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Fever Dream
By: Samanta Schweblin
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
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"Genius." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize!
Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream...
A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together,... Read more
Three Dark Crowns
By: Kendare Blake
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Bestseller * New York Public Library Best Book of 2016 * Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016 * Kirkus Best Book of the YearFans of acclaimed author Kendare Blake’s Anna Dressed in Blood will devour Three Dark Crowns, the first book in a dark and inventive fantasy series about three sisters who must fight to the death to... Read more
View audiobookMy Best Friend’s Exorcism
By: Grady Hendrix
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A heartwarming story of friendship and demonic possessionThe year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since the fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act … different. She’s moody. She’s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she’s... Read more
View audiobookTiny Threads
By: Lilliam Rivera
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In this sinister, slow-burn novel of supernatural suspense, a young woman gets her dream job working for a famous designer—and discovers the dark side of high-stakes fashion.
“Lilliam Rivera cuts the fashion industry to shreds in this horror-filled take on late-stage capitalism.”—CrimeReads
Fashion-obsessed Samara finally has the life she’s... Read more
The Examiner
By: Janice Hallett
Narrated by: Anushka Chakravarti, Brendan Dempsey, Jonathan ...
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative page-turner follows a group of students in an art master’s program that goes dangerously awry, from the internationally bestselling “new queen of crime” (Electric Literature) Janice Hallett.
University professor Gela Nathaniel must make her new master’s program in multimedia art succeed.... Read more
Mysterious Ways
By: Wendy Wunder
Narrated by: Georgina Sadler
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
From acclaimed author Wendy Wunder comes a sharp and hilarious coming-of-age novel for fans of John Green and Nicola Yoon about an omniscient teenage girl who must grapple with whether there’s such a thing as knowing too much...
Seventeen-year-old Maya knows everything. When she looks at someone, she instantly knows their history, their private... Read more
Everything We Never Had
By: Randy Ribay
Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo, Jesse Inocalla, Manny Jacinto ...
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD!
From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships.
Watsonville, 1930. Francisco Maghabol barely ekes out a... Read more
Buffalo Dreamer
By: Violet Duncan
Narrated by: Ashley Callingbull
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
An illuminating novel about the importance of reclaiming the past, based on the author’s family history
Summer and her family always spend relaxed summers in Alberta, Canada, on the reservation where her mom’s family lives. But this year is turning out to be an eye-opening one. First, Summer has begun to have vivid dreams in which she's running... Read more
Strange Folk
By: Alli Dyer
Narrated by: Megan Tusing, Suehyla El Attar-Young & Kitty He...
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A woman returns to her estranged, magical family in Appalachia, where a conjuring meant to protect the community may have summoned something sinister in this lush, shimmering, and wildly imaginative debut novel, perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Deborah Harkness, and Sarah Addison Allen.
Lee left Craw Valley at eighteen without a backward... Read more
Dark Restraint
By: Katee Robert
Narrated by: Zara Hampton-Brown & Alex Moorcock
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
He was my savior. My monster. My obsession. My destruction. A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Ariadne and her Minotaur. Ariadne Vitalis is in trouble. She's betrayed her father—and his dangerous benefactor—and now she's left to rely on Olympus' questionable mercy. But in this city, mercy comes with a price. For Ariadne, that means a sham... Read more
View audiobookThe Modern Fairies
By: Clare Pollard
Narrated by: Kathryn Drysdale
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Lauren Groff’s Matrix meets Ophelia Field’s The Favourite in this wry, sexy, and sharp historical novel—inspired by true events—featuring an elite group of Paris intellectuals who perform fairy tales that will change the course of literature—and put both the storytellers and their closely kept secrets in grave danger.
Why don’t they tell you it... Read more
The Astrology House
By: Carinn Jade
Narrated by: Amanda Dolan, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Gilli Messe...
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A group of wealthy Manhattanites escape to an astrology-themed retreat, where simmering resentments and long-held secrets lead to a shocking death in this fresh, twisty, and suspenseful debut in the vein of Liane Moriarty and Katy Hays.
