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The Witch of Willow Hall
By: Hester Fox
Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
"Steeped in Gothic eeriness."--Nicola Cornick, USA Today bestselling author
In Salem, they burned. Now, they will rise.
New Oldbury, 1821
The house holds its breath, trying to outlast me…
Something has awakened in Willow Hall. Eighteen-year-old Lydia Montrose can feel it. But she has no idea what it is.
Rocked by rumor and scandal, Lydia, her... Read more
Consumed
By: J.R. Ward
Narrated by: Jim Frangione, Hillary Huber, Pete Simonelli & ...
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and “master of contemporary romance, with heroes so hot they set the pages on fire” (Gena Showalter, New York Times bestselling author), a steamy romantic suspense novel about arson investigator, Anne Ashburn, who is consumed by her troubled past, her family’s scorched legacy, and her current case:... Read more
View audiobookThe Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel
By: Alyssa Palombo
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
"The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel enchants with a concoction of love, longing, and loss plucked from the bones of one of our most enduring and haunting legends." - Erin Lindsay McCabe, USA Today bestselling author of I Shall Be Near to You
When Ichabod Crane arrives in the spooky little village of Sleepy Hollow as the new schoolmaster, Katrina... Read more
The Boneless Mercies
By: April Genevieve Tucholke
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A dark and gorgeously drawn standalone YA fantasy about a band of mercenary girls in search of female glory. Won in a major six-house auction! Frey, Ovie, Juniper, and Runa are the Boneless Mercies-girls hired to kill quickly, quietly, and mercifully. But Frey is weary of the death trade and, having been raised on the heroic sagas of her people,... Read more
View audiobookPriest of Bones
By: Peter McLean
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
"The first in an unmissable series, Priest of Bones is a fresh and compelling take on grimdark fantasy. Mashing together soldiers, gangsters, magic and war into a heady mix that is a hulking big brother to The Lies of Locke Lamora."--Anna Stephens, author of Godblind
The war is over, and army priest Tomas Piety heads home with Sergeant Bloody... Read more
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
By: Megan Mullally & Nick Offerman
Narrated by: Nick Offerman & Megan Mullally
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman reveal the full story behind their epic romance--presented in a series of intimate conversations between the couple.
The year: 2000. The setting: Los Angeles. A gorgeous virtuoso of an actress agreed to star in a random play, and a basement-dwelling scenic carpenter said he would assay a supporting role in the... Read more
Dracul
By: Dacre Stoker & J.D. Barker
Narrated by: Pete Bradbury, Vikas Adam, Saskia Maarleveld, R...
Length: 16 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The prequel to Dracula, inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel, Dracul is a supernatural thriller that reveals not only Dracula's true origins but Bram Stoker's--and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connects them.
It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an... Read more
A Spark of Light
By: Jodi Picoult
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Jodi Picoult
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.
Look for Jodi Picoult’s new novel, By Any Other Name, available now!
“Picoult at her fearless best . . . Timely, balanced and certain to inspire debate.”—The Washington... Read more
Firefly
By: Henry Porter
Narrated by: Matt Addis
Length: 12 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From the refugee camps of Greece to the mountains of Macedonia, a thirteen-year-old boy is making his way to Germany and to safety. Codenamed "Firefly," he holds vital intelligence: unparalleled insight into a vicious ISIS terror cell, and details of their plans. But the terrorists are hot on his trail, determined he won't live to pass on the... Read more
View audiobookThe Lost Sisters
By: Holly Black
Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Sometimes the difference between a love story and a horror story is where the ending comes...
While Jude fought for power in the Court of Elfhame against the cruel Prince Cardan, her sister Taryn began to fall in love with the trickster, Locke.
Half-apology and half-explanation, it turns out that Taryn has some secrets of her own to reveal.
The... Read more
What If This Were Enough?
