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Fourth Wing

Empyrean: Book #1

By: Rebecca Yarros
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler & Teddy Hamilton
Length: 20 hours 43 minutes

“This narration has turned this first time fantasy bookseller into a Dragon loving, fantasy reader for life! I was literally gripping my steering wheel crying out 'pull up, pull up' during the fight scenes. What a fun, gritty, sexy book this gem has turned out to be. There is something for everyone in here. Read more

A Cruel Light

By: Cyndi MacMillan
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

It was a blood-curdling crime that rocked the town to its core, leaving some with permanent scars and others with deep regrets. A young girl had been brutally slain. Memories were beginning to fade, but during the renovation of the old parsonage, the murder rears its ugly head again when workers discover a time-ravaged portrait of the young... Read more

On Our Best Behavior

The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

By: Elise Loehnen
Narrated by: Elise Loehnen
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

“Whether you identify as a Christian or not, you will be persuaded by Loehnen's argument that the centuries old Seven Deadly Sins continue to exert harmful power over the behavior and lives of women causing us to suppress our healthy desires for agency, autonomy and personal power. Read more

Don't Forget the Girl

By: Rebecca McKanna
Narrated by: Jennifer O'Donnell
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Twelve years ago, eighteen-year-old University of Iowa freshman Abby Hartmann disappeared. Now, Jon Allan Blue, the serial killer suspected of her murder, is about to be executed.
Abby’s best friends, Bree and Chelsea, watch as Abby’s memory is unearthed and overshadowed by Blue and his flashier crimes. The friends, estranged in the wake of... Read more

Will They or Won't They

A Novel

By: Ava Wilder
Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio & Jay Aaseng
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Onscreen, they’re in love. Offscreen, they can’t stand each other. From the author of How to Fake It in Hollywood comes “a sexy lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers romance that smolders then bursts into flames” (Abby Jimenez, New York Times bestselling author of Part of Your World).

“Wilder takes readers behind the scenes of a television shoot in this... Read more

A Rip Through Time

A Novel

Rip Through Time Novels: Book #1

By: Kelley Armstrong
Narrated by: Kate Handford
Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

“It's a time travel story, it's a police procedural story, it's the beginning of two strong friendships and probably a highly addictive series. Armstrong's devotees will be thrilled to watch this intelligent author pulling apart our assumptions about middle-class Victorian society (with a running gag involving how modern phrases sound to very... Read more

The Poisoner's Ring

A Rip Through Time Novel

Rip Through Time Novels: Book #2

By: Kelley Armstrong
Narrated by: Kate Handford
Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

“Kelly Armstrong's research into Scotland was superb! Although I have never read the first book in the series, which introduces the time-traveling detective Mallory Atkinson, The Poisoner's Ring was an enjoyable mystery read. The book includes a bit of mystery, historical fiction, fantasy, and romance. A great light read that kept me entertained. Read more

The House Is on Fire

By: Rachel Beanland
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Andi Arndt, Michael Crouch, Ruffin Prentiss III & Rachel Beanland
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

“This rich historical novel follows the events surrounding the Richmond Theater fire that occurred in 1811. Beanland expertly weaves the stories of four individuals who were impacted by the fire and ensuing aftermath while using their stories to look at the details of life in Virginia in the early 1800s. Both the research and the craft of the... Read more

Gone Tonight

A Novel

By: Sarah Pekkanen
Narrated by: Kate Mara
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

“How far should a mother’s protection of her daughter go? Is this a twisty tale of a mother’s love gone to far, or a tale of caution when certain traits are seen in your child? Love it! Read more

The Only One Left

A Novel

By: Riley Sager
Narrated by: Christine Lakin & Dawn Harvey
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

“Sager's writing made me feel like I was on a wooden roller coaster, the kind where the safety bar only comes over your lap, doesn't completely lock into place, and those innocent twist and turns have you grasping for support. If you thought Verity had an unreliable narrator, The Only One Left takes it to a whole new level. Recommended for fans... Read more

Dead Eleven

A Novel

By: Jimmy Juliano
Narrated by: Lee Osorio, Tanis Parenteau, Annie Q, Shawn K. Jain, Cindy Piller & Tim Lounibos
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

"An ominously slow burn...Keep the lights on for this one."—A PEOPLE MUST-READ FOR SUMMER
"Very creepy...you've been warned."—R.L. STINE
"Gripping.”—ANA REYES

On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, hoping to learn the truth about her son’s death—but finds herself pulled deeper and deeper... Read more

Demon Copperhead

A Novel

By: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Length: 21 hours 2 minutes

WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONA New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2022" • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller "Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield—only even... Read more

Our Missing Hearts

A Novel

By: Celeste Ng
Narrated by: Lucy Liu & Celeste Ng
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

“This may be her best book yet! Set in the near future where Asian Americans are mistrusted, children can be removed form their families due to parents' 'harmful' views and libraries are forced to remove unpatriotic books, this is a story about the boy Bird trying to find his mother who vanished a few years earlier when her work became seen as... Read more

How to Sell a Haunted House

By: Grady Hendrix
Narrated by: Jay Aaseng & Mikhaila Aaseng
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

“The best haunted house story is entrenched in family regrets, trauma, memories, and gleefully corrupted childhood monoliths. Hendrix does all of this with heart-stopping fear, love and loss, and so, so many puppets. Think Annabeth meets Chucky with a sprinkle of every campy 80s horror movie you loved as a kid. Whimsical horror, dark comedy and... Read more

Lessons in Chemistry

A Novel

By: Bonnie Garmus
Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus & Pandora Sykes
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

“Talented scientist Elizabeth Zott is thwarted at every turn in the male-dominated science world of the 1950s. But Elizabeth will not let anything stop her. Armed with a Number Two pencil piercing her bun, she is determined to complete her research project and enlighten women about the importance of science (even if it appears to be a cooking... Read more

All the Dangerous Things

A Novel

By: Stacy Willingham
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

"Reader Vacker does a remarkable job voicing the main characters and keeping the tension high....Mystery and true crime fans will be drawn in and ultimately satisfied by this complex, tense tale read expertly by a talented narrator." - Booklist

"[Karissa] Vacker switches easily between the higher female voices and the lower male voices, creating... Read more

The Book of Cold Cases

By: Simone St. James
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kirsten Potter & Robert Petkoff
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

A Most Anticipated Novel by PopSugar * Crime Reads * Goodreads *

A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel.

In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders:... Read more

Daisy Darker

A Novel

By: Alice Feeney
Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

“Alice Feeney’s novel feels familiar in that it pulls inspiration from veterans of the 'locked-room mysteries,' like Agatha Christie, while simultaneously bringing a fresh take to the genre. Full of twists, I was endlessly applauding myself for calling an event before it was revealed and finding myself shocked by the next. Read more

The Last to Vanish

By: Megan Miranda
Narrated by: Alex Allwine
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“This eerie thriller…can stand next to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Stephen King’s The Shining.” —Booklist (starred review)

New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda returns with a gripping and propulsive thriller that opens with the disappearance of a journalist who is investigating a... Read more

All Good People Here

A Novel

By: Ashley Flowers
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Karissa Vacker & Ashley Flowers
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the propulsive debut novel from the host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist uncovers her hometown’s dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor—and the disappearance of another girl twenty years later.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:... Read more