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Carousel Court
By: Joe McGinniss
Narrated by: Joy Osmanski & Corey Brill
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Joe McGinniss Jr., who is “poised to become one of our sharpest observers of life in America at the start of the twenty-first century” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), returns with one of the most engrossing, unnerving, and exhilarating novels in recent memory: a viscerally absorbing look at the seductive—and destructive—cutting edge of... Read more
View audiobookThe Muse
By: Jessie Burton
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Maria Elena Infantino
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young women—a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London, and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain—and the powerful mystery that ties them together.England, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London.... Read more
View audiobookThe Inseparables
By: Stuart Nadler
Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Kirkus' Best Books of 2016: Crisis is looming for three generations of the Olyphant family.
In less than a year, Henrietta has lost her husband and nearly all of her money, and is about to lose her hard-won anonymity. After a lifetime spent trying to outrun the humiliation her own book caused her, Henrietta has reluctantly agreed to a... Read more
Hell Divers
By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Narrated by: R. C. Bray
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times and USA Today bestselling seriesThey dive so humanity survives …More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to earth long ago. The only... Read more
View audiobookThe Hopefuls
By: Jennifer Close
Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Hopefuls tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to Washington, D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among the young aspiring elite.
When Beth arrives in D.C., she... Read more
You'll Grow Out of It
By: Jessi Klein
Narrated by: Jessi Klein
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
From Emmy award-winning comedy writer Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It hilariously and candidly explores the journey of the 21st-century woman.
As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity.
In You'll Grow Out of It, Klein offers - through an... Read more
All Is Not Forgotten
By: Wendy Walker
Narrated by: Dylan Baker
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
AudioFile Earphones Award Winner
The stunning national bestseller! Wendy Walker's All is Not Forgotten--the basis for the major motion film Gone But Not Forgotten--is a twisty, edge-of-your seat thrill ride from beginning to end.
“Fascinating and at times shocking.”—Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl
Everything... Read more
The Heavenly Table
By: Donald Ray Pollock
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors.
It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed... Read more
Underground Airlines
By: Ben H. Winters
Narrated by: William DeMeritt
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened?
A New York Times bestseller; a Goodreads Choice finalist; named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Hudson Bookseller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kirkus Reviews, AudioFile Magazine, and Amazon
A... Read more
How to Set a Fire and Why
By: Jesse Ball
Narrated by: Emma Galvin
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A teenage girl. A shattering loss. An obsession with a secret arson club. This is the story of a girl who has nothing and will burn anything.
Lucia’s father is dead, her mother is in a mental hospital, and she’s living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. And now she’s been kicked out of school—again. Making her way through the world with... Read more
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
By: Blair Braverman
Narrated by: Blair Braverman
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North.Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had left her home in California, moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs, and worked as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska.By turns funny and... Read more
View audiobookA Hundred Thousand Worlds
By: Bob Proehl
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
“A Kavalier & Clay for the Comic-Con Age, this is a bighearted, inventive, exuberant debut.” —Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints
"Proehl creates worlds within worlds within worlds, all of them full of surprise and wonder."
—Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Valerie Torrey took her son, Alex,... Read more
A Certain Age
By: Beatriz Williams
Narrated by: Mia Barron, Barbara Goodson & Adrienne Rusk
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm.As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent... Read more
View audiobookMy Last Continent
By: Midge Raymond
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
This unforgettable debut, set against the dramatic Antarctic landscape, is “refreshingly different, vivid, and immediate. Midge Raymond has an extraordinary gift for description that puts the reader bang in the middle of its dangerous and endangered world” (M.L. Stedman, New York Times bestselling author of The Light Between Oceans).
It is only... Read more
Vinegar Girl
By: Anne Tyler
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies.
Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she’s always in trouble at work... Read more
Disappearance at Devil's Rock
By: Paul Tremblay
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 12 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie tale, a blend of literary fiction, psychological suspense, and supernatural horror from the author of A Head Full of Ghosts.“A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out of me, and I’m pretty hard to scare,” raved Stephen King about Paul... Read more
View audiobookThe Girls
By: Emma Cline
Narrated by: Cady McClain
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT BESTSELLER • An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, Esquire, Newsweek, Vogue, Glamour, People, The Huffington Post,... Read more
Barkskins
By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 25 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a television mini-series airing on National Geographic May 2020!
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year & a New York Times Notable Book
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world’s forests: “Barkskins is grand... Read more
Brighton
By: Michael Harvey
Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
An extraordinary thriller—gripping, haunting, and marvelously told—about two friends growing up in a rapidly changing Boston, who must face the sins of their past in the midst of a series of brutal murders.“You came back here to bury your past. . . . Thing is, you gotta kill it first.”Kevin Pearce—baseball star, honor student, the pride of... Read more
View audiobookThe Gilded Years
By: Karin Tanabe
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Passing meets The House of Mirth in this “utterly captivating” (Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen House) historical novel based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, the first black student to attend Vassar, who successfully passed as white—until she let herself grow too attached to the wrong person.
Since... Read more
The Fifth Child
By: Doris Lessing
Narrated by: Sue Pitkin
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and... Read more
View audiobookNow and Forever
By: Ray Bradbury
Narrated by: Paul Hecht
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A journalist bearing terrible news leaps from a still-moving train into a small town of wonderful, impossible secrets . . . The doomed crew of a starship follows their blind, mad captain on a quest into deepest space to joust with destiny, eternity, and God Himself . . . Now and Forever is a bold new work from an incomparable artist whose... Read more
View audiobookYou Know Me Well
By: Nina LaCour & David Levithan
Narrated by: Emma Galvin & Matthew Brown
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A special edition of the critically acclaimed LGBTQ+ romance, now with bonus material from bestselling authors Nina LaCour and David Levithan.
You Know Me Well is a deeply honest story about navigating the joys and heartaches of first love, one truth at a time.
Who knows you well? Your best friend? Your boyfriend or girlfriend? A stranger you meet... Read more
Before the Fall
By: Noah Hawley
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are the painter Scott Burroughs and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of... Read more
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