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The English Experience

By: Julie Schumacher

Narrated by: Julie Schumacher

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger chaperones Payne University’s annual “Experience: Abroad” to London and beyond, with eleven undergrads in tow • The bestselling author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement completes her hilarious trilogy of academic mishap

“Wise and hilarious and... Read more

The Nameless Witch

By: Natalie C. Parker

Narrated by: Jeremy Carlisle Parker

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Nameless Witch is the wickedly exciting and queer sequel to The Devouring Wolf!

For fans of Soman Chainani, Anne Ursu, and stories with lots of magic, action and a big heart.

If you give your witch your name…
               …she’ll steal your magic and grind your bones…

After defeating the Devouring Wolf, Riley and her friends hoped they could... Read more

Hangman

By: Maya Binyam

Narrated by: Ronnie Butler

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refuge in America and beyond.
In the morning, I received a phone call and was told to board a flight. The arrangements had been made on my behalf. I packed no clothes, because my clothes had been packed for me. A car arrived to pick me up.
A man returns... Read more

Unnecessary Drama

By: Nina Kenwood

Narrated by: Maddy Withington

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"With clear enunciation and an emotive tone, Withington captures the story's humor, as well as Brooke's personality, especially her anxiety. The slight variance in voices is just enough to differentiate the characters. Romance fans, regardless of age, will enjoy this production."- AudioFile

From the award-winning author of It Sounded Better in... Read more

Deadlock

By: James Byrne

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to the highly praised The Gatekeeper, Dez Limerick, one of the best new thriller heroes returns.

Desmond Aloysius Limerick ("Dez" to his friends and close personal enemies) is a man with a shadowy past, certain useful hard-won skills, and, if one digs deep enough, a reputation as a good man to have at your back. Now retired from... Read more

Dark Corners

By: Megan Goldin

Narrated by: André Santana, January LaVoy & Samantha Desz

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

"Samantha Desz and January LaVoy take this novel to new heights by giving a realistic voice to every emotion and scene. Brava!"- The Reading Frenzy

"Narrators ... Samantha Desz and January LaVoy are ... perfect [in] Megan Goldin's latest thriller involving a true-crime podcaster and her coverage of a rape... Read more

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

By: Wole Talabi

Narrated by: Ben Arogundade

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The debut fantasy novel from an award-winning, Nebula-nominated Nigerian authorA mythic tale of disgruntled gods, revenge, and a heist across two worlds, perfect for fans of Nnedi Okorafor, Neil Gaiman, Marlon James, and Karen LordShigidi is a disgruntled and demotivated nightmare god in the Orisha spirit company, reluctantly answering prayers... Read more

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun

By: Shane McCrae

Narrated by: Shane McCrae

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Vulture’s #1 Memoir of 2023

An unforgettable, “lyrical and poignant” (The Washington Post) memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents.

When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad... Read more

Wild Spaces

By: S. L. Coney

Narrated by: Nick Mondelli

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog, Teach. But when the boy’s eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain. The longer his... Read more

Damned If You Do

By: Alex Brown

Narrated by: Amielynn Abellera

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven years ago, Cordelia Scott sold her soul to a demon in exchange for getting rid of her abusive father. Which is extra awkward because she doesn’t remember it: part of the bargain was to erase the memory. Ever since, life has been as normal as it can be—she is stage managing the school play (which is going great, if anyone asks), pining over... Read more

The Trap

By: Catherine Ryan Howard

Narrated by: John Keating & Alana Kerr Collins

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning, internationally bestselling crime writer Catherine Ryan Howard comes The Trap: an unsettling mystery inspired by a series of still-unsolved disappearances in Ireland in the nineties, wherein one young woman risks everything to catch a faceless killer.One year ago, Lucy’s sister, Nicki, left to meet friends at a pub in Dublin... Read more

The Connellys of County Down

By: Tracey Lange

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Talented Barrie Kreinik narrates this complicated contemporary story about the hardships of the Connelly family." - AudioFile

From Tracey Lange, the New York Times bestselling author of We Are the Brennans, comes The Connellys of County Down: a story about fierce family loyalty, good intentions gone awry, and the consequences of improbable love.... 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

Disruptions

By: Steven Millhauser

Narrated by: Gisela Chípe, Vas Eli & Arthur Morey

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

AN NPR AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the short story, the culmination of a five-decade career: work that takes us beneath the placid surface of suburban life into the elusive strangeness of the everyday

Here are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A... Read more

The Apology

By: Jimin Han

Narrated by: Kathleen Kim

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This “sweeping intergenerational saga" tells the story of a pampered and defiant South Korean matriarch thrust into the afterlife from which she seeks a second chance to make amends (Kirstin Chen)—and fights off a tragic curse that could devastate generations to come. In South Korea, a 105-year-old woman receives a letter. Ten days later, she... Read more

An Honest Man

By: Michael Koryta

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead: The murder of several politicians at sea has shattering implications for a local lobsterman and a young boy in this action-packed thriller.Israel Pike was a killer, and he was an honest man. They were not mutually exclusive.

After discovering seven men murdered aboard their... Read more

Speech Team

By: Tim Murphy

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“A tender-hearted novel and a dream to read. I loved this book.” -- Matt Haig #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library

“so so so so good…[Speech Team] is a MUST…It has all the feels and brilliant writing to boot.”  -- Elin Hilderband (on Instagram) #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Five Star Weekend

A funny, gossipy... Read more

Mrs. Plansky's Revenge

By: Spencer Quinn

Narrated by: Petrea Burchard

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Petrea Burchard is delightful in this entertaining comic crime drama."- AudioFile

Mrs. Plansky's Revenge is bestselling author Spencer Quinn's first novel in a new series since the meteoric launch of Chet and Bernie—introducing the irresistible and unforgettable Mrs. Plansky, in a story perfect for book clubs and commercial-fiction... Read more

The Freedom Clause

By: Hannah Sloane

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Could one night off a year save a marriage—or destroy it? In this bold and sexy debut, a young couple agrees to open their marriage, but they soon discover that a little freedom has surprising consequences.

Dominic and Daphne met in their first week of college, and they’ve been happily married for three years. They love each other deeply but... Read more

Somebody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody’s Fool and Everybody’s Fool.

“Sumptuous, spirited . . . [Russo] paints a shining fresco of a... 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

How Can I Help You

By: Laura Sims

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan & Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
The New York Times Book Review • Publishers Weekly • CrimeReads • Book Riot

A LibraryReads Pick

The lives of two librarians become dangerously intertwined in this razor-sharp exploration of human nature and the lure of artistic obsession.

No one knows Margo’s real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public... Read more

Take the Honey and Run

By: Jennie Marts

Narrated by: Cris Dukehart

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

As a successful mystery author, Bailey Briggs writes about murder, but nothing prepares her for actually discovering the dead body of the founder of her hometown of Humble Hills, Colorado. Bailey grew up at Honeybuzz Mountain Ranch and was raised by her beekeeping grandmother, Blossom Briggs, aka Granny Bee, and her two eccentric sisters, Aster... Read more

The Jasad Heir

By: Sara Hashem

Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri & Peter Ganim

Length: 18 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"A remarkable, razor-sharp debut that cuts straight to the heart."―Chelsea Abdullah, author of The Stardust Thief

A fugitive queen strikes a bargain with her greatest enemy that could resurrect her scorched kingdom or leave it in ashes forever in this unmissable Egyptian-inspired epic fantasy debut.  Ten years ago, the kingdom of Jasad burned.... Read more