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The Opposite of Everyone
By: Joshilyn Jackson
Narrated by: Joshilyn Jackson
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A fiercely independent divorce lawyer learns the power of family and connection when she receives a cryptic message from her estranged mother in this bittersweet, witty novel from the nationally bestselling author of Someone Else’s Love Story and gods in Alabama—an emotionally resonant tale about the endurance of love and the power of stories to... Read more
View audiobookThe Widow
By: Fiona Barton
Narrated by: Hannah Curtis, Nicholas Guy Smith, Jayne Entwis...
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, an electrifying thriller that will take you into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife.
When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on, when more bad things began to happen...
But that woman’s... Read more
Alice
By: Christina Henry
Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A mind-bending new novel inspired by the twisted and wondrous works of Lewis CarrollIn a warren of crumbling buildings and desperate people called the Old City stands a hospital with cinder-block walls that echo the screams of the poor souls inside. In the hospital, there is a woman. Her hair, once blond, hangs in tangles down her back. She... Read more
View audiobookThe Ramblers
By: Aidan Donnelley Rowley
Narrated by: Erica Sullivan
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of J. Courtney Sullivan, Meg Wolitzer, Claire Messud, and Emma Straub, a gorgeous and absorbing novel of a trio of confused souls struggling to find themselves and the way forward in their lives, set against the spectacular backdrop of contemporary New York City.Set in the most magical parts of Manhattan—the Upper West Side, Central... Read more
View audiobookIn Other Words
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrated by: Jhumpa Lahiri
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut—an “honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story—of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession:... Read more
Georgia
By: Dawn Tripp
Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a dazzling work of historical fiction in the vein of Nancy Horan’s Loving Frank, Dawn Tripp brings to life Georgia O’Keeffe, her love affair with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and her quest to become an independent artist.
This is not a love story. If it were, we would have the same story. But he has his, and I have... Read more
The Arrangement
By: Ashley Warlick
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
“Absolutely dazzling.” –Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife
“Filled with food and passion...If you love historical fiction, you'll fall hard for this one.” —Bustle.com
She’d made it sound as though her husband would be joining them for dinner. She’d made it sound that way on purpose, and then she arrived alone.
Los Angeles, 1934. Mary Frances... Read more
Sweetgirl
By: Travis Mulhauser
Narrated by: Cassandra Morris & MacLeod Andrews
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
With the heart, daring, and evocative atmosphere of Winter’s Bone and True Grit, and driven by the raw, whip-smart voice of Percy James, a blistering debut about a fearless sixteen-year old girl whose search for her missing mother leads to an unexpected discovery, and a life or death struggle in the harsh frozen landscape of the Upper Midwest.As... Read more
View audiobookThe Queen of the Night
By: Alexander Chee
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
Length: 19 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From a writer praised by Junot Díaz as “the fire, in my opinion, and the light,” comes a mesmerizing novel that follows one woman’s rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned diva.Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singer’s chance at immortality. When... Read more
View audiobookThe Forgetting Time
By: Sharon Guskin
Narrated by: David Pittu & Susan Bennett
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Noah wants to go home. A seemingly easy request from most four year olds. But as Noah's single-mother, Janie, knows, nothing with Noah is ever easy. One day the pre-school office calls and says Janie needs to come in to talk about Noah, and no, not later, now - and life as she knows it stops.
For Jerome Anderson, life as he knows it has... Read more
The Flood Girls
By: Richard Fifield
Narrated by: Kathleen Early
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
This snappy, sassy redemption story set in small-town Montana is “a wild and crazy debut novel by a talented young writer” (Jackie Collins), filled with an uproarious and unforgettable cast of characters you won’t want to leave behind.Welcome to Quinn, Montana, population: 956. A town where nearly all of the volunteer firemen are named Jim,... Read more
View audiobookThe Swans of Fifth Avenue
By: Melanie Benjamin
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Paul Boehmer
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Aviator’s Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York’s “Swans” of the 1950s—and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley.
People’s Book of the Week • USA Today’s #1 “New and Noteworthy” Book... Read more
Love in Lowercase
By: Francesc Miralles
Narrated by: Scott Aiello
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A feel-good novel for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Rosie Project, about an eccentric, language-loving bachelor and the cat that opens his eyes to life’s little pleasures
The Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick:
“A delightfully absurd, life-affirming celebration. I literally stood up and cheered as I read the last page.”
When Samuel, a... Read more
American Housewife
By: Helen Ellis
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney, Lisa Cordileone, Rebecca Lo...
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, American Housewife features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason Dixon line.
Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They... Read more
Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
By: Sunil Yapa
Narrated by: Aaron Landon
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
This electrifying novel from an award-winning author follows a grieving father and son as they find themselves on opposite sides of a protest during an important moment in history.
Grief-stricken after his mother's death and three years of wandering the world, Victor is longing for a family and a sense of purpose. He believes he's found both... Read more
The Expatriates
By: Janice Y. K. Lee
Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"Raise a glass: The first great book-club novel of 2016 has arrived.” —USA Today, 4/4 stars
“A female, funny Henry James in Asia, Janice Y. K. Lee is vividly good on the subject of Americans abroad.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Sex and the City meets Lost in Translation.” —The Skimm
Janice Y. K. Lee’s New York Times bestselling debut, The... Read more
Fallen Land
By: Taylor Brown
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
"Poe deftly guides this engaging story, describing the band of marauding former soldiers as they pillage the countryside. Poe's portrayal of the lovely but tragic Ava is most affecting. He uses pacing and pauses to build tension during showdowns and softens his delivery in the tender scenes between the two lovers." — AudioFile Magazine
Fallen... Read more
My Name Is Lucy Barton
By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this “spectacular” (The Washington Post) novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.
“An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter... Read more
And Again
By: Jessica Chiarella
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Joy Osmanski, Rebekkah Ross & Cor...
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
What would you do if you had a second chance at life?
Hannah, David, Connie, and Linda have been given the second chance of a lifetime—genetically perfect bodies as part of a medically advanced pilot program seeking FDA approval. Their new bodies are exact replicas of their old selves—without the deadly illnesses they suffered from. Even better,... Read more
The Geography of Genius
By: Eric Weiner
Narrated by: Eric Weiner
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Winer travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.
In this “intellectual odyssey, traveler’s diary, and comic novel all... Read more
The Sound of Gravel
By: Ruth Wariner
Narrated by: Ruth Wariner
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
"The narration by Wariner compliments the candid nature of her story...A captivating and emotional story delivered in a straightforward way without an ounce of self-pity." — Library Journal
A riveting, deeply-affecting audiobook memoir of one girl's coming-of-age experiences in a polygamist cult.
Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father’s... Read more
After the Crash
By: Michel Bussi
Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
"Wonderfully ingenious and altogether satisfying."---Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
Just after midnight on December 23, 1980, a night flight bound for Paris plummets toward the Swiss Alps, crashing into a snowy mountainside. Within seconds flames engulf the plane, which is filled with holiday travelers. Of the 169 passengers, all but... Read more
The Guest Room
By: Chris Bohjalian
Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò & Grace Experience
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room, two women are on the run from police, and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams.
When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother’s... Read more
The Song of Hartgrove Hall
By: Natasha Solomons
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A captivating novel that evokes the author’s New York Times bestseller The House at TynefordIt’s a terrible thing to covet your brother’s girl.New Year’s Eve, 1946. Candles flicker, and a gramophone scratches out a tune as guests dance and sip champagne. For one night only, Hartgrove Hall relives better days. Harry Fox-Talbot and his brothers... Read more
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