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The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands
By: Sarah Brooks
Narrated by: Katie Leung & Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and Katie Leung, who played Cho Chang in the Harry Potter films.
For fans of Piranesi and The Midnight Library, a stunning historical fantasy novel set on a grand express train, about a group of passengers on a dangerous journey across a magical landscape
āBreathtakingā¦Abounding with mysteries and... Read more
youthjuice
By: E.K. Sathue
Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
From Sophia Bannionās first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE, a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New Yorkās trendy SoHo neighborhood, itās clear something is deeply amiss. But Sophia, pushing thirty, has plenty of skeletons in her closet next to the designer knockoffs and doesnāt care. Though she leads an outwardly charmed life, she... 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 āone of the genreās most exciting voicesā (E! News) comes one of the yearās 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
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 lifeā¦ 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 Silverblood Promise
By: James Logan
Narrated by: Brenock OāConnor
Length: 17 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
This program is read by actor Brenock OāConnor (Game of Thrones, Derry Girls).
"A fast-paced carnival of setbacks and skullduggery that reminds me of... me! Charming from the first twist to the last."āScott Lynch
Set in a city of traders and thieves, monsters and murderers, this page-turning epic fantasy debut is a must-read for fans of Nicholas... Read more
A Letter to the Luminous Deep
By: Sylvie Cathrall
Narrated by: Claire Morgan, Kit Griffiths, Justin Avoth & Jo...
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A charming fantasy set in an underwater world with magical academia and a heartwarming penpal romance, perfect for fans ofĀ A Marvellous Light,Ā Emily Wilde's Encylopaedia of FaeriesĀ andĀ The House in the Cerulean Sea.
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āAn underwater treasure-chest to be slowly unpacked, full of things I adore: nosy and loving families, epistolary romance,... Read more
Daughter of Mine
By: Megan Miranda
Narrated by: InƩs del Castillo
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Her father was the town detective. Her mother its most notorious criminal. Now the secrets of Mirror Lake are coming to the surfaceā¦and changing everything. "[A] stunning psychological thriller from one of the most insightful writers aroundā (CrimeReads), donāt miss the latest from... Read more
In Her Place
By: Edel Coffey
Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 bestselling author of Breaking Point and winner of Crime Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards, November 2022.
'Edel Coffey is like an Irish Jodi Picoult! In Her Place examines "the other woman" conundrum from two different perspectives. It's propulsive, thought-provoking and unputdownable'
MARIAN KEYES
Who is the other... Read more
The Woman with No Name
By: Audrey Blake
Narrated by: Amy Scanlon
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on a true storyShe'll light the fire of resistanceābut she may get burned ā¦1942. Though she survived the bomb that destroyed her home, Yvonne Rudellatās life is over. Sheās estranged from her husband, her daughter is busy with war work, and Yvonneāolder, diminutive, overlookedāhas lost all purpose. Until sheās offered a chance to remake... Read more
View audiobookThe Memory of Lavender and Sage
By: Aimie K. Runyan
Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
āA standout voice in womenās fiction. I was captivated from the very first line.ā ā Kristy Woodson Harvey,Ā New York TimesĀ Bestselling Author ofĀ The Summer of SongbirdsPerhaps the secrets of her motherās past in this tiny French town hold the key to her own future. . .Food critic TempĆØsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her... Read more
View audiobookTrouble
By: Lex Croucher
Narrated by: Ell Potter
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A Regency-era romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist and queer twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love.
There's a new governess at Fairmont House, and she's going to be nothing but trouble.
Emily Laurence is a liar. She is not polite, she's not polished, and she has never taught a child in her life.... Read more
Birding to Change the World
By: Trish O'Kane
Narrated by: Cheryl Smith
Length: 13 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.Trish OāKane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly two decades writing about justice as an investigative journalist, she'd never paid attention to nature. But then Hurricane Katrina destroyed her New... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Word
By: Gerri Lewis
Narrated by: Alex Raby
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Obituary writer Winter Snow is no stranger to grief, and writing obituaries for the citizens of Ridgefield, Connecticut, is her way of providing comfort to those who have been in her shoes. But funerals and eulogies are meant for the dead, so when the very much alive Leocadia Arlington requests her own obituary by the end of the week, Winterās... Read more
View audiobookInteresting Facts about Space
By: Emily Austin
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A fast-paced, hilarious, and ultimately hopeful novel for anyone who has ever worried they might be a terrible personāfrom the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead.
Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettify you without batting an eye in fear. Her one major... Read more
Pockets
By: Hannah Carlson
Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A thought-provoking microhistory of the humble pocket that uncovers what pockets reveal about usāand why it matters.
Itās a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do menās clothes have so many pockets and womenās so few? In her captivating book, Hannah Carlson, a lecturer in dress history at the Rhode Island School of Design, shows us how... Read more
Crow Mary
By: Kathleen Grissom
Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping and ārichly detailed story of a woman caught between two culturesā (Sandra Dallas, New York Times bestselling author) inspired by the real life of Crow Maryāan Indigenous woman in 19th-century North America.
In 1872,... Read more
The God of Endings
By: Jacqueline Holland
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 16 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
"Maarleveld's narration takes the exquisite prose of this story and elevates it to a lyrical listening experience. Her consistently skilled delivery moves through a variety of accents and time periods. This audiobook is a fascinating story told by a masterful performer."- AudioFile
By turns suspenseful and enchanting, this breathtaking first... Read more
Mouth to Mouth
By: Antoine Wilson
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF BARACK OBAMAāS FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 * An NPR and Time Best Book of the Year * Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada) * Finalist for CALIBAās 2022 Golden Poppy Awards
A successful art dealer confesses the story of his meteoric rise in this āpowerful, intoxicating, and shockingā (The New York Times) novel thatās a āslow... Read more
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
By: Helene Tursten
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Don't let her age fool you. Maud may be nearly ninety, but if you cross her, this elderly lady is more sinister than sweet.
Just when things have finally cooled down for eighty-eight-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep. Though Maud dodges their... Read more
Fight Night
By: Miriam Toews
Narrated by: Miriam Toews & Georgia Toews
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women.āYouāre a small thing,āā Grandma writes, āand you must learn to fight.āā Swivās grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious community,... Read more
View audiobookAll In
By: Billie Jean King, Johnette Howard & Maryanne Vo...
Narrated by: Billie Jean King
Length: 18 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice.
In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career--six years as... Read more