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Deadman’s Road by Joe R. Lansdale
Deadman’s Road
Joe R. Lansdale
Deadman’s Road by Joe R. Lansdale

Deadman’s Road

By: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Deadwood meets Cthulhu in this wild and profane Western romp featuring zombies, werewolves, evil spirits, and one pissed-off gunslinging preacher.The Wild West has never seen the likes of the Reverend Jebidiah Mercer, a hard man wielding a burning Bible in the battle between God and the devil, in an endless struggle he's not sure he cares who... Read more

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The Unreal and the Real, Vol 2 by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Unreal and the Real, Vol 2
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Unreal and the Real, Vol 2 by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Unreal and the Real, Vol 2

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Outer Space, Inner Lands includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories (such as "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley' s Necklace," and "She Unnames Them") which have shaped the way many readers see the world. She gives voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, and speaks truth to power-- all the time... Read more

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The Sea Shall Claim Them by Ed Teja
The Sea Shall Claim Them
Ed Teja
The Sea Shall Claim Them by Ed Teja

The Sea Shall Claim Them

By: Ed Teja

Narrated by: Michael Welte

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Paradise can be treacherousSailing out into deep water is deceptive, especially when the weather is beautiful, the sky crystal clear. The tropics can lull you into complacency. This is the story of a Rasta and his girlfriend going fishing in a borrowed motorboat, and the separate tale of a couple traveling the islands on their sailboat. They... Read more

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Inside Madeleine by Paula Bomer
Inside Madeleine
Paula Bomer
Inside Madeleine by Paula Bomer

Inside Madeleine

By: Paula Bomer

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Nine Months, which Marcy Dermansky called "deliciously, dangerously rogue," comes a powerful, daring collection about the curious, complicated relationships girls have with their bodies, with other girls, and with boys.A young anorexic girl comes to terms with her changing body while lying in the hospital; Polly deals with her... Read more

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All the Rage by A. L. Kennedy
All the Rage
A. L. Kennedy
All the Rage by A. L. Kennedy

All the Rage

By: A. L. Kennedy

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

All the Rage was named to the shortlist of Best Short Story Collection by The Frank O’Connor PrizeA.L. Kennedy, the author of The Blue Book and Day, writes like a force of nature. Claire Messud says she’s “one of Britain’s most iconoclastic and fiercely independent talents.” Richard Ford calls her “a profound writer,” and Ali Smith dubbed her... Read more

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You Are Not A Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
You Are Not A Stranger Here
Adam Haslett
You Are Not A Stranger Here by Adam Haslett

You Are Not A Stranger Here

By: Adam Haslett

Narrated by: Norman Dietz, Scott Sowers, Jonathan Todd Ross,...

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In his bestselling and lavishly praised first book of stories, Adam Haslett explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. The impact is at once harrowing and thrilling. An elderly inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish... Read more

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Joe Ledger: Special Ops by Jonathan Maberry
Joe Ledger: Special Ops
Jonathan Maberry
Joe Ledger: Special Ops by Jonathan Maberry

Joe Ledger: Special Ops

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Joe Ledger—former cop, former Army Ranger, and currently the top-kick of Echo Team, an elite squad of first-class shooters who roll out to face down the world's most dangerous terrorists. Not fanatics with explosive vests or political hostage takers. Joe and his team square off against terrorists who have the most advanced and exotic... Read more

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A May Bride by Meg Moseley
A May Bride
Meg Moseley
A May Bride by Meg Moseley

A May Bride

By: Meg Moseley

Narrated by: Amber Quick

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A year’s worth of novellas from twelve inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed.Ellie has prepared for her wedding all her life . . . but she has forgotten the most important part.Ellie Martin, a country girl living in Atlanta, has dreamed of a traditional wedding all her life—a wedding just like the one her younger sister is... Read more

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Thunderstruck by Elizabeth McCracken
Thunderstruck
Elizabeth McCracken
Thunderstruck by Elizabeth McCracken

Thunderstruck

By: Elizabeth McCracken

Narrated by: Erin Yuen

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House comes a beautiful new story collection. In 'Property,' a young scholar, grieving the sudden death of his wife, decides to refurbish a rental house by removing his landlord's possessions. In 'Peter Elroy: A Documentary by Ian Casey,' the household of a successful filmmaker is visited years... Read more

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Night Ride, and Other Journeys by Charles Beaumont
Night Ride, and Other Journeys
Charles Beaumont
Night Ride, and Other Journeys by Charles Beaumont

Night Ride, and Other Journeys

By: Charles Beaumont

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Stefan Rudnicki & Harlan Ellison

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

For the oddball in you, flights into the sinister and fantasticThe stories in this third collection from a master of speculative fiction are at once playful and dark, but each is wonderfully told.Contents include The Music of the Yellow Brass A Classic Affair The New People Buck Fever The Magic Man Father, Dear Father Perchance to Dream Song for... Read more

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Incendiary Girls by Kodi Scheer
Incendiary Girls
Kodi Scheer
Incendiary Girls by Kodi Scheer

Incendiary Girls

By: Kodi Scheer

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Incendiary Girls explores our baser instincts with vivid imagination and dark humor. In these stories, the body becomes strange and unfamiliar terrain, a medium for transformation. In “Fundamental Laws of Nature,” a doctor considers legacy, both good and bad, when she discovers her mother has been reincarnated as a Thoroughbred mare. The... Read more

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The Man with the Watches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Man with the Watches
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Man with the Watches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Man with the Watches

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A mysterious and unsolved murder has taken place on the train from Euston to Manchester. A bearded man with a cigar is sitting in the first class smoking carriage. In the next carriage a tall middle aged man and a younger woman travelling together. When the train arrives at Rugby, the smoking compartment is empty and in the next carriage the... Read more

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Self-Help by W. W. Jacobs
Self-Help
W. W. Jacobs
Self-Help by W. W. Jacobs

Self-Help

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

W. W. Jacobs was best known for his humorous tales of sailors, often related by his most popular and enduring character: the night-watchman on the wharf in Wapping, recounting the preposterous adventures of his acquaintances Ginger Dick, Sam Small, and Peter Russet. These three characters, pockets full after a long voyage, would take lodgings... Read more

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Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold by Mystery Writers of America, Jeffery Deaver & Raymond Benson
Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold
Mystery Writers of America, Jeffery Deaver & Ra...
Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold by Mystery Writers of America, Jeffery Deaver & Raymond Benson

Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold

By: Mystery Writers of America, Jeffery Deaver & Ra...

