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Brother Fish

• UNABRIDGED (31 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Bryce Courtenay
• Narrated By Humphrey Bower

From the author of The Power of One comes an inspiring human drama of three lives brought together and changed forever by the extraordinary events of recent history. Inspired by real events, Bryce Courtenay's new novel tells the story of three people from vastly differing backgrounds. All they have in common is a tough beginning in life.

The Blood of Flowers

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Anita Amirrezvani
• Narrated By Shohreh Aghdashloo

In 17th-century Persia, a 14-year-old woman believes she will be married within the year. When her beloved father dies, she and her mother find themselves alone and without a dowry. With nowhere else to go, they are forced to sell the brilliant turquoise rug the young woman has woven to pay for their journey to Isfahan, where they will work as servants for her uncle, a rich rug designer in the court of the legendary Shah Abbas the Great.

Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori, Book One

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Lian Hearn
• Narrated By Kevin Gray, Aiko Nakasone
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

A tour-de-force novel set in ancient Japan filled with passion, fantasy, and feuding warlords. The first volume in the highly anticipated Tales of the Otori trilogy.

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.

The Kitchen House: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Kathleen Grissom
• Narrated By Orlagh Cassidy, Bahni Turpin
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

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.

Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Alison Weir
• Narrated By Stina Nielsen, Davina Porter, Bianca Amato
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The child of a scheming father and ruthless mother, Lady Jane Grey is born during a time when ambition dictates action. Cousin to Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, she is merely a pawn in a political and religious game in which one false step means a certain demise. But Lady Jane has remarkable qualities that help her to withstand the constant pressures of the royal machinery far better than most expect.

Waiting for Summer's Return

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Kim Vogel Sawyer
• Narrated By Barbara Caruso

Suddenly all alone in 1894 Kansas, Summer Steadman can't find the employment she needs to settle near the fresh graves of her husband and four children. Bitter against the Lord and refusing to eat, she collapses in despair. Remembering his own painful loss, godly widower Peter Ollenbuger offers her food and shelter for tutoring his 10-year-old son.

Indian Pipes: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Cynthia Riggs
• Narrated By Davina Porter

Victoria Trumbull, 92-year-old native of Martha's Vineyard, is savoring the sea air over Vineyard Sound with her granddaughter, Elizabeth, when she spots a person who seems in trouble near the top of a cliff. Elizabeth goes for help, but it's too late - the man dies before he can be rescued.

O, Pioneers!

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Willa Cather
• Narrated By Alexis O'Donahue
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

On the harsh and wild frontier of the American West, Alexandra Bergson struggles to fulfill her father's dying wish of establishing his family on the Nebraska table lands. Through hard times and abundant, through love and loss, through joy and suffering, Alexandra challenges both her family and the land in her quiet, honest way.

The Secret Scripture

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Sebastian Barry
• Narrated By Wanda McCaddon
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Roseanne McNulty, once one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland, is now an elderly patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. As her 100th year draws near, she decides to record the events of her life, hiding the manuscript beneath the floorboards. Dr. Grene, Roseanne's caretaker, takes a special interest in her case. In his research, he discovers a document written by a local priest that tells a very different story of Roseanne's life than what she recalls.