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The Covenant of Water
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Abraham Verghese
- Length: 31 hrs and 16 mins
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Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....
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Breathtaking!
- By Sally M. on 14-06-23
By: Abraham Verghese
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The Alchemist
- A Fable About Following Your Dream
- By: Paulo Coelho
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
- Length: 4 hrs
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Combining magic, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of discovery, this is a modern classic narrated by the inimitable Jeremy Irons.
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Life changing
- By Thomas on 14-04-15
By: Paulo Coelho
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Blood Meridian
- Or the Evening Redness in the West
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
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The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier....
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Visionary, violent, yet redemptive. A masterpiece.
- By Peter Kettle on 07-04-13
By: Cormac McCarthy
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The Trees
- A Novel
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Percival Everett's The Trees is a must-listen that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi....
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A challenging book.
- By Anonymous User on 08-09-22
By: Percival Everett
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This Is Happiness
- By: Niall Williams
- Narrated by: Dermot Crowley
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a 1,000 years....
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Brilliant, funny, moving.
- By Suzanne Crowley on 20-09-19
By: Niall Williams
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The Count of Monte Cristo
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 52 hrs and 41 mins
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On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason....
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The Count of Monte CristoNarrated by Bill Homewood
- By Martin on 18-08-11
By: Alexandre Dumas
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The Covenant of Water
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Abraham Verghese
- Length: 31 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....
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Breathtaking!
- By Sally M. on 14-06-23
By: Abraham Verghese
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The Alchemist
- A Fable About Following Your Dream
- By: Paulo Coelho
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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Combining magic, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of discovery, this is a modern classic narrated by the inimitable Jeremy Irons.
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Life changing
- By Thomas on 14-04-15
By: Paulo Coelho
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Blood Meridian
- Or the Evening Redness in the West
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier....
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Visionary, violent, yet redemptive. A masterpiece.
- By Peter Kettle on 07-04-13
By: Cormac McCarthy
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The Trees
- A Novel
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Percival Everett's The Trees is a must-listen that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi....
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A challenging book.
- By Anonymous User on 08-09-22
By: Percival Everett
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This Is Happiness
- By: Niall Williams
- Narrated by: Dermot Crowley
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a 1,000 years....
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Brilliant, funny, moving.
- By Suzanne Crowley on 20-09-19
By: Niall Williams
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The Count of Monte Cristo
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 52 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason....
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The Count of Monte CristoNarrated by Bill Homewood
- By Martin on 18-08-11
By: Alexandre Dumas
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The Cleaner
- John Milton, Book 1
- By: Mark Dawson
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed....
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London Gangs Story
- By Arthur Firth on 18-10-16
By: Mark Dawson
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Poor Things
- By: Alasdair Gray
- Narrated by: Russ Bain, Kathryn Drysdale
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of the beautiful Bella, who he brings back to life in a Frankenstein-esque feat. But his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love for his creation....
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A truly memorable morality tale
- By RAZZAMAJAZZ on 23-11-23
By: Alasdair Gray
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
- By: Khaled Hosseini
- Narrated by: Atossa Leoni
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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Winner of the British Book Awards, Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year, 2008.
Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Author of the Year, 2008.
A Richard and Judy Book Club Selection.
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss, and by fate....
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
- By Jackie on 15-07-07
By: Khaled Hosseini
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The Luminaries
- By: Eleanor Catton
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 29 hrs and 15 mins
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It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields....
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Beautifully written, but slower than a snail
- By Avril Lamb on 02-11-13
By: Eleanor Catton
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The Split
- By: S.E. Lynes
- Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Last night, we celebrated our anniversary. Over candlelight, we talked about the children, our work, and I was so happy, and felt so loved. But the next morning, when I check my phone, there is a message. From a friend.
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A fantastic story about communication
- By Angi Booksnbanter on 20-03-24
By: S.E. Lynes
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The Moon Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 5
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Imogen Wilde
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
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After the death of her father - Pa Salt, an elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from around the globe - Tiggy D’Aplièse , trusting her instincts, moves to the remote wilds of Scotland....
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I've been looking forward to this
- By Kittykins on 31-01-19
By: Lucinda Riley
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Piranesi
- By: Susanna Clarke
- Narrated by: Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has....
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Slow grind, for me
- By indigoblue on 22-10-20
By: Susanna Clarke
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Haunted
- David Ash Series, Book 1
- By: James Herbert
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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A ghostly twist. Three nights of terror at the house called Edbrook....
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Haunted
- By jennifer on 01-02-14
By: James Herbert
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The Kite Runner
- By: Khaled Hosseini
- Narrated by: Khaled Hosseini
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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The movie adaptation of The Kite Runner has been nominated for a 2008 Academy Award.
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.
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Touching and gripping.
- By Laura on 02-07-05
By: Khaled Hosseini
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Cryptonomicon
- By: Neal Stephenson
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 42 hrs and 44 mins
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In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to Detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt....
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Mixed emotions
- By Mr. M. Bleck on 12-12-13
By: Neal Stephenson
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Never Let Me Go
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Kerry Fox
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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In one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England....
