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The Criminal Mind

By: Duncan Harding

Narrated by: Duncan Harding

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

An edge-of-your-seat journey into the darkest depths of the human mind from forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding

- A likeable young girl who’s burnt her family home to the ground

- A man with no memory of the night he killed his wife

- A teenager whose visions and voices have had murderous effect

One question binds these... Read more

Falling Back in Love with Being Human

By: Kai Cheng Thom

Narrated by: Kai Cheng Thom

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A national bestseller in Canada, hailed by The New York Times as an “intimate expression of self-acceptance and forgiveness, tenderly written to fellow trans women and others.”

“Required reading.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 bestselling author of Untamed

A THEM AND AUTOSTRADDLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD

What happens... Read more

Dark Lord of Derkholm

By: Diana Wynne Jones

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr. Chesney operates Pilgrim Parties, a tour group that takes paying participants into an outer realm where the inhabitants play frightening and foreboding roles. The time has come to end the staged madness . . . but can it really be stopped?



Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones serves up twists and turns, introduces Querida, Derk, Blade, and... Read more

Creatures

By: Crissy Van Meter

Narrated by: Piper Goodeve

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of Evangeline's wedding, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island, the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. From there, in this mesmerizing, provocative debut, Evie remembers and reckons with her complicated upbringing in this lush, wild land off the coast of Southern... Read more

You Got Anything Stronger?

By: Gabrielle Union

Narrated by: Gabrielle Union

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“Funny, tender, and so good.” —Mindy Kaling, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Why Not Me?Remember when we hit it off so well that we decided We’re Going to Need More Wine? Well, this time you and I are going to turn to our friend the bartender and ask, You Got Anything Stronger? I promise to continue to make you laugh, but with this... Read more

Chlorine Sky

By: Mahogany L. Browne

Narrated by: Mahogany L. Browne

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her former best friend. Perfect for readers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Nikki Grimes.

"Mahogany L. Browne's debut YA ia an absolute masterpiece. It will leave you breathless." -Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X 

She looks me hard in my... Read more

Greek to Me

By: Mary Norris

Narrated by: Mary Norris

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"Hilarious. . . . This book charmed my socks off." ?Patricia O'Conner, New York Times Book Review Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous... Read more

A Pose Before Dying

By: Alex Erickson

Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sure to appeal to fans of Miranda James, Cate Conte, Eileen Watkins, Laurien Berenson, and all lovers of cozy mysteries featuring animal companions!



Finding this killer will be a real stretch . . .



Ashley Branson has a lot to prove with her new cat yoga studio, A Purrfect Pose. It's a place for humans to find inner wellness—and adopt adorable cats... Read more

Pitch Dark

By: Paul Doiron

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Narrator Henry] Leyva and [author Paul] Doiron are a great combination offering a fast-paced thrill ride." —AudioFile on Almost Midnight

Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods in this nail-biter of a thriller from Edgar Award-nominated author Paul Doiron, Pitch Dark.

Legendary bush... Read more

Under the Big Black Sun

By: John Doe & Tom Desavia

Narrated by: Exene Cervenka, Henry Rollins & Various

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it’s never been told before. Authors John Doe and Tom DeSavia have woven together an enthralling story of the legendary west coast scene from 1977-1982 by enlisting the voices of people who were there. The book shares chapter-length... Read more

Dark at the Crossing

By: Elliot Ackerman

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by Amir, a charismatic Syrian refugee and former revolutionary, and Amir's wife, Daphne, a... Read more

No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding

By: Catherine Mack

Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The second in a witty, USA Today bestselling series following author Eleanor Dash as she goes from wedding guest to murder mystery investigator at her best friend’s wedding on Catalina Island.

Attending your best friend’s wedding should be a piece of (wedding) cake, but not for Eleanor Dash, bestselling author of the Vacation Mysteries series.... Read more

Frazzled

By: Booki Vivat

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller, Booki Vivat's Frazzled is the first installment of a funny middle grade series about a girl who is always in a tizzy.“Hilarious.” (NPR’s All Things Considered)""Honest, sweet, and laugh-out-loud funny. Fans of Smile and Diary of a Wimpy Kid will appreciate this debut."" (Brightly.com)Meet Abbie Wu. Abbie is... Read more

Recipe for a Charmed Life

By: Rachel Linden

Narrated by: Traci Odom

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“Heartfelt, heartwarming, joyful, and uplifting. You can't go wrong with a Rachel Linden book.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber

After a day of unrivaled disappointments, a promising young chef finds every bite of food suddenly tastes bitter. To save her career, she travels to the Pacific Northwest to reconnect with her... Read more

These Fevered Days

By: Martha Ackmann

Narrated by: Martha Ackmann

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, “All things are ready” and with this resolute statement,
her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely “at home” (the occupation listed on her death
certificate), Dickinson’s interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was hesitant about publication,
embraced... 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

The Butterfly Lampshade

By: Aimee Bender

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world

On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight... Read more

Cursed

By: Thomas Wheeler

Narrated by: Katherine Langford

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an original series starring Katherine Langford on Netflix!

The Lady of the Lake is the true hero in this cinematic twist on the tale of King Arthur created by Thomas Wheeler and legendary artist, producer, and director Frank Miller (300, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City). Featuring 8 full-color and 30 black-and-white pieces of... Read more

The Sea Queen

By: Linnea Hartsuyker

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An exhilarating Viking saga filled with the rich history, romantic adventure and political intrigue that have made Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander, George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, as well as Phillippa Gregory’s historical fiction and Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology popular bestsellers. Six years after The Half-Drowned King, Ragnvald Eysteinsson... Read more

Red X

By: David Demchuk

Narrated by: Salvatore Antonio & David Demchuk

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A hunted community. A haunted author. A horror that spans centuries.

Men are disappearing from Toronto's gay village. They're the marginalized, the vulnerable. One by one, stalked and vanished, they leave behind small circles of baffled, frightened friends. Against the shifting backdrop of homophobia throughout the decades, from the HIV/AIDS... Read more

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

By: Lynda Cohen Loigman

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman & Lynda Cohen Loigman

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"Gabra Zackman gloriously performs this charming dual-timeline audiobook." —AudioFile on The Matchmaker's Gift

This program features an author's note read by the author.

It's never too late for new beginnings.

On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an active senior... Read more

When We Were Sisters

By: Fatimah Asghar

Narrated by: Farah Kidwai, Kamran Khan & Deepti Gupta

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • “This exquisite debut wrestles with gender, siblinghood, family, and what it means to be Muslim in America—all through the lens of love.”—Time
 
“Haunting . . .  a knife-sharp story of self-discovery.”—People

WINNER OF THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker,... Read more

Safe and Sound

By: Laura McHugh

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Six years after their cousin vanished from their home while they were sleeping, two sisters set out to learn the truth behind what happened—even if it puts their own lives in danger—in this haunting thriller from the internationally bestselling author of What’s Done in Darkness.

“Beautifully written, unflinchingly told, and... Read more

The Expectant Detectives

By: Kat Ailes

Narrated by: Kitty Kelly

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Fresh, funny and heartfelt, The Expectant Detectives is a charming debut mystery about a group of soon-to-be moms-turned-detectives.

“A darkly witty debut. Archly funny and highly recommended!”—Deanna Raybourn

Can they solve the mother of all murders?

For Alice and her partner Joe, moving to the sleepy village of Penton is a chance to embrace... Read more