Acclaimed author Robert Olmstead's Far Bright Star "packs a potent emotional wallop" (Booklist). In 1916, aging cavalryman Napoleon Childs leads an expedition into Mexico to capture Pancho Villa and bring him to justice. But Childs' troops are wiped out, and he is left to die alone in the Mexican desert. "[This] brilliantly expressive, condensed tale of resilience and dusty determination flows with the kind of literary cadence few writers have mastered."-Publishers Weekly
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All Men of Genius
By: Lev AC Rosen
Narrated by: Emily Gray
Length: 16 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in a steampunk version of Victorian England, Lev AC Rosen's acclaimed debut novel All Men of Genius follows the fantastical adventures of Violet Adams. Determined to attend the prestigious Illyria College, Violet gains entrance by masquerading as her twin brother Ashton. But continuing the scheme turns out to be difficult-especially when... Read more »
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Deadly Rumors
By: Cheris Hodges
Narrated by: Shari Peele
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Elite investigator Zoe Harrington isn't about to be fooled twice. She knows all the tempting by-any-means-necessary games FBI agent Carver Banks will use to close a case. So when he needs her help with a missing person case, she's happy to charge him double the fee-and keep his sizzling moves at arm's length. But when the search strikes too... Read more »
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Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
Narrated by: Christina Moore
Length: 15 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1844, Missouri belle Julia Dent met dazzling horseman Lieutenant Ulysses S Grant. Four years passed before their parents permitted them to wed, and the groom's abolitionist family refused to attend the ceremony. Since childhood, Julia owned as a slave another Julia, known as Jule. Jule guarded her mistress's closely held twin secrets: She had... Read more »
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Fates and Traitors
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
Narrated by: Christina Moore
Length: 15 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker returns with a riveting work of historical fiction following the notorious John Wilkes Booth and the four women who kept his perilous confidence. The world would not look upon his like again. John Wilkes Booth-driven son of an acclaimed British stage actor and a Covent Garden... Read more »
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Mission
By: Soraya Lane
Narrated by: Celeste Ciulla
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Luke's toughest fight yet is for his family In the Special Forces, Luke Brown trained for the harshest of war situations; pity there's no training for being a husband and father. After two years away, he wasn't expecting his wife to welcome him open-armed, but he wasn't anticipating divorce papers either. When she sees him standing on her... Read more »
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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 11
By: Jonathan Strahan
Narrated by: Michael G. Welch, MiMi Chang, Kathleen Gati, Thom Rivera, Elizabeth Liang, Jay Aaseng, Almarie Guerra, Lisa Renee Pitts, Ione Bulter, Lauren Baldwin, Ramon De Ocampo & Rich Miller
Length: 23 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Jonathan Strahan, the award-winning and much lauded editor of many of genre's best known anthologies is back with his 11th volume in this fascinating series, featuring the best science fiction and fantasy. With established names and new talent this diverse and ground-breaking collection will take the reader to the outer-reaches of space and the... Read more »
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Reforming the Viscount
By: Annie Burrows
Narrated by: Jilly Bond
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
To refuse him twice would be madness! Viscount Rothersthorpe can't tear his eyes from Lydia Morgan any more than he can calm the raging fury coursing through his veins. Is there no end to the irony? Come to town to find a wife, only to be taunted by the past? Furtive glances across the ballroom are not helping to ease Lydia's state of shock--... Read more »
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Marco Polo and the Wonders of the East
By: Hal Marcovitz
Narrated by: Bill Brooke
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of the Italian tourist who became the first European to completely cross Asia and document his experieces in a book, The Travels of Marco Polo. Read more »
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Mudbound
By: Hillary Jordan
Narrated by: Ezra Knight, Kate Forbes, Joseph Collins, Tom Stechschulte, Peter Jay Fernandez & Brenda Pressley
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Hillary Jordan's mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her... Read more »
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Coretta Scott King
