Listen to New Full Audiobooks in Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

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Title: Miss Subways: A Novel

Author: David Duchovny

Narrator: Tea Leoni, David Duchovny

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Release date: May 1, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 7

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

This program is read by the author and Tea Leoni, with their daughter, West Duchovny. New York Times bestselling author David Duchovny reimagines the Irish mythological figure of Emer in Miss Subways, a darkly comic fantasy love story set in New York City. Emer is just a woman living in New York City who takes the subway, buys ice cream from the bodega on the corner, has writerly aspirations, and lives with her boyfriend, Con. But is this life she lives the only path she’s on? Taking inspiration from the myth of Emer and Cuchulain and featuring an all-star cast of mythical figures from all over the world, David Duchovny’s darkly funny fantasy audiobook Miss Subways is one woman’s trippy, mystical journey down parallel tracks of time and love. On the way, Emer will battle natural and supernatural forces to find her true voice, power, and destiny. A fairy tale of love lost and regained, Miss Subways is also a love letter to the city that enchants us all: New York.

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Title: The Map of Salt and Stars

Author: Zeyn Joukhadar

Narrator: Lara Sawalha

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Release date: May 1, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 10

Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker’s apprentice—“perfectly aligns with the cultural moment” (The Providence Journal) and “shows how interconnected two supposedly opposing worlds can be” (The New York Times Book Review). This “beguiling” (Seattle Times) and stunning novel begins in the summer of 2011. Nour has just lost her father to cancer, and her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her father’s spirit alive as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story—the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker. But the Syria Nour’s parents knew is changing, and it isn’t long before the war reaches their quiet Homs neighborhood. When a shell destroys Nour’s house and almost takes her life, she and her family are forced to choose: stay and risk more violence or flee across seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety—along the very route Rawiya and her mapmaker took eight hundred years before in their quest to chart the world. As Nour’s family decides to take the risk, their journey becomes more and more dangerous, until they face a choice that could mean the family will be separated forever. Following alternating timelines and a pair of unforgettable heroines coming of age in perilous times, The Map of Salt and Stars is the “magical and heart-wrenching” (Christian Science Monitor) story of one girl telling herself the legend of another and learning that, if you listen to your own voice, some things can never be lost.

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Title: [Afrikaans] - Eens...Verhale, Mites en Legendes van Feërie

Author: Ronel Janse Van Vuuren

Narrator: Anel Hamersma

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Release date: April 30, 2018

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

'n Versameling kortverhale oor Feërie en die Feë wat selfs in die mensewêreld woon. Van die verhale het kompetisies gewen en almal het die verbeelding van lesers aangegryp. Hierdie luisterboek het ook 'n bonus verhaal. Geniet hierdie sprokies vir grootmense en betree die wêreld van die Feë.... Please note: This audiobook is in Afrikaans.

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Title: The Emissary

Author: Yoko Tawada

Narrator: Julian Cihi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Release date: April 24, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient—frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise. Mumei may be enfeebled and feverish, but he is a beacon of hope, full of wit and free of self-pity and pessimism. Yoshiro concentrates on nourishing Mumei, a strangely wonderful boy who offers “the beauty of the time that is yet to come.” A delightful, irrepressibly funny book, The Emissary is filled with light. Yoko Tawada, deftly turning inside-out “the curse,” defies gravity and creates a playful joyous novel out of a dystopian one, with a legerdemain uniquely her own.

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Title: Tadabbur Surat Al-Buruj Gugusan Gugusan Bintang

Author: Muhammad Vandestra

Narrator: Maya Aminah Sakura, Muhammad Ibnu Adam

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 13 minutes

Release date: April 22, 2018

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Sinopsis: Para ahli tafsir sepakat berpendapat bahwa bahwa surat al-Buruj diturunkan di Makkah setelah surat asy-Syams(. Surat ini masih membahas dan menekankan masalah aqidah dan penguatan keyakinan tentang hari akhir. Di samping itu tambahan yang ada dalam surat ini selain pembahasan tersebut adalah tentang kisah ashabul ukhdud (para penggali parit) yaitu sebuah cerita tentang pengorbanan dan tebusan jiwa dalam mempertahankan akidah dan iman. Dalam surat ini Allah kembali bersumpah dengan langit ciptaan-Nya yang memiliki gugusan-gugusan bintang, tempat bintang-bintang berpusat dan beredar, serta demi hari yang telah dijanjikan-Nya yaitu hari kiamat, sekaligus menyampaikan kedahsyatan kekuasaan Allah yang tiada batas.

