The Reader

The Corpse Reader

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Antonio Garrido, Thomas Bunstead (translator)
• Narrated By Todd Haberkorn
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Cí, a young scholar-turned-gravedigger in medieval China, has survived enough horrors and pain to last several lifetimes. He finally has the chance to return to his studies - only to receive orders from the Imperial Court to find the sadistic perpetrator of a series of brutal murders. With lives in jeopardy, Cí finds his gruesome investigation complicated by his old loyalties - and by his growing desire for the enigmatic beauty haunting his thoughts. Is he skilled enough to track down the murderer? Or will the killer claim him first?

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Cassandra Clare (editor)
• Narrated By Emily Beresford, Luke Daniels, Tanya Eby
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Number-one New York Times best-selling author Cassandra Clare created the Mortal Instruments in 2004 with City of Bones (Simon & Schuster, 2007). Since then, the series has grown to five books, with a sixth due in 2014, and been joined by two spinoff trilogies and an upcoming film starring Jamie Campbell Power and Lily Collins. Featuring stories by Holly Black, Kendare Blake, Gwenda Bond, Sarah Rees Brennan, Rachel Caine, Sarah Cross, Kami Garcia, Michelle Hodkin, Kelly Link, Kate Milford, Diana Peterfreund, Sara Ryan, Scott Tracey, and Robin Wasserman.

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Donalyn Miller
• Narrated By Sean Runnette, Hillary Huber
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In The Book Whisperer, Miller takes us inside her sixth grade classroom to reveal the secrets of her powerful but unusual instructional approach. Rejecting book reports, comprehension worksheets, and other aspects of conventional instruction, Miller embraces giving students an individual choice in what they read, combined with a program for independent reading. She also focuses on building a classroom library of high-interest books, and above all on modeling appropriate and authentic reading behaviors.

The Thomas Sowell Reader

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Thomas Sowell
• Narrated By Robertson Dean
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These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of half a century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell’s letters, books, newspaper columns, and articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines. The topics range from latetalking children to tax cuts for the rich, baseball, race, war, the role of judges, medical care, and the rhetoric of politicians.

Reader and Raelynx: The Twelve Houses, Book 4

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Sharon Shinn
• Narrated By Joe Barrett
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

King Baryn has decided that if he marries his daughter Amalie to a high-ranking noble, the rebellious marlords might be pacified and he might be able to avert a war. So he invites all the young serramar to the royal city to court his daughter. To protect Amalie from any unsavory suitors, the mystic Cammon is installed to monitor all of Amalie's courtships, because Cammon is a reader who can tell if someone harbors violence or malevolence in his heart.

Selected Shorts: Readers & Writers

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Evelyn Waugh, Molly Giles, Ray Bradbury, and others
• Narrated By Tony Roberts, John Shea, Isaiah Sheffer, and others

A boon for booklovers, this audio set features funny, fantastical and poignant stories about people with unique and passionate connections to the written word.

Tony Roberts reads a hilarious Walter R. Brooks story about how Ed - a talking horse - became a voracious reader of adventure tales and mysteries. In a story by Italo Calvino, read by John Shea, a man tries to make the most of his beach holiday by reading and making love at the same time.

The Uncommon Reader

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Alan Bennett
• Narrated By Alan Bennett

When the queen chases a straying corgi through the grounds of Buckingham Palace, she happens upon the City of Westminster travelling library, and begins a journey of discovery.

Pilgrim's Progress: Retold for the Modern Reader

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs)
• By John Bunyan
• Narrated By Paul Michael

This is an updated version for all ages retold in wonderful storytelling fashion. John Bunyan was a simple maker and mender of pots and pans who received very little education. In spite of that, he penned the most successful allegory ever written. Embark on a perilous journey with Christian, the lead character, from the City of Destruction to the luminous safe haven of the Celestial City. The journey will encourage you to “set your hope fully on the grace to be given you” amidst the obstacles of life.

