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Putney
By: Sofka Zinovieff
Narrated by: Michelle Ford
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man twenty years her senior.A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s, gifted composer Ralph Boyd is approached by... Read more
View audiobookHow Are You Going to Save Yourself
By: JM Holmes
Narrated by: Damien Christopher
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" (Kirkus, starred review).
Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young... Read more
Ohio
By: Stephen Markley
Narrated by: Caitlin Davies, Jayme Mattler, Joy Osmanski, Jo...
Length: 16 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
“Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.” —NPR
“[A] descendent of the Dickensian ‘social novel’ by way of Jonathan Franzen: epic fiction that lays bare contemporary culture clashes, showing us who we are and how we got here.” —O,... Read more
The Sea Queen
By: Linnea Hartsuyker
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 17 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
An exhilarating Viking saga filled with the rich history, romantic adventure and political intrigue that have made Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander, George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, as well as Phillippa Gregory’s historical fiction and Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology popular bestsellers. Six years after The Half-Drowned King, Ragnvald Eysteinsson... Read more
View audiobookRicher Than Sin
By: Meghan March
Narrated by: Erin Mallon & Joe Arden
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author Meghan March comes a brand new saga of forbidden love and second chances.They say a Riscoff and a Gable can never live happily ever after. Not with a family feud that is the stuff of legends.I used to believe that—until I caught a glimpse of a woman who took my breath away. I didn’t know or care what her... Read more
View audiobookThe Bad Seed
By: William March
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling novel that inspired Mervyn LeRoy's classic horror film about the little girl who can get away with anything—even murder.
There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers... Read more
Under a Dark Sky
By: Lori Rader-Day
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 11 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
From the critically-acclaimed author of The Day I Died comes a terrifying twist on a locked-room mystery that will keep listeners guessing until the last words.Only in the dark can she find the truth . . .Since her husband died, Eden Wallace's life has diminished down to a tiny pinprick, like a far-off star in the night sky. She doesn't work,... Read more
View audiobookChesapeake Requiem
By: Earl Swift
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Smithsonian, Popular Science, Bloomberg, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Review of Books, Science Friday, and Kirkus ""BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING AND... Read more
View audiobookThe Reservoir Tapes
By: Jon McGregor
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Justine Eyre, Sarah Nichols, ...
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Returning us to the extraordinary territory of Jon McGregor’s Man Booker Prize long-listed novel Reservoir 13, The Reservoir Tapes take us deep into the heart of an English village that is trying to come to terms with what has happened on its watch.A teenage girl has gone missing. The whole community has been called upon to join the search. And... Read more
View audiobookThe Middleman
By: Olen Steinhauer
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
"Steinhauer once again demonstrates his mastery in creating suspense...Ari Fliakos calmly narrates while capturing colorfully the array of characters in this multilayered book." — Washington Post
In The Middleman, Olen Steinhauer, New York Times bestselling author of ten titles, including The Tourist and The Cairo Affair, delivers a compelling... Read more
Tiffany Blues
By: M. J. Rose
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of The Library of Light and Shadow crafts “an enchanting glimpse of Jazz Age New York” (Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train) about a young painter whose traumatic past threatens to derail her career at a prestigious summer artists’ colony run by Louis Comfort Tiffany... Read more
View audiobookBaby, You're Gonna Be Mine
By: Kevin Wilson
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Johanna Parker
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine, Kevin Wilson’s first story collection in nearly a decade, Wilson combines his signature quirkiness with his keen eye for emotional complexity to explore the fraught relationship between parents and children.“Wildfire Johnny” is the story of a man who discovers a magic razor that allows him to travel back in time.... Read more
View audiobookThe Black and the Blue
By: Matthew Horace & Ron Harris
Narrated by: Matthew Horace
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive managing high-profile investigations nationwide. Yet it was not until seven years into his... Read more
View audiobookGoodbye, Paris
By: Anstey Harris
Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
* International Bestseller * A Book of the Month Club Pick*
The Little Paris Bookshop meets Jojo Moyes in Goodbye, Paris, an utterly charming novel that proves that sometimes you have to break your heart to make it whole.
