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The Dangers of an Ordinary Night

By: Lynne Reeves

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

On a chilly fall evening at the prestigious Performing Arts High School of Boston, best friends Tali Carrington and June Danforth go missing after auditioning for a play. They're last seen in grainy, out-of-focus surveillance footage that shows them walking away from the school. Two days later in a town south of Boston, Tali is found disoriented... Read more

Roxy

By: Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman

Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Megan Tusing, Shaun Taylor-Corb...

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the team that brought you the New York Times bestselling Dry comes a “gritty and unflinching” (Booklist) thriller that proves when gods play games, even love is a lie.

The freeway is coming.

It will cut the neighborhood in two. Construction has already started, pushing toward this corridor of condemned houses and cracked concrete with the... Read more

You've Reached Sam

By: Dustin Thao

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!

If I Stay meets Your Name in Dustin Thao's You've Reached Sam, a heartfelt audiobook about love and loss and what it means to say goodbye.

Seventeen-year-old Julie Clarke has her future all planned out—move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam, attend college in the city; spend a summer in Japan.... Read more

Odd Numbers

By: JJ Marsh

Narrated by: Jess Nesling & Paul Panting

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Strange things bring people together. Things like a tragic death.31st December 1999. The cusp of a new millennium. Six friends gather for their traditional New Year Celebration – this year, in a lakeside cabin on the outskirts of Prague. In every group of friends, each has a role. All except Gael that is. The outsider. The one who wasn't there... Read more

Gilded

By: Marissa Meyer

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Rebecca Soler brings this YA adaptation of Rumpelstiltskin to life. . . This audiobook demands to be binged, so listeners should block out some time once they hit play." - AudioFile Magazine

In Gilded, #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer returns to the fairytale world with this haunting tale.

Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a... Read more

All Her Little Secrets

By: Wanda M. Morris

Narrated by: Susan Dalian

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“All Her Little Secrets is a brilliantly nuanced but powerhouse exploration of race, the legal system, and the crushing pressure of keeping secrets. Morris brings a vibrant and welcome new voice to the thriller space.” —Karin Slaughter, New York Times and international bestselling author  In this fast-paced thriller, Wanda M. Morris crafts a... Read more

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows

By: Ai Weiwei

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process
 
“Poignant . . . An illuminating through-line emerges in the many parallels Ai traces between his life and... Read more

The How

By: Yrsa Daley-Ward

Narrated by: Yrsa Daley-Ward

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed poet behind bone, an exploration of how we can meet our truest selves, the ones we've always been meant to become

Yrsa Daley-Ward's words have resonated with hundreds of thousands of readers--through her books of poetry and memoir, bone and The Terrible; through her writing for Beyoncé on Black Is King; and through her always... Read more

You Can't Be Serious

By: Kal Penn

Narrated by: Kal Penn

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The star of the Harold and Kumar franchise, House, and Designated Survivor recounts why he rejected the advice of his aunties and guidance counselors and, instead of becoming a doctor or “something practical,” embarked on a surprising journey that has included confronting racism in Hollywood, meeting his future husband, and working in the Obama... Read more

Carry the Dog

By: Stephanie Gangi

Narrated by: Cheryl Smith

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Powered by insight and true wit.” —Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion

“I can’t remember the last time I was as completely bewitched by a fictional character as I was by Bea Seger . . . What a treat to view life through the eyes of this funny, smart, gutsy woman.” —Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and... Read more

Wholehearted Faith

By: Rachel Held Evans & Jeff Chu

Narrated by: Daniel Jonce Evans, Jeff Chu, Jamie Wright, Sar...

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the new collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life continue to encourage, challenge, and influence, lovingly performed by Daniel Jonce Evans, Jeff Chu, Jamie Wright, Sarah Bessey, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Kristen Howerton, Kaitlin Curtice, Amanda Held Opelt, Rev. Neichelle R. Guidry, Ph.D.,... Read more

Burning Boy

By: Paul Auster

Narrated by: Paul Auster

Length: 35 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane.

With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who... Read more

David Copperfield's History of Magic

By: David Copperfield, Richard Wiseman & David Brit...

Narrated by: Feodor Chin & David Copperfield

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An illustrated, illuminating insight into the world of illusion from the world’s greatest and most successful magician, capturing its audacious and inventive practitioners, and showcasing the art form’s most famous artifacts housed at David Copperfield’s secret museum.

In this personal journey through a unique performing art, David Copperfield... Read more

Daughter of the Deep

By: Rick Riordan

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times #1 best-selling author Rick Riordan pays homage to Jules Verne in his exciting modern take on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. "If you have ever craved a story that will leave your heart racing, your lungs gasping from the numerous twists and turns, your soul heaving from the effort of now carrying an ensemble cast, you will find all... Read more

The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven

By: Nathaniel Ian Miller

Narrated by: Olafur Darri Olafsson

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "briskly entertaining" (New York Times Book Review), "transporting and wholly original" (People Magazine) novel, one man banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is saved by good friends, a loyal dog, and a surprise visit that changes everything. In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek... Read more

Being Seen

By: Elsa Sjunneson

Narrated by: Elsa Sjunneson

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else.

As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of... Read more

The Promise

By: Damon Galgut

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A modern family saga written in gorgeous prose by three-time Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted... Read more

In the Company of Witches

By: Auralee Wallace

Narrated by: Cassidy Brown

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When a guest dies in the B&B she helps her aunts run, a young witch must rely on some good old-fashioned investigating to clear her aunt's name in this magical and charming new cozy mystery.

For four hundred years, the Warren witches have used their magic to quietly help the citizens of the sleepy New England town of Evenfall thrive. There's... Read more

Barakah Beats

By: Maleeha Siddiqui

Narrated by: Salena Qureshi

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of The First Rule of Punk and Save Me a Seat, Barakah Beats is a sweet, powerful, and joyous novel about a Muslim girl who finds her voice on her own terms... by joining her school's most popular boy band.Twelve-year-old Nimra Sharif has spent her whole life in Islamic school, but now it's time to go to "real school."Nimra's nervous,... Read more

Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna

By: Alda P. Dobbs

Narrated by: Ana Osorio

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting tale of one girl’s dangerous journey to cross the U.S. border, based on a true story.It is 1913, and twelve-year-old Petra Luna’s mamá has died while the revolution rages in Mexico. Before her papá is dragged away by soldiers, Petra vows to him that she will care for the family she has left—her abuelita, her little sister, Amelia, and... Read more

This Thing Between Us

By: Gus Moreno

Narrated by: Robb Moreira

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"A surreal excursion into heartache and horror narrated by a man undone by grief . . . Along with allusions to Rod Serling and The Exorcist, there are shades of H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, zombie literature and, at least once, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . . . You don't want to read this book right before bed." —Sarah Lyall, The New... Read more

Hooked

By: Sutton Foster

Narrated by: Sutton Foster

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the 2-time Tony Award-winner and the star of TV’s Younger, funny and intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept her sane while navigating the highs and lows of family, love, and show business (and how it can help you, too).

Whether she’s playing an “age-defying” book editor on television or dazzling audiences on the... Read more

The 9.9 Percent

By: Matthew Stewart

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “clear-eyed and incisive” (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone—including themselves.

In 21st-century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90% have lost ground.... Read more

The Apollo Murders

By: Chris Hadfield

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author and astronaut Chris Hadfield comes this exceptional thriller and "exciting journey" into the dark heart of the Cold War and the space race (Andy Weir, author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary).1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny spaceship, a quarter million miles... Read more