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Witchmark

By: C.L. Polk

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER of the 2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and a finalist for the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, and the Lammy Award!C. L. Polk arrives on the scene with Witchmark, a stunning, addictive fantasy that combines intrigue, magic, betrayal, and romance. The New York Times calls it “thoroughly charming and deftly paced … an accomplished... Read more

Providence

By: Caroline Kepnes

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Emily Rankin & Paul Michael

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“A dark beauty of a book, Providence kept me up at night with characters that made my heart a little bigger.”—Jessica Knoll, New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive

A propulsive novel that’s part love story, part detective story, and part supernatural thriller—from the acclaimed author of You, whose work Stephen King describes... Read more

A Place for Us

By: Fatima Farheen Mirza

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta & Sunil Malhotra

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “5 UNDER 35” NOMINEE • NEW YORK’S “ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK” PICK

Named One of the Best Books of the Year: Washington Post • NPR • People • Refinery29 • Parade • BuzzFeed

“Mirza writes with a mercy that encompasses all things.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post
 
Hailed as “a book for our times”... Read more

Monday's Not Coming

By: Tiffany D. Jackson

Narrated by: Imani Parks

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

""Jackson’s characters and their heart-wrenching story linger long after the final page, urging readers to advocate for those who are disenfranchised and forgotten by society and the system."" (Publishers Weekly, ""An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List"")From the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly, Tiffany D. Jackson, comes a... Read more

How to Walk Away

By: Katherine Center

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Happiness for Beginners comes an unforgettable audiobook about finding joy even in the darkest of circumstances.

Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she’s worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiancé she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then,... Read more

Motherhood

By: Sheila Heti

Narrated by: Sheila Heti

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring audiobook about whether to have children.

In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential... Read more

The Perfect Mother

By: Aimee Molloy

Narrated by: Cristin Milioti

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An addictive psychological thriller about a group of women whose lives become unexpectedly connected when one of their newborns goes missing.A night out. A few hours of fun. That’s all it was meant to be.They call themselves the May Mothers—a group of new moms whose babies were born in the same month. Twice... Read more

First, We Make the Beast Beautiful

By: Sarah Wilson

Narrated by: Sarah Wilson

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller""Probably the best book on living with anxiety that I’ve ever read.” – Mark Manson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckThe Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast, you must first make it beautiful.Sarah Wilson first came across this Chinese proverb in psychiatrist Kay... Read more

Devotion

By: Patti Smith

Narrated by: Patti Smith

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention.A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of... Read more

Varina

By: Charles Frazier

Narrated by: Molly Parker

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In his powerful fourth novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War.With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a Mississippi landowner. He... Read more

Every Note Played

By: Lisa Genova

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris & Dagmara Dominczyk

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Unsparing in her depiction of the disease’s harrowing effects, neuroscientist Genova also celebrates humanity.” —People

“Sometimes it’s easier to tell truth in fiction…And she tells it with heart and hope.” —NPR

“Her juxtaposition of scientific detail with compassionate, heartfelt storytelling is unparalleled.” —Bookreporter

“Every Note Played... Read more

Sometimes I Lie

By: Alice Feeney

Narrated by: Stephanie Racine

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Despite the challenges--an unreliable narrator, an intricate plot, a shifting timeline, and myriad characters--Stephanie Racine gives a flawless narration of this audiobook...This intense thriller is made even better by her performance." — AudioFile Magazine

From renowned journalist Alice Feeney comes a riveting new audiobook, Sometimes I... Read more

The Flight Attendant

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Erin Spencer, Grace Experience & Mark Deakins

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER 
A NATIONAL INDIEBOUND BESTSELLER 

From the author of The Guest Room, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man - and no idea what happened.

Cassandra... Read more

The Line Becomes a River

By: Francisco Cantú

Narrated by: Francisco Cantú

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD

The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire

For Francisco Cantú, the border is in... Read more

Only Killers and Thieves

By: Paul Howarth

Narrated by: David Linski

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Two brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power in this riveting debut novel—a story of savagery and race, injustice and honor, set in the untamed frontier of 1880s Australia—reminiscent of Philipp Meyer’s The Son and the novels of Cormac McCarthy.An epic tale of revenge and survival, Only Killers and... Read more

The Widows of Malabar Hill

By: Sujata Massey

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay! Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history... Read more

The Prey of Gods

By: Nicky Drayden

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a fantastic, boundary-challenging tale, set in a South African locale both familiar and yet utterly new, which braids elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark humor. In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal... Read more

Uncommon Type

By: Tom Hanks

Narrated by: Tom Hanks

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.

A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and... Read more

American Wolf

By: Nate Blakeslee

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Nate Blakeslee

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The enthralling true story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her.
 
Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s. But in... Read more

Call Me by Your Name

By: André Aciman

Narrated by: Armie Hammer

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"...Hammer's voice is brimming with such melody that, if you listen to it long enough, you can probably get drunk off it." — Vulture.com

*Now a major motion picture from director Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet. Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay*

Celebrate André Aciman's sensational novel with a... Read more

An Unkindness of Ghosts

By: Rivers Solomon

Narrated by: Cherise Boothe

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space... Read more

Soulless

By: Gail Carriger

Narrated by: Emily Gray

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Buffy meets Jane Austen in the first book of this wickedly funny NYT bestselling series about a young woman whose brush with the supernatural leads to a deadly investigation of London's high society.

Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian... Read more

My Absolute Darling

By: Gabriel Tallent

Narrated by: Alex McKenna

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST
NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALIST
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST’S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017
ONE OF NPR’S ‘GREAT READS’ OF 2017
A USA TODAY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
AN AMAZON.COM BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A BUSINESS INSIDER BEST BOOK OF THE... Read more

Refugee

By: Alan Gratz

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A tour de force from acclaimed author Alan Gratz (Prisoner B-3087), this timely -- and timeless -- novel tells the powerful story of three different children seeking refuge.A New York Times bestseller!JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the... Read more