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Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
By: Wole Talabi
Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The debut fantasy novel from an award-winning, Nebula-nominated Nigerian author
A mythic tale of disgruntled gods, revenge, and a heist across two worlds, perfect for fans of Nnedi Okorafor, Neil Gaiman, Marlon James, and Karen LordShigidi is a disgruntled and demotivated nightmare god in the Orisha spirit company, reluctantly answering prayers of... Read more
Wild Spaces
By: S. L. Coney
Narrated by: Nick Mondelli
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog, Teach. But when the boy’s eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain. The longer his... Read more
View audiobookThe Trap
By: Catherine Ryan Howard
Narrated by: John Keating & Alana Kerr Collins
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning, internationally bestselling crime writer Catherine Ryan Howard comes The Trap: an unsettling mystery inspired by a series of still-unsolved disappearances in Ireland in the nineties, wherein one young woman risks everything to catch a faceless killer.One year ago, Lucy’s sister, Nicki, left to meet friends at a pub in Dublin... Read more
View audiobookDamned If You Do
By: Alex Brown
Narrated by: Amielynn Abellera
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Seven years ago, Cordelia Scott sold her soul to a demon in exchange for getting rid of her abusive father. Which is extra awkward because she doesn’t remember it: part of the bargain was to erase the memory. Ever since, life has been as normal as it can be—she is stage managing the school
play (which is going great, if anyone asks), pining over... Read more
Disruptions
By: Steven Millhauser
Narrated by: Gisela Chípe, Vas Eli & Arthur Morey
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
AN NPR AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the short story, the culmination of a five-decade career: work that takes us beneath the placid surface of suburban life into the elusive strangeness of the everyday
Here are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A... Read more
The Apology
By: Jimin Han
Narrated by: Kathleen Kim
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This “sweeping intergenerational saga" tells the story of a pampered and defiant South Korean matriarch thrust into the afterlife from which she seeks a second chance to make amends (Kirstin Chen)—and fights off a tragic curse that could devastate generations to come. In South Korea, a 105-year-old woman receives a letter. Ten days later, she... Read more
View audiobookThose We Thought We Knew
By: David Joy
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2023 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction
Winner of the 2023 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award
One of Vanity Fair’s Favorite Books of 2023
“A beautifully fearless contemplation.” –S. A. Cosby
From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small North Carolina community and the... Read more
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun
By: Shane McCrae
Narrated by: Shane McCrae
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Vulture’s #1 Memoir of 2023
An unforgettable, “lyrical and poignant” (The Washington Post) memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents.
When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad... Read more
Speech Team
By: Tim Murphy
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
“A tender-hearted novel and a dream to read. I loved this book.” -- Matt Haig #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library
“so so so so good…[Speech Team] is a MUST…It has all the feels and brilliant writing to boot.” -- Elin Hilderband (on Instagram) #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Five Star Weekend
A funny, gossipy... Read more
The Freedom Clause
By: Hannah Sloane
Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Could one night off a year save a marriage—or destroy it? In this bold and sexy debut, a young couple agrees to open their marriage, but they soon discover that a little freedom has surprising consequences.
Dominic and Daphne met in their first week of college, and they’ve been happily married for three years. They love each other deeply but... Read more
An Honest Man
By: Michael Koryta
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead: The murder of several politicians at sea has shattering implications for a local lobsterman and a young boy in this action-packed thriller.Israel Pike was a killer, and he was an honest man. They were not mutually exclusive.
After discovering seven men murdered aboard their... Read more
Somebody's Fool
By: Richard Russo
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody’s Fool and Everybody’s Fool.
