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The Forgotten Boy

By: Laura Andersen

Narrated by: Kim Bretton

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

1460: Ismay Deacon, caught between sides in the War of the Roses, tries to hide away in her ancestral home, Havencross. But when word gets out that she has a child, and speculation on who the father might be, Ismay has to make a terrible choice to protect her son. The Deacon family disappears, but there are rumors of a fair-haired, unsmiling... Read more

The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and unravels a dark secret that the women have been keeping for generations.Marshall is still trying to put the pieces together after the death of her husband. After she is involved in a terrible accident, her editor sends her to the small, backwards... Read more

Between a Flock and a Hard Place

By: Donna Andrews

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"Listening to Bernadette Dunne perform the Meg Langslow audiobooks gives listeners a sense of coming home to a beloved family." —AudioFile on The Falcon Always Wings Twice (Earphones Award winner)

Listeners will flock to New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews's next installment in the award-winning Meg Langslow series.

Meg's neighbors,... Read more

Mississippi Swindle

By: Shad White

Narrated by: Eric Burgher

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

How America’s youngest state auditor uncovered the largest public corruption scandal in the history of the nation’s poorest state

“A must read” with all the thrills of a John Grisham novel — for fans of shocking true crime exposés like Black Edge and Bad Blood (Peter Schweizer, author of Secret Empires)

This riveting exposé details how a small... Read more

Wanted

By: Stephanie Kiser

Narrated by: Stephanie Kiser

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all . . .



When Stephanie Kiser moves to New York City after college to pursue a career in writing, she quickly learns that her entry-level salary won't cover the cost of living. But there is one in-demand job that pays enough to allow Stephanie to stay in the city:... Read more

The Days I Loved You Most

By: Amy Neff

Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Robert Fass, Ferdelle Capistrano, K...

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’ve never read a story quite like this deeply moving, complex novel." —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Unforgettable and utterly romantic, The Days I Loved You Most is an emotional, life-affirming novel that asks, What if you could write the final chapter of your own love story?

In the summer of 1941, on the New England shores... Read more

Dirrayawadha

By: Anita Heiss

Narrated by: Tamala Shelton

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

'Dirrayawadha is full of heart and hope, truth-telling and history – and shimmers with language too' Guardian

'A story from the past given vivid life for new understanding’​ Kate Grenville
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Bathurst, 1820s

Miinaa was a young girl when the white ghosts first arrived. She remembers the day they raised a... Read more

Fowl Play

By: Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

Narrated by: Jeanne Syquia

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Knives Out meets Finding Orion in this funny and heartwarming middle grade mystery by award-winning author Kristin O’Donnell Tubb about a girl investigating the recent death of her uncle only to find the healing power of family.Chloe Alvarez has never been to the reading of a last will and testament before, but she hopes it is just like the... Read more

Happiness Economics

By: Shari Lapena

Narrated by: Robin Wilcock

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The riotously funny second novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Everyone Here Is Lying, Shari Lapena, that explores what happens when art collides with commerce.

Will Thorne is a stalled poet, married to Judy, a wildly successful celebrity economist. Pressured by a starving fellow poet, Will establishes The Poets' Preservation... Read more

Castle of the Cursed

By: Romina Garber

Narrated by: Ana Osorio

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A delicious and dark gothic romance from bestselling author Romina Garber!

THE HOUSE IS ALWAYS HUNGRY…

After a mysterious attack claims the lives of her parents, all Estela has left is her determination to solve the case. Suffering from survivor’s guilt so intense that she might be losing her grip on reality, she accepts an invitation to live... Read more

That Prince is Mine

By: Jayci Lee

Narrated by: Olivia Song

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Library Journal's Romance Pick of the Month

A love-averse Korean royal court cuisine instructor is waylaid by a gorgeous professor—and prince in disguise—who will do anything to prove to her that love and happily ever after can be theirs.

Emma Yoon dreams of opening a culinary school in Los Angeles. To that end, she teaches Korean royal court... Read more

Pink Glass Houses

By: Asha Elias

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez, Saskia Maarleveld, Andi Arndt, ...

