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Answers to Dog

By: Pete Hautman

Narrated by: Pete Cross & GM Hakim

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award winner Pete Hautman explores a friendship like no other—and the universal truth that dogs make life better, especially for underdogs. Evan doesn’t seem to fit in at school or at home. He goes out of his way to avoid attention. He sits at the back of the bus, keeps his head down in class, and keeps to himself. But when a... Read more

The City in Glass

By: Nghi Vo

Narrated by: Susan Dalian

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.

A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Fall 2024 SF&F pick

A demon. An angel. A city.

The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married,... Read more

It Starts with One

By: Jason Lipshutz

Narrated by: Jason Lipshutz, James Fouhey & Helen Laser

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the executive director of music at Billboard, an extensive look inside the 20+ year career of mega-selling rock band Linkin Park, featuring new interviews, exclusive quotes, and insights from the band’s associates and collaborators
 

Linkin Park is one of the 21st Century’s biggest, and most important, rock bands. All it takes is one quick... Read more

And He Shall Appear

By: Kate Van Der Borgh

Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From a mesmerizing new literary voice comes a story of obsessive friendship, chilling powers, and untimely death for readers of dark academia classics like If We Were Villains and The Secret History. An unnamed narrator arrives at Cambridge University in the early aughts determined to reinvent himself. His northern accent marks him as an... Read more

An Astonishment of Stars

By: Kirti Bhadresa

Narrated by: Roveena Gnanabakthan

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautifully written short story collection that charts the lives of racialized women as they navigate their relationships, aspirations, and the burdens of memory and expectations “Sharply observed and gracefully told, this is a collection shining with all the unexpected delights and defeats that make up a life.” — Anuja Varghese, author... Read more

How to Build a Fashion Icon

By: Law Roach

Narrated by: Law Roach

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A GROUNDBREAKING GUIDE TO BECOMING YOUR ULTIMATE, CONFIDENT SELF, BY AWARD-WINNING CELEBRITY STYLIST AND THE WORLD'S ONLY IMAGE ARCHITECT, LAW ROACHLaw Roach is the mastermind behind looks that have broken the Internet time and again—from Zendaya at the Met Gala to Anya Taylor-Joy at the Golden Globes; from Lewis Hamilton’s iconic streetwear to... Read more

Mary Christmas

By: Mary-Anne O'Connor

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

At the most magical time of the year, will Mary choose independence or love?

It's 1909 and Mary Richards has worked hard to gain an education and become a teacher in her close-knit, picturesque village in the Cotswolds, but not everyone approves of her modern ways.

When her sister Emily becomes engaged to David Christmas, it seems fate will... Read more

Pearly Everlasting

By: Tammy Armstrong

Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Set during the Great Depression, an immersive and enchantingly atmospheric novel about a girl and a bear raised as sister and brother in a remote logging camp, and the lengths to which they’ll go to protect each other. New Brunswick, 1934. When a cook in a logging camp finds an orphaned baby bear, he brings it home to his wife, who names the cub... Read more

The Last Dangerous Visions

By: Harlan Ellison

Narrated by: J. Michael Straczynski, Jim Meskimen, Mark San...

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series.In 1973 celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with Dangerous Visions and continued with... Read more

A Split Second

By: Janae Marks

Narrated by: Tyla Collier & Imani Parks

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Janae Marks delivers a stunningly crafted and twisty mystery about the tests of friendships that examines what matters most when everything can change in a split second—perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead and Anne Ursu.That clock can’t be right. When Elise wakes up the morning after her birthday celebration, she’s... Read more

Catan

By: Klaus Teuber

Narrated by: Evan Sibley

Length: 19 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by the award-winning creator of the global board game sensation, Catan is a new adventure perfect for longtime fans and new readers alike.Norway, 860.Half-brothers Thorolf, Yngvi, and Digur have conspired to help Asla—daughter of Halldor, a powerful Viking chieftain—to escape her father’s oppressive rule. However, when they are... Read more

Jasmine Is Haunted

By: Mark Oshiro

Narrated by: Vico Ortiz

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Jasmine Garza has a problem: a ghost has been following her for years, ever since her Papi died. Not that Mami will admit anything supernatural is going on. But even the ghost she won’t acknowledge makes real trouble, so Jasmine and her mami are moving (again) to a new apartment in East Hollywood. This time Jasmine is committed to living a... Read more

The Stalker

By: Kate Rhodes

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Chillingly compelling and expertly assembled. An immersive piece of thriller writing of the sort late-night-reading binges are made of’ B. P. WALTER 

‘Dark, intense, and expertly crafted. Kate Rhodes delivers exactly what I look for in a gripping thriller’ RACHEL ABBOTT 

She thinks she understand stalkers. Until she becomes a target . . . 

