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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 audiobookThe Best Cook in the World
By: Rick Bragg
Narrated by: Rick Bragg
Length: 19 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother.
Margaret Bragg does not own a single cookbook. She measures in "dabs" and "smidgens" and "tads" and "you know, hon, just some." She... Read more
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
You Think It, I'll Say It
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
Narrated by: Emily Rankin & Mark Deakins
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
“Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,”* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible
“I really loved all the characters in this book. They’re so complex and interesting, and in every story, you’ll find them going through these pivotal moments... 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
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
View audiobookGhost 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
View audiobookAnd 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
Black Swans
By: Eve Babitz
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of original short stories offers an intimate and dark portrait of life in the United States as they journey through California seeking answers to our changing world, dealing with such topics as jealousy, AIDS, sex, and Jim Morrison. Read more
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookParis 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
Dread Nation
By: Justina Ireland
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestseller * Six starred reviewsAt once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar—a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet.Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk... Read more
View audiobookThe 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
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 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 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
View audiobookI Was Anastasia
By: Ariel Lawhon
Narrated by: Jane Collingwood, Sian Thomas & Ariel Lawhon
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Frozen River comes an enthralling feat of historical suspense that unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's fifty-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian Grand Duchess or the thief of another woman's legacy?
"Tantalizing, surprising,... 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
View audiobookAru Shah and the End of Time (A Pandava Novel Book 1)
By: Roshani Chokshi
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author Rick Riordan introduces this adventure by Roshani Chokshi about twelve-year-old Aru Shah, who has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school.
While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and... 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
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
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