- Biographical Fiction (1,614)
- Dystopian (2,143)
Best Sellers
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The Three-Body Problem
- Written by: Cixin Liu
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From China's most beloved sci-fi author, a first-contact story that weaves politics, science, and cosmic mystery.
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Very interesting read
- By Chris Conrod on 2020-09-14
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Tom Lake
- A Novel
- Written by: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake....
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Beautifully read, but a slow story to unravel.
- By Denise on 2023-08-29
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The Covenant of Water
- Written 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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Stunning Book!
- By Suzanne Flaro on 2023-06-14
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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- Written by: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
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Brilliant narration of beautifully written story
- By Kareem on 2023-05-28
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The Alchemist
- A Fable About Following Your Dream
- Written 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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Enjoyable book
- By Angela on 2017-10-07
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Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- Written by: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality.
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Very boring
- By LW on 2023-04-05
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The Three-Body Problem
- Written by: Cixin Liu
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From China's most beloved sci-fi author, a first-contact story that weaves politics, science, and cosmic mystery.
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Very interesting read
- By Chris Conrod on 2020-09-14
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Tom Lake
- A Novel
- Written by: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake....
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Beautifully read, but a slow story to unravel.
- By Denise on 2023-08-29
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The Covenant of Water
- Written 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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Stunning Book!
- By Suzanne Flaro on 2023-06-14
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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- Written by: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
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Brilliant narration of beautifully written story
- By Kareem on 2023-05-28
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The Alchemist
- A Fable About Following Your Dream
- Written 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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Enjoyable book
- By Angela on 2017-10-07
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Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- Written by: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality.
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Very boring
- By LW on 2023-04-05
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Hello Beautiful
- A Novel
- Written by: Ann Napolitano
- Narrated by: Maura Tierney
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up around him....
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I wept!
- By Sydney Gilchrist on 2023-05-09
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Where the Crawdads Sing
- Written by: Delia Owens
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl....
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A Harlequin Romance, with Zoology Thrown In
- By Wandering on 2019-08-25
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The Hobbit
- Written by: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Andy Serkis
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In the prelude to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Bilbo Baggins begins his great journey "there and back again." Narrated by Andy Serkis.
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Andy Serkis is incredible
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-04-22
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A Little Life
- A Novel
- Written by: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 32 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition....
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Beautifully written
- By kaitlyn on 2023-03-09
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- Written by: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin....
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Near perfect, except distance measurements
- By DrHex on 2018-09-24
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
- A Novel
- Written by: Shelby Van Pelt
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Michael Urie
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up....
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Beautiful, tragic, uplifting… in my top 5 EVER
- By Patrice L. Gordon on 2022-10-07
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- A Novel
- Written by: Gabrielle Zevin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name....
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Love the characters and gaming elements!
- By Katy on 2022-12-04
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Mad Honey
- A Novel
- Written by: Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Narrated by: Carrie Coon, Key Taw, Jodi Picoult, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side....
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Brilliant and Masterful
- By Laura Malette on 2022-10-17
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Moon of the Crusted Snow
- A Novel
- Written by: Waubgeshig Rice
- Narrated by: Billy Merasty
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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From a powerful rising literary voice comes Moon of the Crusted Snow, a daring post-apocalyptic novel blending action and allergory....
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Enjoyable for ALL Canadians
- By TheMer on 2020-01-31
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The Name of the Wind
- Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1
- Written by: Patrick Rothfuss
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 27 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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A tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend....
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My Absolute Favorite!!!
- By Kitty_Kittenator on 2019-01-19
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The Song of Achilles
- A Novel
- Written by: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War from the author of Circe.
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If I could only have one book for the rest of my life
- By Emily Hann on 2018-05-03
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The Most Fun We Ever Had
- A Novel
- Written by: Claire Lombardo
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin
- Length: 20 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In this “rich, complex family saga” (USA Today) full of long-buried family secrets, Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, blithely ignorant of all that awaits them. By 2016, they have four radically different daughters, each in a state of unrest....
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The narrator was very good.
- By Louise LJ on 2024-04-06
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Yellowface
- A Novel
- Written by: R. F. Kuang
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American....
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Am I missing something?
