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A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians
By: H. G. Parry
Narrated by: Andrew Kingston
Length: 20 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians is a genre-defying story of magic, war, and the struggle for freedom in the early modern world.
It is the Age of Enlightenment -- of new and magical political movements, from the necromancer Robespierre calling for revolution in... Read more
The Bright Book of Life
By: Harold Bloom
Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
Length: 21 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.
In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was... Read more
Lightbringer
By: Claire Legrand
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 24 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The incredible conclusion to the trilogy that started with the instant New York Times bestsellers Furyborn and Kingsbane!
In this epic finale to the Empirium Trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Claire Legrand, two queens, separated by a thousand years must face their ultimate destinies.
Queen Rielle, pushed away from everything she... Read more
Crossings
By: Alex Landragin
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Raphael Corkhill
Length: 24 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Alex Landragin's Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut—a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes.
*To listen to this novel straight through, just play the program from the beginning. To listen to the Baroness Sequence, start with... Read more
Legacy of Ash
By: Matthew Ward
Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton
Length: 28 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Legacy of Ash is an unmissable fantasy debut--an epic tale of intrigue and revolution, soldiers and assassins, ancient magic and the eternal clash of empires. A shadow has fallen over the Tressian Republic. Ruling families -- once protectors of justice and democracy -- now plot against one another with sharp words and sharper knives.... Read more
View audiobookSontag
By: Benjamin Moser
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 22 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face.No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud... Read more
View audiobookThe Parisian
By: Isabella Hammad
Narrated by: Fiona Button
Length: 20 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Thing You Surrender
By: Leonard Pitts, Jr.
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 20 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Could you find the courage to do what's right in a world on fire?
Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling author (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s new historical novel is a great American tale of race and war, following three characters from the Jim Crow South as they face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States.
An... Read more
The Ruin of Kings
By: Jenn Lyons
Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Soneela Nankani & Vikas Adam
Length: 27 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
"Everything epic fantasy should be: rich, cruel, gorgeous, brilliant, enthralling and deeply, deeply satisfying. I loved it."—Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians
Jenn Lyons begins the Chorus of Dragons series with The Ruin of Kings, an epic fantasy audiobook about a man who discovers his fate is tied to the future of an empire.
When destiny... Read more
Stygian
By: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Narrated by: Holter Graham
Length: 26 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon brings us back to the astonishing world of the Dark-Hunters in Stygian, with a hero misunderstood by many…but most of all by himself.I have lived for thousands of years, believing myself to be something I’m not. Someone I’m not.Trained as a slayer and predator, I’ve learned to become a tool... Read more
View audiobookMusashi
By: Eiji Yoshikawa
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 53 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsmanMiyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai—without really knowing what it meant—he regains consciousness after the battle to find... Read more
View audiobookMississippi Blood
By: Greg Iles
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 28 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Don’t miss the latest Natchez Burning novel, SOUTHERN MANThe endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, his family, and the enemies bent on destroying them in this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy set in modern-day Natchez, Mississippi—Greg Iles’s epic tale of love and honor, hatred and revenge that explores how the sins of the past continue to... Read more
View audiobookThe Terranauts
By: T.C. Boyle
Narrated by: Lynde Houck, Joy Osmanski & Charlie Thurston
Length: 20 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A deep-dive into human behavior in an epic story of science, society, sex, and survival, from one of the greatest American novelists today, T. C. Boyle, the acclaimed, bestselling, author of the PEN/ Faulkner Award–winning World’s End and The Harder They Come.It is 1994, and in the desert near Tillman, Arizona, forty miles from Tucson, a grand... Read more
View audiobookThe Found and the Lost
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan & Jefferson Mays
Length: 34 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time-and introduced by the legendary author-in one breathtaking volume. Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and... Read more
View audiobookBarkskins
By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 25 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a television mini-series airing on National Geographic May 2020!
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year & a New York Times Notable Book
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world’s forests: “Barkskins is grand... Read more
Secondhand 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
The Sport of Kings
By: C. E. Morgan
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 23 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Hellsmouth, an indomitable thoroughbred with the blood of Triple Crown winners in her veins, runs for the glory of the Forge family, one of Kentucky’s oldest and most powerful dynasties. Henry Forge has partnered with his daughter, Henrietta, in an endeavor of raw obsession: to breed the next superhorse, the next Secretariat. But when Allmon... Read more
View audiobookDhalgren
By: Samuel R. Delany
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 34 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In Dhalgren, perhaps one of the most profound and bestselling science fiction novels of all time, Samuel R. Delany has produced a novel that rivals the best American fiction of the 1970s.Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there … the population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets.... Read more
View audiobookPatrick Melrose
By: Edward St. Aubyn
Narrated by: Alex Jennings
Length: 26 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALL FIVE INSTALLMENTS OF EDWARD ST. AUBYN'S CELEBRATED PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS
Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner.
Edward St. Aubyn has penned one of the most acclaimed series of the decade with the Patrick Melrose Novels. Now you can read all... Read more
Styxx
By: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Narrated by: Fred Berman
Length: 31 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The most highly-anticipated novel in the Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series since Acheron is here—the unforgettable story of Styxx, Acheron's twin brother and one of the most powerful beings on earth
Just when you thought doomsday was over . . .
Centuries ago Acheron saved the human race by imprisoning an ancient evil bent on absolute... Read more
Theft of Swords
By: Michael J. Sullivan
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 22 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed author Michael J. Sullivan created instant best-sellers with his spellbinding Riyria Revelations series. This first volume introduces Royce Melborn and Hadrian Blackwater, two enterprising thieves who end up running for their lives when they're framed for the death of the king. Trapped in a conspiracy bigger than they can imagine,... Read more
View audiobookThe Vampire Archives
By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Various
Length: 61 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape.
Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human ... Read more
The Savage Detectives
By: Roberto Bolaño
Narrated by: Eddie Lopez & Armando Durán
Length: 26 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has been called the García Márquez of his generation. In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes—the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself—on a tragicomic quest through a... Read more
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