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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Come with Me

By: Helen Schulman

Narrated by: Sarah Naughton

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From Helen Schulman, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller This Beautiful Life, comes another ""gripping, potent, and blisteringly well-written story of family, dilemma, and consequence"" (Elizabeth Gilbert)—a mind-bending novel set in Silicon Valley that challenges our modern constructs of attachment and love, purpose and... Read more

The Adults

By: Caroline Hulse

Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins, Peter Kenny & Sarah Ovens

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“If Love, Actually and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation are your two favorite holiday movies, you’re going to love The Adults.”—Bustle

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE • “Sometimes a nasty family comedy is just what you need for the holidays.”—Entertainment Weekly

Meet The Adults.

Claire and Matt are no longer together... Read more

The Museum of Modern Love

By: Heather Rose

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Our hero, Arky Levin, has reached a creative dead end. An unexpected separation from his wife was meant to leave him with the space he needs to work composing film scores, but it has provided none of the peace of mind he needs to create. Guilty and restless, it is almost by chance that he stumbles upon an art exhibit that will change his... Read more

What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape

By: Sohaila Abdulali

Narrated by: Sohaila Abdulali

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

After surviving gang-rape at seventeen in Mumbai, Sohaila Abdulali was indignant about the deafening silence that followed and wrote a fiery piece about the perception of rape—and rape victims—for a women's magazine. Thirty years later, with no notice, her article reappeared and went viral in the wake of the 2012 fatal gang-rape in New Delhi,... Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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