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Tigers, Not Daughters
By: Samantha Mabry
Narrated by: Luis Moreno
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
THE FIRST TIME ANA TORRES C A M E B AC K A S A G H O S T, HER SISTERS WERENāT THERE.A year later, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, still consumed by grief and haunted by Anaās memory, startnoticing strange things around the house: laughter without a voice, shadows cast by nothing,writing on the walls. None of them have seen Ana, but they know sheās... Read more
View audiobookLakewood
By: Megan Giddings
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A startling debut about class and race,Ā LakewoodĀ evokes a terrifying world of medical experimentationāpartĀ The Handmaidās Tale, partĀ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.One of The Millionsā Most Anticipated Reads (The Great First Half 2020 Books)When Lena Johnsonās beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed,... Read more
View audiobookHitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
By: Zora Neale Hurston
Narrated by: Aunjanue Ellis
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
From āone of the greatest writers of our timeā (Toni Morrison)āthe author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching Godāa collection of remarkable stories, including eight ālostā Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time.
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Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider
By: Stephen B. Heard, PhD
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance.
Ever since Carl Linnaeus's binomial system of scientific names was adopted in the eighteenth century, scientists have been eponymously naming organisms in ways that both honor and vilify their namesakes.... Read more
How to Be Fine
By: Jolenta Greenberg & Kristen Meinzer
Narrated by: Jolenta Greenberg & Kristen Meinzer
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A humorous and insightful look into what advice works, what doesnāt, and what it means to transform yourself, by the co-hosts of the popular By the Book podcast.In each episode of their podcast By the Book, Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer take a deep dive into a different self-help book, following its specific instructions, rules, and... Read more
View audiobookStand Up, Yumi Chung!
By: Jessica Kim
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
One lie snowballs into a full-blown double life in this irresistible story about an aspiring stand-up comedian.
On the outside, Yumi Chung suffers from #shygirlproblems, a perm-gone-wrong, and kids calling her "Yu-MEAT" because she smells like her family's Korean barbecue restaurant. On the inside, Yumi is ready for her Netflix stand-up special.... Read more
A Murderous Relation
By: Deanna Raybourn
Narrated by: Angele Masters
Length: 11 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A royal scandalās connection to a brutal serial killer threatens London in this new Veronica Speedwell adventure from New York Times bestselling and EdgarĀ® Awardānominated author Deanna Raybourn.Autumn 1888. Veronica Speedwell and her colleague Stoker are asked by Lady Wellingtonia Beauclerk to stop a potential scandal so explosive it threatens... Read more
View audiobookBarry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother
By: Barry Sonnenfeld
Narrated by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
This outrageous and hilarious memoir follows a film and television directorās life, from his idiosyncratic upbringing to his unexpected career as the director behind such huge film franchises as The Addams Family and Men in Black. Barry Sonnenfeld's philosophy is, "Regret the Past. Fear the Present. Dread the Future." Told in his unmistakable... Read more
View audiobookWill the Circle Be Unbroken?
By: Sean Dietrich
Narrated by: Sean Dietrich
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From celebrated storyteller "Sean of the South" comes an unforgettable memoir of love, loss, the friction of family memories, and the unlikely hope that you're gonna be alright.Sean Dietrich was twelve years old when he scattered his father's ashes from the mountain range. His father was a man who lived for baseball, a steel worker with a ready... Read more
View audiobookThese Fevered Days
By: Martha Ackmann
Narrated by: Martha Ackmann
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, āAll things are readyā and with this resolute statement,her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely āat homeā (the occupation listed on her deathcertificate), Dickinsonās interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was hesitant about publication,embraced... Read more
View audiobookThe Animals At Lockwood Manor
By: Jane Healey
Narrated by: Sarah Lambie
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A debut novel for fans of Sarah PerryĀ and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection.
In August 1939, thirty-year-oldĀ Hetty Cartwright arrives at Lockwood Manor... Read more
The Death of Sitting Bear
By: N. Scott Momaday
Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated American master N. Scott Momaday returns with a radiant collection of more than 200 new and selected poems rooted in Native American tradition.Ā
āThe poems in this book reflect my deep respect for and appreciation of words. . . . I believe that poetry is the highest form of verbal expression. Although I have... Read more
At the Center of All Beauty
By: Fenton Johnson
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A profound meditation on accepting and celebrating one's solitude.