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Title: Damsels in Distress

Series: #2 of Desperately Ever After

Author: Laura Kenyon

Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Release date: April 17, 2018

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

After watching her fairy tale go up in flames, Belle is finally starting over. With a baby on the way, a business to run, and a new love interest she just can't shake, things are finally looking up. That is, until she learns her independence might revive broken curses the world over. Could 'happily ever after' really mean staying with her unfaithful husband? Or will Belle and her steadfast friends find another way? Meanwhile, Dawn still longs for the life she had three centuries earlier—before her sleeping curse ended in two kids, an unfamiliar era, and a husband she barely knows. So when the childhood sweetheart she believed to be dead resurfaces, she must suddenly choose between the past she once wanted and the present she never knew she did. As both women struggle between love and obligation—between what's right for the world and what's right for the heart—they fail to see a great danger brewing in the capital. One that could change everything forever. With the wit of authors like Jennifer Weiner, the vision of ABC's Once Upon a Time, and the imagination of Gregory Maguire's Wicked, Damsels in Distress picks up where the original tales left off—and twists them every 'witch' way.

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Title: Enchant: Beauty and the Beast Retold

Series: #1 of Romance a Medieval Fairytale

Author: Demelza Carlton

Narrator: Mary Sarah

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Release date: April 17, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 27

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 12

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

A beastly prince. An enchanting beauty. Only love can break the spell. Once upon a time . . . The wicked King Thorn forced the enchantress Zuleika to cast a terrible curse. She fled his court to travel the world, helping those who need her magic most. Until a search for her merchant father's lost ships leads her to an enchanted island, where Prince Vardan, the island's ruler, is afflicted by the most powerful curse Zuleika has ever encountered. She's not sure she can reverse the spell, but she's determined to try. After all, a prince who fights pirates can't be all bad . . . no matter how beastly his appearance. Together, can the enchanting beauty and the beastly prince break the spell? Contains mature themes.

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Title: The Fairies of Sadieville: A Novel of the Tufa

Series: #6 of The Tufa Novels

Author: Alex Bledsoe

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Release date: April 10, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Charming and lyrical, The Fairies of Sadieville concludes Alex Bledsoe’s widely-praised contemporary fantasy series about the fairy descendants of Appalachia. “This is real.” Three small words on a film canister found by graduate students Justin and Veronica, who discover a long-lost silent movie from more than a century ago. The startlingly realistic footage shows a young girl transforming into a winged being. Looking for proof behind this claim, they travel to the rural foothills of Tennessee to find Sadieville, where it had been filmed. Soon, their journey takes them to Needsville, whose residents are hesitant about their investigation, but Justin and Veronica are helped by Tucker Carding, who seems to have his own ulterior motives. When the two students unearth a secret long hidden, everyone in the Tufa community must answer the most important question of their entire lives―what would they be willing to sacrifice in order to return to their fabled homeland of Tír na nÓg?

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Title: Indian Tales

Author: Patrick Healy

Narrator: Denise Kahn

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Release date: April 3, 2018

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

The teacher, Patrick Healy, traveled around the world, talked with people in different places, and collected around half thousand myths, legends, and folktales and their several alternative versions. His opinion and comments (directly or indirectly) are inevitable. This is the seventh volume of his work, 30 Indian Tales, in his words. He retold the stories with his own opinion and approach to them. Patrick is an Australian writer who has an abiding interest in the folklore of different cultures. He has lived and worked in Hong Kong for over twenty-five years as a high school teacher. Patrick has traveled extensively throughout Asia and speaks both Cantonese and Mandarin fluently.

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Title: The Last Watchman of Old Cairo: A Novel

Author: Michael David Lukas

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Release date: March 13, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

In this “wonderfully rich” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the author of the internationally bestselling The Oracle of Stamboul, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets.   “This book is a joy.”—Rabih Alameddine, author of the National Book Award finalist An Unnecessary Woman WINNER OF: THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S SOPHIE BRODY AWARD • THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • THE SAMI ROHR PRIZE FOR JEWISH LITERATURE • Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the BBC • Longlisted for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Fiction Prize • A Penguin Random House International One World, One Book Selection • Honorable Mention for the Middle East Book Award   Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the centuries-old history that binds the two sides of his family.    From the storied Ibn Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo, where generations of his family served as watchmen, to the lives of British twin sisters Agnes and Margaret, who in 1897 leave Cambridge on a mission to rescue sacred texts that have begun to disappear from the synagogue, this tightly woven multigenerational tale illuminates the tensions that have torn communities apart and the unlikely forces that attempt to bridge that divide.    Moving and richly textured, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo is a poignant portrait of the intricate relationship between fathers and sons, and an unforgettable testament to the stories we inherit and the places we are from. Praise for The Last Watchman of Old Cairo “A beautiful, richly textured novel, ambitious and delicately crafted, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo is both a coming-of-age story and a family history, a wide-ranging book about fathers and sons, religion, magic, love, and the essence of storytelling. This book is a joy.”—Rabih Alameddine, author of the National Book Award finalist An Unnecessary Woman “Lyrical, compassionate and illuminating.”—BBC “Michael David Lukas has given us an elegiac novel of Cairo—Old Cairo and modern Cairo. Lukas’s greatest flair is in capturing the essence of that beautiful, haunted, shabby, beleaguered yet still utterly sublime Middle Eastern city.”—Lucette Lagnado, author of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit and The Arrogant Years “Brilliant.”—The Jerusalem Post