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Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

By: Kai Cheng Thom

Narrated by: Adri Almeida

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

At once a love letter and challenge to the traditional transgender memoir, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a playful, surrealist dance through queer coming of age.A haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city, where the sky is always grey, in search of love and... Read more

Perfect Sound Whatever

By: James Acaster

Narrated by: James Acaster

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The brand new memoir from James Acaster: cult comedian, bestselling author of Classic Scrapes, undercover cop, receiver of cabbages.

PERFECT SOUND WHATEVER is a love letter to the healing power of music, and how one man's obsessive quest saw him defeat the bullshit of one year with the beauty of another. Because that one man is James Acaster, it... Read more

The Warehouse

By: Rob Hart

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Jason Culp & Karissa Vacker

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Cloud isn’t just a place to work. It’s a place to live. And when you’re here, you’ll never want to leave.

“A thrilling story of corporate espionage at the highest level . . . and a powerful cautionary tale about technology, runaway capitalism, and the nightmare world we are making for ourselves.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author... Read more

Savage Appetites

By: Rachel Monroe

Narrated by: Jayme Mattler

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A “necessary and brilliant” (NPR) exploration of our cultural fascination with true crime told through four “enthralling” (The New York Times Book Review) narratives of obsession.

In Savage Appetites, Rachel Monroe links four criminal roles—Detective, Victim, Defender, and Killer—to four true stories about women driven by obsession. From a... Read more

The Reckless Oath We Made

By: Bryn Greenwood

Narrated by: Alex McKenna, Kirby Heyborne, Adenrele Ojo, Mac...

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A new provocative love story from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things.
 
“The story of Zee and Gentry is the reason we read.” —Brunonia Barry
 
Their journey will break them—or save them.
 
A moving and complicated love story for our time, The Reckless Oath We Made redefines what it means to be heroic. Zee... Read more

Empty Hearts

By: Juli Zeh

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists

A few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump is gone, but Brexit is complete, as is Frexit. There's a global... Read more

The Whisper Man

By: Alex North

Narrated by: Christopher Eccleston

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"Listeners looking for creepy will find it in full force in Alex North's dark thriller, narrated by British actor Christopher Eccleston." -- AudioFile Magazine

"Reader Eccleston...adds flavor to the tale. He reads with a fervor that gives the story a strong sense of suspense." -- Booklist

This program is read by acclaimed British actor Christopher... Read more

As Many Nows as I Can Get

By: Shana Youngdahl

Narrated by: Annie Q

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A Seventeen Best Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Top Ten Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Best Book of the Year

For fans of All the Bright Places, Looking for Alaska, and I'll Give You the Sun comes "a daring, inventive story about love and loss and longing, reminding us that every choice can be a new chance. A dazzling, not-to-be-missed... Read more

Unbreak Me

By: Michelle Hazen

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

AN AMAZON BEST ROMANCE OF THE MONTH
BOOKLIST TOP 10 ROMANCE OF 2019

What could two troubled souls from different walks of life have in common? Maybe everything.

Andra Lawler lives isolated at her family’s horse ranch, imprisoned by the memories of an assault in college. When she needs help training her foals, she hires a Haitian-Creole cowboy from... Read more

The Swallows

By: Lisa Lutz

Narrated by: Abby Elliott, Lisa Flanagan, Michael Crouch, Ar...

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war—with deadly consequences—in this dark and provocative novel by the bestselling author of The Passenger

“Suspenseful and utterly riveting!”—Tess Gerritsen

When Alexandra Witt joins the faculty at Stonebridge Academy, she’s hoping to put a painful past behind her. Then one of her creative... Read more

The Downstairs Girl

By: Stacey Lee

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically-acclaimed author of Under a Painted Sky and Outrun the Moon and founding member of We Need Diverse Books comes a powerful novel about identity, betrayal, and the meaning of family.



