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Where the Drowned Girls Go

By: Seanan McGuire

Narrated by: Whitney Johnson

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In Where the Drowned Girls Go, the next addition to Seanan McGuire's beloved Wayward Children series, students at an anti-magical school rebel against the oppressive faculty

"Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you’ve already taken that step by requesting a transfer into our company."

There is... Read more

The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All

By: Josh Ritter

Narrated by: Josh Ritter

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, a lyrical, sweeping novel about a young boy's coming-of-age during the last days of the lumberjacks.

In the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho, ninety-nine year old Weldon Applegate recounts his life in all its glory, filled with tall tales writ large with murder, mayhem, avalanches and bootlegging. It’s the... Read more

Faith

By: Julie Murphy

Narrated by: Joy Nash

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin’, comes the first in a two-book origin story of Faith, a groundbreaking, plus-sized superhero from the Valiant Entertainment comics.Faith Herbert is a pretty regular teen. When she’s not hanging out with her two best friends, Matt and Ches, she’s volunteering at the local animal... Read more

Lady of Steel and Straw

By: Erica Ivy Rodgers

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

Star-crossed lovers grapple with forbidden attraction and a growing army of ghostly dead in this swashbuckling YA fantasy debut.

After ten years of exile, following regicide in the House of Tristain, an alarming royal edict is delivered to the immortal scarecrow Guardians who once defended the crown: surrender themselves to the church of the... Read more

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

By: Ross Gay

Narrated by: Ross Gay

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category
Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize
Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category
Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry category

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that... Read more

Rap Capital

By: Joe Coscarelli

Narrated by: Landon Woodson

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An “impassioned tribute” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) to the most influential music culture today, Atlanta rap—a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli.

From mansions to trap houses, office buildings to strip clubs, Atlanta is defined by its rap music.... Read more

Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Emma Naomi

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Emma Naomi, best known for Bridgerton. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Marilyn Butler.

With its irrepressible heroine and playful literary games, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's novels. It tells the story of young,... Read more

Everybody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 18 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times 2016 Notable Book

An immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. Richard Russo returns to North Bath—“a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy” (The New York Times)—and the characters who made Nobody’s... Read more

Mavis the Bravest

By: Lu Fraser

Narrated by: Rosalind Bennett

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is Mavis the Bravest.

This is a laugh-out-loud story about a bonnet-wearing, would-rather-be-knitting chicken who embarks on a high stakes chase to save her friend, Sandra the sheep.

Mavis is not like her adventurous friend Marge. Mavis is a chicken who finds... Read more

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Dorian Gray, a handsome and narcissistic young man, lives thoughtlessly for his own pleasure—an attitude encouraged by the company he keeps. One day, after having his portrait painted, Dorian makes a frivolous Faustian wish: that he should always remain as young and beautiful as he is in that painting, while the portrait grows old in his... Read more

The Reckless Oath We Made

By: Bryn Greenwood

Narrated by: Alex McKenna, Kirby Heyborne, Adenrele Ojo, Mac...

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A new provocative love story from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things.
 
“The story of Zee and Gentry is the reason we read.” —Brunonia Barry
 
Their journey will break them—or save them.
 
A moving and complicated love story for our time, The Reckless Oath We Made redefines what it means to be heroic. Zee... Read more

Small Spaces

By: Katherine Arden

Narrated by: Renee Dorian

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic.

After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the... Read more

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

By: Maria Semple

Narrated by: Kathleen Wilhoite

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this "whip-smart and divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times).

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in... Read more

Devil in Winter

By: Lisa Kleypas

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

""I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that.""Desperate to escape her scheming relatives, Evangeline Jenner has sought the help of the most infamous scoundrel in London.A marriage of convenience is the only solution.No one would have ever paired the shy, stammering wallflower with the sinfully handsome viscount.... Read more

Reticence

By: Gail Carriger

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Bookish and proper Percival Tunstell finds himself out of his depth when floating cities, spirited plumbing, and soggy biscuits collide in this delightful conclusion to NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger's Custard Protocol series.
Percival Tunstell loves that his sister and her best friend are building themselves a family of misfits aboard... Read more

The Daughters of Izdihar

By: Hadeer Elsbai

Narrated by: Priya Ayyar & Nikki Massoud

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From debut author Hadeer Elsbai comes the first book in an incredibly powerful new duology, set wholly in a new world, but inspired by modern Egyptian history, about two young women—Nehal, a spoiled aristocrat used to getting what she wants and Giorgina, a poor bookshop worker used to having nothing—who find they have far more in common,... Read more

Romantic Outlaws

By: Charlotte Gordon

Narrated by: Susan Lyons

Length: 22 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlotte Gordon's new work is a fresh look at the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, who together comprise one of the most illustrious and inspiring mother-daughter pairs in history. Wollstonecraft published the first full articulation of women's rights in 1792, risking her reputation and sometimes her life in pursuit of her radical... Read more

Heartbreak Is the National Anthem

By: Rob Sheffield

Narrated by: Rob Sheffield

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

***The Instant New York Times Bestseller!***An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop’s most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There’s no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns into the world’s... Read more

Sideshow

By: Rickey Smiley

Narrated by: Rickey Smiley

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.How do you live with the pain of watching someone you love suffer from addiction? How do you cope with the grief of losing them especially when your job is to make people laugh every day?Comedian Rickey Smiley has dealt with these immensely difficult questions for years—first with his father, then with his son. Both battled... Read more

The Engineer's Wife

By: Tracey Enerson Wood

Narrated by: Libby McKnight

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

She built a monument for all time.Then she was lost in its shadow.Emily Warren Roebling refuses to live conventionally—she knows who she is and what she wants, and she’s determinedto make change. But then her husband, Wash, asks the unthinkable: give up her dreams to make his possible.Emily’s fight for women’s suffrage is put on hold and her... Read more

A Lesson in Vengeance

By: Victoria Lee

Narrated by: Lindsey Dorcus

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A dark, twisty thriller about a centuries-old, ivy-covered boarding school haunted by its history of witchcraft and two girls dangerously close to digging up the past. The dangerous romance and atmospheric setting makes it a perfect read for fans of dark academia.

Felicity Morrow is back at the Dalloway School. Perched in the Catskill Mountains,... Read more

Down a Dark River

By: Karen Odden

Narrated by: Joshua Manning

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1878. One April morning, a small boat bearing a young woman’s corpse floats down the murky waters of the Thames. When the victim is identified as Rose Albert, daughter of a prominent judge, the Scotland Yard director gives the case to Michael Corravan, one of the only Senior Inspectors remaining after a corruption scandal the previous... Read more

Persuasion

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The last novel completed by Jane Austen before her death, Persuasion is often thought to reflect on the author’s own lost love.Sir Walter Elliot has raised his three daughters with his own sense of haughty pride. Elizabeth, at twenty-eight, has found no one good enough to marry, while Mary has, with some condescension, married the son of the... Read more

Convenience Store Woman

By: Sayaka Murata

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world. So when she takes a job in a convenience store while at the university, they are delighted. For her part, she finds a predictable world in the convenience store, mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the... Read more