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See picks from all bookstoresThe Sisterhood
By: Liza Mundy
Narrated by: Liza Mundy
Length: 17 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A “rip-roaring” (Steve Coll), “staggeringly well-researched” (The New York Times) history of three generations at the CIA, “electric with revelations” (Booklist) about the women who fought to become operatives, transformed spycraft, and tracked down Osama bin Laden, from the bestselling author of Code Girls
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’... Read more
A Shot in the Dark
By: Victoria Lee
Narrated by: Scott Turner Schofield & Gilli Messer
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A passionate and powerful romance featuring a transgender man and an ex-Orthodox woman who find each other through their devotion to art, and fall in love despite all odds, from bestselling author Victoria Lee
“A sensual love story about art and passion . . . emotional and heart-aching.”—Ashley Poston, New York Times... Read more
Learned by Heart
By: Emma Donoghue
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder.
Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister’s five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love... Read more
The Three of Us
By: Ore Agbaje-Williams
Narrated by: Jake Fairbrother, T'Nia Miller & Tariye Peterside
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Best Book of the Year
Time • Real Simple • Oprah Daily
A Belletrist Book Club Pick
"As short and sharp as a pairing knife . . . Moves along so briskly and with such sly wit . . . Deliciously wicked." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post
Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking point in this... Read more
Maybe Next Time
By: Cesca Major
Narrated by: Clare Corbett
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK A heartwarming and emotionally poignant time-loop novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate. It is an ordinary Monday and harried London literary agent Emma is flying out of the... Read more
View audiobookSiren Queen
By: Nghi Vo
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
FROM AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR NGHI VO COMES A DAZZLING NEW NOVEL WHERE IMMORTALITY IS JUST A CASTING CALL AWAY
"Natalie Naudus's skilled narration adds to the luminous and otherworldly qualities of Vo's historical fantasy." -AudioFile on Siren Queen
It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic.
"No maids, no funny talking, no fainting... Read more
Sea Wife
By: Amity Gaige
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Will Damron & Emily Eiden
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Notable Book
"Sea Wife is a gripping tale of survival at sea—but that’s just the beginning. Amity Gaige also manages, before she’s done, to probe the underpinnings of romantic love, marriage, literary ambition, political inclinations in the Trump age, parenthood, and finally, the nature of survival itself in our broken world. ... Read more
Imperfect Union
By: Steve Inskeep
Narrated by: Steve Inskeep
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple
John C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in... Read more
The Sacrament
By: Olaf Olafsson
Narrated by: Jane Copland
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims.A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter’s day, a young student at the... Read more
View audiobookThe Adults
By: Caroline Hulse
Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins, Peter Kenny & Sarah Ovens
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
“If Love, Actually and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation are your two favorite holiday movies, you’re going to love The Adults.”—Bustle
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE • “Sometimes a nasty family comedy is just what you need for the holidays.”—Entertainment Weekly
Meet The Adults.
Claire and Matt are no longer together... Read more
Plum Rains
By: Andromeda Romano-Lax
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 13 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
In Tokyo, Angelica Navarro, a Filipina nurse who has been working in Japan for the last five years, is the caretaker for Sayoko Itou, an intensely private woman about to turn 100 years old. Angelica is a dedicated nurse, working night and day to keep her paperwork in order, obey the strict labor laws for foreign nationals, study for her ongoing... Read more
View audiobookPops
By: Michael Chabon
Narrated by: Michael Chabon
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays—heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise—on the meaning of fatherhood.For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon, then thirteen, to Paris Men’s Fashion Week. Possessed with a... Read more
View audiobookThe Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky
By: Jana Casale
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Kirkus Reviews, "11 Debuts You Need to Pay Attention To"
HelloGiggles, "Books you don't want to miss"
Bustle, "Books you need to know"
An ambitious debut, at once timely and timeless, that captures the complexity and joys of modern womanhood. This novel is gem like—in its precision, its many facets, and its containing multitudes. Following in the... Read more
Census
By: Jesse Ball
Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of towns.When a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn’t have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will care for his adult son—a son whom he fiercely... Read more
View audiobookMove Fast and Break Things
By: Jonathan Taplin
Narrated by: Jonathan Taplin
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The book that started the Techlash.
A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.
Move Fast and Break Things is the riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs... Read more
The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
By: Jennifer Ryan
Narrated by: Various
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
"Just because the men have gone to war, why do we have to close the choir? And precisely when we need it most!"
As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived to the village of Chilbury, emboldens the women of the town to defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to shutter the church's choir... Read more
The Plot against America
By: Philip Roth
Narrated by: Ron Silver
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In an astonishing feat of empathy and narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history.In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected president. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a... Read more
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