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Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Stories
By Karen Russell
Narrated by Various / 9 hours 15 minutes
From the author of the instant New York Times best seller Swamplandia! (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), a dazzling new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell's gifts at their inimitable best.
In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested... Read More »
The Sunken Cathedral
A Novel
By Kate Walbert
Narrated by Kate Walbert / 5 hours 45 minutes
From the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award nominee, a “funny…beautiful…audacious…masterful” (J. Courtney Sullivan, The Boston Globe) novel about the way memory haunts and shapes the present.
Marie and Simone, friends for decades, were once immigrants to the city, survivors of World War II in Europe. Now widows living alone in... Read More »
City of Thieves
A Novel
By David Benioff
Narrated by Ron Perlman / 8 hours 28 minutes
From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour and When the Nines Roll Over and co-creator of the HBO series Game of Thrones, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival — and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime.
During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the... Read More »
Stoner
By John Williams
Narrated by Robin Field / 9 hours 46 minutes
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession... Read More »
Burial Rites
A Novel
By Hannah Kent
Narrated by Morven Christie / 11 hours 59 minutes
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution.
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former... Read More »
Florence Gordon
By Brian Morton
Narrated by Dawn Harvey / 7 hours 14 minutes
A wise and entertainingnovel about a woman who has lived life on her own terms for seventy-five defiantand determined years, only to find herself suddenly thrust to the center of herfamily’s various catastrophes
Meet Florence Gordon: blunt, brilliant, cantankerous, andpassionate, a feminist icon to young women. At seventy-five, Florence has... Read More »
H Is for Hawk
By Helen Macdonald
Narrated by Helen Macdonald / 11 hours 6 minutes
When Helen Macdonald’sfather died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experiencedfalconer captivated by hawks since childhood, she’d never before been temptedto train one of the most vicious predators: the goshawk. But in her grief, shesaw that the goshawk’s fierce and feral anger mirrored her own. Resolving topurchase and raise... Read More »
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
A Memoir of Life in Death
By Jean-Dominique Bauby
Narrated by René Auberjonois / 2 hours 8 minutes
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had... Read More »
The Devil in the White City
Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
By Erik Larson
Narrated by Scott Brick / 14 hours 58 minutes
The Devil in the White City
“The Devil in the White City is one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. Set amidst the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Erik Larson's historical narrative interweaves the stories of two men who would come to define it, for better and for worse. One is Daniel Burnham, chief architect of the Fair, who threw his entire being into creating a landmark event in American history. The other is Dr. H.H. Holmes, a serial killer who built a hotel that became his "Murder Castle", luring many poor souls who came to Chicago to their death and dismemberment. Though you may expect Holmes' chapters to be more entertaining, I was amazed by the story of the World's Fair and its impact on American history. The first Ferris wheel debuted as the centerpiece of the Fair, the Pledge of Allegiance was written for its opening ceremony, and its use of alternating current electricity essentially ended Edison and Tesla's current war. If these bits of trivia excite your inner history nerd, come buy the book today!”
Marcus, The Book Tavern
The Light Between Oceans
A Novel
By M.L. Stedman
Narrated by Noah Taylor / 10 hours 21 minutes
The years-long New York Times bestseller and Goodreads Best Historical Novel that is “irresistible…seductive…with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page” (O, The Oprah Magazine)—soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg’s Dreamworks starring Michael Fassbender, Rachel Weisz, and Alicia Vikander, and directed by... Read More »
One More Thing
Stories and Other Stories
By B. J. Novak
Narrated by B. J. Novak, Mindy Kaling, Lena Dunham, Jenna Fischer, Julianne Moore, Carey Mulligan, Katy Perry, Jason Schwartzman, Emma Thompson & Rainn Wilson / 6 hours 47 minutes
WITH SPECIAL APPEARANCES by Lena Dunham, Jenna Fischer, Mindy Kaling, Julianne Moore, Carey Mulligan, Katy Perry, Jason Schwartzman, Emma Thompson, and Rainn Wilson
B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new... Read More »
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
A Novel
By Maria Semple
Narrated by Kathleen Wilhoite / 9 hours 35 minutes
A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this "whip-smart and divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times).
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in... Read More »
Sisterland
A Novel
By Curtis Sittenfeld
Narrated by Rebecca Lowman / 14 hours 57 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY
Slate • Daily Candy • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian (U.K.)
“Novelists get called master storytellers all the time, but Sittenfeld really is one. . . . What might be most strikingly excellent about Sisterland is the way Sittenfeld depicts domesticity and... Read More »
Started Early, Took My Dog
A Novel
Jackson Brodie: Book #4
By Kate Atkinson
Narrated by Graeme Malcolm / 12 hours 21 minutes
Tracy Waterhouse leads a quiet, ordered life as a retired police detective -- a life that takes a surprising turn when she encounters Kelly Cross, a habitual offender, dragging a young child through town. Both appear miserable and better off without each other -- or so decides Tracy, in a snap decision that surprises herself as much as Kelly.... Read More »
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
By Karen Joy Fowler
Narrated by Orlagh Cassidy / 8 hours 56 minutes
The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family that is ordinary in every way but one in this novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize.
Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in... Read More »
The Lost City of Z
A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
By David Grann
Narrated by Mark Deakins / 10 hours 3 minutes
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.
After stumbling... Read More »
Modern Romance
By Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg
Narrated by Aziz Ansari / 6 hours 14 minutes
The #1 New York Times Bestseller
A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the star of Master of None and one of this generation’s sharpest comedic voices
At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships,... Read More »
In a Dark, Dark Wood
By Ruth Ware
Narrated by Imogen Church / 9 hours 41 minutes
AUTHOR OF THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
* An NPR Best Book of the Year * A ShelfAwareness Best Book of the Year * An Entertainment Weekly Summer Books Pick * A Buzzfeed “31 Books to Get Excited About this Summer” Pick * A Publishers Weekly “Top Ten... Read More »
Euphoria
A Novel
By Lily King
Narrated by Simon Vance & Xe Sands / 6 hours 53 minutes
From New England Book Award winner Lily King comes abreathtaking novel about three young anthropologists of the 1930s caught in apassionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and ultimately, their lives.
English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in thefield for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the... Read More »
The Plot against America
By Philip Roth
Narrated by Ron Silver / 13 hours 23 minutes
The Plot against America
“This alternate history masterpiece imagines what would have happened if Charles Lindbergh won the presidential election in 1940 instead of Roosevelt. After the passing of Philip Roth, pay homage to this great writer by reading his work.”
Karen, Parnassus Books
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