- Biographical Fiction (1,544)
- Dystopian (2,023)
Best Sellers
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The Queen of Sugar Hill
- A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
- Written by: ReShonda Tate
- Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one of Hollywood’s most prolific but woefully underappreciated stars—and the first Black person ever to win an Oscar for her role as Mammy in the critically acclaimed classic film Gone With the Wind.
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All the Glimmering Stars
- A Novel
- Written by: Mark Sullivan, Anthony and Florence Opoka - afterword
- Narrated by: Junior Nyong'o
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in a powerful and healing historical novel from the #1 bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley....
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- Written by: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....
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Great insight into the Italian Front
- By Frank on 2018-10-20
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L'adversaire
- Written by: Emmanuel Carrère
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Carrère
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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« Le 9 janvier 1993, Jean-Claude Romand a tué sa femme, ses enfants, ses parents, puis tenté, mais en vain, de se tuer lui-même. L'enquête a révélé...
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
- A Novel
- Written by: Pip Williams
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary....
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Beautifully written historical love story of words
- By Chantal Plowman on 2023-01-11
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The Brothers Karamazov (Bicentennial Edition)
- Written by: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 42 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri....
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The Queen of Sugar Hill
- A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
- Written by: ReShonda Tate
- Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one of Hollywood’s most prolific but woefully underappreciated stars—and the first Black person ever to win an Oscar for her role as Mammy in the critically acclaimed classic film Gone With the Wind.
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All the Glimmering Stars
- A Novel
- Written by: Mark Sullivan, Anthony and Florence Opoka - afterword
- Narrated by: Junior Nyong'o
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in a powerful and healing historical novel from the #1 bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley....
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- Written by: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....
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Great insight into the Italian Front
- By Frank on 2018-10-20
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L'adversaire
- Written by: Emmanuel Carrère
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Carrère
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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« Le 9 janvier 1993, Jean-Claude Romand a tué sa femme, ses enfants, ses parents, puis tenté, mais en vain, de se tuer lui-même. L'enquête a révélé...
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
- A Novel
- Written by: Pip Williams
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary....
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Beautifully written historical love story of words
- By Chantal Plowman on 2023-01-11
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The Brothers Karamazov (Bicentennial Edition)
- Written by: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 42 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri....
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Le Consentement
- Written by: Vanessa Springora
- Narrated by: Guila Clara Kessous
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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"Depuis tant d'années, je tourne en rond dans ma cage, mes rêves sont peuplés de meurtre et de vengeance. Jusqu'au jour où la solution..."
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Très bien décris
- By JP on 2021-11-08
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Barney's Version
- Written by: Mordecai Richler
- Narrated by: Graham Abbey
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Barney Panofsky - Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur - is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival’s autobiography....
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No Thanks
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-05-17
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The Personal Librarian
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- Written by: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world....
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Dynamic duo
- By Tania A Heinemann on 2023-09-27
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Written by: Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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No book ever written has more perfectly captured the spirit of the 1960s counterculture....
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Fun Fun Fun AND Totally Tasteless
- By Destry Rides on 2019-09-01
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The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
- A Novel
- Written by: Allison Pataki
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all....
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A fascinating story!
- By CherylN on 2023-09-15
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Code Name Hélène
- A Novel
- Written by: Ariel Lawhon
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Peter Ganim
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1936, and Nancy Wake is an intrepid Australian expat living in Paris who has bluffed her way into a reporting job for Hearst newspaper when she meets the wealthy French industrialist Henri Fiocca....
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Excellent story
- By Allen Chocorlan on 2020-07-24
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The Lady of the Rivers
- Written by: Philippa Gregory
- Narrated by: Bianca Amato
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Descended from Melusina, the river goddess, Jacquetta always has had the gift of second sight....
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Interesting!
- By CassandraG on 2019-04-17
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Motherhood
- A Novel
- Written by: Sheila Heti
- Narrated by: Sheila Heti
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with candor, originality, and humor....
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The best Sheila Heti book so far
- By Emerset Farquharson on 2018-12-18
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Written by: Tracy Chevalier
- Narrated by: Hattie Morahan
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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An international best seller with over two million copies sold, this is a story of an artist's desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence....
