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The Scaredy Cats
By: Allan Zullo
Narrated by: John Ratzenberger
Length: 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The Scaredy Cats from the Haunted Kids spine-chilling audiobook collection by Allan Zullo of true ghost stories that have happened to real kids. A perfect way to set the tone for Halloween or anytime you want an eerie tale to keep you up at night!Listen in as actor John Ratzenberger tells the following story: The Scaredy CatsA cat that boys are... Read more
View audiobookTropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s with unapologetic gusto, and is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, ""one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century."" The audiobook is narrated by acclaimed actor Campbell... Read more
View audiobookFight Club
By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: James Colby
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
THE FIRST RULE about fight club is you don't talk about fight club. Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with whitecollar jobs and failed lives take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and... Read more
View audiobookLord Valentine’s Castle
By: Robert Silverberg
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 19 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The search for his lost past leads to a battle for his future.The planet Majipoor is shared by humans and several alien races, including four-armed Skandars, three-eyed Liiman, and the native, shape-shifting Metamorphs. All are watched over by the King of Dreams, the labyrinth-dwelling Pontifex, and the Lady of the Isle of Sleep, while the... Read more
View audiobookI Was Told There'd Be Cake
By: Sloane Crosley
Narrated by: Sloane Crosley
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to siccing the cops on her mysterious neighbor, Crosley can do no right despite the best of... Read more
View audiobookAll Over But the Shoutin' - Abridged
By: Rick Bragg
Narrated by: Rick Bragg
Length: 2 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a... Read more
View audiobookThe Invisible Man
By: H.G. Wells
Narrated by: Victoria Morgan
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
" I had not expected the suffering. A night of racking anguish, sickness and fainting. I became insensible and woke languid in the darkness. I shall never forget that dawn, and the strange horror of seeing that my hands had become as clouded glass, and watching them grow clearer and thinner as the day went by. My limbs became glassy, the bones... Read more
View audiobookThe Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
Narrated by: George K Wilson
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal... Read more
View audiobookThe Ghost Brigades
By: John Scalzi
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
John Scalzi's eagerly anticipated sequel to the extraordinary Old Man's War
The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totally without normal human... Read more
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 audiobookThe Picture of Dorian Gray
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Dorian Gray, a handsome and narcissistic young man, lives thoughtlessly for his own pleasure—an attitude encouraged by the company he keeps. One day, after having his portrait painted, Dorian makes a frivolous Faustian wish: that he should always remain as young and beautiful as he is in that painting, while the portrait grows old in his... 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 audiobookLightning
By: Dean Koontz
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz’s brilliantly thrilling novel of suspense.In the midst of a raging blizzard, lightning struck on the night Laura Shane was born. And a mysterious blond-haired stranger showed up just in time to save her from dying. Years later, in the wake of another storm, Laura will be saved again. For someone... 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 audiobookLove Is a Mix Tape
By: Rob Sheffield
Narrated by: Rob Sheffield
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
“The happiest, saddest, sweetest book about rock ‘n’ roll that I’ve ever experienced.”—Chuck Klosterman
Mix tapes: We all have our favorites. Stick one into a deck, press play, and you’re instantly transported to another time in your life. For Rob Sheffield, that time was one of miraculous love and unbearable grief. A time that spanned seven... Read more
I 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
NOW AN HBO® LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS, NOMINATED FOR EIGHT EMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES
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 audiobookAnne of Green Gables
By: L. M. Montgomery
Narrated by: Susan O’Malley
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Anne Shirley, the orphan child who brings happiness and love into the lives of her foster family, is one of the most beloved heroines in all of literature.Anne, a wildly imaginative, red-headed chatterbox, tries to fit into the narrow confines of Victorian expectations, but her exuberant spirit keeps leaping delightfully beyond the bounds.When... 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 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 audiobookThe River of Doubt
By: Candice Millard
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the... Read more
Saving Fish from Drowning
By: Amy Tan
Narrated by: Amy Tan
Length: 17 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
San Francisco art patron Bibi Chen has planned a journey of the senses along the famed Burma Road for eleven lucky friends. But after her mysterious death, Bibi watches aghast from her ghostly perch as the travelers veer off her itinerary and embark on a trail paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses, Buddhist illusions and romantic desires.... 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
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