Growing Up & Getting Older

Two Old Broads

Stuff You Need to Know That You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know

By: Dr. M. E. Hecht & Whoopi Goldberg
Narrated by: Devon O'Day & Jackie Schlicher
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Written by renowned surgeon and expert on the art of aging, Dr. M.E. Hecht, with her friend Whoopi Goldberg lending her unique point of view, Two Old Broads is laugh out loud funny and?tells it like it is for all of us who left middle age in the dust and want to be present, positive, and as extraordinary as ever in our golden years.Whoopi joins... Read more

This Time Together

Laughter and Reflection

By: Carol Burnett
Narrated by: Carol Burnett
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

This touching and hilarious memoir is 100 percent Carol Burnett—funny, irreverent, and irresistible.

Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America. The Carol Burnett Show was seen each week by millions of adoring fans and won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run. Now, in This Time... Read more

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared

By: Jonas Jonasson
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 12 hours

A larger-than-life old man with a fondness for vodka goes on an unexpected adventure in this whimsical novel — perfect for fans of Forrest Gump and A Man Called Ove.After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he’s still in good health—and tomorrow is his... Read more

Virtue

A Novel

By: Hermione Hoby
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Named a Summer Must Read by Wall Street Journal, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, Esquire, Bustle, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, Refinery29, and more

“[Hoby] might have just written the defining New York City novel of our fraught, socially anxious, and politically tumultuous times.” —Interview
 
“Intense and addictive.”... Read more

Under The Wave At Waimea

By: Paul Theroux
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
Length: 18 hours 20 minutes

“Theroux’s work is like no one else’s.” –Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review

From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember.

Now in his sixties, big-wave surfer Joe Sharkey has passed his prime and is losing his... Read more

The House on Mango Street

By: Sandra Cisneros
Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

In hardcover for the first time--on the tenth anniversary of its initial publication--the greatly admired and bestselling book about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, this novel depicts a new American landscape through its multiple characters. Read more

The Dutch House

A Novel

By: Ann Patchett
Narrated by: Tom Hanks
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

“The Conroy family lives in the Dutch House, an architecturally prominent home in Philadelphia. After Danny and Maeve’s mother leaves, their father eventually remarries. ANDREA. (How you will hate Andrea.) I won’t spoil any of the plot twists, but what I can tell you is that this novel is about the love and loyalty in found family and true... Read more

The Broom of the System

A Novel

By: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

The "dazzling, exhilarating" (San Francisco Chronicle) debut novel from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest, available for the first time as an audiobook.

At the center of The Broom of the System is the betwitching (and also bewildered) heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio,... Read more

Straight Man

A Novel

By: Richard Russo
Narrated by: Sam Freed
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that... Read more

The Nowhere Man

An Orphan X Novel

Evan Smoak: Book #2

By: Gregg Hurwitz
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

“Will keep readers on the edge of their seats.”―Publishers Weekly (starred review)Who is THE NOWHERE MAN?He is spoken about only in whispers. He comes to those in greatest need of his protection. There is no enemy he cannot fight. He lives by his own code. He takes no prisoners. His name is Evan Smoak.Taken from a group home when he was young,... Read more

How High the Moon

By: Karyn Parsons
Narrated by: Karyn Parsons & Sisi Aisha Johnson
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

To Kill a Mockingbird meets One Crazy Summer in this powerful, bittersweet debut about one girl's journey to reconnect with her mother and learn the truth about her father in the tumultuous times of the Jim Crow South.
"Timely, captivating, and lovely. So glad this book is in the world." --Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming

In the... Read more

Hope Farm

By: Peggy Frew
Narrated by: Ailsa Piper, Multiple Narrators & Taylor Owynns
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

It is the winter of 1985. Hope Farm sticks out of the ragged landscape like a decaying tooth, its weatherboard walls sagging into the undergrowth. Silver's mother, Ishtar, has fallen for the charismatic Miller, and the three of them have moved to the rural hippie commune to make a new start. But here, at just thirteen, she is thrust into an... Read more

Hagitude

Reimagining the Second Half of Life

By: Sharon Blackie
Narrated by: Sharon Blackie
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Unearths the stories of the little-known but powerful elder women in European myth and folklore, inspiring listeners to radically reimagine the last decades of their lives as the most dynamic of all

Western folklore and mythology are rife with brilliantly creative, fulfilled, feisty, and furious role models for aging women, despite our... Read more

Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys

American Girl: Care & Keeping(TM)

By: Cara Natterson
Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

From the author of the bestselling Care & Keeping Of™ series!

This audiobook is full of advice, tips, and facts from pediatrician Dr. Cara Natterson about how the body changes. Boys will find age-appropriate answers to questions about voice changes, acne, bad breath, shaving, and everything in between. Read more

Gone

Gone: Book #1

By: Michael Grant
Narrated by: Kyle McCarley
Length: 17 hours 15 minutes

In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young. There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened. Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens... Read more

Front Desk

By: Kelly Yang
Narrated by: Sunny Lu
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Winner of the Asian / Pacific American Award for Children's Literature!

* "Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Mia Tang has a lot of secrets.

Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the... Read more

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

A Novel

By: Fannie Flagg
Narrated by: Lorna Raver
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her... Read more

Either/Or

By: Elif Batuman
Narrated by: Elif Batuman
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

An instant New York Times bestseller!

A New York Times Notable Book of 2022

“Batuman has a gift for making the universe seem, somehow, like the benevolent and witty literary seminar you wish it were . . .This novel wins you over in a million micro-observations.” —The New York Times

From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the... Read more

Annie John

By: Jamaica Kincaid
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Jamaica Kincaid presents a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua.An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence at the very center of the little girl’s existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives... Read more