By: Heather Havrilesky
Narrated by: Heather Havrilesky
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
*A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018*
*A Bustle Best Nonfiction Book of 2018*
*One of Chicago Tribune's Favorite Books by Women in 2018*
*A Self Best Book of 2018 to Buy for the Bookworm in Your Life*
By the acclaimed critic, memoirist, and advice columnist behind the popular "Ask Polly," an impassioned collection tackling our obsession with... Read more
Zero Sum Game
By: S. L. Huang
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A blockbuster, near-future science fiction thriller, S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game introduces a math-genius mercenary who finds herself being manipulated by someone possessing unimaginable power…
Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every... Read more
Good and Mad
By: Rebecca Traister
Narrated by: Rebecca Traister
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
*Updated with a new introduction*
Journalist Rebecca Traister’s New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement is “a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can do when wielded efficiently—and collectively” (Vanity... Read more
Southern Discomfort
By: Tena Clark
Narrated by: Tena Clark
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
“Southern Discomfort is a raw, thought-provoking examination of privilege, racism, sexism, the masks we wear to conform to society’s expectations, and the journey toward authentic identity.” —Read with Us: Caste, An Oprah’s Book Club Discussion Guide
For fans of beloved memoirs like Educated and The Glass Castle, a “raw and deeply honest”... Read more
Scribe
By: Alyson Hagy
Narrated by: Shannon McManus
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A haunting, evocative tale about the power of storytellingA brutal civil war has ravaged the country, and contagious fevers have decimated the population. Abandoned farmhouses litter the isolated mountain valleys and shady hollows. The economy has been reduced to barter and trade.In this craggy, unwelcoming world, the central character of Scribe... Read more
View audiobookYour Duck Is My Duck
By: Deborah Eisenberg
Narrated by: Deborah Eisenberg, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moor...
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form, performed by a remarkable cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, and Wallace Shawn.At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight,... Read more
View audiobookThe Poison Squad
By: Deborah Blum
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Notable Book
The inspiration for PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad.
From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change
By the end... Read more
Split Tooth
By: Tanya Tagaq
Narrated by: Tanya Tagaq
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award
Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English
Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Fiction
Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst... Read more
The Magic Misfits: The Second Story
By: Neil Patrick Harris
Narrated by: Christina Hendricks & Neil Patrick Harris
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris comes the magical second book in the New York Times bestselling Magic Misfits series--with even more tricks up its sleeve.
Growing up in an orphanage, Leila was bullied for being different. She turned her hardship into skill by becoming an escape artist--a valuable trait when you belong to a group... Read more
Can We All Be Feminists?
By: June Eric-Udorie
Narrated by: Various
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
"As timely as it is well-written, this clear-eyed collection is just what I need right now." —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming
"The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to read" (Bustle), edited by a feminist activist and writer who "calls to mind a young Audre Lorde" (Kirkus)
Why do some women struggle to identify as... Read more
The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village
By: Joanna Nell
Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Joanna Nell's life-affirming debut is a moving, funny, heartwarming tale of love and community in the spirit of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Grace and Frankie
The life of 79-year-old pensioner PEGGY SMART is as beige as the décor in her retirement village. Her week revolves around aqua aerobics and appointments with her doctor.... Read more
The Sisters of the Winter Wood
By: Rena Rossner
Narrated by: Ana Clements
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Captivating and boldly imaginative, with a tale of sisterhood at its heart, Rena Rossner's debut fantasy invites you to enter a world filled with magic, folklore, and the dangers of the woods.
*Publishers Weekly: Best Book of 2018: SF/Fantasy/Horror
*BookPage: Best Book of 2018: Science Fiction & Fantasy
"With luscious and hypnotic prose, Rena... Read more
Waiting for Eden
By: Elliot Ackerman
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 3 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
“Patiently, and unflinchingly, Ackerman is becoming one of the great poet laureates of America’s tragic adventurism across the globe.” —Pico Iyer
Eden lies in a hospital bed, unable to move or speak. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his room. We see them through the eyes of Eden’s best friend, a fellow Marine who didn’t make it back... Read more
Small Spaces
By: Katherine Arden
Narrated by: Renee Dorian
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic.
After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the... Read more