Bookseller picks

Into the Uncanny

By: Danny Robins

Narrated by: Danny Robins

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

I know what I saw...

'The ghosts of today live not in castles or stately homes, but in ordinary houses and offices, and they're witnessed by ordinary people like you and me. We just need to figure out what the hell they are - the dead returning from the "undiscovered country" of death? Or the product of that equally... Read more

Something Like Home

By: Andrea Beatriz Arango

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pura Belpré Honor winning novel in verse, in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only for them to find family in each other along the way. From the Newbery Honor winning author of Iveliz Explains It All.

“Trust me: this book will touch your heart." —Barbara O’Connor, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more

How I Won a Nobel Prize

By: Julius Taranto

Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive, wickedly funny novel about a graduate student who decides to follow her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience (and marriage). Helen is one of the best minds of her generation. A young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature... Read more

What Kind of Mother

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

Narrated by: Megan Tusing & Joe Hempel

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicholas Sparks meets The Empty Man in this modern Southern Gothic horror about a palm reader swept up in a disturbing missing-child case with a twist you won’t see coming.After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Brandywine, Virginia, with her seventeen-year-old daughter. With nothing to her... Read more

Salt Kiss

By: Sierra Simone

Narrated by: Oscar Reyes

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

After being a soldier, working as a bodyguard should have been simple: keep the owner of DC’s ultra-secret club safe, don’t think about his midnight eyes or his devil’s smile, don’t surrender my body to his wicked desires.But I underestimated Mark Trevena and the power of his dark, seductive world. I underestimated the hold he’d have on me, the... Read more

The Devil of the Provinces

By: Juan Cardenas

Narrated by: Asa Siegel

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

After a series of failures, a biologist returns to his hometown to live with his grieving mother. But in this gripping crime novel that upends the genre's conventions, strange events unravel what he thought he knew of his past, his present, and himself.



When a biologist returns to Colombia after fifteen years abroad, he quickly becomes entangled... Read more

Alpha Wave

By: Jonathan Maberry & Weston Ochse

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 19 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Created to defeat the invaders. Forgotten in victory. They will rise again …We were outnumbered, outfought. Mankind was about to fall to the alien Flock. Our only chance was a desperate gamble, transforming Tier One SpecOps agents into deadly super soldiers.In the end, we won the war, but we lost the peace. The Flock surrendered and spent the... Read more

Enemies in the Orchard

By: Dana VanderLugt

Narrated by: Andy Ingalls, Elizabeth Klett & Rachel Leblang

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the backdrop of WWII, this achingly beautiful middle grade novel in verse based on American history presents the dual perspectives of Claire, a Midwestern girl who longs to enter high school and become a nurse even as she worries for her soldier brother, and Karl, a German POW who’s processing the war as he works on Claire’s family... Read more

The Witching Tide

By: Margaret Meyer

Narrated by: Miranda Raison

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a best historical novel of the year by The New York Times Book Review and “reminiscent of both The Scarlet Letter and Hamnet” (Jezebel), The Witching Tide is a powerful debut inspired by the true events behind a deadly witch hunt in 17th-century England.

East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived... Read more

The Clementine Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

Narrated by: Bob Mortimer & Sally Phillips

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Bob Mortimer, beloved comedian and #1 Sunday Times (London) bestselling author of the memoir And Away…, returns with a delightfully quirky mystery in the vein of Richard Osman and Nita Prose.

Unremarkable legal assistant Gary Thorn goes for a pint with his coworker Brendan, unaware his life is about to change. There, Gary meets a beautiful woman,... Read more

One Blood

By: Denene Millner

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Joniece Abbott-Pratt & Tina Lifford

Length: 18 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration. It also includes a poem, book club reading guide, and acknowledgments, all read by the author.

Homegoing meets The Mothers where three women are tied together by blood, love, and family secrets in this searing novel by New York Times bestseller Denene Millner.

Raised by her beloved grandmother in... Read more

The (Super Secret) Octagon Valley Society

By: Melissa de la Cruz

Narrated by: Marni Penning

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This new series from #1 New York Times best-selling author Melissa de la Cruz is The Mysterious Benedict Society for reluctant readers, chockful of humor, adventure and mischief, and set at an exclusive, secluded, high-tech institute everyone wants to get into.A handful of sixth-graders have been chosen to attend an exclusive weekend at the... Read more

Jade Shards

By: Fonda Lee

Narrated by: Andrew Kishino

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Fonda Lee returns to the acclaimed Green Bone Saga with four prequel short stories that delve into the personal histories of the Kaul and Ayt families.

