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Title: Damn Love

Author: Jasmine Beach-Ferrara

Narrator: Aldrich Barrett, Kristin Kalbli, Courtney Patterson, Kevin Stillwell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Release date: March 1, 2024

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Set in San Francisco and North Carolina, the linked stories in Damn Love introduce us to characters struggling with love in all its complicated forms, including a young doctor getting over a breakup with the help of a patient, a newly married gay man who reconnects with his estranged mother, a trio of physicists caught in a surprising love triangle, and a soldier who takes secrets with her to the Iraqi desert. Together, these stories report out from the fault lines of American life, uncertain territory where identity, risk, and desire co-mingle, and where reconciliation can be found in even the most flawed efforts to connect.

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Title: American Housewife: Stories

Author: Helen Ellis

Narrator: Lisa Cordileone, Dorothy Dillingham Blue, Rebecca Lowman, Kathleen McInerney

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Release date: January 12, 2016

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, American Housewife features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason Dixon line. Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. They pump the salad spinner like it's a CPR dummy. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies out of the oven. These twelve irresistible stories take us from a haunted prewar Manhattan apartment building to the set of a rigged reality television show, from the unique initiation ritual of a book club to the getaway car of a pageant princess on the lam, from the gallery opening of a tinfoil artist to the fitting room of a legendary lingerie shop. Vicious, fresh, and nutty as a poisoned Goo Goo Cluster, American Housewife is an uproarious, pointed commentary on womanhood.

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Title: Skeleton Crew: Selections

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Frances Sternhagen, Matthew Broderick, Dana Ivey, Stephen King

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2016

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 11

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

The #1 New York Times bestseller—a mesmerizing treasury of short stories by Stephen King, including “The Monkey” and “The Mist”! From one of the greatest storytellers in modern times comes this classic collection of twenty-two works of fright and wonder…unforgettable tales that will take you to the edge of imagination, where your darkest fears await. Whether it’s a mysterious, impenetrable mist camouflaging bizarre, otherworldly terrors that could herald the destruction of humanity…or an eerie-looking child’s toy that harbors an unimaginable evil…or four college students on a deserted lake encountering something that crosses the boundary of sanity…or a man suddenly given the omnipotent ability to quite literally edit his own reality…the extraordinary narratives found in Skeleton Crew are the enduring and irresistible proof that Stephen King is a true master of the short fiction form. Skeleton Crew includes: “The Mist” “Here There Be Tygers” “The Monkey” “Cain Rose Up” “Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut” “The Jaunt” “The Wedding Gig” “Paranoid: A Chant” “The Raft” “Word Processor of the Gods” “The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands” “Beachworld” “The Reaper’s Image” “Nona” “For Owen” “Survivor Type” “Uncle Otto’s Truck” “Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1)” “Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman #2)” “Gramma” “The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet” “The Reach”

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Title: Four Past Midnight

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Tim Sample, James Woods, Willem Dafoe, Ken Howard

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 29 hours 41 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2016

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 174

Ratings of Narrator: 4.38 of Total 32

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Includes the story “The Sun Dog”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The Bram Stoker Prize-winner for Best Fiction Collection—four chilling novellas from Stephen King that will “grab you and not let go” (The Washington Post). With the success of the Hulu series 11/22/63 starring James Franco and the highly anticipated The Dark Tower movie release, Stephen King's brand is stronger than ever. This collection, nominated for a Locus Award, is guaranteed to keep readers awake long after bedtime, and features an introduction and prefatory notes to each novella by the author. “Stephen King is a master storyteller, and you will never forget these stories,” raves the Seattle Times about Four Past Midnight. One Past Midnight: “The Langoliers” takes a red-eye flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn’t. Something’s waiting for them, you see. Two Past Midnight: “Secret Window, Secret Garden” enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger. Three Past Midnight: “The Library Policeman” is set in Junction City, Iowa, an unlikely place for evil to be hiding. But for small businessman Sam Peebles, who thinks he may be losing his mind, another enemy is hiding there as well—the truth. If he can find it in time, he might stand a chance. Four Past Midnight: “The Sun Dog,” a menacing black dog, appears in every Polaroid picture that fifteen-year-old Kevin Delevan takes with his new camera, beckoning him to the supernatural. Old Pop Merrill, Castle Rock’s sharpest trader, aims to exploit The Sun Dog for profit, but this creature that shouldn’t exist at all, is a very dangerous investment.

