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Creepy fun for ages 9-12! Camp nights or camp frights? Every sleepaway camp promises memories that last a lifetime. But the memories from Camp Red Moon might give you nightmares! The campfire appears to dim when the moon turns blood red and strange creatures prowl the forest. Do you find a total lookalike at camp? Is it coincidence or is he a shapeshifter trying to take over your life? Why don't your competitors at the robotics competition see...

Winner of the 1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1990 Since the age of 11, Moses Berger has been obsessed with the Gursky clan, an insanely wealthy, profoundly seductive family of Jewish-Canadian descent. Now a 52-year-old alcoholic biographer, Berger is desperately trying to chronicle the stories of their lives, especially that of the mysterious Solomon Gursky, who may or may not have died in a plane crash. A ri...

A faded film star asks Detroit PI Amos Walker to get her out of a relationship with a deadly mobster. When Amos Walker was a teen, he had a poster of Gail Hope on his wall. A 60s bombshell in the beach-blanket tradition, she has fallen hard since her glory days as one of the dying studio system's final starlets. But when she calls on Amos Walker she remains as lovely as ever: an elegant beauty with a $750, 000 problem. Since her career evapora...

Ordinary Love At a reunion with her grown children, a woman recalls the long-ago affair that ended her relationship with their father--and changed all their lives irrevocably. Good Will Despite the carefully self-sufficient life he has designed for his small family, a man discovers that even the right choices have unexpected consequences--sometimes heartbreaking ones.

Du Pré investigates a gold mining company whose pollution might be poisoning the children of a nearby reservation Something is rotten in the Fort Belknap Reservation. Life has always been tough on this barren stretch just south of the Canadian border, but now the children are dying. While playing his fiddle in a reservation bar, part-time deputy Gabriel Du Pré meets an accordionist who suspects that the children's health defects and low test s...

The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Thirty thousand murdered since 2006, police chiefs shot within hours of taking office, mass graves comparable to those of civil wars, car bombs shattering storefronts, headless corpses heaped in town squares. The United States throws Black Hawk helicopters and drug agents at the problem. But in secret, Washington is confused and divided about what to do. "Who are these mysterious figure...

This selection of essays by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) demonstrate the varied power of his genius. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these writings show that beneath his trademark wit and love of paradox, Oscar Wilde was an original and remarkably modern writer.

Hornblower becomes a national hero when he escapes a French firing squad. But the 'Terror of the Mediterranean' becomes Europe's most wanted man, forced to fight alone for England - and liberty.

Hal Bregg is an astronaut who returns from a space mission in which only 10 biological years have passed for him, while 127 years have elapsed on Earth. He finds that the Earth has changed beyond recognition, filled with human beings who have been medically neutralized. How does an astronaut join a civilization that shuns risk?

Ijon Tichy is the only human who knows for sure whether the self-programming robots on the moon are plotting a terrestrial invasion. But a highly focused ray severs his corpus collosum. Now his left brain can't remember the secret and his uncooperative right brain won't tell. Tichy struggles for control of the lost memory and of his own two warring sides.

Among Howard Fast's historical fiction, Citizen Tom Paine--one of America's all-time bestsellers--occupies a special place, for it restored to a generation of readers the vision of Paine's revolutionary passion as the authentic roots of our national beginnings. Fast gives us "a vivid picture of Paine's mode of writing, idiosyncrasies, and character-generous, nobly unselfish, moody, often dirty, frequently drunken, a revolutionist by avocation"...

From Gwyneth Paltrow's modern lifestyle brand goop comes the Audible Original The goop Pursuit, a four-part audio series taking listeners on an intimate journey of learning and unlearning."Coming Home to Yourself"Psychologist and author of Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole Authentic Self, Dr. Thema Bryant, PhD, speaks with two women in the midst of major life transitions. Together, they explore how to move through tumu...

From Gwyneth Paltrow's modern lifestyle brand goop comes the Audible Original The goop Pursuit, a four-part audio series taking listeners on an intimate journey of learning and unlearning."Leaning into Pleasure"After her conversation with goop founder and CEO Gwyneth Paltrow, Penda N'diaye speaks with three women of different ages about being "detectives of their own pleasure". N'diaye, who is the founder of Pro Hoe, a brand that focuses on se...

The fate of mankind is in the hands of a group of 20-something science nerds in the sequel to Outland, by the Audible #1 best-selling author of the "Bobiverse" series.The Yellowstone super-eruption has put an end to modern civilization. As cities and countries continue to fall, the colony of Rivendell in the alternate Earth known as Outland looks more and more like the only real hope for humanity. But life in Rivendell isn't getting any simple...

From Gwyneth Paltrow's modern lifestyle brand goop comes the Audible Original The goop Pursuit, a four-part audio series taking listeners on an intimate journey of learning and unlearning."Finding Beauty"Author, LGBTQIA+ activist, and beauty maven Jodie Patterson explores capital-"B" Beauty through intimate interviews with her personal "collage of women"-- dynamic friends, mentors, and public figures from whom she draws inspiration and confide...

From Gwyneth Paltrow's modern lifestyle brand goop comes the Audible Original The goop Pursuit, a four-part audio series taking listeners on an intimate journey of learning and unlearning."Healing in a Sick Society"Psychiatrist Will Siu, MD goes on a journey to better understand our potential to heal. He shares his personal story of healing trauma and what he's learned from existing research, his patients, and two foundational experts and pers...

Considered "perhaps the most important American play of this century" by The Daily Telegraph, the Tony Award-winning Best Play has arrived on Audible. Based on Howards End by E.M. Forster, The Inheritance takes place in New York City decades after the AIDS epidemic. Eric Glass is a political activist engaged to his writer boyfriend, Toby Darling. When two strangers enter their lives--an older man and a younger one--their futures suddenly becom...

A lowly construction worker on the moon is Earth's only chance....Nick Morrison always wanted to be an astronaut. When a start-up company recruits him to build a lunar launch system at the moon's south pole, Nick gladly leaves behind his troubled life on Earth--but Nick doesn't know that the company is in financial and legal trouble.Deprived of support from Earth, the team on the moon must figure out how to survive on their own. Worse yet, the...

An uproariously opinionated chorus of female voices (Portia, Tala Ashe, and Melissa Dougherty) provides the galloping cadence to Mathilde Dratwa's new play Dirty Laundry, a comedy-drama that puts everything on the table to explore the extremes of human emotion.A woman (Alison Pill) finds herself grappling with both grief and anger following the sudden death of her mother and the shocking revelation of her father's infidelity. Her father (Reed ...

These excerpts were designed for Newark's beloved Harriet Tubman Square, featured as immersive audio in the permanent monument installation honoring Harriet Tubman, Newark's role in the Underground Railroad, and the Black liberation movement's rich history in the city. Audible is deeply committed to the renaissance of Newark--our hometown--and to helping share stories that deserve to be told.In the heat of 2020's unrest, as anti-racism protest...