Astonish Me

By: Maggie Shipstead
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No

From the author of the widely acclaimed debut novel Seating Arrangements, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction: a gorgeously written, fiercely compelling glimpse into the demanding world of professional ballet and its magnetic hold over two generations.

Astonish Me is the irresistible story of... Read more »

The Marrow of Tradition

By: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Narrated by: Sean Crisden
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No

Major Carteret is the white owner of the biggest newspaper in Wellington, a racially segregated city in the post-Civil War South. Carteret, along with other powerful white men in Wellington, are outraged that an editorial published the town's black newspaper has questioned the justification for lynchings. As racial tension mounts, Carteret... Read more »

The Emperor's Blades

By: Brian Staveley
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 18 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

“A vividly imagined story of conspiracy and empire.” —Col Buchanan, author of Farlander

The emperor of Annur is dead, slain by enemies unknown. His daughter and two sons, scattered across the world, do what they must to stay alive and unmask the assassins. But each of them also has a life-path on which their father set them, their destinies... Read more »

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly

By: Sun-mi Hwang & Chi-Young Kim
Narrated by: Jill Larson
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No

A Korean Charlotte's Web

More than 2 million copies sold
 
This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch an... Read more »

Styxx

By: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Narrated by: Fred Berman
Length: 31 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

The most highly-anticipated novel in the Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series since Acheron is here—the unforgettable story of Styxx, Acheron's twin brother and one of the most powerful beings on earth

Just when you thought doomsday was over . . .

Centuries ago Acheron saved the human race by imprisoning an ancient evil bent on absolute... Read more »

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

By: Adelle Waldman
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No

A debut novel by a brilliant young woman about the coming-of-age of a brilliant young literary man “Nate is so convincingly drawn you’ll want to hug him, lecture him and shake some sense into him simultaneously. Waldman has deftly written a laugh-out-loud treatise on why he didn’t call.” — Allison Amend, author of A Nearly Perfect Copy Nate... Read more »

Fearless

By: Cornelia Funke
Narrated by: Elliot Hill
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

Jacob Reckless returns once again to the Mirrorworld--filled with profound characters, extraordinary creatures, and epic life-or-death treasure hunts that could only come from the mind of the master storyteller of our generation, Cornelia Funke.

Jacob Reckless has only a few months left to live. He's tried everything to shake the Fairy curse... Read more »

Frances and Bernard

By: Carlene Bauer
Narrated by: Angela Brazil & Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No

Bernard Elliot, a poet, and Frances Reardon, a fiction writer, meet at a writers' colony during the summer of 1957 and begin a friendship and correspondence. Bernard, well-born and Harvard-educated, is gregarious, reckless, and passionate; Frances, the precocious daughter of a middle-class Irish family, is circumspect, wry, and more than a... Read more »

The Middlesteins

By: Jami Attenberg
Narrated by: Molly Ringwald
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No

For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live.

When Richard abandons... Read more »

Iron Hearted Violet

By: Kelly Barnhill
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No

Newbery Medal winner Kelly Barnhill spins a wondrously different kind of fairy-tale: In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. But this isn't most fairy tales...

Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling... Read more »

Seraphina

By: Rachel Hartman
Narrated by: Mandy Williams & Justine Eyre
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No

Lyrical, imaginative, and wholly original, this New York Times bestseller with 8 starred reviews is not to be missed.  Rachel Hartman’s award-winning debut will have you looking at dragons as you’ve never imagined them before…
 
In the kingdom of Goredd, dragons and humans live and work side by side – while below the surface, tensions and... Read more »

The Cranes Dance

By: Meg Howrey
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No

I threw my neck out in the middle of Swan Lake tonight.

So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company. Kate is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world, a world she can’t help satirizing even as she balances injury and self-doubt to maintain her place within it. At every turn she is haunted... Read more »

Taking a Shot

By: Jaci Burton
Narrated by: Lucy Malone
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No

The last thing Jenna Riley needs is more sports in her life. While her brothers are off being athletic superstars, she's stuck running the family's sports bar, whether she likes it or not. Then, in walks pro hockey stud Tyler Anderson. As much as Jenna would like to go to the boards with him, she's vowed to never fall for a jock—even one as hot... Read more »

Queen Bees and Wannabes

By: Rosalind Wiseman
Narrated by: Lee Adams
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No

“My daughter used to be so wonderful. Now I can barely stand her and she won’t tell me anything. How can I find out what’s going on?”

“There’s a clique in my daughter’s grade that’s making her life miserable. She doesn’t want to go to school anymore. Her own supposed friends are turning on her, and she’s too afraid to do anything. What can I... Read more »

A Sea of Troubles

By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

Dona Leon has amassed devoted fans around the world for her atmospheric and intelligent Commissario Brunetti series. A Sea of Troubles offers a rare glimpse into the scrupulous Commissario's personal life. When Brunetti investigates the murder of two local fishermen on the island of Pellestrina, the small community closes ranks, forcing him to... Read more »

Stone Arabia

By: Dana Spiotta
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

Stone Arabia is about family, obsession,memory, and the urge to create—in isolation, at the margins of ourwinner-take-all culture.

In thesibling relationship, “there are no first impressions, no seductions, nogetting to know each other,” says Denise Kranis. For her and her brother Nik,now in their forties, no relationship is more significant.... Read more »

Silver Sparrow

By: Tayari Jones
Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman-Williams & Heather Alicia Simms
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,” author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle.

Set in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon’s two families—the public one and the secret... Read more »

Embassytown

By: China Miéville
Narrated by: Susan Duerden
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

China Miéville doesn’t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writer—and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire field—with Embassytown, Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war.

In the far future, humans... Read more »

The Snowman

By: Jo Nesbo & Don Bartlett
Narrated by: Robin Sachs
Length: 15 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

Internationally acclaimed crime writer Jo Nesbø’s antihero police investigator, Harry Hole, is back: in a bone-chilling thriller that will take Hole to the brink of insanity.

Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the... Read more »

Come to the Edge

By: Christina Haag
Narrated by: Christina Haag
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No

When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep school friends, a skinny kid who lived with his mother and sister on Fifth Avenue and who happened to have a Secret Service detail following him at a discreet distance at all times. A decade later, after... Read more »

Reckless

By: Cornelia Funke
Narrated by: Elliot Hill
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No

Beyond the mirror, the darkest fairy tales come alive. . . .

For years, Jacob Reckless has enjoyed the Mirrorworld’s secrets and treasures.

Not anymore.

His younger brother has followed him.

Now dark magic will turn the boy to beast, break the heart of the girl he loves, and destroy everything Jacob holds most dear. . . .

Unless he can find a way to... Read more »

Tender Morsels

By: Margo Lanagan
Narrated by: Anne Flosnik & Michael Page
Length: 14 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, given to her by natural magic in exchange for her earthly life. Her two daughters, gentle Branza and curious Urdda, grow up in this soft world, protected from the violence, predation, and village prejudice that once harmed their mother. But the real world cannot be denied forever—magicked men and... Read more »

Blood Music

By: Greg Bear
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No

Vergil's innovative experiment restructuring the cells of a common virus becomes a nightmare when, in order to save his research, Vergil injects the entire culture into his bloodstream. Read more »

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

By: Kate Summerscale
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No

In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention;... Read more »