Fiction audiobooks

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tradition of Roots and Queen, Mama Flora's Family is a sweeping epic of contemporary American history, culled from the unpublished works of award-winning writer Alex Haley.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

Flash - Abridged

By: Jayne Ann Krentz

Narrated by: Barbara Garrick

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A self-made millionaire. A sassy entrepreneur. Their corporate merger might just set the night on fire in this electrifying thriller from perennial bestseller Jayne Ann Krentz.

Olivia Chantry may leave her desk in disarray, but she’s a business dynamo—and the success of her Seattle-based company, Light Fantastic, keeps her from dwelling on her... Read more

The Locket - Abridged

By: Richard Paul Evans

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After the death of his mother, Michael Keddington finds employment at the Arcadia nursing home where he befriends Esther, a reclusive but beautiful elderly woman who lives in mourning for her youth and lost love.
Michael faces his own challenges when he loses his greatest love, Faye. When Michael is falsely accused of abusing one of the... Read more

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Triangle: Imzadi II - Abridged

By: Peter David

Narrated by: Robert O'Reilly

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Imzadi"—to the people of the planet Betazed, including Counselor Deanna Troi of the Starship Enterprise, it means "beloved" and denotes a special closeness that can never be truly broken. Or can it?

In his acclaimed earlier novel, Imzadi, bestselling author Peter David explored the special bond between Deanna Troi and Commander William T. Riker.... Read more

Everybody Dies - Abridged

By: Lawrence Block

Narrated by: Robert Forster

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Matthew Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life, one of stability and respectability— even the New York streets don't look so mean anymore. He's married to a woman he loves, and wonder of wonders, he's actually gotten around to becoming an officially licensed private investigator. Then all hell breaks loose. Matthew' ... Read more

Oliver Twist - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A pauper's child reared in a workhouse, young Oliver Twist serves an apprenticeship in a loveless house. Despairing, he runs away and is befriended by a gang of young pickpockets who offer him the only welcome home he has ever known. Falling under the influence of villainous company, the young orphan struggles to escape from a life of poverty... Read more

Model Behavior

By: Jay McInerney

Narrated by: Richard Cox

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Connor McKnight, former acolyte of film, Zen, and Japanese literature, is not unaware that these avocations are wildly different from his present occupation as a fledgling celebrity journalist. Meanwhile, his longtime girlfriend, the fashion model Philomena, seems curiously remote and soon decamps for the West Coast. Then there's the sister with... Read more

Seventh Son - Abridged

By: Orson Card

Narrated by: Nana Visitor

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book 1 of The Tales of Alvin Maker.Young Alvin was born the seventh son of a seventh son. By his birthright, he possesses magical powers and is destined to become something great, perhaps even a Maker. Indeed, Alvin is special. But the boy remains vulnerable to dark forces who reach out to destroy him and are willing to do anything to keep him... Read more

The Coffin Dancer - Abridged

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a major television series starring Russel Hornsby, Arielle Kebbel, and Michael Imperioli, “Lincoln Rhyme is more relentless than ever” (People) and Jeffery Deaver delivers “supercharged tension” (USA TODAY) in this New York Times bestselling suspense masterwork.

NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his brilliant protégé Amelia Sachs, in the... Read more

Now You See Her - Abridged

By: Linda Howard

Narrated by: Talia Balsam

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestseller Linda Howard brings scintillating sensuality and high-voltage thrills to this novel following a painter as she embarks on a sizzling romance while also coming under suspicion for a shocking murder.

A talented painter in her early thirties, Paris Sweeney has achieved enviable success: her work sells at an exclusive New... Read more

9 Scorpions - Abridged

By: Paul Levine

Narrated by: Gerry Bammon

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lisa Fremont is a rising young lawyer gifted with a brilliant mind, natural beauty -- and an alluring sensuality. A newly hired law clerk on the staff of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Truitt, Lisa has a bright future. She also has a past that her curriculum vitae doesn't reveal....Long before she was Lisa Fremont, Esquire, she was Angel, an... Read more

Prime Cut - Abridged

By: Diane Mott Davidson

Narrated by: Cherry Jones

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cheesecake, beefcake, and a pair of dueling caterers whet someone's appetite for murder in this sinfully delicous novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Sticks & Scones

Caterer Goldy Schulz is convinced things couldn't get worse. An unscrupulous rival is driving her out of business. An incompetent contractor has left her precious... Read more

Sunset Limited - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to center stage in an incendiary new novel by James Lee Burke. A gripping tale of racial violence, class warfare, and the sometimes cruel legacy of Southern history, Sunset Limited is a stunning achievement, confirming Burke's place as one of America's premier stylists as well as master storytellers.

