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The Editor
By: Steven Rowley
Narrated by: Michael Urie
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a novel about a struggling writer who gets his big break, with a little help from the most famous woman in America.
After years of trying to make it as a writer in 1990s New York City, James Smale finally sells his novel to an editor at a major publishing house: none other than Jacqueline... Read more
The Last Romantics
By: Tara Conklin
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The House Girl comes a novel about our most precious and dangerous attachment: family.In the spring of 1981, the young Skinner siblings—fierce Renee, dreamy Caroline, golden boy Joe and watchful Fiona—lose their father to a heart attack and their mother to a paralyzing depression, events that thrust... Read more
View audiobookYou Go First
By: Erin Entrada Kelly
Narrated by: Amielynn Abellera
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Funny and poignant, Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestseller Erin Entrada Kelly’s national bestseller You Go First is an exploration of family, bullying, word games, art, and the ever-complicated world of middle school friendships.In a starred review, School Library Journal wrote that Erin Entrada Kelly can “capture moments of tween... Read more
View audiobookThe Parker Inheritance (Scholastic Gold)
By: Varian Johnson
Narrated by: Cherise Boothe
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
A Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor winner * Four Starred Reviews * Over Ten Best-of-Year Lists"Powerful.... Johnson writes about the long shadows of the past with such ambition that any reader with a taste for mystery will appreciate the puzzle Candice and Brandon must solve." -- The New York Times Book ReviewA Coretta Scott King Author Honor and... Read more
View audiobookThe Flight Attendant
By: Chris Bohjalian
Narrated by: Erin Spencer, Grace Experience & Mark Deakins
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A NATIONAL INDIEBOUND BESTSELLER
From the author of The Guest Room, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man - and no idea what happened.
Cassandra... Read more
The Defense
By: Steve Cavanagh
Narrated by: Adam Sims
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"If you're a fan of John Grisham, Scott Turow, and Brad Meltzer, then you will be a fan of Steve Cavanagh's The Defense." —Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Radiant Angel
Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turns out the two aren't that different.
In The Defense, former con artist turned lawyer Eddie... Read more
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
By: Rachel Joyce
Narrated by: Jim Broadbent
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from... Read more
Silver Sparrow
By: Tayari Jones
Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman-Williams & Heather Alicia Simms
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,” author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon’s two families—the public one and the secret... Read more
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