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The Wedding People
By: Alison Espach
Narrated by: Helen Laser
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
"As narrator, the terrific Laser, an actress and puppeteer, only enhances the swoon-worthy quirks and romance." āVulture
A Today show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick, A Goodreads Choice Awards 2024 Winner, and long-listed in many Best of the Year 2024 picks!
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest ... Read more


The House in the Cerulean Sea
By: TJ Klune
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"Daniel Henning is a great narrator for this quirky and theatrical audiobook...Henning revels in a cornucopia of characters, diving into nuanced voices and colorful moments with accents and growls, tone shifts and whispers...This is definitely a title for those who enjoy fantasy stories replete with gnomes and witches and all in between" --... Read more
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
By: Shelby Van Pelt
Narrated by: Marin Ireland & Michael Urie
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times BestsellerSoon to be a Netflix FilmA Read With JennaĀ TodayĀ Show Book Club Pick!āRemarkably Bright CreaturesĀ is a beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing.ā -- Kevin Wilson, author ofĀ Nothing to See HereFor fans ofĀ A Man Called Ove, a charming,... Read more
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Listen for the Lie
By: Amy Tintera
Narrated by: January LaVoy & Will Damron
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
"A world-class whodunit." āStephen King
āAn extremely successful high-wire act, balancing between dark comedy and darker thrills.ā āAlex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author
āLaugh-out-loud funny, thrilling and twisty...ā āLiane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author
What if you thought you murdered your best... Read more


We Solve Murders
By: Richard Osman
Narrated by: Nicola Walker
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
āMadcap fun, with an entertaining new cast of characters and Osmanās trademark wit. Delightful!ā āShari Lapena
From the #1 bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club Series
A brand new mystery. An iconic new detective duo. And a thrilling new murder to solve . . .
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He... Read more


The Spellshop
By: Sarah Beth Durst
Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The Spellshop is Sarah Beth Durstās romantasy debutāa lush cottagecore tale full of stolen spellbooks, unexpected friendships, sweet jams, and even sweeter love.
Join Kiela the librarian and her assistant, Caz the sentient spider plant, as they navigate the low stakes market of illegal spellmaking and the high risk business of starting... Read more


The Secret History of the Rape Kit
By: Pagan Kennedy
Narrated by: Claire Danes
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Marty Goddard dreamed up a new crime-solving toolāa kit that could help rape survivors fight for justice. This thrilling investigation tells the story of the troubled, heroic woman who kicked off a feminist revolution in forensics, and then vanished into obscurity.
"Astonishing . . . Marty Goddard takes her rightful place as a visionary thanks to... Read more


Godkiller
By: Hannah Kaner
Narrated by: Kit Griffiths
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!āAn epic fantasy odyssey begins.ā ā Entertainment Weekly""A richly rendered world . . . Kaner writes action that's both fun and intelligible . . . If ""The Last of Us"" didn't slake your thirst for stories of a grizzled fighter taking a tough kid on the road, thenĀ GodkillerĀ should be... Read more
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Long Live Evil
By: Sarah Rees Brennan
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
Length: 17 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
This adult epic fantasy debut from Sarah Rees Brennan puts the reader in the villain's shoes, for an adventure that is both "brilliant" (Holly Black) and "supremely satisfying" (Leigh Bardugo). Expect a rogue's gallery of villains including an axe wielding maid, a shining knight with dark moods, a homicidal bodyguard, and a playboy spymaster... Read more
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Unromance
By: Erin Connor
Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson Shaw & Lee Osorio
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A recently dumped TV heartthrob enlists a jaded romance novelist to ruin romance for himāone rom-com trope at a timeāso he never gets swept off his feet again . . .
Sawyer Greene knows romance. Sheās a bestselling author of the genreāor she was, until her ex left her with nothing but writerās block and a broken heart. But when she gets stuck in... Read more


