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Enchantment

Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May
Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

“British author Katherine May knows exactly what I need when I need it. I read her book, Wintering, during the hardest days of the pandemic. She wrote of a time in her life, pre-pandemic, when she felt hopeless, but her words resonated with my feelings of despair during the isolation of 2020. Her newest book, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an... Read more

We Spread

By: Iain Reid
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

The author of the “evocative, spine-tingling, and razor-sharp” (Bustle) I’m Thinking of Ending Things that inspired the Netflix original movie and the “short, shocking” (The Guardian) Foe returns with a new work of suspense following an elderly woman trapped in a mysterious facility.

Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades,... Read more

The Whole Animal

By: Corinna Chong
Narrated by: Laura Miyata
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

A refreshingly original debut collection of short stories that grapple with the self-alienation and self-discovery that make us human. For fans of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Lynn Coady, and Lisa Moore comes a striking debut collection of short stories that explore bodies both human and animal: our fascination with their strange effluences,... Read more

The Seven Year Slip

By: Ashley Poston
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

“Ashley Poston does an amazing job writing light paranormal romances that will also make you cry. The Seven Year Slip made me unexplainably happy, extremely sad and I couldn’t put it down. With a time-traveling apartment, a second chance romance trope, a New York setting and how someone deals with grief this book couldn’t get any better. Read more

How to Sell a Haunted House

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

“This is a complicated family drama...with creepy puppets. In turns heartbreaking and terrifying, this just might be my favorite Hendrix novel yet! It managed to both give me nightmares and be a layered story about a dysfunctional family. This book peels back like an onion - you'll want to cringe and cry at the same time. Read more

Lucky Red

A Novel

By: Claudia Cravens
Narrated by: Elena Rey
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A cinematic debut set in the American West about a scrappy orphan bent on making her own luck—and finding friendship, romance, and her true calling along the way

“A powerful feminist battle cry . . . [and] rollicking good fun.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
 
A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY AND KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

The... Read more

"You Just Need to Lose Weight"

And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

Myths Made in America

By: Aubrey Gordon
Narrated by: Aubrey Gordon
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

“I am so onboard with everything about this book, and I wish everyone would read it. It has been impeccably researched, yet is presented in an incredibly approachable volume. Fat activist Aubrey Gordon discusses things like the intersections of fatness and desirability politics and why 'fatphobia' isn’t the best word to describe the oppression of... Read more