From the simple melody of running her violin shop to the full-blown orchestra of her romantic interludes in Paris with David,... Read more
If You Leave Me
By: Crystal Hana Kim
Narrated by: Greta Jung & Keong Sim
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
""If You Leave Me is graced with truly wonderful writing; great poise, lyricism, intelligence, and an utterly engrossing portrayal of life.""—Richard Ford""An unforgettable story of family, love, and war set against the violent emergence of modern Korea.""—Gary Shteyngart ""A gripping, heartrending tale of the birth of modern Korea filtered... Read more
View audiobookIf They Come for Us
By: Fatimah Asghar
Narrated by: Fatimah Asghar
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Abridged: No
“A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice.”—Booklist
“Elegant and playful . . . The poet invents new forms and updates classic ones.”—Elle
“[Fatimah] Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed or flexible.”—The New Yorker
NAMED ONE OF... Read more
Forks, Knives, and Spoons
By: Leah DeCesare
Narrated by: Vanessa Moyen
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
For readers who love Adriana Trigiani, Jennifer Weiner and Liane Moriarty, Forks, Knives, and Spoons is a light-hearted, thought-provoking coming of age story that takes readers on a nostalgic journey back to the 1980s and 1990s. Romantic, witty and warm.
There are three kinds of guys: forks, knives, and spoons. That is the final lesson that... Read more
Fruit of the Drunken Tree
By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez, Almarie Guerra & Ingrid Rojas ...
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
“One of the most dazzling and devastating novels I’ve read in a long time...Readers of Fruit of the Drunken Tree will surely be transformed.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Simultaneously propulsive and poetic, reminiscent of Isabel Allende...Listen to this new author’s voice — she has something powerful to say.”
—Entertainment Weekly
A mesmerizing debut... Read more
The Cheerleaders
By: Kara Thomas
Narrated by: Phoebe Strole
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
"Sharp, brilliantly plotted, and totally engrossing."--KAREN M. MCMANUS, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying
"A crafty, dark, and disturbing story."--KATHLEEN GLASGOW, New York Times bestselling author of Girl In Pieces
"A little bit Riverdale and a little bit Veronica Mars."--RILEY SAGER, bestselling author of Final Girls
A... Read more
The Incendiaries
By: R. O. Kwon
Narrated by: Keong Sim
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a National Bestseller
"Religion, politics, and love collide in this slim but powerful novel reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History, with menace and mystery lurking in every corner." --People Magazine
"The most buzzed-about debut of the summer, as it should be...unusual and enticing ... The Incendiaries arrives at precisely the right... Read more
A Noise Downstairs
By: Linwood Barclay
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of No Time for Goodbye returns with a haunting psychological thriller that blends the twists and turns of Gillian Flynn with the driving suspense of Harlan Coben, in which a man is troubled by odd sounds for which there is no rational explanation.College professor Paul Davis is a normal guy with a normal... Read more
View audiobookGhosted
By: Rosie Walsh
Narrated by: Katherine Press
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Instant New York Times bestseller!
"I absolutely loved this book and didn't want it to end." --Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies
“This is an ‘accidentally stayed up until 4 a.m. because it's impossible to put down’ kind of novel.” --USA Today
Seven perfect days. Then he disappeared. A love story with a secret... Read more
Baby Teeth
By: Zoje Stage
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A battle of wills between mother and daughter reveals the frailty and falsehood of familial bonds in award-winning playwright and filmmaker Zoje Stage’s tense audiobook of psychological suspense, Baby Teeth.
Afflicted with a chronic debilitating condition, Suzette Jensen knew having children would wreak havoc on her already fragile body.... Read more
Give Me Your Hand
By: Megan Abbott
Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A life-changing secret destroys an unlikely friendship in this "magnetic" psychological thriller from the Edgar Award-winning author of Dare Me and The Turnout (Meg Wolitzer).
You told each other everything. Then she told you too much.
Kit has risen to the top of her profession and is on the brink of achieving everything she wanted. She hasn't let... Read more