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By: Richard Chizmar

Narrated by: Michael Crouch & Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 15 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller about a group of college students encountering supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia—an unforgettable, chilling novel that is “scary and hard to put down. You might be advised not to read it at night” (Stephen King).

1983: Three students from a small college embark on a weeklong... Read more

Em

By: Kim Thúy

Narrated by: Eve Landry & Kim Thúy

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Em, c’est le fil qui relie les ouvriers des plantations de caoutchouc et les femmes des salons de manucure aux orphelins de l’opération Babylift, qui a évacué des enfants de Saigon en 1975. Em, c’est celle qui aime." Read more

Wicked Beauty

By: Katee Robert

Narrated by: Alex Moorcock & Zara Hampton-Brown

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In Olympus, you either have the power to rule...or you are ruled. Achilles Kallis may have been born with nothing, but as a child he vowed he would claw his way into the poisonous city's inner circle. Now that a coveted role has opened to anyone with the strength to claim it, he and his partner, Patroclus Fotos, plan to compete and double their... Read more

Skandar and the Unicorn Thief

By: A.F. Steadman

Narrated by: David Dawson

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller!

Soar into a breathtaking world of heroes and unicorns as you’ve never seen them before in this “unexpected, suspenseful, and heartwarming” (Kirkus Reviews) middle grade debut perfect for fans of the Percy Jackson and Eragon series!

Skandar Smith has always yearned to leave the Mainland and escape to the secretive... Read more

The Night They Vanished

By: Vanessa Savage

Narrated by: Lowri Walton

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A family with a secret.A past about to catch up with them. Hanna has barely spoken to her family since the tragedy that rocked their lives fourteen years ago. The tragedy for which they held Hanna responsible.Then she sees her family home listed as the scene of a horrific crime. Number of victims: three. Date of crime: today. Frantic, Hanna... Read more

Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Imbolo Mbue

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy

New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book... Read more

Take the Honey and Run

By: Jennie Marts

Narrated by: Cris Dukehart

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

As a successful mystery author, Bailey Briggs writes about murder, but nothing prepares her for actually discovering the dead body of the founder of her hometown of Humble Hills, Colorado. Bailey grew up at Honeybuzz Mountain Ranch and was raised by her beekeeping grandmother, Blossom Briggs, aka Granny Bee, and her two eccentric sisters, Aster... Read more

Love in the Time of Cholera

By: Gabriel García Márquez

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people’s lives together for more than half a century.In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born... Read more

Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!

By: Kate Bowler

Narrated by: Kate Bowler

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the good—from the four-time New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved)

Kate Bowler believes that the cultural pressure to be cheerful and optimistic at all times has... Read more

The Bright Book of Life

By: Harold Bloom

Narrated by: Stephen Mendel

Length: 21 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.

In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was... Read more

Looker

By: Laura Sims

Narrated by: Katherine Fenton

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

*Featured on Best of Lists in Vogue, People, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, Southern Living, and more*

In this “wicked slow burn” (Entertainment Weekly) of psychological suspense from the author of How Can I Help You, a woman becomes fixated on her neighbor—the actress.

Though the two women live just a few doors apart, a chasm lies between... Read more

Valiant Ambition

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the George Washington Prize

A surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold, from the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye.

"May be one of the greatest... Read more

The Wiener Across the Way

By: Amy Award

Narrated by: Stella Hunter & Jacob Morgan

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when the sunshiny pop princess and the grumpy football player discover there's more to this fake romance than inspiration for a new love song?
Kelsey Best is America's pop sweetheart, and anyone who says they don't like her music is a liar and needs to be punched in the nads. And I'll do it, too, because I'm the guy the NFL dubbed... Read more

Heartland

By: Sarah Smarsh

Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

*Finalist for the National Book Award*
*Finalist for the Kirkus Prize*
*Instant New York Times Bestseller*
*Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly*

An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our understanding of... Read more

The Final Frontiersman

By: James Campbell

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiration for The Last Alaskans—the eight-part documentary series on Animal PlanetHundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. Originally from Wisconsin, Heimo traveled to the Arctic wilderness in his feverous twenties. Now, more than four decades later,... Read more

Bad Vibes Only

By: Nora McInerny

Narrated by: Nora McInerny

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

From the host of the podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—called “a gift” by The New York Times—a raw and humorous essay collection in the spirit of Jenny Lawson and Samantha Irby.

Nora McInerny does not dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching, which is to say, she does not dance at all. A... Read more

Normal

By: Warren Ellis

Narrated by: John Hodgman

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A smart, tight, provocative techno-thriller audiobook straight out of the very near future--by an iconic visionary writer

Some people call it "abyss gaze." Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you.

There are two types of people who think professionally about the future: Foresight strategists are civil futurists who think about... Read more

My First Popsicle

By: Zosia Mamet

Narrated by: Zosia Mamet, Sian Clifford, Kaley Cuoco, Ted Da...

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From a spectrum of talented authors, a collection of essays on food, and its entwinement with our emotions and our lives.

Of all the essentials for survival: oxygen, water, sleep, and food, only food is a vast treasure trove of memory and of sensory experience. Food is a portal to culture, to times past, to disgust, to comfort, to love: no matter... Read more

Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times

By: Taisia Kitaiskaia

Narrated by: Zura Johnson

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Baba Yaga offers more off-kilter remedies for the modern dilemmas of an unstable age using her uncanny style, poetic simplicity, and surprising candor.

In this follow-up to Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles, award-winning writer Taisia Kitaiskaia once again embodies the legendary witch of Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga, to... Read more

The German Girl

By: Armando Lucas Correa

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

Featured in Entertainment Weekly, People, The Millions, and USA TODAY

“An unforgettable and resplendent novel which will take its place among the great historical fiction written about World War II.” —Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife

A young girl flees Nazi-occupied Germany with her... Read more

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

By: Phaedra Patrick

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Rise and Shine Benedict Stone, now an original movie on Hallmark.

“An endearing celebration of life.” -RealSimple.com

Perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove, this curiously charming debut follows a lovable widower and his life-changing adventure of love and self-discovery.

Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He... Read more

Marilla of Green Gables

By: Sarah McCoy

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables . . . before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak—and unimaginable... Read more

The Ruin

By: Dervla McTiernan

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“Compelling, unexpected twists and a hold-your breath standoff . . . Hand this one to readers of Tana French and to police-procedural fans.” —Booklist It’s been twenty years since Cormac Reilly discovered the body of Hilaria Blake in her crumbling Georgian home. But he’s never forgotten the two children she left behind.When Aisling Conroy’s... Read more

Fly with Me

By: Andie Burke

Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A sparkling and steamy Sapphic romance, Fly with Me by Andie Burke is filled with sharp banter and that sweet, swooping feeling of finding “the one” when and where you least expect it.

A one-way ticket to love or a bumpy ride ahead?

Flying-phobic ER nurse Olive Murphy is still gripping the armrest from her first-ever take-off when the pilot... Read more