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Witch King
By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Eric Mok
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Eric Mok makes this wonderfully inventive and diverse fantasy eminently accessible... Mok's Kai is appealing and relatable--he sounds simultaneously young and resigned, weary of death and pain and betrayal and yet still hopeful for something better. Listeners will hope we get more of this fascinating world."- AudioFile
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Pony Confidential
By: Christina Lynch
Narrated by: Erin Moon & Blair Young
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
An NPR "Book of the Day"
In this one-of-a-kind mystery with heart and humor, a hilariously grumpy pony must save the only human he’s ever loved after discovering she stands accused of a murder he knows she didn’t commit.
Pony has been passed from owner to owner for longer than he can remember. Fed up, he busts out and goes on a cross-country... Read more
The Whalebone Theatre: A Read with Jenna Pick
By: Joanna Quinn
Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
Length: 18 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre made of whalebones to covert operations during World War II—a story of love, family, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation.
“Absolute aces...Quinn’s imagination... Read more
The River
By: Peter Heller
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A Nominee for the 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Awards
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"A fiery tour de force… I could not put this book down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful." –Alison Borden, The Denver Post
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship... Read more
Before the Fall
By: Noah Hawley
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are the painter Scott Burroughs and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of... Read more
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By: Trevanian
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 16 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Nicholai Hel, born in the ravages of World War I China to an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious German father, and raised in the spiritual gardens of a Japanese Go master, survives the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world’s most artful lover and its most accomplished and highly paid assassin. Genius, mystic, master of... Read more
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