The Witch and Her Friend. Before she was the ruthless leader of the Mountain clan, Ayt Mada was an orphan without friends at school except for one: Aun Ure, a teenage girl feared and renowned as... Read more

Cities of Women

By: Kathleen B. Jones

Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelée, Lauren Ezzo & Mia Barron

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In the twenty-first century, we meet Verity Frazier, a disillusioned history professor who sets out to prove that the artist responsible for the illuminated artwork in Christine de Pizan’s medieval manuscripts was a remarkable woman named Anastasia. As Anastasia’s story unfolds against the exquisitely-rendered medieval backdrop of moral... Read more

Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

By: Alexandra Potter

Narrated by: Sally Phillips

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiration for NOT DEAD YET, ABC’s “Most Watched Comedy Debut in More Than Four Years” (Deadline)“The new Bridget Jones for our time.”—Telegraph“Will have you laughing whether you’re twenty, forty, or eighty.”—Heat (UK)A Zibby Magazine Top 10 Book of the YearA funny and heartfelt novel for any woman who wonders how the hell she got here and... Read more

A Shot in the Dark

By: Victoria Lee

Narrated by: Scott Turner Schofield & Gilli Messer

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A passionate and powerful romance featuring a transgender man and an ex-Orthodox woman who find each other through their devotion to art, and fall in love despite all odds, from bestselling author Victoria Lee

“A sensual love story about art and passion . . . emotional and heart-aching.”—Ashley Poston, New York Times... Read more

A Dance With The Fae Prince [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Elise Kova

Narrated by: Laura C. Harris, Gabriel Michael, David Cui Cui...

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Cinderella meets THE CRUEL PRINCE in this stand-alone fantasy romance about a human girl and her marriage to the prince of the fae.

She knew her hand in marriage would be sold. She had no idea a fae prince was the buyer.

Katria swore she'd never fall in love. She's seen what ""love"" means through the cruelty of her family. So when she's married... Read more

Terrace Story

By: Hilary Leichter

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about love, an epic daydream for a broken-hearted world Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn’t there before, and it seems to... Read more

Holler, Child

By: LaToya Watkins

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Aaron Goodson, JD Jackson...

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the National Book Award

Winner of the Reading the West Book Award in Fiction

Winner of the Writers' League of Texas Book Award in Fiction

An extraordinary short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forgiveness—from a writer whose “spellbinding, buoyant”* storytelling will break your heart as it tends to the wounds.
... Read more

The Reunion

By: Kit Frick

Narrated by: Zac Aleman, Andre Bellido, Marisa Blake, Kurt K...

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of I Killed Zoe Spanos comes a “suspenseful and atmospheric” (Kirkus Reviews) YA thriller in the vein of The White Lotus and Karen M. McManus’s The Cousins following a doomed family reunion at a posh Caribbean resort, where old grudges and dangerous secrets culminate in murder.

Eleven Mayweathers went on vacation. Ten came home.
... Read more

Eden

By: Jim Crace

Narrated by: Ben Allen

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Harvest and Quarantine, a gorgeous, unforgettable retelling of the myth of Eden.

The inhabitants of Eden are untouched by death. In the garden they care for their orchards and the land, and give thanks for their good fortune, because they know that beyond the garden walls is a world where disease... Read more

Tessa Miyata Is No Hero

By: Julie Abe

Narrated by: Sura Siu

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This thrilling and charming middle grade fantasy steeped in Japanese lore and mythology follows Tessa after she breaks a precious family heirloom, sending her on a wild adventure to save herself, her family—and all of Tokyo.
 
Tessa Miyata has never fit in. When she and her two sisters are told they will be staying at their grandparents in... Read more

The Bone Season

By: Samantha Shannon

Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins

Length: 18 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, read by Alana Kerr Collins.

The New York Times bestselling first novel in the sensational Bone Season series, a heart-pounding epic fantasy by the author of The Priory of the Orange Tree.

“Intelligent, inventive, dark, and engrossing.” NPR

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The Continental Affair

By: Christine Mangan

Narrated by: George Weightman & Hannah Kelly-Turner

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a daring literary caper that is quick on its feet and delightfully surprising.

Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers, traveling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn't the first time they have met.

It's the 1960s... Read more