- By Katherine Provost on 2023-07-11
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Circe
- Written by: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring, like her mother....
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Fascinating story, expertly read
- By libragal on 2018-06-20
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All the Light We Cannot See
- A Novel
- Written by: Anthony Doerr
- Narrated by: Zach Appelman
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home....
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Best book, but narration brings it down a bit
- By Ben on 2018-01-31
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Daisy Jones & The Six
- A Novel
- Written by: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Daisy is a girl coming of age in LA in the late '60s, sneaking into clubs, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock 'n' roll she loves most. By the time she's 20, her voice is getting noticed....
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OMG
- By KR on 2019-03-10
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The Satanic Verses
- Written by: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The tale of an Indian film star and a Bombay expatriate, Rushdie’s masterpiece was deservedly honored with the Whitbread Prize.....
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My second go at this classic.
- By peter wing on 2018-11-24
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- Written by: Harper Lee
- Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A great American classic with many invaluable teaching moments. It continues to touch hearts and minds.
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wonderful
- By Sally on 2019-01-14
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Quelqu'un d'autre
- Written by: Guillaume Musso
- Narrated by: Rémi Bichet
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Côte d’Azur – Printemps 2023. Au large de Cannes, un yacht dérive entre les îles de Lérins. À son bord repose Oriana Di Pietro, éditrice italienne et héritière ...
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J’ai adoré et…
- By M on 2024-04-12
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Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- Written by: Hernan Diaz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats....
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Maneuvering in the stock market!
- By Sandra trafford on 2023-12-05
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The Grapes of Wrath
- Written by: John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker
- Length: 21 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic The Grapes of Wrath remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of Tom Joad and his family....
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The harmonica was a bit much!
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-06-13
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Tout le bleu du ciel
- Written by: Mélissa Da Costa
- Narrated by: Bruno Meyere
- Length: 20 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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"Petitesannonces.fr : Jeune homme de 26 ans, condamné par un Alzheimer précoce, souhaite prendre le large pour un ultime voyage...
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Wow, tout simplement
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-04-27
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American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club)
- A Novel
- Written by: Jeanine Cummins
- Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist....
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Gut wrenching to listen to...
- By K2012 on 2020-01-27
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Five Little Indians
- A Novel
- Written by: Michelle Good
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention....
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Poor narration,mediocre plot
- By Alan Scheer on 2020-09-16
New Releases
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Saving Raine
- Written by: Marian L. Thomas
- Narrated by: KIMBERLY YVONNE STEELE
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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When the life you've built crumbles and the past refuses to release its grip, sometimes, all you need is a fresh start—a new beginning that promises hope and redemption. Once a successful author, Raine's life unraveled, sending her fleeing to the picturesque streets of Paris to escape the tormenting heartache that threatened to consume her. Yet, no matter how far she traveled, the pain remained her unwelcome companion.
Written by: Marian L. Thomas
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Chief
- Written by: John Lyttle III
- Narrated by: Dan Hankiewicz
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Wisdom walks through the halls as a most unusual janitor in New York's wealthiest building.
Written by: John Lyttle III
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School Daze
- Written by: William Siems
- Narrated by: William Siems
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Internationally acclaimed author William Siems has done it again. Some are saying this is his best work yet. It surely breaks the mold from his Biblical Adventures. Set in the contemporary city of Franklin, Nick is a ten year veteran teacher at Grover Cleveland High School. The driving force behind Cleveland’s Psychology and Life Skills classes, he is revered among his peers, beloved of his students, and has been changing lives and providing direction to the youth of Franklin that entire time. Suddenly, tragedy strikes!
Written by: William Siems
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The Moskowitz Code
- Written by: Joel Bresler
- Narrated by: W.A. Yuster
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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When his doctor mistakenly types the wrong code into his electronic medical record, Myron Moskowitz—Mike, to the entire world except his mother Celia—finds life, or at least the one he's grown used to, suddenly turned tush-over-teakettle. With that single dodgy digital diagnosis, a chain reaction is set in motion leading Mike to lose his job, accidentally get all trace of himself wiped off of every computer in the known universe, and seriously contemplate buying a Harley. And Mike isn't exactly what you'd call a motorcycle kind of Moskowitz.
