Manhattan Cult Story
By: Spencer Schneider
Narrated by: Austin Rising
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No
Right under the noses of neighbors, clients, spouses, children, and friends, a secret society, simply called School—a cult of snared Manhattan professionals—has been led by the charismatic, sociopathic, and dangerous leader Sharon Gans for decades. Spencer Schneider was recruited in the eighties, and he stayed for more than twenty-three years as... Read more
View audiobookWastelands
By: Corban Addison
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
"Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written." —From the Foreword by JohnGrisham
The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of... Read more
The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson
By: Chris Joyner
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn’t commitThis is the story of Clarence Henderson, a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper, who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn’t commit, and of the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him... Read more
View audiobookThe Other Dr. Gilmer
By: Benjamin Gilmer
Narrated by: Benjamin Gilmer
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “mesmerizing” (The New York Times Book Review) true story about a shocking crime and a mysterious illness that will forever change your notions of how we punish and how we heal—an expansion on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time
“A remarkable medical detective story–cum–memoir,... Read more
Scoundrel
By: Sarah Weinman
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A Recommended Read from: The Los Angeles Times * Town and Country * The Seattle Times * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub * Crime Reads * AlmaFrom the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around him—including conservative thinker William F. Buckley—into helping set him... Read more
View audiobookSlonim Woods 9
By: Daniel Barban Levin
Narrated by: Jay Myers
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
An “extraordinary” (Nylon) firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs paid by its young victims: a group of college roommates
“Intense . . . [a tale] of hard-won survival, and creating a life after the unimaginable.”—Salon
The inspiration for the Hulu docuseries Stolen Youth, directed by Zach Heinzerling and co-produced by... Read more
Couple Found Slain
By: Mikita Brottman
Narrated by: Christina Delaine & Mikita Brottman
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes an introduction read by the author.
“Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction.”
—The New York Times Book Review
Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction—when most stories... Read more
Don't Call it a Cult
By: Sarah Berman
Narrated by: Ewa Wolniczek
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
As seen in Season Two of the HBO docuseries THE VOW
They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more secretive those connections are, the more exclusive you feel. Little did you know, you just joined a cult.
Sex trafficking. Self-help coaching. Forced labor. Mentorship. Multi-level marketing.... Read more
The Princess Spy
By: Larry Loftis
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
“As exciting as any spy novel” (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS’s most daring World War II spies before marrying into European nobility. Perfect for fans of A Woman of No Importance and... Read more
Missing from the Village
By: Justin Ling
Narrated by: Justin Ling
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur--from Toronto's queer community.
Shortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book Awards
In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men--Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan--from Toronto's gay... Read more
The House of Kennedy
By: James Patterson
Narrated by: David Pittu
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Now with an all-new bonus chapter—in the bestselling The House of Kennedy, “James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . re-telling the political clan’s rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style” (People).
The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks... Read more
Yellow Bird
By: Sierra Crane Murdoch
Narrated by: Sierra Crane Murdoch
Length: 14 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it—an urgent work of literary journalism.
“I don’t know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than... Read more
The Adventurer's Son
By: Roman Dial
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
""A brave and marvelous book. A page-turner that will rip your heart out.""—Jon KrakauerIn the tradition of Into the Wild comes an instant classic of outdoor literature, a riveting work of uncommon depth. I’m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle. . . . It should be difficult to get lost forever: These were the haunting last words legendary... Read more
View audiobookLife Undercover
By: Amaryllis Fox
Narrated by: Amaryllis Fox
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carré character landed in Eat Pray Love." —The New York Times
Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while... Read more
Diamond Doris
By: Doris Payne
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In the ebullient spirit of Ocean’s 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world’s most notorious jewel thief—a woman who defied society’s prejudices and norms to carve her own path, stealing from elite jewelers to live her dreams.Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal town of Slab... Read more
View audiobookThe Ghosts of Eden Park
By: Karen Abbott
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
“Gatsby-era noir at its best.”—Erik Larson
An ID Book Club Selection • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST... Read more
The Trial of Lizzie Borden
By: Cara Robertson
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY BOOK AWARD
In Cara Robertson’s “enthralling new book,” The Trial of Lizzie Borden, “the reader is to serve as judge and jury” (The New York Times). Based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence, this true crime and legal history is the “definitive account to date of one of America’s most... Read more
The Real Lolita
By: Sarah Weinman
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
“The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov’s masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness.” —David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower MoonVladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of... Read more
View audiobookThe Cadaver King and the Country Dentist
By: Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 14 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and... Read more
Unbelievable (Movie Tie-In)
By: T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong
Narrated by: Hillary Huber, T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Now the Netflix Limited Series Unbelievable, starring Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever • Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists tell the riveting true crime story of a teenager charged with lying about having been raped—and the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive at the truth.
“Gripping . . . [with a] John... Read more
Member of the Family
By: Dianne Lake & Deborah Herman
Narrated by: Dianne Lake
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youngest member of his Family and offering new insights into one of the twentieth century’s most notorious criminals and life as one of his ""girls.""At... Read more
View audiobookRanger Games
By: Ben Blum
Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
Length: 16 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
"A gloriously good writer...Ranger Games is both surprising and moving...A memorable, novelistic account."—Jennifer Senior, New York Times
Intricate, heartrending, and morally urgent, Ranger Games is a crime story like no other
Alex Blum was a good kid, a popular high school hockey star from a tight-knit Colorado family. He had one goal in life:... Read more
The Fact of a Body
By: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Narrated by: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
"This book is a marvel. The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting and will leave you questioning whether any one story can hold the full truth." -- Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestselling Everything I Never Told You
Before Alex Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men... Read more
Writing to Save a Life
By: John Edgar Wideman
Narrated by: Roger Guenveur Smith
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis—shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Emmett Till took a train from... Read more