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A Governess's Guide to Passion and Peril
By: Manda Collins
Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Two friends reunite and discover hidden feelings while investigating a murder in this sensual, witty historical romance—perfect for fans of Evie Dunmore and Netflix's Bridgerton!
Jane Halliwell once dreamed of a home of her own—but those dreams (and her dowry) died with her father. Now, she works as a governess, preparing her charge for a... Read more
Rules for Rule Breaking
By: Talia Tucker
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo & Nick Martineau
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Booksmart meets Never Have I Ever in this debut YA rom-com about two Korean American teens forced into a shared college visit road trip where they discover that the reasons they’ve been rivals their entire lives might actually be signs they’re a perfect pair.
Winter Park and Bobby Bae are Korean American high school juniors whose families have... Read more
How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems
By: Mikeas Sánchez
Narrated by: Mikeas Sánchez, Wendy Call & Shook
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sánchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism... Read more
View audiobookTastes Like Shakkar
By: Nisha Sharma
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani & Vikas Adam
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In the hilarious follow-up to the breakout rom-com Dating Dr. Dil, Nisha Sharma adds shakkar and mirch to Shakespeare’s iconic comedy Much Ado About Nothing for one sweet and spicy love story.Bobbi Kaur is determined to plan a celebration to remember for her best friend’s wedding. But she has two problems that are getting in her way:1. The... Read more
View audiobookHow I Won a Nobel Prize
By: Julius Taranto
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
An incisive, wickedly funny novel about a graduate student who decides to follow her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience (and marriage). Helen is one of the best minds of her generation. A young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature... Read more
View audiobookAmazing Grace Adams
By: Fran Littlewood
Narrated by: Claire Skinner
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
A Today Read With Jenna Book Club Pick
"I dare you not to fall wildly in love with Grace...It's a book about love, about grace, about even when we fall from those we love we can always find our way home...You will laugh on the first page and you will keep laughing until you're crying on the last page." ―Jenna... Read more
Good Bad Girl
By: Alice Feeney
Narrated by: Katherine Press & Stephanie Racine
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
"Stephanie Racine's talented narration helps create an atmospheric backdrop for this dark mystery.... Her timing helps the tension build as the events head to a revealing climax." —AudioFile on Daisy Darker
Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things.
Our Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and... Read more
The Wife App
By: Carolyn Mackler
Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya, Joy Osmanski & Allyson Ryan
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Because every wife deserves a happy ending.
Three best friends decide they’re finally done with their ex-husbands taking their work as wives and moms for granted. They’re ready to monetize the mental load, stick it to their exes, and have a wild ride in the process in this novel that is “fresh, funny, empowering, and totally satisfying” (Judy... Read more
The Queens of New York
By: E. L. Shen
Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Vyvy Nguyen & Joy Osmanski
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From acclaimed author E. L. Shen comes a sun-drenched, cinematic YA novel about three Asian American girls, their unbreakable bond, and one life-changing summer, perfect for fans of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.Best friends Jia Lee, Ariel Kim, and Everett Hoang are inseparable. But this summer, they won’t be together.Everett, aspiring... Read more
View audiobookDeep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
By: Rita Chang-Eppig
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
For listeners of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, a riveting, roaring adventure novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of powerWhen Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay her husband, a feared pirate, she knows she must act swiftly or die.... 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
Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders, Tina Fey, Michael McKean, Edi ...
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
MacArthur "genius" and Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of December
The “best short story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores... Read more
First Comes Like
By: Alisha Rai
Narrated by: Saira Ayers & Neil Shah
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of The Right Swipe and Girl Gone Viral returns with a story about finding love in all the wrong inboxes...Beauty expert and influencer Jia Ahmed has her eye on the prize: conquering the internet today, the entire makeup industry tomorrow, and finally, finally proving herself to her big opinionated family. She has little time for love,... Read more
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