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The Gilded Wolves

By: Roshani Chokshi

Narrated by: Laurie Catherine Winkel & P. J. Ochlan

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*

"[P. J. Ochlan and Laurie Catherine Winkel] animate a large cast of well-rounded characters, a complicated plot, and rich descriptions...Their strong characterizations as well as their use of accents and judicious timing suggest an exciting new series ahead." — AudioFile Magazine

This program includes a... Read more

An Anonymous Girl

By: Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Julia Whelan

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The next audiobook of psychological suspense and obsession from the authors of the blockbuster bestseller The Wife Between Us.

Seeking women ages 18–32 to participate in a study on ethics and morality. Generous compensation. Anonymity guaranteed.

When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she... Read more

Ghost Wall

By: Sarah Moss

Narrated by: Christine Hewitt

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

**Winner of a 2020 Listen List: Outstanding Audiobook Narration award**Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award**

A taut, gripping tale of a young woman and an Iron Age reenactment trip that unearths frightening behavior.

The light blinds you; there’s a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside.

In the north of England, far from the intrusions of... Read more

The Paragon Hotel

By: Lyndsay Faye

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel.

The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and fifty thousand dollars in illicit cash. She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds... Read more

Sugar Run

By: Mesha Maren

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she's sentenced to life in prison. When she's released eighteen years later, she finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop, reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom but determined to chart a better course for herself. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian Mountains, she heads... Read more

The Au Pair

By: Emma Rous

Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre & Nicola Barber

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

If V. C. Andrews and Kate Morton had a literary love child, Emma Rous' USA Today bestseller The Au Pair would be it.

One of the most anticipated books of 2019 from Pop Sugar, Bustle, Cosmo, Parade, and Goodreads!

Seraphine Mayes and her twin brother, Danny, were born in the middle of summer at their family's estate on the Norfolk coast. Within... Read more

Looker

By: Laura Sims

Narrated by: Katherine Fenton

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

*Featured on Best of Lists in Vogue, People, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, Southern Living, and more*

In this “wicked slow burn” (Entertainment Weekly) of psychological suspense from the author of How Can I Help You, a woman becomes fixated on her neighbor—the actress.

Though the two women live just a few doors apart, a chasm lies between... Read more

In an Absent Dream

By: Seanan McGuire

Narrated by: Cynthia Hopkins

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex Award-winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a Doorway

This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than... Read more

The Winter of the Witch

By: Katherine Arden

Narrated by: Kathleen Gati

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Following their adventures in The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower, Vasya and Morozko return in this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Winternight Trilogy, battling enemies mortal and magical to save both Russias, the seen and the unseen.

“A tale both intimate and epic, featuring a heroine whose... Read more

The Water Cure

By: Sophie Mackintosh

Narrated by: Hannah Murray, Gemma Whelan & Morfydd Clark

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“A gripping, sinister fable!” —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
NPR • GLAMOUR • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING • LIT HUB • THRILLIST

King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. Here on his island, women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland. The... Read more

Freefall

By: Jessica Barry

Narrated by: Hillary Huber, Karissa Vacker & MacLeod Andrews

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 Audie Finalist – Thriller/SuspenseA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2019:  Entertainment Weekly | USA Today | Parade | Cosmopolitan | New York Post | PopSugar | Goodreads
“Exhilarating, emotional -- a thriller charged with genuine depth and raw power.” — A.J. Finn author of the #1 bestselling The Woman in the Window""An absorbing treat."" — PEOPLE... Read more

The Last Whalers

By: Doug Bock Clark

Narrated by: Jay Snyder

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "immersive, densely reported, and altogether remarkable first book [with] the texture and color of a first-rate novel" (New York Times), journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers and the threats posed to a tribe on the brink.

A New York Times Notable Book​
A New York Times Editors' Choice
Winner... Read more

Max and the Midknights

By: Lincoln Peirce

Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio, Marc Thompson, Christopher ...

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Max's quest to become a knight in this laugh-filled adventure from theNew York Times bestselling author of the Big Nate series!


"Max is epic fun!" --JEFF KINNEY, New York Times bestselling author of the DIARY OF A WIMPY KID series

Max wants to be a knight! Too bad that dream is about as likely as finding a friendly dragon. But when Max's... Read more

The 30-Day Money Cleanse

By: Ashley Feinstein Gerstley

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Take control of your finances and de-stress your relationship with money! Like food, money is something all of us use but none of us talk about—creating a stressful relationship that most of us suffer from, obsess over, and try to avoid altogether because it feels too impossible to manage. No matter your income, understanding and controlling... Read more

The Gown

By: Jennifer Robson

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France comes an enthralling historical novel about one of the most famous wedding dresses of the twentieth century—Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gown—and the fascinating women who made it.

“Millions will welcome this joyous event as a flash of color on the long road we have to travel.”
—Sir... Read more

The Disasters

By: M. K. England

Narrated by: James Fouhey

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Breakfast Club meets Guardians of the Galaxy in this YA sci-fi adventure by debut author M. K. England.Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. So it’s not exactly a surprise when he’s kicked out of the elite Ellis Station Academy in less than twenty-four hours. But Nax’s one-way trip back to Earth is cut short when... Read more

The Alehouse at the End of the World

By: Stevan Allred

Narrated by: Stevan Allred

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

When a fisherman receives a mysterious letter about his beloved’s demise, he sets off in his skiff to find her on the Isle of the Dead. The Alehouse at the End of the World is an epic comedy set in the sixteenth century, where bawdy Shakespearean love triangles play out with shapeshifting avian demigods and a fertility goddess, drunken revelry,... Read more

In Our Mad and Furious City

By: Guy Gunaratne

Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith & Lou Marie Kerr

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrators Ben Bailey Smith and Lou Marie Kerr expertly intertwine multiple first-person points of view in this gritty debut audiobook...Listeners unfamiliar with the dialects — Irish, Jamaican, and British among them — will be especially buoyed by the power of the performances." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

Long-listed for the... Read more

The Dakota Winters

By: Tom Barbash

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City’s famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon’s assassination.It’s the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his... Read more

Radiant Shimmering Light

By: Sarah Selecky

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A nuanced satire—both hilarious and disconcerting—that probes the blurred lines between empowerment, spirituality, and consumerism in our online livesLilian Quick is forty, single, and childless, working as a pet-portrait artist. She paints the colored light only she can see, but animal aura portraits are a niche market at best. She’s working... Read more

Of Blood and Bone

By: Nora Roberts

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Nora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with Of Blood and Bone, a new tale of terror and magic in a brand new world.They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed.Fallon Swift, approaching... Read more

Hearts of the Missing

By: Carol Potenza

Narrated by: Laura Jennings

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Laura Jennings believably delivers the intonations of a number of Native American characters in this mystery...Overall, Jennings's reserved tone and low pitch give a note of solemnity and respect to a culture that has been historically marginalized." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

Beautifully written with a riveting plot... Read more

You Are a Badass Every Day

By: Jen Sincero

Narrated by: Jen Sincero

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, bite-sized inspiration and guidance to keep your transformation on track

For anyone who has ever had trouble staying motivated while trailblazing towards badassery, You Are a Badass Every Day is the companion to keep you fresh, grateful, mighty, and driven. In 100 exercises, reflections, and cues... Read more

Cassandra at the Wedding

By: Dorothy Baker

Narrated by: Morgan Hallett

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding.... Read more