29 Best Short Stories (single author) Books
Short Stories (single author) is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Short Stories (single author) audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Short Stories (single author) audiobooks below.
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Hollywood and Venal
- By: Nat Segaloff
- Narrator: Nat Segaloff
- Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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5(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USD“Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.” — Oscar Levant Sometimes fiction is the best way to tell the truth. In this, his first collection of short stories, Nat Segaloff (Final Cuts,“Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.” — Oscar Levant
Sometimes fiction is the best way to tell the truth. In this, his first collection of short stories, Nat Segaloff (Final Cuts, Guarding Gable, Mr. Huston/Mr. North) reveals the truth behind some of Hollywood’s biggest scandals, agendas, and confidences.
First published by reporter/columnist Nikki Finke on her acclaimed website HollywoodDementia.com, these romans-a-clef (stories with a key) expose long-hidden secrets about the Blacklist, the Oscars, publicity stunts, studio follies, ageism, celebrity weirdness, and other gambits that, even today, are barely whispered–if they are discussed at all. For half a century author Segaloff has been a publicist, critic, historian, and producer (not all at the same time) absorbing film industry lore. And he kept notes. Where he could use real names, he put them into his memoirs Screen Saver and Screen Saver Too (both from BearManor). Where he had to hide identities, he saved them for Hollywood and Venal.
Here is a collection of funny, revealing, moving, and sometimes absurd narratives, every one of which has its origins in an actual Hollywood event, legend, mindset, pitch, or occurrence known personally to the author. Listeners are invited to guess who.
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Evergreen: A Dryad’s Tale and Other Short Stories
- By: Sara Goodwin
- Narrator: Angie Hickman
- Length: 1 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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5(5 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDWhat if the pond in the park was a gateway to another world? What if there really were faeries in the rose garden? Within these pages are contained: a dryad mistaken for a gardener, a bit of good old-fashioned frog kissing, gnomes in love, a heroicWhat if the pond in the park was a gateway to another world? What if there really were faeries in the rose garden? Within these pages are contained: a dryad mistaken for a gardener, a bit of good old-fashioned frog kissing, gnomes in love, a heroic faerie prince, hot chocolate, and an elk named Bianca. Four original fairytales, a short novella, and more–inspired by the author’s love of fairytales.
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Savy Wisdom
- By: Peggy McColl
- Narrator: Peggy McColl
- Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.63(61 ratings)
4.63(61 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDWe’re all faced with challenges in our lives which in the moment often seem unsurmountable and hopeless. That was the case for Sophie, a high school student who found herself sitting on a park bench one torturous autumn day, ready to end herWe’re all faced with challenges in our lives which in the moment often seem unsurmountable and hopeless. That was the case for Sophie, a high school student who found herself sitting on a park bench one torturous autumn day, ready to end her life and her struggle.
In Sophie’s moment of truth, a stranger suddenly appeared next to her, offering his handkerchief which was embroidered with these words:
“If you want your life to change, you must change.”
Little did she know the adventure she was about to embark upon as a young woman, inspired by a mysterious man who called himself Savy. Sophie discovers more and more about who she truly is, unmasking the illusion of her false identity and limitations, paving her road to endless love, abundance, and a life beyond her wildest dreams.
You’ll find that this audiobook is a fun and suspenseful parable based on real-life events that inspires you to move from victim to victor with actionable takeaways for the betterment of your life.
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The Gargoyle’s Handbook
- By: Marc Laidlaw
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.62(8 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDFrom the writer of the blockbuster videogame Half-Life, ten stories of the bard with a gargoyle’s hand For over a quarter of a century, Gorlen Vizenfirthe has entertained fans of wandering bards. Famous for playing his silver-strung eduldamerFrom the writer of the blockbuster videogame Half-Life, ten stories of the bard with a gargoyle’s hand
For over a quarter of a century, Gorlen Vizenfirthe has entertained fans of wandering bards. Famous for playing his silver-strung eduldamer with one hand of flesh and one of stone, he has traveled from the dankest dens of Dankden to the desiccated domiciles of Wumnal Wells, first in search of a gargoyle with a hand of flesh, and then, partnered with said goyle, on the trail of the elusive wizard who swapped their hands in the first place.
