Fiction audiobooks

Gulliver's Fugitives - Abridged

By: Keith Sharee

Narrated by: Jonathan Frakes

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

While searching for the U.S.S. Huxley, missing for more than 10 years, the EnterpriseTM stumbles across a forgotten colony of humans on a planet called Rampart, where fiction and works of the imagination of any kind are considered a heinous crime. A survey team beams aboard the ship to search for "contraband," and the crew are drawn immediately... Read more

Terror Stalks the Class Reunion - Abridged

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Sally Kirkland

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From The Anastasia Syndrome, her bestselling collection of short fiction, Terror Stalks the Class Reunion is a riveting, unabridged audio production.

Lovely young Kay Crandall has come back for the reunion of a high school where she once taught. But Kay cannot guess that the happy occasion is about to turn into a nightmare, as she falls into the... Read more

Star Trek: The Kabayashi Maru - Abridged

By: Julia Ecklar

Narrated by: James Doohan

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A freak shuttlecraft accident -- and suddenly Captain Kirk and most of his senior officers find themselves adrift in space, with no hope of rescue, no hope of repairing their craft, or restoring communications -- with nothing, in short, but time on their hands.

Time enough for each to tell the story of the Kobayashi Maru -- the Starfleet Academy... Read more

Scanners II - Abridged

By: Janus Kimball

Narrated by: Roddy McDowall

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Renegades with telekinetic and telepathic abilities, “ scanners” know your innermost secrets. They see through your own eyes, and they kill by thought. David Ketchum has no idea about scanners— until the night he saves a young girl's life by thinking a gunman to his horrific death. And now Commander Wayne... Read more

A Knight in Shining Armor - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Stephanie Zimbalist

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux will capture your heart with signature classic novel, a time travel romance featuring a present-day heroine and a dashing hero from the sixteenth century!

Abandoned by a cruel fate, lovely Dougless Montgomery lies weeping upon a cold tombstone in an English church. Suddenly, the most extraordinary... Read more

Because It is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart - Abridged

By: Joyce Oates

Narrated by: Contance Towers

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

In the early 1950s— the decade before the Civil rights movement— racial boundaries kept people apart or brought them together in explosive and dramatic ways. Iris Courtney, a young white woman, begins a clandestine relationship with Jinx Fairchild, a Black man who defended her in a fatal street fight with a white man.... Read more

Distant Danger

By: Jan Van de Wetering, Jean Darling, Joyce Harrin...

Narrated by: Nancy Dussault

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The stories for this annual collection of the Mystery Writers of America were selected for their strange and exotic locales. Breathtaking suspense, cold-blooded crime, and challenging twists of plot— set in the four corners of the world— make this recording a chilling audio experience. • "Deadhead Coming... Read more

My Gun is Quick - Abridged

By: Mickey Spillane

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He called her Red.  She called him in from the cold.  For one short moment in the big, hard city they were friends--and then the girl turned up dead.  Mike Hammer will walk through walls to find out who she was and why she died, even if he doesn't like the answers he gets.  Even if they are all about a seamy network of call-girls, blackmail, and... Read more

Picturing Will - Abridged

By: Ann Beattie

Narrated by: Ann Beattie

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A complex look at adulthood through the eyes of one remarkable child.Five-year-old Will is the precocious child of Jody and Wayne. Jody is a woman who dreams of becoming a celebrity and is having an affair with a man named Mel, while Wayne is no stranger to infidelity, either. The details of their intertwined lives form an intricate and often... Read more

Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Lee Horsley

Length: 36 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, Lonesome Dove, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America. Two retired Texas Rangers, Captains Woodrow Call and Augustus 'Gus' McCrae, lead a cattle drive from the small town of Lonesome Dove to the... Read more

The Berlin Stories - Abridged

By: Christopher Isherwood

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin. Classics of modern fiction, these novellas capture 1931 Berlin—charming, grotesque, and dangerous, as Hitler was ascending to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters, in particular the nightclub performer... Read more

A Stranger in the Mirror

By: Sidney Sheldon

Narrated by: Shannon Engemann

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A tale of Hollywood betrayal, revenge, and murder, A Stranger in the Mirror tells the story of two star-crossed lovers, Toby Temple—a superstar who struggles to become the world's funniest man—and Jill Castle, a sensuous starlet with a dark, mysterious past. Toby gets any woman that he wants, but under the superstar image is a lonely man. As his... Read more

The Hollow Hills - Abridged

By: Mary Stewart

Narrated by: Nicol Williamson

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Hollow Hills recreates the suspense and excitement of an ancient legend— how Merlin the Enchanter, prophet, visionary, and adviser to kings— keeps Arthur, the future king of Britain, safe. Merlin keeps watch over Arthur in remote secrecy, safe from the warring kings and Saxons who plot against his father, King Uther.... Read more

