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Only Killers and Thieves
By: Paul Howarth
Narrated by: David Linski
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Two brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power in this riveting debut novel—a story of savagery and race, injustice and honor, set in the untamed frontier of 1880s Australia—reminiscent of Philipp Meyer’s The Son and the novels of Cormac McCarthy.An epic tale of revenge and survival, Only Killers and... Read more
View audiobookThe Line Becomes a River
By: Francisco Cantú
Narrated by: Francisco Cantú
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD
The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire
For Francisco Cantú, the border is in... Read more
The Widows of Malabar Hill
By: Sujata Massey
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay! Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history... Read more
View audiobookThe Prey of Gods
By: Nicky Drayden
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a fantastic, boundary-challenging tale, set in a South African locale both familiar and yet utterly new, which braids elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark humor. In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal... Read more
View audiobookAmerican Wolf
By: Nate Blakeslee
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Nate Blakeslee
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The enthralling true story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her.
Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s. But in... Read more
An Unkindness of Ghosts
By: Rivers Solomon
Narrated by: Cherise Boothe
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space... Read more
View audiobookSoulless
By: Gail Carriger
Narrated by: Emily Gray
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Buffy meets Jane Austen in the first book of this wickedly funny NYT bestselling series about a young woman whose brush with the supernatural leads to a deadly investigation of London's high society.
Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian... Read more
Sourdough
By: Robin Sloan
Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, "a perfect parable for our times" (San Francisco Magazine): a delicious and funny novel about an overworked and under-socialized software engineer discovering a calling and a community as a baker.
Named One of the Best Books of the Year... Read more
My Absolute Darling
By: Gabriel Tallent
Narrated by: Alex McKenna
Length: 15 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST
NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALIST
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST’S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017
ONE OF NPR’S ‘GREAT READS’ OF 2017
A USA TODAY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
AN AMAZON.COM BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A BUSINESS INSIDER BEST BOOK OF THE... Read more
Refugee
By: Alan Gratz
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A tour de force from acclaimed author Alan Gratz (Prisoner B-3087), this timely -- and timeless -- novel tells the powerful story of three different children seeking refuge.A New York Times bestseller!JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the... Read more
View audiobookThe Almost Sisters
By: Joshilyn Jackson
Narrated by: Joshilyn Jackson
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality---the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really are.Superheroes have always been Leia... Read more
View audiobookMade for Love
By: Alissa Nutting
Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Soon to be an HBO Max series starring Ray Romano and Cristin Milioti
NAMED A RECOMMENDED READ BY
GQ • PopSugar • NPR • Huffington Post • Electric Literature • The New Yorker • Publishers Weekly • New York Magazine • Buzzfeed • Refinery29 • Vulture • Nylon
From one of our most exciting and provocative young writers, a poignant, riotously funny... Read more
Chemistry
By: Weike Wang
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Named by The Washington Post as a Notable Work of Fiction in 2017 and by Entertainment Weekly as a Best Debut Novel of 2017
Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Ann Patchett on PBS NewsHour, Minnesota Public Radio, Maris Kreizman, and The Morning News
National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree
Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize
A luminous... Read more
The Women in the Castle
By: Jessica Shattuck
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they holdSet at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined—an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New... Read more
View audiobookThe Stranger in the Woods
By: Michael Finkel
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality—not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own.
A New York Times bestseller
In 1986, a shy and intelligent... Read more
4 3 2 1
By: Paul Auster
Narrated by: Paul Auster
Length: 36 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
*This is an MP3 CD edition*
"...listening to 4 3 2 1 in audio is worth the commitment, thanks to the author’s easy-on-the-ears baritone" — Newsday
This program is narrated by—and includes a bonus interview with—the author.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
A New York Times , Los Angeles Times , Boston Globe , and Indiebound Bestseller
Paul... Read more
IQ
By: Joe Ide
Narrated by: Sullivan Jones
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores.
East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police... Read more
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
By: Joanna Cannon
Narrated by: Paula Wilcox
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
“I loved this book. It's one of those books that you just want to give to everybody.” —Nancy Pearl on NPR’s Morning Edition
“An astute, engaging debut” (Publishers Weekly), The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly charming tale of a community in need of reconciliation and two girls learning what it means to belong.
England,... Read more
Lily and the Octopus
By: Steven Rowley
Narrated by: Michael Urie
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A national bestseller combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life of Pi, “Lily and the Octopus is the dog book you must read this summer” (The Washington Post).
Ted—a gay, single, struggling writer is stuck: unable to open himself up to intimacy except through the steadfast companionship of... Read more
Secondhand Time
By: Svetlana Alexievich
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin, Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbel...
Length: 22 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia
When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing “a new kind of literary genre,”... Read more
The Fireman
By: Joe Hill
Narrated by: Kate Mulgrew
Length: 22 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman.The fireman is... Read more
View audiobookEveryone Brave is Forgiven
By: Chris Cleave
Narrated by: Luke Thompson
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The instant New York Times bestseller from Chris Cleave—the unforgettable novel about three lives entangled during World War II, told “with dazzling prose, sharp English wit, and compassion…a powerful portrait of war’s effects on those who fight and those left behind” (People, Book of the Week).
London, 1939. The day war is declared, Mary North... Read more
Be Frank With Me
By: Julia Claiborne Johnson
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A sparkling talent makes her fiction debut with this infectious novel that combines the charming pluck of Eloise, the poignant psychological quirks of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and the page-turning spirit of Where’d You Go, Bernadette.Reclusive literary legend M. M. “Mimi” Banning has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion... Read more
View audiobookHunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
By: Carrie Brownstein
Narrated by: Carrie Brownstein
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, the book Kim Gordon says "everyone has been waiting for" and a New York Times Notable Book of 2015-- a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life--and finding yourself--in music.
Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific... Read more