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Gertie's Leap to Greatness
By: Kate Beasley
Narrated by: Tara Sands
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Three Times Lucky and The Penderwicks, this endearing new classic spins together sparkling humor, sizzle-pop writing, and a sassy main character with an unforgettable voice.
Gertie Reece Foy is 100% Not-From-Concentrate awesome. She has a daddy who works on an oil rig, a great-aunt who always finds the lowest prices at the Piggly... Read more
Today Will Be Different
By: Maria Semple
Narrated by: Kathleen Wilhoite
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant novel and instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.
Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her... Read more
Mercury
By: Margot Livesey
Narrated by: Derek Perkins & Nicol Zanzarella
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A taut emotional thriller about love, obsession and the secrets that pull a family apart.Donald believes he knows all there is to know about seeing. An optician in suburban Boston, he rests assured that he and his wife, Viv, who works at the local stables, will live out quiet lives with their two children. Then Mercury—a gorgeous young... Read more
View audiobookThe Universe Has Your Back
By: Gabrielle Bernstein
Narrated by: Gabrielle Bernstein
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times Bestseller! In her latest book, The Universe Has Your Back, New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein teaches readers how to transform their fear into faith in order to live a divinely guided life. Each story and lesson in the audio guides readers to release the blocks to what they most long for: happiness,... Read more
View audiobookIrena's Children
By: Tilar J. Mazzeo
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.
In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to... Read more
Frazzled
By: Booki Vivat
Narrated by: Tara Sands
Length: 1 hour 24 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant New York Times bestseller, Booki Vivat's Frazzled is the first installment of a funny middle grade series about a girl who is always in a tizzy.“Hilarious.” (NPR’s All Things Considered)""Honest, sweet, and laugh-out-loud funny. Fans of Smile and Diary of a Wimpy Kid will appreciate this debut."" (Brightly.com)Meet Abbie Wu. Abbie is... Read more
View audiobookTrainwreck
By: Sady Doyle
Narrated by: Alex McKenna
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
She’s everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck.
She’s Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, “crack is whack,” and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself.
From Mary Wollstonecraft—who, for decades after her death, was more famous for... Read more
Reputations
By: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant novel about the power of politics and personal memory from one of South America's literary stars, the New York Times bestselling author of The Sound of Things Falling.
Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country's most influential political cartoonist, the consciousness of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws,... Read more
Pushing Up Daisies
By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Alison Larkin
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author M. C. Beaton’s beloved Agatha Raisin is back on a case and poking around where she doesn’t belong.When Agatha Raisin left behind her public-relations business in London, she fulfilled her dream of settling in the cozy British Cotswolds where she began a successful private detective agency. Unfortunately, the... Read more
View audiobookWhere Am I Now?
By: Mara Wilson
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
"Thoughtfully traces [Mara Wilson's] journey from child actress to Hollywood dropout...Who is she now? She's a writer." —NPR's "Guide To 2016’s Great Reads"
“Growing up, I wanted to be Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight.” —Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City
Named a best book of the month by GoodReads and Entertainment Weekly
A... Read more
Razor Girl
By: Carl Hiaasen
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The new full-tilt, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Bad Monkey
When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an ordinary accident is anything but (this is Hiaasen!). Behind the wheel of the other car is Merry Mansfield--the eponymous... Read more
The Risen
By: Ron Rash
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash demonstrates his superb narrative skills in this suspenseful and evocative tale of two brothers whose lives are altered irrevocably by the events of one long-ago summer—and one bewitching young woman—and the secrets that could destroy their lives.While swimming in a secluded creek on a hot Sunday in... Read more
View audiobookMischling
By: Affinity Konar
Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past.
Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad.
It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and... Read more
Aristotle's Poetics
By: Aristotle
Narrated by: Ray Childs
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Aristotle's Poetics is best known for its definitions and analyses of tragedy and comedy, but it also applies to truth and beauty as they are manifested in the other arts. In our age, when the natural and social sciences have dominated the quest for truth, it is helpful to consider why Aristotle claimed poetry is more philosophical and more... Read more
View audiobookSlow Days, Fast Company
By: Eve Babitz
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique voice. These stories are time capsule gems, as poignant and startling today as they were when published in the early 1970s. Eve Babitz is not well known today, but she should be. Her first hand experiences in the L.A. cultural scene, translated... Read more
View audiobookThe Thousandth Floor
By: Katharine McGee
Narrated by: Phoebe Strole
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestsellerNew York City as you’ve never seen it before. A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible—if you want it enough.Welcome to Manhattan, 2118.A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. But people never change: everyone here... Read more
View audiobookTell Me Something Real
By: Calla Devlin
Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Three sisters struggle with the bonds that hold their family together as they face a darkness settling over their lives in this “one of a kind” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) debut novel that’s a finalist for the William C. Morris Award.
There are three beautiful blond Babcock sisters: gorgeous and foul-mouthed Adrienne, observant and shy... Read more
Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club)
By: Imbolo Mbue
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy
New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book... Read more
A House Without Windows
By: Nadia Hashimi
Narrated by: Ariana Delawari & Susan Nezami
Length: 15 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood—an emotionally powerful and haunting tale of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional culture—from the author of the bestselling The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and When the Moon Is Low.For two decades, Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful villager.... Read more
View audiobookArrowood
By: Laura McHugh
Narrated by: Sarah Scott
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“Superb and subtle psychological suspense.”—Lee Child
A haunting novel from the author of The Weight of Blood about a young woman’s return to her childhood home—and her encounter with the memories and family secrets it holds
ITW THRILLER AWARD FINALIST
Arrowood is the most ornate and grand of the historical houses that line the Mississippi River... Read more
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
By: Scott Stambach
Narrated by: Dan Bittner
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The Fault In Our Stars meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is a life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus. For the most part, every day is exactly the same for Ivan, which is why he turns everything into a game, manipulating people and events around him for his own... Read more
The City Baker's Guide to Country Living
By: Louise Miller
Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"Mix in one part Diane Mott Davidson’s delightful culinary adventures with several tablespoons of Jan Karon’s country living and quirky characters, bake at 350 degrees for one rich and warm romance." --Library Journal
A full-hearted novel about a big-city baker who discovers the true meaning of home—and that sometimes the best things are found... Read more
Behind Closed Doors
By: B.A. Paris
Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING DEBUT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER YOU CAN'T MISS!
The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie?
“A hair-raising debut, both unsettling and addictive...A chilling thriller that will keep you reading long into the night.” —Mary Kubica, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Good Girl
“This... Read more
Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal
By: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Narrated by: Amy Krouse Rosenthal & John Green
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling author of Encyclopedia an Ordinary Life returns with a literary experience that is unprecedented, unforgettable, and explosively human.
Ten years after her beloved, groundbreaking Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, #1 New York Times bestselling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal delivers a book full of her distinct blend of nonlinear... Read more