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The Next Best Fling
By: Gabriella Gamez
Narrated by: Ruby Corazon
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Two broken hearts decide that the best way to get over their first loves is with a no-strings-attached relationshipĀ in this spicy and charming debut romance.
Librarian Marcela Ortiz has been secretly in love with her best friend for yearsāandĀ when he gets engaged, she knows itās long past time to move on. But before she gets the chance, she has... Read more
A Woman Is No Man
By: Etaf Rum
Narrated by: Ariana Delawari, Dahlia Salem & Susan Nezami
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
AĀ NEW YORK TIMESĀ BESTSELLERA READ WITHĀ JENNAĀ TODAY SHOWĀ BOOK CLUB PICKĀ AĀ New York Times Book ReviewĀ Editorsā ChoiceĀ ā¢ AĀ Washington PostĀ 10 Books to Read in MarchĀ ā¢Ā AĀ Marie ClaireĀ Best Womenās Fiction of 2019Ā ā¢Ā AĀ Washington Book ReviewĀ Difficult-To-Put-Down NovelĀ ā¢ AĀ Refinery 29Ā Best Books of the MonthĀ ā¢ AnĀ Electric LitĀ 20 Best Debuts of the... Read more
View audiobookThe Mothers
By: Brit Bennett
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERĀ
āBittersweet, sexy, morally fraught.ā āThe New York Times Book Review
"Fantasticā¦ a book that feels alive on the page."Ā āThe Washington Post
From the New York-Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, the beloved novel about young love and a big secret in a small community.Ā
Set within a contemporary black community... Read more
Love on the Brain
By: Ali Hazelwood
Narrated by: Brooke Bloomingdale
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
A #1 LibraryReads and Indie Next Pick!
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesisāwith explosive results.
Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe,... Read more
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
By: Angela Y. Davis
Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis & Coleen Marlo
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.
Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's... Read more
The First Ladies
By: Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
Narrated by: Robin Miles & Tavia Gilbert
Length: 14 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The InstantĀ New York TimesĀ Bestseller!Ā
A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethuneāan unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian.
The daughter of... Read more
The Extraordinaries
By: TJ Klune
Narrated by: Michael Lesley
Length: 12 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"Michael Lesley's upbeat narration captures all the whimsy, humor, and heart of this YA superhero romp...This sweet queer coming-of-age story will please listeners looking for something fun, surprising, and affirming." -- AudioFile Magazine
An Indie Next Pick!
Some people are extraordinary. Some are just extra. TJ Klune's YA debut, The... Read more
The Hate U Give
By: Angie Thomas
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
8 starred reviews Ā· Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the BestĀ Ā·Ā William C. Morris Award Winner Ā· National Book Award Longlist Ā· Printz Honor Book Ā· Coretta Scott King Honor Book Ā·Ā #1 New York Times Bestseller!""Absolutely riveting!"" āJason Reynolds""Stunning."" āJohn Green""This story is necessary. This story is important."" āKirkus (starred... Read more
View audiobookCobalt Red
By: Siddharth Kara
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes an author's note read by the author.
An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congoās cobalt mining operationāand the moral implications that affect us all.
Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposƩ of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the... Read more
Liliana's Invincible Summer (Pulitzer Prize winner)
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ā¢ NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ā¢ A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKĀ ā¢ āA searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sisterās murderer to justice years after the factā (The Boston Globe), from āone of Mexicoās greatest living writersā (Jonathan Lethem).
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āPart memoir, part true-crime story, Garzaās chronicle is both... Read more
Florida
By: Lauren Groff
Narrated by: Lauren Groff
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
TheĀ universally-acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds
In Lauren Groffās Florida, the hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks. Florida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "gorgeously weird and limber" (New Yorker), "frequently funny" (San Francisco... Read more
Small Great Things
By: Jodi Picoult
Narrated by: Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell & Ari Fliakos
Length: 16 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ A stunning page-turner with richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race
Look for Jodi Picoultās new novel, By Any Other Name, available now!
