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Of Women and Salt
By: Gabriela Garcia
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and Roxane Gay.
A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born
In present-day Miami,... Read more
JELL-O Girls
By: Allie Rowbottom
Narrated by: Allie Rowbottom
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A "gorgeous" (New York Times) memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade - told by the inheritor of their stories.
In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn... Read more
The Hunger
By: Alma Katsu
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
"Supernatural suspense at its finest...The best thing about The Hunger is that it will scare the pants off you."--The New York Times Book Review
"Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark."--Stephen King
A tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical moments: the Donner Party... Read more
Our Long Marvelous Dying
By: Anna DeForest
Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Palliative-care physician and award-winning author Anna DeForest returnsĀ withĀ an ode to life and to death, and the ways we care for ourselves and others on our long, marvelous walk toward the end.
In a pandemic-hushed city,Ā a young doctor lives a life of insecure attachments: to a distant partner in an untended marriage, to a loaner child who... Read more
Holiday Country
By: Ä°nci Atrek
Narrated by: Ayse Babahan
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A seductive and lyrical debut following a young womanās dangerous summer romance during an idyllic vacation on the Aegean coast
"A gorgeous exploration." āRaven Leilani, author of Luster
"A book full of pleasures." āKirkus
Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The... Read more
The Surviving Sky
By: Kritika H. Rao
Narrated by: Sharmila Devar & Pranshu Mishra
Length: 18 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanityāplant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. Here, architects are revered deeply, with humanityās survival reliant on a privileged few.
If not for their abilities, the cities would plunge into the devastating earthrage storms below.
Charismatic... Read more
You Are Here
By: Karin Lin-Greenberg
Narrated by: Jennifer Aquino
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The inhabitants of a small town have long found that their lives intersect at one focal point: the local shopping mall. But business is down, stores are closing, and as the institution breathes its last gasp, the people inside it dream of something different, something more. You Are Here brings this diverse group of characters vividly to... Read more
View audiobookHappily
By: Sabrina Orah Mark
Narrated by: Gilli Messer
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD ā¢ A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life, from a Jewish woman raising Black children in the American Southābased on her acclaimed Paris Review column āHappilyā
āOne of the most inventive, phenomenally executed books Iāve read in decades.āāKiese... Read more
Your Driver Is Waiting
By: Priya Guns
Narrated by: Priya Guns
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Autostraddle, Shondaland, Booklist ā¢ InĀ this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satireāinspired by the iconic 1970s film TaxiĀ DriverāaĀ ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity, and financial security...until she decides she's done waiting.
āWhat you are about to read is a call to... Read more
My First Popsicle
By: Zosia Mamet
Narrated by: Zosia Mamet, Sian Clifford, Kaley Cuoco, Ted Da...
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
From a spectrum of talented authors, a collection of essays on food, and its entwinement with our emotions and our lives.
Of all the essentials for survival: oxygen, water, sleep, and food, only food is a vast treasure trove of memory and of sensory experience. Food is a portal to culture, to times past, to disgust, to comfort, to love: no matter... Read more
The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream
By: Jeannie Zusy
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Early Morning Riser with a dash of Whereād You Go, Bernadette in this āfunny and insightfulā (Real Simple) novel about one woman whose life is turned upside down when she becomes caregiver to her sister with special needs.
Every family has its fault lines, and when Maggie gets a call from the ER in... Read more
Booth
By: Karen Joy Fowler
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Best Book of the Year
Real SimpleĀ ā¢ AARPĀ ā¢ USA TodayĀ ā¢ NPR ā¢ Virginia Living
Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth.
In 1822, a... Read more
I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat
By: Christopher Gonzalez
Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Tony Chiroldes & Anthony Me...
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Long nights, empty stomachs, and impulsive cravings haunt these stories. A college grad reunites with a high-school crush when invited to his bachelor party, a lonely cat-sitter wreaks havoc on his friends' apartment, happy-hour french fries leave more than grease on lips and fingers, and, squeezed into a diner booth, one man eats past his limit... Read more
View audiobookO Beautiful
By: Jung Yun
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
From the critically-acclaimed author of Shelter, an unflinching portrayal of a woman trying to come to terms with the ghosts of her past and the tortured realities of a deeply divided America.
Elinor Hanson, a forty-something former model, is struggling to reinvent herself as a freelance writer when she receives an unexpected assignment. Her... Read more
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
By: Helene Tursten
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Don't let her age fool you. Maud may be nearly ninety, but if you cross her, this elderly lady is more sinister than sweet.
Just when things have finally cooled down for eighty-eight-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep. Though Maud dodges their... Read more
Sankofa
By: Chibundu Onuzo
Narrated by: Sara Powell
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The exhilarating story of a mixed-race woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew.
After years of being a daughter, a wife, and a mother, Anna finally has the time to wonder who she really is. But the only person who can tell herāher mother, the only parent who raised herāis dead.
Searching through her mother's belongings... Read more
Egg Marks the Spot
By: Amy Timberlake
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 3 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Buried in the heart of every animal is a secret treasure. Badgerās is the Spider Eye Agate, stolen years ago by his crafty and treasure-trade-dealing cousin, Fisher. Skunkās is Sundays with the New Yak Times Book Review.
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When Mr. G. Hedgehog threatens to take the Book Review as soon as it thumps on the doorstep, Skunk decides an adventure (āX... Read more
Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light
By: Helen Ellis
Narrated by: Helen Ellis
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with an āinspiring, hilarious, straight-to-the-pointā (Entertainment Weekly) collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women.
"Ellis' prose is filled with so many laugh lines, you might want to go ahead and book the Botox.ā āNPR
When Helen Ellis and her lifelong... Read more
Filthy Animals
By: Brandon Taylor
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free, Nicole Lewis & TL Thompson
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERĀ
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY, NPR, VULTURE, MARIE CLAIRE, THE TIMES OF LONDON, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfying new work of fiction... Read more
Morningside Heights
By: Joshua Henkin
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur & Shane Baker
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Book ā¢ When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm. But when she falls in love with and marries Spence Robin, her hotshot young Shakespeare professor, her life takes a turn she couldnāt have anticipated.
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... Read more
Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You)
By: Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy & Griffin McElroy
Narrated by: Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, Griffin McElroy...
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling McElroy Brothers, creators of the hit podcastsĀ My Brother, My Brother and Me andĀ The Adventure Zone,Ā comes a helpful and hilarious how-to podcast guide covering everything you need to know to make, produce, edit, and promote a podcastā¦and get rich* doing it! (*Results not guaranteed.)Justin, Travis, and... Read more
View audiobookYou Can Keep That to Yourself
By: Adam Smyer
Narrated by: Donald Faison
Length: 25 minutes
Abridged: No
At long last, a much-needed guidebook for well-intentioned people of pallor on what not to say to their African American āfriends.ā
āA balm for tongues bitten and comments swallowed . . . A bitingly humorous compendium of the absurd subtle racism of the American workplace.ā āKirkus Reviews
Greetings, well-intentioned person of pallor.
Your good... Read more
Daddy
By: Emma Cline
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From theĀ bestselling author of The Girls comesĀ a ābrilliantā (The New York Times)Ā story collection exploring the dark corners of human experience.
āDaddyās tenĀ masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline isĀ a staggering talent.āāEsquire
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
An absentee father collects his son... Read more
How to Argue With a Racist
By: Adam Rutherford
Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this.
Racist pseudoscience is on the riseāfueling hatred, feeding nationalism, and seeping into our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Even the well-intentioned repeat stereotypes based on "science," because cutting-edge genetics are hard to graspāand all too... Read more