Short Stories audiobooks
More Twisted
By: Jeffery Deaver
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines, Skipp Sudduth & Frederick Weller
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
While best known for his twenty-four novels, Jeffery Deaver is also a short story masterโhe is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Readerโs Award for Best Short Story, and he won the Short Story Dagger from the Crime Writers Association for a piece that appeared in his first short story collection, Twisted. The New York Times said of that... Read more
View audiobookThe Trembling of a Leaf
By: W. Somerset Maugham
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
When noted English writer W. Somerset Maugham set off for the South Seas to regain his health, his experiences would become the bedrock for the stories represented here. These are among Maughamโs best work, as well as some of the best stories ever written about the exotic South Seas.โMackintoshโ is a taut psychological study of two officials on... Read more
View audiobookThe Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
By: Julia Navarro
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 15 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE HOLY SHROUD is the explosive international bestseller that mixes fact and fiction to tell the riveting story of one of the worldโs most controversial relicsโthe Holy Shroud of Turinโand the desperate race to save it from those who will stop at nothing to possess its legendary power....
A fire at the Cathedral of Turin and... Read more
The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud - Abridged
By: Julia Navarro
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One of Historyโs Most Sacred Treasures. . .
An Age-Old Secret Conspiracy. . .
Now the Truth Is Revealed. . . .
Marco Valoni, chief of Italyโs Art Crimes Department, is convinced that a fire in the Cathedral of Turin that leaves a strangely mutilated, unidentifiable body on the scene was no accident. It is only the last in a long line of mishaps,... Read more
Lawrence Loves
By: D.H. Lawrence
Narrated by: Peter Joyce
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
David Herbert Lawrence was born into a mining family in Nottinghamshire in 1885. He created his finest work shortly after the finish of the First World War. Two of the themes in his writing are the gradual disintegration of the class system and the customs and sexual mores of people across class divisions. What made Lawrence unusual was the... Read more
View audiobookFragile Things
By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
โA prodigiously imaginative collection.โโNew York Times Book Review, Editorโs Choiceย โDazzling tales from a master of the fantastic.โ
โWashington Post Book Worldย Fragile Things is a sterling collection of exceptional tales from Neil Gaiman, multiple award-winning (the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Newberry, and Eisner Awards, to name just a few), #1 New... Read more
Jack London Boxed Set
By: Jack London
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Jack Londonโs adventurous nature, intuitive feeling for animal life, and superb storytelling skills give his tales a striking vitality and force. Thrilling action and a sense of justice characterize the classic stories in this collection.White FangIn the desolate, frozen wilds of northwest Canada, a lone wolf fights the heroic daily fight for... Read more
View audiobookThe Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
By: Susanna Clarke
Narrated by: Davina Porter & Simon Prebble
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics' favorite Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke delivers a delicious collection of ten stories set in the same fairy-crossed world of 19th-century England. With Clarke's characteristic historical detail and diction, these dark, enchanting tales unfold in a slightly... Read more
View audiobookLittle Golden Treasury
By: Gertrude Crampton, Janette Sebring Lowrey & Kat...
Narrated by: Susan Gregory & Skip Hinnant
Length: 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The Poky Little Puppy, by Janette Sebring Lowrey. Read by Susan Gregory
A poky little puppy loves to dig holes under the fence despite what his family says. But the poky little puppy digs one hole too many and ends up missing dessert
Scuffy the Tugboat, by Gertrude Crampton. Read by Skip Hinnant
Meant for โbigger things,โ Scuffy the Tugboat sets... Read more
Moral Disorder
By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Susan Denaker
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Atwood triumphs with these dazzling, personal stories in her first collection since Wilderness Tips.
In these ten interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences โ the birth of a baby, divorce and remarriage, old age and death.... Read more
The Guy Not Taken - Abridged
By: Jennifer Weiner
Narrated by: Mary Catherine Garrison & Jordan Bridges
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A selection of unabridged stories from the bestselling author of Goodnight Nobody
Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. From a teenager coming to terms with her father's disappearance to... Read more
All Aunt Hagar's Children
By: Edward P. Jones
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
Length: 15 hours
Abridged: No
In fourteen sublime stories, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever.Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the... Read more
View audiobookTwelve Red Herrings - Abridged
By: Jeffrey Archer
Narrated by: Alec McCowen
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The bestselling author Jeffrey Archer once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies with this audio collection, Twelve Red Herrings.
