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The Sirens

By: Emilia Hart

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Weyward

2019: Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover’s throat. Horrified, she flees to her older sister’s house on the Australian coast, hoping she can help explain the... Read more

The Women on Platform Two

By: Laura Anthony

Narrated by: Jessica Regan, Shakira Shute & Maeve Smyth

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 1970s Dublin, all forms of contraception are strictly forbidden, but an intrepid group of women will risk everything to change that in this sweeping, timely novel inspired by a remarkable and little-known true story.

Dublin, 1969: Maura has just married Dr. Christy Davenport and they look forward to growing their family. But as her husband’s... Read more

Stag Dance

By: Torrey Peters

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The kaleidoscopic follow-up to the bestselling Detransition, Baby

“Hot, heartbreaking, and thrillingly victorious.”—Miranda July, New York Times bestselling author of All Fours

In this collection of one novel and three novellas, Torrey Peters’s keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing.

In Stag Dance, the... Read more

Count My Lies

By: Sophie Stava

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Devon Sorvari & Emily Tremaine

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

“The very definition of a page-turner! This smart, original, twisty story had me gripped from the first to the last page.” —Liane Moriarty, New York Times bestselling author

A read-in-one-night suspense thriller narrated by a compulsive liar whose little white lies allow her to enter into the life and comfort of a wealthy married couple who are... Read more

Too Soon

By: Betty Shamieh

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

For readers of Pachinko and Queenie, a funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching literary debut that explores exile, ambition, and hope across three generations of Palestinian American women.

Arabella gets an unexpected chance at love when she’s thrust into a conflict and history she’s tried to avoid all her life.

Zoya is playing matchmaker for her last... Read more

Save Me, Stranger

By: Erika Krouse

Narrated by: Adam Ewer & Blair Baker

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From EDGAR-AWARD WINNING author Erika Krouse, a VISCERAL, DAZZLING collection of stories set across the globe about characters desperate for salvation

“Far-ranging and visionary collection...A dozen little masterpieces of heart and longing and surprise.” —ADAM JOHNSON

“Save Me, Stranger is a book of parables—supernal and sinister. Disturbing but... Read more

Let's Call a Truce

By: Amy Buchanan

Narrated by: Charlotte North

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

LET’S CALL A TRUCE is a sexy contemporary romance about second chances at life and love, bursting with humor and a touch of angst from debut author, Amy Buchanan.

After Juliana Ryan's husband dies unexpectedly, leaving her with two grieving kids and a stunted career from years as a stay-at-home mom, she has no choice but to make it work all on... Read more

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

Narrated by: various narrators, Kelli Tager, Joe Hempel, Car...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From Vulture’s “master of horror” Clay McLeod Chapman, a relentless and emotionally charged social horror novel about a family on the run from a demonic possession epidemic that spreads through media, for fans of The Last of Us and Where Evil LurksNoah Fairchild has been losing his formerly polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for... Read more

The Three Lives of Cate Kay

By: Kate Fagan

Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Tessa Albertson, Genevieve Kings...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets First Lie Wins in this electric, voice-driven debut novel about an elusive bestselling author who decides to finally confess her true identity after years of hiding from her past.

Cate Kay knows how to craft a story. As the creator of a bestselling book trilogy that struck box office gold as a film series,... Read more

Black Girls Breathing

By: Jasmine Marie

Narrated by: Jasmine Marie

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Harness the power of breathwork with this compassionate, healing guide for Black women.
 
As a Black woman, Jasmine Marie knows the impact that intergenerational trauma and systemic racism have had—and continue to have—on her community. Those experiences, along with her own journey through chronic stress, are why she created black girls... Read more

CABIN

By: Patrick Hutchison

Narrated by: Patrick Hutchison

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece.

Wit’s End isn’t just a state of mind. It’s the name of a gravel road, the address of a rundown, off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Patrick... Read more

Buried Road

By: Katie Tallo

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“A fast-paced, exciting, missing persons thriller with a heart pounding twisty final third that I very much enjoyed. Katie Tallo is a big new talent.”—New York Times bestselling author Adrian McKintyIn this edge-of-your-seat thriller—the follow-up to the international bestselling Dark August and Poison Lilies—Gus Monet and her daughter embark on... Read more

Christmas in Bethel

By: Richard Paul Evans

Narrated by: Helene Maksoud

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From Richard Paul Evans, the New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Promise and The Christmas Box—“the most popular holiday tale since Tiny Tim” (Newsweek)—a new novel celebrating the life-changing power of the holiday spirit.

