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The Things They Carried
- By: Tim O'Brien
- Narrated by: Bryan Cranston
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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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.....
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What is a true war story?
- By John on 24-12-14
By: Tim O'Brien
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The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set
- Books 1 to 3
- By: Peter Rimmer
- Narrated by: Alex Bhat
- Length: 49 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1887, British ships continue to arrive at the bustling, growing port of Cape Town in South Africa. On board, one of them is a young man, Sebastian Brigandshaw, exiled from England by his abusive father....
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Great holiday read
- By Amazon Customer on 12-05-24
By: Peter Rimmer
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Voice of the Fire
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- By: Alan Moore
- Narrated by: Maxine Peake, Jason Williamson, Toby Jones, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Northampton. The center of England. Twelve extraordinary characters transport you through 6,000 years of astonishing history....
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superb
- By mr on 09-08-21
By: Alan Moore
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Train Dreams and Jesus' Son
- By: Denis Johnson
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
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Here are two complete audiobooks by Denis Johnson, narrated by Will Patton. Listen to both Train Dreams, and Jesus’ Son, as well as an excerpt from Denis Johnson’s National Book Award-winning Tree of Smoke....
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A Modern Clasic
- By JF7588 on 11-06-12
By: Denis Johnson
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In a Free State
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Neil Shah, Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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On a road trip through Africa, two English people - Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys; and Linda, a supercilious "compound wife" - are driving back to their enclave....
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Masterful storytelling
- By bookylady on 04-10-18
By: V. S. Naipaul
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Hannibal: The Patrol
- By: Ben Kane
- Narrated by: Michael Praed
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The thrilling prequel to Ben Kane's Hannibal: Fields of Blood. An exclusive straight to digital short story....
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short
- By Anonymous User on 29-06-18
By: Ben Kane
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The Things They Carried
- By: Tim O'Brien
- Narrated by: Bryan Cranston
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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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.....
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What is a true war story?
- By John on 24-12-14
By: Tim O'Brien
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The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set
- Books 1 to 3
- By: Peter Rimmer
- Narrated by: Alex Bhat
- Length: 49 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1887, British ships continue to arrive at the bustling, growing port of Cape Town in South Africa. On board, one of them is a young man, Sebastian Brigandshaw, exiled from England by his abusive father....
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Great holiday read
- By Amazon Customer on 12-05-24
By: Peter Rimmer
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Voice of the Fire
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- By: Alan Moore
- Narrated by: Maxine Peake, Jason Williamson, Toby Jones, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Northampton. The center of England. Twelve extraordinary characters transport you through 6,000 years of astonishing history....
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superb
- By mr on 09-08-21
By: Alan Moore
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Train Dreams and Jesus' Son
- By: Denis Johnson
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Here are two complete audiobooks by Denis Johnson, narrated by Will Patton. Listen to both Train Dreams, and Jesus’ Son, as well as an excerpt from Denis Johnson’s National Book Award-winning Tree of Smoke....
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A Modern Clasic
- By JF7588 on 11-06-12
By: Denis Johnson
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In a Free State
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Neil Shah, Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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On a road trip through Africa, two English people - Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys; and Linda, a supercilious "compound wife" - are driving back to their enclave....
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Masterful storytelling
- By bookylady on 04-10-18
By: V. S. Naipaul
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Hannibal: The Patrol
- By: Ben Kane
- Narrated by: Michael Praed
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The thrilling prequel to Ben Kane's Hannibal: Fields of Blood. An exclusive straight to digital short story....
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short
- By Anonymous User on 29-06-18
By: Ben Kane
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My Evil Mother
- A Short Story
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 57 mins
- Unabridged
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A bittersweet short story about mothers, daughters, and the witches’ brew of love—and control—that binds them, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments....
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Rigid OCR “Performance”
- By "imnancyg3" on 04-03-24
By: Margaret Atwood
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The Slave
- By: Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Narrated by: David Chandler, Tracy Sallows
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Singer's famous and never-before-recorded novel about a passionate, forbidden love affair between Jew and Gentile in 17th century Poland....
