Chaucer (MP3) In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet's works.
Geoffrey Chaucer, who di ...
The Evil Genius (MP3) Collins' most financially successful novel, The Evil Genius, opens with a jury determining the fate of a sea captain whose ship allegedly facilitated a diamond theft. The story develops into a powerful novel of Victorian private l ...
English
2005
Justice for None (MP3) In their second novel, Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan bring to life the harsh plains and smouldering courtrooms of the Midwest: the small town of Vermilion, Illinois, on the brink of the Great Depression. Boyd Carter is a trouble ...
English
2005
Divorced from the Mob (MP3) From mob wife with blood on her hands to straight-arrow breadwinner for her four kids—a tale of transformation and empowerment from a woman whose life in organized crime makes Carmella Soprano look like June Cleaver.
As a chil ...
English
2004
Opera 101 Disk 1 of 2 (MP3) Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you’ve decided that the time has finally come t ...
English
2004
Alentejo Blue (MP3) by Monica Ali
read by Anna Fields
Unabridged
Audio Sample
Monica Ali's stunning second book is a collection of stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal, linked by characters and by a vivid sense of place and time.
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English
2006
The Rider of the Ruby Hills and Showdown Trail (MP3) This boxed set features the special magic of two of Louis L’Amour’s original short novels, both read by narrator Jim Gough.
“Ross Hardy had made his decision. He sat in the middle of all he owned, a splendid Appaloosa ge ...
English
2006
Matisse Stories, The (MP3) The Matisse Stories
by A.S. Byatt
read by Nadia May
Unabridged
This brilliant new collection by A.S. Byatt has been called "a masterpiece" by The Sunday Telegraph and The Observer has proclaimed, "These stories show us B ...
English
2007
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (MP3) Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey?s best-known work, is an account of his early life and opium addiction, in prose that is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish.
The Confessions involve the liste ...
English
2004
Frankies Place (MP3) One summer Jim Sterba, veteran war correspondent, accepts an invitation for a weekend visit from a woman he barely knows, author Frances FitzGerald. He arrives and discovers a secluded little house on the Maine coast, with evergre ...
English
2004
Death is a Cabaret (MP3) Since Jeff Talbot left the FBI, he's been investigating yard sales as a professional antiques picker. From furniture to books, from old clothes to broken toys, nothing escapes his keen eye for appraisal. But there is one item that ...
English
2007
Miernik Dossier, The (MP3) Unabridged
This is the dazzling first novel, newly reissued, by master spy novelist Charles McCarry, author of Old Boys.
McCarry?s first book, The Miernik Dossier, originally published in 1973, is a riveting and imaginative ...
English
2005
Oh What a Slaughter (MP3) One of America's finest writers offers a brilliant and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century.
Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massa ...
English
2005
Last Refuge, The:Tale of Money and Murder in the Ham (MP3) The Last Refuge: A Tale of Money and Murder in the Hamptons
by Chris Knopf
read by Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged
“Knopf's effortless narrative style and sense of humor bode well for the further adventures of Sam Acquil ...
English
2006
Vor Game, The (MP3) Unabridged
Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy with high expectations of ship command, but is disappointed with an assignment as meteorologist to Lazkowski Base, an arctic training camp. His tenure ...
English
2005
Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book Three (MP3) Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book Three
by Kathryn Lasky
read by Pamela Garelick
Unabridged
Book Three: The Rescue
Ever since Soren was kidnapped and taken to the St. Aegolius School for Orphaned Owls, he has longed to ...
English
2007
All The Shah's Men (MP3) An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror:
Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil indu ...
English
2005
Barchester Towers D1 of 2 (MP3) Barchester Towers
by Anthony Trollope
read by Simon Vance
Unabridged
This magnificent novel, sequel to The Warden and second in the Chronicles of Barsetshire, satirizes the struggle for ascendancy among the clergy of ...
English
2006
Son of Tarzan, The (MP3) Paulvitch seeks revenge against Tarzan once again, this time by luring Lord Greystoke's rebellious son away from London. The great ape Akut foils the plot of revenge as he helps the boy escape the wrath of Paulvitch. Akut and the ...