Solitude is the inspirational core for many writers, artists, and thinkers. Alone with our thoughts, we can make discoveries that matter not only to us but to others. To be solitary is not only to draw sustenance from being alone, but to know that our ultimate responsibility is... Read more
Anna K
By: Jenny Lee
Narrated by: Jenna Ushkowitz
Length: 13 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Narrator Jenna Ushkowitz is an award-winning actress, singer, producer, and podcast host best known for her role as Tina Cohen-Chang on Glee.
Meet Anna K! Every happy teenage girl is the same, while every unhappy teenage girl is miserable in her own special way...
At seventeen, Anna K is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich society (even if she... Read more
Spirit Run
By: NoĆ© Ćlvarez
Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, NoĆ© Ćlvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who āslouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives.ā A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Ćlvarez... Read more
View audiobookThis Town Sleeps
By: Dennis E. Staples
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Set on a reservation in far northern Minnesota, This Town Sleeps explores the many ways history, culture, landscape, and lineage shape our lives, our understanding of the world we inhabit, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of it all.
On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the... Read more
Separation Anxiety
By: Laura Zigman
Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
āSeparation AnxietyĀ is a hilarious, heart-breaking and thought-provoking portrait of a difficult marriage, as fierce as it is funny.... My advice: Start reading and donāt stop until you get to the last page of this wise and wonderful novel."" Ā āAlice HoffmanFrom bestselling author Laura Zigman, a hilarious novel about a wife and mother whose... Read more
View audiobookTemporary
By: Hilary Leichter
Narrated by: Carly Robins
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In Temporary, a young womanās workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether itās shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the... Read more
View audiobookHow a Woman Becomes a Lake
By: Marjorie Celona
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime Novel
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From the Giller-nominated author of Y comes How a Woman Becomes a Lake, a taut, suspenseful novel about the dark corners of a small town, and the secrets that lurk within...
It's New Year's Day and the residents of a small fishing town are ready to start their lives anew.... Read more
Hannah's War
By: Jan Eliasberg
Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A "mesmerizing" re-imagination of the final months of World War II (Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network), Hannah's War is an unforgettable love story about an exceptional woman and the dangerous power of her greatest discovery.
Berlin, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th... Read more
MaƱanaland
By: Pam MuƱoz Ryan
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
Newbery Honoree Pam MuƱoz Ryan weaves an entrancing tale of courage and self-discovery."Uniquely magical...Timely and timeless." -- New York Times* "This tightly packed, powerful fantasy contains resonant truths." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review* "Another unforgettable work from a master storyteller." -- Booklist, starred review* "Richly... Read more
View audiobookYou Are Not Alone
By: Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Dylan Moore
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020
One of SheReads Most Anticipated Books of 2020
One of PopSugar's Most Anticipated Books of 2020
One of HelloGigglesā Most Anticipated Books of 2020
One of Marie Claireās Best Fiction by Women in 2020
One of Womanās Dayās Best Fiction Books Coming Out in 2020
The... Read more
The June Boys
By: Court Stevens
Narrated by: McKenzie Fetters, Gabe Wicks, Court Stevens, Ri...
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook edition includes: The full-length, stand-alone Young Adult suspense novel A bonus scene with one of the Gemini Thief survivors A Q&A between Court Stevens and Ruta Sepetys,Ā New York Times bestsellingĀ author of Fountains of Silence From award-winning and highly acclaimed author Court Stevens comes a gripping, emotional story... Read more
View audiobookFahrenheit 451
By: Ray Bradbury
Narrated by: Toni Mora
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
El libro mƔs emblemƔtico de Bradbury llega a Minotauro Esenciales. Un clƔsico de la literatura. Fahrenheit 451: la temperatura a la que el papel se enciende y arde. Guy Montag es un bombero y el trabajo de un bombero es quemar libros, que estƔn prohibidos porque son causa de discordia y sufrimiento. El Sabueso MecƔnico del Departamento de... Read more
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