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The Red Notebook
By: Antoine Laurain
Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Heroic bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's nothing in the bag to indicate who it belongs to, although there's all sorts of other things in it. Laurent feels a strong impulse to find the owner and tries to puzzle together who she might be from the contents of the bag. Especially a red... Read more
View audiobookThe Whole Town's Talking
By: Fannie Flagg
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is at her superb best in this fun-loving, moving novel about what it means to be truly alive.
WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN BOOK PRIZE
Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still... Read more
To Capture What We Cannot Keep
By: Beatrice Colin
Narrated by: Polly Stone
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young widow and an engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love.
In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Émile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris--a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground,... Read more
Moranifesto
By: Caitlin Moran
Narrated by: Joanna Neary
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran’s award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today—including three major new pieces exclusive to this book.When Caitlin Moran sat down to choose... Read more
View audiobookI'll Take You There
By: Wally Lamb
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life—Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin’ and Hopin’—and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women.I’ll Take You There centers on Felix, a film... Read more
View audiobookMoonglow
By: Michael Chabon
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 14 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Following on the heels of his New York Times–bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us.In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of... Read more
View audiobookWriting to Save a Life
By: John Edgar Wideman
Narrated by: Roger Guenveur Smith
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis—shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Emmett Till took a train from... Read more
Heartless
By: Marissa Meyer
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
Length: 14 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Rebecca Soler, narrator of Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles, returns to narrate this program.
“Narrator Rebecca Soler delivers a take-no-prisoners performance for the third title in The Lunar Chronicles. Her instinctive delivery of Meyer's humor makes the story an addictive listen. Series fans and new listeners will be equally entranced.”... Read more
Night School - Abridged
By: Lee Child
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher!
“Another timely tour de force . . . The taut thriller is textbook [Lee] Child: fast-paced and topical with a ‘ripped from the headlines’ feel.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
It’s 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the... Read more
Faithful
By: Alice Hoffman
Narrated by: Amber Tamblyn
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers comes a soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to redefine herself and the power of love, family, and fate.
Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best... Read more
Walk Through Walls
By: Marina Abramovic
Narrated by: Marina Abramovic
Length: 14 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.”
In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an... Read more
The Terranauts
By: T.C. Boyle
Narrated by: Lynde Houck, Joy Osmanski & Charlie Thurston
Length: 20 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A deep-dive into human behavior in an epic story of science, society, sex, and survival, from one of the greatest American novelists today, T. C. Boyle, the acclaimed, bestselling, author of the PEN/ Faulkner Award–winning World’s End and The Harder They Come.It is 1994, and in the desert near Tillman, Arizona, forty miles from Tucson, a grand... Read more
View audiobookYou Will Not Have My Hate
By: Antoine Leiris
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: No
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional person, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hate."
On November 13, 2015, Antoine Leiris’s wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, was killed by terrorists while attending a rock concert at the Bataclan Theater in Paris, in the deadliest attack on... Read more
Mister Monkey
By: Francine Prose
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Nan McNamara
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children’s musical.Mister Monkey—a screwball children’s musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee—is the... Read more
View audiobookThe Next
By: Stephanie Gangi
Narrated by: Nicole Quinn
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"I love The Next...elegantly written, thoughtfully sharp, surprisingly touching." —Cathleen Schine
Is there a right way to die? If so, Joanna DeAngelis has it all wrong. She’s consumed by betrayal, spending her numbered days obsessing over Ned McGowan, her much younger ex, and watching him thrive in the spotlight with someone new, while she... Read more
Wonder Women
By: Sam Maggs
Narrated by: Jodelle Ferland
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A fun and feminist look at forgotten women in science, technology, and beyond, from the bestselling author of THE FANGIRL'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
You may think you know women’s history pretty well. But have you ever heard of. . .
· Alice Ball, the chemist who developed an effective treatment for leprosy—only to have the credit taken by a man?
· ... Read more
The German Girl
By: Armando Lucas Correa
Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Featured in Entertainment Weekly, People, The Millions, and USA TODAY
“An unforgettable and resplendent novel which will take its place among the great historical fiction written about World War II.” —Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife
A young girl flees Nazi-occupied Germany with her... Read more
The Girl From Venice
By: Martin Cruz Smith
Narrated by: Zach Appelman
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
From Martin Cruz Smith, “a master of the international thriller” (The New York Times), a suspenseful World War II love story set against the beauty, mystery, and danger of occupied Venice.
Venice, 1945. The war may be waning, but the city known as La Serenissima is still occupied and the people of Italy fear the power of the Third Reich. One... Read more
Children of the New World
By: Alexander Weinstein
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
AN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVVY ERA BY DEBUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER WEINSTEIN
Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these... Read more
Inheriting Edith
By: Zoe Fishman
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Driving Lessons, Saving Ruth, and Balancing Acts comes a poignant breakout novel about a single mother who inherits a beautiful beach house with a caveat—she must take care of the ornery elderly woman who lives in it.For years, Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients,... Read more
View audiobookBuffering
By: Hannah Hart
Narrated by: Hannah Hart & Judy Young
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The wildly popular YouTube personality and author of the New York Times bestseller My Drunk Kitchen is back! This time, she’s stirring up memories and tales from her past.By combing through the journals that Hannah has kept for much of her life, this collection of narrative essays deliver a fuller picture of her life, her experiences, and the... Read more
View audiobookA Gambler's Anatomy
By: Jonathan Lethem
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face.
Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur "whales" who think they can... Read more
Nimona
By: ND Stevenson
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler, Jonathan Davis, Marc Thompson, J...
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
An original full cast audio adaptation of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel sensation from ND Stevenson, based on his beloved and critically acclaimed web comic.Nimona is the New York Times bestselling graphic novel sensation from ND Stevenson, based on his beloved and critically acclaimed web comic. Kirkus says, “If you’re going to... Read more
View audiobookNicotine
By: Nell Zink
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The ""wonderfully talented"" (Dwight Garner, New York Times) author of Mislaid returns with a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families—both the ones we’re born into and the ones we create—a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father's childhood home.Recent business... Read more
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