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Searching for Sylvie Lee

By: Jean Kwok

Narrated by: Angela Lin, Samantha Quan & Caroline McLaughlin

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick & Emma Roberts Belletrist Book Club Pick!NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY New York Times • Time • Marie Claire • Elle • Buzzfeed • Huffington Post • Good Housekeeping • The Week • Goodreads • New York Post • and many more!“Powerful . . . A twisting tale of love,... Read more

The Unbreakables

By: Lisa Barr

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A delicious, sharp novel about a woman who jets off to France after her perfect marriage collapses, putting the broken pieces of herself back together while rediscovering her own joie de vivre—a lust for life, art, and steamy sex.“Artful, feminist, and emotionally gripping. The Unbreakables is a remarkable tribute to a woman’s strength in the... Read more

Ordinary Girls

By: Blair Thornburgh

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

*A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019**A Booklist Editors' Choice for Books for Youth 2019*Perfect for fans of Sarah Mlynowski and Jenny Han, this heartfelt and humorous contemporary take on Sense and Sensibility follows two sisters—complete opposites—who discover the secrets they’ve been keeping make them more alike than they’d realized.  For... Read more

Like a Love Story

By: Abdi Nazemian

Narrated by: Lauren Ambrose, Vikas Adam & Michael Crouch

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 Audie Awards® Finalist - Young Adult Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time""A book for warriors, divas, artists, queens, individuals, activists, trend setters, and anyone searching for the courage to be themselves.”—Mackenzi Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and VirtueIt’s 1989... Read more

Mostly Dead Things

By: Kristen Arnett

Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into the shop to make aggressively lewd art with... Read more

This Time Will Be Different

By: Misa Sugiura

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A Kirkus Reviews Best BookFor fans of Jenny Han, Morgan Matson, and Sandhya Menon, critically acclaimed author Misa Sugiura delivers a richly crafted contemporary YA novel about family, community, and the importance of writing your own history.
The author of the Asian Pacific American Award-winning It’s Not Like It’s a Secret is back with another... Read more

More Fun in the New World

By: John Doe & Tom Desavia

Narrated by: John Doe, Tom Desavia & Various

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Sequel to Grammy-nominated bestseller Under the Big Black Sun, continuing the up-close and personal account of the L.A. punk scene
 
Picking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.'s punk rock movement as its stars took to the national -- and... Read more

All the Lost Things

By: Michelle Sacks

Narrated by: Cassandra Morris

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From "a master of slow-burn suspense" (Shelf Awareness), a simmering family drama about a father and daughter who embark on a road trip through the American South -- but what they're leaving behind is as important as what lies ahead.
When we first meet seven-year-old Dolly, she immediately grabs us with a voice that is both precocious and... Read more

Into the Jungle

By: Erica Ferencik

Narrated by: Jayme Mattler

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “hypnotic, violent, unsparing” (A.J. Banner, USA TODAY bestselling author) thriller from the author of the “haunting, twisting thrill ride” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) The River at Night, a young woman leaves behind everything she knows to take on the Bolivian jungle, but her excursion abroad quickly turns into a... Read more

Something to Live For

By: Richard Roper

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Previously published as How Not to Die Alone

Smart, darkly funny, and life-affirming, for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Something to Live For is the bighearted debut novel we all need, a story about love, loneliness, and the importance of taking a chance when we feel we have the most to lose.

"Off-beat and winning...Gives... Read more

Star-Crossed

By: Minnie Darke

Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Why rely on fate when you can rewrite the stars? In this sparkling romantic comedy, one woman decides to tinker with the horoscopes of the man of her dreams.

“A bright, brilliant, joyful love story.”—Josie Silver, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE

When childhood... Read more

Notes from the Field

By: Anna Deavere Smith

Narrated by: Anna Deavere Smith

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Smith’s powerful style of living journalism uses the collective, cathartic nature of the theater to move us from despair toward hope.” —The Village Voice 

Anna Deavere Smith’s extraordinary form of documentary theater shines a light on injustices by portraying the real-life people who have experienced them. "One of her most ambitious and... Read more

The Confessions of Frannie Langton

By: Sara Collins

Narrated by: Sara Collins & Roy McMillan

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't miss the TV miniseries premiering March 8, exclusively on BritBox!“A blistering historical thriller.” — Entertainment WeeklyA servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this breathtaking debut that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London—a gripping historical... Read more

Birthday

By: Meredith Russo

Narrated by: Dana Aliya Levinson

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"An emotional, winning touchdown." — Kirkus

This program includes a bonus interview with the author.

