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Paper Names
By: Susie Luo
Narrated by: Austin Ku
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
*A Publishers Lunch Buzz Book*
An unexpected act of violence brings together a Chinese-American family and a wealthy white lawyer in this propulsive and sweeping story of family, identity and the American experience—for fans of Jean Kwok, Mary Beth Keane and Naima Coster.
Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it... Read more
Wolfish
By: Erica Berry
Narrated by: Lessa Lamb
Length: 15 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
"Lessa Lamb narrates with a fine tone and timbre. She inhabits the youthful sound and elegant style of this layered audiobook. Her timing and sense of occasion add richness to its informed foray into all things wolf as she captures the drama, fear, and anxiety that underlie the immersive presentation." - AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award... Read more
View audiobookMy Last Innocent Year
By: Daisy Alpert Florin
Narrated by: Sarah Bierstock
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"The youthful-sounding Sarah Bierstock is an excellent choice to narrate this coming-of-age novel... Bierstock creates a likable character in Isabel, and listeners will want her to find her path--even if takes an affair with a professor to eliminate the bad options."- AudioFile
An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual... Read more
The Darkness Manifesto
By: Johan Eklöf
Narrated by: Owen Findlay
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
*Winner of the Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability*
*Named a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American*
This timely and captivating look at the hidden impact of light pollution is “rich in revelation and insight…lyrical” (The Wall Street Journal) and urges us to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own... Read more
The Spite House
By: Johnny Compton
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
"The plotting is intricate, following the points of view of many characters from the past and present, all of whom are expertly performed by Adam Lazarre-White." - Library Journal
"Adam Lazarre-White narrates this terrifying debut novel with a Southern drawl that puts the gothic into this gothic thriller."- AudioFile
A terrifying Gothic thriller... Read more
Tell Me I'm Worthless
By: Alison Rumfitt
Narrated by: Nicky Endres
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless is a dark, unflinching haunted house story that confronts both supernatural and real-world horrors through the lens of the modern-day trans experience.
"Nicky Endres pulls out all the stops when performing this horror story about a haunted house and the shocking trauma it inflicts on three people...This is... Read more
Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone
By: Sequoia Nagamatsu
Narrated by: Brian Nishii & June Angela
Length: 4 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
"You should be here; he's simply magnificent." These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the kaiju (Japan's giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw. "The Return to Monsterland" opens Where We Go... Read more
View audiobookRoses, in the Mouth of a Lion
By: Bushra Rehman
Narrated by: Bushra Rehman
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
For fans of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community
"I LOVED EVERY MOMENT." —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!
"Bushra Rehman performs her novel of a queer Pakistani American girl who is coming of age... Read more
Tread of Angels
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 4 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Celeste, a card sharp with a need for justice, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering a Virtue, a member of the ruling class of this mining town, in an “intricate…engrossing” (The Washington Post) new world of dark fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Sun, Rebecca... Read more
View audiobookWhite Horse
By: Erika T. Wurth
Narrated by: Tonantzin Carmelo
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"The audiobook narrated by Tonantzin Carmelo is enthralling." - Buzzfeed
"Narrator Tonantzin Carmelo’s portrayal of Kari imbues her with a rebellious and tenacious attitude that makes her immediately likable." - Library Journal
Erika T. Wurth's White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut novel about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she... Read more
Nerd
By: Maya Phillips
Narrated by: Maya Phillips
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In the vein of You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) and Black Nerd Problems, this witty, incisive essay collection from New York Times critic at large Maya Phillips explores race, religion, sexuality, and more through the lens of her favorite pop culture fandoms.
From the moment Maya Phillips saw the opening scroll of Star Wars, Episode V:... Read more
Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake
By: Mazey Eddings
Narrated by: Summer Morton & Will Peters
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Mazey Eddings, author of the “witty, fast-paced rom-com”* A Brush with Love, mixes passion and humor to create a luscious love story between two people stumbling through life and learning to open their hearts in Lizzie Blake’s Best Mistake.
