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We Walked the Sky

By: Lisa Fiedler

Narrated by: Erin Spencer

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning, multigenerational story about two teenagers: Victoria, who joins the circus in 1965, and her granddaughter, Callie, who leaves the circus fifty years later. Perfect for fans of This is Us.

In 1965 seventeen-year-old Victoria, having just escaped an unstable home, flees to the ultimate place for dreamers and runaways--the circus.... Read more

Technically, You Started It

By: Lana Wood Johnson

Narrated by: Katie Koster, Christian Barillas & Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilarious, snarky, and utterly addicting #ownvoices debut that explores friendship, sexual orientation, mental health, and falling in love (even if things might be falling apart around you).When a guy named Martin Nathaniel Munroe II texts you, it should be obvious who you're talking to. Except there's two of them (it's a long story), and... Read more

Kingdom of Exiles

By: Maxym M. Martineau

Narrated by: Brian Pallino & Jennifer O'Donnell

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

My heart wasn't part of the deal when I bargained for my life, But assassins so rarely keep their word. Exiled Charmer Leena Edenfrell is running out of time. Empty pockets forced her to sell her beloved magical beasts-an offense punishable by death-and now there's a price on her head. With the realm's most talented murderer-for-hire nipping at... Read more

The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

By: Felicity McLean

Narrated by: Cat Gould

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered song, and when one came back, she wasn’t the one we were trying to recall to begin with."



Tikka Malloy was eleven and one-sixth years old during the long hot summer of 1992, living in an Australian suburb with her sister and their three best friends.... Read more

A Nearly Normal Family

By: M. T. Edvardsson

Narrated by: Emily Watson, Georgia Maguire & Richard Armitage

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Netflix Limited Series

New York Times Book Review recommends M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal Family and lauds it as a “page-turner” that forces the reader to confront “the compromises we make with ourselves to be the people we believe our beloveds expect.” (NYTimes Book Review Summer Reading Issue)

M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal... Read more

Finding Mrs. Ford

By: Deborah Goodrich Royce

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

On a sunny summer morning by the sea in New England, Susan Ford’s cocoon of privilege is threatened when an Iraqi man from her distant past boards a plane in Baghdad to come find her.Mrs. Ford leads a privileged life. From her Blenheim spaniels to her cottage on the coast of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, she carefully curates her world. Hair in... Read more

Big Sky

By: Kate Atkinson

Narrated by: Jason Isaacs

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and lies.
Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It's picturesque, but there's something darker lurking... Read more

The Last Resort

By: Marissa Stapley

Narrated by: Caroline Slaughter

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Lucky, A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK!

NAMED ONE OF 2019’S BEST BEACH READS BY Oprah Magazine • New York Post • PopSugar • The Globe and Mail

FEATURED IN Us Weekly • Parade • Hollywood Reporter • Chatelaine

“Marissa Stapley’s writing is a gift.”—Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author

Miles Markell is missing, and everyone is a... Read more

FKA USA

By: Reed King

Narrated by: Dan Bittner & Peter Ganim

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"An epically concocted apocalyptic vision of America in all its faded glory." — Kirkus

"...a visionary head-trip of apocalyptic political satire; a kitchen sink quest story that reads like someone's high school RPG session gone full-on Technicolor bonkers.” — NPR.org

Reed King’s amazingly audacious audiobook is something of a cross between L.... Read more

The Tenth Muse

By: Catherine Chung

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2019 FROM:
Buzzfeed * The Rumpus * Entertainment WeeklyThe first thing I remember being said of me with any consistency was that I was intelligent—and I recognized even then that it was a comment leveled at me with as much disapproval as admiration. Still, I never tried to hide or suppress my mind as some girls do, and thank... Read more

Summer of '69

By: Elin Hilderbrand

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of the '60s summer when everything changed in Elin Hilderbrand's #1 New York Times bestselling historical novel.
Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward... Read more

The Girl in Red

By: Christina Henry

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic "Little Red Riding Hood"...about a woman who isn't as defenseless as she seems.

