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Bite by Bite: 7 Guidelines to Break Free from Emotional Eating

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Geneen Roth

For more than 17 years, Geneen Roth was either on a diet or on a binge every single day, and in the end there was one thing she completely understood: diets do not work. Today she leads workshops around the world for sold-out audiences, and her books have sold over a million copies. Now, she offers listeners Bite by Bite: her essential step-by-step program to help you determine what you are truly hungry for and to create a healthier relationship with food.

All My Sisters

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Judith Lennox
• Narrated By Ruth Sillers

In the years before the First World War, sisters Iris, Marianne, Eva, and Clemency seek to follow their dreams...

The Idiot

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Narrated By Robert Whitfield

Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections. Extortion, scandal, and murder follow, testing the wreckage left by human misery to find "man in man."

The Buffalo Soldier

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Chris Bohjalian
• Narrated By Alison Fraser

From the best selling and critically acclaimed author of Trans-Sister Radio comes a hauntingly beautiful story of the ties that bind families - and the strains that pull them apart. "Bohjalian writes honestly and often movingly," says Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal calls it "tender...[written] with poetic skill."

Anna Karenina

• UNABRIDGED (36 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Leo Tolstoy
• Narrated By Davina Porter

This is the story of the unhappy family of Anna Karenina. The novel contains much concerning Tolstoy's spiritual crisis and his search for the meaning of life. But it is also chiefly about marriage, and the growth and death of love.

The Pillars of the Earth

• UNABRIDGED (40 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Ken Follett
• Narrated By John Lee
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Why we think it’s a great listen: Got 40 hours to kill? You’ll find the time when you start listening to Lee’s take on Follett’s epic – and widely celebrated – novel of 12th-century England. The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul...and of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame....

Notorious: The Life of Ingrid Bergman

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Donald Spoto
• Narrated By C.M. Herbert

The Hour I First Believed: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Wally Lamb
• Narrated By George Guidall

When high-school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives. But when Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right.

Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Jane Dunn
• Narrated By Donada Peters
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In a rich and riveting narrative, Jane Dunn reveals the extraordinary rivalry between the regal cousins. It is the story of two queens ruling on one island, each with a claim to the throne of England, each embodying dramatically opposing qualities of character, ideals of womanliness (and views of sexuality), and divinely ordained kingship.

Garbo: A Biography

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Barry Paris
• Narrated By Anna Fields

Here is the unknown Garbo, from her troubled childhood in a working-class suburb of Stockholm, to Hollywood, where she reigned as the divine star, to her unintentional retirement at 36, self-exiled for the last half-century of her life. We see Garbo against the backgrounds of Europe, Hollywood, and New York. We see her serious, playful, passionate, funny, curious, within her circle of intimates.

Persuasion

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Jane Austen
• Narrated By Peta Johnson
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Persuasion, Jane Austen's final novel, follows the romance of Anne Elliot and naval officer Frederick Wentworth. They were happily engaged until Anne's friend, Lady Russell, persuaded her that Frederick was "unworthy". Now, eight years later, Frederick returns, a wealthy captain in the navy, while Anne's family teeters on the edge of bankruptcy. They still love each other, but their past mistakes threaten to keep them apart.