Lizzie has made endless mistakes. Kitchen fires, pyramid schemes, bangs (of the hair and human variety),... Read more
The American Roommate Experiment
By: Elena Armas
Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya & Noah B. Perez
Length: 14 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Cosmopolitan, Goodreads, PopSugar, and more!
From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment.
Rosie Graham has a problem. A few,... Read more
This Story Will Change
By: Elizabeth Crane
Narrated by: Elizabeth Crane
Length: 4 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage and how life can fall apart and be rebuilt in wonderful and surprising ways.
One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas, and... Read more
Egg Island
By: Sara Flemington
Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Two laconic teenage runaways plunge deep into backcountry, farther and farther away from civilization, searching for an extraordinary place that may or may not exist.
On the move for who knows how long, Julia, age unknown, walks into a gas station. There, the tall, ominous kid with a studded belt and crusty eyebrow ring who's stocking the fridge... Read more
The Couple at Number 9
By: Claire Douglas
Narrated by: Kenton Thomas & Nathalie Buscombe
Length: 12 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
“Tense, twisty, fraught with emotion and packed with secrets, The Couple at Number 9 is Claire’s best thriller yet.”—Gilly MacMillan, bestselling author of What She KnewThe internationally bestselling author of Do Not Disturb and Just Like the Other Girls delivers a heart-pounding psychological thriller about a couple who inherit what seems to... Read more
View audiobookThe Book of Gothel
By: Mary McMyne
Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson
Length: 13 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
This dark, lush, and beautiful reimagining of the story of Rapunzel presents the witch’s perspective in this tale of motherhood, magic, and the stories we pass down to our children."Smart, swift, sure-footed and fleet-winged, The Book of Gothel launches its magic from a most reliable source: the troubled heart. Mary McMyne is a... Read more
View audiobookThe Kingdoms of Savannah
By: George Dawes Green
Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Jeanette Illidge, Karen Commins, K...
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"The narrators form a kind of tag team as they voice the florid descriptions of the city, its people, and a murder investigation led by the unlikeliest of characters, high society's Morgana Musgrove, portrayed by Karen Commins." - AudioFile on The Kingdoms of Savannah
Savannah may appear to be “some town out of a fable,” with its vine flowers,... Read more
The Crane Wife
By: CJ Hauser
Narrated by: CJ Hauser
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love... Read more
View audiobookThe Most Precious Substance on Earth
By: Shashi Bhat
Narrated by: Meher Pavri
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat’s "powerful, surprising and terrifying" (Rufi Thorpe) story about a high school student's traumatic experience and how it irrevocably alters her life, for fans of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Girlhood, and Pen15.
Bright, hilarious, and sensitive fourteen-year-old Nina spends her spare time reading Beowulf... Read more
Blood and Moonlight
By: Erin Beaty
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Perfect for fans of Kerri Maniscalco and Mary E. Pearson, a young woman with dangerous magical abilities teams up with a handsome detective to hunt down an elusive serial killer in this dark and romantic fantasy thriller.
When orphan Catrin witnesses a murder on the streets of Collis, she’s pulled into a deadly chain of events where the only... Read more
The Key to Deceit
By: Ashley Weaver
Narrated by: Alison Larkin
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
London, 1940. After years of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor—well, to themselves, anyway—Ellie McDonnell and her family have turned over a new leaf as they help the government’s war effort. It’s true that the straight-laced Major Ramsey didn’t give them much choice, but still, Ellie must admit she doesn’t miss breaking and entering... Read more
View audiobookThe Maker of Swans
By: Paraic O'Donnell
Narrated by: Mike Grady & Imogen Wilde
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman—his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe—and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master's mess like he always has before? Or... Read more
View audiobookWretched Waterpark
By: Kiersten White
Narrated by: Keylor Leigh
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A middle-grade mystery series that's spooky, creepy, and filled with gothic twists! Meet the Sinister-Winterbottom twins, who solve mysteries at increasingly bizarre summer vacation destinations in the hopes of being reunited with their parents—or at the very least finally finding a good churro.
“An absolute delight. If I have to die in a... Read more