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Time's Undoing
By: Cheryl A. Head
Narrated by: Jade Wheeler & Ronald Peet
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist’s search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, decades ago—inspired by the author’s own family history
Birmingham, 1929: Robert Lee Harrington, a master carpenter, has just moved to Alabama to pursue a job opportunity, bringing... Read more
The Librarian of Burned Books
By: Brianna Labuskes
Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt, Eleanor Caudill & Karissa Vacker
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war.
Berlin 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation... Read more
Izzy at the End of the World
By: K.A. Reynolds
Narrated by: Dana Wing Lau
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The Last Kids on Earth meets Margaret Peterson Haddix in this middle grade adventure about fourteen-year-old Izzy, an autistic girl surviving the end of the world who must team up with her loveable dog to uncover the hidden truth behind her family and the rest of humanity’s disappearance. Ever since Izzy Wilder’s mom died, she’s wanted life to... Read more
View audiobookFull Exposure
By: Thien-Kim Lam
Narrated by: David Lee Huynh & Keylor Leigh
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
Happy Endings author Thien-Kim Lam is back—with a rom-com set during the divine madness of Mardi Gras as two lovers ask: Can a Big Easy fling become the real thing?Boudoir photographer Josie Parks never ever takes a vacation. But when a client cancels a New Orleans shoot at the last minute, she decides to fly out from her Washington, D.C.,... Read more
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By: Colin Winnette
Narrated by: Justin Price
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its "original experiences," has engineered a new product called The Ghost Lover. Wildly popular from the outset, the "game" is simple: a user's simulated life is almost identical to their reality, except they're haunted by the ghost of an ex-lover. However, when a shift in the... Read more
View audiobookA Country You Can Leave
By: Asale Angel-Ajani
Narrated by: Amanda Cordner
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"From page one, A Country You Can Leave is a riveting, exasperating, and deeply heartbreaking tale of mother-daughter strife and resilience." —Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Olga Dies Dreaming
A stunning debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black, biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the... Read more
The Sun Walks Down
By: Fiona McFarlane
Narrated by: Emma Jones
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Audiobooks of 2023
"Such a large cast of characters would normally be difficult to keep straight in an audiobook without tedious backtracking, but McFarlane’s skill in evoking their distinct inner lives and Jones’s deftness in capturing them in manner and accent keep them perfectly distinct." —The Washington... Read more
Stone Cold Fox
By: Rachel Koller Croft
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A perfectly wicked debut thriller about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families.
Like any enterprising woman, Bea knows what she’s worth and is determined to get all she deserves—it just so happens that what she... Read more
The Darkness Manifesto
By: Johan Eklöf
Narrated by: Owen Findlay
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of 2023 by Scientific American
This timely and captivating look at the hidden impact of light pollution is “rich in revelation and insight…lyrical” (The Wall Street Journal) and urges us to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own well-being, and all life on earth.
How much light is too much light?... Read more
Gone Like Yesterday
By: Janelle M. Williams
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK
A lyrical debut novel that asks what we owe to our families, what we owe to our ancestors, and what we owe to ourselves. Janelle M. Williams’s Gone Like Yesterday employs magical realism to explore the majestic and haunting experience of being a Black woman in today’s America.
Gone Like Yesterday follows two... Read more
Wild Massive
By: Scotto Moore
Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
Length: 16 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Scotto Moore's Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting the will of the mighty.
Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire... Read more
Eastbound
By: Maylis De Kerangal
Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In this gripping tale, a Russian conscript and a French woman cross paths on the Trans-Siberian railroad, each fleeing to the east for their own reasons
Eastbound is both an adventure story and a duet of two vibrant inner worlds.
In mysterious, winding sentences gorgeously translated by Jessica Moore, De Kerangal gives us the story of two... Read more
The Sanctuary
By: Katrine Engberg
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
From internationally bestselling author Katrine Engberg, the series that is a “gripping addition to the Scandinavian crime fiction pantheon” (Oprah Daily) comes to a stunning conclusion as Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner rush to untangle a long-simmering mystery before a brutal killer strikes again.
Jeppe Kørner, on leave from the police force and... Read more
Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
Narrated by: Maggie Millner
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A dazzling love story in poems about one woman’s coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone.A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: of being seduced by a throng of older women, of kissing a friend in a dorm-room closet. But the dreams are... Read more
View audiobookThe Love You Save
By: Goldie Taylor
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
“The Love You Save will console and inspire countless people."—J.R. Moehringer, New York Times bestselling author of The Tender Bar
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings meets Educated in this harrowing, deeply hopeful memoir of family, faith and the power of books—from acclaimed journalist and human rights activist Goldie Taylor
Aunt Gerald takes in... Read more
Promise Boys
By: Nick Brooks
Narrated by: Alfred Vines, Anthony Lopez, Brad Sanders, Chri...
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2024 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production for Young Adults!
"Skilled vocal performances from more than a dozen narrators immerse listeners in a schoolyard murder mystery involving race, wealth, and power."- AudioFile
This audiobook features a full cast, musical accompaniment, and sound design. Listen along and become... Read more
Becoming Free Indeed
By: Jinger Vuolo
Narrated by: Jinger Vuolo
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Bestseller Read by the author.Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, recounts how she began to question the unhealthy ideology of her youth and learned to embrace true freedom in Christ.When Jinger Duggar Vuolo was growing up, she was convinced that obeying the... Read more
View audiobookPirate 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
The Lost Year
By: Katherine Marsh
Narrated by: Anna Fikhman, Christopher Gebauer, Jesse Vilins...
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrators Anna Fikhman, Christopher Gebauer, and Jesse Vilinsky combine talents in this compelling historical fiction, which takes place during the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s."- AudioFile
Author's note read by the author.
From the author of Nowhere Boy—called “a resistance novel for our times” by The New York Times—comes a brilliant... Read more
A Guest at the Feast
By: Colm Toibin
Narrated by: Colm Toibin
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions!
From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a “not to be missed” (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature.
“IT ALL STARTED WITH MY BALLS.” So begins... Read more
The Once and Future Sex
By: Eleanor Janega
Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior.
What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about... Read more
Liar, Dreamer, Thief
By: Maria Dong
Narrated by: Hannah Choi
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A young woman’s carefully constructed fantasy world implodes in this brilliantly conceived novel that blurs distinctions between right and wrong, comedy and tragedy, imagination and reality: "Surreal . . . leaves you with the creeping certainty that there is a different world lurking just under the surface of our own, filled with technicolor... Read more
View audiobookThe Good Life
By: Robert Waldinger & Marc Schulz
Narrated by: Robert Waldinger & Marc Schulz
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller
What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their “captivating” (The Wall Street Journal) book, the directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted, show that the answer to these questions may be closer than you realize.
What makes a life... Read more
The Game Is a Footnote
By: Vicki Delany
Narrated by: Kim Hicks
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Scarlet House, now a historical re-enactment museum, is the oldest building in West London, Massachusetts. When things start moving around on their own, board members suggest that Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, might be able to get to the bottom of it. Gemma doesn’t believe in ghosts, but she agrees to eliminate... Read more
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