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

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Title: Notes from Small Planets: Your Pocket Travel Guide to the Worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Author: Nate Crowley

Narrator: Richard Trinder, Aysha Kala, Jot Davies

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Release date: September 17, 2020

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Journey from fantasy mountains to super-cities, through piratical seas and across space without missing any must-see sights – or putting a foot wrong with the locals! Whether you’re Lord of the shoestring-budget or Luxe Skywalker – Notes from Small Planets is your pastiche passport through the best worlds of Science Fiction & Fantasy Your ultimate travel guide to all the must-see locations in the worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy. The perfect gift for self-professed geeks and fans of all things genre – from classic genre readers to new young disciples of nerdery. From misty mountains to wizarding schools, from the homes of superheroes to lairs of infamous villains – visit your favourite worlds and discover new ones – all without ever missing a single landmark or traditional dish. What’s orc for ‘bon voyage’?

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Title: Beowulf: A New Translation

Author: Maria Dahvana Headley

Narrator: Jd Jackson, Maria Dahvana Headley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Release date: August 25, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

'Narrator JD Jackson addresses his listener as 'bro' in this decidedly contemporary retelling of the classic saga...His brilliant performance captures all the artistry, wit, and immediacy of this fresh translation, and breathes new life into what for most has been a literary fossil.' -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf—and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world—there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine, justice is rarely served, and dragons live among us. A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender, genre, and history—Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment, powerful men seeking to become more powerful, and one woman seeking justice for her child, but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation of Beowulf, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation. A Macmillan Audio production from MCD x FSG Originals 'Brash and belligerent, lunatic and invigorating, with passages of sublime poetry punctuated by obscenities and social-media shorthand.' --Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker 'The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale.'--Barbara VanDenburgh, USA Today

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Title: [Spanish] - La hija del sol

Author: Nacho Ares

Narrator: Manuel Sañudo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Release date: March 23, 2020

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

-Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. La próspera y alegre capital del imperio egipcio, Uaset, casi mil años a. C. está sufriendo uno de los peores momentos de su historia. Una plaga está exterminando a la población. Los sacerdotes del culto de Amón, corruptos y  manipuladores, quieren sacar partido de la situación, parapetados siempre tras sus privilegios. Es en esta situación que Akhenatón decide cambiar completamente la cultura religiosa y su influencia sobre la sociedad egipcia. Para desposeer de privilegios y prebendas a los sacerdotes de Amón, el primer paso será encontrar un lugar donde el faraón pueda establecer su nueva residencia y la de la corte, para después fundar el nuevo culto al dios Atón, que será la personificación divina del sol. Entonces empezará una batalla entre los sacerdotes de Amón que se resistirán por todos los medios a perder su estatus frente al faraón que junto con su mujer Nefertiti intentará instaurar el nuevo orden en la ciudad de Amarna.  Con la maestría de un narrador experto, Nacho Ares egiptólogo de reconocido prestigio hace llegar hasta nosotros la historia de las polémicas figuras de Akhenaton y Nefertiti, en su instauración del monoteísmo, aunque fuera de forma efímera, en Egipto. - Nacho Ares nació en León en 1970 y tras licenciarse en historia antigua por la Universidad de Valladolid ha dedicado gran parte de su vida a la investigación de los enigmas históricos que rodean al mundo del Antiguo Egipto. También ha obtenido el certificado en egiptología expedido por la Universidad de Manchester y tiene publicados hasta la actualidad 16 libros de los cuales 10 están dedicados a la cultura egipcia. Durante 10 años ha dirigido la Revista de arqueología que fue todo un referente del estudio de la antigüedad y la arqueología. Ha publicado más de 300 artículos en distintas revistas especializadas en arqueología y enigmas históricos y constantemente viaja a Egipto, donde recopila toda clase de información, que después publicá en forma de libros o da a conocer por medio de guiones de televisión o de radio.

