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The Deepest Blue
By: Sarah Beth Durst
Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The natural magic of the classic The Island of the Blue Dolphins meets the danger and courage of The Hunger Games in this dazzling, intricate stand-alone fantasy novel set in award-winning author Sarah Beth Durst’s beloved world of Renthia.
Life is precious and precarious on the islands of Belene. Besieged by a capricious ocean full of malicious... Read more
The Bird King
By: G. Willow Wilson
Narrated by: Elmira Rahim
Length: 14 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning author G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King is an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition.G. Willow Wilson’s debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and it established her as a vital American Muslim literary... Read more
View audiobookThe Trial of Lizzie Borden
By: Cara Robertson
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY BOOK AWARD
In Cara Robertson’s “enthralling new book,” The Trial of Lizzie Borden, “the reader is to serve as judge and jury” (The New York Times). Based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence, this true crime and legal history is the “definitive account to date of one of America’s most... Read more
Tomorrow There Will Be Sun
By: Dana Reinhardt
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
“This novel is a ray of light in the canon of vacation lit—in Reinhardt’s hands, paradise gone wrong feels very right.” —People
A private Mexican villa is the backdrop to this smart, absorbing story of a milestone vacation in a tropical paradise gone wrong, wrong, wrong
Two families arrive in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for a once-in-a-lifetime... Read more
If, Then
By: Kate Hope Day
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
“A must-read—a gorgeous literary novel that asks us to imagine all the possible versions of ourselves that might exist.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Saints for All Occasions
The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines the... Read more
In Another Time
By: Jillian Cantor
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld & George Newbern
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping historical novel that spans Germany, England, and the United States and follows a young couple torn apart by circumstance leading up to World War II—and the family secret that may prove to be the means for survival.Love brought them together. But only time can save them…1931, Germany. Bookshop owner Max Beissinger meets Hanna... Read more
View audiobookThe Lady from the Black Lagoon
By: Mallory O'Meara
Narrated by: Mallory O''Meara & Mallory O'Meara
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
2019 SCIBA Book Award Winner for Biography
A Hugo and Locus Award Finalist
Winner of the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award
The Los Angeles Times Bestseller
A Thrillist Best Book of the Year
A Book Riot Best Book of 2019
One of Booklist’s 10 Best Art Books of the Year
The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick—one of... Read more
Radical Kindness
By: Angela Santomero
Narrated by: Angela Santomero & Michael David Axtell
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The beloved creator of Blues Clues and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and protégé of Fred Rogers explores the importance of kindness and how it can change your life in this essential guide and tie-in to the PBS special, “The Power of Radical Kindness.”Angela C. Santomero, the creator, executive producer, and head writer of many of today’s most... Read more
View audiobookBeautiful Bad
By: Annie Ward
Narrated by: Xe Sands, Vivienne Leheny & Paul Fox
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A devoted wife, a loving husband and a chilling murder that no one saw coming.
Things that make me scared: When Charlie cries. Hospitals and lakes. When Ian drinks vodka in the basement. ISIS. When Ian gets angry… That something is really, really wrong with me.
Maddie and Ian’s love story began with a chance encounter at a party overseas; he was... Read more
When All Is Said
By: Anne Griffin
Narrated by: Niall Buggy
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
"An extraordinary novel, a poetic writer, and a story that moved me to tears." —New York Times John Boyne, bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
"I'm here to remember–all that I have been and all that I will never be again."
If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each... Read more
Sissy
By: Jacob Tobia
Narrated by: Jacob Tobia
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Transformative ... If Tobia aspires to the ranks of comic memoirists like David Sedaris and Mindy Kaling, Sissy succeeds." --The New York Times Book Review
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d)... Read more
The New Me
By: Halle Butler
Narrated by: Halle Butler
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
"[A] definitive work of millennial literature . . . wretchedly riveting." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
“Girls + Office Space + My Year of Rest and Relaxation + anxious sweating = The New Me.” —Entertainment Weekly
I'm still trying to make the dream possible: still might finish my cleaning project, still might sign up for that yoga class,... Read more
The River
By: Peter Heller
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A Nominee for the 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Awards
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"A fiery tour de force… I could not put this book down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful." –Alison Borden, The Denver Post
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship... Read more
The Last Woman in the Forest
By: Diane Les Becquets
Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Robert Fass, Rebecca Lowman, Alex...
