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Anywhere But Here

By: Mona Simpson
Narrated by: Kate Rudd
Length: 20 hours 12 minutes

Anywhere But Here is a moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer. As they travel through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions, Ann and Adele bring to life a novel that is a brilliant exploration of the perennial urge to keep moving, even at the risk of profound... Read more

California

A Novel

By: Edan Lepucki
Narrated by: Emma Galvin
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek solace in each other. But the tentative existence... Read more

Into the Forest - Abridged

By: Jean Hegland
Narrated by: Alison Elliott
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home.

Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society... Read more

Survivor Song

A Novel

By: Paul Tremblay
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

“When a take-no-prisoners virus sweeps through the area, how will people react? Survivor Song is a thriller that follows a pair of friends trying to survive, but it also offers an interesting and realistic look at how society on a local scale may try to cope while also trying to maintain some semblance of order. On the other side of the coin,... Read more

I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are

By: Rachel Bloom
Narrated by: Rachel Bloom
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

From the charming and wickedly funny co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, a collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and even amusement park maps on the subjects of insecurity, fame, anxiety, and much more.
Rachel Bloom has felt abnormal and out of place her whole life. In this exploration of what she thinks makes her "different,"... Read more

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed: Book #1

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Lynne Thigpen
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

“Prescient, brilliant, challenging; a book everyone should read, probably multiple times in their lives as N.K. Jemisin suggests. Read more

I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness

A Novel

By: Claire Vaye Watkins
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, VOGUE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, NPR, ESQUIRE, AND KIRKUS

“There’s some kind of genius sorcery in this novel. It’s startlingly original, hilarious and harrowing by turns, finally transcendent. Watkins writes like an avenging angel. It's thrilling and terrifying to stand in her wake.” —Jenny... Read more

Anne of Green Gables - Abridged

By: Kate Harper & L. M. Montgomery
Narrated by: Kate Harper
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Anne of Green Gables, one of the most widely read and best-loved stories in the world, is brought to life on this abridged, downloadable audiobook edition by actress Kate Harper.

The Cuthberts are in for a shock. They are expecting an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables - but a skinny red-haired girl turns up instead. Highly spirited... Read more

Pet Sematary

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Michael C. Hall
Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

“If you're going to read one scary book, let it be Pet Sematary by Stephen King. I don't scare very easily as an avid horror reader, but this one really kept me up at night, and made me highly suspicious of my cat for weeks after. Read more

Nothing to See Here

By: Kevin Wilson
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

“When Lillian and Madison first meet at a fancy boarding school, one is the wealthy heir of a department store fortune, the other a white trash scholarship kid. After an incident at the school breaks them apart, they don't see each other for many years until the magnetic Madison, now the wife and strategist for a powerful Tennessee politician,... Read more

Black Tide

By: KC Jones
Narrated by: John Pirhalla & Sophie Amoss
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

"...narrators John Pirhalla and Sophie Amoss skillfully let the protagonists’ voices cycle through emotions like exhaustion, despair, and even hope." -Library Journal

A character-driven science fiction/horror blend, KC Jones's Black Tide is Stephen King's Cujo meets A Quiet Place.

It was just another day at the beach. And then the world ended.

Mike... Read more

Never Leave the Dogs Behind

A Memoir

By: Brianna Madia
Narrated by: Brianna Madia
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe author of Nowhere for Very Long continues her story with this deeply honest, moving account of a woman walking the line between independence and isolation when she moves to the Southwest desert with nothing and no one but her four dogs.In her debut memoir, Nowhere for Very Long, Brianna Madia reflected on her life... Read more

Baby Teeth

A Novel

By: Zoje Stage
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

“I am a little afraid to write a review after finishing this book because I have the terrible feeling that I’m being watched, this due to the suspicion that seven-year-old Hannah has jumped from the pages of the book straight into my head — something she undoubtedly planned the entire time, despite the obvious impossibility of it all. I could not... Read more

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

The Road to Nowhere: Book #1

By: Meg Elison
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 and Philip K. Dick Award WinnerWhen she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead.In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant—the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world... Read more

The Last One

A Novel

By: Alexandra Oliva
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain & Nicol Zanzarella
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Wilderness survival is the name of the game as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself in this fast-paced novel of suspense in the vein of Yellowjackets.
 
“Taut, tense, and at times almost unbearably real.”—Ruth Ware, author of One by One

She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far.

It begins with a reality TV... Read more