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Your Utopia
By: Bora Chung
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from Korean by Anton Hur, this collection shares tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality.
In “The Center for Immortality Research,” a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be... Read more
Midnight on Beacon Street
By: Emily Ruth Verona
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
“Midnight on Beacon Street is a lot of things. It’s a taut thriller about a babysitter and two kids surviving one weird night. It’s a celebration of classic horror movies. It’s a creepy narrative that involves a ghost and late night home break-ins. And, most important, it’s a lot of fun. . . Verona plays with home invasion tropes by delivering a... Read more
View audiobookHard by a Great Forest
By: Leo Vardiashvili
Narrated by: Luke Thompson
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
NAMED ONE OF THE OBSERVER’S 10 BEST NEW NOVELISTS FOR 2024
"The stakes could barely be higher in Leo Vardiashvili’s propulsive page-turner…It’s a spellbinding achievement."—The Financial Times
“Has a commercial-fiction spring in its step.… Vardiashvili also has captured the winking, world-weary humor and magic-realist touches that mark a lot of... Read more
The Mountain King
By: Anders de la Motte
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 14 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
This atmospheric and sinister mystery will have you “hooked from the very first page” (Kyle Mills, #1 New York Times bestselling author) as it follows a brilliant female detective investigating the darkest side of humanity.
Detective Leonore Asker seems to have the leading position at Malmö’s Major Crime Division within reach. But things go awry... Read more
A Quantum Love Story
By: Mike Chen
Narrated by: Patti Murin
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A cozy sci-fi novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Brotherhood
The only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them.
Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda’s ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career—after one last week consulting at a top secret... Read more
Infectious Generosity
By: Chris Anderson
Narrated by: Chris Anderson
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
“If you want to help create a more equitable world but don’t know where to start, Infectious Generosity is for you.”—Bill Gates, GatesNotes
The bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED explores one of humankind’s defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future
Let’s face it:... Read more
Harbor Lights
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Gary Furlong, Matt Pittenger, Michael David Axt...
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), the New York Times bestselling James Lee Burke.
Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands... Read more
Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!
By: Kate Bowler
Narrated by: Kate Bowler
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the good—from the four-time New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved)
Kate Bowler believes that the cultural pressure to be cheerful and optimistic at all times has... Read more
No One Can Know
By: Kate Alice Marshall
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
"Vacker's narration keeps listeners on their toes throughout this twisty story of corrupt officials, sociopathic relatives, and dark family secrets. Vacker's character work captures the shifting nature of Emma's desperate need to protect her complicated family members."—AudioFile
Three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count.
Fourteen... Read more
My Fair Brady
By: Brian D. Kennedy
Narrated by: Michael Crouch & Kevin R. Free
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
My Fair Lady meets the classic teen film She's All That in this charming and swoony new rom-com from Brian D. Kennedy, author of A Little Bit Country. Perfect for fans of What If It's Us and She Gets the Girl. Wade Westmore is used to being in the spotlight. So when he’s passed over for the lead in the spring musical, it comes as a major... Read more
View audiobookThe (Fake) Dating Game
By: Timothy Janovsky
Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
“Game show antics, idiots in love, and a healthy dose of steam…this book is everything I want in a romance novel!” —Alison Cochrun, author of The Charm Offensive and Kiss Her Once for Me
Ready. Set. Faux.
Holden James picked the worst time to have a meltdown. His chance to audition for his favorite game show, Madcap Market, should have been a... Read more
In Memory of Us
By: Jacqueline Roy
Narrated by: Jessica Alade
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
What does it mean to remember?
