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Camp

By: L. C. Rosen

Narrated by: Drew Caiden

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in a summer camp, this sweet and sharp screwball comedy set in a summer camp for queer teens examines the nature of toxic masculinity and self-acceptance.

Sixteen-year-old Randy Kapplehoff loves spending the summer at Camp Outland, a camp for queer teens. It's where he met his best friends. It's where he takes to the stage in the big musical.... Read more

Protocol

By: Capricia Penavic Marshall

Narrated by: Capricia Penavic Marshall & Courtney Patterson

Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

President Obama’s former United States chief of protocol looks at why diplomacy and etiquette matter—from the international stage to everyday life.

History often appears to consist of big gestures and dramatic shifts. But for every peace treaty signed, someone set the stage, using hidden influence to effect the outcome. In her roles as chief of... Read more

Saving Ruby King

By: Catherine Adel West

Narrated by: Kim Staunton, Imani Parks, Ron Butler, Adam Laz...

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Ms. Magazine, USA Today Book Riot, The Rumpus, Library Journal, PureWow, The Every Girl, Parade and more.

“Forever and to the end. That’s what they say instead of I love you.”

When Ruby King’s mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago’s South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in... Read more

I Was Told it Would Get Easier

By: Abbi Waxman

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan & Bailey Carr

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin

Squashed among a bus full of strangers, mother-daughter duo Jessica and Emily Burnstein watch their carefully mapped-out college tour devolve into a series of off-roading misadventures, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Bookish Life of... Read more

The Deficit Myth

By: Stephanie Kelton

Narrated by: Stephanie Kelton

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller
The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory -- the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades -- delivers a radically different, bold, new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society.
Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory... Read more

500 Miles from You

By: Jenny Colgan

Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan returns to the beloved Scottish Highland town of Kirrinfief, which readers first met in The Bookshop on the Shore, and adds a dash of London’s bustling urban landscape. 
Lissie, is a nurse in a gritty, hectic London neighborhood. Always terribly competent and good at keeping it all together, she’s... Read more

The Lost Diary of Venice

By: Margaux DeRoux

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Two impossible love stories are fatefully connected by one artistic legacy in a stunning debut that leaps between the mysteries of late-Renaissance Venice and the dramas of present-day America.

“Enchanting from the first page.”—Sarah Jio, New York Times bestselling author of All the Flowers in Paris

In the wake of her father’s death, Rose Newlin... Read more

Broken People

By: Sam Lansky

Narrated by: Sam Lansky

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, Parade, Library Journal, Harper’s Bazaar and more

“Profound and affecting.”—Chloe Benjamin

“Broken People leads us through the winds of time and memory to offer a riveting portrait of transformation. I am better for having read it.”—Jamie Lee Curtis

A groundbreaking,... Read more

The Deviant's War

By: Eric Cervini

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Vikas Adam draws the listener in, expertly narrating Cervini's work, which charts the beginning of the gay rights movement in the United States...Vikas Adam does an excellent job lending unique voices to real historical figures." -- AudioFile Magazine

A Publishers Weekly most anticipated spring book

From a young Harvard- and... Read more

More Miracle than Bird

By: Alice Miller

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife and Amor Towles’s Rules of Civility, Alice Miller's sweeping debut novel charts the love story of two of literature’s most fascinating characters: Georgie Hyde-Lees and her husband, W. B. Yeats.On the eve of World War I, twenty-one-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees—on her own for the first time—is introduced to... Read more

Parakeet

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author of 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas Marie-Helene Bertino's Parakeet is a darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one.

The week of her wedding, The Bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead... Read more

My Calamity Jane

By: Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Hold on to your hats: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestseller My Plain Jane, which Booklist praised as “delightfully deadpan” (starred review) and Publishers Weekly called “a clever, romantic farce” (starred review), are back with another irreverent historical adventure—perfect for YA fantasy and romance readers.Welcome to 1876... Read more

The Lies That Bind

By: Emily Giffin

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Will Damron & Vikas Adam

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this irresistible novel from the author of All We Ever Wanted and Something Borrowed, a young woman falls hard for an impossibly perfect man before he disappears without a trace. . . . 

