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The Secret Life of Groceries

By: Benjamin Lorr

Narrated by: Benjamin Lorr

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery storeThe American supermarket is an everyday miracle. But what does it take to run one? What are the inner workings of product delivery and distribution? Who sets the price? And who suffers for... Read more

Long Time Coming

By: Michael Eric Dyson

Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"As a narrator, the reverence and tenderness Dyson communicates in his letters--addressed to victims of racist violence Elijah McClain, Emmett Till, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, Hadiya Pendleton, Sandra Bland, and the Rev. Clementa Pinckney--invoke the experience of listening in on a holy epistle. Don't miss this." -- AudioFile Magazine

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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 to Fail at Flirting

By: Denise Williams

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"A warm romance that bursts with realism and celebrates the symbiotic power of love and healing.”―Entertainment Weekly

#1 LibraryReads Pick
Indie Next Pick

One daring to-do list and a crash course in flirtation turn a Type A overachiever’s world upside down.

When her flailing department lands on the university's chopping block, Professor Naya... Read more

Dancing in the Mosque

By: Homeira Qaderi

Narrated by: Ariana Delawari

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions. With the city and the military on... Read more

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

A Wolf for a Spell

By: Karah Sutton

Narrated by: Beata Pozniak

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The Girl Who Drank the Moon meets Pax in this fantastical tale of a wolf who forms an unlikely alliance with Baba Yaga to save the forest from a wicked tsar.

Since she was a pup, Zima has been taught to fear humans--especially witches--but when her family is threatened, she has no choice but to seek help from the witch Baba Yaga.

Baba Yaga never... Read more

The Lies You Told

By: Harriet Tyce

Narrated by: Sarah Durham

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Blood Orange, a dark new psychological thriller about the perfect mother, the perfect wife, the perfect family -- and the perfect murder.
In the playground it's the law of the jungle

But at the school gate, there are no rules at all...

When Sadie Roper moves back to London, she's determined to pick up the pieces of her... 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

Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

By: Tamsyn Muir

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When the witch built the forty-flight tower, she made very sure to do the whole thing properly. Each flight contains a dreadful monster, ranging from adiamond-scaled dragon to a pack of slavering goblins. Should a prince battle his way to the top, he will be rewarded with a golden sword—and the lovely Princess Floralinda. But no prince has... 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

The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

By: Austin Kleon

Narrated by: Austin Kleon

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An audio compilation ofSteal Like an Artist, Show Your Workand Keep Going.  Read by the author, it’s the bestselling and transformative series on how to unlock your creativity, find community and an audience in the digital age, and stay focused, creative and true to yourself—for life.  Includes full text from:Steal Like an Artist: The New York... 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

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

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

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

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

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

Oak 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

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

Nights 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 Butchers' Blessing

By: Ruth Gilligan

Narrated by: John Keating & Heather O'Neill

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

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