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Haunting and thought provoking
- By Stephibobz on 08-09-15
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
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Fahrenheit 451
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Tim Robbins
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of 20th-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future, narrated here by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins....
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Fantastic story, worth getting into...
- By Mr on 27-02-17
By: Ray Bradbury
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Day One
- By: Abigail Dean, Nigel Pilkington
- Narrated by: Emma Atkins, Sarah Durham
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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In a quiet lakeside town in the North of England, an anonymous gunman enters a school. Hours later, Marty’s mother Ava is dead, her arms outstretched to protect the children she taught.
By: Abigail Dean, and others
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Testimonies
- By: Patrick O’Brian
- Narrated by: Rachel Isaac, Dyfrig Morris, Tim Treloar
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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John Aubrey Pugh, an Oxford don who has given up his teaching post and come to live in a secluded Welsh valley, falls in love with Bronwen Vaughan, the wife of a young farmer who is his neighbour. She is estranged from her husband, an admirable man in many ways, but one who has compelled her to submit to some brutal sexual perversion. When a famous preacher, whose advances Bronwen has rejected with contempt, persuades the entire community that she has committed adultery with Pugh, a reckoning is inevitable.
By: Patrick O’Brian
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Fruit of the Dead
- By: Rachel Lyon
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Joy Osmanski
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island. Plied with luxury and opiates manufactured by his company, she continues to tell herself she’s in charge.
By: Rachel Lyon
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Count Luna and Baron Bagge
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- By: Alexander Lernet-Holenia
- Narrated by: John Sackville, Michael Golab
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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In Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer stationed in Eastern Europe during the First World War receives orders to ride into a platoon of Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a strangely peaceful land where festivities are in full swing. In Count Luna, Alexander Jessiersky, Austrian aristocrat and shipping magnate, finds the Nazis distasteful - but in war and in business, distaste can lead to negligence.
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Behind the Gates 2
- Collapse of America
- By: Bobby Akart
- Narrated by: Andrew Wehrlen
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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With the threats brought to their doorstep, the neighbors behind the gates face a dilemma. Do they try to make peace with those who've threatened their very existence if they don't pay a King's ransom in food and supplies? Or, do they stand their ground and fight back in an effort to protect their property and themselves. Old, festering animosity within the neighborhood rises to the surface as two distinct factions are in complete disagreement as to the best course of action. Will the two groups be able to put their differences aside?
By: Bobby Akart
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Slave Heart
- By: Joyce Reynolds
- Narrated by: Kathy Handrock
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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Vivienne Marsh, removed from her contemporary life in New York, finds herself deep in the heart of Louisiana, living in an old plantation house, aiding her dying father. The more time she spends in the house, the more familiar it all becomes to her. The land and the artifacts slowly connect her with a slave woman born centuries before her.
By: Joyce Reynolds
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Day One
- By: Abigail Dean, Nigel Pilkington
- Narrated by: Emma Atkins, Sarah Durham
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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In a quiet lakeside town in the North of England, an anonymous gunman enters a school. Hours later, Marty’s mother Ava is dead, her arms outstretched to protect the children she taught.
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- Narrated by: Rachel Isaac, Dyfrig Morris, Tim Treloar
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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John Aubrey Pugh, an Oxford don who has given up his teaching post and come to live in a secluded Welsh valley, falls in love with Bronwen Vaughan, the wife of a young farmer who is his neighbour. She is estranged from her husband, an admirable man in many ways, but one who has compelled her to submit to some brutal sexual perversion. When a famous preacher, whose advances Bronwen has rejected with contempt, persuades the entire community that she has committed adultery with Pugh, a reckoning is inevitable.
By: Patrick O’Brian
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Fruit of the Dead
- By: Rachel Lyon
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Joy Osmanski
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island. Plied with luxury and opiates manufactured by his company, she continues to tell herself she’s in charge.
By: Rachel Lyon
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Count Luna and Baron Bagge
- Two Stories
- By: Alexander Lernet-Holenia
- Narrated by: John Sackville, Michael Golab
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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In Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer stationed in Eastern Europe during the First World War receives orders to ride into a platoon of Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a strangely peaceful land where festivities are in full swing. In Count Luna, Alexander Jessiersky, Austrian aristocrat and shipping magnate, finds the Nazis distasteful - but in war and in business, distaste can lead to negligence.
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Behind the Gates 2
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- By: Bobby Akart
- Narrated by: Andrew Wehrlen
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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With the threats brought to their doorstep, the neighbors behind the gates face a dilemma. Do they try to make peace with those who've threatened their very existence if they don't pay a King's ransom in food and supplies? Or, do they stand their ground and fight back in an effort to protect their property and themselves. Old, festering animosity within the neighborhood rises to the surface as two distinct factions are in complete disagreement as to the best course of action. Will the two groups be able to put their differences aside?
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Slave Heart
- By: Joyce Reynolds
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Vivienne Marsh, removed from her contemporary life in New York, finds herself deep in the heart of Louisiana, living in an old plantation house, aiding her dying father. The more time she spends in the house, the more familiar it all becomes to her. The land and the artifacts slowly connect her with a slave woman born centuries before her.
