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See picks from all bookstoresThe Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
By: Adelle Waldman
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The national bestseller, named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist, The New Republic, Bookforum, Baltimore City Paper, The Daily Beast, National Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Reader, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Buzzfeed and many others. A New York Times Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable... Read more
View audiobookFrances and Bernard
By: Carlene Bauer
Narrated by: Angela Brazil & Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Bernard Elliot, a poet, and Frances Reardon, a fiction writer, meet at a writers' colony during the summer of 1957 and begin a friendship and correspondence. Bernard, well-born and Harvard-educated, is gregarious, reckless, and passionate; Frances, the precocious daughter of a middle-class Irish family, is circumspect, wry, and more than a... Read more
View audiobookThe Middlesteins
By: Jami Attenberg
Narrated by: Molly Ringwald
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live.
When Richard abandons... Read more
The Cranes Dance
By: Meg Howrey
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
I threw my neck out in the middle of Swan Lake tonight.So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company. Kate is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world, a world she can't help satirizing even as she balances injury and self-doubt to maintain her place within it. At every turn she is haunted... Read more
View audiobookCome to the Edge
By: Christina Haag
Narrated by: Christina Haag
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep school friends, a skinny kid who lived with his mother and sister on Fifth Avenue and who happened to have a Secret Service detail following him at a discreet distance at all times. A decade later, after... Read more
View audiobookConfessions of A Shopaholic
By: Sophie Kinsella
Narrated by: Emily Gray
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Sophie Kinsella's debut is a rollicking romp through the perils of shopping and spending, spending, spending! Becky can't resist a sale, and she's only a little overdrawn on her VISA. Besides, that new scarf is just too cute to pass up. Readers will laugh aloud at Becky's retail adventures as she finds new and creative ways to relieve her... Read more
View audiobookLike Water for Chocolate
By: Laura Esquivel
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Mexico became a bestselling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final... Read more
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