Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Vertell doch mal! 3

By: Norddeutscher Rundfunk & Radio Bremen

Narrated by: Manfred Bettinger, Beate Kiupel, Uwe Friedrichs...

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Diese Jubiläums-CD bietet eine Auswahl der besten Geschichten aus den letzten Jahren zu den Themen cIn de School", "De schönste Dag", "Hartpuckern", "... wat för de Kinner" und "Öllern" - meisterhaft gelesen von Mitgliedern des Ohnsorg-Ensembles. Zu hören sind Heidi Mahler, Beate Kiupel, Edda Loges, Manfred Bettinger, Wilfried Dziallas, Jens... Read more

Paint the Bird

By: Georgeann Packard

Narrated by: Robin Miles & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Reverend Sarah Obadias is broken, bitter, and stripped of the reassurance of faith when she walks into a West Village restaurant in Manhattan. Here she encounters Abraham Darby, a rumpled but well-regarded painter who seduces the minister into his life of excess and emotional intensity. "I've run away from my life," Sarah tells him. "I... Read more

Vertell doch mal! 2 - Abridged

By: NDR Welle Nord

Narrated by: Jens Scheiblich, Erkki Hopf, Jasper Vogt, Beate...

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eine Auswahl von 10 der schönsten Geschichten des Wettbewerbs aus den Jahren 2001 bis 2006. Der plattdeutsche Schreibwettbewerb "Vertell doch mal" des NDR und Radio Bremen ist eine Erfolgsgeschichte. Bis zu 3000 Hobbyautoren beteiligen sich jährlich daran. Eine Jury wählt die 25 besten Geschichten zu einem jährlich wechselnden Thema aus. Diese... Read more

The Thief of Auschwitz

By: Jon Clinch

Narrated by: Paul Hecht & Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The camp at Auschwitz took one year of my life, and of my own free will I gave it another four." So begins the much-anticipated new novel from Jon Clinch, award-winning author of Finn and Kings of the Earth. In The Thief of Auschwitz, Clinch steps for the first time beyond the deeply American roots of his earlier books to explore one of the... Read more

An Experiment in Love

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Jane Collingwood

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Carmel McBain is the only child of working-class Irish-Catholic parents. Her mother aspires to something more for her than what life in their depressed mill town has to offer. She is ambitious for her daughter, determined that she slip through England's rigid social barriers. And so, early on, she pushes Carmel, first to gain a scholarship to... Read more

Return to Oakpine

By: Ron Carlson

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Ron Carlson is a widely respected author whose accolades include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Ploughshares Cohen Prize. Return to Oakpine spins a story of growing up and growing old as four high school friends and former bandmates reconnect 30 years after graduating. When they learn that one of them is dying, it feels like... Read more

Ten Things I’ve Learnt about Love

By: Sarah Butler

Narrated by: Susan Duerden & John Lee

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

About to turn thirty, Alice is the youngest of three daughters and the black sheep of her family. Drawn to traveling in far-flung and often dangerous countries, she has never enjoyed the closeness with her father that her two older sisters have and has eschewed their more conventional career paths. She has left behind a failed relationship in... Read more

The Light in the Ruins

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Mark Bramhall

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes a spellbinding novel of love, despair, and revenge—set in war-ravaged Tuscany.

1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the... Read more

Letters From Skye

By: Jessica Brockmole

Narrated by: Elle Newlands, Katy Townsend, Lincoln Hoppe, Ad...

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars, Jessica Brockmole’s atmospheric debut novel captures the indelible ways that people fall in love, and celebrates the power of the written word to stir the heart.
 
March 1912: Twenty-four-year-old Elspeth Dunn, a published poet, has never seen the world beyond her home... Read more

Freud's Mistress

By: Jennifer Kaufman & Karen Mack

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Golden Globe-winning film and television producer Karen Mack and two-time Penney-Missouri Journalism Award winner Jennifer Kaufman have collaborated on two previous novels, both of which hit the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. Based on the true-life love affair between Sigmund Freud and his sister-in-law, Freud's Mistress is a powerhouse... Read more

Fin & Lady

By: Cathleen Schine

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Cathleen Schine comes Fin & Lady, a wise, clever story of New York in the '60s.

It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn't seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small... Read more

This Is How You Fall

By: Keith Dixon

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacob Cameron Asprey, Jr., is the charming son of a charming crook who’s currently residing in the state pen. Strangled by family ties, Jake is barely scraping by, working as a lifeguard at the tony country club on the other side of town. He’s marking time, treading water, haunted by Sally Godstreet, the woman he’s loved all his life—the woman... Read more

The Curiosity

By: Stephen P. Kiernan

Narrated by: Kate Udall, Erik Bergmann, George Guidall & Jas...