It’s 2 A.M. on a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, and twenty-eight-year-old Cecily Gardner sits alone in a dive bar in New... Read more

My Summer of Love and Misfortune

By: Lindsay Wong

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Crazy Rich Asians meets Love & Gelato in this hilarious, quirky novel about a Chinese-American teen who is thrust into the decadent world of Beijing high society when she is sent away to spend the summer in China.

Iris Wang is having a bit of a rough start to her summer: Her boyfriend cheated on her, she didn’t get into any colleges, and she... Read more

Killer Chardonnay

By: Kate Lansing

Narrated by: Brooke Hoover

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A young winery owner won’t let one sour grape ruin the bunch in the first installment of this exciting cozymystery series.Parker Valentine has always dreamed of opening her own winery in her hometown of Boulder, Colorado. But shegets more than she bargained for when a food and wine critic unexpectedly shows up at Vino Valentine on openingday. A... Read more

Something to Talk About

By: Meryl Wilsner

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie & Xe Sands

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A showrunner and her assistant give the world something to talk about when they accidentally fuel a ridiculous rumor in this debut romance.

Hollywood powerhouse Jo is photographed making her assistant Emma laugh on the red carpet, and just like that, the tabloids declare them a couple. The so-called scandal couldn't come at a worse... Read more

Date Me, Bryson Keller

By: Kevin van Whye

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"One of the most adorable, big-hearted, charming books in existence." --Becky Albertalli, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

What If It's Us meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before in this upbeat and heartfelt boy-meets-boy romance that feels like a modern twist on a '90s rom-com!

Everyone knows about the... Read more

The Prettiest Star

By: Carter Sickels

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston & Tiffany Morgan

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die.



At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short... Read more

These Women

By: Ivy Pochoda

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Frankie Corzo

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVELAN LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE, MYSTERY & THRILLER FINALIST * AN INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS FINALIST, BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL * A MACAVITY BEST MYSTERY NOVEL FINALISTA Recommended Book FromThe New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * Vogue * Entertainment Weekly * Elle * People * Marie Claire... Read more

The House in the Woods

By: Mark Dawson

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Four murders. Two detectives. One mystifying crime.



On Christmas Eve, DCI Mackenzie Jones is called to a shooting at a remote farmhouse. Ralph Mallender believes his father lies dead inside. When three more bodies are discovered, it's clear a festive family gathering has turned into a gruesome tragedy.



At first it seems like an open and shut case:... Read more

A Taste of Sage

By: Yaffa S. Santos

Narrated by: Inés del Castillo & Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A June 2020 Indie Next List Pick!
From talented new writer, Yaffa S. Santos, comes this unforgettable, heartwarming, and hilarious rom-com about chefs, cooking, love, and self-discovery that is a cross between The Hating Game and Sweetbitter.Lumi Santana is a chef with the gift of synesthesia—she can perceive a person’s emotions just by tasting... Read more

Real Men Knit

By: Kwana Jackson

Narrated by: Keylor Leigh

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"If you're looking for an easy charmer, this is the novel for you."—Shondaland
 
When their foster-turned-adoptive mother suddenly dies, four brothers struggle to keep open the doors of her beloved Harlem knitting shop.

Jesse Strong is known for two things: his devotion to his adoptive mom, Mama Joy, and his reputation for breaking hearts. When... Read more

I'd Give Anything

By: Marisa de los Santos

Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me comes a profound and heart-rending story about a horrific tragedy that marks one woman and her hometown and about the explosive secrets that come to light twenty years later. Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle... Read more

Shakespeare for Squirrels

By: Christopher Moore

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder mystery from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore—an uproarious, hardboiled take on the Bard’s most performed play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring Pocket, the hero of Fool and The Serpent of Venice, along with his sidekick, Drool, and pet monkey, Jeff.Set... Read more