Fiction & Literature Audiobooks

Louisa Baldwin (1845-1925) was a British author of popular Victorian ghost stories. She spent much of her adult life as a bedridden invalid. Her hatred of idleness, combined with her imagination, led her to write. Her son was Stanley Baldwin, who became the British prime minister. 'The Ticking of the Clock' is a touching tale of a grandfather and his little grandson, Peter, on whom he dotes. Peter wants to know why his grandfather is so old and infirm. His grandfather's attempts to explain about aging are hard for the boy to understand, but at last he grasps that it is to do with the ticking of the clock. So Peter sets out to stop the clock and help his grandfather to regain his youth and vitality....

Louisa Baldwin (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)

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The Fall of a Playa

Successful business man, Daniel Herndon owns one of the top five collection agencies in North Carolina called Herndon Solutions, that generates six figures monthly, a beautiful home in one of the wealthiest suburbs of Raleigh NC, and vehicles that most would love to have. Many think that he has all that life has to offer but, inside he feels empty. Daniel has been in a flesh driven relationship with Takia Taylor for over 3 years, although she's madly in love with Daniel, the feeling isn't mutual and his actions have displayed that frequently during the last couple years of their relationship. On his course to find something better he meets a woman that awakens apart of him that he hasn't connected with in years.

Yvette B. Turner (Author), Yvette B. Turner (Narrator)

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Iterating Grace: Heartfelt Wisdom and Disruptive Truths from Silicon Valley's Top Venture Capitalist

What is this tiny audiobook? Who is this Koons Crooks? With its privately-printed, anonymously-produced 140-copy first printing, Iterating Grace became the talk of summer 2015 in the tech world. From Buzzfeed to Tumblr to Fusion, people were puzzled and enthralled by the story of Koons Crooks, a young man who took the Twittered musings of the Silicon Valley elite to heart-and ended up on a profoundly unexpected path, leaving behind only the lovingly hand-calligraphed tweets that had meant so much to him. His story struck an immediate chord. There were competing efforts to identify the author of Iterating Grace; blog posts and lengthy comment threads pointed finger at writers all over the country, from Robin Sloan to Susan Orlean to Dave Eggers. Other early theories supposed it was the tip of an elaborate marketing scheme, and soon all would be revealed. But gradually it became clear that it was simply this: a small piece of literary art, perfectly pitched and driven by a Twain-like bemused outrage, by a creator who did not want to be identified, and would not explain anything beyond what the satirical fable said for itself. Disruptive innovators whose tweets are illustrated in Iterating Grace include: Austen Allred, cofounder of Grasswire; Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator; Marc Andreessen, coauthor of Mosaic, cofounder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz; Jeff Bussgang, VC at Flybrige Capital; Tony Conrad, cofounder and CEO of about.me; Benedict Evans, VC at Andreessen Horowitz; Brad Feld, VC at Foundry Group-and many more.

Anonymous, Koons Crooks (Author), John Hodgman (Narrator)

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Don’t Cry: Stories

Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories—her first in more than ten years. In “College Town 1980,” young people adrift in Ann Arbor, Michigan, debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; in the urban fairy tale “Mirror Ball,” a young man steals a girl’s soul during a one-night stand; and in “The Little Boy,” a woman haunted by the death of her husband is finally able to grieve through a mysterious encounter with a needy child. Each story delivers the powerful, original language and the dramatic engagement of the intelligent mind with the craving body—or of the intelligent body with the craving mind—that has come to be seen as stunningly emblematic of Gaitskill’s fiction.

Mary Gaitskill (Author), Mary Gaitskill (Narrator)

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A Christmas Carol

Narration by George announces a new production of the timeless classic tale of restoration and renewal by Charles Dickens – "A Christmas Carol." Come listen to our take on the character of Ebenezer Scrooge, all the Christmas Ghosts – past, present, and future – and the characters who have helped to shape the life of Scrooge up until this Christmas Eve. Hear the sounds of the countryside and city as the specters of Christmas show Scrooge his history and consequences. Trish Horner assists with female voices. A fun tale with a great message.

