Fiction - Literary audiobooks
The Guardians
By: Ana Castillo
Narrated by: Ana Castillo
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From American Book Award—winning author Ana Castillo comes a suspenseful, moving new novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman.
Eking out a living as a teacher’s aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tía Regina is also raising her teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking boy who has entered the country illegally and aspires to... Read more
Ein Abend mit Ruth Maria Kubitschek
By: Ruth Maria Kubitschek
Narrated by: Ruth Maria Kubitschek
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Ruth Maria Kubitschek: "Immer, wenn ich nach Indien komme, habe ich das Gefühl, ich komme heim. Dieses andere Leben und diese indische Erde, die getränkt ist von dem Leben so vieler Heiliger, wirkt auf uns über. Und wir werden glücklich." Ruth Maria Kubitschek, die Grande Dame des deutschen Fernsehens liest aus ihren Werken und lässt das... Read more
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Still Summer
By: Jacquelyn Mitchard
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Hailed as one of America’s most insightful and inventive storytellers, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard now takes listeners on a breathtaking journey of suspense and high adventure.
Back in high school, Tracy, Olivia, and Holly were known as The Godmothers, the girls everyone wanted to be and know. Unlike many friendships,... Read more
Kissing Babies At the Piggly Wiggly
By: Robert Dalby
Narrated by: Clarinda Ross
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The enchanting sequel to Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly–a Southern charmer about second chances in love and life, and the odd–and oddly funny–events that bring people together.
When Hale “Mr. Choppy” Dunbar decides to run for mayor in his hometown of Second Creek, Mississippi, Laurie Lepanto and her new husband, Powell Hampton, insist on managing... Read more
Neues von Oma Krause - Abridged
By: Georg Lenz
Narrated by: Ursula Karusseit & Johannes Steck
Length: 1 hour 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Meine Oma fährt im Hühnerstall Motorrad..." Oma Krause lachte über dergleichen Respektlosigkeiten und ergriff eindrucksvolle Gegenmaßnahmen. Einmal hatte sie gerade eine tote Maus aus dem Milchtopf gefischt. Und die warf sie nun unter die grölenden Kinder... Eine Geschichte Preußens in dem letzten Jahrhundert aus der bürgerlichen Perspektive... Read more
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Lottery
By: Patricia Wood
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Money isn?t the same as treasure, and IQ isn?t the same as smarts?An uplifting and joyous new novel hailed by Jacqueline Mitchard as ?solid gold.?
Perry L. Crandall knows what it?s like to be an outsider. With an IQ of 76, he?s an easy mark. Before his grandmother died, she armed Perry well with what he?d need to know: the importance of words... Read more
A Stone for Danny Fisher
By: Harold Robbins
Narrated by: Charles Leggett
Length: 16 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Born into a family of modest means and respectability, Danny Fisher was gradually driven downward into the world of crime, racketeering, and poverty. His bitterness, his homesickness over the loss of the house in Brooklyn that was given to him for his eighth birthday, and his feud with his harsh father, pulled him one way; his natural decency... Read more
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The Lovely Bones
By: Alice Sebold
Narrated by: Alice Sebold
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."
So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her... Read more
Nefertiti
By: Michelle Moran
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 15 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “compulsively readable” (Diana Gabaldon) novel teeming with love, betrayal, and religious conflict that brings ancient Egypt to vivid life, from the author of Cleopatra’s Daughter and Maria
“Meticulously researched and richly detailed . . . an engrossing tribute to one of the most powerful and alluring women in... Read more
In the Time of the Butterflies
By: Julia Alvarez
Narrated by: Noemi De La Puente, Alma Cuervo, Blanca Camacho...
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. El Caribe, the official newspaper, reports their deaths as an accident. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain... Read more
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Grendel
By: John Gardner
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic.The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the novel... Read more
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The Burning of the Flag
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, Jesus Out to Sea. Read more
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Mist
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA. Read more
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The Night Johnny Ace Died - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA. Read more
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Why Bugsy Siegel Was a Friend of Mine - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA. Read more
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The Village - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A short story from one of the country's most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, Jesus Out to Sea. Read more
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Winter Light - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the isolated hills of Montana, an aging college professor clashes with trespassing hunters and reckons with his mortality. The basis for the feature film God’s Country starring Thandiwe Newton and directed by Julian Higgins.
A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke’s story collection, Jesus... Read more
Water People - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA. Read more
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Texas City, 1947 - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA. Read more
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The Molester - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA. Read more
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Jesus Out to Sea - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 26 minutes
Abridged: Yes
INCLUDES THE STORY “WINTER LIGHT,” THE BASIS FOR THE FILM GOD’S COUNTRY STARRING THANDIWE NEWTON
One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered around the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina.
In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke... Read more
A Season of Regret - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 45 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A short story from one of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Burke's story collection, JESUS OUT TO SEA. Read more
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Girls of Riyadh
By: Rajaa Alsanea
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
When Rajaa Alsanea boldly chose to open up the hidden world of Saudi women—their private lives and their conflicts with the traditions of their culture—she caused a sensation across the Arab world. Now in English, Alsanea’s tale of the personal struggles of four young upper-class women offers Westerners an unprecedented glimpse into a society... Read more
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Peony in Love
By: Lisa See
Narrated by: Janet Song
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn, only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera, a live... Read more
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