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Zuckerman Unbound
By: Philip Roth
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky (“Hey, you do all that stuff in that book?”), he also finds himself... Read more
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Missing, Presumed
By: Susie Steiner
Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A page-turning mystery that brings to life a complex and strong-willed detective assigned to a high-risk missing persons case
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST MYSTERIES OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“An extraordinarily assured police procedural in the... Read more
Tamaras hemlighet - Den eviga samlingen 3 (oförkortat)
By: Barbara Cartland
Narrated by: Ida Olsson
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Vid nitton års ålder tvings Tamara Selincourt av omständigheterna att ta ansvar för sin döda systers tre barn. Förutom Tamara har barnen bara en enda släkting till, sin farbror, hertigen, en man som Tamara hatar och fruktar redan innan hon träffat honom. Han tar emot henne och barnen på sitt slott med den kalla motvilja hon väntat sig, men hon... Read more
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The Veins of the Ocean
By: Patricia Engel
Narrated by: Patricia Engel
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Reina Castillo is the alluring young woman whose beloved brother is serving a death sentence for a crime that shocked the community, throwing a baby off a bridge—a crime for which Reina secretly blames herself. With her brother's death, though devastated and in mourning, Reina is finally released from her prison vigil. Seeking anonymity, she... Read more
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Willnot
By: James Sallis
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant new protagonist and his memorable community are introduced in the latest masterpiece by acclaimed novelist James Sallis. In his celebrated career, James Sallis has created some of the most finely drawn protagonists in crime fiction, all of them thoughtful observers of the human condition: Lew Griffin, the black New Orleans private... Read more
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Surprise Me
By: Deena Goldstone
Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The dream of becoming a writer takes hold of Isabelle Rothman during her senior year of college. Feeling brave, she begins a tutorial with a once highly praised novelist, Daniel Jablonski, known on campus as eccentric and disengaged. Despite his reputation, Isabelle loves his novels and hopes he can teach her the secrets of his luminous prose.... Read more
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Teaching a Stone to Talk
By: Annie Dillard
Narrated by: Randye Kaye
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In this dazzling collection, Annie Dillard explores the world over, from the Arctic to the Ecuadorian jungle, from the Galapagos to her beloved Tinker Creek. With her entrancing gaze she captures the wonders of natural facts and human meanings: watching a sublime lunar eclipse, locking eyes with a wild weasel, or beholding mirages appearing over... Read more
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As Good As Gone
By: Larry Watson
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The American West is bestselling author Larry Watson's forte, and in this, his tenth novel, he has created his most vivid, genuine antihero yet in Calvin Sidey, a man stuck in a myth. Calvin Sidey, steely, hardened, with his own personal code, is one of the last cowboys. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a trailer on the prairie... Read more
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The Mandibles
By: Lionel Shriver
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
With dry wit and psychological acuity, this near-future novel explores the aftershocks of an economically devastating U.S. sovereign debt default on four generations of a once-prosperous American family. Down-to-earth and perfectly realistic in scale, this is not an over-the-top Blade Runner tale. It is not science fiction.In 2029, the United... Read more
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My Mrs. Brown
By: William Norwich
Narrated by: Angela Brazil
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Emilia Brown is a woman of a certain age. She has spent a frugal, useful, and wholly restrained life in Ashville, a small town in Rhode Island. Overlooked especially by the industries of fashion and media, Mrs. Brown is one of today's silent generations of women whose quiet no-frills existences would make them seem invisible. She is a genteel... Read more
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The Whale
By: Mark Beauregard
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A rich and captivating novel set amid the witty, high-spirited literary society of 1850s New England, offering a new window on Herman Melville’s emotionally charged relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne and how it transformed his masterpiece, Moby-DickIn the summer of 1850, Herman Melville finds himself hounded by creditors and afraid his... Read more
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Grace
By: Natashia Deón
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 13 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
For a runaway slave in the 1840s South, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic master. That’s what fifteen-year-old Naomi learns after she escapes the brutal confines of life on an Alabama plantation. Striking out on her own, she leaves behind her beloved Momma and sister Hazel and takes refuge in a Georgia brothel run... Read more
