Winona's Web - Abridged
By: Priscilla Cogan
Narrated by: Salome Jens
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When Winona Pathfinder, an elderly Lakota Sioux medicine woman, announces she intends to die soon, she is referred to psychologist Dr. Meggie O'Connor for counseling. A reluctant client, the feisty Winona decides to turn the tables and teach Dr. O'Connor a thing or two about life. Can the doctor convince Winona to step back from the gates to the... Read more
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookA Confederacy of Dunces
By: John Kennedy Toole
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book ReviewA green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears... Read more
View audiobookA 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
View audiobookComanche Moon
By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The epic four-volume cycle that began with Larry McMurty's Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, Lonesome Dove, is completed with this brilliant and haunting novel—a capstone in a mighty tradition of storytelling.
Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, now in their middle years, are just beginning to deal with the enigmas of the adult... Read more
The Children's Book of Virtues - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: William J. Bennett
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the #1 national bestseller comes the definitive audio treasury of great moral takes for young children and their parents, including ten postcard-sized reproductions of Michael Hague's beautiful illustrations and featuring performances by:
The Bennett Family
(William, Elayne, John and Joseph)
Barbara Bush
Dorian Harewood
Charlton... Read more
Underworld - Abridged
By: Don DeLillo
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Award
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Howell’s Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books
“A great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner.” —San Francisco Chronicle
*With a... Read more
William J Bennett Children's Audio Treasury - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: William J. Bennett
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The perfect companion to William J. Bennett's bestseller The Book of Virtues, The Children's Book of Virtues Audio Treasury is the ideal storybook for parents and children to enjoy together.
With selections from The Book of Virtues, from Aesop and Robert Frost to George Washington's life as well as Native American and African folklore, The... Read more
Cimarron Rose - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland must confront the past in order to save his illegitimate son from a murder conviction in this brilliant, fast-paced thriller from beloved New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.
Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His... Read more
Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Stephanie Beacham
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Falsely accused of a crime and betrayed by his closest friend, the weaver Silas Marner has been hoarding his earnings for 15 years. Distanced from his religious community, he has devoted himself to his work and taken pleasure only in counting his coins. Then in a single day, his gold is stolen and a lovely child appears on his doorstep. As he... Read more
View audiobookThoreau & Emerson
By: Henry David Thoreau & Ralph Waldo Emerson
Narrated by: Russ Barnett
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The timeless wisdom of two of America's most celebrated philosophers is captured in this anthology containing selections from Thoreau's Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience and Emerson's Introduction to Thoreau, Self-Reliance, Nature, The American Scholar, Education, and Politics. The distinguished voice of Russ Barnett brings the great... Read more
View audiobookWhite Crosses - Abridged
By: Larry Watson
Narrated by: Beau Bridges
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Larry Watson's previous fiction evoking contemporary Western small-town life has won him awards, a dedicated readership, and unqualified critical praise. Now he has written a novel that envelops the rich emotional terrain of his beloved Montana in a mystery that is both unexpected and unforgettable.
After a nighttime accident at the bottom of... Read more
She's Come Undone - Abridged
By: Wally Lamb
Narrated by: Kathy Najimy
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this New York Times bestselling extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.
"Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free... Read more
The Evening Star
By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: Dana Ivey
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The earthy humor and the powerful emotional impact that set McMurtry's Terms of Endearment apart from other novels now rise to brilliant new heights with The Evening Star.
McMurtry takes us deep into the heart of Texas, and deep into the heart of one of the most memorable characters of our time, Aurora Greenway—along with her family, friends, and... Read more
My Other Life
By: Paul Theroux
Narrated by: David Dukes
Length: 18 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Spanning almost thirty years, My Other Life traces the journey of a fictional Paul Theroux—from young bachelorhood in Africa to his travels between continents, from in and out of marriage through various affairs and multiple means of employment. From his early education at the knee of a highly eccentric uncle until his years as a fledgling... Read more
View audiobookThe Book of Ruth - Abridged
By: Jane Hamilton
Narrated by: Mare Winningham
Length: 4 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"I learned slowly, that if you don't look at the world with perfect vision, you 're bound to get yourself cooked "
Having come within an inch of her life, Ruth Dahl is determined to take a good look at it -- to figure out whether, in fact, she's to blame for the mess.
Pegged the loser in a small-town family that doesn't have much going for it in... Read more
Don Quixote de la Mancha - Abridged
By: Miguel Cervantes
Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Entranced by romantic tales of heroism and chivalry, Don Quixote— self-proclaimed knight errant— embarks on a delusional quest for fame and adventure. The eccentric Spanish country gentleman and his companion Sancho encounter an array of unforgettable characters and undertake some of the most famously foolhardy exploits... Read more
View audiobookVisions of Cody - Abridged
By: Jack Kerouac
Narrated by: Graham Parker
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. . . . I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart . . . because now I know MY HEART DOES GROW." —Jack Kerouac, in a letter to John Clellon Holmes
An underground legend by the time it was finally... Read more
Ellen Foster - Abridged
By: Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy."
So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise,... Read more
The Age of Innocence - Abridged
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Joanne Woodward
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A masterful portrait of desire and betrayal that takes place during the sumptuous Gilded Age, The Age of Innocence questions the morals and assumptions of elite 1870s New York society when "scandal was more dreaded than disease." Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's best families, is happily anticipating a highly... Read more
View audiobookAccordion Crimes - Abridged
By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx brings the immigrant experience to life in this stunning novel that traces the ownership of a simple green accordion.
E. Annie Proulx’s Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the... Read more
The James Joyce Collection
By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Gabriel Byrne
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In short stories, poems, and monumental novels, James Joyce set out to discover the meaning of his nationality, simultaneously celebrating and ridiculing the history of Ireland in the brilliant style that has made him the most towering figure in the literary landscape of the early 20th century. In this audio, Dublin-born Gabriel Byrne brings to... Read more
View audiobookIn the Country of Last Things - Abridged
By: Paul Auster
Narrated by: Vanessa Redgrave
Length: 2 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A dystopian novel about one woman' s efforts to preserve her humanity despite great loss.From a life of ease and comfort, Anna Blume embarks on a search for her missing brother. Soon she finds herself trapped in a city obsessed with last things— with the means and manner of death. In this culture of doom, the masses are... Read more
View audiobookSophie's World - Abridged
By: Jostein Gaaardner & Kitt Weagant
Narrated by: Jacob Needleman
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One day, 14-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find two notes in her mailbox, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls... Read more
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