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A Separate Peace - Abridged
By: John Knowles
Narrated by: Matthew Modine
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happened between them at school one summer during the early years of World War II is the subject of A Separate Peace. A great bestseller for over thirty years--one of the most starkly moving parables ever written of the dark forces that... Read more
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Memoirs of A Geisha - Abridged
By: Arthur Golden
Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. It concludes with... Read more
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East of the Mountains
By: David Guterson
Narrated by: Don Hastings
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes ”a strikingly joyful book and a monumental achievement” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) about a dying man’s final journey through the American West.
When he discovers that he has terminal cancer, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens refuses to simply sit... Read more
Golf in the Kingdom - Abridged
By: Michael Murphy
Narrated by: John Hannah
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The perennially bestselling golf title, Golf in the Kingdom, hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as the "masterpiece on the mysticism of golf," is a wonderfully told romp through the Scottish links, the most beautiful and challenging golf courses in the world where, truly, anything is possible. This audio discusses the essential deep truths... Read more
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Ishmael - Abridged
By: Daniel Quinn
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author.
“A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an... Read more
Half A Heart - Abridged
By: Rosellen Brown
Narrated by: Jayne Atkinson & LisaGay Hamilton
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Rosellen Brown's extraordinary new novel, Half a Heart, tells the story of a former civil rights activist, Miriam Vener, who feels trapped in the comfortable white upper-middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston in the 1980's. That life suddenly shatters with the appearance, after almost eighteen years, of Veronica (Ronnee), her... Read more
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The Bluest Eye - Abridged
By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison & Ruby Dee
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose... Read more
Great American Suspense
By: various authors
Narrated by: Geraint Wyn Davies
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Immerse yourself. Savor the best storytelling from the greatest authors of the supernatural; the haunting language and brilliant rendition create an extraordinary atmosphere.This audio recording includes:"Ethan Brand" by Nathaniel Hawthorne: a lime-burner and his young son encounter the man searching for the Unpardonable Sin."The Yellow Sign" by... Read more
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Wonderful Town - Abridged
By: David Remnick
Narrated by: Tyne Daly, Maria Tucci, Joe Morton & Timothy Je...
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its... Read more
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Strong for Potatoes - Abridged
By: Cynthia Thayer
Narrated by: Amanda Karr
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A striking literary debut reminiscent of Barbara Kingsolver and Dorothy Allison.Blue, a lonely adolescent, overcomes a disfiguring accident and misguided parents to create a rich life on her own terms. Aided by her Native American grandfather— a Passamaquoddy basket-maker— and the memory of a twin who died at birth, Blue... Read more
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Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of the enigmatic Kurtz and his outpost in deepest Congo as told by Marlow is an adventure story that examines the intent and effects of colonization. It remains one of the most controversial and profound writings of world literature.
Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski, on December 3, 1857, in Russian... Read more
The Ambassadors
By: Henry James
Narrated by: Walter Zimmerman
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Introduction by Colm Tóibín
One of the final masterpieces from one of the world’s greatest authors, Henry James’s The Ambassadors is now available for the first time in a Modern Library edition, with a new Introduction by acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín. A keenly observed tale of a man’s awakening to life, this dark comic novel follows Lewis... Read more
Common Sense
By: Thomas Paine
Narrated by: Adrian Cronauer
Length: 1 hour 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"When my country, into which I had just set foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir," wrote Paine. This pamphlet, which he had published in 1776, put into print the word every man was thinking but no man dared say: Independence! It captured the imagination of the colonists as no other document had. Read more
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Ahab's Wife - Abridged
By: Sena Jeter Naslund
Narrated by: Maryann Plunkett
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature -- along with "Call me Ishmael." And Una Spenser, the transcendent hero at the center of Ahab's Wife may well become every bit as memorable as Ahab.
Inspired by a brief passage, in Moby, Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an entirely new universe -- an... Read more
Raj
By: Gita Mehta
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 16 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Raj is the remarkable story of a woman of royal birth coming of age during India’s fight for independence.Jaya Singh, the intelligent, beautiful and compassionate daughter of the Maharajah and Maharani of Balmer, has been raised in the thousand-year-old tradition of purdah, a strict regime of seclusion, silence, and submission. But with the... Read more
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True At First Light
By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: Brian Dennehy
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Both a revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer.
A blend of... Read more
Duane's Depressed
By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Surrounded by his children, who all seem to be going through life crises, and his wife, who is wrestling with her own demons, small-town Texas local Duane Moore can't seem to make sense of his life anymore. To the perplexity of his family and friends, he ditches his pickup, starts walking everywhere, and moves to a crude shack six miles out of... Read more
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Turn of the Century - Abridged
By: Kurt Andersen
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
As big and exciting as the next century, this is a novel of real life at our giddy, feverish, topsy-turvy edge of the millennium. Turn of the Century is a good old-fashioned novel about the day after tomorrow--an uproarious, exquisitely observed panorama of our world as the twentieth century morphs into the twenty-first, transforming family,... Read more
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Close Range
By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Frances Fisher, Campbell Scott & Bruce Greenwood
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time.
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below,"... Read more
Falling Bodies - Abridged
By: Andrew Mark
Narrated by: Dylan Baker
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An eloquent illumination of the condition, Falling Bodies is an extraordinary debut novel of love and loss, despair and renewal, and the promise -- and limitations -- of the laws of physics.
Jackson's wife and two children are gone -- taken away in the blink of an eye by a terrible car accident. A professor of physics, Jackson can mathematically... Read more
Der kleine Prinz (Gekürzt) - Abridged
By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Narrated by: Ulrich Mühe
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut. Das Wesentliche ist für die Augen unsichtbar." Der Kleine Prinz lebt zusammen mit seiner Rose auf dem Planeten Asteroid B 612 und besucht die Erde. Hier lernt er neben dem Erzähler, der mit seinem Flugzeug in der Wüste notlandete, unter anderem den Fuchs kennen, der ihm das Vertraut-machen erklärt: "Du bist... Read more
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Bucking the Sun - Abridged
By: Ivan Doig
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bucking the Sun is the story of the Duff family, homesteaders driven from the Montana bottomland to work on one of the New Deal’s most audacious projects—the damming of the Missouri River.
Through the story of each family member—a wrathful father, a mettlesome mother, and three very different sons, and the memorable women they marry—Doig conveys... 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
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