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The Nose
- By: Nikolai Gogol
- Narrated by: Joe Phoenix
- Length: 54 mins
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The Nose is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol written during his time living in St. Petersburg. During this time, Gogol's works were primarily focused on surrealism and the grotesque, with a romantic twist. Written between 1835 and 1836, The Nose tells the story of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. The Nose was originally published in The Contemporary, a literary journal owned by Alexander Pushkin.
By: Nikolai Gogol
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Potterism
- By: Rose Macaulay
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Rose Macaulay was a fascinating and influential British writer, known for her wit and intellect. First published in 1920, Potterism is a powerful satire about the Potter newspaper empire, and the ways in which journalists struggled during the First World War and the 1920s to balance the truth and what would sell. While Jane and Johnny Potter are at Oxford they learn to despise their father’s popular newspapers, though they still end up working for the family business. But Jane is greedy and wants more than society will let her have.
By: Rose Macaulay
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Boonville
- By: Robert Mailer Anderson
- Narrated by: Robert Mailer Anderson
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Surrounded by rednecks, misfits, and counterculture burnouts, John Gibson the reluctant heir of an alcoholic squirrel-sculpting grandmother – and Sarah McKay – a commune-reared “hippie-by-association” – search for self and community in 1989 rural Mendocino County, California. The dying logging industry is colliding with the economic rise of wineries, tourism, and the unregulated marijuana trade in The Emerald Triangle.
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Reluctantly Yours
- By: Erin Hawkins
- Narrated by: Amanda Stribling, Connor Crais
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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I’ve rebuilt my father’s media company with hard work and determination, but my single status leaves me on the outs with the one businessman I need to get close to. A little white lie and I’m suddenly in love, head over heels. Now I need to find a fake girlfriend, someone to keep up appearances without any emotions. When I find my mother’s fiery assistant in a compromising position, it’s the perfect opportunity to get what I want: a girlfriend for business appearances, without any feelings involved. I won’t let the fact that I’m wildly attracted to the petite redhead get in my way.
By: Erin Hawkins
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The Venus Trap and Other Stories
- By: Evelyn E. Smith
- Narrated by: Pamela Dillman
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Bringing Evelyn E. Smith’s public domain works to life again, after a publication lapse of nearly three quarters of a century, has been a passion project for us. The satire and symbolism of her work is as relevant today as when these tales were written, in the latter decade of the 1950’s. Then, her stories and novellas were categorized as futuristic fantasy (or gothic romance, in some cases) for a relatively small market. One senses in her writing that Ms. Smith was creating her fiction more to amuse herself than to leave any lasting legacy — though she most certainly did so.
By: Evelyn E. Smith
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Long Division
- A Novel
- By: Kiese Laymon
- Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss III, Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he’s sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie. Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book’s main characters is also named City Coldson—but Long Division is set in 1985.
By: Kiese Laymon
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The Nose
- By: Nikolai Gogol
- Narrated by: Joe Phoenix
- Length: 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The Nose is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol written during his time living in St. Petersburg. During this time, Gogol's works were primarily focused on surrealism and the grotesque, with a romantic twist. Written between 1835 and 1836, The Nose tells the story of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. The Nose was originally published in The Contemporary, a literary journal owned by Alexander Pushkin.
By: Nikolai Gogol
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Potterism
- By: Rose Macaulay
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Rose Macaulay was a fascinating and influential British writer, known for her wit and intellect. First published in 1920, Potterism is a powerful satire about the Potter newspaper empire, and the ways in which journalists struggled during the First World War and the 1920s to balance the truth and what would sell. While Jane and Johnny Potter are at Oxford they learn to despise their father’s popular newspapers, though they still end up working for the family business. But Jane is greedy and wants more than society will let her have.
By: Rose Macaulay
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Boonville
- By: Robert Mailer Anderson
- Narrated by: Robert Mailer Anderson
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Surrounded by rednecks, misfits, and counterculture burnouts, John Gibson the reluctant heir of an alcoholic squirrel-sculpting grandmother – and Sarah McKay – a commune-reared “hippie-by-association” – search for self and community in 1989 rural Mendocino County, California. The dying logging industry is colliding with the economic rise of wineries, tourism, and the unregulated marijuana trade in The Emerald Triangle.
