Fiction - Literary audiobooks

... doch die Träume bleiben in Afrika - Abridged

By: Stefanie Zweig

Narrated by: Franziska Pigulla

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Afrika, das ist Traum und Erwachen, die Leichtigkeit des Seins und die Bürde des Begreifens, Illusion und gnadenlose Realität zugleich. Für Rechtsanwalt Paul Merkel, der in Kenia aufgewachsen ist, bedeutet es Lebenstraum und Ziel seiner Sehnsucht. In seiner größten Lebenskrise lässt er Familie, Beruf und Ehefrau zurück und begibt sich auf eine... Read more

Es begann damals in Afrika - Abridged

By: Stefanie Zweig

Narrated by: Franziska Pigulla

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nakuru School, Kenia 1944: Die Freundinnen Regina, Leah, Vicky und Liesel, die alle vor den Nazis fliehen mussten, sitzen unter einem Eukalyptusbaum und malen sich ihre Zukunft aus. Sie haben große Träume: Regina möchte Schrifststellerin werden und für immer auf der Farm Ol' Joro Orok bleiben. Liesel glaubt nur an Zahlen und Logik und... Read more

Vorstadtminiaturen - Abridged

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Wolf Euba & Veronika von Quast

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Geschichten, die das Leben schreibt, könnte man nicht besser erfinden. In Herbert Rosendorfers Szenen aus dem Alltagsleben spiegelt sich auf vortreffliche Weise die Tragikomödie unseres Daseins wider. Meist geht es um den zähen Widerstand des kleinen Mannes gegen den Übermut der Mächtigen, doch auch ein Peep-Show-Chef, der nackerte Weiber... Read more

Nirgendwo in Afrika - Abridged

By: Stefanie Zweig

Narrated by: Franziska Pigulla

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dieser autobiografische Roman schildert in unvergleichlicher Sprache die Odyssee von Walter, Jettel und Regina, die sich 1938 auf den Weg machen von Breslau nach Ostafrika, die ihre Heimat verlieren, eine neue gewinnen und doch zurück wollen. Stefanie Zweig erzählt die Geschichte Reginas, die sehr schnell dem Zauber Afrikas verfällt. Sie... Read more

Karibu heißt willkommen - Abridged

By: Stefanie Zweig

Narrated by: Franziska Pigulla

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Karibu heißt Willkommen" ist die Geschichte einer für Afrika einzigartigen Freundschaft. Das Kikuyumädchen Lilly und die englische Farmerstochter Stella wachsen auf einer Farm im Hochland Kenias wie Schwestern auf. Als der Kampf um Kenias Unabhängigkeit auch die Farm Karibu erreicht, muss Stella nach London. Sie beginnt ein neues Leben - bis zu... Read more

Owuors Heimkehr - Abridged

By: Stefanie Zweig

Narrated by: Gaby Dohm

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stefanie Zweigs Afrika-Erzählungen spielen in der Kolonialzeit und im heutigen Afrika. Ihre sensiblen und warmherzigen Schilderungen der Heimat ihres Herzens sind erfüllt von Poesie. Einfühlsam setzt Schauspielerin Gaby Dohm den Humor und die phantasievollen Bilderwelten Stefanie Zweigs um und nimmt den Hörer mit auf eine unvergessliche Reise... Read more

Storm Season

By: William Hauptman

Narrated by: Nick Landrum

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Using spare, haunting imagery reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's novels, Tony Award-winning author William Hauptmann spins a tale as mesmerizing as the giant skies that loom over the Texas plains. Burl Drennan's life is unexceptional until, one day, he watches a gigantic twister roar through his small Panhandle town. From then on, he is a storm... Read more

Talk Talk

By: T. Coraghessan Boyle

Narrated by: T. Coraghessan Boyle

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s more than one way to take a life…

The first time he saw Dana she was dancing barefoot, her hair aflame in the red glow of the club, her body throbbing with rhythms and cross-rhythms that only she could hear. He was mesmerized. That night they were both deaf, mouthing to each other over the booming bass. And it was not until their first... Read more

Wives Behaving Badly

By: Elizabeth Buchan

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

What could be sweeter than Revenge? The sequel.

American readers fell in love with Elizabeth Buchan?s Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman. Now, with the delicious sequel to that beloved New York Times bestseller, Elizabeth Buchan answers the intriguing question: What happens when the mistress becomes the wife?

