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Sacred Time
By: Ursula Hegi
Narrated by: Annabella Sciorra, Mercedes Ruehl & Bobby Canna...
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling author of Stones From the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but flawed, Italian American family.
In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parent's Studebaker, the Paradise Theater, Yankee Stadium -- and in his imaginatin,... Read more
The Birth of Venus
By: Sarah Dunant
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.
But their... Read more
House of Sand and Fog
By: Andre Dubus
Narrated by: Andre Dubus & Fontaine Dollas Dubus
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family's dignity. Kathy Nicolo is a troubled young woman whose... Read more
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Dubliners
By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Malachy McCourt, Dan O'Herlihy, Patrick McCabe,...
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Dubliners - James Joyce's stories of his native homeland - performed by a cast of 15 different actors originating from Ireland. Unabridged.The fifteen stories that make up this brilliant audio roam over a human landscape that stretches from the bleakest of despair to the most blinding of epiphanies. First published in 1914, the stories are as... Read more
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The Short Stories Gift Edition
By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: Stacy Keach
Length: 14 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this definitive audio collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style -- from the plain bald... Read more
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Love
By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire.
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida -- even L: all women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, friend,... Read more
The Pleasure of My Company
By: Steve Martin
Narrated by: Steve Martin
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Shopgirl comes the tender story of a troubled man who finds love, and life, in the most unexpected place. Daniel resides in his Santa Monica apartment, living much of his life as a bystander: He watches from his window as the world goes by, and his only relationships seem to be with people who barely know he... Read more
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Our Lady of the Forest
By: David Guterson
Narrated by: Blair Brown
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars—an emotionally charged, provocative new novel about a teenage girl who claims to see the Virgin Mary.
Ann Holmes seems an unlikely candidate for revelation. A sixteen-year-old runaway, she is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. But on a November afternoon, in the foggy woods of... Read more
Last Car to Elysian Fields
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Mark Hammer
Length: 14 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Sheriff Dave Robicheaux returns to New Orleans to investigate the beating of a controversial Catholic priest and murder of three teenage girls in this intense, atmospheric entry in the New York Times bestselling series.
For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt... Read more
Last Car to Elysian Fields - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Sheriff Dave Robicheaux returns to New Orleans to investigate the beating of a controversial Catholic priest and murder of three teenage girls in this intense, atmospheric entry in the New York Times bestselling series.
For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt... Read more
The Fortress of Solitude
By: Jonathan Lethem
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Length: 18 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification."
This is... Read more
Bleachers
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: John Grisham
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty.
Now, as Coach Rake’s “boys” sit in the... Read more
The Italian Quartet
By: Jane Candia Coleman
Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Italian Quartet, Sara Marcello, a writer with roots in Italy, is invited to the island villa of Ugo and Olivia Bellini, two wealthy and worldly antiquarians. In this place of myth, belonging as much to Homer and Prospero as to the present, Sara discovers that she is at the center of Olivia's obsessive desire to possess the secret of... Read more
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After the Plague
By: T.C. Boyle
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 13 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T.C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. In After the Plague, Boyle speaks of contemporary social issues in a range of emotional keys. The sixteen stories gathered here... Read more
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I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy
By: Ellen Gilchrist
Narrated by: Amanda Meadows
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A new Ellen Gilchrist collection is always an event for the legions of her loyal readers. In I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy, Gilchrist writes again of one of her most beloved characters, with the hilarity, wisdom, and poignancy that marks all of her fiction. Here, a clutch of stories are told in the voice of Rhoda--as a child, as a... Read more
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Diary
By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: Martha Plimpton
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
“CAN YOU FEEL THIS?”
Chuck Palahniuk, the bestselling author of Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby continues his twenty-first-century reinvention of the horror novel in this scary and profound look at our quest for some sort of immortality.
Diary takes the form of a “coma diary” kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a... Read more
Atonement
By: Ian McEwan
Narrated by: Jill Tanner
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Ian McEwan has received prestigious awards and international praise for his novels, including Enduring Love. In Atonement, three children lose their innocence--as the sweltering summer heat bears down on the hottest day in 1935--and their lives are changed forever. Cecilia Tallis is of England's priviledged class; Robbie Turner is the... Read more
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Straight Man
By: Richard Russo
Narrated by: Sam Freed
Length: 14 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that... Read more
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Nobody's Fool
By: Richard Russo
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 24 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story.
"Remarkable.... A revelation of the human heart." —The Washington... Read more
Tar Baby - Abridged
By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Alfre Woodard
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The author of Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones—of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the people... Read more
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Service with a Smile
By: Wayne Walker, Susie Hennessy, Diane M. Dresback...
Narrated by: Nigel Lambert
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The description of his ancestral seat as an earthly paradise would, at present, have struck its proprietor as ironical, full as it was with unwanted and troublesome inhabitants. What Lord Emsworth needed above all was a rugged ally at his side to remove from Blandings its superfluous guests, leaving him in peace to tend his beloved pig, Empress... Read more
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Peyton Place
By: Grace Metalious
Narrated by: Tim O'Connor
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
When Grace Metalious's debut novel about the dark underside of a small, respectable New England town was published in 1956, it quickly soared to the top of the bestseller lists. A landmark in twentieth-century American popular culture, Peyton Place spawned a successful feature film and a long-running television series—the first prime-time soap... Read more
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The Kite Runner
By: Khaled Hosseini
Narrated by: Khaled Hosseini
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A Stunning Novel of Hope and Redemption
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir... Read more
The Wandering Hill
By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: Alfred Molina
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The second volume in Larry McMurtry's four-part historical epic featuring the Berrybender family as they continue their journey through the West during the 1830s.
In The Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830s. Their journey is one of... Read more