By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo... Read more

Careful What You Wish For

By: Hallie Ephron

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of There Was an Old Woman comes a novel about a professional organizer with a deadly problem she may not be able to clean up.Emily Harlow is a professional organizer who helps people declutter their lives; she’s married to man who can’t drive past a yard sale without stopping. He’s filled their... Read more

Invitation to Die

By: Barbara Cleverly

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An "invitation to dine" quickly loses a letter as DI John Redfyre returns for his second investigation in the hallowed halls of Cambridge academia. Cambridge, 1924 in early summertime. May Balls, punting, flirting and dancing the tango are the preoccupations of bright young people, but bright young Detective Inspector John Redfyre finds himself... Read more

Reticence

By: Gail Carriger

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Bookish and proper Percival Tunstell finds himself out of his depth when floating cities, spirited plumbing, and soggy biscuits collide in this delightful conclusion to NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger's Custard Protocol series.
Percival Tunstell loves that his sister and her best friend are building themselves a family of misfits aboard... Read more

Pillow Thoughts

By: Courtney Peppernell

Narrated by: Courtney Peppernell

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions, read by the author herself. Read more

Boss Up!

By: Lindsay Teague Moreno

Narrated by: Jon Acuff & Lindsay Teague Moreno

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The audiobook includes an exclusive, expanded chapter 8 with more insight into Linsday’s Unsales Tactic. Boss Up! will help you put your business on the map and the ideas you’ve previously only dreamed about into the marketplace. Learn to overcome your fears and guilt to find a fulfillment that changes you and your family for the better—... Read more

A Pure Heart

By: Rajia Hassib

Narrated by: Ariana Delawari

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Hassib, herself an Egyptian immigrant living in West Virginia, articulates the full-bodied chorus of Egypt's voices."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Exquisite. . . . Anchoring the story is a pair of Cairo-born sisters whose fates spin in radically different directions in the wake of the Egyptian revolution. . . . A lovely novel that does a... Read more

The Lemonade Life

By: Zack Friedman

Narrated by: Zack Friedman

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The secret to an extraordinary life starts with five simple changes that anyone can make.In this groundbreaking book, Zack Friedman starts with a fundamental question: What drives success? It's not only hard work, talent, and skill. The most successful people have one thing in common,?the power to flip five internal "switches." We all have these... Read more

Keeping Lucy

By: T. Greenwood

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

PopSugar's 30 Must-Read Books of 2019
Good Housekeeping's 25 Best New Books for Summer 2019
Better Homes & Gardens 13 New Books We Can't Wait to Read This Summer

The heartbreaking and uplifting story, inspired by incredible true events, of how far one mother must go to protect her daughter.

Dover, Massachusetts, 1969. Ginny Richardson's heart... Read more

We Are All Good People Here

By: Susan Rebecca White

Narrated by: Katharine Powell

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of A Place at the Table and A Soft Place to Land, an “intense, complex, and wholly immersive” (Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author) multigenerational novel that explores the complex relationship between two very different women and the secrets they bequeath to their daughters.

Eve Whalen, privileged child of an... Read more

House of Salt and Sorrows

By: Erin A. Craig

Narrated by: Emily Lawrence

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Get swept away by this “haunting” (Bustle) novel about twelve beautiful sisters living on an isolated island estate who begin to mysteriously die one by one.

"Step inside a fairy tale." —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval

In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.

Annaleigh lives a... Read more

The Ghosts of Eden Park

By: Karen Abbott

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

“Gatsby-era noir at its best.”—Erik Larson

An ID Book Club Selection • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST... Read more

Summerlings

By: Lisa Howorth

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s the summer of 1959 in the seemingly tranquil suburbs of Washington, D.C. But our young narrator, John, and his best friends, Ivan and Max, know the truth: every door on their street could be hiding an escaped Nazi or a spy with secrets about the A-bomb. The entire city is being plagued by an inexplicable spider infestation—surely evidence... Read more

The Merciful Crow

By: Margaret Owen

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Debut author Margaret Owen crafts a powerful saga of vengeance, survival, and sacrifice--perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Kendare Blake--in The Merciful Crow.

One way or another, we always feed the crows.

A future chieftain

Fie abides by one rule: look after your own. Her Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than... Read more