Featuring bonus interviews with the author.
Archer, the internationally bestselling author of Honor Among Thieves and Kane & Abel, serves up this inventive collection of a dozen short stories -- with a... Read more
Essential Cheever
By: John Cheever
Narrated by: Meryl Streep & Ben Cheever
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
One Great Author. One Great CD.Here are two magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebratesโwith unequaled grace and tendernessโthe deepest feelings we have. As Cheever wrote, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman... Read more
View audiobookHit Parade
By: Lawrence Block
Narrated by: Lawrence Block
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author and master of the modern mystery returns with a fierce and poignant new novel featuring his acclaimed killer-for-hire, Keller. John Keller is everyone's favorite hit man. He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit man. The inconvenient wife, the business partner, the retiree with a substantial... Read more
View audiobookEssential Welty
By: Eudora Welty
Narrated by: Eudora Welty
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1956, Caedmon had the great fortune to record Eudora Welty reading some of her finest stories. In her sweetly vibrant Mississippi drawl, Ms. Welty deftly draws the listener in to the uproariously multilayered ""Why I Live at the P.O.,"" the spontaneous ""Powerhouse"" and the insightful voice of women's truths in ""Petrified Man."" Ms. Welty's... Read more
View audiobookStationary Bike
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Abridged: No
New on audio from Stephen King...an unabridged novella"as artful as anything he has ever written." (Booklist)
Climb aboard Stationary Bike -- a streamlined fever dream of a tale, in which an ordinary household object assumes otherworldly powers and a familiar journey takes a terrifying twist.
When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz finally... Read more
Collected Stories and Poems
By: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Hundreds of books and articles have been written about Edgar Allan Poe. Even so, no one is really sure who Poe was. Many people say that he was as crazy as the characters he wrote about. Others say that Poe was a driven man with a simple wish. He wanted to write and to make a living by his writing. Even though Poe lived a miserable life, he... Read more
View audiobookTales from Nightscape
By: David Morrell
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Robert Forster
Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Author David Morrell is a consummate storyteller, investing his tales with passion, sympathy, and narrative drive. From this master of literate, high-adrenaline novels of action comes three suspenseful short stories that will keep listeners guessing: "Front Man" – An aging screenwriter cast adrift in a youth-oriented... Read more
View audiobookThe Road Virus Heads North
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the dark, eerie tales that can only come from Stephen King, orginally a part of the #1 New York Times bestseller Everything's Eventual, "The Road Virus Heads North" tracks an author who buys a creepy paiting at a yard sale which was painted by a metal-head neighbor just before he committed suicide. Read more
View audiobookThe Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear
By: Don Wood & Audrey Wood
Narrated by: Patrick Macnee
Length: 4 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1984, a picture book in which the Little Mouse will do all he can to save his strawberry from the Big, Hungry Bear, even if it means sharing it with the reader. The Little Mouse and the Big Hungry Bear are known and loved by millions of children around the world. Little Mouse loves strawberries, but so does the bear... How... Read more
View audiobookFairies Towne: Parent Collector Edition Book
By: Melanie Marie Shifflett Ridner
Narrated by: Melanie Marie Shifflett Ridner
Length: 1 hour 4 minutes
Abridged: No
This novella has combined the whole "Fairies Towne" series of children's books. Read more
View audiobookGraven Images
By: Paul Fleischman
Narrated by: Paul Michael, Susan Denaker & Lincoln Hoppe
Length: 2 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Paul Fleischman spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's creations reveal truths - tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers.
Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman's trio of eerie, beguiling... Read more
A Quiver Full of Arrows - Abridged
By: Jeffrey Archer
Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The bestselling author of Sons of Fortune, Jeffrey Archer once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies with this audio collection.
Featuring bonus interviews with the author.
From London to China, and New York to Nigeria, Jeffrey Archer takes the listener on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly... Read more