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Eighteen Acres
By: Nicolle Wallace
Narrated by: Susan Bennett
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
From the former Communications Director for the White House and current political media strategist comes a suspenseful and smart commercial novel about the first female president and all dramas and deceptions she faces both in politics and in love.Eighteen Acres, a description used by political insiders when referring to the White House complex,... Read more
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Palo Alto
By: James Franco
Narrated by: James Franco & Stacey Miller
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a “provocative” and “impressive” (Variety) film from director Gia Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola’s granddaughter)—starring Emma Roberts, James Franco, Nat Wolff, and Val Kilmer—the fiction debut from James Franco that Vogue called “compelling and gutsy.”
James Franco’s story collection traces the lives of a group of teenagers as they... Read more
Wellenbrecher - Das Hörbuch
By: Stefan Kruecken
Narrated by: Uwe Friedrichsen
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Kapitäne erzählen die Geschichte ihres Lebens: Es geht um den verzweifelten Überlebenskampf in einer Rettungsinsel vor Grönland, um einen Hurrikan, der auf ein kleines Schiff im Mississippi zukommt. Um den Mut, Schiffbrüchige aus einer tödlichen Brandung zu bergen, um den Trotz, auch im Angesicht einer verheerenden Sturmflut nicht aufzugeben, um... Read more
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We Were the Mulvaneys
By: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrated by: Scott Shina
Length: 23 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Author of 27 novels, Joyce Carol Oates has won a National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award. She has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Readers around the world marvel at her ability to trace the subtle dynamics at work in the modern American family. Judd is the youngest of the four Mulvaney children--three boys... Read more
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I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down
By: William Gay
Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis, Tom Stechschulte, Pete...
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Author William Gay is the winner of the 1999 William Peden Award and the 1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize. In his debut collection, Gay brings to life 13 stories about a diverse group of colorful characters living in the fertile Tennessee country land. Read more
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The Weekend
By: Bernhard Schlink
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Bernhard Schlink burst onto the literary scene with the internationally best-selling Oprah's Book Club selection The Reader. Through his unique brand of gripping narrative, Schlink scores again with The Weekend, the tale of old friends who come together for a remarkable reunion. One of the group is a convicted murderer and terrorist, fresh out... Read more
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How to Read the Air
By: Dinaw Mengestu
Narrated by: Corey Allen
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
African-born author Dinaw Mengestu's prose is praised as "heart-rending and indelible" (Publishers Weekly), and his debut novel The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears was a New York Times Notable Book. In How to Read the Air, Mengestu crafts a moving tale about one man's search for identity. After his estranged Ethiopian immigrant father dies,... Read more
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World and Town
By: Gish Jen
Narrated by: Janet Song
Length: 15 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: “It was like having twins…She got to book the same church with the same pianist for both funerals and did think she should have gotten some sort of twofer from the... Read more
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Great House
By: Nicole Krauss
Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, George Guidall, Robert Ian McKenzi...
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
From the internationally best-selling author of The History of Love comes this stunning novel. Great House follows the multiple owners of one writing desk and how the desk shapes their lives. A young novelist inherited the desk from a poet taken by Pinochet's police. Then the desk is stolen from her by the poet's supposed daughter. In its... Read more
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Comfort to the Enemy and Other Carl Webster Stories
By: Elmore Leonard
Narrated by: Josh Clark
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
“An excellent read….Concrete evidence of a master crime writer still at the top of his game.”
—Russel D. McLean, author of The Good Son
“The reigning King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times), Elmore Leonard first introduced quick-triggered legendary lawman Carl Webster in the New York Times bestseller, The Hot Kid, and brought him back for an... Read more
The Gendarme
By: Mark T. Mustian
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Author and attorney Mark T. Mustian has won rave reviews for his ambitious novel, The Gendarme. Plagued by failing memory, Emmett Conn dreams he was a gendarme in World War I and that his great love, Araxie, was separated from him after the war. With the lines between past and present blurring more every day, Emmett sets out to find the woman he... Read more
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The False Friend
By: Myla Goldberg
Narrated by: Myla Goldberg
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Bee Season comes an astonishingly complex psychological drama with a simple setup: two eleven-year-old girls, best friends and fierce rivals, go into the woods. Only one comes out . . .
