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Ithaca
By: Claire North
Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
Length: 12 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
From the multi-award-winning author Claire North comes a daring reimagining that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men. It’s time for the women of Ithaca to tell their tale . . .
"North brings a powerful, fresh, and unflinching voice to ancient myth.... Read more
Fellowship Point
By: Alice Elliott Dark
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 19 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
“A magnificent storytelling feat” (The Boston Globe) story of lifelong friendship between two very different “superbly depicted” (The Wall Street Journal) women with shared histories, divisive loyalties, hidden sorrows, and eighty years of summers on a pristine point of land on the coast of Maine, set across the arc of the 20th... Read more
View audiobookPath Lit By Lightning
By: David Maraniss
Narrated by: David Maraniss
Length: 23 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete that “goes beyond the myth and into the guts of Thorpe’s life, using extensive research, historical nuance, and bittersweet honesty” (Los Angeles Times), by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered.
Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled... Read more
All In
By: Billie Jean King, Johnette Howard & Maryanne Vo...
Narrated by: Billie Jean King
Length: 18 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice.
In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career--six years as... Read more
Isola
By: Allegra Goodman
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham & Allegra Goodman
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in this breathtaking saga, an epic story of love, faith, and defiance from the bestselling author of Sam
“A shocking story, made all the more stunning by the fact that it has its roots in true history.”—Jodi Picoult, author of By Any Other Name
“What a gift this novel is: vast, lush, feminist,... Read more
Sacrificial Animals
By: Kailee Pedersen
Narrated by: Yung-I Chang
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up on a farm in Nebraska, this rich and atmospheric supernatural horror debut explores an ancient Chinese mythology.
The last thing Nick Morrow expected to receive was an invitation from his father to return home. When he left rural Nebraska... Read more
The Cheesemaker's Daughter
By: Kristin Vukovic
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
When Marina’s father summons her to their Croatian island from New York—and away from her evaporating marriage—to help him save his failing cheese factory, she must face her rocky past and an uncertain future.How do you begin again when the past threatens to drown you?In the throes of an unraveling marriage, New Yorker Marina Maržic returns to... Read more
View audiobookNorthwoods
By: Amy Pease
Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey & Zac Aleman
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
“Riveting.” —People
In this “compelling and heartbreaking debut that marks a new and important voice in the mystery genre” (William Kent Krueger), a murder with ties to America’s opioid epidemic reveals the dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town.
Eli North is not okay.
His drinking is getting worse by the day, his emotional wounds... Read more
Before We Say Goodbye
By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Narrated by: Kevin Shen
Length: 4 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series
The regulars at the magical Café Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with its famous legend and extraordinary time-travel offer. Many patrons have reunited with old flames, made amends with estranged family and visited loved ones. But the journey is not... Read more
The Marrow Thieves
By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Meegwun Fairbrother
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions... Read more
View audiobookThe Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories
By: Rebecca Hirsch Garcia
Narrated by: Tara Koehler
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The boundaries between realist and fabulist, literary and speculative, are shattered in this remarkable debut collection for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, André Alexis, and Angélique Lalonde A girl born in a small, unnamed pueblo is blessed—or cursed—with the ability to produce valuable gems from her bodily fluids. A tired wife and... Read more
View audiobookThe Quickening
By: Elizabeth Rush
Narrated by: Helen Laser
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer. Their destination: Thwaites Glacier. Their goal: to learn as much as possible about this mysterious place,... Read more
View audiobookThe Mythmakers
By: Keziah Weir
Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Editors’ Choice
Named a Best New Book of the Year by Harper’s Bazaar
Named a Best Book of the Summer by Shondaland, SheReads, The Boston Globe, Harper’s Bazaar, and Reader’s Digest
From an acclaimed senior editor at Vanity Fair comes a “laudable” (The New York Times) debut novel about a young journalist who discovers a short... Read more
The Dog of the North
By: Elizabeth McKenzie
Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
* Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction *
“I’m in love with a grieving misfit driving around with a donkey-shaped piñata in an old van held together by duct tape…the great miracle of McKenzie’s writing… is... Read more
Unraveling
By: Peggy Orenstein
Narrated by: Peggy Orenstein
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
“Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it’s easy to forget she’s an important thinker too.”—PeopleIn this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch—shearing, spinning, dyeing wool—and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to... Read more
View audiobookThe Net Beneath Us
By: Carol Dunbar
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In her debut novel, Carol Dunbar draws from her own lived experiences, vividly describing the wonder and harshness of life off the grid. Told over the course of a year, The Net Beneath Us is a lyrical exploration of loss, marriage, parenthood, and self-reliance; a tale of how the natural world—without and within us—offers us healing, if we can... Read more
View audiobookThe Wise Women
By: Gina Sorell
Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A Good Morning America Buzz Pick and one of Read With Jenna's Most Anticipated Books of 2022""I laughed and shook my head in recognition as the three Wise women crashed through love relationships, terrible advice, and delightful moments of connection. The Wise Women is a smart and tender novel about how hard—and vital—it is to find the place... Read more
View audiobookThe Paris Bookseller
By: Kerri Maher
Narrated by: Lauryn Allman
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
“A love letter to bookstores and libraries.”
—The Boston Globe
The dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in White Gloves.
A PopSugar Much-Anticipated 2022 Novel ∙ A BookTrib Top Ten Historical... Read more
The Starless Crown
By: James Rollins
Narrated by: James Rollins & Nicola Barber
Length: 22 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
"The story touches on many familiar fantasy plot points — magic, an ancient language, an ability to commune with wild creatures, a climactic battle between the forces of good and evil — yet manages to be satisfying. It’s aided by a capable reading from Barber, who invests Rollins’ characters with a variety of British accents that help make each... Read more
View audiobookTales from the Cafe
By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Narrated by: Kevin Shen
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the international bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this book follows four new customers who hope to travel back in time in a little Japanese café.
In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else... Read more
The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All
By: Josh Ritter
Narrated by: Josh Ritter
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, a lyrical, sweeping novel about a young boy's coming-of-age during the last days of the lumberjacks.
In the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho, ninety-nine year old Weldon Applegate recounts his life in all its glory, filled with tall tales writ large with murder, mayhem, avalanches and bootlegging. It’s the... Read more
Revelator
By: Daryl Gregory
Narrated by: Reagan Boggs
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • The dark, gripping tale of a 1930’s family in the remote hills of the Smoky Mountains, their secret religion, and the daughter who turns her back on their mysterious god—from the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders.
“Gods and moonshine in the Great Depression, written with a ... Read more
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
By: Rebecca Donner
Narrated by: Rebecca Donner
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The INSTANT New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award
Winner of the Chautauqua Prize
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award
Finalist for the Plutarch Award
A New York Times Notable Book of 2021
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A New... Read more
Radar Girls
By: Sara Ackerman
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
"A fresh, delightful romp of a novel."—Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code
* SheReads Most Anticipated Historical Fiction of Summer 2021 pick * Book Reporter Summer Reading pick * BiblioLifestyle Most Anticipated Summer 2021 Historical Fiction Books selection * Greatist Best Historical Fiction Books pick *
An... Read more