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Together We Will Go
By: J. Michael Straczynski
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Dan Bittner, Neo Cihi, Mi...
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The Breakfast Club meets The Silver Linings Playbook in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt novel about twelve strangers who come together to make the most of their final days, from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski.
Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at thirty, is... Read more
The Beguiling
By: Zsuzsi Gartner
Narrated by: Amanda Cordner
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
An electrifying debut novel from the Giller Prize-shortlisted author of Better Living Through Plastic Explosives that takes readers for a wild ride with urban-gothic flair and delectably wicked humour.
Lucy is a lapsed-Catholic whose adolescent pretensions to sainthood are unexpectedly revived.
It all starts when her cousin Zoltan, in hospital... Read more
If I Knew Then
By: Jann Arden
Narrated by: Jann Arden
Length: 3 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Jann Arden—bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star—is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she's found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash.
Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her... Read more
The Appointment
By: Katharina Volckmer
Narrated by: Katharina Volckmer
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
“A darkly funny untangling of national and sexual identity.” —The Guardian * “Transgressive...Incendiary.” —The New Yorker * “A furious comic monologue...with a disregard for propriety worthy of Alexander Portnoy.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Sexy, hilarious, and subversive.” —The Paris Review
For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Han... Read more
What Happened to the McCrays?
By: Tracey Lange
Narrated by: Stephanie Németh-Parker & William DeMeritt
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author Tracey Lange, a poignant story about the resilience of family, the importance of community, and the magic of middle school hockey
When Kyle McCray gets word his father has suffered a debilitating stroke, he returns to his hometown of Potsdam, New York, where he doesn’t expect a warm welcome. Kyle left... Read more
You Better Watch Out
By: James S. Murray & Darren Wearmouth
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"A short and sweet slasher for anyone who’s already counting down the days until
Christmas. Barrie Kreinik’s narration takes this story to the next level, deftly switching
between characters and points of view as the story picks up pace, rushing toward its
spectacular surprising conclusion."—The Berkshire Eagle
This audiobook features bonus content... Read more
Mysterious Ways
By: Wendy Wunder
Narrated by: Georgina Sadler
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
From acclaimed author Wendy Wunder comes a sharp and hilarious coming-of-age novel for fans of John Green and Nicola Yoon about an omniscient teenage girl who must grapple with whether there’s such a thing as knowing too much...
Seventeen-year-old Maya knows everything. When she looks at someone, she instantly knows their history, their private... Read more
My Salty Mary
By: Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows
Narrated by: Nneka Okoye
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
My Lady Jane fixed Jane Grey’s tragic past—and now My Salty Mary will do the same for the infamous pirate Mary Read!Perfect for fans of The Princess Bride and A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, New York Times bestselling authors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows are back with a fantastical, romantical, and piratical historical... Read more
View audiobookFreedom Is a Feast
By: Alejandro Puyana
Narrated by: Luis Selgas, Blas Kisic, Graciela Valderrama & ...
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A Finalist for the Westport Prize for Literature
A multigenerational, Latin American saga of love and revolution in which a rebel who commits a youthful betrayal receives a late-life chance at redemption and a new life: “a tour de force” from “the new master” (Luis Alberto Urrea, New York Times bestselling author of Good Night, Irene).
In 1964,... Read more
Full Speed to a Crash Landing
By: Beth Revis
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg & David Bendena
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times-bestselling author Beth Revis, the first in a novella trilogy. Ada Lamarr may have gotten to the spaceship wreck first, but looter’s rights won’t get her far when she’s got a hole in the side of her ship and her spacesuit is almost out of air. Fortunately for her, help arrives in the form of a... Read more
View audiobookThe Burning
By: Linda Castillo
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
“Kathleen McInerney masterfully differentiates the returning characters, along with new folks good and evil, male and female.”—AudioFile
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a gruesome murder that reveals a little-known chapter of early Amish history in this next riveting installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo.
Newlywed... Read more
Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder
By: Kerryn Mayne
Narrated by: Annie Maynard
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life.
She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is playing Scrabble against an imaginary Monica Gellar while watching Friends... Read more
Dog Day Afternoon
By: David Rosenfelt
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
“A fun, engaging listen and a worthy addition to the series.”—AudioFile
Paterson, New Jersey’s favorite reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter returns in Dog Day Afternoon, the next mystery in this fan favorite series from National Bestselling Author David Rosenfelt.
