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A Murderous Relation

By: Deanna Raybourn

Narrated by: Angele Masters

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A royal scandal’s connection to a brutal serial killer threatens London in this new Veronica Speedwell adventure from New York Times bestselling and Edgar® Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn.Autumn 1888. Veronica Speedwell and her colleague Stoker are asked by Lady Wellingtonia Beauclerk to stop a potential scandal so explosive it threatens... Read more

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

By: Sean Dietrich

Narrated by: Sean Dietrich

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From celebrated storyteller "Sean of the South" comes an unforgettable memoir of love, loss, the friction of family memories, and the unlikely hope that you're gonna be alright.Sean Dietrich was twelve years old when he scattered his father's ashes from the mountain range. His father was a man who lived for baseball, a steel worker with a ready... Read more

At the Center of All Beauty

By: Fenton Johnson

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A profound meditation on accepting and celebrating one's solitude.



Solitude is the inspirational core for many writers, artists, and thinkers. Alone with our thoughts, we can make discoveries that matter not only to us but to others. To be solitary is not only to draw sustenance from being alone, but to know that our ultimate responsibility is... Read more

Temporary

By: Hilary Leichter

Narrated by: Carly Robins

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the... Read more

Separation Anxiety

By: Laura Zigman

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“Separation Anxiety is a hilarious, heart-breaking and thought-provoking portrait of a difficult marriage, as fierce as it is funny.... My advice: Start reading and don’t stop until you get to the last page of this wise and wonderful novel.""  —Alice HoffmanFrom bestselling author Laura Zigman, a hilarious novel about a wife and mother whose... Read more

Spirit Run

By: Noé Álvarez

Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who “slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives.” A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez... Read more

How a Woman Becomes a Lake

By: Marjorie Celona

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime Novel
 
From the Giller-nominated author of Y comes How a Woman Becomes a Lake, a taut, suspenseful novel about the dark corners of a small town, and the secrets that lurk within...

It's New Year's Day and the residents of a small fishing town are ready to start their lives anew.... Read more

This Town Sleeps

By: Dennis E. Staples

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Set on a reservation in far northern Minnesota, This Town Sleeps explores the many ways history, culture, landscape, and lineage shape our lives, our understanding of the world we inhabit, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of it all.



On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the... Read more

You Are Not Alone

By: Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Dylan Moore

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020
One of SheReads Most Anticipated Books of 2020
One of PopSugar's Most Anticipated Books of 2020
One of HelloGiggles’ Most Anticipated Books of 2020
One of Marie Claire’s Best Fiction by Women in 2020
One of Woman’s Day’s Best Fiction Books Coming Out in 2020

The... Read more

Docile

By: K.M. Szpara

Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin & Vikas Adam

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

K. M. Szpara's Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles.

There is no consent under capitalism.

To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide... Read more

Mañanaland

By: Pam Muñoz Ryan

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Newbery Honoree Pam Munoz Ryan weaves an entrancing tale of courage and self-discovery."Uniquely magical...Timely and timeless." -- New York Times* "This tightly packed, powerful fantasy contains resonant truths." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review* "Another unforgettable work from a master storyteller." -- Booklist, starred review* "Richly... Read more

The June Boys

By: Court Stevens

Narrated by: McKenzie Fetters, Gabe Wicks, Court Stevens, Ri...

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook edition includes: The full-length, stand-alone Young Adult suspense novel A bonus scene with one of the Gemini Thief survivors A Q&A between Court Stevens and Ruta Sepetys, New York Times bestselling author of Fountains of Silence From award-winning and highly acclaimed author Court Stevens comes a gripping, emotional story... Read more

Anna K

By: Jenny Lee

Narrated by: Jenna Ushkowitz

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrator Jenna Ushkowitz is an award-winning actress, singer, producer, and podcast host best known for her role as Tina Cohen-Chang on Glee.

Meet Anna K! Every happy teenage girl is the same, while every unhappy teenage girl is miserable in her own special way...

At seventeen, Anna K is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich society (even if she... Read more

Hannah's War

By: Jan Eliasberg

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A "mesmerizing" re-imagination of the final months of World War II (Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network), Hannah's War is an unforgettable love story about an exceptional woman and the dangerous power of her greatest discovery.
Berlin, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th... Read more

Fahrenheit 451

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Toni Mora

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro más emblemático de Bradbury llega a Minotauro Esenciales. Un clásico de la literatura. Fahrenheit 451: la temperatura a la que el papel se enciende y arde. Guy Montag es un bombero y el trabajo de un bombero es quemar libros, que están prohibidos porque son causa de discordia y sufrimiento. El Sabueso Mecánico del Departamento de... Read more

Surrender

By: Ray Loriga

Narrated by: Michael Patrick F Smith

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"[A] riveting, and original, achievement."—WIRED

From award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority, manipulation, and the disappearance of privacy that “calls to mind The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood [and] Blindness by José Saramago” (Alfaguara Prize Winner Citation).

Ten long years have passed since war... Read more

Scratched

By: Elizabeth Tallent

Narrated by: Caroline Turner Cole

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist.”—Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and Winner of the National Book Award for FictionIn a bold and brilliant memoir that reinvents the form,... Read more

Strung Out

By: Erin Khar

Narrated by: Jayme Mattler

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is a story she needed to tell; and the rest of the country needs to listen.”
— New York Times Book Review

“This vital memoir will change how we look at the opioid crisis and how the media talks about it. A deeply moving and emotional read, STRUNG OUT challenges our preconceived ideas of what addiction looks like.”
—Stephanie Land, New York... Read more

The Shadows Between Us

By: Tricia Levenseller

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Few audiobooks warrant turning off all distractions, closing one's eyes, and simply listening to the story unfold. Narrator Caitlin Davies creates just that experience as she passionately guides listeners through this gripping story of ambition, love, and desire." — AudioFile Magazine

Tricia Levenseller, author of Daughter of the Pirate King,... Read more

Yellow Bird

By: Sierra Crane Murdoch

Narrated by: Sierra Crane Murdoch

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it—an urgent work of literary journalism.

“I don’t know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than... Read more

Space Struck

By: Paige Lewis

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Consider this glowing debut from Paige Lewis a menagerie of near-extinction. Space Struck explores the wonders and cruelties occurring within the realms of nature, science, and religion, with the acuity of a sage, the deftness of a hunter, and a hilarious sensibility for the absurd. The universe is seen as an endless arrow “. . . and it asks... Read more

The Other Mrs.

By: Mary Kubica

Narrated by: Piper Goodeve & Jeremy Arthur

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY · PEOPLE MAGAZINE · MARIE CLAIRE · POPSUGAR · BUSTLE · SHEREADS · HELLOGIGGLES · and more!

A woman is drawn into a mysterious web of secrets in this twisty whodunnit from New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica

Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from... Read more

Foul is Fair

By: Hannah Capin

Narrated by: Emily Lawrence

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“This revenge fantasy is as brutal as it is beautiful…An absolutely gorgeous retelling, artistry on every page, Oscar-worthy if it were a film.” — NPR

Hannah Capin's Foul is Fair is a bloody, thrilling revenge fantasy for the girls who have had enough. Golden boys beware: something wicked this way comes.

Jade and her friends Jenny, Mads, and... Read more

No Bad Deed

By: Heather Chavez

Narrated by: Megan Tusing

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“A twisty, jet-fueled thriller… Don’t miss it!” – Lisa Gardner
Packed with the electrifying pacing and pulse-pounding suspense of Harlan Coben and Lisa Gardner, a thrilling debut about a mother desperate to find the connections between her missing husband and a deadly stalker who knows too much about her own dark family history.Driving home one... Read more