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Mama Flora's Family - Abridged
By: Alex Haley & David Stevens
Narrated by: Debbi Morgan
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
In the tradition of Roots and Queen, Mama Flora's Family is a sweeping epic of contemporary American history, culled from the unpublished works of award-winning writer Alex Haley. It is the poignant story of three generations of an African-American family who start out as destitute sharecroppers in Tennessee.
Mama Flora is the heart and strength... Read more
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon - Abridged
By: Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by: Polly Holliday
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate is a woman at war with herself. Born to privilege on a James River plantation, she grows up increasingly aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to the institution of slavery.
As she tells her story in 1900, she is still prey to her childhood, to the memories of a life... Read more
The Wedding - Abridged
By: Dorothy West
Narrated by: Regina Taylor
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
From Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, The Wedding is an intimate glimpse into African American middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, this is the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie. Within this inner... Read more
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The Mermaids Singing - Abridged
By: Lisa Carey
Narrated by: Jan Maxwell
Length: 2 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
There is an island off the west coast of Ireland called Inis Muruchthe Island of the Mermaidsa world where myth is more powerful than truth, where the sea sings with the healing and haunting voices of women, and where death is never as strong as the redemptive power of family and love. It is here that Lisa Carey sets her lyrical and sensual... Read more
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The 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
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Night 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
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Tuning to Wisdom: 25 years of New Dimensions Part 2 of 4
By: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
This is part 2 of 4 parts of an extraordinary audio collection of excerpts of some of the finest moments in the history of New Dimensions Radio from 1973 to 1998. Read more
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Our 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
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Tuning to Wisdom: 25 years of New Dimensions Part 1 of 4
By: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
This is part 1 of 4 parts of an extraordinary audio collection of excerpts of some of the finest moments in the history of New Dimensions Radio from 1973 to 1998. Read more
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Tuning to Wisdom: 25 years of New Dimensions Part 3 of 4
By: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
This is part 3 of 4 parts of an extraordinary audio collection of excerpts of some of the finest moments in the history of New Dimensions Radio from 1973 to 1998. Read more
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Tuning to Wisdom: 25 years of New Dimensions Part 4 of 4
By: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
This is part 4 of 4 parts of an extraordinary audio collection of excerpts of some of the finest moments in the history of New Dimensions Radio from 1973 to 1998. Read more
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Winona's Web - Abridged
By: Priscilla Cogan
Narrated by: Salome Jens
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When Winona Pathfinder, an elderly Lakota Sioux medicine woman, announces she intends to die soon, she is referred to psychologist Dr. Meggie O'Connor for counseling. A reluctant client, the feisty Winona decides to turn the tables and teach Dr. O'Connor a thing or two about life. Can the doctor convince Winona to step back from the gates to the... Read more
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The 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
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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
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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
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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
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 Children's Book of Virtues - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: William J. Bennett
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the #1 national bestseller comes the definitive audio treasury of great moral takes for young children and their parents, including ten postcard-sized reproductions of Michael Hague's beautiful illustrations and featuring performances by:
The Bennett Family
(William, Elayne, John and Joseph)
Barbara Bush
Dorian Harewood
Charlton... Read more
William J Bennett Children's Audio Treasury - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: William J. Bennett
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The perfect companion to William J. Bennett's bestseller The Book of Virtues, The Children's Book of Virtues Audio Treasury is the ideal storybook for parents and children to enjoy together.
With selections from The Book of Virtues, from Aesop and Robert Frost to George Washington's life as well as Native American and African folklore, The... Read more
Cimarron Rose - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland must confront the past in order to save his illegitimate son from a murder conviction in this brilliant, fast-paced thriller from beloved New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.
Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His... Read more
Silas Marner
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Stephanie Beacham
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Falsely accused of a crime and betrayed by his closest friend, the weaver Silas Marner has been hoarding his earnings for 15 years. Distanced from his religious community, he has devoted himself to his work and taken pleasure only in counting his coins. Then in a single day, his gold is stolen and a lovely child appears on his doorstep. As he... Read more
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Thoreau & Emerson
By: Henry David Thoreau & Ralph Waldo Emerson
Narrated by: Russ Barnett
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The timeless wisdom of two of America's most celebrated philosophers is captured in this anthology containing selections from Thoreau's Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience and Emerson's Introduction to Thoreau, Self-Reliance, Nature, The American Scholar, Education, and Politics. The distinguished voice of Russ Barnett brings the great... Read more
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White Crosses - Abridged
By: Larry Watson
Narrated by: Beau Bridges
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Larry Watson's previous fiction evoking contemporary Western small-town life has won him awards, a dedicated readership, and unqualified critical praise. Now he has written a novel that envelops the rich emotional terrain of his beloved Montana in a mystery that is both unexpected and unforgettable.
After a nighttime accident at the bottom of... Read more
She's Come Undone - Abridged
By: Wally Lamb
Narrated by: Kathy Najimy
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this New York Times bestselling extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.
"Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free... Read more