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Lakota America

By: Pekka Hamalainen

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history

This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and... Read more

All This Could Be Yours

By: Jami Attenberg

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“All hail Jami Attenberg, the queen of dysfunctional families.” —Refinery29“Big Little Lies meets Succession in the scorching heat of the Big Easy . . . Money, power and family are touched upon through Attenberg’s emotional, humorous and sharply written accounts.” —Parade“This is how you write a very good novel about a very bad man.” —New York... Read more

A Month in Siena

By: Hisham Matar

Narrated by: Hisham Matar

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND EVENING STANDARD

After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always... Read more

The Queens of Animation

By: Nathalia Holt

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold, "richly detailed" story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generations (Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures).

From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocchio to Frozen, the animated films of Walt... Read more

The Kids in the Hall

By: Paul Myers

Narrated by: Paul Myers

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

It's finally here—the definitive, authorized story of legendary sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall. Meticulously researched and written with the full cooperation and participation of the Kids by critically acclaimed biographer and comedy aficionado Paul Myers, The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy features exclusive interviews with Dave... Read more

Life Undercover

By: Amaryllis Fox

Narrated by: Amaryllis Fox

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 

“Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carré character landed in Eat Pray Love." —The New York Times

Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while... Read more

Me

By: Elton John

Narrated by: Elton John & Taron Egerton

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NOW UPDATED WITH A NEW CHAPTER

In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, from his rollercoaster lifestyle as shown in the film Rocketman, to becoming a living legend.

Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses... Read more

Your House Will Pay

By: Steph Cha

Narrated by: Greta Jung & Glenn Davis

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“With Your House Will Pay, Steph Cha has taken a dark moment in Los Angeles’s violent history and cracked it wide open, creating a prism of understanding—of the pull of generational violence and its enduring devastation, but also of the power of human grace against all odds. It’s a touching portrait of two families bound together by a... Read more

Celestial Bodies

By: Jokha Alharthi

Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada.

These three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool beautifully... Read more

Erosion

By: Terry Tempest Williams

Narrated by: Terry Tempest Williams

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist

In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of... Read more

Orpheus Girl

By: Brynne Rebele-Henry

Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In her debut novel, award-winning poet Brynne Rebele-Henry re-imagines the Orpheus myth as a love story between two teenage girls who are sent to conversion therapy after being caught together in an intimate moment. Abandoned by a single mother she never knew, 16-year-old Raya-obsessed with ancient myths-lives with her grandmother in a small... Read more

Marley

By: Jon Clinch

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of Finn “digs down to the bones of a classic and creates must-read modern literature” (Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author) with this “clever riff” (The Washington Post) on Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol that explores of the relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley.

“Marley was dead, to begin... Read more

The Geography of Nowhere

By: James Howard Kunstler

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the... Read more

Toil & Trouble

By: Augusten Burroughs

Narrated by: Anne Bobby, Augusten Burroughs, Gabra Zackman &...

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"...on top of everything else, the audiobook features a multi-textural and atmospheric full-cast performance...This is a wild, spookily engaging take on a memoir from an iconic writer." -- Paste

From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender, touching...and just a little spooky.

"Here’s a... Read more

How to Catch a Mole

By: Marc Hamer

Narrated by: Marc Hamer

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In this evocative and heart-wrenching memoir, a hard-working Welsh molecatcher reveals his double life as a poet and a dreamer • “A wonderful memoir … hands down the most charming book I read last year.”—Margaret Renkl, The New York Times“How to Catch a Mole is a small book of many things. In quiet, crystalline prose, it blends memoir, keen... Read more

Aurora Blazing

By: Jessie Mihalik

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

To save her brother and protect her family’s future, a powerful princess must join forces with a dashing man from her past in this thrilling space adventure, the second novel in the Consortium Rebellion trilogy.

As the dutiful daughter of High House von Hasenberg, Bianca set aside her personal feelings and agreed to a political match arranged by... Read more

Cursed

By: Thomas Wheeler

Narrated by: Katherine Langford

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an original series starring Katherine Langford on Netflix!

The Lady of the Lake is the true hero in this cinematic twist on the tale of King Arthur created by Thomas Wheeler and legendary artist, producer, and director Frank Miller (300, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City). Featuring 8 full-color and 30 black-and-white pieces of... Read more

The Lying Room

By: Nicci French

Narrated by: Jan Cramer

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this thrilling standalone from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman’s affair with her boss spirals into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she discovers he’s been murdered and she clears the crime scene of all evidence.One little secret between a married woman, her lover, and a... Read more

The Fountains of Silence

By: Ruta Sepetys

Narrated by: Maite Jáuregui, Ruta Sepetys, Richard Ferrone, ...

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, extraordinary portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship.

Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood... Read more

When Life Gives You Pears

By: Jeannie Gaffigan

Narrated by: Jeannie Gaffigan, Jim Gaffigan & Liz Noth

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Big Sick meets Dad is Fat in this funny and heartfelt New York Times bestselling memoir from writer, director, wife, and mother, Jeannie Gaffigan, as she reflects on the life-changing impact of her battle with a pear-sized brain tumor.
In 2017, Jeannie's life came to a crashing halt when she was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor.... Read more

Grave Importance

By: Vivian Shaw

Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A charmingly witty fantasy adventure in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, who must solve a dangerous medical mystery at a secret French spa for mummies.
Oasis Natrun: a private, exclusive, highly secret luxury health spa for mummies, high in the hills above Marseille, equipped with the very latest in... Read more

A Dream So Dark

By: L.L. McKinney

Narrated by: Jacob York, Jeanette Illidge & Matthew Barnes

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"With memorable characters and page-turning thrills, A Blade So Black is the fantasy book I've been waiting for my whole life. Alice is Black Girl Magic personified." — Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Hate U Give

In L. L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark, the thrilling sequel to A Blade So Black, Alice goes deeper into a... Read more

The Tenth Girl

By: Sara Faring

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo & Mark Sanderlin

Length: 15 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunted Argentinian mansion.
A family curse.
A twist you'll never see coming.
Welcome to Vaccaro School.

Simmering in Patagonian myth, The Tenth Girl is a gothic psychological thriller with a haunting twist.

At the very southern tip of South America looms an isolated finishing school. Legend has it that the land will curse those who settle... Read more

24/6

By: Tiffany Shlain

Narrated by: Tiffany Shlain

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award
Entrepreneur’s 12 Productivity and Time-Management Books to Read

“I’m won over to a day with people, not screens….I tried Shlain’s idea. I highly recommend it.” —The New York Times
“Tiffany Shlain is a modern-day prophet, brilliant and incredibly funny in equal measure...24/6 is timeless and... Read more