The Ticket That Exploded
By: William S. Burroughs
Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs’ grand “cut-up” trilogy that starts with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express reaches its climax as inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet. Only Burroughs could make such a nightmare vision of scientists and combat troops, of ad... Read more
View audiobookThe Course of Love
By: Alain de Botton
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
“An engrossing tale [that] provides plenty of food for thought” (People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership.
We all know the headiness and excitement of the... Read more
Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty
By: Ramona Ausubel
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award–winning author of No One Is Here Except All of Us comes an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and ’70s that suddenly loses its fortune—and its bearings.Labor Day 1976, Martha’s Vineyard. Summering at the family beach house along this moneyed coast of New England, Fern and Edgar—married with three... Read more
View audiobookRama's Labyrinth:
By: Sandra Wagner-Wright
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
Length: 20 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
"A weekend's engaging pursuit." Five Stars--David Lloyd Sutton, San Francisco Book Review
Educated and inquisitive, Pandita Ramabai was born in 1858 near Gangamul in the Western Ghat mountains of southern India. The daughter of a Sanskrit scholar, she rose to become a respected scholar herself, in a time when women rarely held such positions. But... Read more
The Gondola Maker
By: Laura Morelli
Narrated by: Edoardo Camponeschi
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Made in Italy comes a tale of artisanal tradition and family bonds set in one of the world's most magnificent settings: Renaissance Venice.
Venetian gondola-maker Luca Vianello considers his whole life arranged. His father charted a course for his eldest son from the day he was born, and Luca is positioned to inherit one of the... Read more
Brightside
By: Mark Tullius
Narrated by: Tee Quillin
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Brightside: A Psychological Thriller
Imagine a world where the person next to you—stranger, friend, lover—has the ability to creep into your mind and steal your most intimate thoughts. Now imagine you are the Thought Thief who is so greatly feared that your freedom and your life are threatened. Welcome to Brightside…you won’t be... Read more
Albert vuelve a casa
By: Homer Hickam
Narrated by: Alberto Santillan
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Una historia emocionalmente evocadora acerca de un hombre, una mujer y un caimán es un emotivo tributo al amor, del autor best seller del New York Times de las galardonadas memorias Rocket Boys: la base de la película Cielo de Octubre. Elsie Lavender y Homer Hickam (el padre del autor) eran compañeros de clase en la secundaria en los campos de... 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 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
Monsters: A Love Story
By: Liz Kay
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A hilarious debut novel about a perfectly imperfect love story that will delight fans of Evvie Drake Starts Over.
Even the smartest people can be stupid at love.
When Stacey Lane writes a feminist take on Frankenstein, she never imagines it will catch the eye of unbelievably sexy Hollywood star Tommy DeMarco. Tommy’s passion for her book—and for... Read more
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 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 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 audiobookMystic Summer
By: Hannah McKinnon
Narrated by: Amy McFadden
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A chance run-in with a college boyfriend puts a young woman’s picture-perfect life in perspective in this warm-hearted and lyrical novel from the author of The Lake Season.Since finishing graduate school, Maggie Griffin has worked hard to build an enviable life in Boston. She’s an elementary school teacher in a tony Boston suburb, a devoted... Read more
View audiobookAmy Snow
By: Tracy Rees
Narrated by: Melody Grove
Length: 15 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the UK’s Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller Competition, this page-turning debut novel follows an orphan whose late, beloved best friend bequeaths her a treasure hunt that leads her all over Victorian England and finally to the one secret her friend never shared.
It is 1831 when eight-year-old Aurelia Vennaway finds a naked baby... Read more
Goodnight, 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 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 audiobookStop 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 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 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