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Gods of Howl Mountain
By: Taylor Brown
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
In Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country of 1950s North Carolina.Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood—a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at... Read more
View audiobookFirst, We Make the Beast Beautiful
By: Sarah Wilson
Narrated by: Sarah Wilson
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Bestseller""Probably the best book on living with anxiety that I’ve ever read.” – Mark Manson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckThe Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast, you must first make it beautiful.Sarah Wilson first came across this Chinese proverb in psychiatrist Kay... Read more
View audiobookThe Female Persuasion
By: Meg Wolitzer
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 14 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller
“A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens." —Bustle
“Ultra-readable.” —Vogue
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, comes an electric novel not just about who we want to be with, but who we want... Read more
Living in the Woods in a Tree
By: Sybil Rosen
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Living in the Woods in a Tree is an intimate glimpse into the turbulent life of Texas music legend Blaze Foley (1949–1989), seen through the eyes of Sybil Rosen, the woman for whom he wrote his most widely known song, "If I Could Only Fly." It captures the exuberance of their fleeting idyll in a tree house in the Georgia woods during the... Read more
View audiobookFever Dream
By: Samanta Schweblin
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
NOW A FEATURE FILM COMING SOON TO NETFLIX
"Genius." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize!
Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream...
A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together,... Read more
Slow Days, Fast Company
By: Eve Babitz
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique voice. These stories are time capsule gems, as poignant and startling today as they were when published in the early 1970s. Eve Babitz is not well known today, but she should be. Her first hand experiences in the L.A. cultural scene, translated... Read more
View audiobookThe Fifth Child
By: Doris Lessing
Narrated by: Sue Pitkin
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and... Read more
View audiobookSecondhand Time
By: Svetlana Alexievich
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin, Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbel...
Length: 22 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia
When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing “a new kind of literary genre,”... Read more
My Best Friend’s Exorcism
By: Grady Hendrix
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A heartwarming story of friendship and demonic possessionThe year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since the fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act … different. She’s moody. She’s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she’s... Read more
View audiobookCarmilla
By: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the 19th century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.
Carmilla is Le Fanu's famous classic vampire story which has been filmed numerous times, including Vampyre (1932), Blood... Read more
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
By: C.G. Jung
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 16 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
'I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals' (Carl Gustav Jung)
In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story. But what started as an exercise in autobiography soon... Read more
All the Birds in the Sky
By: Charlie Jane Anders
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
From the former editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning Nebula Award–winning and Hugo–shortlisted novel about the end of the world—and the beginning of our future
An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go to war in order to prevent the world from tearing itself apart. To further complicate things, each of the groups’... Read more
A Head Full of Ghosts
By: Paul Tremblay
Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE 2015 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVELA chilling thriller that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror, reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New... Read more
View audiobookSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
By: Becky Albertalli
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox: Love, SimonWilliam C. Morris Award Winner: Best Young Adult Debut of the Year * National Book Award Longlist""A remarkable gift of a novel.""—Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle""I am so in love with this book.""—Nina LaCour, author of Hold Still""Feels timelessly, effortlessly... Read more
View audiobookGood Omens
By: Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Full Cast, Mark Heap & Peter Serafinowicz
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s celebrated apocalyptic comic novel.
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday in fact. Just after Any Answers on Radio 4….
Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies... Read more
It's Kind of a Funny Story
By: Ned Vizzini
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he... Read more
View audiobookAnd Then There Were None
By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickOne of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense—Agatha Christie—now a Lifetime TV movie.""Ten . . .""
Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious ""U. N. Owen.""""Nine . . .""
At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of... Read more
The Orphan Master's Son
By: Adam Johnson
Narrated by: Tim Kang, Josiah D. Lee, James Kyson Lee & Ada...
Length: 19 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times betselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship.
“Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which [Adam] Johnson is painting here.”—The Washington Post
Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer... Read more
Pride and Prejudice
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Carolyn Seymour
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The provincial Bennet family, home to five unmarried daughters, is turned upside down when a wealthy bachelor takes up a house nearby.Mr. Bingley enhances his instant popularity by hosting a ball and taking an interest in the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane. Meanwhile, Mr. Darcy, Bingley's even wealthier friend, makes himself equally unpopular by... Read more
View audiobookThalia Book Club: Emma Donoghue's Room
By: Emma Donoghue
Narrated by: Michael Cunningham, John Connolly & Maria Tucci
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Emma Donoghue discusses her extraordinary new novel with author Michael Cunningham (The Hours and By Nightfall). This wondrous book is told from the point of view of a five-year-old boy who lives with his mother in an 11-by-11 foot room. Performance playlist: Reading by Michal Friedman, a conversation between Emma Donoghue and Michael... Read more
View audiobookWorld Made by Hand
By: James Howard Kunstler
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Long Emergency, celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production combined with climate change had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. In World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction, Kunstler brings to life what America might be, a few... Read more
View audiobookAlice's Adventures in Wonderland
By: Lewis Carroll
Narrated by: Shannon Parks
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
This tale, beloved by children and adults everywhere, follows Alice as she falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world, where she meets The Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Queen of Hearts and the Cheshire Cat—each character more eccentric than the last. Lewis Carroll, the master of sublime nonsense, has created one of the... Read more
View audiobookWuthering Heights
By: Emily Bronte
Narrated by: Donada Peters
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"After a moment he smiled a teasing smile. 'I still think it would be a better story if either of them had one redeeming quality.'
'I think that may be the point,' I disagreed. 'Their love is their only redeeming quality.'"
--Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of... Read more
Wait Till Helen Comes
By: Mary Downing Hahn
Narrated by: Ellen Grafton
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their younger stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard.If that's not bad... Read more
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