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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
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
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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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Bad Boy
By: Peter Robinson
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
“Brilliant! With Bad Boy, author Robinson once again achieves the high bar he’s set in all his previous Inspector Banks books…This one will stay with you for a long time.”
—Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of Roadside CrossesDetective Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most challenging, personal, and terrifying case yet when... Read more
The Silver Chalice
By: Thomas B. Costain
Narrated by: David Case
Length: 23 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The latest release in the Christian Epic series is an exciting novel that takes place shortly after Christ's death and resurrection. Basil is called to design the case which will hold the silver cup that Christ and His disciples drank from at the Last Supper, and plans to sculpt their likenesses upon it. As he seeks out these followers of... Read more
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Ride With Me
By: Thomas B. Costain
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 23 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Ride With Me tells the story of an unusual soldier who has been allowed to drop out of sight. Read more
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The Town - Abridged
By: Chuck Hogan
Narrated by: Donnie Wahlberg
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Some criminals get a second chance.Will Doug MacRay be one of them?
Four masked men—thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of Charlestown—take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault were simple. But career criminal Doug MacRay didn’t plan on one thing: falling hard for... Read more
You Shall Know Our Velocity
By: Dave Eggers
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The best-selling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers announced himself as a literary force with this striking debut. It is the tale of two friends on a globe-trekking quest-at turns hilarious, frustrating, and heartbreaking-to give away money while grieving a painful loss. "Headlong, heartsick and footsore . Frisbee... Read more
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
By: Sloan Wilson
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. It was a national bestseller that was made into an award-winning film, it was translated into twenty-six languages, and its title has become a permanent part of our cultural vocabulary. Today, it is more relevant than... Read more
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Last Night at Chateau Marmont
By: Lauren Weisberger
Narrated by: Merritt Wever
Length: 12 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada, a compulsively readable novel about a woman whose struggling singer-songwriter husband is catapulted to fame, dragging them both onto the pages of celebrity gossip magazines—and changing their marriage forever.
Brooke loved reading the dishy celebrity gossip rag Last Night. That... Read more
The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
By: Susan Gregg Gilmore
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Bezellia Grove was born into the most prominent of Nashville families, but that didn't stop her from having an alcoholic mother and a distant, adulterous father. Her nanny, Maizelle, and Nathaniel, the handyman, are the people who have taken care of her since she can remember. She considers them family, but her parents just consider them... Read more
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A bird of good omen is murdered. A fickle crew is punished by supernatural, spectral beings. A skeletal ship is sighted moving against the wind and tide. The figure of Death along with a singular, gruesome companion man the fiendish craft. And as they draw closer, it becomes clear that the two play at dice for the soul of the Ancient Mariner.... Read more
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