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Title: The Tragedy of Errors, and Others

Series: #1999 of The Ellery Queen Mysteries

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Traber Burns

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2016

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

The Tragedy of Errors is the lengthy and detailed plot outline for the final but never published Ellery Queen novel, containing all the hallmarks of the greatest Queen mysteries—the dying message, the succession of false solutions before the astonishing truth is revealed, and scrupulous fair play to the listener. And the theme is one that Queen had been developing for many years: the manipulation of events in a world going mad by people who aspire to the power of gods. The Tragedy of Errors also contains the six hitherto uncollected Ellery Queen short stories—“Terror Town,” “Uncle from Australia,” “The Three Students,” “The Odd Man,” “The Honest Swindler,” “The Reindeer Clue,” and “Wedding Anniversary.”

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Title: Terror Town

Series: #1999 of The Ellery Queen Mysteries

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Traber Burns

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2016

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 22

Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 6

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time. In “Terror Town,” the small New England town of Northfield is deftly sketched as the background for a series of violent deaths, all on the exact same spot: the muddy gravesite where the first body, that of a farmer’s son, had been found.

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Title: Dead in Her Tracks

Series: #2 of Rogue Winter Novella

Author: Kendra Elliot

Narrator: Kate Rudd

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Release date: December 29, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

On Christmas morning, Solitude, Oregon, unwraps murder… This wasn’t how Police Chief Zane Duncan expected to spend his first Christmas with fellow officer and girlfriend Stevie Taylor. But when a local motel calls in the discovery of a dead body, the couple’s holiday takes a grim turn. This is the second murder in Solitude within the week, despite the fact that their primary suspect is already in custody. Together, Zane and Stevie must face a disturbing truth—their small town may be harboring two killers. As their investigation digs deep into the backgrounds of newcomers and longtime residents alike, Zane and Stevie also struggle to adjust to life under the same roof. Even if the stress of homicides and cohabitation don’t bring an end to the couple, the murderer lying in wait just might.

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Title: Nothing but the Dead and Dying

Author: Ryan W. Bradley

Narrator: Tamara Marston, Elijah Alexander

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Release date: December 2, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

A woman flees the hospital even as her infant son is breathing his last breaths. An aging construction worker comes to grips with the end of the only life he’s ever known. A deadbeat father meets his son for the first time, only to be blindsided by the boy’s birth defect. A man steals a corpse in order to give his father the burial he wanted. In Nothing but the Dead and Dying, Ryan W. Bradley takes listeners into the world of blue-collar Alaska, reflecting on all that is unique about the rough and untamed state while touching on the basic truths about what it means to be human. The twenty-plus stories in this collection are tied together by the Alaskan landscape, exploring the diverse ways in which people manage life’s difficulties. The characters are laborers in a harshly beautiful environment, something that is echoed in their relationships with friends, family, and lovers.

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Title: Queens Full: Three Novelettes and a Pair of Short Shorts

Series: #1965 of The Ellery Queen Mysteries

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Traber Burns

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Release date: December 1, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Since his first novel, Ellery Queen has been in the top ranks of the world's detective-story writers. He has been equally successful with short stories and novelettes written for magazines. This rare volume is a collection of some of Queen's best, containing three novelettes and two short stories. The stories include 'The Death of Don Juan,' 'The Wrightsville Heirs,' 'The Case against Carroll,' 'E = Murder,' and 'Diamonds in Paradise.' Ellery Queen stars in all of them, making this collection a must-read for mystery fans.

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Title: QBI: Queen’s Bureau of Investigation

Series: #1955 of The Ellery Queen Mysteries

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Traber Burns

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Release date: December 1, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Queen's Bureau of Investigation is now open for business—and in each department of this new enterprise Ellery finds ample opportunity to exercise the brilliant, ingenious, and at times startling talents of his crime-lab mind. For to the bureau come some of the most plaguey cases in Queen's career. In 'The Three Widows,' two of Theodore Hood's wealthy, widow daughters, as well as his own widow, are caught in a murder that Ellery reluctantly relegated to the Impossible Crime Department. In 'The Myna Birds,' old Mrs. Andrus' bequest of a million dollars to thirty-eight observant and talkative birds sets off a chain of violent events leading straight to the Embezzlement Department—and the only bird-detective on record! 'A Question of Honor' is a matter of considerable international delicacy, involving indiscreet letters, a Shakespearean scholar from Scotland Yard, and a crime at once assigned to the Suicide Department. Numerous other criminals, crimes, follies, and felonies find their way to the bailiwicks of the QBI as well. From the files of the Buried Treasure Department comes 'Miser's Gold'; from the Narcotics Department, 'The Black Ledger'; from the Kidnapping Department, 'Child Missing!'; and many others. In each case, Ellery Queen demonstrates the powers that make him unique among detectives.