“Sumptuous, spirited . . . [Russo] paints a shining fresco of a... Read more
Mrs. Plansky's Revenge
By: Spencer Quinn
Narrated by: Petrea Burchard
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Petrea Burchard is delightful in this entertaining comic crime drama."- AudioFile
Mrs. Plansky's Revenge is bestselling author Spencer Quinn's first novel in a new series since the meteoric launch of Chet and Bernie—introducing the irresistible and unforgettable Mrs. Plansky, in a story perfect for book clubs and commercial-fiction... Read more
Ghosted
By: Amanda Quain
Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Never Have I Ever meets The X-Files in this gender-bent contemporary retelling of the Jane Austen classic Northanger Abbey.
Hattie Tilney isn’t a believer. Yes, she’s a senior at America’s most (allegedly) haunted high school, Northanger Abbey. But after her paranormal-loving dad passed away, she hung up her Ghostbusters suit, put away the EMF... Read more
Kala
By: Colin Walsh
Narrated by: Frank Blake, Moe Dunford & Seána Kerslake
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE TABLET, AND CRIMEREADS • A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives.
"The perfect read for hot summer days and dark nights."—Ruth Ware
"[A]... Read more
The Jasad Heir
By: Sara Hashem
Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri & Peter Ganim
Length: 18 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
"A remarkable, razor-sharp debut that cuts straight to the heart."―Chelsea Abdullah, author of The Stardust Thief
A fugitive queen strikes a bargain with her greatest enemy that could resurrect her scorched kingdom or leave it in ashes forever in this unmissable Egyptian-inspired epic fantasy debut. Ten years ago, the kingdom of Jasad burned.... Read more
Strip Tees
By: Kate Flannery
Narrated by: Kate Flannery
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
“Compelling and brave, Kate’s story is a must read for all young women learning how to navigate adulthood and identity.” —Lili Reinhart, New York Times bestselling author
Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent college graduate and what happens when her... Read more
Beastly
By: Keggie Carew
Narrated by: Pippa Haywood
Length: 16 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Animals have shaped our minds, our lives, our land, and our civilization. Humanity would not have gotten very far without them—making use of their labor for transportation, agriculture, and pollination; their protection from predators; and their bodies for food and to make clothing, music, and art. And over the last two centuries, humans have... Read more
View audiobookTake the Honey and Run
By: Jennie Marts
Narrated by: Cris Dukehart
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
As a successful mystery author, Bailey Briggs writes about murder, but nothing prepares her for actually discovering the dead body of the founder of her hometown of Humble Hills, Colorado. Bailey grew up at Honeybuzz Mountain Ranch and was raised by her beekeeping grandmother, Blossom Briggs, aka Granny Bee, and her two eccentric sisters, Aster... Read more
View audiobookHow Can I Help You
By: Laura Sims
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan & Maggi-Meg Reed
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
The New York Times Book Review • Publishers Weekly • CrimeReads • Book Riot
A LibraryReads Pick
The lives of two librarians become dangerously intertwined in this razor-sharp exploration of human nature and the lure of artistic obsession.
No one knows Margo’s real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public... Read more
The Tao of the Backup Catcher
By: Tim Brown
Narrated by: Justin Price & Tim Brown
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
This fascinating book chronicles the unsung men of baseball who serve the job, the hardships they face, and their love for a game that would not always love them back―told partly through the experiences of an MLB veteran.
In baseball there are superstars and stars and everyday players and then there are the rest. Within the rest are role... Read more
The Militia House
By: John Milas
Narrated by: Davis Brooks
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize
“An extraordinary novel about the quiet and not so quiet horrors of war.” —Roxane Gay
Stephen King meets Tim O’Brien in John Milas’s The Militia House, a spine-tingling and boldly original gothic horror novel.
It’s 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing... Read more
Do Tell
By: Lindsay Lynch
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A scintillating debut novel that brings the golden age of Hollywood to glittering life, from star-studded opening nights to backlot brawls, on-location Westerns to the Hollywood Canteen. Through character actress turned gossip columnist Edie O'Dare's eyes, Lindsay Lynch draws back the curtain on classic Hollywood’s secrets.
"Glamorous, tawdry,... Read more
The Parrot and the Igloo
By: David Lipsky
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 18 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE'S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The... Read more
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