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Melanin Base Camp

By: Danielle Williams

Narrated by: Je Nie Fleming

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Beautiful, empowering, and exhilarating, Melanin Base Camp is a celebration of underrepresented BIPOC adventurers that will challenge you to rethink your perceptions of what an outdoorsy individual looks like and inspire you to being your own adventure.

Danielle Williams, skydiver and founder of the online community Melanin Base Camp, profiles... Read more

Son of the Storm

By: Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Narrated by: Korey Jackson

Length: 17 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most exciting new storytellers in epic fantasy, Son of the Storm is a sweeping tale of violent conquest and forgotten magic set in a world inspired by the pre-colonial empires of West Africa.

"Everything I love in a fantasy novel. Damn good stuff!" —Jenn Lyons, author of The Ruin of Kings

In the ancient. city of Bassa, Danso is a... Read more

Soulless

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

Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories

By: Kelly Barnhill

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Kelly Barnhill comes a stunning collection of nine stories teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original.



When Mrs. Sorensen's husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in "Mrs. Sorensen and the... Read more

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

By: Jenny Wingfield

Narrated by: Catherine Taber

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at “the old home place,” a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And every year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and committed young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willadee Moses, and their three children back for the festivities. The children embrace the reunion as... Read more

New Kid

By: Jerry Craft

Narrated by: Jesus Del Orden, Nile Bullock, Robin Miles, Guy...

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 Audie Awards® Finalist—Middle GradeWinner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature, and an Audie Award finalist!
An original full-cast audio adaptation of the graphic novel from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft, performed by the author with Jesus Del Orden, Nile... Read more

Abuela, Don't Forget Me

By: Rex Ogle

Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

I say, “Te amo siempre.”
And she says, “I love you more.”
And I say, “Impossible.”

Abuela, Don’t Forget Me is Rex Ogle’s portrait of his grandmother, the one adult he could count on when he was a child—and who is now forgetting him as dementia takes hold of her.

In his award-winning Free Lunch and Punching Bag, Rex charted a coming of age marked by... Read more

State of Wonder

By: Ann Patchett

Narrated by: Hope Davis

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“A nail-biting narrative, setting stark human dilemmas against a lush, exotic backdrop.”— People“Extraordinary. . . . Nothing is as it seems, and the ending is as shocking as it’s satisfying.” — Boston GlobeFrom award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and... Read more

The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

By: Sonora Reyes

Narrated by: Karla Serrato

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award Finalist * William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Walter Honor Award Winner * Pura Belpré Honor Book * Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Young AdultA sharply funny and moving debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling... Read more

Beverly, Right Here

By: Kate DiCamillo

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Revisiting once again the world of Raymie Nightingale, two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo turns her focus to the tough-talking, inescapably tenderhearted Beverly.

Beverly put her foot down on the gas. They went faster still.
This was what Beverly wanted--what she always wanted. To get away. To get away as fast as she could. To stay... Read more

I Might Regret This

By: Abbi Jacobson

Narrated by: Abbi Jacobson

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a "poignant, funny, and beautifully unabashed" (Cheryl Strayed) New York Times bestselling essay collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew.
When Abbi Jacobson announced to friends and acquaintances that she planned... Read more

Revolution for Dummies

By: Bassem Youssef

Narrated by: Bassem Youssef

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

""The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World""—the creator of The Program, the most popular television show in Egypt’s history—chronicles his transformation from heart surgeon to political satirist, and offers crucial insight into the Arab Spring, the Egyptian Revolution, and the turmoil roiling the modern Middle East.Bassem Youssef’s incendiary... Read more

Sweet Tooth

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of such prestigious honors as the Booker Prize and Whitbread Award, Ian McEwan is justifiably regarded as a modern master. Set in 1972, Sweet Tooth follows Cambridge student Serena Frome, whose intelligence and beauty land her a job with England's intelligence agency, MI5. In an attempt to monitor writers' politics, MI5 tasks Serena with... Read more

Zora Books Her Happy Ever After

By: Taj McCoy

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“McCoy Doesn’t miss a romantic beat in her swoonworthy sophomore rom-com.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

A heart-pounding, curvy romance about an indie bookstore owner who finds herself in a love triangle when she meets the author she's had a crush on for years...and his best friend.

Zora has committed every inch of her life to establishing... Read more

She's Come Undone

By: Wally Lamb

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 18 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestselling extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.

"Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free... Read more

This Is How You Die

By: Matthew Bennardo, David Malki & Ryan North

Narrated by: Dan Woren, Will Collyer, Robert Morgan Fisher, ...

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

If a machine could predict how you would die, would you want to know? This is the tantalizing premise of This Is How You Die, the brilliant follow-up anthology to the self-published bestseller, Machine of Death.

THIS IS HOW YOU DIE
Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death

The machines started popping up around the... Read more

Covered with Night

By: Nicole Eustace

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and... Read more

The Edge of the Sky

By: Roberto Trotta

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries and mysteries in modern cosmology—with a twist. The book's lexicon is limited to the thousand most common words in the English language, even excluding... Read more

BRAVE HEARTED

By: Katie Hickman

Narrated by: Katie Hickman & Nerissa Bradley

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Hard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns; wives and mothers traveling two and a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys, some of them so poor they walked the entire route; African-American women in search of freedom from slavery; Chinese sex-workers sold openly on the docks of San... Read more

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover

By: Sarah MacLean

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Philippa Marbury is . . . oddThe brilliant, bespectacled daughter of a double marquess cares more for books than balls, for science than the season, and for laboratories than love. She's looking forward to marrying her simple fiancé and living out her days quietly with her dogs and her scientific experiments. But before that, Pippa has two... Read more

Get the Picture

By: Bianca Bosker

Narrated by: Bianca Bosker

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY NPR, TIME, AND THE ECONOMIST

“Get the Picture is one of the funniest books I’ve read . . . Brilliant.” —The Washington Post

“A gripping and often hilarious investigation into the art world. . . . Bosker goes full Tom Wolfe.” —TIME

“Funny, whip-smart, and gorgeously written, Get the... Read more

Leg

By: Greg Marshall

Narrated by: Greg Marshall

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets—as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy



Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes and you'll see a lopsided teenager limping across a high school stage, or in a wheelchair after leg surgeries,... Read more

Parasite

By: Mira Grant

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes a vision of a decade in the future, where humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease.
 
We owe our good health to a humble parasite — a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the Intestinal Bodyguard worm protects us from... Read more

Song of Blood & Stone

By: L. Penelope

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wonderful characters, unique setting, and an engaging romance set against the backdrop of ancient magic. I can't wait to see what L. Penelope will do next."--Ilona Andrews, #1 New York Times bestselling author

L. Penelope's Song of Blood & Stone is a treacherous, thrilling, epic audiobook fantasy about an outcast drawn into a war between two... Read more