Greatest Audiobooks Of Classics

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/217724 Title: Three Sisters Author: Anton Chekhov Narrator: Various Performers Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs 3 mins Language: English Release date: 2011-08-15 Publisher: LA Theatre Works Genres: Audio Theatre, Drama Publisher's Summary: A full-cast performance of Chekhovs masterpiece starring Jennifer Westfeldt, Tessa Thompson, Sarah Zimmerman and Jon Hamm. Meet Olga, Masha, and Irina, warm and cultured young sisters who were reared in the exciting hubbub of Moscow, but have been living in the dull, gossipy backwaters of Russia for far too long. With their fathers passing, and the ordinary grip of day-to-day life slowly suffocating them, the urge to return to the city with its rich and exciting life rises to a fever pitch. First performed in 1901, Three Sisters beautifully mixes humor and heartbreak and is a perennial favorite of actors and audiences alike. The great Russian playwright Anton Chekhov is one of the most

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/101443 Title: Prince Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Narrator: Nigel Carrington Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs 13 mins Language: English Release date: 2011-08-11 Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Philosophy, Classics Publisher's Summary: The Prince (1532) is a treatise that systematically charts the best strategies for successful governing. It unapologetically places realism above idealism, showing would-be kings how to get what they want while appearing to be generous and honourable, and advocates that the means 'cruelty, duplicity and terror' justify the ends of secure monarchical rule. But it can also be read as the work of a secret republican subtly undermining the despotism of the ruling Medici family. Hugely influential for nearly five centuries, and the reason the word 'Machiavellian' has its place in English, The Prince retains its status as the archetypal political primer. **Please contact m

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/146977 Title: Heart of Evil Author: Heather Graham Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs 20 mins Language: English Release date: 2011-06-28 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Genres: Romance, Mystery Publisher's Summary: Emerging from the bayou like an apparition, Donegal Plantation is known for its unsurpassed dining, captivating atmosphere, haunting legends...and now a corpse swinging from the marble angel that marks its cemetery's most majestic vault. A corpse discovered in nearly the same situation as that of Marshall Donegal, the patriarch killed in a skirmish just before the Civil War. Desperate for help traditional criminologists could never provide, plantation heiress Ashley Donegal turns to an elite team of paranormal investigators who blend hard forensics with rare - often inexplicable - intuition. Among the Krewe of Hunters is an old flame, Jake Mallory, a gifted musician with talent stretching far b

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/266225 Title: Before I Go To Sleep Author: S. J. Watson Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs 33 mins Language: English Release date: 2011-06-25 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: “The best debut novel I’ve ever read.” —Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series “An exceptional thriller. It left my nerves jangling for hours after I finished the last page.” —Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Moonlight Mile S. J. Watson makes his powerful debut with this compelling, fast-paced  psychological thriller, reminiscent of Shutter Island and Memento, in which an amnesiac who, following a mysterious accident, cannot remember her past or form new memories, desperately tries to uncover the truth about who she is—and who she can trust. Contact: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/97060 Title: Fun and Games Author: Duane Swierczynski Narrator: Pete Larkin Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs 30 mins Language: English Release date: 2011-06-20 Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense Publisher's Summary: The first of three explosive pulp thrillers arriving back-to-back from cult crime fiction sensation and Marvel Comics scribe Duane Swierczynski. Charlie Hardie, an ex-cop still reeling from the revenge killing of his former partner's entire family, fears one thing above all else: that he'll suffer the same fate. Languishing in self-imposed exile, Hardie has become a glorified house sitter. His latest gig comes replete with an illegally squatting B-movie actress who rants about hit men who specialize in making deaths look like accidents. Unfortunately, it's the real deal. Hardie finds himself squared off against a small army of the most lethal men in the world: The A

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/145402 Title: Eona Author: Alison Goodman Narrator: Nancy Wu Format: Unabridged Length: 18 hrs 42 mins Language: English Release date: 2011-04-19 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: Once she was Eon, a girl disguised as a boy, risking her life for the chance to become a Dragoneye apprentice. Now she is Eona, the Mirror Dragoneye, her country's savior - but she has an even more dangerous secret. She cannot control her power. Each time she tries to bond with her Mirror Dragon, she becomes a conduit for the ten spirit dragons whose Dragoneyes were murdered by Lord Ido. Their anguish floods through her, twisting her ability into a force that destroys the land and its people. And another force of destruction is on her trail. Along with Ryko and Lady Dela, Eona is on the run from High Lord Sethon's army. Sethon has declared himself Emperor. In order to stop him, the renegades mu

