Fiction audiobooks

Sharp Edges - Abridged

By: Jayne Ann Krentz

Narrated by: Jayne Ann Krentz

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Love’s passionate snags get the smooth touch in this sparkling masterpiece from Jayne Ann Krentz!

She put her art on the line—and her heart in his hands...

Eugenia Swift is a young woman of singular sensibilities, and a connoisseur of beauty. As director of the Leabrook Glass Museum, she’s been asked to travel to Frog Cove Island—an artistic... Read more

No Safe Place

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

Length: 17 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In his first book since the national best-seller Silent Witness, Richard North Patterson uses his mastery of characterization and suspense to give us a story of startling realism and originality--an extraordinary novel of presidential politics.
        In the year 2000, Senator Kerry Kilcannon's insurgent campaign against Vice President Dick... Read more

Pandora

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead.

The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora.... Read more

The Street Lawyer

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

He gave up the money.  He gave up the power.  Now all he has left is the law.

Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm.  One step away from partnership, Michael has it all.  Then, in an instant, it all comes undone.

A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage... Read more

Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: David Case

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights “Noddy” Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk... Read more

Please Don’t Eat the Daisies

By: Jean Kerr

Narrated by: Marni Webb

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of essays observes the perils of motherhood, wifehood, selfhood, and other assorted challenges. Since its publication in 1957, it has sold millions of copies and has been adapted into a Broadway play, a film, a TV series, and now an audiobook. Jean Kerr’s parodies of the clichéd 1950s prescription for glamorous or maternal... Read more

Backflash

By: Richard Stark

Narrated by: Robert Davi

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A gritty novel featuring resourceful criminal Parker, the anti-hero of Payback.Steel-nerved master thief Parker has his eyes on a fat prize: a gambling casino on the Hudson River. But it' s not in Parker's nature to gamble, so he leaves nothing to chance. From the phony politician to the getaway boat, from bringing guns on board to... Read more

Claudine à paris

By: Colette

Narrated by: Isabelle Carré

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Claudine et son père ont quitté leur village de Montigny pour s'installer à Paris, où la jeune fille va découvrir la vie parisienne avec le soutien de son cousin Marcel, son ami, son confident et son complice. Elle finit par s'habituer à la vie dans cette ville qu'elle trouvait dure au début, et commence à sortir et à mener une vie mondaine.... Read more

Stealer of Souls

By: Larry Weiner

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Katey Sagal ("Peg Bundy" on TV's Married With Children, and "Leela" from Futurama) makes a special guest appearance in this hilarious horror about a wickedly bad soul who tries to swipe the essence of innocents, leaving them with a blank look and an overwhelming desire to watch Maury Povich. The only opposition is a fumbling English professor... Read more

Claudine à l'école

By: Colette

Narrated by: Isabelle Carré

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Claudine, 15 ans, vit à Montigny avec son père, homme distrait, plus préoccupé par les mollusques que par l'éducation de sa fille. Celle-ci fréquente la petite école du village, cadre principal des aventures décrites dans ce livre, présenté comme le journal intime de la jeune fille. Son quotidien est rythmé par les promenades avec sa soeur de... Read more

The Fall of a Sparrow - Abridged

By: Robert Hellenga

Narrated by: David Birney & Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After the violent death of his oldest daughter during a terrorist bombing, small town college professor Alan "Woody" Woodhall finds himself standing in the cemetery where she was buried. Woody is convinced that life has taught him all the lessons he has to learn: His wife has left him, and his two remaining daughters have grown up and moved... Read more

The Blood Artists - Abridged

By: Chuck Hogan

Narrated by: Gordon Thomson

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stephen Pearse and Peter Maryk are doctors who once worked together to research a horrifying virus outbreak in the Congo. Now Pearse heads the Bureau of Disease Control, and Maryk runs the clandestine special pathogens section of the disease detectives— making the two scientists bitter enemies. But when the disease from the Congo... Read more

