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A Thousand Questions

By: Saadia Faruqi

Narrated by: Gail Shalan & Reena Dutt

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the backdrop of Karachi, Pakistan, Saadia Faruqi’s tender and honest middle grade novel tells the story of two girls navigating a summer of change and family upheaval with kind hearts, big dreams, and all the right questions. Mimi is not thrilled to be spending her summer in Karachi, Pakistan, with grandparents she’s never met.... Read more

Crownchasers

By: Rebecca Coffindaffer

Narrated by: Reba Buhr

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A deadly race across 1,001 planets will determine more than just the fate of the empire. This explosive first book in a duology jam-packed with tension and thrills is perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Aurora Rising, and Three Dark Crowns.Alyssa Farshot has spent her whole life trying to outrun her family legacy, even leaving behind the... Read more

The Switch

By: Beth O'Leary

Narrated by: Alison Steadman & Daisy Edgar-Jones

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Daisy Edgar-Jones and Alison Steadman team up as a fun, quirky grandmother and granddaughter pair in this lively narration...The two narrators, each portraying her respective character's point of view, are a perfect match." --AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by British actors Alison Steadman and Daisy Edgar-Jones, star of Hulu's... Read more

Lobizona

By: Romina Garber

Narrated by: Sol Madariaga

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Garber’s gorgeous novel combines the wonder of a Hogwarts-style magic school with the Twilight-esque dynamics of a hidden magical species that has strict rules about interacting with the human world." -- BOOKLIST (Starred Review)

Some people ARE illegal.

Lobizonas do NOT exist.

Both of these statements are false.

Manuela Azul has been crammed... Read more

The Black Kids

By: Christina Hammonds Reed

Narrated by: Kiersey Clemons

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller
A William C. Morris Award Finalist

“Should be required reading in every classroom.” —Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin
“A true love letter to Los Angeles.” —Brandy Colbert, award-winning author of Little & Lion
“A brilliantly poetic take on one of the most defining moments in Black... Read more

The Girl and the Ghost

By: Hanna Alkaf

Narrated by: Mirai Booth-Ong

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

* Chosen as a 2020 Kirkus Prize Finalist for Young Readers' Literature! *A Malaysian folk tale comes to life in this emotionally layered, chilling middle grade debut, perfect for fans of The Book of Boy and The Jumbies. I am a dark spirit, the ghost announced grandly. I am your inheritance, your grandmother’s legacy. I am yours to command.... Read more

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

By: Zen Cho

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Zen Cho returns with a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial arts movies with characters drawn from the margins of history.

A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there.

Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the Pure Moon, joins up with an eclectic group of thieves (whether they... Read more

I'll Be the One

By: Lyla Lee

Narrated by: Greta Jung

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Diverse book recommended by The Today Show * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year * Bank Street Best Book of the Year * YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALA’s Rainbow Book List Top 10 for Teen ReadersThe world of K-Pop has never met a star like this. Debut author Lyla Lee delivers a deliciously fun, thoughtful rom-com celebrating... Read more

The Hilarious World of Depression

By: John Moe

Narrated by: John Moe

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Inspired by his podcast of the same name, this combination memoir and informational text is narrated by its author with sincere emotional investment and subtle humor." -- AudioFile Magazine

A moving portrait of depression, from the host of the podcast The Hilarious World of Depression

"This book is an excellent life raft for those of us who are... Read more

Be Not Far from Me

By: Mindy McGinnis

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Hatchet meets Wild in this harrowing YA survival story about a teenage girl’s attempt to endure the impossible, from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Female of the Species, Mindy McGinnis.The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhead than a roof.So when she goes hiking in the Smokies with... Read more

Upright Women Wanted

By: Sarah Gailey

Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.



"That girl's got more wrong notions than a barn owl's got mean looks."



Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her... Read more

Anyone

By: Charles Soule

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

Charles Soule brings his signature knowledge—and wariness—of technology to his sophomore novel set in a realistic future about a brilliant female scientist who creates a technology that allows for the transfer of human consciousness between bodies, and the transformations this process wreaks upon the world.Inside a barn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a... Read more

House of Salt and Sorrows

By: Erin A. Craig

Narrated by: Emily Lawrence

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Get swept away by this “haunting” (Bustle) novel about twelve beautiful sisters living on an isolated island estate who begin to mysteriously die one by one.

"Step inside a fairy tale." —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval

In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.

Annaleigh lives a... Read more

The Bird and the Blade

By: Megan Bannen

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping and tragic debut novel perfect for fans of The Wrath and the Dawn and Megan Whalen Turner.The Bird and the Blade is a lush, powerful story of life and death, battles and riddles, lies and secrets from author Megan Bannen. Enslaved in Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom . . . until the... Read more

Girl in Snow

By: Danya Kukafka

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Kirby Heyborne & Jacques Roy

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“A perfectly paced and tautly plotted thriller…and an incredibly accomplished debut” (Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water), about a beloved high schooler found murdered in her sleepy Colorado suburb and the secret lives of three people connected to her.

How can you love someone who’s... Read more

Mozart's Starling

By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Narrated by: Linda Henning

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

On May 27th, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling in a Viennese shop who sang an improvised version of the theme from his Piano Concerto no. 17 in G major. Sensing a kindred spirit in the plucky young bird, Mozart bought him and took him home to be a family pet. For three years, the starling lived with Mozart,... Read more