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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

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

The Girl From Venice

By: Martin Cruz Smith

Narrated by: Zach Appelman

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From Martin Cruz Smith, “a master of the international thriller” (The New York Times), a suspenseful World War II love story set against the beauty, mystery, and danger of occupied Venice.

Venice, 1945. The war may be waning, but the city known as La Serenissima is still occupied and the people of Italy fear the power of the Third Reich. One... Read more

Nicotine

By: Nell Zink

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The ""wonderfully talented"" (Dwight Garner, New York Times) author of Mislaid returns with a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families—both the ones we’re born into and the ones we create—a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father's childhood home.Recent business... Read more

Gertie's Leap to Greatness

By: Kate Beasley

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Three Times Lucky and The Penderwicks, this endearing new classic spins together sparkling humor, sizzle-pop writing, and a sassy main character with an unforgettable voice.

Gertie Reece Foy is 100% Not-From-Concentrate awesome. She has a daddy who works on an oil rig, a great-aunt who always finds the lowest prices at the Piggly... Read more

Nimona

By: ND Stevenson

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler, Jonathan Davis, Marc Thompson, J...

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An original full cast audio adaptation of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel sensation from ND Stevenson, based on his beloved and critically acclaimed web comic.Nimona is the New York Times bestselling graphic novel sensation from ND Stevenson, based on his beloved and critically acclaimed web comic. Kirkus says, “If you’re going to... Read more

Today Will Be Different

By: Maria Semple

Narrated by: Kathleen Wilhoite

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant novel and instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.

Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her... Read more

Mercury

By: Margot Livesey

Narrated by: Derek Perkins & Nicol Zanzarella

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A taut emotional thriller about love, obsession and the secrets that pull a family apart.Donald believes he knows all there is to know about seeing. An optician in suburban Boston, he rests assured that he and his wife, Viv, who works at the local stables, will live out quiet lives with their two children. Then Mercury—a gorgeous young... Read more

The Universe Has Your Back

By: Gabrielle Bernstein

Narrated by: Gabrielle Bernstein

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller! In her latest book, The Universe Has Your Back, New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein teaches readers how to transform their fear into faith in order to live a divinely guided life. Each story and lesson in the audio guides readers to release the blocks to what they most long for: happiness,... Read more

Frazzled

By: Booki Vivat

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller, Booki Vivat's Frazzled is the first installment of a funny middle grade series about a girl who is always in a tizzy.“Hilarious.” (NPR’s All Things Considered)""Honest, sweet, and laugh-out-loud funny. Fans of Smile and Diary of a Wimpy Kid will appreciate this debut."" (Brightly.com)Meet Abbie Wu. Abbie is... Read more

Irena's Children

By: Tilar J. Mazzeo

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.

In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to... Read more

Reputations

By: Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant novel about the power of politics and personal memory from one of South America's literary stars, the New York Times bestselling author of The Sound of Things Falling.

Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country's most influential political cartoonist, the consciousness of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws,... Read more

Pushing Up Daisies

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author M. C. Beaton’s beloved Agatha Raisin is back on a case and poking around where she doesn’t belong.When Agatha Raisin left behind her public-relations business in London, she fulfilled her dream of settling in the cozy British Cotswolds where she began a successful private detective agency. Unfortunately, the... Read more

Trainwreck

By: Sady Doyle

Narrated by: Alex McKenna

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

She’s everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. 
 
She’s Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, “crack is whack,” and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself. 

From Mary Wollstonecraft—who, for decades after her death, was more famous for... Read more

Hero of the Empire

By: Candice Millard

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War
 
At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had... Read more

Where Am I Now?

By: Mara Wilson

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Thoughtfully traces [Mara Wilson's] journey from child actress to Hollywood dropout...Who is she now? She's a writer." —NPR's "Guide To 2016’s Great Reads"

“Growing up, I wanted to be Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight.” —Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City

Named a best book of the month by GoodReads and Entertainment Weekly

A... Read more

The Risen

By: Ron Rash

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash demonstrates his superb narrative skills in this suspenseful and evocative tale of two brothers whose lives are altered irrevocably by the events of one long-ago summer—and one bewitching young woman—and the secrets that could destroy their lives.While swimming in a secluded creek on a hot Sunday in... Read more

Mischling

By: Affinity Konar

Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past.

Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad.

It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and... Read more

Razor Girl

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The new full-tilt, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Bad Monkey

When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an ordinary accident is anything but (this is Hiaasen!). Behind the wheel of the other car is Merry Mansfield--the eponymous... Read more

Aristotle's Poetics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Ray Childs

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristotle's Poetics is best known for its definitions and analyses of tragedy and comedy, but it also applies to truth and beauty as they are manifested in the other arts. In our age, when the natural and social sciences have dominated the quest for truth, it is helpful to consider why Aristotle claimed poetry is more philosophical and more... Read more

Slow Days, Fast Company

By: Eve Babitz

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique voice. These stories are time capsule gems, as poignant and startling today as they were when published in the early 1970s. Eve Babitz is not well known today, but she should be. Her first hand experiences in the L.A. cultural scene, translated... Read more

The Thousandth Floor

By: Katharine McGee

Narrated by: Phoebe Strole

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestsellerNew York City as you’ve never seen it before. A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible—if you want it enough.Welcome to Manhattan, 2118.A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. But people never change: everyone here... Read more

Tell Me Something Real

By: Calla Devlin

Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Three sisters struggle with the bonds that hold their family together as they face a darkness settling over their lives in this “one of a kind” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) debut novel that’s a finalist for the William C. Morris Award.

There are three beautiful blond Babcock sisters: gorgeous and foul-mouthed Adrienne, observant and shy... Read more

The Nix

By: Nathan Hill

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 21 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, a novel that explores—with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change.

“A mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it’s also a tragicomedy about anger and... Read more