Fiction - Literary audiobooks
Song of Solomon - Abridged
By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Milkman Dead was born shortly after... Read more
Paradise - Abridged
By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New... Read more
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Leonardo's Swans - Abridged
By: Karen Essex
Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
LEONARDO'S SWANS is the story of the powerful Este sisters, Beatrice, Duchess of Milan, and Isabella, Marchesa of Mantua, as they compete for the affections of Italy's most influential prince, the Duke of Milan, and for the larger prize, to be immortalized in oil by his court painter and engineer, Leonardo da Vinci. Sexy, inspiring, and... Read more
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The Mermaids Singing - Abridged
By: Lisa Carey
Narrated by: Jan Maxwell
Length: 2 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
There is an island off the west coast of Ireland called Inis Muruchthe Island of the Mermaidsa world where myth is more powerful than truth, where the sea sings with the healing and haunting voices of women, and where death is never as strong as the redemptive power of family and love. It is here that Lisa Carey sets her lyrical and sensual... Read more
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Die Schwabenkinder - Abridged
By: Elmar Bereuter
Narrated by: Hubert Dragaschnig
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Eine geglückte Verbindung von Authentizität und Fiktion...." urteilte ARTE über den Bestseller, "packend und berührend" fand ihn der Bayerische Rundfunk. Auch als Hörbuch fesselt die Geschichte des Tiroler Bauernkinds Kaspanaze. Der 9-jährige Junge wird 1868 von seiner Familie auf den Kindermarkt geschickt und dort als billige Arbeitskraft von... Read more
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Mit Mark Twain auf Reisen - Abridged
By: Mark Twain & Peter Bramböck
Narrated by: Hartmut Neugebauer
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Mark Twain verbrachte über elf Jahre in Europa, dessen ehrwürdige Monumente er in seinen Reisebildern ebenso unbekümmert-naiv wie ironisch skizzierte und gelegentlich vom Sockel riss. Aber auch den modernen Massentourismus ahnte er amüsiert voraus und spöttelte über all die Freuden und Widrigkeiten... mehr, die bis heute mit dem Reisen verbunden... Read more
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Mit Fontane auf Reisen - Abridged
By: Theodor Fontane
Narrated by: Philipp Kreisselmeier
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Notizen und Feuilletons des Reiseschriftstellers Theodor Fontane, herausgegeben von Peter Bramböck. Obwohl weit über 100 Jahre alt, sind Fontanes Betrachtungen über die Sonnen- und Schattenseiten des Urlaubs, über Hoteliers, Gastwirte und Mitreisende aktuell wie ehedem. Überraschend ist auch Fontanes Umgang mit Sehenswürdigkeiten wie... Read more
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Beautiful Children - Abridged
By: Charles Bock
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The New York Times bestseller by the author of the forthcoming novel Alice & Oliver | Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters | A New York Times Notable Book
“One word: bravo.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Truly powerful . . . Beautiful Children dazzles its readers on almost... Read more
Die gute Erde - Abridged
By: Pearl S. Buck
Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Der berühmteste Roman der Literaturnobelpreisträgerin Pearl S. Buck gelesen von Ulrich Noethen. Es ist die ergreifende Geschichte des armen Bauern Wang Lung, der sich mit Fleiß, Sparsamkeit und Verzicht großen Reichtum erwirbt. Weder Hungersnöte noch Überschwemmungen können Wang entmutigen, auf seine "gute Erde" zu vertrauen. Doch die Freude... Read more
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Politically Correct Holiday Stories - Abridged
By: James Finn Garner
Narrated by: James Finn Garner
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The #1 bestselling author of Once Upon a More Enlightened Time reads his Politically Correct holiday gift.
Holiday tales have long delighted and entertained us, but until now they've always been burdened with society's skewed values and mores. Stories that reinforce the stifling class system (Dickens' A Christmas Carol), legitimize the stereotype... Read more
Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts - Abridged
By: Josef Freiherr von Eichendorff
Narrated by: Mathias Kahler
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Ein Müllerssohn streift auf der Wanderschaft umher, verliebt sich in eine Hofdame und erlebt zahlreiche Abenteuer, die ihn bis nach Rom führen. Die Sehnsucht nach seiner Liebe treibt ihn allerdings wieder in die Heimat, wo sich alle Verwirrungen auflösen. Sein Weg führt ihn nach Italien, wo er sich in eine bunte und geheimnisvolle Kette von... Read more
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Francesco, der Kater des Papstes - Abridged
By: Renate Fabel
Narrated by: Marina Köhler
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Vergnügliche Episoden aus dem abenteuerlichen Leben des Katers Franzl, der aus der Oberpfalz nach Rom auswandert, um als Francesco seinem geliebten Herrn, Benedikt XVI., nahe zu sein. Kein einfacher Tapetenwechsel, doch mit bayerischer Dickköpfigkeit und viel Charme schafft er es sogar, die undurchdringlichen Mauern des heiligen Vatikans zu... Read more
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"The Lying Game" - Abridged
By: Ruth Ware
Narrated by: Daniel Brooks
Length: 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Book summary and Analysis by Loudly, this is an abridged version of the original title The Lying Game is a gripping psychological thriller that delves into the dark side of friendship, guilt, and the haunting consequences of the lies we tell. Isa, Thea, Fatima, and Kate were inseparable friends at a prestigious boarding school, bound together... Read more
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The Dune Audio Collection - Abridged
By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Frank Herbert
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Read by the author, this compilation of key excerpts from the brilliant Dune trilogy is melded with connective text written by Frank Herbert specifically for these recordings. It includes selections from Dune: The Banquet Scene, Sandworms of Dune, The Battles of Dune, and The Truths of Dune: Fear is the Mind Killer. Read more
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The Commoner - Abridged
By: John Burnham Schwartz
Narrated by: Janet Song
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It is 1959 when Haruko, a young woman of good family, marries the Crown Prince of Japan, the heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne. She is the first non-aristocratic woman to enter the longest-running, almost hermetically sealed, and mysterious monarchy in the world. Met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress and her minions, Haruko is controlled... Read more
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Falling Bodies - Abridged
By: Andrew Mark
Narrated by: Dylan Baker
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An eloquent illumination of the condition, Falling Bodies is an extraordinary debut novel of love and loss, despair and renewal, and the promise -- and limitations -- of the laws of physics.
Jackson's wife and two children are gone -- taken away in the blink of an eye by a terrible car accident. A professor of physics, Jackson can mathematically... Read more
Gespenster, Gespenster - Abridged
By: Heinrich Zschokke, Frédérik Boutet, Friedrich d...
Narrated by: Mathias Kahler & Christiane Blumhoff
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Ein Hörbuch für die Lust am Gruseln: \nSchauerlich-schöne Geschichten und unheimliche Erzählungen berühmter Autoren wie u.a. Edgar Allan Poe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Friedrich de la Motte Fouquè, Gustav Meyrink und Frédérik Boutet sorgen für Gänsehaut und einen wohligen Grusel. Read more
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Charms for the Easy Life - Abridged
By: Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. In a sad and singular era, they are unique among women of their time. For radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy and brilliant daughter Margaret possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that all too... Read more
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