By: Lisa Renee Rhodes
Narrated by: Caroline Clay
Length: 3 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From Chelsea House's Black Americans of Achievement series comes a biography of the beloved humanitarian. Read more »
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A Gathering of Old Men
By: Ernest J. Gaines
Narrated by: Peter Francis James, Michelle-Denise Woods & Sally Darling
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Stirring, heroic, and wonderfully laced with the musical languages of the Bayou, Ernest J. Gaines-the foremost voice in contemporary African American literature-adds another breathtaking saga to his canon with A Gathering of Old Men. When Sheriff Mapes is summoned to a sugarcane plantation to find a dead Cajun farmer, he knows who committed the... Read more »
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A Venetian Affair
By: Andrea Di Robilant
Narrated by: Paul Hecht, Lisette Lecat & Jeff Woodman
Length: 11 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
In the waning days of Venice's glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city's oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter of a Venetian mother and British father. Because of their dramatically different positions... Read more »
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Ralph Compton The Convict Trail
By: Ralph Compton & Joseph A. West
Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In the grand tradition of legendary author Ralph Compton comes this tense, thrill-a-minute Western. Deputy Marshal Logan Kane is in for one tough ride. He's got six ruthless convicts caged in a prison wagon, and it's his job alone to transport them safely across treacherous, unforgiving terrain. Holding off rustlers, outlaw gangs, lynch mobs,... Read more »
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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 13
By: Jonathan Strahan
Narrated by: Corey Allen, Morgan Hallett, Catherine Ho, John Keating, Rosalyn Landor, Richard Poe & Neil Shah
Length: 24 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The best of the year's Science Fiction and Fantasy stories as selected by the multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan. The series moves to its new publishing home, Solaris, with this eighth annual volume of the celebrated and popular series. DISTANT WORLDS, TIME TRAVEL, EPIC ADVENTURE, UNSEEN WONDERS AND MUCH MORE! The best, most original... Read more »
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Fay
By: Larry Brown
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
Length: 17 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Larry Brown is hailed as one of today's most talented Southern writers. With the release of each book, including Dirty Work, Father and Son, and Joe, reviewers and fans offer increasingly enthusiastic praise for the astonishing characters he creates. At 17, Fay Jones leaves her family's squalid home with $3 in her bra and ragged sneakers on her... Read more »
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The Morning After
By: Kendra Norman-Bellamy & Hank Stewart
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Number one Essence best-selling authors Kendra Norman-Bellamy and Hank Stewart present this long-awaited sequel to their immensely popular Three Fifty-seven A.M. Essie Mae Richardson means the world to the residents of the Braxton Park subdivision. So when she dies, all the hard work she did to rebuild fraying relationships and bolster broken... Read more »
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How to Breathe Underwater
By: Julie Orringer
Narrated by: Catherine Ho & Nicole Wood
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times notable book and winner of The Northern California Book Award for Best Short Fiction, these nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this debut. In "When She is Old and I Am Famous" a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin's beauty. In "Note to Sixth-Grade Self" a band of popular girls exert their... Read more »
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Crack and Cocaine
By: Linda Bayer
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Abridged: No
From Chelsea House's Junior Drug Awareness series comes a discussion about crack, a highly addictive form of cocaine that started appearing in the late 80s and early 90s, giving rise to the number of babies born addicted to drugs. Read more »
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Lafayette and the American Revolution
By: Russell Freedman
Narrated by: Luis Moreno
Length: 2 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman's thrilling account of a daring young French nobleman who helped bring victory at Yorktown and who became a lifelong friend of President Washington will fascinate young historians. When the Marquis de Lafayette ran off to join the American Revolution against the explicit orders of the king of France, he was a... Read more »
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The Secrets She Carried
By: Lynne Graham
Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
From the embers of their passion...Erin Turner and Cristophe Donakis set the bed sheets alight during their scorching affair. But Erin's hopes of a diamond ring turned to ash when he unceremoniously kicked her out of his bed and onto the cold London streets. Years later, Erin's world is rocked again when she meets her newest business client. She... Read more »
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A One Woman Man
By: Travis Hunter
Narrated by: Mark Damon Johnson
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author Travis Hunter delivers another edgy, yet genuine story of family secrets and missteps. In this story of two brothers and their sister, the people they love aren't always who they appear to be. Beloved teacher and widower Dallas Dupree spends most of his time with his daughter Aja. But the new woman in Dallas' life is hiding a... Read more »
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Lady with the Devil's Scar
By: Sophia James
Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
BEHIND THE ENEMY'S WALLS Badly disfigured Lady Isobel Dalceann has fought fiercely to defend her Keep, with little thought for her safety. Why, then, has she let a stranger within her walls? Whilst he threatens danger, his battered body marked by war mirrors her own scars and tempts her to put her faith in him. Marc de Courtenay is a mercenary... Read more »
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His Majesty's Child
By: Sharon Kendrick
Narrated by: Jilly Bond
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A best-selling author on both sides of the Atlantic, Sharon Kendrick pens romances that stir listeners' souls. In His Majesty's Child, King Casimiro rules all of Zaffirinthos, with only one problem-an accident has left him with amnesia. Casimiro has no earthly idea why he's taken Melissa Maguire, a delicate Englishwoman, as his queen. As... Read more »
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Lewis and Clark
By: Richard Kozar
Narrated by: Bill Brooke
Length: 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This book is a history of the team that explored the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase territory from 1804-06 while seeking the elusive Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. Read more »
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Celine Dion
By: Norma Jean Lutz
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Abridged: No
This Chelsea House's Galaxy of Superstars book features Celine Dion, a frequent chart-topper in the United States for a decade. Read more »
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'NSync
By: John Grabowski
Narrated by: Scott Shina
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Traces the lives and careers of today's hottest starts- Great for reluctant readers- Attractive full-color covers and candid photos- Completely up-to-date biographies Read more »
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Britney Spears
By: Norma Jean Lutz
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
From Chelsea House's Galaxy of Superstars series comes the story of Britney Spears, who began her career in the 1990s update of the Mickey Mouse Club. Read more »
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Cameron Diaz
By: Anne Hill
Narrated by: Carine Montbertrand
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This biography, from the Chelsea House Galaxy of Superstars series, traces the rise to fame of one of today's most popular movie stars. Read more »
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No Dark Valley
By: Jamie Langston Turner
Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh
Length: 22 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Christy Award-winner Jamie Langston Turner pens another inspiring tale of forgiveness and redemption in this welldeveloped novel. This emotional story delves into the complexities of family relations and religious devotion. Her grandmother's funeral brings Celia Coleman back to that small Georgia town that she swore never to step in again. As... Read more »
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Passion and the Prince
By: Penny Jordan
Narrated by: Jilly Bond
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
He wants to hate her, but he's passionately attracted to her...Just who is Lily Wrightington - cynical fashion photographer or studious art historian? Prince Marco di Lucchesi can't hide his haughty disdain for this Englishwoman - or his violent attraction to her! As they tour the captivating palazzos of northern Italy together for Lily's work... Read more »
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Shetani's Sister
By: Iceberg Slim & Justin Gifford
Narrated by: Korey Jackson
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
From the multi-million copy master of vernacular black literature and pioneeer of hip hop culture, a masterpiece of crime fiction set in Los Angeles' meanest, toughest streets. Here is the newly discovered novel by Iceberg Slim, the creator and undisputed master of African-American "street literature," a man who profoundly influenced hip hop and... Read more »
