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Inheritance
Show me another!“Who are we? Does who we think we are change when we learn a family secret that alters the source of our identity? Shapiro has explored issues of identity in her previous memoirs, but in her latest she applies her signature candor and heart to a riveting, provocative, and inspiring genealogical mystery and journey of discovery.”
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The Arrangement
By: Ashley Warlick
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
“Absolutely dazzling.” –Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife
“Filled with food and passion...If you love historical fiction, you'll fall hard for this one.” —Bustle.com
She’d made it sound as though her husband would be joining them for dinner. She’d made it sound that way on purpose, and then she arrived alone.
Los Angeles, 1934. Mary Frances... Read more »
The Ramblers
By: Aidan Donnelley Rowley
Narrated by: Erica Sullivan
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of J. Courtney Sullivan, Meg Wolitzer, Claire Messud, and Emma Straub, a gorgeous and absorbing novel of a trio of confused souls struggling to find themselves and the way forward in their lives, set against the spectacular backdrop of contemporary New York City.
Set in the most magical parts of Manhattan—the Upper West Side, Central... Read more »
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Georgia
By: Dawn Tripp
Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a dazzling work of historical fiction in the vein of Nancy Horan’s Loving Frank, Dawn Tripp brings to life Georgia O’Keeffe, her love affair with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and her quest to become an independent artist.
This is not a love story. If it were, we would have the same story. But he has his, and I have... Read more »
The Queen of the Night
By: Alexander Chee
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
Length: 19 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From a writer praised by Junot Diaz as "the fire, in my opinion, and the light," comes a mesmerizing novel that follows one woman's rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned diva.Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singer's chance at immortality. When... Read more »
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The Forgetting Time
By: Sharon Guskin
Narrated by: David Pittu & Susan Bennett
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Noah wants to go home. A seemingly easy request from most four year olds. But as Noah's single-mother, Janie, knows, nothing with Noah is ever easy. One day the pre-school office calls and says Janie needs to come in to talk about Noah, and no, not later, now - and life as she knows it stops.
For Jerome Anderson, life as he knows it has... Read more »
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Sweetgirl
By: Travis Mulhauser
Narrated by: Cassandra Morris & MacLeod Andrews
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
With the heart, daring, and evocative atmosphere of Winter’s Bone and True Grit, and driven by the raw, whip-smart voice of Percy James, a blistering debut about a fearless sixteen-year old girl whose search for her missing mother leads to an unexpected discovery, and a life or death struggle in the harsh frozen landscape of the Upper Midwest.
As... Read more »
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The Flood Girls
By: Richard Fifield
Narrated by: Kathleen Early
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
This snappy, sassy redemption story set in small-town Montana is “a wild and crazy debut novel by a talented young writer” (Jackie Collins), filled with an uproarious and unforgettable cast of characters you won’t want to leave behind.Welcome to Quinn, Montana, population: 956. A town where nearly all of the volunteer firemen are named Jim,... Read more »
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Love in Lowercase
By: Francesc Miralles & Julie Wark
Narrated by: Scott Aiello
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A feel-good novel for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Rosie Project, about an eccentric, language-loving bachelor and the cat that opens his eyes to life’s little pleasures
The Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick:
“A delightfully absurd, life-affirming celebration. I literally stood up and cheered as I read the last page.”
When Samuel, a... Read more »
The Things We Keep
By: Sally Hepworth
Narrated by: Therese Plummer & Barrie Kreinik
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
With huge heart, humor, and a compassionate understanding of human nature, Sally Hepworth delivers a page-turning novel about the power of love to grow and endure even when faced with the most devastating of obstacles. You won’t forget The Things We Keep.
Anna Forster, in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease at only thirty-eight years old,... Read more »
My Name Is Lucy Barton
By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.
Soon to be a Broadway play starring Laura Linney produced by Manhattan Theatre Club and London Theatre Company... Read more »
And Again
By: Jessica Chiarella
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Joy Osmanski, Rebekkah Ross & Corey Brill
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
What would you do if you had a second chance at life?
