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Swann's Way
By: Marcel Proust
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 22 hours
Abridged: No
-Includes an exclusive interview with Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at CUNY Swann's Way is the first and best-known part of Proust's monumental work, Remembrance of Things Past. Often compared to a symphony, this complex masterpiece is ideally suited for audio. Listening lets you appreciate... Read more
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The Madonna of Excelsior
By: Zakes Mda
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior, a farming community in South Africa's rural Free States, were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sexual relations between blacks and whites on the pretext of avoiding miscegenation. The women were jailed as they awaited trial and their white counterparts were released on bail.... Read more
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Absurdistan
By: Gary Shteyngart
Narrated by: Adam Grupper
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Named as one of the New York Times Year's Ten Best upon its publication, Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan is a biting, poignant satire of American-style democracy and the American Dream. After returning to Russia to attend his father's funeral, 30-year-old Misha is subsequently denied a visa when he attempts to re-enter the United States. What... Read more
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Man Walks Into a Room
By: Nicole Krauss
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Nicole Krauss' Great House was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Man Walks Into a Room follows Samson Greene, who, during the removal of a brain tumor, loses his adult memories. Feeling lost as an outsider in his own life, Samson agrees to participate in a scientific experiment in which memories are... Read more
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The Girl in the Blue Beret
By: Bobbie Ann Mason
Narrated by: Fred Sullivan
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by a true story, the bestselling author of In Country offers a gorgeous, haunting novel about an airline pilot coming to terms with his past, and searching for the people who saved him during World War II. After Marshall Stone's B-17 bomber was shot down in occupied Europe in 1944, people in the French Resistance helped him escape to... Read more
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
By: Harriet Jacobs
Narrated by: Lisa Reneรฉ Pitts
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiographical account of the author's experiences as a slave in nineteenth-century North Carolina, from her relatively happy childhood to the brutality she experienced as a teenager and young woman to her eventual escape to the North. One of the few slave... Read more
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The Trial
By: Franz Kafka
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1925, The Trial tells the story of a man arrested for an unknown crime by a remote, inaccessible authority and his struggle for control over the increasing absurdity of his life. One of Franz Kafka's best-known works, The Trial has been variously interpreted as an examination of political power, a satirical depiction of... Read more
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Untold Story
By: Monica Ali
Narrated by: Emma Fielding & Nicholas Farrell
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestseller from one of the most versatile and bold writers of our timeโโan astonishing, tightly structured, and lyrically toldโ novel (People) inspired by Princess Diana.
What if Princess Diana hadnโt died? Dianaโs life and marriage were fairy tale and nightmare rolled into one. Adored by millions, in her personal life she... Read more
The Ghost of Greenwich Village
By: Lorna Graham
Narrated by: Nicole Vilencia
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of Sophie Kinsella and Lauren Weisberger comes this charming debut about a young woman who moves to Manhattan in search of romance and excitement, only to find that her apartment is haunted by the cantankerous ghost of an old beat-generation writer, who needs her help in finishing his lifeโs work.For Eve Weldon, moving to... Read more
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Killer Move
By: Michael Marshall
Narrated by: Gary Dikeos
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Bill Moore has a lucrative job selling condos in the Florida Keys, a successful wife, a good marriage, a beautiful house. He also has a five-year plan for super-success, but that plan has begun to drag into its sixth year without achieving its intended rewards. So now Bill's starting to accelerate his way into the future he knows he deserves. At... Read more
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I Hotel
By: Karen Tei Yamashita
Narrated by: Angela Lin, Nancy Wu, Ramรณn De Ocampo, Jennifer...
Length: 22 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Karen Tei Yamashita has been honored with the American Book Award and Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. A stunning portrait of Asian Americans in 1960s and '70s San Francisco, I Hotel is a remarkable collection of 10 related novellas. Touching on such topics as Japanese internment camps and the Marcos dictatorship, the book presents readers with... Read more
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Bel Ami
By: Guy De Maupassant
Narrated by: John McDonough
Length: 14 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Guy de Maupassant is revered for his naturalistic fiction, which brilliantly captures flesh-and-blood characters as it evokes the most telling details of everyday life. Considered one of the finest French novels ever written, Bel Ami follows journalist Georges Duroy and his increasing stature among the Paris elite. With an immense thirst for... Read more
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Les Miserables
By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 60 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the great classics of world literature and the inspiration for the most beloved stage musical of all time, Les MisErables is legendary author Victor Hugo's masterpiece. This extraordinary English version by renowned translator Julie Rose captures all the majesty and brilliance of Hugo's work. Here is the timeless story of the... Read more
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How to Escape from a Leper Colony
By: Tiphanie Yanique
Narrated by: Robin Miles, Dion Graham & Andrew Garman
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Like Gabriel GarcIa MArquez, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse CondE before her, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a debut collection that is heartbreaking, hilarious, and mesmerizing. Set mostly in the U.S. Virgin Islands, these lyrical and haunting stories are part oral history, part postcolonial narrative-but ultimately a loving portrait of a wholly... Read more
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We Thought You Would be Prettier
By: Laurie Notaro
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
She thought she'd have more time. Laurie Notaro figured she had at least a few good years yet. But noโit's happened. She has officially lost her marbles. From the kid at the pet-food store checkout line whose coif is so bizarre it makes her seethe "I'm going to kick his hair's ass" to the hapless Sears customer service rep on the receiving end... Read more
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Long Drive Home
By: Will Allison
Narrated by: Tony Ward
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Publishers Weekly calls this moving novel by acclaimed author Will Allison "a tight drama, part psychological thriller, part tragedy." Taking his daughter Sara home from school one day, New Jersey accountant Glen drives his car into another vehicle, killing its driver. Since no one else saw the accident, Glen lies about it to the police-a... Read more
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Dubliners
By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Dubliners is a collection of short stories by James Joyce that was first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle-class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the twentieth century.
The stories were written at a time when Irish nationalism was at its peak and a search for a... Read more
Sweet Thursday
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Jerry Farden
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
"A postwar continuation of Cannery Row, [Sweet Thursday is] every bit as juicy and relaxed as the original. . . . This is comedy--bawdy, sentimental, and good fun.โ The Atlantic
In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that is just naturally bad. Returning to... Read more
The Moon Is Down
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside--and betrayal born within the close-knit community. Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germanyรข's power, this masterful fable uncovers profound, often unsettling truths about war--and about human nature. Steinbeck's self-described... Read more
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The Red Pony
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
John Steinbeck's masterpiece celebrates the spirit and courage of adolescence. Steinbeck draws on his memories of childhood in these stories about a boy who embodies both the rebellious spirit and the contradictory desire for acceptance of early adolescence. Unlike most coming-of-age stories, the cycle does not end with a hero "matured"ย by... Read more
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The Pearl
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Hector Elizondo
Length: 2 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
โThere it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.โ
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Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with... Read more
The Girl in the Garden
By: Kamala Nair
Narrated by: Anitha Gandhi
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched by time, where she discovers in the jungle behind her ancestral house a spellbinding garden that harbors a... Read more
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The Astral
By: Kate Christensen
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apartment building in the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For decades it was the happy home (or so he thought) of poet Harry Quirk and his wife, Luz, a nurse, and of their two children: Karina, now a fervent Freegan, and Hector, now in the clutches of a cultish Christian... Read more
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One Summer
By: David Baldacci
Narrated by: Ron McLarty & Orlagh Cassidy
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
David Baldacci delivers a moving, family drama about learning to love again after terrible heartbreak and loss in this classic New York Times bestsellerโsoon to be a Hallmark original movie.ย
It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days... Read more