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Hummingbird Salamander
By: Jeff VanderMeer
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all thingsSecurity consultant āJane Smithā receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. Silvina, the dead woman who left the... Read more
View audiobookEvery Day Is a Gift
By: Tammy Duckworth
Narrated by: Tammy Duckworth
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In thisĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling book, learn the incredible story of Illinois senator and Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth and see what inspired her to follow the path that made her who she is today.ā
In Every Day Is a Gift, Tammy Duckworth takes readers through the amazingāand amazingly trueāstories from her incomparable life. In November of... Read more
Laundry Love
By: Patric Richardson & Karin B. Miller
Narrated by: Patric Richardson
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author, and includes audio-exclusive bonus tips.
Patric Richardson, aka the "Laundry Evangelist,ā reveals his revolutionary methods for cleaning clothesāand making laundry loads more fun.
Doing laundry is rarely anyoneās favorite task. But to Patric Richardson, laundry isn't just funāit's a way of life. After years of... Read more
The Lost Village
By: Camilla Sten
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"Listen to Angela Daweās eerie narration of the first seven minutes of Camilla Stenās 'The Lost Village' - I defy you to stop there."- The Seattle Times
"Narrator Angela Dawe raises the stakes in this atmospheric horror novel...Her varying pacing amps up the suspense, and her flexible voice breathes life into the multitude of characters,... Read more
Raft of Stars
By: Andrew J. Graff
Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
āA rousing adventure yarn full of danger and heart and humor.āĀ āRichard RussoAn instant classic for fans ofĀ Jane Smiley andĀ Kitchens of the Great Midwest: when two hardscrabble young boys think theyāve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before itās too... Read more
View audiobookEvery Vow You Break
By: Peter Swanson
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A brideās dream honeymoon becomes a nightmare when a man with whom sheās had a regrettable one-night stand shows up in this electrifying psychological thriller from the acclaimed author ofĀ Eight Perfect Murders.
Abigail Baskin never thought sheād fall in love with a millionaire. Then she met Bruce Lamb. Heās a good guy, stable, level-headed,... Read more
Eternal
By: Lisa Scottoline
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Edoardo Ballerini & Lisa Sc...
Length: 19 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome...in the creeping shadow of fascism.
What war destroys, only love can heal.
Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of... Read more
Gathering Dark
By: Candice Fox
Narrated by: Erin Bennett & Karissa Vacker
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Gathering Dark is a new standalone thriller set in Los Angeles from #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Candice Fox.
A convicted killer. A gifted thief. A vicious ganglord. A disillusioned cop. Together theyāre a missing girlās only hope.
Dr. Blair Harbour, once a wealthy, respected pediatric surgeon, is now an ex-con down on... Read more
Shaking the Gates of Hell
By: John Archibald
Narrated by: Cameron Scoggins
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
On growing up in the American South of the 1960sāan all-American white boyāson of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of the civil rights revolution, and discovering the culpability of silence within the church. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist for The Birmingham News.
"My dad was a Methodist preacher and his... Read more
How Beautiful We Were
By: Imbolo Mbue
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards, Dion Graham, ...
Length: 14 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil company in this sweeping, inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers.
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People ā¢ ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The... Read more
Black Girl, Call Home
By: Jasmine Mans
Narrated by: Jasmine Mans
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah MagazineĀ ā¢ VultureĀ ā¢ EssenceĀ ā¢ ElleĀ ā¢ CosmopolitanĀ ā¢ Real SimpleĀ ā¢ Refinery 29Ā ā¢Ā She ReadsĀ ā¢ The EverygirlĀ ā¢ Career Contessa
āYou are carrying in your hands a Black womanās heart.āāJericho Brown, author of Pulitzer Prize winnerĀ The Tradition
ā[Mansā] lucid and lyrical lines are as undeniable as those of a... Read more
A Funny Kind of Paradise
By: Jo Owens
Narrated by: Maggie Huculak
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A poignant, uplifting, brilliantly insightful story of one woman's end-of-life reckoning with her past, her lost daughter and herself, for readers of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Still Alice and Elizabeth Is Missing.