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My Struggle, Book 6
- Written by: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken - translator, Don Bartlett - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 43 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Unafraid of the big issues - death, love, art, fear - and yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, My Struggle is an essential work of contemporary literature....
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The Postcard
- Written by: Anne Berest, Tina Kover - translator
- Narrated by: Barrie Kealoha
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling....
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So relevant for our times.
- By Anonymous User on 2024-04-29
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Triste tigre
- Written by: Neige Sinno
- Narrated by: Neige Sinno
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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J’ai voulu y croire, j’ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m’accueillerait comme n’importe lequel des orphelins qui y...
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Un livre important
- By CBo on 2023-12-08
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City of Incurable Women
- Written by: Maud Casey
- Narrated by: Hope Newhouse
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In a fusion of fact and fiction, 19th-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored....
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Carnegie's Maid
- A Novel
- Written by: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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From the author of The Other Einstein, the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty....
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Great Historical “Romance”
- By Evelyn Sheppard on 2021-02-12
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Atuk, elle et nous
- Written by: Michel Jean
- Narrated by: Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Michel Jean
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Jeannette, fille d’Almanda et de Thomas Siméon, parlait peu de ses origines innues. Pourtant, cette femme toujours vêtue et coiffée avec soin a vécu le quotidien des chasseurs de la forêt boréale jusqu’à sa rencontre avec celui qui allait transformer son existence....
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Magnifique
- By Anna on 2023-08-29
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The Fire and the Ore
- A Novel
- Written by: Olivia Hawker
- Narrated by: Marli Watson, Billie Fulford-Brown
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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1857. Three women—once strangers—come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they’ll allow nothing on Earth or in Heaven to stand in their way....
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On m'appelle Demon Copperhead
- Written by: Barbara Kingsolver, Martine Aubert - traducteur
- Narrated by: Benjamin Jungers
- Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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" Déjà, je me suis mis au monde tout seul. Ils étaient trois ou quatre à assister à l’événement, et ils m’ont toujours accordé une chose : c’est moi qui...
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The First Ladies
- Written by: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—a forbidden friendship that changed the world....
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The First Ladies
- By LK on 2023-07-05
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"Arrête avec tes mensonges" suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteur
- Written by: Philippe Besson
- Narrated by: Antoine Leiris
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Quand j'étais enfant, ma mère ne cessait de me répéter : "Arrête avec tes mensonges." J'inventais si bien les histoires, paraît-il, qu'elle ne savait plus...
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Katharine Parr, the Sixth Wife
- Written by: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Best-selling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir brings her Tudor Queens series to a close with the remarkable story of Henry VIII's sixth and final wife, who manages to survive him and remarry, only to be thrown into a romantic intrigue that threatens the very throne of England....
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The Wizard of the Kremlin
- A Novel
- Written by: Giuliano da Empoli, Willard Wood - translator
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Filled with real political insight and intrigue, this thrilling novel explores the nature of power through the inner workings of Putin’s regime....
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Loving Frank
- A Novel
- Written by: Nancy Horan
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright....
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The Executioner's Song
- Written by: Norman Mailer
- Narrated by: Maxwell Hamilton
- Length: 42 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize-winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore. The Executioner's Song follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold blood....
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Try it
- By Ryan Ford on 2021-05-07
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Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
- A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship
- Written by: Annabel Abbs
- Narrated by: Ell Potter, Bianca Amato
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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England, 1835. London is awash with thrilling new ingredients, from rare spices to exotic fruits. But no one knows how to use them. When Eliza Acton is told by her publisher to write a cookery book instead of the poetry she loves, she refuses....
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Delicious!
- By Jude on 2022-10-13
New Releases
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The Brothers Karamazov (Bicentennial Edition)
- Written by: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 42 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.
Written by: Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others
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All the Glimmering Stars
- A Novel
- Written by: Mark Sullivan, Anthony and Florence Opoka - afterword
- Narrated by: Junior Nyong'o
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s. Outstanding students, they believe in being good humans before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord’s Resistance Army. In a legion of young recruits, no one gets closer than Anthony to powerful messianic warlord Joseph Kony and his darkest secrets. To stay sane as he spirals through chaos, Anthony clings to his childhood lessons about being a good human. Florence’s upbringing grounds her, too, helping her keep her dreams alive even as she’s pulled deeper into the insanity of Kony’s war.
