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The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

By: Megan Mullally & Nick Offerman

Narrated by: Nick Offerman & Megan Mullally

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman reveal the full story behind their epic romance--presented in a series of intimate conversations between the couple.

The year: 2000. The setting: Los Angeles. A gorgeous virtuoso of an actress agreed to star in a random play, and a basement-dwelling scenic carpenter said he would assay a supporting role in the... Read more

The Witch of Willow Hall

By: Hester Fox

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Steeped in Gothic eeriness."--Nicola Cornick, USA Today bestselling author

In Salem, they burned. Now, they will rise.

New Oldbury, 1821

The house holds its breath, trying to outlast me…

Something has awakened in Willow Hall. Eighteen-year-old Lydia Montrose can feel it. But she has no idea what it is.

Rocked by rumor and scandal, Lydia, her... Read more

Consumed

By: J.R. Ward

Narrated by: Jim Frangione, Hillary Huber, Pete Simonelli & ...

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and “master of contemporary romance, with heroes so hot they set the pages on fire” (Gena Showalter, New York Times bestselling author), a steamy romantic suspense novel about arson investigator, Anne Ashburn, who is consumed by her troubled past, her family’s scorched legacy, and her current case:... Read more

Scribe

By: Alyson Hagy

Narrated by: Shannon McManus

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting, evocative tale about the power of storytellingA brutal civil war has ravaged the country, and contagious fevers have decimated the population. Abandoned farmhouses litter the isolated mountain valleys and shady hollows. The economy has been reduced to barter and trade.In this craggy, unwelcoming world, the central character of Scribe... Read more

Zero Sum Game

By: S. L. Huang

Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A blockbuster, near-future science fiction thriller, S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game introduces a math-genius mercenary who finds herself being manipulated by someone possessing unimaginable power…

Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every... Read more

The Lost Sisters

By: Holly Black

Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes the difference between a love story and a horror story is where the ending comes...

While Jude fought for power in the Court of Elfhame against the cruel Prince Cardan, her sister Taryn began to fall in love with the trickster, Locke.

Half-apology and half-explanation, it turns out that Taryn has some secrets of her own to reveal.

The... Read more

Southern Discomfort

By: Tena Clark

Narrated by: Tena Clark

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“Southern Discomfort is a raw, thought-provoking examination of privilege, racism, sexism, the masks we wear to conform to society’s expectations, and the journey toward authentic identity.” —Read with Us: Caste, An Oprah’s Book Club Discussion Guide

For fans of beloved memoirs like Educated and The Glass Castle, a “raw and deeply honest”... Read more

Firefly

By: Henry Porter

Narrated by: Matt Addis

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the refugee camps of Greece to the mountains of Macedonia, a thirteen-year-old boy is making his way to Germany and to safety. Codenamed "Firefly," he holds vital intelligence: unparalleled insight into a vicious ISIS terror cell, and details of their plans. But the terrorists are hot on his trail, determined he won't live to pass on the... Read more

The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel

By: Alyssa Palombo

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel enchants with a concoction of love, longing, and loss plucked from the bones of one of our most enduring and haunting legends." - Erin Lindsay McCabe, USA Today bestselling author of I Shall Be Near to You

When Ichabod Crane arrives in the spooky little village of Sleepy Hollow as the new schoolmaster, Katrina... Read more

There Will Be No Miracles Here

By: Casey Gerald

Narrated by: Casey Gerald

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR AND THE NEW YORK TIMES
A PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK

"Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside himself. Extraordinary." —Marlon James

"Staccato prose and... Read more

How to Be a Good Creature

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Sy Montgomery

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be transformative. No one knows this better than author, naturalist, and adventurer Sy Montgomery. To research her books, Sy has traveled the world and encountered some of the planet's rarest and most beautiful animals. From tarantulas to tigers, Sy's life continually intersects with and... Read more

The Magic Misfits: The Second Story

By: Neil Patrick Harris

Narrated by: Christina Hendricks & Neil Patrick Harris

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris comes the magical second book in the New York Times bestselling Magic Misfits series--with even more tricks up its sleeve.

Growing up in an orphanage, Leila was bullied for being different. She turned her hardship into skill by becoming an escape artist--a valuable trait when you belong to a group... 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

Can We All Be Feminists?

By: June Eric-Udorie

Narrated by: Various

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"As timely as it is well-written, this clear-eyed collection is just what I need right now."  —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming

"The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to read" (Bustle), edited by a feminist activist and writer who "calls to mind a young Audre Lorde" (Kirkus)

Why do some women struggle to identify as... Read more

Your Duck Is My Duck

By: Deborah Eisenberg

Narrated by: Deborah Eisenberg, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moor...

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form, performed by a remarkable cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, and Wallace Shawn.At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight,... Read more

Waiting for Eden

By: Elliot Ackerman

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“Patiently, and unflinchingly, Ackerman is becoming one of the great poet laureates of America’s tragic adventurism across the globe.” —Pico Iyer

Eden lies in a hospital bed, unable to move or speak. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his room. We see them through the eyes of Eden’s best friend, a fellow Marine who didn’t make it back... Read more

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

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

Daemon 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

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

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

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

Guilty as Sin

By: Meghan March

Narrated by: Erin Mallon & Joe Arden

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Guilty as Sin is the second book in New York Times bestselling author Meghan March’s epically romantic and addictive Sin Trilogy.Guilty until proven innocent. That’s the way the world works, right?I’m tired of being convicted without evidence, all because my last name is Gable.The Riscoffs might own this town, but I’m done following their... 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