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Damnation Spring
By: Ash Davidson
Narrated by: CJ Wilson, Rebecca Lowman, Mark Sanderlin & Can...
Length: 15 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times
āA glorious bookāan assured novel thatās gorgeously told.ā āThe New York Times Book Review
āAn incredibly moving epic about an unforgettable family.ā āCBS Sunday Morning
ā[An] absorbing novelā¦I felt both grateful... Read more
Strange the Dreamer
By: Laini Taylor
Narrated by: Steve West
Length: 18 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
From National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor comes an epic fantasy about a mythic lost city and its dark past.
The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around--and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was just five years old, he's been obsessed with the mythic lost... Read more
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
By: Iain Reid
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you wonāt know whyā¦
Iām thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. Itās always there. Always.
Jake once said, āSometimes a... Read more
The Reckoning
By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 17 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ā¢ John Grisham's most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet ā¢ āA murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga.āĀ āUSA Today
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October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi
Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippiās favorite sonāa decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father,... Read more
The Marrow Thieves
By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Meegwun Fairbrother
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions... Read more
View audiobookBetty
By: Tiffany McDaniel
Narrated by: Dale Dickey
Length: 17 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians about a young girl and the family truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life.
āA girl comes of age against the knife.ā
So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a white mother and a Cherokee father, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings.... Read more
Empire of the Summer Moon
By: S. C. Gwynne
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 15 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award*
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*
This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West āis nothing... Read more
Fellowship Point
By: Alice Elliott Dark
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 19 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
āA magnificent storytelling featā (The Boston Globe) story of lifelong friendship between two very different āsuperbly depictedā (The Wall Street Journal) women with shared histories, divisive loyalties, hidden sorrows, and eighty years of summers on a pristine point of land on the coast of Maine, set across the arc of the 20th... Read more
View audiobookAmerican Spy
By: Lauren Wilkinson
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
āAmerican SpyĀ updates the espionage thriller with blazing originality.āāEntertainment Weekly
āThere has never been anything like it.āāMarlon James,Ā GQ
āSo much fun . . . Like the best of John le CarrĆ©, itās extremely tough to put down.āāNPR
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNEĀ AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The... Read more
Under the Influence
By: Joyce Maynard
Narrated by: Joyce Maynard
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and After Her returns with a poignant story about the true meaningāand the true priceāof friendship.Drinking cost Helen her marriage and custody of her seven-year-old son, Ollie. Once an aspiring art photographer, she now makes ends meet taking portraits of school children and working for a... Read more
View audiobookNews of the World
By: Paulette Jiles
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Soon to be a Major Motion PictureNational Book Award FinalistāFictionIn the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author ofĀ Enemy WomenĀ that explores the... Read more
View audiobookThe Gone World
By: Tom Sweterlitsch
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind...
āI promise you have never read a story like this.āāBlake Crouch,Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author of Dark Matter
Shannon Moss is part... Read more
The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands
By: Sarah Brooks
Narrated by: Katie Leung & Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and Katie Leung, who played Cho Chang in the Harry Potter films.
For fans of Piranesi and The Midnight Library, a stunning historical fantasy novel set on a grand express train, about a group of passengers on a dangerous journey across a magical landscape
āBreathtakingā¦Abounding with mysteries and... Read more
Gingerbread
By: Helen Oyeyemi
Narrated by: Helen Oyeyemi
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
"Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review"[W]ildly inventiveā¦[Helen Oyeyemi's]Ā prose is not without its playful bite." āVogueĀ
The prize-winning, bestselling author ofĀ Boy Snow Bird,Ā What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, and PeacesĀ returns with a bewitching and imaginative... Read more
Red Clocks
By: Leni Zumas
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo.
Five women. One question. What is a woman for?
In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers... Read more
Lab Girl
By: Hope Jahren
Narrated by: Hope Jahren
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world
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Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which sheās studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise... Read more
Ask Again, Yes
By: Mary Beth Keane
Narrated by: Molly Pope
Length: 12 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The triumphant New York Times Bestseller *The Tonight Show Summer Reads Pick*
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by People, Vogue, Parade, NPR, and Elle
"A gem of a book." āTaylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
How much can a family forgive?
Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie NYPD cops, are neighbors in... Read more
Begin Again
By: Helly Acton
Narrated by: Emma Sidi
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
Have you ever wanted to change the past and discover the result of choices not taken? Now, in this brilliantly fun novel of what-ifs, missed chances, and new beginnings, Frankie McKenzie discovers what starting over might bringā¦Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie feels unsettled. She canāt help feeling somethingās... Read more
View audiobookCover Story
By: Susan Rigetti
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Netflixās Inventing Anna and Huluās The Dropout meetsĀ Catch Me If You Can in this captivating novel about an ambitious young woman who gets trapped in a charismatic con artistās scam.A Most Anticipated Book byĀ Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Parade,Ā New York Post, Shondaland, E!,Ā Fortune, PopSugar, and more!āItās exciting, itās surprising,... Read more
View audiobookEvocation
By: S.T. Gibson
Narrated by: Oscar Reyes
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of B&N's best books of 2022 A Dowry of Blood, comes a spellbinding and vibrant new series.
The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov.
As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodigy, operating under the shadow of his oppressive occultist father. Now, years after his father's death and rapidly... Read more
Bloodlands
By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 19 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the international bestsellerĀ On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitlerās and StalināsĀ politics of massĀ killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century.
Americans call the Second World War "The Good War."But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed... Read more
We're Going to Need More Wine
By: Gabrielle Union
Narrated by: Gabrielle Union
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary WorkNamed a Best Book of the Year by The RootChosen by Emma Straub as a Best New Celebrity MemoirāA book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever produced.āĀ āĀ Lena Dunham, Lenny LetterIn the spirit of Amy Poehlerās Yes Please, Lena Dunhamās Not That Kind... Read more
View audiobookSplinters
By: Leslie Jamison
Narrated by: Leslie Jamison
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriageāan exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.
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Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared... Read more
Lavender House
By: Lev AC Rosen
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
"This is a beautiful, satisfying listen."- AudioFile
"Most audiobook readers are familiar with Vikas Adamās work. Heās a prolific narrator in the YA and romance space and the perfect choice for Lavender House....The narration kept my attention all the way through!"- Bookcrushin'
A delicious story from a new voice in suspense, Lev AC Rosen's... Read more