Joined at birth, then pulled apart, Selina and Zora’s relationship is marked by a pattern of closeness and separation. Growing up in 50s’ and 60s’ London under the shadow of Enoch Powell, they are instinctively dependent on each other, and yet Zora yearns for her own identity. But in the eyes of the people around... Read more
Midnight Ruin
By: Katee Robert
Narrated by: Zara Hampton-Brown & Alex Moorcock
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Eurydice Dimitriou has always been the innocent one, the sheltered one. No longer. She’s finally ready to step out of the long shadow cast by her mothers and sisters. After her ex broke her heart, she’s picking up the pieces in the lower city…with the help of Charon, a man she’s drawn to even as she’s not sure she has enough heart left to give.... Read more
View audiobookThe Tusks of Extinction
By: Ray Nayler
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Gabrielle de Cuir
Length: 4 hours
Abridged: No
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, but someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again.The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world’s foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her... Read more
View audiobookThe Silence in Her Eyes
By: Armando Lucas Correa
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar Young
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In the vein of Paula Hawkins and Ruth Ware, a bold and suspenseful psychological thriller about a young woman with a rare neurological condition who is convinced her neighbor is going to be murdered—from the author of the “timely must-read” (People) The German Girl.
Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a... Read more
Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Gabrielle de Cuir
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
“I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”Virginia Woolf’s Orlando is the extraordinary biography of a young nobleman in the court of Elizabeth I who transforms into a woman and lives for over three centuries. In his youth, Orlando is a passionate lover and poet. He dotes on the Queen, serves King James faithfully, falls deeply... Read more
View audiobookTrue North
By: Andrew J. Graff
Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Raft of Stars comes a heartfelt novel of marriage and whitewater rafting, following one couple as they navigate the changing currents of family, community, and the river itself.As the summer of 1993 begins, Sam and Swami Brecht roll into town with a twenty-six-foot Winnebago camper van, their three young kids, and the deed to... Read more
View audiobookSex with a Brain Injury
By: Annie Liontas
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
For readers of Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom, Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias, and Melissa Febos’s Girlhood, a powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays that sheds light on the silent epidemic of head trauma.
Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about... Read more
Shark Teeth
By: Sherri Winston
Narrated by: Dõe Sebanakitta
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Bloomsbury presents Shark Teeth by Sherri Winston, read by Dõe Sebanakitta.
From National Book Award longlisted author Sherri Winston comes an important middle grade novel about a girl's tumultuous journey to keep her family together, even when she's falling apart.
Sharkita “Kita” Hayes is always waiting.
Waiting for her mama to mess up.
Waiting for... Read more
Only If You're Lucky
By: Stacy Willingham
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"Reader Vacker does a remarkable job.... Mystery and true crime fans will be drawn in and ultimately satisfied by this complex, tense tale read expertly by a talented narrator." —Booklist on All the Dangerous Things
A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the... Read more
MeatEater's American History: The Long Hunters (1761-1775)
By: Steven Rinella & Clay Newcomb
Narrated by: Steven Rinella & Clay Newcomb
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
From the creators of the New York Times bestselling series Campfire Stories: Close Calls comes a new original audiobook that brings to life the bold, hair-raising, and often tragic adventures of a generation of eighteenth-century frontiersmen: the Long Hunters.
Steven Rinella (The MeatEater Podcast) and Clay Newcomb (MeatEater's Bear Grease... Read more
Cold
By: Drew Hayden Taylor
Narrated by: Wesley French, Lawrence Bayne, Susan Roman, Jan...
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping and hilarious novel from award-winning writer Drew Hayden Taylor that blends thriller, murder mystery, and horror with humour and spectacle.
Elmore Trent is a professor of Indigenous studies who finds himself... Read more
Recipe for a Charmed Life
By: Rachel Linden
Narrated by: Traci Odom
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
“Heartfelt, heartwarming, joyful, and uplifting. You can't go wrong with a Rachel Linden book.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber
After a day of unrivaled disappointments, a promising young chef finds every bite of food suddenly tastes bitter. To save her career, she travels to the Pacific Northwest to reconnect with her... Read more
The Expectant Detectives
By: Kat Ailes
Narrated by: Kitty Kelly
Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Fresh, funny and heartfelt, The Expectant Detectives is a charming debut mystery about a group of soon-to-be moms-turned-detectives.
“A darkly witty debut. Archly funny and highly recommended!”—Deanna Raybourn
Can they solve the mother of all murders?
For Alice and her partner Joe, moving to the sleepy village of Penton is a chance to embrace... Read more