ā[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking examination of racism in America... Read more
The 7 Ā½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
By: Stuart Turton
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 17 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The Rules of Blackheath
Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m.
There are eight days, and eight witnesses for you to inhabit.
We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer.
Understood? Then let's begin . . .
Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every... Read more
Throne of the Fallen
By: Kerri Maniscalco
Narrated by: Marisa Calin & Shane East
Length: 18 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Kerri Maniscalco makes her adult debut with thisĀ New York Times bestselling sensation, a "hot"Ā new standalone fantasy romance (Jennifer L. Armentrout)Ā about a dark prince battling an impossible curseāand the artist who might be the only one who can set him free.
Sinner. Villain. Wicked.
The Prince of Envy has... Read more
Jesus and John Wayne
By: Kristin Kobes du Mez
Narrated by: Suzie Althens
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
How did a libertine who lacks even the most basic knowledge of the Christian faith win 81 percent of the white evangelical vote in 2016? And why have white evangelicals become a presidential reprobate's staunchest supporters? These are among the questions acclaimed historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez asks in Jesus and John Wayne, which explains how... Read more
View audiobookUpgrade
By: Blake Crouch
Narrated by: Henry Leyva
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ āIf Michael Crichton had written a superhero novel, it would look a lot like Upgrade.āāThe New York Times Book Review
āYou donāt so much sympathize with the main character as live inside his skin.āāDIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series
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āMysterious, fascinating, and deeply... Read more
The Essex Serpent
By: Sarah Perry
Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
NOW AN APPLE TV+ SERIESAĀ Washington PostĀ Notable Work of Fiction * Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year and overall Book of the Year *AĀ Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year * Waterstones Book of the Year * Costa Book Award FinalistāA novel of almost insolent ambitionālush and fantastical, a wild Eden behind a garden... Read more
View audiobookThe It Girl
By: Ruth Ware
Narrated by: Imogen Church
Length: 17 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
āThe pages turn themselvesā (People) in this white-knuckled mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friendās murder from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware.
April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford.
Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she... Read more
The Postcard
By: Anne Berest
Narrated by: Barrie Kealoha
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
TIME Magazineć»NPRć»Library Journalć»The Globe and Mailć»Lilithć»Forward Magazineć»Toronto Starć»The New Yorker
Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne BerestāsĀ The PostcardĀ is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a... Read more
The Lost Story
By: Meg Shaffer
Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by C. S. LewisāsĀ The Chronicles of Narnia,Ā this wild and wondrous novel isĀ a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock onĀ theĀ back of wardrobesājust in caseāfrom the author of The Wishing Game.
āThis is the book youāve been waiting for.āāRichard Russo, Pulitzer Prizeāwinning author of Empire Falls and the North Bath Trilogy
As boys, best... Read more
Ace
By: Angela Chen
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world thatās obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.
What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and... Read more
Sadie
By: Courtney Summers
Narrated by: Dan Bittner, Fred Berman, Gabra Zackman & Rebec...
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
*Winner of the 2019 Odyssey Award**Winner of the 2019 Audie Award for Young Adult Audiobook*
"Courtney Summers's powerful story of love, neglect, abuse, and revenge is narrated with irresistible urgency by Rebecca Soler and Dan Bittner, along with an ensemble of supporting narrators...this is a production that will not be forgotten" ā AudioFile... Read more
Olive, Again (Oprah's Book Club)
By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ OPRAHāS BOOK CLUB PICK ā¢ Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions.
āStrout managed to make me love this strange woman Iād never met, who I knew nothing about. What a terrific writer she is.āāZadie Smith, The... Read more
The Hotel Nantucket
By: Elin Hilderbrand
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
āThe queen of beach readsā (New York Magazine) and #1Ā New York TimesĀ ābestselling author delivers an immensely satisfying page-turner in this tale about a summer of scandal at a storied Nantucket hotel.
Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When sheās named the... Read more