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Perfume and Pain

By: Anna Dorn

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“Perceptive and witty—like a Sally Rooney novel set in Southern California.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

“It’s this author’s best work yet. A Sapphic roller-coaster ride.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

A controversial LA author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this hilarious nod to 1950s lesbian pulp fiction.

Having... Read more

Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

Narrated by: Stephanie Willing

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“Molly is one of the greatest young female characters I’ve had the luck of reading since I picked up Joy Williams’s The Quick and the Dead back in 2000 . . . I TRULY LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!” —Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books “Holly Wilson’s Kittentits is sacred and profane, filled with big emotions, all amplified by grief. Molly is a wholly... Read more

Better Left Unsent

By: Lia Louis

Narrated by: Ashley Tucker

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

So many ways to torpedo your career and your love life… So little time.

A woman accidentally reveals all her secrets in this witty and charming novel from the author of Eight Perfect Hours.

Two years ago, thirty-year-old receptionist Millie Chandler had her heart spectacularly broken in public. Ever since, she has been a closed book, vowing to... Read more

A Pose Before Dying

By: Alex Erickson

Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sure to appeal to fans of Miranda James, Cate Conte, Eileen Watkins, Laurien Berenson, and all lovers of cozy mysteries featuring animal companions!



Finding this killer will be a real stretch . . .



Ashley Branson has a lot to prove with her new cat yoga studio, A Purrfect Pose. It's a place for humans to find inner wellness—and adopt adorable cats... Read more

Collide

By: Bal Khabra

Narrated by: Julia Knippen & Max Meyers

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

She’s an honors student with ambitious graduate school plans and he’s a jock with only hockey on his mind, but once their worlds collide, their connection is hot enough to melt an ice rink.

An ultimatum from Summer Preston’s thesis advisor thrusts her into an unexpected collision with the hockey team’s captain, Aiden... Read more

Very Bad Company

By: Emma Rosenblum

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

“[January] LaVoy's ability to convey tension and intrigue makes this audiobook a captivating listen.”—AudioFile

A gripping, darkly comic novel from the national bestselling author of Bad Summer People about a team of wealthy and powerful executives on retreat in Miami when one of them goes missing . . .

Every year, executives at the trendy tech... Read more

The InvestiGators Audio Collection: Books 1 & 2

By: John Patrick Green

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by a full cast, including the author and Christopher Hastings, a coauthor of InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.S. It offers an immersive audio experience, fully sound designed to enhance your enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of the Batter Down bakery, S.U.I.T. Headquarters, Crackerdile's Lair, and the Robotics Lab at the... Read more

Love at First Book

By: Jenn McKinlay

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When a librarian moves to a quaint Irish village where her favorite novelist lives, the last thing she expects is to fall for the author’s prickly son… until their story becomes one for the books, from the New York Times bestselling author of Summer Reading.

Emily Allen, a librarian on Martha’s Vineyard, has always dreamed of a life of travel and... Read more

Rednecks

By: Taylor Brown

Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A historical drama set against the backdrop of the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multiethnic army of ten thousand coal miners against mine owners, state militia, and the United States government in the largest labor uprising in American historyRednecks is a tour de force, big-canvas historical novel that dramatizes the West Virginia Mine... Read more

Look What You Made Me Do

By: Kat McKenna

Narrated by: Jade Ewen

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to be a FAN?
If you're a Swiftie, you know that it takes commitment and dedication to be in a fandom. And there's nothing more rewarding than sourcing news and updates, anticipating new music and meeting fellow fans. But fan culture today is more intense than ever, from trolling to stalkers to online warfare.

So how did we get... Read more

The Once & Future Witch Hunt

By: Alice Markham-Cantor

Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

As the descendant of Martha Carrier, an accused woman executed at Salem, Alice Markham-Cantor presents a riveting story that spans centuries and brings the historical significance of the witch trials into modern times.



Extensively researched and told through alternating fiction and nonfiction chapters, this book illuminates a shocking truth:... Read more

The Skunks

By: Fiona Warnick

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Skunks, I wrote. Then I got stuck. What was there to say about the skunks? Of course there was the smell—the spraying. Everyone’s mind jumped to the spraying. I often forgot about the spraying entirely, which was nice because it made me feel that I wasn’t like other people. From the outside, Isabel doesn’t seem to have much going on. It’s... Read more

The Stolen Child

By: Ann Hood

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a child’s fate in this moving, page-turning novel from “a gifted storyteller” (PEOPLE).For decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he’d befriended thrust both her paintings and her baby into his... Read more

Bird Suit

By: Sydney Hegele

Narrated by: Sydney Hegele

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A tourist town folk tale of stifled ambition, love, loss, and the bird women who live beneath the lake.



