Vital Sign

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 59 mins)
• By J.L. Mac
• Narrated By Genvieve Bevier

I used to have a great life. My little world was bright. I had no complaints. My perfectly simple life made the fall from grace that much more devastating. I plummeted from the heavenly little bubble that I shared with Jake. I fell fast and hard straight into the fiery pits of hell. The knowledge of how things used to be is a bittersweet torture that refuses me even one moment of respite. I live in a painful reverie that I can’t escape. I had it good once. That’s gone now. All of it disappeared like vapor into the ether.

Excalibur

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Bernard Cornwell
• Narrated By Jonathan Keeble

In Excalibur, we follow Arthur and Derfel to that enormous struggle and incredible victory. It not only throws the Saxons back, but reunites Arthur and Guinevere. He might hope now to be left alone, to have a time of peace after gaining a great victory, but new enemies arise to destroy all he has achieved. First is Mordred himself, the crippled king who owes everything to Arthur and now tries to kill his benefactor. Mordred's ally is Nimue who has come to hate her mentor, Merlin.

These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Nancy E. Turner
• Narrated By Amy Rubinate

A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her upon - from child to determined young adult to loving mother.

For The Bite Of It: Book One of the Orbus Arcana Series

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Viki Lyn, Vina Grey
• Narrated By Chip Wood

A vampire, a cupcake, plus one sexy cop, is a recipe for trouble. Vincent Kamateros is an exiled vampire making a routine living as the owner of a cupcake bakery in Arizona. Until a car with a dead driver crashes through the wall of his shop, bringing after it All-American closeted cop, John Reeder. Smitten the instant he sees John, but bound to silence by the Vampire High Council, he can never reveal his true self to John.

Wildfire

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Zane Grey
• Narrated By Pete Bradbury

Lin Sloan never wanted anything more than Wildfire, but the stallion almost killed him. Luckily, Lucy Bostil found the horse and the unconscious man who had roped him. But Sloan is not the only man interested in Wildfire, and he may resort to murder to get what he wants.

Voyage of the Heart

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Soraya Lane
• Narrated By Karen Peakes

1945: Along with hundreds of other war brides, Betty, Madeline, Alice, and June set sail for New York to be with the men they love. In the days they spend at sea, the four young women become firm friends and vow to stay in touch no matter what their new lives bring. Life in a new country comes with many challenges, but Betty, Madeline, Alice, and June didn't move half way across the world to give up without a fight.

Reckless 2: Nobody's Girl

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Keisha Ervin
• Narrated By Susan Spain

After everything Farrah’s been through, it’s safe to say things are finally going her way. Her company, Glam Squad, has skyrocketed, and her career as a celebrity stylist has taken off faster than she can keep up. Partnering with her best friend, London, the pair has styled and done makeup for multiple celebrities. The unstoppable duo is working hard and getting paid!

The Movement: Revisited

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 40 mins)
• By Dave Burns
• Narrated By Alan Caudle

Welcome back, dear Reader! Back to that wondrous world full of marvelous creatures. Back to that magical land full of (not so) little hills, brightly colored meadows, and wonderful little brooks that need crossing. But let us not forget, dear Reader, the darkness of the forest, and the inhabitants therein...

Enemy of God

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Bernard Cornwell
• Narrated By Jonathan Keeble

At the end of The Winter, King Arthur fought the battle that forces unity on the warring British kingdoms and now he sets out to face the real enemy - the English (it is one of the great ironies of the Arthur stories that he should have become an English hero when, if he existed at all, he was a great war-leader who opposed the invading Sais). First, though, Merlin leads a perilous expedition into the mysterious west to retrieve a cauldron, one of the treasures of Britain.

Tame A Wild Wind: Tame Series, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Cynthia Woolf
• Narrated By Lia Frederick

In Tame A Wild Wind, an exciting, historical, western, romance, Sam Colter is running from his past as a Texas Ranger, from the pain of losing his wife and daughters, from his own broken soul. He finds peace running a ranch and minding his own business until the beautiful, widowed ranch owner, Cassie O'Malley, offers him a devil's bargain...to become her lover with no strings attached. Trouble is, once he's tasted her fiery passion, he wants it all...

