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A Simple Favor

By: Darcey Bell

Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Xe Sands & Matthew Waterson

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively and Henry Golding, and directed by Paul FeigShe’s your best friend. She knows all your secrets. That’s why she’s so dangerous.A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and... Read more

Mississippi Blood

By: Greg Iles

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 28 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Don’t miss the latest Natchez Burning novel, SOUTHERN MANThe endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, his family, and the enemies bent on destroying them in this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy set in modern-day Natchez, Mississippi—Greg Iles’s epic tale of love and honor, hatred and revenge that explores how the sins of the past continue to... Read more

The Fall of Lisa Bellow

By: Susan Perabo

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The breakout novel from the critically acclaimed author of the short story collections Who I Was Supposed to Be and Why They Run the Way They Do—when a middle school girl is abducted in broad daylight, a fellow student and witness to the crime copes with the tragedy in unforgettable ways.

What happens to the girl left behind?

A masked man with a... Read more

One of the Boys

By: Daniel Magariel

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A “gripping and heartfelt” (The New York Times Book Review) story about two young brothers contending with the love they have for their abusive father, One of the Boys is “one of the most striking debut novels of the year” (Rolling Stone).

The three of them—a twelve-year-old boy, his older brother, their father—have won the war: the father’s term... Read more

White Tears

By: Hari Kunzru

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe, Danny Campbell & Dominic Hoffman

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

White Tears is a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues.


"An incisive meditation on race, privilege and music. Spanning decades, this novel brings alive the history of old-time blues and America’s racial... Read more

The Wanderers

By: Meg Howrey

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them—and their families—changed forever.
 
“A transcendent, cross-cultural, and cross planetary journey into the mysteries of space and... Read more

The Hollywood Daughter

By: Kate Alcott

Narrated by: Erin Spencer

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker and A Touch of Stardust, comes a Hollywood coming-of-age novel, in which Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini forces her biggest fan to reconsider everything she was raised to believe

In 1950, Ingrid Bergman—already a major star after movies like Casablanca and Joan of... Read more

Edgar and Lucy

By: Victor Lodato

Narrated by: Victor Lodato

Length: 19 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"I love this book. Profoundly spiritual and hilariously specific...an unusual and intimate epic that manages to capture the wonder and terror of both child and parenthood with an uncanny clarity." — Lena Dunham, bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl

Edgar and Lucy is a page-turning literary masterpiece—a stunning examination of family love... Read more

Ill Will

By: Dan Chaon

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos, Edoardo Ballerini, Michael Crouch,...

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two sensational unsolved crimes—one in the past, another in the present—are linked by one man’s memory and self-deception in this chilling novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Wall Street Journal • NPR • The New York Times • Los Angeles Times •... Read more

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times Best Seller
A Skimm Reads Pick
An NPR Best Book of 2017

From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend.

A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise... Read more

The Hearts of Men

By: Nickolas Butler

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Camp Chippewa, 1962. Nelson Doughty, age thirteen, social outcast and overachiever, is the Bugler, sounding the reveille proudly each morning. Yet this particular summer marks the beginning of an uncertain and tenuous friendship with a popular boy named Jonathan.Over the years, Nelson, irrevocably scarred from the Vietnam War, becomes... Read more

Close Enough to Touch

By: Colleen Oakley

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“A witty, inventive, and bittersweet” (Beth Hoffman, New York Times bestselling author) love story for anyone who’s ever wanted something—or someone—just out of reach, Close Enough to Touch will delight fans of Jojo Moyes’s One Plus One and Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Project.

Can you miss something you never had?

Jubilee Jenkins is no ordinary... Read more

All Grown Up

By: Jami Attenberg

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins comes a wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection. Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she's a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it's... Read more

Celine

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, masterful novel of suspense--the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past.

Working out of her jewel box of an apartment at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, Celine has made... Read more

See You in the Cosmos

By: Jack Cheng

Narrated by: Kivlighan de Montebello, Brittany Pressley, Gra...

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A space-obsessed boy and his dog, Carl Sagan, take a journey toward family, love, hope, and awe in this funny and moving novel for fans of Counting by 7s and Walk Two Moons.
 
11-year-old Alex Petroski loves space and rockets, his mom, his brother, and his dog Carl Sagan—named for his hero, the real-life astronomer. All he wants is to launch his... Read more

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

By: Jennifer Ryan

Narrated by: Various

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Just because the men have gone to war, why do we have to close the choir? And precisely when we need it most!"
  
As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived to the village of Chilbury, emboldens the women of the town to defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to shutter the church's choir... Read more

Setting Free the Kites

By: Alex George

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the “lyrical and compelling” (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope.
 
For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who... Read more

Devil in Spring

By: Lisa Kleypas

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author LISA KLEYPAS delivers the unforgettable tale of a strong-willed beauty who encounters her match in one of London’s most notorious—yet irresistible—rakes . . .An eccentric wallflower  . . .Most debutantes dream of finding a husband. Lady Pandora Ravenel has different plans. The ambitious young beauty would much... Read more

The Playbook

By: Kwame Alexander

Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A companion book to his bestselling and Newbery winning book The Crossover, The Playbook is Kwame Alexander's dynamic, sports-infused guide to life! You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar. What can we imagine for ourselves? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life?... Read more

North and South

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Clare Wille

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

When Margaret Hale moves with her father from the comfort of the south of England to the industrial north, she is at first repulsed by what she sees; and then when she discovers the conditions under which the workers are forced to live, she is outraged. But this throws her into direct conflict with the powerful young mill-owner, John Thornton.... Read more

The Impossible Fortress

By: Jason Rekulak

Narrated by: Griffin Newman

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Last One at the Wedding—a sweet coming-of-age story about young love that’s an “endearing, full embrace of the late 1980s” (USA TODAY) and a delightful blend of humor, heart, and the universal experience of growing up.

Fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin is living the dream of every nerd in New... Read more

Desperation Road

By: Michael Farris Smith

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture starring Mel Gibson: a Mississippi-set southern noir where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect.

For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sits in Parchman Penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta. His sentence is now up, and he believes his debt has been paid.... Read more

King's Cage

By: Victoria Aveyard

Narrated by: Amanda Dolan, Adenrele Ojo & Erin Spencer

Length: 17 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The third book in the thrilling #1 New York Times bestselling series!In this breathless third installment to Victoria Aveyard’s #1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen series, rebellion is rising and allegiances will be tested on every side. Perfect for fans of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.Mare Barrow is a prisoner, powerless... Read more

A Separation

By: Katie Kitamura

Narrated by: Katherine Waterston

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A PBS NewsHour/New York Times Book Club Pick

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

Named a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Refinery29, Town & Country, Harper's Bazaar, NYLON, BookRiot.

“Kitamura’s prose gallops, combining Elena Ferrante-style intricacies with... Read more