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Beautyland
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she's different: she possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax... Read more
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A Little Life
By: Hanya Yanagihara
Narrated by: Matt Bomer
Length: 28 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE
A Little Life follows four college... Read more


Tartufo
By: Kira Jane Buxton
Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
Length: 11 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Hollow Kingdom, a fantastically funny story featuring a cast of colorful characters in a dying Italian village and a giant truffle that changes their fate forever in this “deliciously absurd tale....I savored every page of this book.” (Shelby Van Pelt, author of Remarkably Bright Creatures)
After nearly losing the election to... Read more


Shark Heart
By: Emily Habeck
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Shaun Taylor-Corbett & Soneela ...
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Editors’ Choice
A USA TODAY Bestseller
A Booklist Editor’s Choice
A Goodreads Choice Award Nominee
A Massachusetts Book Awards Fiction Honors Selection
Shortlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize
A “beautifully written” (Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See) debut novel of... Read more


Stone Blind
By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023""Haynes is master of her trade . . . She succeeds in breathing warm life into some of our oldest stories.”—Telegraph (UK)The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships and Pandora's Jar returns with a fresh and stunningly perceptive take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered... Read more
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Leave the World Behind
By: Rumaan Alam
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a Netflix film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon. Written for the Screen and Directed by Sam Esmail. Executive Producers Barack and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan AlamA Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist... Read more
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Meddling Kids
By: Edgar Cantero
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Freaky pleasure...it scratches a nostalgic itch for those who grew up on Saturday morning Scooby-Doo cartoons and sugar-bombed breakfast cereal"
--USA Today
"Deliriously wild, funny and imaginative. Cantero is an original voice."
--Charles Yu, author of How to Live in a Science Fictional Universe
With raucous humor and... Read more


Say Say Say
By: Lila Savage
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the The Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019
"A gem of a book . . . lyrical, tender, and profoundly insightful."--Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone
A beautiful, bracingly honest debut novel about the triangle formed between a young woman and the couple whose life she enters one transformative year: a story about... Read more


Dragon Teeth
By: Michael Crichton
Narrated by: Scott Brick & Sherri Crichton
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel—a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America’s western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns... Read more
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Author in Chief
By: Craig Fehrman
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 15 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
“One of the best books on the American presidency to appear in recent years” (The Wall Street Journal) and based on a decade of research and reporting—a delightful new window into the public and private lives America’s presidents as authors.
Most Americans are familiar with Abraham Lincoln’s famous words in the Gettysburg Address and the... Read more