The Mistletoe Promise

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Richard Paul Evans
• Narrated By January LaVoy

A new holiday story from the best-selling master of the Christmas novel. It isn’t Christmas without a Richard Paul Evans novel. Ever since he wrote the book that inspired the genre, The Christmas Box, his best-selling holiday stories have become a beloved literary tradition.

The Leaving of Things

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Jay Antani
• Narrated By Sanjiv Jhaveri

Vikram is not your model Indian-American teenager. Growing up in late 1980s Wisconsin, he is rebellious, adrift, and resentful of his Indian roots. But a disastrously drunken weekend becomes a one-way ticket back to the homeland for Vikram after his outraged parents decide to pack up the family and return to India.

The Paris Winter

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Imogen Robertson
• Narrated By Rebecca Night

Maud Heighton came to Lafond's famous Academie to paint, and to flee the constraints of her small English town. It took all her courage to escape, but Paris, she quickly realizes, is no place for a light purse. While her fellow students enjoy the dazzling decadence of the Belle Epoque, Maud slips into poverty. Quietly starving, and dreading another cold Paris winter, Maud is hired by Christian Morel as companion to his beautiful, young sister, Sylvie. But Sylvie, Maud discovers, is not quite the darling she seems.

Dead Man's Ranch

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Ralph Compton, Matthew P. Mayo
• Narrated By Pete Bradbury

Brian Middleton left his father's ranch long ago to make his own way. But now, he's returned to claim the land his late father left him -- and learns the hard way that if you want to keep something in the wild West, you have to fight for it. With local lowlifes and shady con-men after the Dancing M ranch, Middleton has no choice but to make a stand....

Scribbler Tales (Volume One)

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 29 mins)
• By Mary Ann Bernal
• Narrated By Roberto Scarlato

Scribbler Tales is a unique mix of genres in one anthology rich with tension, humanity, and genuine emotion. Unconventional settings and unexpected twists are bound to leave you pondering long after you close this book.

Cha-Ching!

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Ali Liebegott
• Narrated By Ali Liebegott

Theo, our scruffy, big-hearted, and quick-witted heroine, is not so much down on her luck as delivered luckless into a culture where the winners and losers have already been decided. Her adventures in getting over take her from San Francisco to New York City, from dyke bars to telemarketing outfits, casinos to free clinics.

Revival: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By David Morse
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls feel the same about Reverend Jacobs - including Jamie’s mother and beloved sister, Claire. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond based on a secret obsession.

Leaving Time

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Jodi Picoult
• Narrated By Rebecca Lowman, Abigail Revasch, Kathe Mazur, and others

Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice's old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother’s whereabouts. Desperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest.

Big Little Lies

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs)
• By Liane Moriarty
• Narrated By Caroline Lee
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Pirriwee Public's annual school Trivia Night has ended in a shocking riot. One parent is dead. The school principal is horrified. As police investigate what appears to have been a tragic accident, signs begin to indicate that this devastating death might have been cold-blooded murder. In this thought-provoking novel, number-one New York Times best-selling author Liane Moriarty deftly explores the reality of parenting and playground politics, ex-husbands and ex-wives, and fractured families.

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Anthony Doerr
• Narrated By Zach Appelman
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is 12, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

Edge of Eternity: The Century Trilogy, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (36 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Ken Follett
• Narrated By John Lee
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Throughout these books, Follett has followed the fortunes of five intertwined families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution - and rock and roll.

Dragonfly in Amber

• UNABRIDGED (39 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Diana Gabaldon
• Narrated By Davina Porter
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

New York Times best-selling author Diana Gabaldon enchanted scores of fans with Outlander, her electrifying historical saga set in 18th-century Scotland. Now this sequel sweeps listeners back into the past as Claire relates more of her perilous sojourn there with her Scottish warrior husband, James Fraser. Twenty years after her strange journey back in time, Claire has returned to Scotland with her daughter, determined to share with her the secret she has harbored since her time travel.

Dracula [Audible Edition]

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Bram Stoker
• Narrated By Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, and others
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.

The Fiery Cross

• UNABRIDGED (55 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Diana Gabaldon
• Narrated By Davina Porter

The year is 1771. Claire Randall is still an outlander, out of place and out of time. But now she is linked by love to her only anchor: Jamie Fraser. They have crossed oceans and centuries to build a life together in North Carolina. But tensions, both ancient and recent, threaten members of their clan. Knowing that his wife has the gift of prophecy, James must believe Claire, though he would prefer not to. Claire has shared a dreadful truth: there will, without a doubt, be a war.

Voyager

• UNABRIDGED (43 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Diana Gabaldon
• Narrated By Davina Porter
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Set in the intriguing Scotland of 200 years ago, the third installment in the romantic adventures of Jamie and Claire is as compelling as the first. Now that Claire knows Jamie survived the slaughter at Culloden, she is faced with the most difficult decision of her life. She aches to travel back through time again to find the love of her life, but, in order to do that, she must leave their daughter behind.

Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 1 min)
• By Celeste Ng
• Narrated By Cassandra Campbell
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Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet.… So begins the story in this exquisite debut novel about a Chinese American family living in a small town in 1970s Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together tumbles into chaos.

Go the F--k to Sleep

• UNABRIDGED (6 mins)
• By Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (cover illustration)
• Narrated By Samuel L. Jackson
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) rocks this mock bedtime story, capturing a hilarious range of emotions as the voice of a father struggling to get his child to sleep. Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland.

The Goldfinch

• UNABRIDGED (32 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Donna Tartt
• Narrated By David Pittu
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The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity. It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.

Orphan Train: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Christina Baker Kline
• Narrated By Jessica Almasy, Suzanne Toren
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to "aging out" out of the foster care system. A community-service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren’t as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.

I Capture the Castle

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Dodie Smith
• Narrated By Jenny Agutter

"I write this sitting at the kitchen sink" is the first line of a novel about love, sibling rivalry, and a bohemian existence in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Cassandra Mortmin's journal records her fadingly glamorous stepmother, her beautiful, wistful older sister, and the man to whom they owe both their isolation and poverty: Father. The author of one experimental novel, and a minor cause celebre, he has since suffered from writer's block and is determined to drag his family down with him.

Timbuktu

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Paul Auster
• Narrated By Joe Barrett

Mr. Bones, the canine hero of this astonishing book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy's body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high-school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts, Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in American fiction.

The Husband's Secret

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Liane Moriarty
• Narrated By Caroline Lee
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret - something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive....

Mr. Mercedes: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Will Patton
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil, from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.

Not a Drill: Jack Reacher, Book 18.5

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 27 mins)
• By Lee Child
• Narrated By Dick Hill

With nine straight number one New York Times bestsellers and over 17 million copies in print in the United States alone, it's easy to see why the New York Times has anointed Lee Child as "the best thriller writer of the moment". Now, as fans anxiously await the next full-length Reacher adventure, Child delivers a riveting new short story featuring the world's most beloved vigilante hero, Jack Reacher.

The Best of Me

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Nicholas Sparks
• Narrated By Sean Pratt
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In the fall of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths.

The Invention of Wings: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Sue Monk Kidd
• Narrated By Jenna Lamia, Adepero Oduye, Sue Monk Kidd
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women. Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world - and it is now the newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection. Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.

Dracula [Audible Edition]

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Bram Stoker
• Narrated By Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, and others
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.

Go the F--k to Sleep

• UNABRIDGED (6 mins)
• By Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (cover illustration)
• Narrated By Samuel L. Jackson
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) rocks this mock bedtime story, capturing a hilarious range of emotions as the voice of a father struggling to get his child to sleep. Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland.

Orphan Train: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Christina Baker Kline
• Narrated By Jessica Almasy, Suzanne Toren
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to "aging out" out of the foster care system. A community-service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren’t as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.

Timbuktu

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Paul Auster
• Narrated By Joe Barrett

Mr. Bones, the canine hero of this astonishing book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy's body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high-school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts, Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in American fiction.

The Things They Carried

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Tim O'Brien
• Narrated By Bryan Cranston
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

Fog Island Mountains: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Michelle Bailat-Jones
• Narrated By Jennifer Ikeda
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Huddled beneath the volcanoes of the Kirishima mountain range in southern Japan - also called the Fog Island Mountains - the inhabitants of small town Komachi are waiting for the biggest of the summer’s typhoons. South African expatriate Alec Chester has lived in Komachi for nearly 40 years. Alec considers himself an ordinary man, with common troubles and mundane achievements - until his doctor gives him a terminal cancer diagnosis and his wife, Kanae, disappears into the gathering storm.

