The Deal of a Lifetime
By: Fredrik Backman
Narrated by: Santino Fontana
Length: 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In this short story enhanced with beautiful illustrations, the bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, Beartown, and Anxious People delivers an insightful and poignant tale about finding out what is truly important in life.
A father and a son are seeing each other for the first time in years. The father has a story to share before it’s too late.... Read more
The Rebbetzin’s Courtyard
By: Ruchama King Feuerman
Narrated by: Sam Guncler
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Shaindel, the elderly widow of a dead kabbalist, seeks out her former assistant Isaac to help launch her debut as the new kabbalist of the courtyard. Isaac puts aside his own career plans (he’s about to receive his rabbinic ordination) and gladly agrees to help with all the people flocking to the courtyard with their problems. He thinks the lady... Read more
View audiobookThe Queen’s Prophet
By: Dawn Patitucci
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by Velázquez’s baroque masterpiece, Las Meninas, The Queen’s Prophet is an imagined account of the dwarfess Maribarbola of Spain (featured prominently in Velázquez’s painting) and her struggle for survival and self-determination at a time when dwarfs were kept by aristocracy as pets, prophets, and good-luck charms.When the Countess of... Read more
View audiobookBellevue Square
By: Michael Redhill
Narrated by: Sarah Mennell
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
*Winner of the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize*
A darkly comic literary thriller about a woman who fears for her sanity—and then her life—when she learns that her doppelganger has appeared in a local park.
Jean Mason has a doppelganger. She's never seen her, but others swear they have. Apparently, her identical twin hangs out in Kensington Market,... Read more
A Selfie as Big as the Ritz
By: Lara Williams
Narrated by: Imogen Church
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"If you're a young woman navigating life's crazy and wondrous tumult, British writer Lara Williams' new story collection A Selfie as Big as the Ritz is for you." — ELLE
British author Lara Williams perfectly captures the bleak, surreal, and often hilarious period of life that every late-twenties woman will recognize in this charming audiobook.... Read more
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
By: Max Porter
Narrated by: Jot Davies
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar—a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the... Read more
View audiobookAfter the Fire
By: Henning Mankell
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Henning Mankell's last novel, about an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside down when his house catches fire.
Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier to a tiny island on which he is the only resident. He has a daughter he rarely sees and his mailman... Read more
The King Is Always Above the People
By: Daniel Alarcón
Narrated by: David DeSantos
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
LONGLISTED for the 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
An urgent, essential collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles.
Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets.... Read more
I Hate the Internet
By: Jarrett Kobek
Narrated by: Kathryn Merry
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
What if you told the truth and the whole world heard you? What if you lived in a country swamped with Internet outrage? What if you were a woman in a society that hated women? Set in the San Francisco of 2013, I Hate the Internet offers a hilarious and obscene portrayal of life amongst the victims of the digital boom. As billions of tweets fuel... Read more
View audiobookGeschichten von Henriette und Onkel Titus - Abridged
By: Peter Hacks
Narrated by: Carmen-Maja Antoni & Jennipher Antoni
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Henriette und Onkel Titus sind ein tolles Team; sie hat mehr Phantasie, er mehr Verstand, "aber jeder hat genug von beidem". Gemeinsam erleben sie die abenteuerlichsten Dinge. So befreien sie einen weinenden Stein von seinem Liebeskummer, erfinden eine Denkmaschine und fangen im Stadtpark einen Affen, der natürlich sprechen kann. Denn, wie Onkel... Read more
View audiobookTasting You, 1: Voyeur (Unabridged)
By: Bente Clod
Narrated by: Linda Elvira
Length: 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Tasting You is a collection of erotic stories for grown-up women about grown-up women. No hardcore porn, no vanilla sex, just the way life sometimes takes us along at its best and worst. Starting out her writer's career in 1975 as a provocative feminist debater, Bente Clod soon achieved literary acclamation for her writing, and in 1981 was... Read more
View audiobookTasting You, 10: Steam (Unabridged)
By: Bente Clod
Narrated by: Linda Elvira
