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Submarine
By: Joe Dunthorne
Narrated by: Bruce Mann
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
At once a self-styled social scientist, a spy in the baffling adult world, and a budding, hormone-driven emotional explorer, Oliver Tate is stealthily nosing his way forward through the murky and uniquely perilous waters of adolescence. His objectives? Uncovering the secrets behind his parents’ teetering marriage, unraveling the mystery that is... Read more
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Scaramouche
By: Rafael Sabatini
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 11 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The passionate Andre-Louis Moreau makes an unexpected entrance into the French Revolution when he vows to avenge his best friend's death. His target: Monsieur de La Tour d'Azyr, the aristocratic villain who killed his friend. Andre-Louis rallies the underclass to join him in his mission against the supreme power of the nobility. Soon the rebel... Read more
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The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
By: Monique Roffey
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A beautifully written, unforgettable novel of a troubled marriage, set against the lush landscape and political turmoil of Trinidad. Monique Roffey’s Orange Prize-shortlisted novel is a gripping portrait of post-colonialism that stands among great works by Caribbean writers like Jamaica Kincaid and Andrea Levy. When George and Sabine Harwood... Read more
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Vaclav & Lena
By: Haley Tanner
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Rebecca Lowman
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
NAMED BY THE NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION AS A 5 UNDER 35 AUTHOR
Vaclav and Lena seem destined for each other. They meet as children in an ESL class in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Vaclav is precocious and verbal. Lena, struggling with English, takes comfort in the safety of his adoration, his noisy, loving home, and the care of Rasia, his big-hearted... Read more
Oil on Water
By: Helon Habila
Narrated by: Richard Allen
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In the oil-rich and environmentally devastated Nigerian Delta, a British oil executive's wife has been kidnapped. Two journalists - a young upstart, Rufus, and a once-great, now disillusioned veteran, Zaq - are sent to find her. In a story rich with atmosphere and taut with suspense, Oil on Water explores the conflict between idealism and... Read more
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A Town Like Alice
By: Nevil Shute
Narrated by: Neil Hunt
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Eight hundred women and children begin a 1,200-mile journey on foot across Japanese-occupied Malaya. At journey's end only 30 will still be alive. This is the story of one woman, of her ordeal, and of how she was saved by the sacrifice of an Australian soldier. It is a story of rare individual courage in the face of certain death, and hope in... Read more
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I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
By: Steve Earle
Narrated by: Steve Earle
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams—not just in the figurative sense, not just because he was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him.In 1963, ten years after Hank’s death, Doc himself is wracked by addiction. Since he lost his license... Read more
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Big Girl Small
By: Rachel DeWoskin & Kim Liggett
Narrated by: Tai Sammons
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old: sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, she should be the star of Darcy Arts Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the... Read more
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Cannery Row
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Jerry Farden
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Steinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survivalPublished in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of... Read more
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Flappers and Philosophers
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Flappers and Philosophers marked F. Scott Fitzgerald’s entry into the realm of the short story, in which he adroitly proved himself “a master of the mechanism of short-story technique” (Boston Transcript). Several of his most well-known tales are represented in this classic collection of eight, including “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” and “Head and... Read more
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The Scarlet Letter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: Donada Peters
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Introduction by Kathryn Harrison
Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren
A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal... Read more
Saints and Sinners
By: Edna O'Brien
Narrated by: Suzanne Bertish
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
With her inimitable gift for describing the workings of the heart and mind, Edna O'Brien introduces us to a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who - whether in the Irish countryside or London or New York - remind us of our own humanity. A librarian waits in the lobby of a posh Dublin hotel - expecting to meet a celebrated poet while... Read more
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Emily, Alone
By: Stewart O'Nan
Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of numerous novels, Stewart O'Nan has been lauded with critical acclaim and best-seller status on his way to consideration as one of America's most gifted novelists. Emily, Alone, a sequel to Wish You Were Here, revolves around widow and grandmother Emily Maxwell, whose ordered life is jarred when her sister-in-law suffers a stroke.... Read more
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Delta Wedding
By: Eudora Welty
Narrated by: Sally Darling
Length: 12 hours
Abridged: No
Set on the Mississippi Delta in 1923, this story captures the mind and manners of the Fairchilds, a large aristocratic family, self-contained and elusive as the wind. The vagaries of the Fairchilds are keenly observed, and sometimes harshly judged, by nine-year-old Laura McRaven, a Fairchild cousin who takes The Yellow Dog train to the Delta for... Read more
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Beyond the Black Stump
By: Nevil Shute
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
When Stanton Laird, American geologist, goes prospecting for the Topeka Exploration Company in the savage Australian outback, he finds something a good deal more precious than oil. Read more
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Tabloid City
By: Pete Hamill
Narrated by: Ellen Archer & Peter Ganim
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In a stately West Village town house, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of activity surrounds their shocking deaths:
The head of one of the city's last tabloids stops the presses. A cop investigates the killing. A reporter chases the story. A disgraced hedge fund manager flees the country.... Read more
Say Her Name
By: Francisco Goldman
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda in the summer of 2005. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body-surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura's death by her family and blaming himself, wanted to die, too.... Read more
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Bulfinch's Mythology
By: Thomas Bulfinch
Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
Length: 13 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in three separate volumes from 1855 to 1863, Bulfinch's Mythology quickly became the standard source of classic tales from ancient Greece and Rome, the Norse tradition, and beyond. This edition contains the full text of The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, the first volume of Bulfinch's seminal work. From stories of... Read more
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The Story of Beautiful Girl
By: Rachel Simon
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow.... Read more
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Doc
By: Mary Doria Russell
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 16 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade. The place is Dodge City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers. Violence is random and routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named Johnnie Sanders is discovered, his death shocks a part-time policeman named Wyatt Earp.... Read more
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Caleb's Crossing
By: Geraldine Brooks
Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a... Read more
In Country
By: Bobbie Ann Mason
Narrated by: Jill Brennan
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whosefather was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. ""Astronauts have been to the moon,"" she blurted out to the picture. ""You missed Watergate. I was in the second... Read more
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A Far Cry from Kensington
By: Muriel Spark
Narrated by: Pamela Garelick
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation.Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry from Kensington, takes us well in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London. There, as a fat and much admired... Read more
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Emma
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Jenny Agutter
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoiled, vain, and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village, but her attempts at matchmaking lead to misunderstandings and potential heartbreak. Only her friend and neighbor Mr. Knightley dares to point out the... Read more
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