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See picks from all bookstoresThe Cemetery of Untold Stories
By: Julia Alvarez
Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Literary icon Julia Alvarez, the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic.
Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn’t want to end up like her... Read more
Hunger
By: Roxane Gay
Narrated by: Roxane Gay
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to... Read more
View audiobookThe Stranger in the Woods
By: Michael Finkel
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality—not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own.
A New York Times bestseller
In 1986, a shy and intelligent... Read more
Commonwealth
By: Ann Patchett
Narrated by: Hope Davis
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The acclaimed, bestselling author—winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize—tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives.One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed... Read more
View audiobookWelcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
By: Blair Braverman
Narrated by: Blair Braverman
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North.Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had left her home in California, moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs, and worked as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska.By turns funny and... Read more
View audiobookLeft on Tenth
By: Delia Ephron
Narrated by: Delia Ephron
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story, complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution. Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She’d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry’s death, she... Read more
View audiobookThe Second Home
By: Christina Clancy
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Tender and compassionate, incisive and heartbreaking, Christina Clancy's The Second Home is the story of a family you'll quickly fall in love with, and won't soon forget.
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.
After a disastrous summer spent at her family summer home on Cape Cod, seventeen-year-old Ann Gordon was left with a... Read more
Pony
By: R. J. Palacio
Narrated by: Ian M. Hawkins & R. J. Palacio
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“Perfection.” –The Wall Street Journal
The bestselling author of Wonder returns with an enthralling adventure about a boy on a quest to rescue his father, with only a ghost as his companion and a mysterious pony as his guide.... Read more
Mill Town
By: Kerri Arsenault
Narrated by: Kerri Arsenault
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
"This is a listen for anyone interested in small-town America, how it's changed, and why it matters...Though Arsenault may not be a professional narrator, her passion for these important stories comes through with just the right amount of sincerity." -- AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by the author.
A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill... Read more
A Well-Behaved Woman
By: Therese Anne Fowler
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 14 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times and USA Today bestseller
"More than a rewriting of history, this is history reimagined from a fresh angle, delivered here with energy, sensitivity, and flair." — AudioFile Magazine
This program includes a bonus interview with the author.
A Well-Behaved Woman is the riveting audiobook about iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her... Read more