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The Girl Who Smiled Beads

By: Clemantine Wamariya & Elizabeth Weil

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not—could not—live in that tale.”
 
Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were... Read more

Noir

By: Christopher Moore

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco, and featuring a diverse cast of characters, including a hapless bartender; his Chinese sidekick; a doll with... Read more

The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky

By: Jana Casale

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Kirkus Reviews, "11 Debuts You Need to Pay Attention To"
HelloGiggles, "Books you don't want to miss"
Bustle, "Books you need to know"

An ambitious debut, at once timely and timeless, that captures the complexity and joys of modern womanhood.  This novel is gem like—in its precision, its many facets, and its containing multitudes. Following in the... Read more

Ghost Boys

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

Narrated by: Miles Harvey

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes.

Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better.

Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he... Read more

After Anna

By: Lisa Scottoline

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb & Mozhan Marnò

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline comes a fast-paced, thrilling new audiobook.

Nobody cuts deeper than family...

Dr. Noah Alderman, a widower and single father, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie Ippolitti, and for the first time in a long time, he and his young son are happy. Despite her longing for the daughter she... Read more

You Go First

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

Narrated by: Amielynn Abellera

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Funny and poignant, Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestseller Erin Entrada Kelly’s national bestseller You Go First is an exploration of family, bullying, word games, art, and the ever-complicated world of middle school friendships.In a starred review, School Library Journal wrote that Erin Entrada Kelly can “capture moments of tween... Read more

And Now We Have Everything

By: Meaghan O'Connell

Narrated by: Meaghan O'Connell

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up.

When Meaghan O'Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby, she realized that the book she needed -- a brutally honest, agenda-free reckoning with the emotional and existential impact of motherhood -- didn't exist. So... Read more

The Explorer

By: Katherine Rundell

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Katherine Rundell comes an exciting new novel about a group of kids who must survive in the Amazon after their plane crashes. Fred, Con, Lila, and Max are on their way back to England from Manaus when the plane they're on crashes and the pilot dies upon landing. For days they survive alone, until Fred... Read more

The Man Who Caught the Storm

By: Brantley Hargrove

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, “one of today’s great science writers” (The Washington Post).

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last... Read more

The Recovering

By: Leslie Jamison

Narrated by: Leslie Jamison

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction.

With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction... Read more

Paris by the Book

By: Liam Callanan

Narrated by: Kim Bubbs

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris

Once a week, I chase men who are not my husband. . . .

When eccentric novelist Robert Eady abruptly vanishes, he leaves behind his wife, Leah, their daughters, and, hidden in an unexpected spot, plane tickets to Paris.

Hoping to uncover... Read more

The Female Persuasion

By: Meg Wolitzer

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller
 
“A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens." —Bustle

“Ultra-readable.” —Vogue 
 
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, comes an electric novel not just about who we want to be with, but who we want... Read more

The Oracle Year

By: Charles Soule

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling comic-book franchise writer Charles Soule comes a clever and witty first novel of a twentysomething New Yorker who wakes up one morning with the power to predict the future—perfect for fans of Joe Hill and Brad Meltzer, or books like This Book Is Full of Spiders and Welcome to Night Vale.Knowledge is power. So when an unassuming... Read more

In Other Lands

By: Sarah Rees Brennan

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 17 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The Borderlands aren't like anywhere else. Don't try to smuggle a phone or any other piece of technology over the wall that marks the Border—unless you enjoy a fireworks display in your backpack. (Ballpoint pens are okay.) There are elves, harpies, and—best of all as far as Elliot is concerned—mermaids.



Elliot? Who's Elliot? Elliot is thirteen... Read more

The Road to Unfreedom

By: Timothy Snyder

Narrated by: Timothy Snyder

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature. Authoritarianism first returned in Russia, as Putin developed a political system dedicated solely to the consolidation and exercise of... Read more

The Parker Inheritance (Scholastic Gold)

By: Varian Johnson

Narrated by: Cherise Boothe

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

A Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor winner * Four Starred Reviews * Over Ten Best-of-Year Lists"Powerful.... Johnson writes about the long shadows of the past with such ambition that any reader with a taste for mystery will appreciate the puzzle Candice and Brandon must solve." -- The New York Times Book ReviewA Coretta Scott King Author Honor and... Read more

Stray City

By: Chelsey Johnson

Narrated by: Natalie Moore

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the complications of belonging—to a city, a culture, and a family—when none of them can quite contain who you really are.All of us were refugees of the nuclear family . . .Twenty-four-year-old artist Andrea Morales escaped her Midwestern Catholic... Read more

The Italian Teacher

By: Tom Rachman

Narrated by: Sam Alexander

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“An exotic touch of intrigue arises in THE ITALIAN TEACHER . . . deliciously ironic and deeply affectionate.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
 
A masterful novel about the son of a great painter striving to create his own legacy, by the bestselling author of The Imperfectionists.

Conceived while his father, Bear, cavorted around Rome in the... Read more

The Italian Party

By: Christina Lynch

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Italian Party by Christina Lynch is a delicious and sharply funny audiobook about “innocent” Americans abroad in 1950s Siena.

Newly married, Scottie and Michael are seduced by Tuscany's famous beauty. But the secrets they are keeping from each other force them beneath the splendid surface to a more complex view of ltaly, America and each... Read more

Anatomy of a Miracle

By: Jonathan Miles

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Funny, bighearted...Miles specializes in giving fully rounded humanity to characters who might elsewhere be treated as stock figures...pitch-perfect.”
— New York Times Book Review

"Miles is a writer so virtuosic that readers will feel themselves becoming better, more observant people from reading him."
— Los Angeles Review of Books

A profound new... Read more

The Reluctant Fortune-Teller

By: Keziah Frost

Narrated by: Carly Robins

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A retired accountant becomes the town’s fortune-teller in this witty and charming debut

Norbert Zelenka has always lived life on the sidelines. It’s why at seventy-three years old he’s broke and alone except for the company of a Chihuahua. But when “Carlotta’s Club”—three strong-willed seniors with plenty of time on their hands—decide to make... Read more

Census

By: Jesse Ball

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of towns.When a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn’t have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will care for his adult son—a son whom he fiercely... Read more

Speak No Evil

By: Uzodinma Iweala

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi & Julia Whelan

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, a revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences.On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, D.C., he’s a top... Read more

The Terminal List

By: Jack Carr

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring a new foreword read by the author!

#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR

“Take my word for it, James Reece is one rowdy motherf***er. Get ready!” —Chris Pratt, star of the #1 Amazon Prime series The Terminal List

A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American... Read more