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Madwoman

By: Chelsea Bieker

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“The rare kind of book that lives in your bones” (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 world…

Clove has gone to extremes to... Read more

They Went Left

By: Monica Hesse

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A tour de force historical mystery from Monica Hesse, the bestselling and award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat. Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal, her mind feels broken. And her... Read more

The Queen

By: Nick Cutter

Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Zac Aleman, Corey Brill & Pete Sim...

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From “one of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop—a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth.

On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on her doorstep. She switches it and... Read more

On a Wing and a Tear

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A living legend roosting in the backyard. An unmissable game. A hair-raising mystery. A road trip full of adventure and danger. And all the overlapping circles that connect us throughout Creation.Melanie “Mel” Roberts and Ray Halfmoon may be from different Indigenous Nations, but the friends have become like siblings since the Robertses moved in... Read more

Afterland

By: Lauren Beukes

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Children of Men meets The Handmaid's Tale in this "smartly written" and "splendid" thriller about how far a mother will go to protect her son from a hostile world transformed by the absence of men (Stephen King).

Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still hold and life continues—but a world... Read more

The Children on the Hill

By: Jennifer McMahon

Narrated by: Erin Moon

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Drowning Kind comes a genre-defying novel, inspired by Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein, that brilliantly explores the eerie mysteries of childhood and the evils perpetrated by the monsters among us.

1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist,... Read more

The Vicar

By: A. J. Chambers

Narrated by: Rory Barnett

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the author’s own experience, The Vicar introduces Terry Nolan, an MI5 operative who, when he discovers his cover is blown and millions of lives are at stake, will do whatever it takes to stop enemy forces.Terry Nolan, an off-the-books MI5 operative known as the Vicar, has been officially dead for the past thirty years. But when Nolan... Read more

The Raging Storm

By: Ann Cleeves

Narrated by: Jack Holden

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"Holden masterfully conveys the inner struggles of Venn and his team, rounding out the humanity of the investigators. With its twists and turns, the plot keeps listeners engaged. An added bonus is Ann Cleeves speaking directly to listeners about the origin of the Venn series."- AudioFile

"Jack Holden demonstrates his full talents in this... Read more

We Run the Tides

By: Vendela Vida

Narrated by: Marin Ireland

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An achingly beautiful and wickedly funny story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance, set in the changing landscape of San FranciscoTeenage Eulabee and her alluring best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy, oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know the ins and outs of the homes and... Read more

The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"The plotting is intricate, following the points of view of many characters from the past and present, all of whom are expertly performed by Adam Lazarre-White." - Library Journal

"Adam Lazarre-White narrates this terrifying debut novel with a Southern drawl that puts the gothic into this gothic thriller."- AudioFile

A terrifying Gothic thriller... Read more

No One Can Know

By: Kate Alice Marshall

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Vacker's narration keeps listeners on their toes throughout this twisty story of corrupt officials, sociopathic relatives, and dark family secrets. Vacker's character work captures the shifting nature of Emma's desperate need to protect her complicated family members."—AudioFile

Three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count.

Fourteen... Read more

Caul Baby

By: Morgan Jerkins

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in paperback, New York Times bestselling author Morgan Jerkins's fiction debut,  an electrifying novel for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jacqueline Woodson, that brings to life one powerful and enigmatic family in a tale rife with secrets, betrayal, intrigue, and magic. Laila desperately wants to become a mother, but each of her previous... Read more

Norwegian Wood

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore: A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (The New York Times Book Review) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love.

Now with a new introduction by the author.

Toru, a serious young... Read more

Lady Sunshine

By: Amy Mason Doan

Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“A delicious daydream of a book.” —Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of 28 Summers

“With lyrical writing and a page-turning plot, this sun-dappled book has it all.” —Karen Dukess, author of The Last Book Party

ONE ICONIC FAMILY. ONE SUMMER OF SECRETS. THE DAZZLING SPIRIT OF 1970S CALIFORNIA.

For Jackie Pierce, everything changed... Read more

Random Acts of Medicine

By: Anupam B. Jena & Christopher Worsham

Narrated by: Anupam B. Jena & Christopher Worsham

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hidden side of medicine and how unexpected—but predictable—events can profoundly affect our health. • Is there ever a good time to have a heart attack? Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful... Read more

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire

By: Alice Walker

Narrated by: Aunjanue Ellis, Walker & Janina Edwards

Length: 22 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize­–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women’s activist, and intellectual.

For the first time, the... Read more

Pizza Girl

By: Jean Kyoung Frazier

Narrated by: Jeena Yi

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST • An audacious and wryly funny coming-of-age story about a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers.

Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial. She's... Read more

Little Foxes Took Up Matches

By: Katya Kazbek

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An arresting coming of age, an exploration of gender, a modern folktale, a powerful portrait of a family—Katya Kazbek breaks out as a new voice to watch.

When Mitya was two years old, he swallowed his grandmother’s sewing needle. For his family, it marks the beginning of the end, the promise of certain death. For Mitya, it is a small, metal... Read more

Outsider

By: Linda Castillo

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Linda Castillo follows her instant New York Times bestseller, Shamed, with Outsider, an electrifying thriller about a woman on the run hiding among the Amish.

While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, Amish widower Adam Lengacher discovers a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious woman inside. He calls upon Chief of Police Kate... Read more

Before the Ever After

By: Jacqueline Woodson

Narrated by: Guy Lockard

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD

WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARD

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies.

For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a... Read more

A Deadly Inside Scoop

By: Abby Collette

Narrated by: Chandra Skyye

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This book kicks off a charming cozy mystery series set in an ice cream shop—with a fabulous cast of quirky characters.



Recent MBA grad Bronwyn Crewse has just taken over her family's ice cream shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and she's going back to basics. Win is renovating Crewse Creamery to restore its former glory, and filling the menu with... Read more

Alebrijes

By: Donna Barba Higuera

Narrated by: Cisco Fernandez & Frankie Corzo

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The next stunning novel from Donna Barba Higuera, author of Newbery and Pura Belpré Award-winning The Last Cuentista

This is the story as it was told to me by Leandro the Mighty

For over 400 years, the world has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel—or go it alone in the... Read more

The Maker of Swans

By: Paraic O'Donnell

Narrated by: Imogen Wilde & Mike Grady

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman—his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe—and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master's mess like he always has before? Or... Read more

Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

By: Mazey Eddings

Narrated by: Summer Morton & Will Peters

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Mazey Eddings, author of the “witty, fast-paced rom-com”* A Brush with Love, mixes passion and humor to create a luscious love story between two people stumbling through life and learning to open their hearts in Lizzie Blake’s Best Mistake.

Lizzie has made endless mistakes. Kitchen fires, pyramid schemes, bangs (of the hair and human variety),... Read more