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Out On a Limb

By: Hannah Bonam-Young

Narrated by: Victoria Connolly

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Winnifred "Win" McNulty has always been wildly independent. Not one to be coddled for her limb difference, Win has spent most of her life trying to prove that she can do it all on her own. And, with some minor adjustments, she's done just fine.



That is until she has a one-night stand with the incredibly charming Bo, a perfect stranger. And that... Read more

Memorial

By: Bryan Washington

Narrated by: Bryan Washington & Akie Kotabe

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, O, the Oprah Magazine, Esquire, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, Refinery29, Real Simple, Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature, and... Read more

Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians

By: Brandon Sanderson

Narrated by: Ramón De Ocampo

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Experience the action-packed first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson’s laugh-out-loud middle-grade fantasy series like never before—now with all new covers!AN ANCIENT RIVALRY REAWAKENS.Everything I’d known about the world was a lie.On my thirteenth birthday, I, Alcatraz Smedry (yes, I got named after a prison, don’t... Read more

The Rule Book

By: Sarah Adams

Narrated by: Hathaway Lee & Will Damron

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • College exes break all the rules when they reunite years later in this enemies to lovers, second-chance romance, the companion novel to the TikTok sensation The Cheat Sheet—from the New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect.

“A really fun, chemistry-filled sports romance you don’t want to... Read more

Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing

By: Lauren Hough

Narrated by: Cate Blanchett & Lauren Hough

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "A memoir in essays about so many things—growing up in an abusive cult, coming of age as a lesbian in the military, forced out by homophobia, living on the margins as a working class woman and what it’s like to grow into the person you are meant to be. Hough’s writing will break your heart." —Roxane Gay, author of... Read more

Uncommon Type

By: Tom Hanks

Narrated by: Tom Hanks

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.

A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and... Read more

The Deep Sky

By: Yume Kitasei

Narrated by: Sarah Skaer

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Sarah Skaer uses her considerable vocal skill to make each crewmember instantly recognizable. Asuka is strongly characterized by her insecurity and self-doubt, though listeners will likely have more faith in her.”- Library Journal

Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with... Read more

When the Sea Came Alive

By: Garrett M. Graff

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Garrett M. Graff

Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Absolutely gripping.” —The Washington Post • “A masterpiece of oral history…stirring, surprising, grim, joyous, moving, and always riveting.” —Evan Thomas

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate comes the most complete and up-to-date account... Read more

The Swimmers

By: Julie Otsuka

Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER • From the award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that "starts as a catalogue of spoken and unspoken rules for swimmers at an aquatic center but unfolds into a powerful story of a mother’s dementia and her daughter’s love" (The... Read more

Is this Anything?

By: Jerry Seinfeld

Narrated by: Jerry Seinfeld

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in twenty-five years from “one of our great comic minds” (The Washington Post) features Seinfeld’s best work across five decades in comedy.

Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub “Catch a Rising Star” as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and... Read more

The Bookshop of Yesterdays

By: Amy Meyerson

Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading.

Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy’s bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Miranda’s twelfth birthday, Billy has a... Read more

The Grace Year

By: Kim Liggett

Narrated by: Emily Shaffer

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Emily Shaffer delivers a dynamic performance of this dystopian audiobook... She masterfully connects listeners to the characters' emotions, creating passionate and realistic performances." — AudioFile Magazine

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

A speculative thriller in the vein of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Power.... Read more

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

By: Talia Hibbert

Narrated by: Amina Koroma & Jonathan Andrew Hume

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud story about a quirky content creator and a clean-cut athlete testing their abilities to survive the great outdoors—and each other.

Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect. He’s a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top... Read more

A Proposal They Can't Refuse

By: Natalie Caña

Narrated by: Valentina Ortiz

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Utterly charming… A Proposal They Can't Refuse is a surefire winner!” —Mia Sosa, USA Today bestselling author of The Worst Best Man

Natalie Caña turns up the heat, humor and heart in this debut rom-com about a Puerto Rican chef and an Irish American whiskey distiller forced into a fake engagement by their scheming octogenarian... Read more

Ice Planet Barbarians

By: Ruby Dixon

Narrated by: Hollie Jackson & Mason Lloyd

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

LOST



You'd think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. And you'd be wrong. Because now, the aliens are having ship trouble, and they've left their cargo of human women—including me—on an ice planet.



FOUND



And the only native inhabitant I've met? He's big, horned, blue, and really, really has a thing for me . .... Read more

The Halloween Tree

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT, eight trick-or-treaters gather at the haunted house by the edge of town, ready for adventure. But when Something whisks their friend Pip away, only one man, the sinister Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud, can help the boys find him. "If you want to know what Halloween is, or if you simply want an eerie adventure, take this... Read more

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

By: David Graeber

Narrated by: Roger Davis

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Roger Davis, who earned first-class honors in media and anthropology, puts his training to good use to lead listeners through 17th- and 18th-century Malagasy history." - Library Journal

The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything.

Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance... Read more

Wicked Beauty

By: Katee Robert

Narrated by: Alex Moorcock & Zara Hampton-Brown

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In Olympus, you either have the power to rule...or you are ruled. Achilles Kallis may have been born with nothing, but as a child he vowed he would claw his way into the poisonous city's inner circle. Now that a coveted role has opened to anyone with the strength to claim it, he and his partner, Patroclus Fotos, plan to compete and double their... Read more

Daughter of the Deep

By: Rick Riordan

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times #1 best-selling author Rick Riordan pays homage to Jules Verne in his exciting modern take on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. "If you have ever craved a story that will leave your heart racing, your lungs gasping from the numerous twists and turns, your soul heaving from the effort of now carrying an ensemble cast, you will find all... Read more

Lady in the Lake

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

SOON TO BE A SERIES FROM APPLE TV!A New York Times Bestseller2020 Audie Awards® Finalist - Thriller/SuspenseThe revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the... Read more

The Hotel Balzaar

By: Kate DiCamillo

Narrated by: Allan Corduner

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In a wise and magical follow-up to The Puppets of Spelhorst, Kate DiCamillo revisits the land of Norendy, where tales swirl within tales—and every moment is a story in the making.

At the Hotel Balzaar, Marta’s mother rises before the sun, puts on her uniform, and instructs Marta to roam as she will but quietly, invisibly—like a little mouse.... Read more

Age of Vice

By: Deepti Kapoor

Narrated by: Vidish Athavale

Length: 19 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, Oprah Daily and NPR!

“Dazzling...Finally free from the book’s grip, now all I want to do is get others hooked.”— The Washington Post

“A page-turning social novel…It stirs the pulse while digging into the entrenched and... Read more

The Library of Lost and Found

By: Phaedra Patrick

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Rise and Shine Benedict Stone, now an original movie on Hallmark.

“Sweet and resonant.” —People, “Best New Books” Pick

A librarian’s discovery of a mysterious book sparks the journey of a lifetime.

Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people—though not for lack of trying. She keeps careful... Read more

Libertie

By: Kaitlyn Greenidge

Narrated by: Channie Waites

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The critically acclaimed and Whiting Award–winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman returns with Libertie, an unforgettable story about one young Black girl’s attempt to find a place where she can be fully, and only, herself. Coming of age as a freeborn Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her... Read more