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/237184 Title: London Boulevard Author: Ken Bruen Narrator: David John Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs 42 mins Language: English Release date: 2011-03-10 Publisher: Transworld Digital Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories Publisher's Summary: When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years for a vicious attack he doesn't remember, he reluctantly finds himself caught up with Robert Gant, a ruthless lowlife with violent plans. Attempting to stay out of Gant's way, Mitchell finds work as a handyman at the mansion of a faded movie actress. When she eagerly plies him with cash, cars and sex, Mitch starts to wonder if even this job comes with a catch. But it isn't long before Mitchell's violent past catches up with him. When people close to him start getting hurt, Mitchell is forced to act, and take brutal on revenge on those who've stolen his life... Now adapted for the big screen in the 2010 Bl

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/173345 Title: Canadian Poetry: The Oxford Book of Verse (1913) Author: Wilfred Campbell Narrator: Deaver Brown, Harvard AB & MBA Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs 47 mins Language: English Release date: 2011-02-14 Publisher: Simply Magazine Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry Publisher's Summary: Contains an introduction; a description & biography of the primary editor & poet, William Wilfred Campbell, & secondary collaborator, poet Archibald Lampman & the 2 primary critics who sustained Canadian poetry during the 20th century, E. K. Brown & Douglas Bush & the bridge between generations, poet Duncan Campbell Scott. David Staines has continued that tradition. The Canadian government & academy adopted that role more recently. The 251 poems are read in entirely, with a light commentary at the end. Wilfred Campbell focuses on the English Canadian tradition since French Canadians had their own history & influences, though Mont

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/147991 Title: So Close the Hand of Death Author: J. T. Ellison Narrator: Joyce Bean Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs 19 mins Language: English Release date: 2011-01-03 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense Publisher's Summary: It's a hideous echo of a violent past. Across America, murders are being committed with all the twisted hallmarks of the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer and Son of Sam. The media frenzy explodes and Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson knows instantly that The Pretender is back...and he's got helpers. As The Pretender's disciples perpetrate their sick homages - stretching police and FBI dangerously thin - Taylor tries desperately to prepare for their inevitable showdown. And she must do it alone. To be close to her is to be in mortal danger, and she won't risk losing anyone she loves. But the isolation, the self-doubt and the rising body count are taki

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/208825 Title: Seagull Author: Anton Chekhov Narrator: Various Readers Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs 8 mins Language: English Release date: 2011-01-01 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Audio Theatre, Drama Publisher's Summary: The Seagull (Russian: , Chayka) is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The play was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingenue Nina, the fading leading lady Irina Arkadina, her son the experimental playwright Konstantin Treplyov, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin. (Wikipedia) Contact: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/205160 Title: Zeppelin's Passenger Author: Edward Phillips Oppenheim Narrator: Unknown Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs 40 mins Language: English Release date: 2011-01-01 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense Publisher's Summary: The Zeppelins Passenger is a tale of German espionage in England during World War I. Dreymarsh is a fictional backwater area in England with no apparent military value. The story begins with Dreymarsh residents discovering an observation car from a German zeppelin along with a Homburg hat near Dreymarsh. The mystery is further complicated when an Englishman, Mr. Hamar Lessingham, presents himself at Mainsail Haul which is the residence of Sir Henry Cranston. Lessingham bears with him, hand-carried letters from Major Richard Halstead, and a British prisoner of war in Germany. He presents them to Halsteads sister, Phillipa and Helen, Halsteads fiancée who have had no word

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/206038 Title: Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat Author: Johanna Spyri Narrator: Unknown Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs 3 mins Language: English Release date: 2011-01-01 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Foreign Language Titles, German Publisher's Summary: Heidi ist zurückgekehrt zum Alpöhi. Der ist darüber so froh, dass er nach Jahrzehnten zum ersten Mal wieder die Kirche im Dörfli aufsucht, worüber die Dorfbewohner erstaunt, aber erfreut sind. Er setzt sein Haus im Dörfli wieder instand, damit Heidi den Winter dort verbringen und die Schule besuchen kann. Heidi überzeugt den Geissenpeter, lesen zu lernen. Im folgenden Jahr hofft Heidi, dass Klara sie endlich besuchen kann. Aber erst kommt nur der Herr Doktor, um die Lage zu klären. Es gefällt ihm so gut, dass Klara tatsächlich im darauffolgenden Sommer nach einem Kuraufenthalt in Bad Ragaz in die Hütte des Alpöhi darf. Contact: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/200728 Title: Aliens Author: Murray Leinster Narrator: Tabithat Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr 21 mins Language: English Release date: 2011-01-01 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: The human race was expanding through the galaxy and so, they knew, were the Aliens. When two expanding empires meet war is inevitable. Or is it ? Contact: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/131733 Title: Pit and the Pendulum Author: Edgar Allen Poe Narrator: Michael Scott Format: Unabridged Length: 51 mins Language: English Release date: 2010-09-22 Publisher: Thought Audio Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics Publisher's Summary: This short story is about a man who is brought in front of the Spanish Inquisition and judgment passed upon him to suffer the horrors of the Pit in Toledo. Toledo, Spain is located just south of Madrid and was the center of the Spanish Inquisition. The Inquisition was originally intended to ensure the belief and practices of those who converted from Judaism and Islam, but the methods used for those who were judged to be heretics was torture. His torture involved being thrown into a pit, being drugged and strapped to a table where a large pendulum blade is slowly lowered directly over his awaiting body. Poe brings a real sense of fear during an intense episode of this single prison

