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Literary Critters

By: Zondervan

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland, Mike Read & Rachel Louise ...

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Literary Critters is a truly unique book, introducing young readers to classic literary figures and encouraging them to use their imaginations. As William Shakesbear visits his fellow Literary Critter Guild members, he’s greeted with lots of advice from his author friends and has some adventures along the way.This playful story promotes literacy... Read more

The Devil Takes You Home

By: Gabino Iglesias

Narrated by: Jean-Marc Berne

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning author comes a genre-defying thriller about a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family—even if it means a descent into violence. Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After... Read more

Shutter

By: Ramona Emerson

Narrated by: Charley Flyte

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent skills have cracked many cases—she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook.As a lone portal to... Read more

The Codebreaker's Secret

By: Sara Ackerman

Narrated by: Jennifer Robideau

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant female codebreaker. An “unbreakable” Japanese naval code. A pilot on a top-secret mission that could change the course of WWII. The Codebreaker's Secret is a dazzling story of love and intrigue set during America’s darkest hour.

1943. As war in the Pacific rages on, Isabel Cooper and her codebreaker colleagues huddle in “the dungeon”... Read more

Dirt Creek

By: Hayley Scrivenor

Narrated by: Sophie Loughran

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ+ Mystery!

In Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek, a small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never Told You, a girl goes missing and a community falls apart and comes together.

When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Australia,... Read more

Accomplished

By: Amanda Quain

Narrated by: Deva Marie Gregory

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Georgiana Darcy gets the Pride & Prejudice retelling she deserves in Amanda Quain's Accomplished, a sparkling contemporary YA featuring a healthy dose of marching band romance, endless banter, and Charles Bingley as a ripped frat boy.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Georgiana Darcy should have been expelled after The Incident with... Read more

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

Quarterlife

By: Satya Doyle Byock

Narrated by: Satya Doyle Byock

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An innovative psychotherapist tackles the overlooked stage of Quarterlife—the years between adolescence and midlife—and provides a “fascinating” guide “on how to navigate and thrive—rather than just survive—these odd years” (PureWow).

“Quarterlife is an insightful, revealing look at the messy and uncharted paths to wholeness, and a powerful tool... Read more

The Puppeteer's Daughters

By: Heather Newton

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Famed puppeteer and master manipulator Walter Gray surprises his three daughters by announcing there is a fourth at his 80th birthday party. An incomplete paternity test—and a will that places a condition on each daughter’s inheritance—suggest that the missing daughter isn’t a figment of his dementia. Jane, the eldest, is tired of her father’s... Read more

The Librarian Spy

By: Madeline Martin

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!

“Readers will be on the edge of their seats….  A brilliant tale of resistance, courage and ultimately hope.”  –Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London... 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

Morning Glory Milking Farm

By: C.M. Nascosta

Narrated by: Eva Caine

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Violet is a typical, down-on-her-luck millennial: mid-twenties, over-educated and drowning in debt, on the verge of moving into her parents' basement. When a lifeline appears in the form of a very unconventional job in neighboring Cambric Creek, she has no choice but to grab at it with both hands.



Morning Glory Farm offers full-time hours, full... 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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