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Devolution
By: Max Brooks
Narrated by: Judy Greer, Max Brooks, Jeff Daniels, Nathan Fi...
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of World War Z is back with âthe Bigfoot thriller you didnât know you needed in your life, and one of the greatest horror novels Iâve ever readâ (Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and Recursion).
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As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainierâs eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop... Read more


The Turn of the Key
By: Ruth Ware
Narrated by: Imogen Church
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
âA superb suspense writerâŠBrava, Ruth Ware. I daresay even Henry James would be impressed.â âMaureen Corrigan, author of So We Read On
âThis appropriately twisty Turn of the Screw update finds the Woman in Cabin 10 author in her most menacing mode, unfurling a shocking saga of murder and deception.â... Read more


Red Dog Farm
By: Nathaniel Ian Miller
Narrated by: Olafur Darri Olafsson
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
An atmospheric coming-of-age story about a young man's transformative year on his familyâs struggling Icelandic cattle farm as he falls in love, discovers the purpose heâs been missing, and seeks to connect with his stoic father, who remains haunted by a tragic past.
Growing up on his familyâs cattle farm in western Iceland, young Orri has... Read more


The Shadows
By: Alex North
Narrated by: Hannah Arterton & John Heffernan
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
"If you liked The Whisper Man, youâll love this. Alex North has crafted a second novel which is just as gripping as his first and even scarier. Hugely atmospheric and deliciously creepy, itâs about how the past encroaches on the present, and how dreaming influences reality, until in the frightening world of The Shadows, it becomes harder and... Read more
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White Ivy
By: Susie Yang
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
âA truly addictive readâ (Glamour) about how a young womanâs crush on a privileged former classmate becomes a story of love, lies, and dark obsession, offering stark insights into the immigrant experience, as it hurtles to its electrifying ending in this âtwisty, unputdownable, psychological thrillerâ (People).
Ivy Lin is a thief and a liarâbut... Read more


Oona Out of Order
By: Margarita Montimore
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
AMAZON EDITORS' 20 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR PICK
"Reminiscent of Liane Moriartyâs What Alice Forgot and Kate Atkinsonâs Life After Life, Oona Out of Order is a delightfully freewheeling romp.â âBooklist (starred review)
Oona Out of Order is a remarkably inventive novel that explores what it... Read more


The Arctic Fury
By: Greer Macallister
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic, and find her husband, Lord Franklin, and his lost expedition. Four parties have failed to find him, and Lady Franklin wants a radical new approach: put the women in charge.
Lady Franklin will disavow all knowledge of the... Read more


The Weight of a Piano
By: Chris Cander
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a BlĂŒthner piano, on which she discovers an enrichening passion for music. Yet after she marries, her husband insists the family emigrate to Americaâand loses her piano in the process.
In 2012, in Bakersfield, California,... Read more


Weather
By: Jenny Offill
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANTÂ NEW YORK TIMESÂ BEST SELLERÂ
From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculationâone of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Yearâa âdarkly funny and urgentâ (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis
Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But... Read more


The Last Book Party
By: Karen Dukess
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
âThe 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.ââ Taylor Jenkins Reid,... Read more
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Mothers of Sparta
By: Dawn Davies
Narrated by: Dawn Davies
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author
If youâre looking for a parenting audiobook, this is not it. This is not a treatise on how to be a mother.
This is an audiobook about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an adrift twenty-something who drops out of college to pursue... Read more


The Dinner List
By: Rebecca Serle
Narrated by: Rebecca Serle
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"With delicate intimacy, author Rebecca Serle narrates a story that involves a surrealist dinner party and reflections on a decade of love and heartache...magic and emotive undertones make this audiobook bewitching." â AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by the author.
âWeâve been waiting for an hour.â Thatâs what Audrey says. She states it... Read more


Lying in Wait
By: Liz Nugent
Narrated by: Caoilfhionn Dunne, David McFetridge & Lesley Mc...
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond and Unraveling Oliverâa brilliantly plotted, utterly immersive novel lauded by A.J. Finnâ#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Windowâas âextraordinaryâŠcrackles and snaps like a bonfire on a winterâs night.â
My husband did not mean to kill Annie Doyle, but... Read more