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It's All Relative

By: A. J. Jacobs

Narrated by: A. J. Jacobs

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, poignant quest to understand what constitutes family—where it begins and how far it goes—in It’s All Relative, a “thought-provoking…delightful, easy-to-read, informative book” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but... Read more

Bonfire

By: Krysten Ritter

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“A suspenseful, psychologically gripping story” (Entertainment Weekly) that explores what happens when your past and present collide, from the star of Netflix’s Jessica Jones, AMC’s Orphan Black: Echoes, and author of the forthcoming novel Retreat.

“A phenomenal, haunting debut.”—Gillian Flynn

“Dark, disturbing, and compulsively readable.”—Ruth... Read more

Renegades

By: Marissa Meyer

Narrated by: Dan Bittner & Rebecca Soler

Length: 16 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Both narrators bring authenticity to the young characters...this fun and surprisingly thoughtful superhero tale will be a rewarding listen." — AudioFile Magazine

From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer, comes a high-stakes world of adventure, passion, danger, and betrayal. This new audiobook will pull listeners in and never let... Read more

Rosemarked

By: Livia Blackburne

Narrated by: Angela Lin & Vikas Adam

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A healer who cannot be healed . . . When Zivah falls prey to the deadly rose plague, she knows it's only a matter of time before she fully succumbs. Now she's destined to live her last days in isolation, cut off from her people and unable to practice her art-until a threat to her village creates a need that only she can fill. A soldier shattered... Read more

Heather, the Totality

By: Matthew Weiner

Narrated by: Matthew Weiner

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Named a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year: The explosive debut novel about family, power, and privilege from the creator of the award-winning Mad Men.

Mark and Karen Breakstone have constructed the idyllic life of wealth and status they always wanted, made complete by their beautiful and extraordinary daughter Heather. But they are still... Read more

The Secret of Nightingale Wood

By: Lucy Strange

Narrated by: Lucy Strange

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautifully tangled story of friendship, fairy tales, and family secrets. For those who loved Pax and The War That Saved My Life.A Kirkus Best Middle Grade Book of 2017An Amazon Best Book of 2017A 2018 Bank Street College Best Book of the YearA Telegraph Top 50 Book of the YearEveryone is too busy to pay attention to Henrietta and the things... Read more

In the Midst of Winter

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris, Jasmine Cephas Jones & Alma...

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times and worldwide bestselling author Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil that offers “a timely message about immigration and the meaning of home” (People).

During the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, Richard... Read more

Twin Peaks

By: Mark Frost

Narrated by: Annie Wersching

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The crucial sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Secret History of Twin Peaks, this audiobook bridges the two series, and takes you deeper into the mysteries raised by the new series.

The return of Twin Peaks is one of the most anticipated events in the history of television. The subject of endless speculation, shrouded in mystery, fans... Read more

Strange Weather

By: Joe Hill

Narrated by: Joe Hill, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Stephen La...

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Joe Hill.""One of America’s finest horror writers"" (Time magazine), Joe Hill has been hailed among legendary talents such as Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, and Jonathan Letham. In Strange... Read more

Reckless Daughter

By: David Yaffe

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Joni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released ten experimental, challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people with the beauty of their language and the rawness of their emotions, both deeply personal to Mitchell and universally relatable to her audience. In this intimate... Read more

Seven Days of Us

By: Francesca Hornak

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A family can’t escape their secrets when they’re forced to spend a week in quarantine in this “sharply funny” (People) novel—an Indie Next and #1 Library Reads Pick!

It's Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrew's elder daughter—who is usually off saving the world—will be... Read more

Smile

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Roddy Doyle

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, a bold, haunting novel about the uncertainty of memory and how we contend with the past.

"It's his bravest novel yet; it's also, by far, his best." -- npr.org

“The closest thing he’s written to a psychological thriller."– The New York Times Book Review

Just moved into a new... Read more

The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures

By: Aaron Mahnke

Narrated by: Aaron Mahnke

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating, beautifully illustrated guide to the monsters that are part of our collective psyche, featuring stories from the Lore podcast—now a streaming television series—including “They Made a Tonic,” “Passed Notes,” and “Unboxed,” as well as rare material.

They live in shadows—deep in the forest, late in the night, in the dark recesses of... Read more

Red Famine

By: Anne Applebaum

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 17 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes—the consequences of which still resonate today

In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian... Read more

Logical Family

By: Armistead Maupin

Narrated by: Armistead Maupin

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

""A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers, and the story of his life is a story as fascinating, as delightful and as compulsive as any of the tales he has made up for us.""—Neil Gaiman""I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decades ago, and his... Read more

The Last Ballad

By: Wiley Cash

Narrated by: Karen White & Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of the celebrated A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy returns with this eagerly awaited new novel, set in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina in 1929 and inspired by actual events. The chronicle of an ordinary woman’s struggle for dignity and her rights in a textile mill, The Last... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 17 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Great Expectations, recognized as Charles Dickens' finest novel, is told by Pip, an orphan who lives with his sister and her husband, the village blacksmith. The young boy's life is changed forever when he meets and aids an escaped convict who wanders into his yard. Years later, Pip is sent to live with the decaying, bitter Miss Havisham and... Read more

The Refrigerator Monologues

By: Catherynne M. Valente

Narrated by: Karis A. Campbell

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comics.



From the New York Times bestselling author Catherynne Valente comes a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female heroes, and anyone who's ever been "refrigerated": comic... Read more

An Enchantment of Ravens

By: Margaret Rogerson

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller!
An Indie Next Top 10 Pick
A Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Winner

“A funny, action-packed, and sweet romance.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
“A phenomenal read.” —RT Book Reviews

A skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts—even as she falls in love with a faerie... Read more

Five-Carat Soul

By: James McBride

Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Nile Bullock, Prentice Onayemi & ...

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017

“A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor... McBride at his brave and joyous best.” —New York Times Book Review

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King... Read more

I Will Find You

By: Detective Lieutenant Joe Kenda

Narrated by: Detective Lieutenant Joe Kenda

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Detective Lt. Joe Kenda, star of Homicide Hunter, shares his deepest, darkest, and never before revealed case files from his 19 years as a homicide detective.

Are you horrified yet fascinated by abhorrent murders? Do you crave to know the gory details of these crimes, and do you seek comfort in the solving of the most gruesome?

In I Will Find... Read more

The Ninth Hour

By: Alice McDermott

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Euan Morton's] steady, gentle delivery allows McDermott's elegant prose to shine. It's a quiet story about love and sacrifice that manages to be extremely moving without becoming sentimental or maudlin. Morton's performance similarly brims with emotion but never overflows." — AudioFile magazine

A magnificent new audiobook from one of America’s... Read more

Thanks, Obama

By: David Litt

Narrated by: David Litt

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRemember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? David Litt does. In his comic, coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back to the Obama years – and charts a path forward in the age of Trump.More than any other presidency, Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House were defined by young... Read more

Caroline

By: Sarah Miller

Narrated by: Elizabeth Marvel

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this novel authorized by the Little House estate, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before—Caroline Ingalls, ""Ma"" in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little... Read more