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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
By: Benjamin Stevenson
Narrated by: Barton Welch
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Knives Out and Clue meet Agatha Christie and The Thursday Murder Club in this “utterly original” (Jane Harper), “not to be missed” (Karin Slaughter), fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery.“A witty twist on classic whodunits… Stevenson not only 'plays fair,' he plays the mystery game very, very well.” -- Maureen Corrigan,... Read more
View audiobookThis Is How You Lose The Time War
By: Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
* HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA *
“[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increasingly... Read more
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Emmett Grosland conjures the essence of a troubled soul in search of peace in this gentle audio."—AudioFile Magazine
In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series gives us hope for the future.
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their... Read more
Godkiller
By: Hannah Kaner
Narrated by: Kit Griffiths
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!“An epic fantasy odyssey begins.” — Entertainment Weekly""A richly rendered world . . . Kaner writes action that's both fun and intelligible . . . If ""The Last of Us"" didn't slake your thirst for stories of a grizzled fighter taking a tough kid on the road, then Godkiller should be... Read more
View audiobookA Sorceress Comes to Call
By: T. Kingfisher
Narrated by: Eliza Foss & Jennifer Pickens
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call—a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's "The Goose Girl," rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic.
Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms—there are no secrets in this house—and... Read more
The Light Eaters
By: Zoë Schlanger
Narrated by: Zoë Schlanger
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Audible Best Nonfiction Listen of 2024TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 • A Best Book of the Year: Barnes & Noble and Publishers Weekly • An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the Year “A masterpiece of science writing.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass“Mesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly... Read more
View audiobookNetwork Effect
By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Martha Wells' New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot series exploded onto the scene in 2017, and the world has not been the same, since.Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect.You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in... Read more
View audiobookSomeone You Can Build a Nest In
By: John Wiswell
Narrated by: Carmen Rose
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body using a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth. However, the hunters chase Shesheshen out of her home and... Read more
View audiobookMy Name Is Barbra
By: Barbra Streisand
Narrated by: Barbra Streisand
Length: 48 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television
PLEASE NOTE The audiobook edition is read by Barbra Streisand. Features additional anecdotes and music that are exclusive to the My Name is Barbra audiobook.
Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has... Read more
The Nightmare Before Kissmas
By: Sara Raasch
Narrated by: Ellis Evans
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Red, White & Royal Blue meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in a sexy, quirky rom-com where the golden-hearted Prince of Christmas falls for the totally off-limits Prince of Halloween.
Nicholas “Coal” Claus used to love Christmas. Until his father, the reigning Santa, turned the holiday into a PR façade. Coal will do anything to escape the... Read more
The Honey Witch
By: Sydney J. Shields
Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson Shaw
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to bear. But when a young woman who doesn’t believe in magic arrives on her island, sparks fly in this deliciously sweet debut novel of magic, hope, and love overcoming all.
Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude has always preferred the company of the spirits of the meadow... Read more
Long Live Evil
By: Sarah Rees Brennan
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
Length: 17 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
This adult epic fantasy debut from Sarah Rees Brennan puts the reader in the villain's shoes, for an adventure that is both "brilliant" (Holly Black) and "supremely satisfying" (Leigh Bardugo). Expect a rogue's gallery of villains including an axe wielding maid, a shining knight with dark moods, a homicidal bodyguard, and a playboy spymaster... Read more
View audiobookThe Bone Season
By: Samantha Shannon
Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins
Length: 18 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Bloomsbury presents The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, read by Alana Kerr Collins.
The New York Times bestselling first novel in the sensational Bone Season series, a heart-pounding epic fantasy by the author of The Priory of the Orange Tree.
“Intelligent, inventive, dark, and engrossing.” NPR
Welcome to Scion. No safer place.
The year is 2059.... Read more
The Dallergut Dream Department Store
By: Miye Lee
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
THE #1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD
For fans of magical realism and the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi comes this cozy fantasy debut.
What if there was a store that sold dreams? Which would you buy? And who might you become when you wake up?
In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious... Read more
Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower
By: Tamsyn Muir
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
When the witch built the forty-flight tower, she made very sure to do the whole thing properly. Each flight contains a dreadful monster, ranging from adiamond-scaled dragon to a pack of slavering goblins. Should a prince battle his way to the top, he will be rewarded with a golden sword—and the lovely Princess Floralinda. But no prince has... Read more
View audiobookLenny Marks Gets Away with Murder
By: Kerryn Mayne
Narrated by: Annie Maynard
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life.
She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is playing Scrabble against an imaginary Monica Gellar while watching Friends... Read more
A Magical Girl Retires
By: Park Seolyeon
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seoul’s Mapo Bridge.But her... Read more
View audiobookHello Stranger
By: Katherine Center
Narrated by: Patti Murin
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The glorious new novel from the beloved author whose bright, hopelessly romantic New York Times bestsellers have been called “My perfect 10 of a book” (Emily Henry) and cheered for their “speedy pacing and sexual tension for miles” (People).
"Patti Murin offers a fun, vivacious performance of this lively romance...with steady pacing and a... Read more
We Refuse
By: Kellie Carter Jackson
Narrated by: Kellie Carter Jackson
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression,... Read more
View audiobookLove Letters to a Serial Killer
By: Tasha Coryell
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
An aimless young woman starts writing to an accused serial killer while he awaits trial and then, once he’s acquitted, decides to move in with him and take the investigation into her own hands in this dark and irresistibly compelling debut thriller.
Recently ghosted and sick of watching her friends fade into the suburbs, thirty-something Hannah... Read more
The North Wind
By: Alexandria Warwick
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan & Travis Tonn
Length: 16 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by Beauty and the Beast and the myth of Hades and Persephone, this lush and enchanting enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance is perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Jennifer L. Armentrout, and Scarlett St. Clair.
Wren of Edgewood is no stranger to suffering. With her parents gone, it’s Wren’s responsibility to ensure she and her sister survive... Read more
When Among Crows
By: Veronica Roth
Narrated by: Helen Laser, James Fouhey & Tim Campbell
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
This program features multicast narration.
When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if redemption and atonement can be found in embracing what we most fear.
We bear the sword, and we bear the pain of the sword.
Pain is Dymitr’s calling. His family is one in a long line of hunters who... Read more
skin & bones
By: Renée Watson
Narrated by: Zenzi Williams
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring sisterhood, motherhood, faith, love, and ultimately what gets passed down from one generation to the next
At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away,... Read more
When the Dark Spoke to Me
By: Christabelle Marbun
Narrated by: Christabelle Marbun
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A profound poetry collection shrouded in tenderness and empathy, created to comfort the growing pains we all experience in life.
Teen breakout poet Christabelle Grace Marbun brings her latest collection When the Dark Spoke to Me to life through words wise beyond her years. Her uniquely positive perspective on life, death, and everything in... Read more
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