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The Cryptic Clue

By: Amanda Hampson

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome back to Zig Zag Lane in the heart of Sydney's rag-trade district, where our intrepid tea ladies, Hazel, Betty and Irene, have their work cut out. Solving a murder, kidnapping and arson case, and outwitting an arch criminal, earned them the respect of a local police officer. Now he needs their assistance to help solve a plot that... Read more

First Contact

By: Kim Harrison

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of the solar eclipse, a portal between our world and a paranormal realm opens—and a scientist’s life will never be the same, in this thrilling serialized adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hollows.

Dr. Renee Caisson knows there are worse things than an attractive man in uniform drafting her into a secret... Read more

Every Time You Hear That Song

By: Jenna Voris

Narrated by: Emily Lawrence & Allison Strong

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"Beautifully explores the high and low notes of fame. . . . A must-read for anyone who loves layered characters, true-to-life personalities, and country music!"—Jason June, New York Times best-selling author

Perfect for fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six, this queer coming-of-age story celebrates country music,... Read more

How to Plot a Payback

By: Melissa Ferguson

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham & Steve West

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"The perfect escape for lovers of dogs, second chances, and swoon-worthy romance. Don't miss this one." --Annabel Monaghan, bestselling author of Same Time Next SummerHe crossed an ocean, and it still wasn't enough to escape his lifelong nemesis. Now he has to work with her.Successful screenwriter Finn Masters just landed his dream job writing... Read more

Only and Forever

By: Chloe Liese

Narrated by: Nelson Hobbs & CJ Bloom

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A tender, steamy story about unexpectedly finding love and being brave enough to let it revise life's narrative in the final book in the beloved Bergman Brothers series.



Viggo Bergman, hopeless romantic, is thoroughly weary of waiting for his happily ever after. But between opening a romance bookstore, running a romance book club, coaching kids'... Read more

A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

Narrated by: Ellie Gossage

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed. Historically happy to compartmentalize—distracting herself by hooking up with lesbian couples, doting on her grandmother, and flirting with a young administrative assistant—Helen finally meets her... Read more

The Murder of Mr. Ma

By: John Shen Yen Nee & S.J. Rozan

Narrated by: Daniel York Loh

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1924. When shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, his quiet life abruptly turns from books and lectures to daring chases and narrow escapes. Dee has come to London to investigate the murder of a man he’d known during World War I when serving with the Chinese Labour Corps. No sooner has Dee interviewed the grieving... Read more

The Lady He Lost

By: Faye Delacour

Narrated by: Blythe Fortune

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Lieutenant Eli Williams was supposed to be dead. In the two years since his shipwreck, his friends and family mourned him, his brother spent his savings, and his fiancée married someone else. So when he turns up in the middle of the London social season, he quickly becomes the talk of the town. All Eli wants is to set his life back in order and... Read more

Off the Air

By: Christina Estes

Narrated by: Marcella Black

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Jolene Garcia is a local TV reporter in Phoenix, Arizona, splitting her time between covering general assignments—anything from a monsoon storm to a newborn giraffe at the zoo—and special projects, stories that take more time to research and produce, stories that Jolene wants to tell. When word gets out about a death at a radio station, Jolene... Read more

Olivetti

By: Allie Millington

Narrated by: Christopher Gebauer & Simon Vance

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and recently replaced by a computer, Olivetti has been forgotten by the Brindles—the family he’s lived with for years. The Brindles are busy humans, apart from twelve-year-old Ernest, who would rather be left alone with his collection of Oxford English... Read more

Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson

Narrated by: Hannah Choi

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

Sarah and Warren's college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites—threatening the foundations of the lives they've built apart. Since they parted in college, each has married, raised a family, and made a career. When they meet again, Sarah is divorced and living outside... Read more

The Truth about the Devlins

By: Lisa Scottoline

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Lisa Scottoline

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

USA Today Bestseller

Lisa Scottoline, the #1 bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts, presents another pulse-pounding domestic thriller about family, justice, and the lies that tear us apart.

TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly... Read more

Dangerous Visions

By: Harlan Ellison

Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan, Mark Sanderlin, Bronson Pinchot, ...

Length: 24 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALTDubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dangerous Visions returns to print in a stunning new... Read more

In Her Place

By: Edel Coffey

Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 bestselling author of Breaking Point and winner of Crime Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards, November 2022.
'Edel Coffey is like an Irish Jodi Picoult! In Her Place examines "the other woman" conundrum from two different perspectives. It's propulsive, thought-provoking and unputdownable'
MARIAN KEYES

Who is the other... Read more

The Mystery Writer

By: Sulari Gentill

Narrated by: Katherine Littrell

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime... Read more

Where Sleeping Girls Lie

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Narrated by: Natalie Simpson

Length: 16 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie — a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ace of Spades — a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears.

It’s like I keep stumbling into a dark room, searching for the switch to make things bright again...

Sade... Read more

Wolf at the Table

By: Adam Rapp

Narrated by: Paul Sparks

Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a family harboring a serial killer in their midst, from the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award finalist playwright Adam Rapp.
 
As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a... Read more

The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht 

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“A touching, inventive novel about belonging and loss” (People) from the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife and Inland

“I marveled at the subtle beauty and precision of Obreht’s prose. . . Read in the context of today’s conflicts and injustices, climate emergencies, and political and racial... Read more

The Lies We Steal

By: Monty Jay

Narrated by: Lucy Rivers & Grayson Owens

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

It's been months since the day we stood above that empty grave that stunk of burnt flesh and secrets. All of us were dressed to the nines, one of us wearing a wedding dress, a day that was supposed to mark the beginning of a new adventure. It marked the bitter end of our vengeance.



We have done things that have marked our souls for eternity. But... Read more

The Black Box

By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book

“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions.”
— Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other... Read more

The Stars Turned Inside Out

By: Nova Jacobs

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“Many and wondrous are the charms of this witty, suspenseful, and enchanting book.” —The Wall Street Journal

The discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merges science, philosophy, and the high-stakes race to unlock the fundamental nature of our universe in this thrilling new novel from the... Read more

Rules for Rule Breaking

By: Talia Tucker

Narrated by: Shannon Tyo & Nick Martineau

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Booksmart meets Never Have I Ever in this debut YA rom-com about two Korean American teens forced into a shared college visit road trip where they discover that the reasons they’ve been rivals their entire lives might actually be signs they’re a perfect pair.

Winter Park and Bobby Bae are Korean American high school juniors whose families have... Read more

No Judgment

By: Lauren Oyler

Narrated by: Lauren Oyler

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

""The essay collection everyone’s talking about.""—New YorkA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024: Elle, The Millions, LitHub, Nylon, BookPage, PureWow, and moreFrom the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new pieces about the role of cultural criticism in our ever-changing world.In her writing for Harper’s,... Read more

The Last Bloodcarver

By: Vanessa Le

Narrated by: VyVy Nguyen

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"You’ll gasp, you’ll scream, you’ll cry, and you’ll be begging for the next book." — Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of These Violent Delights

"Smart, lush, and utterly compelling." — Marie Lu, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Legend

Nhika is a bloodcarver. A coldhearted, ruthless being who can alter human biology with just... Read more