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Down Along with That Devil's Bones

By: Connor Towne O'Neill

Narrated by: Geoffrey Cantor

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history a­fter finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
 
Connor Towne O’Neill’s journey onto the battlefield of white supremacy began with a visit to Selma, Alabama, in 2015. There he had a chance encounter with a group of people... Read more

The End of the Day

By: Bill Clegg

Narrated by: Bill Clegg

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Following his acclaimed New York Times bestseller Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg returns with a “delicate, deeply observed, and deftly crafted” (Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs) second novel about the complicated bonds and breaking points of friendship, the corrosive forces of secrets, the heartbeat of longing, and the... Read more

Crownchasers

By: Rebecca Coffindaffer

Narrated by: Reba Buhr

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A deadly race across 1,001 planets will determine more than just the fate of the empire. This explosive first book in a duology jam-packed with tension and thrills is perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Aurora Rising, and Three Dark Crowns.Alyssa Farshot has spent her whole life trying to outrun her family legacy, even leaving behind the... Read more

How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)

By: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

""A gorgeous collection. . . . These poems unplug from TV and social media and the outrage of the moment and turn our attention to the immediate and the everlasting, human intimacy and the power and mystery of nature."" —Tampa Bay TimesIn this intimate collection, Barbara Kingsolver, beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and the Pulitzer... Read more

Maori Made Easy

By: Scotty Morrison

Narrated by: Scotty Morrison

Length: 29 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Let te reo Maori advocate and expert Scotty Morrison teach you the basics of the Maori language in easy 30-minute lessons - anywhere, anytime.

Scotty's bestselling Maori Made Easy books and workbooks in print have already helped over 100,000 people on their journey to learn te reo Maori.

Now, the same great resource is available in audio, voiced... Read more

Don't Look for Me

By: Wendy Walker

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Wendy Walker's thrilling novel Don't Look for Me, the greatest risk isn’t running away. It’s running out of time.

One night, Molly Clarke walked away from her life.

She doesn't want to be found.

Or at least, that's the story.

The car abandoned miles from home.

The note found at a nearby hotel.

The shattered family that couldn’t be put back... Read more

ArtCurious

By: Jennifer Dasal

Narrated by: Jennifer Dasal

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A wildly entertaining and surprisingly educational dive into art history as you've never seen it before, from the host of the beloved ArtCurious podcast

We're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas, handbags, scarves, and dorm-room posters. But did you... Read more

Stakes Is High

By: Mychal Denzel Smith

Narrated by: Mychal Denzel Smith

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode and through an uncertain future.

The events of the past decade have forced us to reckon with who we are and who we want to be. We have been invested in a set of beliefs about our American identity: our exceptionalism, the inevitable rightness of our... Read more

Watch Over Me

By: Nina LaCour

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A modern ghost story about trauma and survival, Watch Over Me is the much-anticipated new novel from the Printz Award-winning author of We Are Okay

★ “Gripping; an emotion-packed must-read.” –Kirkus, starred review
★ “A painfully compelling gem from a masterful creator.” –Booklist, starred review 
★ “Moving, unsettling, and full of atmospheric... Read more

The Big Door Prize

By: M. O. Walsh

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

DON'T MISS THE SERIES NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+

The New York Times bestselling author of My Sunshine Away returns with a gripping and heartfelt novel about a mysterious machine that upends a small Louisiana town, asking us all to wonder if who we truly are is who we truly could be.

What would you do if you knew your life's potential? That's the... Read more

Having and Being Had

By: Eula Biss

Narrated by: Alex McKenna

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME , NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

“A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it’s possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society. . . . The results are enthralling.” —Associated Press 

A timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York... Read more

Red Pill

By: Hari Kunzru

Narrated by: Hari Kunzru

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2020
ONE OF NPR's BEST BOOKS OF 2020
ONE OF THE A.V. CLUB'S 15 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020

From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears, a bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth.

After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of Red... Read more

Wayward Witch

By: Zoraida Cordova

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Rose Mortiz has always been a fixer, but lately she’s been feeling lost.She has brand new powers that she doesn’t understand, and her familyis still trying to figure out how to function in the wake of her amnesiacfather’s return home. Then, on the night of her Death Day party, Rosediscovers her father’s memory loss has been a lie.As she rushes... Read more

Daddy

By: Emma Cline

Narrated by: Natasha Soudek

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Girls comes a “brilliant” (The New York Times) story collection exploring the dark corners of human experience.

“Daddy’s ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering talent.”—Esquire

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

An absentee father collects his son... Read more

The Lying Life of Adults

By: Elena Ferrante

Narrated by: Marisa Tomei

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a NETFLIX Original Series.

A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL set in a divided Naples by ELENA FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.

“There’s no doubt [the publication of The Lying Life of Adults] will be the literary event of the year.”—Elle 

Giovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly,... Read more

Chaos

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this high-stakes thriller, a #1 New York Times bestselling author introduces CIA agent Alisa Flynn, who is willing to go rogue if it means catching the most heartless band of criminals she's ever encountered.

When CIA agent Alisa Flynn flaunts the rules by breaking into a mansion in the middle of the night, she skillfully circumvents alarms... Read more

You Can Keep That to Yourself

By: Adam Smyer

Narrated by: Donald Faison

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

At long last, a much-needed guidebook for well-intentioned people of pallor on what not to say to their African American “friends.”
“A balm for tongues bitten and comments swallowed . . . A bitingly humorous compendium of the absurd subtle racism of the American workplace.” —Kirkus Reviews Greetings, well-intentioned person of pallor. Your good... Read more

A Rogue of One's Own

By: Evie Dunmore

Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“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 series balances friendship, politics, history, and romance in just the right mix.”—U.S. Representative Katie Porter

An Indie Next/LibraryReads pick!
An Apple Must Listen Audiobook for... Read more

Mill Town

By: Kerri Arsenault

Narrated by: Kerri Arsenault

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is a listen for anyone interested in small-town America, how it's changed, and why it matters...Though Arsenault may not be a professional narrator, her passion for these important stories comes through with just the right amount of sincerity." -- AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by the author.

A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill... Read more

The Socrates Express

By: Eric Weiner

Narrated by: Eric Weiner

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir—offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times.

We turn to philosophy for the same reasons... Read more

News of the World

By: Paulette Jiles

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a Major Motion PictureNational Book Award Finalist—FictionIn the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the... Read more

Clown in a Cornfield

By: Adam Cesare

Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult NovelIn Adam Cesare’s terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress—that just may cost her life.Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what... Read more

Sisters

By: Daisy Johnson

Narrated by: Daisy Edgar-Jones & Anna Koval

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

“[A] skillfully crafted gothic mystery . . . Johnson pulls off a great feat in this book.” —Financial Times

“It reminded me, in its general refusal to play nice, of early Ian McEwan.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Johnson crafts an aching thriller about the dangers of loving too intensely.” —Time

From a... Read more

Fully Automated Luxury Communism

By: Aaron Bastani

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity, and capitalism

In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury, and happiness—for everyone. Technological advance... Read more