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Wonderful and amazing book
- By Benny on 29-02-24
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Heathcliff Lennox - France 1918
- By: Karen Baugh Menuhin
- Narrated by: Sam Dewhurst -Phillips
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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Spring, 1918. The Great War is at a crucial stage, the Germans are making one last push into France, and the Allies are struggling to hold them back. Battle lines are shifting, and men, and their machines, are being sent up and down the front to shore up defenses....
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Beautiful
- By PJD on 12-11-21
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The Beautiful Indifference
- By: Sarah Hall
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
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Uniquely disturbing and deeply erotic, this collection confirms Sarah Hall as one of the greatest writers of her generation....
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Wow. A knockout!
- By D. Lloyd on 25-08-23
By: Sarah Hall
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The June Paintings
- Blaze Collection
- By: Maggie Shipstead
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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On a remote island, an unfulfilled young female painter finds a singular kind of inspiration in this cunning short story about identity and empowerment by New York Times bestselling author Maggie Shipstead.
By: Maggie Shipstead
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Cheating at Canasta
- Short Story Collection
- By: William Trevor
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley, Gerard Doyle, Heather O'Neill, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The publication of a new book by William Trevor is a true literary event....
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Nothing now can ever come to any good
- By Barbara on 08-12-18
By: William Trevor
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Mr. Collins's Last Supper
- A Short Story Inspired by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
- By: Shannon Winslow
- Narrated by: Chandler Craig
- Length: 33 mins
- Unabridged
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William Collins, from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, is a man upon whom the face of undeserved fortune has smiled....
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an enlightening short story
- By Heather on 18-06-16
By: Shannon Winslow
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An Indecent Wager
- A Steamy Regency Romance Book, Book 3
- By: Georgette Brown
- Narrated by: Em Brown
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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For Deana Herwood, losing a hand of cards to the wealthy Lord Rockwell was bad enough. To settler her loss, she must offer her body to him for one night of pleasure....
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Terrible narration
- By TW on 06-10-21
By: Georgette Brown
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Everything My Mother Taught Me
- Inheritance collection
- By: Alice Hoffman
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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In this haunting short story of loyalty and betrayal, a young woman in early 1900s Massachusetts discovers that in navigating her treacherous coming-of-age, she must find her voice first....
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Skillful tale-telling in a short story
- By AZ on 03-04-21
By: Alice Hoffman
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Noi siamo tempesta
- Storie senza eroe che hanno cambiato il mondo
- By: Michela Murgia
- Narrated by: Michela Murgia
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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"Sventurata è la terra che ha bisogno di eroi", scriveva Bertolt Brecht, ma è difficile credere che avesse ragione se poi le storie degli...
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Storie importanti raccontate benissimo
- By mafalda on 20-10-23
By: Michela Murgia
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The Earl's Intimate Error
- By: Susan Gee Heino
- Narrated by: Heather Wilds
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Miss Prudence Canton loves her quiet life in the country, caring for her ailing father and their beloved horses....
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UTTER CHEAP TOSH
- By Highlight on 11-12-16
By: Susan Gee Heino
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The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
- By: Julia Navarro
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A cop as well as an art historian, Marco Valoni leads a team of investigators in a race to solve a crime he's certain will shock the world: someone is planning to steal the Holy Shroud of Turin....
By: Julia Navarro
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This Telling
- Out of Line collection
- By: Cheryl Strayed
- Narrated by: Kristen Bell
- Length: 41 mins
- Unabridged
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A genealogy test sparks a woman’s reflection on the two accounts of her life--the real one and the one she’s always told the world--in this poignant short story by Cheryl Strayed, the bestselling author of Wild....
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well written and read
- By Anna B. Perkowska on 31-12-20
By: Cheryl Strayed
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Ramona
- The Heart and Conscience of Early California
- By: Helent Hunt Jackson
- Narrated by: Boots Martin
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Termed the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the southwestern Indians and the first protest novel of California...
