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The Militia House

By: John Milas

Narrated by: Davis Brooks

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize

“An extraordinary novel about the quiet and not so quiet horrors of war.” —Roxane Gay

Stephen King meets Tim O’Brien in John Milas’s The Militia House, a spine-tingling and boldly original gothic horror novel.

It’s 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing... Read more

London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency

By: Kate MacDougall

Narrated by: Anna Popplewell

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“ Sparkles with humor, joy and wit. London’s Number One Dog-Walking Agency bounds along with the energy of a rambunctious pup and exudes the wisdom of a beloved canine with an old soul (you know the type)."" — BookPageThe irresistibly charming memoir of a young woman who started her own business as a dog walker for London’s busy, well-heeled dog... Read more

Maeve Fly

By: CJ Leede

Narrated by: Sosie Bacon

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight." —Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author

“Leede’s words and narrator Sosie Bacon’s voice imbue Maeve with thought-provoking realism and earnestness, even as her violent acts become more savagely creative.” - Library Journal

A provocative debut... Read more

Sharks in the Time of Saviors

By: Kawai Strong Washburn

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith, G.K. Bowes, Tui Asau & Jolene Kim

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawai’ian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation from Kawai Strong Washburn.In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean.... Read more

Ghosts

By: Dolly Alderton

Narrated by: Holliday Grainger

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Everything I Know About Love comes a smart, sexy, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about ex-boyfriends, imperfect parents, friends with kids, and a man who disappears the moment he says "I love you."

“An absolute knock-out. Wickedly funny and, at turns, both cynical and sincere… feels like your very... Read more

Between a Flock and a Hard Place

By: Donna Andrews

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"Listening to Bernadette Dunne perform the Meg Langslow audiobooks gives listeners a sense of coming home to a beloved family." —AudioFile on The Falcon Always Wings Twice (Earphones Award winner)

Listeners will flock to New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews's next installment in the award-winning Meg Langslow series.

Meg's neighbors,... Read more

A Wild Winter Swan

By: Gregory Maguire

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Wild Swans,"" transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of... Read more

Cold

By: Mariko Tamaki

Narrated by: Katharine Chin & Raymond J. Lee

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A boy, a body, a girl, a secret. From award-winning author Mariko Tamaki, Cold is a haunting YA audiobook about a shocking murder in a quiet town and four students who knew too much and said too little.

This is the story of a boy who died—and a girl who wants to know why.

Todd Mayer is dead. Now he's some sort of ghost, hovering over his body,... Read more

Internment

By: Samira Ahmed

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Rebellions are built on hope.
Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.
With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to... Read more

The (Fake) Dating Game

By: Timothy Janovsky

Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

 
“Game show antics, idiots in love, and a healthy dose of steam…this book is everything I want in a romance novel!” —Alison Cochrun, author of The Charm Offensive and Kiss Her Once for Me

Ready. Set. Faux.

Holden James picked the worst time to have a meltdown. His chance to audition for his favorite game show, Madcap Market, should have been a... Read more

Mary Christmas

By: Mary-Anne O'Connor

Narrated by: Ellie Perry

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

At the most magical time of the year, will Mary choose independence or love?

It's 1909 and Mary Richards has worked hard to gain an education and become a teacher in her close-knit, picturesque village in the Cotswolds, but not everyone approves of her modern ways.

When her sister Emily becomes engaged to David Christmas, it seems fate will... 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

Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith

Narrated by: Kenny Ramos & DeLanna Studi

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride. Native families from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow in Ann Arbor, Michigan.... Read more

The House of Kennedy

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: David Pittu

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Now with an all-new bonus chapter—in the bestselling The House of Kennedy, “James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . re-telling the political clan’s rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style” (People). 
 
The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks... Read more

That Prince is Mine

By: Jayci Lee

Narrated by: Olivia Song

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Library Journal's Romance Pick of the Month

A love-averse Korean royal court cuisine instructor is waylaid by a gorgeous professor—and prince in disguise—who will do anything to prove to her that love and happily ever after can be theirs.

Emma Yoon dreams of opening a culinary school in Los Angeles. To that end, she teaches Korean royal court... Read more

Sugar Run

By: Mesha Maren

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she's sentenced to life in prison. When she's released eighteen years later, she finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop, reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom but determined to chart a better course for herself. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian Mountains, she heads... Read more

Good Fortune

By: C.K. Chau

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A whip-smart and charming debut novel that brilliantly reimagines Pride and Prejudice, set in contemporary Chinatown, exploring contemporary issues of class divides, family ties, cultural identity, and the pleasures and frustrations that come with falling in love. When Elizabeth Chen’s ever-hustling realtor mother finally sells the beloved if... Read more

Walk the Wire

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Kyf Brewer & Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Amos Decker—​the FBI consultant with a perfect memory—returns to solve a gruesome murder in a booming North Dakota oil town in the newest thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling Memory Man series.

When Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are called to London, North Dakota, they instantly sense that the thriving... Read more

When Life Gives You Vampires

By: Gloria Duke

Narrated by: Meg Sylvan

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-five-year-old Lily Baines is used to waking up hungover, overweight, and underemployed. Waking up with fangs? Not so much. But when a little light necking has more serious consequences than she ever imagined, Lily is determined to get to the bottom of it or die (again) trying. Tristan hadn't meant to turn Lily—it's against vampire... Read more

The Door-to-Door Bookstore

By: Carsten Henn

Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The charming international bestseller about an unlikely friendship between an elderly door-to-door bookseller and a nine-year-old girl that changes his life.

Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people... Read more

Vinegar Girl

By: Anne Tyler

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies.
 
Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she’s always in trouble at work... Read more

Marrying the Ketchups

By: Jennifer Close

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the deep-fried, beer-battered, cream cheese-frosted love that feeds them all—from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses
 
“Laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply resonant to our times. I was so happy to be in the Sullivan... Read more

Abolitionist Intimacies

By: El Jones

Narrated by: Aiza Ntibarikure

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral... Read more

Wild Massive

By: Scotto Moore

Narrated by: Suzy Jackson & Liv Anderson

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Scotto Moore's Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting the will of the mighty. Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire... Read more