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Outside the Ordinary World
By: Dori Ostermiller
Narrated by: Johanna Parker
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Writers in Progress literary arts center founder and debut novelist Dori Ostermiller has created a compelling work of love, regret, and forgiveness about a woman with a painful past and a boring marriage. New England landscape painter-turned-teacher Sylvia Sandon becomes fascinated by the father of one of her students. But she's torn between her... Read more
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Good Hair
By: Benilde Little
Narrated by: Kim Staunton
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
When Alice Andrews, a reporter from Newark, meets Jack Russworm, a Harvard-educated doctor from Boston, she immediately senses they are from different sides of the tracks. As their love and passion develop, they get lots of advice and warnings from friends and family. Can their relationship survive, or will social status push them apart? The... Read more
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The Itch
By: Benilde Little
Narrated by: Caroline Clay
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Abra Dixon is well educated, fashionable, and married to the perfect man. She also runs a film production company with her childhood friend, Natasha. Abra's perfect life is suddenly thrown off course when her husband leaves her for a sexy young model. As Abra and Natasha try to find a backer for their latest film, they must navigate the opulent... Read more
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The U.P. Trail
By: Zane Grey
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Zane Grey, an author synonymous with the daring tales of the Wild West, delivers an exciting tale in this phenominal best-seller, The U.P. Trail. As the country changes around them, a group of Wyoming residents ban together to fight the coming of the Union Pacific Railroad. But railroad engineer Warren Neale, struggling against the terrain, the... Read more
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The Moon and Sixpence
By: W. Somerset Maugham
Narrated by: Neil Hunt
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
As a fictionalized account of the tumultuous career of Paul Gauguin, W. Somerset Maugham's classic story captured the hearts of a generation. First published in 1919, it provided just the exotic antidote a war-weary world desired. At first, Charles Strickland's life was unremarkable. A stock broker in London, he dwelled quietly with his wife and... Read more
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22 Britannia Road
By: Amanda Hodgkinson
Narrated by: Robin Sachs
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A tour de force that echoes modern classics like Suite Francaise and The Postmistress.
"Housekeeper or housewife?" the soldier asks Silvana as she and eight- year-old Aurek board the ship that will take them from Poland to England at the end of World War II. There her husband, Janusz, is already waiting for them at the little house at 22... Read more
Jude the Obscure
By: Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 14 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
His last and most controversial novel, Jude the Obscure provoked such widespread and bitter attacks that Hardy claimed it caused him to stop writing novels. The primary causes of the uproar involved Hardy’s frank treatment of sexual themes and his unconventional portrayal of the pillars of Victorian society: the British university system,... Read more
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Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
By: Abraham Lincoln
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Abraham Lincoln was undeniably one of the most influential politicians in American history. In this collection of letters, speeches, and other writings by Lincoln, listeners can gain a uniquely intimate perspective on the sixteenth president of the United States. From personal letters to friends and family to Lincoln's speeches as an Illinois... Read more
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The Bride's House
By: Sandra Dallas
Narrated by: Nicole Poole
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times best-selling author of Whiter Than Snow, Sandra Dallas delivers a novel about the secrets and passions of three generations of women who live in a Victorian Colorado house. While the house is under construction in 1880, a 17-year-old servant imagines living in the "Bride's House" with one of her several suitors. Decades later,... Read more
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The Devil's Star
By: Jo Nesbo
Narrated by: Robin Sachs
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star — a pentagram, the devil’s star.
Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is... Read more
In Zanesville
By: Jo Ann Beard
Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The fourteen-year-old narrator of In Zanesville is a late bloomer; a sidekick, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter, the kind of girl whose Eureka moment is the discovery that 'fudge' can't be said with an English accent. Luckily, she has a best friend with whom she shares the everyday adventures of a 1970s American girlhood. In... Read more
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A Parchment of Leaves
By: Silas House
Narrated by: Kate Forbes
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Critically acclaimed author Silas House's A Parchment of Leaves was named Kentucky Novel of the Year and won a special achievement award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In 1917 rural Kentucky, Saul Sullivan marries a beautiful Cherokee woman named Vine. They weather the storm of prejudice, but when Saul temporarily moves away to work a... Read more
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The Next Step in the Dance
By: Tim Gautreaux
Narrated by: Vernel Bagneris
Length: 11 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Paul Thibodeaux is a handsome young man married to Colette, the most beautiful woman in the small Louisiana town where they grew up. For Paul, life is complete: a wife he loves, machines to repair, and a lively local dance hall. But Colette wants more, and when she sets off for California in search of something better, Paul follows her there and... Read more
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The Clearing
By: Tim Gautreaux
Narrated by: Henry Strozier
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
With The Clearing, Southeastern Booksellers Award winner Tim Gautreaux delivers a brutal novel of love, family, and redemption. Randolph Aldridge travels to a snake-infested Cypress mill in Louisiana to find his brother Byron, a troubled veteran of World War I. Once there, Randolph finds that By is a shell of his former self-and that the... Read more
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Three Soldiers
By: John Dos Passos
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 14 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
When John Dos Passos published this book in 1921, its explosive portrait of World War I shocked America. Instead of glorifying the Great War, he shows three men caught in a military machine that is as dangerous for them as the foreign terrain and the enemies they fight. Fuselli leaves San Francisco for the front lines in France, anxious to move... Read more
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The Black Monk and Other Stories
By: Anton Chekhov
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Chekhov, noted author, playwright and physician, is one of the most accessible and enjoyable of the Russian writers. He writes about life's routines in a way that encompasses the heights and depths of human emotion all in the span of a day, or even a meal. This recording includes four of his most acclaimed short stories, including: The Black... Read more
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The Beauty of Humanity Movement
By: Camilla Gibb
Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Camilla Gibb reached international best-seller status with novels that garner immense critical acclaim for their stunning insights into the human condition. In The Beauty of Humanity Movement, three people's lives in modern Vietnam turn on the whims of fate-even as each strives for a finer reality. Freshly returned from the United States, Maggie... Read more
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Leaving Van Gogh
By: Carol Wallace
Narrated by: Luis Moreno
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Leaving Van Gogh is Carol Wallace's first historical novel and it has created quite a buzz among genre luminaries. In this meticulously researched, heartrending story, Wallace re-creates the final fateful days of legendary painter Vincent Van Gogh-who, at the age of 37, shot himself long before his paintings became recognized as some of the... Read more
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Minding Ben
By: Victoria Brown
Narrated by: Joyce Bean
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Minding Ben invites listeners into the private world of one of the anonymous West Indian babysitters who have peopled the lives of so many young urban families for decades. Grace left Trinidad for New York with hopes for a better life and education. As she struggles to adjust to her new life—and to determine just what shape her American Dream... Read more
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The Optimist's Daughter - Abridged
By: Eudora Welty
Narrated by: Eudora Welty
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Along in the old house, Laurel finally... Read more
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How Green Was My Valley
By: Richard Llewellyn
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 16 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
How Green Was My Valley is Richard Llewellyn’s bestselling—and timeless—classic, as well as the basis of a beloved film. As Huw Morgan is about to leave home forever, he reminisces about the golden days of his youth when South Wales still prospered, when coal dust had not yet blackened the valley. Drawn simply and lovingly, with a crisp Welsh... Read more
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The Pale King
By: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 19 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The "breathtakingly brilliant" novel by the author of Infinite Jest (New York Times) is a deeply compelling and satisfying story, as hilarious and fearless and original as anything Wallace ever wrote.
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But... Read more
Of Mice and Men
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Gary Sinise
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938 and has featured a number of actors who have played the iconic roles of... Read more
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Tortilla Flat
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: John McDonough
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose."--New York Herald Tribune
Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a Camelot on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California, and peopled it with a colorful... Read more