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The Kite Runner
By: Khaled Hosseini
Narrated by: Khaled Hosseini
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A Stunning Novel of Hope and Redemption
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir... Read more
The Kite Runner - Abridged
By: Khaled Hosseini
Narrated by: Khaled Hosseini
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Stunning Novel of Hope and Redemption
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir... Read more
The Wandering Hill
By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: Alfred Molina
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The second volume in Larry McMurtry's four-part historical epic featuring the Berrybender family as they continue their journey through the West during the 1830s.
In The Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830s. Their journey is one of... Read more
Getting Mother's Body
By: Suzan-Lori Parks
Narrated by: Suzan-Lori Parks
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Billy Beede, the teenage daughter of the fast-running, no-account, and six-years-dead Willa Mae, comes home one day to find a fateful letter waiting for her: Willa Mae’s burial spot in LaJunta, Arizona, is about to be plowed up to make way for a supermarket.
As Willa Mae’s only daughter, Billy is heiress to her mother’s substantial but... Read more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Abridged
By: Garrison Keillor & Mark Twain
Narrated by: Garrison Keillor
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
First published in 1884, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a masterpiece of world literature. Narrated by Huck himself in his artless vernacular, it tells of his voyage down the Mississippi with a runaway slave named Jim. As the two journey downstream on a raft, Huck's vivid descriptions capture the sights, smells, sounds, and... Read more
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Villa Incognito
By: Tom Robbins
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War.
Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore.
Imagine just those things (don’t even try to imagine the love story) and you’ll have a... Read more
Three Junes
By: Julia Glass
Narrated by: John Keating
Length: 13 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. In June of 1989, Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while traveling through Greece and is compelled to relive the secret
sorrows of his... Read more
Evenings at Five
By: Gail Godwin
Narrated by: Gail Godwin
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Every evening at five o’clock, Christina and Rudy stopped work and began the ritual commonly known as Happy Hour. Rudy mixed Christina’s drink with loving precision, the cavalier slosh of Bombay Sapphire over ice shards, before settling across from her in his Stickley chair with his glass of Scotch. They shared a love of language and music (she... Read more
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Cosmopolis
By: Don DeLillo
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a major motion picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson, Cosmopolis is the thirteenth novel by one of America’s most celebrated writers.
It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism—when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and... Read more
Middlesex
By: Jeffrey Eugenides
Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori
Length: 21 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Audie Award for best unabridged fiction, Middlesex marks the fulfillment of a huge talent, named one of America's best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker.
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school, Grosse Pointe, MI, finds herself drawn to a... Read more
Child of My Heart
By: Alice McDermott
Narrated by: Sheryl Bernstein
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A young girl's astonishing, poignant first look into the turbulent heart of things"I had in my care that summer four dogs, three cats, the Moran kids, Daisy, my eight-year-old cousin, and Flora, the toddler child of a local artist. There was also, for a while, a litter of wild rabbits, three of them, that had been left under our back steps....... Read more
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The Short Stories Volume III
By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: Stacy Keach
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this definitive audio collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style -- from the plain bold... Read more
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The Wishbones - Abridged
By: Tom Perrotta
Narrated by: Jack Hawkins
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
In The Wishbones, Tom Perrotta's characters are 90s adults still clinging to their 70s dreams. Thirty-one-year-old Dave Raymond has an adoring girlfriend and a steady gig as guitarist for The Wishbones, a New Jersey wedding band. He still lives with his parents, but that's a small price to pay for the freedom to play the music he loves.
Dave's... Read more
The Stories of Tevye the Dairyman - Abridged
By: Sholem Aleichem
Narrated by: Theodore Bikel
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the buoyant, ingenious, compassionate, resilient, irrepressible, anxious, philosophical, God-loving, God-fearing, Bible-quoting dairyman whose life embodies the existence of a Jew in Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.This program presents six of the... Read more
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Sense and Sensibility - Abridged
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Julie Christie
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Listen to audio presented by Literary Affairs: Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.View our feature on Jane Austen.
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo.... Read more
The Secret Life of Bees
By: Sue Monk Kidd
Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
An intoxicating debut novel of "one motherless daughter's discovery of...the strange and wonderful places we find love" —The Washington PostSue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily... Read more
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Samaritan - Abridged
By: Richard Price
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes
After a lucrative television writing career comes to an abrupt end, ex–high school teacher Ray Mitchell returns to the New Jersey city of his birth—to rethink his life, reconnect with his teenage daughter and to spread the wealth on the housing project that reared him. He begins teaching again, embarks on an affair with a married woman from the... Read more
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Forever - Abridged
By: Pete Hamill
Narrated by: Stevie Ray Dallimore
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the bestselling author of Snow in August and A Drinking Life comes this magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York City in 1740 and remains...forever.
From the shores of Ireland, Cormac O'Connor sets out on a fateful journey to avenge the deaths of his parents and honor the code of his ancestors. His quest brings him... Read more
Choke
By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: Chuck Palahniuk
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to... Read more
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The Short Stories Volume II
By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: Stacy Keach
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938.
Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image.... Read more
That Old Ace in the Hole - Abridged
By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Arliss Howard
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love.
Bob Dollar is a young man from Denver trying to make good in a bad world. Out of college and aimless, Dollar takes a job with Global Pork Rind, scouting out big spreads of land that can be... Read more
Seek My Face
By: John Updike
Narrated by: Kathryn Walker
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting novel that takes place in one day about an elderly painter and the New Yorker interviewing her—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. • “A brief novel of deep feeling.”—Time
On a day that contains much conversation and some rain, the seventy-eight-year-old... Read more
Alison's Automotive Repair Manual: A Novel
By: Brad Barkley
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A widow in her mid thirties, Alison has been in mourning for two years. She lives with her sister and brother-in-law in West Virginia, and they are urging her to get on with her life and move back home. Alison promises to leave--just as soon as she renovates a nearly-ruined 1976 Corvette rusting in their garage. Problem is, she doesn't know the... Read more
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
By: Dai Sijie
Narrated by: B.D. Wong
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
An enchanting literary debut—already an international best-seller.
At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of... Read more