Rhonda Fleming

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 32 mins)
• By The Countess of Carnarvon
• Narrated By Wanda McCaddon
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes's Emmy Award-winning PBS series, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants: Lady Almina, the fifth Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of materials from the archives of Highclere Castle, including diaries, letters, and photographs, the current Lady Carnarvon has written a transporting story of this fabled home on the brink of war.

The Sixty-Eight Rooms

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Marianne Malone
• Narrated By Cassandra Campbell
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Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the Children’s Galleries of the Chicago Art Institute, they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms made in the 1930s by Mrs. James Ward Thorne. Each of the 68 rooms is designed in the style of a different historic period, and every detail is perfect, from the knobs on the doors to the candles in the candlesticks. Some might even say, the rooms are magic....

Stoner

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 45 mins)
• By John Williams
• Narrated By Robin Field
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William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments.

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski
• Narrated By Pam Ward
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In the tradition of the New York Times best-seller The Blind Side, The Invisible Thread tells of the unlikely friendship between a busy executive and a disadvantage young boy, and how both of their lives changed forever

Carnal Innocence

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Nora Roberts
• Narrated By Tom Stechschulte
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New York Times best-selling novelist Nora Roberts captivates millions of fans with her provocative blend of scorching passion and chilling suspense. With Carnal Innocence, she creates a gripping tale of murder, infatuation, and true love in a small southern town. After beautiful concert violinist Caroline Waverly breaks up with her conductor and lover Luis, she escapes to her late grandmother’s home in Innocence, Mississippi.

The Road to Grace: The Third Journal in the Walk Series: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Richard Paul Evans
• Narrated By Richard Paul Evans
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Reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, Alan Christoffersen, a once successful advertising executive, has left everything he knew behind and set off on an extraordinary cross-country journey. Carrying only a backpack, he plans to walk to Key West, the farthest destination on his map.

The Kitchen House: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Kathleen Grissom
• Narrated By Orlagh Cassidy, Bahni Turpin
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Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin. Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Winifred Watson
• Narrated By Frances McDormand

Miss Pettigrew is a down-on-her-luck, middle-aged governess sent by her employment agency to work for a nightclub singer rather than a household of unruly children. Over a period of 24 hours, as she becomes caught up in the life of Delysia LaFloss, her own life is changed - forever. This charming, funny, light-hearted 1938 novel was a bestseller on its first appearance. Read by Academy Award winning actress Frances McDormand, who stars in the 2008 film as Miss Pettigrew.

Garden Spells

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Sarah Addison Allen
• Narrated By Susan Ericksen
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The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers.

Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures.

Together again in the house they grew up in, the Waverley sisters realize they must deal with their common legacy - if they are ever to feel at home in Bascom - or with each other.

The Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of America's Most Renowned Horsemen

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Buck Brannaman, William Reynolds
• Narrated By John Pruden

In The Faraway Horses, Buck Brannaman shares his renowned methods for horse training and provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into Robert Redford's movie The Horse Whisperer, for which he was the technical adviser.