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The 6:20 Man
By: David Baldacci
Narrated by: Zachary Webber, Christine Lakin & Mela Lee
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance, in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci’s new thriller.
Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter... Read more
The Crane Wife
By: CJ Hauser
Narrated by: CJ Hauser
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love... Read more
View audiobookWake the Bones
By: Elizabeth Kilcoyne
Narrated by: Bailey Carr
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
"YA horror has found a new standard-bearer." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Dark, gripping, and gorgeous, Wake the Bones will lead you into the woods and keep you up late. As lush and sweltering as a Kentucky summer... Elizabeth Kilcoyne is a force.” - Gwenda Bond, New York Times bestselling author
The sleepy little farm that Laurel Early grew... Read more
The Italian Ballerina
By: Kristy Cambron
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together to save innocent lives in this breathtaking World War II novel based on real historical events.Rome, 1943. With the fall of Italy’s Fascist government and the Nazi regime occupying the streets of Rome, British ballerina Julia Bradbury is stranded and forced... Read more
View audiobookAll Down Darkness Wide
By: Seán Hewitt
Narrated by: Seán Hewitt
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature • Named a Best Book of 2022 by Kirkus, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness • Named a Best Book of July by Buzzfeed • A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2022 Summer Read • Observer Book of the Week • Lammy Finalist
“The most beautiful prose I’ve read in years.”—Alexander Chee, The Atlantic •... Read more
In Her Boots
By: KJ Dell'Antonia
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Chicken Sisters comes a delightfully entertaining story about a ruse that goes awry and a chaotic homecoming that proves that confronting your past can sometimes set you free.
Sometimes you have to go big to go home.
Rhett Gallagher’s adventurous life is imploding. Just as she turns the big 4-0,... Read more
NSFW
By: Isabel Kaplan
Narrated by: Stephanie Németh-Parker
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Blisteringly sharp, hypersmart, and compulsively listenable—meet Isabel Kaplan’s searing debut novel about a young woman trying to succeed in Hollywood without selling her soul.
"The rare kind of read that made me giggle just as much as it left me gutted." —Zakiya Dalila Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Black Girl
From the... Read more
Human Blues
By: Elisa Albert
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 15 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
“Crackling and bighearted...A powerhouse [that] echoes with the truth that we find harmony when we listen first to ourselves.” —Oprah Daily * “Takes off with magnificent speed and never lets up.” —The New York Times * “Revolutionary.” —NPR’s Morning Edition * A Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A provocative and... Read more
Acts of Violet
By: Margarita Montimore
Narrated by: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz, Amy McFadden, Brittany ...
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"A multicast presentation of a novel with this many disparate narrative elements could easily become chaotic, so it is testament to the narrators’ talents and Montimore’s brilliant plot structure, compelling characters, and sharp, often hilarious prose that listeners are instead treated to an absolutely delightful audiobook, essential for all... Read more
View audiobookManhattan Cult Story
By: Spencer Schneider
Narrated by: Austin Rising
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No
Right under the noses of neighbors, clients, spouses, children, and friends, a secret society, simply called School—a cult of snared Manhattan professionals—has been led by the charismatic, sociopathic, and dangerous leader Sharon Gans for decades. Spencer Schneider was recruited in the eighties, and he stayed for more than twenty-three years as... Read more
View audiobookRide with Me
By: Lucy Keating
Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In this charming contemporary YA novel, neighborhood rideshare driver Charlie Owens embarks on a collision course with love when she crashes into the school’s cute but annoying party boy and wrecks his car and her no-strings-attached attitude toward life.As a driver for her local ride share app, Charlie Owens loves what the open road gives her:... Read more
View audiobookThis Vicious Grace
By: Emily Thiede
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan & Michael Gallagher
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"Riveting, passionate, and full of high stakes danger." —Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"This story of political intrigue, romance, and dark fantasy is elevated by Brentan's steadfast narration."- AudioFile Magazine
Emily Thiede's exciting fantasy debut, This Vicious Grace, will keep listeners riveted until the devastating... Read more
The Most Precious Substance on Earth
By: Shashi Bhat
Narrated by: Meher Pavri
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat’s "powerful, surprising and terrifying" (Rufi Thorpe) story about a high school student's traumatic experience and how it irrevocably alters her life, for fans of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Girlhood, and Pen15.
