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Smothermoss
By: Alisa Alering
Narrated by: Susan Bennett
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1980s Appalachia, sisters Sheila and Angie couldn’t be more different. While their mother works long shifts at the nearby asylum, Sheila cares for their home and keeps to herself, even when enduring relentless bullying. Her fearless younger sister, Angie, is more focused on fighting imaginary zombies and creating tarot-like cards that seem to... Read more
View audiobookThe Mystery Writer
By: Sulari Gentill
Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime... Read more
View audiobookGhosted
By: Amanda Quain
Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Never Have I Ever meets The X-Files in this gender-bent contemporary retelling of the Jane Austen classic Northanger Abbey.
Hattie Tilney isn’t a believer. Yes, she’s a senior at America’s most (allegedly) haunted high school, Northanger Abbey. But after her paranormal-loving dad passed away, she hung up her Ghostbusters suit, put away the EMF... Read more
Signal Fires
By: Dani Shapiro
Narrated by: Dani Shapiro
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of Inheritance: "a haunting, moving, and propulsive exploration of family secrets” (Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings)
Two families. One night. A constellation of lives changed forever.
A TIME Best Fiction Book of the Year • A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction • A Real Simple Best Book... Read more
Fight Night
By: Miriam Toews
Narrated by: Miriam Toews & Georgia Toews
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women.
“You’re a small thing,’’ Grandma writes, “and you must learn to fight.’’ Swiv’s grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious community,... Read more
The Boyfriend Project
By: Farrah Rochon
Narrated by: Je Nie Fleming
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A smart and delightful romantic comedy featuring fabulous female friendships and "a great love story." --Jasmine Guillory, bestselling author of Party of Two Samiah Brooks never thought she would be "that" girl. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: she's been catfished by a three-timing jerk of a boyfriend.... Read more
View audiobookGet the Picture
By: Bianca Bosker
Narrated by: Bianca Bosker
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Get the Picture is one of the funniest books I’ve read . . . Brilliant.” —The Washington Post
“A gripping and often hilarious investigation into the art world. . . . Bosker goes full Tom Wolfe.” —TIME
“Funny, whip-smart, and gorgeously written, Get the Picture will forever transform the way you see. . . . I... Read more
Something in the Heir
By: Suzanne Enoch
Narrated by: Sarah Nichols
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In Something in the Heir, smart, capable heiress Emmeline Pershing will do anything to keep her beloved home; and all it takes is an arranged marriage and a teeny white lie to fulfill her family’s silly inheritance rules! But now her little fib means that she and her completely unsuspecting husband are going to inherit big―and very... Read more
View audiobookTime Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: No
"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” —The Washington Post
The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong
How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among... Read more
On Juneteenth
By: Annette Gordon-Reed
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the nation’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas
and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction... Read more
Brideshead Revisited
By: Evelyn Waugh
Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory. Read by Jeremy Irons, star of the acclaimed 1981 television series based on the novel. The wellsprings of desire and the... Read more
View audiobookInvisible Girl
By: Lisa Jewell
Narrated by: Donna Banya, Katherine Kelly & Connor Swindells
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone returns with an “edge-of-your-seat thriller” (USA TODAY) about a young woman’s disappearance and a group of strangers whose lives intersect in its wake.
Young Saffyre Maddox spent three years under the care of renowned child psychologist Roan Fours.... Read more
Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh-Young
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“This is such a love story to cities & people & heartbreaks, death & loss. It's not at all corny, it's smart. But I just finished it & it made me cry.” — Eileen Myles ""Signals the arrival of a novelist sure to resonate with young people who endeavor to make intimate connections."" —The Washington Post ""Like the book version of... Read more
View audiobookDisappearing Earth
By: Julia Phillips
Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
National Book Award Finalist
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize
Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award
National Best Seller
"Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester
"A... Read more
Memorial
By: Bryan Washington
Narrated by: Bryan Washington & Akie Kotabe
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, O, the Oprah Magazine, Esquire, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, Refinery29, Real Simple, Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature, and... Read more
Transcription
By: Kate Atkinson
Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After Life
In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to... Read more
The Silence of the Girls
By: Pat Barker
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton & Michael Fox
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A Washington Post Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Economist, Financial Times
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award
Finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
Here is the story of the Iliad as we’ve never heard it before: in the words of Briseis, Trojan queen and captive of Achilles. Given only a few words in Homer’s... Read more
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
By: Abbi Waxman
Narrated by: Emily Rankin
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Instant USA Today bestseller!
“Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin
“Meet our bookish millennial heroine—a modern-day Elizabeth Bennet, if you will… Waxman’s wit and wry humor stand out. She is funny and imaginative, and “Bookish” lands a step above run-of-the-mill romantic comedy... Read more
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
By: Brandon Sanderson
Narrated by: Ramón De Ocampo
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Experience the action-packed first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson’s laugh-out-loud middle-grade fantasy series like never before—now with all new covers!
AN ANCIENT RIVALRY REAWAKENS.
Everything I’d known about the world was a lie.
On my thirteenth birthday, I, Alcatraz Smedry (yes, I got named after a prison, don’t... Read more
Begin Again
By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Narrated by: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”—Time
James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment?
One of the Best Books of the Year:... Read more
What the Eyes Don't See
By: Mona Hanna-Attisha
Narrated by: Mona Hanna-Attisha
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, by a relentless physician who stood up to power.
“Stirring . . . [a] blueprint for all those who believe . . . that ‘the world . . . should be full of people raising their voices.’”—The New York Times
“Revealing, with the gripping intrigue of a Grisham thriller.” —O: The... Read more
The Bookshop of Yesterdays
By: Amy Meyerson
Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading.
Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy’s bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Miranda’s twelfth birthday, Billy has a... Read more
The Great Pretender
By: Susannah Cahalan
Narrated by: Christie Moreau & Susannah Cahalan
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR).
Doctors have struggled for centuries to define insanity--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you... Read more
Vesper Flights
By: Helen Macdonald
Narrated by: Helen Macdonald
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.
From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world.
Helen Macdonald... Read more