Written by: Joel Bresler
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Emma
- Written by: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The story takes place in the fictional village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls, and Donwell Abbey and involves the relationships among individuals in those locations consisting of "3 or 4 families in a country village". The novel was first published in December 1815 while the author was alive, with its title page listing a publication date of 1816.
Written by: Jane Austen
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The Long Delirious Burning Blue
- Written by: Sharon Blackie
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Abridged
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THE FIRST NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF WORD-OF-MOUTH BESTSELLER IF WOMEN ROSE ROOTED "You and me against the world, you used to sing. In the days before it became you and me against each other." Cat Munro - who has never taken a day off in her working life - quits her corporate job and starts flying lessons in a small plane over the Arizona desert, confronting her fear not only of death, but of life. Her mother, Laura, moves back to the Scottish village where she spent the first years of her marriage to Cat's abusive father.
Written by: Sharon Blackie
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Saving Raine
- Written by: Marian L. Thomas
- Narrated by: KIMBERLY YVONNE STEELE
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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When the life you've built crumbles and the past refuses to release its grip, sometimes, all you need is a fresh start—a new beginning that promises hope and redemption. Once a successful author, Raine's life unraveled, sending her fleeing to the picturesque streets of Paris to escape the tormenting heartache that threatened to consume her. Yet, no matter how far she traveled, the pain remained her unwelcome companion.
Written by: Marian L. Thomas
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Chief
- Written by: John Lyttle III
- Narrated by: Dan Hankiewicz
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Wisdom walks through the halls as a most unusual janitor in New York's wealthiest building.
Written by: John Lyttle III
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School Daze
- Written by: William Siems
- Narrated by: William Siems
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Internationally acclaimed author William Siems has done it again. Some are saying this is his best work yet. It surely breaks the mold from his Biblical Adventures. Set in the contemporary city of Franklin, Nick is a ten year veteran teacher at Grover Cleveland High School. The driving force behind Cleveland’s Psychology and Life Skills classes, he is revered among his peers, beloved of his students, and has been changing lives and providing direction to the youth of Franklin that entire time. Suddenly, tragedy strikes!
Written by: William Siems
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The Moskowitz Code
- Written by: Joel Bresler
- Narrated by: W.A. Yuster
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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When his doctor mistakenly types the wrong code into his electronic medical record, Myron Moskowitz—Mike, to the entire world except his mother Celia—finds life, or at least the one he's grown used to, suddenly turned tush-over-teakettle. With that single dodgy digital diagnosis, a chain reaction is set in motion leading Mike to lose his job, accidentally get all trace of himself wiped off of every computer in the known universe, and seriously contemplate buying a Harley. And Mike isn't exactly what you'd call a motorcycle kind of Moskowitz.
Written by: Joel Bresler
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Emma
- Written by: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The story takes place in the fictional village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls, and Donwell Abbey and involves the relationships among individuals in those locations consisting of "3 or 4 families in a country village". The novel was first published in December 1815 while the author was alive, with its title page listing a publication date of 1816.
Written by: Jane Austen
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The Long Delirious Burning Blue
- Written by: Sharon Blackie
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Abridged
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THE FIRST NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF WORD-OF-MOUTH BESTSELLER IF WOMEN ROSE ROOTED "You and me against the world, you used to sing. In the days before it became you and me against each other." Cat Munro - who has never taken a day off in her working life - quits her corporate job and starts flying lessons in a small plane over the Arizona desert, confronting her fear not only of death, but of life. Her mother, Laura, moves back to the Scottish village where she spent the first years of her marriage to Cat's abusive father.
Written by: Sharon Blackie
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A Clock Stopped Dead
- Written 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. Because the entire shop has vanished into thin air. Before long, our trio of unlikely sleuths find themselves embroiled in a race against the clock to get to the bottom of this mystery – but who has a secret to hide and how far will they go to keep it concealed?