Retired lawyer Andy Carpenter has run the Tara Foundation—the dog rescue organization... Read more
Twelfth Knight
By: Alexene Farol Follmuth
Narrated by: Alexandra Palting & Kevin R. Free
Length: 12 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Reese's Book Club Summer YA Pick '24
"YA is a feeling. It's a warm summer day reading in the sun, lots of nostalgia, gushing together over the characters in Twelfth Knight." —Reese Witherspoon
“Kevin R. Free and Alexandra Palting’s nuanced voices help listeners enjoy the twists and turns of this enjoyable young adult romance.”—AudioFile
From the... Read more
Sound the Gong
By: Joan He
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He, comes Sound the Gong, the dazzling and sweeping conclusion to the Kingdom of Three duology.
All her life, Zephyr has tried to rise above her humble origins as a no-name orphan. Now she is a god in a warrior's body, and never has she felt more powerless.
The warlordess Xin Ren holds the... Read more
Like Happiness
By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura
Narrated by: Marisa Blake
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a young woman’s destructive relationship with a legendary writer.
It’s 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner, Vera, she spends her days surrounded by art at the museum where she... Read more
No Bullet Got Me Yet
By: John Stansifer
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The incredible story of the most decorated chaplain in US military history and his path to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
Father Emil Kapaun, a humble priest, went far beyond the call of duty during World War II and the Korean War. Often found with the combat medics on the front lines, unarmed, ministering to the wounded, and known for... Read more
Clever Creatures of the Night
By: Samantha Mabry
Narrated by: Ana Osorio
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
In this gripping literary horror, Case’s best friend Drea goes missing, forcing her into a bizarre, cultlike—and possibly murderous world—perfect for fans of The Honeys and Mexican Gothic. Something bad happened here.
When Case arrives at a run-down, ivy-covered house tucked deep in the West Texas woods, an ashy haze lingers in the air and the... Read more
Your Utopia
By: Bora Chung
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from Korean by Anton Hur, this collection shares tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality.
In “The Center for Immortality Research,” a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be... Read more
No One Can Know
By: Kate Alice Marshall
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
"Vacker's narration keeps listeners on their toes throughout this twisty story of corrupt officials, sociopathic relatives, and dark family secrets. Vacker's character work captures the shifting nature of Emma's desperate need to protect her complicated family members."—AudioFile
Three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count.
Fourteen... Read more
Mister Hockey
By: Lia Riley
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese & Vanessa Edwin
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Icebreaker—sparks fly between a hockey player with a dirty mouth and an awkward bookworm in this spicy hockey romance. Jed West is Mr. Hockey: the captain of the NHL’s latest winning team and the hottest player on the ice—at least, according to Breezy Angel, who’s been drooling over Jed at games for years. He plays a starring role in... Read more
View audiobookA Little Blood and Dancing
By: Tyler Parker
Narrated by: Jenny Pudavick
Length: 11 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
It’s a tale as old as time: doomed romance, bloody revenge, fast food, and the voice of God. Welcome to Tyler Parker’s Oklahoma, and one of the most anticipated debut novels of the year from one of our best, funniest new writers.
Check out Sylvia Table: he drives a seafoam-green 1968 Ranchero, owns a badass sword, and is one dead uncle away from... Read more
Alebrijes
By: Donna Barba Higuera
Narrated by: Cisco Fernandez & Frankie Corzo
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The next stunning novel from Donna Barba Higuera, author of Newbery and Pura Belpré Award-winning The Last CuentistaThis is the story as it was told to me by Leandro the MightyFor over 400 years, the world has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel—or go it alone in the... Read more
View audiobookThe Vicar
By: A. J. Chambers
Narrated by: Rory Barnett
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by the author’s own experience, The Vicar introduces Terry Nolan, an MI5 operative who, when he discovers his cover is blown and millions of lives are at stake, will do whatever it takes to stop enemy forces.Terry Nolan, an off-the-books MI5 operative known as the Vicar, has been officially dead for the past thirty years. But when Nolan... Read more
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