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A 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
Grown Ups
By: Emma Jane Unsworth
Narrated by: Chloe Massey
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“[E]ssential reading for our dismal times.” —The Wall Street Journal
One of Bustle’s “Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020”
Good Housekeeping’s “25 New Fall Books You Have to Read This Season”
Lit Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2020”
Fleabag meets Conversations with Friends in this brutally honest, observant,... Read more
The Path of Paganism
By: John Beckett
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Paganism is a way of seeing the world and your place in it. It means challenging the assumptions of mainstream society and strengthening your relationships with the gods, the universe, your community, and your self. The Path of Paganism provides practical advice and support for honoring your values and living an authentic Pagan life in... Read more
View audiobook27 Essential Principles of Story
By: Daniel Joshua Rubin
Narrated by: Daniel Joshua Rubin
Length: 13 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
“So often people ask me if there’s a book on story I can recommend. This is the one. I can’t recommend it highly enough.”––Alexa Junge, writer/producer, Friends, Sex and the City, The West Wing
A master class of 27 lessons, drawn from 27 diverse narratives, for novelists, storytellers, filmmakers, graphic designers, and more. Author Daniel... 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
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
View audiobookSia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything
By: Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
“In a world where we are so often dividing ourselves into us and them, this book feels like a kind of magic, celebrating all beliefs, ethnicities, and unknowns.” —The New York Times Book Review
Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets Roswell by way of Laurie Halse Anderson in this astonishing, genre-bending novel about a... Read more
Coraline
By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Neus Sendra
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Acompaña a Coraline y déjate transportar al mundo de fantasía y terror creado por el premiado autor Neil Gaiman. «Damas y caballeros, niñas y niños, pónganse en pie y aplaudan: Coraline es una obra maestra.»
Philip Pullman, The GuardianAl día siguiente de mudarse de casa, Coraline explora las catorce puertas de su nuevo hogar. Trece se pueden... Read more
Universe of Two
By: Stephen P. Kiernan
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 15 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
From the critically acclaimed author of The Baker’s Secret and The Curiosity comes a novel of conscience, love, and redemption—a fascinating fictionalized account of the life of Charlie Fisk, a gifted mathematician who was drafted into Manhattan Project and ordered against his morals to build the detonator for the atomic bomb. With his musician... Read more
View audiobookTrue Story
By: Kate Reed Petty
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Alexander Cendese & Cassandra Cam...
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
“A gripping, ripped-from-headlines tale.” —People
“Spellbinding.” —Megan Abbott, The New York Times Book Review
Tracing the fifteen-year fallout of a toxic high school rumor, a riveting, astonishingly original debut novel about the power of stories—and who gets to tell them
2015. A gifted and reclusive ghostwriter, Alice Lovett makes a living... Read more
The Eighth Detective
By: Alex Pavesi
Narrated by: Emilia Fox
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"Dizzying, dazzling… When did you last read a genuinely original thriller? The wait is over."
—A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective.
Grant McAllister, a professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked all the rules out –... Read more
The Girl and the Ghost
By: Hanna Alkaf
Narrated by: Mirai Booth-Ong
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
* Chosen as a 2020 Kirkus Prize Finalist for Young Readers' Literature! *A Malaysian folk tale comes to life in this emotionally layered, chilling middle grade debut, perfect for fans of The Book of Boy and The Jumbies. I am a dark spirit, the ghost announced grandly. I am your inheritance, your grandmother’s legacy. I am yours to command.... Read more
View audiobookParis Never Leaves You
By: Ellen Feldman
Narrated by: Laurie Catherine Winkel
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
"Masterful. Magnificent. A passionate story of survival and a real page turner. This story will stay with me for a long time." —Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey
Living through World War II working in a Paris bookstore with her young daughter, Vivi, and fighting for her life, Charlotte is no victim, she is a... Read more
The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals
By: Becky Mandelbaum
Narrated by: Tim Paige, Rebekkah Ross & Gabra Zackman
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From the winner of the 2016 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction comes a “heartwarming and sharp-witted debut” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) set over one emotionally charged weekend at an animal sanctuary in western Kansas, where maternal, romantic, and community bonds are tested in the wake of an estranged daughter’s homecoming.
The... Read more
How to Argue With a Racist
By: Adam Rutherford
Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this.
Racist pseudoscience is on the rise—fueling hatred, feeding nationalism, and seeping into our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Even the well-intentioned repeat stereotypes based on "science," because cutting-edge genetics are hard to grasp—and all too... Read more
Scary Stories for Young Foxes
By: Christian McKay Heidicker
Narrated by: Christian McKay Heidicker
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Christian McKay Heidicker draws inspiration from Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe for his debut middle-grade novel, a thrilling portrait of survival and an unforgettable tale of friendship.
"Clever and harrowing." —The Wall Street Journal
"Into the finest tradition of storytelling steps Christian McKay Heidicker with these highly... Read more
The Buddhist on Death Row
By: David Sheff
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters who has become one of America’s most inspiring Buddhist practitioners while locked in a cell on death row.
Jarvis Jay Masters’s early life was a horror story whose outline we know too well. Born in Long Beach, California, his house was... Read more
Flyaway
By: Kathleen Jennings
Narrated by: Felicity Jurd
Length: 4 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Transformation, enchantment, and the emotional truths of family history teem in Kathleen Jennings’ stunning debut, Flyaway.
"Kathleen Jennings' prose dazzles, and her magic feels real enough that you might even prick your finger on it."—Kelly Link
"Half mystery, half fairy tale, all exquisitely rendered and full of teeth.”—Holly Black
In a small... Read more
The Suicide House
By: Charlie Donlea
Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A chilling murder in a prestigious prep school is at the heart of this riveting new novel from acclaimed author Charlie Donlea, featuring forensic reconstructionist Rory Moore and her psychologist partner, Lane Phillips.
Inside the walls of Indiana’s elite Westmont Preparatory High School, expectations run high and rules are strictly enforced.... Read more
Deep Delta Justice
By: Matthew Van Meter
Narrated by: Brad Sanders
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Finalist for 2021 Audie Award in History/Biography
The book that inspired the documentary A Crime on the Bayou
2021 Chautauqua Prize Finalist
The "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver).
In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary... Read more
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
By: Laura van den Berg
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears draws listeners into a world of wholly original, sideways ghost stories that linger in the mouth and mind like rotten, fragrant fruit. Both timeless and urgent, these eleven stories confront misogyny, violence, and the impossible economics of America with van den Berg's trademark spiky humor and surreal eye. Moving from... Read more
View audiobookAfterland
By: Lauren Beukes
Narrated by: Bianca Amato
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Children of Men meets The Handmaid's Tale in this "smartly written" and "splendid" thriller about how far a mother will go to protect her son from a hostile world transformed by the absence of men (Stephen King).
Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still hold and life continues—but a world... Read more
Fathoms
By: Rebecca Giggs
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
A “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about... Read more
Maggie Brown & Others
By: Peter Orner
Narrated by: Peter Orner, Ari Fliakos & Brittany Pressley
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, each one "a marvel of concision and compassion" (Washington Post), Peter Orner, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and "master of his form" (New York Times), takes the short story to new heights.
Through forty-four compressed gems, Peter Orner, a writer who "doesn't... Read more