Never
A Novel
By Ken Follett
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 23 hours 57 minutes
New York Times Bestseller
The new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it’s an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day.
“A compelling story, and only too realistic.” —Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary
“Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn’t get... Read more »
Once Upon a Wardrobe
By Patti Callahan
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
If you enjoyed The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, then you’ll love Once Upon a Wardrobe.
“8 year old, sickly George begs his sister Meg, a student at Oxford, to find and ask C.S. Lewis where the idea of Narnia came from. This charming novel is a testament to the power of stories. Those who enjoy The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe will feel like they are wrapped in a warm blanket before a lovely fire as they are transported to the magical world of Narnia.”
Melanie, Bookstore1Sarasota
The 1619 Project
A New Origin Story
By Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman & Jake Silverstein
Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones & Full Cast
Length: 18 hours 56 minutes
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire
In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of... Read more »
The Perks of Loving a Wallflower
By Erica Ridley
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Fans of Bridgerton will love this “delightful” Regency romp (Julia Quinn, New York Times bestselling author) in which a proper Society miss recruits a very improper lady investigator in a quest for vengeance, only to find love instead.
As a master of disguise, Thomasina Wynchester can be a polite young lady—or a bawdy old man. She’ll do whatever...
The Vanished Days
By Susanna Kearsley
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Length: 15 hours 43 minutes
I HAVE BEEN PERSUADED NOW TO TAKE MY PEN IN HAND AND TELL THE STORY AS IT SHOULD BE TOLD … In the autumn of 1707, old enemies from the Scottish Highlands to the Borderlands are finding common ground as they join to protest the new Union with England. An invasion is imminent as many plot to bring the exiled young Jacobite king back to... Read more »
The Sentence
By Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.
Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small...
Read more »Miracle and Wonder
Conversations with Paul Simon
By Malcolm Gladwell & Bruce Headlam
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam & Paul Simon
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon is unlike any artistic portrait you’ve ever heard before. Recorded over a series of 30 hours of conversation between Simon, Malcolm Gladwell, and Broken Record podcast co-host Bruce Headlam, the conversation flows from Simon’s music to his childhood in Queens, NY, his frequent collaborators...
Read more »Look for Me and I'll Be Gone
Stories
By John Edgar Wideman
Narrated by: Dion Graham & Janina Edwards
Length: 11 hours
*A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of the Year*
From John Edgar Wideman, a modern “master of language” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a stunning story collection that spans a range of topics from Michael Jordan to Emmett Till, from childhood memories to the final day in a prison cell.
In Look For Me and I’ll Be Gone, his sixth... Read more »
Going There (read by Katie Couric)
By Katie Couric
Narrated by: Katie Couric
Length: 15 hours 26 minutes
This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name.
For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the...
The Murder on the Links
By Kate McAll & adapted from the novel by Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Edita Brychta, Kevin Daniels, Anna Lyse Erikson, Simon Helberg, Adhir Kalyan, Kate McAll, Alfred Molina, Darren Richardson, Jocelyn Towne, Joanne Whalley & Matthew Wolf
Length: 1 hours 38 minutes
An L.A. Theatre Works commissioned adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie “whodunit.” Adapted from the novel by Kate McAll. In Christie’s clever and beautifully crafted tale, Detective Hercule Poirot receives an urgent letter from Paul Renauld summoning him to France. Upon their arrival, Poirot and his companion, Arthur Hastings, find they... Read more »
The Secret of Life
Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
By Howard Markel
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
An authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians. James Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it—and... Read more »
The Boys
A Memoir of Hollywood and Family
By Ron Howard & Clint Howard
Narrated by: Ron Howard, Clint Howard & Bryce Dallas Howard
Length: 13 hours 18 minutes
The Boys
“This is one that I listened to, instead of reading in print, and I highly recommend the listening experience! Ron and his brother Clint take turns narrating, and it’s SO much fun for anybody who grew up in the 1970s. (I hadn’t realized that Ron’s little brother was the star of Gentle Ben. He also had a hilarious cameo on Star Trek when he was around 4.) There’s so much interesting stuff about growing up doing shows in the ‘70s, and Ron’s narration is so engaging. This was fun and so nostalgic.”
Donna, A Great Good Place for Books
Shelf Life
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
By Nadia Wassef
Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
The streets of Cairo make strange music: the echoing calls to prayer, the raging insults hurled between drivers, the steady crescendo of horns honking, the shouts of street vendors, the television sets and radios blaring from every sidewalk. Nadia Wassef knows this song by heart. In 2002, with her sister, Hind, and their friend, Nihal, she... Read more »
The Secret History of Food
Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
By Matt Siegel
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
An irreverent, surprising, and entirely entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and love
Is Italian olive oil really Italian, or are we dipping our bread in lamp oil? Why are we masochistically drawn to foods that can hurt us, like hot peppers? Far from being a classic American dish, is apple pie actually . . ....
Read more »An Observant Wife
A Novel
By Naomi Ragen
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
"In this sequel to An Unorthodox Match, Gabra Zackman returns to narrate the story of secular-born Jewish Leah and her Orthodox Jewish husband, Yaakov, a widower. Zackman expertly creates the watchful atmosphere of their insular Brooklyn neighborhood." -AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner
In this rich and compassionate novel, An Observant...
Count the Ways
A Novel
By Joyce Maynard
Narrated by: Joyce Maynard
Length: 15 hours 15 minutes
In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of her most acclaimed work in a mesmerizing story of a family—from the hopeful early days of young marriage to parenthood, divorce, and the costly aftermath that ripples through all their lives
Eleanor and Cam meet at...
Read more »Eartha & Kitt
A Daughter's Love Story in Black and White
By Kitt Shapiro & Patricia Weiss Levy
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
In this unique combination of African-American, music, and cultural history, we come to know one of the greatest stars the world has ever seen—Eartha Kitt—as revealed by the person who knew her best, her daughter. Eartha, who was a mix of Black, Cherokee, and white, identified as Black, but Kitt, her biological daughter by a white man, is blonde... Read more »
Mountolive
The Alexandria Quartet
By Lawrence Durrell
Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
‘Mountolive who had already found the open sesame of language ready to hand, suddenly began to feel himself really penetrating a foreign country...’ In Mountolive, the third volume in Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, the events surrounding the interwoven community of Nessim, Justine, Narouz, Pursewarden and the other major characters are given a... Read more »
Beautiful World, Where Are You
A Novel
By Sally Rooney
Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Beautiful World, Where Are You
“'Humanity on the cusp of extinction [&] here I am writing another email about sex & friendship. What else is there to live for?' A mastery of capacious dialogue; this page-turner satisfies with 21st century romance & unanswered questions that will linger in any hopeful, nihilistic heart.”
Jill, Collected Works Bookstore
Harlem Shuffle
A Novel
By Colson Whitehead
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Harlem Shuffle
“A tribute to Harlem...a mystery...so well written, and great characters too!”
Elsie, Bookstore1Sarasota