Every summer the peaches ripen in Port Peter, and the tourists arrive to gorge themselves on fruit and sun. They don't see the bird women, who cavort on the cliffs and live in a meadow beneath the lake. But when summer ends and the visitors go... Read more

Bad Men

By: Julie Mae Cohen

Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet the most irresistible serial killer of the year in this twisty feminist thriller that’s as wickedly fun as it is lethal. Saffy Huntley-Oliver is an intelligent and glamorous socialite; she also happens to be a proficient serial killer. For the past fifteen years, she’s hunted down and dispatched rapists, murderers, domestic abusers—bad men... Read more

Earls Trip

By: Jenny Holiday

Narrated by: Harry Frost

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Ted Lasso meets Bridgerton for a nineteenth century spin on The Hangover in USA Today bestselling author Jenny Holiday's laugh-out-loud Earls Trip

Even an earl needs his ride-or-dies, and Archibald Fielding-Burton, the Earl of Harcourt, counts himself lucky to have two. The annual trip that Archie takes with his BFFs Simon and Effie holds a... Read more

The Sword Unbound

By: Gareth Hanrahan

Narrated by: George Weightman

Length: 20 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Gareth Hanrahan's acclaimed epic fantasy series of dark myth, daring warriors and bloodthirsty vengeance continues with The Sword Unbound.

He thought he was saving the world. That was his first mistake.
 
Twenty years ago, Alf and his companions defeated the Dark Lord and claimed his city. Now, those few of the Nine that remain find themselves... Read more

I Curse You With Joy

By: Tiffany Haddish

Narrated by: Tiffany Haddish

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Tiffany Haddish is back with her highly anticipated new essay collection, I Curse You With Joy. It’s been a minute since readers last sat down with Tiffany Haddish. Since The Last Black Unicorn, Haddish has catapulted to A-List fame as the breakout star of Girls Trip. She’s walked the Oscars red carpet, released a hit stand-up special with... Read more

The Silverblood Promise

By: James Logan

Narrated by: Brenock O’Connor

Length: 17 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This program is read by actor Brenock O’Connor (Game of Thrones, Derry Girls).

"A fast-paced carnival of setbacks and skullduggery that reminds me of... me! Charming from the first twist to the last."—Scott Lynch

Set in a city of traders and thieves, monsters and murderers, this page-turning epic fantasy debut is a must-read for fans of Nicholas... Read more

The Secret Library

By: Kekla Magoon

Narrated by: Nekia Renee Martin

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Travel through time with National Book Award Finalist Kekla Magoon in a page-turning fantasy adventure about family secrets and finding the courage to plot your own life story.

Since Grandpa died, Dally’s days are dull and restricted. She’s eleven and a half years old, and her exacting single mother is already preparing her to take over the... Read more

May You Love and Be Loved

By: Cleo Wade

Narrated by: Cleo Wade

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

May You Love and Be Loved features sound design and special effects to enhance your listening enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of the ocean while being immersed in this beautiful poem. It is the tender and joyous audiobook from New York Times–bestselling author and poet Cleo Wade.

May you know fear but not be driven by it
May you know joy... Read more

Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

Narrated by: Maia Kobabe, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Graybill, ...

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 ALA Alex Award Winner
2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book

The ground-breaking, bestselling graphic novel is now available on audio.

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only... Read more

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

By: Janet Skeslien Charles

Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Sarah Gadon, Jackie Sanders & Ca...

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author Janet Skeslien Charles and based on the true story of Jessie Carson—the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France—this is “a moving tale of sacrifice, heroism, and inspired storytelling immersed in the power of books to change our lives” (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times... Read more

Mother Doll

By: Katya Apekina

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Zhenia is adrift in Los Angeles, pregnant with a baby her husband doesn't want, while her Russian grandmother and favorite person in the world is dying on the opposite coast. She's deeply disconnected from herself and her desires when she gets a strange call from Paul, a psychic medium who usually specializes in channeling dead pets, with a... Read more