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See picks from all bookstoresThe Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova
By: Ruth Hogan
Narrated by: Nina Wadia
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things—an uplifting, slightly magical story about how it’s never too late to find out who you really are.""Ruth Hogan is the queen of uplifting fiction and Madame Burova reminds us why. The writing crackles with humor and warmth. I can't imagine a better book in which to lose... Read more
View audiobookEveryone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead
By: Jenny Hollander
Narrated by: Marisa Calin
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true?
Nine years ago, with the world's eyes on her, Charlie Colbert fled. The press and the police called Charlie a "witness" to the nightmarish events at her elite graduate school on Christmas Eve—events known to the public as "Scarlet Christmas"—though Charlie... Read more
How the Boogeyman Became a Poet
By: Tony Keith, Jr.
Narrated by: Tony Keith, Jr.
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, George M. Johnson,... Read more
View audiobookThis Spells Love
By: Kate Robb
Narrated by: Khaya Fraites
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • “A romcom-meets-magic delight!”—Sarah Adams, New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect
A young woman tries to heal her heartbreak by casting a spell to erase her ex from her past, but she wakes up in an alternate reality where she’s lost more than she wished for in this witty, whimsical... Read more
Better Hate than Never
By: Chloe Liese
Narrated by: Stephen Dexter & Charlotte North
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
A Best of the Month Pick from:
Amazon · Apple · LibraryReads
Childhood enemies discover the fine line between love and loathing in this heartfelt reimagining of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
Katerina Wilmot and Christopher Petruchio shared backyards as kids, but as adults they won’t even share the same hemisphere.... Read more
Wildfire
By: Hannah Grace
Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton & Lauren Sweet
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The latest in the TikTok sensation and deliciously “swoonworthy” (Elena Armas, New York Times bestselling author) Maple Hills series follows two summer camp counselors who reconnect after a sizzling one-night stand.
Maple Hills students Russ Callaghan and Aurora Roberts cross paths at a party celebrating the... Read more
Piece of Cake
By: Mary Hollis Huddleston & Asher Fogle Paul
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
She’s only trying to save her job and her reputation.Claire Sommers grew up as a society girl destined to have it all: tasteful Dallas mansion, high-powered career, hot and rich husband. Until a massive mistake left her reputation in tatters and trust fund frozen. Now the former debutante is scraping by as a magazine staffer in Nashville—trading... Read more
View audiobookSpeak of the Devil
By: Rose Wilding
Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Seven women, inextricably linked by one man, must figure out which of them killed him in order to protect one another in this electrifying debut thriller.
New Year’s Eve, 1999.
Seven women are gathered in a hotel room at midnight; a man's head sits in the center of the floor. They all had a motive to kill Jamie Spellman. They all swear they... Read more
Woman, Captain, Rebel
By: Margaret Willson
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
History would have us believe the sea has always been a male realm, the idea of female captains almost unthinkable. But there is one exception, so notable she defies any expectation.
This is her remarkable story.
Captain Thurídur, born in Iceland in 1777, lived a life that was both controversial and unconventional. Her first time fishing, on... Read more
One Hundred Saturdays
By: Michael Frank
Narrated by: Michael Frank
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A 2022 Audible Editor's Selection
One of Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture * Recipient of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Book Award * Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal
The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose... Read more
The Lying Club
By: Annie Ward
Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
"If you loved Big Little Lies and Little Fires Everywhere, allow me to introduce you to your next obsession. —Kim Liggett, New York Times bestselling author of The Grace Year
A tangled web of lies draws together three women in this explosive thriller of revenge, murder and shocking secrets
At an elite private school nestled in the Colorado... Read more
The Whispers
By: Heidi Perks
Narrated by: Karen Cass, Nneka Okoye & Helen Keeley
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A woman embarks on a desperate search for her missing best friend and uncovers a twisted web of lies in this “razor-sharp and impossible to put down” (Daily Mail, London) thriller from the internationally bestselling author of Her One Mistake.