Leigh Beth Stilton has never liked the holidays. After growing up in an unstable home, escaping an abusive... Read more

The Don

By: RJ Roger

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Don: 36 Rules of the Bosses is the fascinating culmination of author RJ Roger’s extensive research into the Italian-American Cosa Nostra. Analyzing more than 100 years of underworld history, Roger has distilled the behavior of the bosses of the five New York Mafia families—the most powerful in the United States—into 36 rules. Unwritten until... Read more

Heavy Are the Stones

By: Christine Daigle & J.D. Barker

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky & Michael Crouch

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Facing the truth can be deadlier than facing the killer.Ten days to keep a lie.Ten plagues if you deny.Ten ways to watch them die.Five years ago, when Detective Jena Campbell put the Leviticus Killer behind bars, she locked her darkest secret away with him. Something never meant to surface. Something better left to rot with the madman who had... Read more

In Want of a Suspect

By: Tirzah Price

Narrated by: Morag Sims & Sam Devereaux

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA Today bestseller! The first book in a thrilling mystery duology that follows Lizzie Bennet and Mr. Darcy from the acclaimed Jane Austen Murder Mystery series!It is a truth universally acknowledged that London’s first female solicitor in possession of the details of a deadly crime must be in want of a suspect.The tenacious Lizzie Bennet has... Read more

The Butcher

By: Jennifer Hillier

Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey, Corey Brill, Raquel Beattie...

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “skillfully penned tale of murder and cover-up that will keep readers enthralled until the powerful finish” (Fresh Fiction), family secrets and a serial killer from the past converge in this electrifying thriller.

In 1985, Edward Shank famously gunned down the Beacon Hill Butcher, ending the serial killer’s reign of terror over the city... Read more

Godsrain

By: Liane Merciel

Narrated by: Samantha Moon

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The first Pathfinder novel in years promises a world-changing tale of epic scale set amidst the War of Immortals! Gods are not meant to die. They're supposed to be immortal, too powerful to be struck down or wither to dust like the people of Golarion. It has been more than a century since Aroden, god of humanity, met his mysterious doom, and... Read more

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By: Joan Didion

Narrated by: Maya Hawke

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrating in a voice as clear and sustaining as a cool glass of water, Hawke’s unflashy approach allows the words to reveal their magic."—The Orange County Register

This program is read by actor and singer-songwriter Maya Hawke, star of Netflix's Stranger Things.

Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction,... Read more

This Girl's a Killer

By: Emma C. Wells

Narrated by: Stefanie Kay

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Finlay Donovan is Killing It and The Bandit Queens comes a bright and biting thriller following Cordelia Black, a best friend, a businesswoman, and, in her spare time, a killer of bad men. Ask Cordelia Black why she did it. The answer will always be: he had it coming. Cordelia Black loves exactly three things: her chosen family,... Read more

The Chronicles of DOOM

By: S.H. Fernando, Jr.

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

The definitive biography of MF DOOM, charting the reclusive and revered hip-hop artist’s life, career, and eventual immortality.On December 31, 2020, the world was shocked to learn about the death of hip-hop legend MF DOOM. Born in London and raised in the suburban enclave of Long Beach, New York, Daniel Dumile Jr.'s love of cartoons and comic... Read more

A Map for Falasteen

By: Maysa Odeh

Narrated by: Dalia Ramahi

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child's Search for Home features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun!

A young Palestinian girl living in diaspora struggles to find her homeland on a map in this gentle and heartfelt audiobook.

At school, Falasteen and her classmates are tasked with finding their families' home countries on... Read more

Dorothy Parker in Hollywood

By: Gail Crowther

Narrated by: Samantha Desz

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

An expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker’s life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of the “fascinating” (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz.

The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this fresh new biography of Dorothy... Read more

Libby Lost and Found

By: Stephanie Booth

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Libby Weeks, author of the mega-bestselling fantasy series the Falling Children—written as “F. T. Goldhero” to maintain her privacy. With the final manuscript months overdue to her publisher and rabid fans around the world growing impatient, Libby is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Already suffering from crippling anxiety, Libby’s... Read more