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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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Driving Blind
By: Ray Bradbury
Narrated by: Jim Frangione
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver's seat, off on twenty-one unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker. The journey promises to be a memorable one. Read more »
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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 minutes
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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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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Carrying the Rancher's Heir
By: Charlene Sands
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The passionate, impulsive evening Tagg Worth had spent in the arms of brown-eyed beauty Callie Sullivan was madness. Visions of their tryst still haunted him, but their one-night stand was a mistake the wealthy rancher swore he would not repeat. Hawk Sullivan's daughter was strictly off-limits—especially since Hawk's main goal in life was to put... 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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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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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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Sonia Sotomayor (Sonia Sotomayor: A Wise Decision)
By: Mario Szichman
Narrated by: Denisse Oller
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Sonia Sotomayor es la primera mujer de origen hispano que se convierte en la III juez de la Corte Suprema. Su origen Puertorriqueno y su gran capacidad para los estudios, en universidades como Yale, la catapultaron a tan importante puesto. En este libro, los editores de El diario la prensa y La opinion ofrecen una de las mas importantes... 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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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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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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Britney Spears
By: Norma Jean Lutz
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 1 hours 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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Siddhartha
By: Hermann Hesse
Narrated by: Firdous Bamji
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life -- the... Read more »
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
When Hank Morgan is cracked on the head by a crowbar in 19th-century Connecticut, one of literature's most extraordinary fantasy tales begins to unfold. Humorous, devilishly insightful, and resoundingly contemporary, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court remains one of the most celebrated stories in the canon of American writing. Awakening... Read more »
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The Prince
By: Niccolo Machiavelli
Narrated by: Nelson Runger
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Witty, informative, and devilishly shrewd, this work is a must-listen for anyone interested in politics and power. The world-renowned philosopher's classic treatise reveals the techniques and strategies for gaining and keeping political control. "How we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what... Read more »
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Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Michael Thompson
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the myth behind... Read more »
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The First Man
By: Albert Camus
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a fathers death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boys attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. Published thirty-five years after its discovery amid... Read more »
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The Safe House
By: Kiki Swinson
Narrated by: Simi Howe
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Packed with "high suspense" and "memorable choices and consequences" (Booklist) Kiki Swinson's novels sizzle with brutally unpredictable characters, breakneck plotting-and a uniquely gritty portrait of Southern life. Now she breaks all the rules as a young woman with two targets on her back tries to keep those she loves-and herself-alive . . .... Read more »
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El canto del agua (The Song of the Water)
By: Nelly Rosario
Narrated by: Adriana Sananes
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Estan desnudos. El muchacho acuna a la muchacha. Su piel es cobriza. Estan recostados en un sofa victoriano rodeados de ceramica egipcia de carton, un tigre salvaje disecado, un tambor de juguete y cocoteros glaseados. Una pradera americana se extiende tras ellos en apagados colores al oleo. Las sombras tiznan los musculos de los brazos, muslos... Read more »
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The Light in the Forest
By: Conrad Richter
Narrated by: Joel Fabiani
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
“True Son’s heart felt like a stone. How could this fantastic and inferior figure in a long fawn-colored garment like a woman’s be possibly anything to him—this pallid creature who revealed his feelings in front of all! In the boy’s mind came the picture of his Indian father. How differently he would have looked and acted. With what dignity and... Read more »
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A Treasury of Great American Scandals
By: Michael Farquhar
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Following on the heels of his national bestseller A Treasury of Royal Scandals, Michael Farquhar turns his attention to matters a little closer to home. From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and infamous sex scandals that have punctuated our history, we see our Founding Fathers and... Read more »
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Mi hijo precioso (My Precious Son)
By: David Sheff
Narrated by: Francisco Rivela
Length: 14 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Este es un libro brillante, conmovedor, desgarrador y fascinante. La historia de Sheff es sincera, porque dice la verdad que a muchos se nos hace dificil reconocer en nuestros hijos y que a veces esta latente y nos hacemos los ciegos para no verla. David Sheff nos presenta la adiccion y sus confusiones de una manera clara y aleccionadora,... Read more »
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'NSync
By: John Grabowski
Narrated by: Scott Shina
Length: 1 hours 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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The Call of the Wild
By: Jack London
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The Call of the Wild is a novel by American author Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush-a period when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog living at a ranch in California as the story opens. Stolen from his home and... 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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First Principles & Natural Law Part II
By: Hadley Arkes
Narrated by: Hadley Arkes
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
In Part II of First Principles and Natural Law, Professor Hadley Arkes delves further into the classic connection between morality and law. Indeed, this link between the basis of law and the principles that form the groundwork of moral judgment is very much at play in today’s world, as evidenced in everything from Supreme Court decisions to... Read more »
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Heidi
By: Johanna Spyri
Narrated by: John McDonough
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Orphaned at an early age, the young girl Heidi finds a home high in the Swiss Alps with her reclusive grandfather. There, each glorious day is filled with discovery, adventure and the friendship of a gentle goat boy, Peter. But when Heidi is sent away from her mountain paradise to a large, cold city, she is determined to find a way to return to... Read more »
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Cameron Diaz
By: Anne Hill
Narrated by: Carine Montbertrand
Length: 1 hours 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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Eugenie Grandet
By: Honore de Balzac
Narrated by: Jonathan Fried
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings... Read more »
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Once a Ferrara Wife...