Written by: Mark Sullivan, and others
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Ella
- A Novel
- Written by: Diane Richards
- Narrated by: Alexandra Grey
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of “biographical fiction” that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer of the twentieth century.
Written by: Diane Richards
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The Dove upon Her Branch
- Written by: DM Denton
- Narrated by: Virginia Ferguson
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Christina Georgina Rossetti is the youngest of four siblings in a close-knit, creative Anglo-Italian family. A spirited child like her brother, Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in adolescence she struggles with being sickly and depressed. She emerges "a dove on a solitary branch," realizing her voice through writing, most exceptionally poetry.
Written by: DM Denton
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Polyamorous Love Song
- Written by: Jacob Wren
- Narrated by: Alex MacDonald
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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From interdisciplinary writer and performer Jacob Wren comes Polyamorous Love Song, a novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. Shot through with unexpected moments of sex and violence, listeners will become acquainted with a world that is at once the same and opposite from the one in which they live.
Written by: Jacob Wren
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My Sister, My Protector
- Written by: S.O. Strenuo
- Narrated by: Alyssa Boaldin
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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My Sister, My Protector is based on the true story of one family. It covers three generations of abuse, starting with seventeen-year-old Mary. If you or anyone you know can relate to this story, there is help. Please talk to someone.
Written by: S.O. Strenuo
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The Brothers Karamazov (Bicentennial Edition)
- Written by: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 42 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.
Written by: Fyodor Dostoevsky, and others
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All the Glimmering Stars
- A Novel
- Written by: Mark Sullivan, Anthony and Florence Opoka - afterword
- Narrated by: Junior Nyong'o
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s. Outstanding students, they believe in being good humans before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord’s Resistance Army. In a legion of young recruits, no one gets closer than Anthony to powerful messianic warlord Joseph Kony and his darkest secrets. To stay sane as he spirals through chaos, Anthony clings to his childhood lessons about being a good human. Florence’s upbringing grounds her, too, helping her keep her dreams alive even as she’s pulled deeper into the insanity of Kony’s war.
Written by: Mark Sullivan, and others
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Ella
- A Novel
- Written by: Diane Richards
- Narrated by: Alexandra Grey
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of “biographical fiction” that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer of the twentieth century.
Written by: Diane Richards
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The Dove upon Her Branch
- Written by: DM Denton
- Narrated by: Virginia Ferguson
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Christina Georgina Rossetti is the youngest of four siblings in a close-knit, creative Anglo-Italian family. A spirited child like her brother, Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in adolescence she struggles with being sickly and depressed. She emerges "a dove on a solitary branch," realizing her voice through writing, most exceptionally poetry.
Written by: DM Denton
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Polyamorous Love Song
- Written by: Jacob Wren
- Narrated by: Alex MacDonald
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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From interdisciplinary writer and performer Jacob Wren comes Polyamorous Love Song, a novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. Shot through with unexpected moments of sex and violence, listeners will become acquainted with a world that is at once the same and opposite from the one in which they live.
Written by: Jacob Wren
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My Sister, My Protector
- Written by: S.O. Strenuo
- Narrated by: Alyssa Boaldin
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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My Sister, My Protector is based on the true story of one family. It covers three generations of abuse, starting with seventeen-year-old Mary. If you or anyone you know can relate to this story, there is help. Please talk to someone.
Written by: S.O. Strenuo
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Naked Girl
- Written by: Janna Brooke Wallack
- Narrated by: Janna Brooke Wallack
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up motherless in 1980's Miami Beach, Sienna and her little brother Siddhartha get by with their charismatic and capricious father, Jackson Jones. When a small windfall relocates them to a condemned mansion on the water, the siblings are forbidden traditional schooling and left to live off the land. As Jackson uses their new home to create a communal cult, the siblings are forced to raise themselves in a carefree, chaotic oasis. Living amidst the vagrant seekers who take up residence in Jackson's utopia, Sienna and Siddhartha strive to protect their unconventional family.
Written by: Janna Brooke Wallack
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Involuntary Bliss
- Written by: Devon Code
- Narrated by: Hugh Gunz
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Intense and densely layered, Involuntary Bliss is the latest intriguing story from the award-winning young Canadian writer Devon Code. Situated in modern-day Montreal during a weekend in late August, two young men attempt to restore their friendship.
