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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

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

The Lonely Hearts Hotel

By: Heather O'Neill

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE BOSTON GLOBE AND THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

"So filled with vivid descriptions and complex characters that the reader's experience is virtually cinematic. . . Utterly compelling." – The Washington Post

From the author of When We Lost Our Heads, a spellbinding story about two gifted orphans –  in love with each... 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

4 3 2 1

By: Paul Auster

Narrated by: Paul Auster

Length: 36 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

*This is an MP3 CD edition*

"...listening to 4 3 2 1 in audio is worth the commitment, thanks to the author’s easy-on-the-ears baritone" — Newsday

This program is narrated by—and includes a bonus interview with—the author.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
A New York Times , Los Angeles Times , Boston Globe , and Indiebound Bestseller

Paul... Read more

Behind Her Eyes

By: Sarah Pinborough

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Josie Dunn, Huw Parmenter & Bea ...

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

The instant New York Times and #1 international bestseller. “You should read Behind Her Eyes…It’s bloody brilliant.” —Stephen King

"An eerie thriller…Pinborough keeps us guessing about just who’s manipulating whom – until the ending reveals that we’ve been wholly complicit in this terrifying mind game.”... Read more

Dark at the Crossing

By: Elliot Ackerman

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by Amir, a charismatic Syrian refugee and former revolutionary, and Amir's wife, Daphne, a... Read more

The Fifth Petal

By: Brunonia Barry

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 18 hours

Abridged: No

Could a witch hunt happen again in Salem?

New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader Brunonia Barry returns to Salem with this spellbinding new thriller, a complex brew of suspense, seduction and murder.

When a teenage boy dies suspiciously on Halloween night, Salem's chief of police, John Rafferty, wonders if there is a connection... Read more

Perfect Little World

By: Kevin Wilson

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's just about out of options. She recently graduated from high school and is pregnant with her art teacher's baby. Her mother is dead and her father is a drunk. The art teacher is too much of a head-case to help raise the child. Izzy knows she can be a good mother but without any money or... Read more

The Girl Before

By: JP Delaney

Narrated by: Emilia Fox, Finty Williams & Lise Aagaard Knudsen

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER • Soon to be a BBC One and HBO Max limited four-part series, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw (The Morning Show; Misbehaviour) and multiple Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Emmy-nominated actor David Oyelowo (Selma; Les Misérables)
 
“A pitch-perfect novel of psychological suspense” (Lee Child) that spins one woman’s seemingly good fortune,... Read more

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

By: Kathleen Rooney

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"Between author Rooney's story and narrator Xe Sands's craftsmanship, this Walk will sweep listeners off their feet...Through Sands we feel the force of Lillian's personality — with all its drive, wit, and grace — as well as the counterforces that want to constrain it." — AudioFile Magazine

NOW A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER

A love letter to city... Read more

The Futures

By: Anna Pitoniak

Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this dazzling debut novel about love and betrayal, a young couple moves to New York City in search of success-only to learn that the lives they dream of may come with dangerous strings attached.

Julia and Evan fall in love as undergraduates at Yale. For Evan, a scholarship student from a rural Canadian town, Yale is a whole new world, and... Read more

Little Deaths

By: Emma Flint

Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone -- a single mother who works long hours as a cocktail waitress -- wakes to discover her two small children, Frankie Jr. and Cindy, have gone missing. Later that day, Cindy's body is found in a derelict lot a half mile from her home, strangled. Ten days... Read more

Carve the Mark

By: Veronica Roth

Narrated by: Austin Butler & Emily Rankin

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Globally bestselling Divergent author Veronica Roth delivers a breathtaking fantasy featuring an unusual friendship, an epic love story, and a galaxy-sweeping adventure.#1 New York Times bestseller * Wall Street Journal bestseller * USA Today bestseller * #1 IndieBound bestsellerPraise for Carve the Mark:“Roth skillfully weaves the careful... Read more

The River at Night

By: Erica Ferencik

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A “raw, relentless, and heart-poundingly real” (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) thriller set against the harsh beauty of the Maine wilderness, The River at Night charts the journey of four friends as they fight to survive the aftermath of a white water rafting accident.

Winifred Allen needs a vacation.

Stifled by a soul-crushing... Read more

Wifey's Next Deadly Hustle

By: KiKi Swinson

Narrated by: Angel Cochrane

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Kira is back for the second installment in the Wifey's Next Hustle series and she keeps getting pulled into more murders. It seems like everywhere she turns, someone else comes up dead. Now that she's aware that harm is lurking around the next corner, she starts equipping herself with an arsenal of manpower. But will that manpower help keep her... Read more

The Sleepwalker

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Cady McClain & Grace Experience

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Room comes a spine-tingling novel of lies, loss, and buried desire—the mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night.

When Annalee Ahlberg goes missing, her children fear the worst. Annalee is a sleepwalker whose affliction manifests in ways both bizarre... Read more

The Most Dangerous Place on Earth

By: Lindsey Lee Johnson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An unforgettable cast of characters is unleashed into a realm known for its cruelty—the American high school—in this captivating debut novel.

The wealthy enclaves north of San Francisco are not the paradise they appear to be, and nobody knows this better than the students of a local high school. Despite being raised with all the opportunities... Read more

The Midnight Cool

By: Lydia Peelle

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Whiting Award—winning author of the story collection Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing delivers her enchanting debut novel, set in 1916 Tennessee: a rich and rewarding tale of two flawed yet endearing grifters who pursue women, wealth, and a surprisingly valuable commodity for the troops in Europe—mules.A middle-aged Irish immigrant,... Read more

Her Every Fear

By: Peter Swanson

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the wildly popular The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying and downright Hitchcockian psychological thriller—as tantalizing as the cinema classics Rear Window and Wait Until Dark—involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation, and murder.The danger isn’t all in your head . . . Growing up,... Read more

Lucky Boy

By: Shanthi Sekaran

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani & Roxana Ortega

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy.

“Sekaran has written a page-turner that’s touching and all too real.”—People

“A fiercely compassionate story about the bonds and the bounds of motherhood and, ultimately, of love.”—Cristina Henríquez, author of The... Read more

The Dry

By: Jane Harper

Narrated by: Stephen Shanahan

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM IFC FILMS STARRING ERIC BANA

*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*

*Winner of the CWA's Gold Dagger Award**Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award*

“A breathless page-turner, driven by the many revelations Ms. Harper dreams up…You’ll love [her] sleight of hand…A secret on every page.” —The New York Times

“One of the most... Read more

Burning Bright

By: Nick Petrie

Narrated by: Stephen Mendel

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“LOTS OF CHARACTERS GET COMPARED TO MY OWN JACK REACHER, BUT PETRIE'S PETER ASH IS THE REAL DEAL.”—Lee Child

*An Entertainment Weekly Must List Pick

In the new novel featuring war veteran Peter Ash, “an action hero of the likes of Jack Reacher or Jason Bourne” (Lincoln Journal-Star), Ash has a woman’s life in his hands—and her mystery is stranger... Read more

Everything You Want Me to Be

By: Mindy Mejia

Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn, John Moraitis & Jeff Harding

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Full of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town’s darkest secrets come to the forefront...and she inches closer and closer to her death.

High school senior Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the... Read more