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Murder Your Employer
By: Rupert Holmes
Narrated by: Neil Patrick Harris & Simon Vance
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a diabolical thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, “a fantasy academy laid out like a combination of Hogwarts, Downton Abbey, and a White Lotus–style resort” (Los Angeles Times) dedicated... Read more
View audiobookWhen the World Tips Over
By: Jandy Nelson
Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Alex McKenna, Briggon Snow, Cai...
Length: 17 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
* An Instant New York Times Bestseller *
"Jandy Nelson is a true virtuoso . . . I am fervently in love with this brave, funny, tender, exuberant beating heart of a book." —Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Imogen, Obviously
The explosive new novel that brims with love, secrets, and enchantment by Jandy Nelson,... Read more
Not in Love
By: Ali Hazelwood
Narrated by: Callie Dalton & Jason Clarke
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
An Indie Next and a Hall of Fame LibraryReads Pick!
A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science—from New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood.
Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a... Read more
My Mother's Boyfriends: Stories
By: Samantha Schoech
Narrated by: Samantha Schoech
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
For lovers of Catherine Newman, Lorrie Moore, and Ottessa Moshfegh comes a debut collection of 14 insightful, witty, and often laugh-out-loud stories.My Mother’s Boyfriends is populated by angels, earthquakes, sibling complexity, love affairs gone bad, and children left to figure it out on their own. Woven throughout is an abiding sympathy for... Read more
View audiobookThe It Girl
By: Ruth Ware
Narrated by: Imogen Church
Length: 17 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
“The pages turn themselves” (People) in this white-knuckled mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend’s murder from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware.
April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford.
Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she... Read more
The Darkness Within Us
By: Tricia Levenseller
Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"Few audiobooks warrant turning off all distractions, closing one's eyes, and simply listening to the story unfold. Narrator Caitlin Davies creates just that experience as she passionately guides listeners through this gripping story of ambition, love, and desire." —AudioFile on The Shadows Between Us
The Darkness Within Us is a wickedly... Read more
The Trial of Lizzie Borden
By: Cara Robertson
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY BOOK AWARD
In Cara Robertson’s “enthralling new book,” The Trial of Lizzie Borden, “the reader is to serve as judge and jury” (The New York Times). Based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence, this true crime and legal history is the “definitive account to date of one of America’s most... Read more
I'll Be Waiting
By: Kelley Armstrong
Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a spellbinding new tale of supernatural horror involving a haunted house, seances, lost loved ones, and a sinister spirit out for blood...
Nicola Laughton never expected to see adulthood, being diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis as a child. Then medical advances let her live into her... Read more
There Is a Door in This Darkness
By: Kristin Cashore
Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie & Kristin Cashore
Length: 13 hours
Abridged: No
A magic-tinged contemporary YA about grief and hope from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the Graceling Realm novels.
Wilhelmina Hart is part of the infamous class of 2020. Her high school years began with a shocking presidential election and ended with a pandemic. In the midst of this global turmoil, she also lost one of her... Read more
Redhead by the Side of the Road
By: Anne Tyler
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
“Tyler's novels are always worth scooping up—but especially this gently amusing soother, right now.” —NPR
From the beloved Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection.
Micah Mortimer is a creature of... Read more
Lost Children Archive
By: Valeria Luiselli
Narrated by: Valeria Luiselli, Kivlighan de Montebello, Will...
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"Impossibly smart, full of beauty, heart and insight . . . Everyone should read this book."--Tommy Orange
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking... Read more
The House of Impossible Beauties
By: Joseph Cassara
Narrated by: Christian Barillas
Length: 15 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and ’90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is BurningIt’s 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city’s glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning... Read more
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