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Delicious, decadent, and utterly diabolical. No one serves up a scandal like Asha Elias.”—Kirsten Miller, author of The ChangeA seductive social satire about the wealthy PTA moms of an elite elementary school in Miami Beach, Pink Glass Houses is very Big Little Lies and Pineapple Street, but with diamonds, a tan, and a glass of rosé.There’s a... Read more

A Hunger to Kill

By: Kim Mager & Lisa Pulitzer

Narrated by: Jennifer Blom

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager, a real-life version of Clarice Starling, reveals how she closed in on—and broke—one of Ohio’s most infamous serial killers.

On September 13, 2016, in the small town of Ashland, Ohio, emergency dispatchers received a 911 call from a terrified woman who claimed to be... Read more

There's No Murder Like Show Murder

By: M.S. Greene

Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson Shaw

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Tasha Weaver has seen her fair share of divas come and go while working as the costume shop head at the Eastbrook Playhouse, but her beloved theater is put at risk when the star of the show is killed in this fun but deadly debut for fans of Ellery Adams and Kellye Garrett.Tasha Weaver is most at home in the cozy backstage world of the Eastbrook... Read more

Guilty Creatures

By: Mikita Brottman

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Murder, a love triangle, and small-town secrets in Tallahassee, Florida...an unputdownable read.” —The New York Times

“A compelling psychological double portrait of what happens when two people are forever bound by a life-altering secret.” —Becky Cooper, bestselling author of We Keep the Dead Close

From the critically acclaimed author dubbed... Read more

Feh

By: Shalom Auslander

Narrated by: Shalom Auslander

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Foreskin’s Lament, a memoir of the author’s attempt to escape the biblical story he’d been raised on and his struggle to construct a new story for himself and his family

Shalom Auslander was raised like a veal in a dysfunctional family in the Orthodox community of Monsey, New York: the son of an alcoholic father; a... Read more

The Wrong Hands

By: Mark Billingham

Narrated by: David Threlfall

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . .



The second rip-roaring mystery from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham starring Detective Miller: unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated . . .



Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Well, two problems. First, there's his dead wife and... Read more

The Quiet Damage

By: Jesselyn Cook

Narrated by: Jesselyn Cook

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The “gripping” (The Atlantic) story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how we might set ourselves free from a crisis that could haunt American life for generations.

“Excellent . . . This is the intimate side of the cold civil war America has been stuck in for nearly a decade.”—Michelle Goldberg, The New... Read more

The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish

By: Paula Brackston

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish is book one in New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston's new, magic-infused series about Hecate Cavendish, an eccentric and feisty young woman who can see ghosts.

England, 1881. Hereford Cathedral stands sentinel over the city, keeping its secrets, holding long forgotten souls in its stony embrace.... Read more

The Spice Gate

By: Prashanth Srivatsa

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta

Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Delve into this debut fantasy and journey through the Spice Gates as Amir, a young man born with the ability to travel between the eight kingdoms, unravels the power that keeps the world in balance, perfect for readers of Ken Liu’s Dandelion Dynasty, S.A. Chakraborty’s Daevabad Trilogy, and Andrea Stewart’s The Drowning Empire.The weight of... Read more

Bright Objects

By: Ruby Todd

Narrated by: Casey Withoos

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequences, in a debut novel that blends mystery, astronomy, and romance, perfect for fans of Emma Cline’s The Girls and Ottessa Moshfegh’s Death in Her Hands.

Sylvia Knight is losing hope that the person who killed her husband will ever face justice.... Read more

Trouble in Queenstown

By: Delia Pitts

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

With Trouble in Queenstown, Delia Pitts introduces private investigator Vandy Myrick in a powerful mystery that blends grief, class, race, and family with thrilling results.

"Turpin masterfully distinguishes among characters of different genders, ages, and ethnic backgrounds, ensuring that each voice is distinct and authentic."—AudioFile

Evander... Read more

Sharks Don't Sink

By: Jasmin Graham

Narrated by: Jasmin Graham

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The uplifting story of a young Black scientist’s challenging journey to flourish outside the traditional confines of academia, inspired by her innate connection to nature’s most misunderstood animal—the shark.

"Jasmin Graham has that winning combination of talent and grit needed to excel as a scientist. Every girl who wants to be a marine... Read more

Just One Taste

By: Lizzy Dent

Narrated by: Sarah Sampino

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“I love, love, love Lizzy Dent.”—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Olive Stone is about to spend four weeks in Italy with the most beautiful man she’s ever hated.

When Olive Stone and her Italian pseudo-celebrity chef father fell out fourteen years ago, annoyingly handsome Leo Ricci slipped right in as his surrogate son and... Read more