eMedia: Downloadable Audiobooks - Fiction

The school of night [electronic resource] : a novel
Louis Bayard.
Antiquities collector Bernard Styles is hired to find a missing letter from the 1600s. It may be the clue to a hidden treasure; it may contain the long-sought formula for alchemy; it most certainly will prove the existence of a group of black arts scholars whom Shakespeare dubbed the School of Night.

Heart of steel [electronic resource]
Meljean Brook.
"Return to the gritty, alluring world of steampunk with the New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Duke. Growing up in the dangerous world of the Iron Seas, the mercenary captain of the airship Lady Corsair, Yasmeen, has learned to keep her heart hard as steel. Ruthless and cunning, her only loyalty is to her ship and her crew-until one man comes along and changes everything ... Treasurehunter Archimedes Fox isn't interested in the Lady Corsair-just the captain and the valuable da Vinci sketch she stole from him. When it attracts a dangerous amount of attention, Yasmeen and Archimedes journey to Horde-occupied Morocco- and straight into enemy hands."-- Provided by publisher.

Caleb's crossing [electronic resource]
Geraldine Brooks.
Bethia Mayfield, growing up in a tiny settlement amid pioneers and Puritans, is restless and curious, yearning for an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. When she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, the two forge a secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite, closely observed by Bethia.

Stand on Zanzibar [electronic resource]
John Brunner.
Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically--it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him...

A dark and lonely place [electronic resource]
Edna Buchanan.
In Miami, Police Detective Sgt. John Ashley hunts a woman linked to a murdered millionaire and finds she is the girl who's haunted his dreams since childhood. A century ago on America's southern frontier, John Ashley's ancestor was wrongly accused of murder and went on the run with his sweetheart. The lovers became the most colorful, compelling, and heartbreaking figures in Florida's violent outlaw history. Can the present-day couple break the tragic cycle imprinted on their DNA?

The Astral [electronic resource] : [a novel]
Kate Christensen.
Kicked out of the crumbling Brooklyn home that he thought was a happy one, poet Harry Quirk struggles to make sense of his literary, marital, financial, and parental failures while trying to get back into his estranged wife's good graces.

Fiction ruined my family [electronic resource]
Jeanne Darst.
Introducing a deeply funny, charismatic new voice: an entertaining memoir of a family haunted by its own myths and its obsessive idolization of the literary life. Jeanne Darst was born the youngest of four daughters in an old, celebrated family long past its glory days. For the early part of her life, the family survived on the memory of past generations' grandeur, and the romantic belief that Darst's father would restore that greatness with his destined career as a novelist...

Falling together [electronic resource] : a novel
Marisa De los Santos.
Pen, Will, and Cat met at college and struck up a remarkable friendship that sustained and shaped them for years, until it ended abruptly, and they went their separate ways. Now, six years later, Pen is a single mother of a five-year-old girl, living with her older brother in Philadelphia and trying to make peace with the sudden death of her father. She decides to accept Cat's invitation to go to their college reunion. What happens there sends them on a journey that changes everything.

Trespasser [electronic resource]
Paul Doiron.
While on patrol one evening, Bowditch receives a call for help: a woman has struck a deer on a secluded road. When he arrives on the scene, he finds blood in the road, but both the driver and the deer have vanished. The details of the disappearance seem eerily familiar as seven years earlier, lobsterman Erland Jefferts was convicted of rape and murder, but his supposed victim was later found alive in what was possibly an elaborate frame up. For Bowditch, doing nothing is not an option.

Theodore Boone [electronic resource] : the abduction
John Grisham.
When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.

Second grave on the left [electronic resource]
Darynda Jones.
Awakened by her friend in the middle of the night, Charley agrees to meet a girl who's been missing for days. Soon, Charley finds herself immersed in a mystery--and haunted by the Son of Satan.

Upon the midnight clear [electronic resource]
Sherrilyn Kenyon.
Born on Olympus as a goddess, Leta knows nothing of the human world. But a ruthless enemy has driven her from the world of dreams and into the home of the only man who can help her: Aidan. Her immortal powers are derived from human emotion--and his anger is just the fuel she needs to defend herself.--From publisher's description.

Bengal's heart [electronic resource]
Lora Leigh.
Reporter Cassa Hawkins has always supported Breed rights--especially in light of a specimen like Cabal St. Laurents, the epitome of the male animal. But when the Breeds are incriminated in a series of violent murders, it's left to Cassa and Cabal to discover the truth before they become prey.

