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Hollywood Park

By: Mikel Jollett

Narrated by: Mikel Jollett

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author, and includes original music from the Airborne Toxic Event album, Hollywood Park

Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country’s most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his... Read more

Red Dress in Black and White

By: Elliot Ackerman

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the widely acclaimed author of Waiting for Eden: a stirring, timely new novel that unfolds over the course of a single day in Istanbul: the story of an American woman attempting to leave behind her life in Turkey--to leave without her husband.

Catherine has been married for many years to Murat, an influential Turkish real estate developer,... Read more

The Black Flamingo

By: Dean Atta

Narrated by: Dean Atta

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Stonewall Book Award Winner * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All TimeA fierce coming-of-age verse novel about identity and the power of drag, from acclaimed poet and performer Dean Atta. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Jason Reynolds, and Kacen Callender.Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he’s navigated... Read more

The Paris Hours

By: Alex George

Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Like All the Light We Cannot See, The Paris Hours explores the brutality of war and its lingering effects with cinematic intensity. The ending will leave you breathless.” —Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train and A Piece of the World

One day in the City of Light. One night in search of lost time.

Paris between the wars teems with... Read more

Simon the Fiddler

By: Paulette Jiles

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of News of the World and Enemy Women returns to Texas in this atmospheric story, set at the end of the Civil War, about an itinerant fiddle player, a ragtag band of musicians with whom he travels trying to make a living, and the charming young Irish lass who steals his heart.In March 1865, the long... Read more

The Roxy Letters

By: Mary Pauline Lowry

Narrated by: Jayme Mattler

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Roxy. For fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Bridget Jones’s Diary comes “just the kind of comic novel we need right now” (The Washington Post) about an Austin artist trying to figure out her life one letter to her ex-boyfriend at a time.

Bridget Jones penned a diary; Roxy writes letters. Specifically: she writes letters to her hapless,... Read more

On the Horizon

By: Lois Lowry

Narrated by: Lois Lowry

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII’s most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima

Lois Lowry looks back at history through a personal lens as she draws from her own memories as a child in Hawaii and Japan, as well as from historical research, in this stunning... Read more

The Red Lotus

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they met.

Alexis and Austin don’t have a typical “meet cute”—their first... Read more

Undercover Bromance

By: Lyssa Kay Adams

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

One of OprahMag.com’s Best Romances of 2020 

Braden Mack thinks reading romance novels makes him an expert in love, but he’ll soon discover that real life is better than fiction. 

Liv Papandreas has a dream job as a sous chef at Nashville’s hottest restaurant. Too bad the celebrity chef owner is less than charming behind kitchen doors. After she... Read more

Recollections of My Nonexistence

By: Rebecca Solnit

Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography
Longlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing

An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent, from the author of Orwell's Roses

In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her... Read more

Coo

By: Kaela Noel

Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this exceptional debut, one young girl’s determination to save the flock she calls family creates a lasting impact on her community and in her heart. Gorgeous and literary, this is an unforgettable animal story about friendship, family, home, and belonging. For readers who love books by Kate DiCamillo and Katherine Applegate.Ten years ago, an... Read more

Barn 8

By: Deb Olin Unferth

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Janey and Cleveland are two auditors for the US egg industry who go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a millionchickens in the middle of the night—an entire egg farm’s worth of animals. They assemble a precarious, quarrelsometeam and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. It doesn’t go as planned.In her most powerful work yet, Deb Olin... Read more

Be Not Far from Me

By: Mindy McGinnis

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Hatchet meets Wild in this harrowing YA survival story about a teenage girl’s attempt to endure the impossible, from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Female of the Species, Mindy McGinnis.The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhead than a roof.So when she goes hiking in the Smokies with... Read more

Apeirogon: A Novel

By: Colum McCann

Narrated by: Colum McCann

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An epic novel rooted in the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers—one Palestinian, one Israeli, both connected by grief and working together for peace—from the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin

“A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and... Read more

Saint X

By: Alexis Schaitkin

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White, Bailey Carr, Dana Dae, Dave Fe...

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Books of 2020

"Alexis Schaitkin’s splashy debut novel, Saint X, is an audiobook lover’s dream...Queue this one up for a murderous, dreamy delight." — Paste

Hailed as a “marvel of a book” and “brilliant and unflinching,” Alexis Schaitkin’s stunning debut, Saint X, is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the... Read more

Mercy House

By: Alena Dillon

Narrated by: Dawn Harvey, Catherine Ho, Scarlette Hayes, Ebo...

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“A life-altering debut featuring fierce, funny, and irreverent women who battle the most powerful institution in the world. This is the book we’ve all been waiting for.”—Amy SchumerShe would stop at nothing to protect the women under her care.Inside a century-old row house in Brooklyn, renegade Sister Evelyn and her fellow nuns preside over a... Read more

When Time Stopped

By: Ariana Neumann

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this astonishing story that “reads like a thriller and is so, so timely” (BuzzFeed) Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: “Like Anne Frank’s diary, it offers a story that needs to be told and heard” (Booklist, starred review).

In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied... Read more

The Third Rainbow Girl

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

Narrated by: Emma Copley Eisenberg

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia -- and the writer determined to put the pieces back together.
In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were murdered in an... Read more

Imperfect Union

By: Steve Inskeep

Narrated by: Steve Inskeep

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple

John C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in... Read more

The Impossible First

By: Colin O'Brady

Narrated by: Colin O'Brady

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Colin O’Brady’s awe-inspiring, New York Times bestselling memoir recounting his recovery from a tragic accident and his record-setting 932-mile solo crossing of Antarctica is a “jaw-dropping tale of passion and perseverance” (Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling author of Grit).

Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the... Read more

Big Lies in a Small Town

By: Diane Chamberlain

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Susan Bennett offers a moving performance of this multilayered story of two women whose lives are affected by a WPA mural...Overall, Bennett adds an exciting dimension to a gripping story of racism, madness, murder, and even romance." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

From New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain... Read more

Loveboat, Taipei

By: Abigail Hing Wen

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

-An instant New York Times Bestseller and Indie Bestseller!-Optioned for film by the producers of Jenny Han's Netflix series, TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE -#1 Cosmopolitan Audiobook of the Year-Featured in Entertainment Weekly, Seventeen, Boston Globe, South China Morning Post, World Journal, UK Evening Standard, Book Riot, Bustle, Nerd... Read more

A Madness of Sunshine

By: Nalini Singh

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh welcomes you to a remote town on the edge of the world where even the blinding brightness of the sun can’t mask the darkness that lies deep within a killer.…

On the rugged West Coast of New Zealand, Golden Cove is more than just a town where people live. The adults are more than neighbors; the... Read more

The Serious Goose

By: Jimmy Kimmel

Narrated by: Jimmy Kimmel

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet a very Serious Goose in the audio edition of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel's fun and funny picture book! There is nothing silly about this goose. You CANNOT make her laugh, so DON'T EVEN TRY!

Written and narrated by Jimmy Kimmel, this audiobook challenges young listeners to bring the silly out of a very Serious Goose. Inspired by Jimmy's... Read more