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The Secret Life of Bees

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Sue Monk Kidd
• Narrated By Jenna Lamia

Lily Owens has shaped her entire life around one devastating memory - the day her mother was killed. When she and her "stand-in-mother," a fierce-hearted black woman named Rosaleen, are taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily enters a secret world of bees and honey, and of the Black Madonna who presides over this household of strong, wise women.

No Country for Old Men

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Cormac McCarthy
• Narrated By Tom Stechschulte
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.

The Road

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Cormac McCarthy
• Narrated By Tom Stechschulte

America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst this destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still, they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation.

The History of Love

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Nicole Krauss
• Narrated By George Guidall, Barbara Caruso, Julia Gibson, and others

Nicole Krauss' first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and her short fiction has been collected in Best American Short Stories. Now The History of Love proves Krauss is among our finest and freshest literary voices.

American Gods

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Neil Gaiman
• Narrated By George Guidall
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

For the three years Shadow spent in prison, all he wanted was to get back to the loving arms of his wife and stay out of trouble for the rest of his life. But days before his release, he learns that his wife has been killed in an accident, and his world becomes a colder place.

Specimen Days

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Michael Cunningham
• Narrated By Alan Cumming
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a young woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story which takes place at the height of the Industrial Revolution, as human beings confront the alienated realities of the new machine age.

Water for Elephants

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Sara Gruen
• Narrated By David LeDoux, John Randolph Jones
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Why we think it’s a great listen: Some books are meant to be read; others are meant to be heard – Water for Elephants falls into the second group, and is one of the best examples we have of how a powerful performance enhances a great story. Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.

The Red Tent

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs)
• By Anita Diamant
• Narrated By Carol Bilger

Passionate, earthy, deeply affecting, The Red Tent combines rich storytelling with a valuable contribution to modern fiction: a vibrant new perspective of female life in the age that shaped present day civilization and values.

If you like The Red Tent, try The Harlot by the Side of the Road, a recounting of some of the most startling and explicit writings from The Old Testament.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

• ABRIDGED (5 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Bill Bryson
• Narrated By Bill Bryson

In A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson takes his ultimate journey - into the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer. It's a dazzling quest, as this insatiably curious writer attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization.

The Hungry Tide

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Amitav Ghosh
• Narrated By Firdous Bamji

Internationally best-selling author Amitav Ghosh, winner of the Pushcart Prize and numerous other prestigious accolades, pens a sweeping novel full of romantic adventure. Favorably compared to the masterworks of Joseph Conrad and V.S. Naipaul, The Hungry Tide is an atmospheric tale set in a world of wondrous sights...and terrible danger.