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The Terrible

By: Yrsa Daley-Ward

Narrated by: Yrsa Daley-Ward & Howard Daley-Ward

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize • Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award

“Devastating and lyrical.” —The New York Times

“Suspenseful and affecting.” —The New Yorker

From the celebrated poet behind bone, a collection of poems that tells a story of coming-of-age, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the world, going under, and finding... Read more

Visible Empire

By: Hannah Pittard

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From a writer who "deserves the attention of anyone in search of today's best fiction"* comes an epic novel-based on true events-of wealth, race, grief, and love, charting one sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged (*Washington Post) It's a humid summer day when the phones begin to ring: disaster has struck. Air France Flight... Read more

Mariam Sharma Hits the Road

By: Sheba Karim

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Three Pakistani-American teenagers, on a trip through the land of pork ribs, mechanical bulls, and Confederate flags. It’s going to be quite an adventure.The summer after her freshman year of college, Mariam is looking forward to working and hanging out with her best friends: irrepressible and beautiful Ghazala and religious but closeted... Read more

The Bird and the Blade

By: Megan Bannen

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping and tragic debut novel perfect for fans of The Wrath and the Dawn and Megan Whalen Turner.The Bird and the Blade is a lush, powerful story of life and death, battles and riddles, lies and secrets from author Megan Bannen. Enslaved in Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom . . . until the... Read more

Plum Rains

By: Andromeda Romano-Lax

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In Tokyo, Angelica Navarro, a Filipina nurse who has been working in Japan for the last five years, is the caretaker for Sayoko Itou, an intensely private woman about to turn 100 years old. Angelica is a dedicated nurse, working night and day to keep her paperwork in order, obey the strict labor laws for foreign nationals, study for her ongoing... Read more

Save the Cat!

By: Blake Snyder

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Here's what started the phenomenon: the bestseller, for over fifteen years, that's been used by screenwriters around the world! Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny, and candid look inside the movie business. Save the Cat is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying, others... Read more

LIFEL1K3 (Lifelike)

By: Jay Kristoff

Narrated by: Erin Spencer

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Illuminae Files comes the first book in a new series that's part Romeo and Juliet, part Terminator, and all adrenaline.

On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. Seventeen-year-old Eve isn't looking for trouble--she's too busy... Read more

Gods of Howl Mountain

By: Taylor Brown

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

In Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country of 1950s North Carolina.Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood—a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at... Read more

Well, That Escalated Quickly

By: Franchesca Ramsey

Narrated by: Franchesca Ramsey

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A sharp and timely exploration of race, online activism, and real communication in the age of social media rants, trolls, and call-out wars, from veteran video blogger and star of MTV's Decoded Franchesca Ramsey.

Franchesca Ramsey didn't set out to be an activist. Or a comedian. Or a commentator on identity, race, and culture, really. But then... Read more

Furyborn

By: Claire Legrand

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 17 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The stunningly original, must-read fantasy follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it.

When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood. To prove... Read more

Sh*tshow!

By: Charlie LeDuff

Narrated by: Charlie LeDuff

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A daring, firsthand, and utterly-unscripted account of crisis in America, from Ferguson to Flint to Cliven Bundy's ranch to Donald Trump's unstoppable campaign for President--at every turn, Pulitzer-prize winner and bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy, Charlie LeDuff was there

In the Fall of 2013, long before any sane person had... Read more

The High Season

By: Judy Blundell

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“A mesmerizing, head-spinning—and sometimes madcap-hilarious—take of have and have-nots.”—People (Book of the Week)

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE AND KIRKUS REVIEWS • “In the smart, breezy, sweet spot between Meg Wolitzer and Elin Hilderbrand.”—Entertainment Weekly

No matter what the world throws her way, at least... Read more

Pops

By: Michael Chabon

Narrated by: Michael Chabon

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Magical prose stylist” Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays—heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise—on the meaning of fatherhood.For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon, then thirteen, to Paris Men’s Fashion Week. Possessed with a... Read more

The Ensemble

By: Aja Gabel

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Pitch-perfect." —People

"You won’t be able to quit these characters." —goop

The addictive novel about four young friends navigating the cutthroat world of classical music and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love intertwine over the course of their lives.

Jana. Brit. Daniel. Henry. They would never have been... Read more

When Einstein Walked with Gödel

By: Jim Holt

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From Jim Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought, an entertaining and accessible audiobook guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries

Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right... Read more

My Ex-Life

By: Stephen McCauley

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"In McCauley's entertaining audiobook...[Narrator George Newbern's] tone is skillfully timed for subtle humor and thoughtful wisdom. He hits just the right notes as multiple characters face major decisions in their lives." — AudioFile Magazine

From Stephen McCauley comes a long-anticipated audiobook about love, life, and friendship.

David Hedges’s... Read more

Warlight

By: Michael Ondaatje

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BEST SELLER

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.

In a narrative... Read more

Our Kind of Cruelty

By: Araminta Hall

Narrated by: Eleanor Matsuura & Nick Hendrix

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is simply one of the nastiest and most disturbing thrillers I've read in years. In short: I loved it, right down to the utterly chilling final line." —Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl

A spellbinding, darkly twisted audiobook about desire and obsession, and the complicated lines between truth and perception, Our... Read more

Love and Ruin

By: Paula McLain

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful novel of the stormy marriage between Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, a fiercely independent woman who became one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century—from the author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark

“Romance, infidelity, war—Paula McLain’s powerhouse novel has it... Read more

Mr. Flood's Last Resort

By: Jess Kidd

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Himself comes a spellbinding and “magically entertaining read” (Good Housekeeping, UK) about a lonely caregiver and a cranky hoarder with a house full of secrets that “will appeal to fans of Tana French and Sophie Hannah, as it charms and unsettles in equal measure” (BookPage).

Maud Drennan is a dedicated... Read more

Tradition

By: Brendan Kiely

Narrated by: Alex McKenna & Robbie Daymond

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Brendan Kiely, a stunning new novel that explores the insidious nature of tradition at a prestigious boarding school.

Prestigious. Powerful. Privileged. This is Fullbrook Academy, an elite prep school where history looms in the leafy branches over its brick walkways. But some traditions... Read more

Endling #1: The Last

By: Katherine Applegate

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this first book of an epic middle grade series, Katherine Applegate takes us on an unforgettable journey.A New York Times bestseller from the beloved author of the action-packed Animorphs series and the award-winning The One and Only Ivan.Byx is the youngest member of her dairne pack. Believed to possess remarkable abilities, her mythical... Read more

The Best Cook in the World

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 19 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother.

Margaret Bragg does not own a single cookbook. She measures in "dabs" and "smidgens" and "tads" and "you know, hon, just some." She... Read more

You Think It, I'll Say It

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

Narrated by: Emily Rankin & Mark Deakins

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,”* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible

“I really loved all the characters in this book. They’re so complex and interesting, and in every story, you’ll find them going through these pivotal moments... Read more