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The Coast Road
By: Alan Murrin
Narrated by: Jessica Regan
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
“The last great book I read . . . an early proof of debut novelist Alan Murrin’s The Coast Road, about women in ’90s Ireland negotiating the complexities of marriage in a country where divorce is illegal. It will no doubt be a bestseller.”—actor Gillian AndersonA poignant debut novel about the lives of women in a claustrophobic coast town and... Read more
View audiobookShelterwood
By: Lisa Wingate
Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Jenna Lamia & Dan Bittner
Length: 14 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
USA TODAY AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER • “Wingate’s stellar latest explores a centuries-long legacy of missing child cases. . . . Her portrayal of the region’s history, culture, and landscape enthralls. Wingate is at the top of her game.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours... Read more
I've Tried Being Nice
By: Ann Leary
Narrated by: Ann Leary
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from the perspective of a recovering people pleaser.
Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying—and often failing—to be nice. With wit and surprising candor, Leary recounts the bedlam of home... Read more
Lockjaw
By: Matteo L. Cerilli
Narrated by: Breton Lalama, Mich Anger & Arlen Aguayo Stewart
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Death is neither the beginning nor the end for the children of Bridlington in this debut trans YA horror book for fans of Rory Power and Danielle Vega.
Chuck Warren died tragically at the old abandoned mill, but Paz Espino knows it was no accident — there's a monster under the town, and she's determined to kill it before anyone else gets hurt.... Read more
Lady of Steel and Straw
By: Erica Ivy Rodgers
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 13 hours
Abridged: No
Star-crossed lovers grapple with forbidden attraction and a growing army of ghostly dead in this swashbuckling YA fantasy debut.
After ten years of exile, following regicide in the House of Tristain, an alarming royal edict is delivered to the immortal scarecrow Guardians who once defended the crown: surrender themselves to the church of the... Read more
Just Some Stupid Love Story
By: Katelyn Doyle
Narrated by: Christine Lakin & Tim Paige
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Emily Henry, a debut about a rom-com screenwriter who doesn't believe in love and a divorce attorney who does, forced together at their high school reunion fifteen years after their breakup
Molly Marks writes Hollywood rom-coms for a living—which is how she knows “romance” is a racket. The one and only time she was naive enough to... Read more
Tell Me Who You Are
By: Louisa Luna
Narrated by: Megan Tusing, Robb Moreira & Stephanie Németh-P...
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
This program features multicast narration.
The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a shocking past and her dangerous new patient.
Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange is certain she knows what's best for her patients, her family, and pretty much everyone else, but that all changes... Read more
Devil's Kitchen
By: Candice Fox
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Devil's Kitchen is a fast-paced, heart racing thriller from Candice Fox, "a bright new star in crime fiction." (James Patterson)
This tight-knit, four-person unit has worked together to save countless lives and stop out of control fires before they cause major destruction.
They've also stolen millions from banks, jewelry stores, and art... Read more
Holy City
By: Henry Wise
Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
No one innocent. No one free. Nothing sacred.
After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southside Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. Impoverished and abandoned, this remote land of tobacco plantations, razed forests,... Read more
The Wren in the Holly Library
By: K.A. Linde
Narrated by: Stephanie Németh-Parker
Length: 15 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
CAN YOU LOVE THE DARK WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT IT HIDES?
Some things aren’t supposed to exist outside of our imagination.
Thirteen years ago, monsters emerged from the shadows and plunged Kierse’s world into a cataclysmic war of near-total destruction. The New York City she knew so well collapsed practically overnight.
In the wake of that carnage, the... Read more
Becoming Ted
By: Matt Cain
Narrated by: Samuel Barnett
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle returns with a joyful and surprising tale about love, acceptance, and self-discovery.
If Ted Ainsworth were to compare himself to one of the ice-cream flavors made by his family’s company, famous throughout his sleepy Lancashire hometown, it might be vanilla—sweet, inoffensive, and... Read more
I Fight, You Fight
By: Alex Noble
Narrated by: Alex Noble
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring story of a young man whose wisdom and strength can teach us all how to live life to the fullest, no matter what it throws at us.
Sixteen-year-old Alex Noble was a high school rugby star with a promising sporting career ahead of him when an on-field injury left him fighting for his life in the ICU. Following a four-day coma and a... Read more
The Fireborne Blade
By: Charlotte Bond
Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Kill the dragon. Find the blade. Reclaim her honor.
