The Book of Etta
The Road to Nowhere: Book #2
- By: Meg Elison
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Description
A Philip K. Dick Award nominee.
In a devastated world, one woman undertakes a desperate journey to rescue the future.
Etta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was. In the world that is, women are scarce and childbearing is dangerous…yet desperately necessary for humankind’s future. Mothers and midwives are sacred, but Etta has a different calling. As a scavenger. Loyal to the village but living on her own terms, Etta roams the desolate territory beyond: salvaging useful relics of the ruined past and braving the threat of brutal slave traders, who are seeking women and girls to sell and subjugate.
When slavers seize those she loves, Etta vows to release and avenge them. But her mission will lead her to the stronghold of the Lion—a tyrant who dominates the innocent with terror and violence. There, with no allies and few weapons besides her wits and will, she will risk both body and spirit not only to save lives but also to liberate a new world’s destiny.
The Book of Etta is the sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award–winning novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife.
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The Road to Nowhere Series

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
By: Meg Elison
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 and Philip K. Dick Award Winner
When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead.
In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant—the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world... Read more »
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Road to Nowhere
By: M. Robinson
Narrated by: Conner Goff & Marnye Young
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
I once read that every warrior hoped an honorable death would find him. I always went looking for mine, but not even the Reaper wanted me. I was trained to kill. I was trained to not ask why. To take orders and just march in line. Hoo-ah motherf—ker.Life or death. Ride or die. And I’m not only talking about the military. I’m talking about the... Read more »
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Ends Here
By: M. Robinson
Narrated by: Conner Goff & Marnye Young
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Ashes to ashes.Dust to dust.And all that fucking shit.I had killed.I had sacrificed.The innocent and the corrupt. I knew blood and I knew violence.Never imagining I could know love too.Mia Ryder was a woman to love. To cherish. To fucking claim. Now, forever, andevery day in between.If there was anyone I'd go to Hell and back for, it was... Read more »
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The Book of Etta
By: Meg Elison
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A Philip K. Dick Award nominee.
In a devastated world, one woman undertakes a desperate journey to rescue the future.
Etta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was. In the world that is, women are scarce and childbearing is dangerous…yet desperately necessary for humankind’s future. Mothers... Read more »
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The Book of Flora
By: Meg Elison
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In this Philip K. Dick Award–winning series, one woman’s unknowable destiny depends on a bold new step in human evolution.
In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that... Read more »
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