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The Curiosity, Stephen Kiernan’s debut novel, is a gripping, poignant, and thoroughly original thriller that raises disturbing questions about the very nature of life and humanity—man as a scientific subject, as a tabloid plaything, as a living being, as a curiosity.…
 
Dr. Kate Philo and her scientific exploration team make a breathtaking... Read more

Amy Falls Down

By: Jincy Willett

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Amy Gallup is an aging novelist and writing instructor living in Escondido, California, with her dog, Alphonse. Since recent unsettling events, she has made some progress. While she still has writer’s block, she doesn’t suffer from it. She’s still a hermit, but she has allowed some of her class members into her life. She is no longer numb,... Read more

The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe

By: Mary Simses

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A high-powered Manhattan attorney finds love, purpose, and the promise of a simpler life in her grandmother's hometown.

Ellen Branford is going to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish -- to find the hometown boy she once loved, and give him her last letter. Ellen leaves Manhattan and her Kennedy-esque fiance for Beacon, Maine. What should be a... Read more

The Shack

By: William P. Young

Narrated by: Roger Mueller

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

After his daughter's murder, a grieving father confronts God with desperate questions -- and finds unexpected answers -- in this riveting and deeply moving #1 NYT bestseller.

When Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, he remains hopeful that she'll return home. But then, he discovers evidence... Read more

A Treacherous Paradise

By: Henning Mankell

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander crime novels, a powerful stand-alone novel set in early-twentieth-century Sweden and Mozambique, whose vividly drawn female protagonist is awoken from her naïveté by her exposure to racism and by her own unexpected inner strengths.

Cold and poverty define Hanna Renström’s childhood... Read more

Mark Twain: Die Box - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mark Twain: Humorvolle Kurzgeschichten - Die Box. Hören Sie dreizehn lustige Kurzgeschichten des Großmeisters für Humor und Satire. Inhalte: Wie man einen Schnupfen kuriert, Tot oder lebendig, Herrn Blokes eingesandter Artikel, Der berühmte Springfrosch von Calaveras County, Die Ameise, Was mir der Professor erzählte, Die Schrecken der... Read more

Mark Twain: Humorvolle Kurzgeschichten 10 - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Eine-Million-Pfundnote: Ein unbescholtener Amerikaner wird schiffbrüchig. Seine Rettung: Ein englisches Schiff, das ihn allerdings nach London mitnimmt. Dort völlig mittellos gestrandet, werden zwei ultrareiche Brüder auf ihn aufmerksam, die eine britisch-skurrile Wette abgeschlossen haben: Wenn ein armer Mann eine Ein-Million-Pfundnote... Read more

Mark Twain: Humorvolle Kurzgeschichten 9 - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Meine Uhr: Als Mark Twain seine liebgewonnene Uhr zum Uhrmacher bringen muss, weiß er, dass nun eine große Leidenszeit beginnen wird - denn wie sein Großvater schon sagte: "Eine Uhr ist eine Uhr, bis man sie zum Uhrmacher gebracht hat!" Adams Tagebuch: Adam wohnt im Paradies, als eines Tages ein fremdes Wesen auftaucht, das sich Eva nennt.... Read more

Mark Twain: Humorvolle Kurzgeschichten 8 - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache: Mark Twain befindet sich in Heidelberg, um Deutsch zu lernen. Die furchtbaren Mühe, die er sich dabei gibt, scheint leider keinen allzu großen Erfolg zu zeitigen: Zu komplex und widersprüchlich sind die Regeln des Deutschen… Wohl die berühmteste Geschichte Mark Twains - und eine, für die wir nur zu großes... Read more

Mark Twain: Humorvolle Kurzgeschichten 7 - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der berühmte Springfrosch von Calaveras County: Eines der ersten twainschen "Tall tales" - und eines der berühmtesten: Ein Mann kommt in den wilden Westen, um etwas über Reverend Leonidas Smiley zu erfahren - und statt dessen erfahren wir alles über Jim Smiley, den Wettkönig von Calaveras - und seinen Frosch. Ein komödiantisches Meisterwerk! Die... Read more

Mark Twain: Humorvolle Kurzgeschichten 6 - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wie man einen Schnupfen kuriert: Wer kennt das nicht? Man ist krank, und schon fühlen sich alle Menschen bemüßigt, ihre eigenen unfehlbaren Rezepte und Kuren zu empfehlen. Mark Twain ist ein dankbarer Zeitgenosse und probiert willig alles aus - mit bemerkenswerten Resultaten! Tot oder lebendig: Vier hungernde, talentierte Künstler malen die... Read more

The Girl On The Landing

By: Paul Torday

Narrated by: Clare Wille & David Monteath

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Elizabeth has been married to Michael for ten years. She has adjusted to a fairly monotonous routine with her wealthy, decent but boring husband. Part of this routine involves occasional visits to Beinn Caorrun, the dank and gloomy house in a Scottish glen that Michael inherited. There are memories there that Michael will not share with her.

But... Read more