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Be Ready When the Luck Happens

By: Ina Garten

Narrated by: Ina Garten

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon—shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table.
 
Here, for the first time, Ina Garten presents an intimate, entertaining, and inspiring account... Read more

I'm Glad My Mom Died

By: Jennette McCurdy

Narrated by: Jennette McCurdy

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

* #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * MORE THAN 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD!

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook... Read more

Book Lovers

By: Emily Henry

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of my favorite authors.”—Colleen Hoover

An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation.

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily ∙ Today ∙ Parade ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Bustle ∙ PopSugar ∙ Katie Couric Media ∙ Book Bub ∙ SheReads ∙ Medium ∙ The Washington... Read more

Beautiful Ugly

By: Alice Feeney

Narrated by: Richard Armitage & Tuppence Middleton

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by actor Richard Armitage, best known for his role in The Hobbit film trilogy, and actress Tuppence Middleton, best known for her role in Downton Abbey.

Beautiful Ugly features sound design and special effects to enhance your listening enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of the ocean surrounding the island and the tick tock... Read more

I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

By: Jason Pargin

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin.

Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.

But there are rules:

He cannot... Read more

The Many Lives of Mama Love (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Lara Love Hardin

Narrated by: Lara Love Hardin

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won’t want to stop.” —Oprah Winfrey

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred... Read more

The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

By: Anna Johnston

Narrated by: Tim Carroll

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A zany case of mistaken identity allows a lonely old man one last chance to be part of a family in this warm, life-affirming debut novel.“A funny, heartfelt story about found family and seeing the silver lining in life. Fans of Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove and Shelby Van Pelt’s Remarkably Bright Creatures will especially enjoy this new... Read more

BFF

By: Christie Tate

Narrated by: Christie Tate

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

* “A love story about the miracle of friendship.” —Maggie Smith * “Fearless and unflinching.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *

From the author of Group, a New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club Pick, a poignant, funny, and emotionally satisfying memoir about Christie Tate’s lifelong struggle to sustain female friendship, and the... Read more

Cobalt Red

By: Siddharth Kara

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an author's note read by the author.

An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.

Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the... Read more

Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw

By: Eddie Ndopu

Narrated by: Eddie Ndopu

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir penned with one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful
 
Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told that he wouldn’t live beyond age five and yet, Ndopu thrived. He grew up loving pop... Read more

How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

Narrated by: Safiya Sinclair

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
A New York Times Notable Book
Best Book of the Year for The Washington Post* The New Yorker * Time * The Atlantic * Los Angeles Times * NPR * Harper’s Bazaar * Vulture * Town & Country * San Francisco Chronicle * Christian Science Monitor * Mother Jones * Barack Obama
A Read with Jenna Today Show... Read more

We Need No Wings

By: Ann Dávila Cardinal

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

TO BE FREE, WE MUST LEARN TO FLY.

Tere Sánchez has always known who she was: a professor, a wife, a mother, and a friend. But when her husband dies unexpectedly, she finds herself completely broken. Taking a leave from the university, Tere hopes that she can mourn her husband and get back on her feet, but instead, she spends a year consumed by... Read more

There Is No Ethan

By: Anna Akbari

Narrated by: Anna Akbari & Justin Price

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of three women coming face-to-face with an internet predator and teaming up to expose them.

In 2011, three successful and highly educated women fell head over heels for the brilliant and charming Ethan Schuman. Unbeknownst to the others, each exchanged... Read more

The Manicurist's Daughter

By: Susan Lieu

Narrated by: Susan Lieu

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Susan Lieu's narration of her memoir, The Manicurist's Daughter, adds to the already raw emotion that flows throughout her journey to know her mother."—The Berkshire Eagle

This program is read by the author.

An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother... Read more

Happily Never After

By: Lynn Painter

Narrated by: Helen Laser & Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Their name? The objectors.
Their job? To break off weddings as hired.
Their dilemma? They might just be in love with each other.
 
When Sophie Steinbeck finds out just before her nuptials that her fiancé has cheated yet again, she desperately wants to call it off. But because her future father-in-law is her dad’s cutthroat boss, she doesn’t want... Read more

My Side of the River

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

Narrated by: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

“My Side of the River is both fierce and poetic. It brilliantly reframes border writing while embracing nature and familial history. There are moments one sees greatness appear. This is one of those moments.” —Luis Alberto Urrea, New York Times bestselling author of Good Night, Irene

Elizabeth Camarillo... Read more

The Sisterhood

By: Liza Mundy

Narrated by: Liza Mundy

Length: 17 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “rip-roaring” (Steve Coll), “staggeringly well-researched” (The New York Times) history of three generations at the CIA, “electric with revelations” (Booklist) about the women who fought to become operatives, transformed spycraft, and tracked down Osama bin Laden, from the bestselling author of Code Girls

A NEW YORK TIMES... Read more

The Puppets of Spelhorst

By: Kate DiCamillo

Narrated by: Allan Corduner

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller!

“Kate DiCamillo's dazzling first title in the Norendy Tales trilogy is brimming with wit, whimsy, and heart as it follows five puppets fulfilling their thrilling shared destiny.” – Shelf Awareness

Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends—a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an... Read more

The Six

By: Loren Grush

Narrated by: Inés del Castillo

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“Vivid.” —The Guardian * “Engrossing.” —Booklist * “Suspenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening.” —Margot Lee Shetterly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures

In this account of America’s first women astronauts “Grush skillfully weaves a story that, at its heart, is about desire: not a nation’s desire to conquer space, but... Read more

Prophet

By: Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald

Narrated by: Ryan Forde Iosco, Jake Fairbrother & Charlotte ...

Length: 17 hours

Abridged: No

From the extraordinary minds of award-winning and New York Times–bestselling author of H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald and first-time author Sin Blaché, Prophet is their electric debut, a tantalizing adventure fusing noir, sci-fi, and a slow burn romance—set in a universe just one perilous step from our own. Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been... Read more

First to the Front

By: Lorissa Rinehart

Narrated by: Kate Handford

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The first authoritative biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents.

"I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against officers, weakness against power."

From the beginning of World War... Read more

Anxiously Ever After

By: Clint Edwards

Narrated by: Clint Edwards

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

How Are You Doing? No, Really . . .



In this poignant memoir that is both laugh-out-loud funny, and sniffle inducing, Clint Edwards explores his lifelong struggle with mental illness in the shadow of his father's battle with the opioid epidemic and his mother's undiagnosed mental illness.



From being diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder, to... Read more

Prisoner #1056

By: Roy Ratnavel

Narrated by: Roy Ratnavel

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
BRONZE MEDALIST IN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY FOR THE AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS

An incredible immigrant story from a prominent Canadian Tamil who fled torture and imprisonment, arrived in Canada with $50 in his pocket, then rose from the mailroom to the executive suite of the country’s largest independent asset management company.

Roy... Read more

The Exceptions

By: Kate Zernike

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book

As late as 1999, women who succeeded in science were called “exceptional” as if it were unusual for them to be so bright. They were exceptional, not because they could succeed at science but because of all they accomplished despite the hurdles.

“Gripping…one puts down the book inspired by the women’s grit, tenacity,... Read more