Two best friends. A shared birthday. Six years...

ERIC: There was the day we were born. There was the minute Morgan and I decided we were best friends for life. The years where we stuck by each other’s side—as Morgan’s mom died, as he moved across... Read more

Our Band Could Be Your Life

By: Michael Azerrad

Narrated by: Phil Elverum, Stephin Merritt, Jon Wurster, Cor...

Length: 21 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever.
Our Band Could Be Your Life is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties --... Read more

Let Me Hear a Rhyme

By: Tiffany D. Jackson

Narrated by: Korey Jackson, Nile Bullock, Adenrele Ojo & Ada...

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this striking new novel by the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly and Monday’s Not Coming, Tiffany D. Jackson tells the story of three Brooklyn teens who plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he's still alive. Brooklyn, 1998. Biggie Smalls was right: Things done changed. But that doesn’t mean that Quadir... Read more

The Scent Keeper

By: Erica Bauermeister

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"Woven through [Emmeline's] life's journey is a multi-layered story of fragrance and its evocative power, as strong and tenacious as this sensuous novel's plucky heroine." - Shelf Awareness

Erica Bauermeister, the author of the February Reese's Book Club pick The Scent Keeper, presents a moving and evocative novel about childhood stories,... Read more

Once More We Saw Stars

By: Jayson Greene

Narrated by: Jayson Greene

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

“A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss.”
 --Cheryl Strayed

For readers of The Bright Hour and When Breath Becomes Air, a moving, transcendent memoir of loss and a stunning exploration of marriage in the wake of unimaginable grief.

As the book opens: two-year-old Greta Greene is sitting with her... Read more

The Night Before

By: Wendy Walker

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman & Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Riveting and compulsive, national bestselling author Wendy Walker’s The Night Before “takes you to deep, dark places few thrillers dare to go” as two sisters uncover long-buried secrets when an internet date spirals out of control.

Laura Lochner has never been lucky in love. She falls too hard and too fast, always choosing the wrong men.... Read more

Planet Earth Is Blue

By: Nicole Panteleakos

Narrated by: Dylan Moore

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Tender and illuminating. A beautiful debut." --Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me

A heartrending and hopeful debut novel about a nonverbal girl and her passion for space exploration, for fans of See You in the Cosmos, Mockingbird, and The Thing About Jellyfish.

Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of... Read more

Rules for Visiting

By: Jessica Francis Kane

Narrated by: Emily Rankin

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER!

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: O Magazine * Good Housekeeping * Real Simple * Vulture * Chicago Tribune
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY: “The Today Show” * “Good Morning America” * Wall Street Journal * San Francisco Chronicle * Southern Living
 
An INDIE NEXT LIST Pick

Shortlisted for the 2020... Read more

Eat Like a Fish

By: Bren Smith

Narrated by: Bren Smith

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Part memoir, part manifesto, in Eat Like a Fish Bren Smith—a former commercial fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer—shares a bold new vision for the future of food: seaweed.

Through tales that span from his childhood in Newfoundland to his early years on the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers, from pioneering new forms of ocean... Read more

The Scholar

By: Dervla McTiernan

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A compulsive new crime thriller set in the fiercely competitive, cutthroat world of research and academia, where the brightest minds will stop at nothing to succeedWhen Dr. Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit-and-run outside Galway University early one morning, she calls her boyfriend, Detective Cormac Reilly, bringing him first to... Read more

Out East

By: John Glynn

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An "extraordinary" debut memoir of first love, identity, and self-discovery among a group of friends who became family in a Montauk summer house (Andrew Solomon, National Book Award winner).
They call Montauk the end of the world, a spit of land jutting into the Atlantic. The house was a ramshackle split-level set on a hill, and each summer... Read more