Son

Seventh Son: Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stephen Hoye

Born into an alternative frontier America where life is hard, and folk magic is real, Alvin is gifted with power, but he must learn to use his gift wisely. Dark forces are arrayed against Alvin, and only a young girl with second sight can protect him.

The Poacher's Son: A Mike Bowditch Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Paul Doiron
• Narrated By John Bedford Lloyd

Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father, Jack, a hard-drinking womanizer who makes his living poaching illegal game. An even more frightening call comes the next morning from the police: They are searching for the man who killed a beloved local cop the night before.

The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel of North Korea

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Adam Johnson
• Narrated By Tim Kang, Josiah D. Lee, James Kyson Lee, and others
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Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother - a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang - and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is given his first taste of power, picking which orphans eat first and which will be lent out for manual labor. Recognized for his loyalty and keen instincts, Jun Do comes to the attention of superiors in the state, rises in the ranks, and starts on a road from which there will be no return.

The Son of Neptune: The Heroes of Olympus, Book Two

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Rick Riordan
• Narrated By Joshua Swanson
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In The Lost Hero, three demigods named Jason, Piper, and Leo made their first visit to Camp Half-Blood, where they inherited a quest.

Frankenstein, Book One: Prodigal Son

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson
• Narrated By Scott Brick

The first in a mesmerizing four-book original series, Prodigal Son is a brilliant re-imagining and updating of the classic Frankenstein story that only Dean Koontz could conceive. Two hundred years old, the "monster", Deucalion, is a monster no more. Literate and intelligent, he arrives in modern-day New Orleans, where he will join forces with a street-smart police detective and her partner on the trail of a macabre serial killer.

Son of a Witch

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Gregory Maguire
• Narrated By Gregory Maguire
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Ten years after the publication of Wicked, beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz. There he introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. But he is tended at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by the silent novice called Candle, who wills him back to life with her musical gifts.

The Blacksmith's Son: Mageborn, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Michael G. Manning
• Narrated By Todd McLaren
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Mordecai's simple life as the son of a blacksmith is transformed by the discovery of his magical birthright. As he journeys to understand the power within him he is drawn into a dangerous plot to destroy the Duke of Lancaster and undermine the Kingdom of Lothion. Love and treachery combine to embroil him in events he was never prepared to face. What he uncovers will change his understanding of the past, and alter the future of those around him.

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through His Son's Meth Addiction

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 27 mins)
• By David Sheff
• Narrated By Anthony Heald
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David Sheff's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view, a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope.

Before meth, Sheff's son, Nic, was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who stole money from his eight-year-old brother and lived on the streets. With haunting candor, Sheff traces the first warning signs, the attempts at rehabilitation, and, at last, the way past addiction. He shows us that, whatever an addict's fate, the rest of the family must care for one another, too, lest they become addicted to addiction.

Son

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Lois Lowry
• Narrated By Bernadette Dunne

When the young girl washed up on their shore, no one knew she had been a Vessel. That she had carried a Product. That it had been carved from her belly. Stolen. Claire had had a son. She was supposed to forget him, but that was impossible. When he was taken from their community, she knew she had to follow. And so her journey began. But here in this wind-battered village Claire is welcomed as one of their own. In the security of her new home, she is free and loved. She grows stronger.

Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Hope Edelman
• Narrated By Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez
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In this remarkable dual memoir, film legend Martin Sheen and accomplished actor/filmmaker Emilio Estevez recount their lives as father and son. In alternating chapters—and in voices that are as eloquent as they are different—they narrate stories spanning more than 50 years of family history, and reflect on their journeys into two different kinds of faith.

The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Henri J. M. Nouwen
• Narrated By Dan Anderson

This powerful meditation illuminates the parable of the prodigal son found in Luke's Gospel. Nouwen discovers anew the reality that God's love is unconditional and shares his own spiritual journey with us. In this audiobook, Nouwen shares his own experience as the wayward son as well as the vengeful older brother and the compassionate father.

Tell My Sons...

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber, David Murray
• Narrated By Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber
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At the high point of a soaring career in the US Army, Lt. Col. Mark Weber was tapped by General David Petraeus to serve in a high-profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Within weeks, a routine physical revealed Stage IV intestinal cancer in the 38-year-old father of three. Over the next two years he would fight a desperate battle he wasn't trained for, with his wife and boys as his reluctant but willing fighting force. When Mark realized that he was not going to survive this final tour of combat, he began to write a letter to his boys, so that as they grew up without him, they would know what his life-and-death story had taught him.

Native Son

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Richard Wright
• Narrated By Peter Francis James
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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic.

Son of the Morning

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Linda Howard
• Narrated By Natalie Ross
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A scholar specializing in ancient manuscripts, Grace St. John never imagined that a cache of old documents she discovered was the missing link to a lost Celtic treasure. But as soon as she deciphers the legend of the Knights of the Templar - long fabled to hold the key to unlimited power - Grace becomes the target of a ruthless killer bent on abusing the coveted force. Determined to stop him, Grace needs the help of a warrior bound by duty to uphold the Templar's secret for all eternity.

The Horse Boy: A Father's Quest to Heal His Son

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Rupert Isaacson
• Narrated By Rupert Isaacson
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When his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson was devastated, afraid he might never be able to communicate with his child. But when Isaacson, a lifelong horseman, rode their neighbor's horse with Rowan, Rowan improved immeasurably. He was struck with a crazy idea: why not take Rowan to Mongolia the one place in the world where horses and shamanic healing intersected?

Sons and Lovers

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 31 mins)
• By D. H. Lawrence
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's first major novel, was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden for long. When the marriage between Walter Morel and his sensitive, high-minded wife begins to break down, the bitterness of their frustration seeps into their children's lives.

After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Michael Hainey
• Narrated By Dan John Miller
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Michael Hainey had just turned six when his uncle knocked on his family's back door one morning with the tragic news: Bob Hainey, Michael's father, was found alone near his car on Chicago's North Side, dead, of an apparent heart attack. Thirty-five years old, a young assistant copy desk chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, Bob was a bright and shining star in the competitive, hard-living world of newspapers, one that involved booze-soaked nights that bled into dawn. And then suddenly he was gone.

The Preacher's Son

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Carl Weber
• Narrated By Myra Lucretia Taylor, Lizian Mitchell, Cherise Booth, and others
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The Preacher's Son captivates with all the intensity expected of a Weber novel. Bishop T.K. Wilson is a pillar of the community, pastor of the largest African-American church in Queens, NY, and has always tended to he needy. Running for borough president, he faces one shocking revelation after another that could not only derail his campaign, but also force him to reevaluate his family values.

The Novels of Charles Dickens: An Introduction by David Timson to Dombey and Son

• ORIGINAL (24 mins)
• By David Timson
• Narrated By Neville Jason

David Timson talks about Charles Dickens, much loved for his great contribution to classic English Literature. Listen to Dombey and Son narrated by David Timson.