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Why We Read
By: Shannon Reed
Narrated by: Paige McKinney
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize Semifinalist
We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the... Read more
Good for a Girl
By: Lauren Fleshman
Narrated by: Lauren Fleshman
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
* A New York Times Bestseller
* Winner of the William Hill Sports Book Of The Year Award
* A Financial Times Best Sports Book of 2023
Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female... Read more
No One Cares About Crazy People
By: Ron Powers
Narrated by: Ron Powers
Length: 14 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia.
From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the... Read more
The Maximum Security Book Club
By: Mikita Brottman
Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security menâs prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from themâOrange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind... Read more
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Waypoints
By: Sam Heughan
Narrated by: Sam Heughan
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Journey deep into the Scottish Highlands in the first memoir by #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of Outlander, Sam Heughanâexploring his life and reflecting on the waypoints that define him
"I had to believe, because frankly, I had come so far there could be no turning back."
In this intimate journey of self-discovery, Sam sets out... Read more
Enchantment
By: Katherine May
Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
âWhen I tell you that I dogeared almost every page in this book, I'm telling God's honest truth. I didn't know how much I needed someone else to validate what I was going through. The sense that I had lost my curiosity, my imagination, my ability to make meaning.â â NPR Morning Edition host Rachel Martin
"Such a teacher... 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
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The Wreckage of My Presence
By: Casey Wilson
Narrated by: Casey Wilson
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
""Magnificent."" âPeople MagazineThe instant New York Times bestseller: Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multitalented actress, comedian, podcaster, and writer Casey Wilson.Casey Wilson has a lot on her mind and she isnât afraid to share. In this dazzling collection, each essay skillfully constructed and brimming... Read more
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Man's Search for Meaning
By: Viktor E. Frankl
Narrated by: Theo Solomon
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
As relevant today as it was when it was first published, Manâs Search for Meaning is a book for finding strength and purpose in times of great despair.âThis is a book I reread a lot ⊠it gives me hope ⊠it gives me a sense of strength.ââAnderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNNViktor E. Frankl was a medical doctor at a psychiatric hospital in... Read more
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
By: Michelle McNamara
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Gillian Flynn & Patton Oswalt
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR 6-PART HBOŸ DOCUMENTARY SERIES#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:Washington Post | Maureen Corrigan, NPR | Paste | Seattle Times | Entertainment Weekly | Esquire | Slate | Buzzfeed | Jezebel | Philadelphia Inquirer | Publishers Weekly | Kirkus Reviews | Library Journal | Bustle Winner of the Goodreads... Read more
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Steve Jobs
By: Walter Isaacson
Narrated by: Dylan Baker
Length: 25 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year
Walter Isaacsonâs âenthrallingâ (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two yearsâas well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and... Read more
Outofshapeworthlessloser
By: Gracie Gold
Narrated by: Gracie Gold
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą A âpiercing accountâ (The Wall Street Journal) of surviving as a young woman in a society that rewards appearances more than anything and demands perfection at all costsâespecially if youâre an Olympic figure skater.
âA riveting memoir, which details her experience with an eating disorder, depression and her... Read more
Unmoored
By: J. R. Roessl
Narrated by: J. R. Roessl
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Itâs the sixties. Everythingâs groovy. Teenagers bask in the freedom of a country transformed. Counterculture is on the rise, and the times, they-are-a-changing. Everything, that is, except the authorâs young life. She doesnât swoon for the Beatles or scream for the Stones. She doesnât protest the Vietnam War or fight for womenâs rights.... Read more
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By the Time You Read This
By: Cheslie Kryst & April Simpkins
Narrated by: April Simpkins & Emana Rachelle
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before her tragic suicide. Her mother, April, wraps up the narrative by exploring the mental illness and depression that took her daughterâs life.The text read, âBy the time you get this âŠâ This is the story of Cheslie Kryst, a former Miss USA, in her own... Read more
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Magical/Realism
By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop cultureâfrom BeyoncĂ© to Game of Thronesâto excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared by migration and colonialism.
Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa AngĂ©lica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmotherâs... Read more
The Lady from the Black Lagoon
By: Mallory O'Meara
Narrated by: Mallory O''Meara & Mallory O'Meara
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
2019 SCIBA Book Award Winner for Biography
A Hugo and Locus Award Finalist
Winner of the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award
The Los Angeles Times Bestseller
A Thrillist Best Book of the Year
A Book Riot Best Book of 2019
One of Booklistâs 10 Best Art Books of the Year
The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrickâone of... Read more
Trail of the Lost
By: Andrea Lankford
Narrated by: Kristi Burns
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the authorâs quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies.
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As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led... Read more
Just Mercy
By: Bryan Stevenson
Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âąÂ NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX âąÂ A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justiceâfrom one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.
â[Bryan Stevensonâs] dedication to fighting for justice... Read more
Somebody's Daughter
By: Ashley C. Ford
Narrated by: Ashley C. Ford
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
"Ashley C. Ford brings listeners into her life in this outstanding coming-of-age story...Listeners will cheer as Ford attends college and weep as she visits her father in prison, and when he is finally released." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
This program is read by the author, and includes a bonus conversation between the author... Read more
Legacy
By: Uché Blackstock, MD
Narrated by: Uché Blackstock, MD
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF TIMEâS 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN GLOBAL HEALTH
âThis book is more than a memoirâit also serves as a call to action to create a more equitable healthcare system for patients of color, particularly Black women.â âEssence
One of NPRâs 11 Books to Look Forward to in 2024
One of Good Morning Americaâs 15... Read more
Unshrinking
By: Kate Manne
Narrated by: Kate Manne
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat itâfrom the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled
âAn elegant, fierce, and profound argument for fighting fat oppression in ourselves, our communities, and our culture.ââRoxane... Read more
Mindhunter
By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
Length: 15 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a Netflix original series
Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglasâ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the countryâs most notorious serial killers and criminals.
In chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind... Read more
Where Rivers Part
By: Kao Kalia Yang
Narrated by: Pamela Xiong & Kao Kalia Yang
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
An Esquire Best Memoir of 2024
A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong familyâs epic journey to safety told from the perspective of the authorâs incredible mother who survived, and helped her family escape, against all odds.
Born in 1961 in war-torn Laos, Tswbâs childhood was marked by the violence of Americaâs Secret War and... Read more
If You Can't Take the Heat
By: Geraldine DeRuiter
Narrated by: Geraldine DeRuiter
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER âą From the James Beard Awardâwinning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism.
âWith charm and humor, Geraldine DeRuiter welcomes us into her personal history and thus reconnects us with ourselves.ââMikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author... Read more
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