The Last Enchantment - Abridged

By: Mary Stewart

Narrated by: Nicol Williamson

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Arthur Pendragon is king! With the great sword Caliburn in his hand and Merlin the enchanter at his side, Arthur comes out of hiding to claim the crown he was born to wear. Unchallenged on the battlefield, he melds the country together in a time of promise. But Merlin, Arthur's protector, sees the glories and horrors that await the new king.... Read more

Die Dame mit dem Samthalsband (ungekürzt)

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Bernd Hesse

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Angeblich soll der bekannte französische Romantiker Charles Nodier (1780-1844) auf dem Sterbebett seinen Freund, den vielseitigen Bestseller-Autor Alexandre Dumas d. Ä. (1802-1870), zu dieser Novelle angeregt haben. Die deutschen romantischen Schriftsteller E. T. A. Hoffmann und Zacharias Werner werden darin zu Akteuren des fiktiven Geschehens.... Read more

Léghajóval a dinoszauruszok földjén (teljes)

By: Gerald Durrell

Narrated by: Pokorny Lia

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Gerry bácsi különös időutazásra hívja gyerek-barátait, 66-245 millió évvel ezelőttre, amikor a Földön még a hatalmas - és néha félelmetes - dinoszauruszok éltek. Azért vezeti Emmát, Konrádot és Ivánt ebbe a korba, mert a dinoszauruszokat komoly veszély fenyegeti: a 20. századból megérkezett hozzájuk Lord Irtó Artúr, a vandál vadász, és... Read more

Léghajóval a világ körül

By: Gerald Durrell

Narrated by: Pokorny Lia

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmának és ikeröccseinek az a szerencséjük, hogy Gerry nagybácsikájuk kísértetiesen hasonlít Gerald Durrellre. Elég az hozzá, hogy Gerry bácsi a kertjükben landol Belladonna nevű léghajójával, és magával viszi a három gyereket, hogy felkutassák Gerry bátyját, aki két éve indult el afrikai tanulmányútra, de azóta nem adott hírt magáról. A... Read more

Angel Eyes - Abridged

By: Eric Lustbader

Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tori Nunn went to Buenos Aires to forget— to forget her former life and to forget the death of her astronaut brother Greg, who died in a tragic space accident. But when handsome Ariel Solares alerts her to Japanese cocaine dealers shipping nuclear material from Columbia, she won't let go. Soon Tori is back in the world of spies and... Read more

Out on the Rim - Abridged

By: Ross Thomas

Narrated by: David Birney

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What if you were offered a gig by some shadowy and well-financed interests to funnel five million dollars to rebels holed up in the Philippine mountains? They need to fund a revolt against the Aquino government and a resourceful and gutsy team to engineer it. And what a team it is: Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert, is the only man the rebel... Read more

Bitter Sweet - Abridged

By: LaVyrle Spencer

Narrated by: Nancy Dussault

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When a recently widowed woman returns to her home town, will resuming a love affair with a high-school sweetheart bring back her joy?Shattered by the loss of her husband, Maggie struggled each day to put her grief behind her— to face life again and to be there for her teenaged daughter. When she returned to her Wisconsin hometown,... Read more

Killing Man - Abridged

By: Mickey Spillane

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It keeps coming back to Hammer...

The image of bloodshed in his office remained etched in Mike Hammer's mind forever - his secretary sprawled on the floor and a stranger sitting dead and mutilated at his own desk. In one moment a storm of madness entered the private eye's life. As he starts hunting for the killer, Hammer is haunted by the... Read more

Nicholas Nickleby - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

The welfare of children— a theme of many novels by Charles Dickens— is central to Nicholas Nickleby, the story of a fatherless young man, his mother, and his sister who find themselves at the mercy of a greedy and unscrupulous relative. Nicholas Nickleby is both a vivid indictment of the exploitive, brutal boarding... Read more

Great Expectations - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Pip— the orphaned hero of Great Expectations— is one of Charles Dickens's best-loved characters. Young Philip Pirrip— nicknamed Pip— is apprenticed to his blacksmith brother-in-law, but an anonymous benefactor changes the boy' s future. After he is lifted to what seems a higher station... Read more

The Magic Christian - Abridged

By: Terry Southern

Narrated by: Terry Southern

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Guy Grand— billionaire by birth, entrepreneur by avocation, and thoroughly unpredictable— is a grand guy. He "keeps his hand in"— buying into and revolutionizing industries ranging from championship boxing to African safaris. Is he a crackpot, an eccentric, or perhaps a visionary with a goal of social... Read more