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The Maples Stories
By: John Updike
Narrated by: Peter Van Norden
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Collected together for the first time on audio, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published a story, "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of... Read more
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Mystery Stories of Violet Strange, with eBook
By: Anna Katharine Green
Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Violet Strange is no ordinary well-to-do young New York City debutante. Unbeknownst to her family and society friends, she leads a secret life as a professional sleuth for a private detective agency. On a mission to raise money for an undisclosed project, the determined and gutsy young debutante diligently snoops around sleepwalking widows,... Read more
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The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
By: Robert E. Howard
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
Length: 18 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
"Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities...there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars.... Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand...to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."
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The Southern Woman
By: Elizabeth Spencer
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 20 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Since 1944, when she published her first story, Elizabeth Spencer has been acclaimed as a writer of short fiction in the great tradition of Welty, Chopin, and Mansfield. The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction, her first collection in almost fifteen years, restores to print the author’s most masterful stories and novellas including The... Read more
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Tales of Terror and Mystery
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Fred Williams
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
This volume presents some of Arthur Conan Doyle’s unduly neglected masterworks of suspense. Each begins in a quietly factual way, which makes all the more dramatic the crescendo of fear and puzzlement that ensues as each startling new circumstance is revealed. Even without his supremely logical brainchild Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle shows that... Read more
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The Ring of Thoth and Other Tales, with eBook
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: John Bolen
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
In "The Ring of Thoth," Mr. John Vansittart Smith, a British student of Egyptology, goes to the Egyptian Room of the Louvre to study. There he meets a curious looking attendant, but he is otherwise alone in the great hall. Not long afterwards, the quiet surroundings and his inability to concentrate cause him to drift off to sleep. When Smith... Read more
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Between the Assassinations
By: Aravind Adiga
Narrated by: Harsh Nayyar
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
From the New York Times-bestselling winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008 -- a powerful and striking new collection
Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the... Read more
My Father's Tears and Other Stories
By: John Updike
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel."Personal Archaeology" considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and "The Full Glass" distills a... Read more
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Great Classic Suspense
By: various authors
Narrated by: Geraint Wyn Davies
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Immerse yourself. Savor the best storytelling from the greatest authors of the supernatural. The haunting language and brilliant renditions create an extraordinary atmosphere.This audio recording includes the following suspense-filled classics:“Ethan Brand” by Nathaniel Hawthorne—A lime-burner and his young son encounter the man searching for... Read more
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Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
By: Richard Matheson
Narrated by: various narrators, Richard Powers, Malcolm Hill...
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the finest and most influential horror writers of the twentieth century, Richard Matheson has left his stamp on the collective imagination. Here are more than twenty of Matheson's most memorable tales of fear and paranoia, personally selected by the author himself. Many of these stories have already entered into popular culture, including... Read more
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Animal Crackers
By: Hannah Tinti
Narrated by: Laural Merlington & Dan John Miller
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses. In these strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings. In the... Read more
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Selected Stories
By: John Updike
Narrated by: John Updike
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the hundred-odd he has published.
"A&P", recounting a moral crisis on the checkout counter, is his most anthologized story.
"Pigeon Feathers," the longest story included, tells of a fourteen-year-old boy's fear of death and the answer he finds.
"The Family Meadow" describes a piece of America,... Read more
The Afterlife and Other Stories - Abridged
By: John Updike
Narrated by: John Updike
Length: 2 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A fantastic short story collection from critically acclaimed, and bestselling author, John Updike. Read more
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In "The Model Millionaire", the destiny of a young, ambitious, brilliant pauper changes with an act of his misplaced generosity. "The Happy Prince" is one of Oscar Wilde’s renowned fairy tales. From his vantage point, high above the city, the statue of The Happy Prince gives of himself in a way most astonishing. In "The Sphinx Without a Secret",... Read more
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Just So Stories
By: Rudyard Kipling
Narrated by: Carl Reiner
Length: 2 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Tales like "How the Leopard Got His Spots" and "How the Camel Got His Hump" answer questions only children would ask and answers them in a way only children would believe. Rudyard Kipling very much intended Just So Stories to be read aloud— and no one does it better than Carl Reiner, who brings each original story to life. A superbly... Read more
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The Woman Lit by Fireflies
By: Jim Harrison
Narrated by: Ray Porter, Carrington MacDuffie & Lorna Raver
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Across the odd contours of the American landscape, people are searching for the things that aren’t irretrievably lost, for the incandescent beneath the ordinary. An ex-Bible student with raucously asocial tendencies rescues the preserved body of an Indian chief from the frigid depths of Lake Superior in a caper that nets a wildly unexpected... Read more
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How It Ended
By: Jay McInerney
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation comes a collection of stories drawn from his nearly three-decade career. Whether set in New England, Los Angeles, New York, or the South, they unveil the manic flux of our society as they capture various stages of adulthood: a young man confronting the class system... Read more
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The Homecoming & Other Stories
By: Maeve Binchy
Narrated by: Joanna Myers, Kate Binchy, Patricia Hodge & Sea...
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Maeve Binchy is one of Britain’s most popular storytellers, and these four tales demonstrate the warmth and compassion that have made her many novels bestsellers. In 'Homecoming', read by Sean Campion, the Brennans run Quentin’s restaurant in Dublin for the owner, who lives abroad. But what will happen when he suddenly pays a visit? 'Telling... Read more
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The Boat
By: Nam Le
Narrated by: James Yaegashi, Jesus Martinez, Henry Strozier,...
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
This collection of stories from Pushcart Prize-winning author Nam Le has been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, is a New York Times Editors' Pick, and earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly. The seven stories' protagonists range from a Colombian teenage assassin to an elderly painter with health problems. "Powerful ... Lyrical ...... Read more
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories, with eBook
By: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by: David Case
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective fiction genre with his mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature the concept of applying reason to solving crime, these tales brought Poe fame and fortune. Years later, Dorothy Sayers would describe "The Murders in the Rue... Read more
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The Aunt and Amabel
By: E. Nesbit
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Journey to the roots of Narnia. C.S. Lewis enjoyed the writings of E. Nesbit from the time he was a child. And the story of Amabel and her journey through a mahogany wardrobe so struck him, that he later created his whimsical masterpiece, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Discover the tale that inspired the great C.S. Lewis, and journey to... Read more
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Road Rage
By: Joe Hill, Stephen King & Richard Matheson
Narrated by: Stephen Lang
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Road Rage unites Richard Matheson's classic Duel and the contemporary work it inspired—two power-packed short stories by three of the genre's most acclaimed authors. Duel, an unforgettable tale about a driver menaced by a semi truck, was the source for Stephen Spielberg's acclaimed first film of the same name. Throttle, by Stephen King and Joe... Read more
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Amélie and the ferry and other stories
By: Kim Hoffmeister
Narrated by: Kim Hoffmeister
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Amélie is a naughty little French girl who lives in Brittany with Maman, Papa and little brother Louis. In this set of four exciting stories, Amélie takes a trip on a ferry, goes to the seaside, stays on a farm and looses a tooth! Stories are narrated in English but have a generous sprinkling of French words and phrases to help children learn... Read more
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Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume I
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Stephen King, Kathy Bates, Matthew Broderick, T...
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection.
Stories include:
Introduction (Stephen King)
Suffer the Little Children (Whoopi Goldberg)
Crouch End (Tim Curry)
Rainy Season (Yeardley Smith)
Dolan’s Cadillac (Rob Lowe)
The House on Maple St. (Tabitha... Read more