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The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise
By: Julia Stuart
Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie.
Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. That’s right, he is a... Read more
City of Veils
By: Zoe Ferraris
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
When the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on the beach in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Detective Osama Ibrahim dreads investigating another unsolvable murder—chillingly common in a city where the veils of conservative Islam keep women as anonymous in life as the victim is in death.
But Katya, one of the few females in the coroner's office, is... Read more
Candide
By: Voltaire
Narrated by: Wiglaf Droste
Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Wiglaf Droste stellt seinen sonoren Bariton in den Dienst eines seiner Lieblingsbücher: "Voltaires Candide ist, wenn es das gibt, die Bibel der Aufklärung. Seine grimmige Heiterkeit ist ganz wahr. Und selbst das Wissen, dass es niemals Zeiten geben wird, in denen dieses Buch nicht aktuell ist, vermag die Freude beim Lesen nicht zu trüben." Read more
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Year of Wonders
By: Geraldine Brooks
Narrated by: Geraldine Brooks
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
“Plague stories remind us that we cannot manage without community . . . Year of Wonders is a testament to that very notion.” – The Washington Post
An unforgettable tale, set in 17th century England, of a village that quarantines itself to arrest the spread of the plague, from the author The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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A Stranger Like You
By: Elizabeth Brundage
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff & Ellen Archer
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
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A taut and terrifying thriller about the lengths we will go to make our dreams come true. Read more
Bill Warrington’s Last Chance
By: James King
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
This insightful novel follows Bill Warrington, an elderly Korean War veteran and widower, on his quest to reconcile with his three grown children before he succumbs to Alzheimer’s. When his fifteen-year-old granddaughter, April, runs away from home, Bill obliges her wish to drive from Ohio to San Francisco, where she hopes to become a rock... Read more
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The Secret Agent
By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Secret agent Mr. Adolph Verloc operates from a seedy Soho shop, where he deals in pornography and espionage. Idle, treacherous, and self-righteous, he makes the life of his wife, Winnie, one of silent misery. When Verloc is assigned to plant a bomb at Greenwich Observatory, his plans go terribly awry, and his family has to deal with the tragic... Read more
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The Garden of Betrayal
By: Lee Vance
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Manhattan, 2002: Mark Wallace has it all—he’s married to Claire, the love of his life; they have two bright, beautiful children, and his is a high-powered Wall Street job. Until one night while on a neighborhood errand by himself, his twelve-year-old son, Kyle, vanishes, brutally snatched off the streets of New York.
Seven years later, Kyle has... Read more
Black Mamba Boy
By: Nadifa Mohamed
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Yemen, 1935. Jama is a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport. For Jama, life is a carnival, at least when he can fill his belly. When his mother dies young, she leaves him only an amulet stuffed with one hundred rupees. Jama decides to spend her life’s meager savings to search for his missing... Read more
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This Side of Paradise
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
If the Roaring Twenties are remembered as the era of "flaming youth," it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who lit the fire. His semiautobiographical first novel, This Side of Paradise, became an instant bestseller and established an image of seemingly carefree, party-mad young men and women out to create a new morality for a new, post-war America. It... Read more
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Edward Petherbridge
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Basil Hallward, an artist, meets Dorian Gray and paints his portrait. The artist is so infatuated with Dorian’s beauty that he begins to believe it is the reason for his quality of art. Dorian becomes convinced that beauty is all-important and wishes his portrait could age instead of him. But each time Dorian commits a sin, his portrait ages,... Read more
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My Hollywood
By: Mona Simpson
Narrated by: Bhama Roget
Length: 14 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Claire, a composer and a new mother, comes to Los Angeles so that her husband can follow his dream of writing television comedy. With Paul working all hours and Claire left with the baby, William, whom she adores but has no idea how to care for, they hire Lola, a fifty-two-year-old mother of five who works in America to pay for her own... Read more
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Auf mich hört ja keiner
By: Axel Hacke
Narrated by: Axel Hacke
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Auf Axel Hacke hört ja keiner? Die Zeiten sind vorbei. Jetzt können ihn alle hören. Alle, die seine Kolumnen aus dem SZ-Magazin bisher nur lesen konnten, weil sie keine Zeit hatten, zu seinen Lesungen zu gehen, oder zu weit weg wohnen. Und zwar im O-Ton. Auf dieser CD sind die besten Geschichten aus den inzwischen drei Bänden seiner Memoiren aus... Read more
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The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
By: C. W. Gortner
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 15 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
From C. W. Gortner, acclaimed author of The Last Queen, comes an ambitious and gripping new novel about the dramatic, tragic, and misunderstood life of one of history’s most powerful and influential women: Catherine de Medici.To some, she was the ruthless queen who led France into an era of savage violence. To others, she was the passionate... Read more
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The Imperfectionists
By: Tom Rachman
Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman's wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English-language newspaper as they struggle to keep it-and themselves-afloat. Many changes have ensued since an enigmatic millionaire founded the paper 50 years ago, and... Read more
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Das Beste aus meinem Leben
By: Axel Hacke
Narrated by: Axel Hacke
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Woche für Woche erscheint im "Magazin der Süddeutschen Zeitung" Axel Hackes berühmte Kolumne "Das Beste aus meinem Leben". Berichte aus dem Alltag eines Mannes in den besten Jahren, seiner Ehefrau Paola und des kleinen Sohnes Luis. Geschichten, die sich mit den brennenden Fragen unserer Zeit auseinandersetzen: Wieso haben große Sportler einen... Read more
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Super Sad True Love Story
By: Gary Shteyngart
Narrated by: Adam Grupper & Ali Ahn
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook, creates a compelling reality in this tale about an illiterate America in the not-too-distant future. Lenny Abramov may just be penning the world's last diary. Which is good, because while falling in love with a rather unpleasant woman and witnessing the fall of a great empire, Lenny... Read more
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Crime and Punishment
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 23 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime—the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old woman no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime—to transgress moral law—if it will ultimately benefit humanity?
So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological... Read more
The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 34 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
This passionate novel of ethics and morality, religion and philosophy was Dostoevsky’s final and best work.After spending four years in a Siberian penal settlement, during which time he underwent a religious conversion, Dostoevsky developed a keen ability for deep character analysis. In The Brothers Karamazov, he explores human nature at its... Read more
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Notes from the Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A predecessor to such monumental works as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground represents a turning point in Fyodor Dostoevsky's writing toward the more political side. In this work, we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he... Read more
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Tales
By: Ambrose Bierce
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 52 minutes
Abridged: No
There is a bridge at Owl Creek that is surrounded by dry and cracking driftwood. Burning the bridge would be the perfect way for a civilian Southerner to strike a blow against the Union Army. But Peyton Farkuar doesn’t make it that far. And instead, finds a rope around his neck. Read more
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Seize the Day
By: Saul Bellow
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children; at odds with his vain, successful father; failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as "the type that... Read more
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Net of Jewels
By: Ellen Gilchrist
Narrated by: Mary Peiffer
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Rhoda Manning is home for the summer in Dunleith, Alabama. In an age of conformity and innocence, the 19-year-old is tired of conventional virtue. Resisting her easy life, she yearns for meaning and beauty, profundity and mystery. Impulsive and adventurous, she attends a midnight meeting of the Klan, and then repelled, hurls herself into the... Read more
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Dragon Bones
By: Lisa See
Narrated by: Janet Song
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
When the body of an American archaeologist is found floating in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband, American attorney David Stark, are dispatched to Site 518 to investigate. As Hulan scrutinizes this death—or is it a murder?—David, on behalf of the National Relics Bureau, tries to discover who... Read more
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