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Tony's Wife

By: Adriana Trigiani

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller • People’s Book of the Week“A heartfelt tale of love too stubborn to surrender to human frailties."" — Kirkus ReviewsSet in the lush Big Band era of the 1940s, this spellbinding saga from beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani tells the story of two talented working class kids who marry and become a... Read more

Five Feet Apart

By: Rachael Lippincott

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski & Corey Brill

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Also a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson!
Goodreads Choice Winner, Best Young Adult Fiction of 2019

In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel that’s perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within a few feet of each other... Read more

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

By: Kristen R. Ghodsee

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done right, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work-life balance and, yes, even better sex.

In a witty, irreverent op-ed piece that went viral, Kristen Ghodsee argued that women had better sex under socialism. The... Read more

Witness

By: Ariel Burger

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protégé and friend of one of the world’s great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as an extraordinary human being, but as a master teacher.The world remembers Elie Wiesel—Nobel laureate, activist,... Read more

A Ladder to the Sky

By: John Boyne

Narrated by: Richard E. Grant, Richard Cordery, Nina Sosanya...

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“A satire of writerly ambition wrapped in a psychological thriller . . . An homage to Patricia Highsmith, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, but its execution is entirely Boyne’s own.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE

Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and... Read more

Empire of Sand

By: Tasha Suri

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 16 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A nobleman's daughter with magic in her blood. An empire built on the dreams of enslaved gods. Empire of Sand is Tasha Suri's lush, dazzling, Mughal India-inspired debut fantasy.

"An ode to the quiet, fierce strength of women. . .pure wonder." -- Samantha Shannon, New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree

"Stunning and... Read more

Night of Miracles

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful novel about surprising friendships, community, and the way small acts of kindness can change a life, from the bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur Truluv, she has begun to teach baking classes,... Read more

Long Road to Mercy

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Kyf Brewer

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Introducing a remarkable new character from #1 New York Times bestselling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States who must confront a new threat . . . and an old nightmare.

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Catch a tiger by its toe.

It's seared into Atlee Pine's... Read more

Heirs of the Founders

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy

In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a... Read more

The Western Wind

By: Samantha Harvey

Narrated by: Nyasha Hatendi

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove Saturday, an explanation has to be found: accident, suicide or murder? The village priest, John Reve, is privy to many secrets in his role as confessor. But will he be able to unravel what... Read more

The Souls of Yellow Folk

By: Wesley Yang

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without the jargon, formulas, and polite lies that bore us all. His powerful debut, The Souls of Yellow Folk, does more than collect a decade's worth of cult-reputation essays—it corrals new American herds of pickup artists, school shooters, mandarin... Read more

The Devil You Know

By: Mike Carey

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of The Girl With All the Gifts Mike Carey presents the first book in his hip supernatural thriller series featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor.

Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stomping ground. It may seem like a good ghostbuster can charge what he likes and enjoy a hell of a lifestyle, but there's a risk:... Read more

Those Who Knew

By: Idra Novey

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"Read this now, because everyone you know will be talking about it by early 2019." —Washington Post

From the award-winning author of Ways to Disappear, a taut, timely story about what a powerful politician thinks he can get away with and the group of misfits who finally bring him down.

On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a... Read more

Forever and a Day

By: Anthony Horowitz

Narrated by: Matthew Goode

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking readers into the very beginning of James Bond’s illustrious career and the formation of his... Read more

The Lonesome Bodybuilder

By: Yukiko Motoya

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Brian Nishii, Erin Bennett, Ric...

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique―which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking businessmen struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon―until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A woman working in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a... Read more

Why Religion?

By: Elaine Pagels

Narrated by: Lynde Houck

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these questions.These questions took on a new... Read more

This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

By: Kacen Callender

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

~Lambda Literary Award finalist for the best LGBT YA novel of 2018~A fresh, charming rom-com perfect for fans of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Boy Meets Boy about Nathan Bird, who has sworn off happy endings but is sorely tested when his former best friend, Ollie, moves back to town.Nathan Bird doesn’t believe in happy endings. Although... Read more

I Might Regret This

By: Abbi Jacobson

Narrated by: Abbi Jacobson

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a "poignant, funny, and beautifully unabashed" (Cheryl Strayed) New York Times bestselling essay collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew.
When Abbi Jacobson announced to friends and acquaintances that she planned... Read more

Elevation

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award

From legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting story about “an ordinary man in an extraordinary condition rising above hatred” (The Washington Post) and bringing the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine together—a “joyful, uplifting” (Entertainment Weekly) tale... Read more

Marilla of Green Gables

By: Sarah McCoy

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables . . . before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak—and unimaginable... Read more

The Midnight Witness

By: Sara Blaedel

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Rookie homicide detective Louise Rick makes her debut in this thrilling #1 international bestseller that launched 3 million copy bestselling writer Sara Blaedel's incredible career.

A young woman is found strangled in a park, and a male journalist has been killed in the backyard of the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen.

Detective Louise Rick is put... Read more

Little

By: Edward Carey

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE

"An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I... Read more

The Reckoning

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • John Grisham's most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet • “A murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga.” —USA Today
 
October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi

Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi’s favorite son—a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father,... Read more

Reveling in Sin

By: Meghan March

Narrated by: Joe Arden & Erin Mallon

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Reveling in Sin is the third book in New York Times bestselling author Meghan March’s epically romantic and addictive Sin Trilogy.Whitney Gable is the kind of woman you fight to the death to protect. To keep. To cherish.I’ve finally learned my lesson, and it’s time to prove I’m the man who’s worthy of her.I don’t care what it takes, because... Read more