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Between Two Trailers
By: J. Dana Trent
Narrated by: J. Dana Trent
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful, unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer in rural Indiana—only to find that no one can really “make it out” until they make peace with where their story began: home
Home, it turns out, is where the war is. It’s also where the healing begins.
Dana Trent is only a preschooler the first time... Read more
Daughter of Mine
By: Megan Miranda
Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Her father was the town detective. Her mother its most notorious criminal. Now the secrets of Mirror Lake are coming to the surface…and changing everything. "[A] stunning psychological thriller from one of the most insightful writers around” (CrimeReads), don’t miss the latest from... Read more
Dangerous Visions
By: Harlan Ellison
Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan, Mark Sanderlin, Bronson Pinchot, ...
Length: 24 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALTDubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dangerous Visions returns to print in a stunning new... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Bloodcarver
By: Vanessa Le
Narrated by: VyVy Nguyen
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
"You’ll gasp, you’ll scream, you’ll cry, and you’ll be begging for the next book." — Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of These Violent Delights
"Smart, lush, and utterly compelling." — Marie Lu, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Legend
Nhika is a bloodcarver. A coldhearted, ruthless being who can alter human biology with just... Read more
The Day Tripper
By: James Goodhand
Narrated by: James Meunier
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
"I loved it!”—Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures
“An essential, profound read.” —The Washington Post
The right guy, the right place, the wrong time.
It’s 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazing woman named Holly and all the time in the world... Read more
The Hedgewitch of Foxhall
By: Anna Bright
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Alister Austin & James Meunier
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In this gorgeous stand-alone cozy fantasy romance perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson and Allison Saft, a rebellious witch undertakes a last-ditch quest to restore magic to medieval Wales—as two princes vie for her heart.Magic is fading from Wales—choked off by King Offa’s Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the... Read more
View audiobookLight in Gaza
By: Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing & Mike Merryman-L...
Narrated by: Amin El Gamal & Hanne Rickert
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Gaza, home to two million people, continues to face suffocating conditions imposed by Israel. This distinctive anthology imagines what the future of Gaza could be, while reaffirming the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and struggle for liberation. Light in Gaza is a seminal, moving, and wide-ranging anthology of... Read more
View audiobookTender Beasts
By: Liselle Sambury
Narrated by: Kimberly Woods
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and clear her brother’s name in this “creepily potent story of a family legacy that gives terrifying shape to monsters real and imagined” (Kirkus Reviews) perfect for fans of The Taking of Jake Livingston and Ace of Spades.
Sunny Behre has four siblings,... Read more
Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
Narrated by: Kate Berlant
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
"Berlant adds that extra pizazz, so you really get a window into the creative mind as it shifts quickly from moments of despair to lightbulbs of insight to incidents of sexual desire to the recollection of totally random literary facts."—Vulture on Alphabetical Diaries
"Heti's candid revelations will stir listeners."—AudioFile on Alphabetical... Read more
Sugar, Baby
By: Celine Saintclare
Narrated by: Sara Novak
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Bloomsbury presents Sugar, Baby by Celine Saintclare, read by Sara Novak.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2024 BY VOGUE, ELLE, NYLON, NPR, PURE WOW, SHONDALAND, BOOK RIOT and more!
In the vein of Luster and Queenie, an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of the internet—an intoxicating, bold debut from a dazzling new voice.
Sugar,... Read more
House Love
By: Patric Richardson & Karin Miller
Narrated by: Patric Richardson
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover the joy of cleaning with this cheery and thoughtful guide to tidying up and turning your house into a home.Patric Richardson is known as “The Laundry Evangelist,” but his genuine love for household chores extends far beyond the laundry room. His philosophy is simple: tidying up is a privilege and a task you do for those you love... Read more
View audiobookPen Pal
By: J.T. Geissinger
Narrated by: Tara Langella & Troy Duran
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant USA Today bestseller!
It all began with just one line.
“I’ll wait forever if I have to.”
