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An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
By: Helene Tursten
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Maud is an irascible eighty-eight-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and . . . no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss Investigation series, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home.
Ever... Read more
A Winter's Promise
By: Christelle Dabos
Narrated by: Emma Fenney
Length: 14 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima, and, whatâs more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a... Read more
View audiobookThe Islanders
By: Meg Mitchell Moore
Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
J. Courtney Sullivanâs Maine meets the works of Elin Hilderbrand in this delicious summer read involving three strangers, one island, and a season packed with unexpected romance, well-meaning lies, and damaging secrets.Anthony Puckett was a rising literary star. The son of an uber-famous thriller writer, Anthonyâs debut novel spent two years on... Read more
View audiobookThe History of Living Forever
By: Jake Wolff
Narrated by: Maxwell Glick
Length: 14 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A chemistry student falls for his teacher and uncovers a centuries-old quest for the elixir of life
The morning after the death of his first love, Conrad Aybinder receives a bequest. Sammy Tampari was Conradâs lover. He was his teacher. And, it turns out, he was not just a chemist, but an alchemist, searching for a mythic elixir of life. Sammyâs... Read more
Fix Her Up
By: Tessa Bailey
Narrated by: Charlotte North
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A brand new romantic comedy from New York Times bestseller Tessa Bailey! Georgette Castleâs family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they havenât taken her seriously since. Frankly, sheâs over it. Georgie loves planning childrenâs birthday parties and making people laugh, just not... Read more
View audiobookThis Is Home
By: Lisa Duffy
Narrated by: Renata Friedman & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of book club favorite The Salt House comes a deeply affecting novel about a teenage girl finding her voice and the military wife who moves in downstairs, united in their search for the true meaning of home.
Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives in Paradise, a seaside town north of Boston that rarely lives up to its name. After the... Read more
Call Your Daughter Home
By: Deb Spera
Narrated by: Robin Miles, Adenrele Ojo & Brittany Pressley
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Featured on Oprahâs Summer Reading List
For readers of Delia Owensâ Where the Crawdads Sing and Sue Monk Kiddâs The Secret Life of Bees, this extraordinary historical debut novel follows three fierce Southern women in an unforgettable story of motherhood and womanhood.
Itâs 1924 in Branchville, South Carolina and three women have come to a... Read more
Man of the Year
By: Caroline Louise Walker
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Michael Crouch, George Newb...
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A sinister, sophisticated debut thriller by âa remarkable new voice to watchâ (J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author), Man of the Year has been lauded by Shelf Awareness as âan impressive slow burn that builds suspense and cracks the whip at the endâŚredolent with menace and ego.â
Dr. Robert Hart, Sag Harborâs just-named Man of the Year,... Read more
The First Mistake
By: Sandie Jones
Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From Sandie Jones, author of the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick and USA Today Bestseller, The Other Woman, comes an addictive new domestic suspense audiobook about a wife, her husband, and the woman who is supposedly her best friend.
THE WIFE: For Alice, life has never been better. With her second husband, she has a successful... Read more
Ordinary Girls
By: Blair Thornburgh
Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
*A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019**A Booklist Editors' Choice for Books for Youth 2019*Perfect for fans of Sarah Mlynowski and Jenny Han, this heartfelt and humorous contemporary take on Sense and Sensibility follows two sistersâcomplete oppositesâwho discover the secrets theyâve been keeping make them more alike than theyâd realized.  For... Read more
View audiobookAll the Lost Things
By: Michelle Sacks
Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From "a master of slow-burn suspense" (Shelf Awareness), a simmering family drama about a father and daughter who embark on a road trip through the American South -- but what they're leaving behind is as important as what lies ahead.