Length: 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Tasting You is a collection of erotic stories for grown-up women about grown-up women. No hardcore porn, no vanilla sex, just the way life sometimes takes us along at its best and worst. Starting out her writer's career in 1975 as a provocative feminist debater, Bente Clod soon achieved literary acclamation for her writing, and in 1981 was... Read more
View audiobookTasting You, 12: Thai Silk (Unabridged)
By: Bente Clod
Narrated by: Linda Elvira
Length: 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Tasting You is a collection of erotic stories for grown-up women about grown-up women. No hardcore porn, no vanilla sex, just the way life sometimes takes us along at its best and worst. Starting out her writer's career in 1975 as a provocative feminist debater, Bente Clod soon achieved literary acclamation for her writing, and in 1981 was... Read more
View audiobookTasting You, 11: Body Recall (Unabridged)
By: Bente Clod
Narrated by: Linda Elvira
Length: 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Tasting You is a collection of erotic stories for grown-up women about grown-up women. No hardcore porn, no vanilla sex, just the way life sometimes takes us along at its best and worst. Starting out her writer's career in 1975 as a provocative feminist debater, Bente Clod soon achieved literary acclamation for her writing, and in 1981 was... Read more
View audiobookThe Centaur
By: John Updike
Narrated by: John MacDonald
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER
The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is George... Read more
The Girl in Between
By: Sarah Carroll
Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
"A deeply moving story of family, homelessness, and the ghosts that won't let us go. Haunting and unforgettable."—Megan Shepherd, New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Horses of Briar HillTold in the naive voice of a homeless girl sheltered by her mother from the world, this is a moving debut perfect for fans of David Almond, A Monster... Read more
View audiobookThe New York Times: Footsteps
By: New York Times
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen & David Colacci
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Before Nick Carraway was drawn into Daisy and Gatsby's sparkling, champagne-fueled world in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald vacationed in the French Riviera, where a small green lighthouse winked at ships on the horizon. Before the nameless lovers began their illicit affair in The Lover, Marguerite Duras embarked upon her own scandalous... Read more
View audiobookThe Talk-Funny Girl
By: Roland Merullo
Narrated by: Em Eldridge
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
In one of the poorest parts of rural New Hampshire, teenage girls have been disappearing, snatched from back country roads, never to be seen alive again. For seventeen-year-old Marjorie Richards, the fear raised by these abductions is the backdrop to what she lives with in her own home, every day. Marjorie has been raised by parents so... Read more
View audiobookMalagash
By: Joey Comeau
Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A precisely crafted, darkly humorous portrait of a family in mourning
Sunday’s father is dying of cancer. They’ve come home to Malagash, on the north shore of Nova Scotia, so he can die where he grew up. Her mother and her brother are both devastated. But devastated isn’t good enough. Devastated doesn’t fix anything. Sunday has a... Read more
The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau
By: Graeme Macrae Burnet
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. One day, she simply vanishes into thin air and Georges Gorski, a detective haunted by... Read more
View audiobookThe First Day
By: Phil Harrison
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in Ireland and New York, a debut novel about an affair and its explosive consequences—the sins of the father visited on the son in unexpected and irreversible waysOutside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense, passionate affair, their connection fueled by... Read more
View audiobookTrust Me - Abridged
By: John Updike
Narrated by: John Updike
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through this collection of short stories: Parents lead children into peril, husbands abandon wives, wives manipulate husbands, and time undermines all. Love pangs, a favorite subject of the author, take on a new urgency as earthquakes, illnesses, lost wallets, and deaths of distant friends besiege... Read more
View audiobookThe Break
By: Katherena Vermette
Narrated by: Michaela Washburn
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award, The Break is a stunning and heartbreaking debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.When Stella, a young Métis... Read more
View audiobookThe Moor's Last Sigh
By: Salman Rushdie
Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
Length: 20 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty... Read more
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