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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 New York Trilogy
- By: Paul Auster
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
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Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels....
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Not very enjoyable
- By Grace on 17-05-10
By: Paul Auster
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The Split
- By: S.E. Lynes
- Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- Unabridged
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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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The Covenant of Water
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Abraham Verghese
- Length: 31 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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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 New York Trilogy
- By: Paul Auster
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels....
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Not very enjoyable
- By Grace on 17-05-10
By: Paul Auster
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The Split
- By: S.E. Lynes
- Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- Unabridged
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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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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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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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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 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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A Clock Stopped Dead
- By: J.M. Hall
- Narrated by: Julie Hesmondhalgh
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Retired teachers Pat, Liz and Thelma are happiest whiling away their hours over coffee, cake and chat at the Thirsk Garden Centre café. But when their good friend tells them about unsettling experience she had in a sinister-feeling charity shop, they simply can’t resist investigating....
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Jarring in places
- By Happy Shopper on 22-04-24
By: J.M. Hall
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Never Let Me Go
- 20th anniversary edition
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Kerry Fox
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Evenings and Weekends
- By: Oisín McKenna
- Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh-Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Maggie is 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with moving back to the town she fought to escape, she’s wondering if having a baby with boyfriend Ed will be the last spontaneous act of her life. Ed, meanwhile, is trying to run from his past with Maggie’s best friend Phil and harbouring secret dreams of his own. Phil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, while falling for his housemate, Keith. But there’s a problem: Keith has a boyfriend and there might not be room for three people in the relationship.
By: Oisín McKenna
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Great Expectations
- By: Vinson Cunningham
- Narrated by: Aaron Goodson
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator's idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he'll balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take to become the United States's first Black president. Great Expectations is about David's eighteen months working for the Senator's presidential campaign.
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Hold Back the Night
- By: Jessica Moor
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Bower
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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March 2020. Annie is alone in her house as the world shuts down, only the ghosts of her memories for company. But then she receives a phone call which plunges her deeper into the past. 1959. Annie and Rita are student nurses at Fairlie Hall mental institution. Working long gruelling hours, they soon learn that the only way to appease their terrifying matron is to follow the rules unthinkingly. But what is happening in the hospital's hidden side wards? And at what point does following the rules turn into complicity - and betrayal?
By: Jessica Moor
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Fast by the Horns
- By: Moses McKenzie
- Narrated by: Tristan Jones-Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Bristol, 1980. In the tight-knit neighbourhood of St. Pauls, 14-year-old Jabari is proud of his position as the only son of revered community leader Ras Levi. Raised in a world of sus laws and council neglect, Jabari finds hope in his Rastafari faith, which offers the comforting vision that one day he and his fellow believers will repatriate to the motherland, where they will at last be free from oppression and prejudice. But in St Pauls a local firebrand activist has been arrested, and violence soon overflows, pulling both father and son into its maelstrom.
By: Moses McKenzie
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Shanghailanders
- By: Juli Min
- Narrated by: Mei Mei Macleod
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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While the years rewind from 2040 back to 2014, Shanghailanders brings listeners into the shared and separate lives of the Yang family, parent by parent, daughter by daughter, and through the eyes of the people in their orbit-a nanny from the provinces, a private driver with a penchant for danger, and a grandmother whose memories of the past echo the present. As they build their lives in this old, futuristic city, we see Leo, his wife Eko and their daughters Yumi, Yoko and Kiko trip over their own desires in their bids to connect with one another, in their attempts to be a family.
By: Juli Min
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Cinema Love
- By: Jiaming Tang
- Narrated by: Samantha Tan
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meagre existence in New York City's Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these two share an unusual past. In rural Fuzhou, before they emigrated, they frequented The Workers' Cinema: a theatre where gay men cruised for love. While classic war films played, Old Second and his fellow countrymen found intimacy in the privacy of the Workers' Cinema's screening rooms. Elsewhere, in the box office, Bao Mei sold movie tickets to closeted men - guarding their secrets and finding her own happiness with the projectionist.
By: Jiaming Tang
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Evenings and Weekends
- By: Oisín McKenna
- Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh-Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Maggie is 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with moving back to the town she fought to escape, she’s wondering if having a baby with boyfriend Ed will be the last spontaneous act of her life. Ed, meanwhile, is trying to run from his past with Maggie’s best friend Phil and harbouring secret dreams of his own. Phil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, while falling for his housemate, Keith. But there’s a problem: Keith has a boyfriend and there might not be room for three people in the relationship.
