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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
View audiobookThe Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
By: Sun-mi Hwang
Narrated by: Jill Larson
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A Korean Charlotte's Web
More than 2 million copies sold
This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch an... Read more
Fortunately, the Milk
By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
An absolute delight of a madcap story for the young (and young-at-heart) by New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with equal parts pirates and piranhas, adventure and aliens, oddity and love. ""I bought the milk,"" said my father. ""I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: t h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a... Read more
View audiobookStyxx
By: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Narrated by: Fred Berman
Length: 31 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The most highly-anticipated novel in the Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series since Acheron is here—the unforgettable story of Styxx, Acheron's twin brother and one of the most powerful beings on earth
Just when you thought doomsday was over . . .
Centuries ago Acheron saved the human race by imprisoning an ancient evil bent on absolute... Read more
Love in the Time of Cholera
By: Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: Armando Durán
Length: 15 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Nobel Prize–winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people’s lives together for more than half a century.In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born... Read more
View audiobookThe Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
By: Adelle Waldman
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The national bestseller, named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist, The New Republic, Bookforum, Baltimore City Paper, The Daily Beast, National Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Reader, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Buzzfeed and many others. A New York Times Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable... Read more
View audiobookWe Need New Names
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
This unflinching and powerful novel tells the "deeply felt and fiercely written" story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe to America (New York Times Book Review).
Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's... Read more
Fox 8
By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders
Length: 37 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world.
Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regarded with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until Fox 8... Read more
Fearless
By: Cornelia Funke
Narrated by: Elliot Hill
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Jacob Reckless returns once again to the Mirrorworld--filled with profound characters, extraordinary creatures, and epic life-or-death treasure hunts that could only come from the mind of the master storyteller of our generation, Cornelia Funke.
Jacob Reckless has only a few months left to live. He's tried everything to shake the Fairy curse... Read more
Strong Poison
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrated by: Ian Carmichael
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Dashing detective Lord Peter Wimsey is caught up in the murder trial of mystery writer Harriet Vane. Her fianc├® has died of poisoning exactly as described in one of Harriet's novels—so naturally she is the prime suspect. As Peter looks on, he not only falls in love with the accused but eagerly helps with Harriet's defense when the first trial... Read more
View audiobookFrances and Bernard
By: Carlene Bauer
Narrated by: Angela Brazil & Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Bernard Elliot, a poet, and Frances Reardon, a fiction writer, meet at a writers' colony during the summer of 1957 and begin a friendship and correspondence. Bernard, well-born and Harvard-educated, is gregarious, reckless, and passionate; Frances, the precocious daughter of a middle-class Irish family, is circumspect, wry, and more than a... Read more
View audiobookEver After
By: Kim Harrison
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 18 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Witch-turned-daywalking-demon Rachel Morgan needs to save the demonic realm of the Ever After in the eleventh entry in the New York Times bestselling Hollows series from supernatural adventure master Kim Harrison.When Rachel sets off a chain of events that could lead to the end of the world—demonic and human—she must use her gifts to save those... Read more
View audiobookEvery Dead Thing
By: John Connolly
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
Length: 15 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.
Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his... Read more
The Middlesteins
By: Jami Attenberg
Narrated by: Molly Ringwald
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live.
When Richard abandons... Read more
Iron Hearted Violet
By: Kelly Barnhill
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Newbery Medal winner Kelly Barnhill spins a wondrously different kind of fairy-tale: In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. But this isn't most fairy tales...
Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling... Read more
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
By: Carol Rifka Brunt
Narrated by: Amy Rubinate
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends and find that sometimes you don't know you've lost someone until you've found them. 1987. There's only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that's her... Read more
View audiobookThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
By: Rachel Joyce
Narrated by: Jim Broadbent
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from... Read more
Seraphina
By: Rachel Hartman
Narrated by: Mandy Williams & Justine Eyre
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Lyrical, imaginative, and wholly original, this New York Times bestseller with 8 starred reviews is not to be missed. Rachel Hartman’s award-winning debut will have you looking at dragons as you’ve never imagined them before…
In the kingdom of Goredd, dragons and humans live and work side by side – while below the surface, tensions and... Read more
Yes, Chef
By: Marcus Samuelsson
Narrated by: Marcus Samuelsson
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“One of the great culinary stories of our time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother’s house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for... Read more