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/284972 Title: Body Work Author: Sara Paretsky Narrator: Susan Ericksen Format: Abridged Length: 7 hrs 24 mins Language: English Release date: 2010-08-31 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense Publisher's Summary: The thing about Sara Paretsky is, shes toughnot because she observes the bone-breaker conventions of the private-eye genre but because she doesnt flinch from examining old social injustices others might find too shameful (and too painful) to dig up. The New York Times Book Review Doctors take days offwhy not PIs? V.I. Warshawski demands. But when Americas hardest-working private eye goes clubbing, a stranger is shot and dies in her arms. V.I. has been visiting Club Gouge, Chicagos edgiest nightspot, where a woman known as the Body Artist turns her naked body into a canvas for the audience to paint on. The show attracts all kinds of people, from a menacing off-duty cop to Ukrainia

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/82964 Title: Come to Win: Business Leaders, Artists, Doctors, and Other Visionaries on How Sports Can Help You Top Your Profession Author: Venus Williams Narrator: Mirron Willis, Paula Jai Parker-Martin, Abby Craden Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs 13 mins Language: English Release date: 2010-06-29 Publisher: HarperAudio Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness Publisher's Summary: Multiple grand slam tennis champion and entrepreneur, Venus Williams and 46 of her colleagues, friends, and mentors deliver a volume of invaluable wisdom, motivation, and inspiration. Come to Win demonstrates how the principles of competitive athletics translate into business success. With contributions from a wide range of men and women who reached the very top of their games—including former CEO and bestselling author Jack Welch, fashion designer Vera Wang, actor Denzel Washington, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—Venus Will

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/83030 Title: Forgotten Truth: The Truth Series Book 3 Author: Dawn Cook Narrator: Marguerite Gavin Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs 18 mins Language: English Release date: 2010-06-21 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy Publisher's Summary: Alissa is the only student living in the Hold, learning a millennium's worth of magic from the last surviving Master. Even shape-shifting to her dragon-like raku form is becoming second nature. But when a spell goes awry, Alissa is transported back four centuries to an era when the Hold and its city thrive with magic students and their tutors. Separated from the man she loves by four hundred years, Alissa's distress and confusion are causing her to lose control of her shape-shifting. If she can't return to her own time, Alissa will be permanently transformed into her bestial form with no memory of her human life—or her love. Cook's solid third no

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/208932 Title: Beautiful Things Happen When a Woman Trusts God Author: Sheila Walsh Narrator: Sheila Walsh Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs 46 mins Language: English Release date: 2010-03-01 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity Publisher's Summary: Do you ever question God's ability to catch you when you fall? Do shame, fear, and brokenness keep you from fully trusting God? Do you secretly believe your dreams are unreachable?  Do you secretly believe your dreams are unreachable?  You are not alone. This is a book about trust. How we fight it. How we learn to do it. How it transforms us. Life is not safe. That reality slips over us as we grow. Our response to the Father in that reality allows us either to swing higher and higher with the trust of a child . . . or fearfully shrink back from the swing set altogether. As we weigh that choice, God whispers: Trust me. In a remarkably transparent

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/141753 Title: Cold Day in Paradise Author: Steve Hamilton Narrator: Dan John Miller Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs 58 mins Language: English Release date: 2010-02-01 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories Publisher's Summary: Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner's death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, Maximilian Rose, convicted of the crimes has been locked in the state pen for years. But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan, where McKnight has traded his badge for a cozy cabin in the woods, a murderer with Rose's unmistakable trademarks appears to be back to his killing ways. With Rose locked away, McKnight can't understand who else would know the intimate details of the old murders - not to mention the signature blood-red rose left

Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/60778 Title: Sharpe's Gold: Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida, August 1810 Author: Bernard Cornwell Narrator: Frederick Davidson Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs 44 mins Language: English Release date: 2010-01-19 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure Publisher's Summary: Only a year after its stunning victory at Talavera in July of 1809, Wellington's Peninsular army'vastly outnumbered, its coffers empty'is on the brink of collapse. The Spanish government has fallen, and the last Spanish armies have been crushed by the French. But Wellington has one hope left: in the dangerous Portuguese hills lies a fortune in gold, enough gold perhaps to turn the Peninsular War around. And he knows of one fighting man capable of stealing it: Captain Richard Sharpe of the South Essex Regiment. This installment in the best-selling historical fiction series takes the charismatic Richar