By: Joyce Reynolds
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Dirt Poor Islanders
- By: Winnie Dunn
- Narrated by: Ana Ika
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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Meadow Reed used to get confused when explaining that she had grandparents from Australia, Tonga and Great Britain. She'd say she was full-White and full-Tongan, thinking that so many halves made separate wholes. Despite the Anglo-Saxon genetics that gave Meadow a narrow nose and light-brown skin, everybody who raised her was Tongan. Everybody who loved her was Tongan. This was what made her Tongan.
By: Winnie Dunn
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: John Lowell
- Length: 30 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The novel focuses on love, society norms, and freedom, centered on Anna’s affair with Count Vronsky.
By: Leo Tolstoy
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The Bereaved
- A Novel
- By: Julia Park Tracey
- Narrated by: Aven Shore
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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Based on her research into her grandfather's past as an adopted child, Julia Park Tracey has created a mesmerizing work of historical fiction illuminating the darkest side of the Orphan Train.
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No Longer Human
- By: Osamu Dazai
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
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Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s NO LONGER HUMAN narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a “clown” to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.
By: Osamu Dazai
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The Tudor Lady in Waiting
- The Tudors Series, Book 2
- By: Elizabeth Kelly
- Narrated by: Gill Mills
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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At the age of fourteen Lady Margaret de la Roche is presented at court as a New Year’s Day gift for King Henry VIII and Queen Catherine of Aragon. In her role as a maid of honour she develops a great admiration for the virtuous queen. But her loyalty is tested when the king falls in love with the fascinating Anne Boleyn. As her life at court becomes increasingly perilous, she must find a way to be a faithful servant of the queen and a true subject of the king. “The Tudor Lady in Waiting” tells the story of the dangers and intrigues of the Tudor court in the reign of Henry VIII.
By: Elizabeth Kelly
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Castor & Pollux
- By: C.M. Rahill
- Narrated by: Jacob Buckenmeyer
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
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SLACK, a deadened London lawyer with sleeping problems and a mysterious past, comes alive at night. The only problem is that he can never remember what happened the night before. One morning, as he embarks on his daily routine, Slack finds the fascinating outline of a novel he must have composed in his half-asleep state. He somehow knows the secret to his enigmatic existence lays in this unwritten novel and determines to bring it to life.
By: C.M. Rahill
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A Mother's Pain
- By: A.R. Grosjean
- Narrated by: Maryem Tollar
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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Anna's fight for her children was a battle like no other. Caught between the fiery anger of her mother and her own broken heart, Anna must summon the courage to keep fighting for the love of her children. Set in a world where it seems all hope is lost, Anna must find the strength to never give up. Will she find a way to reclaim her family, or will her mother's will prevail?
By: A.R. Grosjean
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Memory and Desire
- A Novel
- By: Philip Caputo
- Narrated by: Philip Church
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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The newsman in Luke Blackburn shuns the spotlight when he and his old friend, now the county mayor in Key West, discover stranded Cuban refugees during a fishing outing turned tragic, but he is part of the story that goes out on the wire. When Corinne, his lover from many years ago, happens to read it and reaches out, the news she bears will disrupt his carefully orchestrated life and threatens to blow up his marriage.
By: Philip Caputo
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Morning and Evening (2nd Edition)
- By: Jon Fosse
- Narrated by: Kåre Conradi
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
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A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our lives have meaning.
By: Jon Fosse
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Ruin
- A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy
- By: Leigh Seippel
- Narrated by: Andrew J. Andersen
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Frank is another dreamer whose life is suddenly burned to the ground. More a disillusioned literature PhD than an experienced financier, he had naively agreed to join his wife's inheritance with his own personal guarantee of a college friend's private equity partnership debt.
By: Leigh Seippel
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Monsters We Have Made
- A Novel
- By: Lindsay Starck
- Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Thirteen years ago, Sylvia Gray's young daughter, Faye, attacked her babysitter in order to impress the Kingman, a monster she and her best friend had encountered on the Internet. When the now twenty-three-year-old Faye goes missing, leaving her toddler behind, Sylvia launches a search that propels her back into the past and back into the Kingman's orbit. With the help of her estranged husband and a sister she hasn't spoken to in years, Sylvia draws dangerously closer not only to Faye, but also to the truth about the monster that once inspired her.
By: Lindsay Starck
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Ragtown
- By: Kelly Stone Gamble
- Narrated by: Eleanor McCormick, Preston Geer
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
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Helen lives in her father's Model T in the harsh Nevada desert, surrounded by thousands of desperate souls trying to endure the hardships of the Great Depression. When her father dies while working on the Hoover Dam diversion tunnels, she finds herself alone. In this unforgiving landscape where marriage, prostitution, and starvation seem to be her only viable choices, Helen is determined to defy society's expectations of a young woman and create her own American dream. She relies on her resourcefulness to survive, but soon realizes she can't go it alone.