It’s that, or end up like countless knights before her, as a puddle of gore and molten armor.
Maddileh is a knight. There aren’t many women in her line of work, and it often feels like the sneering and contempt from her peers is harder to stomach than the actual dragon slaying. But she’s a... Read more
Twelfth Knight
By: Alexene Farol Follmuth
Narrated by: Alexandra Palting & Kevin R. Free
Length: 12 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Reese's Book Club Summer YA Pick '24
"YA is a feeling. It's a warm summer day reading in the sun, lots of nostalgia, gushing together over the characters in Twelfth Knight." —Reese Witherspoon
“Kevin R. Free and Alexandra Palting’s nuanced voices help listeners enjoy the twists and turns of this enjoyable young adult romance.”—AudioFile
From the... Read more
Pretty
By: KB Brookins
Narrated by: KB Brookins
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.
Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective—the tropes, the presumptions—Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for... Read more
The Great State of West Florida
By: Kent Wascom
Narrated by: Justin Price
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
It's 2026, and Rally is thirteen years old. The long, hot Louisiana summer looms before him like a face-melting stretch of blacktop, and the country is talking civil war while his adoptive family acts more vicious than ever. Rally spends his days wondering about his dead father's people, the Woolsacks of West Florida, who long ago led a failed... Read more
View audiobookSwiped
By: L.M. Chilton
Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
“As if Bridget Jones found herself in a Scream film. Murderously clever!” —Rupert Holmes, New York Times bestselling author of Murder Your Employer
“Fast-paced, twisty and great fun!” —Amy Tintera, New York Times bestselling author of Listen for the Lie
A clever and darkly hilarious thriller/romantic comedy about a young woman who must unmask a... Read more
Perfume and Pain
By: Anna Dorn
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
“Perceptive and witty—like a Sally Rooney novel set in Southern California.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
“It’s this author’s best work yet. A Sapphic roller-coaster ride.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A controversial LA author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this hilarious nod to 1950s lesbian pulp fiction.
Having... Read more
A Pose Before Dying
By: Alex Erickson
Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Sure to appeal to fans of Miranda James, Cate Conte, Eileen Watkins, Laurien Berenson, and all lovers of cozy mysteries featuring animal companions!
Finding this killer will be a real stretch . . .
Ashley Branson has a lot to prove with her new cat yoga studio, A Purrfect Pose. It's a place for humans to find inner wellness—and adopt adorable cats... Read more
And Then? And Then? What Else?
By: Daniel Handler
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
YOU NEVER LOVE A BOOK THE WAY YOU LOVE A BOOK WHEN YOU ARE TEN.
Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential strangeness of literature. The wondrous and perilous journey of the Baudelaire orphans... Read more
Better Left Unsent
By: Lia Louis
Narrated by: Ashley Tucker
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
So many ways to torpedo your career and your love life… So little time.
A woman accidentally reveals all her secrets in this witty and charming novel from the author of Eight Perfect Hours.
Two years ago, thirty-year-old receptionist Millie Chandler had her heart spectacularly broken in public. Ever since, she has been a closed book, vowing to... Read more
The Roommate Risk
By: Talia Hibbert
Narrated by: Rooke Kingston & Keval Shah
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Romance is weakness, and Jasmine Allen doesn’t have time for either. Lifelong cynic Jas is the queen of one-night things—until a plumbing disaster screws everything up and leaves her temporarily homeless. Luckily, she has someone to turn to: her best friend Rahul. For seven years, Rahul Khan has followed three simple rules. -Don’t touch Jasmine... Read more
View audiobookThe InvestiGators Audio Collection: Books 1 & 2
By: John Patrick Green
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by a full cast, including the author and Christopher Hastings, a coauthor of InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.S. It offers an immersive audio experience, fully sound designed to enhance your enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of the Batter Down bakery, S.U.I.T. Headquarters, Crackerdile's Lair, and the Robotics Lab at the... Read more
View audiobookVery Bad Company
By: Emma Rosenblum
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
“[January] LaVoy's ability to convey tension and intrigue makes this audiobook a captivating listen.”—AudioFile
A gripping, darkly comic novel from the national bestselling author of Bad Summer People about a team of wealthy and powerful executives on retreat in Miami when one of them goes missing . . .
Every year, executives at the trendy tech... Read more