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On Beauty
By: Zadie Smith
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
Length: 18 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
In this loose retelling of Howard's End, Zadie Smith considers the big questions:
Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful?
Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families—the Belseys and the Kippses—and a clutch of doomed... Read more
On Beauty - Abridged
By: Zadie Smith
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of Swing Time and White Teeth
Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. On Beauty is the story of an interracial... Read more
Tooth and Claw
By: T.C. Boyle
Narrated by: T.C. Boyle
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The fourteen stories gathered here, which have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Harper's, McSweeney's, and Playboy, as well as in The O. Henry Prize Stories and Best American Stories volumes, display T. C. Boyle's imaginative muscle, emotional sensitivity and astonishing range. There are the whimsical tales for which Boyle is justly famous,... Read more
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The Painted Drum
By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
From the author of the National Book Award Winner The Round House, Louise Erdrich's breathtaking, lyrical novel of a priceless Ojibwe artifact and the effect it has had on those who have come into contact with it over the years.“Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between... Read more
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Indecision
By: Benjamin Kunkel
Narrated by: Patrick Frederic
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Benjamin Kunkel’s brilliantly comic debut novel concerns one of the central maladies of our time–a pathological indecision that turns abundance into an affliction and opportunity into a curse.Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he’s having a midlife crisis. Of course, living a dissolute, dorm like existence in a tiny apartment and... Read more
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The Widow of the South - Abridged
By: Robert Hicks
Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker, Tom Wopat, David Chandler & Jo...
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Based on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman's journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war.
This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200 casualties, McGavock's home was turned into a field... Read more
Die Bergwerke zu Falun - Abridged
By: E.T.A. Hoffmann
Narrated by: Jan Koester
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Der Stoff geht auf eine reale Begebenheit zurück: Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts wird in einem schwedischen Bergwerk die Leiche eines 50 Jahre zuvor auf rätselhafte Weise verschollenen jungen Bergmanns gefunden - völlig unversehrt. Hoffmann schildert die Umstände dieses Geschehens aus seiner Sicht: Der labile Elis Fröbom, ehemals Seemann, fühlt... Read more
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A Sudden Country
By: Karen Fisher
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 15 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption.
James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious Hudson’s Bay Company trader, has renounced his aspirations for a quiet family life in the... Read more
Lunar Park
By: Bret Easton Ellis
Narrated by: James Van Der Beek
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a chilling tale that combines reality, memoir, and fantasy to create a fascinating portrait of this most controversial writer but also a deeply moving novel about love and loss, parents and children, and ultimately forgiveness.
“John... Read more
Housekeeping
By: Marilynne Robinson
Narrated by: Becket Royce
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
An unabridged audio edition of Marilynne Robinson's classic work Housekeeping, on the 25th anniversary of its first publication.
Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award
A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother,... Read more
A Hole in Texas
By: Herman Wouk
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
With this rollicking novel hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity, one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction.
Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when he is jolted out of his quiet life and summoned to the... Read more
No Country for Old Men
By: Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim's burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes how... Read more
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The Interruption of Everything
By: Terry McMillan
Narrated by: Desiree Taylor
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
"Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple and even simultaneous careers: I’ve been a chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A furniture restorer. A personal shopper. A veterinarian’s assistant and sometimes the veterinarian.... An... Read more
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The Interruption of Everything - Abridged
By: Terry McMillan
Narrated by: Lynn Whitfield
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Marilyn Grimes is a wife, mother, sister, and daughter. Today she's decided to be something different: herself. First, she has to find out who that is. Read more
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A Widow for One Year
By: John Irving
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 24 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten.
Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the summer of 1958--Ruth is only four.
The second window into... Read more
The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in... Read more
This Heart of Mine - Abridged
By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips magic is vibrantly alive, and it's on display in This Heart of Mine, the fifth book in her wildly popular Chicago Stars series!Molly Somerville loves her career as the creator of the Daphne the Bunny children's book series, but the rest of her life could use some improvement. She has a... Read more
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Mad Girls in Love - Abridged
By: Michael Lee West
Narrated by: Michael Lee West
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
In her colorful first novel, Crazy Ladies, Michael Lee West brought to life three generations of unforgettable G.R.I.T.S. (Girls Raised In The South), creating a world the Washington Post Book World called ""sharp, wry, and utterly convincing."" In Mad Girls in Love she's brought some of the Ladies back and also added a whole new wacky and... Read more
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
By: Lisa See
Narrated by: Janet Song
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most mysterious of human relationships: female friendship.
Lily is... Read more
High Plains Tango
By: Robert James Waller
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
With over 10 million copies sold, bestselling author Robert James Waller returns with the haunting, evocative story of a small town, a beautiful and mysterious woman, and the man forever changed by both.
The wild places are where no one is looking anymore. Out there on the high plains, among the Sioux reservations and the silent buttes, among the... Read more
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Abridged
By: Lisa See
Narrated by: Jodi Long
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most mysterious of human relationships: female friendship.
Lily is... Read more
High Plains Tango - Abridged
By: Robert James Waller
Narrated by: Sam Freed
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
With over 10 million copies sold, bestselling author Robert James Waller returns with the haunting, evocative story of a small town, a beautiful and mysterious woman, and the man forever changed by both.
The wild places are where no one is looking anymore. Out there on the high plains, among the Sioux reservations and the silent buttes, among the... Read more
The River
By: Tricia Wastvedt
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
During the summer of 1958 in the English village of Cameldip, two children drown while playing in a leaky boat on the river. Their parents, Isabel and Robert, are bound together in guilt and anger. Thirty years later, a young woman secretly pregnant and determined to make a new start for herself arrives in Cameldip. Taken in by Isabel, she... Read more
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Bag Of Bones
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Stephen King
Length: 21 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful tale of grief, love’s enduring bonds, and secrets of the past from #1 New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller Stephen King.
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls... Read more