Barb Dwyer's Greatest Hits - October

The Lincoln Highway

A Novel

By: Amor Towles
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland & Dion Graham
Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

“Like so many other Amor Towles fans, I’ve been impatiently awaiting his next novel, so I delved right in and didn’t totally emerge until a few days later! As always with his work, it’s immersively readable and his word crafting is such a pleasure. What’s happening in the characters’ lives is chaotic and unsettled, but Towles’ writing is as... Read more

Dune

Book One in the Dune Chronicles

Dune

By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon Vance, Ilyana Kadushin, Byron Jennings, David R. Gordon, Jason Culp, Kent Broadhurst, Oliver Wyman, Patricia Kilgarriff & Scott Sowers
Length: 21 hours 1 minute

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Javier Bardem, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, and Charlotte Rampling.

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as... Read more

Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our... Read more

The Great Alone

A Novel

By: Kristin Hannah
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 15 hours 1 minute

“Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone is a powerful, compelling story of survival - survival of the natural elements and of the human spirit. It's 1974, and 13-year-old Leni Allbright lives with her devoted mother, Cora, and abusive father, Ernt, who was a prisoner of war during Vietnam. America is changing after the war, and Ernt thinks their best... Read more

State of Terror

A Novel

By: Louise Penny & Hillary Rodham Clinton
Narrated by: Joan Allen
Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER​

Named one of the most anticipated novels of the season by People, Associated Press, Time, Los Angeles Times, Parade, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more.

From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable... Read more

Ciudad de las nubes

By: Anthony Doerr
Narrated by: Jordi Salas
Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

El esperado regreso del autor de La luz que no puedes ver, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, con una ambiciosa novela llena de imaginación y emoción sobre el poder de la palabra escrita. Los jóvenes héroes de esta novela intentan entender el mundo que los rodea: Anna y Omeir se encuentran en lados opuestos de las magníficas murallas de... Read more

The Midnight Library

A Novel

By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Carey Mulligan
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon

Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year

"A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post

The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well... Read more

Daughter of the Morning Star

Longmire Mysteries: Book #17

By: Craig Johnson
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Everybody thinks the night is scary. … The time of danger for the living is the time of change, from day into night, when the world isn't sure what it is or what it wants to be. …
When Tribal Police Chief Lolo Long’s niece Jaya begins receiving death threats, she calls on Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire along with Henry Standing Bear as... Read more

1984

By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Blackstone Publishing presents a new recording of this immensely popular book.One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, Orwell’s cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state feels more relevant now than ever before.George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its... Read more

The Madness of Crowds

A Novel

Chief Inspector Gamache Novel: Book #17

By: Louise Penny
Narrated by: Robert Bathurst
Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

"Robert Bathurst's narration is calm, collected, and earnest, reflecting the blend of emotion and professionalism that Gamache embodies as an investigator. It's perfect for listeners seeking both captivating intrigue and insightful reflection." - BookPage

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise... Read more

Force of Nature

Joe Pickett

By: C. J. Box
Narrated by: David Chandler
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

New York Times best-selling author C. J. Box delivers a novel starring Joe Pickett's sidekick, fan-favorite Nate Romanowski. In Force of Nature, trouble comes calling from Nate's past in the Special Forces, and the colleague he once called friend won't stop until those who know a deadly secret are silenced. Everyone close to Nate is at risk,... Read more

Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins

By: James Dean
Narrated by: Lewis Grosso
Length: 1 minute

New York Times Bestseller!Bestselling author and artist James Dean brings us a groovy rendition of the classic favorite children’s song “Five Little Pumpkins,” sung by cool cat Pete and perfect for Halloween.Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins is in a sturdy paper-over-board format and filled with vibrant, engaging illustrations for even the... Read more

American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club)

A Novel

By: Jeanine Cummins
Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
Length: 16 hours 55 minutes

“American Dirt can only be described as riveting. I could not stop listening to this compulsive, spine-tingling story. I positively loved this book. There is not a dull moment in it. I highly recommend listening to this book when you have some time on your hands because you won't want to turn it off. The narrator of this book is one of the best... Read more

The Tale of Despereaux

Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread

By: Kate DiCamillo
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

This is the story of Desperaux Tilling, a mouse in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl with a simple, impossible wish. These characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and ultimately,... Read more

The Once and Future Witches

By: Alix E. Harrow
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

“Alix Harrow’s The Ten Thousand Doors of January was my favorite book last year, so I had incredibly high expectations when I picked up The Once and Future Witches. This book is very different, but I adore it just as much! Set in the late 1800s in a world with a slightly alternate history from ours, women are fighting for the vote and losing.... Read more

The Maltese Falcon

By: Dashiell Hammett
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

The Maltese Falcon is the definitive masterpiece of the hard-boiled detective genre. It introduces legendary PI Sam Spade, a loner who follows his own code and the rules of the street as he zeros in on his partner’s killer and the famous jewel-encrusted bird. Humphrey Bogart immortalized the tough-guy detective in the classic 1941 film. Read more

The Song of Achilles

A Novel

By: Madeline Miller
Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

“A sweeping emotional tale of war, passion, and devastation. You are given insight into a hero's life through the eyes of Patroclus in a way that has never been done before.You may think you know the story of Achilles and Patroclus but I promise you, you don't. Miller is able to ensnare your imagination and capture the human spirit in a way few... Read more

The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: Donada Peters
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Introduction by Kathryn Harrison
Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren
 
A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal... Read more

The Brutal Telling

A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Chief Inspector Gamache Novel: Book #5

By: Louise Penny
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

"Ralph Cosham delivers a delightful accent for Gamache and invests all the characters with small-town likability." —AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

The wise and beleaguered Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines The Brutal Telling, the fifth book in Louise Penny's #1 New York Times bestselling series.

Chaos is coming, old... Read more

Dune Messiah

Book Two in the Dune Chronicles

Dune

By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Euan Morton, Simon Vance & Katherine Kellgren
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! Frank Herbert's second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an... Read more