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Darcy Interrupted
- A Pride and Prejudice Steamy Variation
- By: Demi Monde
- Narrated by: Piers Ryman
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The newly married Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy arrive at Pemberley ready to enjoy the benefits of marriage...especially the one benefit they'd yet to savor. Their hopes are deflated....
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A fun adult extension to the story
- By Micky - bookphenomena on 13-01-20
By: Demi Monde
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The Tiger Came to the Mountains
- Trespass Collection
- By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Mexico, 1917. On a farm during the violent tumult of revolution, a more immediate threat prowls in a short, emotional story about survival by the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic....
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Entertaining but unremarkable
- By Franki on 05-04-24
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The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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A departure from London’s normal tales of the frozen North, all of these tales take place in the islands of Hawaii. The tales deal with racial issues, family relationships, leprosy quarantines, missionaries, and the diverse people who make their homes on the beautiful Hawaiian islands. London traveled to Hawaii in the late 1800s and early 1900s....
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Dreamy
- By Jimmy Taylor on 12-12-22
By: Jack London
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Doce cuentos peregrinos [Strange Pilgrims]
- By: Gabriel García Márquez
- Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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En el prólogo de estos Doce cuentos peregrinos, García Márquez nos regala su explicación de por qué doce, por qué cuentos y por qué peregrinos....
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Me ha encantado el libro y la narracion
- By A Kindle Customer on 31-08-18
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Murder by Witchcraft: A Pendle Witch Short Story
- The Great Northern Witch Hunts, Book 1
- By: Karen Perkins
- Narrated by: Karen Perkins
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Jennet Preston was an ordinary woman with an extraordinary death. Pursued and vilified by her young lord and master, Thomas Lister, she was accused and tried - twice - for murder by witchcraft in 1612. This is the story of her second trial....
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Sounds like it was recorded in a bathroom
- By Karen Harvey on 19-11-19
By: Karen Perkins
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Loving Michael
- By: Kate Pearce
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Michael Waterstone has learned to live within restricted boundaries and taught himself not to yearn for what he can never have....
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Short story
- By Miss A. on 24-12-22
By: Kate Pearce
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Thames Valley Tales
- Short Stories, Book 1
- By: Tim Walker
- Narrated by: Richard James
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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Thames Valley Tales is a light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of nine stories by Tim Walker. These tales are based on the author's experience of living in Thames Valley towns....
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Enjoyable..
- By Fabiola on 08-08-23
By: Tim Walker
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Horror Stories: Scary Ghosts, Paranormal & Supernatural Horror Short Stories Anthology Book 4
- By: Ron Ripley, David Longhorn, Eric Whittle, and others
- Narrated by: John Pirhalla
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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A young woman’s night-time escapade goes eerily wrong. A man is forced to relive the horrible accident that tore his family apart over and over again. An underground thrill through ancient catacombs proves disastrously horrific....
By: Ron Ripley, and others
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The Canterbury Tales
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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If you want to understand the daily life and psychology of the late Middle Ages, Ronald Ecker’s classic translation of The Canterbury Tales provides one of the very best means of doing so....
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Heart Bond
- Elven Alliance, Book 8
- By: Tara Grayce
- Narrated by: Liz Brand
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Fan favorites find their happy endings in this collection of Elven Alliance short stories and novellas....
By: Tara Grayce
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A Kindness for Christmas
- Confederate Widows, Spinsters, and Proxy Brides
- By: Lynne Lanning
- Narrated by: Spencer Dillehay
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Jerry got caught up in a war he wanted no part of; one that left him paralyzed from the waist down on the day of Lee’s surrender. Now he stood the risk of losing his ranch if he wasn’t married by the deadline. But what woman wanted a man who may never walk again? Leanne was left destitute as the war raged. Her hometown was now taken over by a wealthy criminal…and he had his sights set on her.