Bright, hilarious, and sensitive fourteen-year-old Nina spends her spare time reading Beowulf... Read more
Project Namahana
By: John Teschner
Narrated by: Kurt Kanazawa
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
John Teschner's Project Namahana is “an enthralling tale of disappearances, deaths, dark secrets, and corporate evil” (Douglas Preston, #1 bestselling co-author of the Agent Pendergast series).
Nothing stays hidden forever...
Two men, unified by a string of disappearances and deaths, search for answers—and salvation—in the jungles of Kaua‘i.... Read more
The Truth About Ben and June
By: Alex Kiester
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Pete Cross
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Kiester, a heartfelt debut that explores the complexity of a modern-day marriage when a new mother vanishes one morning.
"This powerful novel takes an honest, unflinching look at the challenges of modern parenthood from both sides of a marriage." - Tracey Lange, New York Times bestselling author... Read more
The Clackity
By: Lora Senf
Narrated by: Kimberly Woods
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces, this “delightfully eerie” (Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows) middle grade novel tells the story of a girl who must rescue her aunt by entering a world of ghosts, witches, and monsters to play a game with deadly consequences.
Evie Von Rathe lives in Blight... Read more
Twisted Games
By: Ana Huang
Narrated by: Aiden Snow & Cindy Kay
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Stoic, broody, and arrogant, elite bodyguard Rhys Larsen has two rules: 1) Protect his clients at all costs 2) Do not become emotionally involved. Ever. He has never once been tempted to break those rules . . . until her.
Bridget von Ascheberg. A princess with a stubborn streak and a hidden fire that reduces his rules to ash. She's nothing he... Read more
The Redhead of Auschwitz
By: Nechama Birnbaum
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz.Upon arrival, Rosie’s head is shaved... Read more
View audiobookBlood and Moonlight
By: Erin Beaty
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Perfect for fans of Kerri Maniscalco and Mary E. Pearson, a young woman with dangerous magical abilities teams up with a handsome detective to hunt down an elusive serial killer in this dark and romantic fantasy thriller.
When orphan Catrin witnesses a murder on the streets of Collis, she’s pulled into a deadly chain of events where the only... Read more
Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
Narrated by: Susan Bennett, Justis Bolding, Cindy Kay, Laura...
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
On this season of The Catch, contestants must compete for love. And their lives.
When the final four women in competition for an aloof, somewhat sleazy bachelor’s heart arrive on a mysterious island in the Pacific Northwest, they prepare themselves for another week of extreme sleep deprivation, invasive
interviews, and, of course, the salacious... Read more
Girls They Write Songs About
By: Carlene Bauer
Narrated by: Cady Zuckerman
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
New York, 1997. As the city’s gritty edges are being smoothed into something safer and shinier, two girls meet at a music magazine. Rose?brash and self-possessed?is a staff writer. Charlotte?hesitant, bookish?is an editor. First wary, then slowly admiring, they recognize in each other an insatiable and previously unmatched ambition. Soon they’re... Read more
View audiobookThe Key to Deceit
By: Ashley Weaver
Narrated by: Alison Larkin
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
London, 1940. After years of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor—well, to themselves, anyway—Ellie McDonnell and her family have turned over a new leaf as they help the government’s war effort. It’s true that the straight-laced Major Ramsey didn’t give them much choice, but still, Ellie must admit she doesn’t miss breaking and entering... Read more
View audiobookOnyeka and the Academy of the Sun
By: Tolá Okogwu
Narrated by: Nneka Okoye
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
NAMED A 2023 ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN’S RECORDING!
Black Panther meets X-Men in this “fast-paced, action-packed, and empowering” (A. F. Steadman, New York Times bestselling author of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief) middle grade adventure about a British Nigerian girl who learns that her Afro hair has psychokinetic powers—perfect for fans of Amari and... Read more
The Silence that Binds Us
By: Joanna Ho
Narrated by: Raechel Wong
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
“A grieving teen fights Asian hate by finding her voice in this complex, timely story.” —Kirkus (starred review)""With a layered, sensitive voice, Ho’s weighty novel delves into themes of racism, classism, loss, and healing."" —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Inspired by the recent rise in hate crimes against AAPI, Ho’s story of inclusion,... Read more
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