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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
By: Dominic Smith
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A masterful new story charts the circuitous course of the sole surviving work of a female Dutch painter
This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In his earlier, award-winning novels,... Read more
Tuesday Nights in 1980
By: Molly Prentiss
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
“An intoxicating Manhattan fairy tale…As affecting as it is absorbing. A thrilling debut.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A vital, sensuous, edgy, and suspenseful tale of longing, rage, fear, compulsion, and love.” —Booklist (starred review)
A transcendent debut novel that follows a critic, an artist, and a desirous, determined young woman... Read more
Dodgers
By: Bill Beverly
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Dodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price, Denis Johnson, and J.D. Salinger.
It is the story of a young LA gang member named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys—including East's hothead younger brother—to kill a key witness hiding out in Wisconsin. The journey... Read more
The Path
By: Michael Puett & Christine Gross-Loh
Narrated by: Michael Puett & Christine Gross-Loh
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
For the first time, an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how ancient ideas—like the fallacy of the authentic self—can guide you on the path to a good life today.
Why is a course on ancient Chinese philosophers one of the most popular at Harvard? Because it challenges all... Read more
The Plot against America
By: Philip Roth
Narrated by: Ron Silver
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In an astonishing feat of empathy and narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history.In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected president. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a... Read more
View audiobookThe Railwayman's Wife
By: Ashley Hay
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham & Steve West
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of The Light Between Oceans, this “exquisitely written, true book of wonders” (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) explores the aftermath of World War II in an Australian seaside town, and the mysterious poem that changes the lives of those who encounter it.
In 1948, in a town overlooking the vast, blue ocean, Anikka Lachlan... Read more
Island of the Lost
By: Joan Druett
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death.
In 1864 Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton... Read more
Fellside
By: M. R. Carey
Narrated by: Finty Williams
Length: 15 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In the aftermath of a devastating fire, a prisoner is offered one chance at redemption in this haunting supernatural suspense from the author of USA Today bestseller, The Girl With All the Gifts.
Fellside is a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors. It's not the kind of place you'd want to end up. But it's where Jess Moulson... Read more
Lilac Girls
By: Martha Hall Kelly
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Kathleen Gati, Kathrin Kana...
Length: 17 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades.
New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed... Read more
All Tomorrow’s Parties
By: Rob Spillman
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award-winning, esteemed cofounding editor of the legendary Tin House magazine, All Tomorrow’s Parties is an intimate, spirited memoir of a rebellious young man’s fierce pursuit of an artistic life and a portrait of a shifting Berlin in the midst of a cultural renaissance.Rob Spillman has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of... Read more
View audiobookLust & Wonder
By: Augusten Burroughs
Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
"Burroughs has lived this story, so his delivery perfectly matches the tone and pacing needed. Focusing on a series of failed relationships, Burroughs lets his voice rise in both tension and tenor as he analyzes the reasons, with help from analysis, that some relationships work and others are doomed by the personal quirks of both people." —... Read more
View audiobookThe Nest
By: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives.Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on... Read more
View audiobookThe Charm Bracelet
By: Viola Shipman
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Lose yourself to the magic of The Charm Bracelet.
Through an heirloom charm bracelet, three women will rediscover the importance of family and a passion for living as each charm changes their lives.
On her birthday each year, Lolly’s mother gave her a charm, along with the advice that there is nothing more important than keeping family memories... Read more
The Way I Used to Be
By: Amber Smith
Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestseller! In the tradition of Speak, Amber Smith's extraordinary debut novel “is a heart-twisting, but ultimately hopeful, exploration of how pain can lead to strength” (The Boston Globe).
Eden was always good at being good. Starting high school didn’t change who she was. But the night her brother’s best friend rapes her, Eden’s... Read more
Jane Steele
By: Lyndsay Faye
Narrated by: Susie Riddell
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel
The reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer that The New York Times Book Review calls “wonderfully entertaining” and USA Today describes as “sheer mayhem meets Victorian propriety.”
“A thrill ride of a novel. A must read for lovers of Jane Eyre, dark humor, and... Read more
The Summer Before the War
By: Helen Simonson
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 15 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community.”—The Washington Post
The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking... Read more
The Caped Crusade
By: Glen Weldon
Narrated by: Glen Weldon
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
“A roaring getaway car of guilty pleasures” (The New York Times Book Review), Glen Weldon’s The Caped Crusade is a fascinating, critically acclaimed chronicle of the rises and falls of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes and the fans who love him—now with a new afterword.
Since his debut in Detective Comics #27, Batman has been many... Read more
At the Edge of the Orchard
By: Tracy Chevalier
Narrated by: Hillary Huber, Mark Bramhall, Kirby Heyborne & ...
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
“With impeccable research and flawless prose, Chevalier perfectly conjures the grandeur of the pristine Wild West . . . and the everyday adventurers—male and female—who were bold enough or foolish enough to be drawn to the unknown. She crafts for us an excellent experience.”
—USA Today
From internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier,... Read more
Two If by Sea
By: Jacquelyn Mitchard
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From Jacquelyn Mitchard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean, the “suspenseful, otherwordly, and nearly impossible to put down” (People) story about an unlikely hero whose life is transformed when he rescues a boy with an extraordinary gift.
Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas... Read more
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
By: C.G. Jung
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 16 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
'I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals' (Carl Gustav Jung)
In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story. But what started as an exercise in autobiography soon... Read more
Shelter
By: Jung Yun
Narrated by: Raymond Lee
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
You can never know what goes on behind closed doors.
One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of the Year (Selected by Edan Lepucki)
Kyung Cho is a young father burdened by a house he can’t afford. For years, he and his wife, Gillian, have lived beyond their means. Now their debts and bad decisions are catching up with them, and Kyung is... Read more
The Travelers
By: Chris Pavone
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 17 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A pulse-racing international thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Expats and The Accident
It’s 3:00am. Do you know where your husband is?
Meet Will Rhodes: travel writer, recently married, barely solvent, his idealism rapidly giving way to disillusionment and the worry that he’s living the wrong life. Then one night,... Read more
The Passenger
By: Lisa Lutz
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
“A dead-serious thriller (with a funny bone)” (The New York Times Book Review), from the author of the New York Times bestselling Spellman Files series, comes the story of a woman who creates and sheds new identities as she crisscrosses the country to escape her past.
Forty-eight hours after leaving her husband’s body at the base of the stairs,... Read more
Mockingbird
By: Walter Tevis
Narrated by: Robert Fass & Nicole Poole
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In a world where the human population has suffered devastating losses, a handful of survivors cling to what passes for life in a post-apocalyptic, dying landscape. A world where humans wander, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. A dying world of no children and no art, where reading is forbidden. And a strange love triangle: Spofforth, who... Read more
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