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Convenience Store Woman
By: Sayaka Murata
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world. So when she takes a job in a convenience store while at the university, they are delighted. For her part, she finds a predictable world in the convenience store, mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the... Read more
View audiobookHarry's Trees
By: Jon Cohen
Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
Length: 15 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A grieving widower, a determined girl, a courageous librarian and a mysterious book come together in an uplifting tale of love, loss, friendship and redemption.
Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, Harry, despairing, retreats north to lose himself in the remote woods of the... 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
View audiobookPlum 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
View audiobookVisible 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
View audiobookThe 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
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
View audiobookLIFEL1K3 (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
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
View audiobookGods 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
View audiobookSh*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
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
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
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
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
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
View audiobookWhen 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
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
Barracoon
By: Zora Neale Hurston
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade—abducted from Africa on the last ""Black Cargo"" ship to arrive in... Read more
View audiobookMy 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
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
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
View audiobookMr. 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