Fiction audiobooks

Red Prophet - Abridged

By: Orson Card

Narrated by: Nana Visitor

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The second installment of Orson Scott Card' s best-selling series The Tales of Alvin Maker.In the first tale of Alvin Maker— Seventh Son— listeners are introduced to a pioneer America where magic works and special talents are utilized in marvelous ways. In this second installment in the Tales of Alvin Maker,... Read more

Heartfire - Abridged

By: Orson Card

Narrated by: Nana Visitor

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fifth installment of Orson Scott Card' s best-selling series The Tales of Alvin MakerPeggy Guester is a Torch, whose power is so great that she can follow the paths of each person's future and know their most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvin's birth, Peggy has protected him. Now they are married, but their destinies... Read more

Attack on the Queen - Abridged

By: Richard Henrick

Narrated by: William Atherton

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Aboard the majestic ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II, the world's most powerful leaders meet to launch a new era of peace and global cooperation. For Chinese terrorists who believe that the summit will make their Asian homeland a pawn of Western imperialist power, this summit represents a betrayal. They infiltrate the ship— and in a... Read more

The Ballad of Frankie Silver - Abridged

By: Sharyn McCrumb

Narrated by: Sharyn McCrumb

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One hundred years after a woman is hanged, the search for justice reveals a story of faith, obsession, and murder.In 1832, 18-year-old Frankie Silver was charged with murdering her young husband. In 1833, she became the first woman in the state of North Carolina to be hanged for murder. But was she guilty? More than 100 years later, Tennessee... Read more

The Washington Irving Library

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Efrem Zimbalist

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Washington Irving's tales of romance, travel, biographical discourse, and literary musing introduced such classic characters as Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, and the Headless Horsemen of Sleepy Hollow. A sage, storyteller, and wit, Irving earned his preeminence in early American literature with these miniature masterpieces that have stood the... Read more

A Confederacy of Dunces

By: John Kennedy Toole

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book ReviewA green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears... Read more

The Old Curiosity Shop - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In London, Little Nell lives in The Old Curiosity Shop with her grandfather, who has a weakness for gambling. Hoping to mend his finances, the old man borrows money from Quilp, a moneylender and swindler. After losing that money as well, the grandfather flees to the country with Nell in a desperate attempt to escape the clutches of Quilp, who... Read more

Caesar - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is 54 B.C. Gaius Julius Caesar is sweeping through Gaul. While his victories in the name of Rome are epic, the conservative leaders of the Republic are not pleased -- they are terrified. Where will the boundless ambition of Rome's most brilliant soldier stop? He must be destroyed before he can overthrow the government and install himself as... Read more

Legends of the Ferengi - Abridged

By: Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe

Narrated by: Armin Shimmerman

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A collection of the guiding principles of the galaxy's most successful entrepreneurs, using coveted Ferengi wisdom and recounting legendary tales of profit.

For centuries the famous Ferengi "Rules of Acquisition" have been the guiding principles of the galaxy's most successful entrepreneurs. But the wisdom behind them was not won without a high... Read more

The Last Valentine - Abridged

By: James Pratt

Narrated by: Vyto Ruginis

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On February 14, 1944, Caroline Thomas said goodbye to her beloved husband, a Navy pilot sent to the Pacific. For half a century, she waited for him to return— until a miracle happened and she received his "Last Valentine." Their son, Neil Thomas, Jr., wants to share the powerful message of his parents' tragic, yet triumphant, 50-year... Read more

A Virtuous Woman - Abridged

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Terry Beaver & Kaye Gibbons

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a... Read more

Comanche Moon

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The epic four-volume cycle that began with Larry McMurty's Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, Lonesome Dove, is completed with this brilliant and haunting novel—a capstone in a mighty tradition of storytelling.

Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, now in their middle years, are just beginning to deal with the enigmas of the adult... Read more

The Best Laid Plans

By: Sidney Sheldon

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

He wants power, and she wants revenge. The Best Laid Plans is full of manipulators, dirty dealers, and dastardly rascals, all snatching at power—political, financial, and sexual, or all of the above. Against the backdrop of Washington politics and the war in Bosnia, a handsome, charismatic attorney is determined to win the presidency at all... Read more

The Angel of Darkness - Abridged

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In The Angel Of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew.
It is June 1897. A year... Read more

The Best Laid Plans - Abridged

By: Sidney Sheldon

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

He wants power, and she wants revenge. The Best Laid Plans is full of manipulators, dirty dealers, and dastardly rascals, all snatching at power—political, financial, and sexual, or all of the above. Against the backdrop of Washington politics and the war in Bosnia, a handsome, charismatic attorney is determined to win the presidency at all... Read more

Only Love - Abridged

By: Erich Segal

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A wealthy man with a critically ill wife seeks the help of Matthew Hiller, a world-class neurosurgeon with a thriving practice. In addition to facing a difficult professional challenge, Matthew confronts the most brutal emotional crisis of his life: the lovely patient, Silvia, was his lover years ago. Fighting to save her, Matthew recalls their... Read more

Violin - Abridged

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Maria Tucci

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Anne Rice's Violin tells the story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation.

At the novel's center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana, and the demonic fiddler Stefan, a tormented ghost who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin to draw her into... Read more

Windmills of the God - Abridged

By: Sidney Sheldon

Narrated by: Lee Remick

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

As the world is on the brink of mutual destruction between the East and the West, Mary Ashley—a bright, young political science professor—is appointed U.S. Ambassador to an Iron Curtain country. Her husband dies in a suspicious car crash, and Mary becomes the target of a mysterious murder plot by unseen and powerful enemies. Thrust from her... Read more

Another City, Not My Own - Abridged

By: Dominick Dunne

Narrated by: Dominick Dunne

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Like millions of Americans, journalist Gus Bailey is drawn into the vortex of the O. J. Simpson trial. By day, Gus is a fixture at law offices, newspapers, courtrooms, and even judge's offices. By night, he is feted by celebrities who delight in the hottest news from the courtroom corridors. Interweaving fact and fiction surrounding “ ... Read more

Ship of Line - Abridged

By: Diane Carey

Narrated by: Kevin Conway

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Starship Enterprise 1701-D has been destroyed, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard finds himself without a command. While waiting for his new ship, Captain Picard has gone with Lieutenant Worf on a delicate diplomatic mission to the Cardassian Empire.

As Picard conducts high-level negotiations for the return of Federation prisoners of war, the... Read more

Underworld - Abridged

By: Don DeLillo

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Award
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Howell’s Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books

“A great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner.” —San Francisco Chronicle

*With a... Read more

The Letter - Abridged

By: Richard Paul Evans

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Letter, the final book of the Christmas Box collection is, most simply stated, the love story of David and MaryAnne Parkin. But it is also everyone's love story, for it is about the storms that all relationships must face when the blissful state of romance vanishes into one of real-life challenges and difficulties. We often forget that it is... Read more

Life Support - Abridged

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Megan Gallagher

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, a terrifying novel of deadly proportions as an ER doctor tries to determine the cause and cure of a fatal and mysterious virus before it becomes an epidemic.

The quiet overnight shift at Springer Hospital ER suits Dr. Toby Harper just fine—until she admits a man in critical condition from a... Read more

Deja Dead - Abridged

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Amy Irving

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Speaking in Bones, the first Temperance Brennan novel in the “cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series” (The New York Times Book Review).

Her life is devoted to justice—even for those she never knew.

In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has... Read more