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Beneath the Mountain
By: Luca D'Andrea
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In Luca D’Andrea’s atmospheric and brilliant thriller, set in a small mountain community in the majestic Italian Dolomites, an outsider must uncover the truth about a triple murder that has gone unsolved for thirty years.New York City native Jeremiah Salinger is one half of a hot-shot documentary-making team. He and his partner, Mike, made a... Read more
View audiobookElmet
By: Fiona Mozley
Narrated by: Gareth Bennett Ryan
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In this atmospheric and profoundly moving debut, Cathy and Daniel live with their father, John, in the remote woods of Yorkshire, in a house the three of them built themselves. John is a gentle brute of a man, a former enforcer who fights for money when he has to, but who otherwise just wants to be left alone to raise his children. When a local... Read more
View audiobookThe Stars My Destination
By: Alfred Bester
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die.
When it comes to pop culture, Alfred Bester (1913–1987) is something of an unsung hero. He wrote radio scripts, screenplays, and comic books (in which capacity he created the... Read more
Martin Marten
By: Brian Doyle
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Dave is fourteen years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood (or as he prefers to call it, like the Multnomah tribal peoples once did, Wy'east). Dave will soon enter high school, with adulthood and a future not far off—a future away from his mother, father, his precocious younger sister, and the wilderness where he's... Read more
View audiobookA Hundred Small Lessons
By: Ashley Hay
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Through the richly intertwined narratives of two women from different generations, Ashley Hay, known for her “elegant prose, which draws warm and textured portraits as it celebrates the web of human stories” (New York Times Book Review) weaves an intricate, bighearted tale of the many small decisions—the invisible moments—that come to make a... Read more
View audiobookSilence
By: Erling Kagge
Narrated by: Atli Gunnarsson
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
What is silence?
Where can it be found?
Why is it now more important than ever?
In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book. an astonishing and... Read more
The Story of Arthur Truluv
By: Elizabeth Berg
Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg comes a wise and emotionally powerful novel about three people who’ve lost the ones they love most, only to find second chances where they least expect them.
For the past six months, Arthur Moses’s days have looked the same: He tends to his rose garden and to Gordon, his cat, then rides the... Read more
Ice Planet Barbarians
By: Ruby Dixon
Narrated by: Hollie Jackson & Mason Lloyd
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
LOST
You'd think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. And you'd be wrong. Because now, the aliens are having ship trouble, and they've left their cargo of human women—including me—on an ice planet.
FOUND
And the only native inhabitant I've met? He's big, horned, blue, and really, really has a thing for me . .... Read more
Whichwood
By: Tahereh Mafi
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Embark on a wondrous journey through the land of Whichwood in this stunning companion to Tahereh Mafi’s acclaimed bestseller Furthermore.
A Kirkus Best Book of the Year!
★ "Deliciously descriptive prose. . . . Darkly fascinating." −Kirkus
★ "Unforgettable heroine." −Booklist
★ "Mafi's language choices create visually arresting moments." –Shelf... Read more
Renegades
By: Marissa Meyer
Narrated by: Dan Bittner & Rebecca Soler
Length: 16 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
"Both narrators bring authenticity to the young characters...this fun and surprisingly thoughtful superhero tale will be a rewarding listen." — AudioFile Magazine
From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer, comes a high-stakes world of adventure, passion, danger, and betrayal. This new audiobook will pull listeners in and never let... Read more
Spineless
By: Juli Berwald
Narrated by: Juli Berwald
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"A book full of wonders" —Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk
"Witty, insightful. . . .The story of jellyfish. . . is a significant part of the environmental story. Berwald's engaging account of these delicate, often ignored creatures shows how much they matter to our oceans' future." —New York Times Book Review
Jellyfish have been swimming... Read more
It's All Relative
By: A. J. Jacobs
Narrated by: A. J. Jacobs
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, poignant quest to understand what constitutes family—where it begins and how far it goes—in It’s All Relative, a “thought-provoking…delightful, easy-to-read, informative book” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but... Read more
Bonfire
By: Krysten Ritter
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
“A suspenseful, psychologically gripping story” (Entertainment Weekly) that explores what happens when your past and present collide, from the star of Netflix’s Jessica Jones, AMC’s Orphan Black: Echoes, and author of the forthcoming novel Retreat.
