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Crownchasers
By: Rebecca Coffindaffer
Narrated by: Reba Buhr
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A deadly race across 1,001 planets will determine more than just the fate of the empire. This explosive first book in a duology jam-packed with tension and thrills is perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Aurora Rising, and Three Dark Crowns.Alyssa Farshot has spent her whole life trying to outrun her family legacy, even leaving behind the... Read more
View audiobookEverything Comes Next
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye & James Patrick Cronin
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Beloved and acclaimed poet Naomi Shihab Nye is the current Young People’s Poet Laureate, serving until August 2021. This celebratory book collects in one volume her most popular and accessible poems from the past forty years. Featuring new, never-before-published poems, an introduction by bestselling poet and author Edward Hirsch, as well as a... Read more
View audiobookWatch Over Me
By: Nina LaCour
Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A modern ghost story about trauma and survival, Watch Over Me is the much-anticipated new novel from the Printz Award-winning author of We Are Okay
★ “Gripping; an emotion-packed must-read.” –Kirkus, starred review
★ “A painfully compelling gem from a masterful creator.” –Booklist, starred review
★ “Moving, unsettling, and full of atmospheric... Read more
ArtCurious
By: Jennifer Dasal
Narrated by: Jennifer Dasal
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A wildly entertaining and surprisingly educational dive into art history as you've never seen it before, from the host of the beloved ArtCurious podcast
We're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas, handbags, scarves, and dorm-room posters. But did you... Read more
Don't Look for Me
By: Wendy Walker
Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In Wendy Walker's thrilling novel Don't Look for Me, the greatest risk isn’t running away. It’s running out of time.
One night, Molly Clarke walked away from her life.
She doesn't want to be found.
Or at least, that's the story.
The car abandoned miles from home.
The note found at a nearby hotel.
The shattered family that couldn’t be put back... Read more
Stakes Is High
By: Mychal Denzel Smith
Narrated by: Mychal Denzel Smith
Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode and through an uncertain future.
The events of the past decade have forced us to reckon with who we are and who we want to be. We have been invested in a set of beliefs about our American identity: our exceptionalism, the inevitable rightness of our... Read more
The Big Door Prize
By: M. O. Walsh
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
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The New York Times bestselling author of My Sunshine Away returns with a gripping and heartfelt novel about a mysterious machine that upends a small Louisiana town, asking us all to wonder if who we truly are is who we truly could be.
What would you do if you knew your life's potential? That's the... Read more
Building Resilience in Children and Teens, 4th ed
By: Kenneth R. Ginsburg
Narrated by: Miles Meili
Length: 15 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Help prepare the children and teens in your life to face life's challenges with grace and grit. In this award-winning guide, author and pediatrician Dr. Ken Ginsburg shares his 7 crucial Cs: competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control. You'll discover how to incorporate these concepts into your parenting... Read more
View audiobookMill Town
By: Kerri Arsenault
Narrated by: Kerri Arsenault
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
"This is a listen for anyone interested in small-town America, how it's changed, and why it matters...Though Arsenault may not be a professional narrator, her passion for these important stories comes through with just the right amount of sincerity." -- AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by the author.
A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill... Read more
Daddy
By: Emma Cline
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of The Girls comes a “brilliant” (The New York Times) story collection exploring the dark corners of human experience.
“Daddy’s ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering talent.”—Esquire
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
An absentee father collects his son... Read more
A Rogue of One's Own
By: Evie Dunmore
Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
Length: 16 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
“Dunmore is my new find in historical romance. Her A League of Extraordinary Women series is extraordinary.”—Julia Quinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“This series balances friendship, politics, history, and romance in just the right mix.”—U.S. Representative Katie Porter
An Indie Next/LibraryReads pick!
An Apple Must Listen Audiobook for... Read more
Chaos
By: Iris Johansen
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In this high-stakes thriller, a #1 New York Times bestselling author introduces CIA agent Alisa Flynn, who is willing to go rogue if it means catching the most heartless band of criminals she's ever encountered.
When CIA agent Alisa Flynn flaunts the rules by breaking into a mansion in the middle of the night, she skillfully circumvents alarms... Read more
Wayward Witch
By: Zoraida Cordova
Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Rose Mortiz has always been a fixer, but lately she’s been feeling lost.
She has brand new powers that she doesn’t understand, and her family
is still trying to figure out how to function in the wake of her amnesiac
father’s return home. Then, on the night of her Death Day party, Rose
discovers her father’s memory loss has been a lie.
As she rushes... Read more
Red Pill
By: Hari Kunzru
Narrated by: Hari Kunzru
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2020
ONE OF NPR's BEST BOOKS OF 2020
ONE OF THE A.V. CLUB'S 15 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020
From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears, a bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth.
After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of Red... Read more
You Can Keep That to Yourself
By: Adam Smyer
Narrated by: Donald Faison
Length: 25 minutes
Abridged: No
At long last, a much-needed guidebook for well-intentioned people of pallor on what not to say to their African American "friends."
Greetings, well-intentioned person of pallor.
Your good intentions used to be enough. But in these diverse and divisive times, some people would hold you accountable for your actions. You were not raised for such... Read more
Sisters
By: Daisy Johnson
Narrated by: Daisy Edgar-Jones & Anna Koval
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
“[A] skillfully crafted gothic mystery . . . Johnson pulls off a great feat in this book.” —Financial Times
“It reminded me, in its general refusal to play nice, of early Ian McEwan.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Johnson crafts an aching thriller about the dangers of loving too intensely.” —Time
From a... Read more
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
By: Aaron Bastani
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity, and capitalism
In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury, and happiness—for everyone. Technological advance... Read more
News of the World
By: Paulette Jiles
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Soon to be a Major Motion PictureNational Book Award Finalist—FictionIn the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the... Read more
View audiobookDon't Ask Me Where I'm From
By: Jennifer De Leon
Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
“A funny, perceptive, and much-needed book telling a much-needed story.” —Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestseller Little Fires Everywhere
First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school. But when family secrets spill out and racism at school ramps up, she must decide what... Read more
Borges and Me
By: Jay Parini
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls “a kindof novelistic memoir,” Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland—in flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets the famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis... Read more
View audiobookA Room Called Earth
By: Madeleine Ryan
Narrated by: Madeleine Ryan
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
“A resolute deep dive into an inner self, a transcendent character study, and a timely reminder that there’s an entire universe inside of everyone we meet. You will be moved.” —Matthew Quick, New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook
“[N]uanced and uplifting.” —Buzzfeed
An unforgettable story of a fiercely original young... Read more
Impersonation
By: Heidi Pitlor
Narrated by: Dylan Moore
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
“By turns revealing, hilarious, dishy, and razor-sharp, Impersonation lives in that rarest of sweet spots: the propulsive page-turner for people with high literary standards.” —Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers
Allie Lang is a professional ghostwriter and a perpetually broke single mother to a young boy. Years of navigating her own... Read more
Northernmost
By: Peter Geye
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Lisa Flanagan
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF HOUSTON CHRONICLE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
From the acclaimed author of Wintering: a thrilling ode to the spirit of adventure and the vagaries of loss and love.
"A beautiful, big-hearted, triumphant novel.”—Nathan Hill, author of The Nix
In 1897, Odd Einar Eide returns home from a near-death experience in the Arctic only to discover his own... Read more
The Wright Sister
By: Patty Dann
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
An epistolary novel of historical fiction that imagines the life of Katharine Wright and her relationship with her famous brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright.On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the world’s first airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, establishing the Wright Brothers as world-renowned pioneers of flight. Known... Read more
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