Fiction audiobooks

True North

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic tale that pits a son against the legacy of his family's desecration of the earth, as well as his father's more personal violations, Jim Harrison's True North is a beautiful and moving novel that speaks to the territory in our hearts that calls us back to our roots.The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up... Read more

This Side of Married

By: Rachel Pastan

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Reminiscent of the work of Laurie Colwin, This Side of Married is a brilliant, ironic, domestic comedy of manners. Full of surprises, yet filled with feeling, it is witty, intelligent, and utterly delicious.The Rubin daughters are three eligible sisters from an affluent suburban Philadelphia family whose well-meaning but domineering mother is... Read more

Mystic Warrior

By: Tracy Hickman & Laura Hickman

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Thrice upon a time, there were three worlds of magic.From a remarkable, bestselling husband-and-wife team comes the start of a monumental dragon-laden fantasy series. The Bronze Canticles is an expansive saga chronicling the world-altering changes that take place as three connected universes—the Human world, the Goblin world, and the Faery... Read more

Eagle’s Cry

By: David Nevin

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 19 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, whose thirst for power cannot be quenched, has gained control of New Orleans, a move that gives him potential mastery of the Mississippi River Valley. A country as strong as France could stop America’s free-trade market from growing along the great waterway. American businesses have begun to thrive on the... Read more

Land of Echoes

By: Daniel Hecht

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Lucretia (Cree) Black is a parapsychologist whose investigative methods include in-depth historical research and psychological analysis. When she’s asked by her former mentor, renowned neuropsychiatrist Mason Ambrose, if she would examine the case of a fifteen-year-old boy suffering from bizarre and frightening symptoms, Cree refuses to get... Read more

Haussmann

By: Paul LaFarge

Narrated by: Erik Bauersfeld

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

LaFarge’s stunning novel of love, betrayal, and exploitation is based on themes involving the life of the great city planner Georges-Eugène Haussmann.Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann was the architect of modern Paris. In two decades, from 1853 to 1869, he transformed the cramped, filthy lanes of the medieval city into the airy boulevards and green... Read more

The Cure

By: Jack D. Hunter

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Suppose a cure for cancer was finally discovered, a cure that would render much of today’s medical and pharmaceutical industry obsolete. How far would the world’s movers and shakers go to control—or destroy—this miraculous panacea?Controversial oncologist Dr. Anson Lunt dies in a suspicious plane crash just as one of his researchers develops... Read more

Black Jack

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Lithe as a panther, black hair flying, Black Jack Hollis rode with a gun in each hand.Recklessly, joyously, Black Jack had ridden into town to see his infant son. Then a shotgun fired from a window had blasted him from his horse and flung him to his death in the street.His young son was taken in by spinster Elizabeth Cornish, who reared him as... Read more

Dead I Well May Be

By: Adrian McKinty

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This Irish bad-boy thriller, set in the hardest streets of New York City, introduces us to Michael Forsythe, an illegal immigrant escaping from the Troubles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.Clever, fearless, and handy with a pistol, young Michael is just the fellow to be tapped by Darkey, a New York crime boss, to join his gang of thugs fighting for... Read more

Joy Comes in the Morning

By: Jonathan Rosen

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Deborah Green is a woman of passionate contradictions, a rabbi struggling with her own doubts and desires. Her life changes when she visits the hospital room of Henry Friedman, an older man who has attempted suicide. His parents were murdered in the Holocaust when he was a child, and all his life he has struggled with painful questions. Can... Read more

Stalking Darkness

By: Lynn Flewelling

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 19 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A master of subterfuge, a rogue thief with a noble air, Seregil of Rhiminee has taught his young prot├®g├®, Alec of Kerry, his greatest secrets of the trade. Together they've made their way with thieving jobs large and small, winning friends and enemies, their lives in constant danger and yet charmed by an aura of magic, friendship, and... Read more

Open Range

By: Lauran Paine

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The “open range” men are free-grazing cattlemen—those who don’t own land but drive their stock through the country to graze. But Boss Spearman knows that times are changing for the open rangers. Local ranchers are staking claims to grazing areas and building up extensive cattle empires. Boss has no quarrel with the other ranchers, but he won’t... Read more

