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Author: Tommy Orange
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Author Tommy Orange
Narrator Various
Duration 8h
Random House presents the audiobook edition of There There by Tommy Orange, read by Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo and Kyla Garcia. Jacquie Red Feather and her sister Opal grew up together, relying on each other during their unsettled childhood. As adults they were driven apart, but Jacquie is newly sober and trying to make it ba...
View BookAuthor: William Faulkner
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Author William Faulkner
Narrator Grover Gardner
Duration 8h 54m
"I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory i...
View BookAuthor: H E Bates
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Author H E Bates
Narrator Philip Franks
SeriesPop Larkin, Book 1
Duration 4h 21m
Introducing the Larkins, a family with a place in popular mythology. Here they come, crashing their way through the English countryside in the wake of Pa, the quick-eyed, golden-hearted junk-dealer, and Ma, with a mouthful of crisps and a laugh like a jelly.
View BookA Horseman Riding By Trilogy Book 1: Long Summer Day
Author: R F Delderfield
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Author R F Delderfield
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
SeriesA Horseman Riding By Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 27h 38m
Paul Craddock is still young when he is invalided out of the army after the Boer War and he discovers the neglected estate of Shallowford in a secluded corner of Devon. It seems remote from the march of progress. But as storm clouds gather over Europe, Paul learns that no part of England, however remote, can escape the challenge of the times.
View BookAuthor: Carol Shields
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Author Carol Shields
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 12h
Floral designer Larry and his feisty young wife, Dorrie, spend their honeymoon in England. At Hampton Court Larry discovers a new passion for mazes. Perhaps his ever-growing obsession with their secrets will help him find a way through the bewilderment deepening about him as, through twenty years and two failed marriages, he endeavours to understan...
View BookThe Friday Night Knitting Club
Author: Kate Jacobs
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Author Kate Jacobs
Narrator Regina Reagan
SeriesThe Friday Night Knitting Club, Book 1
Duration 12h 8m
Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday night knitting club. Her friends are happy to escape their lives too, even for just a few hours. But when Georgia's ex suddenly reappears, demanding a role in their daughter's life, her whole world is shattered. Lucki...
View BookAuthor: Gabriel García Márquez
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Author Gabriel García Márquez
Narrator John Lee
Duration 14h 4m
One of the twentieth century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buend¡a family. Rich and brillia...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Egan
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Author Elizabeth Egan
Narrator Julia Whelan
Duration 11h 32m
In A Window Opens, beloved books editor at Glamour magazine Elisabeth Egan brings us Alice Pearse, a compulsively honest, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine for our social-media-obsessed, lean in (or opt out) age. Like her fictional forebears Kate Reddy and Bridget Jones, Alice plays many roles (which she never refers to as "wearin...
View BookAuthor: Cecelia Ahern
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Author Cecelia Ahern
Narrator Amy Creighton
Duration 10h 57m
Journalist Kitty Logan's career has been destroyed by scandal, and she now faces losing the woman who guided her and taught her everything she knew. At her mentor's bedside, Kitty asks her - what is the one story she always wanted to write? The answer lies in a file buried in Constance's office: a list of one hundred names.There is no synopsis, no...
View BookAuthor: Haruki Murakami
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Author Haruki Murakami
Narrator John Chancer
Duration 13h 28m
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in late 60s Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - and the two women he found himself torn between,...
View BookAuthor: Jill Paton Walsh
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Author Jill Paton Walsh
Narrator Maureen O'Reilly
Duration 7h 30m
When her mother dies, Marian realises she has left it too late to ask the crucial questions about the identity of her own father, 'lost in the War'. Marian's search takes her to the remote and close-knit community of St. Ives, where fisherfolk and artists have coexisted for many years, and where she learns of a tragedy involving her father.
View BookAuthor: James Hilton
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Author James Hilton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 30m
The life and times of 'Mr Chips', a much-loved classics master at Brookfield school since 1870. Full of the jokes and eccentricities of school life, Mr Chipping's journey starts as a diffident young master taking prep for the first time, progressing through middle-age and his encounters with Katherine, whose 'new woman' opinions create far-reaching...
View BookAuthor: Aldous Huxley
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Author Aldous Huxley
Narrator Michael York
Duration 8h
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Humans are no longer born but instead grown from embryos in huge research labs, their social status predetermined. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling d...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Strout
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Author Elizabeth Strout
Narrator Kimberley Farr
Duration 12h 2m
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who...
View BookAuthor: Myla Goldberg
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Author Myla Goldberg
Narrator Aiofe Nally
Duration 11h 30m
Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But when Eliza sweeps her school and district spelling bees in quick su...
View BookThe True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole
Author: Sue Townsend
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Author Sue Townsend
Narrator James Carcaterra
SeriesAdrian Mole, Book 3
Duration 4h 8m
Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit 'Pinky', working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the love of his life, Pandora, has proved to him that adulthood isn't quite what he expected. Still, without the dilemmas of modern life what would an intel...
View BookAuthor: Mary Stanley
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Author Mary Stanley
Narrator Mary Stanley
Duration 12h 3m
Ireland 1944. In a violent storm a German plane heading for Britain is blown off course. The pilot, completely disorientated, plunges down an Irish hillside and shatters a young family. The children who survive that terrible night try to leave the past behind, but the past will not let them go. Rescued by their Aunt Lucy, Amelia and Mattie need to...
View BookAuthor: Kit de Waal
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Author Kit de Waal
Narrator Fiona Shaw
Duration 9h
A heart-wrenching love story from the internationally bestselling author of My Name Is Leon Mona is a young Irish girl in the big city, with the thrill of a new job and a room of her own in a busy boarding house. On her first night out in 1970s Birmingham, she meets William, a charming Irish boy with an easy smile and an open face. They embark upon...
View BookThe Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Author: Anne Rice
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Author Anne Rice
Narrator Samantha Prescott, Corbin Steele
SeriesSleeping Beauty Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 9h 9m
From bestselling author Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquleaure. In the traditional folktale of 'Sleeping Beauty,' the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious. Now Anne Rice...
View BookAuthor: Mary Beth Keane
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Author Mary Beth Keane
Narrator Molly Pope
Duration 12h 53m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Ask Again, Yes written by Mary Beth Keane, read by Molly Pope. Gillam, upstate New York: a town of ordinary, big-lawned suburban houses. The Gleesons have recently moved there and soon welcome the Stanhopes as their new neighbours. Lonely Lena Gleeson wants a friend but Anne Stanhope - cold, elegant, unstab...
View BookAuthor: Adam Johnson
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Author Adam Johnson
Narrator Various
Duration 19h 19m
An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master's Son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother--a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang--and an influential father who runs Long Tomorro...
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