The Gargoyle’s Handbook collects for the first time all the Gorlen tales that take place before the events of the novel, Underneath the Oversea. Herein are short stories about sinister cats and singing ships, novelettes of musical curses and trap-setting birds, novellas of transmogrified pilgrims and metaphysical moths–well over a hundred thousand weird and wonderful words, which is barely enough to describe Gorlen’s world.
For fans of Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber, or sword and sorcery with more stringed instruments. For listeners of Underneath the Oversea curious to learn how Gorlen found his family. Or for those who simply want a pocket guide to strange new lands. The Gargoyle’s Handbook might be just the handy manual you’ve been looking for.
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Lost Cantos of the Ouroboros Caves
- By: Maggie Schein
- Narrator: Janis Ian
- Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.61(11 ratings)
4.61(11 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDA collection of fables in the literary tradition of Italo Calvino, Lost Cantos of the Ouroboros Caves brings together medicine men, monks, immortals, witches, seekers, souls in various stages of their cycles in and out of lived-life, and theA collection of fables in the literary tradition of Italo Calvino, Lost Cantos of the Ouroboros Caves brings together medicine men, monks, immortals, witches, seekers, souls in various stages of their cycles in and out of lived-life, and the occasional talking animal, all searching for the meaning of it all and each other.
Each fable is a meditation on love, death, growth, pain, identity, self, spirit, and the natural world, as seen from the perspectives of the primal, the celestial, or the spiritual. Fragile yet beautifully strong, Lost Cantos of the Ouroboros Caves is for anyone seeking stories for a larger life.
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How We Disappear
- By: Tara Lynn Masih
- Narrator: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.52(52 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDIn How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers listeners transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone–runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame AgathaIn How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers listeners transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone–runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie.
From the remote Siberian taiga to the harsh American frontier, from rural Long Island to postwar Belgium, Masih’s characters are diverse in identity and circumstance, defying the burden of erasure by disappearing into or emerging from physical and emotional landscapes.
Described as “masterful” and as “striking and resonant” (Publishers Weekly), Masih’s fiction, crossing boundaries between historical and contemporary, sparks with awareness that nothing and no one is ever gone for good–and that the wilderness is never quite behind us.
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Love and Death in the Moose League
- By: Ryan W. Bradley
- Narrator: Elijah Alexander
- Length: 28 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.5(10 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.001.95 USDFrom the collection Nothing but the Dead and Dying During his years in the majors, Floyd Patterson had pitched for everyone–Oakland, Cleveland, Cincinnati, even the Marlins. Now he’s an Anchorage Lumberjack, and no one, perhaps not evenFrom the collection Nothing but the Dead and Dying
During his years in the majors, Floyd Patterson had pitched for everyone–Oakland, Cleveland, Cincinnati, even the Marlins. Now he’s an Anchorage Lumberjack, and no one, perhaps not even Patterson himself, has any idea what the hell he’s doing toeing the rubber in Alaska’s Moose League. But when Jennifer Tisch of the Anchorage Daily News goes looking for a story, she soon learns there’s much more to the tough-talking, hard-drinking Patterson than meets the eye.
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The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrator: Vincent Price
- Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: December 27, 2003
- Language: English
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4.49(424 ratings)
4.49(424 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDUniversally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid, Edgar Allan Poe’s dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre. Now, Caedmon Audio presents a classic collection of Poe’s most terrifyingUniversally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid, Edgar Allan Poe’s dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre.
Now, Caedmon Audio presents a classic collection of Poe’s most terrifying tales performed by two of the most brilliant interpreters of his work, Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone. Between them, they perform 20 of Poe’s chilling stories and poems, creating an unforgettably intense listening experience.
