How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
By: Charles Yu
Narrated by: James Yaegashi
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
In this fiercely original novel, Charles is a time-traveling repairman working in the off-kilter Minor Universe 31. He helps clients return to their biggest mistakes, which they incorrectly believe they can repair. But they can't-and that's bad news for Charles, who once accidentally ran into and shot his future self. ". a triumph, as good as... Read more
View audiobookSometimes a Great Notion
By: Ken Kesey
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
Length: 30 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A literary icon sometimes seen as a bridge between the Beat Generation and the hippies, Ken Kesey scored an unexpected hit with his first novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. His successful follow-up, Sometimes a Great Notion was also transformed into a major motion picture, directed by and starring Paul Newman. Here, Oregon's Stamper family... Read more
View audiobookThe Judges
By: Elie Wiesel
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A plane en route from New York to Tel Aviv is forced down by bad weather. A nearby house provides refuge for five of its passengers: Claudia, who has left her husband and found new love; Razziel, a religious teacher who was once a political prisoner; Yoav, a terminally ill Israeli commando; George, an archivist who is hiding a Holocaust secret... Read more
View audiobookOne Foot in Love
By: Bil Wright
Narrated by: Sharon Washington
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Critically acclaimed author Bil Wright displays a gentle touch in this emotional tale of dealing with loss and learning to move on. When her husband "Turtle" suddenly dies, Rowtina Washington is shattered. She finds comfort when Turtle's spirit visits her, but then the visits suddenly stop. Thankfully, Rowtina can lean on the Leave Him and Live... Read more
View audiobookBrighton Rock
By: Graham Greene
Narrated by: Richard Brown
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Originally published in 1938, Graham Greene’s chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare is a masterpiece of psychological realism and often considered Graham Greene’s best novel. It is a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the “appalling strangeness of the mercy of God,” a classic of its kind.Set in Brighton, England, among the criminal... Read more
View audiobookKalevala - The Ancient Epic of Finland
By: Elias Lonnrot & John Martin Crawford
Narrated by: Robert Bethune
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The Kalevala is the signature work of traditional Finnish culture. In story after story, it explores the human and divine world as understood by the traditional runic singers of the north. It sings of how the universe came to be, how the natural world works, how divine and supernatural worlds relate to the world of humankind, how human beings... Read more
View audiobookLimitless
By: Alan Glynn
Narrated by: Fred Berman
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a major motion picture starring Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro, and Abbie Cornish.
Alan Glynn's Limitless is a high-concept thriller for this Adderall age, and a haunting meditation on the allure and the curse of human potential.
A burnout at thirty-five, months behind on his book, low on cash, and something of a loser, Eddie Spinola... Read more
Staring Into The Fridge
By: Annie McCartney
Narrated by: James Nesbitt, Jonathan Harden, Katy Gleadhill,...
Length: 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A BBC Radio 4 kitchen comedy by Annie McCartney, starring James Nesbitt as the Fridge. ‘Staring into the Fridge’ was originally broadcast as the ‘Afternoon Play’ on 13 September 2010. With two twenty-something children and a dubious boyfriend eating her out of house and home, Maggie (Annie McCartney) is beginning to lose the will to live. She... Read more
View audiobookA Separate Peace
By: John Knowles
Narrated by: Spike McClure
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the... Read more
View audiobookForeign Bodies
By: Cynthia Ozick
Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer Prize finalist Cynthia Ozick's fiction has been awarded multiple O. Henry Prizes. In Foreign Bodies, Ozick crafts a remarkable retelling of Henry James' The Ambassadors-deftly using its plot, yet boldly infusing the novel with an all new place, time, and meaning. It's 1952, and middle-aged Bea Nightingale reluctantly agrees to fly to... Read more
View audiobookCities of the Plain
By: Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
In his novels, best-selling author Cormac McCarthy creates a western landscape filled with characters that are both myhic and authentic. Cities of the Plain, the stunning conclusion of his award-winning Border trilogy, brings together John Grady Cole and Billy Parham-the two lifelong friends who began their adventures in All the Pretty Horses.... Read more
View audiobookWuthering Heights
By: Emily Bronte
Narrated by: Flo Gibson
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the story remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published in 1847. Read more
View audiobookShavetail
By: Thomas Cobb
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Thomas Cobb's second novel is a "thoughtful Western" (Publishers Weekly) based on the actual events of the Camp Grant massacre. The year is 1871, and a 17-year-old runaway named Ned Thorne has just joined Captain Robert Franklin at the Camp Grant outpost located at the edge of Arizona's Chiricahua mountains. When a nearby farmhouse is raided and... Read more
View audiobookTales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
By: Richard F. Burton
Narrated by: Kevin Foley
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Bawdy and exotic, Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night features the wily, seductive Scheherazade, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformation, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain and appease the brutal King Shahryar.