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Triggerfish
By: Dietrich Kalteis
Narrated by: Graham Winton
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
You know you're in deep water when you can't tell cop from criminal Rene Beckman is a dishonored ex-cop with only two things on his mind: his new boat, the Triggerfish, and his hot date, an environmentalist named Vicki. When the two unknowingly dock the boat in the same secluded cove as a Mexican cartel's drug submarine, the date ends with a... Read more
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The Ticket That Exploded
By: William S. Burroughs
Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs’ grand “cut-up” trilogy that starts with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express reaches its climax as inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet. Only Burroughs could make such a nightmare vision of scientists and combat troops, of ad... Read more
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Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty
By: Ramona Ausubel
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award–winning author of No One Is Here Except All of Us comes an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and ’70s that suddenly loses its fortune—and its bearings.Labor Day 1976, Martha’s Vineyard. Summering at the family beach house along this moneyed coast of New England, Fern and Edgar—married with three... Read more
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Radio Girls
By: Sarah-Jane Stratford
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The Great War is over, and change is in the air, in this novel that brings to life the exciting days of early British radio … and one woman who finds her voice while working alongside the brilliant women and men of the BBC. London, 1926. American-raised Maisie Musgrave is thrilled to land a job as a secretary at the upstart British Broadcasting... Read more
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The House of Hidden Mothers
By: Meera Syal
Narrated by: Meera Syal
Length: 14 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Shyama, a forty-eight-year-old London divorcée, already has an unruly teenage daughter, but that doesn't stop her and her younger lover, Toby, from wanting a child together. Their relationship may look like a cliché, but despite the news from her doctor that she no longer has any viable eggs, Shyama's not ready to give up on their dream of... Read more
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For the Love of Mary
By: Christopher Meades
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A hilarious coming-of-age novel about the pain of young love, family secrets, and sick ferrets Fifteen-year-old Jacob feels almost on the inside: almost smart, almost funny, almost good-looking, almost worthy of falling in love. His sister is too busy dating guys in Whitesnake jackets to notice, and his best friend is occupied with his own... Read more
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The Course of Love
By: Alain de Botton
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
“An engrossing tale [that] provides plenty of food for thought” (People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership.
We all know the headiness and excitement of the... Read more
Rama's Labyrinth:
By: Sandra Wagner-Wright
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
Length: 20 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
"A weekend's engaging pursuit." Five Stars--David Lloyd Sutton, San Francisco Book Review
Educated and inquisitive, Pandita Ramabai was born in 1858 near Gangamul in the Western Ghat mountains of southern India. The daughter of a Sanskrit scholar, she rose to become a respected scholar herself, in a time when women rarely held such positions. But... Read more
The Gondola Maker
By: Laura Morelli
Narrated by: Edoardo Camponeschi
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Made in Italy comes a tale of artisanal tradition and family bonds set in one of the world's most magnificent settings: Renaissance Venice.
Venetian gondola-maker Luca Vianello considers his whole life arranged. His father charted a course for his eldest son from the day he was born, and Luca is positioned to inherit one of the... Read more
Brightside
By: Mark Tullius
Narrated by: Tee Quillin
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Brightside: A Psychological Thriller
Imagine a world where the person next to you—stranger, friend, lover—has the ability to creep into your mind and steal your most intimate thoughts. Now imagine you are the Thought Thief who is so greatly feared that your freedom and your life are threatened. Welcome to Brightside…you won’t be... Read more
Untethered
By: Julie Lawson Timmer
Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
When Char Hawthorne's husband dies unexpectedly, she is left questioning everything she once knew to be true: from the cozy small town life they built together to her relationship with her stepdaughter, who is suddenly not bound to Char in any real way. Untethered explores what bonds truly form a family and how, sometimes, love knows no... Read more
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The Hour of Land
By: Terry Tempest Williams
Narrated by: Terry Williams
Length: 11 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns... Read more
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