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* The Gold Bug
* The Imp of the Perverse
* Ligeia Performed by Vincent Price
* The Tell-Tale Heart
* The Pit and the Pendulum
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Escape to Darling Cove
- By: Holly Hepburn
- Narrator: Karen Cass
- Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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4.49(163 ratings)
4.49(163 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThe brand new series from Holly Hepburn, perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley and Katie Fforde. Originally published as novellas, this paperback contains all fours parts of the story from irresistible beginning to heart-warming conclusion. Eve hasThe brand new series from Holly Hepburn, perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley and Katie Fforde. Originally published as novellas, this paperback contains all fours parts of the story from irresistible beginning to heart-warming conclusion.
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Eve has always lived on Ennisfarne, an idyllic island just off the coast of Northumberland and only accessible when tides are low. There she runs a bar overlooking Darling Cove, a heavenly horseshoe-shaped beach named after her seafaring ancestors, whose links to the Farne Islands stretch back centuries.
Logan is a famous photographer desperate to evade the limelight after a difficult break-up. Renting a cottage from Eve, he chooses Ennisfarne in the hope of anonymity but is immediately spellbound by its natural beauty.
The pair don’t get off to the best start, butting heads over Eve’s adorable but boisterous Chocolate Labrador. But when Logan’s true identity is revealed, Eve realises her new tenant isn’t quite the man she thought he was. Is it too late to start again or will Logan’s island escape be over almost before it’s begun?
The brand new novel from Holly Hepburn, author of Coming Home to Brightwater Bay, will whisk you away to a sublime seaside retreat you’ll never want to leave. -
Postcards From Stella Maris
- By: Susan M. Boyer
- Narrator: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 1 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Stella Maris Books, LLC
- Publish date: February 08, 2023
- Language: English
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4.47(282 ratings)
4.47(282 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFor Fans of the Liz Talbot Mystery Series… Postcards From Stella Maris is a collection of five short stories for fans of the series who might be interested, for example, in Colleen’s backstory. I wrote the short story “CommonFor Fans of the Liz Talbot Mystery Series… Postcards From Stella Maris is a collection of five short stories for fans of the series who might be interested, for example, in Colleen’s backstory. I wrote the short story “Common Knowledge” for myself years ago, as a way to explore what happened to Colleen. As you might imagine, it’s not as light as the series in general. This story has never been published anywhere before. Eviction” is the story of how Liz first met Rhett, her golden retriever, back when she was married to Scott the Scoundrel. This story is also not lighthearted, and it likewise has never been published before. “Hogwash” originally appeared in Spinetingler Magazine. This is a fun little case which introduces the character of Zeke Lyerly, who appears in Lowcountry Bonfire. “Highlights and Hot Lead” originally appeared in The Petigru Review. This is a Stella Maris slice of life story featuring Shannelle Johnson, a local judge’s wife, and it takes place entirely at Phoebe’s Day Spa. “Everything is Relative” is a peek inside a Talbot family Thanksgiving. A few of Mamma’s recipes are included at the end. If by chance you’ve stumbled on this collection of stories, but you’ve never read a Liz Talbot mystery, I would encourage you to start with Lowcountry Boil (A Liz Talbot Mystery, Book 1) and come back to these stories later. I so hope you enjoy these glimpses into Liz Talbot’s formative years, her unfortunate first marriage, and her life between major cases. Warmly, Susan M. Boyer
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A Confirmed Rake
- By: Martha Keyes
- Narrator: Ella Lynch
- Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: January 10, 2023
- Language: English
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4.47(959 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWhen Rebecca Russell’s brother marries, she finally has the opportunity she has been dreaming of: to leave the seclusion of her reclusive grandfather’s home and enter into society. But when her inexperience has her making blunders andWhen Rebecca Russell’s brother marries, she finally has the opportunity she has been dreaming of: to leave the seclusion of her reclusive grandfather’s home and enter into society. But when her inexperience has her making blunders and courting embarrassment, help comes from an unexpected source: the brooding, irritable brother of her chaperone. Valentine Donovan is a rake, mountains of gaming debt and all. With his only hope for financial relief tied up in the Admiralty Court, he must temporarily rely on his father’s charity–and all the strings attached to it. His father demands Valentine show evidence that he is changing his ways, so when the engaging but naive young woman living with his sister presents a plan, he can’t refuse the opportunity to fulfill some of his father’s requirements, albeit reluctantly. But Valentine is unprepared for Rebecca’s guileless optimism and how impossible he finds it to say no to her increasingly onerous requests–requests that put both their hearts and reputations in danger. A Confirmed Rake is the second in Martha Keyes’s The Donovans regency-set romance series. Each book can be treated as a standalone.