The... Read more

Bloodstream - Abridged

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With her acclaimed novels Harvest and Life Support, Tess Gerritsen has injected a powerful dose of adrenaline into the medical thriller. Now, Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak—before it destroys everything she loves.

Lapped by the gentle waters of... Read more

Pathways - Abridged

By: Jeri Taylor

Narrated by: Robert Picardo

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her acclaimed novel Mosaic, Jeri Taylor explored the previously unrevealed past of Captain Kathryn Janeway. Now, Pathways traces the winding roads that have led Janeway's fellow officers and closest friends to what may be the greatest crisis of their long journey home.

A deadly encounter with hostile aliens has left Captain Janeway's crew... Read more

Shadows on the Hudson

By: Isaac Singer, Julie Harris & John Rubinstein

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: 24 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This timeless saga traces the intertwined lives of a group of prosperous Jewish Holocaust survivors in New York City after World War II. A chain of events disrupts the close-knit community as each refugee struggles to reconcile the horrific past with the difficult present and explores both the nature of faith and the nature of love. Marriages... Read more

Gatekeeper - Abridged

By: Philip Shelby

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gatekeeper features a labyrinthine setting—from the chambers of the American embassy in Paris to the stoops and back alleys of New York City—stocked with characters whose ambition, cunning, and technological sophistication are intolerant of any threat to their conspiratorial will to power.

Hollis Freemont has arrived in Paris to begin her job at... Read more

Coast Road - Abridged

By: Barbara Delinsky

Narrated by: Howard McGillin

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hailed as “a heartwarming story” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), a celebration of what matters most in life, Barbara Delinsky’s profoundly moving New York Times bestseller is as richly textured and captivating as the Northern California landscape in which it is set.

Jack McGill chose his architectural career over his family, and returned home from... Read more

Classic Tales of Horror

By: Martin Greenberg, Ramsey Campbell, Ray Bradbury...

Narrated by: Susan Anspach

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of classic horror stories is sure to give you goosebumps, raise the hair on the back of your neck, and put some fright in your night. These dark tales from renowned authors such as Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, and Ramsey Campbell are sure to please everyone— from campfire storytellers to die-hard horror fans. Stories... Read more

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon - Abridged

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Polly Holliday

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate is a woman at war with herself. Born to privilege on a James River plantation, she grows up increasingly aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to the institution of slavery.

As she tells her story in 1900, she is still prey to her childhood, to the memories of a life... Read more

Fortunes of War - Abridged

By: Stephen Coonts

Narrated by: Richard Gilliland

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Tokyo, a squad of fanatic Japanese nationalists force their way into the Imperial Palace and behead the emperor. It is a grisly first move in a sinister conspiracy to take advantage of a weakened Russia and invade oil-rich Siberia. The goal? World domination. The price? A third world war. Bound by a secret protocol to come to Russia's aid in... Read more

Term Limits - Abridged

By: Vince Flynn

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Politics and riveting suspense collide in this white-knuckled thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin—soon to be a major motion picture.

In one bloody night, three of Washington’s most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking ultimatum to the American... Read more

The Wedding - Abridged

By: Dorothy West

Narrated by: Regina Taylor

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

From Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, The Wedding is an intimate glimpse into African American middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, this is the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie. Within this inner... Read more

The Mermaids Singing - Abridged

By: Lisa Carey

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There is an island off the west coast of Ireland called Inis Muruch—the Island of the Mermaids—a world where myth is more powerful than truth, where the sea sings with the healing and haunting voices of women, and where death is never as strong as the redemptive power of family and love. It is here that Lisa Carey sets her lyrical and sensual... Read more