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Paradise Falls

By: Keith O'Brien

Narrated by: Eileen Stevens

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America’s most devastating environmental disasters.

Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. It had an... Read more

Bringer of Dust

By: J. M. Miro

Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe

Length: 24 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ben Onwukwe deeply engages the listening audience with this electrifying dark fantasy. The novel's impeccable attention to detail vividly comes alive through Onwukwe's tone and resonant timbre" —AudioFile on Ordinary Monsters

"A sprawling romp on audio." —Buzzfeed on Ordinary Monsters

In this highly anticipated second book in the Talents Trilogy,... Read more

The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

By: Sarah Brooks

Narrated by: Katie Leung & Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and Katie Leung, who played Cho Chang in the Harry Potter films.

For fans of Piranesi and The Midnight Library, a stunning historical fantasy novel set on a grand express train, about a group of passengers on a dangerous journey across a magical landscape

“Breathtaking…Abounding with mysteries and... 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 Parker Inheritance (Scholastic Gold)

By: Varian Johnson

Narrated by: Cherise Boothe

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

A Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor winner * Four Starred Reviews * Over Ten Best-of-Year Lists"Powerful.... Johnson writes about the long shadows of the past with such ambition that any reader with a taste for mystery will appreciate the puzzle Candice and Brandon must solve." -- The New York Times Book ReviewA Coretta Scott King Author Honor and... Read more

Songs in Ursa Major

By: Emma Brodie

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A scintillating debut from a major new voice in fiction, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969, alive with music, sex, and the trappings of fame.

Raised on an island off Massachusetts by a mother who wrote songs for famous musicians, Jane Quinn is singing in her own band before she's old enough to even read music. When folk legend Jesse... Read more

Under Currents

By: Nora Roberts

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For both Zane and Darby, their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now, decades later, they've come together to build a new life. But will the past set them free or pull them under? Find out in Under Currents from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.

Zane Bigelow grew up in a beautiful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina’s... Read more

The Flight Attendant

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Erin Spencer, Grace Experience & Mark Deakins

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER 
A NATIONAL INDIEBOUND BESTSELLER 

From the author of The Guest Room, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man - and no idea what happened.

Cassandra... Read more

Swimming Back to Trout River

By: Linda Rui Feng

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A “beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration…and love” (Jean Kwok, author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation) set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution that follows a father’s quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter’s momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell... Read more

Blackbird Fly

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

Narrated by: Ferdelle Capistrano

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Future rock star or friendless misfit? That’s no choice at all. In this acclaimed novel by Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, twelve-year-old Apple grapples with being different; with friends and backstabbers; and with following her dreams.Publishers Weekly called Blackbird Fly “a true triumph,” and the Los Angeles Times Book Review said,... Read more

Powers and Thrones

By: Dan Jones

Narrated by: Dan Jones

Length: 24 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Not only an engrossing read about the distant past, both informative and entertaining, but also a profoundly thought-provoking view of our not-really-so-‘new’ present . . . All medieval history is here, beautifully narrated."—Wall Street Journal

"A lively history . . . [Jones] has managed to touch every major topic. As each piece of the puzzle... Read more

Dying of Politeness

By: Geena Davis

Narrated by: Geena Davis

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, the surprising tale of her “journey to badassery”—from her epically polite childhood to roles that loaned her the strength to become a powerhouse in Hollywood.At three years old, Geena Davis announced she was going to be in movies. Now, with a slew of iconic roles and awards under... Read more

Aviva vs. the Dybbuk

By: Mari Lowe

Narrated by: Leah Horowitz

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A long ago “accident.” An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn’t know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her.

That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a... 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

The Hill We Climb

By: Amanda Gorman

Narrated by: Amanda Gorman & Oprah Winfrey

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Amanda Gorman’s powerful and historic poem “The Hill We Climb,” read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration

“Stunning.” —CNN 
“Dynamic.” —NPR
“Deeply rousing and uplifting.” —Vogue


On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th... Read more

The Chance to Fly

By: Ali Stroker & Stacy Davidowitz

Narrated by: Ali Stroker

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartfelt middle-grade novel about a theater-loving girl who uses a wheelchair for mobility and her quest to defy expectations--and gravity--from Tony award-winning actress Ali Stroker and Stacy Davidowitz

Thirteen-year-old Nat Beacon loves a lot of things: her dog Warbucks, her best friend Chloe, and competing on her wheelchair racing team,... Read more

Ask Again, Yes

By: Mary Beth Keane

Narrated by: Molly Pope

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The triumphant New York Times Bestseller *The Tonight Show Summer Reads Pick*

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by People, Vogue, Parade, NPR, and Elle

"A gem of a book." —Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

How much can a family forgive?

Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie NYPD cops, are neighbors in... Read more

The Last Fallen Star

By: Graci Kim

Narrated by: Suzie Yeung

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Graci Kim's thrilling debut about an adopted Korean-American girl who discovers her heritage and her magic on a perilous journey to save her witch clan family. "Graci Kim does such an amazing job of blending Korean mythology into the modern world, I am now wondering how I ever lived without knowing all... Read more

Tides

By: Sara Freeman

Narrated by: Amy Rutherford

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Henfield Prize–winner and brilliant newcomer Sara Freeman debuts with an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town.

After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her... Read more

The Butcher of Anderson Station

By: James S. A. Corey

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

A novelette set in the hard-scrabble world of James S. A. Corey's NYT-bestselling Expanse series, The Butcher of Anderson Station deepens the story of Colonel Fred Johnson's past as seen on the fifth episode of Season 1 of The Expanse. Now a Prime Original series.

HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES

A new story set in the world of the Expanse. One... Read more

Circus of Wonders

By: Elizabeth Macneal

Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the “lush, evocative Gothic” (The New York Times Book Review) The Doll Factory comes an atmospheric and spectacular novel about a woman transformed by the arrival of a Victorian circus of wonders—“as moving as it is deeply entertaining” (Daniel Mason, New York Times bestselling author).

Step up,... Read more

Madly, Deeply

By: Alan Rickman

Narrated by: Alfred Enoch, Bonnie Wright, Rima Horton & Stev...

Length: 19 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Steven Crossley elevates the book with his excellent reading, providing personality and a sharp, biting sarcasm appropriate to the material. A foreword by Emma Thompson is voiced by Bonnie Wright, and editor Taylor’s prologue is read by Alfred Enoch. Rickman’s wife, Rima Horton, provides a touching afterword." - Library Journal

“Emma... Read more

Meet Me in Monaco

By: Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb

Narrated by: Nancy Peterson & Jeremy Arthur

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly’s whirlwind romance and glamourous wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d’Azur in this page-turning novel of passion, fate, and second-chances.Movie stars and... Read more

Mouth to Mouth

By: Antoine Wilson

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 * An NPR and Time Best Book of the Year * Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada) * Finalist for CALIBA’s 2022 Golden Poppy Awards

A successful art dealer confesses the story of his meteoric rise in this “powerful, intoxicating, and shocking” (The New York Times) novel that’s a “slow... Read more