The BookTok sensation PEN PAL is a high-octane, tautly written dark romance with an unforgettable twist that will leave readers gasping. This breathtaking romance about undeniable love from superstar J.T. Geissinger is not to be missed!
The first... Read more
Roman 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 audiobookDeath Valley
By: Melissa Broder
Narrated by: Melissa Broder
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times ("incandescent...hilarious...a triumph"), Oprah Daily ("surreal, absurd, lucid, and wise"), Vanity Fair ("Broder [is] a genius and a sorceress"), and more!
From the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief and a “magical tale of survival” (Publishers Weekly,... Read more
A Prayer for Vengeance
By: Leanne Schwartz
Narrated by: Natalie Duke
Length: 12 hours
Abridged: No
An orphan out to find the truth within a warped religion turns his poetry into prayer—a prayer that awakens a cursed girl hungry for revenge.
Centuries after a miracle vanquished Tresttato's monsters and turned the soldiers fighting them to stone, Milo lovingly tends to the statues of those who protected the city. Raised with devout templars and... Read more
This is How We End Things
By: R.J. Jacobs
Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Riley Sager meets If We Were Villains in a compelling new psychological thriller by R. J. Jacobs, following a tight-knit group of graduate students studying the psychology of lying. When one of them is discovered dead after an experiment, everything the group thought they knew about deception crumbles . . .
Campus is empty, a winter storm is... Read more
The Clementine Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
Narrated by: Bob Mortimer & Sally Phillips
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Bob Mortimer, beloved comedian and #1 Sunday Times (London) bestselling author of the memoir And Away…, returns with a delightfully quirky mystery in the vein of Richard Osman and Nita Prose.
Unremarkable legal assistant Gary Thorn goes for a pint with his coworker Brendan, unaware his life is about to change. There, Gary meets a beautiful woman,... Read more
Tessa Miyata Is No Hero
By: Julie Abe
Narrated by: Sura Siu
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
This thrilling and charming middle grade fantasy steeped in Japanese lore and mythology follows Tessa after she breaks a precious family heirloom, sending her on a wild adventure to save herself, her family—and all of Tokyo.
Tessa Miyata has never fit in. When she and her two sisters are told they will be staying at their grandparents in... Read more
The Great Transition
By: Nick Fuller Googins
Narrated by: Stacy Carolan & Stacy Gonzalez
Length: 11 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This richly imaginative, immersive, and “electrifyingly relevant” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) debut novel follows a shocking disappearance amid the climate crisis of our near future—perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Last Thing He Told Me.
Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being... Read more
Those We Thought We Knew
By: David Joy
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2023 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction
Winner of the 2023 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award
Winner of the 2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Award
One of Vanity Fair’s Favorite Books of 2023
“A beautifully fearless contemplation.” –S. A. Cosby
From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a... Read more
My Name Is Iris
By: Brando Skyhorse
Narrated by: Alejandra Reynoso
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
“Brilliant.” —The Washington Post * “Nuanced and compelling.” —The New York Times
From the PEN/Hemingway Award–winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, an engrossing dystopian novel set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands turn second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens—“a well-imagined allegory of... Read more
Ghosted
By: Amanda Quain
Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Never Have I Ever meets The X-Files in this gender-bent contemporary retelling of the Jane Austen classic Northanger Abbey.Hattie Tilney isn’t a believer. Yes, she’s a senior at America’s most (allegedly) haunted high school, Northanger Abbey. But after her paranormal-loving dad passed away, she hung up her Ghostbusters suit, put away the EMF... Read more
View audiobookThe Tao of the Backup Catcher
By: Tim Brown
Narrated by: Justin Price & Tim Brown
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This fascinating book chronicles the unsung men of baseball who serve the job, the hardships they face, and their love for a game that would not always love them back―told partly through the experiences of an MLB veteran.
In baseball there are superstars and stars and everyday players and then there are the rest. Within the rest are role... Read more
The Parrot and the Igloo
By: David Lipsky
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 18 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE'S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The... Read more
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