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Sunny Days
By: David Kamp
Narrated by: David Sadzin
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the “Best Books” of the year from The Smithsonian, The Washington Independent Review, and more!
From bestselling writer David Kamp, the “fun, fascinating, and surprisingly touching,” (People) behind-the-scenes story of the cultural heroes who created the beloved children’s TV programs Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Mister Rogers’... Read more
I'd Give Anything
By: Marisa de los Santos
Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me comes a profound and heart-rending story about a horrific tragedy that marks one woman and her hometown and about the explosive secrets that come to light twenty years later. Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle... Read more
View audiobookSummer Longing
By: Jamie Brenner
Narrated by: Molly Parker Myers
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
When a baby is left on the doorstep of a Cape Cod beach house, an unlikely group of women risks all they hold dear to harbor and protect her in this page-turning story from a USA Today bestselling author.
Ruth Cooperman arrives in beautiful beachside Provincetown for her retirement, renting the perfect waterfront cottage while she searches for... Read more
The Lincoln Conspiracy
By: Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
"Everyone knows that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, but how many know that there was a previous, unsuccessful attempt on his life? Let narrator Scott Brick tell you all about it...Brick can make a nursery rhyme sound exciting, and he's on fire in this audiobook." -- AudioFile Magazine
The bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which... Read more
Unfinished Business
By: Vivian Gornick
Narrated by: Vivian Gornick
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life.“I sometimes think I was born reading…I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.”Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick’s celebration of passionate... Read more
View audiobookKeep It Together, Keiko Carter
By: Debbi Michiko Florence
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Fans of Lauren Myracle and Wendy Mass are sure to fall head-over-heels for this sweet story about first crushes, friendship drama, and finding the courage to stand up for yourself.Seventh grade is supposed to be a game changer. And Keiko thinks she's got it covered, especially with Audrey and Jenna by her side to shop for a new look, pick... Read more
View audiobookThe Book of V.
By: Anna Solomon
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg, Eva Kaminsky & Gabra Zackman
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
**An Audiofile Earphones Award-winning production**
For fans of The Hours and Fates and Furies, a bold, kaleidoscopic novel intertwining the lives of three women across three centuries as their stories of sex, power, and desire finally converge in the present day.
Lily is a mother and a daughter. And a second wife. And a writer, maybe? Or she... Read more
Ghosts of Harvard
By: Francesca Serritella
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 16 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
TEEN VOGUE BOOK CLUB PICK • A Harvard freshman becomes obsessed with her schizophrenic brother’s suicide. Then she starts hearing voices.
“A rich, intricately plotted thriller . . . Serritella, who is a Harvard grad herself, writes about the campus with an insider’s savvy.”—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post
“Every time I thought I knew where... Read more
Dirt
By: Bill Buford
Narrated by: Bill Buford
Length: 16 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal
What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old... Read more
Shuri: A Black Panther Novel (Marvel)
By: Nic Stone
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes an all-new upper middle grade series based on one of the Marvel Universe's break-out characters Shuri, from Black Panther!An original, upper-middle-grade series starring the break-out character from the Black Panther comics and films: T'Challa's younger sister, Shuri! Crafted by New... Read more
View audiobookSummer Darlings
By: Brooke Lea Foster
Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“Filled with 1960s nostalgia and a host of deftly drawn characters” (Renée Rosen, author of Park Avenue Summer), Summer Darlings pulls back the curtain on one mysterious and wealthy family as seen through the eyes of their nanny—a college student who, while falling in love on Martha’s Vineyard, is also forced to reckon with the dark side of... Read more
View audiobookStrange Hotel
By: Eimear McBride
Narrated by: Eimear McBride
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
"The narrative is complex, but McBride's indulgent tone, modulated voice, and on-point pacing carry it forward and make it appeal to listeners' emotions. This poignant story of love, loss, and self-exploration will linger in listeners' minds." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
From Eimear McBride, author of the award-winning A Girl... Read more
Take Me Apart
By: Sara Sligar
Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer & Xe Sands
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
"What a clever, visceral thriller. A raw, unfiltered twist on gaslighting that challenges how society treats women. It made me sad, angry, and fired up."
—Araminta Hall, author of Our Kind of Cruelty
"I loved this novel so much that I blew off all my responsibilities, turned off my phone, and blistered through the whole thing in one sitting.... Read more
The Knockout Queen
By: Rufi Thorpe
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
"Full of verve... Revelatory." —Los Angeles Times
A dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbs
Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore—beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael—with a... Read more
Little Secrets
By: Jennifer Hillier
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Overwhelmed by tragedy, a woman desperately tries to save her marriage in award-winning author Jennifer Hillier's Little Secrets, a riveting audiobook of psychological suspense.
"Suspenseful and compelling—Hillier is a masterful storyteller." —Chevy Stevens
All it takes to unravel a life is one little secret...
Marin had the perfect life. Married... Read more
My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me
By: Jason B. Rosenthal
Narrated by: Jason B. Rosenthal, Miles Rosenthal & Baize Buzan
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband’s life without her in a Modern Love column in the New York Times. On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned a Modern Love column for... Read more
View audiobookWalk the Wire
By: David Baldacci
Narrated by: Kyf Brewer & Orlagh Cassidy
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Amos Decker—the FBI consultant with a perfect memory—returns to solve a gruesome murder in a booming North Dakota oil town in the newest thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling Memory Man series.
When Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are called to London, North Dakota, they instantly sense that the thriving... Read more
Kent State
By: Deborah Wiles
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: No
From two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, a masterpiece exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four American students protesting the Vietnam War.May 4, 1970.Kent State University.As protestors roil the campus, National Guardsmen are called in. In the chaos of what happens next,... Read more
View audiobookHome Baked
By: Alia Volz
Narrated by: Alia Volz
Length: 14 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans... Read more
Braised Pork
By: An Yu
Narrated by: Vera Chok
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband dead.
One minute she was breakfasting with him and packing for an upcoming trip, the next, she finds him motionless in
their half-full bathtub. Like something out of a dream, next to the tub Jia Jia discovers a pencil sketch of a strange
watery... Read more
Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel
By: Ruth Hogan
Narrated by: Jane Collingwood
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things comes a surprising and uplifting story about the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters, and the magic of chosen family.Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who loved fizzy drinks, naughty words, and liked playing with ghosts and matches. When her... Read more
View audiobookThe New Husband
By: D.J. Palmer
Narrated by: January LaVoy & Rebecca Soler
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The New Husband is a riveting thriller about the lies we tell ourselves from D. J. Palmer, the author of Saving Meghan.
What makes Simon Fitch so perfect?
-He knows all her favorite foods, music, and movies.
-Her son adores him. He was there when she needed him most.
-He anticipates her every need.
-He would never betray her like her first... Read more
Think Like a Rocket Scientist
By: Ozan Varol
Narrated by: Ozan Varol
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
* One of Inc.com's "6 Books You Need to Read in 2020 (According to Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, and Adam Grant)"* Adam Grant's # 1 pick of his top 20 books of 2020* One of 6 Groundbreaking Books of Spring 2020 (according to Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant).
A former rocket scientist reveals the habits, ideas, and strategies... Read more
The House of Kennedy
By: James Patterson
Narrated by: David Pittu
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Now with an all-new bonus chapter—in the bestselling The House of Kennedy, “James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . re-telling the political clan’s rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style” (People).
The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks... Read more