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See picks from all bookstoresInto the Forest
By: Rebecca Frankel
Narrated by: Natalie Pela
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
This program features a bonus chapter of the author's preliminary research interviews with the sisters featured in the book.
"An uplifting tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times, exhilarating." āWall Street Journal
Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a... Read more
Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
By: Adiba Jaigirdar
Narrated by: Reena Dutt & Shubhangi Karmakar
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Everyone likes Humaira "Hani" Khanāsheās easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she canāt be bi if sheās only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts out that sheās in a relationshipā¦with a girl her friends absolutely hateāIshita "Ishu" Dey. Ishu... Read more
View audiobookThe House of Always
By: Jenn Lyons
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang & Vikas Adam
Length: 26 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Brandon Sanderson and Patrick Rothfuss, The House of Always is the fourth epic fantasy in Jenn Lyons' Chorus of Dragons series that began with The Ruin of Kings.
What if you were imprisoned for all eternity?
In the aftermath of the Ritual of Night, everything has changed.
The Eight Immortals have catastrophically failed to stop Kihrin's... Read more
How to Be Human
By: Jory Fleming
Narrated by: Jory Fleming & Lyric Winik
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A ābeautiful and astonishingā (Walter Isaacson, # 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker) narrative that examines the many ways to be fully human, told by the first young adult with autism to attend Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
As a child, Jory Fleming was wracked by uncontrollable tantrums, had no tolerance for... Read more
Dancing in the Mosque
By: Homeira Qaderi
Narrated by: Ariana Delawari
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one motherās unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions.Ā With the city and the military on... Read more
This Town Sleeps
By: Dennis E. Staples
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Set on a reservation in far northern Minnesota, This Town Sleeps explores the many ways history, culture, landscape, and lineage shape our lives, our understanding of the world we inhabit, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of it all.
On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the... Read more
Sissy
By: Jacob Tobia
Narrated by: Jacob Tobia
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Transformative ... If Tobia aspires to the ranks of comic memoirists like David Sedaris and Mindy Kaling, Sissy succeeds." --The New York Times Book Review
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d)... Read more
Cherry
By: Nico Walker
Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
National Bestseller
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Holland and directed by the Russo Brothers. AĀ young medic returns from deployment in Iraq to two things: the woman he loves, and the opioid crisis sweeping across the Midwest.Ā
In this āmiracle of literary serendipityā (The Washington Post), after finding himself deep in the thrall... Read more
The Sea Queen
By: Linnea Hartsuyker
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 17 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
An exhilarating Viking saga filled withĀ the rich history, romantic adventure and political intrigue that have madeĀ Diana GabaldonāsĀ Outlander, George R. R. MartināsĀ Game of Thrones,Ā as well as Phillippa Gregoryās historical fiction and Neil GaimanāsĀ Norse MythologyĀ popular bestsellers.Ā Six years after The Half-Drowned King, Ragnvald Eysteinsson... Read more
View audiobookThe Sea Beast Takes a Lover
By: Michael Andreasen
Narrated by: Various
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
An astonishing fiction debut from a UC Irvine MFA graduate and recent contributor toĀ The New Yorker.
Bewitching and playful, with its feet only slightly tethered to the world we know,Ā The Sea Beast Takes a LoverĀ explores hope, love, and loss across a series of surreal landscapes and wild metamorphoses. Just because Jenny was born without a head... Read more
Red Clocks
By: Leni Zumas
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo.
Five women. One question. What is a woman for?
In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers... Read more
Made for Love
By: Alissa Nutting
Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Soon to be an HBO Max seriesĀ starring Ray Romano and Cristin MiliotiĀ
NAMED A RECOMMENDED READ BY
GQ ā¢ PopSugar ā¢ NPR ā¢ Huffington Post ā¢ Electric LiteratureĀ ā¢ The New YorkerĀ ā¢Ā Publishers Weekly ā¢ New York Magazine ā¢ Buzzfeed ā¢ Refinery29 ā¢ VultureĀ ā¢Ā Nylon
From one of our most exciting and provocative young writers, a poignant, riotously funny... Read more
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
By: Matthew Sullivan
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
When a bookshop patron dies by suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this "shocking, charming, thrilling" (Associated Press) and award-winning debut novel.
Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she leads a meticulously ordered existence among her beloved... Read more
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