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By: Amy Tintera
Narrated by: January LaVoy & Will Damron
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
"A world-class whodunit."
—Stephen King
“An extremely successful high-wire act, balancing between dark comedy and darker thrills.”
—Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“Laugh-out-loud funny, thrilling and twisty...”
—Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"A lot of thrillers these days use the murder podcast as a plot... Read more
Remarkably Bright Creatures
By: Shelby Van Pelt
Narrated by: Marin Ireland & Michael Urie
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller!A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!“Remarkably Bright Creatures is a beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing.” -- Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See HereFor fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively... Read more
View audiobookGodkiller
By: Hannah Kaner
Narrated by: Kit Griffiths
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!“An epic fantasy odyssey begins.” — Entertainment Weekly""A richly rendered world . . . Kaner writes action that's both fun and intelligible . . . If ""The Last of Us"" didn't slake your thirst for stories of a grizzled fighter taking a tough kid on the road, then Godkiller should be... Read more
View audiobookParis
By: Paris Hilton
Narrated by: Paris Hilton
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Paris Hilton: As You’ve Never Heard Her Before
***An Instant New York Times Bestseller***From the woman who is credited for launching what we know as the celebrity focused, “brand” driven, social media obsessed popular culture of today, comes an honest and surprising memoir that reckons with that truth, and shows that there is so much more to... Read more
Annie Bot
By: Sierra Greer
Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
""Provocative...a Frankenstein for the digital age...a rich text about power, autonomy, and what happens when our creations outgrow us."" — Esquire""Unexpected and subtle...delicious and thought-provoking."" — New ScientistFor fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot... Read more
View audiobookSipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw
By: Eddie Ndopu
Narrated by: Eddie Ndopu
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A memoir penned with one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful
Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told that he wouldn’t live beyond age five and yet, Ndopu thrived. He grew up loving pop... Read more
Counterfeit
By: Kirstin Chen
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK“A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp . . . Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious read—but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream and the myth of the model minority. . . . Chen is up to something innovative and... Read more
View audiobookThe Rooster House
By: Victoria Belim
Narrated by: Amrita Acharia
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A timely and deeply moving story of family, history, and UkraineIn 2014, the landmarks of Victoria Belim’s personal geography were plunged into tumult at the hands of Russia. Her hometown, Kyiv, was gripped by protests and violence. Crimea, where she’d once been sent to school to avoid radiation from the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, was... Read more
View audiobookDo Tell
By: Lindsay Lynch
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A scintillating debut novel that brings the golden age of Hollywood to glittering life, from star-studded opening nights to backlot brawls, on-location Westerns to the Hollywood Canteen. Through character actress turned gossip columnist Edie O'Dare's eyes, Lindsay Lynch draws back the curtain on classic Hollywood’s secrets.
"Glamorous, tawdry,... Read more
Enter the Body
By: Joy McCullough
Narrated by: Joy McCullough, Valerie Rose Lohman, Annie Q & ...
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic heroines. More than a tribute to Shakespeare, this kaleidoscopic, ambitious novel-in-verse gives Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and Lavinia the chance to tell their own stories full of passion, justice, sisterhood, and love. Simply... Read more
View audiobookThe Silence that Binds Us
By: Joanna Ho
Narrated by: Raechel Wong
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
“A grieving teen fights Asian hate by finding her voice in this complex, timely story.” —Kirkus (starred review)""With a layered, sensitive voice, Ho’s weighty novel delves into themes of racism, classism, loss, and healing."" —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Inspired by the recent rise in hate crimes against AAPI, Ho’s story of inclusion,... Read more
View audiobookShe Gets the Girl
By: Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus & Valentina Ortiz
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
She’s All That meets What If It’s Us in this New York Times bestselling hate-to-love YA romantic comedy from the coauthor of Five Feet Apart Rachael Lippincott and debut writer Alyson Derrick.
Alex Blackwood is a little bit headstrong, with a dash of chaos and a whole lot of flirt. She knows how to get the girl. Keeping her on the other hand…not... Read more
Listening Still
By: Anne Griffin
Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Narrated by Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton, Derry Girls)
From Anne Griffin, the bestselling author of When All is Said, comes Listening Still, a refreshing new novel about a young woman who can hear the dead—a talent which is both a gift and a curse.
Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and... Read more
Milk Blood Heat
By: Dantiel W. Moniz
Narrated by: Machelle Williams
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each... Read more
View audiobookOther Words for Home
By: Jasmine Warga
Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book!
A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed.Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria.... Read more
Shouting at the Rain
By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Fish in a Tree comes a compelling story about perspective and learning to love the family you have.
Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's always lived with her kindhearted Grammy, but now she's looking at their life with new eyes and... Read more