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My Abandonment, Peter Rock

My Abandonment

by Peter Rock

Rent: $7.96

Thirteenyearold Caroline and her father have lived for four years on the outskirts of Por...

Unabridged: 6 hr 2 min
Narrator: Tai Sammons
Published: 03/12/2009
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A Far Cry from Kensington, Muriel Spark

A Far Cry from Kensington

by Muriel Spark

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Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delig...

Unabridged: 6 hr 8 min
Narrator: Pamela Garelick
Published: 05/02/2011
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Dangling Man, Saul Bellow

Dangling Man

by Saul Bellow

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An essential masterwork by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow Expecting to be inducted into the ...

Unabridged: 6 hr 15 min
Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
Published: 12/20/2011
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After The Theater, Anton Chekhov

After The Theater

by Anton Chekhov

Rent: $1.48

After Nadya, a sixteen year old girl, returns home from seeing a play, she is happily con...

Unabridged: 9 min
Narrator: Dave Courvoisier
Published: 12/04/2012
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Summer Crossing, Truman Capote

Summer Crossing

by Truman Capote

Rent: $7.88

Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest Amer...

Unabridged: 3 hr 25 min
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell...
Published: 12/13/2005
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While I Was Gone, Sue Miller

While I Was Gone

by Sue Miller

Rent: $8.16

A decade ago she put a face on every mother's worst nightmare with her phenomenal best-se...

Abridged: 5 hr
Narrator: Blair Brown
Published: 07/05/2000
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The Copper Beech, Maeve Binchy

The Copper Beech

by Maeve Binchy

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In the Irish town of  Schancarrig, the young people carve their initials--and&#...

Abridged: 2 hr 59 min
Narrator: Fionnula Flanagan
Published: 07/05/2000
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A Wild Swan And Other Tales, Michael Cunningham

A Wild Swan

by Michael Cunningham

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Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The HoursA pois...

Unabridged: 2 hr 56 min
Narrator: Lili Taylor
Published: 11/10/2015
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The Dying Animal, Philip Roth

The Dying Animal

by Philip Roth

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Philip Roth, one of the best-known and awardwinning literary masters of our time, engages...

Unabridged: 4 hr 10 min
Narrator: Tom Stechschulte
Published: 05/02/2008
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A Whole Life, Robert Seethaler

A Whole Life

by Robert Seethaler

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An international bestseller that recalls the quiet power of John Williams's Stoner&#...

Unabridged: 3 hr 44 min
Narrator: Charlotte Collins
Published: 09/13/2016
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The Hawkline Monster A Gothic Western, Richard  Brautigan

The Hawkline Monster

by Richard Brautigan

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The time is 1902, the setting eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Native Amer...

Unabridged: 3 hr 3 min
Narrator: Johnathan McClain
Published: 12/31/2016
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In Watermelon Sugar, Richard  Brautigan

In Watermelon Sugar

by Richard Brautigan

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iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different color every day and where people trave...

Unabridged: 2 hr 22 min
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Published: 04/25/2017
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The Guest Cat, Takashi Hiraide

The Guest Cat

by Takashi Hiraide

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A bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat,...

Unabridged: 3 hr 21 min
Narrator: David Shih
Published: 12/27/2016
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Waiting for Eden, Elliot Ackerman

Waiting for Eden

by Elliot Ackerman

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From the National Book Award finalist, a breathtakingly spare and shattering new novel th...

Unabridged: 3 hr 27 min
Narrator: MacLeod Andrews
Published: 09/25/2018
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Confession of the Lioness, Mia Couto

Confession of the Lioness

by Mia Couto

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Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Coutos Confession of the Lioness revea...

Unabridged: 6 hr 36 min
Narrator: Kevin Kenerly; Lis...
Published: 07/14/2015
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The Cockroach, Ian McEwan

The Cockroach

by Ian McEwan

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A brilliant, of-the-moment political satire like no other: here is Ian McEwan's Brexit-er...

Unabridged: 2 hr 13 min
Narrator: Bill Nighy
Published: 10/08/2019
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Sh*tshow, Richard Russo

Sh*tshow

by Richard Russo

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A Vintage Shorts Short Story original.   David and Ellie didn’t realize how m...

