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Hieroglyphics
By: Jill McCorkle
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A mesmerizing novel about the burden of secrets carried across generations
Lil and Frank married young, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both—suddenly, tragically—lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents... Read more
Someone's Listening
By: Seraphina Nova Glass
Narrated by: Amy McFadden
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
She wrote the book on escaping a predator… Now one is coming for her.
Faith Finley has it all: she’s a talented psychologist with a flourishing career, a bestselling author and the host of a popular local radio program, Someone’s Listening, with Dr. Faith Finley. She’s married to the perfect man, Liam Finley, a respected food critic.
Until the... Read more
Miracle Country
By: Kendra Atleework
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero.
Kendra's family raised their children to thrive in this harsh landscape, forever at the mercy of wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Most of all, the... Read more
Musical Chairs
By: Amy Poeppel
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Gibson Fra...
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
“Poeppel has created a story that is well thought out, well plotted, well written, and fully developed. A delightful novel that celebrates the messiness and joy to be found in real life.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“100% page-turning delight…Pull out a lawn chair and prepare to read this gleefully entertaining novel.” —Stephen McCauley,... Read more
Come Again
By: Robert Webb
Narrated by: Olivia Colman
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Can you fall in love for the first time twice? A recently widowed women is about to find out when she wakes up and finds herself eighteen again in this "highly entertaining" story of second chances (Guardian) by the star of Peep Show
Kate's husband Luke -- the man she loved from the moment she met him twenty-eight years ago -- died suddenly.... Read more
Wonderland
By: Zoje Stage
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Shirley Jackson meets The Shining in this richly atmospheric and thrillingly tense novel from the acclaimed author of the "deliciously creepy" Baby Teeth (New York Post).
One mother's love may be all that stands between her family, an enigmatic presence—and madness.
After years of city life, Orla and Shaw Bennett are ready for the quiet of New... Read more
Girl, Serpent, Thorn
By: Melissa Bashardoust
Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Girl, Serpent, Thorn is “an alluring feminist fairy tale” (Kirkus Reviews) about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse.
There was and there was not, as all stories begin, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch. But for Soraya, who has lived her life hidden away, apart from her... Read more
The Well-Gardened Mind
By: Sue Stuart-Smith
Narrated by: Sue Stuart-Smith
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener presents “a truly uplifting book on the power of gardening—and how it can change people’s lives” (Stylist, UK).
The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the “real” life that lies outside. When we get our hands in the earth we connect with the cycle of life... Read more
The Shadows
By: Alex North
Narrated by: Hannah Arterton & John Heffernan
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
"If you liked The Whisper Man, you’ll love this. Alex North has crafted a second novel which is just as gripping as his first and even scarier. Hugely atmospheric and deliciously creepy, it’s about how the past encroaches on the present, and how dreaming influences reality, until in the frightening world of The Shadows, it becomes harder and... Read more
View audiobookFriends and Strangers
By: J. Courtney Sullivan
Narrated by: Kate Rudd
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!
An insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life, from the best-selling author of Maine and Saints for All Occasions (named one of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of the Year and a New York Times... Read more
Death in Her Hands
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
"[An] intricate and unsettling new novel . . . Death in Her Hands is not a murder mystery, nor is it really a story about self-deception or the perils of escapism. Rather, it's a haunting meditation on the nature and meaning of art."
-Kevin Power, The New Yorker
From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting... Read more
I'll Be the One
By: Lyla Lee
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Diverse book recommended by The Today Show * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year * Bank Street Best Book of the Year * YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALA’s Rainbow Book List Top 10 for Teen ReadersThe world of K-Pop has never met a star like this. Debut author Lyla Lee delivers a deliciously fun, thoughtful rom-com celebrating... Read more
View audiobookPizza Girl
By: Jean Kyoung Frazier
Narrated by: Jeena Yi
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST • An audacious and wryly funny coming-of-age story about a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers.
Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial. She's... Read more
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
By: Roseanne A. Brown
Narrated by: Jordan Cobb & A.J Beckles
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant New York Times bestseller!The first in a gripping fantasy duology inspired by West African folklore in which a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselves on a collision course to murder each other despite their growing attraction—from debut author Roseanne A. Brown. This New York Times bestseller is perfect for... Read more
View audiobookThe Second Home
By: Christina Clancy
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Tender and compassionate, incisive and heartbreaking, Christina Clancy's The Second Home is the story of a family you'll quickly fall in love with, and won't soon forget.
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.
After a disastrous summer spent at her family summer home on Cape Cod, seventeen-year-old Ann Gordon was left with a... Read more
Hollywood Park
By: Mikel Jollett
Narrated by: Mikel Jollett
Length: 11 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author, and includes original music from the Airborne Toxic Event album, Hollywood Park
Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country’s most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his... Read more
Red Dress in Black and White
By: Elliot Ackerman
Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
From the widely acclaimed author of Waiting for Eden: a stirring, timely new novel that unfolds over the course of a single day in Istanbul: the story of an American woman attempting to leave behind her life in Turkey--to leave without her husband.
Catherine has been married for many years to Murat, an influential Turkish real estate developer,... Read more
The Paris Hours
By: Alex George
Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
“Like All the Light We Cannot See, The Paris Hours explores the brutality of war and its lingering effects with cinematic intensity. The ending will leave you breathless.” —Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train and A Piece of the World
One day in the City of Light. One night in search of lost time.
Paris between the wars teems with... Read more
On the Horizon
By: Lois Lowry
Narrated by: Lois Lowry
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII’s most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima
Lois Lowry looks back at history through a personal lens as she draws from her own memories as a child in Hawaii and Japan, as well as from historical research, in this stunning... Read more
The Roxy Letters
By: Mary Pauline Lowry
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet Roxy. For fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Bridget Jones’s Diary comes “just the kind of comic novel we need right now” (The Washington Post) about an Austin artist trying to figure out her life one letter to her ex-boyfriend at a time.
Bridget Jones penned a diary; Roxy writes letters. Specifically: she writes letters to her hapless,... Read more
The Other Bennet Sister
By: Janice Hadlow
Narrated by: Carla Mendonça
Length: 18 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"Jane fans rejoice! . . . Exceptional storytelling and a true delight." —Helen Simonson, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and The Summer Before the War
Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shadows and transforms into a desired woman with choices... Read more
The Red Lotus
By: Chris Bohjalian
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they met.
Alexis and Austin don’t have a typical “meet cute”—their first... Read more
Recollections of My Nonexistence
By: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography
Longlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing
An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent, from the author of Orwell's Roses
In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her... Read more
Be Not Far from Me
By: Mindy McGinnis
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Hatchet meets Wild in this harrowing YA survival story about a teenage girl’s attempt to endure the impossible, from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Female of the Species, Mindy McGinnis.The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhead than a roof.So when she goes hiking in the Smokies with... Read more
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