Minty Lloyd has what she always... Read more

The Devil and Miss Prym

By: Paulo Coelho

Narrated by: Linda Emond

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author and international sensation Paulo Coelho, a novel set in a small village about a young, poor barmaid whose wager with the devil leads to a spiritual transformation.A stranger arrives at the remote village of Viscos, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer... Read more

Islands in the Stream

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Bruce Greenwood

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A later, posthumously published classic following the adventures of a painter in the midst of World War II.

First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway's death, this is the story of an artist and adventurer—a man much like Hemingway himself. Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson, from his... Read more

The Futurist

By: James P. Othmer

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Yates is a Futurist. Which is to say he makes a very good living flying around the world dispensing premonitory wisdom, aka prepackaged bull, to world governments, corporations, and global leadership conferences. He is an optimist by trade and a cynic by choice. He's the kind of man who can give a lecture on successive days to a leading... Read more

The Wrong Hostage

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Narrated by: Maria Tucci

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell returns with a chilling tale of the law gone wrong and a kidnapping that threatens more than one life. Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law -- lives it,... Read more

Lost And Found

By: Carolyn Parkhurst

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

What do a suburban mom, her troubled daughter, divorced brothers, former child stars, born-again Christians, and young millionaires have in common? They have all been selected to compete on Lost and Found, the daring new reality show. In teams of two, they will race across the globe -- from Egypt to England, from Japan to Sweden -- to battle for... Read more

Love in the Present Tense - Abridged

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

Narrated by: David Coburn, Jeremy Redleaf & Duana Speights

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For five years Pearl has managed to keep the past from catching up to her and her bright, frail five-year-old son. Life has given her every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force her to trust her neighbor Mitch with watching Leonard while she goes off to work. Then one day Pearl drops her son off…and never returns.
They are an... Read more

The Whole World Over

By: Julia Glass

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 22 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the beloved novel Three Junes comes a rich and commanding story about the accidents, both grand and small, that determine our choices in love and marriage. Greenie Duquette, openhearted yet stubborn, devotes most of her passionate attention to her Greenwich Village bakery and her four–year–old son, George. Her husband, Alan,... Read more

Fear of Flying

By: Erica Jong

Narrated by: Hope Davis

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1973, the groundbreaking, uninhibited story of Isadora Wing and her desire to fly free caused a national sensation. In The New York Times, Henry Miller compared it to his own classic, Tropic of Cancer and predicted that ""this book will make literary history..."" It has sold more than twelve million copies. Now, after... Read more

The Whole World Over - Abridged

By: Julia Glass

Narrated by: Denis O'Hare

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of the beloved novel Three Junes comes a rich and commanding story about the accidents, both grand and small, that determine our choices in love and marriage. Greenie Duquette, openhearted yet stubborn, devotes most of her passionate attention to her Greenwich Village bakery and her four–year–old son, George. Her husband, Alan,... Read more

JPod

By: Douglas Coupland

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Very evil…very funny
A lethal joyride into today’s new breed of technogeeks, Douglas Coupland’s new novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google.

Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers are bureaucratically marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver video game design company.
The six jPodders wage daily... Read more

The Man of My Dreams

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In her acclaimed debut novel, Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld created a touchstone with her pitch-perfect portrayal of adolescence. Her prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman’s fantasies of family and love with the challenges and... Read more

Slipstream

By: Leslie Larson

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In Slipstream, Leslie Larson traces the intertwining paths of five characters as each struggles to stay afloat in the face of major setbacks, minor failures, and a reckless pursuit of elusive second chances. When Rudy loses his job cleaning jets at the airport, his sanity and his marriage threaten to follow. While his wife, Inez, secretly saves... Read more

The Man of My Dreams - Abridged

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

Narrated by: Anne Heche

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her acclaimed debut novel, Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld created a touchstone with her pitch-perfect portrayal of adolescence. Her prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman’s fantasies of family and love with the challenges and... Read more

Cage of Stars

By: Jacquelyn Mitchard

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

No writer today illuminates the struggles of families–and the crises that can tear them apart–better than #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard. "A first-rate storyteller" (Newsweek) who "renders her characters flawlessly, endowing them with a humanity that is both accessibly grounded and astonishingly deep" (Bookslist), the... Read more

Digging to America

By: Anne Tyler

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel–a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.”

Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport – the Donaldsons, a very... Read more