Narrated by: various narrators, Tom Weiner, Stephen R. Thorn...

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected by Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson, this is a collection of mystery/thriller short stories from some of today's top writers.Nuclear brinksmanship, psychological warfare, spies, double agents, femmes fatales, and dead drops…The Cold War—a terrifying time when nuclear war between the world's two superpowers was an ever-present threat,... Read more

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The Stone Dragon by R. Murray Gilchrist
The Stone Dragon
R. Murray Gilchrist
The Stone Dragon by R. Murray Gilchrist

The Stone Dragon

By: R. Murray Gilchrist

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A clause in the will of an old embittered aunt means that our hero has to choose between two women, cousins of his, of whom one is conventional and submissive and the other beautiful, erotic and unconventional. Trysts are held in the Italian garden in the presence of a stone dragon, a symbol of emotion frozen for all time, just as in a... Read more

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An April Bride by Lenora Worth
An April Bride
Lenora Worth
An April Bride by Lenora Worth

An April Bride

By: Lenora Worth

Narrated by: Kristy Ragland

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A year’s worth of novellas from twelve inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed.War changed everything . . . even their love.Bride-to-be Stella Carson cannot wait another day to marry her longtime sweetheart, Marshall Henderson. But her plans fall to pieces when she receives the terrible news that Marshall has suffered a... Read more

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The Viscount and the Witch by Michael Sullivan
The Viscount and the Witch
Michael Sullivan
The Viscount and the Witch by Michael Sullivan

The Viscount and the Witch

By: Michael Sullivan

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven years before they were framed for the murder of a king, before even assuming the title of Riyria, Royce Melborn and Hadrian Blackwater were practically strangers. Unlikely associates, this cynical thief and idealist swordsman, were just learning how to work together as a team. In this standalone first installment of The Riyria Chronicles,... Read more

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The Serpent's Tale by Dana Cameron
The Serpent's Tale
Dana Cameron
The Serpent's Tale by Dana Cameron

The Serpent's Tale

By: Dana Cameron

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Serpent’s Tale” is a Fangborn story set in 13th-century England from the award-winning author of Seven Kinds of Hell.When the villagers of Godestone report a series of bizarre and troubling events, Sir Hugo, his heavily pregnant wife, Lady Alice, and her distant kinsman Father Gilbert are honor bound to investigate, for they are “born to... Read more

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Nine O'Clock by Wilkie Collins
Nine O'Clock
Wilkie Collins
Nine O'Clock by Wilkie Collins

Nine O'Clock

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

On the night before their execution during the French Revolution, 21 condemned prisoners and their friends are permitted a last banquet before their trip to the guillotine on the morrow. While they feast and jest on their last night alive, they begin to speculate about the hour of the execution the next day. Only one prisoner, Duprat, is quiet... Read more

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A Witch in the Peak by R. Murray Gilchrist
A Witch in the Peak
R. Murray Gilchrist
A Witch in the Peak by R. Murray Gilchrist

A Witch in the Peak

By: R. Murray Gilchrist

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Murray Gilchrist (1867 – 1917) was an English novelist and author of short stories often set in the Peak District. He is best known today for his Gothic short horror stories, which earn him a deserved position alongside the likes of Stevenson, Stoker, Wilde and Stenbock.

A Witch in the Peak tells the story of a money-lender trying to... Read more

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The Holly Tree by Charles Dickens
The Holly Tree
Charles Dickens
The Holly Tree by Charles Dickens

The Holly Tree

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Running away from a failed love affair, the lead character of the story, a very shy, bashful man, finds himself snowed up in a remote coaching inn called The Holly Tree. He spends much of the next seven days recalling strange tales of inns around Great Britain, Europe and America and remembering those which he has himself visited. After several... Read more

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The Brown Wallet by Stacy Aumonier
The Brown Wallet
Stacy Aumonier
The Brown Wallet by Stacy Aumonier

The Brown Wallet

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Giles is out of work and deep in debt after being cheated by a business partner. He is desperate to find a way to support his wife Eleanor and his daughter Anna, but he has no obvious marketable skills or talents. His one wealthy relative lends him tiny sums, and is so unpleasant over it that Giles scarcely dares borrow more.

Then one day, Giles... Read more

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A Poor Gentleman by George Gissing
A Poor Gentleman
George Gissing
A Poor Gentleman by George Gissing

A Poor Gentleman

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

George Gissing's poignant story of the mysterious Mr. Tymperley who is known to have lived an affluent country life, but is now mysteriously inhabiting a shabby bedsit in a poor street in Islington, London. At a society dinner party, he is rumoured to be undertaking social work and living among the working classes out of charitable concern...but... Read more

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The Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson by Sherwood Anderson
The Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson
The Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson by Sherwood Anderson

The Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson

By: Sherwood Anderson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherwood Anderson (1876 – 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, famous for his highly subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he became a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a... Read more

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