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Author: Anne Tyler
Format: Online
Author Anne Tyler
Narrator Blair Brown
Duration 10h 43m
Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in the Polish neighbourhood of Baltimore, he was smitten. And in the heat of World War II fervour, they were hastily wed. But they never should have married. Pauline, impulsive and impractical, tumbles...
View BookAuthor: Jay Anson
Format: Online
Author Jay Anson
Narrator Ray Porter
Duration 6h 28m
In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in that house. But the propertycomplete with boathouse and swimming pooland the price were too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lu...
View BookA Cat, A Hat and A Piece of String
Author: Joanne Harris
Format: Online
Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Thomas Judd
Duration 8h 1m
Stories are like Russian dolls; open them up, and in each one you'll find another story.' Conjured from a wickedly imaginative pen, here is a new collection of short stories that showcases Joanne Harris's exceptional storytelling art.Sensuous, wicked, mischievous, uproarious and wry, here are tales that combine the everyday with the unexpected;wil...
View BookAuthor: Dilly Court
Format: Online
Author Dilly Court
Narrator Annie Aldington
Duration 13h 1m
Eighteen-year-old Irene Angel lives with her parents in a tiny room above the shop where her crippled mother ekes out a living selling pickles and sauces, whilst her charming but feckless father Billy gambles away what little money they do manage to earn. And it is all Irene can do to keep the family together. Billy's addiction soon leads him into...
View BookAuthor: James Luceno
Format: Online
Author James Luceno
Narrator Daniel Davis
Duration 14h 45m
Darth Plagueis: one of the most brilliant Sith Lords who ever lived. Possessing power is all he desires. Losing it is the only thing he fears. As an apprentice, he embraces the ruthless ways of the Sith. And when the time is right, he destroys his Master--but vows never to suffer the same fate. For like no other disciple of the dark side, Darth Pla...
View BookChief Inspector Banks Book 2: A Dedicated Man
Author: Peter Robinson
Format: Online
Author Peter Robinson
Narrator James Langton
SeriesInspector Banks, Book 2
Duration 8h 2m
A well-liked, respected historian and archaeologist is bludgeoned to death and left half-buried in a field. Now it falls to Chief Inspector Banks to solve a seemingly motiveless murder-and stop a killer who's bound to kill again.
View BookAuthor: Jane Shemilt
Format: Online
Author Jane Shemilt
Narrator Deryn Edwards
Duration 9h 16m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Drowning Lessons by Jane Shemilt, read by Deryn Edwards. The haunting new novel from the author of 2014's stunning Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller Daughter. The press conference, one year ago. Our home is a crime scene now. I am in yesterday's clothes. The clothes in whic...
View BookAuthor: Hugh Howey
Format: Online
Author Hugh Howey
Narrator Susannah Harker
SeriesWool Trilogy, Book 3
Duration 12h 7m
In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order. Some embrace the change, others fear the unknown; none have control of their fate. The Silo is still in danger. There are those set on its destruction. Jules knows they must be stopped. The battle has been won. The war is just beginning.
View BookThe Early Stories of Truman Capote
Author: Truman Capote
Format: Online
Author Truman Capote
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 44m
Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his teens and early twenties, before he penned such classics as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and In Cold Blood. This collection of more than a dozen pieces showcases the young Capot...
View BookAuthor: Nicola Moriarty
Format: Online
Author Nicola Moriarty
Narrator Natasha Jacobs
Duration 6h 39m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Fifth Letter by Nicola Moriarty, read by Natasha Jacobs. Four friends. Five Letters. One Secret. A scandalous breakthrough novel from Nicola Moriarty that will leave you asking, how well do I really know my friends? Joni, Trina, Deb and Eden. Best friends since the first day of...
View BookAuthor: Jim Gaffigan
Format: Online
Author Jim Gaffigan
Narrator Jim Gaffigan
Duration 7h 17m
Bacon. McDonalds. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale. Stand-up comedian and author Jim Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American diet ("choking on bacon is like getting murdered by your lover") and decrying the worst offenders ("kale is the early morning of foods"). Fans flocked to his New York Times bestsell...
