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Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
By: Alexandra Potter
Narrated by: Sally Phillips
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiration for NOT DEAD YET, ABC’s “Most Watched Comedy Debut in More Than Four Years” (Deadline)“The new Bridget Jones for our time.”—Telegraph“Will have you laughing whether you’re twenty, forty, or eighty.”—Heat (UK)A Zibby Magazine Top 10 Book of the YearA funny and heartfelt novel for any woman who wonders how the hell she got here and... Read more
View audiobookThornhedge
By: T. Kingfisher
Narrated by: Jennifer Blom
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
From USA Today bestselling author T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways.
There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story.
Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved... Read more
Looking Glass Sound
By: Catriona Ward
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland & Katherine Fenton
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
“If you love the novels of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Tana French, here’s your next obsession.” —Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog
From Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street, comes a masterful story about friendship and betrayal, dark obsessions, and the impossibility of escaping your own story.
In a... Read more
The Peach Seed
By: Anita Gail Jones
Narrated by: Anita Gail Jones
Length: 15 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
"Anita Gail Jones's narration transports listeners across centuries and continents as she details the complex history of a Southern Black family."- AudioFile
This program is read by the author, who brings more than twenty-five years of experience as a professional oral-tradition storyteller of global folklore as well as original and personal... Read more
Through the Groves
By: Anne Hull
Narrated by: Anne Hull
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author,
“Anne Hull has written some of the most important stories of our time, beautifully, unflinchingly.”
—Rick Bragg
"Hull delivers her book with a gentle twang and the unpretentious tone of someone who has lived the experiences she describes. Through her character work and emotionally intelligent delivery, Hull helps... Read more
Slow AF Run Club
By: Martinus Evans
Narrated by: Martinus Evans
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A practical guide and a celebration of running for runners of all sizes and athletic ability, from the founder of the Slow AF Run Club.
Ten years ago, Martinus Evans got some stern advice from his doctor: “Lose weight or die.” First defensive, but then defiant, Evans vowed that day to run a marathon, though his doctor thought he was crazy. Since... Read more
Don't Call It Hair Metal
By: Sean Kelly
Narrated by: Sean Kelly
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A love letter to the hard-rocking, but often snubbed, music of the era of excess: the 1980s
There may be no more joyous iteration in all of music than 1980s hard rock. It was an era where the musical and cultural ideals of rebellion and freedom of the great rock 'n' roll of the '50s, '60s, and '70s were taken to dizzying heights of neon excess.... Read more
The Antiquity Affair
By: Lee Kelly & Jennifer Thorne
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Holly Linneman
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
An archaeologist’s estranged daughters.1907: The dawn of Egyptology is a time of imperialism and plunder, opulence and unrest, and Dr. Warren Ford, esteemed archaeologist, is the man of the hour. His daughters—intellectual Lila, on the eve of her debut as a Manhattan socialite, and nonconformist Tess, who dreams of following in his... Read more
View audiobookFatal Conveniences
By: Darin Olien
Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of SuperLife and cohost with Zac Efron of the hit Netflix series Down to Earth, Darin Olien offers invaluable advice for addressing the health of our bodies and the health of the planet by identifying common products and behaviors that are harmful and providing alternatives that are non-toxic and... Read more
View audiobookPaved Paradise
By: Henry Grabar
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize
Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic
“Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.” —The New Yorker
“Wry and revelatory.” —The New York Times
"A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone... Read more
The Salt Grows Heavy
By: Cassandra Khaw
Narrated by: Susan Dalian
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairytale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself.
“Narrator Susan Dalian viscerally conveys the gruesome body horror while deftly capturing the lush imagery.” - Library Journal
“This brilliant novella is not... Read more
Hotel Cuba
By: Aaron Hamburger
Narrated by: Marie Hoffman
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
“Deeply moving, compulsively readable, Hotel Cuba chronicles the early twentieth century immigrant experience with a profound understanding and crackling urgency I’ve not previously encountered. I could not put it down and I could not stop thinking about it long after I’d reached its stunning conclusion. In short: You need to read this book.... Read more
View audiobookUntethered Sky
By: Fonda Lee
Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
From World Fantasy Award–winning author Fonda Lee comes an epic fantasy fable about the pursuit of obsession at all costs.
Ester’s family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother and baby brother, leaving her with nothing but her father’s painful silence and a single, overwhelming need to kill the monsters that took her family.
Ester’s... Read more
Without Children
By: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it’s often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who chose childless lives, others who wanted children but never had them, and still others—the vast... Read more
View audiobookThe Haunting of Alejandra
By: V. Castro
Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this “utterly terrifying and wholly immersive . . . story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood” (Library Journal, starred review).
“Castro is one of the most exciting genre authors on the scene right now, and this might... Read more
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Tara Sky & Jessica Matten
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-new young adult novel exploring grief and belonging by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves series.
Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium, all her... Read more
The Trackers
By: Charles Frazier
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that paints a vivid portrait of life in the Great DepressionHurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal... Read more
View audiobookOnce There Was
By: Kiyash Monsef
Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
An Odyssey Award Finalist
A New York Times bestseller!
A Morris Award Finalist
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them meets Neil Gaiman in this “striking and heartfelt” (Kirkus Reviews) novel about an Iranian American girl who discovers that her father was secretly a veterinarian to magical creatures—and that she must take up his mantle, despite... Read more
The Witch and the Vampire
By: Francesca Flores
Narrated by: Bailey Carr & Mary Helen Gallucci
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Ava and Kaye used to be best friends—until one night two years ago when vampires broke through the magical barrier protecting their town and, in the ensuing attack, Kaye’s mother was killed and Ava was turned into a vampire. Since then, Ava has been trapped in her house. Her mother Eugenia needs her: Ava still has her witch powers, and Eugenia... Read more
View audiobookThe Carrefour Curse
By: Dianne K. Salerni
Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Twelve-year-old Garnet doesn’t know her family. Her mother has done her best to keep it that way, living far from the rest of the magical Carrefour clan and their legendary mansion known as Crossroad House.
But when Garnet finally gets summoned to the estate, it isn’t quite what she hoped for. Her relatives are strange and quarrelsome, each room... Read more
The Islands
By: Dionne Irving
Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women—immigrants or the descendants of immigrants—who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism on what they call the Island. Set in the United States, Jamaica, and Europe, these international stories examine the lives of an uncertain and unsettled cast of characters. In one... Read more
View audiobookPermission to Speak
By: Samara Bay
Narrated by: Samara Bay
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Use your voice to lead us to a better future with this game-changing guide to redefining what power and authority sound like—from a speech expert who’s worked with Hollywood’s biggest stars, political powerhouses, and businesspeople shaking up the status quo.
“I love this book—funny, surprising, stirring, and so important! What a beautiful... Read more
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
Narrated by: Roger Davis
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Roger Davis, who earned first-class honors in media and anthropology, puts his training to good use to lead listeners through 17th- and 18th-century Malagasy history." - Library Journal
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything.
Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance... Read more
Funny Feelings
By: Tarah DeWitt
Narrated by: Nelson Hobbs & Stephanie Bentley
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
When falling in love is the punchline . . .
Farley Jones is being forced to date Meyer Harrigan, the man she has come to love, in order to make all of her stand-up dreams come true.
It's agony—a tragedy, even. In lieu of flowers, please send cash . . .
Meyer and his daughter Hazel have been everything to her since they came into her life three... Read more