Death at the Sign of the Rook
By: Kate Atkinson
Narrated by: Jason Isaacs
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER (SUNDAY TIMES, UK) ā¢Ā The highly anticipated return of "irresistible" (New York Times) private eye Jackson BrodieĀ in the newest installment of the bestselling series hailed as "unputdownable" by Time
āHow delicious to have Jackson Brodie back, this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie's world... Read more


She Gets the Girl
By: Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus & Valentina Ortiz
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Sheās All That meets What If Itās Us in this New York Times bestselling hate-to-love YA romantic comedy from the coauthor of Five Feet Apart Rachael Lippincott and debut writer Alyson Derrick.
Alex Blackwood is a little bit headstrong, with a dash of chaos and a whole lot of flirt. She knows how to get the girl. Keeping her on the other handā¦not... Read more


The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
By: Karina Yan Glaser
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease, the five siblings have eleven days to do whatever it takes to stay in their beloved home and convince the dreaded Beiderman just how wonderful they... Read more
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Counterfeit
By: Kirstin Chen
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKāA con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp . . . Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious readābut beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream and the myth of the model minority. . . . Chen is up to something innovative and... Read more
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There Is No Ethan
By: Anna Akbari
Narrated by: Anna Akbari & Justin Price
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of three women coming face-to-face with an internet predator and teaming up to expose them.
In 2011, three successful and highly educated women fell head over heels for the brilliant and charming Ethan Schuman. Unbeknownst to the others, each exchanged... Read more


Annie Bot
By: Sierra Greer
Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American, Harper's Bazaar and NPR. Named a Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of the Year by the Washington Post and Elle. Nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in Science Fiction.""Provocative...aĀ FrankensteinĀ for the digital age...a rich text about power, autonomy, and what happens when our... Read more
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Lazarus Man
By: Richard Price
Narrated by: Robb Moreira
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, gives us razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem.
"Novelist Richard Price has as fine an ear for American speech as anyone writing today..."āAudioFile
East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble,... Read more


The Door-to-Door Bookstore
By: Carsten Henn
Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The charming international bestseller about an unlikely friendship between an elderly door-to-door bookseller and a nine-year-old girl that changes his life.
Small-town German booksellerĀ Carl KollhoffĀ delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city.Ā These people... Read more


Sipping Dom PĆ©rignon Through a Straw
By: Eddie Ndopu
Narrated by: Eddie Ndopu
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A memoir penned with one good finger,Ā Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful
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Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told that he wouldnāt live beyond age five and yet, Ndopu thrived. He grew up loving pop... Read more


Listening Still
By: Anne Griffin
Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Narrated by Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton, Derry Girls)
From Anne Griffin, the bestselling author of When All is Said, comes Listening Still, a refreshing new novel about a young woman who can hear the deadāa talent which is both a gift and a curse.
Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and... Read more


The Silence that Binds Us
By: Joanna Ho
Narrated by: Raechel Wong
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
āA grieving teen fights Asian hate by finding her voice in this complex, timely story.ā āKirkus (starred review)""With a layered, sensitive voice, Hoās weighty novel delves into themes of racism, classism, loss, and healing."" āPublishers Weekly (starred review)āInspired by the recent rise in hate crimes against AAPI, Hoās story of inclusion,... Read more
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Other Words for Home
By: Jasmine Warga
Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
New York TimesĀ bestseller and Newbery Honor Book!
A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl whoĀ must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed.Jude never thought sheād be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria.... Read more


Shouting at the Rain
By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Fish in a Tree comes a compelling story about perspective and learning to love the family you have.
Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's always lived with her kindhearted Grammy, but now she's looking at their life with new eyes and... Read more


Enter the Body
By: Joy McCullough
Narrated by: Joy McCullough, Valerie Rose Lohman, Annie Q & ...
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
āAt once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bardās most tragic heroines. More than a tribute to Shakespeare, this kaleidoscopic, ambitious novel-in-verse gives Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and Lavinia the chance to tell their own stories full of passion, justice, sisterhood, and love. Simply... Read more
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