Fiction audiobooks

The Bourne Ultimatum (Jason Bourne Book #3) - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Darren McGavin

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
At a small-town carnival, two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed “Jason Bourne.” Only they know Bourne’s true identity and understand that the telegrams are really a message from Bourne’s mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world’s... Read more

This Year It Will Be Different - Abridged

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Circle of Friends and The Glass Lake comes This Year It Will Be Different, a stunning new work that brings us the magic and spirit of Christmas in fifteen stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius. Instead of nostalgia, Binchy evokes contemporary life;... Read more

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason - Abridged

By: Helen Fielding

Narrated by: Tracie Bennett

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With another devastatingly hilarious, ridiculous, unnervingly accurate take on modern womanhood, Bridget Jones is back. (v.g.)
Monday 27 January:
"7:15 a.m. Hurrah! The wilderness years are over. For four weeks and five days now have been in functional relationship with adult male, thereby proving am not love pariah as recently feared."... Read more

The Face of Deception - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Jill Hennessy

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Iris Johansen, the nationally acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of And Then You Die and The Ugly Duckling, comes her most electrifying novel yet.

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has a rare--and bittersweet--gift. Her unique ability to reconstruct the identity of the long dead from their skulls has helped bring closure to parents of... Read more

A Dangerous Fortune - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: Tim Curry

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A breathtaking thriller featuring "political and amorous intrigues, cold-blooded murder, and financial crises" (San Francisco Chronicle), from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Column of Fire

In 1866, tragedy strikes the exclusive Windfield School when a young student drowns in a mysterious accident. His death and its aftermath... Read more

Little Green Men - Abridged

By: Christopher Buckley

Narrated by: Mark Linn-Baker

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1994, Christopher Buckley published one of the most acclaimed and successful comic novels of the decade, Thank You for Smoking. Now Buckley returns to the strange land of Washington, D.C., in Little Green Men, a millennial comedy of manners about aliens and pundits . . . and how much they have in common.
        
The reluctant hero of this... Read more

The Long Road Home - Abridged

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Tony Fusco

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling novelist Danielle Steel takes us on a harrowing journey into the heart of America's hidden shame in a novel that explores the power of forgiveness, the dark side of childhood, and one woman's unbreakable spirit.

From her secret perch at the top of the stairs, Gabriella Harrison watches the guests arrive at her parents' lavish... Read more

Trouble in Paradise - Abridged

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Richard Masur

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Robert B. Parker and his legendary Spenser series have long been considered the ne plus ultra of detective fiction.  But the critics' praise for Jesse Stone's debut in Night Passage proved there was room for addition to the Parker literary canon.  "A novel as fresh as it is bold...Parker's sentences flow with as much wit, grace and assurance as... Read more

Gone for Soldiers - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: George Hearn

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back 15 years before the momentous conflict he has so brilliantly chronicled, to a time when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War.

In... Read more

The Matarese Countdown - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Twenty years ago, top agents from the CIA and KGB banded together to bring down the Matarese Circle, an international cabal of powerbrokers and assassins whose sole objective was to achieve worldwide economic domination. Now the bloody Matarese dynasty is back--and the only man with the power to stop it may have already run out of time....

CIA... Read more

Jewels - Abridged

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Tim Curry

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On Sarah Whitfield's seventy-fifth birthday, memories take her back to New York  in the 1930s. To a marriage that ends after a year, leaving Sarah  shattered. A trip to Europe with her parents does little to  raise her spirits, until she meets William, Duke of Whitfield.  In time, despite her qualms, William insists on giving up his distant... Read more

Just as I Am - Abridged

By: E. Lynn Harris

Narrated by: Michael Boatman & Brenda Braxton

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

E. Lynn Harris's blend of rich, romantic storytelling and controversial contemporary issues like race and bisexuality have found an enthusiastic and diverse audience across America. Readers celebrate the arrival in paperback of his second novel, Just As I Am, which picks up where Invisible Life left off, introducing Harris's appealing and... Read more

Extreme Measures - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: John Pankow

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dr. Eric Najarian. He's young, talented, and ambitious. He has all the qualities they're looking for at White Memorial Hospital. He doesn't know he's being watched. Judged. An elite clique of medical professionals thinks he has what it takes to join their secret club. All the young doctor has to do is agree to play by their rules.

But Eric has... Read more

Desolation Island - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sent to rescue Governor Bligh, former captain of HMS Bounty, Jack Aubrey sets off for Australia in the Leopold with his friend Stephen Maturin and a hold full of convicts in this fifth of the Aubrey/Maturin series.

A beautiful and dangerous spy lurks among these prisoners, as does an even more lethal traveling companion, gaol fever, a treacherous... Read more

Send No Flowers - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Alison Fraser

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the beloved Sandra Brown, whose "storytelling gift [is] surprisingly rare" (Toronto Sun), comes this New York Times bestselling novel, an exquisitely sensual tale of a young woman's sudden, irresistible affair with a stranger—a man whose secret could shatter her life....

Since the death of her husband, Alicia Russell has struggled to take... Read more

The Wedding - Abridged

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: J. R. Horne

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Simon Steinberg, a major movie producer, and Blaire Scott, an award-winning television writer, are among the most respected couples in Hollywood. They have defied the clichés, keeping their marriage together for decades. Their children—Samantha, Scott, and Allegra—are successful and happy, but must face challenges we fear for our own... Read more

I Thee Wed - Abridged

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Janet McTeer

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It isn't easy making a living as a lady's companion when one possesses a sharp tongue and an original mind. That's why Emma Greyson has gone through three such positions in six months. Her current post at a tiresome country house party has her bored to tears—until an extraordinary encounter with the legendary Edison Stokes leads to a secret... Read more

Affair - Abridged

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Stephanie Beacham

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charlotte Arkendale knew all there was to know about men. After all, she'd made a career out of steering marriage-minded women away from untrustworthy members of the opposite sex.

Yet nothing could have prepared her for Baxter St. Ives--an arresting stranger too daring, too determined, too dangerous to be her new man-of-affairs. Still, perhaps he... Read more

Be the One - Abridged

By: April Smith

Narrated by: Linda Hamilton

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of North of Montana ("The writing has the taut, perfect tone of a well-tuned string"--Scott Turow), a spellbinding new thriller about ambition taken to unexpected, and deadly, extremes.

Cassidy Sanderson is a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers--the only female scout in the major leagues. Hard-living and hard-drinking, a gifted... Read more

The Fortune of War - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and... Read more

The Reverse of the Medal - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The 11th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series.

Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City.  This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage--the province of his friend Stephen Maturin.  Is Aubrey's... Read more

Time to Hunt - Abridged

By: Stephen Hunter

Narrated by: Beau Bridges

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Stephen Hunter is in a class by himself.  Time to Hunt is as vivid and haunting as a moving target in the crosshairs of a sniper scope.”—Nelson Demille, author of Mayday

He is the most dangerous man alive.  He only wants to live in peace with his family, and forget the war that nearly killed him. . . .

It's not going to happen.

Stephen Hunter's... Read more

Heaven's Price - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Robin Mattson

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown has created a sensation with her contemporary novels. In Heaven’s Price she offers a sexy, tender, and funny story about a woman who thinks she knows her destiny, until she learns that her fate—and her heart—have something else in store.
 
Blair Simpson embraces a life most people merely dream... Read more

Blue at the Mizzen - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this, the twentieth installment of the Aubrey/Maturin series, Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace takes on an ugly complexion for Captain Jack Aubrey: the desertion of nearly half his crew; and the sudden dimming of his own career prospects in a peacetime navy. To cap it off, the Surprise is nearly sunk in a... Read more