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The Book of Elsewhere
By: Keanu Reeves & China Miéville
Narrated by: Allan Corduner, Asia Kate Dillon, China Miévill...
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “action-packed [and] profoundly stylish” (Los Angeles Times) epic from Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, unlike anything these two genre-bending pioneers have created before, inspired by the world of the BRZRKR comic books
“[The Book of Elsewhere is] a pulpy, adrenaline-fueled thriller, but it’s also a moody,... Read more
The Honey Witch
By: Sydney J. Shields
Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson Shaw
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to bear. But when a young woman who doesn’t believe in magic arrives on her island, sparks fly in this deliciously sweet debut novel of magic, hope, and love overcoming all.
Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude has always preferred the company of the spirits of the meadow... 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 audiobookHero of the Empire
By: Candice Millard
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War
At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had... Read more
The Men Who Killed the News
By: Eric Beecher
Narrated by: Eric Beecher
Length: 13 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Crikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media moguls – from William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk – and on his own unique experience of working for (and being sued by) the Murdochs.
What’s gone wrong with our media? The answer: its owners. From William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk, from the... Read more
The Island of Sea Women
By: Lisa See
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Length: 13 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island.
Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from... Read more
Take a Hint, Dani Brown
By: Talia Hibbert
Narrated by: Ione Butler
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
One of Oprah Magazine's 21 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020
USA Today bestselling author Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their office building goes viral...
Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional... Read more
Ascension
By: Nicholas Binge
Narrated by: Peter Kenny
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE!
"You've gotta read Ascension by Nicholas Binge. Old-school creepy. . .five-star horror."—Stephen King
"Smartly paced, deploying twists and turns strategically to keep the reader moving. . . The ideas are big and the journey is a whole lot of fun." —The New York Times
"[An] excellent page-turner. . . a... Read more
The Lost Sisters
By: Holly Black
Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Sometimes the difference between a love story and a horror story is where the ending comes...
While Jude fought for power in the Court of Elfhame against the cruel Prince Cardan, her sister Taryn began to fall in love with the trickster, Locke.
Half-apology and half-explanation, it turns out that Taryn has some secrets of her own to reveal.
The... Read more
Dark Lord of Derkholm
By: Diana Wynne Jones
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Length: 13 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Mr. Chesney operates Pilgrim Parties, a tour group that takes paying participants into an outer realm where the inhabitants play frightening and foreboding roles. The time has come to end the staged madness . . . but can it really be stopped?
Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones serves up twists and turns, introduces Querida, Derk, Blade, and... Read more
The Morning Star
By: Karl Ove Knausgaard
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Mia Barron, Michael Braun, A...
Length: 23 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Last night a new star appeared in the sky. The morning star. I know what it means. It means that it has begun.
One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil has his own place nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her... Read more
Freedom Is a Feast
By: Alejandro Puyana
Narrated by: Luis Selgas, Blas Kisic, Graciela Valderrama & ...
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A Finalist for the Westport Prize for Literature
A multigenerational, Latin American saga of love and revolution in which a rebel who commits a youthful betrayal receives a late-life chance at redemption and a new life: “a tour de force” from “the new master” (Luis Alberto Urrea, New York Times bestselling author of Good Night, Irene).
In 1964,... Read more
When the World Tips Over
By: Jandy Nelson
Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Alex McKenna, Briggon Snow, Cai...
Length: 17 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"Jandy Nelson is a true virtuoso . . . I am fervently in love with this brave, funny, tender, exuberant beating heart of a book." —Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Imogen, Obviously
An explosive new novel brimming with love, secrets, and enchantment by Jandy Nelson, Printz Award–winning and New York Times... Read more
Monsters
By: Claire Dederer
Narrated by: Claire Dederer
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love the work of controversial classic and contemporary artists but dislike the artist?
"A lively, personal... Read more
The Nature of Disappearing
By: Kimi Cunningham Grant
Narrated by: Emily Pike Stewart
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In this captivating novel of suspense from the USA Today bestselling author of These Silent Woods, a wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her life years ago when the friend who introduced them goes missing.
Emlyn doesn't let herself think about the past.
How she and her best friend, Janessa, barely speak anymore. How Tyler, the... Read more
The Last Mrs. Parrish
By: Liv Constantine
Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman & Meghan Wolf
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A REESE WITHERSPOON HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD!“Will keep you up. In a ‘can’t put it down’ way. It’s ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ with XX chromosomes.” —The SkimmRead The Last Mrs. Parrish before you pick up the new, instant New York Times bestseller, The Next Mrs. Parrish!A mesmerizing... Read more
View audiobookThe Bookshop on the Shore
By: Jenny Colgan
Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.
Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life for herself and her four year old son Hari. She can... Read more
Ghosts
By: Dolly Alderton
Narrated by: Holliday Grainger
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Everything I Know About Love comes a smart, sexy, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about ex-boyfriends, imperfect parents, friends with kids, and a man who disappears the moment he says "I love you."
“An absolute knock-out. Wickedly funny and, at turns, both cynical and sincere… feels like your very... Read more
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
By: Fredrik Backman
Narrated by: Joan Walker
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove.
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her... Read more
Temporary
By: Hilary Leichter
Narrated by: Carly Robins
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the... Read more
View audiobookKiss Her Once for Me
By: Alison Cochrun
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ+ Romance
A Best New Holiday Romance by PopSugar, BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and more!
The author of the “swoon-worthy debut” (Harper’s Bazaar) The Charm Offensive returns with a festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement with her landlord…only to fall for his sister.
One year ago,... Read more
Good Omens
By: Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Full Cast, Mark Heap & Peter Serafinowicz
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s celebrated apocalyptic comic novel.
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday in fact. Just after Any Answers on Radio 4….
Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies... Read more
A Hunger to Kill
By: Kim Mager & Lisa Pulitzer
Narrated by: Jennifer Blom
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager, a real-life version of Clarice Starling, reveals how she closed in on—and broke—one of Ohio’s most infamous serial killers.
On September 13, 2016, in the small town of Ashland, Ohio, emergency dispatchers received a 911 call from a terrified woman who claimed to be... Read more
Ghost Station
By: S.A. Barnes
Narrated by: Zura Johnson
Length: 14 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space-horror novel from S.A. Barnes, acclaimed author of Dead Silence.
An abandoned plant. A hidden past. A deadly danger.
Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has dedicated her life to the study and prevention of ERS—the most famous case of which resulted in the brutal murders of... Read more