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Assembly

By: Natasha Brown

Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This visionary and unflinching novel is about a black woman who has spent her life carefully navigating cutthroat worlds of privilege in her career and relationships—until one day she is pulled up short by a life and death decision.

Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Go to college, get an education, start a... Read more

You Got Anything Stronger?

By: Gabrielle Union

Narrated by: Gabrielle Union

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“Funny, tender, and so good.” —Mindy Kaling, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Why Not Me?Remember when we hit it off so well that we decided We’re Going to Need More Wine? Well, this time you and I are going to turn to our friend the bartender and ask, You Got Anything Stronger? I promise to continue to make you laugh, but with this... Read more

Into the Forest

By: Rebecca Frankel

Narrated by: Natalie Pela

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features a bonus chapter of the author's preliminary research interviews with the sisters featured in the book.

"An uplifting tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times, exhilarating." —Wall Street Journal

Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a... Read more

The Archer

By: Shruti Swamy

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“Set in 1970s Bombay, the novel explores art, ambition, gender roles and class with the same shimmering prose of Swamy’s first book, the story collection A House Is a Body.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“[A] sublime, boundary-pushing exploration of sexuality, creativity, and love.”
—NPR
 
In this transfixing novel, a young woman comes of age in 1960s-... Read more

On Freedom

By: Maggie Nelson

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An expansive, exhilarating work of criticism by one of the most significant writers of our day.

So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long... Read more

Portrait of a Scotsman

By: Evie Dunmore

Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Instant USA Today Bestseller!

A BuzzFeed Best Romance of 2021!
One of Marie Claire’s most anticipated romances of 2021!
One of Cosmopolitan's most anticipated fall books of 2021!

“Dunmore is my new find in historical romance. Her A League of Extraordinary Women series is extraordinary.”—Julia Quinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“This... Read more

Certain Dark Things

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrated by: Aida Reluzco

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic, comes Certain Dark Things, a pulse-pounding neo-noir that reimagines vampire lore.

Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on... Read more

Slonim Woods 9

By: Daniel Barban Levin

Narrated by: Jay Myers

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An “extraordinary” (Nylon) firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs paid by its young victims: a group of college roommates
 
“Intense . . . [a tale] of hard-won survival, and creating a life after the unimaginable.”—Salon

The inspiration for the Hulu docuseries Stolen Youth, directed by Zach Heinzerling and co-produced by... Read more

The Last Legacy

By: Adrienne Young

Narrated by: Suzy Jackson

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with The Last Legacy, a captivating standalone about family and blood ties, reinventing yourself, and controlling your own destiny.

When a letter from her uncle Henrik arrives on Bryn Roth's eighteenth birthday, summoning her back to Bastian, Bryn is eager to prove herself and finally take... Read more

Fault Lines

By: Emily Itami

Narrated by: Lydia Wilson

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD""What is the cost of a mother’s desire?...Emily Itami explores this question with wit and poignancy."" -- New York Times Book Review""The perfect marriage of Sally Rooney and early Murakami."" -- Kathy Wang, author of Impostor SyndromeMizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two... Read more

Lotería

By: Karla Arenas Valenti

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The turn of a card could change your destiny in this captivating middle grade adventure based on the Lotería card game and perfect for fans of Coco. While searching for her missing cousin, a young girl is transported to a mythical kingdom, becoming entangled in a perilous game of chance.

“A magical, philosophical tale rooted in Mexican lore.”... Read more

Misfits

By: Michaela Coel

Narrated by: Michaela Coel

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author

"Coel's background as an actor helps her shine in this intimate portrayal of an admirable person who, one senses, is just getting started." - AudioFile Magazine

From the brilliant mind of Michaela Coel, creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum and a Royal Society of Literature fellow, comes a... Read more

Beautiful Country

By: Qian Julie Wang

Narrated by: Qian Julie Wang

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world.
 
"Extraordinary…Consider this remarkable memoir a new classic."—Publishers Weekly, *Starred Review*

In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to... Read more

Miss Kopp Investigates

By: Amy Stewart

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Life after the war takes an unexpected turn for the Kopp sisters, but soon enough, they are putting their unique detective skills to use in new and daring ways.Winter 1919: Norma is summoned home from France, Constance is called back from Washington, and Fleurette puts her own plans on hold as the sisters rally around their recently widowed... Read more

The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All

By: Josh Ritter

Narrated by: Josh Ritter

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, a lyrical, sweeping novel about a young boy's coming-of-age during the last days of the lumberjacks.

In the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho, ninety-nine year old Weldon Applegate recounts his life in all its glory, filled with tall tales writ large with murder, mayhem, avalanches and bootlegging. It’s the... Read more

The Last Chance Library

By: Freya Sampson

Narrated by: Nathalie Pownall

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick
A Library Reads Pick

June Jones emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts and support of an eclectic group of library patrons, she discovers life-changing friendships along the way.
 
Lonely librarian June Jones has never left the sleepy English village where she grew... Read more

Red X

By: David Demchuk

Narrated by: Salvatore Antonio & David Demchuk

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A hunted community. A haunted author. A horror that spans centuries.

Men are disappearing from Toronto's gay village. They're the marginalized, the vulnerable. One by one, stalked and vanished, they leave behind small circles of baffled, frightened friends. Against the shifting backdrop of homophobia throughout the decades, from the HIV/AIDS... Read more

Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche

By: Nancy Springer

Narrated by: Christopher Bonwell & Tamaryn Payne

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"A young girl who is empowered, capable, and smart...the Enola Holmes book series convey an impactful message that you can do anything if you set your mind to it, and it does so in an exciting and adventurous way." - Millie Bobby Brown

"This audiobook is a welcome addition to an engaging and fast-paced series." - AudioFile Magazine

Enola Holmes... Read more

The Guide

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where he uncovers a plot of shocking menace amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests.

“Peter Heller is the poet laureate of the literary thriller." —Michael Koryta,... Read more

Don't Forget Us Here

By: Mansoor Adayfi

Narrated by: Roxanna Hope Radja & Mansoor Adayfi

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

This moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years tells a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Guantánamo.At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned. Kidnapped by warlords and then... Read more

Mine

By: Delilah S. Dawson

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A twisty, terrifying supernatural mystery about twelve-year-old, her creepy new home in Florida, and the territorial ghost of the young girl who lived there before her.

"A fiendishly creepy ghost story."--Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Dust & Grim

"Hide-under-the-covers terrifying, I loved it.”--Katherine Arden,... Read more

Mrs. March

By: Virginia Feito

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An explosive debut novel that flips the New York literary scene on its pretentious head. George March’s latest novel is a smash. No one could be prouder than his dutiful wife, Mrs. March, who revels in his accolades. A careful creature of routine and decorum, she lives a precariously controlled existence on the Upper East Side until one morning,... Read more

Everything I Have Is Yours

By: Eleanor Henderson

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Vacker's insightful presentation introduces listeners to this debilitating disease and its effects on marriage and family." - AudioFile Magazine

From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson comes a turbulent love story meets harrowing medical mystery: the true story of the author’s twenty-year marriage defined by her husband’s... Read more

Boogie Boogie, Y’all

By: C.G. Esperanza

Narrated by: C.G. Esperanza

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Author-illustrator C. G. Esperanza delivers a celebratory ode to graffiti and the Boogie Down Bronx through an infectious read-aloud beat and colorful illustrations that leap right off the page! Perfect for fans of Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut and Keith Haring.An NPR Best Book of the Year, ALSC Notable Children's Book of the Year, Odyssey... Read more