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The 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
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
Rising Out of Hatred
By: Eli Saslow
Narrated by: Scott Brick & Eli Saslow
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, this is a book to help us understand the American moment and to help us better understand one another.
“Rising Out of Hatred proclaims if the successor to the white nationalist movement can forsake his ideological... Read more
The Challenge Culture
By: Nigel Travis
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The executive chairman and former CEO of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin Robbins reflects on the unique, results-oriented discipline he's developed over decades of leadership, which provides a blueprint for any organization to achieve prosperity.
We live in an era in which successful organizations can fail in a flash. But they can cope with change and... Read more
Dear America
By: Jose Antonio Vargas
Narrated by: Jose Antonio Vargas
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigrant in America,” tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms.“This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book––at it's core––is not about immigration at all. This book is about... Read more
View audiobookPride
By: Ibi Zoboi
Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In a timely update of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic. A smart, funny, gorgeous retelling starring all characters of color. Don't miss the audiobook,... Read more
View audiobookDaemon Voices
By: Philip Pullman
Narrated by: Philip Pullman & Simon Mason
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
From the internationally best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, a spellbinding journey into the secrets of his art--the narratives that have shaped his vision, his experience of writing, and the keys to mastering the art of storytelling.
One of the most highly acclaimed and best-selling authors of our time now gives us a book that... Read more
Heartland
By: Sarah Smarsh
Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
*Finalist for the National Book Award*
*Finalist for the Kirkus Prize*
*Instant New York Times Bestseller*
*Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly*
An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our understanding of... Read more
The Dinner List
By: Rebecca Serle
Narrated by: Rebecca Serle
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"With delicate intimacy, author Rebecca Serle narrates a story that involves a surrealist dinner party and reflections on a decade of love and heartache...magic and emotive undertones make this audiobook bewitching." — AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by the author.
“We’ve been waiting for an hour.” That’s what Audrey says. She states it... Read more
The Winter Soldier
By: Daniel Mason
Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The epic story of war and medicine from the award-winning author of The Piano Tuner is "a dream of a novel...part mystery, part war story, part romance" (Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See).
Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of... Read more
Impostors
By: Scott Westerfeld
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Deception. Risk. Betrayal. Redemption. Master storyteller Scott Westerfeld is at the top of his game, and back to his most famous realm. A New York Times bestseller.Frey and Rafi are inseparable . . . two edges of the same knife. But only one of them is ever seen in public.Frey is Rafi's twin sister-and her body double. Their powerful father has... Read more
View audiobookThe Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
By: Imogen Hermes Gowar
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 17 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction“Wonderful… completely transporting.” —Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles ""Historical fiction at its finest, combining myth and legend with the brutal realities of the past. . . . Comparisons will be drawn to the works of contemporary authors... Read more
View audiobookThe Real Lolita
By: Sarah Weinman
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
“The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov’s masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness.” —David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower MoonVladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of... Read more
View audiobookFierce Fairytales
By: Nikita Gill
Narrated by: Nikita Gill
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women.
Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: beautiful, silent princesses; ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses; girls who need rescuing; and men who take all the glory.
But in this... Read more
Accessory to War
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson & Avis Lang
Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance
Length: 18 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Bestseller
An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.
In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang... Read more
The Lost Queen
By: Signe Pike
Narrated by: Toni Frutin
Length: 17 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
“Outlander meets Camelot” (Kirsty Logan, author of The Gracekeepers) in the first book of an exciting historical series that reveals the untold story of Languoreth—a powerful and, until now, tragically forgotten queen of 6th-century Scotland—twin sister of the man who inspired the legendary character of Merlin.
Intelligent, passionate,... Read more
Feminasty
By: Erin Gibson
Narrated by: Erin Gibson
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From the wickedly funny and feminist creator and host of the Throwing Shade podcast, a collection of hilarious personal essays and political commentary perfect for fans of Lindy West and Roxane Gay.
Since women earned the right to vote a little under one hundred years ago, our progress hasn't been the Olympic sprint toward gender equality... Read more
The Diary of a Bookseller
By: Shaun Bythell
Narrated by: Robin Laing
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Shaun Bythell owns the Bookshop, Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover’s paradise? Well, almost … In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at... Read more
View audiobookA Key to Treehouse Living
By: Elliot Reed
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Mark Haddon, Tony Earley, and Jonathan Safran Foer, an epic tale of boyhood from an unforgettable new voice.
"Disorienting, weirdly wise, indescribably transparent, impossibly recognizable. Fun, too." —Joy Williams
A Key to Treehouse Living is the adventure of William Tyce, a boy without parents, who grows up near a river... Read more
Leave No Trace
By: Mindy Mejia
Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the “compelling” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) and critically acclaimed Everything You Want Me to Be, a riveting and suspenseful thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a boy and his stunning return ten years later.
“A tense and gripping read that plumbs the depths of grief and longing...As thrilling as a whitewater rapid... Read more
Lake Success
By: Gary Shteyngart
Narrated by: Arthur Morey & Soneela Nankani
Length: 13 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
“Spectacular.”—NPR • “Uproariously funny.”—The Boston Globe • “An artistic triumph.”—San Francisco Chronicle • “A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced.”—The Washington Post • “Shteyngart’s best book.”—The Seattle Times
The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant... Read more
The Wildlands
By: Abby Geni
Narrated by: Carol Monda
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award-winning author of The Lightkeepers comes a page-turning new novel that explores the bond between siblings and the animal instincts that threaten to destroy them.When a Category 5 tornado ravaged Mercy, Oklahoma, no family in the small town lost more than the McClouds. Their home and farm were instantly demolished, and orphaned... Read more
View audiobookWild Fire
By: Ann Cleeves
Narrated by: Kenny Blyth
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Kenny Blyth transports listeners to the Shetland Islands with his delightful and easily understood Scots brogue." — AudioFile Magazine on Cold Earth
Wild Fire is the much-anticipated final audiobook in Ann Cleeves's beloved Shetland Island series, now a major television triumph starring Douglas Henshall.
The betrayal of those closest... Read more
The Last Palace
By: Norman Eisen
Narrated by: Jeff Goldblum
Length: 15 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses—and the lives of its occupants
When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover... Read more