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All the Ruined Men
- By: Bill Glose
- Narrator: Shawn Compton
- Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 02, 2022
- Language: English
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4.45(62 ratings)
4.45(62 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDFor fans of Phil Klay, Kevin Powers, and Tim O’Brien: Dramatic, powerful, authentic short stories of soldiers fighting a “forever war,” in combat and back home. Combat takes a different toll on each soldier; so does coming home.For fans of Phil Klay, Kevin Powers, and Tim O’Brien: Dramatic, powerful, authentic short stories of soldiers fighting a “forever war,” in combat and back home.
Combat takes a different toll on each soldier; so does coming home. All the Ruined Men by Bill Glose comprises linked stories that show veterans struggling for normalcy as they grapple with flashbacks, injuries (both physical and psychological), damaged relationships, loss of faith, and loss of memory. Beginning in 2003, All the Ruined Men spans ten years, from the confident beginning of America’s “forever war” to the confusion and disillusionment that followed.
As a former paratrooper and Gulf War veteran, author Bill Glose is closely bound to these stories. Drawing from his own experiences and military knowledge, Glose presents a cast of complex and sympathetic characters: young men who embraced what seemed like a war of just cause, who trained and fought and lived and died together, and who have returned to families, wives, children, civilian life, and an America that has lost its way.
Unforgettable, moving, filled with moments of anguish, doubt, love, hope, and other emotions, All the Ruined Men is a singular debut collection.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
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Here in Hart’s Crossing
- By: Robin Lee Hatcher
- Narrator: Aimee Lilly
- Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Two Words Publishing
- Publish date: September 14, 2021
- Language: English
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4.44(508 ratings)
4.44(508 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIn the charming town of Hart’s Crossing, neighbors still care about neighbors and visitors are offered a respite from fast-paced living as they observe the antics of the town’s lovable residents. In this wonderful collection of fourIn the charming town of Hart’s Crossing, neighbors still care about neighbors and visitors are offered a respite from fast-paced living as they observe the antics of the town’s lovable residents.
In this wonderful collection of four novellas, a daughter returns home from the big city to care for her injured mother, childhood sweethearts reconnect after decades apart, a single mom finds herself the target of her starry-eyed daughter’s matchmaking scheme, and a young couple struggles to find their own American dream.
Celebrating family, faith, and forgiveness, Here in Hart’s Crossing will warm your heart and soothe your spirit.
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The Winter Father
- By: Andre Dubus
- Narrator: Robert Fass
- Length: 15 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.41(29 ratings)
4.41(29 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDWhile the title novella of Dubus’ Finding a Girl in America returns to the somewhat off-the-rails literary life of Hank Allison, the collection’s opening story strikes a much darker tone: “Killings”–the basis of theWhile the title novella of Dubus’ Finding a Girl in America returns to the somewhat off-the-rails literary life of Hank Allison, the collection’s opening story strikes a much darker tone: “Killings”–the basis of the Academy Award-nominated film In the Bedroom–is a swift tale of revenge that leaves readers wondering what they might do in the name of family love.
Dubus’ prowess with narrative compression is on full display in the story “Waiting”: the hollow ache experienced by a woman widowed by the Korean War took Dubus fourteen months to write and was more than one hundred pages in early manuscript form but spans a mere seven pages in published form.
Writing in the New York Times Book Review, Joyce Carol Oates called “The Pretty Girl”–the opening novella of The Times Are Never So Bad–“the most compelling and suspenseful work of fiction [Dubus] has written.”
Richard Russo’s introduction to this volume grapples with his complex feelings on reading Dubus’ work over many decades, but when it comes to the much-anthologized masterpiece “A Father’s Story,” Russo writes: “I won’t mince words. It’s one of the finest stories ever penned by an American.”
