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Witchmark

By: C.L. Polk

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER of the 2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and a finalist for the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, and the Lammy Award!C. L. Polk arrives on the scene with Witchmark, a stunning, addictive fantasy that combines intrigue, magic, betrayal, and romance. The New York Times calls it “thoroughly charming and deftly paced … an accomplished... Read more

The Lonely Hearts Book Club

By: Lucy Gilmore

Narrated by: Angie Kane

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her. Their sparring is such a highlight of Sloane's day that when Arthur doesn't... Read more

The Wicked Bargain

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

Narrated by: Vico Ortiz

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

El Diablo is in the details in this Latinx pirate fantasy starring a transmasculine nonbinary teen with a mission of revenge, redemption, and revolution. From the New York Times bestselling author of Most Ardently.

On Mar León de la Rosa's sixteenth birthday, el Diablo comes calling. Mar is a transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate hiding a magical... Read more

Shantaram

By: Gregory David Roberts

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower

Length: 42 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on his own extraordinary life, Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram is a mesmerizing novel about a man on the run who becomes entangled within the underworld of 1980s Bombay—the basis for the Apple + TV series starring Charlie Hunnam.

“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make,... Read more

Witchcraft

By: Marion Gibson

Narrated by: Rose Akroyd

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

National Bestseller
A New Yorker Best Book of 2024

A “thought-provoking and timely” (The Times, London) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history.

This “inventive and... Read more

On Juneteenth

By: Annette Gordon-Reed

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the nation’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction... Read more

In Pieces

By: Sally Field

Narrated by: Sally Field

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In this haunting memoir, an American icon tells her story of a challenging childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother.

One of the most celebrated and beloved actors of our time, Sally Field has an infectious charm that has captivated the nation for more than five... Read more

Made for You

By: Jenna Satterthwaite

Narrated by: Bailey Carr

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“Mary Shelley in the Bachelor era…feminist as hell.”
—Katie Gutierrez, nationally bestselling author of More Than You’ll Ever Know

Hi. My name is Julia. I’m a Synth. And I’m here to find love…

Synthetic woman Julia Walden was designed for one reason: to compete on The Proposal and claim the heart of bachelor Josh LaSala. Her casting is... Read more

Poor Deer

By: Claire Oshetsky

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life—from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire OshetskyMargaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her... Read more

Do Nothing

By: Celeste Headlee

Narrated by: Celeste Headlee

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“A welcome antidote to our toxic hustle culture of burnout.”—Arianna Huffington
“This book is so important and could truly save lives.”—Elizabeth Gilbert
“A clarion call to work smarter [and] accomplish more by doing less.”—Adam Grant
 
We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable?
 
Despite our constant search for new... Read more

Disappearing Earth

By: Julia Phillips

Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

National Book Award Finalist
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize
Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award 

National Best Seller

"Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester
"A... Read more

Dread Nation

By: Justina Ireland

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestseller * Six starred reviewsAt once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar—a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet.Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk... Read more

Master and Commander

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the dawn of the nineteenth century; Britain is at war with Napoleon's France. Jack Aubrey, a young lieutenant in Nelson's navy, is promoted to command of H.M.S. Sophie?, an old, slow brig unlikely to make his fortune. But Captain Aubrey is a brave and gifted seaman, his thirst for adventure and victory immense. With the aid of his friend... Read more

Liberation Day

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders, Tina Fey, Michael McKean, Edi ...

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

MacArthur "genius" and Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of December

The “best short story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores... Read more

The Accidental Apprentice

By: Amanda Foody

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller!

A boy who accidentally bonds with a magical Beast must set off on an adventure in the mysterious Woods in this “wholesome, delightful” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), and cheeky middle grade fantasy debut—perfect for fans of Nevermoor and How to Train Your Dragon.

The last thing Barclay Thorne ever wanted was an... Read more

Barracoon

By: Zora Neale Hurston

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade—abducted from Africa on the last ""Black Cargo"" ship to arrive in... Read more

Code Girls

By: Liza Mundy

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post).

Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more ... Read more

Fight Night

By: Miriam Toews

Narrated by: Miriam Toews & Georgia Toews

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women.“You’re a small thing,’’ Grandma writes, “and you must learn to fight.’’ Swiv’s grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious community,... Read more

The Phoenix Keeper

By: S. A. MacLean

Narrated by: Stephanie Bentley

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in a magical zoo teeming with mythical beasts from dragons and unicorns to kelpies and krakens, The Phoenix Keeper is a fierce joy of a cozy fantasy novel with a soul-restoring queer romance at its heart, for fans ofThe House in the Cerulean Sea and Legends and Lattes.

As head phoenix keeper at a world-renowned zoo for magical creatures,... Read more

Behind the Seams

By: Dolly Parton

Narrated by: Dolly Parton, Holly George-Warren & Rebecca Seaver

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GRAMMY AWARD NOMINEE • A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories, interviews with friends and family, music, and archival interview and performance clips.

In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first time,... Read more

Rabbits

By: Terry Miles

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this all-new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “A wild ride . . . impossible to put down.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

It’s an average work day. You’ve been wrapped up in a task, and... Read more

Chlorine

By: Jade Song

Narrated by: Catherine Ho & Imani Parks

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale, told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of growing up in a society that puts pressure on young women and their bodies… a powerful, relevant novel of... Read more

You're Not Listening

By: Kate Murphy

Narrated by: Kate Murphy

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrating her own work, Murphy is certainly worthy of the listener's attention. She offers a sincere, passionate voice that is capable of delivering some hard truths about the current state of things while also showing the way toward a truly connected society." — AudioFile Magazine

**This program is read by the author**

When was the last time you... Read more

Interesting Facts about Space

By: Emily Austin

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A fast-paced, hilarious, and ultimately hopeful novel for anyone who has ever worried they might be a terrible person—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead.

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettify you without batting an eye in fear. Her one major... Read more