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Foul is Fair
By: Hannah Capin
Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
“This revenge fantasy is as brutal as it is beautiful…An absolutely gorgeous retelling, artistry on every page, Oscar-worthy if it were a film.” — NPR
Hannah Capin's Foul is Fair is a bloody, thrilling revenge fantasy for the girls who have had enough. Golden boys beware: something wicked this way comes.
Jade and her friends Jenny, Mads, and... Read more
Big Lies in a Small Town
By: Diane Chamberlain
Narrated by: Susan Bennett
Length: 13 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Susan Bennett offers a moving performance of this multilayered story of two women whose lives are affected by a WPA mural...Overall, Bennett adds an exciting dimension to a gripping story of racism, madness, murder, and even romance." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
From New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain... Read more
Smoke Screen
By: Terri Blackstock
Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
"Blackstock's intense and twisty story will please fans of her faith-grounded crime dramas." --Publishers WeeklyTerri Blackstock, the "queen of Christian suspense" (CBA Market) delivers a riveting story of the secrets and lies that are too close to home. One father was murdered. Another was convicted of his death. And all because their children... Read more
View audiobookThe Other Windsor Girl
By: Georgie Blalock
Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
If you love The Crown, then this is the audiobook for you!Diana, Catherine, Meghan…glamorous Princess Margaret outdid them all. Springing into post-World War II society, and quite naughty and haughty, she lived in a whirlwind of fame and notoriety. Georgie Blalock captures the fascinating, fast-living princess and her “set” as seen through the... Read more
View audiobookThe Queens of Animation
By: Nathalia Holt
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold, "richly detailed" story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generations (Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures).
From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocchio to Frozen, the animated films of Walt... Read more
When Life Gives You Pears
By: Jeannie Gaffigan
Narrated by: Jeannie Gaffigan, Jim Gaffigan & Liz Noth
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The Big Sick meets Dad is Fat in this funny and heartfelt New York Times bestselling memoir from writer, director, wife, and mother, Jeannie Gaffigan, as she reflects on the life-changing impact of her battle with a pear-sized brain tumor.
In 2017, Jeannie's life came to a crashing halt when she was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor.... Read more
Inside Out
By: Demi Moore
Narrated by: Demi Moore
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
2020 Audie Finalist – Narration by AuthorFamed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir.For decades, Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity. From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships, Moore has never been far from the spotlight—or the headlines.Even as... Read more
View audiobookThings You Save in a Fire
By: Katherine Center
Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
"In this charming listen, narrator Therese Plummer portrays Cassie Hanwell--a confident, talented firefighter whose solitary life is upended when her estranged mother asks her to relocate to Boston...A wonderful story of forgiveness, friendship, love, and hope." — AudioFile
From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away comes... Read more
The Downstairs Girl
By: Stacey Lee
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
From the critically-acclaimed author of Under a Painted Sky and Outrun the Moon and founding member of We Need Diverse Books comes a powerful novel about identity, betrayal, and the meaning of family.
By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo... Read more
Careful What You Wish For
By: Hallie Ephron
Narrated by: Amy McFadden
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of There Was an Old Woman comes a novel about a professional organizer with a deadly problem she may not be able to clean up.Emily Harlow is a professional organizer who helps people declutter their lives; she’s married to man who can’t drive past a yard sale without stopping. He’s filled their... Read more
View audiobookKeeping Lucy
By: T. Greenwood
Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
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The heartbreaking and uplifting story, inspired by incredible true events, of how far one mother must go to protect her daughter.
Dover, Massachusetts, 1969. Ginny Richardson's heart... 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
View audiobookThe Last Book Party
By: Karen Dukess
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
“The Last Book Party is a delight. Reading this story of a young woman trying to find herself while surrounded by the bohemian literary scene during a summer on the Cape in the late '80s, I found myself nodding along in so many moments and dreading the last page. Karen Dukess has rendered a wonderful world to spend time in.”— Taylor Jenkins Reid,... Read more
View audiobookUnder 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
A Nearly Normal Family
By: M. T. Edvardsson
Narrated by: Emily Watson, Georgia Maguire & Richard Armitage
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
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New York Times Book Review recommends M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal Family and lauds it as a “page-turner” that forces the reader to confront “the compromises we make with ourselves to be the people we believe our beloveds expect.” (NYTimes Book Review Summer Reading Issue)
M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal... Read more
Finding Mrs. Ford
By: Deborah Goodrich Royce
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
On a sunny summer morning by the sea in New England, Susan Ford’s cocoon of privilege is threatened when an Iraqi man from her distant past boards a plane in Baghdad to come find her.Mrs. Ford leads a privileged life. From her Blenheim spaniels to her cottage on the coast of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, she carefully curates her world. Hair in... Read more
View audiobookSummer of '69
By: Elin Hilderbrand
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of the '60s summer when everything changed in Elin Hilderbrand's #1 New York Times bestselling historical novel.
Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward... Read more
Man of the Year
By: Caroline Louise Walker
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Michael Crouch, George Newb...
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A sinister, sophisticated debut thriller by “a remarkable new voice to watch” (J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author), Man of the Year has been lauded by Shelf Awareness as “an impressive slow burn that builds suspense and cracks the whip at the end…redolent with menace and ego.”
Dr. Robert Hart, Sag Harbor’s just-named Man of the Year,... Read more
This Is Home
By: Lisa Duffy
Narrated by: Renata Friedman & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of book club favorite The Salt House comes a deeply affecting novel about a teenage girl finding her voice and the military wife who moves in downstairs, united in their search for the true meaning of home.
Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives in Paradise, a seaside town north of Boston that rarely lives up to its name. After the... Read more
The First Mistake
By: Sandie Jones
Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From Sandie Jones, author of the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick and USA Today Bestseller, The Other Woman, comes an addictive new domestic suspense audiobook about a wife, her husband, and the woman who is supposedly her best friend.
THE WIFE: For Alice, life has never been better. With her second husband, she has a successful... Read more
The Unbreakables
By: Lisa Barr
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A delicious, sharp novel about a woman who jets off to France after her perfect marriage collapses, putting the broken pieces of herself back together while rediscovering her own joie de vivre—a lust for life, art, and steamy sex.“Artful, feminist, and emotionally gripping. The Unbreakables is a remarkable tribute to a woman’s strength in the... Read more
View audiobookDrawing Home
By: Jamie Brenner
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 12 hours
Abridged: No
An unexpected inheritance, a promise broken, and four lives changed forever: discover "the gold standard of summertime escapism" from USA Today bestselling author Jamie Brenner (Elin Hilderbrand).
Summer has started in idyllic Sag Harbor, and for Emma Mapson that means greeting guests at the front desk of The American Hotel. But when one of the... Read more
The Last Time I Saw You
By: Liv Constantine
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
“Thrilling. . . . a must-read!” — Mary Kubica
“Masterful.” — Wendy Walker
“I couldn’t put it down.” — Joseph FinderIn a world of wealth and privilege, a killer is hiding . . .The internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish follows that success with an addictive novel filled with shocking twists about the aftermath of a brutal... Read more
The Guest Book
By: Sarah Blake
Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
Length: 16 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"Orlagh Cassidy narrates Blake's beautifully written multigenerational story of love and lies with consummate skill. Elegant and clear, distant yet passionate, she helps listeners discover the quirks in characters' personalities and explore their motives, both evident and hidden." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
This program includes... Read more