The Reader

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Bernhard Schlink
• Narrated By Campbell Scott
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

When he falls ill on his way home from school, 15-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover--then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.

Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Seth Lerer
• Narrated By Tony Craine

The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children's literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary book reveals why J. R. R. Tolkein, Dr. Seuss, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beatrix Potter, and many others, despite their divergent styles and subject matter, have all resonated with generations of readers.

The Fran Lebowitz Reader

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Fran Lebowitz
• Narrated By Fran Lebowitz

The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together in one volume, with a new preface, two best sellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, by an "important humorist in the classic tradition" (The New York Times Book Review) who is "the natural successor to Dorothy Parker" (British Vogue). In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life - its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious, deadpan, sarcastic, wry, wisecracking, and waggish, she is always wickedly entertaining.

Penthouse Naughty by Nature: Female Readers' Sexy Letters to Penthouse

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Penthouse Magazine Editors
• Narrated By Maria Maldatesta

From the first time to the wildest time, from bedroom bouts to public performances, from torrid threesomes to lesbian liaisons, from wedding nights to sinful trysts, men (and sometimes women!) everywhere meet their match in wives, bachelorettes, and the girls next door who shamelessly ride the first tremor of desire to an explosion that rocks their world.

The Lace Reader

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Brunonia Barry
• Narrated By Alyssa Bresnahan
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator of The Lace Reader, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, and who have guarded a history of secrets going back generations. But the disappearance of two women brings Towner home to Salem and the truth about the death of her twin sister to light.

The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe's Very First Case: Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Books for Young Readers, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (55 mins)
• By Alexander McCall Smith
• Narrated By Adjoa Andoh

Have you ever said to yourself, Wouldn't it be nice to be a detective? This is the story of an African girl who says just that. Her name is Precious. When a piece of cake goes missing from her classroom, a traditionally built young boy is tagged as the culprit. Precious, however, is not convinced. She sets out to find the real thief. Along the way she learns that your first guess isn't always right. She also learns how to be a detective.

The Mind Readers

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Margery Allingham
• Narrated By David Thorpe

Fact catches up with fiction when the secret of telepathic communication is discovered. But the device at the centre of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys and whether they stole it or invented it, there are powerful interests who will kill to get hold of it. Albert Campion faces as deadly a challenge as any in his career.As urbane as Lord Wimsey.as ingenious as Poirot. Meet one of crime fiction's Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.

Macmillan Readers: USA

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Coleen Degnan-Veness, Chantal Veness
• Narrated By uncredited

The Macmillan Readers series is one of the most popular and respected series of Readers for learners of English. Macmillan Readers are simplified ‘retellings’ of an original work. They are created by highly-experienced ELT writers. Millions of visitors go to the USA every year and many people return again and again. This book will take you on a journey from the discovery of the New World over five 500 years ago to the present day.

The Second John McPhee Reader, Book One

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 39 mins)
• By John McPhee
• Narrated By Nelson Runger

For a person who has not encountered John McPhee's lively writing, The Second John McPhee Reader is the perfect introduction. McPhee, author of Coming Into the Country, and Assembling California punctuates his delightful prose with a sharp sense of humor and a fascination with things most of us never bother to notice.

In the Company of Rilke: Why a 20th-Century Visionary Poet Speaks So Eloquently to 21st-Century Readers

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Stephanie Dowrick
• Narrated By Stephanie Dowrick

Rainer Maria Rilke was a giant of twentieth-century writing who remains a rare visionary voice for our own time. This audio edition of Dr. Stephanie Dowrick's acclaimed book allows you literally to "hear" how and why Rilke's extraordinary words continue to captivate readers, not least through his profound understanding of the depth and beauty of human existence.

Master Writers, Master Readers

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 1 min)
• By Isabel Allende, Jane Austen, Paul Auster
• Narrated By Elliott Gould, Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley