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The Book of Lost Names
By: Kristin Harmel
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
“A fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten.” —Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday
Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis... Read more
Yours for the Taking
By: Gabrielle Korn
Narrated by: Jasmin Savoy Brown
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
"Savoy Brown enters the characters fully and makes their emotional changes audible and stunning—doubting to dreamy, bored to curious, saccharine to unhinged."—AudioFile
The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly... Read more
The Exiles
By: Christina Baker Kline
Narrated by: Caroline Lee
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROPTIONED FOR TELEVISION BY BRUNA PAPANDREA, THE PRODUCER OF HBO'S BIG LITTLE LIES“A tour de force of original thought, imagination and promise … Kline takes full advantage of fiction — its freedom to create compelling characters who fully illuminate monumental events to make history accessible and forever... Read more
View audiobookDopesick
By: Beth Macy
Narrated by: Beth Macy
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A Hulu limited series inspired by the New York Times bestselling book by Beth Macy.
Journalist Beth Macy's definitive account of America's opioid epidemic "masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference" (New York Times) -- from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the... Read more
When We Were Vikings
By: Andrew David MacDonald
Narrated by: Phoebe Strole
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
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Flamboyants
By: George M. Johnson
Narrated by: George M. Johnson
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author and features music from Josephine Baker, Gladys Bentley, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Ethel Waters to enhance the listening experience.
From the New York Times–bestselling author of All Boys Aren’t Blue comes an empowering set of essays about Black and Queer icons from the Harlem Renaissance.
In Flamboyants,... Read more
Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous
By: Mae Marvel
Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw
Length: 13 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Reads of 2024
Hollywood glamor meets “‘Tis the Damn Season” in this irresistibly buzzy sapphic romance, perfect for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Casey McQuiston.
Katie Price is known in every living room in America. A small-town Wisconsin girl who became an A-list star, she rarely makes it home, but this year is... Read more
Pockets
By: Hannah Carlson
Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A thought-provoking microhistory of the humble pocket that uncovers what pockets reveal about us—and why it matters.
It’s a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men’s clothes have so many pockets and women’s so few? In her captivating book, Hannah Carlson, a lecturer in dress history at the Rhode Island School of Design, shows us how... Read more
The Whispers
By: Ashley Audrain
Narrated by: Jill Winternitz
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“Expertly, subtly and powerfully rendered….[The Whispers] delivers a sucker-punch ending you’ll have to read twice to believe.”—The New York Times Book Review
“[An] electrifying…razor-sharp page-turner.” —Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After
Featured in summer reading recommendations by Good Morning America,... Read more
The Worth of Water
By: Gary White & Matt Damon
Narrated by: Gary White & Matt Damon
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
From the founders of nonprofits Water.org & WaterEquity Gary White and Matt Damon, the incredible true story of two unlikely allies on a mission to end the global water crisis for good
On any given morning, you might wake up and shower with water, make your coffee with water, flush your toilet with water—and think nothing of it.
But around... Read more
Our Darkest Night
By: Jennifer Robson
Narrated by: Marisa Calin
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer’s wife in this unforgettable novel from USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson—a story of terror, hope, love, and sacrifice, inspired by true events, that vividly evokes the most perilous days of World War II.
It is the autumn of 1943, and life is becoming... Read more
The Silver Arrow
By: Lev Grossman
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
"I loved every page. This is middle grade fiction at its best."-- Ann Patchett
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians comes a must-read, wholly original middle-grade debut perfect for fans of The Chronicles of Narnia and Roald Dahl.
Dear Uncle Herbert,
You've never met me, but I'm your niece Kate, and since it is my birthday... Read more
Bonds of Brass
By: Emily Skrutskie
Narrated by: James Fouhey
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend—the man he trusts most and might even love—only to learn that his friend is secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire.
“An exciting space opera full of action and adventure that explores the bonds of loyalty and love, and what happens when they are stretched to their limits.”—Rebecca... Read more
The Red Lotus
By: Chris Bohjalian
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they met.
Alexis and Austin don’t have a typical “meet cute”—their first... Read more
Mercy House
By: Alena Dillon
Narrated by: Dawn Harvey, Catherine Ho, Scarlette Hayes, Ebo...
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
“A life-altering debut featuring fierce, funny, and irreverent women who battle the most powerful institution in the world. This is the book we’ve all been waiting for.”—Amy SchumerShe would stop at nothing to protect the women under her care.Inside a century-old row house in Brooklyn, renegade Sister Evelyn and her fellow nuns preside over a... Read more
View audiobookWhen Time Stopped
By: Ariana Neumann
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In this astonishing story that “reads like a thriller and is so, so timely” (BuzzFeed) Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: “Like Anne Frank’s diary, it offers a story that needs to be told and heard” (Booklist, starred review).
In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied... Read more
Frankly in Love
By: David Yoon
Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
An Instant New York Times Bestseller • A William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist • An Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Honor Book
“Extraordinary . . . a beautifully layered novel about first love, tribalism and that brief, magical period when kids have one foot in high school, one foot out the door. . . Yoon explores themes of... Read more
Never Have I Ever
By: Joshilyn Jackson
Narrated by: Joshilyn Jackson
Length: 13 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
“Wonderful—suspense and surprises, real characters, and a scary, ominous backbeat. This feels like the book Jackson was born to write.” —Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author
Named a Best Book by USA Today • People • The Wall Street Journal • Time • Entertainment Weekly • Bustle • and many more!
From New York Times bestselling... Read more
The Chain
By: Adrian McKinty
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
When a mother is targeted by a dangerous group of masterminds, she must commit a crime to save her kidnapped daughter—or risk losing her forever—in this "propulsive and original" award-winning thriller (Stephen King).
It's something parents do every morning: Rachel Klein drops her daughter at the bus stop and heads into her day. But a cell phone... Read more
Into the Jungle
By: Erica Ferencik
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In this “hypnotic, violent, unsparing” (A.J. Banner, USA TODAY bestselling author) thriller from the author of the “haunting, twisting thrill ride” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) The River at Night, a young woman leaves behind everything she knows to take on the Bolivian jungle, but her excursion abroad quickly turns into a... Read more
View audiobookThe Invited
By: Jennifer McMahon
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin & Justine Eyre
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house--they build one....
In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on... Read more
Southern Lady Code
By: Helen Ellis
Narrated by: Helen Ellis
Length: 3 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
"I loved it." —Ann Patchett
The bestselling author of American Housewife ("Dark, deadpan and truly inventive." --The New York Times Book Review) is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living... Read more
Across That Bridge
By: John Lewis
Narrated by: Keith David
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
From celebrated Congressman John Lewis comes an eyewitness account of history from a key member of the Civil Rights Movement and confidant to Martin Luther King Jr.
In turbulent times Americans look to the Civil Rights Movement as the apotheosis of political expression. As we confront a startling rise in racism and hate speech and remain a... Read more
Lights All Night Long
By: Lydia Fitzpatrick
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A gripping and deftly plotted narrative of family and belonging, Lights All Night Long is a dazzling debut novel from an acclaimed young writer
"A luminous debut. . . . It's hard not to read the book in a single sitting."--The Los Angeles Times
"Lights All Night Long is utterly brilliant and completely captivating. . . . One of the most... Read more