When her husband left her with a baby, a toddler and a fledgling business, Francesca managed--she wasn't always gentle or... Read more
Blackbird Fly
By: Erin Entrada Kelly
Narrated by: Ferdelle Capistrano
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Future rock star or friendless misfit? Thatās no choice at all. In this acclaimed novel by Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, twelve-year-old Apple grapples with being different; with friends and backstabbers; and with following her dreams.Publishers WeeklyĀ calledĀ Blackbird FlyĀ āa true triumph,ā and theĀ Los Angeles Times Book ReviewĀ said,... Read more
View audiobookBrood
By: Jackie Polzin
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
An exquisite new literary voiceāwryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational, in the vein of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Stroutādepicts one woman's attempt to keep her four chickens alive while reflecting on a recent loss.
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āFull of nuance and humor and strangenessā¦[Polzin] writes beautifully about everything.ā āThe New York Times
Over... Read more
Wonderworks
By: Angus Fletcher
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Length: 15 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This āfascinatingā (Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of Outliers) examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, shows how writers have created technical breakthroughsārivaling scientific inventionsāand engineering enhancements to the human heart and mind.
Literature is a... Read more
The Girls Are All So Nice Here
By: Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Narrated by: Erin Mallon & Alex Allwine
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Two former best friends return to their college reunion to find that theyāre being circled by someone who wants revenge for what they did ten years beforeāand will stop at nothing to get itāin this āpropulsiveā (Megan Miranda, bestselling author of The Girl from Widow Hills) psychological thriller.
A lot has changed since Ambrosia Wellington... Read more
Amber and Clay
By: Laura Amy Schlitz
Narrated by: Tom Picasso & Rachel Botchan
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The Newbery Medalāwinning author of Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! gives readers a virtuoso performance in verse in this profoundly original epic pitched just right for fans of poetry, history, mythology, and fantasy.
Welcome to ancient Greece as only genius storyteller Laura Amy Schlitz can conjure it. In a warlike land of wind and sunlight,... Read more
The Arsonists' City
By: Hala Alyan
Narrated by: Leila Buck
Length: 19 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call homeThe Nasr family is spread across the globeāBeirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of... Read more
View audiobookReality
By: John Lanchester
Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Hugh Quarshie, Emilia Fox & A...
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prizeālonglisted author of The Wall.
A mysterious tall man haunts a country house in search of a cell signal; a translator at an academic conference starts hearing things over his headset that nobody should hear; a family discovers their dependence on the latest technological gadget goes to the very... Read more
Fragile Remedy
By: Maria Ingrande Mora
Narrated by: James Fouhey
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Sixteen-year-old Nate is a Gemāa Genetically Engineered Medical Surrogateācreated by Gathos City scientists as a cure for the elite from the fatal lung rot ravaging the population. As a child, Nate was smuggled out of the laboratory where he was held captive and taken into the Withersāa quarantined, lawless region. He manages to survive by... Read more
View audiobookSatellite Love
By: Genki Ferguson
Narrated by: Aya Furukawa, Alex Aoki & Hiro Kanagawa
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satelliteāand a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human. Longlisted for Canada Reads, shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction and for Speculative Fiction. Named CBC Radio's Q Book Pick of the Month, a CBC Books... Read more
View audiobookEvery Last Fear
By: Alex Finlay
Narrated by: Cady McClain & Jon Lindstrom
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"Finlayās debut is a twisty puzzle that will please fans of thrillers, suspense, and true crime. Cady McClain and Jon Lindstrom capably voice a large cast of characters and keep ratcheting up the tension." -- Library Journal
One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021: ā¢ Newsweek ā¢ CNN ā¢ E! Online ā¢ Goodreads ā¢ BuzzFeed ā¢ PopSugar ā¢ BookBub ā¢... Read more
Home Is Not a Country
By: Safia Elhillo
Narrated by: Safia Elhillo & Christopher Myers
Length: 3 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
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āNothing short of magic.ā āElizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X
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From theĀ acclaimed poet featured on Forbes Africaās ā30 Under 30ā list, this powerful novel-in-verse captures one girl, caught between cultures, on an unexpected journey to face the ephemeral girl she might have... Read more
Who is Maud Dixon?
By: Alexandra Andrews
Narrated by: Therese Plummer
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
āPart Patricia Highsmith, partĀ All About EveĀ and pure fun.āāMaria SempleFlorence Darrow has always felt she was destined for greatness,Ā but after a disastrous affair with her married boss, she starts to doubt herself.Ā All that changes when she sets off for Morocco with her new boss,Ā the celebrated but reclusive authorĀ Maud Dixon.Ā Amidst the... Read more
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