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Avalon

By: Nell Zink

Narrated by: Justis Bolding

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A profound and singular story about a young woman searching for her place in the world, from one of America’s most original voices—the irresistible story of one teenager’s reckoning with society at large and her search for a personal utopia.

“Effulgent and clever.... What fun.” —The New York Times

Bran’s... Read more

Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws

By: Adrienne Mayor

Narrated by: Nancy Crane & Adrienne Mayor

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Adrienne Mayor and Nancy Crane narrate this treasury of astonishing mythic marvelsAdrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowledge to find historical realities and scientific insights—glimmering, long-buried nuggets of truth—embedded in myth, legends, and folklore. Combing... Read more

Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena

By: Julie C. Dao

Narrated by: Angela Tran & Richard Nguyen

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"A rousing adventure and heartwarming series opener." - Publishers Weekly

A rollicking, action-packed adventure of laser tag and fierce sibling rivalries, Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena is the first book in a commerical middle grade fantasy series by Julie C. Dao.

"Dao is a bright voice in middle grade fiction, crafting characters and... Read more

Dirtbag, Massachusetts

By: Isaac Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Isaac Fitzgerald

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER



USA TODAY BESTSELLER



Winner of the New England Book Award for Nonfiction



"The best of what memoir can accomplish . . . pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy." —Esquire, "Best Memoirs of the Year"



A TIME Best Book of the Season * A Rolling Stone Top Culture Pick * A... Read more

The Kingdoms of Savannah

By: George Dawes Green

Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Jeanette Illidge, Karen Commins, K...

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"The narrators form a kind of tag team as they voice the florid descriptions of the city, its people, and a murder investigation led by the unlikeliest of characters, high society's Morgana Musgrove, portrayed by Karen Commins." - AudioFile on The Kingdoms of Savannah

Savannah may appear to be “some town out of a fable,” with its vine flowers,... Read more

Split Decision

By: Ice-T, Spike & Douglas Century

Narrated by: Ice-T, Spike & Douglas Century

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortune—while a handful of bad choices sent his former crime partner down an incredibly different path.

Ice-T rose to fame in the late 1980s, earning acclaim for his music before going on to enthrall... Read more

The Littlest Library

By: Poppy Alexander

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartwarming literary-themed novel about a woman who turns an ordinary red phone box into the littlest library in England and brings together a struggling town.A little red telephone box full of stories, a chance to change her life...Jess Metcalf is perfectly content with her quiet, predictable life. But when her beloved grandmother passes... Read more

Bad City

By: Paul Pringle

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal radiating across Los Angeles from one of the region's most powerful institutions, a riveting tale from a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who investigated the shocking events and helped bring justice in the face of formidable odds.

On a cool,... Read more

The Crane Wife

By: CJ Hauser

Narrated by: CJ Hauser

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love... Read more

Goddess of Filth

By: V. Castro

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

One hot summer night, best friends Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a séance. It's all fun and games at first, but their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burn straight through their prayer candles and Fernanda starts crawling toward her friends and chanting in Nahuatl, the language of their Aztec ancestors.



Over the... Read more

Wake the Bones

By: Elizabeth Kilcoyne

Narrated by: Bailey Carr

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"YA horror has found a new standard-bearer." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Dark, gripping, and gorgeous, Wake the Bones will lead you into the woods and keep you up late. As lush and sweltering as a Kentucky summer... Elizabeth Kilcoyne is a force.” - Gwenda Bond, New York Times bestselling author

The sleepy little farm that Laurel Early grew... Read more

The Italian Ballerina

By: Kristy Cambron

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together to save innocent lives in this breathtaking World War II novel based on real historical events. Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Ariel Lawhon.Rome, 1943. With the fall of Italy's Fascist government and the Nazi regime occupying the streets of Rome, British... Read more

Sirens & Muses

By: Antonia Angress

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” (BuzzFeed) debut

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree • “Captures the ache-inducing quality of art and desire . . . a deeply relatable and profoundly enjoyable read, one... Read more

All Down Darkness Wide

By: Seán Hewitt

Narrated by: Seán Hewitt

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature • Named a Best Book of 2022 by Kirkus, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness • Named a Best Book of July by Buzzfeed • A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2022 Summer Read • Observer Book of the Week • Lammy Finalist

“The most beautiful prose I’ve read in years.”—Alexander Chee, The Atlantic •... Read more

The 6:20 Man

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Zachary Webber, Christine Lakin & Mela Lee

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance, in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci’s new thriller.

Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter... Read more

Cults

By: Max Cutler

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli, Raquel Beattie, Erin Ruth Walke...

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Based on the hit podcast Cults, this is essential reading for any true crime fan.

Cults prey on the very attributes that make us human: our... Read more

I Hate the Ivy League

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A compendium about one of host Malcolm Gladwell’s greatest obsessions: education. Malcolm Gladwell has long relished the opportunity to skewer the upper echelons of higher education, from the institution of U.S. News & World Report’s Best College rankings to the LSATs to the luxe Bowdoin College cafeteria. I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and... Read more

Manhattan Cult Story

By: Spencer Schneider

Narrated by: Austin Rising

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Right under the noses of neighbors, clients, spouses, children, and friends, a secret society, simply called School—a cult of snared Manhattan professionals—has been led by the charismatic, sociopathic, and dangerous leader Sharon Gans for decades. Spencer Schneider was recruited in the eighties, and he stayed for more than twenty-three years as... Read more

From Below

By: Darcy Coates

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

No light. No air. No escape.Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits...Years ago, the SS Arcadia vanished without a trace during a routine voyage. Though a strange, garbled emergency message was broadcast, neither the ship nor any of its crew could be found. Sixty years later, its wreck has finally been discovered more... Read more

NSFW

By: Isabel Kaplan

Narrated by: Stephanie Németh-Parker

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Blisteringly sharp, hypersmart, and compulsively listenable—meet Isabel Kaplan’s searing debut novel about a young woman trying to succeed in Hollywood without selling her soul.

"The rare kind of read that made me giggle just as much as it left me gutted." —Zakiya Dalila Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Black Girl

From the... Read more

Acts of Violet

By: Margarita Montimore

Narrated by: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz, Amy McFadden, Brittany ...

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"A multicast presentation of a novel with this many disparate narrative elements could easily become chaotic, so it is testament to the narrators’ talents and Montimore’s brilliant plot structure, compelling characters, and sharp, often hilarious prose that listeners are instead treated to an absolutely delightful audiobook, essential for all... Read more

Boy Friends

By: Michael Pedersen

Narrated by: Michael Pedersen

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents. 'As perfect a portrait of friendship as I've ever read.' STEPHEN FRY 'Lucid, lyrical, loaded . . . A love letter to friendship.' JACKIE KAY 'A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refreshing.' ANDREW O'HAGAN 'A... Read more

In Her Boots

By: KJ Dell'Antonia

Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Chicken Sisters comes a delightfully entertaining story about a ruse that goes awry and a chaotic homecoming that proves that confronting your past can sometimes set you free.

Sometimes you have to go big to go home.

Rhett Gallagher’s adventurous life is imploding. Just as she turns the big 4-0,... Read more

Hawk Mountain

By: Conner Habib

Narrated by: Conner Habib

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception, manipulation, and murder. Single father Todd is relaxing at the beach with his son, Anthony, when he catches sight of a man approaching from the water’s edge. As the man draws closer, Todd recognizes him as Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly in... Read more