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The Good Left Undone
By: Adriana Trigiani
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Lisa Flanagan, Edoardo Baller...
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"[An] immersive saga. . . . A celebration of family and a paean to the power of storytelling.”—People, "Book of the Week"
"Trigiani conveys the beauty of Italy, the hardships of war, the taste of family recipes, and the enduring love of family."—Library Journal (starred)
“The beauty of any book by Adriana... Read more
King of Battle and Blood
By: Scarlett St. Clair
Narrated by: Lilly Drake & Curt Bonnem
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From fan-favorite Scarlett St. Clair, the bestselling author of the Hades & Persephone series, comes a new fantasy filled with danger, darkness, and insatiable romance.
Their union is his revenge.
Isolde de Lara considers her wedding day to be her death day. To end a years-long war, she is to marry vampire king Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev, and... Read more
The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson
By: Chris Joyner
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn’t commitThis is the story of Clarence Henderson, a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper, who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn’t commit, and of the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Mapmaker
By: Christina Soontornvat
Narrated by: Sura Siu
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A Newbery Honor Book
“As assistant to Mangkon’s most celebrated mapmaker, twelve-year-old Sai plays the part of a well-bred young lady with a glittering future. In reality, her father is a conman—and in a kingdom where the status of one’s ancestors dictates their social position, the truth could ruin her. Sai seizes the chance to join an... Read more
Sundial
By: Catriona Ward
Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
“DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK. Authentically terrifying.” —Stephen King
A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick!
STARRED review from Publishers Weekly!
Anticipated and Recommended by Bustle, USA Today, CNN, i09, The Nerd Daily, LitReactor, GoodReads, LitHub, and more!
Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally... Read more
Thérèse Raquin
By: Émile Zola
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Published in 1867, Thérèse Raquin is the novel which established Zola’s reputation as a writer who forensically explored the darker side of human nature. Thérèse is a half Algerian orphan, brought up in provincial France by her aunt and married off to her sickly cousin Camille. His ambition takes the three of them to Paris, where they set up... Read more
View audiobookHooked
By: Emily McIntire
Narrated by: Felicity Munroe & Rupert Hawthorne
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
He wants revenge, but he wants her more.Once upon a time, there was a little boy.His belly full of laughter, his life full of joy.Until one day, something changed; stripped his innocence away.The hole inside making space for the devil to come and play.His dreams gone forever, he grew up way too fast.An endless night of crocodiles, and watches... Read more
View audiobookAll of Us Villains
By: Amanda Foody & C. L. Herman
Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown & Raphael Corkhill
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The blockbuster co-writing debut of Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman, All of Us Villains begins a dark tale of ambition and magick...
You Fell In Love With The Victors of The Hunger Games.
Now Prepare To Meet The Villains of The Blood Veil.
After the publication of a salacious tell-all book, the remote city of Ilvernath is thrust into worldwide... Read more
Gilded
By: Marissa Meyer
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
Length: 15 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
"Rebecca Soler brings this YA adaptation of Rumpelstiltskin to life. . . This audiobook demands to be binged, so listeners should block out some time once they hit play." - AudioFile Magazine
In Gilded, #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer returns to the fairytale world with this haunting tale.
Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a... Read more
The Death of Jane Lawrence
By: Caitlin Starling
Narrated by: Mandy Weston
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Best Books of 2021 · NPR
ALA/The Reading List Best Horror 2021 Pick
Longlisted for the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a Novel, 2021
From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horror—The Death of Jane Lawrence.
"Narrator Mandy Weston's cool narration is the perfect match to this tale, making the... Read more
All's Well
By: Mona Awad
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Bunny, which Margaret Atwood hails as “genius,” comes a “wild, and exhilarating” (Lauren Groff) novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeare’s most maligned play will remedy all that ails her—but at what cost?
Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting... Read more
Nowhere Girl
By: Cheryl Diamond
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
By the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I’ll know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation, and most important, how to disappear . . .
To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling down the Himalayas in a... Read more
Dead Dead Girls
By: Nekesa Afia
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
“In this terrific series opener, Afia evokes the women’s lives in all their wayward and beautiful glory, especially the abruptness with which their dreams, hopes and fears cease to exist.”--The New York Times
The start of an exciting new historical mystery series set during the Harlem Renaissance from debut author Nekesa Afia
Harlem, 1926. Young... Read more
Hot Stew
By: Fiona Mozley
Narrated by: Nneka Okoye
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ELMET
“Stunningly clever . . . A deliciously spicy stew indeed.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A story about money and power, love and art, sex work and gentrification . . . Enjoyable and impressive on every page.” —USA Today
In the middle of the bustle of London’s Soho, among the theaters and sex shops and... Read more
Gory Details
By: Erika Engelhaupt
Narrated by: Mari Weiss
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Filled to the brim with far-out facts, this wickedly informative narrative from the author of National Geographic's popular Gory Details blog takes us on a fascinating journey through an astonishing new reality. Blending humor and journalism in the tradition of Mary Roach, acclaimed science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross,... Read more
View audiobookGay Bar
By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Narrated by: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
As gay bars continue to close at an alarming rate, a writer looks back to find out what’s being lost in this indispensable, intimate, and stylish celebration of history. In the era of Grindr and same-sex marriage, gay bars are closing down at an alarming rate. What, then, was the gay bar? Set between Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London, Gay... Read more
View audiobookThe Great Gatsby
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Derrick Magolski
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The Great Gatsby: An Exquisitely Crafted 1920s American Tale of Life-Long Obsessions & Ceaseless Devotions“So, we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”On the prosperous Long Island shores sit the grand affluence of West Egg and East Egg — places where a sinister Gatsby’s mansion, with his mysterious... Read more
View audiobookThe Appointment
By: Katharina Volckmer
Narrated by: Katharina Volckmer
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
“A darkly funny untangling of national and sexual identity.” —The Guardian * “Transgressive...Incendiary.” —The New Yorker * “A furious comic monologue...with a disregard for propriety worthy of Alexander Portnoy.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Sexy, hilarious, and subversive.” —The Paris Review
For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Han... Read more
Silver in the Wood & Drowned Country
By: Emily Tesh
Narrated by: Cornell Collins & Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Silver in the Wood
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads.
When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry... Read more
Emma
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Nuria Mediavilla
Length: 16 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Penguin Clásicos rescata esta obra maestra de la narrativa del siglo XIX y una de las novelas más importantes de Jane Austen, en una cuidada edición. Traducción de José María Valverde Introducción de Fiona Stafford, profesora de la Universidad de Oxford Obra maestra de la narrativa del siglo XIX y una de las grandes novelas de Jane Austen, Emma... Read more
View audiobookYou Exist Too Much
By: Zaina Arafat
Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother’s... Read more
View audiobookThis Is Chance!
By: Jon Mooallem
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together
“A powerful, heart-wrenching book, as much art as it is journalism.”—The Wall Street Journal
“A beautifully wrought and profoundly joyful story of compassion and perseverance.”—BuzzFeed (Best Books of the Year)
In the... Read more
Recollections of My Nonexistence
By: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography
Longlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing
An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent, from the author of Orwell's Roses
In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her... Read more
Reputation
By: Sara Shepard
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan, Allyson Ryan, Phoebe Strole, Bri...
Length: 13 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In this perfectly-paced new novel from Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars, the women of a tight-knit college town learn through gossip, scandal, betrayal, and even murder, who their neighbors and husbands really are.
Aldrich University is rocked to its core when a hacker dumps 40,000 people's e-mails—the... Read more