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Fame
By: Daniel Kehlmann
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Imagine being famous. Being recognized on the street, adored by people who have never even met you, known the world over. Wouldn’t that be great?
But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where celebrity means nothing, where no one spoke your language and you didn’t speak theirs, where no one knew your face (no book jackets, no TV) and... Read more
Winesburg, Ohio
By: Sherwood Anderson
Narrated by: George K. Wilson
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Winesburg, Ohio is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth century. In the perfectly imagined world of Winesburg, an archetypal small American town, Anderson reveals the hidden passions that turn ordinary lives into fonts of unforgettable emotions. Played out against... Read more
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Cranford
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell's best-known work, is a humorous account of a nineteenth-century English village dominated by a group of genteel but modestly circumstanced women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister, Miss Matty.... Read more
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O Pioneers!
By: Willa Cather
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman," writes Willa Cather in O Pioneers! The country is America; the woman is Alexandra Bergson, a fiercely independent young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father's farm in Nebraska. A model of emotional strength, courage, and resolve, Alexandra fights long and hard to... Read more
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Moll Flanders
By: Daniel Defoe
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Length: 13 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most determined, energetic, and lusty heroines in all of English literature, Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders will do anything to avoid poverty. Born in Newgate Prison, she was for twelve years a whore, five times a wife (once to her own brother), twelve years a thief, and eight years a transported felon in Virginia before finally... Read more
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Room
By: Emma Donoghue
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Ellen Archer, Michal Friedman & ...
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle). Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first... Read more
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Prep
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
Narrated by: Julie Dretzin
Length: 17 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
This New York Times best-seller is a funny and poignant coming-of-age story, a dead-on examination of adolescent angst, and a sharp criticism of America's social structure. Fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora enrolls at the prestigious Ault School of Massachusetts and is surrounded by beautiful, wealthy students. She immediately feels like an outsider,... Read more
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Das war ich nicht
By: Kristof Magnusson
Narrated by: Fritzi Haberland, Dietmar Mues & Jens Harzer
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Ein junger Banker, auf dem Sprung zur Karriere. Jasper, gelesen von Jens Harzer. Eine Literaturübersetzerin, auf der Flucht vor dem schön eingerichteten Leben mit Weinklimaschrank und Salzmühle mit Peugeotmahlwerk. Meike, gelesen von Fritzi Haberlandt. Ein international gefeierter Schriftsteller mit Schreibblockade und Altersangst. Henry... Read more
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A Curable Romantic
By: Joseph Skibell
Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
Length: 22 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
An epic and audacious historical novel set in turn-of-the century Vienna and Paris that crosses the lines between characters both real (Sigmund Freud, Emma Eckstein, L. L. Zamenhof, and others) and imaginary (including protagonist Dr. Sammelsohn). It's an entertaining picaresque novel that seamlessly weaves together fifty years of Jewish... Read more
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A Blessing on the Moon
By: Joseph Skibell
Narrated by: Allen Lewis Rickman
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
At the center of A Blessing on the Moon is Chaim Skibelski. Death is merely the beginning of Chaim’s troubles. In the opening pages, he is shot along with the other Jews of his small Polish village. But instead of resting peacefully in the World to Come, Chaim, for reasons unclear to him, is left to wander the earth, accompanied by his rabbi,... Read more
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The Witch of Hebron
By: James Howard Kunstler
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In the sequel to his bestselling World Made by Hand, James Howard Kunstler expands on his vision of a post-oil society with this novel about an America in which the electricity has flickered off, the Internet is a distant memory, and the government is little more than a rumor. In the tiny hamlet of Union Grove, New York, travel is horse-drawn... Read more
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C
By: Tom McCarthy
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 13 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Serge Carrefax spends his childhood at Versoie House, where his father teaches deaf children to speak when he's not experimenting with wireless telegraphy. Sophie, Serge's sister and only connection to the world at large, takes outrageous liberties with Serge's young body—which may explain the unusual sexual predilections that haunt him for the... Read more
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The Widower's Tale
By: Julia Glass
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 17 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun by children,... Read more
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A Vintage Affair
By: Isabel Wolff
Narrated by: Violet Mathieson
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Every dress has a history. And so does every woman.
In Isabel Wolff’s captivating A Vintage Affair, a treasured child’s coat becomes a thread of hope connecting two very different women.
Her friends are stunned when Phoebe Swift abruptly leaves a plum job at the prestigious Sotheby’s auction house to open her own vintage clothing shop in... Read more
Ape House
By: Sara Gruen
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of their species, are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships—but unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign Language.
Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn’t understand people, but animals she... Read more
The Lonely Polygamist
By: Brady Udall
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Length: 23 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Brady Udall is the acclaimed author of the internationally best-selling The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint. In The Lonely Polygamist, Udall pens a tragicomic tale starring Golden Richards-who despite having four wives and 28 children, hasn't quite found fulfillment in life. Like other men in the midst of a mid-life crisis, Golden feels as though... Read more
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Dust
By: Joan Frances Turner
Narrated by: Eva Amurri
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
What happens between death and life can change a girl. Jessie is a zombie. And this is her story . . .
Nine years ago, Jessie was in a car crash and died. After she was buried, she awoke and tore through the earth to arise, reborn, as a zombie. And there are others—gangs of undead roaming the Indiana woods, fighting, hunting, hidden.
But when a... Read more
Emily Hudson
By: Melissa Jones
Narrated by: Lorna Raver
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
After the start of the Civil War, Emily Hudson—an orphan who lost her family to consumption and fever—finds herself the begrudged guest at the home of her relatives in Newport. Emily's longing to be an artist is dismissed by her puritanical uncle, who wants nothing more than to rid himself of her through marriage. Her only friend is her aesthete... Read more
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Freedom
By: Jonathan Franzen
Narrated by: David Ledoux
Length: 24 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
"Masterful describes not only Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel but also David Ledoux’s reading of the book . . . Ledoux gives a vibrant performance." —AudioFile Magazine
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about family.
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the... Read more
Hector and the Search for Happiness
By: François Lelord
Narrated by: James Clamp
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
“Once upon a time there was a young psychiatrist called Hector who was not very satisfied with himself. . . . ”
Hector is very good at treating patients in need of his help. But he can’t do much for those who are simply dissatisfied with life, and that is beginning to depress him. When a patient tells him he looks in need of a vacation, Hector... Read more
The 42nd Parallel
By: John Dos Passos
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their "own little corners," Dos Passos was taking on the world. Counted as one of the best novels of the twentieth... Read more
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All Quiet on the Western Front
By: Erich Maria Remarque
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Paul Baumer is just 19 years old when he and his classmates enlist. They are Germany's Iron Youth who enter the war with high ideals and leave it disillusioned or dead. As Paul struggles with the realities of the man he has become, and the inscrutable world to which he must return, he is led like a ghost of his former self into the war's final... Read more
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The Violent Bear It Away
By: Flannery O’Connor
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O’Connor’s work.The orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousin, Rayber, struggle to defy the prophecy of their dead uncle—that... Read more
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
By: Ntozake Shange
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Ntozake Shange’s most beloved novel, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, is the story of three “colored girls,” three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother, gone north to college and living with other artists in Los Angeles, trying to weave a life out of her work, her... Read more
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