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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chasing 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

The 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

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

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

A 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

Was 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

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

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