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Title: [Spanish] - Los secretos de un recuerdo - dramatizado

Author: Andrea Golden

Narrator: Mariluz Parra

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Release date: December 12, 2019

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

-Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Alicia, una anciana de 90 años vive en Charleston, Estados Unidos, junto a su nieta Caly. Marc Bosch, abogado, llega un día a la ciudad buscándola y le comunica que va tener que testificar en el último gran juicio por crímenes contra la humanidad cometidos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en el que se juzgará a la madre de su cliente. En su confesión Alicia dará a conocer la inhumana existencia que vivió como mujer judía en tiempos de guerra y como su lucha por la supervivencia independientemente de las circunstancias de cada momento, la hizo seguir adelante para conseguir sobrevivir a cualquier precio. La nieta de Alicia, Caly, se debate entre la atracción que siente por el escritor Gael Brown, hijo de la acusada y luchador por la inocencia de su madre y la obligación de su abuela Alicia de testificar en su contra. - Andrea Golden es una escritora madrileña y profesional informática. Sus novelas son primariamente partes de los géneros de ficción histórica, romance, acción y aventuras. El ritmo de sus relatos es implacable, llevando al lector de un suceso al otro sin descanso.

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Title: The Camera Never Lies

Author: David Rawlings

Narrator: Jon Watson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Release date: December 3, 2019

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

One marriage. So many secrets. Can a camera that captures those secrets, exposing them through pictures, save the marriage or send it crashing into the sea? Kelly Whitely is at the height of her career, selling the latest miracle drug to doctors and pharmacies across the country. But concerns about the side effects have her longing for the day when she can quit her high-paying job and really focus on saving her marriage and teenage daughter. She keeps trying to talk to her husband, Daniel, about it, but every time she brings it up, he retreats further and further away from her. Daniel Whitely is a successful marriage counselor and bestselling author, yet secrets from the past have created a chasm between him and Kelly. To make matters worse, the deadline for his second book has come and gone, and he still hasn’t written a single word. But he doesn’t dare tell anyone, not even his wife. When Daniel inherits an old camera from his grandfather, he notices an inscription on the bottom: “No matter what you think you might see, the camera never lies.”  Daniel begins using the camera, but every time he develops his photos, they threaten to reveal secrets. Secrets about his own career, but also secrets about those around him, including Kelly. With each click of the camera, he risks exposure as a fraud, but if he doesn’t face the truths the photos reveal, what will happen to his marriage? To his family?   - A standalone short novel - Approximately 60,000 words - Includes discussion questions, perfect for book clubs Praise for The Camera Never Lies: 'In his intriguing novel, The Camera Never Lies, David Rawlings challenges us to wonder what our photographs would look like if our souls, not our faces, were captured by the lens. This fascinating story will capture your imagination and your heart.'—Rachel Hauck, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Dress “The camera never lies, and neither does this gripping story about unearthing our deepest secrets in the most fantastical of ways. A message relatable to us all, bottled in an adventure we all love to read.”—Melissa Ferguson, author of The Dating Charade 'A thought-provoking look at the real price that secrets extract—not just from the person keeping them, but from their loved ones, too.You'll close this story and be compelled to examine your own life . . . and also look at those around you and wonder, 'Who else looks like they have it all together but is drowning on the inside?''—Jessica Kate, author of Love and Other Mistakes

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Title: The Starless Sea

Author: Erin Morgenstern

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie, Fiona Hardingham, Bahni Turpin, Dominic Hoffman, Dion Graham, Allan Corduner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Release date: November 5, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 14

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. The magical new novel from the best-selling author of The Night Circus. Are you lost or are you exploring? When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library it leads him on a quest unlike any other. Its pages entrance him with their tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities and nameless acolytes, but they also contain something impossible: a recollection from his own childhood. Determined to solve the puzzle of the book, Zachary follows the clues he finds on the cover - a bee, a key and a sword. They guide him to a masquerade ball, to a dangerous secret club, and finally through a magical doorway created by the fierce and mysterious Mirabel. This door leads to a subterranean labyrinth filled with stories, hidden far beneath the surface of the earth. When the labyrinth is threatened, Zachary must race with Mirabel, and Dorian, a handsome barefoot man with shifting alliances, through its twisting tunnels and crowded ballrooms, searching for the end of his story. You are invited to join Zachary on the starless sea: the home of storytellers, story-lovers and those who will protect our stories at all costs. © Erin Morgenstern 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2018

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Title: Sudden Traveler: Stories

Author: Sarah Hall

Narrator: Mary Jane Wells

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Release date: October 8, 2019