Coyote's mate [electronic resource]
Lora Leigh.
For six years Anya Korbin worked with Del-Rey Delgato, the genetically altered rebel known as the Coyote Ghost, to free a group of coyote women kept in her father's lab. As Anya matured into a woman, she and Del-Rey grew close ... but then he broke his promise and killed her father. Now she must deal with her animalistic desire for the one who betrayed her.

Dawn's awakening [electronic resource]
Lora Leigh.
The runt of the lab she was created in, Dawn Daniels endured years of torture by her pride brother and the council soldiers. Finally freed from her torment, she's now a Breed Enforcer, in control of her own life. Until she's assigned to protect the one man destined to be her mate- and realizes it's far too easy to lose total control. An erotic thrill ride about genetically altered Breeds with feline DNA, and the humans who arouse their lust.

Saving Zoee [electronic resource]
Alyson Noeel.
Instead of a fresh start, high school provides more grief and isolation to Echo, whose older sister died a year earlier, but insights gained from Zoe's diary--a fifteenth birthday gift from Zoe's boyfriend--about her sister's life and death change Echo in ways she could have never expected.

10th anniversary [electronic resource]
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro.
Detective Lindsay Boxer's wedding plans are strained when a teenage mom is left for dead and her newborn is missing. Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is in the midst of the daunting case and her career rests on making sure a woman who is accused of murdering her husband is found guilty. When Lindsay discovers that the defendant might be innocent, it puts her at odds with her best friend, Yuki, and her boss, who needs her to focus on the missing child.

Now you see her [electronic resource]
James Patterson.
"A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York--including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes. Nina's secret life began nineteen years ago. She had looks to die for, a handsome police-officer husband, and a carefree life in Key West. When she learned she was pregnant with their first child, her happiness was almost overwhelming. But Nina's world is shattered when she unearths a terrible secret that causes her to run for her life and change her identity. Now, years later, Nina risks everything she's earned to return to Florida and confront the murderous evil she fled ..."

Cal Ripken, Jr.'s all-stars [electronic resource] : super-sized slugger
Cal Ripken with Kevin Cowherd.
Cody Parker is the new kid in school. He's overweight, he's scared, and he hates his new life in Dullsville, Maryland, aka Baltimore, where he's a target - okay, a big target - for brutal teasing. But he loves baseball. And despite his size, he plays third base like a dream. Too bad he's competing for the starting job on the Orioles of the Dulaney Babe Ruth League against budding hoodlum Dante Rizzo, who vows to squeeze Cody's head like a grape if he beats him out.

The thirteen hallows [electronic resource]
Michael Scott and Colette Freedman.
The Hallows have been used time and again in the battle with the Demonkind who once ruled this earth. The last time The Thirteen Hallows were gathered together was in the time of Arthur, when they were used to drive the Demonkind from this world and seal the entrance between this and the Otherworld. The battle cost Arthur his life, and with his death the age of the knights passed and the Hallows were dispersed into the safekeeping of the Guardians. Now someone is gathering them together.

Though not dead [electronic resource]
Dana Stabenow.
When Kate's Uncle Sam suddenly dies, she inherits a secluded homestead in mining territory and a letter that simply asks her to find his father. Sam's father mysteriously disappeared, along with a valuable artifact. What starts as a simple investigation quickly turns sour as Kate finds herself dodging bullets, literally.

The nearest exit [electronic resource]
Olen Steinhauer.
Milo Weaver has nowhere else to turn but back to the CIA in Olen Steinhauer's brilliant follow-up to the New York Times bestselling espionage novel THE TOURIST.

Victory Square [electronic resource]
Olen Steinhauer.
Olen Steinhauer's literary crime series set in Eastern Europe now comes full circle upon reaching the tumultuous 1980s as one of the People's Militia's earliest cases reemerges to torment its inspectors, including militia chief Emil Brod, the original detective on the case. His arrest of a revolutionary leader in the late 1940s resulted in the politician's imprisonment, but at the time Brod was too young to understand how great the cost would be. Only now, in 1989, when he is days from retirement and spends more an dmore time looking over his shoulder, does he realize that his actions in the line of duty may get him--and others--killed.

The last lie [electronic resource]
Stephen White.
Shortly after Alan and Lauren welcome their affluent new neighbors -- a legend in women's rights law and his beautiful wife -- the couple hosts a housewarming party that ends in quiet disaster. One guest, a young widow, elects to spend the night after indulging in too much wine, only to wake the next morning with no memory beyond getting ready for bed. Aware that something went terribly wrong, she goes to the police, starting a chain of events that will have devastating consequences for everyone involved.

Vortex [electronic resource]
Robert Charles Wilson.
Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled.