Fiction audiobooks
The Pickwick Papers - Abridged
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Paul Scofield
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Nearly two centuries after The Pickwick Papers first appeared in 1837, listeners continue to enjoy the vigorous humor and heartwarming optimism of Dickens' first great literary achievement. Actor Paul Scofield evokes all the warmth and laughter of the unlikely adventures of the immortal Samuel Pickwick, Esq., and the other members of the... Read more
View audiobookSilent Cradle - Abridged
By: Margaret Cathbert
Narrated by: Tonya Pinkins
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Save the life. Save the life...This is the mantra repeated by Dr. Rae Duprey, Berkeley Hills Hosptial's premier obstetrician, who's haunted by the searing memory of her own mother's death in the back of an ambulanceand driven by a passion to save the lives of the women and babies in her care. But when her candidacy for the chairmanship of... Read more
View audiobookThe Bull from the Sea - Abridged
By: Mary Renault
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Set in classical Greece, this is the riveting sequel to Mary Renault' s The King Must Die.Slaying the minotaur was only the beginning. Theseus's legendary exploits continue in this magnificent tale of mythological adventure in classical Greece. Picking up where The King Must Die left off, this stirring sequel recounts Theseus's... Read more
View audiobookMercury Rising - Abridged
By: Ryne Douglas Pearson
Narrated by: Joe Morton
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: Yes
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more
View audiobookA Southern Family - Abridged
By: Gail Godwin
Narrated by: Nina Foch
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This profound portrait of family life takes listeners inside the hearts and minds of members of the Quick family, whose raw-edged emotions are stirred up by a visit home. An inexplicably violent death and painful confrontations leave every family member forever changed. Rich in insight and psychological entanglements, A Southern Family is a... Read more
View audiobookNight Train - Abridged
By: Martin Amis
Narrated by: Linda Hamilton
Length: 3 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Chain-smoking, deep-voiced fifteen-year veteran of the force Detective Mike Hoolihan is a tough woman. Now she has her worst assignment yet. Jennifer Rockwell—astrophysicist and darling of the community—had everything to live for: brains, looks, the world's best lover, and unlimited career horizons. When Jennifer takes her own life, no one is... Read more
View audiobookDust - Abridged
By: Charles Pellegrino
Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The good news: the bugs are all dead.
The bad news: we're next.
The change begins silently, imperceptibly, inexorably. One natural effect topples into the next, like an array of dominoes that stretches to every corner of the globe. Before anyone can realize it, the earth's ecology has utterly transformed itself. And the days of the old... Read more
Rogue Warrior: Seal Force Alpha - Abridged
By: Richard Marcinko
Narrated by: Richard Marcinko
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
AS A U.S. NAVY SEAL, RICHARD MARCINKO KNEW NO LIMITS -- AS THE ROGUE WARRIOR, HE OBEYS NO RULES.
The Rogue Warrior's taking a flying leap -- a high-altitude jump over the South China Sea. His mission: scuttle a Chinese freighter's cargo of nuclear hardware and its crack crew of naval commandos. It's a leave-no-tracks, take-no-prisoners operation,... Read more
Malice Domestic 3
By: Nancy Pickard, Wendy Hornsby, Dorothy Cannell, ...
Narrated by: Susan Anspach
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed Agatha Award-winning author Nancy Pickard presents this anthology of original mystery stories by some of the most distinguished mystery writers of the 20th century, including Dorothy Cannell and Sharyn McCrumb. Compiled in honor of the most beloved crime writer of all time— Agatha Christie— this collection... Read more
View audiobookSharp Edges - Abridged
By: Jayne Ann Krentz
Narrated by: Jayne Ann Krentz
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Love’s passionate snags get the smooth touch in this sparkling masterpiece from Jayne Ann Krentz!
She put her art on the line—and her heart in his hands...
Eugenia Swift is a young woman of singular sensibilities, and a connoisseur of beauty. As director of the Leabrook Glass Museum, she’s been asked to travel to Frog Cove Island—an artistic... Read more
Thrill - Abridged
By: Jackie Collins
Narrated by: Jackie Collins
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Jackie Collins’s most outrageous, erotically charged New York Times bestseller is a sexy, shattering roller-coaster thrill ride!
From chic New York and the exclusive Hamptons to the hungry heart of LA, this high-suspense tale pulses with deadly obsessions and relentless desires in the seemingly perfect world of a gorgeous film actress. She could... Read more
Pandora
By: Anne Rice
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead.
The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora.... Read more
The Street Lawyer
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
He gave up the money. He gave up the power. Now all he has left is the law.
Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, in an instant, it all comes undone.
A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage... Read more
No Safe Place
By: Richard North Patterson
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 17 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In his first book since the national best-seller Silent Witness, Richard North Patterson uses his mastery of characterization and suspense to give us a story of startling realism and originality--an extraordinary novel of presidential politics.
In the year 2000, Senator Kerry Kilcannon's insurgent campaign against Vice President Dick... Read more
Backflash
By: Richard Stark
Narrated by: Robert Davi
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A gritty novel featuring resourceful criminal Parker, the anti-hero of Payback.Steel-nerved master thief Parker has his eyes on a fat prize: a gambling casino on the Hudson River. But it' s not in Parker's nature to gamble, so he leaves nothing to chance. From the phony politician to the getaway boat, from bringing guns on board to... Read more
View audiobookPlease Don’t Eat the Daisies
By: Jean Kerr
Narrated by: Marni Webb
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
This collection of essays observes the perils of motherhood, wifehood, selfhood, and other assorted challenges. Since its publication in 1957, it has sold millions of copies and has been adapted into a Broadway play, a film, a TV series, and now an audiobook. Jean Kerr’s parodies of the clichéd 1950s prescription for glamorous or maternal... Read more
View audiobookStealer of Souls
By: Larry Weiner
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Katey Sagal ("Peg Bundy" on TV's Married With Children, and "Leela" from Futurama) makes a special guest appearance in this hilarious horror about a wickedly bad soul who tries to swipe the essence of innocents, leaving them with a blank look and an overwhelming desire to watch Maury Povich. The only opposition is a fumbling English professor... Read more
View audiobookClaudine à l'école
By: Colette
Narrated by: Isabelle Carré
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Claudine, 15 ans, vit à Montigny avec son père, homme distrait, plus préoccupé par les mollusques que par l'éducation de sa fille. Celle-ci fréquente la petite école du village, cadre principal des aventures décrites dans ce livre, présenté comme le journal intime de la jeune fille. Son quotidien est rythmé par les promenades avec sa soeur de... Read more
View audiobookOur Mutual Friend
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: David Case
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights “Noddy” Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk... Read more
View audiobookClaudine à paris
By: Colette
Narrated by: Isabelle Carré
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Claudine et son père ont quitté leur village de Montigny pour s'installer à Paris, où la jeune fille va découvrir la vie parisienne avec le soutien de son cousin Marcel, son ami, son confident et son complice. Elle finit par s'habituer à la vie dans cette ville qu'elle trouvait dure au début, et commence à sortir et à mener une vie mondaine.... Read more
View audiobookC.S.A. - Abridged
By: Howard Means
Narrated by: Richard Gilliland
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
For President Spencer Jefferson Lee— the great-great-grandson of both Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee— it's politics as usual. On one side, the lily-white Senate wants quid pro quo; on the other, the all-Black House has an agenda of its own. The powers-that-be agree on one thing: Utter separation between the races is... Read more
View audiobookThe Blood Artists - Abridged
By: Chuck Hogan
Narrated by: Gordon Thomson
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Stephen Pearse and Peter Maryk are doctors who once worked together to research a horrifying virus outbreak in the Congo. Now Pearse heads the Bureau of Disease Control, and Maryk runs the clandestine special pathogens section of the disease detectives— making the two scientists bitter enemies. But when the disease from the Congo... Read more
View audiobookThe Fall of a Sparrow - Abridged
By: Robert Hellenga
Narrated by: David Birney & Alyssa Bresnahan
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: Yes
After the violent death of his oldest daughter during a terrorist bombing, small town college professor Alan "Woody" Woodhall finds himself standing in the cemetery where she was buried. Woody is convinced that life has taught him all the lessons he has to learn: His wife has left him, and his two remaining daughters have grown up and moved... Read more
View audiobookBlue Collar Blues - Abridged
By: Rosalyn McMillan
Narrated by: Denise Nicholas
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A sizzling novel set against the backdrop of the Detroit car world.Champion Motors, one of Detroit's biggest auto manufacturers, is shutting down plants and laying off its workers. Tensions are mounting and violence is erupting. The lack of overtime to go around and a fatal attraction between employees at the plant ends in murder. Rife with... Read more
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