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By: Cat Bohannon
Narrated by: Cat Bohannon
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting, and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new researcher and writer
Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimerâs? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly... Read more
Monogamy
By: Sue Miller
Narrated by: Sue Miller
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
âA sensual and perceptive novel. . . . With humor and humanity, Miller resists the simple scorned-wife story and instead crafts a revelatory tale of the complexitiesâand the absurditiesâof love, infidelity, and grief.â âO, the Oprah MagazineA brilliantly insightful novel, engrossing and haunting, about marriage, love, family, happiness and... Read more
View audiobookCongratulations, The Best Is Over!
By: R. Eric Thomas
Narrated by: R. Eric Thomas
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠The beloved author of Here for It returns with a collection of âfunny and compulsively readableâ (Vogue), âhilarious and incisiveâ (Time) essays about what happens after happily ever after.
âHow is it possible that I liked this book even more than his last one? Phenomenal.ââJenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more
Dear Edward
By: Ann Napolitano
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â˘Â READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY ⢠âMake sure you have tissues handy when you read [this] sure-footed tearjerkerâ (NPR) about a young boy who must learn to go on after surviving tragedy, from the author of the Oprahâs Book Club pick Hello Beautiful.
Now streaming as an Apple TV+ series starring... Read more
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
By: Jamie Ford
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim, Cindy Kay, Mirai, Natalie Naudus,...
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick
The New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds a family across the generations in âone of the most beautiful books of motherhood and what we pass on to those that come... Read more
Crow Mary
By: Kathleen Grissom
Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping and ârichly detailed story of a woman caught between two culturesâ (Sandra Dallas, New York Times bestselling author) inspired by the real life of Crow Maryâan Indigenous woman in 19th-century North America.
In 1872,... Read more
The Ministry of Time
By: Kaliane Bradley
Narrated by: George Weightman & Katie Leung
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
âIf youâre a fan of Outlander, spy novels, time travel books, or just really innovative and fun storytelling, The Ministry of Time is definitely for you.â âTown & Country, â45 Must-Read Books of Spring 2024â
Part time travel romance, part spy thriller and 100% âmulti-faceted joyrideâ (Harperâs Bazaar, UK): Welcome to The Ministry of Time,... Read more
And How Does That Make You Feel?
By: Joshua Fletcher
Narrated by: Joshua Fletcher
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Psychotherapist Josh Fletcher takes us on a tour of the inner mind of a therapistârevealing a hilariously candid point of view on the therapeutic process, a practical guide to therapy, and maybe a few more cobwebs and dark corners than one might expect. Itâs everything you ever wanted to know about therapy (and maybe a few things you didnât).... Read more
View audiobookWelcome Home, Stranger
By: Kate Christensen
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
âKate Christensenâs new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence. What more could you ask?ââRichard Russo, author of Somebodyâs FoolâTo the great literature... Read more
View audiobookMother May I
By: Joshilyn Jackson
Narrated by: Joshilyn Jackson
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
""Chilling, thought-provoking, and hauntingly written, Mother May I kept me on the edge of my seat with its breathless race against time."" âMegan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl from Widow Hills""A master of domestic suspense."" âEntertainment WeeklyThe New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Never... Read more
View audiobookKeep Moving
By: Maggie Smith
Narrated by: Maggie Smith
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL
âA meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief.â âNPR
âA shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side.â âThe Boston Globe
... Read more
Separation Anxiety
By: Laura Zigman
Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
âSeparation Anxiety is a hilarious, heart-breaking and thought-provoking portrait of a difficult marriage, as fierce as it is funny.... My advice: Start reading and donât stop until you get to the last page of this wise and wonderful novel.""  âAlice HoffmanFrom bestselling author Laura Zigman, a hilarious novel about a wife and mother whose... Read more
View audiobookSeven Days of Us
By: Francesca Hornak
Narrated by: Jilly Bond
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A family canât escape their secrets when theyâre forced to spend a week in quarantine in this âsharply funnyâ (People) novelâan Indie Next and #1 Library Reads Pick!
It's Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrew's elder daughterâwho is usually off saving the worldâwill be... Read more
The Vengeance of Mothers
By: Jim Fergus
Narrated by: Laura Hicks & Erik Steele
Length: 13 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Narrator Laura Hicks] captures the compelling emotions of these desperate women as they escape their former lives of hardship and dare to dream of a freedom they haven't yet known." â Booklist, starred review
The stunning sequel to Jim Fergus' award-winning One Thousand White Women.
9 March 1876
My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil... Read more