother may, or may not, be a murderer. Read more
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Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
By: William Kennedy
Narrated by: William Kennedy
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ironweed, a dramatic novel of love and revolution from one of America’s finest writersWhen journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight.So... Read more
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The Revisionists
By: Thomas Mullen
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 16 hours
Abridged: No
A fast-paced literary thriller that recalls dystopian classics such as 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, from the award-winning author of The Last Town on Earth.
Zed is an agent from the future. A time when the world's problems have been solved. No hunger. No war. No despair.
His mission is to keep it that way. Even if it means ensuring every cataclysm... Read more
The Barbarian Nurseries
By: Héctor Tobar
Narrated by: Frankie J. Alvarez
Length: 15 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The great panoramic social novel that Los Angeles deserves—a twenty-first-century, West Coast Bonfire of the Vanities by the only writer qualified to capture the city in all its glory and complexity With The Barbarian Nurseries, H├®ctor Tobar gives our most misunderstood metropolis its great contemporary novel, taking us beyond the glimmer of... Read more
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The Funny Man
By: John Warner
Narrated by: Mauro Hantman
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The funny man is a middling comic in an unnamed city. By day he takes care of his infant son, by night he performs in small clubs, sandwiched between other aspiring comics. His wife waits tables to support the family. It doesn't sound like much, but they're happy, more or less. Until the day he comes up with it. His thing. His gimmick. And... Read more
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Adventures of the Karaoke King
By: Harold Taw
Narrated by: James Chen
Length: 15 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In Harold Taw’s entertaining, sometimes bawdy, and often moving novel, Adventures of the Karaoke King, readers are quickly pulled into the vortex of the extremes of human emotions: passion, fear, hope, despair, and the longing for redemption and clarity. Guy Watanabe is a thirty-something man who is marginally in touch with his Asian heritage... Read more
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Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore
By: Stella Duffy
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A bravura performance: a witty, moving, sexy book that bursts with as much color and excitement as the city of Constantinople itself." -Financial Times Roman historian Procopius publicly praised Theodora of Constantinople for her piety-while secretly detailing her salacious stage act and maligning her as ruthless and power hungry. So who was... Read more
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