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Reluctantly Yours
- By: Erin Hawkins
- Narrated by: Amanda Stribling, Connor Crais
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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I’ve rebuilt my father’s media company with hard work and determination, but my single status leaves me on the outs with the one businessman I need to get close to. A little white lie and I’m suddenly in love, head over heels. Now I need to find a fake girlfriend, someone to keep up appearances without any emotions. When I find my mother’s fiery assistant in a compromising position, it’s the perfect opportunity to get what I want: a girlfriend for business appearances, without any feelings involved. I won’t let the fact that I’m wildly attracted to the petite redhead get in my way.
By: Erin Hawkins
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The Venus Trap and Other Stories
- By: Evelyn E. Smith
- Narrated by: Pamela Dillman
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Bringing Evelyn E. Smith’s public domain works to life again, after a publication lapse of nearly three quarters of a century, has been a passion project for us. The satire and symbolism of her work is as relevant today as when these tales were written, in the latter decade of the 1950’s. Then, her stories and novellas were categorized as futuristic fantasy (or gothic romance, in some cases) for a relatively small market. One senses in her writing that Ms. Smith was creating her fiction more to amuse herself than to leave any lasting legacy — though she most certainly did so.
By: Evelyn E. Smith
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Long Division
- A Novel
- By: Kiese Laymon
- Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss III, Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he’s sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie. Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book’s main characters is also named City Coldson—but Long Division is set in 1985.
By: Kiese Laymon
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Pandemonium in Paradise
- The Stetson Jeff Adventures, Book 3
- By: Justin Fike, Adam G. Fleming
- Narrated by: Adam G. Fleming
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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Stetson Jeff returns to the United States in pursuit of the mysterious A.S.P. The gang turns out to be more dangerous than even Stetson Jeff could imagine, so he flees Philadelphia and finds refuge among the Amish in Paradise, Pennsylvania. More kickboxing, bad guys and low-speed chases ensue (think forklift vs. horse and buggy). With a nod to Harrison Ford's "The Witness" and plenty of other 80s tropes, Stetson Jeff, now changing hats as often as an Amish family goes to church, is in serious trouble, but he'll find his way through.
By: Justin Fike, and others
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An Untameable Zebra
- By: Louise Clover
- Narrated by: Louise Clover
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Clem Elliot. Part-time BBC clerk. Wife to Ryan. Mother to twins, Jack and Stan. For nearly twenty years, life for Clem is cushty. Until suddenly, it’s not. So what does she do? She runs away to the Greek islands to join a sailing circus, of course. Here, she masters tricks with staple guns, goats and the very fanciable, but unscrupulous womaniser, Captain Red.
By: Louise Clover
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The Memo
- By: Lauren Mechling, Rachel Dodes
- Narrated by: Anna Caputo
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Jenny Green is dreading her Class of 2007 reunion. While her friends are killing it, Jenny's promising career as an artisanal baker went up in flames (literally) and her deadbeat, commitment-phobe boyfriend is cheating on her with their swishy-ponytailed neighbour. She feels like she didn't get the memo... As it turns out, she didn't. Begrudgingly back at university, she receives a text from an unlisted number: Jenny Green - please collect your memo. Hidden on her old campus is a secret female-led organisation providing memos to select students; blueprints for success.
By: Lauren Mechling, and others
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Revolution
- By: David Dorrough
- Narrated by: David Dorrough
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Half satire, half farce, and half slice-of-life, REVOLUTION dives into the world of Bill and Yvonne Smede, two middle-aged professionals attempting to lead semi-sane, low-profile lives amidst the loud, swirling chaos of Southern California and the colorful antics of all their friends and relations. It’s a novel about everyday folks with everyday thoughts and feelings and experiences, and how entertaining this seemingly bland material can actually be.
