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Ring Shout

By: P. Djèlí Clark

Narrated by: Channie Waites

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In America, demons wear white hoods.In 1915, The Birth of a Nation casts a spell across America, swelling the Klan’s ranks and drinking deep from thedarkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. Theyplan to bring hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die.Standing in their way... Read more

Watership Down

By: Richard Adams

Narrated by: Peter Capaldi

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most beloved novels of our time, Watership Down is an epic journey, a stirring tale of adventure, courage, and survival.Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren; he felt sure of it. They had to leave immediately. So begins a long and perilous journey of survival for a small band of rabbits.As the... Read more

The Hotel Nantucket

By: Elin Hilderbrand

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“The queen of beach reads” (New York Magazine) and #1 New York Times ​bestselling author delivers an immensely satisfying page-turner in this tale about a summer of scandal at a storied Nantucket hotel.

Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she’s named the... Read more

Beasts of a Little Land

By: Juhea Kim

Narrated by: Sue Jean Kim & Raymond Lee

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

""A spectacular debut filled with great characters and heart.” —Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret FanFINALIST FOR THE 2022 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE · FINALIST FOR THE BALCONES FICTION PRIZE · LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN AWARDAn epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence... Read more

Last Call at the Local

By: Sarah Grunder Ruiz

Narrated by: Gary Furlong & Karissa Vacker

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Opposites attract when a free-spirited American singer-songwriter with ADHD teams up with a charming Irishman to revitalize his family's pub in the next heartfelt romance from the author of Luck and Last Resorts.

Raine Hart is used to the challenges of living with ADHD. It’s why she ditched her life in Boston to busk around Europe as a traveling... Read more

The Wreckage of My Presence

By: Casey Wilson

Narrated by: Casey Wilson

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

""Magnificent."" —People MagazineThe instant New York Times bestseller: Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multitalented actress, comedian, podcaster, and writer Casey Wilson.Casey Wilson has a lot on her mind and she isn’t afraid to share. In this dazzling collection, each essay skillfully constructed and brimming... Read more

Upgrade

By: Blake Crouch

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “If Michael Crichton had written a superhero novel, it would look a lot like Upgrade.”—The New York Times Book Review

“You don’t so much sympathize with the main character as live inside his skin.”—DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series
 
“Mysterious, fascinating, and deeply... Read more

The Princess Trap

By: Talia Hibbert

Narrated by: Cornell Collins

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Talia Hibbert comes a story of wicked royals, fake engagements, and the fed-up office worker trapped in the midst of it all . . .



Cherry Neita is thirty, flirty, and done with men. As far as she can tell, they're overrated, overpaid, and underperforming—in every area of life. But a girl has needs, and the smoking-hot... Read more

The Trumpet of the Swan

By: E. B. White

Narrated by: E. B. White

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis is a Trumpeter Swan, but he has no voice. Though he is frightened when his father explains to him that he is different from the other cygnets, Louis is resourceful and determined. Leaving his wild and beautiful home, he finds a young human friend, Sam Beaver, who helps him learn to read and write. When he returns to his lake, Louis... Read more

Falling

By: T. J. Newman

Narrated by: Steven Weber

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Terrifying…buckle up for a chilling summer read.” —People (Best Books of the Week)
“The perfect thriller! A must-read.” —Gillian Flynn
“Stunning and relentless. This is Jaws at 35,000 feet.” —Don Winslow

You just boarded a flight to New York.

There are one hundred and forty-three other... Read more

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

By: Nathan Thrall

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times.

Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing,... Read more

Hide

By: Kiersten White

Narrated by: Emma Galvin

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this “marvelously creepy thrill ride of a book that keeps twisting until the very end” (Karen M. McManus, author of One of Us Is Lying) 

“The suspenseful plot combines elements of Thomas Tryon’s classic Harvest Home, Netflix’s Squid Game, and the social commentary of... Read more

The Last Train to London

By: Meg Waite Clayton

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe—and one brave woman who helped them escape to safety.In... Read more

The Spectacular

By: Fiona Davis

Narrated by: Rachel L. Jacobs & Kimberly Farr

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times Bestselling Author of The Magnolia Palace: A thrilling story about love, sacrifice, and the pursuit of dreams, set amidst the glamour and glitz of Radio City Music Hall in its mid-century heyday.

New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her high school sweetheart is about to propose... Read more

Squeeze Me

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A hilarious novel of social and political intrigue, set against the glittering backdrop of Florida’s gold coast, from the author of Skinny Dip and Razor Girl

“If you could use some wild escapism right now, Hiaasen is your guy.” —The New York Times

WITH A NEW EPILOGUE

At the height of Palm Beach’s charity ball season,... Read more

Family Upstairs

By: Lisa Jewell

Narrated by: Tamaryn Payne, Bea Holland & Dominic Thorburn

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA COVER TO COVER BOOK CLUB PICK

“Rich, dark, and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect.” —Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author

“A haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read.” —Megan Miranda, New York... Read more

Expiration Dates

By: Rebecca Serle

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer returns with “a romantic gem” (Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author) about a young woman who decides to finally live for herself rather than rely on the universe for answers.

Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man,... Read more

Brave the Wild River

By: Melissa L. Sevigny

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran... Read more

The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"The plotting is intricate, following the points of view of many characters from the past and present, all of whom are expertly performed by Adam Lazarre-White." - Library Journal

"Adam Lazarre-White narrates this terrifying debut novel with a Southern drawl that puts the gothic into this gothic thriller."- AudioFile

A terrifying Gothic thriller... Read more

A Burning: A Read with Jenna Pick

By: Megha Majumdar

Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Priya Ayyar, Deepti Gupta, Ulka Sim...

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK! • A "gripping thriller with compassionate social commentary"  (USA Today) about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies—and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India.

Jivan is a Muslim... Read more

With the Fire on High

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 Audie Awards® WINNER - Narration by Author
2020 Audie Awards® Finalist - Young Adult From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright.
Don't miss the audiobook, read by... Read more

The Great When

By: Alan Moore

Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Great When by Alan Moore, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.

This audiobook features an exclusive essay, The True History of What Didn’t Happen, written and read by Alan Moore.

From the New York Times bestselling author and legendary storyteller Alan Moore, the first book in an enthralling new fantasy series about murder,... Read more

The Blonde Identity

By: Ally Carter

Narrated by: Emily Ellet & Andrew Eiden

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

""A unique, delightful, hilarious, unputdownable romance… I’m wonderstruck by The Blonde Identity!"" — Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love HypothesisThe New York Times bestselling YA author of the beloved Gallagher Girls series bursts onto the adult scene with a fast-paced, hilarious road trip rom-com about a woman with... Read more

The Rage of Dragons

By: Evan Winter

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this blockbuster debut epic fantasy about a world caught in an eternal war, and the young man who will become his people's only hope for survival.

Winner of the Reddit/Fantasy Award for Best Debut Fantasy Novel

The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable war for almost two hundred years. The lucky ones are... Read more