Hannah, David, Connie, and Linda have been given the second chance of a lifetime—genetically perfect bodies as part of a medically advanced pilot program seeking FDA approval. Their new bodies are exact replicas of their old selves—without the deadly illnesses they suffered from. Even better,... Read more »
Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
By: Sunil Yapa
Narrated by: Aaron Landon
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Grief-stricken after his mother's death and three years of wandering the world, Victor is longing for a family and a sense of purpose. He believes he's found both when he returns home to Seattle only to be swept up in a massive protest. With young, biracial Victor on one side of the barricades and his estranged father -- the white chief of... Read more »
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American Housewife
By: Helen Ellis
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney, Lisa Cordileone, Rebecca Lowman & Dorothy Dillingham Blue
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, American Housewife features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason Dixon line.
Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They... Read more »
Fallen Land
By: Taylor Brown
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
"Poe deftly guides this engaging story, describing the band of marauding former soldiers as they pillage the countryside. Poe's portrayal of the lovely but tragic Ava is most affecting. He uses pacing and pauses to build tension during showdowns and softens his delivery in the tender scenes between the two lovers." — AudioFile Magazine
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The Expatriates
By: Janice Y. K. Lee
Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"Raise a glass: The first great book-club novel of 2016 has arrived.” —USA Today, 4/4 stars
“A female, funny Henry James in Asia, Janice Y. K. Lee is vividly good on the subject of Americans abroad.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Sex and the City meets Lost in Translation.” —The Skimm
Janice Y. K. Lee’s New York Times bestselling debut, The... Read more »
After the Crash
By: Michel Bussi
Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
"Wonderfully ingenious and altogether satisfying."---Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
Just after midnight on December 23, 1980, a night flight bound for Paris plummets toward the Swiss Alps, crashing into a snowy mountainside. Within seconds flames engulf the plane, which is filled with holiday travelers. Of the 169 passengers, all but... Read more »
The Guest Room
By: Chris Bohjalian
Narrated by: Mozhan Marno & Grace Experience
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room, two women are on the run from police, and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams.
When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother’s... Read more »
The Geography of Genius
By: Eric Weiner
Narrated by: Eric Weiner
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Winer travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.
In this “intellectual odyssey, traveler’s diary, and comic novel all... Read more »
The Song of Hartgrove Hall
By: Natasha Solomons
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A captivating novel that evokes the author’s New York Times bestseller The House at TynefordIt’s a terrible thing to covet your brother’s girl.New Year’s Eve, 1946. Candles flicker, and a gramophone scratches out a tune as guests dance and sip champagne. For one night only, Hartgrove Hall relives better days. Harry Fox-Talbot and his brothers... Read more »
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The Final Frontiersman
By: James Campbell
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiration for The Last Alaskans-the eight-part documentary series on Animal PlanetHundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. Originally from Wisconsin, Heimo traveled to the Arctic wilderness in his feverous twenties. Now, more than four decades later,... Read more »
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Dear Mr. You
By: Mary -Louise Parker
Narrated by: Mary-Louise Parker
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
2017 Audie Award Finalist for Narration by the Author
The bestselling, wonderfully unconventional, “warmly conspiratorial…seriously good” (The New York Times) literary memoir from the award-winning actress that has received fabulous and wide praise. “There is no one else quite like Mary-Louise Parker…Funny, heartbreaking and profound” (Elle).
An... Read more »
Wake of Vultures
By: Lila Bowen
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
"Wake of Vultures will kick your a** up one page and down the other." -- io9
Nettie Lonesome dreams of a greater life than toiling as a slave in the sandy desert. But when a stranger attacks her, Nettie wins more than the fight.
Now she's got friends, a good horse, and a better gun. But if she can't kill the thing haunting her nightmares and... Read more »
Walk on Earth a Stranger
By: Rae Carson
Narrated by: Erin Mallon
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award longlist selection
The first book in a new trilogy from acclaimed New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson. A young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold must flee her home, taking her on a sweeping and dangerous journey across Gold Rush–era America. Walk on Earth a... Read more »
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Confessions of an Imaginary Friend
By: Michelle Cuevas
Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A TIME magazine Top 10 Children's Book of 2015
The whimsical "autobiography" of an imaginary friend who doesn't know he's imaginary--perfect for fans of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and Toy Story
Jaques Papier has the sneaking suspicion that everyone except his sister Fleur hates him. Teachers ignore him when his hand is raised in... Read more »
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