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Walk the Wire

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Kyf Brewer & Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Amos Decker—​the FBI consultant with a perfect memory—returns to solve a gruesome murder in a booming North Dakota oil town in the newest thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling Memory Man series.

When Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are called to London, North Dakota, they instantly sense that the thriving... Read more

My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me

By: Jason B. Rosenthal

Narrated by: Jason B. Rosenthal, Miles Rosenthal & Baize Buzan

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband’s life without her in a Modern Love column in the New York Times. On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned a Modern Love column for... Read more

Good Boy

By: Jennifer Finney Boylan

Narrated by: Jennifer Finney Boylan & Kelsey Navarro

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

From bestselling author of She’s Not There, New York Times opinion columnist, and human rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, a memoir of the transformative power of loving dogs.

This is a book about dogs: the love we have for them, and the way that love... Read more

Home Baked

By: Alia Volz

Narrated by: Alia Volz

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans... Read more

Braised Pork

By: An Yu

Narrated by: Vera Chok

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband dead.One minute she was breakfasting with him and packing for an upcoming trip, the next, she finds him motionless intheir half-full bathtub. Like something out of a dream, next to the tub Jia Jia discovers a pencil sketch of a strangewatery... Read more

The New Husband

By: D.J. Palmer

Narrated by: January LaVoy & Rebecca Soler

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The New Husband is a riveting thriller about the lies we tell ourselves from D. J. Palmer, the author of Saving Meghan.

What makes Simon Fitch so perfect?

-He knows all her favorite foods, music, and movies.
-Her son adores him. He was there when she needed him most.
-He anticipates her every need.
-He would never betray her like her first... Read more

Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel

By: Ruth Hogan

Narrated by: Jane Collingwood

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things comes a surprising and uplifting story about the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters, and the magic of chosen family.Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who loved fizzy drinks, naughty words, and liked playing with ghosts and matches. When her... Read more

When Stars Are Scattered

By: Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed

Narrated by: Faysal Ahmed, Barkhad Abdi, Victoria Jamieson, ...

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

An Odyssey Honor audiobook and National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel—adapted for audio—is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl.

Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life... Read more

Think Like a Rocket Scientist

By: Ozan Varol

Narrated by: Ozan Varol

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

* One of Inc.com's "6 Books You Need to Read in 2020 (According to Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, and Adam Grant)"* Adam Grant's # 1 pick of his top 20 books of 2020* One of 6 Groundbreaking Books of Spring 2020 (according to Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant).
A former rocket scientist reveals the habits, ideas, and strategies... Read more

The House of Kennedy

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: David Pittu

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Now with an all-new bonus chapter—in the bestselling The House of Kennedy, “James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . re-telling the political clan’s rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style” (People). 
 
The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks... Read more

Afterlife

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents comes “a stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own.” (Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award–winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X)Antonia Vega, the... Read more

Bonds of Brass

By: Emily Skrutskie

Narrated by: James Fouhey

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend—the man he trusts most and might even love—only to learn that his friend is secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire.
 
“An exciting space opera full of action and adventure that explores the bonds of loyalty and love, and what happens when they are stretched to their limits.”—Rebecca... Read more

To Have and to Hoax

By: Martha Waters

Narrated by: Anais Inara Chase & Joel Froomkin

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Romance of April by Goodreads, Popsugar, Bustle, and more!

“A laugh out loud Regency romp—if you loved the Bridgertons, you’ll adore To Have and to Hoax!” —Lauren Willig, New York Times bestselling author

In this fresh and hilarious historical rom-com, an estranged husband and wife in Regency England feign accidents and illness in... Read more

The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

By: Beth Morrey

Narrated by: Harriet Walter

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and A Man Called Ove, a life-affirming, deeply moving "coming-of-old" story, a celebration of how ordinary days are made extraordinary through friendship, family, and the power of forgiving yourself--at any age.

"At a time when people are having to isolate, [this novel is] a balm, offering an... Read more

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

By: Samira Ahmed

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani & Leila Buck

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, the latest novel from New York Times bestsellingauthor Samira Ahmed traces the lives of two young women fighting to write their own stories and escapethe pressure of cultural expectations in worlds too long defined by men.It’s August in Paris and 17-year-old Khayyam Maquet—American, French,... Read more

The List of Things That Will Not Change

By: Rebecca Stead

Narrated by: Rachel L. Jacobs

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

EIGHT STARRED REVIEWS! The reassuring book kids and families need right now.

"An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love." --R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of Wonder

At a time when everything is changing for Bea and her family, the important things will always stay the same. A soon-to-be classic by the Newbery Award-winning author of... Read more

The Engineer's Wife

By: Tracey Enerson Wood

Narrated by: Libby McKnight

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

She built a monument for all time.Then she was lost in its shadow.Emily Warren Roebling refuses to live conventionally—she knows who she is and what she wants, and she’s determinedto make change. But then her husband, Wash, asks the unthinkable: give up her dreams to make his possible.Emily’s fight for women’s suffrage is put on hold and her... Read more

A Bad Day for Sunshine

By: Darynda Jones

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“This suspenseful and witty first novel in a new series is a perfect match for narrator Lorelei King." -- Booklist

"Narrator Lorelei King works well with the subtly snarky style of author Darynda Jones...Listeners will look forward to the next installment of this new series, as some mysteries are solved, and others remain." -- AudioFile Magazine ... Read more

Joy at Work

By: Marie Kondo & Scott Sonenshein

Narrated by: Brittany Ishibashi & Dan Woren

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Declutter your desk and brighten up your business with this transformative guide from an organizational psychologist and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.
The workplace is a magnet for clutter and mess. Who hasn't felt drained by wasteful meetings, disorganized papers, endless emails, and... Read more

Three Hours in Paris

By: Cara Black

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light—abruptly leaving, never to return. To this day, no one knows why.

Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. Wrecked by grief after... Read more

We Want Our Bodies Back

By: jessica Care moore

Narrated by: jessica Care moore

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A dazzling full-length collection of verse from one of the leading poets of our time.Over the past two decades, jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet, performer, publisher, activist, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice, this searing poetry collection is filled with moving, original stanzas that speak to both... Read more

Days of Distraction

By: Alexandra Chang

Narrated by: Greta Jung

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“Startlingly original and deeply moving.... Chang here establishes herself as one of the most important of the new generation of American writers.”   — George SaundersA Most Anticipated Book of the Year from Buzzfeed, Electric Literature, and The MillionsA wry, tender portrait of a young woman—finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if... Read more

This Is Chance!

By: Jon Mooallem

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together

“A powerful, heart-wrenching book, as much art as it is journalism.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“A beautifully wrought and profoundly joyful story of compassion and perseverance.”—BuzzFeed (Best Books of the Year)

In the... Read more

Tigers, Not Daughters

By: Samantha Mabry

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

THE FIRST TIME ANA TORRES C A M E B AC K A S A G H O S T, HER SISTERS WEREN’T THERE.A year later, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, still consumed by grief and haunted by Ana’s memory, startnoticing strange things around the house: laughter without a voice, shadows cast by nothing,writing on the walls. None of them have seen Ana, but they know she’s... Read more