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I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
By: Peter S. Beagle
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A USA TODAY bestseller
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Unicorn comes a new novel with equal amounts of power and whimsy in which a loveable cast of characters trapped within their roles of dragon hunter, princess, and more must come together to take their fates into their own hands.
Dragons are common in the backwater... Read more


Lady Macbeth
By: Ava Reid
Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a “masterful reimagining” (Publishers Weekly) of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s most famous villainess, giving her a voice, a past, and a power that transforms the story men have written for her.
“Lady Macbeth doesn’t retell Shakespeare so much as slice cleanly... Read more


All the Blues in the Sky
By: Renée Watson
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Bloomsbury presents All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson, read by Bahni Turpin.
# 1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor author Renée Watson explores friendship, loss, and life with grief in this poignant novel in verse and vignettes.
Sage's thirteenth birthday was supposed to be about movies and treats, staying up late with her best... Read more


Evocation
By: S.T. Gibson
Narrated by: Oscar Reyes
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of B&N's best books of 2022 A Dowry of Blood, comes a spellbinding and vibrant new series.
The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov.
As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodigy, operating under the shadow of his oppressive occultist father. Now, years after his father's death and rapidly... Read more


That Librarian
By: Amanda Jones
Narrated by: Amanda Jones
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Bloomsbury presents That Librarian written and read by Amanda Jones.
“Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she’s not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories.”—Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards
"Amanda Jones clearly... Read more


Hench
By: Natalie Zina Walschots
Narrated by: Alex McKenna
Length: 14 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
“This book is fast, furious, compelling, and angry as hell."" -- Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author The Boys meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affection, in which a young woman discovers the greatest... Read more
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The Dallergut Dream Department Store
By: Miye Lee
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
THE #1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD
For fans of magical realism and the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi comes this cozy fantasy debut.
What if there was a store that sold dreams? Which would you buy? And who might you become when you wake up?
In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious... Read more


Fi
By: Alexandra Fuller
Narrated by: Alexandra Fuller
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award-winning New York Times bestselling author, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexandra Fuller’s open, vivid new memoir, Fi. It’s midsummer in Wyoming and... Read more


Wayward Witch
By: Zoraida Cordova
Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Rose Mortiz has always been a fixer, but lately she’s been feeling lost.
She has brand new powers that she doesn’t understand, and her family
is still trying to figure out how to function in the wake of her amnesiac
father’s return home. Then, on the night of her Death Day party, Rose
discovers her father’s memory loss has been a lie.
As she rushes... Read more


How Much of These Hills Is Gold
By: C Pam Zhang
Narrated by: Catherine Ho & Joel de la Fuente
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
WINNER OF THE ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION AWARD, FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND... Read more


VenCo
By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Michelle St. John
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
""Once I opened VenCo, I was propelled through an entire night of charmed reading. Cherie Dimaline creates a world utterly fantastical, yet real. VenCo is funny, tense, and cracking with a dark, divine energy."" ---Louise Erdrich, New York Times bestselling author of The SentenceFor fans of The Once and Future Witches and Practical Magic, comes... Read more
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A Funny Kind of Paradise
By: Jo Owens
Narrated by: Maggie Huculak
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A poignant, uplifting, brilliantly insightful story of one woman's end-of-life reckoning with her past, her lost daughter and herself, for readers of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Still Alice and Elizabeth Is Missing.
When her husband left her with a baby, a toddler and a fledgling business, Francesca managed--she wasn't always gentle or... Read more


Eyes on the Sky
By: J. Kasper Kramer
Narrated by: Lillie Ricciardi
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From acclaimed author J. Kasper Kramer comes a middle grade novel that’s “part gritty historical fiction, part The War of the Worlds” (Kirkus Reviews) about a budding young scientist in 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, who fears her weather balloon experiment has been mistaken for a flying saucer!
Nothing ever happens in Roswell, New Mexico. Dorothy... Read more


The Unfinished
By: Cheryl Isaacs
Narrated by: Julie Lumsden
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In her stunning debut, Cheryl Isaacs (Mohawk) pulls the reader into an unsettling tale of monsters, mystery, and secrets that refuse to stay submerged.When small-town athlete Avery’s morning run leads her to a strange pond in the middle of the forest, she awakens a horror the townspeople of Crook’s Falls have long forgotten.The black water has... Read more
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On Looking
By: Alexandra Horowitz
Narrated by: Alexandra Horowitz
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy, this “elegant and entertaining” (The Boston Globe) explanation of how humans perceive their environments “does more than open our eyes...opens our hearts and minds, too, gently awakening us to a world—in fact, many worlds—we’ve been missing” (USA... Read more
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The West Passage
By: Jared Pechaček
Narrated by: Steve West
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A palace the size of a city, ruled by giant Ladies of unknowable, eldritch origin. A land left to slow decay, drowning in the debris of generations. All this and more awaits you within The West Passage, a delightfully mysterious and intriguingly weird medieval fantasy unlike anything you've read before.
“The West Passage is a dangerous book of... Read more


The Glass Girl
By: Kathleen Glasgow
Narrated by: Gail Shalan
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the critically acclaimed author of Girl in Pieces comes a raw, heart-wrenching novel about a teenager facing down her struggles with alcohol—and the journey she must take to heal.
“A must-read.” —Laura Nowlin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of If He Had Been with Me
“Everyone needs this book.” —Sloan Harlow,... Read more


Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
By: Wole Talabi
Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The debut fantasy novel from an award-winning, Nebula-nominated Nigerian author
A mythic tale of disgruntled gods, revenge, and a heist across two worlds, perfect for fans of Nnedi Okorafor, Neil Gaiman, Marlon James, and Karen LordShigidi is a disgruntled and demotivated nightmare god in the Orisha spirit company, reluctantly answering prayers of... Read more


Wanted
By: Stephanie Kiser
Narrated by: Stephanie Kiser
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all . . .
When Stephanie Kiser moves to New York City after college to pursue a career in writing, she quickly learns that her entry-level salary won't cover the cost of living. But there is one in-demand job that pays enough to allow Stephanie to stay in the city:... Read more
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