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Aftershocks
By: Nadia Owusu
Narrated by: Nadia Owusu
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of The Glass Castle, this “gorgeous” (The New York Times, Editors’ Choice) and deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu tells the “incredible story” (Malala Yousafzai) about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through.
“In Aftershocks, Nadia... Read more
Find Me in Havana
By: Serena Burdick
Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez & Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of THE GIRLS WITH NO NAMES, a new historical novel based on the dazzling story of one of Hollywood’s most celebrated Hispanic actresses and her daughter’s search for closure.
“Told in a series of letters, FIND ME IN HAVANA is a beautiful and heart-wrenching story of mothers and daughters, and the American Dream that... Read more
The Yellow Wife
By: Sadeqa Johnson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of House of Eve—a 2023 Reese’s Book Club Pick!
*A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Christian Science Monitor*
Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Before We Were Yours) story follows an enslaved... Read more
The Mirror Man
By: Jane Gilmartin
Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
“A cloning story that reads like a thriller… [for] fans of science fiction and corporate espionage.” —Library Journal
Meet Jeremiah Adams. There are two of him.
The offer is too tempting: be part of a scientific breakthrough, step out of his life for a year, and be paid hugely for it. When ViMed Pharmaceutical asks Jeremiah to be part of an... Read more
Goodnight Beautiful
By: Aimee Molloy
Narrated by: Val Toomey, George Newbern, Marin Ireland & Joe...
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award From “master of clever misdirection” (Kirkus Reviews) Aimee Molloy, author of the New York Times bestseller The Perfect Mother, comes an irresistible psychological thriller featuring a newly married woman whose life is turned upside down when her husband goes missing.Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter... Read more
View audiobookIs this Anything?
By: Jerry Seinfeld
Narrated by: Jerry Seinfeld
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The first book in twenty-five years from “one of our great comic minds” (The Washington Post) features Seinfeld’s best work across five decades in comedy.
Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub “Catch a Rising Star” as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and... Read more
Jackie and Maria
By: Gill Paul
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 bestselling author of The Secret Wife comes a story of love, passion, and tragedy as the lives of Jackie Kennedy and Maria Callas are intertwined—and they become the ultimate rivals, in love with the same man.
The President's Wife; a Glamorous Superstar; the rivalry that shook the world...Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated,... Read more
Someone's Listening
By: Seraphina Nova Glass
Narrated by: Amy McFadden
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
She wrote the book on escaping a predator… Now one is coming for her.
Faith Finley has it all: she’s a talented psychologist with a flourishing career, a bestselling author and the host of a popular local radio program, Someone’s Listening, with Dr. Faith Finley. She’s married to the perfect man, Liam Finley, a respected food critic.
Until the... Read more
Musical Chairs
By: Amy Poeppel
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Gibson Fra...
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
“Poeppel has created a story that is well thought out, well plotted, well written, and fully developed. A delightful novel that celebrates the messiness and joy to be found in real life.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“100% page-turning delight…Pull out a lawn chair and prepare to read this gleefully entertaining novel.” —Stephen McCauley,... Read more
Florence Adler Swims Forever
By: Rachel Beanland
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Tim Paige, Carly Robins, Jonath...
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
“The perfect summer read” (USA TODAY) begins with a shocking tragedy that results in three generations of the Adler family grappling with heartbreak, romance, and the weight of family secrets over the course of one summer.
*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * One of USA TODAY’s “Best Books of 2020” * One of Good Morning America’s “25... Read more
Every Step She Takes
By: K.L. Armstrong
Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER!
A gripping new thriller by the author of the instant bestseller Wherever She Goes.
Sometimes there's no use running from your past. . . .
Genevieve has secrets that no one knows. In Rome she can be whoever she wants to be. Her neighbours aren't nosy; her Italian is passable; the shopkeepers and restaurant owners now see her... Read more
Friends and Strangers: A Read with Jenna Pick
By: J. Courtney Sullivan
Narrated by: Kate Rudd
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!
An insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life, from the best-selling author of Maine and Saints for All Occasions (named one of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of the Year and a New York Times... Read more
The Dilemma
By: B.A. Paris
Narrated by: Beth Eyre & Peter Noble
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A woman's birthday party takes a dark turn in a poignant, heart-stopping new novel from the reigning queen of suspense, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors, The Breakdown, and Bring Me Back.
