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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
View audiobookFool
By: Christopher Moore
Narrated by: Euan Morton
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
“Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.”
—Dallas Morning NewsFool—the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore—is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare’s King Lear…as seen through the eyes of the foolish... Read more
Tropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s with unapologetic gusto, and is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, ""one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century."" The audiobook is narrated by acclaimed actor Campbell... Read more
View audiobookFight Club
By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: Jim Colby
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Every weekend, in basements and car parks across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything.
Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden,... Read more
All Over But the Shoutin' - Abridged
By: Rick Bragg
Narrated by: Rick Bragg
Length: 2 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a... Read more
View audiobookThe Picture of Dorian Gray
By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Dorian Gray, a handsome and narcissistic young man, lives thoughtlessly for his own pleasure—an attitude encouraged by the company he keeps. One day, after having his portrait painted, Dorian makes a frivolous Faustian wish: that he should always remain as young and beautiful as he is in that painting, while the portrait grows old in his... Read more
View audiobookLightning
By: Dean Koontz
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz’s brilliantly thrilling novel of suspense.In the midst of a raging blizzard, lightning struck on the night Laura Shane was born. And a mysterious blond-haired stranger showed up just in time to save her from dying. Years later, in the wake of another storm, Laura will be saved again. For someone... Read more
View audiobookLove Is a Mix Tape
By: Rob Sheffield
Narrated by: Rob Sheffield
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
“The happiest, saddest, sweetest book about rock ‘n’ roll that I’ve ever experienced.”—Chuck Klosterman
Mix tapes: We all have our favorites. Stick one into a deck, press play, and you’re instantly transported to another time in your life. For Rob Sheffield, that time was one of miraculous love and unbearable grief. A time that spanned seven... Read more
Anne of Green Gables
By: L. M. Montgomery
Narrated by: Susan O’Malley
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Anne Shirley, the orphan child who brings happiness and love into the lives of her foster family, is one of the most beloved heroines in all of literature.Anne, a wildly imaginative, red-headed chatterbox, tries to fit into the narrow confines of Victorian expectations, but her exuberant spirit keeps leaping delightfully beyond the bounds.When... Read more
View audiobookSaving Fish from Drowning
By: Amy Tan
Narrated by: Amy Tan
Length: 17 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
San Francisco art patron Bibi Chen has planned a journey of the senses along the famed Burma Road for eleven lucky friends. But after her mysterious death, Bibi watches aghast from her ghostly perch as the travelers veer off her itinerary and embark on a trail paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses, Buddhist illusions and romantic desires.... Read more
View audiobookInkheart
By: Cornelia Funke
Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave
Length: 15 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the sensational New York Times bestseller The Thief Lord comes a thrilling new adventure about magic and self-discovery.
Meggie lives a quiet life alone with her father, a bookbinder. But her father has a deep secret--he possesses an extraordinary magical power. One day a mysterious stranger arrives who seems linked to her... Read more