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The Complete Stories
- By: Clarice Lispector
- Narrator: various narrators
- Length: 22 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.36(1783 ratings)
4.36(1783 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDHere, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. These stories cover her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artisticHere, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. These stories cover her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don’t know what to do with themselves–and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives–and hers–and ours.
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The Art of Victory
- By: Martha Keyes
- Narrator: Ella Lynch
- Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 13, 2022
- Language: English
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4.36(397 ratings)
4.36(397 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDDiana Donovan was raised aboard a naval ship on a steady diet of war strategy, so when her orphaned friend, Lucy, is denied a perfectly respectable love match by her controlling guardian, Diana sees an opportunity to put her battle knowledge to useDiana Donovan was raised aboard a naval ship on a steady diet of war strategy, so when her orphaned friend, Lucy, is denied a perfectly respectable love match by her controlling guardian, Diana sees an opportunity to put her battle knowledge to use in service of a deserving friend. But Marmaduke Russell is not the middle-aged curmudgeon Diana is expecting. He is a maddeningly cool unmarried gentleman who seems uniquely able to parry her tactics–and infuse her with even more determination to win. As battle ensues, though, it becomes clear that there may be more hearts in the balance than just Lucy’s. The Art of Victory is the first in Martha Keyes’s The Donovans regency-set romance series. Each book can be treated as a standalone.
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Big World
- By: Mary Miller
- Narrator: Mary Miller
- Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.34(432 ratings)
4.34(432 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDA short story collection full of powerful prose and remarkably genuine characters from the author of The Last Days of California The collection of stories, produced by Andi Arndt, is performed by the author along with a stunning cast of NashvilleA short story collection full of powerful prose and remarkably genuine characters from the author of The Last Days of California
The collection of stories, produced by Andi Arndt, is performed by the author along with a stunning cast of Nashville stars, including Janis Ian, Mary Gauthier, Telisha Williams, Amy Speace, and Louise Mosrie.
The characters in Mary Miller’s debut short story collection, Big World, are at once autonomous and lonesome, possessing both a longing to connect with those around them and a cynicism regarding their ability to do so, whether they’re holed up in a motel room in Pigeon Forge with an air-gun-shooting boyfriend, as in “Fast Trains,” or navigating the rooms of their house with their dad after their mother’s death as in “Leak.” Mary Miller’s writing is unapologetically honest and efficient, and the gut-wrenching directness of her prose is reminiscent of Mary Gaitskill and Courtney Eldridge, if Gaitskill’s and Eldridge’s stories were set in the South and reeked of spilled beer and cigarette smoke.
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Stories of the Golden West, Book 5
- By: Jon Tuska
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.33(14 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA collection of classic Western tales “Ca+|on Walls” by Zane Grey Smoke Bellew enters a remote Mormon settlement only a jump ahead of a posse. Finding employment as a ranch hand working for a dowager Mormon, Smoke finds that his lifeA collection of classic Western tales
“Ca+|on Walls” by Zane Grey
Smoke Bellew enters a remote Mormon settlement only a jump ahead of a posse. Finding employment as a ranch hand working for a dowager Mormon, Smoke finds that his life undergoes a transformation and he is able to make her ranch a financial success, at the same time falling in love with her wanton daughter, Rebecca. But it is too good to last. The law follows him.
“Black Sheep” by Max Brand
Young Mary Valentine–upstart, tomboy, and general troublemaker–is seeking to protect a man wanted by the law. To complicate her life even further, her two cousins, who have been dodging the law, return home and decide with their father to join the notorious Markle gang in holding up the local bank.
“Showdown on the Hogback” by Louis L’Amour
Tom Kedrick is hired by a financial syndicate to run off a gang of vagrants and outlaws from a certain strip of land. Kedrick sets out to serve justice, but to his dismay, these “vagrants and outlaws” turn out to be hard working ranchers and farmers also claiming the land.
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Stories of the Golden West, Book 3
- By: Jon Tuska
- Narrator: Christopher Lane
- Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.33(9 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA collection of classic Western tales Tappan’s Burro by Zane Grey Prospecting was lonely business for Tappan, but his burro Jenet was good company, and she knew the trails and waterholes better than Tappan. She tracked with him, faithful, hisA collection of classic Western tales
Tappan’s Burro by Zane Grey
Prospecting was lonely business for Tappan, but his burro Jenet was good company, and she knew the trails and waterholes better than Tappan. She tracked with him, faithful, his only friend. And he repays her with a final, supreme effort of heart, will, and spirit.