By: Oisín McKenna
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Great Expectations
- By: Vinson Cunningham
- Narrated by: Aaron Goodson
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator's idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he'll balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take to become the United States's first Black president. Great Expectations is about David's eighteen months working for the Senator's presidential campaign.
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Hold Back the Night
- By: Jessica Moor
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Bower
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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March 2020. Annie is alone in her house as the world shuts down, only the ghosts of her memories for company. But then she receives a phone call which plunges her deeper into the past. 1959. Annie and Rita are student nurses at Fairlie Hall mental institution. Working long gruelling hours, they soon learn that the only way to appease their terrifying matron is to follow the rules unthinkingly. But what is happening in the hospital's hidden side wards? And at what point does following the rules turn into complicity - and betrayal?
By: Jessica Moor
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Fast by the Horns
- By: Moses McKenzie
- Narrated by: Tristan Jones-Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Bristol, 1980. In the tight-knit neighbourhood of St. Pauls, 14-year-old Jabari is proud of his position as the only son of revered community leader Ras Levi. Raised in a world of sus laws and council neglect, Jabari finds hope in his Rastafari faith, which offers the comforting vision that one day he and his fellow believers will repatriate to the motherland, where they will at last be free from oppression and prejudice. But in St Pauls a local firebrand activist has been arrested, and violence soon overflows, pulling both father and son into its maelstrom.
By: Moses McKenzie
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Shanghailanders
- By: Juli Min
- Narrated by: Mei Mei Macleod
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
While the years rewind from 2040 back to 2014, Shanghailanders brings listeners into the shared and separate lives of the Yang family, parent by parent, daughter by daughter, and through the eyes of the people in their orbit-a nanny from the provinces, a private driver with a penchant for danger, and a grandmother whose memories of the past echo the present. As they build their lives in this old, futuristic city, we see Leo, his wife Eko and their daughters Yumi, Yoko and Kiko trip over their own desires in their bids to connect with one another, in their attempts to be a family.
By: Juli Min
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Cinema Love
- By: Jiaming Tang
- Narrated by: Samantha Tan
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meagre existence in New York City's Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these two share an unusual past. In rural Fuzhou, before they emigrated, they frequented The Workers' Cinema: a theatre where gay men cruised for love. While classic war films played, Old Second and his fellow countrymen found intimacy in the privacy of the Workers' Cinema's screening rooms. Elsewhere, in the box office, Bao Mei sold movie tickets to closeted men - guarding their secrets and finding her own happiness with the projectionist.
By: Jiaming Tang
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A Perfect Day to Be Alone
- By: Nanae Aoyama, Jesse Kirkwood - translator
- Narrated by: Ami Okumura Jones
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chizu moves in with 71-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative, taking a room in her ramshackle Tokyo home, with its two resident cats and the persistent rattle of passing trains. Living their lives in imperfect symmetry, they establish an uneasy alliance, stress tested by Chizu's flashes of youthful spite. As the four seasons pass, Chizu navigates a series of tedious part-time jobs and unsatisfying relationships, before eventually finding her feet and salvaging a fierce independence from her solitude.
By: Nanae Aoyama, and others
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Call Me Jonah
- By: Will Alexander
- Narrated by: Peter Brindley
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Life doesn’t end. Reality isn’t fixed. Time doesn’t work the way you think. Even the universe, despite its size, is surprisingly aware of and attuned to each of us. Then come those moments when all boundaries dissolve, worlds merge, and we are given glimpses into how connected everything is. Call Me Jonah is the story of an ordinary man who experiences such extraordinary moments starting in childhood and that continue throughout his lifetime. Afraid of ridicule, he keeps hidden what he learns from each mystical encounter for decades.
By: Will Alexander
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Once a Homecoming Queen
- By: Joan Moran
- Narrated by: Joan Moran
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Once A Homecoming Queen is a darkly humorous novel about addiction and redemption, featuring a 75-year-old, Francine-Reynolds-Richelli-Freeman, whose extreme alcohol consumption leads to a bevy of problems including her latest—a fall that breaks her neck, leaving her daughter and those who care about her to help Francine make peace with her past and re-imagine her future.