Anna loves Girls’ Night with her friends. With the kids safely in bed, it’s a chance for the women to... Read more
The Hidden
By: Melanie Golding
Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
One dark December night in a small seaside town, a little girl is found abandoned. When her mother finally arrives, authorities release the pair, believing it to be an innocent case of a toddler running off. Gregor, a seemingly single man, is found bludgeoned and left for dead in his apartment, but the discovery of children's toys raises more... Read more
View audiobookGrave Reservations
By: Cherie Priest
Narrated by: Ulka Simone Mohanty
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A psychic travel agent and a Seattle PD detective try to solve a murder in this “ebullient tap dance of a mystery” (Christopher Moore, New York Times bestselling author)—perfect for fans of Lisa Lutz’s The Spellman Files and Elle Cosimano’s Finlay Donovan series.
Meet Leda Foley: devoted friend, struggling travel agent, and inconsistent psychic.... Read more
Vespertine
By: Margaret Rogerson
Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
An international bestseller!
From the New York Times bestselling author of Sorcery of Thorns and An Enchantment of Ravens comes a thrilling, “dark coming-of-age adventure” (Culturess) about a teen girl with mythic abilities who must defend her world against restless spirits of the dead.
The spirits of the dead do not rest.
Artemisia is training... 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 “inspiring, hilarious, straight-to-the-point” (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.” —NPR
When Helen Ellis and her lifelong... Read more
The Rehearsals
By: Annette Christie
Narrated by: Amanda Troop & Will Collyer
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Groundhog Day meets One Day in December in this funny and romantic novel about a couple who call off their wedding after a disastrous rehearsal dinner—only to wake up the next morning stuck in a time loop.
Two people. One wedding. No end in sight.
"A sweet, delightful romance." —People
“Irresistible.” —Elin Hilderbrand
"An enchanting and compelling... Read more
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
By: Cherie Jones
Narrated by: Danielle Vitalis
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, a brilliant Caribbean writer delivers a powerful story about four people each desperate to escape their legacy of violence in a so-called "paradise."
In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, Lala’s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister. It’s a cautionary tale, about what happens to girls... Read more
Better Luck Next Time
By: Julia Claiborne Johnson
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
""Do you want to read something funny? Let’s say, a novel set at a divorce ranch in Reno in the 1930s? A book with memorably eccentric characters, sparkling dialogue, a satisfying plot twist, and some romance and sex? A feel-good literary comedy/western? Here it is, then, the book you've been looking for: Julia Claiborne Johnson’s Better... Read more
View audiobookInstant Karma
By: Marissa Meyer
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
Length: 14 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer's young adult contemporary romance, a girl is suddenly gifted with the ability to cast instant karma on those around her – both good and bad.
Chronic overachiever Prudence Daniels is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. Her dreams of karmic... Read more
Musical Chairs
By: Amy Poeppel
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Gibson Fra...
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
“Poeppel has created a story that is well thought out, well plotted, well written, and fully developed. A delightful novel that celebrates the messiness and joy to be found in real life.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“100% page-turning delight…Pull out a lawn chair and prepare to read this gleefully entertaining novel.” —Stephen McCauley,... Read more
My Summer of Love and Misfortune
By: Lindsay Wong
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Crazy Rich Asians meets Love & Gelato in this hilarious, quirky novel about a Chinese-American teen who is thrust into the decadent world of Beijing high society when she is sent away to spend the summer in China.
Iris Wang is having a bit of a rough start to her summer: Her boyfriend cheated on her, she didn’t get into any colleges, and she... Read more
The Roxy Letters
By: Mary Pauline Lowry
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Roxy. For fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Bridget Jones’s Diary comes “just the kind of comic novel we need right now” (The Washington Post) about an Austin artist trying to figure out her life one letter to her ex-boyfriend at a time.
Bridget Jones penned a diary; Roxy writes letters. Specifically: she writes letters to her hapless,... Read more
We Want Our Bodies Back
By: jessica Care moore
Narrated by: jessica Care moore
Length: 2 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A dazzling full-length collection of verse from one of the leading poets of our time.Over the past two decades, jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet, performer, publisher, activist, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice, this searing poetry collection is filled with moving, original stanzas that speak to both... Read more
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