The Trail to Crazy Man

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

It was a land where nothing was small, nothing was simple. Everything, the lives of men and the stories they told, ran to extremes.Shanghaied into forced labor on a merchant vessel, Charles Rodney dies aboard ship from repeated beatings—but not before deeding part of his ranch to Rafe Caradec, whom he hopes will protect his family.A word from... Read more

Temporary Sanity

By: Rose Connors

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Martha "Marty" Nickerson, a Cape Cod district attorney turned defense lawyer, must defend a man who shot his son's presumed killer—on live television. The only possible defense is insanity, but the grieving father refuses to say he was crazy when he pulled the trigger.Marty and her partner in love and law, Harry Madigan, are already stretched... Read more

Magic Time

By: Marc Scott Zicree & Barbara Hambly

Narrated by: Armin Shimerman

Length: 15 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

For rising young lawyer Cal Griffin, it’s just another day in the Big City—until the lights go off … for good. Suddenly packs of pale crouched figures are stalking the darkened subways, monsters prowl Times Square, and the people all around Cal are … changing. Similar weirdness is happening everywhere, from the dank, cold heart of a West... Read more

Murder in the Museum

By: Simon Brett

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Carole Seddon and her bohemian neighbor Jude find that even the cultured can be crass when it comes to murder.The life of Esmond Chadleigh, noted poet and children’s author, is celebrated in the halls of Bracketts House. Nevertheless, most of Chadleigh’s work remains out of print, which leaves Bracketts House out of funds. An American literature... Read more

Manassas

By: James Reasoner

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Manassas is the first book in Reasoner’s ten-volume series spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one Southern family.Storm clouds are approaching Culpeper County, Virginia, in early January 1861. The troublesome Fogarty brothers have been raising havoc across the countryside, and when the local lawman, Will Brannon, returns from... Read more

The Green Hour

By: Frederic Tuten

Narrated by: Celeste Lawson

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this elegant and sensual novel, Frederic Tuten explores the ageless tension between a life of passion and a desire for ease. Set in Paris and New York, The Green Hour tells the story of Dominique, an art historian who struggles to choose between two men who embody the critical schism in her life: unquenchable idealism and material... Read more

Matador

By: Barnaby Conrad

Narrated by: Barnaby Conrad

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the morning of Pacote’s last fight, the finale of one of the greatest careers in Spain. The posters are up, the great black bulls are waiting, and a heavy air of expectancy hangs over the city. Pacote, alone in his dressing room, feels the heavy ball of fear pressing against his heart. For he knows that he has been falling off, that he... Read more

The Meadow

By: James Galvin

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Through short vignettes that read like a novel, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado-Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, but most of all he reveals deeply personal portraits of the few people who live there and who do not so much possess but are... Read more

Move to Strike

By: Perri O'Shaughnessy

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Perri O'Shaughnessy takes the courtroom thriller to breathtaking new heights in Move to Strike, a page-turning masterpiece of suspense that brings back attorney Nina Reilly, hailed by critics as "one of the most interesting heroines in legal thrillers today" (San Jose Mercury News).Nina Reilly thought she'd seen... Read more

Memento Mori

By: Muriel Spark

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark.In late 1950s London, a group of aging eccentrics is brought together by a series of uncanny events. Lettie Colston is the first to receive an anonymous phone call from an insinuating voice reminding her that... Read more

Mozart’s Wife

By: Juliet Waldron

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Giddy sugarplum? Calculating shrew? Mozart's biographers show disdain for his Konstanze, and she aroused strong feelings among her contemporaries. Her in-laws loathed her; his friends, more than forty years after his death, remained eager to gossip about her “failures” as wife to the world’s first superstar. Maturing from child, to wife, to... Read more

Black Water Transit

By: Carsten Stroud

Narrated by: Bruce Reizen

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Vermillion is a businessman with a problem: a son with a criminal record who is in trouble again. This time, Jack's kid is looking at twenty-five to life in maximum security. And there's nothing Jack can do...or is there?Black Water Transit is Jack's container ship company, and when Jack is approached by a man wanting to ship his gun... Read more