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My My!
By: Giles Smith
Narrated by: Kris Dyer
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
‘A lovely book – as bright, shiny and uplifting as an Abba hit’ Daily Mail
‘[A] witty and affectionate account . . . It’s not a stretch to say that, at its core, My My! is a book about time, death and the possibility of immortality’ Sunday Times
My My! The story of ABBA told through a selection of their greatest hits.
This year is the fiftieth... Read more
A Magical Girl Retires
By: Park Seolyeon
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seoul’s Mapo Bridge.But her... Read more
View audiobookThe Word for World Is Forest
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: John Skelley
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters.Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But... Read more
View audiobookThe True Believer
By: Eric Hoffer
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly.” —New YorkerThe famous bestseller with “concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement” (Wall Street Journal) by the legendary San Francisco longshoreman.A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer... Read more
View audiobookSwann's Way
By: Marcel Proust
Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)
Length: 17 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"Swann's Way" is the first volume of Marcel Proust's seminal work, "In Search of Lost Time" (À la recherche du temps perdu), originally published in 1913. It introduces readers to the themes that Proust explores throughout the series: involuntary memory, love, art, and the interplay between perception and reality. The novel is known for its... Read more
View audiobookEndangered Eating
By: Sarah Lohman
Narrated by: Sarah Lohman
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at critical risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California’s Coachella Valley, but the family farms that caretake them are shutting down. Apples, cattle,... Read more
View audiobookRoman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta, Carlotta Brentan, Cassandra Campb...
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, NPR • The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth • Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist, not the setting, of... Read more
View audiobookCollected Fictions
By: Jorge Luis Borges
Narrated by: Castulo Guerra
Length: 27 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume
“An event, and cause for celebration.”—The New York Times
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper
For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions... Read more
To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.”To the Lighthouse chronicles the lives of the Ramsay family and their close friends, from the tranquil and motherly Mrs. Ramsay to the tragic and eccentric Mr. Ramsay, and their eight children and varied guests. Woolf uses the three movements of the... Read more
View audiobookFalling Back in Love with Being Human
By: Kai Cheng Thom
Narrated by: Kai Cheng Thom
Length: 1 hour 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A national bestseller in Canada, hailed by The New York Times as an “intimate expression of self-acceptance and forgiveness, tenderly written to fellow trans women and others.”
“Required reading.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 bestselling author of Untamed
A THEM AND AUTOSTRADDLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD
What happens... Read more
Cassandra in Reverse
By: Holly Smale
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Length: 13 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
"Fascinating...witty...self-deprecating...We meet Cassandra on the worst day of her life. She's getting fired, her boyfriend dumps her, and her roommates hate her. On that same day, she discovers she has the power to go back in time. You'd think you would know how this book is going to end, but it really surprised me.... Read more
Moby Dyke
By: Krista Burton
Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappearance of America’s lesbian bars by visiting the last few in existence.
Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987,... Read more
Still Life with Bones
By: Alexa Hagerty
Narrated by: Rose Akroyd
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice.
“Absorbing . . . multifaceted and... Read more
Transitional
By: Munroe Bergdorf
Narrated by: Mia Juul
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The wise, life-changing, ground-breaking book from writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf.Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition—a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are.As time goes on, we all... Read more
View audiobookThe Shards
By: Bret Easton Ellis
Narrated by: Bret Easton Ellis
Length: 23 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s Los Angeles as a serial killer strikes across the city
“A thrilling page turner from Ellis, who revisits... Read more
The Two Doctors Górski
By: Isaac R. Fellman
Narrated by: Helen Laser
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The Two Doctors Górski is a dazzling contemporary fantasy and an exploration of reclaiming personal power in the aftermath of abuse by Lambda Award-winning author Isaac Fellman
"Confident and lyrical."—Caitlin Starling
A Most Anticipated Pick for Buzzfeed
Annae, a brilliant graduate student in psychiatric magic and survivor of academic abuse, can't... Read more
Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
Narrated by: Anne Lamott
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. Anne Lamott is "a warm, generous, and hilarious guide through the writer’s world and its treacherous swamps" (Los Angeles Times).
“Superb... Read more
Walking in My Joy
By: Jenifer Lewis
Narrated by: Jenifer Lewis
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood.Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what’s happening in the world today, told through her outrageous real-life adventures, will have you laughing out loud, while her insightful... Read more
View audiobookSirens & Muses
By: Antonia Angress
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” (BuzzFeed) debut
National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree • “Captures the ache-inducing quality of art and desire . . . a deeply relatable and profoundly enjoyable read, one... Read more
Milk and Honey
By: Rupi Kaur
Narrated by: Rupi Kaur
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Rupi Kaur presents an all-new performance of milk and honey, her #1 New York Times bestselling collection of poetry and prose about survival, the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. This new production was recorded in 2021 along with the first-ever recordings of her #1 bestsellers the sun and her flowers and home body, all... Read more
View audiobookAgatha of Little Neon
By: Claire Luchette
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Agatha has lived every day of the last seven years with her sisters: they work together, laugh together, pray together. Their world is contained within the little house they share. The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet, purposeful life. But when the parish goes broke, the sisters are forced to move. They land in... Read more
View audiobookLet's Talk About Hard Things
By: Anna Sale
Narrated by: Anna Sale
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From the host of the popular WNYC podcast Death, Sex, & Money, Let’s Talk About Hard Things is “like a good conversation with a friend” (The New Yorker) where “no topic is off-limits when it comes to creating meaningful connection” (Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone).
Anna Sale wants you to have that conversation. You... Read more
salt slow
By: Julia Armfield
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
"Artistic and perceptive, Armfield’s debut explores the ebbs and flows of human connection in lives touched by the bizarre." - Kirkus
From White Review Short Story Prize winner Julia Armfield, a brilliant, provocative debut story collection for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link.
In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women’s... Read more
Women Talking
By: Miriam Toews
Narrated by: Matthew Edison
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A transformative and necessary work--as completely unexpected as it is inspired--by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness. Based on actual events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were drugged unconscious and... Read more
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