By: David Dorrough
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Philosophical Nonsense & Gunplay
- By: Gregory Austin
- Narrated by: Harry Roger Williams III
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Rian Morris, despite his small stature, is one of the best bodyguards in the business. Only problem; nobody will hire him due to a former client being murdered on his watch. Depression, addiction, and the weight of the world come close to ending him, but then he receives a visit from a former colleague. This friend offers him a high-risk job protecting one of history’s most controversial authors—Ayn Rand.
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Hard Going.
- By John Marsden on 25-06-24
By: Gregory Austin
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The Ego's Pandemonium, Gloriously Cuckoo
- By: Ross Bert
- Narrated by: Ross Bert
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
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This literary romp guide leads us through the madhouse we call modern society. A no-holds-barred satirical thrill ride exploring the ironies and inanities of everything from therapy culture to social media to identity politics. No corner of our shared psychosis is left unexamined through a kaleidoscope of incisive wit and dark humor.
By: Ross Bert
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Reboot!
- By: Jake Kerr
- Narrated by: Michael C. Vincent
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Indie director Will Stone is summoned to Metamount Studios with an offer to reboot a massive franchise. There's only one problem: He's rebooting a movie that hasn't been released yet.
By: Jake Kerr
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The Entitled Island Tourist Guide
- The Hilarious Misadventures of City Slickers on the Gulf Islands
- By: Steve Lewis
- Narrated by: Matt Ross
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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In this uproarious satire, the author takes you on a wild ride through the pristine yet perilous paradise of the Gulf Islands, where entitled tourists run amok and chaos reigns supreme. From mistaking local wildlife for exotic pets to attempting to haggle with Mother Nature herself, these city slickers stumble through one laugh-out-loud escapade after another, leaving locals shaking their heads in disbelief.
By: Steve Lewis
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Trust and Safety
- By: Eve Gleichman, Laura Blackett
- Narrated by: Kelly Burke
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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Newlywed Rosie has grown disenchanted with NYC. Inspired by Instagram ads, she starts thirsting for a rural life upstate–one full of beauty and simplicity. Willing to do anything for Rosie's happiness, her tech-bro husband, Jordan, acquiesces to her vision for the future, and they offer–well above asking price–on a beautiful, historic fixer-upper in the Hudson Valley. But when Jordan suddenly loses his job on the day they close the deal, the couple is forced to rent out the property's dilapidated outbuilding.
By: Eve Gleichman, and others
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Doughn’t Let Me Go
- Slice Series, Book 3
- By: Teagan Hunter
- Narrated by: Alex Kydd, Emma Wilder
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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It was just supposed to be one night. No kissing. No feelings. A wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am tangle in the sheets and we go our own ways. Only it's a small town, and I was bound to run into the irresistible Porter Jones again. I just didn't expect it to be at my job interview...which he's conducting.
By: Teagan Hunter
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The Grumpy Side of Paradise
- Love in Paradise Valley, Book 1
- By: Brittany Larsen
- Narrated by: Angie Hickman, Dane Anderson
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Paradise is supposed to be a short-term stop. Until Thor shows up. Okay, not the real Thor. But replace the hammer with a dog who won't stop barking, and Adam Thomsen is definitely long-haired Thor's doppelganger. Too bad for me, he's decided I'm the villain in his story. Too bad for him, his scowl is no match for my super-powered positivity.
By: Brittany Larsen
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Cleavage
- By: Cleo Watson
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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In CLEAVAGE Prime minister Eric Courteney, fresh from another scandal, realises he has his work cut out when the Labour offensive kicks off with the charismatic Vicky Tennyson and handsome Christian Eccles at the helm, both dead set on an end to Conservative rule. The desperate Tories resort to hiring maverick strategist Callum Gallagher to get them out of a fix. Gallagher's methods are unusual in the extreme and kept from his employers. As he and his data geeks travel deep into the data, sieving the red-hot web searches of the unsuspecting electorate, it becomes clear that sex sells.
By: Cleo Watson