Frankenstein

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Mary Shelley
• Narrated By Dan Stevens
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Narrator Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.

The Handmaid's Tale

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs)
• By Margaret Atwood
• Narrated By Claire Danes
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name....

The End of the Affair

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Graham Greene
• Narrated By Colin Firth

Graham Greene’s evocative analysis of the love of self, the love of another, and the love of God is an English classic that has been translated for the stage, the screen, and even the opera house. Academy Award-winning actor Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man) turns in an authentic and stirring performance for this distinguished audio release.

The Luminaries

• UNABRIDGED (29 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Eleanor Catton
• Narrated By Mark Meadows
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.

1Q84

• UNABRIDGED (46 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (translator), Philip Gabriel (translator)
• Narrated By Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....

Breakfast at Tiffany's

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Truman Capote
• Narrated By Michael C. Hall

Golden Globe-winning actor Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under) performs Truman Capote's masterstroke about a young writer's charmed fascination with his unorthodox neighbor, the "American geisha" Holly Golightly. Holly - a World War II-era society girl in her late teens - survives via socialization, attending parties and restaurants with men from the wealthy upper class who also provide her with money and expensive gifts. Over the course of the novella, the seemingly shallow Holly slowly opens up to the curious protagonist.

Infinite Loop

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Meghan O’Brien
• Narrated By Eva Christensen
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Regan O’Riley has just about given up hope that she will ever find a woman into shy, geeky programmers. She yearns for a connection, but can't seem to make the first move. Mel Raines knows all about making moves. After a childhood under the thumb of her alcoholic father, she avoids intimacy by drowning herself in fiery, fleeting encounters with strangers. When Regan and Mel meet in a straight bar, of all places, their chemistry is unmistakable.

Quicksilver: Book One of The Baroque Cycle

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Neal Stephenson
• Narrated By Simon Prebble, Kevin Pariseau, Neal Stephenson

In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.

A Prayer for Owen Meany

• UNABRIDGED (26 hrs and 53 mins)
• By John Irving
• Narrated By Joe Barrett
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Of all of John Irving's books, this is the one that lends itself best to audio. In print, Owen Meany's dialogue is set in capital letters; for this production, Irving himself selected Joe Barrett to deliver Meany's difficult voice as intended. In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys – best friends – are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary and terrifying.

Talk: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Michael A. Smerconish
• Narrated By James Edward Thomas
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Stan Powers finds himself at a crossroads. Poised to take the last step in his unlikely ascent to the top of conservative talk radio, his conscience may not let him. Set amid the backdrop of "the most important presidential election of our lifetime", Powers - as the most influential voice in Tampa’s hotly contested I-4 Corridor - holds the key to Florida, and therefore the Oval Office. His on-air attacks singlehandedly put an abrupt end to the top candidates' main competitors in the primaries, and now he is in the singular position to influence who wins the highest elected office in the world.

King of the Vagabonds: Book Two of The Baroque Cycle

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Neal Stephenson
• Narrated By Simon Prebble, Kevin Pariseau, Neal Stephenson

A chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe - London street urchin-turned-legendary swashbuckling adventurer - risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox...and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance.

The Winds of War

• UNABRIDGED (45 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Herman Wouk
• Narrated By Kevin Pariseau
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Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.

Swan Song

• UNABRIDGED (34 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Robert McCammon
• Narrated By Tom Stechschulte
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Facing down an unprecedented malevolent enemy, the government responds with a nuclear attack. America as it was is gone forever, and now every citizen - from the President of the United States to the homeless on the streets of New York City - will fight for survival. In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth's last survivors have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil, that will decide the fate of humanity.

Light in August

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 17 mins)
• By William Faulkner
• Narrated By Will Patton

An Oprah's Book Club Selection regarded as one of Faulkner's greatest and most accessible novels, Light in August is a timeless and riveting story of determination, tragedy, and hope. In Faulkner's iconic Yoknapatawpha County, race, sex, and religion collide around three memorable characters searching desperately for human connection and their own identities.