Ella Quent

Home: A Memoir of My Early Years

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Julie Andrews
• Narrated By Julie Andrews

Since her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have endeared her to generations. But she has never told the story of her life before fame. Until now.

I've Got Your Number: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Sophie Kinsella
• Narrated By Jayne Entwistle

Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her “happily ever after” begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect! Well, perfect except that the phone’s owner, businessman Sam Roxton, doesn’t agree.

The Help

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Kathryn Stockett
• Narrated By Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and others
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Why we think it’s a great listen: The most celebrated performance in all of Audible’s history, The Help has nearly 2,000 5-star reviews from your fellow listeners. We hear the print book’s not bad, either. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another.

Elantris

• UNABRIDGED (27 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Brandon Sanderson
• Narrated By Jack Garrett
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Legendary science fiction author Orson Scott Card calls Brandon Sanderson a writer to watch, and Publishers Weekly says his debut is "outstanding." Once the godlike rulers of the capital of Arelon, the inhabitans of Elantris have been imprisoned within themselves, unable to die after the city's magic failed years ago. But when a new prince falls victim to the curse, he refuses to accept his fate.

An Accomplished Woman

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Jude Morgan
• Narrated By Phyllida Nash

1817. As a young woman, clever, self-reliant Lydia Templeton scandalised society by rejecting Lewis Durrant, the county's most eligible batchelor.

Ten years later, Lydia has no regrets and, having concluded that matters of the heart need no longer trouble her, she is quite happy to remain unwed. But others still seek Lydia's advice on their love lives.

Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Laurie Viera Rigler
• Narrated By Kate Reading
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Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict tells the parallel story of Jane Mansfield, a gentleman's daughter from Regency England who inexplicably awakens in Courtney's overly wired and morally confused modern L.A. life. For Jane, the modern world is not wholly disagreeable. She relishes the privacy, independence, even the power to earn her own money. But how is she to fathom her employer's incomprehensible dictates about "syncing a BlackBerry"?

Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Julia Quinn
• Narrated By Jenny Sterlin

Miranda Cheever has been blessed with many things, but great beauty is not among them. Still, when she meets Viscount Tuner, she knows she is meant for him. As the years go by, fate is as kind to Miranda as it is harsh on the Viscount. He's skeptical about love with good reason - but he may be falling for Miranda

Lady of Quality

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Georgette Heyer
• Narrated By Eve Matheson

When spirited, independent Miss Annis Wynchwood embroils herself in the affairs of a runaway heiress, she is destined to see a good deal of Mr Carleton, Lucilla's uncivil and high-handed guardian. And, chafing at the restrictions of Bath society, Annis has to admit that at least Mr Oliver Carleton is never boring.

The Fixer Upper

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Mary Kay Andrews
• Narrated By Isabel Keating
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After a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left almost broke, unemployed, and homeless. She reluctantly accepts to refurbish Birdsong, the old family place in Guthrie, Georgia. But, oh, is Dempsey in for a surprise. "Bird Droppings" would more aptly describe the moldering Pepto Bismol - pink dump. There's also a murderously grumpy old lady who has claimed squatter's rights and isn't moving out. Ever.

To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Connie Willis
• Narrated By Steven Crossley
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In this Hugo-winner from Connie Willis, when too many jumps back to 1940 leave 21st century Oxford history student Ned Henry exhausted, a relaxing trip to Victorian England seems the perfect solution. But complexities like recalcitrant rowboats, missing cats, and love at first sight make Ned's holiday anything but restful - to say nothing of the way hideous pieces of Victorian art can jeopardize the entire course of history.