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USA Noir
By: Dennis LeHane, Johnny Temple, George Pelecanos, Susan Straight, Pete Hamill, Joyce Carol Oates, Terrance Hayes, Jerome Charyn, Maggie Estep, Bayo Ojikutu, Tim McLoughlin, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Reed Farrel Coleman, Karen Karbo, Michael Connelly, Megan Abbott, Lee Child, Jonathan Safran Foer, James H. Hall, Elyssa East, Don Winslow, J. Malcolm Garcia, Julie Smith, Domenic Stansberry, Joseph Bruchac, Laura Lippman, Pir Rothenberg, Luis Alberto Urrea, John O'Brien, S.J. Rozan, Asali Solomon, William Kent Krueger, T. Jefferson Parker, Tim Broderick, Bharti Kirchner, Lisa Sandlin & Jeffery Deaver
Narrated by: Pete Bradbury, James Colby, Andrea Gallo, L.J. Ganser, Korey Jackson & Jennifer Kidwell
Length: 22 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books has published over sixty volumes in its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Featuring Noir Series stories from: Dennis... Read more »
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Phantom Hill
By: Ralph Compton & Carlton Stowers
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A ruthless rancher crosses the wrong man in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series... Haunted by memories of the Civil War, Coy Jennings just wants to find work as a ranch hand and to begin saving for a small farm where he could finally enjoy peace and quiet. Arriving in the Texas settlement of Phantom Hill, Coy soon... Read more »
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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 12
By: Jonathan Strahan
Narrated by: Nick Hardcastle, Greg Tremblay, Rachel Jacobs, MiMi Chang, Janet Metzger, MW Cartozian Wilson, Sisi Aisha Johnson, Deepti Gupta, Shridhar Solanki, Josh Clark, Dan Woren, Susan Duerden & Ava Lucas
Length: 26 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The latest in a series that has been called "a must-read for fans of science fiction, fantasy, and short stories in general" Science fiction is a portal that opens doors onto futures too rich and strange to imagine. Fantasy takes us through doorways of magic and wonder. For more than a decade award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has sifted... Read more »
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An Accidental Birthright
By: Maisey Yates
Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
An IVF clinic mix-up means eternally single Alison Whitman is now carrying the child - no, the royal heir - of Maximo Rossi, Prince of Turan! Now he'll take her for his wife! Maximo had given up on the hope of fatherhood a long time ago - until this surprise second chance. Now, the dynamic ruler will seize the opportunity with both hands.... Read more »
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Denzel Washington
By: Anne Hill
Narrated by: J.D. Jackson
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Chelsea House Black Americans of Achievement series, this biography focuses on one of today's most talented and popular screen stars. Read more »
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Magic Seeds
By: V.S. Naipaul
Narrated by: Aasif Mandvi
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's magnificent Magic Seeds continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life. Having left a wife and a livelihood in Africa, Willie is persuaded to return to his native India to join an underground movement on behalf of its... Read more »
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In His Brother's Place
By: Elizabeth Lane
Narrated by: Anna Salinas
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
"I want the boy." For three years Angie Montoya hid her son from her late fiance's family until his brother tracked them down. Now Jordan Cooper demands she move to his Santa Fe ranch-- the boy's birthright. But how can Angie live with the man who called her a gold digger the man whose one kiss she's never forgotten? Racked by guilt since his... Read more »
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Not For Sale
By: Sandra Marton
Narrated by: Jennifer Woodward
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
USA Today best-selling author Sandra Marton has earned a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for her catalog of luminous romance tales. Not for Sale stars Caroline Hamilton, a linguist desperate to earn some real money. Enter Brazilian businessman Lucas Vieira, who wants to hire her as a translator and stand-in girlfriend. Considering Lucas'... Read more »
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London
By: A.N. Wilson
Narrated by: Christopher Kay
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
This entertaining volume provides a concise history of one of the world's premiere cities. Acclaimed author A.N. Wilson starts at the beginning, when London was founded by the Romans, and continues to contemporary times, hitting all the historical highlights along the way. London is the perfect starter book for anyone wishing to understand this... Read more »