C.S.A. - Abridged

By: Howard Means

Narrated by: Richard Gilliland

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For President Spencer Jefferson Lee— the great-great-grandson of both Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee— it's politics as usual. On one side, the lily-white Senate wants quid pro quo; on the other, the all-Black House has an agenda of its own. The powers-that-be agree on one thing: Utter separation between the races is... Read more

Attack on the Queen - Abridged

By: Richard Henrick

Narrated by: William Atherton

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Aboard the majestic ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II, the world's most powerful leaders meet to launch a new era of peace and global cooperation. For Chinese terrorists who believe that the summit will make their Asian homeland a pawn of Western imperialist power, this summit represents a betrayal. They infiltrate the ship— and in a... Read more

Red Prophet - Abridged

By: Orson Card

Narrated by: Nana Visitor

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The second installment of Orson Scott Card' s best-selling series The Tales of Alvin Maker.In the first tale of Alvin Maker— Seventh Son— listeners are introduced to a pioneer America where magic works and special talents are utilized in marvelous ways. In this second installment in the Tales of Alvin Maker,... Read more

Blue Collar Blues - Abridged

By: Rosalyn McMillan

Narrated by: Denise Nicholas

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A sizzling novel set against the backdrop of the Detroit car world.Champion Motors, one of Detroit's biggest auto manufacturers, is shutting down plants and laying off its workers. Tensions are mounting and violence is erupting. The lack of overtime to go around and a fatal attraction between employees at the plant ends in murder. Rife with... Read more

Heartfire - Abridged

By: Orson Card

Narrated by: Nana Visitor

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fifth installment of Orson Scott Card' s best-selling series The Tales of Alvin MakerPeggy Guester is a Torch, whose power is so great that she can follow the paths of each person's future and know their most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvin's birth, Peggy has protected him. Now they are married, but their destinies... Read more

The Ballad of Frankie Silver - Abridged

By: Sharyn McCrumb

Narrated by: Sharyn McCrumb

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One hundred years after a woman is hanged, the search for justice reveals a story of faith, obsession, and murder.In 1832, 18-year-old Frankie Silver was charged with murdering her young husband. In 1833, she became the first woman in the state of North Carolina to be hanged for murder. But was she guilty? More than 100 years later, Tennessee... Read more

The Washington Irving Library

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Efrem Zimbalist

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Washington Irving's tales of romance, travel, biographical discourse, and literary musing introduced such classic characters as Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, and the Headless Horsemen of Sleepy Hollow. A sage, storyteller, and wit, Irving earned his preeminence in early American literature with these miniature masterpieces that have stood the... Read more

Legends of the Ferengi - Abridged

By: Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe

Narrated by: Armin Shimmerman

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A collection of the guiding principles of the galaxy's most successful entrepreneurs, using coveted Ferengi wisdom and recounting legendary tales of profit.

For centuries the famous Ferengi "Rules of Acquisition" have been the guiding principles of the galaxy's most successful entrepreneurs. But the wisdom behind them was not won without a high... Read more

The Last Valentine - Abridged

By: James Pratt

Narrated by: Vyto Ruginis

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On February 14, 1944, Caroline Thomas said goodbye to her beloved husband, a Navy pilot sent to the Pacific. For half a century, she waited for him to return— until a miracle happened and she received his "Last Valentine." Their son, Neil Thomas, Jr., wants to share the powerful message of his parents' tragic, yet triumphant, 50-year... Read more

Caesar - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is 54 B.C. Gaius Julius Caesar is sweeping through Gaul. While his victories in the name of Rome are epic, the conservative leaders of the Republic are not pleased -- they are terrified. Where will the boundless ambition of Rome's most brilliant soldier stop? He must be destroyed before he can overthrow the government and install himself as... Read more

The Old Curiosity Shop - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In London, Little Nell lives in The Old Curiosity Shop with her grandfather, who has a weakness for gambling. Hoping to mend his finances, the old man borrows money from Quilp, a moneylender and swindler. After losing that money as well, the grandfather flees to the country with Nell in a desperate attempt to escape the clutches of Quilp, who... Read more

A Virtuous Woman - Abridged

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Terry Beaver & Kaye Gibbons

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a... Read more