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City of God

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs)
• By E.L. Doctorow
• Narrated By John Rubinstein

When a large brass cross disappears from a run-down Episcopal church in lower Manhattan, and then reappears on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism on the Upper West Side, a New York City novelist thinks the story may be his next novel. He befriends the church's maverick rector and the young woman rabbi, who are trying to discover who committed this strange double act of desecration. Doctorow's masterwork is a religious novel like no other!

Hope: A Tragedy

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Shalom Auslander
• Narrated By Shalom Auslander

The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: No one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isn't quite working out that way.

Selected Shorts: The William Hurt Collection

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Tobias Wolff, Ron Carlson, Richard Ford, and others
• Narrated By William Hurt

A collection of poignant, romantic and funny tales performed by Academy Award -winning actor William Hurt. This collection includes a bonus track of an exclusive interview with William Hurt. Hurt's readings are thoughtful, tender, romantic, and resonant. A treasure.

Selected Shorts: Even More Laughs

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 6 mins)
• By T. Coraghessan Boyle, Jonathan Lethem, Miranda July, and others
• Narrated By Jerry Zaks, Alec Baldwin, Christine Baranski, and others

From silly chuckles to rueful ironic glee to deep cosmic laughter, this new volume of humorous tales samples the best of recent seasons of the popular public radio series Selected Shorts.

1Q84

• UNABRIDGED (46 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (translator), Philip Gabriel (translator)
• Narrated By Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....

Mary

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Vladimir Nabokov
• Narrated By Christopher Lane
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of serio-comic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories of Mary are suffused with the freshness of youth and the idyllic ambience of pre-revolutionary Russia. In stark contrast is the decidedly unappealing boarder living in the room next to Ganin’s, who, he discovers, is Mary’s husband....

Child 44

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Tom Rob Smith
• Narrated By Dennis Boutsikaris
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

It is a society that is, officially, a paradise. Superior to the decadent West, Stalin's Soviet Union is a haven for its citizens, providing for all of their needs: education, health care, security. In exchange, all that is required is their hard work, and their loyalty and faith to the Soviet State. But now a murderer is on the loose.

The Sense of an Ending

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Julian Barnes
• Narrated By Richard Morant

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour, and wit. Maybe Adrian was more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He’s had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He’s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer’s letter is about to prove.

World War II: Part 1

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Joseph Stromberg
• Narrated By George C. Scott

Historians have said that World War II was a continuation of World War I, but with greater violence and less regard for the values of civilization. The Treaty of Versailles, which had officially ended WWI, had caused the European balance of power to swing wildly. Germany had been stripped of her colonies, divided into pieces, and burdened with a staggering war debt. New nations were created; old hostilities were renewed. Some of these hostilities had found a voice in a new political philosophy: fascism.