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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blood and Moonlight

By: Erin Beaty

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of Kerri Maniscalco and Mary E. Pearson, a young woman with dangerous magical abilities teams up with a handsome detective to hunt down an elusive serial killer in this dark and romantic fantasy thriller.

When orphan Catrin witnesses a murder on the streets of Collis, she’s pulled into a deadly chain of events where the only... Read more

Project Namahana

By: John Teschner

Narrated by: Kurt Kanazawa

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

John Teschner's Project Namahana is “an enthralling tale of disappearances, deaths, dark secrets, and corporate evil” (Douglas Preston, #1 bestselling co-author of the Agent Pendergast series).

Nothing stays hidden forever...

Two men, unified by a string of disappearances and deaths, search for answers—and salvation—in the jungles of Kaua‘i.... Read more

The Redhead of Auschwitz

By: Nechama Birnbaum

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz.Upon arrival, Rosie’s head is shaved... Read more

The Clackity

By: Lora Senf

Narrated by: Kimberly Woods

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces, this “delightfully eerie” (Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows) middle grade novel tells the story of a girl who must rescue her aunt by entering a world of ghosts, witches, and monsters to play a game with deadly consequences.

Evie Von Rathe lives in Blight... Read more

The Most Precious Substance on Earth

By: Shashi Bhat

Narrated by: Meher Pavri

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat’s "powerful, surprising and terrifying" (Rufi Thorpe) story about a high school student's traumatic experience and how it irrevocably alters her life, for fans of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Girlhood, and Pen15.  

Bright, hilarious, and sensitive fourteen-year-old Nina spends her spare time reading Beowulf... Read more

The Truth About Ben and June

By: Alex Kiester

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Pete Cross

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Kiester, a heartfelt debut that explores the complexity of a modern-day marriage when a new mother vanishes one morning.

"This powerful novel takes an honest, unflinching look at the challenges of modern parenthood from both sides of a marriage." - Tracey Lange, New York Times bestselling author... Read more

This Vicious Grace

By: Emily Thiede

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan & Michael Gallagher

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Riveting, passionate, and full of high stakes danger." —Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"This story of political intrigue, romance, and dark fantasy is elevated by Brentan's steadfast narration."- AudioFile Magazine

Emily Thiede's exciting fantasy debut, This Vicious Grace, will keep listeners riveted until the devastating... Read more

Ride with Me

By: Lucy Keating

Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this charming contemporary YA novel, neighborhood rideshare driver Charlie Owens embarks on a collision course with love when she crashes into the school’s cute but annoying party boy and wrecks his car and her no-strings-attached attitude toward life.As a driver for her local ride share app, Charlie Owens loves what the open road gives her:... Read more

The Nurse’s Secret

By: Amanda Skenandore

Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In the slums of 1880s New York, Una Kelly has grown up to be a rough-and-tumble grifter, able to filch a pocketbook in five seconds flat. But when another con-woman pins her for a murder she didn't commit, Una is forced to flee. Running from the police, Una lies her way into an unlikely refuge: the nursing school at Bellevue Hospital.



Based on... Read more

Ways of Being

By: James Bridle

Narrated by: James Bridle

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"There's joy in self-described "satellite nerd" James Bridle's British-accented voice as he narrates this audiobook about consciousness and the search for planetary intelligence." - AudioFile Magazine

This audiobook is read by the author.

Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of... Read more

Girls They Write Songs About

By: Carlene Bauer

Narrated by: Cady Zuckerman

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

New York, 1997. As the city’s gritty edges are being smoothed into something safer and shinier, two girls meet at a music magazine. Rose?brash and self-possessed?is a staff writer. Charlotte?hesitant, bookish?is an editor. First wary, then slowly admiring, they recognize in each other an insatiable and previously unmatched ambition. Soon they’re... Read more

The Twilight World

By: Werner Herzog

Narrated by: Werner Herzog

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“A potent, vaporous fever dream; a meditation on truth, lie, illusion, and time that floats like an aromatic haze through Herzog’s vivid reconstruction of Onoda’s war.” —The New York Times Book Review

The national bestseller by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog.

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of... Read more

The Silence that Binds Us

By: Joanna Ho

Narrated by: Raechel Wong

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“A grieving teen fights Asian hate by finding her voice in this complex, timely story.” —Kirkus (starred review)""With a layered, sensitive voice, Ho’s weighty novel delves into themes of racism, classism, loss, and healing."" —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Inspired by the recent rise in hate crimes against AAPI, Ho’s story of inclusion,... Read more

Breaking Time

By: Sasha Alsberg

Narrated by: Elle Newlands & Joshua Manning

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Perfect for fans of Outlander... A lush story of star crossed lovers and time traveling assassins." —Laura Sebastian, New York Times bestselling author of Ash Princess

Fate brought them together. Time will tear them apart.

When a mysterious Scotsman suddenly appears in the middle of the road, Klara thinks the biggest problem is whether she hit... Read more