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See picks from all bookstoresFrankly in Love
By: David Yoon
Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
An Instant New York Times Bestseller and #1 Indie Bestseller!
A William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist
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An Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Honor Book
Two friends. One fake dating scheme. What could possibly go wrong?
Frank Li has two names. There's Frank Li, his American name. Then there's Sung-Min Li, his Korean name. No one uses... Read more
Dominicana
By: Angie Cruz
Narrated by: Coral PeƱa
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA COVER TO COVER BOOK CLUB PICK
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.
Named a Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, O Magazine, Time, Real Simple, Chicago Review of Books, Kirkus Reviews, Nylon, BuzzFeed, Lit Hub, The Millions, Instyle, Bustle,... Read more
The Gone Dead
By: Chanelle Benz
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that dayāand she hasn't been back to the South since.Ā Thirty years... Read more
View audiobookNotes from the Field
By: Anna Deavere Smith
Narrated by: Anna Deavere Smith
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"Smithās powerful style of living journalism uses the collective, cathartic nature of the theater to move us from despair toward hope.ā āThe Village VoiceĀ
Anna Deavere Smithās extraordinary form of documentary theater shines a light on injustices by portraying the real-life people who have experienced them. "One of her most ambitious and... Read more
The Age of Light
By: Whitney Scharer
Narrated by: Therese Plummer
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the Best Books of the Year: Parade, Glamour, Real Simple, Refinery29, Yahoo! Lifestyle. "A startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a woman's self-transformation from muse to artist." --Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere
"I'd rather take a photograph than be one," Lee Miller declares after she arrives in Paris... Read more
The World According to Fannie Davis
By: Bridgett M. Davis
Narrated by: Bridgett M. Davis
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride).
In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty... Read more
Golden State
By: Ben H. Winters
Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling novelist Ben H. Winters comes a mind-bending novel set in a world governed by absolute truth, where lies are as dangerous as murder.
In a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else, Laszlo Ratesic is a nineteen-year veteran of the Speculative Service. He lives in the Golden... Read more
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay
By: Phoebe Robinson
Narrated by: Phoebe Robinson
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
DONāT MISS PHOEBE ROBINSONāS COMEDY SERIES EVERYTHINGāS TRASHāNOW ON FREEFORM!
New York Times bestselling author and star of 2 Dope Queens Phoebe Robinson is back with a new, hilarious, and timely essay collection on gender, race, dating, and the dumpster fire that is our world.
Wouldn't it be great if life came with instructions? Of course, but... Read more
Give Me Your Hand
By: Megan Abbott
Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A life-changing secret destroys an unlikely friendship in this "magnetic" psychological thriller from the Edgar Award-winning author of Dare MeĀ and The TurnoutĀ (Meg Wolitzer).
You told each other everything. Then she told you too much.
Kit has risen to the top of her profession and is on the brink of achieving everything she wanted. She hasn't let... Read more
From the Corner of the Oval
By: Beck Dorey-Stein
Narrated by: Beck Dorey-Stein
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMESĀ BESTSELLER ā¢Ā What if you lived out the drama of your twenties on Air Force One?
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ā[This] breezyĀ page turnerĀ is essentiallyĀ Bridget Jones goes to the White House.āāThe New York Times
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RECOMMENDED READINGĀ theSkimm ā¢ Today ā¢ Entertainment Weekly ā¢ Refinery29 ā¢ Bustle ā¢ PopSugar ā¢ Vanity Fair ā¢Ā The New York Times Editorsā Choice... Read more
Mariam Sharma Hits the Road
By: Sheba Karim
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Three Pakistani-American teenagers, on a trip through the land of pork ribs, mechanical bulls, and Confederate flags.Ā Itās going to be quite an adventure.The summer after her freshman year of college, Mariam is looking forward to working and hanging out with her best friends: irrepressible and beautiful Ghazala and religious but closeted... Read more
View audiobookThe Perfect Mother
By: Aimee Molloy
Narrated by: Cristin Milioti
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERĀ An addictive psychological thriller about a group of women whose lives become unexpectedly connected when one of their newborns goes missing.A night out. A few hours of fun. Thatās all it was meant to be.They call themselves the May Mothersāa group of new moms whose babies were born in the same month. Twice... Read more
View audiobookThe Epic Crush of Genie Lo
By: F.C. Yee
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
American Born Chinese meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this grounded supernatural YA mash-up The struggle to get into a top-tier college consumes sixteen-year-old Genie's every waking thought. But when she discovers she's a celestial spirit who's powerful enough to bash through the gates of heaven with her fists, her perfectionist existence is... Read more
View audiobookReading with Patrick
By: Michelle Kuo
Narrated by: Michelle Kuo
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
āIn all of the literature addressing education, race, poverty, and criminal justice, there has been nothing quite likeĀ Reading with Patrick.āāThe Atlantic
A memoir of the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta
FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE
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Scrappy Little Nobody
By: Anna Kendrick
Narrated by: Anna Kendrick
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect.
Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, Twilight, and Into the Woods, Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird,... Read more
IQ
By: Joe Ide
Narrated by: Sullivan Jones
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores.
East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police... Read more
In the Bleak Midwinter
By: Julia Spencer-Fleming
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Clare Fergusson, Saint Alban's new priest, fits like a square peg in the conservative Episcopal parish at Miller's Kill, New York. She is not just a "lady" but also a tough ex-army chopper pilotāand nobody's fool. Then a newborn infant left at the church door brings her together with the town's police chief, Russ Van Alstyne, who is also ex-army... Read more
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