Written by: Devon Code
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The Bootlegger's Daughter
- A Novel
- Written by: Nadine Nettmann
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky, Allyson Ryan, Keong Sim
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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It’s 1927. Letty Hart’s father is long gone, but his old winery provides a meager wage and a legal livelihood for selling sacramental wine. But when that contract goes bust, Letty stumbles upon a desperate option: her father’s hidden cellar—and enough liquor to tempt Letty to bootleg the secret stash. In an underworld dominated by merciless men, Letty is building an empire.
Written by: Nadine Nettmann
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ANKRBOY
- Written by: Mark Pettit
- Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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A young, closeted TV newscaster tries to make his way during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Based on the true-life story of three-time Emmy award-winning anchorman and best-selling author turned actor, Mark Pettit.
Written by: Mark Pettit
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Mercy of Hell Hollow
- Her Lost Journal 1883-1887
- Written by: Marnie Reynolds-Bourque
- Narrated by: Margaret Stockton-Davies
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1883, a young, newly married Mercy Reynolds begins a personal journal, filling it with thoughts of her young family. She records her opinions on women's suffrage, historic events, small town gossip and life in general, never imagining she will also be documenting incredible loss as well. Her writings remind us of how America's pioneers lived in a world now largely forgotten.
Written by: Marnie Reynolds-Bourque
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The Jacobite's Wife
- Written by: Morag Edwards
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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18th century, Scotland. Jacobite sympathies stir powerful emotions, especially in a titled young man with little to occupy him. But strong-willed Lady Winifred Nithsdale has already seen her mother, father, and brother imprisoned for their support of England's Catholic king. While she wants to be loyal, Winifred tries to protect her husband from imprisonment, or worse, the scaffold. But will she escape with her own life intact?
Written by: Morag Edwards
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An African Orphan
- A Search for Meaning
- Written by: Tobias Mwandala
- Narrated by: Erica Myeni
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a story of an African orphan, Felix, who loses his parents as a very young boy. He embarks on a long journey searching for meaning in his life. On his journey he seeks to find answers and discover what there is to live for?
Written by: Tobias Mwandala
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Your Presence Is Mandatory
- A Novel
- Written by: Sasha Vasilyuk
- Narrated by: Sam Rushton
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Yefim Shulman, husband, grandfather and war veteran, was beloved by his family and his coworkers. But in the days after his death, his widow Nina finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase. Yefim had a lifelong secret, and his confession forces them to reassess the man they thought they knew and the country he had defended.
Written by: Sasha Vasilyuk
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It Is Never Too Late: Short Stories
- Written by: Roman Litovsky
- Narrated by: Scotty Kwas
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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This book is a true-to-life collection of 30 short stories from physicist and electrical engineer Roman Litovsky chronicling his family’s harrowing emigration journey in 1989 from Ukraine to the United States during the height of the impending collapse of the USSR. It details his life in Kyiv, traveling throughout Europe to gain freedom from the oppressive Soviet regime, settling in the U.S., and his life after that with a great engineering career at a prominent U.S. electro-acoustic company.
Written by: Roman Litovsky
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Victoria Falls
- Written by: James Hornor
- Narrated by: Anne Francis
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Bombay, India, Mr. Monroe's journey into authenticity results in a series of failed relationships that reveal the dark, enigmatic recesses of his complex personality and eventually land him in a hellhole prison in Bombay. His tragedy unfolds into an ending that no one, especially Monroe, could have possibly predicted or imagined.
Written by: James Hornor
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The Bag
- Coffee Talk: A Leader’s Job, Book 1
- Written by: Tim Gibson
- Narrated by: Amy Pandit
- Length: 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Surviving the job happens one day, one shift, and one call at a time. Having each other's backs sets a team apart from a crew. The Bag takes you on that journey for just one shift.
Written by: Tim Gibson
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Fighting for a Laugh
- Based on a True Story
- Written by: Chalmer Williams
- Narrated by: Kato Deville
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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My narrative explores social and emotional complexities of my teenage years (17-18) being expelled from high school while facing family, justice involved and community issues that negatively impact so many young men and women of color today.
Written by: Chalmer Williams