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The Poisons We Drink

By: Bethany Baptiste
Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family.

Love potions are a dangerous business. Brewing has painful, debilitating side effects, and getting caught means death or a prison sentence. But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within... Read more

A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix

Remixed Classics: Book #1

By: C. B. Lee
Narrated by: C. B. Lee & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

"Emily Woo Zeller offers an exciting narration of this sapphic TREASURE ISLAND retelling with Asian characters." -Audiofile Magazine

This program features an author's note, read by the author

Two intrepid girls hunt for a legendary treasure on the deadly high seas in this YA remix of the classic adventure novel Treasure Island.

1826. The sun is... Read more

Dauntless

By: Elisa A. Bonnin
Narrated by: Amielynn Abellera
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

“Be dauntless, for the hopes of the People rest in you.”

Seri’s world is defined by very clear rules: The beasts prowl the forest paths and hunt the People. The valiant explore the unknown world, kill the beasts, and gain strength from the armor they make from them. As an assistant to Eshai Unbroken, a young valor commander
with a near-mythical... Read more

The Infinity Courts

By: Akemi Dawn Bowman
Narrated by: Mizuo Peck
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

“Masterful and left me on the edge of my seat…absolutely everything I could want in a sci-fi.” —Adalyn Grace, New York Times bestselling author of All the Stars and Teeth

Westworld meets Warcross in this high-stakes, dizzyingly smart sci-fi about a teen girl navigating an afterlife in which she must defeat an AI entity intent on destroying... Read more

Stolen City

By: Elisa A. Bonnin
Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

The city of Leithon is under Imperial occupation, and Arian Athensor has made it her playground.

In stealing magical artifacts for the Resistance, bounding over rooftops to evade Imperial soldiers, and establishing herself as the darling thief of the underground, Arian lives a life wrapped in danger and trained toward survival. She’ll steal... Read more

Cinderella Is Dead

By: Kalynn Bayron
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Bloomsbury presents Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron, read by Bahni Turpin.

"Wholly original and captivating." – Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Girls team up to overthrow the kingdom in this unique and powerful retelling of Cinderella from a stunning new voice that’s perfect for fans of... Read more

White Smoke

By: Tiffany D. Jackson
Narrated by: Marcella Cox
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

The Haunting of Hill House meets Get Out in this chilling YA psychological thriller and modern take on the classic haunted house story from New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson!Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California... Read more

The Weight of Blood

By: Tiffany D. Jackson
Narrated by: JD Jackson, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Joy Nash, Christopher Salazar & Karen Malina White
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

“A massacre happens at a high school prom leaving few survivors. This book incorporates podcasts episodes and news reports of the events leading up to the massacre. The producers of this audio book took great care in crafting an immersive experience. By giving the different characters their own voice actors the story comes to life and the... Read more

Boys I Know

By: Anna Gracia
Narrated by: Si Chen
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

A high school senior navigates messy boys and messier relationships in this bitingly funny and much-needed look into the overlap of Asian American identity and teen sexuality.

June Chu is the “just good enough” girl. Good enough to line the shelves with a slew of third-place trophies and steal secret kisses from her AP Bio partner, Rhys. But not... Read more

Not So Pure and Simple

By: Lamar Giles
Narrated by: Korey Jackson
Length: 11 hours

""Hysterical. I couldn’t put it down.” (Nic Stone) ""I laughed, I gasped, I church grunted through every chapter."" (Tiffany D. Jackson) ""Heartfelt and hilarious on every page!"" (Justin A. Reynolds)4 starred reviews! * An Indie Next List Pick! * Named one of Bank Street College of Education's Best Children’s Books of the Year!Two-time Edgar... Read more

The Forest of Stolen Girls

By: June Hur
Narrated by: Sue Jean Kim
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Suspenseful and richly atmospheric, June Hur's The Forest of Stolen Girls is a haunting historical mystery sure to keep readers guessing until the last page.

1426, Joseon (Korea). Hwani's family has never been the same since she and her younger sister went missing and were later found unconscious in the forest near a gruesome crime scene.

Years... Read more

A Crooked Mark

By: Linda Kao
Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

"A dark, twisting coming-of-age sure to leave readers glancing over their shoulder for the Devil. Kao perfectly illustrates the struggles of choosing your own path through a lens of fire and knives, and you won't want to put it down." —Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Followed With Us

A dark and sinister debut YA... Read more

The Misdirection of Fault Lines

By: Anna Gracia
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo, Jen Zhao, Louisa Zhu & Sean Pratt
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants goes to the French Open in an emotionally honest and openhearted novel for fans of Yamile Saied Méndez and Mary HK Choi.

Three teen girls compete at an elite tennis tournament for a shot at their dreams—if only they knew what their dreams were.

Alice is on her own for the first time. She has no coach. No friends.... Read more

Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster

By: Andrea Mosqueda
Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

“I love this book. Maggie Gonzales’s challenge to herself to figure out her feelings between her best friend, old love, and new romance is so real, as is her uncertainty about the future. Awesome friends and family are vibrant on the page; their modern-day Texas is vividly alive with the music, fashion, photography, and food of the Rio Grande... Read more

Calling of Light

Shamanborn: Book #3

By: Lori M. Lee
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Sirscha has returned to Evewyn, only to discover that everyone believes she killed the queen and that she’s the new king’s Shadow. These rumors have made people fear her, but it’s not the rumors that concern her—it’s finding out what the Soulless is going to do next so she can finally destroy him. Everyone might believe she’s a monster, but... Read more

Broken Web

Shamanborn: Book #2

By: Lori M. Lee
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

The Soulless is free from his centuries-long imprisonment. Now, he lurks in the Dead Wood recovering his strength, while Sirscha and her allies journey east to the shaman empire of Nuvalyn. Everyone believes she is a soulguide?a savior?but Sirscha knows the truth. She’s a monster, a soulrender like the Soulless, and if anyone discovers the... Read more

A Whole Song and Dance

By: Sarvenaz Tash
Narrated by: Emily O'Brien
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Sarah Dessen meets Abigail Hing Wen in this heartwarming romantic comedy starring Nasrin Mahdavi, an Iranian-American college freshman who's a triple threat on Broadway—but who's living a double life. It's her first semester majoring in musical theater at NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, and Nasrin spends her days prepping for... Read more

Grief in the Fourth Dimension

By: Jennifer Yu
Narrated by: Tim Lounibos & Raechel Wong
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

A moving and unique speculative YA novel about the afterlife and the unexpected connections that can be made in death



In life, high school classmates Caroline Davison and Kenny Zhou existed in separate universes—Caroline in one of softball practices and family dinners; Kenny in one of NASA photo books and late-night shifts at his parents' Chinese... Read more

Mirror Girls

By: Kelly McWilliams
Narrated by: Deanna Anthony, Carmen Jewel Jones & Robin Eller
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

A thrilling gothic horror novel about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, perfect for fans of Lovecraft Country and The Vanishing Half As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the Civil... Read more

Daniel, Deconstructed

By: James Ramos
Narrated by: André Santana
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

A nerdy high schooler learns to embrace his main-character energy in this witty and heart-healing ode to movie tropes, meet-cutes, and LGBTQ+ love.



Photographer and film buff Daniel Sanchez learned a long time ago that the only way to get by in an allistic world is to mask his autism and follow the script. Which means he knows that boisterous,... Read more