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
From the national bestselling author of Breaking Wild, here is a riveting and powerful thriller about a woman whose greatest threat could be the man she loves.…
Marian Engström has found her true calling: working with rescue dogs to help protect endangered wildlife. Her first assignment takes her to northern Alberta, where she falls in love with... Read more
Vacuum in the Dark
By: Jen Beagin
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Whiting Award–winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a “thoroughly delightfully, surprisingly profound” (Entertainment Weekly) one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life.
Soon to be an FX television show starring Lola Kirke.
Mona is... Read more
Four Dead Queens
By: Astrid Scholte
Narrated by: Amy Shiels & Elizabeth Knowelden
Length: 11 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Four dead queens. Three days to catch a killer. Two forbidden romances.
One shocking twist you won’t see coming.
Seventeen-year-old Keralie Corrington may seem harmless, but she’s, in fact, one of Quadara’s most skilled thieves and a liar. Varin, on the other hand, is an honest, upstanding citizen of Quadara’s most enlightened region, Eonia. He... Read more
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
By: Anissa Gray
Narrated by: January LaVoy, Adenrele Ojo, Bahni Turpin & Dom...
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
“If you enjoyed An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, read The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls...an absorbing commentary on love, family and forgiveness.”—The Washington Post
“A fast-paced, intriguing story...the novel’s real achievement is its uncommon perceptiveness on the origins and variations of addiction.”—The New York Times... Read more
Leading Men
By: Christopher Castellani
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
"Blazing . . . casts a spell right from the start." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times
"A timeless and heartbreaking love story." --Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere
"An extraordinary book." --Lauren Groff, author of Florida
Illuminating one of the great love stories of the twentieth century - Tennessee Williams and his longtime... Read more
The Last Thing You Surrender
By: Leonard Pitts, Jr.
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 20 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Could you find the courage to do what's right in a world on fire?
Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling author (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s new historical novel is a great American tale of race and war, following three characters from the Jim Crow South as they face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States.
An... Read more
Trigger
By: David Swinson
Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Forced to retire from the D. C. police, newly minted P.I. Frank Marr is recovering from rock bottom when a friend asks for help -- and now, he must revisit the dark, drug-fueled world he left behind.
Ostracized by his family after a botched case that led to the death of his baby cousin, Jeffrey, Frank was on a collision course with catastrophe. ... Read more
When You Read This
By: Mary Adkins
Narrated by: Sarah Naughton
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Maria Semple and Rainbow Rowell, a comedy-drama for the digital age: an epistolary debut novel about the ties that bind and break our hearts.Iris Massey is gone.
But she’s left something behind.For four years, Iris Massey worked side by side with PR maven Smith Simonyi, helping clients perfect their brands. But Iris has died, taken by... Read more
Connections in Death
By: J. D. Robb
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
In this gritty and gripping new audiobook in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Eve Dallas fights to save the innocent—and serve justice to the guilty—on the streets of New York.
Homicide cop Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband, Roarke, are building a brand-new school and youth shelter. They know that the hard life can lead kids toward... Read more
The Girls at 17 Swann Street
By: Yara Zgheib
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Narrator Saskia Maarleveld's] tour de force reading perfectly encapsulates Anna’s anxieties, shame, and overwhelming guilt at failing to achieve perfection" — Booklist, starred review
**A People Pick for Best New Books**
Yara Zgheib’s poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman’s struggle with anorexia on an... Read more
Sea Monsters
By: Chloe Aridjis
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeen-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomás, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking—recklessness, impulse, independence. Tomás may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track... Read more
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