Jargan by Max Brand
Jargan, a summer gambler wintering in the western town of Big Horn, saves the life of Don Jos+(r) Cordoba and unwittingly acquires a new job. Soon he finds himself on a boat to Buenos Aires as the handler–and protector–of two extraordinary horses.
The Trail to Crazy Man by Louis L’Amour
Shanghaied into forced labor on a merchant vessel, Charles Rodney dies aboard ship from repeated beatings–but not before deeding part of his ranch to Rafe Caradec, whom he hopes will protect his family.
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The Birthday of the World
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Length: 14 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 04, 2019
- Language: English
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4.32(3804 ratings)
4.32(3804 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDThe recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, five Hugo Awards and five Nebula Awards, the renowned writer Ursula K. Le Guin has, in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever-evolving universeThe recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, five Hugo Awards and five Nebula Awards, the renowned writer Ursula K. Le Guin has, in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters reminiscent of our earthly selves. Now, in The Birthday of the World, this gifted artist returns to these worlds in eight brilliant short works, including a never-before-published novella, each of which probes the essence of humanity.
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrator: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 11, 2008
- Language: English
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4.31(75610 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDEleven short stories including The Musgrave Ritual, The Reigate Squires and The Final Problem. -
To Charles Fort, with Love
- By: Caitlin R. Kiernan
- Narrator: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.29(227 ratings)
4.29(227 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDTo Charles Fort, With Love is award-winning fantasist Caitlin R. Kiernan’s third collection of short fiction, a haunting parade of the terrible things which may lie beyond the boundaries of science, the minds which may exist beyond psychology,To Charles Fort, With Love is award-winning fantasist Caitlin R. Kiernan’s third collection of short fiction, a haunting parade of the terrible things which may lie beyond the boundaries of science, the minds which may exist beyond psychology, and the forbidden places which will never be located in any orthodox globe. To quote the object of Kiernan’s affection, meta-poet and arch-enemy of dogma Charles Hoy Fort, “The little harlots will caper, and freaks will distract attention, and the clowns will break the rhythm of the whole with their buffooneries–but the solidity of the procession as a whole: the impressiveness of things that pass and pass and pass, and keep on and keep on and keep on coming.” A deceptively even dozen, this collection includes Kiernan’s celebrated stories “Onion” and “Andromeda among the Stones,” as well as a number of more obscure pieces. Though Kiernan was recently praised as “the new Lovecraft,” these stories stand as testimony that she will never be merely the “new” anyone, that hers is a unique and demanding voice entirely unlike any other.
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Short Tails
- By: Spencer Quinn
- Length: 1 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 18, 2022
- Language: English
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4.29(224 ratings)
4.29(224 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USDFrom Spencer Quinn, short stories in the New York Times and USA Todaybestselling series that Stephen King calls “without a doubt the most original mystery series currently available.” This collection of short stories of Chet the dog,From Spencer Quinn, short stories in the New York Times and USA Todaybestselling series that Stephen King calls “without a doubt the most original mystery series currently available.”
This collection of short stories of Chet the dog, “the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction” (Boston Globe), and his human partner, PI Bernie Little includes: “Upper Story,” “The Iggy Papers,” and “The Numbers After Two.”
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The John Varley Reader
- By: John Varley
- Narrator: various narrators
- Length: 26 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.28(492 ratings)
4.28(492 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDFrom the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing. His stories won every award the science fiction field had to offer, many times over. His first collection, The Persistence ofFrom the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing. His stories won every award the science fiction field had to offer, many times over. His first collection, The Persistence of Vision, published in 1978, was the most important collection of the decade and changed what fans would come to expect from science fiction.
Now, The John Varley Reader gathers his best stories, many out of print for years. This is the volume no Varley fan–or science fiction reader–can do without.