“A heartbreaking page-turner that will have you up at night reading just one more chapter.” —Catherine Steadman, #1 New... Read more
The Second Home
By: Christina Clancy
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Tender and compassionate, incisive and heartbreaking, Christina Clancy's The Second Home is the story of a family you'll quickly fall in love with, and won't soon forget.
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.
After a disastrous summer spent at her family summer home on Cape Cod, seventeen-year-old Ann Gordon was left with a... Read more
The Lies That Bind
By: Emily Giffin
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Will Damron & Vikas Adam
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this irresistible novel from the author of All We Ever Wanted and Something Borrowed, a young woman falls hard for an impossibly perfect man before he disappears without a trace. . . .
It’s 2 A.M. on a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, and twenty-eight-year-old Cecily Gardner sits alone in a dive bar in New... Read more
Shuri: A Black Panther Novel #1
By: Nic Stone
Narrated by: Anika Noni Rose
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes an all-new upper middle grade series based on one of the Marvel Universe's break-out characters—Shuri, from Black Panther!An original, upper-middle-grade series starring the break-out character from the Black Panther comics and films: T'Challa's younger sister, Shuri! Crafted by New York... Read more
View audiobookThe Imperfects
By: Amy Meyerson
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY GOOD MORNING AMERICA · PARADE · OK! MAGAZINE · ELLE CANADA · CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR · PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“A page-turning family saga, this book will entertain readers of all generations.” —Good Morning America
“Compassionate, thoughtful, and surprisingly moving… [The Imperfects] will satisfy fans of Maggie Shipstead and... Read more
Summer Longing
By: Jamie Brenner
Narrated by: Molly Parker Myers
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
When a baby is left on the doorstep of a Cape Cod beach house, an unlikely group of women risks all they hold dear to harbor and protect her in this page-turning story from a USA Today bestselling author.
Ruth Cooperman arrives in beautiful beachside Provincetown for her retirement, renting the perfect waterfront cottage while she searches for... Read more
Summer Darlings
By: Brooke Lea Foster
Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“Filled with 1960s nostalgia and a host of deftly drawn characters” (Renée Rosen, author of Park Avenue Summer), Summer Darlings pulls back the curtain on one mysterious and wealthy family as seen through the eyes of their nanny—a college student who, while falling in love on Martha’s Vineyard, is also forced to reckon with the dark side of... Read more
View audiobookThe New Husband
By: D.J. Palmer
Narrated by: January LaVoy & Rebecca Soler
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The New Husband is a riveting thriller about the lies we tell ourselves from D. J. Palmer, the author of Saving Meghan.
What makes Simon Fitch so perfect?
-He knows all her favorite foods, music, and movies.
-Her son adores him. He was there when she needed him most.
-He anticipates her every need.
-He would never betray her like her first... Read more
Afterlife
By: Julia Alvarez
Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents comes “a stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own.” (Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award–winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X)Antonia Vega, the... Read more
View audiobookDarling Rose Gold
By: Stephanie Wrobel
Narrated by: Megan Dodds & Jill Winternitz
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
THE USA TODAY AND EDGAR AWARD NOMINATED BESTSELLER
"If you enjoyed The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, read Darling Rose Gold."—Washington Post
“Sensationally good - two complex characters power the story like a nuclear reaction...”—Lee Child
A most anticipated book of 2020 by Newsweek ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Bustle ∙ Shondaland ∙ PopSugar ∙... Read more
You Are Not Alone
By: Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Dylan Moore
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020
One of SheReads Most Anticipated Books of 2020
One of PopSugar's Most Anticipated Books of 2020
One of HelloGiggles’ Most Anticipated Books of 2020
One of Marie Claire’s Best Fiction by Women in 2020
One of Woman’s Day’s Best Fiction Books Coming Out in 2020
The... Read more
How a Woman Becomes a Lake
By: Marjorie Celona
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime Novel
From the Giller-nominated author of Y comes How a Woman Becomes a Lake, a taut, suspenseful novel about the dark corners of a small town, and the secrets that lurk within...
It's New Year's Day and the residents of a small fishing town are ready to start their lives anew.... Read more