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The Final Frontiersman
By: James Campbell
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiration for The Last Alaskans—the eight-part documentary series on Animal PlanetHundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. Originally from Wisconsin, Heimo traveled to the Arctic wilderness in his feverous twenties. Now, more than four decades later,... Read more
View audiobookDear Mr. You
By: Mary -Louise Parker
Narrated by: Mary-Louise Parker
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
2017 Audie Award Finalist for Narration by the Author
The bestselling, wonderfully unconventional, “warmly conspiratorial…seriously good” (The New York Times) literary memoir from the award-winning actress that has received fabulous and wide praise. “There is no one else quite like Mary-Louise Parker…Funny, heartbreaking and profound” (Elle).
An... Read more
Wake of Vultures
By: Lila Bowen
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
"Wake of Vultures is, quite simply, brilliant. A mind-bending mix of history, fantasy and folklore, it's a wild bronco of a read that'll leave you breathless for more."―Rachel Caine, New York Times bestselling author
Supernatural creatures create chaos across an unforgiving western landscape in the first book of a propulsive and cinematic fantasy... Read more
Walk on Earth a Stranger
By: Rae Carson
Narrated by: Erin Mallon
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award longlist selectionThe first book in a new trilogy from acclaimed New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson. A young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold must flee her home, taking her on a sweeping and dangerous journey across Gold Rush–era America. Walk on Earth a... Read more
View audiobookThe Sleeper and the Spindle
By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt, Lara Pulver, Niamh Walsh, Ad...
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling and Newbery and Carnegie Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman has created a thrillingly reimagined fairy tale, ""told in a way only Gaiman can"" (GeekInsider.com), that the Guardian calls ""a refreshing, much-needed twist on a classic story.""In this captivating and darkly funny tale, Neil Gaiman has twisted together the... Read more
View audiobookConfessions of an Imaginary Friend
By: Michelle Cuevas
Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A TIME magazine Top 10 Children's Book of 2015The whimsical "autobiography" of an imaginary friend who doesn't know he's imaginary--perfect for fans of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and Toy StoryJaques Papier has the sneaking suspicion that everyone except his sister Fleur hates him. Teachers ignore him when his hand is raised in... Read more
View audiobookMelissa (previously published as GEORGE)
By: Alex Gino
Narrated by: Jamie Clayton
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
BE WHO YOU ARE.When people look at Melissa, they think they see a boy named George. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl.Melissa thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. Melissa really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the... Read more
View audiobookIn a Dark, Dark Wood
By: Ruth Ware
Narrated by: Imogen Church
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
*AUTHOR OF THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 and THE LYING GAME
*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
*SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
An NPR Best Book of the Year * An Entertainment Weekly Summer Books Pick * A Buzzfeed “31 Books to Get Excited About this Summer” Pick * A Publishers Weekly “Top Ten Mysteries and Thrillers”... Read more
The Oregon Trail
By: Rinker Buck
Narrated by: Rinker Buck
Length: 16 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 Indie Next Pick • Winner of the PEN New England Award
“Enchanting…A book filled with so much love…Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Amazing…A real nonfiction thriller.” —Ian Frazier, The New York... Read more
The Book of Speculation
By: Erika Swyler
Narrated by: David Pittu, Katherine Kellgren & Ari Fliakos
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"Dazzling...[a] quirky, raucous, and bewitching family saga." --Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants
Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath, drowned in the very water his... Read more
Tiny Pretty Things
By: Sona Charaipotra & Dhonielle Clayton
Narrated by: Imani Parks, Nora Hunter, Greta Jung & Laura De...
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a Netflix TV show! Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this soapy, drama-packed novel featuring diverse characters who will do anything to be the prima at their elite ballet school.From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton, and the author of the acclaimed Symptoms of a Heartbreak, Sona Charaipotra.Gigi,... Read more
View audiobookLoving Day
By: Mat Johnson
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons; his marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comic shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish-American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night in his new home,... Read more
View audiobookOur Souls at Night
By: Kent Haruf
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 3 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future.
In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf’s inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis... Read more
I Am Legend, and Other Stories
By: Richard Matheson
Narrated by: Robertson Dean & Yuri Rasovsky
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In Matheson’s vampire classic I Am Legend, a plague has decimated the world, and transformed the unfortunate survivors into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, hungry for Neville’s blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead... Read more
View audiobookPatrick Melrose
By: Edward St. Aubyn
Narrated by: Alex Jennings
Length: 26 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALL FIVE INSTALLMENTS OF EDWARD ST. AUBYN'S CELEBRATED PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS
Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner.
Edward St. Aubyn has penned one of the most acclaimed series of the decade with the Patrick Melrose Novels. Now you can read all... Read more
Romantic Outlaws
By: Charlotte Gordon
Narrated by: Susan Lyons
Length: 22 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Charlotte Gordon's new work is a fresh look at the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, who together comprise one of the most illustrious and inspiring mother-daughter pairs in history. Wollstonecraft published the first full articulation of women's rights in 1792, risking her reputation and sometimes her life in pursuit of her radical... Read more
View audiobookCastle Hangnail
By: Ursula Vernon
Narrated by: Tara Sands
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
When Molly shows up on Castle Hangnail's doorstep to fill the vacancy for a wicked witch, the castle's minions are understandably dubious. After all, she is twelve years old, barely five feet tall, and quite polite. (The minions are used to tall, demanding evil sorceresses with razor-sharp cheekbones.) But the castle desperately needs a master... Read more
View audiobookNone of the Above
By: I. W. Gregorio
Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking story about a teenage girl who discovers she's intersex . . . and what happens when her secret is revealed to the entire school. Incredibly compelling and sensitively told, None of the Above is a thought-provoking novel that explores what it means to be a boy, a girl, or something in between.What if everything you knew about... Read more
View audiobookThe Porcelain Thief
By: Huan Hsu
Narrated by: Huan Hsu
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family’s hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before.
In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu’s great-great-grandfather Liu’s Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of... Read more
The Walls Around Us
By: Nova Ren Suma
Narrated by: Georgia King & Sandy Rustin
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"Ori's dead because of what happened out behind the theater, in the tunnel made out of trees. She's dead because she got sent to that place upstate, locked up with those monsters. And she got sent there because of me." "The Walls Around Us" is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices--one still living and one long dead. On the outside,... Read more
View audiobookThe Great Beanie Baby Bubble
By: Zac Bissonnette
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animal craze that became the tulip mania of the 1990s
In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. In just three years, collectors who saw the toys as a means of speculation made creator Ty Warner, an eccentric college dropout, a billionaire—without... Read more
Epitaph
By: Mary Doria Russell
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 19 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.A deeply divided nation.... Read more
View audiobookAll My Puny Sorrows
By: Miriam Toews
Narrated by: Erin Moon
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Women Talking, a "wrenchingly honest, darkly funny novel" (Entertainment Weekly).Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too... Read more
View audiobookThe Art of Asking
By: Amanda Palmer
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience to support her as she surfed the crowd (and slept on... Read more
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