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![Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250819833_1120.jpg)
Within These Wicked Walls
By: Lauren Blackwood
Narrated by: Nneka Okoye
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
REESE'S BOOK CLUB FALL 2021 YA PICK
"Lauren Blackwood’s can’t-miss debut is a magical, Ethiopian-inspired remix of Jane Eyre." - Harper's Bazaar
What the heart desires, the house destroys...
Andromeda is a debtera—an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. She would be hired, that is, if her mentor hadn’t thrown her out before she... Read more
![Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan](http://covers.libro.fm/9780785251781_1120.jpg)
![Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan](http://covers.libro.fm/9780785251781_1120.jpg)
Once Upon a Wardrobe
By: Patti Callahan
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
College student Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George’s last wish by uncovering the truth behind his favorite story. What transpires is a fascinating look into the bond between siblings and the life-changing magic of stories.1950: Margaret Devonshire (Megs) is a seventeen-year-old student of mathematics and physics at... Read more
View audiobook![The Future of Geography by Tim Marshall](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797167077_1120.jpg)
![The Future of Geography by Tim Marshall](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797167077_1120.jpg)
The Future of Geography
By: Tim Marshall
Narrated by: Tim Marshall
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes an “insightful, hopeful, and endlessly fascinating” (Daily Express) book on today’s space race—including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and what it means for all of us here on Earth.
Spy satellites... Read more
![The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797165646_1120.jpg)
![The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797165646_1120.jpg)
The Glutton
By: A.K. Blakemore
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times EDITORS’ CHOICE | Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize | MOST ANTICIPATED by The Guardian • Paste Magazine • LitHub • The Millions • Library Journal
From the prizewinning author of The Manningtree Witches, a subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy turned showman, said to... Read more
![We Have Always Been Who We Are by Sofia T. Romero](http://covers.libro.fm/9798200880003_1120.jpg)
![We Have Always Been Who We Are by Sofia T. Romero](http://covers.libro.fm/9798200880003_1120.jpg)
We Have Always Been Who We Are
By: Sofia T. Romero
Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos, Inés del Castillo & Frankie Corzo
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
From Pushcart Prize–nominated author Sofia T. Romero comes a breathtaking debut collection of interrelated stories suffused with magical realism.In stories that evoke the haunting beauty of New England beaches and resonate with a bittersweet loneliness, Romero blurs the lines between life and death, reality and fantasy. A deceased woman counsels... Read more
View audiobook![The Witching Tide by Margaret Meyer](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797161167_1120.jpg)
![The Witching Tide by Margaret Meyer](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797161167_1120.jpg)
The Witching Tide
By: Margaret Meyer
Narrated by: Miranda Raison
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a best historical novel of the year by The New York Times Book Review and “reminiscent of both The Scarlet Letter and Hamnet” (Jezebel), The Witching Tide is a powerful debut inspired by the true events behind a deadly witch hunt in 17th-century England.
East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived... Read more
![Ordinary Wonder Tales by Emily Urquhart](http://covers.libro.fm/9781771965583_1120.jpg)
![Ordinary Wonder Tales by Emily Urquhart](http://covers.libro.fm/9781771965583_1120.jpg)
Ordinary Wonder Tales
By: Emily Urquhart
Narrated by: Anne Wessel
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine—and reveals the magic in the everyday.“I’ve always felt that the term fairy tale doesn’t quite capture the essence of these stories,” writes Emily Urquhart. “I prefer the term wonder tale, which is Irish in origin, for its suggestion of awe coupled with... Read more
View audiobook![The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250865717_1120.jpg)
![The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250865717_1120.jpg)
The Lost Year
By: Katherine Marsh
Narrated by: Anna Fikhman, Christopher Gebauer, Jesse Vilins...
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrators Anna Fikhman, Christopher Gebauer, and Jesse Vilinsky combine talents in this compelling historical fiction, which takes place during the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s."- AudioFile
Author's note read by the author.
From the author of Nowhere Boy—called “a resistance novel for our times” by The New York Times—comes a brilliant... Read more
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![Pandora by Susan Stokes-Chapman](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063280045_1120.jpg)
Pandora
By: Susan Stokes-Chapman
Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 Sunday Times BestsellerA Library Journal Best Book of 2023“Lush, evocative and utterly irresistible.”—Jennifer Saint, author of AriadnePrepare to lift the lid on a lush reimagination of the mythological Pandora….Susan Stokes-Chapman’s atmospheric debut, PANDORA, immerses the reader in the dangerous, mysterious world of ancient antiquities... Read more
View audiobook![Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250868596_1120.jpg)
![Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250868596_1120.jpg)
Never Ever Getting Back Together
By: Sophie Gonzales
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Natalie Naudus
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
"Enjoy this rambunctious performance by glowing narrators Barrie Kreinik and Natalie Naudus."- AudioFile
When their now famous ex-boyfriend asks them to participate in a teen reality show, two eighteen year old girls—one bent on revenge, the other open to rekindling romance—get tangled up in an unexpected twist when they fall for each other... Read more
![Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One by Maggie Horne](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063269873_1120.jpg)
![Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One by Maggie Horne](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063269873_1120.jpg)
Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One
By: Maggie Horne
Narrated by: Tara Sands
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A “must-read for tweens and their parents"" (SLJ, starred review), this funny, feminist, and queer contemporary middle grade debut follows 12-year-old loner Hazel Hill, who after one of her classmates is harassed online, devises a plan to catch the school's golden boy in the act. Seventh grader Hazel Hill is too busy for friends. No, really. She... Read more
View audiobook![My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250855831_1120.jpg)
![My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250855831_1120.jpg)
My Government Means to Kill Me
By: Rasheed Newson
Narrated by: Jelani Alladin
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by actor, singer, and dancer Jelani Alladin, who originated the role of Kristoff in Broadway's Frozen musical.
