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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 “Jane Smith” 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

Every Day Is a Gift

By: Tammy Duckworth

Narrated by: Tammy Duckworth

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times 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.​

In Every Day Is a Gift, Tammy Duckworth takes readers through the amazing—and amazingly true—stories 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,” reveals his revolutionary methods for cleaning clothes—and making laundry loads more fun.

Doing laundry is rarely anyone’s favorite task. But to Patric Richardson, laundry isn't just fun—it'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 Dawe’s eerie narration of the first seven minutes of Camilla Sten’s '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

“A rousing adventure yarn full of danger and heart and humor.” —Richard RussoAn instant classic for fans of Jane Smiley and Kitchens of the Great Midwest: when two hardscrabble young boys think they’ve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it’s too... Read more

Every Vow You Break

By: Peter Swanson

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A bride’s dream honeymoon becomes a nightmare when a man with whom she’s had a regrettable one-night stand shows up in this electrifying psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of Eight Perfect Murders.

Abigail Baskin never thought she’d fall in love with a millionaire. Then she met Bruce Lamb. He’s 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
 
#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 they’re a missing girl’s 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 1960s—an all-American white boy—son 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 • 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 Magazine • Vulture • Essence • Elle • Cosmopolitan • Real Simple • Refinery 29 • She Reads • The Everygirl • Career Contessa

“You are carrying in your hands a Black woman’s heart.”—Jericho Brown, author of Pulitzer Prize winner The Tradition

“[Mans’] 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? That’s 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 Weekly called Blackbird Fly “a true triumph,” and the Los Angeles Times Book Review said,... Read more

Brood

By: Jackie Polzin

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An exquisite new literary voice—wryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational, in the vein of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Strout—depicts one woman's attempt to keep her four chickens alive while reflecting on a recent loss.
 
“Full of nuance and humor and strangeness…[Polzin] writes beautifully about everything.” —The New York Times

Over... Read more

Wonderworks

By: Angus Fletcher

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This “fascinating” (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 breakthroughs—rivaling scientific inventions—and 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 they’re being circled by someone who wants revenge for what they did ten years before—and will stop at nothing to get it—in this “propulsive” (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 Medal–winning 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 globe—Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of... Read more

Reality

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 Prize–longlisted 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 Gem—a Genetically Engineered Medical Surrogate—created 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 Withers—a quarantined, lawless region. He manages to survive by... Read more

Satellite 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 satellite—and 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

Every Last Fear

By: Alex Finlay

Narrated by: Cady McClain & Jon Lindstrom

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"Finlay’s 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: • Newsweek • CNN • E! Online • Goodreads • BuzzFeed • PopSugar • BookBub •... 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
 
“Nothing short of magic.” —Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X
 
From the  acclaimed poet featured on Forbes Africa’s “30 Under 30” 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

“Part Patricia Highsmith, part All About Eve and pure fun.”―Maria SempleFlorence Darrow has always felt she was destined for greatness, but after a disastrous affair with her married boss, she starts to doubt herself. All that changes when she sets off for Morocco with her new boss, the celebrated but reclusive author Maud Dixon. Amidst the... Read more