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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
Citizen Reporters
By: Stephanie Gorton
Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure’s and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm—as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America.The president of the United States made headlines around the world when he publicly attacked the press, denouncing reporters who... Read more
View audiobookThe Adventurer's Son
By: Roman Dial
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
""A brave and marvelous book. A page-turner that will rip your heart out.""—Jon KrakauerIn the tradition of Into the Wild comes an instant classic of outdoor literature, a riveting work of uncommon depth. I’m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle. . . . It should be difficult to get lost forever: These were the haunting last words legendary... Read more
View audiobookChasing Cassandra
By: Lisa Kleypas
Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Everything has a price . . .Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. Anything—or anyone—is his for the asking. It should be simple to find the perfect wife—and from his first glimpse of Lady Cassandra Ravenel, he’s determined to have her. But the beautiful and quick-witted Cassandra... Read more
View audiobookNo 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
Home Making
By: Lee Matalone
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Hillary Huber & Charlie Thu...
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
""An intricate exploration of family and home, of mother and child, of friends, of women and written with both precision and style.""—Weike Wang, author of ChemistryFrom a talented, powerful new voice in fiction comes a stunning novel about the intersection of three lives coming to grips with identity, family legacy, and what it means to make a... Read more
View audiobookWas She Wicked? Was She Good?
By: M. Rickert
Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
Length: 28 minutes
Abridged: No
"Was She Wicked? Was She Good?" is a short horror story by award-winning author M. Rickert, one of 35 entries in the audio anthology Come Join Us by the Fire.
Not all anniversaries are happy occasions. One family copes with the damage that remains after being victims of a home invasion.
Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an... Read more
Author in Chief
By: Craig Fehrman
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 15 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
“One of the best books on the American presidency to appear in recent years” (The Wall Street Journal) and based on a decade of research and reporting—a delightful new window into the public and private lives America’s presidents as authors.
Most Americans are familiar with Abraham Lincoln’s famous words in the Gettysburg Address and the... Read more
Dead to Her
By: Sarah Pinborough
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 11 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Liane Moriarty, Liv Constantine and Lisa Jewell, a twisty psychological thriller about a savvy second wife who will do almost anything to come out on top from the New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes.Being the second wife can be murder . . . ""Once a cheat, always a cheat,"" they say. Marcie Maddox has worked hard to... Read more
View audiobookRising
By: Sharon Wood
Narrated by: Emily Durante
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In Rising, Wood reflects on the seventy days she spent on Everest and on the pivotal experiences and influences that brought her to that staggeringly beautiful and austere corner of the world. Beyond the physical hardships, she faced personal challenges as an outlier in the male bastion of Himalayan climbing. These were compounded by the vexing... Read more
View audiobookA Witch in Time
By: Constance Sayers
Narrated by: Courtney Patterson, Claire Christie, Brittany W...
Length: 15 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A witch is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist, in this haunting debut novel.
Helen Lambert has lived several lives-a young piano virtuoso in 1890s Paris, an actress in 1930's Hollywood, a rock star in 1970s Los Angeles -- only she doesn't know it. Until she meets a strange man... Read more
The Unspoken Name
By: A. K. Larkwood
Narrated by: Avita Jay
Length: 18 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Avita Jay manages a large cast of characters in this fantasy...Jay captures the growing affection and trust between Csorwe and those she enlists to help her. Most importantly, Jay's narration captures Csorwe's manner and personality as she transforms from a meek priestess to a formidable character." -- AudioFile Magazine
A. K.... Read more
Postscript
By: Cecelia Ahern
Narrated by: Amy Huberman
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Sixteen years after Cecelia Ahern's bestselling phenomenon PS, I Love You captured the hearts of millions, the long-awaited sequel follows Holly as she helps strangers leave their own messages behind for loved ones.
Seven years after her husband's death -- six since she read his final letter -- Holly Kennedy has moved on with her life. When... Read more
Weather
By: Jenny Offill
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation—one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year—a “darkly funny and urgent” (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis
Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But... Read more
The Only Child
By: Mi-ae Seo
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
An eerie and absorbing novel following a criminal psychologist who has discovered shocking and possibly dangerous connections between a serial killer and her stepdaughter.Criminal psychologist Seonkyeong receives an unexpected call one day. Yi Byeongdo, a serial killer whose gruesome murders shook the world, wants to be interviewed. Yi Byeongdo,... Read more
View audiobookVerge
By: Lidia Yuknavitch
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Sophie Amoss, Michael Crouch, ...
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Bustle and Lit Hub
A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction.
Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer of rare insight into the jagged boundaries between pain and survival. Her... Read more
My Name Is Lucy Barton (Dramatic Production)
By: Elizabeth Strout & Rona Munro
Narrated by: Laura Linney
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Presenting an original audiobook performance of the stage production of My Name is Lucy Barton, starring Academy Award and Tony nominee Laura Linney.
Praised as "deeply affecting" and "heartbreaking" by The Guardian (UK), this is a faithful adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout's bestselling novel of the same name.... Read more
The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
By: Michael Zapata
Narrated by: Coral Peña
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
*Winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction*
A Heartland Booksellers Award Nominee
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A BookPage Best Book of the Year
A Library Journal Best Winter/Spring Debut of 2020
A Most Anticipated Book of 2020 from the Boston Globe and The Millions
A Best Book of February 2020 at Salon, The Millions, LitHub and Vol 1.... Read more
Everywhere You Don't Belong
By: Gabriel Bump
Narrated by: Korey Jackson
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
"This book is astonishing. You'll be smiling even as your heart is breaking, and you'll tip willingly into this world Bump offers you, because what appears again and again are spectacular beams of light also called love, also called hope, also called family. Gabriel Bump has established himself as a stunning talent to be reckoned with." -Maaza... Read more
View audiobookKing and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)
By: Kacen Callender
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature!Winner of the 2020 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry!In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself.FOUR STARRED REVIEWS!BooklistSchool Library... Read more
View audiobookDjinn Patrol on the Purple Line
By: Deepa Anappara
Narrated by: Indira Varma, Himesh Patel & Antonio Aakeel
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover the “extraordinary” (The Washington Post) debut novel that “announces the arrival of a literary supernova” (The New York Times Book Review),“a drama of childhood that is as wild as it is intimate” (Chigozie Obioma).
WINNER OF THE EDGAR® AWARD • ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S... Read more
The Regrets
By: Amy Bonnaffons
Narrated by: Christie Moreau, Gary Tiedemann & Jay Ben Markson
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Reality and dream collide in Amy Bonnaffons's "dazzling," wildly inventive "miracle of a love story" about an affair between the living and the dead (NPR)
For weeks, Rachel has been noticing the same golden-haired young man sitting at her Brooklyn bus stop, staring off with a melancholy air. When, one day, she finally musters the courage to... Read more
The Dharma Bums
By: Jack Kerouac
Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature
“In [On the Road] Kerouac’s heroes were sensation seekers; now they are seekers after truth . . . the novel often attains a beautiful dignity.”—Chicago Tribune
First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The... Read more
The Magic of Marie Laveau
By: Denise Alvarado
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The life and work of the legendary "Pope of Voodoo," Marie Laveau—a free woman of color who practically ruled New Orleans in the mid-1800s
Marie Laveau may be the most influential American practitioner of the magical arts; certainly, she is among the most famous. She is the subject of songs, films, and legends and the star of New Orleans ghost... Read more