Fiction audiobooks

Vengeance - Abridged

By: Stuart Kaminsky

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Three years ago, Lew Fonseca quit his job as a process server with the State's Attorney's office in Cook County, Illinois, and headed for Key West. Sidetracked by fate when his car broke down in Sarasota, Florida, he decided to stick around, making ends meet by doing some investigative work for local attorneys. Asked to locate the missing wife... Read more

The Rose Rent

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A late spring in 1142 has the monks of Shrewsbury Abbey dismayed, for there may be no roses by June 22. For three years, wealthy young widow Judith Perle has rented her house to the monks for the price of a single white rose each year, in honor of her late husband. When nature finally complies, a pious monk is sent to pay the rent—and found... Read more

A Change of Gravity

By: George V. Higgins

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 17 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

For court clerk Ambrose Merrion, life was about people taking care of one another. For Danny Hilliard, politics was a matter of acquiring the power to make sure that society did just that. With Merrion shrewdly managing Hilliard’s campaigns as a rising politician, the two friends made an excellent team.But trouble starts brewing when Merrion... Read more

Savage Wilderness

By: Harold Coyle

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting novel of the French and Indian War, master storyteller Harold Coyle takes us back to a time when America’s vast riches were up for grabs. From 1754 through 1759, British and American colonial forces were locked in constant battle with the French and their Indian allies over the great territories of the Ohio Valley. For British... Read more

Romola

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 21 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"There is no book of mine about which I more thoroughly feel that I swear by every sentence as having been written with my best blood." Thus wrote George Eliot about Romola, the book which is central in her career as a novelist and amongst her most colorful, fluent, and persuasive works. Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and... Read more

Catherine Carmier

By: Ernest J. Gaines

Narrated by: D. M. Greene

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Catherine Carmier is a compelling love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence. When Jackson returns home to his family after an absence of ten years, he discovers that his bonds to them have been irreparably rent by his absence. In the midst of his alienation, he... Read more

The Heart of the Matter

By: Graham Greene

Narrated by: Joseph Porter

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this widely acclaimed modern classic, Graham Greene delves deep into character to tell the dramatic, suspenseful story of a good man’s conflict between passion and faith.A police commissioner in a British-governed, war-torn West African state, Scobie is bound by the strictest integrity and sense of duty both for his colonial responsibilities... Read more

Burmese Days

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Colonial politics in 1930 Kyauktada, India, come to a head when the European Club, previously for whites only, is ordered to elect one token native member. The deeply racist members do their best to manipulate the situation, resulting in the loss not only of reputations, but of lives.Amidst this cynical setting, timber merchant James Flory... Read more

Star Trek: Insurrection - Abridged

By: J.M. Dillard

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Star Trek: The Next Generation® is the most popular, longest-running series in science fiction history. Now, after the spectacular worldwide success of Star Trek: First Contact® Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise™ return to the big screen in a thrilling new adventure that captures all the fun and excitement of Star... Read more

L.A Connections - Abridged

By: Jackie Collins

Narrated by: Jackie Collins

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Four scorching novels in one—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lady Boss and Thrill!

Inside the exclusive mansions of L.A., where Hollywood's most powerful players willingly risk it all, a killer is playing a deadly game.

Drawn into this dangerous world are a high-class call girl looking for a way out, a ruthless agent playing a... Read more

Devil-May-Care

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Ellie and Henry are young, rich, in love, and engaged. In the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, Ellie is happy to accept hereccentric Aunt Kate's request that shehouse-sit atKate's palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. With its nearly invisible housekeepers and plethora of pets, Ellie feels right at home. Conventional Henry,... Read more

Santa & Pete - Abridged

By: Christopher Moore & Pamela Johnson

Narrated by: Delroy Lindo

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Who would ever guess that the beloved legend of Santa Claus involves a seldom-told tale of faith and friendship between two men -- one white and one black? Long ago, Santa Claus had an African partner named Pete and together they brought the spirit of Christmas to America's first settlers. These two forever changed the way families celebrate the... Read more

The Rum Diary - Abridged

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary—a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book—is Hunter S. Thompson’s brilliant love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent lust in the Caribbean.

Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy,... Read more

The Blessing - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestselling author of the Summerhouse series crafts an inspirational love story that has “plenty of romance, fun, and adventure” (San Antonio Express-News) following a workaholic businessman whose life and heart are changed forever by a young widow and her son.

Wealthy corporate genius Jason Wilding reluctantly takes a break... Read more

Legend in Green Velvet

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Scotland is Susan’s passion and obsession, and the opportunity to join a Highland dig is a dream come true for the young archaeology student. But then a sinister stranger slips Susan a cryptic message in ancient verse—and is later found viciously slain. A mysterious peril has unexpectedly emerged from the mists to haunt Susan, sending her... Read more

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Triangle: Imzadi II - Abridged

By: Peter David

Narrated by: Robert O'Reilly

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Imzadi"—to the people of the planet Betazed, including Counselor Deanna Troi of the Starship Enterprise, it means "beloved" and denotes a special closeness that can never be truly broken. Or can it?

In his acclaimed earlier novel, Imzadi, bestselling author Peter David explored the special bond between Deanna Troi and Commander William T. Riker.... Read more

The Locket - Abridged

By: Richard Paul Evans

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After the death of his mother, Michael Keddington finds employment at the Arcadia nursing home where he befriends Esther, a reclusive but beautiful elderly woman who lives in mourning for her youth and lost love.
Michael faces his own challenges when he loses his greatest love, Faye. When Michael is falsely accused of abusing one of the... Read more

Mama Flora's Family - Abridged

By: Alex Haley & David Stevens

Narrated by: Debbi Morgan

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In the tradition of Roots and Queen, Mama Flora's Family is a sweeping epic of contemporary American history, culled from the unpublished works of award-winning writer Alex Haley. It is the poignant story of three generations of an African-American family who start out as destitute sharecroppers in Tennessee.

Mama Flora is the heart and strength... Read more

Flash - Abridged

By: Jayne Ann Krentz

Narrated by: Barbara Garrick

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A self-made millionaire. A sassy entrepreneur. Their corporate merger might just set the night on fire in this electrifying thriller from perennial bestseller Jayne Ann Krentz.

Olivia Chantry may leave her desk in disarray, but she’s a business dynamo—and the success of her Seattle-based company, Light Fantastic, keeps her from dwelling on her... Read more

Everybody Dies - Abridged

By: Lawrence Block

Narrated by: Robert Forster

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Matthew Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life, one of stability and respectability— even the New York streets don't look so mean anymore. He's married to a woman he loves, and wonder of wonders, he's actually gotten around to becoming an officially licensed private investigator. Then all hell breaks loose. Matthew' ... Read more

Oliver Twist - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A pauper's child reared in a workhouse, young Oliver Twist serves an apprenticeship in a loveless house. Despairing, he runs away and is befriended by a gang of young pickpockets who offer him the only welcome home he has ever known. Falling under the influence of villainous company, the young orphan struggles to escape from a life of poverty... Read more

Model Behavior

By: Jay McInerney

Narrated by: Richard Cox

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Connor McKnight, former acolyte of film, Zen, and Japanese literature, is not unaware that these avocations are wildly different from his present occupation as a fledgling celebrity journalist. Meanwhile, his longtime girlfriend, the fashion model Philomena, seems curiously remote and soon decamps for the West Coast. Then there's the sister with... Read more

The Coffin Dancer - Abridged

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a major television series starring Russel Hornsby, Arielle Kebbel, and Michael Imperioli, “Lincoln Rhyme is more relentless than ever” (People) and Jeffery Deaver delivers “supercharged tension” (USA TODAY) in this New York Times bestselling suspense masterwork.

NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his brilliant protégé Amelia Sachs, in the... Read more

Prime Cut - Abridged

By: Diane Mott Davidson

Narrated by: Cherry Jones

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cheesecake, beefcake, and a pair of dueling caterers whet someone's appetite for murder in this sinfully delicous novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Sticks & Scones

Caterer Goldy Schulz is convinced things couldn't get worse. An unscrupulous rival is driving her out of business. An incompetent contractor has left her precious... Read more