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The Topeka School
By: Ben Lerner
Narrated by: Nancy Linari, Peter Berkrot & Tristan Wright
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Named one of the most anticipated fall books by:
Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Vogue, Vulture, The Observer, Kirkus, Lit Hub, The Millions, The Week, Oprah Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, Nylon, Pacific Standard, Publishers Weekly, Slate, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Guardian
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha... Read more
The Butterfly Girl
By: Rene Denfeld
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The Butterfly Girl is a riveting novel that ripples with truth, exploring the depths of love and sacrifice in the face of a past that cannot be left dead and buried. A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who... Read more
View audiobookFull Throttle
By: Joe Hill
Narrated by: Zachary Quinto, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Neil...
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
2020 AudieĀ AwardsĀ® WINNER - Short Stories/Collections
The number oneĀ New York TimesĀ best-selling author ofĀ The FiremanĀ andĀ Strange WeatherĀ returns with a dark and ingenious collection of 13 compelling short stories that showcase his ability to āpush genre conventions to new extremesā (New York Times Book Review), performed by a stunning... Read more
The World That We Knew
By: Alice Hoffman
Narrated by: Judith Light
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Audio bonus! The audio download edition includes an exclusive interview with Alice Hoffman and Judith Light!
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL
On the brink of World War II, with the Nazis tightening their grip on Berlin, a motherās act of courage and love offers her daughter a chance of survival.
ā[A] hymn to... Read more
A Fortune For Your Disaster
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes
Abridged: No
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book about a mother's death, and admitting that... Read more
View audiobookWhat Rose Forgot
By: Nevada Barr
Narrated by: Kate Burton
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr's gripping standalone, What Rose Forgot, a grandmother in her sixties emerges from a mental fog to find she's trapped in her worst nightmare.
Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. With no... Read more
His Hideous Heart
By: Dahlia Adler
Narrated by: amanda lovelace, Caitlin Davies, Caleb Roehrig,...
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
"His Hideous Heart is an audiobook dream. Half of the stories are read by their authors and the other half are read by professional narrators; all are delightful and, of course, haunting." -- Paste
Thirteen of YAās most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poeās most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.
Edgar Allan Poe... Read more
Dominicana
By: Angie Cruz
Narrated by: Coral PeƱa
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA COVER TO COVER BOOK CLUB PICK
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.
Named a Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, O Magazine, Time, Real Simple, Chicago Review of Books, Kirkus Reviews, Nylon, BuzzFeed, Lit Hub, The Millions, Instyle, Bustle,... Read more
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
By: Leah Price
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggeratedĀ Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the... Read more
View audiobookTidelands
By: Philippa Gregory
Narrated by: Louise Brealey
Length: 15 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
This New York Times bestseller from āone of the great storytellers of our timeā (San Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, living in a dangerous time for a woman to be different.
A country at war
A king beheaded
A woman with a dangerous secret
On Midsummerās Eve, Alinor... Read more
Inland
By: TĆ©a ObrehtĀ
Narrated by: Anna Chlumsky, Edoardo Ballerini & Euan Morton
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ āA bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American Westā (Entertainment Weekly), from the celebrated author of The Tigerās Wife and The Morningside
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āObrehtās simple but rich prose captures and luxuriates in the Westās beauty and sudden menace.āāThe New York Times Book Review (Editorsā Choice)
A BEST... Read more
The Silence Between Us
By: Alison Gervais
Narrated by: Chloe Dolandis
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
āThe Silence Between Us is eminently un-put-down-able.ā (NPR)Schneider Family Book Award, Best Teen Honor Book 2020āThis is a great YA contemporary (clean) romance that follows Maya as she navigates a new school and plans for her future. The addition of representation by a Deaf character was really beautifully done. Highly recommend for people... Read more
View audiobookThe Right Swipe
By: Alisha Rai
Narrated by: Summer Morton & Brian Pallino
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Alisha Rai returns with the first book inĀ her sizzling new Modern Love series, in which two rival dating app creators find themselves at odds in the boardroom but in sync in the bedroom.Rhiannon Hunter may have revolutionized romance in the digital world, but in real life she only swipes right on her careerāand the occasional hookup. The cynical... Read more
View audiobookChances Are . . .
