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Title: More Classic American Short Stories

Author: James Fenimore Cooper, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Henry O

Narrator: Liza Ross, Garrick Hagon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2011

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Here are eight stories from master American writers of the nineteenth century. They vary from sinister tales by Ambrose Bierce – why is that window boarded up? – and a reflective moment in the life of a woman without children, forced to look after children, to classic short stories by O. Henry and Stephen Crane. There is even an elegiac description of an eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans. Read with sensitivity and skill by Garrick Hagon and Liza Ross.

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Title: All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories

Author: E.L. Doctorow

Narrator: Joshua Swanson, Jesse Bernstein, John Rubinstein

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Release date: March 22, 2011

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to World’s Fair, The March, and Homer & Langley, the fiction of E. L. Doctorow comprises a towering achievement in modern American letters. Now Doctorow returns with an enthralling collection of brilliant, startling short fiction about people who, as the author notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from their surroundings—people in some sort of contest with the prevailing world”. A man at the end of an ordinary workday, extracts himself from his upper-middle-class life and turns to foraging in the same affluent suburb where he once lived with his family. A college graduate takes a dishwasher’s job on a whim, and becomes entangled in a criminal enterprise after agreeing to marry a beautiful immigrant for money. A husband and wife’s tense relationship is exacerbated when a stranger enters their home and claims to have grown up there. An urbanite out on his morning run suspects that the city in which he’s lived all his life has transmogrified into another city altogether. These are among the wide-ranging creations in this stunning collection, resonant with the mystery, tension, and moral investigation that distinguish the fiction of E. L. Doctorow. Containing six unforgettable stories that have never appeared in book form, and a selection of previous Doctorow classics, All the Time in the World affords us another opportunity to savor the genius of this American master.

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Title: Johnny Morris Reads More Bedtime Stories (Vintage Beeb)

Author: Johnny Morris

Narrator: Johnny Morris

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 0 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2011

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Sixteen more charming animal stories, read by everyone's favourite zookeeper. The tales are: 1. Winkle, the Zoo Cat, is lost and found. 2. Nibble, the Squirrel, has his revenge. 3. The arrival of Otto, the German Giraffe. 4. Coconut, the Orang-Utan, has fun with the lawn. 5. Otto and Georgina, the Giraffes, give their tongues a rest. 6. Bernard, the Baboon, and clever Little Titch. 7. Side-splitter, the Kookaburra, gives the game away. 8. Fanfare, the Peacock, sounds the alarm. 9. Half-a-tick, the Mongoose, is ‘egged’ on. 10. Dago, the Capybara, becomes established. 11. Ever-so-teeny and Ever-so-weeny, the Harvest Mice. 12. Hilda, the Ostrich, is annoyed. 13. Private Eye, the Vulture, gives a consultation. 14. The Budgerigars’ Record Book. 15. Small Change, the Guinea-pig, tries hard. 16. Trit-Trot, the Pony, over-turns his cart. Vintage Beeb: classic albums first available as BBC LPs, now reissued on CD as as downloads. Guidance: as this contains archive/offair material the sound quality may vary.

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Title: The Half Life

Author: Jennifer Weiner

Narrator: Katie Finneran

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 18

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner’s short story, The Half Life, previously published in Redbook magazine is now available on audio. From Redbook ’s Red-Hot Read series, a short story by the New York Times #1 bestselling author of In Her Shoes and Fly Away Home … “My life is over,” Piper DeWitt thinks to herself, awaiting departure in the overcrowded International Terminal of the Philadelphia airport for an overseas business trip, to romantic Paris no less. She watched as her husband, Tosh, put his own suitcase into the trunk of a taxi the day before. He’d been telling her for months that he wasn’t happy, and though she still wants to believe it is just a phase, after a call to her mother from the Admiral’s Club, she can no longer deny that he’s left her, left their home, left their four-year-old daughter in her mother’s sole care. Piper met Tosh when she was only twenty-two, just the way self help books said she would—when she wasn’t looking. Now at forty, she wonders how, through all those years, they’d gotten to this place in their marriage. When her flight is canceled due to volcanic ash spreading from Iceland across Europe, and when a handsome stranger offers her an invitation to share a cab, she realizes she can take a departure from her own life. And after a day of living like a tourist in her own city, she hopes she can still find her way home…

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Title: Electric Barracuda

Series: #13 of Serge Storms

Author: Tim Dorsey

Narrator: Oliver Wyman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Release date: January 25, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

“Dorsey differs from writers such as Carl Hiassen, James Hall, and Elmore Leonard…These guys fire bullets. Dorsey makes sure his gun is filled with hollow-point.” —Sarasota Herald Tribune Readers who can’t get enough of lovable serial killer Serge A. Storms can rejoice. He’s back in Electric Barracuda—the latest outrageous romp through the Sunshine State by Tim Dorsey, master of the zany crime thriller. This time Serge is a fugitive running from the police, and murder and mayhem have never been more over-the-top hilarious. Tim Dorsey’s Electric Barracuda is not to be missed. The Miami Herald put it best: “Nobody, but nobody, writes like this guy.”

