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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
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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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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Even More Laughs
By: T. Coraghessan Boyle, Jonathan Lethem, Hary Mat...
Narrated by: Stephen Colbert, Robert Sean Leonard, Alec Bald...
Length: 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From silly chuckles to rueful ironic glee to deep cosmic laughter, this new volume of humorous tales samples the best of recent seasons of the popular public radio series Selected Shorts. Read more
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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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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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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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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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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 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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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
By: Norman Maclean
Narrated by: David Manis
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean claims that “in my family, there is no clear line between religion and fly-fishing.” Nor is there a clear line between family and fly-fishing. It is the one activity where brother can connect with brother and father with son, bridging troubled relationships at the junction of great trout rivers in... 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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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 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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Howards End
By: E. M. Forster
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Considered by many to be E. M. Forster's greatest novel, Howards End is a beautifully subtle tale of two very different families brought together by an unusual event. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes are practical and materialistic, leading lives of "telegrams and anger." When the elder Mrs. Wilcox... Read more
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Swann's Way
By: Marcel Proust
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 17 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Swann's Way is the first novel of Marcel Proust's seven-volume magnum opus In Search of Lost Time. Following the narrator's opening ruminations about the nature of sleep is one of twentieth-century literature's most famous scenes: the eating of the madeleine soaked in a "decoction of lime-flowers," the associative act from which the remainder of... Read more
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Die Nacht ist aus Tinte gemacht
By: Thomas Böhm, Herta Müller & Klaus Sander
Narrated by: Herta Müller
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In "Die Nacht ist aus Tinte gemacht" erzählt die Berliner Schriftstellerin Herta Müller ihre Kindheit im rumänischen Banat. Aus dem Gespräch heraus, ohne Manuskriptvorlage, erzeugt ihre behutsam sich vorantastende Stimme eine dichte, spannungsreiche Atmosphäre, in der vor dem Ohr des Hörers eine Welt zum Leben erweckt wird, die nur noch in der... Read more
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By Nightfall
By: Michael Cunningham
Narrated by: Hugh Dancy
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties denizens of Manhattan's SoHo, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts—he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Then Rebecca's much younger... Read more
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Mary
By: Vladimir Nabokov
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Length: 4 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of serio-comic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories of Mary are suffused with the freshness of youth and the idyllic ambience of pre-revolutionary Russia. In stark contrast is the decidedly... Read more
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Da fährt mein Zug
By: Peter Kurzeck & Klaus Sander
Narrated by: Peter Kurzeck
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No
"Haben Sie schon jemals in Ihrem Leben etwas Wichtiges verloren?" Der Taxifahrer, dem sie gestellt wird, muss lange über die Frage nachdenken, doch der Ich-Erzähler ist schon mitten drin in seiner Geschichte. Und während er mit existenzieller Dringlichkeit sein ohne ihn im Nachtzug aus Straßburg davongefahrenes Reisegepäck wiederzuerlangen... Read more
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All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost
By: Lan Samantha Chang
Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
At their renowned writing school, every student is simultaneously terrified of and attracted to the charismatic poet and professor Miranda Sturgis, whose high standards for art are both intimidating and inspiring. As two students, Roman and Bernard, strive to win her admiration, the lines between mentorship, friendship, and love are blurred.... Read more
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The Glass Room
By: Simon Mawer
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
Length: 14 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Simon Mawer's The Glass Room brilliantly evokes six decades of Eastern European history, beginning in 1930s Czechoslovakia. Jewish newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer build their dream home, and despite the low hum of the German war machine reverberating through the land, the two look forward to a life of... Read more
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