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The Hilarious World of Depression
By: John Moe
Narrated by: John Moe
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"Inspired by his podcast of the same name, this combination memoir and informational text is narrated by its author with sincere emotional investment and subtle humor." -- AudioFile Magazine
A moving portrait of depression, from the host of the podcast The Hilarious World of Depression
"This book is an excellent life raft for those of us who are... Read more
They Went Left
By: Monica Hesse
Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A tour de force historical mystery from Monica Hesse, the bestselling and award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat. Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal, her mind feels broken. And her... Read more
View audiobookSin Eater
By: Megan Campisi
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
“For fans of The Handmaid’s Tale...a debut novel with a dark setting and an unforgettable heroine...is a riveting depiction of hard-won female empowerment” (The Washington Post).
The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard
Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers
Following Her to the grave, unseen, unheard
The Sin Eater Walks Among Us.
For the... Read more
Valentine
By: Elizabeth Wetmore
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Jenna Lamia
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s.Mercy is hard in a place like this . . .It’s February 1976, and Odessa, Texas,... Read more
View audiobookActress
By: Anne Enright
Narrated by: Anne Enright
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant and moving novel about celebrity, sexual power, and a daughter’s search to understand her
mother’s hidden truths.
Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter, Norah, retraces her mother’s celebrated career and
bohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets, both her mother’s and her own. Katherine began her career... Read more
When We Were Vikings
By: Andrew David MacDonald
Narrated by: Phoebe Strole
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Indie Next Pick for February 2020
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The Saturday Evening Post “10 Books for the New Year”
PopSugar “Best Books in January”
Book Riot Best Winter New Releases
“Zelda... Read more
Cog
By: Greg van Eekhout
Narrated by: James Fouhey
Length: 4 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Five robots. One unforgettable journey. Their programming will never be the same. Wall-E meets The Wild Robot in this middle grade instant classic about five robots on a mission to rescue their inventor from the corporation that controls them all. Cog looks like a normal twelve-year-old boy. But his name is short for “cognitive development,” and... Read more
View audiobookFrankly in Love
By: David Yoon
Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
An Instant New York Times Bestseller and #1 Indie Bestseller!
A William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist
An Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Honor Book
Two friends. One fake dating scheme. What could possibly go wrong?
Frank Li has two names. There's Frank Li, his American name. Then there's Sung-Min Li, his Korean name. No one uses... Read more
Things You Save in a Fire
By: Katherine Center
Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
"In this charming listen, narrator Therese Plummer portrays Cassie Hanwell--a confident, talented firefighter whose solitary life is upended when her estranged mother asks her to relocate to Boston...A wonderful story of forgiveness, friendship, love, and hope." — AudioFile
From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away comes... Read more
Gingerbread
By: Helen Oyeyemi
Narrated by: Helen Oyeyemi
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
"Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review"[W]ildly inventive…[Helen Oyeyemi's] prose is not without its playful bite." –Vogue
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy Snow Bird, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, and Peaces returns with a bewitching and imaginative... Read more
The Night Tiger
By: Yangsze Choo
Narrated by: Yangsze Choo
Length: 14 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
"Choo narrates this richly complex novel herself, her gorgeous writing delivered in a voice that is deep and precise and lovely, both British and not quite. Her tone and words transport us..." — San Francisco Chronicle
This program is read by the author.
A sweeping historical audiobook about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle... Read more
Sea Witch
By: Sarah Henning
Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Wicked meets ""The Little Mermaid"" in the captivating origin story of the sea's most iconic villainess, perfect for fans of Heartless and Dorothy Must Die.Ever since her best friend Anna died, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. Hiding her talents, mourning her loss, drowning in her guilt.Then a girl with an uncanny resemblance... Read more
View audiobookHow Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?
By: Anna Montague
Narrated by: Cynthia Nixon
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Less and Remarkably Bright Creatures comes a funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road tripMost days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime colleagues, whose playful bickering she mediates.... Read more
View audiobookMy Salty Mary
By: Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows
Narrated by: Nneka Okoye
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
My Lady Jane fixed Jane Grey’s tragic past—and now My Salty Mary will do the same for the infamous pirate Mary Read!Perfect for fans of The Princess Bride and A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, New York Times bestselling authors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows are back with a fantastical, romantical, and piratical historical... Read more
View audiobookThe Maid and the Crocodile
By: Jordan Ifueko
Narrated by: Adetinpo Thomas
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
THE SMALLEST SPARK CAN BIND TWO HEARTS … OR START A REVOLUTION
In the magic-soaked capital city of Oluwan, Small Sade needs a job—preferably as a maid, for employers who don’t mind her unique appearance and unlucky foot.
But before she can be hired, she accidentally binds herself to a powerful being known only as the Crocodile, a god rumored to... Read more
Love Letters to a Serial Killer
By: Tasha Coryell
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
An aimless young woman starts writing to an accused serial killer while he awaits trial and then, once he’s acquitted, decides to move in with him and take the investigation into her own hands in this dark and irresistibly compelling debut thriller.
Recently ghosted and sick of watching her friends fade into the suburbs, thirty-something Hannah... Read more
Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous
By: Mae Marvel
Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw
Length: 13 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Reads of 2024
Hollywood glamor meets “‘Tis the Damn Season” in this irresistibly buzzy sapphic romance, perfect for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Casey McQuiston.
Katie Price is known in every living room in America. A small-town Wisconsin girl who became an A-list star, she rarely makes it home, but this year is... Read more
There Is No Ethan
By: Anna Akbari
Narrated by: Anna Akbari & Justin Price
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of three women coming face-to-face with an internet predator and teaming up to expose them.
In 2011, three successful and highly educated women fell head over heels for the brilliant and charming Ethan Schuman. Unbeknownst to the others, each exchanged... Read more
When I Think of You
By: Myah Ariel
Narrated by: DeWanda Wise
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In this sweeping second chance romance from debut author Myah Ariel, the unexpected spark of two former flames may force them to choose between their dreams and each other.
Kaliya Wilson has paid her dues. But all the years behind the reception desk at a flashy film studio have only pushed her movie-making dreams further out of reach. That is,... Read more
Begin Again
By: Helly Acton
Narrated by: Emma Sidi
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
Have you ever wanted to change the past and discover the result of choices not taken? Now, in this brilliantly fun novel of what-ifs, missed chances, and new beginnings, Frankie McKenzie discovers what starting over might bring…Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie feels unsettled. She can’t help feeling something’s... Read more
View audiobookFerris
By: Kate DiCamillo
Narrated by: Cherry Jones
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real love story about a girl, a ghost, a grandmother, and growing up.
It’s the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley... Read more
Trouble
By: Lex Croucher
Narrated by: Ell Potter
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A Regency-era romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist and queer twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love.
There's a new governess at Fairmont House, and she's going to be nothing but trouble.
Emily Laurence is a liar. She is not polite, she's not polished, and she has never taught a child in her life.... Read more
Where the Dark Stands Still
By: A. B. Poranek
Narrated by: Ola Forman
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestseller
A girl with dangerous magic makes a risky bargain with a demon to be free of her monstrous power in this “dark, devastating, and gothic” (Kirkus Reviews) young adult fantasy perfect for fans of An Enchantment of Ravens and House of Salt and Sorrows.
Liska knows that magic is monstrous, and its practitioners are... Read more
The Guest
By: B.A. Paris
Narrated by: Emily Joyce
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere with Behind Closed Doors. Now she invites you into another home full of heart-pounding secrets, in The Guest.
Some secrets never leave.
Iris and Gabriel have just arrived home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their... Read more