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The Clearing
By: Tim Gautreaux
Narrated by: Henry Strozier
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
With The Clearing, Southeastern Booksellers Award winner Tim Gautreaux delivers a brutal novel of love, family, and redemption. Randolph Aldridge travels to a snake-infested Cypress mill in Louisiana to find his brother Byron, a troubled veteran of World War I. Once there, Randolph finds that By is a shell of his former self-and that the... Read more »
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Ricky Martin
By: Matt Newman
Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Chelsea House Galaxy of Superstars series, this is an exciting biography of one of today's hottest stars. Read more »
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Sojourner Truth
By: Peter Krass
Narrated by: Caroline Clay
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From Chelsea House's Black Americans of Achievement series comes this biography of the legendary anti slavery activist. Read more »
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Far Bright Star
By: Robert Olmstead
Narrated by: Ed Sala
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed author Robert Olmstead's Far Bright Star "packs a potent emotional wallop" (Booklist). In 1916, aging cavalryman Napoleon Childs leads an expedition into Mexico to capture Pancho Villa and bring him to justice. But Childs' troops are wiped out, and he is left to die alone in the Mexican desert. "[This] brilliantly expressive, condensed... Read more »
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The Mill on the Floss
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Jill Tanner
Length: 23 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1861, The Mill on the Floss was a best-seller in its day. This classic novel explores the traditions and moral expectations of an English rural community. Maggie Tulliver is a girl of uncontrollable romantic ideals. But her brother, along with most of society, cannot accept her brashness and vitality. Narrator Jill Tanner... Read more »
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The Secret Casella Baby
By: Cathy Williams
Narrated by: Louisa Jane Underwood
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? This is a question ordinary girl Holly George never thought she'd be able to answer! Until one sizzling night with brooding Brazilian Luiz changes her life. Not only is Luiz Casella a billionaire-- but now Holly is expecting his baby! Holly can don all the silk and diamonds Luiz can shower her... Read more »
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The Royal Rabbits of London
By: Santa Montefiore & Simon Sebag Montefiore
Narrated by: Mike Grady
Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Life is an adventure. Anything in the world is possible - by will and by luck, with a moist carrot, a wet nose and a slice of mad courage! Shylo has always been the runt of the litter, the weakest and quietest of all of his family, his siblings spend their days making fun of him for not being like the rest of them. But when Shylo stumbles across... Read more »
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Contract with Consequences
By: Miranda Lee
Narrated by: Simone Phillips
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
He can give her everything she's ever wanted...Last year Scarlet King was a blushing bride-to-be, but now she's alone and more than anything longs for a baby. This time she's determined to prove she doesn't need a man! Successful, spine-tinglingly gorgeous John Mitchell has desired Scarlet for years, so seizes the chance to claim her. But his... Read more »
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Airborne
By: Ian Gardner
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Some men are born to be warriors, and Ed Shames is one of these men. His incredible combat record includes service at DDay, Operation Market Garden, Bastogne and finally in Germany itself. He was the first man in the Dachau concentration camp and captured Hitler's infamous Eagle's nest. Shames appeared in 'Band of Brothers' but now, with the... Read more »
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His Final Bargain
By: Melanie Milburne
Narrated by: Louisa Jane Underwood
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
A beautiful love affair and a burning betrayal Eliza Lincoln is stunned to find Leo Valente at her door; four years ago his passionate embrace was a brief taste of freedom from her suffocating engagement. Until Leo discovered her secret Yet he hasn't come to rekindle their affair. He has a proposition he knows Eliza can't refuse: she's the only... Read more »
Learn more| Author | Robert Olmstead |
| Narrator | Ed Sala |
| ISBN | 9781440760587 |
| Length | 6 hours 34 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Recorded Books, Inc. |
| Publication date | September 18, 2009 |
| Edition | Unabridged |
| Libro.fm rank | #163,486 Overall |