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Title: Guy Not Taken

Author: Jennifer Weiner

Narrator: Mary Catherine Garrison, Jordan Bridges

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 0 minutes

Release date: January 4, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 32

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one night, when she wanders onto her ex's online wedding registry and wonders what if she had wound up with the guy not taken. We find Jessica Norton listing her beloved river-view apartment in the hope of winning her broker's heart. And we follow an unlikely friendship between two very different new mothers, and the choices that bring them together -- and pull them apart. The Guy Not Taken demonstrates Weiner's amazing ability to create characters who 'feel like they could be your best friend' (Janet Maslin) and to find hope and humor, longing and love in the hidden corners of our common experiences.

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Title: The Empty Family: Stories

Author: Colm Toibin

Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds, Piter Marek, Alma Cuervo, Colm Toibin, Terry Donnelly, John Keating, Jeff Woodman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Release date: January 4, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

The bestselling and award-winning author of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín, returns with a stunning collection of stories—“a book that’s both a perfect introduction to Tóibín and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure” (The Seattle Times). Critics praised Brooklyn as a “beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s.” In The Empty Family, Tóibín has extended his imagination further, offering an incredible range of periods and characters—people linked by love, loneliness, desire—“the unvarying dilemmas of the human heart” ( The Observer, UK). In the breathtaking long story “The Street,” Tóibín imagines a relationship between Pakistani workers in Barcelona—a taboo affair in a community ruled by obedience and silence. In “Two Women,” an eminent and taciturn Irish set designer takes a job in her homeland and must confront emotions she has long repressed. “Silence” is a brilliant historical set piece about Lady Gregory, who tells the writer Henry James a confessional story at a dinner party. The Empty Family will further cement Tóibín’s status as “his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power” ( Los Angeles Times ).

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Title: The Very Best of O. Henry

Author: O. Henry

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 0 minutes

Release date: December 27, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

O. Henry, the pseudonym of the American writer William Sydney Porter (1862–1910), is best known for writing stories full of wit, wordplay, and warm characterizations, and particularly for their clever twist endings. This volume contains twenty of O. Henry's best and best-loved stories. They are marked by coincidence and surprise endings as well as the compassion and high humor that have made O. Henry's stories popular for the last century. The stories contained in this unique collection are 'Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking,' 'The Gift of the Magi,' 'The Cop and the Anthem,' 'One Dollar's Worth,' 'A Retrieved Reformation,' 'The Last of the Troubadours,' 'The Caballero's Way,' 'Last Leaf,' 'The Furnished Room,' 'Cupid's Exile Number Two,' 'The Lotus and the Bottle,' 'The Trimmed Lamp,' 'Springtime à la Carte,' 'The Sleuths,' 'Out of Nazareth,' 'Memoirs of a Yellow Dog,' 'The Making of a New Yorker,' 'Law and Order,' 'Hearts and Hands,' and 'The Ransom of Red Chief.'

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Title: Storming the Castle: An Original Short Story

Series: #1.5 of A Fairy Tales Novella

Author: Eloisa James

Narrator: Nicola Barber

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.17 of Total 6

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Featuring the handsome and mysterious Wick from A Kiss At Midnight. What Miss Phillipa Damson needs is a good, old fashioned knight in shining armor. What she has is a fiancé she never wanted and a compelling urge to run away. But if she manages to escape, will she find her happily ever after?

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Title: The Duel and Other Stories

Author: Anton Chekhov

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Release date: December 20, 2010

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Anton Chekhov was a Russian short story writer and a playwright. His playwriting career produced four classics, while his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics alike. As his writing evolved, Chekhov made formal innovations that have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. This collection of short stories consists of 'The Duel,' 'Excellent People,' 'Mire,' 'Expensive Lessons,' 'The Princess,' and 'The Chemist's Wife.'