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The Invention of Wings

By: Sue Monk Kidd

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Adepero Oduye & Sue Monk Kidd

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women
 
 
Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world—and it is now the newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0... Read more

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly

By: Sun-mi Hwang

Narrated by: Jill Larson

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A Korean Charlotte's Web

More than 2 million copies sold
 
This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch an... Read more

A Natural History of Dragons

By: Marie Brennan

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Marie Brennan begins a thrilling new fantasy series in A Natural History of Dragons, combining adventure with the inquisitive spirit of the Victorian Age.

You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart—no more so than the study of dragons itself. But such study offers rewards beyond compare: to stand in a dragon's... Read more

Fortunately, the Milk

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An absolute delight of a madcap story for the young (and young-at-heart) by New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with equal parts pirates and piranhas, adventure and aliens, oddity and love. ""I bought the milk,"" said my father. ""I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: t h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a... Read more

Styxx

By: Sherrilyn Kenyon

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 31 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The most highly-anticipated novel in the Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series since Acheron is here—the unforgettable story of Styxx, Acheron's twin brother and one of the most powerful beings on earth

Just when you thought doomsday was over . . .

Centuries ago Acheron saved the human race by imprisoning an ancient evil bent on absolute... Read more

Love in the Time of Cholera

By: Gabriel García Márquez

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people’s lives together for more than half a century.In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born... Read more

The Ghost Bride

By: Yangsze Choo

Narrated by: Yangsze Choo

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A startlingly original voice makes her literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, adventure, and fascinating, dreamlike twistsOne evening, my father asked me whether I would like to become a ghost bride. . . .Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling... Read more

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

By: Adelle Waldman

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The national bestseller, named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist, The New Republic, Bookforum, Baltimore City Paper, The Daily Beast, National Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Reader, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Buzzfeed and many others. A New York Times Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable... Read more

We Need New Names

By: NoViolet Bulawayo

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This unflinching and powerful novel tells the "deeply felt and fiercely written" story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe to America (New York Times Book Review).

Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's... Read more

The School for Good and Evil

By: Soman Chainani

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL will soon be a major motion picture from Netflix—starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh,  Sofia Wylie, Sophie Anne Caruso, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Kit Young, and more! 
The New York Times bestselling School for Good and Evil series is an epic journey into... Read more

Fox 8

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world.

Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regarded with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until Fox 8... Read more

Fearless

By: Cornelia Funke

Narrated by: Elliot Hill

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacob Reckless returns once again to the Mirrorworld--filled with profound characters, extraordinary creatures, and epic life-or-death treasure hunts that could only come from the mind of the master storyteller of our generation, Cornelia Funke.

Jacob Reckless has only a few months left to live. He's tried everything to shake the Fairy curse... Read more

Strong Poison

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

Narrated by: Ian Carmichael

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Dashing detective Lord Peter Wimsey is caught up in the murder trial of mystery writer Harriet Vane. Her fianc├® has died of poisoning exactly as described in one of Harriet's novels—so naturally she is the prime suspect. As Peter looks on, he not only falls in love with the accused but eagerly helps with Harriet's defense when the first trial... Read more

Frances and Bernard

By: Carlene Bauer

Narrated by: Angela Brazil & Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Bernard Elliot, a poet, and Frances Reardon, a fiction writer, meet at a writers' colony during the summer of 1957 and begin a friendship and correspondence. Bernard, well-born and Harvard-educated, is gregarious, reckless, and passionate; Frances, the precocious daughter of a middle-class Irish family, is circumspect, wry, and more than a... Read more

Ever After

By: Kim Harrison

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 18 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Witch-turned-daywalking-demon Rachel Morgan needs to save the demonic realm of the Ever After in the eleventh entry in the New York Times bestselling Hollows series from supernatural adventure master Kim Harrison.When Rachel sets off a chain of events that could lead to the end of the world—demonic and human—she must use her gifts to save those... Read more

The Hero and the Crown

By: Robin McKinley

Narrated by: Roslyn Alexander

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An outcast princess must earn her birthright as a hero of the realm—in this “utterly engrossing” Newbery Medal–winning fantasy (The New York Times).Aerin is an outcast in her own father’s court, daughter of the foreign woman who, it was rumored, was a witch, and enchanted the king to marry her.She makes friends with her father’s lame, retired... Read more

On Looking

By: Alexandra Horowitz

Narrated by: Alexandra Horowitz

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy, this “elegant and entertaining” (The Boston Globe) explanation of how humans perceive their environments “does more than open our eyes...opens our hearts and minds, too, gently awakening us to a world—in fact, many worlds—we’ve been missing” (USA... Read more

Every Dead Thing

By: John Connolly

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Length: 15 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.

Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his... Read more

The Middlesteins

By: Jami Attenberg

Narrated by: Molly Ringwald

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live.

When Richard abandons... Read more

Iron Hearted Violet

By: Kelly Barnhill

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Newbery Medal winner Kelly Barnhill spins a wondrously different kind of fairy-tale: In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. But this isn't most fairy tales...

Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling... Read more

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

By: Robin Sloan

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life—mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore

The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone—and serendipity, sheer... Read more

Talking to the Dead

By: Harry Bingham

Narrated by: Siriol Jenkins

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A mesmerizing and thrilling novel—perfect for fans of Tana French and Stieg Larsson—that introduces a modern, unforgettable rookie cop whose past is as fascinating and as deadly as the crimes she investigates.
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times

SHE KNOWS WHAT IT’S LIKE. . . .
 
At first, the murder scene... Read more

It's Kind of a Funny Story

By: Ned Vizzini

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he... Read more

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

By: Maria Semple

Narrated by: Kathleen Wilhoite

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this "whip-smart and divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times).

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in... Read more