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My Name Is Iris
By: Brando Skyhorse
Narrated by: Alejandra Reynoso
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
“Brilliant.” —The Washington Post * “Nuanced and compelling.” —The New York Times
From the PEN/Hemingway Award–winning 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 citizens—“a well-imagined allegory of... 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
View audiobookNightbloom
By: Peace Adzo Medie
Narrated by: Jessica Sarkodie, Ekua Ekumah & Sarah Dorgbadzi
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Reese's Book Club Pick His Only Wife, this moving novel about the unbreakable power of female friendship follows two estranged women in Ghana who reconnect in a crisis.
When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls in Ghana, they were more than just cousins; they were inseparable. Selasi was exuberant and funny, Akorfa quiet and... Read more
The First Bright Thing
By: J.R. Dawson
Narrated by: Petrea Burchard & Tim Campbell
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today?
"This is the magic circus book that I have been looking for all my life."―Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of Every Heart A Doorway
"With earnestness that matches the author's poignant story, narrator Petrea Burchard introduces listeners to the Circus of the... Read more
The God of Good Looks
By: Breanne Mc Ivor
Narrated by: Varia Williams & Alexis Rodney
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
An NPR best book of the year and recommended by Oprah Daily, Good Housekeeping, Zibby Mag, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, and Katie Couric Media!""A summer read with bite.”—NPRDisgraced model-writer Bianca Bridge can’t stand hotshot makeup maven Obadiah Cortland. And he lets her know the feeling is mutual. But when working together is their last resort,... Read more
View audiobookPaper Names
By: Susie Luo
Narrated by: Austin Ku
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
*A Publishers Lunch Buzz Book*
An unexpected act of violence brings together a Chinese-American family and a wealthy white lawyer in this propulsive and sweeping story of family, identity and the American experience—for fans of Jean Kwok, Mary Beth Keane and Naima Coster.
Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it... Read more
Wolfish
By: Erica Berry
Narrated by: Lessa Lamb
Length: 15 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
"Lessa Lamb narrates with a fine tone and timbre. She inhabits the youthful sound and elegant style of this layered audiobook. Her timing and sense of occasion add richness to its informed foray into all things wolf as she captures the drama, fear, and anxiety that underlie the immersive presentation." - AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award... Read more
View audiobookMy Last Innocent Year
By: Daisy Alpert Florin
Narrated by: Sarah Bierstock
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"The youthful-sounding Sarah Bierstock is an excellent choice to narrate this coming-of-age novel... Bierstock creates a likable character in Isabel, and listeners will want her to find her path--even if takes an affair with a professor to eliminate the bad options."- AudioFile
An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual... Read more
Tell Me I'm Worthless
By: Alison Rumfitt
Narrated by: Nicky Endres
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless is a dark, unflinching haunted house story that confronts both supernatural and real-world horrors through the lens of the modern-day trans experience.
"Nicky Endres pulls out all the stops when performing this horror story about a haunted house and the shocking trauma it inflicts on three people...This is... Read more
Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
By: Bushra Rehman
Narrated by: Bushra Rehman
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
For fans of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community
"I LOVED EVERY MOMENT." —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!
"Bushra Rehman performs her novel of a queer Pakistani American girl who is coming of age... Read more
Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone
By: Sequoia Nagamatsu
Narrated by: Brian Nishii & June Angela
Length: 4 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
"You should be here; he's simply magnificent." These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the kaiju (Japan's giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw. "The Return to Monsterland" opens Where We Go... Read more
View audiobookTread of Angels
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 4 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Celeste, a card sharp with a need for justice, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering a Virtue, a member of the ruling class of this mining town, in an “intricate…engrossing” (The Washington Post) new world of dark fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Sun, Rebecca... Read more
View audiobookNerd
By: Maya Phillips
Narrated by: Maya Phillips
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In the vein of You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) and Black Nerd Problems, this witty, incisive essay collection from New York Times critic at large Maya Phillips explores race, religion, sexuality, and more through the lens of her favorite pop culture fandoms.
From the moment Maya Phillips saw the opening scroll of Star Wars, Episode V:... Read more
The American Roommate Experiment
By: Elena Armas
Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya & Noah B. Perez
Length: 14 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Cosmopolitan, Goodreads, PopSugar, and more!
From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment.
Rosie Graham has a problem. A few,... 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
This Story Will Change
By: Elizabeth Crane
Narrated by: Elizabeth Crane
Length: 4 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage and how life can fall apart and be rebuilt in wonderful and surprising ways.
One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas, and... Read more
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
The Couple at Number 9
By: Claire Douglas
Narrated by: Kenton Thomas & Nathalie Buscombe
Length: 12 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
“Tense, twisty, fraught with emotion and packed with secrets, The Couple at Number 9 is Claire’s best thriller yet.”—Gilly MacMillan, bestselling author of What She KnewThe internationally bestselling author of Do Not Disturb and Just Like the Other Girls delivers a heart-pounding psychological thriller about a couple who inherit what seems to... Read more
View audiobookThe Book of Gothel
By: Mary McMyne
Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson
Length: 13 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
This dark, lush, and beautiful reimagining of the story of Rapunzel presents the witch’s perspective in this tale of motherhood, magic, and the stories we pass down to our children."Smart, swift, sure-footed and fleet-winged, The Book of Gothel launches its magic from a most reliable source: the troubled heart. Mary McMyne is a... Read more
View audiobookThe Kingdoms of Savannah
By: George Dawes Green
Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Jeanette Illidge, Karen Commins, K...
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"The narrators form a kind of tag team as they voice the florid descriptions of the city, its people, and a murder investigation led by the unlikeliest of characters, high society's Morgana Musgrove, portrayed by Karen Commins." - AudioFile on The Kingdoms of Savannah
Savannah may appear to be “some town out of a fable,” with its vine flowers,... Read more
The Most Precious Substance on Earth
By: Shashi Bhat
Narrated by: Meher Pavri
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat’s "powerful, surprising and terrifying" (Rufi Thorpe) story about a high school student's traumatic experience and how it irrevocably alters her life, for fans of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Girlhood, and Pen15.
Bright, hilarious, and sensitive fourteen-year-old Nina spends her spare time reading Beowulf... Read more
Blood and Moonlight
By: Erin Beaty
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Perfect for fans of Kerri Maniscalco and Mary E. Pearson, a young woman with dangerous magical abilities teams up with a handsome detective to hunt down an elusive serial killer in this dark and romantic fantasy thriller.
When orphan Catrin witnesses a murder on the streets of Collis, she’s pulled into a deadly chain of events where the only... Read more
The Key to Deceit
By: Ashley Weaver
Narrated by: Alison Larkin
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
London, 1940. After years of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor—well, to themselves, anyway—Ellie McDonnell and her family have turned over a new leaf as they help the government’s war effort. It’s true that the straight-laced Major Ramsey didn’t give them much choice, but still, Ellie must admit she doesn’t miss breaking and entering... Read more
View audiobookThe Maker of Swans
By: Paraic O'Donnell
Narrated by: Mike Grady & Imogen Wilde
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
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