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    • Barker & Llewelyn Series, Book 1
    • By: Will Thomas
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Series: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,257 ratings
    • An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn....

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    • By: Kurt Vonnegut
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • Walter Starbuck, a career humanist and eventual low-level aide in the Nixon White House, is implicated in Watergate and jailed....

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    • By: Soseki Natsume, Aiko Ito - translator, Graeme Wilson - translator
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 21 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him....

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    • By: Gary D. Schmidt
    • Narrated by: Joel Johnstone
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 780 ratings
    • In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. The Wednesday Wars is a wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy’s mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967-68 school year in Long Island, New York....

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    • By: Oakley Hall, Robert Stone
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality....

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    • A Pride and Prejudice Variation
    • By: Eselle Teays
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The Bennet family of Longbourn, Hertfordshire, had long been known to its neighbours as exceptionally learned though eccentric, but was tolerated ...

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    • By: Thomas Pynchon
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 33 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Percival Everett
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6,245 ratings
    • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

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    • Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour
    • By: Richard Zacks
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • “There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate,” he wrote. “When he can’t afford it and when he can.” The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink....

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    • By: V. S. Naipaul
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Set during World War II and narrated by an unnamed - but precociously observant - neighborhood boy, Miguel Street is a work of mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly melancholy and anarchically funny. It overflows with life on every page....

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    • By: Umberto Eco
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 293 ratings
    • As Constantinople is being pillaged and burned in April 1204, a young man, Baudolino, manages to save a historian and a high court official from certain death at the hands of crusading warriors....

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    • By: Charlotte Dearing
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A Mystery Matchmaker in Bethany Springs has a plan for the single father, a plan that includes an unsuspecting Mail-Order Bride. Nick McCord never ...

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    • A Study in Brimstone
    • By: G. S. Denning
    • Narrated by: Robert Garson
    • Series: Warlock Holmes, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,417 ratings
    • Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius who uses the gift of deduction and reason to solve the most vexing of crimes. Warlock Holmes, however, is an idiot.

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    • By: Charles Portis
    • Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Lamar Jimmerson is the leader of the Gnomon Society, the international fraternal order dedicated to preserving the arcane wisdom of the lost city of Atlantis. Stationed in France in 1917, Jimmerson comes across a little book. It's the Codex Pappus—the sacred Gnomon text....

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    • The Anty Boisjoly Mysteries, Book 3
    • By: PJ Fitzsimmons
    • Narrated by: Tim Bruce
    • Series: Anty Boisjoly Mysteries, Book 3
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine is another mystifying manor-house stumper for Wodehousian bon-vivant and problem-solver Anty Boisjoly, when his clubmate asks him to determine who died first after a duel is fought in a locked room....

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