Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals
By: Jesse Armstrong
Narrated by: Chris Addison
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
It's 1994 and the former Yugoslavia is being torn apart. In England, a gang of good-hearted young people are about to set off in a Ford Transit van armed with several sacks of rice and a half-written play. A play which will light a beacon of peace across the Balkans and, very probably, stop the war.
Andrew would love to stop the war. He has one... Read more
Untethered
By: Julie Lawson Timmer
Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
When Char Hawthorne's husband dies unexpectedly, she is left questioning everything she once knew to be true: from the cozy small town life they built together to her relationship with her stepdaughter, who is suddenly not bound to Char in any real way. Untethered explores what bonds truly form a family and how, sometimes, love knows no... Read more
View audiobookWintering
By: Peter Geye
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A highly acclaimed novelist now gives us a true epic: a love story that spans sixty years, generations’ worth of feuds, and secrets withheld and revealed. The two principal stories at play in Wintering are bound together when the elderly, demented Harry Eide escapes his sickbed and vanishes into the forbidding, northernmost wilderness that... Read more
View audiobookThe Good Lieutenant
By: Whitney Terrell
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The Good Lieutenant literally starts with a bang as an operation led by Lieutenant Emma Fowler of the Twenty-Seventh Infantry Battalion goes spectacularly wrong. Men are dead—one, a young Iraqi, by her hand. Others were soldiers in her platoon. And the signals officer, Dixon Pulowski. Pulowski is another story entirely—Fowler and Pulowski had... Read more
View audiobookGoodnight, Beautiful Women
By: Anna Noyes
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan & Eva Kaminsky
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
An electrifying debut by sensational new literary talent, Anna Noyes, Goodnight, Beautiful Women surveys the residents of small New England coastal towns in tales that probe boundaries of familial intimacy, coming-of-age sexuality, desirous girlhood, and lost love. Moving along the Maine Coast and beyond, the interconnected stories in Goodnight,... Read more
View audiobookThe Hour of Land
By: Terry Tempest Williams
Narrated by: Terry Williams
Length: 11 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns... Read more
View audiobookRich and Pretty
By: Rumaan Alam
Narrated by: Julie McKay
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
This irresistible debut, set in contemporary New York, provides a sharp, insightful look into how the relationship between two best friends changes when they are no longer coming of age but learning how to live adult lives.As close as sisters for twenty years, Sarah and Lauren have been together through high school and college, first jobs and... Read more
View audiobookThey May Not Mean To, But They Do
By: Cathleen Schine
Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Joy Bergman is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would prefer. She won't take their advice, and she won't take an antidepressant. Her marriage to their father, Aaron, has lasted through health and dementia, as well as some phenomenally lousy business decisions. The Bergman clan has always stuck... Read more
View audiobookMarrow Island
By: Alexis M. Smith
Narrated by: Emily Rankin
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
What would you give to save the thing you love the most?