Charles Dickens (Author), George Taylor, Patricia Horner (Narrator)

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Boy in the Water

Another bucolic fall in northern New Hampshire, and the semester is under way at Bishop's Hill Academy. But the school year starts off less than tranquil. The new headmaster, Jim Hawthorne, has liberal ideas that the staff finds far from welcome. Serene on the surface, the ivy-clad, tree-lined campus gives few clues to the school's history of special privileges, petty corruptions, and hidden allegiances. But as autumn advances, the affable smiles and pretenses of virtue wear thin. And as winter closes in, students, teachers, and staff get an education in savagery and murder.

Stephen Dobyns (Author), George Newbern (Narrator)

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Through the Looking Glass

This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds the inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Looking-glass land, a topsy-turvy world lurking just behind the mirror over Alice's mantel, is a fantastic realm of live chessmen, madcap kings and queens, strange mythological creatures, talking flowers and puddings, and rude insects. Brooks and hedges divide the lush greenery of looking-glass land into a chessboard, where Alice becomes a pawn in a bizarre game of chess involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Lion and the Unicorn, the White Knight, and other nursery-rhyme figures. Will Alice get her crown?

Lewis Carroll (Author), Tim Gerard Reynolds (Narrator)

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The Epistle of Barnabas

The Epistle of Barnabas is commonly categorized among the Apostolic Fathers alongside the writings of St. Clement, St. Ignatius, and St. Polycarp. This epistle can be dated near the end of the first century and was considered important by many of the early church fathers. It was most likely written to new Jewish believers in response to the growing heresy that the Old Law was still necessary for salvation. A good example of how the early church interpreted the Old Testament, the Epistle of Barnabas explains how the Jewish law finds its true fulfillment in Jesus Christ. Furthermore, according to the author, the Old Law cannot be correctly understood in terms of the physical practice of it, but must be read allegorically toward its fulfillment in the Messiah.

Various Authors (Author), Emily Hanna (Narrator)

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El pescador y su alma

El maravilloso cuento de Oscar Wilde ahora en Audiolibro en la magnífica voz e interpretación de Esperanza de la Encarnación. La grabación de El pescador y su alma, aparecido en 1892 junto con otros cuentos del brillante autor irlandes en "Una casa de granadas", era casi un capricho personal. Gracias a ello podemos ofreceroslo ahora.

Oscar Wilde (Author), Esperanza de la Encarnación (Narrator)

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Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: A Most Excellent Comedie and Tragical Romance

What if William Shakespeare had written The Big Lebowski? The Dude has met the Bard, and he doth abide. Join "The Knave" and Sir Walter on a wild tale of mistaken identity, kidnapping, bowling, and a rug that, in faith, really tied the room together, in a sidesplitting Shakespearean comedy of errors and ninepins, told in five glorious acts of iambic pentameter and impeccable period prose. Already a theatrical hit and a worldwide viral phenomenon.

Adam Bertocci (Author), Bernard Setaro Clark (Narrator)

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Doña Berta

Leopoldo Alas 'clarín', Leopoldo Alas Clarín (Author), Esperanza de la Encarnación (Narrator)

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The Lady with the Dog (Short Stories by Anton Chekhov)

Unhappy in his marriage, a Moscow bank worker, Dmitri Gurov is vacationing in Yalta, Crimea, where he sees a young lady walking along the seafront with her small dog. They are soon engaged in an affair, and spend most of their time together walking and taking drives to Oreanda . Returning to Moscow and his daily routine, working by day and clubbing by night, Gurov expects to soon forget young Anna but finds he is haunted by her memory. Read in English, unabridged. Music by Frederic Chopin from Anton Kingsbury's album 'Classical Chillout: Chopin'.

Anton Chekhov (Author), Max Bollinger (Narrator)

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