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All Down Darkness Wide
By: Seán Hewitt
Narrated by: Seán Hewitt
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature • Named a Best Book of 2022 by Kirkus, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness • Named a Best Book of July by Buzzfeed • A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2022 Summer Read • Observer Book of the Week • Lammy Finalist
“The most beautiful prose I’ve read in years.”—Alexander Chee, The Atlantic •... Read more
Vera
By: Carol Edgarian
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Carol Edgarian delivers “an all-encompassing and enthralling” (Oprah Daily) novel featuring an unforgettable heroine coming of age in the aftermath of catastrophe, and her quest for love and reinvention.
Meet Vera Johnson, fifteen-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose, notorious proprietor of San Francisco’s... Read more
American Housewife
By: Helen Ellis
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney, Lisa Cordileone, Rebecca Lo...
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, American Housewife features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason Dixon line.
Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They... Read more
Everything You Want Me to Be
By: Mindy Mejia
Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn, John Moraitis & Jeff Harding
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Full of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town’s darkest secrets come to the forefront...and she inches closer and closer to her death.
High school senior Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the... Read more
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
By: Kristen R. Ghodsee
Narrated by: Esther Wane
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done right, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work-life balance and, yes, even better sex.
In a witty, irreverent op-ed piece that went viral, Kristen Ghodsee argued that women had better sex under socialism. The... Read more
Under the Influence
By: Joyce Maynard
Narrated by: Joyce Maynard
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and After Her returns with a poignant story about the true meaning—and the true price—of friendship.Drinking cost Helen her marriage and custody of her seven-year-old son, Ollie. Once an aspiring art photographer, she now makes ends meet taking portraits of school children and working for a... Read more
View audiobookWater Witches
By: Chris Bohjalian
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith & Kim Mai Guest
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant—Patience Avery is a dowser, a “water witch.” Her natural gifts enable her to locate lost items, missing people, and aquifers deep within the earth. This last skill is more in demand than ever, as her home state of Vermont is in the grip of the worst drought in years. Patience knows better than... Read more
View audiobookCleanness
By: Garth Greenwell
Narrated by: Garth Greenwell
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
"Garth Greenwell’s superb narration makes a powerful case for authors reading their own work. This bleak, honest novel is about the impossibility of knowing all the complicated truths of a person. Though the novel includes dialogue, Greenwell doesn’t alter his voice as he shifts between characters, a choice that adds to the intensity and power... Read more
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