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Queen Bees and Wannabes
By: Rosalind Wiseman
Narrated by: Lee Adams
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
“My daughter used to be so wonderful. Now I can barely stand her and she won’t tell me anything. How can I find out what’s going on?”
“There’s a clique in my daughter’s grade that’s making her life miserable. She doesn’t want to go to school anymore. Her own supposed friends are turning on her, and she’s too afraid to do anything. What can I... Read more
Lisbon
By: Neill Lochery
Narrated by: Robin Sachs
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Throughout the Second World War, Lisbon was at the very center of the world’s attention and was the only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis powers openly operated. Portugal was frantically trying to hold on to its self-proclaimed wartime neutrality but in reality was increasingly caught in the middle of the economic, and naval,... Read more
View audiobookThe Scorpio Races
By: Maggie Stiefvater
Narrated by: Steve West & Fiona Hardingham
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
NARRATOR: Steve West & Fiona Hardingham
FORMAT: Unabridged
With her trademark lyricism, Maggie Stiefvater turns to a new world, where a pair are swept up in a daring, dangerous race across a cliff--with more than just their lives at stake should they lose.
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Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King
By: William Joyce & Laura Geringer
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Forget naughty or nice—this is a battle of good vs. evil.
Discover the origins of St. Nick and follow along as the Guardians start their quest to rid the world of nightmares in the first Guardians chapter book from Academy Award winner William Joyce that inspired the beloved film, The Rise of the Guardians.
Before SANTA was SANTA, he was North,... Read more
The Language of Flowers
By: Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Narrated by: Tara Sands
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past.
The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey... Read more
A Sea of Troubles
By: Donna Leon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Dona Leon has amassed devoted fans around the world for her atmospheric and intelligent Commissario Brunetti series. A Sea of Troubles offers a rare glimpse into the scrupulous Commissario’s personal life. When Brunetti investigates the murder of two local fishermen on the island of Pellestrina, the small community closes ranks, forcing him to... Read more
View audiobookStone Arabia
By: Dana Spiotta
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Stone Arabia is about family, obsession, memory, and the urge to create—in isolation, at the margins of our winner-take-all culture.In the sibling relationship, "there are no first impressions, no seductions, no getting to know each other," says Denise Kranis. For her and her brother Nik, now in their forties, no relationship is more... Read more
View audiobookSilver Sparrow
By: Tayari Jones
Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman-Williams & Heather Alicia Simms
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,” author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon’s two families—the public one and the secret... Read more
View audiobookBeauty Queens
By: Libba Bray
Narrated by: Libba Bray
Length: 14 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to emall. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count. Read more
View audiobookEmbassytown
By: China Miéville
Narrated by: Susan Duerden
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
China Miéville doesn’t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writer—and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire field—with Embassytown, Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war.
In the far future, humans... Read more
The Snowman
By: Jo Nesbo
Narrated by: Robin Sachs
Length: 15 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Inspector Harry Hole tracks a Norwegian serial killer in this “fiendishly complex and terrifically entertaining” (The New York Times Book Review) installment of the New York Times bestselling series.
"Maddeningly addictive.” —Vanity Fair
One night, after the first snowfall of the year, a boy named Jonas wakes up and... Read more
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
By: Catherynne M. Valente
Narrated by: Catherynne M. Valente
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"This is a kind of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by way of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland—it's the sort of book one doesn't want to end." —Publisher's Weekly, starred reviewSeptember is a girl who longs for adventure. When she is invited to Fairyland by a Green Wind and a Leopard, well, of course she accepts. (Mightn’t you?) But Fairyland is in... Read more
View audiobookPlease Look After Mom
By: Kyung-Sook Shin
Narrated by: Various
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea—a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation—this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway.
Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a... Read more
Come to the Edge
By: Christina Haag
Narrated by: Christina Haag
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep school friends, a skinny kid who lived with his mother and sister on Fifth Avenue and who happened to have a Secret Service detail following him at a discreet distance at all times. A decade later, after... Read more
View audiobookThe Vampire Archives
By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Various
Length: 61 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape.
Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human ... Read more
Thalia Book Club: Emma Donoghue's Room
By: Emma Donoghue
Narrated by: Michael Cunningham, John Connolly & Maria Tucci
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Emma Donoghue discusses her extraordinary new novel with author Michael Cunningham (The Hours and By Nightfall). This wondrous book is told from the point of view of a five-year-old boy who lives with his mother in an 11-by-11 foot room. Performance playlist: Reading by Michal Friedman, a conversation between Emma Donoghue and Michael... Read more
View audiobookRamona the Pest
By: Beverly Cleary
Narrated by: Stockard Channing
Length: 2 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary expertly depicts the trials and triumphs of growing up through a relatable heroine who isn't afraid to be exactly who she is.Ramona Quimby is excited to start kindergarten. No longer does she have to watch her older sister, Beezus, ride the bus to school with all the big kids. She's finally old enough... Read more
View audiobookIn the Bleak Midwinter
By: Julia Spencer-Fleming
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Clare Fergusson, Saint Alban's new priest, fits like a square peg in the conservative Episcopal parish at Miller's Kill, New York. She is not just a "lady" but also a tough ex-army chopper pilot—and nobody's fool. Then a newborn infant left at the church door brings her together with the town's police chief, Russ Van Alstyne, who is also ex-army... Read more
View audiobookReckless
By: Cornelia Funke
Narrated by: Elliot Hill
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Beyond the mirror, the darkest fairy tales come alive. . . .
For years, Jacob Reckless has enjoyed the Mirrorworld’s secrets and treasures.
Not anymore.
His younger brother has followed him.
Now dark magic will turn the boy to beast, break the heart of the girl he loves, and destroy everything Jacob holds most dear. . . .
Unless he can find a way to... Read more
World Made by Hand
By: James Howard Kunstler
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Long Emergency, celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production combined with climate change had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. In World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction, Kunstler brings to life what America might be, a few... Read more
View audiobookThe Passage
By: Justin Cronin
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 36 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This thrilling novel kicks off what Stephen King calls “a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.”
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NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST HORROR BOOKS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The... Read more
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Richard Thomas
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The thrilling young mystery series from internationally bestselling author John Grisham!
In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he’s only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he’s one of them. Theo knows every judge, policeman, court clerk—and a lot about the law. He dreams of being a great trial lawyer, of a life... Read more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
By: Lewis Carroll
Narrated by: Shannon Parks
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
This tale, beloved by children and adults everywhere, follows Alice as she falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world, where she meets The Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Queen of Hearts and the Cheshire Cat—each character more eccentric than the last. Lewis Carroll, the master of sublime nonsense, has created one of the... Read more
View audiobookWuthering Heights
By: Emily Brontë
Narrated by: Carolyn Seymour
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The sole novel of Emily Brontë, who died a year after its publication at the age of thirty, Wuthering Heights is one of the most original classics in the canon of English literature. Set amid the wild and stormy Yorkshire moors, it is the tale of childhood playmates who grow into soul mates, and whose tempestuous natures and obsessive love... Read more
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