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The End of the End of the Earth
By: Jonathan Franzen
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This program has been updated with a new epilogue written and read by the author.
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections
The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them.”... Read more
The Souls of Yellow Folk
By: Wesley Yang
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without the jargon, formulas, and polite lies that bore us all. His powerful debut, The Souls of Yellow Folk, does more than collect a decade's worth of cult-reputation essays—it corrals new American herds of pickup artists, school shooters, mandarin... Read more
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Why Religion?
By: Elaine Pagels
Narrated by: Lynde Houck
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these questions.These questions took on a new... Read more
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The Feral Detective
By: Jonathan Lethem
Narrated by: Zosia Mamet
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Jonathan Lethem’s first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn“One of America’s greatest storytellers.” —Washington PostPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum... Read more
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I Might Regret This
By: Abbi Jacobson
Narrated by: Abbi Jacobson
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a "poignant, funny, and beautifully unabashed" (Cheryl Strayed) New York Times bestselling essay collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew.
When Abbi Jacobson announced to friends and acquaintances that she planned... Read more
The Proposal
By: Jasmine Guillory
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
“There is so much to relate to and throughout the novel, there is a sharp feminist edge. Loved this one, and you will too.”—New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay
The New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Date serves up a novel about what happens when... Read more
Red Moon
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Maxwell Hamilton, Joy Osmanski & Feodor Chin
Length: 16 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Red Moon is a magnificent novel of space exploration and political revolution from New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson.
It is thirty years from now, and we have colonized the moon.
American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours... Read more
Trinity
By: Louisa Hall
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, David Colacci, Saskia Maarl...
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer—father of the atomic bomb—as told by seven fictional characters.J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally protected his Communist friends, only to later betray... Read more
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Melmoth
By: Sarah Perry
Narrated by: Jan Cramer
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters—and now, in Sarah Perry’s breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction.It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working... Read more
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The Craftsman
By: Sharon Bolton
Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Sharon Bolton returns with her creepiest standalone yet, following a young cop trying to trace the disappearances of a small town's teenagers.
Florence Lovelady's career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Grassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago in a small village in Lancashire. Like something out of a nightmare, the... Read more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
By: Stephen Hawking
Narrated by: Ben Whishaw, Garrick Hagon & Lucy Hawking
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind.
“Hawking’s parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity’s future should read.”—NPR
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Forbes •... Read more
In the House in the Dark of the Woods
By: Laird Hunt
Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The eerie, disturbing story of one of our perennial fascinations -- witchcraft in colonial America -- wrapped up in a lyrical novel of psychological suspense.
"Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods." In this horror story set in colonial New England, a law-abiding Puritan woman goes missing. Or perhaps she has... Read more
The Collector’s Apprentice
By: B. A. Shapiro
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris—broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiancé, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost... Read more
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Gmorning, Gnight!
By: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Narrated by: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: No
From the creator and star of Hamilton comes an audiobook of affirmations to inspire listeners at the beginning and end of each day.
“When the world is bringing you down, Gmorning, Gnight! will remind you that you are awesome.”—Booklist
Good morning. Do NOT get stuck in the comments section of life today. Make, do, create the things. Let others... Read more
Almost Everything
By: Anne Lamott
Narrated by: Anne Lamott
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives
"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of... Read more
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay
By: Phoebe Robinson
Narrated by: Phoebe Robinson
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
DON’T MISS PHOEBE ROBINSON’S COMEDY SERIES EVERYTHING’S TRASH—NOW ON FREEFORM!
New York Times bestselling author and star of 2 Dope Queens Phoebe Robinson is back with a new, hilarious, and timely essay collection on gender, race, dating, and the dumpster fire that is our world.
Wouldn't it be great if life came with instructions? Of course, but... Read more
November Road
By: Lou Berney
Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
""When people say they want to read a really good novel, the kind you just can't put down, this is the kind of book they mean. Exceptional."" —STEPHEN KING
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly • Washington Post • AARP • Newsweek • Dallas Morning News • South Florida Sun-Sentinel • Chicago Public Library • Real Book Spy •... Read more
Firefly
By: Henry Porter
Narrated by: Matt Addis
Length: 12 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From the refugee camps of Greece to the mountains of Macedonia, a thirteen-year-old boy is making his way to Germany and to safety. Codenamed "Firefly," he holds vital intelligence: unparalleled insight into a vicious ISIS terror cell, and details of their plans. But the terrorists are hot on his trail, determined he won't live to pass on the... Read more
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Zero Sum Game
By: S. L. Huang
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A blockbuster, near-future science fiction thriller, S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game introduces a math-genius mercenary who finds herself being manipulated by someone possessing unimaginable power…
Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every... Read more
What If This Were Enough?
By: Heather Havrilesky
Narrated by: Heather Havrilesky
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
*APublishers WeeklyBest Book of 2018*
*ABustleBest Nonfiction Book of 2018*
*One ofChicago Tribune's Favorite Books by Women in 2018*
*ASelfBest Book of 2018 to Buy for the Bookworm in Your Life*
By the acclaimed critic, memoirist, and advice columnist behind the popular "Ask Polly," an impassioned collection tackling our obsession with... Read more
The Ravenmaster
By: Christopher Skaife
Narrated by: Christopher Skaife
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Christopher Skaife's] natural storyteller's charm results in a performance that is conversational, funny, and self-deprecating...Ravenmaster is a joyful listening experience." — AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by the author.
The first behind-the-scenes account of life with the legendary ravens at the world’s eeriest monument.
The ravens... Read more
Your Duck Is My Duck
By: Deborah Eisenberg
Narrated by: Deborah Eisenberg, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moor...
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form, performed by a remarkable cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, and Wallace Shawn.At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight,... Read more
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Split Tooth
By: Tanya Tagaq
Narrated by: Tanya Tagaq
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award
Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English
Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Fiction
Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst... Read more
Can We All Be Feminists?
By: June Eric-Udorie
Narrated by: Various
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
"As timely as it is well-written, this clear-eyed collection is just what I need right now." —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming
"The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to read" (Bustle), edited by a feminist activist and writer who "calls to mind a young Audre Lorde" (Kirkus)
Why do some women struggle to identify as... Read more
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