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The Book of Speculation
By: Erika Swyler
Narrated by: David Pittu, Katherine Kellgren & Ari Fliakos
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"Dazzling...[a] quirky, raucous, and bewitching family saga." --Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants
Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath, drowned in the very water his... Read more
Our Souls at Night
By: Kent Haruf
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 3 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future.
In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf’s inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis... Read more
Tiny Pretty Things
By: Sona Charaipotra & Dhonielle Clayton
Narrated by: Imani Parks, Nora Hunter, Greta Jung & Laura De...
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a Netflix TV show! Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this soapy, drama-packed novel featuring diverse characters who will do anything to be the prima at their elite ballet school.From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton, and the author of the acclaimed Symptoms of a Heartbreak, Sona Charaipotra.Gigi,... Read more
View audiobookLoving Day
By: Mat Johnson
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons; his marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comic shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish-American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night in his new home,... Read more
View audiobookPatrick Melrose
By: Edward St. Aubyn
Narrated by: Alex Jennings
Length: 26 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALL FIVE INSTALLMENTS OF EDWARD ST. AUBYN'S CELEBRATED PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS
Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner.
Edward St. Aubyn has penned one of the most acclaimed series of the decade with the Patrick Melrose Novels. Now you can read all... Read more
I Am Legend, and Other Stories
By: Richard Matheson
Narrated by: Robertson Dean & Yuri Rasovsky
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In Matheson’s vampire classic I Am Legend, a plague has decimated the world, and transformed the unfortunate survivors into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, hungry for Neville’s blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead... Read more
View audiobookRomantic Outlaws
By: Charlotte Gordon
Narrated by: Susan Lyons
Length: 22 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Charlotte Gordon's new work is a fresh look at the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, who together comprise one of the most illustrious and inspiring mother-daughter pairs in history. Wollstonecraft published the first full articulation of women's rights in 1792, risking her reputation and sometimes her life in pursuit of her radical... Read more
View audiobookCastle Hangnail
By: Ursula Vernon
Narrated by: Tara Sands
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
When Molly shows up on Castle Hangnail's doorstep to fill the vacancy for a wicked witch, the castle's minions are understandably dubious. After all, she is twelve years old, barely five feet tall, and quite polite. (The minions are used to tall, demanding evil sorceresses with razor-sharp cheekbones.) But the castle desperately needs a master... Read more
View audiobookNone of the Above
By: I. W. Gregorio
Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking story about a teenage girl who discovers she's intersex . . . and what happens when her secret is revealed to the entire school. Incredibly compelling and sensitively told, None of the Above is a thought-provoking novel that explores what it means to be a boy, a girl, or something in between.What if everything you knew about... Read more
View audiobookThe Porcelain Thief
By: Huan Hsu
Narrated by: Huan Hsu
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family’s hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before.
In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu’s great-great-grandfather Liu’s Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of... Read more
The Walls Around Us
By: Nova Ren Suma
Narrated by: Georgia King & Sandy Rustin
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"Ori's dead because of what happened out behind the theater, in the tunnel made out of trees. She's dead because she got sent to that place upstate, locked up with those monsters. And she got sent there because of me." "The Walls Around Us" is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices--one still living and one long dead. On the outside,... Read more
View audiobookEpitaph
By: Mary Doria Russell
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 19 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.A deeply divided nation.... Read more
View audiobookThe Great Beanie Baby Bubble
By: Zac Bissonnette
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animal craze that became the tulip mania of the 1990s
In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. In just three years, collectors who saw the toys as a means of speculation made creator Ty Warner, an eccentric college dropout, a billionaire—without... Read more
Echo
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Mark Bramhall & David de Vries
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
2016 Newbery Honor BookNew York Times BestsellerAn impassioned, uplifting, and virtuosic tour de force from a treasured storyteller!Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica.Decades later, Friedrich in Germany,... Read more
View audiobookAll My Puny Sorrows
By: Miriam Toews
Narrated by: Erin Moon
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close - raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desire to end... Read more
View audiobookThe Art of Asking
By: Amanda Palmer
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience to support her as she surfed the crowd (and slept on... Read more
View audiobookMink River
By: Brian Doyle
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In a small fictional town on the Oregon coast there are love affairs and almost-love-affairs, mystery and hilarity, bears and tears, brawls and boats, a garrulous logger and a silent doctor, rain and pain, Irish immigrants and Salish stories, mud and laughter. There's a Department of Public Works that gives haircuts and counts insects, a... Read more
View audiobookIllusive
By: Emily Lloyd-Jones
Narrated by: Caitlin Davies & Kirby Heyborne
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The X-Men meets Ocean's Eleven in this edge-of-your-seat sci-fi adventure about a band of "super" criminals.
When the deadly MK virus swept across the planet, a vaccine was created to stop the epidemic, but it came with some unexpected side effects. A small percentage of the population developed superhero-like powers, and Americans suffering... Read more
Animal Madness
By: Laurel Braitman
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
**“Science Friday” Summer Reading Pick**
**Discover magazine Top 5 Summer Reads**
**People magazine Best Summer Reads**
“A lovely, big-hearted book…brimming with compassion and the tales of the many, many humans who devote their days to making animals well” (The New York Times).
Have you ever wondered if your dog might be a bit depressed? How... Read more
Bird Box
By: Josh Malerman
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
“A book that demands to be read in a single sitting, and through the cracks between one’s fingers. There has never been a horror story quite like this. Josh Malerman truly delivers.” — Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of WoolWritten with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is... Read more
View audiobookAstonish Me
By: Maggie Shipstead
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the widely acclaimed debut novel Seating Arrangements, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction: a gorgeously written, fiercely compelling glimpse into the demanding world of professional ballet and its magnetic hold over two generations.
Astonish Me is the irresistible story of... Read more
Dept. of Speculation
By: Jenny Offill
Narrated by: Jenny Offill
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply 'the wife,' once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes - a colicky baby, a... Read more
View audiobookThe Emperor's Blades
By: Brian Staveley
Narrated by: Simon Vance & Oliver Cudbill
Length: 19 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Now includes special bonus content. Stay tuned after the audiobook to hear “The Last Abbot of Ashk’lan,” a short story by Brian Staveley.The emperor of Annur is dead, slain by enemies unknown. His daughter and two sons, scattered across the world, do what they must to stay alive and unmask the assassins. But each of them also has a life-path on... Read more
View audiobookLong Division
By: Kiese Laymon
Narrated by: Sean Crisden
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Long Division contains two interwoven stories. In the first, it's 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen "City" Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he's sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl... Read more
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