Margot needs a minute. She’s been working eighty-hour weeks as a newly minted partner at her law firm. She’s... Read more
Our Long Marvelous Dying
By: Anna DeForest
Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Palliative-care physician and award-winning author Anna DeForest returns with an ode to life and to death, and the ways we care for ourselves and others on our long, marvelous walk toward the end.
In a pandemic-hushed city, a young doctor lives a life of insecure attachments: to a distant partner in an untended marriage, to a loaner child who... Read more
The Burning
By: Linda Castillo
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
“Kathleen McInerney masterfully differentiates the returning characters, along with new folks good and evil, male and female.”—AudioFile
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a gruesome murder that reveals a little-known chapter of early Amish history in this next riveting installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo.
Newlywed... Read more
We Refuse
By: Kellie Carter Jackson
Narrated by: Kellie Carter Jackson
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression,... Read more
View audiobookHumor Me
By: Cat Shook
Narrated by: Ferdelle Capistrano
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld, a hilarious, heartfelt novel about the healing power of female friendship, unexpected love, and stand-up comedy
Presley Fry is not amused. She’s been an assistant at the Late Night Show for way too long, she’s adopted a “business casual” approach to dating to save herself from the embarrassment of... Read more
Bad Tourists
By: Caro Carver
Narrated by: Lesley Sharp
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Three tight-knit friends embark on an extravagant divorce trip to the Maldives where they can unwind and celebrate a new chapter in midlife—until they realize the resort of their dreams is harboring a killer.
Best friends Darcy, Camilla, and Kate escape for a post-divorce retreat in the Maldives, the perfect place to relax, reset, and embrace a... Read more
Midnight Rooms
By: Donyae Coles
Narrated by: Georgina Campbell
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in a foreboding Gothic mansion and infused with the heightened paranoia and creeping horror of novels like Catherine House and Crimson Peak, a spine-chilling debut historical thriller from a fresh voice in the genre that will leave you questioning who, or what, you can trust . . . including your own sanity. England, 1840. Orabella Mumthrope... Read more
View audiobookThe Impostor Heiress
By: Annie Reed
Narrated by: Kate Udall
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Before there was Anna Delvey or Elizabeth Holmes, there was Cassie Chadwick. The first woman–using criminal cunning, some confidence, and a bit of charm—to bring down a federal agent, a bank, and a city's worth of men.
Cassie Chadwick, one of history's most successful con artists, was a master of the trade. She swept from town to town, assuming... Read more
One of Our Kind
By: Nicola Yoon
Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propulsive satire set in an all-Black gated community. For fans of The Sellout and Erasure, with a shocking ending you’ll never see coming, Jodi Picoult calls it "Brilliant, provocative, seminal....Your book club will be discussing this one for... Read more
View audiobookBright and Tender Dark
By: Joanna Pearson
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 11 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Bloomsbury presents Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna Pearson, read by Mara Wilson.
For readers of Notes on an Execution and I Have Some Questions for You, a wire-taut literary debut about a murder on a college campus and its aftermath twenty years later.
“Bright and Tender Dark . . . will sweep you away.” —Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing... Read more
Four Eids and a Funeral
By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé & Adiba Jaigirdar
Narrated by: Farah Kidwai, Sandra Okuboyejo & Shahjehan Khan
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Ex-best friends, Tiwa and Said, must work together to save their Islamic Center from demolition, in this romantic story of rekindling and rebuilding by award-winning authors Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé & Adiba Jaigirdar!
The town of New Crosshaven has it all—even its own infamous love story.
These days, Said Hossain spends most of his time away... Read more
A Good Life
By: Virginie Grimaldi
Narrated by: Liz Fodor
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
"Lovers of Europa Editions' other titles My Brilliant Friend and Fresh Water for Flowers will fall hard for this beautiful, heartbreaking, and healing story. Grab a box of tissues!" — Electric LitFull of humor and compassion, this Indie Next Pick is a profound exploration of sisterhood, healing, and the ineffable beauty of life.Sisters Emma and... Read more
View audiobookIf Something Happens to Me
By: Alex Finlay
Narrated by: Helen Laser, John Pirhalla & Paul Dateh
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
This program features multicast narration.
A USA Today Bestseller!
From “one of the genre’s most exciting voices” (E! News) comes one of the year’s most-anticipated thrillers.
For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle.... Read more