By: Lynne Lanning
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Thank You, Mr. Darwin
- With Ockham's Epiphany
- By: Anaxagoras Pen
- Narrated by: Anaxagoras Pen
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Thank You, Mr. Darwin is a short story of epistolary fiction. The author Anaxagoras Pen writes Charles Darwin a letter. The letter writer tell a wild and humorous story about his father. The short story has a surprise ending.
By: Anaxagoras Pen
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Table for Two
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, J. Smith Cameron
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The millions of listeners of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages.
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My favourite author, however…
- By Anonymous User on 08-06-24
By: Amor Towles
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William and the Dancer
- The Saelvatici
- By: Steven C. Davis
- Narrated by: Joanna Swan
- Length: 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Before the Hooded. Before Hurnungaz and Wulfrun of Scarsdale and before Caerne, the Sheriff of Nottingham and the Black Bishop. William of Gisborough is a young man, serving in the King's Army, fighting in the Holy Land. He is making a name for himself as a capable and competent warrior, serving under Captain Hwitbei. He believes in the cause, in the Holy War. One night, half asleep, watching a sensuous dancer practicing her art, his rest and composure is disturbed by the arrival of a commanding brother, a servant of The Christ of the East.
By: Steven C. Davis
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It Is Never Too Late: Short Stories
- 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.
By: Roman Litovsky
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London Tales
- Short Stories
- By: Tim Walker
- Narrated by: Richard James
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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London Tales is a collection of short stories from Tim Walker that offer dramatic pinpricks in the rich tapestry of London’s timeline, a city with two thousand years of history. The stories offer glimpses of imagined lives and dramatic moments, starting with a tribal perspective on the Roman invasion followed by the terror of Boudica’s destruction of the fledgling city.
By: Tim Walker
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A Kindness for Christmas
- Confederate Widows, Spinsters, and Proxy Brides
- By: Lynne Lanning
- Narrated by: Spencer Dillehay
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Jerry got caught up in a war he wanted no part of; one that left him paralyzed from the waist down on the day of Lee’s surrender. Now he stood the risk of losing his ranch if he wasn’t married by the deadline. But what woman wanted a man who may never walk again? Leanne was left destitute as the war raged. Her hometown was now taken over by a wealthy criminal…and he had his sights set on her.
By: Lynne Lanning
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Thank You, Mr. Darwin
- With Ockham's Epiphany
- By: Anaxagoras Pen
- Narrated by: Anaxagoras Pen
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Thank You, Mr. Darwin is a short story of epistolary fiction. The author Anaxagoras Pen writes Charles Darwin a letter. The letter writer tell a wild and humorous story about his father. The short story has a surprise ending.
By: Anaxagoras Pen
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Table for Two
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, J. Smith Cameron
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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The millions of listeners of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages.
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My favourite author, however…
- By Anonymous User on 08-06-24
By: Amor Towles
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William and the Dancer
- The Saelvatici
- By: Steven C. Davis
- Narrated by: Joanna Swan
- Length: 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Before the Hooded. Before Hurnungaz and Wulfrun of Scarsdale and before Caerne, the Sheriff of Nottingham and the Black Bishop. William of Gisborough is a young man, serving in the King's Army, fighting in the Holy Land. He is making a name for himself as a capable and competent warrior, serving under Captain Hwitbei. He believes in the cause, in the Holy War. One night, half asleep, watching a sensuous dancer practicing her art, his rest and composure is disturbed by the arrival of a commanding brother, a servant of The Christ of the East.
By: Steven C. Davis
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It Is Never Too Late: Short Stories
- 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.
By: Roman Litovsky
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London Tales
- Short Stories
- By: Tim Walker
- Narrated by: Richard James
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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London Tales is a collection of short stories from Tim Walker that offer dramatic pinpricks in the rich tapestry of London’s timeline, a city with two thousand years of history. The stories offer glimpses of imagined lives and dramatic moments, starting with a tribal perspective on the Roman invasion followed by the terror of Boudica’s destruction of the fledgling city.
By: Tim Walker