Written by: J.M. Hall
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Eyeless in Gaza
- Written by: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The plot centers on Anthony Beavis, a dilettante social theorist, a man inclined to recoil from life. The pleasures of the physical world disgust him and the universe of ideas is but a poor refuge. Having long lost the art of intimacy, he betrays friendships and toys with the affections of women. But as Beavis approaches middle age, his world of perfect detachment begins to lose its appeal. Finally realizing that his withdrawal from life has been motivated not by intellectual honesty but by moral cowardice, Beavis, devastated and at crisis point, meets the remarkable and redoubtable Dr Miller.
Written by: Aldous Huxley
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The Concord Diary
- Written by: Peter Cowlam
- Narrated by: Kat Bohn
- Length: 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Student Marcus Fyer is at odds with both family and campus life, and is about to quit university and just take off. His father arranges a course of therapy to see him through his crisis, though Marcus finds himself at odds with that arrangement too. His therapist can get very little out of him, so suggests he keep a diary recording his reactions to his therapy group. This Marcus does, but what can his diary tell us about his state of mind?
Written by: Peter Cowlam
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The Humiliated and Insulted
- Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Oscar Wilde claimed that The Humiliated and Insulted is "not at all inferior to the other great masterpieces," and Friedrich Nietzsche is said to have wept over it. Its construction is that of an intricate detective novel, and the reader is plunged into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, and unrequited love. Found at the center of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager, and a depraved aristocrat who not only foreshadows the great figures of evil in Dostoevsky's later fiction, but is a powerful and original presence in his own right.
Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Demons
- Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 28 hrs and 24 mins
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Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Pudd’nhead Wilson
- Written by: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young female slave, fearing for her infant son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's, leading to a novel whose plot rages as a savage indictment of racial prejudice and slavery. Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilson is full of characteristic Twain humor and stands as a gem among the author's later works.
Written by: Mark Twain
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Eddie & Alan
- Written by: Anthony O Amiewalan
- Narrated by: Cameron Hayden
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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Eddie and Alan is a novel that follows two men who reflect on the end of their three-year relationship. They come from different walks of life; Eddie is a black queer man, and Alan is a cis white, mostly straight man. They were introduced to each other at work and quickly connected. Eddie and Alan’s friendship morphed into something more intimate, coming to a head during their four-day beach vacation. At its heart, this story seeks to shed light on the complexities of relationships between men, the fluidity of sexuality, and what happens when the lines are blurred.
Written by: Anthony O Amiewalan
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The Adolescent
- Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 26 hrs and 14 mins
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The narrator and central character of The Adolescent is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy full of ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that he believes gives him power over others.
Written by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Escape to the Rome Apartment
- The Italian Escape, Book 3
- Written by: Kerry Fisher
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin Hussey
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Sara has lost her zest for life. Trapped sharing a house with her soon-to-be-ex-husband, with grown-up children who still need her but take her for granted, working in a job where her boss bullies her, the final straw is the heartbreak of losing her beloved best friend Lainey. But Lainey’s death could be the beginning of Sara’s new life … as the last gift Lainey gives to her friend is a sum of money and a request – that Sara travels to Italy, the scene of the pair’s youthful adventures, and scatters Lainey’s ashes on the beach at Portofino. For once, Sara decides to be brave.
Written by: Kerry Fisher
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God Sees the Truth, but Waits
- Written by: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 22 mins
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God Sees the Truth, But Waits is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1872. The story, about a man sent to prison for a murder he did not commit, takes the form of a parable of forgiveness. English translations were also published under titles "The Confessed Crime", "Exiled to Siberia", and "The Long Exile". The concept of the story of a man wrongfully accused of murder and banished to Siberia also appears in one of Tolstoy's previous works, War and Peace, during a philosophical discussion between two characters who relate the story and argue how the protagonist of their story deals with injustice and fate.
Written by: Leo Tolstoy
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Psalm
- Written by: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 12 mins
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Psalm is a short touching story, written in 1923. Part of the "Travel Notes" series. I will buy a dog on Saturday ; I will sing a psalm at night ; I will order shoes for tailcoat... ; But it's okay. Somehow... we will live.
Written by: Mikhail Bulgakov
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Seance
- Written by: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 18 mins
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Seance is a famouse short story by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in 1922. Published in the magazine "Rupor" (1922, No. 4). The epigraph to the work, created on the basis of the author's life observations, is Mephistopheles' Patter "Do not invoke him!"
Written by: Mikhail Bulgakov