For Taking a Sick Day

You Should Smile More

By: Anastasia Ryan
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Telemarketer Vanessa Blair isn't in love with her job. It pays the bills and feeds her foster kittens but offers only one other perk: her friendships with Jane Delaney and Trisha Lam. But, as mind-numbing as her job is, things are about to get worse. Xavier Adams, her self-absorbed boss, calls Vanessa into the conference room and fires her. The... Read more

Künstlers in Paradise

By: Cathleen Schine
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

“The first Künstler family member we meet is Julian, who at 24 is having a hard time finding himself and becoming an adult. After his parents refuse to foot his bill, he travels to LA to visit his grandmother. Then COVID hits and he finds himself staying with her for the duration. Through their relationship we learn of his grandmother’s escape... Read more

Heidi

By: Johanna Spyri
Narrated by: Johanna Ward
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

High in the Swiss Alps, Heidi, a five-year-old orphan, comes to live with her grandfather. His neighbors say he is a fierce old hermit of whom they are all afraid.Heidi, however, proves to be a remarkable, unaffected child, who quickly charms her grandfather. In fact, for Heidi, nothing could be better than living with him. She has a genuine... Read more

Narwhal's School of Awesomeness (A Narwhal and Jelly Book #6)

A Narwhal and Jelly Book: Book #6

By: Ben Clanton
Narrated by: Socks Whitmore, Kirby Heyborne, Ben Clanton & Full Cast
Length: 23 minutes

Narwhal and Jelly become the coolest teachers in the world wide waters in the hilarious sixth book of this blockbuster graphic novel series, adapted for audio with a full cast and sound effects!

Dive into four new stories about Narwhal and Jelly becoming substitute teachers! The two best friends come across an enthusiastic school of fish one... Read more

The Plague

Translated by Stuart Gilbert

By: Albert Camus
Narrated by: James Jenner
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

In the small coastal city of Oran, Algeria, rats begin rising up from the filth only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. Shortly after, an outbreak of the bubonic plague erupts and envelops the human population. Albert Camus' The Plague is a brilliant and haunting rendering of human perseverance and futility in the face of a relentless terror... Read more

Tom Brown's School Days (Unabridged)

By: THOMAS HUGHES
Narrated by: Gretta Dotson
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Tom Brown's Schooldays is a novel by Thomas Hughes first published in 1857. The story is set at Rugby School, a public school for boys, in the 1830s. Hughes attended Rugby School from 1834 to 1842. The novel was originally published as being "by an Old Boy of Rugby", and much of it is based on the author's experiences. Tom Brown is largely based... Read more

Uncle Elephant

By: Arnold Lobel
Narrated by: Mark Linn-Baker
Length: 19 minutes

Another sweet, classic bedtime tale from Arnold Lobel, the beloved author and illustrator of the Newbery Honor and Caldecott Honor award-winning Frog and Toad books.While his mother and father are away, a little elephant goes to visit his uncle. And what a time they have! Uncle Elephant makes wishes come true, tells amazing stories, and trumpets... Read more

The Wings of the Dove

By: Henry James
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 18 hours 54 minutes

Henry James' classic morality tale tells of a triangle of friends and lovers doomed to treachery by overreaching desire.In early-twentieth-century London, Kate Croy is secretly engaged to Merton Denscher, a journalist possessed of all the qualities of an ideal husband except for money. By chance, Kate befriends American heiress Milly Theale, who... Read more

The Virus in the Age of Madness

By: Bernard-Henri Levy
Narrated by: Shridhar Solanki
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

A trenchant look at how the coronavirus reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society

With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world. In this sharp essay, world-renowned philosopher... Read more

The Secret Life of Bees

By: Sue Monk Kidd
Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

An intoxicating debut novel of "one motherless daughter's discovery of...the strange and wonderful places we find love" —The Washington PostSue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily... Read more

The Little French Bistro

A Novel

By: Nina George
Narrated by: Emma Bering
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop, an extraordinary novel about self-discovery and new beginnings.
 
Marianne is stuck in a loveless, unhappy marriage.  After forty-one years, she has reached her limit, and one evening in Paris she decides to take action. Following a... Read more

The Great Brain

The Great Brain: Book #1

By: John Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

The Great Brain is Tom D. Fitzgerald, aged ten. The story is told by J.D., a sometimes confounded but always admiring younger brother. Such people as Mr. Standish, the mean schoolmaster, regret the day they came up against The Great Brain. But others, like the Jensen kids lost in Skeleton Cave, Basil, the Greek kid, or Andy, who has lost his leg... Read more

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

Montague Siblings: Book #1

By: Mackenzi Lee
Narrated by: Christian Coulson
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

“The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue is told by Henry “Monty” Montague, a young lord from Britain who has more than a secret or two. Henry has been struggling with the fact that he is in love with his best friend, Percy, who has secrets of his own to hide. Together, along with Henry’s sister, Felicity, they start their grand tour of Europe... Read more

The Day the Crayons Quit

By: Drew Daywalt
Narrated by: Drew Daywalt, Marichelle Daywalt, René Ruiz, James Patrick Cronin, Barrett Leddy, Robbie Daymond, John Lee, Tara Sands, MacLeod Andrews, Ron Butler, Kim Mai Guest & Max Meyers
Length: 9 minutes

Crayons have feelings, too, in this funny back-to-school story -- now a #1 New York Times bestseller!

Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! Beige Crayon is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown Crayon. Black wants to be... Read more

The Alienist

By: Caleb Carr
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 20 hours

A new breed of evil in Old New York

New York, 1886: Lower Manhattan's underworld is ruled by a new generation of cold-blooded criminals...Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt battles widespread corruption within the department's ranks...and a shockingly brutal murder sets off an investigation that could change crime-fighting forever.

In the... Read more

The Album of Dr. Moreau

By: Daryl Gregory
Narrated by: Luis Moreno
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Daryl Gregory's The Album of Dr. Moreau combines the science fiction premise of the famous novel by H. G. Wells with the panache of a classic murder mystery and the spectacle of a beloved boy band.
It’s 2001, and the WyldBoyZ are the world’s hottest boy band, and definitely the world’s only genetically engineered human-animal hybrid vocal group.... Read more

Stuart Little

By: E. B. White
Narrated by: Julie Harris
Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Stuart Little is a shy, philosophical mouse witha big heart and a taste for adventure. He also happens to be the second son born to the Littles, a human family living in New York City. In spite of his dimunuitive statue-barely two inches tall--Stuart enjoys life in the big city. He rides a Fifth Avenue bus and even wins a sailboat race in... Read more

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Abridged

A Low Culture Manifesto

By: Chuck Klosterman
Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Over half a million copies sold!

From the author of the highly acclaimed heavy metal memoir, Fargo Rock City, comes another hilarious and discerning take on massively popular culture—set in Chuck Klosterman’s den and your own—covering everything from the effect of John Cusack flicks to the crucial role of breakfast cereal to the awesome power... Read more

Phase Six

A novel

By: Jim Shepard
Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

This "novel of contagion and collapse is also the story of love’s unlikely survival in the most hostile conditions” (Karen Russell, bestselling author of Swamplandia!)—from the National Book Award-nominated author of The Book of Aron.

In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers... Read more

Perfect Little World

A Novel

By: Kevin Wilson
Narrated by: Therese Plummer
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

“Izzy Poole is 18, pregnant with her erratic art teacher's baby, and without any family or money to help her raise her child. Dr. Preston Grind is tragically widowered and estranged from his parents, who raised him using unconventional and unhealthy methods in the name of science. Dr. Grind invites Izzy and nine other couples also expecting their... Read more