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Dare Me
- By: Samantha Chase
- Narrator: Carly Robins
- Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 10, 2022
- Language: English
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4.28(459 ratings)
4.28(459 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDOne year ago, Arianna Donovan and Will Jameson met on a dare and spent a perfect 24 hours together before going their separate ways. She thought they would stay in touch, but he disappeared without a word. Arianna thought she’d moved on. ButOne year ago, Arianna Donovan and Will Jameson met on a dare and spent a perfect 24 hours together before going their separate ways. She thought they would stay in touch, but he disappeared without a word. Arianna thought she’d moved on. But when Will shows up at a family dinner with her older–and very protective–brother, she’s angry and confused. How could he possibly forget to mention that he was friends with her brother? No one knows about their shared past, and Arianna wants to keep things that way, no matter how tempting Will is. When he walked away a year ago, Will thought it was for the best. Staying away from Arianna is the smart thing to do, especially with how protective her older brother–his friend and fellow soldier–can be. Time and distance will work wonders when you’re trying to stay away from someone. Now that he’s seen her again, he forgets all about doing the smart thing. He’ll just have to first convince her to let go of her anger and give him another chance. Will isn’t above playing the nostalgia card, and when he challenges Arianna to a sexy game of truth or dare, she can’t resist. Neither one is ready to tell the world what they’re doing, but how long can they possibly keep things a secret when there are Donovans ready to meddle around every corner?
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The Perfect Arrangement
- By: Katie Ganshert
- Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: September 29, 2015
- Language: English
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4.27(306 ratings)
4.27(306 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDThey’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection. Meeting Nate was truly an accident—but Amelia findsThey’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.
Meeting Nate was truly an accident—but Amelia finds that he’s one of the few people she can count on.
Amelia Woods is a small-town wallflower and the proud owner of Forget-Me-Nots, a quaint flower shop that once belonged to her mother. Despite her success in business, her love life has always been a bit lackluster. Until she spies on her ex-boyfriend’s wedding and ends up in a horrifyingly embarrassing fender-bender with handsome wedding guest, Nate Gallagher.
Meanwhile, Amelia’s younger brother, William, has proposed to his girlfriend. Amelia would be excited except she has evidence that the fiancée is not who she says she is. How can she be supportive and yet be the protective big sister too? It seems Nate is the only one available for any advice-giving, and he’s good at it—and pretty fun to talk to, too. Amelia and Nate strike up an online relationship, but always lingering in Amelia’s mind is the fear that he’ll realize she’s not nearly as appealing in real life.
As Amelia works to craft the perfect flower arrangements for other people—including a ninety-year-old “fairy godmother” named George—she begins to wonder if real love is better than the dream. And if it is, will Nate still be interested when he learns who she is?
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Five by Fitzgerald
- By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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4.27(75 ratings)
4.27(75 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDHere are five stories from one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century: Head and Shoulders, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. -
Essential Cheever
- By: John Cheever
- Narrator: Meryl Streep
- Length: 57 minutes
- Publisher: Caedmon
- Publish date: July 25, 2006
- Language: English
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4.26(39 ratings)
4.26(39 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDOne Great Author. One Great CD. Here are two magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have. As Cheever wrote, “These stories seem at times to beOne Great Author. One Great CD.
Here are two magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.
As Cheever wrote, “These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.”
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His Last Bow
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrator: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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4.25(36493 ratings)
4.25(36493 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDA body on the London Underground; the strange disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; a parcel containing some coarse salt and two freshly severed human ears. This collection of eight world-famous cases from Doctor Watson’s portfolio illustratesA body on the London Underground; the strange disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; a parcel containing some coarse salt and two freshly severed human ears. This collection of eight world-famous cases from Doctor Watson’s portfolio illustrates the singular mental faculties of Sherlock Holmes. In the course of his investigations, Holmes himself is struck down by a virulent Eastern disease, and we are reintroduced to his remarkable brother Mycroft: “all other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.” Finally, with the approach of the German War, Holmes emerges from retirement among his books and bees on the South Downs to lay his unique intellect at the disposal of the British Government, with the historic results disclosed in “His Last Bow.”
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