View BookChief Inspector Banks Book 1: Gallows View
Author: Peter Robinson
Format: Online
Author Peter Robinson
Narrator Mark Honan
SeriesInspector Banks, Book 1
Duration 8h 45m
Former London policeman Alan Banks relocated to Yorkshire seeking some small measure of peace. But depravity and violence are unfortunately not unique to large cities. His new venue, the quaint little village of Eastvale, seems to have more than its fair share of malefactors---among them a brazen Peeping Tom who hides in night's shadows spying on a...
View BookOp-center Book 3: Games of State
Author: Tom Clancy
Format: Online
Author Tom Clancy
Narrator Michael Kramer
SeriesOp-Center, Book 3
Duration 12h 38m
In the newly unified Germany, old horrors are reborn. It is the beginning of Chaos Days, a time when neo-Nazi groups gather to spread violence and resurrect dead dreams. But this year Germany isn't the only target. Plans are afoot to destabilize Europe and cause turmoil throughout the United States. Paul Hood and his team, already in Germany to buy...
View BookAuthor: Caitlin Moran
Format: Online
Author Caitlin Moran
Narrator Louise Brealey
Duration 9h 37m
It's 1990. Johanna Morrigan, 14, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that there's no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde - fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer! She will save her poverty stricken Bohemian family by becoming a writer - like Jo in Little Women,...
View BookAuthor: Karin Fossum
Format: Online
Author Karin Fossum
Narrator David Rintoul
SeriesInspector Sejer, Book 1
Duration 8h 53m
Eva is walking by the river one afternoon when a body floats to the surface of the icy water. She tells her daughter to wait patiently while she calls the police, but when she reaches the phone box Eva dials another number altogether. The dead man, Egil, has been missing for months, and it doesn't take long for Inspector Sejer and his team to estab...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Rosenheim
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Author Andrew Rosenheim
Narrator John Chancer
SeriesJimmy Nessheim, Book 2
Duration 12h 42m
Los Angeles, September 1941. With the Nazis occupying Europe, and their armies now halfway across Russia, America hovers on the brink of war. Tensions are also rising in the Far East, and in California fears grow of a Pacific Coast invasion. There is mounting anxiety about the loyalty of the state's own Japanese population. But back in Washington D...
View BookAuthor: John Niven
Format: Online
Author John Niven
Narrator Tom Riley
Duration 7h 45m
Meet Steven Stelfox. London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine, searching for the next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification. But as the hits dry up and the industry...
View BookAuthor: Hall Martha Kelly
Format: Online
Author Hall Martha Kelly
Narrator Various
Duration 17h 30m
New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939-and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth dis...
View BookAuthor: Susan Lewis
Format: Online
Author Susan Lewis
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 19h 11m
When Alicia Carlyle returns to the home of her childhood after the tragic death of her husband, she is hoping to put the past behind her. But first she must come face to face with the woman who nearly destroyed her marriage and tore her family in two - her sister-in-law, Sabrina. Their enmity runs deep, but Alicia is determined to make a fresh star...
View BookAuthor: Katori Hall
Format: Online
Author Katori Hall
Narrator Aja Naomi King, Larry Powell
Duration 1h 4m
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened inside room 306 on the evening of April 3 is the subject of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop. Hours after King's final speech, punctuated by his immortal line, "I've been to the mountaintop," the celebrated Reverend forms an un...
View BookAuthor: Peter Robinson
Format: Online
Author Peter Robinson
Narrator James Langton
SeriesInspector Banks, Book 3
Duration 10h 8m
When a peaceful demonstration ends with fifty arrests and the death of a young constable, Superintendent "Dirty Dick" assumes the investigation, forcing Inspector Banks to undertake his own hunt for the killer before his superior's misguided obsession results in further bloodshed. A peaceful demonstration in the normally quiet town of Eastvale ende...
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