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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
- 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
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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 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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Silent Victims
- Prime Suspect, Book 3
- By: Lynda La Plante
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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When a body is found in one of London's poorest districts, the coroner's report identifies the victim as young, black and female, but impossibly anonymous....
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whispering and shouting
- By Molly on 19-07-22
By: Lynda La Plante
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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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Overall
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Performance
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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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Performance
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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 Split
- By: S.E. Lynes
- Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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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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Silent Victims
- Prime Suspect, Book 3
- By: Lynda La Plante
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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When a body is found in one of London's poorest districts, the coroner's report identifies the victim as young, black and female, but impossibly anonymous....
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whispering and shouting
- By Molly on 19-07-22
By: Lynda La Plante
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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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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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A Clock Stopped Dead
- By: J.M. Hall
- Narrated by: Julie Hesmondhalgh
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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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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The Woman I Was Before
- By: Kerry Fisher
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Gisela, Sally and Kate become close when they move into the same new housing estate. But behind their shiny front doors, each has something to hide....
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Beautiful - Kerry, thank you so much
- By DD on 24-05-19
By: Kerry Fisher
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The Rachel Incident
- By: Caroline O'Donoghue
- Narrated by: Clara Harte
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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The Rachel Incident is an all-consuming love story. But it's not the one you're expecting. It's unconventional and messy. It's young and foolish. It's about losing and finding yourself. But it is always about love....
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I must have read something different
- By GabbyElla on 06-07-23
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Evenings and Weekends
- By: Oisín McKenna
- Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh-Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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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.
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Fast by the Horns
- By: Moses McKenzie
- Narrated by: Tristan Jones-Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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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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Hold Back the Night
- By: Jessica Moor
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Bower
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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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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Shanghailanders
- By: Juli Min
- Narrated by: Mei Mei Macleod
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Novices of Lerna
- By: Angel Bonomini, Jordan Landsman - translator
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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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Ms. Sethianism Surges!
- Flash Fiction
- By: Andrew Bushard
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Ash
- Length: 9 mins
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Where and how did you discover your Life Mission? Ms. Sethianism discovered her Life Mission at a cafe she frequented in her homeland.
By: Andrew Bushard
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Gemini
- By: S.K. Ballinger
- Narrated by: Midnight Thorne
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In the gripping world of this suspenseful thriller, the lives of identical twins diverge dramatically from the moment of their birth. Born into the same world, they are immediately separated, destined for divergent paths with devastating consequences. The tale unfolds with the birth of Lily and Grace, twins torn apart by fate. Lily is raised in a world of privilege, while Grace faces adversity in the realm of adoption. Their lives run parallel yet distant, each unaware of the other.
By: S.K. Ballinger
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The Orchard
- By: Peter Heller
- Narrated by: Kate Marcin
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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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
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Nevada Lowball
- Never Fold
- By: Antonio Nicassio
- Narrated by: Sam Williamson
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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Returning home from combat operations, Army Specialist Wesley Erickson strives to settle back into civilian life. Hanging up his rifle and picking up a deck of cards, Wes now provides for his wife, Maggie, and their unborn child as a poker dealer in a local casino.
By: Antonio Nicassio
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Polyamorous Love Song
- By: Jacob Wren
- Narrated by: Alex MacDonald
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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From interdisciplinary writer and performer Jacob Wren comes Polyamorous Love Song, a novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. Shot through with unexpected moments of sex and violence, listeners will become acquainted with a world that is at once the same and opposite from the one in which they live.
By: Jacob Wren