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Heirs of the Founders
By: H. W. Brands
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 14 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy
In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a... Read more
Empire of Sand
By: Tasha Suri
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 16 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A nobleman's daughter with magic in her blood. An empire built on the dreams of enslaved gods. Empire of Sand is Tasha Suri's lush, dazzling, Mughal India-inspired debut fantasy.
"An ode to the quiet, fierce strength of women. . .pure wonder." -- Samantha Shannon, New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree
"Stunning and... Read more
Forever and a Day
By: Anthony Horowitz
Narrated by: Matthew Goode
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking readers into the very beginning of James Bond’s illustrious career and the formation of his... Read more
View audiobookWhy Religion?
By: Elaine Pagels
Narrated by: Lynde Houck
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these questions.These questions took on a new... Read more
View audiobookThe Lonesome Bodybuilder
By: Yukiko Motoya
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Brian Nishii, Erin Bennett, Ric...
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique―which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking businessmen struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon―until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A woman working in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a... Read more
View audiobookThe Devil You Know
By: Mike Carey
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Author of The Girl With All the Gifts Mike Carey presents the first book in his hip supernatural thriller series featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor.
Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stomping ground. It may seem like a good ghostbuster can charge what he likes and enjoy a hell of a lifestyle, but there's a risk:... Read more
Those Who Knew
By: Idra Novey
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
"Read this now, because everyone you know will be talking about it by early 2019." —Washington Post
From the award-winning author of Ways to Disappear, a taut, timely story about what a powerful politician thinks he can get away with and the group of misfits who finally bring him down.
On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a... Read more
I Might Regret This
By: Abbi Jacobson
Narrated by: Abbi Jacobson
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a "poignant, funny, and beautifully unabashed" (Cheryl Strayed) New York Times bestselling essay collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew.
When Abbi Jacobson announced to friends and acquaintances that she planned... Read more
Elevation
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Stephen King
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award
From legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting story about “an ordinary man in an extraordinary condition rising above hatred” (The Washington Post) and bringing the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine together—a “joyful, uplifting” (Entertainment Weekly) tale... Read more
This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
By: Kacen Callender
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
~Lambda Literary Award finalist for the best LGBT YA novel of 2018~A fresh, charming rom-com perfect for fans of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Boy Meets Boy about Nathan Bird, who has sworn off happy endings but is sorely tested when his former best friend, Ollie, moves back to town.Nathan Bird doesn’t believe in happy endings. Although... Read more
View audiobookThe Reckoning
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 17 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • John Grisham's most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet • “A murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga.” —USA Today
October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi
Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi’s favorite son—a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father,... Read more
Little
By: Edward Carey
Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
Length: 14 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE
"An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I... Read more
Red Moon
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Maxwell Hamilton, Joy Osmanski & Feodor Chin
Length: 16 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Red Moon is a magnificent novel of space exploration and political revolution from New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson.
It is thirty years from now, and we have colonized the moon.
American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours... Read more
The Craftsman
By: Sharon Bolton
Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Sharon Bolton returns with her creepiest standalone yet, following a young cop trying to trace the disappearances of a small town's teenagers.
Florence Lovelady's career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Grassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago in a small village in Lancashire. Like something out of a nightmare, the... Read more
Wasteland
By: W. Scott Poole
Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature.In the early twentieth century, World War I was the most devastating event humanity had yet experienced. New machines of war left tens of millions killed or wounded in the most grotesque of... Read more
View audiobookBrief Answers to the Big Questions
By: Stephen Hawking
Narrated by: Ben Whishaw, Garrick Hagon & Lucy Hawking
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind.
“Hawking’s parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity’s future should read.”—NPR
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Forbes •... Read more
A Well-Behaved Woman
By: Therese Anne Fowler
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 14 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times and USA Today bestseller
"More than a rewriting of history, this is history reimagined from a fresh angle, delivered here with energy, sensitivity, and flair." — AudioFile Magazine
This program includes a bonus interview with the author.
A Well-Behaved Woman is the riveting audiobook about iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her... Read more
Trinity
By: Louisa Hall
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, David Colacci, Saskia Maarl...
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer—father of the atomic bomb—as told by seven fictional characters.J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally protected his Communist friends, only to later betray... Read more
View audiobookAlmost Everything
By: Anne Lamott
Narrated by: Anne Lamott
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives
"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of... Read more
Bright Ruin
By: Vic James
Narrated by: Avita Jay
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In the “thrilling conclusion”* to the dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage and Tarnished City, the people of Britain rise up against their magically gifted masters. They must break the system—or be broken.
MAGIC RUINS. WE RISE.
The rules are simple, the system cruel: the lower classes must give ten years in service to Britain’s... Read more
White Dancing Elephants
By: Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A woman grieves a miscarriage, haunted by the Buddha’s birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange “rescue” mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two... Read more
View audiobookKilling Commendatore
By: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 28 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84
In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally... Read more
The Fallen Architect
By: Charles Belfoure
Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In this riveting novel from The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect, a man in disgrace finds that digging up the past is the only road he can take. Architect Douglas Layton has lost everything. The balcony of one of his beautiful music halls collapsed during a packed performance, killing dozens. Layton knows the flaw was not... Read more
View audiobookBridge of Clay
By: Markus Zusak
Narrated by: Markus Zusak
Length: 14 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be life-changing."
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
"One of those monumental books... Read more