It's not safe for anyone  alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has... Read more

Patron Saints of Nothing

By: Randy Ribay

Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.

"Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing." --Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT

"A singular voice in the world of literature." --Jason... Read more

The Travelers

By: Regina Porter

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Dominic Hoffman

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“American history comes to vivid, engaging life in this tale of two interconnected families (one white, one black) that spans from the 1950s to Barack Obama’s first year as president. . . . The complex, beautifully drawn characters are unique and indelible.”—Entertainment Weekly

“An astoundingly audacious debut.”—O: The Oprah Magazine • “A... Read more

The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind

By: Jackson Ford

Narrated by: Lauren Patten & Graham Halstead

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Full of imagination, wit, and random sh*t flying through the air, this insane adventure from an irreverent new voice will blow your tiny mind.
For Teagan Frost, sh*t just got real.
Teagan Frost is having a hard time keeping it together. Sure, she's got telekinetic powers -- a skill that the government is all too happy to make use of, sending her... Read more

The Cutting Room

By: Ashley Dyer

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Detectives Ruth Lake and Greg Carver, introduced in the electrifying Splinter in the Blood, must stop a serial killer whose victims are the centerpiece of his macabre works of art.While Britain is obsessed with the newest hit true-crime television show, Fact, or Fable? detectives Ruth Lake and Greg Carver are tormented by a fiendish... Read more

The First Mistake

By: Sandie Jones

Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From Sandie Jones, author of the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick and USA Today Bestseller, The Other Woman, comes an addictive new domestic suspense audiobook about a wife, her husband, and the woman who is supposedly her best friend.

THE WIFE: For Alice, life has never been better. With her second husband, she has a successful... Read more

Call Your Daughter Home

By: Deb Spera

Narrated by: Robin Miles, Adenrele Ojo & Brittany Pressley

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Featured on Oprah’s Summer Reading List

For readers of Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing and Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, this extraordinary historical debut novel follows three fierce Southern women in an unforgettable story of motherhood and womanhood.

It’s 1924 in Branchville, South Carolina and three women have come to a... Read more

Man of the Year

By: Caroline Louise Walker

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Michael Crouch, George Newb...

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A sinister, sophisticated debut thriller by “a remarkable new voice to watch” (J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author), Man of the Year has been lauded by Shelf Awareness as “an impressive slow burn that builds suspense and cracks the whip at the end…redolent with menace and ego.”

Dr. Robert Hart, Sag Harbor’s just-named Man of the Year,... Read more

This Is Home

By: Lisa Duffy

Narrated by: Renata Friedman & Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of book club favorite The Salt House comes a deeply affecting novel about a teenage girl finding her voice and the military wife who moves in downstairs, united in their search for the true meaning of home.

Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives in Paradise, a seaside town north of Boston that rarely lives up to its name. After the... Read more

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good

By: Helene Tursten

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Maud is an irascible eighty-eight-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and . . . no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss Investigation series, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home.



Ever... Read more

Fix Her Up

By: Tessa Bailey

Narrated by: Charlotte North

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A brand new romantic comedy from New York Times bestseller Tessa Bailey! Georgette Castle’s family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven’t taken her seriously since. Frankly, she’s over it. Georgie loves planning children’s birthday parties and making people laugh, just not... Read more

A Winter's Promise

By: Christelle Dabos

Narrated by: Emma Fenney

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima, and, what’s more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a... Read more

The History of Living Forever

By: Jake Wolff

Narrated by: Maxwell Glick

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A chemistry student falls for his teacher and uncovers a centuries-old quest for the elixir of life

The morning after the death of his first love, Conrad Aybinder receives a bequest. Sammy Tampari was Conrad’s lover. He was his teacher. And, it turns out, he was not just a chemist, but an alchemist, searching for a mythic elixir of life. Sammy’s... Read more