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Armageddon in Retrospect
By: Kurt Vonnegut
Narrated by: Rip Torn
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five—a “gripping” posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace.
A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve previously unpublished writings. Imbued... Read more
Our Story Begins
By: Tobias Wolff
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Tobias Wolff’s first two books, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs and Back in the World, proved how the short story can “provoke our amazed appreciation” (New York Times Book Review). In the years since, he’s written a third collection, The Night in Question, as well as several other astounding works. Now he returns with fresh... Read more
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The Red-Headed League
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In "The Red-Headed League", the legendary Sherlock Holmes catches one of London's most daring criminals while investigating the strange business of the League, a suspicious organization that gives its members money for "nominal work". Read more
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The World of Saki
By: H.H. Munro
Narrated by: Alexander Spencer
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The finest champagne, dry and light, ever decanted into a book, are these 16 short stories, including: EsmE; Tobermory; Mrs. Packeltide's Tiger; Sredni Vashtar; The Easter Egg; The Open Window and others. Read more
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
By: Ambrose Bierce
Narrated by: Mark Hammer
Length: 2 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of stories of the supernatural, of ghosts and "strange doings" by a master teller of tales. Includes these stories: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; The Damned Thing; A Watcher by the Dead; An Inhabitant of Carcosa; The Famous Gilson Bequest; The Eyes of the Panther; The Secret of Macarger's Gulch; The Night-Doings at Deadman's Read more
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The World of O.Henry
By: O. Henry
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
If you think of classic literature as dry and dusty reading that you have to force yourself to get through, then prepare to change your mind. Not only are these stories witty and entertaining, they are laugh-out-loud funny to boot! Does the 300-year-old ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville really exist? And if he does, will the rambunctious Otis... Read more
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: Stacy Keach
Length: 4 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction.
Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of... Read more
The World of Jack London
By: Jack London
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
With these stories: To the Man on Trail; DiablE-a Dog; To Build a Fire; The Law of Life; An Odyssey of the North; Moonface; The One Thousand Dozen; and All Gold Canyon. Read more
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Atomic Lobster
By: Tim Dorsey
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Why is everyone rushing to flee Tampa on a cruise ship to hell?Serge is back with a bullet, torn between homicide and souvenirs. So is Coleman, torn between getting hammered and getting more hammered. Then there's good ol' Jim Davenport, the E-Team, the Diaz Brothers, and Johnny Vegas, the Accidental Virgin, cranking up the fevered action as the... Read more
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Cakewalk
By: Lee Smith
Narrated by: Linda Stephens, Tom Stechschulte & Kate Forbes
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Lee Smith, one of today's finest writers in the Southern literary tradition, has been compared to Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. This collection of nine stories, ranging from poignant ballads to delightfully inventive forms, showcases Smith's celebrated talent. The stories will make you chuckle and leave you with a satisfying sense that no... Read more
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Best of the South
By: Shannon Revenel
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte, Julia Gibson, Sally Darling, ...
Length: 12 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Continuing a two-decade tradition of excellence in literature, New Stories from the South presents the 20 best stories of from 1996 to 2005 selected by Anne Tyler. With such authors as Lee Smith, Judy Troy, William Gay, Stephen Coyne, Max Steele, Jill McCorkle and Chris Offutt, Best of the South elegantly portrays an old man's struggle with... Read more
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The Deportees: and Other Stories
By: Roddy Doyle
Narrated by: Hugh Lee
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The eight tales in Roddy Doyle’s first-ever collection of stories have one thing in common: someone born in Ireland meets someone who has come to live there. New Boy describes the first day of school for a nine-year-old boy from Africa; while in The Pram, a terrifying ghost story, a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge’s older sisters... Read more
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Sketches by Boz Volume 2
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Peter Joyce
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The ‘sketches’ in this volume are more the substance and length of short stories illustrating the development of the tools of the Masters trade: farce, parody, irony, black humour and wonderful one liners which unerringly hit the mark. The ensuing narrative, however, brings the listener bumpily back to earth with a reminder of the mean and often... Read more
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Mothers and Sons
By: Colm Tóibín
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning novelist Tóibín brings to this stunning first collection of short works an acute understanding of human frailty and longing. These nine beautifully written, intensely intimate stories explore the psychological push and pull between mother and son. Each story is centered on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of... Read more
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Story Club Collection
By: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing Group
Narrated by: TianXuanXingHe
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The life of migrant workers is richly diverse and ever-changing. The stories told in this book are but a drop in the ocean compared to real life, yet they accurately capture and reflect the real experiences of young migrant workers. These workers "venture into the cities" to survive; they "take control of their own lives" to realize their value... Read more
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The Ritual Bath
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.The crime was called in by Rina... Read more
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Porch Lies
By: Patricia McKissack
Narrated by: Pamella D'Pella, Adenrele Ojo & Mirron Willis
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Side-splittingly funny, spine-chillingly spooky, this companion to a Newbery Honor–winning anthology The Dark Thirty is filled with bad characters who know exactly how to charm.
From the author's note that takes us back to McKissack's own childhood when she would listen to stories told on her front porch... to the captivating introductions to... Read more
Collected Stories
By: William Faulkner
Narrated by: Various
Length: 31 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner
Winner of the National Book Award
Forty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who... Read more
The Ransom of Red Chief
By: O. Henry
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In the first tale, we follow two workmen on an intriguing journey to Coney Island, where the heartsick and disgruntled Tobin has his palm read. Who knew that palmistry could be so unpredictable? Secondly, a tale of kidnapping gone awry.A little boy, self proclaimed "Red Chief", is taken from his home, and has so much fun he never wants to go... Read more
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Dreamsongs
By: George R. R. Martin
Narrated by: Various
Length: 51 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Dubbed "the American Tolkien" by Time magazine, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin is a giant in the field of fantasy literature and one of the most exciting storytellers of our time. Now he delivers a rare treat for readers: a selection of his shorter works, collected into this audio collection, offering fascinating insight... Read more
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Unabridged Selections From The Frontier Stories, Volume 5
By: Louis L'Amour
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 3 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer – who The Wall Street Journal recently compared with... Read more
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Amélie starts a band and other stories
By: Kim Hoffmeister
Narrated by: Kim Hoffmeister
Length: 36 minutes
Abridged: No
These delightful stories are all about a naughty little French girl who lives with her family in Brittany, western France. The stories are narrated in English, but have plenty of French vocabulary and phrases dispersed into the story. This CD includes French vocabulary for; musical instruments, colours and zoo animals. The CD also includes two... Read more
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20th Century Ghosts
By: Joe Hill
Narrated by: David Ledoux
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning collection of short fiction.Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him... Read more
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No One Belongs Here More Than You
By: Miranda July
Narrated by: Miranda July
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Named a Top Ten Book of the Year by Time, the bestselling debut story collection by the extraordinarily talented Miranda July, award-winning filmmaker, artist, and writer.
In No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can... Read more