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What Kind of Mother

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

Narrated by: Megan Tusing & Joe Hempel

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicholas Sparks meets The Empty Man in this modern Southern Gothic horror about a palm reader swept up in a disturbing missing-child case with a twist you won’t see coming.After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Brandywine, Virginia, with her seventeen-year-old daughter. With nothing to her... Read more

Exit Interview

By: Kristi Coulter

Narrated by: Kristi Coulter

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon.com, from the author of Nothing Good Can Come from This.

"A unique and brilliant book." —Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks

What would you sacrifice for your career? All your free time? Your sense of self-worth?... Read more

Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the World.  Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the... Read more

The Witching Tide

By: Margaret Meyer

Narrated by: Miranda Raison

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a best historical novel of the year by The New York Times Book Review and “reminiscent of both The Scarlet Letter and Hamnet” (Jezebel), The Witching Tide is a powerful debut inspired by the true events behind a deadly witch hunt in 17th-century England.

East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived... Read more

Fly with Me

By: Andie Burke

Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A sparkling and steamy Sapphic romance, Fly with Me by Andie Burke is filled with sharp banter and that sweet, swooping feeling of finding “the one” when and where you least expect it.

A one-way ticket to love or a bumpy ride ahead?

Flying-phobic ER nurse Olive Murphy is still gripping the armrest from her first-ever take-off when the pilot... Read more

The Longmire Defense

By: Craig Johnson

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Sheriff Walt Longmire uncovers a cold case that hits very close to home and forces him to put his life on the line with implications that some people would kill to keep buried foreverSheriff Walt Longmire and Dog are called on a routine search and rescue to Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains, where Walt finds himself on a rock outcropping remembering... Read more

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

By: Andrew Joseph White

Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

A blood-soaked and nauseating triumph that cuts like a scalpel and reads like your darkest nightmare.

New York Times bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with the transgressive gothic horror of our time!

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.

London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has... Read more

One Blood

By: Denene Millner

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Joniece Abbott-Pratt & Tina Lifford

Length: 18 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration. It also includes a poem, book club reading guide, and acknowledgments, all read by the author.

Homegoing meets The Mothers where three women are tied together by blood, love, and family secrets in this searing novel by New York Times bestseller Denene Millner.

Raised by her beloved grandmother in... Read more

Cities of Women

By: Kathleen B. Jones

Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelée, Lauren Ezzo & Mia Barron

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In the twenty-first century, we meet Verity Frazier, a disillusioned history professor who sets out to prove that the artist responsible for the illuminated artwork in Christine de Pizan’s medieval manuscripts was a remarkable woman named Anastasia. As Anastasia’s story unfolds against the exquisitely-rendered medieval backdrop of moral... Read more

The (Super Secret) Octagon Valley Society

By: Melissa de la Cruz

Narrated by: Marni Penning

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This new series from #1 New York Times best-selling author Melissa de la Cruz is The Mysterious Benedict Society for reluctant readers, chockful of humor, adventure and mischief, and set at an exclusive, secluded, high-tech institute everyone wants to get into.A handful of sixth-graders have been chosen to attend an exclusive weekend at the... 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

Jade Shards

By: Fonda Lee

Narrated by: Andrew Kishino

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Fonda Lee returns to the acclaimed Green Bone Saga with four prequel short stories that delve into the personal histories of the Kaul and Ayt families.The Witch and Her Friend. Before she was the ruthless leader of the Mountain clan, Ayt Mada was an orphan without friends at school except for one: Aun Ure, a teenage girl feared and renowned as... 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

A Dance With The Fae Prince [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Elise Kova

Narrated by: Laura C. Harris, Gabriel Michael, David Cui Cui...

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Cinderella meets THE CRUEL PRINCE in this stand-alone fantasy romance about a human girl and her marriage to the prince of the fae.

She knew her hand in marriage would be sold. She had no idea a fae prince was the buyer.

Katria swore she'd never fall in love. She's seen what ""love"" means through the cruelty of her family. So when she's married... Read more

The Reunion

By: Kit Frick

Narrated by: Zac Aleman, Andre Bellido, Marisa Blake, Kurt K...

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of I Killed Zoe Spanos comes a “suspenseful and atmospheric” (Kirkus Reviews) YA thriller in the vein of The White Lotus and Karen M. McManus’s The Cousins following a doomed family reunion at a posh Caribbean resort, where old grudges and dangerous secrets culminate in murder.

Eleven Mayweathers went on vacation. Ten came home.
... Read more

Holler, Child

By: LaToya Watkins

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Aaron Goodson, JD Jackson...

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the National Book Award

Winner of the Reading the West Book Award in Fiction

Winner of the Writers' League of Texas Book Award in Fiction

An extraordinary short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forgiveness—from a writer whose “spellbinding, buoyant”* storytelling will break your heart as it tends to the wounds.
... Read more

Terrace Story

By: Hilary Leichter

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about love, an epic daydream for a broken-hearted world Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn’t there before, and it seems to... Read more

I'm Not Done with You Yet

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

Narrated by: Yu-Li Alice Shen, Saskia Maarleveld, Leiana Ber...

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Some friends—and friendships—are worth killing for in this dark, twisty suspense novel by national bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto.

Jane is unhappy.  

A struggling midlist writer whose novels barely command four figures, she feels trapped in an underwhelming marriage, just scraping by to pay a crippling Bay Area mortgage for a house—a... 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 Continental Affair

By: Christine Mangan

Narrated by: George Weightman & Hannah Kelly-Turner

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a daring literary caper that is quick on its feet and delightfully surprising.

Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers, traveling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn't the first time they have met.

It's the 1960s... Read more

Eden

By: Jim Crace

Narrated by: Ben Allen

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Harvest and Quarantine, a gorgeous, unforgettable retelling of the myth of Eden.

The inhabitants of Eden are untouched by death. In the garden they care for their orchards and the land, and give thanks for their good fortune, because they know that beyond the garden walls is a world where disease... Read more

The Quickening

By: Elizabeth Rush

Narrated by: Helen Laser

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer. Their destination: Thwaites Glacier. Their goal: to learn as much as possible about this mysterious place,... Read more

Thornhedge

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

Prophet

By: Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald

Narrated by: Ryan Forde Iosco, Jake Fairbrother & Charlotte ...

Length: 17 hours

Abridged: No

From the extraordinary minds of award-winning and New York Times–bestselling author of H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald and first-time author Sin Blaché, Prophet is their electric debut, a tantalizing adventure fusing noir, sci-fi, and a slow burn romance—set in a universe just one perilous step from our own. Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been... Read more