Braving the Wilderness
The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
By Brené Brown
Narrated by: Brené Brown
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection
Don’t miss the five-part HBO Max docuseries... Read more »
Quit Like a Woman
The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
By Holly Whitaker
Narrated by: Holly Whitaker
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An unflinching examination of how our drinking culture hurts women and a gorgeous memoir of how one woman healed herself.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed
“You don’t know how much you need this book, or maybe you do. Either way, it will save your life.”—Melissa Hartwig Urban, Whole30... Read more »
See No Stranger
A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
By Valarie Kaur
Narrated by: Valarie Kaur
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes
An urgent manifesto and a dramatic memoir of awakening, this is the story of revolutionary love.
Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize • “In a world stricken with fear and turmoil, Valarie Kaur shows us how to summon our deepest wisdom.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love
How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken... Read more »
Wintering
The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By Katherine May
Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Wintering
“Katherine May uses 'winter' as a metaphor for life’s darker seasons in this poetic memoir about retreating from the demands and expectations of a pressuring society. She encourages the reader to explore the quiet and restorative moments in life that help us to grow, relax, and heal from difficult times. Lyrical, reflective, and comforting; this book is paired best with your coziest blanket and a hot cup of tea.”
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Big Magic
Creative Living Beyond Fear
By Elizabeth Gilbert
Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
The instant #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
"A must read for anyone hoping to live a creative life... I dare you not to be inspired to be brave, to be free, and to be curious.” —PopSugar
From the worldwide bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls: the path to the vibrant, fulfilling life you’ve dreamed of.
Readers of all ages and walks... Read more »
Real Change
Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World
By Sharon Salzberg
Narrated by: Sharon Salzberg
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
This program is read by the author.
From one of most prominent figures in the field of meditation comes a guidebook for how to use mindfulness to build our inner strength, find balance, and help create a better world.
In today’s fractured world, we’re constantly flooded with breaking news that causes anger, grief, and pain. People are feeling more...
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Abridged
By Zora Neale Hurston
Narrated by: Ruby Dee
Length: TBA
“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith
One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love...
Read more »The Almost Sisters
A Novel
By Joshilyn Jackson
Narrated by: Joshilyn Jackson
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
The Almost Sisters
“Leia Birch is pretty much a rock star in the comic world, but her personal life has taken over the drama of her heroines, Violet and Violence. Leia is pregnant with a biracial child after too much tequila and a one-night stand at Comic-Con, her sister's perfect marriage is imploding, and it appears her sweet, proper Southern grandmother has been hiding all kinds of improper things, including advancing dementia. As always, Jackson is witty and charming, and her characters are so wonderfully drawn, it's hard to believe you don't actually know these people. The Almost Sisters is a hopeful book about our ability to preserve the dignity of one another while still helping them grow and change.”
Susan Thomas, CoffeeTree Books
Swamplandia!
By Karen Russell
Narrated by: Arielle Sitrick & David Ackroyd
Length: 13 hours 6 minutes
From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell’s . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire”—Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a blazingly original debut... Read more »
America Is Not the Heart
A Novel
By Elaine Castillo
Narrated by: Donnabella Mortel
Length: 16 hours 24 minutes
Named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR, Real Simple, Lit Hub, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Post, Kirkus Reviews, and The New York Public Library
"A saga rich with origin myths, national and personal . . . Castillo is part of a younger generation of American writers instilling literature with a layered sense of... Read more »
Cantoras
A novel
By Carolina De Robertis
Narrated by: Carolina De Robertis
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
"Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution—and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again, I was lifted, then gently set down again—either through tears, rage, or laughter. Days later, I am still inside this song of a story." —Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award–winning author
From the highly acclaimed,... Read more »
Under the Udala Trees
By Chinelo Okparanta
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Inspired by Nigeria’s folktales and war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.
Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child, and...
Read more »Silver Sparrow
By Tayari Jones
Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman-Williams & Heather Alicia Simms
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,” author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle.
Set in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon’s two families—the public one and the secret...
Read more »Black Leopard, Red Wolf
The Dark Star Trilogy: Book #1
By Marlon James
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 23 hours 59 minutes
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
“Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf is a shot across the bow of fantasy literature: bold, fresh, and filled with brutal wonder and endless imagination. James’tale set in a fantastical ancient Africa follows a hunter known only as Tracker as he trails the scent of a lost boy, meeting a shape-shifting leopard along the way. At turns hallucinatory, dreamlike, and nightmarish, Black Leopard, Red Wolf’s world envelops the reader in its stink, grime, sweat, and blood. Never has a magical world felt quite so otherworldly and yet frighteningly tactile at the same time. This is literary fantasy as you’ve never encountered it before and a truly original tale of love, loss, power, and identity.”
Caleb Masters, Bookmarks
Uprooted
By Naomi Novik
Narrated by: Julia Emelin
Length: 17 hours 43 minutes
Uprooted
“Uprooted by Naomi Novik is like every fairy tale you've ever heard turned on their head. You have the girl trapped in a tower, a dragon, and a prince. You've heard this story before, but this one isn't so simple. I mean, if it was, what fun would that be? Novik draws heavily on her Polish roots and it creates a story that feels like home. Warm, inviting, and full of secrets that don't leave the walls. The antagonist is written in such a way that you can almost feel the Wood staring at you while you read, but the fact that it doesn't outright speak makes it more menacing. With a rich cast of characters that follow their own moral compasses, a beautifully built world, and a magic system that feels authentic, this book will leave you wanting more.”
Ash, Story on the Square
Pet
By Akwaeke Emezi
Narrated by: Christopher Myers
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
National Book Award Finalist
Stonewall Book Award Winner
"[A] beautiful, genre-expanding debut...Pet is a nesting doll of creative possibilities." (The New York Times)
The award-winning, genre-defying novel by the New York Times best-selling author of The Death of Vivek Oji that explores themes of identity and justice and asks: How do you share the... Read more »
Brown Album
Essays on Exile and Identity
By Porochista Khakpour
Narrated by: Porochista Khakpour
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
*A Vintage Original*
From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-American life in our contemporary moment.
Novelist Porochista Khakpour's family moved to Los Angeles after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, giving up their successes only to be greeted... Read more »
The White Tiger
A Novel
By Aravind Adiga
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
No saris. No scents. No spices. No music. No lyricism. No illusions.
This is India now.
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in... Read more »
Amberlough
Book 1 in the Amberlough Dossier
Amberlough Dossier: Book #1
By Lara Elena Donnelly
Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
"[Narrator Mary Robinette Kowal] delivers a stellar performance, imbuing each character, even the minor ones, with a fully realized personality...Kowal's background in theater allows her to maximize the emotional impact of each pivotal event." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner
From author Lara Elena Donnelly, comes a debut spy thriller,...
Children of Blood and Bone
Legacy of Orisha: Book #1
By Tomi Adeyemi
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 17 hours 44 minutes
Children of Blood and Bone
“A sprawling fantasy teeming with deep and meaningful magic. One of the things I like most about this debut is that it raises very real and important issues of our time through multiple character's perspectives. No character is one-dimensional, and every character must learn from failure and introspection to become who they were meant to be.”
Kelly, Mysterious Galaxy Books