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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
Arch of Triumph
By: Erich Maria Remarque
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 15 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Ravic is a German doctor and refugee living in Paris in 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, he has been treating some of the city's most elite citizens for two years on the behalf of two less-than-skillful French physicians.Forbidden to return to his own country and dodging the everyday dangers of jail and deportation, Ravic... Read more
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The Sibyl
By: Pär Lagerkvist
Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Kristoffer Tabori & Yuri Rasovsky
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In this powerful, poetic, and moving parable, the Wandering Jew of medieval Christian legend journeys to Delphi to consult the famed oracle of the pagans. He is turned away, but not before learning that one of the most adept of the old priestesses, or sibyls, lives in disgrace in the mountains above the temple. In her rude goat-hut he seeks the... Read more
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True North
By: Jim Harrison
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
An epic tale that pits a son against the legacy of his family's desecration of the earth, as well as his father's more personal violations, Jim Harrison's True North is a beautiful and moving novel that speaks to the territory in our hearts that calls us back to our roots.The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up... Read more
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
By: Paul Elie
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 22 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In the middle of the twentieth century, four American Catholics, working independently of one another, came to believe that the best way to explore the quandaries of religious faith was in writing. The four writers were Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy. Called the School of the Holy Ghost, for three decades they... Read more
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An Unfinished Season
By: Ward Just
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
An Unfinished Season captures the postwar moment of the 1950s, a time of rabid anti-communism, worker unrest, and government corruption, when the modern world lay just over the horizon.On the margins of Chicago's North Shore, nineteen-year-old Wilson Ravan watches as his father's life unravels. Gruff, unapproachable Teddy Ravan is confronting a... Read more
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Broken for You
By: Stephanie Kallos
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 13 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A national bestseller, Broken for You is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect.Elderly Margaret Hughes is living alone in a mansion in Seattle, with only a massive collection of antiques for company, when she meets Wanda Schultz, a young woman with a broken heart who has come to... Read more
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Joy Comes in the Morning
By: Jonathan Rosen
Narrated by: Lorna Raver
Length: 13 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Deborah Green is a woman of passionate contradictions, a rabbi struggling with her own doubts and desires. Her life changes when she visits the hospital room of Henry Friedman, an older man who has attempted suicide. His parents were murdered in the Holocaust when he was a child, and all his life he has struggled with painful questions. Can... Read more
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Haussmann
By: Paul LaFarge
Narrated by: Erik Bauersfeld
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
LaFarge’s stunning novel of love, betrayal, and exploitation is based on themes involving the life of the great city planner Georges-Eugène Haussmann.Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann was the architect of modern Paris. In two decades, from 1853 to 1869, he transformed the cramped, filthy lanes of the medieval city into the airy boulevards and green... Read more
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Zermatt
By: Frank Schaeffer
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
In this sequel to his acclaimed novel Portofino, Frank Schaeffer's memorable young narrator, Calvin Becker, returns in a story that is a coming-of-age gem.It is 1966, and Calvin is fourteen, torn between his naturally volcanic sexual curiosity and a fundamentalist family so strict that he has never seen a movie, watched television, or danced—and... Read more
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Winesburg, Ohio
By: Sherwood Anderson
Narrated by: various narrators, Bruce Blau, David Thorn, Jim...
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
This timeless collection charted a new stylistic path for modern fiction. Through twenty-two connected short stories, Sherwood Anderson looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young... Read more
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An Unpardonable Crime
By: Andrew Taylor
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 15 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Edgar Allan Poe is an American boy in England, a child standing on the edge of mysteries. In 1819, two Americans arrive in London. Soon afterward a bank collapses, a man is found horribly mutilated on a building site,another goes missing in the teeming stews of the city's notorious Seven Dials district, a deathbed vigil ends in theft,and an... Read more
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Broken Ground
By: Kai Maristed
Narrated by: Johanna Ward
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Kaethe Shalk faces a new life of boundless complexity when the Berlin Wall comes down and the ruin of the East stands in stark contrast to the exuberance of the West.Having lived in America for many years, Kaethe Shalk returns to Berlin to try to come to terms with the Berlin of her youth. Her journey from America to the broken ground of... Read more
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Memento Mori
By: Muriel Spark
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark.In late 1950s London, a group of aging eccentrics is brought together by a series of uncanny events. Lettie Colston is the first to receive an anonymous phone call from an insinuating voice reminding her that... Read more
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Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
By: Geoff Dyer
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Every two years the international art world descends on Venice for the opening of the Biennale. Among them is Jeff Atman, a jaded and dissolute journalist, whose dedication to the cause of bellini-fuelled party-going is only intermittently disturbed by the obligation to file a story. When he meets the spellbinding Laura, he is rejuvenated,... Read more
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The Meadow
By: James Galvin
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Through short vignettes that read like a novel, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado-Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, but most of all he reveals deeply personal portraits of the few people who live there and who do not so much possess but are... Read more
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Pasadena
By: David Ebershoff
Narrated by: Lorna Raver
Length: 20 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
This sweeping, richly imagined novel charts the rapid transformation of Southern California from frontier to suburb during the first half of the twentieth century. At the story's center is Linda Stamp, a fisher girl born in 1903 on a coastal farm in San Diego's North County, and the three men who upend her life and vie for her affection: her... Read more
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Other People
By: Sol Stein
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
What does a man know about love? This is the story of three very different men in love with the same woman. It is also the story of that woman, Francine Widmer: twenty-seven, beautiful, intelligent, resourceful, and insistent on running her own life.Suddenly, control of Francine’s life is torn apart when she is raped. Finding the doctors and... Read more
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The Weather in Berlin
By: Ward Just
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
On a whim, aging director Dixon Greenwood accepted the three-month fellowship in post-wall Berlin, with the promise that nothing would be required of him but an interview about his moviemaking career. Thirty years had passed since he had directed his greatest film, a cult classic called Summer, about a group of German artists between the wars.... Read more
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The Rich Are Different
By: Susan Howatch
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 28 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Dinah Slade is a young Englishwoman of immense vitality, great sensual power, and fierce ambition. When the handsome and powerful Paul Van Zale commits the imprudence of falling in love with her, her life and desires become intertwined with the fate of his great American banking family. Among the new acquaintances she makes is Paul’s wife, with... Read more
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Loitering with Intent
By: Muriel Spark
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
"How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Loitering about London in 1949, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur finds a job "on the grubby edge of the literary world," as secretary to the odd Autobiographical Association. Are they a group of mad egomaniacs, hilariously writing... Read more
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Sister Carrie
By: Theodore Dreiser
Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
Length: 17 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
When small-town girl Carrie Meeber sets out for Chicago, she is equipped with nothing but a few dollars, a certain unspoiled beauty and charm, and a pitiful lack of preparation for the complex moral choices she will face. Adrift in an indifferent city, she struggles from the sweatshop to stage success and inspires an obsessive love in a married... Read more
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A Beggar in Jerusalem
By: Elie Wiesel
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In the days following the Six-Day War, a survivor of the Holocaust visits the reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western Wall in the Old City, he encounters the beggars and madmen that congregate there every evening, who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties to the present.Weaving together myth and mystery, parable and... Read more
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The Crazyladies of Pearl Street
By: Trevanian
Narrated by: Leonardo Leoncavallo
Length: 15 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Legendary writer Trevanian brings readers his most personal novel yet: a funny, deeply felt, often touching coming-of-age novel set in 1930s America.
Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and his spirited but vulnerable young mother have been abandoned—again—by his father, a charming con artist. With no money and nowhere else... Read more