It has been twenty years since Lucie Bowen left the islands. Twenty years ago, the May Day Quake set loose catastrophic waves along the west coast, from Alaska to California, shattering thousands of lives. Twenty years ago, Lucie’s father disappeared in an explosion at the Marrow Island oil... Read more
Stop the Car
By: Mark McNease
Narrated by: Braden Wright
Length: 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The year is 1977. Three teenagers are on an Indiana back road, heading home away from the highway, away from prying eyes and traffic cops. One behind the driver's wheel, two in the back seat sampling the merchandise that could get them all jailed. And then, as the car careens along beneath a black sky lit only by a million stars, they see it.... Read more
View audiobookWe're All Damaged
By: Matthew Norman
Narrated by: Scott Merriman
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Andy Carter was happy. He had a solid job. He ran 5Ks for charity. He was living a nice, safe Midwestern existence. And then his wife left him for a handsome paramedic down the street.We’re All Damaged begins after Andy has lost his job, ruined his best friend’s wedding, and moved to New York City, where he lives in a tiny apartment with an... Read more
View audiobookA House for Happy Mothers
By: Amulya Malladi
Narrated by: Deepa Samuel
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning new novel—full of wit and warmth—from the bestselling author of The Mango Season.In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs—a loving husband, a career, and a home—but the one thing she wants most is the child she’s unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha doesn’t have much—raising two children in a tiny hut,... Read more
View audiobookGeek Feminist Revolution
By: Kameron Hurley
Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Kameron Hurley—one of the most influential young voices in science fiction and geek culture—presents The Geek Feminist Revolution: Essays on Subversion, Tactical Profanity, And the Power of Media. The Geek Feminist Revolution is Bad Feminist for the Comic-Con crowd. This powerful collection of essays is about overcoming misogyny in geek culture,... Read more
View audiobookFat City
By: Leonard Gardner
Narrated by: R. C. Bray
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Fat City is a vivid novel of defiance and struggle, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California, is the novel's setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street's lunchrooms and dark bars offer a temporary respite to the men and women whose backbreaking work in the... Read more
View audiobookShe Poured Out Her Heart
By: Jean Thompson
Narrated by: Madeleine Lambert
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson traces the complicated friendship of two very different women who meet in college. In the tradition of her bestselling novel The Year We Left Home, Thompson has crafted a novel of remarkable psychological suspense, cast with the kinds of deeply realized characters that have been heralded as “emotionally... Read more
View audiobookHot Little Hands
By: Abigail Ulman
Narrated by: Gemma Whelan
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of HBO’s Girls, Abigail Ulman’s heartbreakingly tender and often darkly funny fiction is a fresh take on the experiences of contemporary young women.
“A familiar yet highly inventive collection of short fiction which hits virtually all my buttons: dark humor, complex female characters, and a strong summer camp storyline.”—Lena Dunham,... Read more
Chelsea Girls
By: Eileen Myles
Narrated by: Eileen Myles
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles's 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed "lesbianity," and... Read more
View audiobookAutobiography of Red
By: Anne Carson
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 3 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional recreation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.
Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile,... Read more
Leaving Blythe River
By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
Narrated by: Will Ropp
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an unforgettable story of courage and finding forgiveness in an unforgiving wilderness.Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Not only is he small, scrawny, and skittish but he’s barely speaking to... Read more
View audiobookThe Neutronium Alchemist
By: Peter F. Hamilton
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 40 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation's peaceful existence. Those who succumbed to it have acquired godlike powers but now follow a far-from-divine gospel as they advance inexorably from world to world. On planets and asteroids, individuals battle for survival against the strange and brutal forces... Read more
View audiobookThe 100 Year Miracle
By: Ashley Ream
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
"Ashley Ream has an absolutely astounding voice—she is one of the most compelling, sharpest writers working today. The 100 Year Miracle is already one of my favorite novels of 2016."
—Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl
Once a century, for only six days, the bay around a small Washington island glows like a water-bound... Read more
Sweetbitter
By: Stephanie Danler
Narrated by: Alex McKenna
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A thrilling novel of the senses and a coming-of-age tale, following a small-town girl into the electrifying world of New York City and the education of a lifetime at one of the most exclusive restaurants in Manhattan. Perfect for readers of Kitchen Confidential and Blood, Bones and Butter.
Twenty-two, and knowing... Read more
This Too Shall Pass
By: Milena Busquets
Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
An irresistible, vivid, and wise story of one woman's reckoning with loss and love
Blanca is forty years old and motherless. Shaken by the unexpected death of the most important person in her life, she suddenly realizes that she has no idea what her future will look like.
To ease her dizzying grief and confusion, Blanca turns to her dearest... Read more
Edenland
By: Wallace King
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
At the onset of the Civil War, eighteen-year-old Bledsoe, son of a slave and his white master, runs away from the plantation where he was born. Desperately lost in the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina, he finds himself witness to a young Irishwoman in the act of what appears to be cold-blooded murder. Through no choice of his own, Bledsoe... Read more
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