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Ever After

By: Kim Harrison

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 18 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Witch-turned-daywalking-demon Rachel Morgan needs to save the demonic realm of the Ever After in the eleventh entry in the New York Times bestselling Hollows series from supernatural adventure master Kim Harrison.When Rachel sets off a chain of events that could lead to the end of the world—demonic and human—she must use her gifts to save those... Read more

The Other Wes Moore

By: Wes Moore

Narrated by: Wes Moore

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the governor of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison.

The... 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

Dancing and Doughnuts

By: Rachel Kovaciny

Narrated by: Steve Corona

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fifty dollars just for asking a few questions? Jedediah Jones figures it must be his lucky day. What dancing and doughnuts have to do with anything, he neither knows nor cares. He’s only interested in earning that money so he can finally eat something other than the apples he's been living off for days. Once his stomach and his pockets are... Read more

The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen

By: Hendrik Groen

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A #1 international bestseller in the vein of Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove: a funny and tender-hearted tale about friendship, love, and an old man who is young at heart.

Technically speaking, Hendrik Groen is....elderly. But at age 83 1/4, this feisty, indomitable curmudgeon has no plans to go out quietly. Bored of weak tea and potted... Read more

The Infinity Courts

By: Akemi Dawn Bowman

Narrated by: Mizuo Peck

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Masterful and left me on the edge of my seat…absolutely everything I could want in a sci-fi.” —Adalyn Grace, New York Times bestselling author of All the Stars and Teeth

Westworld meets Warcross in this high-stakes, dizzyingly smart sci-fi about a teen girl navigating an afterlife in which she must defeat an AI entity intent on destroying... Read more

The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Something happened in 1994 Berlin that forever changed MI5. Very few know that story and those who do will do anything to keep it secret.Two years ago, a hostile prime minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating “historical over-reaching” by the British Secret Service. Monochrome’s mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by... Read more

The Listening Path

By: Julia Cameron

Narrated by: Eliza Foss & Julia Cameron

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

**An AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award-winning production**

A 6-week Artist’s Way Program from legendary author Julia Cameron

"A book on better listening seems particularly suited for audio, and careful listeners will be rewarded." -- Booklist

The newest audiobook from beloved author Julia Cameron, The Listening Path is a transformational journey... Read more

Chasing Beauty

By: Natalie Dykstra

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner—creator of one of America’s most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art. Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its... Read more

Forest of Noise

By: Mosab Abu Toha

Narrated by: Mosab Abu Toha

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • "A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet.

You are alive
for a moment
when living people
run after you.

Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli... Read more

A Strange Hymn

By: Laura Thalassa

Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling indie author Laura Thalassa comes the newly revised and edited second book in her smash-hit dark fantasy romance between a siren and the “bargainer” she owes countless favors to.She survived the mad king … but the nightmare isn’t over.Siren Callypso Lillis still wears the physical reminders of her time as Karnon’s captive, even... Read more

Carousel Court

By: Joe McGinniss

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski & Corey Brill

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe McGinniss Jr., who is “poised to become one of our sharpest observers of life in America at the start of the twenty-first century” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), returns with one of the most engrossing, unnerving, and exhilarating novels in recent memory: a viscerally absorbing look at the seductive—and destructive—cutting edge of... Read more

Georgia

By: Dawn Tripp

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a dazzling work of historical fiction in the vein of Nancy Horan’s Loving Frank, Dawn Tripp brings to life Georgia O’Keeffe, her love affair with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and her quest to become an independent artist.

This is not a love story. If it were, we would have the same story. But he has his, and I have... Read more

The Wicker King

By: K. Ancrum

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack once saved August's life . . . now can August save him?



August is a misfit with a pyro streak and Jack is a golden boy on the varsity rugby team—but their intense friendship goes way back. Jack begins to see increasingly vivid hallucinations that take the form of an elaborate fantasy kingdom creeping into the edges of the real world. With... Read more

Hades, Argentina

By: Daniel Loedel

Narrated by: Christian Barillas

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD FINALIST

CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLIST

“A debut novel as impressive as they come. Tough, wily, dreamlike.” —Seattle Times

A decade after fleeing for his life, a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love.

In 1976, Tomás Orilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where he has moved in hopes of... Read more

Where Are the Children Now?

By: Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The legacy of the “Queen of Suspense” continues with the highly anticipated follow-up to Mary Higgins Clark’s iconic novel Where Are The Children?, featuring the children of Nancy Harmon, facing peril once again as adults.

Of the fifty-six bestsellers the “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark published in her lifetime, Where Are the Children?... Read more

The Princess Spy

By: Larry Loftis

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER

“As exciting as any spy novel” (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS’s most daring World War II spies before marrying into European nobility. Perfect for fans of A Woman of No Importance and... Read more

Grist Mill Road

By: Christopher J. Yates

Narrated by: Dan Bittner, Graham Halstead, Saskia Maarleveld...

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"Four distinct voices tell the story of a disturbing incident and its far-reaching aftermath...It's a labyrinth of shifting perspectives, but the narrators keep this grim story focused and mesmerizing." — AudioFile Magazine

The highly anticipated new audiobook from the author whose debut was called “The smart summer thriller you’ve been waiting... Read more

Devil's Kitchen

By: Candice Fox

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Devil's Kitchen is a fast-paced, heart racing thriller from Candice Fox, "a bright new star in crime fiction." (James Patterson)

The firefighting crew of Engine 99 has spent years rushing fearlessly into the hot zone of major fires across New York City. This tight-knit, four-person unit has worked together to save countless lives and stop out of... Read more

A Holly Jolly Ever After

By: Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone

Narrated by: Joy Nash & Chris Brinkley

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An actress and a perpetually single former boy-band member are reunited as costars on a steamy holiday film in this all new spicy rom-com by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone, bestselling coauthors of A Merry Little Meet Cute.Kallum Lieberman is the funny one™. As the arguably lesser of the three former members of the boy band INK, he enjoyed his... Read more

Holy City

By: Henry Wise

Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

No one innocent. No one free. Nothing sacred.After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southside Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. Impoverished and abandoned, this remote land of tobacco plantations, razed forests,... Read more

The Tangleroot Palace

By: Marjorie Liu

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Marjorie Liu (Monstress) leads you deep into the heart of the tangled woods. In her dark, romantic, and spellbinding short fiction you will find dangerous magic and even more dangerous women: a bodystealing sorceress, a bone-collecting apprentice-witch, a princess-turned-actress, and a warrior protecting China... Read more

The Spice Gate

By: Prashanth Srivatsa

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta

Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Delve into this debut fantasy and journey through the Spice Gates as Amir, a young man born with the ability to travel between the eight kingdoms, unravels the power that keeps the world in balance, perfect for readers of Ken Liu’s Dandelion Dynasty, S.A. Chakraborty’s Daevabad Trilogy, and Andrea Stewart’s The Drowning Empire.The weight of... Read more

Red Famine

By: Anne Applebaum

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 17 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes—the consequences of which still resonate today

In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian... Read more