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Make It Scream, Make It Burn

By: Leslie Jamison

Narrated by: Leslie Jamison

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly), "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic), and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes a return to the essay form in this expansive book.

With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie... 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

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

No Judgments

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Piper Goodeve

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The storm of the century is about to hit Little Bridge Island, Florida—and it’s sending waves crashing through Sabrina “Bree” Beckham’s love life…When a massive hurricane severs all power and cell service to Little Bridge Island—as well as its connection to the mainland—twenty-five-year-old Bree Beckham isn’t worried . . . at first. She’s... Read more

The Long Ride

By: Marina Budhos

Narrated by: N'Jameh Camara

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tumult of 1970s New York City, seventh graders are bussed from their neighborhood in Queens to integrate a new school in South Jamaica.

Jamila Clarke. Josie Rivera. Francesca George. Three mixed-race girls, close friends whose immigrant parents worked hard to settle their families in a neighborhood with the best schools. The three girls... Read more

The Babysitters Coven

By: Kate M. Williams

Narrated by: Phoebe Strole

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Adventures in Babysitting meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this funny, action-packed novel about a coven of witchy babysitters who realize their calling to protect the innocent and save the world from an onslaught of evil.

Seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl has a babysitters club. She knows it's kinda lame, but what else is she supposed to do? Get a... Read more

A Cosmology of Monsters

By: Shaun Hamill

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. I loved it.” —Stephen King

Noah Turner sees monsters.

His father saw them—and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dark, an immersive horror experience that the whole family operates.

His practical mother has caught glimpses of terrors but refuses to believe—too... Read more

Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus

By: Dusti Bowling

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The sequel to the critically acclaimed Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus follows Aven Green as she confronts yet another challenge: high school.



"High School. Two words that struck fear into the heart of every armless middle schooler I knew. Which was me. And like two people online."



Just as Aven starts to feel comfortable in... Read more

Suggested Reading

By: Dave Connis

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this hilarious and thought-provoking contemporary teen standalone that’s perfect for fans of Moxie, a bookworm finds a way to fight back when her school bans dozens of classic and meaningful books.Clara Evans is horrified when she discovers her principal’s “prohibited media” hit list. The iconic books on the list have been pulled from the... Read more

Opioid, Indiana

By: Brian Allen Carr

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

During a week-long suspension from school, a teenage transplant to impoverished rural Indiana searches for a job, the whereabouts of his vanished drug-addicted guardian, and meaning in the America of the Trump years.



Seventeen-year-old Riggle is living in rural Indiana with his uncle and uncle's girlfriend after the death of both of his parents.... Read more

Bloomland

By: John Englehardt

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction



Bloomland opens during finals week at a fictional southern university, when a student walks into the library with his roommate's semi-automatic rifle and opens fire. When he stops shooting, twelve people are dead.



In this richly textured debut, John Englehardt explores how the origin and aftermath of the... Read more

Diamond Doris

By: Doris Payne

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the ebullient spirit of Ocean’s 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world’s most notorious jewel thief—a woman who defied society’s prejudices and norms to carve her own path, stealing from elite jewelers to live her dreams.Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal town of Slab... Read more

Eyes to the Wind

By: Ady Barkan

Narrated by: Bradley Whitford

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “gripping story of resistance and the triumph of human will” (Senator Elizabeth Warren), activist and subject of the documentary Not Going Quietly Ady Barkan explores his life with ALS and how his diagnosis gave him a profound new understanding of his commitment to social justice for all.

Ady Barkan loved taking afternoon runs on the... Read more

The Long Call

By: Ann Cleeves

Narrated by: Ben Aldridge

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Ben Aldridge gives listeners the perfect introduction to Matthew Venn...it's a smashing start to a third series by Cleeves." -- AudioFile Magazine

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

From Ann Cleeves—bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—comes the first in a gripping new... Read more

The Chestnut Man

By: Soren Sveistrup

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES2020 Audie Awards® Winner - MysteryFROM THE CREATOR OF THE HIT TELEVISION SHOW THE KILLING, “a full-throttle thriller in the tradition of classic Stieg Larsson” (A.J. Finn).IF YOU FIND ONE, HE’S ALREADY FOUND YOUA psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen.His calling card is a “chestnut man”—a handmade doll made of... Read more

Cold Storage

By: David Koepp

Narrated by: Rupert Friend

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

""On every level, Cold Storage is pure, unadulterated entertainment.""—Douglas Preston, The New York TimesFor readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organismWhen... Read more

After the Flood

By: Kassandra Montag

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An inventive and riveting epic saga, After the Flood signals the arrival of an extraordinary new talent. A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an... Read more

My Jasper June

By: Laurel Snyder

Narrated by: Imani Parks

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“This book is a treasure—a touching story of friendship, loss, and finding beauty in the everyday, with characters who stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page. I absolutely loved it.”—R. J. Palacio, New York Times bestselling author of WonderLaurel Snyder, author of Orphan Island, returns with another unforgettable story of the... Read more

I'm Not Dying with You Tonight

By: Kimberly Jones & Gilly Segal

Narrated by: Channie Waites & Brittany Pressley

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

An NAACP Image Award Nominee, I’m Not Dying with You Tonight follows two teen girls—one black, one white—who have to confront their own assumptions about racial inequality as they rely on each other to get through the violent race riot that has set their city on fire with civil unrest.Lena has her killer style, her awesome boyfriend, and a plan.... Read more

Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?

By: Brock Clarke

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

With the comic unpredictability of a Wes Anderson movie and the inventive sharpness of a John Irving novel, author Brock Clarke introduces listeners to an ordinary man who is about to embark on an absurdly extraordinary adventure.



After his mother, a theologian and bestselling author, dies in a fiery explosion, forty-nine-year-old Calvin... Read more

Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth

By: Frank Cottrell Boyce

Narrated by: Peter Capaldi

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A one-of-a-kind story of heart, humor, and finding one’s place in the universe. Prez knows that the best way to keep track of things is to make a list. That's important when you have a grandfather who is constantly forgetting. And it's even more important when your grandfather can't care for you anymore and you have to go live with a foster... Read more

Dead Voices

By: Katherine Arden

Narrated by: Renee Dorian

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden returns with another creepy, spine-tingling adventure in the critically acclaimed Small Spaces Quartet.

Having survived sinister scarecrows and the malevolent smiling man in Small Spaces, newly minted best friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian are ready to spend a relaxing winter break skiing together... Read more

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