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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
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
By: Imogen Hermes Gowar
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 17 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction“Wonderful… completely transporting.” —Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles ""Historical fiction at its finest, combining myth and legend with the brutal realities of the past. . . . Comparisons will be drawn to the works of contemporary authors... Read more
View audiobookImpostors
By: Scott Westerfeld
Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Deception. Risk. Betrayal. Redemption. Master storyteller Scott Westerfeld is at the top of his game, and back to his most famous realm. A New York Times bestseller.Frey and Rafi are inseparable . . . two edges of the same knife. But only one of them is ever seen in public.Frey is Rafi's twin sister-and her body double. Their powerful father has... Read more
View audiobookFierce Fairytales
By: Nikita Gill
Narrated by: Nikita Gill
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women.
Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: beautiful, silent princesses; ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses; girls who need rescuing; and men who take all the glory.
But in this... Read more
The Real Lolita
By: Sarah Weinman
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
“The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov’s masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness.” —David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower MoonVladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of... Read more
View audiobookThe Winter Soldier
By: Daniel Mason
Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The epic story of war and medicine from the award-winning author of The Piano Tuner is "a dream of a novel...part mystery, part war story, part romance" (Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See).
Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of... Read more
Foe
By: Iain Reid
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
*Now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal*
A taut, psychological thriller from Iain Reid, “one of the most talented purveyors of weird, dark narratives in contemporary fiction” (Los Angeles Review of Books).
Severe climate change has ravaged the country, leaving behind a charred wasteland. Junior and Henrietta live a... Read more
A Key to Treehouse Living
By: Elliot Reed
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Mark Haddon, Tony Earley, and Jonathan Safran Foer, an epic tale of boyhood from an unforgettable new voice.
"Disorienting, weirdly wise, indescribably transparent, impossibly recognizable. Fun, too." —Joy Williams
A Key to Treehouse Living is the adventure of William Tyce, a boy without parents, who grows up near a river... Read more
Feminasty
By: Erin Gibson
Narrated by: Erin Gibson
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From the wickedly funny and feminist creator and host of the Throwing Shade podcast, a collection of hilarious personal essays and political commentary perfect for fans of Lindy West and Roxane Gay.
Since women earned the right to vote a little under one hundred years ago, our progress hasn't been the Olympic sprint toward gender equality... Read more
The Wildlands
By: Abby Geni
Narrated by: Carol Monda
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award-winning author of The Lightkeepers comes a page-turning new novel that explores the bond between siblings and the animal instincts that threaten to destroy them.When a Category 5 tornado ravaged Mercy, Oklahoma, no family in the small town lost more than the McClouds. Their home and farm were instantly demolished, and orphaned... Read more
View audiobookWild Fire
By: Ann Cleeves
Narrated by: Kenny Blyth
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Kenny Blyth transports listeners to the Shetland Islands with his delightful and easily understood Scots brogue." — AudioFile Magazine on Cold Earth
Wild Fire is the much-anticipated final audiobook in Ann Cleeves's beloved Shetland Island series, now a major television triumph starring Douglas Henshall.
The betrayal of those closest... Read more
Lake Success
By: Gary Shteyngart
Narrated by: Arthur Morey & Soneela Nankani
Length: 13 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
“Spectacular.”—NPR • “Uproariously funny.”—The Boston Globe • “An artistic triumph.”—San Francisco Chronicle • “A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced.”—The Washington Post • “Shteyngart’s best book.”—The Seattle Times
The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant... Read more
Leave No Trace
By: Mindy Mejia
Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the “compelling” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) and critically acclaimed Everything You Want Me to Be, a riveting and suspenseful thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a boy and his stunning return ten years later.
“A tense and gripping read that plumbs the depths of grief and longing...As thrilling as a whitewater rapid... Read more
The Last Palace
By: Norman Eisen
Narrated by: Jeff Goldblum
Length: 15 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses—and the lives of its occupants
When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover... Read more
The Diary of a Bookseller
By: Shaun Bythell
Narrated by: Robin Laing
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Shaun Bythell owns the Bookshop, Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover’s paradise? Well, almost … In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at... Read more
View audiobookMusashi
By: Eiji Yoshikawa
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 53 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsmanMiyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai—without really knowing what it meant—he regains consciousness after the battle to find... Read more
View audiobookHarbor Me
By: Jacqueline Woodson
Narrated by: N'Jameh Camara, Jacqueline Woodson, Toshi Widof...
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
Jacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories.
It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat--by themselves, with... Read more
Stygian
By: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Narrated by: Holter Graham
Length: 26 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon brings us back to the astonishing world of the Dark-Hunters in Stygian, with a hero misunderstood by many…but most of all by himself.I have lived for thousands of years, believing myself to be something I’m not. Someone I’m not.Trained as a slayer and predator, I’ve learned to become a tool... Read more
View audiobookFrench Exit
By: Patrick deWitt
Narrated by: Lorna Raver
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration.Frances Price – tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature – is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her... Read more
View audiobookDark Lord of Derkholm
By: Diana Wynne Jones
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Length: 13 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Mr. Chesney operates Pilgrim Parties, a tour group that takes paying participants into an outer realm where the inhabitants play frightening and foreboding roles. The time has come to end the staged madness . . . but can it really be stopped?
Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones serves up twists and turns, introduces Querida, Derk, Blade, and... Read more
Darius the Great Is Not Okay
By: Adib Khorram
Narrated by: Michael Levi Harris
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Darius doesn't think he'll ever be enough, in America or in Iran. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this unforgettable debut introduces a brilliant new voice in contemporary YA.
Winner of the William C. Morris Debut Award
“Heartfelt, tender, and so utterly real. I’d live in this book forever if I could.”
—Becky Albertalli, award-winning author of... Read more
Whiskey When We're Dry
By: John Larison
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 15 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book by Entertainment Weekly, O Magazine, Goodreads, Southern Living, Outside Magazine, Oprah.com, HelloGiggles, Parade, Fodor’s Travel, Sioux City Journal, Read it Forward, Medium.com, and NPR’s All Things Considered.
"A thunderclap of originality, here is a fresh voice and fresh take on one of the oldest stories we tell about... Read more
Tragedy Plus Time
By: Adam Cayton-Holland
Narrated by: Adam Cayton-Holland
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
“Inspiring, tragic, and at times heart-rendingly funny.” —People
Unsentimental, unexpectedly funny, and incredibly honest, Tragedy Plus Time is a love letter to every family that has ever felt messy, complicated, or (even momentarily) magnificent.
Meet the Magnificent Cayton-Hollands, a trio of brilliant, acerbic teenagers from Denver, Colorado,... Read more
Vox
By: Christina Dalcher
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S AND SHEREADS' BOOKS TO READ AFTER THE HANDMAID'S TALE
“[An] electrifying debut.”—O, The Oprah Magazine
“The real-life parallels will make you shiver.”—Cosmopolitan
Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, Vox is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one... Read more