Elly... Read more

Don't Eat the Pie

By: Monique Asher

Narrated by: Cady Zuckerman & Stephanie Willing

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In DON'T EAT THE PIE, readers are transported to the hauntingly picturesque Camillia Island, where gothic horror meets family drama, unraveling the sinister secrets behind a mother and daughter's summer that promises to be as unsettling as it is compelling for fans of Shirley Jackson and Daphne du Maurier. Newlywed Sam has always wanted to be a... Read more

Eden Undone

By: Abbott Kahler

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An incredible true story of murder, romance, and a fateful search for utopia in the Galápagos—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ghosts of Eden Park

“Abbott Kahler’s wickedly gothic tale confronts an essential truth about those who ditch civilization: Try as we might, humans cannot elude the tyranny of our own nature.”—Hampton... Read more

Book and Dagger

By: Elyse Graham

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the... Read more

The Lovers

By: Rebekah Faubion

Narrated by: Gail Shalan & Mia Hutchinson-Shaw

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A second chance at love is in the cards for two women working a stylish California wedding in this charming debut romance.

If Kit Larson believes one thing, it’s that the cards never lie. She’s seen it proven time and time again as a tarot reader and mystic influencer. But unfortunately the cards didn’t warn her about her most recent breakup or... Read more

The Naming Song

By: Jedediah Berry

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A gorgeously imaginative fantasy in the spirit of Hayao Miyazaki and Guillermo del Toro.

“The Naming Song understands the fundamental magic of language, and breathes that magic onto every page.” —Holly Black, #1 New York Times bestselling author

There's nothing more dangerous than an unnamed thing

When the words went away, the world changed.

All... Read more

The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco

By: Michelle Chouinard

Narrated by: Stephanie Németh-Parker

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In Michelle Chouinard’s clever mystery The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco, the granddaughter of a serial killer shows readers another side of the beloved city.

Welcome to San Francisco, a city with killer charm.

The chill of a San Francisco summer can be deadly. No one knows this better than Capri Sanzio, who makes her living giving serial... Read more

The School for Wicked Witches

By: Will Taylor

Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Ava isn't ready to leave her home in Oz -- especially not to become a witch. Then the worst thing that could possibly happen occurs -- Ava's magic does very wrong and she is banished to a school for wicked witches. Perfect for fans of WICKED, WITCHLINGS, and THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL!In Oz, most girls and boys with magical powers are sent... Read more

The Wildes

By: Louis Bayard

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers, Damian Lynch, P.J. Ochlan & ...

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Pale Blue Eye comes a brilliantly profound and empathetic story about Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I. 

In September of 1892, Oscar Wilde and his... Read more

On a Wing and a Tear

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A living legend roosting in the backyard. An unmissable game. A hair-raising mystery. A road trip full of adventure and danger. And all the overlapping circles that connect us throughout Creation.Melanie “Mel” Roberts and Ray Halfmoon may be from different Indigenous Nations, but the friends have become like siblings since the Robertses moved in... Read more

Westfallen

By: Brashares, Ann & Ben Brashares

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan & André Santana

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“What a thrilling—and chilling—adventure!” —Margaret Peterson Haddix, New York Times bestselling author

From #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants author Ann Brashares and her brother Ben Brashares comes the first book in a “pulse-pounding” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) middle grade alternate history thriller... Read more

Snake Oil

By: Kelsey Rae Dimberg

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Andi Arndt & Renata Friedman

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A razor-sharp literary thriller about three women vying for power at a wellness startup, where the cost of ambition might be deadlyOne woman’s elixir is another woman’s poisonRhoda West is Silicon Valley’s favorite female CEO: the luminously charismatic founder of the fast-growing startup Radical, a wellness company whose core mission is the... Read more