“A phenomenal, haunting debut.”—Gillian Flynn
“Dark, disturbing, and compulsively readable.”—Ruth... Read more
Rosemarked
By: Livia Blackburne
Narrated by: Vikas Adam & Angela Lin
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A healer who cannot be healed . . . When Zivah falls prey to the deadly rose plague, she knows it's only a matter of time before she fully succumbs. Now she's destined to live her last days in isolation, cut off from her people and unable to practice her art-until a threat to her village creates a need that only she can fill. A soldier shattered... Read more
View audiobookWonder Valley
By: Ivy Pochoda
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
“Destined to be a classic L.A. novel.”—Michael ConnellyWhen a teen runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six characters desperate for hope and love, set across the sun-bleached canvas of Los Angeles.From the acclaimed author of Visitation Street, a visionary portrait of contemporary... Read more
View audiobookHeather, the Totality
By: Matthew Weiner
Narrated by: Matthew Weiner
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
Named a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year: The explosive debut novel about family, power, and privilege from the creator of the award-winning Mad Men.
Mark and Karen Breakstone have constructed the idyllic life of wealth and status they always wanted, made complete by their beautiful and extraordinary daughter Heather. But they are still... Read more
Twin Peaks
By: Mark Frost
Narrated by: Annie Wersching
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The crucial sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Secret History of Twin Peaks, this audiobook bridges the two series, and takes you deeper into the mysteries raised by the new series.
The return of Twin Peaks is one of the most anticipated events in the history of television. The subject of endless speculation, shrouded in mystery, fans... Read more
The Secret of Nightingale Wood
By: Lucy Strange
Narrated by: Lucy Strange
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A beautifully tangled story of friendship, fairy tales, and family secrets. For those who loved Pax and The War That Saved My Life.A Kirkus Best Middle Grade Book of 2017An Amazon Best Book of 2017A 2018 Bank Street College Best Book of the YearA Telegraph Top 50 Book of the YearEveryone is too busy to pay attention to Henrietta and the things... Read more
View audiobookIn the Midst of Winter
By: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris, Jasmine Cephas Jones & Alma...
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times and worldwide bestselling author Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil that offers “a timely message about immigration and the meaning of home” (People).
During the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, Richard... Read more
Mr. Dickens and His Carol
By: Samantha Silva
Narrated by: Euan Morton
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Narrator Euan Morton's] British-accented narration is pure delight...This imaginative story is so charming that listeners will be convinced it is fact, not fiction. A heartwarming addition to the holiday audiobook collection." — Booklist
Laced with humor, rich historical detail from Charles Dickens’ life, and clever winks to his work, Samantha... Read more
Murder on the Orient Express [Movie Tie-in]
By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A new recording of the most widely read mystery of all time, performed by Kenneth Branagh.Now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox, releasing November 10, 2017 and directed by Kenneth Branagh.“The murderer is with us - on the train now...”Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By... Read more
View audiobookMember of the Family
By: Dianne Lake & Deborah Herman
Narrated by: Dianne Lake
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youngest member of his Family and offering new insights into one of the twentieth century’s most notorious criminals and life as one of his ""girls.""At... Read more
View audiobookVacationland
By: John Hodgman
Narrated by: John Hodgman
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
“I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size.” —Jon Stewart
Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now.
Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only... Read more
Strange Weather
By: Joe Hill
Narrated by: Joe Hill, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Stephen La...
Length: 14 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Joe Hill.""One of America’s finest horror writers"" (Time magazine), Joe Hill has been hailed among legendary talents such as Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, and Jonathan Letham. In Strange... Read more
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