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Lightning
By: Dean Koontz
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontzโs 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 Doddโa 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 Doddโs 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
โThe happiest, saddest, sweetest book about rock โnโ roll that Iโve ever experienced.โโChuck Klosterman
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Mix tapes: We all have our favorites. Stick one into a deck, press play, and youโre 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
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 townโso forget about playing games of football.His best friends are two pet chickens, Michaelangelo and Donatelloโnamed after (who else?) the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.His family owns the town's only gas station/copy shop/coffee houseโtheir Picasso Pies are to die for, but... 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 authorโs 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 Austenโs debut novel is a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly in which two sisters who represent โsenseโ and โsensibility,โ 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 audiobookAnne of Green Gables
By: L. M. Montgomery
Narrated by: Susan OโMalley
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 audiobookSaving 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 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 Rooseveltโs harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
The River of Doubtโit is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the... Read more
The 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 whoโwith valor, spirit, respect, and unparalleled leadershipโfought 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 audiobookInkheart
By: Cornelia Funke
Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave
Length: 15 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the sensational New York Times bestseller The Thief Lord comes a thrilling new adventure about magic and self-discovery.
Meggie lives a quiet life alone with her father, a bookbinder. But her father has a deep secret--he possesses an extraordinary magical power. One day a mysterious stranger arrives who seems linked to her... Read more
The 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 โTheir Eyes Are Watching Godโ) who went from spinning tales on the front porch of a country store, to writing prize-winning stories,... Read more
View audiobookPride and Prejudice
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Introduction by Anna Quindlen
Commentary by Margaret Oliphant, George Saintsbury, Mark Twain, A. C. Bradley, Walter A. Raleigh, and Virginia Woolf
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Nominated as one of Americaโs best-loved novels by PBSโsย The Great American Read
โIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.โ... 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
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