A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s New York City, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and... Read more
![The Maker of Swans by Paraic O'Donnell](http://covers.libro.fm/9781696607896_1120.jpg)
![The Maker of Swans by Paraic O'Donnell](http://covers.libro.fm/9781696607896_1120.jpg)
The Maker of Swans
By: Paraic O'Donnell
Narrated by: Imogen Wilde & Mike Grady
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman—his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe—and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master's mess like he always has before? Or... Read more
View audiobook![Love Radio by Ebony LaDelle](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797139463_1120.jpg)
![Love Radio by Ebony LaDelle](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797139463_1120.jpg)
Love Radio
By: Ebony LaDelle
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt & JaQwan J. Kelly
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
“Readers won’t be able to get enough of these dope-ass characters.” —Elizabeth Acevedo, author of Clap When You Land
Hitch meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this “mega swoon-worthy, effortlessly cool” (Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author) novel about a self-professed teen love doctor with a popular radio segment who believes he can... Read more
![The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063086197_1120.jpg)
![The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063086197_1120.jpg)
The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
By: Jen Ferguson
Narrated by: Julie Lumsden
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In this complex and emotionally resonant novel about a Métis girl living on the Canadian prairies, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful story about rage, secrets, and all the spectrums that make up a person—and the sweetness that can still live alongside the bitterest truth. A William C. Morris Award Honor Book and a Stonewall Award... Read more
View audiobook![The Golden Swift by Lev Grossman](http://covers.libro.fm/9781668604618_1120.jpg)
![The Golden Swift by Lev Grossman](http://covers.libro.fm/9781668604618_1120.jpg)
The Golden Swift
By: Lev Grossman
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
In this thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling Silver Arrow series, Kate and Tom must confront the limits of what even magic can do—all while trying to bring balance back to the world.
A lot has changed for Kate in a year. She and Tom are now full-fledged conductors of the steam-powered, animal-saving Great Secret Intercontinental... Read more
![Paradise Falls by Keith O'Brien](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593558386_1120.jpg)
![Paradise Falls by Keith O'Brien](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593558386_1120.jpg)
Paradise Falls
By: Keith O'Brien
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America’s most devastating environmental disasters.
Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. It had an... Read more
![Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum](http://covers.libro.fm/9781549102486_1120.jpg)
![Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum](http://covers.libro.fm/9781549102486_1120.jpg)
Atomic Anna
By: Rachel Barenbaum
Narrated by: Traci Odom, Natalie Naudus, Emily Lawrence & Za...
Length: 15 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
“Atomic Anna is a dazzling work of ingenuity and imagination.”―Téa Obreht,National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Inland
From the author of A Bend in the Stars, an epic adventure as three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster and right the wrongs of their... Read more
![Aviva vs. the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe](http://covers.libro.fm/9781705064139_1120.jpg)
![Aviva vs. the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe](http://covers.libro.fm/9781705064139_1120.jpg)
Aviva vs. the Dybbuk
By: Mari Lowe
Narrated by: Leah Horowitz
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A long ago “accident.” An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn’t know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her.
That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a... Read more
![No Filter and Other Lies by Crystal Maldonado](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593397503_1120.jpg)
![No Filter and Other Lies by Crystal Maldonado](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593397503_1120.jpg)
No Filter and Other Lies
By: Crystal Maldonado
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
You should know, right now, that I’m a liar.
They’re usually little lies. Tiny lies. Baby lies. Not so much lies as lie adjacent.
But they’re still lies.
Twenty one-year-old Max Monroe has it all: beauty, friends, and a glittering life filled with adventure. With tons of followers on Instagram, her picture-perfect existence seems... Read more
![What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593510971_1120.jpg)
![What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593510971_1120.jpg)
What the Fireflies Knew
By: Kai Harris
Narrated by: Zenzi Williams
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
An NAACP Image Award Nominee
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize
A Marie Claire Book Club pick
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by *Marie Claire* *Teen Vogue* *Buzzfeed* *Essence* *Ms. Magazine* *NBCNews.com* *Bookriot* *Bookbub* and more!
“Harris rewrites the coming-of-age story with Black girlhood at the center.”
—New... Read more
![Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797135977_1120.jpg)
![Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797135977_1120.jpg)
Circus of Wonders
By: Elizabeth Macneal
Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the “lush, evocative Gothic” (The New York Times Book Review) The Doll Factory comes an atmospheric and spectacular novel about a woman transformed by the arrival of a Victorian circus of wonders—“as moving as it is deeply entertaining” (Daniel Mason, New York Times bestselling author).
Step up,... Read more
![Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor](http://covers.libro.fm/9781338801767_1120.jpg)
![Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor](http://covers.libro.fm/9781338801767_1120.jpg)
Fire Becomes Her
By: Rosiee Thor
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In Rosiee Thor's lavish fantasy story with a Jazz Age spark, a politically savvy teen must weigh her desire to climb the socialladder against her heart in a world where magic buys votes.Flare is power.With only a drop of flare, one can light the night sky with fireworks . . . or burn a building to the ground -- and seventeen-year-oldIngrid Ellis... Read more
View audiobook![Tides by Sara Freeman](http://covers.libro.fm/9781705036044_1120.jpg)
![Tides by Sara Freeman](http://covers.libro.fm/9781705036044_1120.jpg)
Tides
By: Sara Freeman
Narrated by: Amy Rutherford
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Henfield Prize–winner and brilliant newcomer Sara Freeman debuts with an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town. After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her... Read more
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