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Information Doesn't Want to Be Free

By: Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton & Neil Gaiman

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This new edition features Neil Gaiman reading his own introduction!

In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow’s Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This... Read more

The Fate of the Tearling

By: Erika Johansen

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 19 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Tearling trilogy.In less than a year, Kelsea Glynn has transformed from a gawky teenager into a powerful monarch. As she has come into her own as the Queen of the Tearling, the headstrong, visionary leader has also transformed her realm. In her quest to end corruption and restore... Read more

The Whole Town's Talking

By: Fannie Flagg

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is at her superb best in this fun-loving, moving novel about what it means to be truly alive.

WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN BOOK PRIZE 

Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still... Read more

To Capture What We Cannot Keep

By: Beatrice Colin

Narrated by: Polly Stone

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young widow and an engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love.

In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Émile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris--a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground,... Read more

Normal

By: Warren Ellis

Narrated by: John Hodgman

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A smart, tight, provocative techno-thriller audiobook straight out of the very near future--by an iconic visionary writer

Some people call it "abyss gaze." Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you.

There are two types of people who think professionally about the future: Foresight strategists are civil futurists who think about... Read more

The Red Notebook

By: Antoine Laurain

Narrated by: Alex Wyndham

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Heroic bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's nothing in the bag to indicate who it belongs to, although there's all sorts of other things in it. Laurent feels a strong impulse to find the owner and tries to puzzle together who she might be from the contents of the bag. Especially a red... Read more

Moranifesto

By: Caitlin Moran

Narrated by: Joanna Neary

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran’s award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today—including three major new pieces exclusive to this book.When Caitlin Moran sat down to choose... Read more

The Princess Diarist

By: Carrie Fisher

Narrated by: Carrie Fisher & Billie Lourd

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

2018 GRAMMY® Winner for Best Spoken Word Album

The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher’s intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie.   *PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Fall 2016  *New York Times Bestseller *

When Carrie Fisher recently... Read more

I'll Take You There

By: Wally Lamb

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life—Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin’ and Hopin’—and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women.I’ll Take You There centers on Felix, a film... Read more

Writing to Save a Life

By: John Edgar Wideman

Narrated by: Roger Guenveur Smith

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis—shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Emmett Till took a train from... Read more

Heartless

By: Marissa Meyer

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Rebecca Soler, narrator of Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles, returns to narrate this program.

“Narrator Rebecca Soler delivers a take-no-prisoners performance for the third title in The Lunar Chronicles. Her instinctive delivery of Meyer's humor makes the story an addictive listen. Series fans and new listeners will be equally entranced.”... Read more

Night School - Abridged

By: Lee Child

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher!

“Another timely tour de force . . . The taut thriller is textbook [Lee] Child: fast-paced and topical with a ‘ripped from the headlines’ feel.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune

It’s 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the... Read more

Faithful

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Amber Tamblyn

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers comes a soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to redefine herself and the power of love, family, and fate.

Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best... Read more

The Terranauts

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: Lynde Houck, Joy Osmanski & Charlie Thurston

Length: 20 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A deep-dive into human behavior in an epic story of science, society, sex, and survival, from one of the greatest American novelists today, T. C. Boyle, the acclaimed, bestselling, author of the PEN/ Faulkner Award–winning World’s End and The Harder They Come.It is 1994, and in the desert near Tillman, Arizona, forty miles from Tucson, a grand... Read more

Walk Through Walls

By: Marina Abramovic

Narrated by: Marina Abramovic

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.”

In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an... Read more

You Will Not Have My Hate

By: Antoine Leiris

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional person, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hate."

On November 13, 2015, Antoine Leiris’s wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, was killed by terrorists while attending a rock concert at the Bataclan Theater in Paris, in the deadliest attack on... Read more

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World

By: Tim Marshall

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller, updated for 2016, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers—“fans of geography, history, and politics (and maps) will be enthralled” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram).

Maps have a mysterious hold over us. Whether ancient, crumbling... Read more

Children of the New World

By: Alexander Weinstein

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

AN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVVY ERA BY DEBUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER WEINSTEIN

Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these... Read more

Buffering

By: Hannah Hart

Narrated by: Hannah Hart & Judy Young

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The wildly popular YouTube personality and author of the New York Times bestseller My Drunk Kitchen is back! This time, she’s stirring up memories and tales from her past.By combing through the journals that Hannah has kept for much of her life, this collection of narrative essays deliver a fuller picture of her life, her experiences, and the... Read more

Mister Monkey

By: Francine Prose

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Nan McNamara

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children’s musical.Mister Monkey—a screwball children’s musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee—is the... Read more

Wonder Women

By: Sam Maggs

Narrated by: Jodelle Ferland

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A fun and feminist look at forgotten women in science, technology, and beyond, from the bestselling author of THE FANGIRL'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
 
You may think you know women’s history pretty well. But have you ever heard of. . .
 
·  Alice Ball, the chemist who developed an effective treatment for leprosy—only to have the credit taken by a man?
· ... Read more

The German Girl

By: Armando Lucas Correa

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

Featured in Entertainment Weekly, People, The Millions, and USA TODAY

“An unforgettable and resplendent novel which will take its place among the great historical fiction written about World War II.” —Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife

A young girl flees Nazi-occupied Germany with her... Read more

The Found and the Lost

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan & Jefferson Mays

Length: 34 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time-and introduced by the legendary author-in one breathtaking volume. Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and... Read more

The Next

By: Stephanie Gangi

Narrated by: Nicole Quinn

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"I love The Next...elegantly written, thoughtfully sharp, surprisingly touching." —Cathleen Schine

Is there a right way to die? If so, Joanna DeAngelis has it all wrong. She’s consumed by betrayal, spending her numbered days obsessing over Ned McGowan, her much younger ex, and watching him thrive in the spotlight with someone new, while she... Read more