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Razor Girl
By: Carl Hiaasen
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The new full-tilt, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Bad Monkey
When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an ordinary accident is anything but (this is Hiaasen!). Behind the wheel of the other car is Merry Mansfield--the eponymous... Read more
Aristotle's Poetics
By: Aristotle
Narrated by: Ray Childs
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Aristotle's Poetics is best known for its definitions and analyses of tragedy and comedy, but it also applies to truth and beauty as they are manifested in the other arts. In our age, when the natural and social sciences have dominated the quest for truth, it is helpful to consider why Aristotle claimed poetry is more philosophical and more... Read more
View audiobookTell Me Something Real
By: Calla Devlin
Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Three sisters struggle with the bonds that hold their family together as they face a darkness settling over their lives in this “one of a kind” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) debut novel that’s a finalist for the William C. Morris Award.
There are three beautiful blond Babcock sisters: gorgeous and foul-mouthed Adrienne, observant and shy... Read more
The Thousandth Floor
By: Katharine McGee
Narrated by: Phoebe Strole
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestsellerNew York City as you’ve never seen it before. A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible—if you want it enough.Welcome to Manhattan, 2118.A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. But people never change: everyone here... Read more
View audiobookA House Without Windows
By: Nadia Hashimi
Narrated by: Ariana Delawari & Susan Nezami
Length: 15 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood—an emotionally powerful and haunting tale of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional culture—from the author of the bestselling The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and When the Moon Is Low.For two decades, Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful villager.... Read more
View audiobookAnother Brooklyn
By: Jacqueline Woodson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the National Book AwardNew York Times Bestseller The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award—winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where... Read more
View audiobookThe Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
By: Scott Stambach
Narrated by: Dan Bittner
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The Fault In Our Stars meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is a life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus. For the most part, every day is exactly the same for Ivan, which is why he turns everything into a game, manipulating people and events around him for his own... Read more
Arrowood
By: Laura McHugh
Narrated by: Sarah Scott
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“Superb and subtle psychological suspense.”—Lee Child
A haunting novel from the author of The Weight of Blood about a young woman’s return to her childhood home—and her encounter with the memories and family secrets it holds
ITW THRILLER AWARD FINALIST
Arrowood is the most ornate and grand of the historical houses that line the Mississippi River... Read more
Carousel Court
By: Joe McGinniss
Narrated by: Joy Osmanski & Corey Brill
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Joe McGinniss Jr., who is “poised to become one of our sharpest observers of life in America at the start of the twenty-first century” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), returns with one of the most engrossing, unnerving, and exhilarating novels in recent memory: a viscerally absorbing look at the seductive—and destructive—cutting edge of... Read more
View audiobookThe Hopefuls
By: Jennifer Close
Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Hopefuls tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to Washington, D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among the young aspiring elite.
When Beth arrives in D.C., she... Read more
The Inseparables
By: Stuart Nadler
Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Kirkus' Best Books of 2016: Crisis is looming for three generations of the Olyphant family.
In less than a year, Henrietta has lost her husband and nearly all of her money, and is about to lose her hard-won anonymity. After a lifetime spent trying to outrun the humiliation her own book caused her, Henrietta has reluctantly agreed to a... Read more
Hell Divers
By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Narrated by: R. C. Bray
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times and USA Today bestselling seriesThey dive so humanity survives …More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to earth long ago. The only... Read more
View audiobookThe Heavenly Table
By: Donald Ray Pollock
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors.
It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed... Read more
All Is Not Forgotten
By: Wendy Walker
Narrated by: Dylan Baker
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
AudioFile Earphones Award Winner
The stunning national bestseller! Wendy Walker's All is Not Forgotten--the basis for the major motion film Gone But Not Forgotten--is a twisty, edge-of-your seat thrill ride from beginning to end.
“Fascinating and at times shocking.”—Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl
Everything... Read more
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
By: Joanna Cannon
Narrated by: Paula Wilcox
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
“I loved this book. It's one of those books that you just want to give to everybody.” —Nancy Pearl on NPR’s Morning Edition
“An astute, engaging debut” (Publishers Weekly), The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly charming tale of a community in need of reconciliation and two girls learning what it means to belong.
England,... Read more
You'll Grow Out of It
By: Jessi Klein
Narrated by: Jessi Klein
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From Emmy award-winning comedy writer Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It hilariously and candidly explores the journey of the 21st-century woman.
As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity.
In You'll Grow Out of It, Klein offers - through an... Read more
How to Set a Fire and Why
By: Jesse Ball
Narrated by: Emma Galvin
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A teenage girl. A shattering loss. An obsession with a secret arson club. This is the story of a girl who has nothing and will burn anything.
Lucia’s father is dead, her mother is in a mental hospital, and she’s living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. And now she’s been kicked out of school—again. Making her way through the world with... Read more
Underground Airlines
By: Ben H. Winters
Narrated by: William DeMeritt
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened?
A New York Times bestseller; a Goodreads Choice finalist; named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Hudson Bookseller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kirkus Reviews, AudioFile Magazine, and Amazon
A... Read more
A Hundred Thousand Worlds
By: Bob Proehl
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
“A Kavalier & Clay for the Comic-Con Age, this is a bighearted, inventive, exuberant debut.” —Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints
"Proehl creates worlds within worlds within worlds, all of them full of surprise and wonder."
—Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Valerie Torrey took her son, Alex,... Read more
A Certain Age
By: Beatriz Williams
Narrated by: Mia Barron, Barbara Goodson & Adrienne Rusk
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm.As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent... Read more
View audiobookVinegar Girl
By: Anne Tyler
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies.
Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she’s always in trouble at work... Read more
My Last Continent
By: Midge Raymond
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
This unforgettable debut, set against the dramatic Antarctic landscape, is “refreshingly different, vivid and immediate. Midge Raymond has an extraordinary gift for description that puts the reader bang in the middle of its dangerous and endangered world” (M.L. Stedman, New York Times bestselling author of The Light Between Oceans).
It is only... Read more
Barkskins
By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 25 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a television mini-series airing on National Geographic May 2020!
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year & a New York Times Notable Book
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world’s forests: “Barkskins is grand... Read more
Brighton
By: Michael Harvey
Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
An extraordinary thriller—gripping, haunting, and marvelously told—about two friends growing up in a rapidly changing Boston, who must face the sins of their past in the midst of a series of brutal murders.“You came back here to bury your past. . . . Thing is, you gotta kill it first.”Kevin Pearce—baseball star, honor student, the pride of... Read more
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