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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inheriting Edith

By: Zoe Fishman

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Driving Lessons, Saving Ruth, and Balancing Acts comes a poignant breakout novel about a single mother who inherits a beautiful beach house with a caveat—she must take care of the ornery elderly woman who lives in it.For years, Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients,... Read more

A Gambler's Anatomy

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face.

Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur "whales" who think they can... 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

Small Great Things

By: Jodi Picoult

Narrated by: Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell & Ari Fliakos

Length: 16 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning page-turner with richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race

Look for Jodi Picoult’s new novel, By Any Other Name, available now!

“[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking examination of racism in America... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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