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Mariam Sharma Hits the Road
By: Sheba Karim
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Three Pakistani-American teenagers, on a trip through the land of pork ribs, mechanical bulls, and Confederate flags. It’s going to be quite an adventure.The summer after her freshman year of college, Mariam is looking forward to working and hanging out with her best friends: irrepressible and beautiful Ghazala and religious but closeted... Read more
View audiobookThe Perfect Mother
By: Aimee Molloy
Narrated by: Cristin Milioti
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An addictive psychological thriller about a group of women whose lives become unexpectedly connected when one of their newborns goes missing.A night out. A few hours of fun. That’s all it was meant to be.They call themselves the May Mothers—a group of new moms whose babies were born in the same month. Twice... Read more
View audiobookThe Epic Crush of Genie Lo
By: F.C. Yee
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
American Born Chinese meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this grounded supernatural YA mash-up The struggle to get into a top-tier college consumes sixteen-year-old Genie's every waking thought. But when she discovers she's a celestial spirit who's powerful enough to bash through the gates of heaven with her fists, her perfectionist existence is... Read more
View audiobookReading with Patrick
By: Michelle Kuo
Narrated by: Michelle Kuo
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
“In all of the literature addressing education, race, poverty, and criminal justice, there has been nothing quite like Reading with Patrick.”—The Atlantic
A memoir of the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta
FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE
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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 Great Beanie Baby Bubble
By: Zac Bissonnette
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animal craze that became the tulip mania of the 1990s
In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. In just three years, collectors who saw the toys as a means of speculation made creator Ty Warner, an eccentric college dropout, a billionaire—without... Read more
In the Bleak Midwinter
By: Julia Spencer-Fleming
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Clare Fergusson, Saint Alban's new priest, fits like a square peg in the conservative Episcopal parish at Miller's Kill, New York. She is not just a "lady" but also a tough ex-army chopper pilot—and nobody's fool. Then a newborn infant left at the church door brings her together with the town's police chief, Russ Van Alstyne, who is also ex-army... Read more
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