Fiction audiobooks
The Animals Could Talk
By: Heather Forest
Narrated by: Heather Forest
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Aesop was a storyteller and slave who lived 2,500 years ago in ancient Greece. Because of his humble position in society, Aesop could not speak his thoughts openly. So he told fables, stories in which animals speak and act like people. Aesop could not speak out, but in his fables the animals could talk and comment on human society without... Read more
View audiobookThe Broken Hearts Club - Abridged
By: Ethan Black
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A banker with a smile that conceals a devilish impulse, a literary agent who is quick to anger, a mechanic with a desperate need to be liked, and a psychologist who keeps all their secrets— as well as his own— meet every week in the dingy back room of a New York City bar. These men have one thing in common: They all... Read more
View audiobookDer 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
View audiobookA New Song - Abridged
By: Jan Karon
Narrated by: Jan Karon
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: Yes
Jan Karon's millions of fans can't wait to sit down with her heartwarming and hilarious characters, who have a way of becoming family. In fact, readers and booksellers across the country kept Out to Canaan and At Home in Mitford on The New York Times bestseller list for months.In A New Song, Mitford's longtime Episcopal priest, Father Tim,... Read more
View audiobookEngland, England - Abridged
By: Julian Barnes
Narrated by: Judy Geeson
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
What would happen if a tycoon decided to turn England into a theme park? Before anyone can say "Windsor Castle," replicas of all of the kingdom's great landmarks— from the Tower of London and Westminster Abbey to the National Gallery and everything in between— all turn up in one place. And what if credit-worthy tourists... Read more
View audiobookDr. York, Miss Winnie and the Typhoid Shot - Abridged
By: Donald Davis
Narrated by: Donald Davis
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In rural North Carolina in 1951, despite parental reassurances, a typhoid shot hurt. It hurt even more when the children saw who would be administering the shot: Miss Winnie, a large, dictatorial nurse who had been "especially built by the nursing school so she would never blow away in a hard wind". In this hilarious epic tale, our young hero... Read more
View audiobookVengeance - Abridged
By: Stuart Kaminsky
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Three years ago, Lew Fonseca quit his job as a process server with the State's Attorney's office in Cook County, Illinois, and headed for Key West. Sidetracked by fate when his car broke down in Sarasota, Florida, he decided to stick around, making ends meet by doing some investigative work for local attorneys. Asked to locate the missing wife... Read more
View audiobookBucking 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
A Change of Gravity
By: George V. Higgins
Narrated by: Adams Morgan
Length: 17 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
For court clerk Ambrose Merrion, life was about people taking care of one another. For Danny Hilliard, politics was a matter of acquiring the power to make sure that society did just that. With Merrion shrewdly managing Hilliard’s campaigns as a rising politician, the two friends made an excellent team.But trouble starts brewing when Merrion... Read more
View audiobookBurmese Days
By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Colonial politics in 1930 Kyauktada, India, come to a head when the European Club, previously for whites only, is ordered to elect one token native member. The deeply racist members do their best to manipulate the situation, resulting in the loss not only of reputations, but of lives.Amidst this cynical setting, timber merchant James Flory... Read more
View audiobookThe Rose Rent
By: Ellis Peters
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A late spring in 1142 has the monks of Shrewsbury Abbey dismayed, for there may be no roses by June 22. For three years, wealthy young widow Judith Perle has rented her house to the monks for the price of a single white rose each year, in honor of her late husband. When nature finally complies, a pious monk is sent to pay the rent—and found... Read more
View audiobookRomola
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 21 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
"There is no book of mine about which I more thoroughly feel that I swear by every sentence as having been written with my best blood." Thus wrote George Eliot about Romola, the book which is central in her career as a novelist and amongst her most colorful, fluent, and persuasive works. Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and... Read more
View audiobookSavage Wilderness
By: Harold Coyle
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 15 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In this riveting novel of the French and Indian War, master storyteller Harold Coyle takes us back to a time when America’s vast riches were up for grabs. From 1754 through 1759, British and American colonial forces were locked in constant battle with the French and their Indian allies over the great territories of the Ohio Valley. For British... Read more
View audiobookThe Heart of the Matter
By: Graham Greene
Narrated by: Joseph Porter
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In this widely acclaimed modern classic, Graham Greene delves deep into character to tell the dramatic, suspenseful story of a good man’s conflict between passion and faith.A police commissioner in a British-governed, war-torn West African state, Scobie is bound by the strictest integrity and sense of duty both for his colonial responsibilities... Read more
View audiobookCatherine Carmier
By: Ernest J. Gaines
Narrated by: D. M. Greene
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Catherine Carmier is a compelling love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence. When Jackson returns home to his family after an absence of ten years, he discovers that his bonds to them have been irreparably rent by his absence. In the midst of his alienation, he... Read more
View audiobookStar Trek: Insurrection - Abridged
By: J.M. Dillard
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Star Trek: The Next Generation® is the most popular, longest-running series in science fiction history. Now, after the spectacular worldwide success of Star Trek: First Contact® Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise return to the big screen in a thrilling new adventure that captures all the fun and excitement of Star... Read more
View audiobookL.A Connections - Abridged
By: Jackie Collins
Narrated by: Jackie Collins
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Four scorching novels in one—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lady Boss and Thrill!
Inside the exclusive mansions of L.A., where Hollywood's most powerful players willingly risk it all, a killer is playing a deadly game.
Drawn into this dangerous world are a high-class call girl looking for a way out, a ruthless agent playing a... Read more
Devil-May-Care
By: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Ellie and Henry are young, rich, in love, and engaged. In the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, Ellie is happy to accept hereccentric Aunt Kate's request that shehouse-sit atKate's palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. With its nearly invisible housekeepers and plethora of pets, Ellie feels right at home. Conventional Henry,... Read more
View audiobookThe 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
The Blessing - Abridged
By: Jude Deveraux
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The New York Times bestselling author of the Summerhouse series crafts an inspirational love story that has “plenty of romance, fun, and adventure” (San Antonio Express-News) following a workaholic businessman whose life and heart are changed forever by a young widow and her son.
Wealthy corporate genius Jason Wilding reluctantly takes a break... Read more
Santa & Pete - Abridged
By: Christopher Moore & Pamela Johnson
Narrated by: Delroy Lindo
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Who would ever guess that the beloved legend of Santa Claus involves a seldom-told tale of faith and friendship between two men -- one white and one black? Long ago, Santa Claus had an African partner named Pete and together they brought the spirit of Christmas to America's first settlers. These two forever changed the way families celebrate the... Read more
View audiobookLegend in Green Velvet
By: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Scotland is Susan’s passion and obsession, and the opportunity to join a Highland dig is a dream come true for the young archaeology student. But then a sinister stranger slips Susan a cryptic message in ancient verse—and is later found viciously slain. A mysterious peril has unexpectedly emerged from the mists to haunt Susan, sending her... Read more
View audiobookOliver 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
View audiobookThe 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