By: Joan Moran
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The Ministry of Time
- By: Kaliane Bradley
- Narrated by: George Weightman, Katie Leung
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A boy meets a girl. The past meets the future. A finger meets a trigger. The beginning meets the end. England is forever; England must fall. The Ministry of Time is a novel about Commander Graham Gore (R.N. c.1809-c.1847) and a woman known only as the bridge. As their relationship turns from the strictly professional into something more and uneasy truths begin to emerge, they are forced to face the reality of the project that brought them together.
By: Kaliane Bradley
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This Strange Eventful History
- By: Claire Messud
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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June 1940. As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar - honorable servant of France, devoted husband and father, currently posted as naval attache in Salonica - bids farewell to his beloved wife, aunt and children, placing his faith in God that they will be reunited after the war. But escaping the violence of that cataclysm is not the same as emerging unscathed. The family will never again be whole.
By: Claire Messud
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Boathouse
- By: Jon Fosse, May Brit-Akerholot - translator
- Narrated by: Kåre Conradi
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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One of Jon Fosse’s most acclaimed novels, Boathouse is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator leading a largely hermit-like existence until he unexpectedly encounters a long-lost childhood friend and his wife. Told partially in a stream-of-consciousness style and with an atmosphere reminiscent of a gripping crime novel, Boathouse slowly unravels the story of a love triangle leading to jealousy, betrayal, and eventually death.
By: Jon Fosse, and others
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The Novices of Lerna
- By: Angel Bonomini, Jordan Landsman - translator
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
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The Novices of Lerna introduces the enigmatic fictions of Ángel Bonomini to English listeners for the first time. Shot through with wry humor and tender absurdity, these meditations on identity, surveillance, and isolation remain eerily prescient. The collection's central novella follows Ramon Beltra, an unambitious scholar who receives a mysterious invitation to a lucrative six-month fellowship at the University of Lerna in Switzerland.
By: Angel Bonomini, and others
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Under a Neon Sun
- By: Kate Gale
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Unable to afford rent, Mia—a community college student—lives out of her car, cleaning houses of the well-to-do in the LA area to meet her shoestring budget. Then Covid hits, and everything changes. For people living in houses and apartments, with stay-at-home jobs, the pandemic was inconvenient. For Mia—a student and housekeeper whose budget is so tight she lives in her car—the pandemic destroys the very source of her paltry income.
By: Kate Gale
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How It Works Out
- By: Myriam Lacroix
- Narrated by: Lucy Ellis, Anika Venkatesh
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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When Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins to unfold through a series of hypotheticals. What if they became mothers by finding a baby in an alley? What if the only cure for Myriam’s depression was Allison’s flesh? What if they were B-list celebrities, famous for writing a book about building healthy lesbian relationships? How much darker—or sexier—would their dynamic be if one were a power-hungry CEO, and the other her lowly employee?
By: Myriam Lacroix
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Like the Appearance of Horses
- By: Andrew Krivak
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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After Bexhet Konar escapes fascist Hungary and crosses the ocean to find Jozef, the man who saved his life in 1919, he falls in love with Jozef's daughter, Hannah, enlists in World War II, and is drawn into a personal war of revenge. Many years later, their youngest son, Samuel, is taken prisoner in Vietnam and returns home with a heroin addiction and deep physical and psychological wounds. As Samuel travels his own path toward healing, his son will graduate from Annapolis as a Marine on his way to Iraq.
By: Andrew Krivak
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Through the Eyes of Desperation
- The Black Version
- By: Daniel J Volpe
- Narrated by: Sierra Kline
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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At Shadows Casino, this isn’t just a phrase, it’s a grim reality. Far from prying eyes is a world of decadent pleasure, and unimaginable pain, where only the desperate or the rich dare to tread. Cee is the leader of the sinister establishment, but that hasn’t always been her story. Long before she'd ever heard of a parlay or letting it ride, Cee was just a little girl with a daddy who liked to gamble. And when her daddy brought her into Shadows, he made a bet that changed both of their lives forever.
By: Daniel J Volpe
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The Orchard
- By: Peter Heller
- Narrated by: Kate Marcin
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Heller is unique in his ability to capture the beauty and nuance of the natural world and its pull on women and men. In The Orchard, he pairs evocative storytelling with jewel-like poems—Hayley’s translations of her most beloved Tang poet, Li Xue—that echo Hayley and Frith’s life in the wilderness and tell their own tale of mother and daughter.
By: Peter Heller