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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
The Evening Star
By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: Dana Ivey
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The earthy humor and the powerful emotional impact that set McMurtry's Terms of Endearment apart from other novels now rise to brilliant new heights with The Evening Star.
McMurtry takes us deep into the heart of Texas, and deep into the heart of one of the most memorable characters of our time, Aurora Greenway—along with her family, friends, and... Read more
My Other Life
By: Paul Theroux
Narrated by: David Dukes
Length: 18 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Spanning almost thirty years, My Other Life traces the journey of a fictional Paul Theroux—from young bachelorhood in Africa to his travels between continents, from in and out of marriage through various affairs and multiple means of employment. From his early education at the knee of a highly eccentric uncle until his years as a fledgling... Read more
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The Book of Ruth - Abridged
By: Jane Hamilton
Narrated by: Mare Winningham
Length: 4 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"I learned slowly, that if you don't look at the world with perfect vision, you 're bound to get yourself cooked "
Having come within an inch of her life, Ruth Dahl is determined to take a good look at it -- to figure out whether, in fact, she's to blame for the mess.
Pegged the loser in a small-town family that doesn't have much going for it in... Read more
Don Quixote de la Mancha - Abridged
By: Miguel Cervantes
Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Entranced by romantic tales of heroism and chivalry, Don Quixote— self-proclaimed knight errant— embarks on a delusional quest for fame and adventure. The eccentric Spanish country gentleman and his companion Sancho encounter an array of unforgettable characters and undertake some of the most famously foolhardy exploits... Read more
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Visions of Cody - Abridged
By: Jack Kerouac
Narrated by: Graham Parker
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. . . . I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart . . . because now I know MY HEART DOES GROW." —Jack Kerouac, in a letter to John Clellon Holmes
An underground legend by the time it was finally... Read more
Ellen Foster - Abridged
By: Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy."
So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise,... Read more
Accordion Crimes - Abridged
By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx brings the immigrant experience to life in this stunning novel that traces the ownership of a simple green accordion.
E. Annie Proulx’s Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the... Read more
The Age of Innocence - Abridged
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Joanne Woodward
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A masterful portrait of desire and betrayal that takes place during the sumptuous Gilded Age, The Age of Innocence questions the morals and assumptions of elite 1870s New York society when "scandal was more dreaded than disease." Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's best families, is happily anticipating a highly... Read more
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The James Joyce Collection
By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Gabriel Byrne
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In short stories, poems, and monumental novels, James Joyce set out to discover the meaning of his nationality, simultaneously celebrating and ridiculing the history of Ireland in the brilliant style that has made him the most towering figure in the literary landscape of the early 20th century. In this audio, Dublin-born Gabriel Byrne brings to... Read more
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In the Country of Last Things - Abridged
By: Paul Auster
Narrated by: Vanessa Redgrave
Length: 2 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A dystopian novel about one woman' s efforts to preserve her humanity despite great loss.From a life of ease and comfort, Anna Blume embarks on a search for her missing brother. Soon she finds herself trapped in a city obsessed with last things— with the means and manner of death. In this culture of doom, the masses are... Read more
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Sophie's World - Abridged
By: Jostein Gaaardner & Kitt Weagant
Narrated by: Jacob Needleman
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One day, 14-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find two notes in her mailbox, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls... Read more
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Emerald City
By: Jennifer Egan
Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse, Madeleine Lambert & Charlie...
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
These eleven masterful stories—the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan—deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan’s characters—models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls—are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora,... Read more
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The Moral Compass - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: William J. Bennett
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Moral Compass is the inspiring and instructive companion volume to William J. Bennett's bestselling work, The Book of Virtues, offering many more examples of good and bad, right and wrong, in great works from literature and in exemplary stories from history.
Organized by the stages along life's journey, these stories and poems serve as... Read more
Streets Of Laredo
By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: Daniel Von Bargen
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry comes the final book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy—an exhilarating tale of legend and heroism, Streets of Laredo is classic Texas and Western literature at its finest.
Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit.... Read more
Dead Man's Walk
By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The first of Larry McCurtry's Pulitzer Prize–winning Lonesome Dove tetralogy, showcasing McCurtry's talent for breathing new life into the vanished American West through two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call.
As young Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call ("Gus" and "Call" for short)... Read more
First Words
By: Paul Mandelbaum, Amiri Baraka, Margaret Atwood,...
Narrated by: David Ackroyd
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Many kids write stories, but only a few of them grow up to be successful authors. Before there was Carrie, there was “ Johnathan and the Witchs.” And before there was Rabbit Angstrom, Toyota dealer, there was Manuel Cirarro, famous detective. Could we have seen the seeds of success in Stephen King's and John Updike's... Read more
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Sights Unseen - Abridged
By: Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The bestselling author of Charms for the Easy Life reads "her best novel since Ellen Foster."
Kaye Gibbons' award-winning novels of Southern family life have won rave reviews coast to coast. Now, she tells the "story of family dislocation and crisis in restrained prose of unflinching clarity, with a honing eye for the small domestic details that... Read more
Politically Correct Holiday Stories - Abridged
By: James Finn Garner
Narrated by: James Finn Garner
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The #1 bestselling author of Once Upon a More Enlightened Time reads his Politically Correct holiday gift.
Holiday tales have long delighted and entertained us, but until now they've always been burdened with society's skewed values and mores. Stories that reinforce the stifling class system (Dickens' A Christmas Carol), legitimize the stereotype... Read more
Ramona
By: Helen Hunt Jackson
Narrated by: Boots Martin
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
This extraordinarily popular novel weaves together romance, history, and a passionate protest against the oppression of Native Americans in the 1800s. Termed the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of the southwestern Indians and the first protest novel of California, the story vividly portrays three cultures—Indian, Mexican, and Anglo—locked in combat. The... Read more
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Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
By: Tom Robbins
Narrated by: Barry Bostwick
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Imagine this: When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you—an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker—are convinced that you're facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you must scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there's no way you can anticipate the baffling... Read more
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The Scarlet Letter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: Lesley Ann Warren
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, The Scarlet Letter tackles the subjects of social stigma, shame, and judgment. Hester Prynne is at the forefront of the scandal, subject to public humiliation for bearing a child out of wedlock. Forced to wear a scarlet “A” on her clothing for the rest of her life, she cannot run from her sin. Hester refuses... Read more
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