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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
By: Shannon Chakraborty
Narrated by: Lameece Issaq & Amin El Gamal
Length: 16 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman’s determined quest to seize a final chance at glory—and write her own legend.Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied... Read more
View audiobookGodkiller
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 audiobookThe Sentence
By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small... Read more
View audiobookLand of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award
Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Award
Longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize
Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, TOWN & COUNTRY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, ESQUIRE,... Read more
What Moves the Dead
By: T. Kingfisher
Narrated by: Avi Roque
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"The audiobook narrated by Avi Roque is delightful." - Buzzfeed
"Narrator Avi Roque delivers a perfectly paced performance in this concise audiobook...holding listeners hostage until the house reveals its terrifying secrets." -AudioFile Magazine
From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping... Read more
What the River Knows
By: Isabel Ibañez
Narrated by: Ahmed Hamad & Ana Osorio
Length: 16 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The Mummy meets Death on the Nile in What the River Knows, Isabel Ibañez's lush, immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt and filled with adventure, a rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race.
Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the... Read more
The Bandit Queens
By: Parini Shroff
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful—until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands—in this razor-sharp debut.
"A radically feel-good story about the murder of no-good husbands by a cast of... Read more
The Great Transition
By: Nick Fuller Googins
Narrated by: Stacy Carolan & Stacy Gonzalez
Length: 11 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This richly imaginative, immersive, and “electrifyingly relevant” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) debut novel follows a shocking disappearance amid the climate crisis of our near future—perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Last Thing He Told Me.
Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being... Read more
Masquerade
By: O.O. Sangoyomi
Narrated by: Ariel Blake
Length: 13 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman’s fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she’ll go to secure her future.
“[Ariel] Blake is adept at describing romantic moments, sumptuous palace finery, and bloody battles. Her characters have depth... Read more
Better the Blood
By: Michael Bennett
Narrated by: Richard Te Are & Miriama McDowell
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
An absorbing, clever debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand’s indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Maori screenwriter and directorA tenacious Maori detective, Hana Westerman is juggling single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a... Read more
View audiobookCascade Failure
By: L. M. Sagas
Narrated by: Torian Brackett
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Torian Brackett contrasts a tranquil delivery of narrative with Jal's wariness, Eoan's mix of coyness and kindness, Saint's façade of crankiness, and Nash's quirky practicality. They're a prickly and heartwarming found family amid the whizbang of outer space."—AudioFile
L. M. Sagas's debut, Cascade Failure, is a high-octane, sci-fi... Read more
Everything We Never Had
By: Randy Ribay
Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo, Jesse Inocalla, Manny Jacinto ...
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD!
From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships.
Watsonville, 1930. Francisco Maghabol barely ekes out a... Read more
The Brides of High Hill
By: Nghi Vo
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Nghi Vo's Hugo Award–winning Singing Hills Cycle returns with a stand-alone gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn.
"A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling." —NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune
"Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today." —Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen
The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful... Read more
King of Dead Things
By: Nevin Holness
Narrated by: Troy Glasgow
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Legendborn, Neil Gaiman, and Leigh Bardugo, this “electrifying” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) urban young adult fantasy steeped in Afro-Carribbean folklore follows two Black teens searching for a powerful artifact in the hidden magical side of London.
Raising the dead is easy. Living is harder.
Eli doesn’t know who he is or who he... Read more
The No-Girlfriend Rule
By: Christen Randall
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant USA TODAY bestseller
Four starred reviews!
Julie Murphy meets Heartstopper with a D&D twist in this “magical, heartwarming” (Rachael Lippincott, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She Gets the Girl) queer romance about a teen girl whose foray into fantasy tabletop roleplaying brings her new confidence, true friends, and a... Read more
Not Quite a Ghost
By: Anne Ursu
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Named one of the Best Books of 2024 by the Chicago Public Library, New York Public Library, and NPR!From the award-winning author of The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy comes an unforgettable and deeply personal story of the ghosts that surround us—and the ones we carry inside.The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street,... Read more
View audiobookTagging Freedom
By: Rhonda Roumani
Narrated by: Farrah Haidar
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Kareem Haddad of Damascus, Syria, never dreamed of becoming a graffiti artist. But when a group of boys from another town tag subversive slogans outside their school, and another boy is killed while in custody, Kareem and his friends are inspired and start secretly tagging messages of freedom around their city.Meanwhile, in the United States,... Read more
View audiobookSunshine Nails
By: Mai Nguyen
Narrated by: Carolina Ðo, David Lee Huynh, Quyen Ngo, Vyvy N...
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
This “insightful, moving story with striking depth” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author) follows a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will do anything to protect their no-frills nail salon after a new high-end salon opens up—even if it tears the family apart.
Vietnamese refugees Debbie and Phil Tran have built a... Read more
Ander & Santi Were Here
By: Jonny Garza Villa
Narrated by: Avi Roque
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Avi] Roque's warm and musical narration is utter perfection. They capture Ander and Santi's fear with vivid immediacy and also infuse their voices with bubbly happiness. In moments of tenderness, their breath catches. They switch easily between Spanish and English and use a half-dozen unique accents for different characters. This audiobook is... Read more
View audiobookOnce There Was
By: Kiyash Monsef
Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
An Odyssey Award Finalist
A New York Times bestseller!
A Morris Award Finalist
Impossible Creatures meets Neil Gaiman in this “striking and heartfelt” (Kirkus Reviews) novel about an Iranian American girl who discovers that her father was secretly a veterinarian to magical creatures—and that she must take up his mantle, despite the many... Read more
Into the Riverlands
By: Nghi Vo
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 2 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find... Read more
View audiobookOnyeka and the Academy of the Sun
By: Tolá Okogwu
Narrated by: Nneka Okoye
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
NAMED A 2023 ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN’S RECORDING!
Black Panther meets X-Men in this “fast-paced, action-packed, and empowering” (A. F. Steadman, New York Times bestselling author of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief) middle grade adventure about a British Nigerian girl who learns that her Afro hair has psychokinetic powers—perfect for fans of Amari and... Read more
The Stardust Thief
By: Chelsea Abdullah
Narrated by: Nikki Massoud, Sean Rohani & Rasha Zamamiri
Length: 15 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights, this book weaves together the gripping tale of a legendary smuggler, a cowardly prince, and a dangerous quest across the desert to find a legendary, magical lamp.Neither here nor there, but long ago . . . Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn... Read more
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