By: Sarah Morgan
Narrated by: Julia Franklin
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The command comes from legendary billionaire Cristiano Ferrara, the husband she can't forget, but it might as well have come from the devil himself. The outrageously gorgeous Christian's power is a potent reminder of this Sicilian dynasty's unbreakable rule: once a Ferrara wife, always a Ferrara wife. 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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The Prince and the Pauper
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the more famous stories in children' s literature, The Prince and the Pauper has become an adult classic as well. Twain' s tall tale about a bedraggled street urchin who becomes king for a day, and his twin, the pampered Prince of Wales left to fend for himself among his seedier subjects, showcases the author' s satirical wit and his... Read more »
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Death in Venice and Other Tales
By: Thomas Mann
Narrated by: Paul Hecht
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Joachim Neugroschel's brilliant new translation lets you enjoy the work of Nobel-Laureate Thomas Mann as never before. By using creative, contemporary language, Neugroschel reinterprets Mann for modern English-speaking readers. The author's superb literary craftsmanship, his psychological insight, and the deeply erotic content of his work shine... Read more »
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The Confessions of Saint Augustine
By: Saint Augustine & Henry Chadwick
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Length: 13 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Saint Augustine is one of history's most prolific geniuses. With great eloquence and passion, his Confessions-a masterpiece of Western literature- explores enduring questions that continue to stir millions. Perhaps the most moving record of a soul's journey to grace, Confessions appears midway in Saint Augustine's prodigious body of theological... Read more »
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The Enormous Room
By: E.E. Cummings
Narrated by: Luis Moreno
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
"Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives-The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings."-F. Scott Fitzgerald The most notable work of fiction from our most beloved modernist poet, The Enormous Room was one of the greatest-yet still not fully recognized- American literary works to emerge out of World War I. Drawing on... Read more »
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Oroonoko
By: Aphra Behn
Narrated by: Susan Lyons
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Oroonoko, the grandson of an African king, is madly in love with Imoinda, the daughter of the king's general. When the king-who is also in love with Imoinda-catches wind of their affair, he sells Imoinda as a slave. This betrayal sets off a chain of events that carries unforeseen consequences for everybody involved. Aphra Behn's Oroonoko has... Read more »
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Billy Budd, Sailor
By: Herman Melville
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Critically acclaimed for more than 100 years, Herman Melville's sea tale, Billy Budd, is considered to be one of the small masterpieces of American fiction. An engaging plot on the surface, the exciting yarn set in 1791 also raises profound questions about the very nature of man himself. Handsome, young Billy Budd is well-liked by the other... 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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A Table by the Window
By: Lawana Blackwell
Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
Length: 14 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In A Table by the Window, best-selling Christian author Lawana Blackwell combines inspiration and intrigue. Carley Reed didn't have an easy childhood, but now, as a settled adult living in San Francisco, she has managed to make a peaceful life for herself. Everything turns upside down, though, one morning when a private investigator finds her... 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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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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Far from the Madding Crowd
By: Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Length: 15 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Gabriel Oak is a young shepherd. With the savings of a frugal life, and a loan, he has leased and stocked a sheep-farm. He falls in love with a newcomer eight years his junior, Bathsheba Everdene, a proud beauty who arrives to live with her aunt, Mrs. Hurst. She comes to like him well enough, and even... Read more »
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Crack and Cocaine
By: Linda Bayer
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 1 hours 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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Celine Dion
By: Norma Jean Lutz
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 1 hours 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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