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Thanks, Obama
By: David Litt
Narrated by: David Litt
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRemember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? David Litt does. In his comic, coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back to the Obama years – and charts a path forward in the age of Trump.More than any other presidency, Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House were defined by young... 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... Read more
Warcross
By: Marie Lu
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu—when a game called Warcross takes the world by storm, one girl hacks her way into its dangerous depths.
For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game—it’s a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to escape from... Read more
Love and Other Consolation Prizes
By: Jamie Ford
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller & Jamie Ford
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle’s epic 1909 World’s Fair.
“An evocative, heartfelt, beautifully crafted story that shines a light on a fascinating, tragic bit of forgotten history.”—Kristin Hannah, author... Read more
The Twelve-Mile Straight
By: Eleanor Henderson
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 17 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies--one light-skinned, the other dark--are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter. Accused of her rape, field... Read more
View audiobookThe Vengeance of Mothers
By: Jim Fergus
Narrated by: Laura Hicks & Erik Steele
Length: 13 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Narrator Laura Hicks] captures the compelling emotions of these desperate women as they escape their former lives of hardship and dare to dream of a freedom they haven't yet known." — Booklist, starred review
The stunning sequel to Jim Fergus' award-winning One Thousand White Women.
9 March 1876
My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil... Read more
Forest Dark
By: Nicole Krauss
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
National Bestseller • A New York Times Notable BookNamed Best Book of the Year by Esquire, Times Literary Supplement, Elle Magazine, LitHub, Publishers Weekly, Financial Times, Guardian, Refinery29, PopSugar, and Globe and Mail""A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration."" —Philip Roth""One of America’s most important novelists"" (New York... Read more
View audiobookLife on Mars
By: Tracy K. Smith
Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Abridged: No
In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the... Read more
View audiobookComing to My Senses
By: Alice Waters
Narrated by: Alice Waters
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant.
When Alice Waters opened the doors of her "little French restaurant" in Berkeley,... Read more
The Other Alcott
By: Elise Hooper
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Elise Hooper’s debut novel conjures the fascinating, untold story of May Alcott—Louisa’s youngest sister and an artist in her own right.We all know the story of the March sisters, heroines of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. But while everyone cheers on Jo March, based on Louisa herself, Amy March is often the least favorite sister. Now, it’s... Read more
View audiobookThe World of Tomorrow
By: Brendan Mathews
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 18 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
One whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal follows three brothers through teeming prewar New York in this "entertaining . . . outsized . . . big, expressive debut" (Wall Street Journal).
June 1939. Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother, Michael, are on an ocean liner from Ireland bound for their brother Martin's home in New York... Read more
Genuine Fraud
By: E. Lockhart
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"A brilliant, twisty thriller--I loved it!" —KAREN M. MCMANUS, bestselling author of One of Us is Lying
From the author of We Were Liars, which John Green called "utterly unforgettable," comes a mind-bending, New York Times bestselling thriller told in reverse.
"Compulsively readable." —Entertainment Weekly
"An addictive and shocking feminist... Read more
A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares
By: Krystal Sutherland
Narrated by: Tara Sands
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Our Chemical Hearts comes the hilarious, reality-bending tale of two outsiders facing their greatest fears about life and love—one debilitating phobia at a time.
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Ever since Esther Solar’s grandfather was cursed by Death, everyone in her family has been doomed to suffer one great fear in their lifetime. Esther’s... Read more
George and Lizzie
By: Nancy Pearl
Narrated by: Nancy Pearl
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
From “America’s librarian” and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotional, “Anne-Tyler-esque” (Library Journal) debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads.
George and Lizzie are a couple, meeting as college students and marrying soon after graduation, but no one would ever describe them of being soulmates. George grew up in... Read more
The Child Finder
By: Rene Denfeld
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
“It’s ‘Deliverance’ encased in ice… Denfeld’s novel is indeed loaded with suspense, its resonance comes from its surprising tilt towards storytelling restraint, a rarity in this typical crackling genre. Elegiac, informative and disquieting. . . . The novel gallops to a suitably heart-racing finish.” — New York Times Book ReviewA haunting, richly... Read more
View audiobookThe Tender Bar
By: J. R. Moehringer
Narrated by: Adam Grupper & Daniel Thomas May
Length: 16 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar, in the tradition of This Boy’s Life and The Liar’s Club—with a new Afterword.
J.R. Moehringer grew up... Read more
Sea of Rust
By: C. Robert Cargill
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic ""robot western"" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic.It’s been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots.... Read more
View audiobookThe Resurrection of Joan Ashby
By: Cherise Wolas
Narrated by: Michael Dickes & Gabra Zackman
Length: 19 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
"That I got so worked up about a person who doesn't exist is a testament to Cherise Wolas's success in creating a complex and distinct fictional character." — The New York Times Book Review
I viewed the consumptive nature of love as a threat to serious women. But the wonderful man I just married believes as I do—work is paramount, absolutely no... Read more
Wonder Woman: Warbringer
By: Leigh Bardugo
Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The award-winning DC Icons story of the world's greatest super hero: WONDER WOMAN by the # 1 New York Times bestselling author LEIGH BARDUGO.
"You’ll enjoy this book whether you’re a fan of Wonder Woman comics, the Wonder Woman movie, Leigh Bardugo, or just YA lit in general." —Hypable
She will become one of... Read more
The Hidden Light of Northern Fires
By: Daren Wang
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
"In a poignant and authentic tone, narrator Robin Miles brings her love of the theater to the fore in the telling of a little-known true chapter of the Civil War...Miles gives a compelling and very human voice to a time of strife and redemption." — AudioFile Magazine
Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon... Read more
Bull
By: David Elliott
Narrated by: Cherise Boothe & Korey Jackson
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Abridged: No
SEE THE STORY OF THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT Minos thought he could Pull a fast one On me, Poseidon! God of the Sea! But I'm the last one On whom you Should try such a thing. The nerve of that guy. The balls. The audacity. I AM THE OCEAN! I got capacity! Depths! Darkness! Delphic power! So his sweet little plan Went big-time... Read more
View audiobookUnraveling Oliver
By: Liz Nugent
Narrated by: Sam O’Mahony
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
“Searing, searching, finally scorching. Think Making a Murderer via Patricia Highsmith: an elegant kaleidoscope novel that refines and combines multiple perspectives until its subject is brought into indelible, tragic focus.” —A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
“Pitch-black and superbly written.” —Ruth... Read more
Young Jane Young
By: Gabrielle Zevin
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss—who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married—and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over... Read more
View audiobookThe Red-Haired Woman
By: Orhan Pamuk
Narrated by: John Lee & Katharine Lee McEwan
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them.
On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without... Read more