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A Letter to Three Witches
By: Elizabeth Bass
Narrated by: Emily Durante & Nick Mondelli
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In the sleepy college town of Zenobia, New York, the only supernatural trace on display is the name of Gwen Engelās businessāAbracadabra Odd Job Service. But Gwenās family has some unusual abilities theyāve been keeping under wrapsāuntil one little letter spells big trouble... Nearly a century ago, Gwen Engelās great-great-grandfather cast a... Read more
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Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder
By: Kerryn Mayne
Narrated by: Annie Maynard
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life.
She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is playing Scrabble against an imaginary Monica Gellar while watching Friends... Read more


Please Look After Mom
By: Kyung-Sook Shin
Narrated by: Various
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A million-plus-copy best seller in Koreaāa magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensationāthis is the stunning, deeply moving story of a familyās search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway.
Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a... Read more


The Twilight Zone
By: Nona Fernandez
Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona FernĆ”ndez's mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man's face on the magazineās cover... Read more
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Egg Island
By: Sara Flemington
Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Two laconic teenage runaways plunge deep into backcountry, farther and farther away from civilization, searching for an extraordinary place that may or may not exist.
On the move for who knows how long, Julia, age unknown, walks into a gas station. There, the tall, ominous kid with a studded belt and crusty eyebrow ring who's stocking the fridge... Read more


White Horse
By: Erika T. Wurth
Narrated by: Tonantzin Carmelo
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"The audiobook narrated by Tonantzin Carmelo is enthralling." - Buzzfeed
"Narrator Tonantzin Carmeloās portrayal of Kari imbues her with a rebellious and tenacious attitude that makes her immediately likable." - Library Journal
Erika T. Wurth's White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut novel about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she... Read more


Carry the Dog
By: Stephanie Gangi
Narrated by: Cheryl Smith
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
āPowered by insight and true wit.ā āMeg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion
āI canāt remember the last time I was as completely bewitched by a fictional character as I was by Bea Seger . . .Ā What a treat to view life through the eyes of this funny, smart, gutsy woman.āĀ āRichard Russo, author of Empire Falls and... Read more


You Should See Me in a Crown
By: Leah Johnson
Narrated by: Alaska Jackson
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Becky Albertalli meets Jenny Han in a smart, hilarious, black girl magic, own voices rom-com by a staggeringly talented new writer.Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever:... Read more
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When You Trap a Tiger
By: Tae Keller
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL ⢠WINNER OF THE ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE ⢠#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERĀ ā¢Ā A PARADE BEST KIDS BOOK OF ALL TIME ⢠A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST MIDDLE GRADE BOOK OF THE CENTURY
Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on a quest... Read more


My Name Is Iris
By: Brando Skyhorse
Narrated by: Alejandra Reynoso
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
āBrilliant.ā āThe Washington Post * āNuanced and compelling.ā āThe New York Times
From the PEN/Hemingway Awardāwinning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, an engrossing dystopian novel set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands turn second-generation immigrants into second-class citizensāāa well-imagined allegory of... Read more


Assembly
By: Natasha Brown
Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No
This visionary and unflinching novel is about a black woman who has spent her life carefully navigating cutthroat worlds of privilege in her career and relationshipsāuntil one day she is pulled up short by a life and death decision.
Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Go to college, get an education, start a... Read more


Wretched Waterpark
By: Kiersten White
Narrated by: Keylor Leigh
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A middle-grade mystery series that's spooky, creepy, and filled with gothic twists!Ā Meet the Sinister-Winterbottom twins, who solve mysteries at increasingly bizarre summer vacation destinations in the hopes of being reunited with their parentsāor at the very least finally finding a good churro.
āAn absolute delight. If I have to die in a... Read more


This Time Will Be Different
By: Misa Sugiura
Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
AĀ Kirkus ReviewsĀ Best BookFor fans of Jenny Han, Morgan Matson, and Sandhya Menon, critically acclaimed author Misa SugiuraĀ delivers a richly crafted contemporary YA novel about family, community, and the importance of writing your own history.
The author of the Asian Pacific American Award-winningĀ Itās Not Like Itās a SecretĀ is back with another... Read more


Tigers, Not Daughters
By: Samantha Mabry
Narrated by: Luis Moreno
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
THE FIRST TIME ANA TORRES C A M E B AC K A S A G H O S T, HER SISTERS WERENāT THERE.
A year later, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, still consumed by grief and haunted by Anaās memory, start
noticing strange things around the house: laughter without a voice, shadows cast by nothing,
writing on the walls. None of them have seen Ana, but they know sheās... Read more


All Her Little Secrets
By: Wanda M. Morris
Narrated by: Susan Dalian
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
āAll Her Little SecretsĀ is a brilliantly nuanced but powerhouse exploration of race, the legal system, and the crushing pressure of keeping secrets. Morris brings a vibrant and welcome new voice to the thriller space.āĀ āKarin Slaughter,Ā New York TimesĀ and international bestselling authorĀ Ā In this fast-paced thriller, Wanda M. Morris crafts a... Read more
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Fever Dream
By: Samanta Schweblin
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
NOW A FEATURE FILM COMING SOON TO NETFLIX
"Genius." āJia Tolentino, The New Yorker
Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize!
Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream...
A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. Sheās not his mother. He's not her child. Together,... Read more


Cereus Blooms at Night
By: Shani Mootoo
Narrated by: Shaquille James-Hosten
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
FINALIST FOR THE GILLER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE
Bold and lyrical, sensual and highly charged, Cereus Blooms at Night is the beautifully written, sensational first novel by Shani Mootoo, one of Canadaās most exciting literary voices.
Ā Ā Ā At the core of this haunting multi-generational novel are the shifting faces of... Read more


2 A.M. in Little America
By: Ken Kalfus
Narrated by: BJ Harrison
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
From "an important writer in every sense" (David Foster Wallace), a novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders, into an unwelcoming world.
One such American is Ron Patterson, who finds himself on distant shores, working as a repairman and sharing a room with other refugees.... Read more


D (A Tale of Two Worlds)
By: Michel Faber
Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh Young
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
āGlorious. A story that will be found and enjoyed and dreamed about for years to come.āāNeil Gaiman
A stunning modern-day Dickensian fable and a celebration of friendship and bravery for freethinkers everywhere.
It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from language. First, it vanishes from Dhikiloās parentsā conversation at breakfast,... Read more


Ghosts of Gold Mountain
By: Gordon H. Chang
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.
From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous... Read more


Dinosaurs
By: Lydia Millet
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
"Over twelve novels and two collections, Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist, writing vividly about the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite new novel, the first since A Childrenās Bible, tells the story of an Arizona manās relationship with the family next door, whose house has one... Read more
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Motherhood
By: Sheila Heti
Narrated by: Sheila Heti
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of How Should a Person Be? (āone of the most talked-about books of the yearāāTime Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring audiobook about whether to have children.
In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential... Read more


The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes
By: Cat Sebastian
Narrated by: Joel Leslie
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Cat Sebastian returns to Georgian London with a stunning tale of a reluctant criminal and the thief who cannot help but love her.
Marian Hayes, the Duchess of Clare, just shot her husband. Of course, the evil, murderous man deserved what was coming to him, but now she must flee to the countryside. Unfortunately, the only person she can ask for... Read more


Madwoman
By: Chelsea Bieker
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
āThe rare kind of book that lives in your bonesā (Ashley Audrain), this novel tells a gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themselves and each other alive, marking the arrival of a major fiction talent.
The world is not made for mothers.
Yet mothers made the worldā¦
Clove hasĀ gone to extremes to... Read more