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

“Sarah Hall is one of those rare writers whose short fiction has the same luminosity as her novels. But the short form allows her more room to probe and roam, to experiment with form, to sink her fingers into the earth.”—The Observer (London) Featuring her signature themes of identity, eroticism, and existential quest, the stories in Sarah Hall’s third collection travel far afield in location and ambition—from Turkish forest and coastline to the rain-drenched villages of Cumbria. The characters in Sudden Traveler walk, drive, dream, and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with their journeys through life, death, and love. Science fiction meets folktale and philosophy meets mortality. A woman with a new generation of pacemaker chooses to shut it down in the Lakeland, the site of her strongest memories. A man repatriated in the near east hears the name of an old love called and must unpack history’s dark suitcase. From the new world-waves of female anger and resistance, a mythical creature evolves. And in the woods on the border between warring countries, an old well facilitates a dictator’s downfall, before he gains power. A master of short fiction, Sarah Hall opens channels in the human mind and spirit and takes us to the very edge of our possible selves.

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Title: The Princess Beard: The Tales of Pell

Series: #3 of The Tales of Pell

Author: Kevin Hearne, Delilah S. Dawson

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Release date: October 8, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

This princess can shave herself! The hilarious bestselling authors of Kill the Farm Boy and No Country for Old Gnomes are back with a new adventure in the irreverent world of Pell. Once upon a time, a princess slept in a magical tower cloaked in thorns and roses.  When she woke, she found no Prince Charming, only a surfeit of hair and grotesquely long fingernails—which was, honestly, better than some creep who acted without consent. She cut off her long braids and used them to escape. But she kept the beard because it made a great disguise. This is not a story about finding true love’s kiss—it's a story about finding yourself. On a pirate ship. Where you belong. But these are no ordinary pirates aboard The Puffy Peach, serving under Filthy Lucre, the one-eyed parrot pirate captain. First there’s Vic, a swole and misogynistic centaur on a mission to expunge himself of the magic that causes him to conjure tea and dainty cupcakes in response to stress. Then there’s Tempest, who’s determined to become the first dryad lawyer—preferably before she takes her ultimate form as a man-eating tree. They’re joined by Alobartalus, an awkward and unelfly elf who longs to meet his hero, the Sn’archivist who is said to take dictation directly from the gods of Pell. Throw in some mystery meat and a dastardly capitalist plot, and you’ve got one Pell of an adventure on the high seas! In this new escapade set in the magical land of Pell, Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne lovingly skewer the tropes of fairy tales and create a new kind of fantasy: generous, gently humorous, and inclusive. There might also be otters.

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Title: Trinity Sight: A Novel

Author: Jennifer Givhan

Narrator: January LaVoy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Release date: October 1, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the 2020 Southwest Book Award “Our people are survivors,” Calliope’s great-grandmother once told her of their Puebloan roots—could Bisabuela’s ancient myths be true? Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared—or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape with a group of fellow survivors, confronting violent inhabitants, in search of answers. Long-dead volcanoes erupt, the ground rattles and splits, and monsters come to ominous life. The impossible suddenly real, Calliope will be forced to reconcile the geological record with the heritage she once denied if she wants to survive and deliver her unborn babies into this uncertain new world. Rooted in indigenous oral-history traditions and contemporary apocalypse fiction, Trinity Sight asks readers to consider science versus faith and personal identity versus ancestral connection. Lyrically written and utterly original, Trinity Sight brings readers to the precipice of the end-of-times and the hope for redemption.

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Title: The Water Dancer (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Narrator: Joe Morton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Release date: September 24, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 376

Ratings of Narrator: 4.56 of Total 73

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. “This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.”—San Francisco Chronicle IN DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Adapted by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kamilah Forbes, directed by Nia DaCosta, and produced by MGM, Plan B, and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • Vanity Fair • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • Paste • Town & Country • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known. So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures. This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children—the violent and capricious separation of families—and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today’s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen. Praise for The Water Dancer “Ta-Nehisi Coates is the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race with his 2015 memoir, Between the World and Me. So naturally his debut novel comes with slightly unrealistic expectations—and then proceeds to exceed them. The Water Dancer . . . is a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance. . . . What’s most powerful is the way Coates enlists his notions of the fantastic, as well as his fluid prose, to probe a wound that never seems to heal. . . . Timeless and instantly canon-worthy.”—Rolling Stone