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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

By: Emily Austin

Narrated by: Emily Tremaine

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.

Gilda, a twenty-something,... Read more

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jen Ferguson

Narrated by: Julie Lumsden

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In this complex and emotionally resonant novel about a Métis girl living on the Canadian prairies, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful story about rage, secrets, and all the spectrums that make up a person—and the sweetness that can still live alongside the bitterest truth. A William C. Morris Award Honor Book and a Stonewall Award... Read more

Sex and Rage

By: Eve Babitz

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Her words are worth a thousand moving pictures!" --Joseph Heller The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, originally published in 1979, about a dreamy young girl moving between the planets of Los Angeles and New York City. We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles. She's a beach bum, a part-time... Read more

A Game of Noctis

By: Deva Fagan

Narrated by: Renee Dorian

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the opulent sinking city of Dantessa, the Great Game rules all. Pia Paro believes that, so long as you follow the rules, you always have a chance at winning. But after her beloved Gramps is sentenced to a life of servitude, Pia accepts a dangerous offer and joins a team of players seeking to win the most perilous game of all: Noctis. The... Read more

Becoming Abolitionists

By: Derecka Purnell

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day.Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these “solutions” do not match the problem: the police cannot... Read more

The Aeronaut's Windlass

By: Jim Butcher

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 21 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors. . . .
 
Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity. Within their halls, the ruling aristocratic houses... Read more

The Electric Woman

By: Tessa Fontaine

Narrated by: Tessa Fontaine

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The Electric Woman is Tessa Fontaine's astonishing audiobook memoir about a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery. Narrated by the author, this audiobook recounts Tessa's life on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother.

Turns out, one lesson applies to living... Read more

Lucky Boy

By: Shanthi Sekaran

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani & Roxana Ortega

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy.

“Sekaran has written a page-turner that’s touching and all too real.”—People

“A fiercely compassionate story about the bonds and the bounds of motherhood and, ultimately, of love.”—Cristina Henríquez, author of The... Read more

Borderline

By: Mishell Baker

Narrated by: Arden Hammersmith

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A cynical, disabled film director with borderline personality disorder gets recruited to join a secret organization that oversees relations between Hollywood and Fairyland in this Nebula Award–nominated and Tiptree Award Honor Book that’s the first novel in a new urban fantasy series from debut author Mishell Baker.

A year ago, Millie lost her... Read more

War Dances

By: Sherman Alexie

Narrated by: Sherman Alexie

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award winner and New York Times best-selling author Sherman Alexie infuses his writing with biting wit and poignant insight. As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric... Read more

Elephant Company

By: Vicki Constantine Croke

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

The remarkable story of James Howard “Billy” Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the world’s largest land animals transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic war hero known as Elephant Bill

In 1920, Billy Williams came to colonial Burma as a “forest man” for a British... Read more

The Boy in the Suitcase

By: Lene Kaaberbol & Agnete Friis

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR HARALD MOGENSEN AWARD FOR BEST DANISH THRILLER OF THE YEAR THIS MODERN CLASSIC OF NORDIC NOIR CELEBRATES ITS TENTH ANNIVERSARY, STARRING THE SERIES’ HEROINE, DANISH RED CROSS NURSE NINA BORG.

A nurse, wife and mother of two, Nina can’t say no when someone asks... Read more

The Lovers

By: Vendela Vida

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“Vendela Vida has written a riveting and suspenseful novel about an American woman’s voyage to self-discovery.”
—Joyce Carol Oates “Stunning. A masterful meditation on grief and love. The Lovers is a sensational novel from one of our finest writers at the height of her craft.”
—Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries In 2007, Vendela... Read more

City of Women

By: David R. Gillham

Narrated by: Suzanne Bertish

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

It is 1943—the height of the Second World War. With the men away at the front, Berlin has become a city of women.

On the surface, Sigrid Schröder is the model German soldier’s wife: She goes to work every day, does as much with her rations as she can, and dutifully... Read more

Africa Is Not a Country

By: Dipo Faloyin

Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories that bring to life Africa's rich diversity, communities, and histories.



Starting with an... Read more

How to Fracture a Fairy Tale

By: Jane Yolen

Narrated by: various narrators, Suzanne Toren, Eileen Steven...

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Fantasy icon Jane Yolen is adored by generations of readers of all ages. Now she triumphantly returns with this inspired gathering of fractured fairy tales and legends. Yolen breaks open the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets: a philosophical bridge that misses its troll, a spinner of straw as a falsely accused moneylender, the... Read more

Scattered All Over the Earth

By: Yoko Tawada

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award



Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her... Read more

Your Duck Is My Duck

By: Deborah Eisenberg

Narrated by: Deborah Eisenberg, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moor...

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form, performed by a remarkable cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, and Wallace Shawn.At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight,... Read more

Hate to Want You

By: Alisha Rai

Narrated by: Summer Morton & Jeremy York

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Alisha Rai, one of contemporary romance’s brightest stars, makes her Avon Books debut with the first novel in the sexy Forbidden Hearts series!One night. No one will know. That was the deal. Every year, Livvy Kane and Nicholas Chandler would share one perfect night of illicit pleasure. The forbidden hours let them forget the tragedy that haunted... Read more

The Mechanical

By: Ian Tregillis

Narrated by: Chris Kayser

Length: 15 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From "a major new talent" (George R. R. Martin) comes an epic speculative novel of revolution, adventure, and the struggle for free will set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams.

My name is Jax.

That is the name granted to me by my human masters.

I am a slave.

But I shall be free. Read more

The Fall of Lisa Bellow

By: Susan Perabo

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The breakout novel from the critically acclaimed author of the short story collections Who I Was Supposed to Be and Why They Run the Way They Do—when a middle school girl is abducted in broad daylight, a fellow student and witness to the crime copes with the tragedy in unforgettable ways.

What happens to the girl left behind?

A masked man with a... Read more

Madonna

By: Mary Gabriel

Narrated by: Elise Arsenault

Length: 41 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting biography, award-winning author Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era: Madonna.

With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion—as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles—taking the nation by storm... Read more

The Knockout Queen

By: Rufi Thorpe

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD

"Full of verve... Revelatory." —Los Angeles Times

A dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbs

Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore⁠—beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael⁠⁠—with a... Read more

Fox 8

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world.

Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regarded with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until Fox 8... Read more