Leaders of a mercurial clique of girls, Celia and Djuna reigned mercilessly over their three followers. One afternoon, they... Read more
Pavilion of Women
By: Pearl S. Buck
Narrated by: Adam Verner
Length: 15 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, but Madame... Read more
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Dragon Seed
By: Pearl S. Buck
Narrated by: Adam Verner
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, Dragon Seed brings to light the tragedy of the Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during WWII. Centering her story around the fictional family of Ling Tan, Buck recreates the heart wrenching devastation that war inflicted on these gentle innocent people. Ling Tan and... Read more
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Trespass
By: Rose Tremain
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
An electrifying novel about disputed territory, sibling love, and devastating revenge. In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Aramon, the owner, is so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin.... Read more
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Our Tragic Universe
By: Scarlett Thomas
Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. Her cell phone is out of minutes. And her moody boyfriend's only contribution to the household is his sour attitude. So she jumps at the chance to review a pseudoscientific book that promises life everlasting. Consulting cosmology and physics, tarot cards, koans (and riddles and jokes), new age... Read more
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House of Meetings
By: Martin Amis
Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings.The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic.House of Meetings is about one such liaison. It is... Read more
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The Descendants
By: Kaui Hart Hemmings
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a major motion picture starring George Clooney! Matthew King was once considered one of the most fortunate men in Hawaii. His missionary ancestors who came to the islands were financially and culturally progressive—one even married a Hawaiian princess, making Matt a royal descendant and one of the state’s largest landowners. But now his luck... Read more
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Ohio Angels
By: Harriet Scott Chessman
Narrated by: Norma Lana
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In Harriet Scott Chessman's arresting first novel, Hallie Greaves comes home to Ohio one hot week in July. She hopes to help her mother, who confines her life wholly to her bedroom. To enter her mother's room, however, is to face her own disappointments and yearnings. At an impasse in her painting and her marriage, Hallie confronts questions of... Read more
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The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
By: Mary Helen Stefaniak
Narrated by: Robynn Rodriguez
Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Narrator Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a new schoolteacher turns Threestep, Georgia, upside down. Miss Grace Spivey is a well-traveled young woman who believes in field trips, Arabian costumes, and reading aloud from her ten-volume set of The Thousand Nights and a Night. The real trouble begins when she decides to revive the... Read more
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Comedy in a Minor Key
By: Hans Keilson
Narrated by: James Clamp
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"For busy, harried or distractible readers who have the time and energy only to skim the opening paragraph of a review, I'll say this as quickly and clearly as possible: The Death of the Adversary and Comedy in a Minor Key are masterpieces, and Hans Keilson is a genius..." —Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review
A penetrating study of... Read more
The Good Soldier
By: Ford Madox Ford
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Handsome, wealthy, and a veteran of service in India, Captain Edward Ashburnham appears to be the ideal "good soldier" and the embodiment of English upper-class virtues. But for his creator, Ford Madox Ford, he also represents the corruption at society's core. Beneath Ashburnham's charming, polished exterior lurks a soul well-versed in the arts... Read more
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The Death of the Adversary
By: Hans Keilson
Narrated by: James Clamp
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II, The Death of the Adversary is the self-portrait of a young man helplessly fascinated by an unnamed "adversary" whom he watches rise to power in 1930s Germany. It is a tale of horror, not only in its evocation of Hitler's gathering menace but also in its hero's desperate attempt to... Read more
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King of Kings
By: Harry Sidebottom
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 13 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The Warrior of Rome is back.In AD 256, the specter of treachery hangs ominously over the Roman Empire. The sparks of Christian fervor have spread through the empire like wildfire, and the imperium is alive with the machinations of dangerous and powerful men. All the while, Sassanid forces press forward relentlessly along the eastern frontier.... Read more
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