Unabridged: 1 hr 7 min
Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Published: 12/03/2019
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My Brother Michael, Mary Stewart

My Brother Michael

by Mary Stewart

Rent: $7.24

One of Britain's most beloved authors, Mary Stewart leads her readers on a journey of mu...

Unabridged: 10 hr 40 min
Narrator: Jasmine Blackborow...
Published: 08/15/2019
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My Men, Victoria Kielland

My Men

by Victoria Kielland

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Based on the true story of Norwegian maid turned Midwestern farmwife Belle Gunness, the f...

Unabridged: 4 hr 37 min
Narrator: Mia Barron
Published: 06/27/2023
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Visions of Cody Selections from the Novel, Jack Kerouac

Visions of Cody

by Jack Kerouac

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"What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrar...

Abridged: 3 hr 7 min
Classic, 20th-Century, Audio
Narrator: Graham Parker
Published: 10/01/1996
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Train Dreams, Denis Johnson

Train Dreams

by Denis Johnson

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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year One ...

Unabridged: 2 hr 22 min
Narrator: Will Patton
Published: 08/30/2011
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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker

Now Is the Time to Open Your Hear...

by Alice Walker

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The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy...

Unabridged: 6 hr 1 min
Narrator: Alfre Woodard
Published: 04/20/2004
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White Jazz, James Ellroy

White Jazz

by James Ellroy

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The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, ...

Abridged: 2 hr 56 min
Narrator: Jerry Orbach
Published: 03/13/2007
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Tambourines to Glory, Langston Hughes

Tambourines to Glory

by Langston Hughes

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Poet, author and playwright Langston Hughes was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance in...

Unabridged: 4 hr 17 min
Narrator: Myra Lucretia Tayl...
Published: 03/11/2008
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Madam, Will You Talk? The modern classic by the queen of romantic suspense, Mary Stewart

Madam, Will You Talk?

by Mary Stewart

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The pioneer of romantic suspense, Mary Stewart leads listeners on a thrilling journey th...

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min
Narrator: Emilia Fox
Published: 11/01/2018
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The Arrangements, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Arrangements

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi...

Rent: $3.99

The Arrangements is a short story originally published for The New York Times Book Review...

Unabridged: 32 min
Narrator: January LaVoy
Published: 10/25/2016
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The Harpy, Megan Hunter

The Harpy

by Megan Hunter

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Lucy and Jake live in a house by a field where the sun burns like a ball of fire. Lucy ha...

Unabridged: 4 hr 19 min
Narrator: Clare Corbett
Published: 11/03/2020
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The Metamorphosis Classic Tales Edition, Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

Rent: $4.83

Gregor Samsa awakens to find himself transformed into a monstrous vermin. As his mother, ...

Unabridged: 2 hr 14 min
Narrator: B.J. Harrison
Published: 11/06/2020
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The Martian Child, David Gerrold

The Martian Child

by David Gerrold

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Gerrold, a science fiction writer from California, adopts a son who has a slight behavior...

Unabridged: 4 hr 51 min
Narrator: Scott Brick
Published: 01/01/2006
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Double Bound, Nick Nolan

Double Bound

by Nick Nolan

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2007 Reader Views Readers Choice Award Winner in Gay & Lesbian Fiction2007 ForeWord M...

Unabridged: 10 hr 16 min
Tales from Ballena Beach #2
Narrator: Luke Daniels
Published: 11/27/2012
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Crooken Sands, Bram Stoker

Crooken Sands

by Bram Stoker

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Crooken sands is a short fantasy horror story following a London merchant on his mysterio...

Unabridged: 55 min
Narrator: Don Hagen
Published: 07/03/2012
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Nobody Move, Denis Johnson

Nobody Move

by Denis Johnson

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From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a p...

Unabridged: 4 hr 23 min
Narrator: Will Patton
Published: 04/28/2009
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Evenings at Five, Gail Godwin

Evenings at Five

by Gail Godwin

Rent: $6.36

Every evening at five o’clock, Christina and Rudy stopped work and began the ritual...

Unabridged: 1 hr 40 min
Narrator: Gail Godwin
Published: 04/01/2003
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Last Night at the Lobster, Stewart O'Nan

Last Night at the Lobster

by Stewart O'Nan

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Perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall, the Red Lobster hasn't been mak...

Unabridged: 3 hr 50 min
Narrator: Jonathan Davis
Published: 11/05/2007
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Tepper Isn't Going Out, Calvin Trillin

Tepper Isn't Going Out

by Calvin Trillin

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Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read th...

