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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: I Am Charlotte Simmons Author: Tom Wolfe Narrator: Dylan Baker Format: Abridged Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins Language: English Release date: 11-03-04 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 41 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: As Charlotte encounters Dupont's privileged elite, her roommate, Beverly, a fleshy, Groton-educated Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's god-like basketball team, whose position is threatened by a hotshot black freshman from the projects; the Young Turn of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose heady sense of entitlement and social domination is clinched by his accidental brawl with a bodyguard for the governor of California; and Adam Geller, one of the Millennial Mutants who run the university's "independent" newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavor on

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Falls Author: Joyce Carol Oates Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins Language: English Release date: 09-23-04 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 177 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: But the tragedy by which their life together began shadows them, damaging their idyll with distrust, greed, and even murder. What unfurls is a drama of parents and their children; of secrets and sins; of lawsuits, murder, and eventually redemption. Set against the mythic historic backdrop of Niagara Falls, Joyce Carol Oates explores the American family in crisis, but also America itself in the mid-20th century. The Falls is a love story gone wrong and righted, and it alone places Joyce Carol Oates definitively in the company of the great American novelists. Critic Reviews: "Powerful, compassionate, and ruefully humorous. The Falls is another example of Oates' ine

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Dogs of Babel Author: Carolyn Parkhurst Narrator: Erik Singer Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins Language: English Release date: 06-13-03 Publisher: Hachette Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 223 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: So begins Paul's fantastic and even perilous search for the truth, as he abandons his everyday life to embark on a series of experiments designed to teach his dog Lorelei to communicate. Is this the project of a madman? Or does Lorelei really have something to tell him about the last afternoon of a woman he only thought he knew? At the same time, Paul obsessively recalls the early days of his love for Lexy and the ups and downs of life with the brilliant, sometimes unsettling woman who became his wife. Critic Reviews: "A wonderfully original and richly imaginative novel." (Kermit Moyer, author of Tumbling) "The brilliance...lies in the subtle buildup o

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Beach House Author: James Patterson, Peter de Jonge Narrator: Gil Bellows Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins Language: English Release date: 06-14-02 Publisher: Hachette Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1205 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: But the police say otherwise. As Jack tries to uncover details of his brother's last night, he confronts a maddening barricade of lawyers, police, and paid protectors who separate the wealthy summer residents from local workers like Peter. Motivated by a hundred forms of grief, Jack rallies his hometown friends to help him find the truth of Peter's death - no matter how rich or corrupt the people who stand in their way. Jack's relentless crusade puts him into a head-on collision with one of the most powerful and ruthless men in New York, a man who wipes out resistance with a snap of his fingers. As it unfolds that his brother was involved with

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Anil's Ghost Author: Michael Ondaatje Narrator: Alan Cumming Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins Language: English Release date: 08-22-00 Publisher: Random House AudioBooks Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 133 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. The place is modern-day Sri Lanka, the island nation formerly known as Ceylon, off the southern tip of India. It is a country steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition, and forced into the late 20th century by the ravages of civil war and the consequences of a country divided against itself. Into this maelstrom steps a young woman, Anil Tissera, born in Sri Lanka, educated in England