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Charmed Life
By: Diana Wynne Jones
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
At first, orphan Cat Chant isn't jealous of his magically gifted sister Gwendolen. After all, she is the only family he has left. But, then the mysterious sorcerer Chrestomanci adopts them and changes their lives forever. In this book, which won the Guardian Award for Children's books, author Diana Wynne Jones' characters come fully alive as... Read more
View audiobookJayber Crow
By: Wendell Berry & Paul Michael
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From the simple setting of his own barber shop, Jayber Crow, orphan, SEMInarian, and native of Port William, recalls his life and the life of his community as it spends itself in the middle of the twentieth century. Surrounded by his friends and neighbors, he is both participant and witness as the community attempts to transcend its own decline.... Read more
View audiobookOne Thousand White Women
By: Jim Fergus
Narrated by: Laura Hicks
Length: 14 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on an actual historical event, this is the story of May Dodd—a remarkable woman who, in 1875, travels through the American West to marry the chief of the Cheyenne Nation.One Thousand White Women begins with May Dodd’s journey into an unknown world. Having been committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a... Read more
View audiobookI Feel Bad About My Neck
By: Nora Ephron
Narrated by: Nora Ephron
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
The woman who brought us When Harry Met... Read more
Sharp Objects
By: Gillian Flynn
Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
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FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen... Read more
Framed
By: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Narrated by: Jason Hughes
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A few things to know about DylanHe is the only boy in his entire town—so forget about playing games of football.His best friends are two pet chickens, Michaelangelo and Donatello—named after (who else?) the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.His family owns the town's only gas station/copy shop/coffee house—their Picasso Pies are to die for, but... Read more
View audiobookSense and Sensibility
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Jane Austen’s debut novel is a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly in which two sisters who represent “sense” and “sensibility,” or restraint and emotionalism, experience love and heartbreak in their own separate ways.One daughter, the impetuous Marianne, falls passionately in love with the dashing John Willoughby and makes no secret... Read more
View audiobookPersuasion
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The last novel completed by Jane Austen before her death, Persuasion is often thought to reflect on the author’s own lost love.Sir Walter Elliot has raised his three daughters with his own sense of haughty pride. Elizabeth, at twenty-eight, has found no one good enough to marry, while Mary has, with some condescension, married the son of the... Read more
View audiobookThe Big Over Easy
By: Jasper Fforde
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Jasper Fforde's bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy. In The Big Over Easy, Fforde takes a break from classic literature and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. Meet Inspector Jack Spratt, family man and head of the Nursery Crime... Read more
View audiobookThe Journey of Crazy Horse
By: Joseph Marshall
Narrated by: Joseph Marshall
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who—with valor, spirit, respect, and unparalleled leadership—fought for his people's land, livelihood, and honor. In this fascinating... Read more
View audiobookThe Good House
By: Tananarive Due
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 21 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Tananarive Due, author of The Living Blood (F0061) won the American Book Award and is praised as Stephen King's equal by Publishers Weekly. In The Good House, Due sets a story of ancient powers and modern retribution in a small Pacific Northwest town. When a young woman returns to her grandmother's empty mansion, she is pitted against demonic... Read more
View audiobookThe Hours
By: Michael Cunningham
Narrated by: Michael Cunningham
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Pulitzer prize, the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and nominated for 9 Academy Awards, The Hours is now available on Unabridged CD.
Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, The Hours tells the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan, who one New York morning goes about planning a party in honor of a beloved friend; Laura Brown, who... Read more
Confessions of A Shopaholic
By: Sophie Kinsella
Narrated by: Emily Gray
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Sophie Kinsella's debut is a rollicking romp through the perils of shopping and spending, spending, spending! Becky can't resist a sale, and she's only a little overdrawn on her VISA. Besides, that new scarf is just too cute to pass up. Readers will laugh aloud at Becky's retail adventures as she finds new and creative ways to relieve her... Read more
View audiobookThe Cruelest Miles
By: Gay Salisbury & Laney Salisbury
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The year is 1925. It is sixty degrees below zero. The wind sweeps tons of snow over the deep-frozen Alaskan landscape. The nearest railhead is seven hundred miles away. Airplanes cannot fly. The way to Nome is blocked by a treacherous frozen sound, an icebound port, and mountains to the west. But there is a diphtheria epidemic in Nome. The... Read more
View audiobookFraud
By: David Rakoff
Narrated by: David Rakoff
Length: 4 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
You've heard him on This American Life! Now read his book!
Wherever he is, David Rakoff is a fish out of water. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, playing an evil modeling agent on a daytime soap opera, or learning primitive survival skills in the wilds... Read more
Jump At the Sun
By: Kathleen McGhee-Anderson
Narrated by: David Downing, Cyndi James Gossett, Tommy Hicks...
Length: 1 hour 33 minutes
Abridged: No
As the twenties roared and the Harlem renaissance thrived, a young woman from rural Florida became the toast of literary New York. Jump at the Sun chronicles the passionate life of Zora Neale Hurston (author of “Their Eyes Are Watching God”) who went from spinning tales on the front porch of a country store, to writing prize-winning stories,... Read more
View audiobookElla Enchanted
By: Gail Carson Levine
Narrated by: Eden Riegel
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child." I... Read more
View audiobookCharlotte's Web
By: E. B. White
Narrated by: E. B. White
Length: 3 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
This Newbery Honor Book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect."
Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply... Read more
Like Water for Chocolate
By: Laura Esquivel
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Mexico became a bestselling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final... Read more
View audiobookDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Abridged
By: Douglas Adams
Narrated by: Douglas Adams
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
From Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction novels of all time, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, comes a wildly inventive novel of ghosts, time travel, and one detective’s mission to save humanity from extinction.
DIRK GENTLY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY
We solve the whole crime
We find the whole... Read more