Fiction - Literary audiobooks
Wir kommen (Gekürzte Hörbuchfassung) - Abridged
By: Ronja von Rönne
Narrated by: Ronja von Rönne
Length: 3 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Ronja von Rönne wischt das Blau vom Himmel." Georg Diez, Der Spiegel "Maja ist nicht tot. Wenn Maja gestorben wäre, hätte sie mir davor Bescheid gesagt. Solche Dinge haben wir immer abgesprochen." Wenn jemand stirbt, zieht man sich schwarze Kleider an und geht zur Beerdigung. Oder man flieht gemeinsam mit seinen drei Beziehungspartnern und... Read more
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The Mark of Zorro - Abridged
By: Johnston McCulley
Narrated by: Val Kilmer, a full cast, Scott Brick, Stefan Ru...
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Based on Johnston McCulley’s The Curse of Capistrano first published in 1919 by pulp magazine All-Story WeeklySet in Los Angeles during the era of early nineteenth century Colonial Spanish California, the story introduces us to wealthy, young aristocrat Don Diego de la Vega, son of the richest ranchero in the country. Don Diego is an idler who... Read more
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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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Ellen Foster - Abridged
By: Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy."
So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise,... Read more
The Moral Compass - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: William J. Bennett
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Moral Compass is the inspiring and instructive companion volume to William J. Bennett's bestselling work, The Book of Virtues, offering many more examples of good and bad, right and wrong, in great works from literature and in exemplary stories from history.
Organized by the stages along life's journey, these stories and poems serve as... Read more
A Far Country - Abridged
By: Daniel Mason
Narrated by: Anne Twomey
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the best-selling author of The Piano Tuner, a stunning new audio about a young girl’s journey through a vast, unnamed country in search of her brother.
Raised in a remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation, fourteen-year-old Isabel was born with the gift and curse of “seeing farther.” When drought and war grip the backlands, her... Read more
Second Nature - Abridged
By: Alice Hoffman
Narrated by: Kate Nelligan
Length: 2 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more
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Spoon River Anthology - Abridged
By: Edgar Lee Masters
Narrated by: Patrick Fraley, Edward Asner & a full cast
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Deemed "essential" in the canon of American literature, this audiobook masterpiece performed in its entirety by a full cast of fifty makes the classic accessible to everyone. From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordid affairs, while others speak of their... Read more
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Siddhartha - Abridged
By: Hermann Hesse
Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This compelling spiritual quest by Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, is considered one of the most important works of twentieth century fiction. Siddhartha's search for enlightenment leads him to the river of life itself. On his journey he learns from many teachers: the ascetic Samanas, the all-knowing Gotama, the... Read more
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Black Sunday - Abridged
By: Thomas Harris
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When the game begins in New Orleans this Super Bowl Sunday . . . 80,000 people had better get ready to die.
The Super Bowl--where thousands have gathered for an all-American tradition. Suddenly it's the most terrifying place on earth . . .
Michael Lander is the most dangerous man in America. He pilots a television blimp over packed football... Read more
Die Unmöglichkeit des Lebens (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged
By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Leslie Malton
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Leslie Malton erweckt einfühlsam und humorvoll Grace' späte Abenteuersuche zum Leben. Was aussieht wie Magie ist einfach ein Teil des Lebens, den wir noch nicht verstehen ... Als Grace, eine pensionierte Mathematiklehrerin, von einer fast vergessenen Freundin ein heruntergekommenes Häuschen auf einer Mittelmeerinsel erbt, siegt ihre Neugier.... Read more
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Fred Frees Favorites: An Audiobook Sampler - Abridged
By: Joe Bevilacqua, Charles Dawson Butler, Pedro Pa...
Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua, Charles Dawson Butler, Fred Fre...
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
Trying to decide which audiobook is best for you? Let Fred Frees pick out some samples for you! This series of hour-long programs presents the first chapters of Fred's handpicked favorite BearManor and Waterlogg audiobooks.This collection includes:The Last Films of 50 Great Directors by Nat SegaloffThe Laugh Makers: Bob Hope's Incredible Gag... 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
East of the Mountains - Abridged
By: David Guterson
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes ”a strikingly joyful book and a monumental achievement” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) about a dying man’s final journey through the American West.
When he discovers that he has terminal cancer, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens refuses to simply sit... Read more
Forrest Gump - Abridged
By: Winston Groom
Narrated by: Winston Groom
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Bein' a idiot is no box of chocolates," but "at least I ain't led no hum-drum life," says Forrest Gump, the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this wonderful comic tale.
When the University of Alabama's football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, that's only the beginning! He flunks out--and goes on to be a Vietnam war hero, a... Read more
Nur ein paar Nächte - Abridged
By: Fabian Neidhardt
Narrated by: Fabian Neidhardt & Chantal Busse
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
Dafür aber 1000 Liebe Von einem alleinerziehenden Vater und einer Tochter, die sich kaum bändigen lässt, von Nähe und Loslassen, von Entscheidungen, die das Leben verlangt. Ben ist Mitte dreißig, er zieht allein seine 12-jährige Tochter Mia groß – und: er hat sich in seinem Leben eingerichtet. Was aber, wenn sich plötzlich alles verändert?... Read more
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Vanity Fair: Summer 2016 Issue - Abridged
By: Vanity Fair
Narrated by: various narrators
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It’s a royal rendezvous for Vanity Fair’s Summer issue! Ahead of the Queen’s 90th birthday, read three intimate reminiscences of her inner majesty, a chronicle of Prince Charlotte’s first year, and about her royal highnesses’ most loyal subjects—her corgis.Plus: Inside Twitter’s $10 billion identity crisisThe mystery of the Ivy League’s Bernie... Read more
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The Loop - Abridged
By: Nicholas Evans
Narrated by: Stephen Lang
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A pack of wolves makes a sudden savage return to the Rocky Mountain ranching town of Hope, Montana, where a century earlier they were slaughtered by the thousands. Now shielded by law as an endangered species, they reawaken an ancient hatred that will tear a family, and ultimately the town, apart.
At the center of the storm is Helen Ross, a... Read more
Wayfaring Stranger - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
2015 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/Suspense
In his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man’s unforgettable life.
In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A... Read more
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