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Big Girl, Small Town
By: Michelle Gallen
Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARD FOR NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR
FINALIST FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE
“Darkly hilarious . . . Wildly entertaining.” —The Guardian
Meet Majella O’Neill, a heroine like no other, performed by Nicola Coughlan, star of Derry Girls.
Majella is happiest out of the... Read more
The Arctic Fury
By: Greer Macallister
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic, and find her husband, Lord Franklin, and his lost expedition. Four parties have failed to find him, and Lady Franklin wants a radical new approach: put the women in charge.
Lady Franklin will disavow all knowledge of the... Read more
Shed No Tears
By: Caz Frear
Narrated by: Jane Collingwood
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed and internationally bestselling crime novelist Caz Frear returns with her third superb novel featuring Cat Kinsella, a cop “on par with Susie Steiner’s and Tana French’s female detectives” (Kirkus Reviews).Four victims. Killer caught. Case closed. . . or is it?
Growing up in a London family with ties to organized crime, Detective... Read more
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
By: Holly Black
Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Return to the captivating world of Elfhame with this illustrated addition to the New York Times bestselling Folk of Air trilogy that began with The Cruel Prince, from award-winning author Holly Black.
Once upon a time, there was a boy with a wicked tongue.
Before he was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone.... Read more
The Bright Book of Life
By: Harold Bloom
Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
Length: 21 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.
In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was... Read more
No Time Like the Future
By: Michael J. Fox
Narrated by: Michael J. Fox
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by Michael J. Fox.
A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox.
The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in Spin... Read more
Little Wishes
By: Michelle Adams
Narrated by: Joan Walker
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF POPSUGAR'S BEST ROMANCE NOVELS OF NOVEMBER 2020!""A story of love long postponed but never forgotten, Little Wishes is a tale to be treasured. Michelle's Adam's lovely, luminous writing is a beacon that draws readers closer and brings them home to the lasting truths about life and love."" —Marie Bostwick, New York Times bestselling author... Read more
View audiobookOak Flat
By: Lauren Redniss
Narrated by: Lauren Redniss, Darrell Dennis, Kyla Garcia, Ki...
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation, by MacArthur “Genius” and National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, the acclaimed author of Thunder & Lightning.
Oak Flat is a serene high-elevation mesa that sits above the... Read more
The Orchard
By: David Hopen
Narrated by: Micky Shiloah
Length: 17 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A Recommended Book From:
Entertainment Weekly * Electric Literature * AlmaA commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himselfAri Eden’s life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, his days are... Read more
Pretending
By: Holly Bourne
Narrated by: Heather Long
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
“It made me cry and laugh and rage…A really important, timely book. Sheer brilliance.” —Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List
“Thoughtful, smart and painfully true.” —Cosmopolitan UK
He said he was looking for a “partner in crime,” which everyone knows is shorthand for “a woman who isn’t real.”
April is kind, pretty and... Read more
Eartheater
By: Dolores Reyes
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 3 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
NAMED A ""FALL 2020 MUST-READ"" AND ONE OF THE ""BEST BOOKS OF FALL 2020"" BY TIME, VULTURE, THE BOSTON GLOBE, WIRED, COSMOPOLITAN AND MOREElectrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people—an imaginative synthesis... Read more
View audiobookNights When Nothing Happened
By: Simon Han
Narrated by: James Chen
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar
“A tender, spiky family saga about love in all its mysterious incarnations.” —Lorrie Moore, author of A Gate at the Stairs and Birds of America
“Absolutely luminous . . . Weaves the transience of suburbia between the highs and lows of a family saga . . . Shocks, awes,... Read more
The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
By: Lori Nelson Spielman
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Kathleen Garrett & Lori Nelso...
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
An International Bestseller!
A LibraryReads and Indie Next Pick!
A trio of second-born daughters sets out on a whirlwind journey through the lush Italian countryside to break the family curse that says they’ll never find love, by New York Times bestseller Lori Nelson Spielman, author of The Life List.
Since the day Filomena Fontana cast a curse... Read more
Soulswift
By: Megan Bannen
Narrated by: Hayden Bishop
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A dark, epic fantasy about a girl who must rethink everything she believes after she is betrayed and hunted by the religion that raised her—from Megan Bannen, author of The Bird and the Blade. Perfect for fans of The Winner’s Curse and The Girl of Fire and Thorns. Gelya is a Vessel, a girl who channels the word of the One True God through song.... Read more
View audiobookThis Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing
By: Jacqueline Winspear
Narrated by: Jacqueline Winspear
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply personal memoir of her Kentish childhood and her family’s resilience in the face of war and privation.
After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly... Read more
An Onion in My Pocket
By: Deborah Madison
Narrated by: Deborah Madison
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone ("The Queen of Greens," The Washington Post)—a warm, bracingly honest memoir that also gives us an insider's look at the vegetarian movement.
Madison’s “insightful memoir” (The Wall Street Journal) is “a true delight to read as she uncovers her love for all real foods, peeling off layer by layer... Read more
The Decameron Project
By: The New York Times
Narrated by: Alex Allwine, Dennis Boutsikaris, Edwidge Danti...
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning collection of new fiction previously published as The Decameron Project and originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic first spread across the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, Rachel Kushner, Colm Tóibín, Charles Yu, and more.
When reality is... Read more
The Butchers' Blessing
By: Ruth Gilligan
Narrated by: Heather O'Neill & John Keating
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Every year, Úna prepares for her father to leave her. He will wave goodbye early one morning, then disappear with seven other men to traverse the Irish countryside. Together, these men form the Butchers, a group that roams from farm to farm, enacting ancient methods of cattle slaughter.
The Butchers’ Blessing moves between the events of 1996 and... Read more
This Is Your Time
By: Ruby Bridges
Narrated by: Ruby Bridges
Length: 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by the recent wave of activism led by young people fighting for racial justice, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges--who, at the age of six, was the first black child to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans--shares her story and offers a powerful call to action with this elegant gift book.
Written as a letter from civil... Read more
The Patriots
By: Winston Groom
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In this masterful narrative, historian Winston Groom transports readers to the world of the American Revolution, where bold ideas, improbable events, and three extraordinary characters led to the
remarkable birth of the country we know today.
When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable... Read more
White Ivy
By: Susie Yang
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
“A truly addictive read” (Glamour) about how a young woman’s crush on a privileged former classmate becomes a story of love, lies, and dark obsession, offering stark insights into the immigrant experience, as it hurtles to its electrifying ending in this “twisty, unputdownable, psychological thriller” (People).
Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but... Read more
Instant Karma
By: Marissa Meyer
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
Length: 14 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer's young adult contemporary romance, a girl is suddenly gifted with the ability to cast instant karma on those around her – both good and bad.
Chronic overachiever Prudence Daniels is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. Her dreams of karmic... Read more
Fortune Favors the Dead
By: Stephen Spotswood
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, Fortune Favors the Dead introduces Pentecost and Parker, an audacious new detective duo for the ages.
“Razor-sharp style, tons of flair, a snappy sense of humor, and all the most satisfying elements of a really good noir novel, plus plenty of... Read more
The Love Lives of Birds
By: Laura Erickson
Narrated by: Laura Erickson
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
From the lifelong devotion of the American crow to the dalliances of the eastern bluebird, from the bald eagle’s dazzling aerial display to the male ruby-throated hummingbird’s reputation as a “deadbeat dad” — courtship, mating, and parenting differ dramatically among birds. Ornithologist and author Laura Erickson takes readers on a... Read more
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