Abridged: 5 hr 23 min
Narrator: Calvin Trillin
Published: 01/15/2002
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High Plains Tango, Robert James Waller

High Plains Tango

by Robert James Waller

Rent: $8.48

With over 10 million copies sold, bestselling author Robert James Waller returns with the...

Abridged: 5 hr 1 min
Narrator: Sam Freed
Published: 06/28/2005
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Missing Person, Patrick Modiano

Missing Person

by Patrick Modiano

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In this strange, elegant novel, Patrick Modiano portrays a man in pursuit of the identity...

Unabridged: 4 hr 43 min
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Published: 11/03/2015
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Reckless Hearts (Short Story) A Story of Slim Hawks and Ernest Hemingway, Melanie Benjamin

Reckless Hearts (Short Story)

by Melanie Benjamin

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Melanie Benjamin introduces readers to the lavish, heady world of her novel The Swans of ...

Unabridged: 1 hr 17 min
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell...
Published: 12/22/2015
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The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike, Philip K. Dick

The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exac...

by Philip K. Dick

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The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike was written by Philip K. Dick in the winter an...

Unabridged: 9 hr 54 min
Narrator: Phil Gigante
Published: 05/10/2016
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My Jim, Nancy Rawles

My Jim

by Nancy Rawles

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American Book Award winner Nancy Rawles pens a moving story about Huck Finn's slave frien...

Unabridged: 3 hr 59 min
Narrator: Lizzie Cooper Davi...
Published: 06/27/2008
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Normal, Warren Ellis

Normal

by Warren Ellis

Rent: $6.49

A smart, tight, provocative techno-thriller audiobook straight out of the very near futur...

Unabridged: 3 hr 24 min
Narrator: John Hodgman
Published: 11/29/2016
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You Should Have Left, Daniel Kehlmann

You Should Have Left

by Daniel Kehlmann

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From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and s...

Unabridged: 1 hr 56 min
Narrator: Ross Benjamin
Published: 06/13/2017
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The End We Start From, Megan Hunter

The End We Start From

by Megan Hunter

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The End We Start From heralds the arrival of Megan Hunter, a dazzling and unique literary...

Unabridged: 2 hr 2 min
Narrator: Louise Brealey
Published: 11/07/2017
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So Lucky, Nicola Griffith

So Lucky

by Nicola Griffith

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From the author of Hild, a fierce and urgent autobiographical audiobook about a woman fac...

Unabridged: 4 hr 51 min
Narrator: Nicola Griffith
Published: 05/15/2018
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Mrs. Caliban, Rachel Ingalls

Mrs. Caliban

by Rachel Ingalls

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It all starts with the radio. Dorothy's husband, Fred, has left for work, and she is at t...

Unabridged: 3 hr 37 min
Narrator: Amy Landon
Published: 10/09/2018
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Pleasure and Power, Doug Brendel

Pleasure and Power

by Doug Brendel

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Race, sex, and justice... In 1950, in a world before #MeToo, charming Jake plays fast ...

Unabridged: 6 hr 53 min
Narrator: Doug Brendel
Published: 10/13/2018
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The Disaster Tourist A Novel, Yun Ko-eun

The Disaster Tourist

by Yun Ko-eun

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An eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility, The Disaster Tourist engages with the...

Unabridged: 5 hr 2 min
Narrator: Lizzie Buehler
Published: 08/20/2020
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You Will Love What You Have Killed, Kevin Lambert

You Will Love What You Have Kille...

by Kevin Lambert

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Faldistoire’s grandfather thinks he’s a ghost. Sylvie’s mother reads Ta...

Unabridged: 4 hr 10 min
Narrator: Graham Halstead
Published: 03/09/2021
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Tides, Sara Freeman

Tides

by Sara Freeman

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After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family to find solace elsewhere. She lan...

Unabridged: 4 hr 21 min
Narrator: Amy Rutherford
Published: 01/18/2022
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Fraternity Stories, Benjamin Nugent

Fraternity

by Benjamin Nugent

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Voiced by an off-kilter chorus of the young and desperate to belong, Benjamin Nugent&rsqu...

Unabridged: 3 hr 41 min
Narrator: Peter Ganim
Published: 07/07/2020