First introduced in the West in... Read more
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
By: Jerome K. Jerome
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them just fine. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather forecasts, and tins of pineapple chunks—not to mention the devastation left in the wake of... Read more
View audiobookThe Other Life
By: Ellen Meister
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
If you could return to the road not taken, would you?
Happily married and pregnant, Quinn Braverman has an ominous secret. Every time she makes a major life decision, she knows an alternate reality exists in which she made the opposite choice—not only that, she knows how to cross over. But even in her darkest moments—like her mother's... Read more
The Paris Wife
By: Paula McLain
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.
Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her... Read more
Peony
By: Pearl S. Buck
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid - an awkward role in which she is more a servant, but less a daughter. As she grows into a lovely, provocative young woman, Peony falls in love with the family's only son. However, tradition forbids them to wed. How she resolves her love for him and her devotion to her adoptive... Read more
View audiobookThe Union Quilters
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
Narrated by: Christina Moore
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini's beloved Elm Creek Quilts series here takes listeners back to the Civil War for a powerful tale of husbands, wives, and a nation torn apart. Fervent abolitionism rules the day in 1862 Water's Ford, Pennsylvania. So when the local men answer Mr. Lincoln's call to arms, wives are left behind... Read more
View audiobookThese Things Hidden
By: Heather Gudenkauf
Narrated by: Ali Ahn
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Allison Glenn tried to hide what happened that night . and failed. The consequence? A prison sentence. Now she's free. But secrets have a way of keeping you locked up. When teenager Allison Glenn is sent to prison for a heinous crime, she leaves behind her reputation as Linden Falls' golden girl forever. Her parents deny the existence of their... Read more
View audiobookMichael Fitz liest Max Bronski: Die Münchenkrimis
By: Max Bronski
Narrated by: Michael Fitz
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Wilhelm Gossec betreibt einen Trödelladen im Münchner Schlachthofviertel. Wer sich hier durchschlagen will, braucht ein dickes Fell und eine Portion Kaltschnäuzigkeit. Gossec hat beides. In "Sister Sox" heftet er sich auf die Spuren seiner Ziehtochter, die gerade als Sängerin reüssiert, nun aber plötzlich im Münchner Sommer verschwunden ist. Zur... Read more
View audiobookFremdenverkehr mit Einheimischen
By: Fritz Eckenga
Narrated by: Fritz Eckenga
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Fritz Eckenga bietet jetzt auch akustischen "Fremdenverkehr mit Einheimischen." Er erzählt, spielt und dichtet sich durchs Labyrinth der Gegenwart. Hindernisse muss er nicht suchen. Sie finden ihn. Maulwürfe, die zum Kuschelrock von Silbermond tanzen. Untote Nachbarn in Heimwerkergestalt. Vielfliegende Außenminister, die dem Begriff... Read more
View audiobookWofür stehst du? - Abridged
By: Axel Hacke & Giovanni di Lorenzo
Narrated by: Axel Hacke & Giovanni di Lorenzo
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In diesem spannenden Hörbuch treten Axel Hacke und Giovanni di Lorenzo in einen ungewöhnlichen Dialog. Sie erzählen und reflektieren, was im Leben und was in der Gesellschaft wichtig ist. Es geht ihnen nicht um einen allgemeinen Tugendkatalog, wie er neuerdings en vogue ist, sondern um eine Inventur bisheriger Lebensführung, geleitet von den... Read more
View audiobookWives and Daughters
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
Length: 26 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman's presence he feels she lacks, but until the arrival of Cynthia, her dazzling stepsister, Molly finds... Read more
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