When we first meet seven-year-old Dolly, she immediately grabs us with a voice that is both precocious and... Read more
Like a Love Story
By: Abdi Nazemian
Narrated by: Lauren Ambrose, Vikas Adam & Michael Crouch
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
2020 Audie AwardsÂŽÂ Finalist - Young Adult Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time""A book for warriors, divas, artists, queens, individuals, activists, trend setters, and anyone searching for the courage to be themselves.ââMackenzi Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gentlemanâs Guide to Vice and VirtueItâs 1989... Read more
View audiobookThe Unbreakables
By: Lisa Barr
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A delicious, sharp novel about a woman who jets off to France after her perfect marriage collapses, putting the broken pieces of herself back together while rediscovering her own joie de vivreâa lust for life, art, and steamy sex.âArtful, feminist, and emotionally gripping. The Unbreakables is a remarkable tribute to a womanâs strength in the... Read more
View audiobookMostly Dead Things
By: Kristen Arnett
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into the shop to make aggressively lewd art with... Read more
View audiobookNaturally Tan
By: Tan France
Narrated by: Tan France
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
"Tan France's unique accent, chummy intimacy, and cheeky delivery make audio the best way to experience his memoir." â AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by the author, with a special guest appearance!
In this heartfelt, funny, and touching memoir, one of the stars of Netflixâs Emmy Award-winning smash-hit Queer Eye reveals how an Englishman... Read more
Searching for Sylvie Lee
By: Jean Kwok
Narrated by: Angela Lin, Samantha Quan & Caroline McLaughlin
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
An Instant New York Times Bestseller!A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick & Emma Roberts Belletrist Book Club Pick!NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY New York Times â˘Â Time ⢠Marie Claire ⢠Elle ⢠Buzzfeed ⢠Huffington Post ⢠Good Housekeeping ⢠The Week ⢠Goodreads ⢠New York Post â˘Â and many more!âPowerful . . . A twisting tale of love,... Read more
View audiobookMore Fun in the New World
By: John Doe & Tom Desavia
Narrated by: John Doe, Tom Desavia & Various
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Sequel to Grammy-nominated bestseller Under the Big Black Sun, continuing the up-close and personal account of the L.A. punk scene
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Picking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.'s punk rock movement as its stars took to the national -- and... Read more
This Time Will Be Different
By: Misa Sugiura
Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A Kirkus Reviews Best BookFor fans of Jenny Han, Morgan Matson, and Sandhya Menon, critically acclaimed author Misa Sugiura delivers a richly crafted contemporary YA novel about family, community, and the importance of writing your own history.
The author of the Asian Pacific American Award-winning Itâs Not Like Itâs a Secret is back with another... Read more
Into the Jungle
By: Erica Ferencik
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In this âhypnotic, violent, unsparingâ (A.J. Banner, USA TODAY bestselling author) thriller from the author of the âhaunting, twisting thrill rideâ (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) The River at Night, a young woman leaves behind everything she knows to take on the Bolivian jungle, but her excursion abroad quickly turns into a... Read more
View audiobookSomething to Live For
By: Richard Roper
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Previously published as How Not to Die Alone
Smart, darkly funny, and life-affirming, for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Something to Live For is the bighearted debut novel we all need, a story about love, loneliness, and the importance of taking a chance when we feel we have the most to lose.
"Off-beat and winning...Gives... Read more
The Confessions of Frannie Langton
By: Sara Collins
Narrated by: Sara Collins & Roy McMillan
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Don't miss the TV miniseries premiering March 8, exclusively on BritBox!âA blistering historical thriller.â â Entertainment WeeklyA servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this breathtaking debut that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian Londonâa gripping historical... Read more
View audiobookThe Scent Keeper
By: Erica Bauermeister
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
"Woven through [Emmeline's] life's journey is a multi-layered story of fragrance and its evocative power, as strong and tenacious as this sensuous novel's plucky heroine." - Shelf Awareness
Erica Bauermeister, the author of the February Reese's Book Club pick The Scent Keeper, presents a moving and evocative novel about childhood stories,... Read more
Let Me Hear a Rhyme
By: Tiffany D. Jackson
Narrated by: Korey Jackson, Nile Bullock, Adenrele Ojo & Ada...
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In this striking new novel by the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly and Mondayâs Not Coming, Tiffany D. Jackson tells the story of three Brooklyn teens who plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he's still alive. Brooklyn, 1998. Biggie Smalls was right: Things done changed. But that doesnât mean that Quadir... Read more
View audiobookStar-Crossed
By: Minnie Darke
Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Why rely on fate when you can rewrite the stars? In this sparkling romantic comedy, one woman decides to tinker with the horoscopes of the man of her dreams.
âA bright, brilliant, joyful love story.ââJosie Silver, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYÂ REAL SIMPLE
When childhood... Read more