By: Richard Russo
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls ā¢ Three men in their late sixtiesāold friends from college, each with a secretācome together on Marthaās Vineyard in this āgripping, wise, and wonderful summer treat.ā (The Boston Globe).
āA cascade of charmā¦. Russo is an undeniably endearing writer, and chances are this... Read more
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
By: H. G. Parry
Narrated by: Calum Gittens
Length: 18 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The ultimate book-lover's fantasy, this sparkling debut is a "delight of magic and literature, love and adventure" (Kat Howard) featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary characters into the world.
For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite control: He can bring characters from books... Read more
Native Tongue
By: Suzette Haden Elgin
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Originally published in 1984, this classic dystopian trilogy is a testament to the power of language and women's collective action.
In 2205, the Nineteenth Amendment has long been repealed and women are only valued for their utility. The Earth's economy depends on an insular group of linguists who "breed" women to be perfect interstellar... Read more
The Saturday Night Ghost Club
By: Craig Davidson
Narrated by: Corey Brill
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
SOME TOWNS ARE MORE HAUNTED THAN OTHERS...
An irresistible and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of Stranger Things and Stand by Me about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends
"AĀ celebration of the secret lives of children, both their wonders and their horrors . .... Read more
The Need
By: Helen Phillips
Narrated by: Alex Allwine
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
***LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION***
Named one of Time Magazineās 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time
āAn extraordinary and dazzlingly original work from one of our most gifted and interesting writersā (Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel). The Need, which finds a mother of two young children grappling... Read more
The Last Book Party
By: Karen Dukess
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
āThe Last Book Party is a delight. Reading this story of a young woman trying to find herself while surrounded by the bohemian literary scene during a summer on the Cape in the late '80s, I found myself nodding along in so many moments and dreading the last page. Karen Dukess has rendered a wonderful world to spend time in.āā Taylor Jenkins Reid,... Read more
View audiobookUnder Currents
By: Nora Roberts
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 14 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
For both Zane and Darby, their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now, decades later, they've come together to build a new life. But will the past set them free or pull them under? Find out in Under Currents from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.
Zane Bigelow grew up in a beautiful, perfectly kept house in North Carolinaās... Read more
Lock Every Door
By: Riley Sager
Narrated by: Dylan Moore
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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āLooking for a suspense novel that will keep you up until way past midnight? Look no further thanĀ Lock Every Door, by Riley Sager.āāStephen KingĀ
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No visitors. No nights spent elsewhere. No disturbing the rich and famous residents. These are the rules for Jules Larsenās new job apartment sitting at the... Read more
The Snakes
By: Sadie Jones
Narrated by: Imogen Church
Length: 13 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
āThe SnakesĀ is many thingsāa parable and an ancient drama where a fatherās greed devours his children, a police procedural, an avid take on tabloid venality, and a bitter comedy, superbly observed, where behind a womanās eyes she is āall movement inside herself, like a wasp in a glass.ā I admit that Iām still shaken by parts of this novel. Sadie... Read more
View audiobookThe Gone Dead
By: Chanelle Benz
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that dayāand she hasn't been back to the South since.Ā Thirty years... Read more
View audiobookMrs. Everything
By: Jennifer Weiner
Narrated by: Ari Graynor & Beth Malone
Length: 16 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In this instant New York Times bestseller and āmultigenerational narrative thatās nothing short of brilliantā (People), two sistersā lives from the 1950s to the present are explored as they struggle to find their placesāand be true to themselvesāin a rapidly evolving world from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner.
Jo and Bethie... Read more