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Maestra

By: L.S. Hilton

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND THE PERFECT READ FOR FANS OF KILLING EVE

THE BEST OF SKIMM READS 2016

“One of this year’s most talked about novels.” —The Washington Post

“A twenty-first-century femme fatale as lethal as Tom Ripley and as seductive as Bacall.” —Vogue 

A put-upon assistant at a prestigious London art house, Judith Rashleigh... Read more

Accessory to War

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson & Avis Lang

Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller

An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.
In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang... Read more

How to Dungeon Master Parenting

By: Shelly Mazzanoble

Narrated by: Shelly Mazzanoble

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Gather your party, it’s time to level up your parenting game! For years, millions of fans have looked to the beloved role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons for fun, friendship, and entertainment. And now parents and parents-to-be can use it to gain inspiration and how-to when it comes to their most challenging and rewarding role yet. Dungeon... Read more

Sontag

By: Benjamin Moser

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 22 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face.No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud... Read more

Eyes on the Sky

By: J. Kasper Kramer

Narrated by: Lillie Ricciardi

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed author J. Kasper Kramer comes a historical middle grade novel about a budding young scientist in 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, who fears her weather balloon experiment has been mistaken for a flying saucer!

Nothing ever happens in Roswell, New Mexico. Dorothy should know. She’s lived her whole life on a rural ranch nearby, surrounded... Read more

Running Is a Kind of Dreaming

By: J. M. Thompson

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life.“Voluntary or involuntary?” asked the nurse who admitted J. M. Thompson to a San Francisco psychiatric hospital in January 2005. Following years of depression, ineffective medication, and therapy that went nowhere, Thompson feared he was... Read more

Harbor Me

By: Jacqueline Woodson

Narrated by: N'Jameh Camara, Jacqueline Woodson, Toshi Widof...

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

Jacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories.

It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat--by themselves, with... Read more

A Minute to Midnight

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Kyf Brewer

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, FBI Agent Atlee Pine returns to her Georgia hometown to investigate her twin sister's abduction, only to encounter a serial killer.
FBI Agent Atlee Pine's life was never the same after her twin sister Mercy was kidnapped -- and likely killed -- thirty years ago. After a lifetime of torturous... Read more

The Sisters of the Winter Wood

By: Rena Rossner

Narrated by: Ana Clements

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Captivating and boldly imaginative, with a tale of sisterhood at its heart, Rena Rossner's debut fantasy invites you to enter a world filled with magic, folklore, and the dangers of the woods.

*Publishers Weekly: Best Book of 2018: SF/Fantasy/Horror
*BookPage: Best Book of 2018: Science Fiction & Fantasy

"With luscious and hypnotic prose, Rena... Read more

The House on Vesper Sands

By: Paraic O'Donnell

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

With all the wit of a Jane Austen novel, and a case as beguiling as any in Sherlock Holmes's casebook, Paraic O'Donnell introduces a detective duo for the ages, and slowly unlocks the secrets of a startling Victorian mystery.



London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling,... Read more

Stone Cold Fox

By: Rachel Koller Croft

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A perfectly wicked debut thriller about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families.

*now including a special bonus chapter!

Like any enterprising woman, Bea knows what she’s worth and is determined to get all she... Read more

The Happiness Plan

By: Susan Mallery

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

Three women search for joy in #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery’s new novel of hope, heartache, and the power of friendship.
 
Heather is happy . . . ish. She has a successful business, a cute but contemptuous cat, and best friends Daphne and Tori who know where she’s broken and love her anyway. So why does... Read more

Liar, Dreamer, Thief

By: Maria Dong

Narrated by: Hannah Choi

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman’s carefully constructed fantasy world implodes in this brilliantly conceived novel that blurs distinctions between right and wrong, comedy and tragedy, imagination and reality: "Surreal . . . leaves you with the creeping certainty that there is a different world lurking just under the surface of our own, filled with technicolor... Read more

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

By: Wole Talabi

Narrated by: Ben Arogundade

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The debut fantasy novel from an award-winning, Nebula-nominated Nigerian authorA mythic tale of disgruntled gods, revenge, and a heist across two worlds, perfect for fans of Nnedi Okorafor, Neil Gaiman, Marlon James, and Karen LordShigidi is a disgruntled and demotivated nightmare god in the Orisha spirit company, reluctantly answering prayers... Read more

The Night in Question

By: Kathleen Glasgow & Liz Lawson

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss, Holly Linneman & Mehr Dudeja

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you solve a murder? Follow the lessons of the master—Agatha Christie! Iris and Alice find themselves in the middle of another Castle Cove mystery in the sequel to New York Times bestseller The Agathas, by powerhouse authors Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson.

A PEOPLE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF SUMMER
A READ WITH JENNA JR. SELECTION

Last October,... Read more

The Space Between the Stars

By: Anne Corlett

Narrated by: Mary Woodvine

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A Recommended Summer Read from The Verge and io9
A Recommended June Read from Hello Giggles and Tor.com

When the world ends, where will you go?

In a breathtakingly vivid and emotionally gripping debut novel, one woman must confront the emptiness in the universe—and in her own heart—when a devastating virus reduces most of humanity to dust and... Read more

Good Girl, Bad Girl

By: Michael Robotham

Narrated by: Joe Jameson

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling author who Stephen King calls “an absolute master,” a “gripping and eerie” (Karin Slaughter) thriller about a dangerous young woman with the ability to know when someone is lying—and the criminal psychologist who must outwit her to survive.

A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a... Read more

The Day I Died

By: Lori Rader-Day

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Little Pretty Things comes this gripping, unforgettable tale of a mother's desperate search for a lost boy.Anna Winger can know people better than they know themselves with only a glance—at their handwriting. Hired out by companies wanting to land trustworthy employees and by the lovelorn hoping to find... Read more

The Swallows

By: Lisa Lutz

Narrated by: Abby Elliott, Lisa Flanagan, Michael Crouch, Ar...

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war—with deadly consequences—in this dark and provocative novel by the bestselling author of The Passenger

“Suspenseful and utterly riveting!”—Tess Gerritsen

When Alexandra Witt joins the faculty at Stonebridge Academy, she’s hoping to put a painful past behind her. Then one of her creative... Read more

You're Not Listening

By: Kate Murphy

Narrated by: Kate Murphy

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrating her own work, Murphy is certainly worthy of the listener's attention. She offers a sincere, passionate voice that is capable of delivering some hard truths about the current state of things while also showing the way toward a truly connected society." — AudioFile Magazine

**This program is read by the author**

When was the last time you... Read more

Green

By: Sam Graham-Felsen

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A coming-of-age novel about race, privilege, and the struggle to rise in America, written by a former Obama campaign staffer and propelled by an exuberant, unforgettable narrator.
 
“A riot of language that’s part hip-hop, part nerd boy, and part pure imagination.”—The Boston Globe

Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the... Read more

The Last Mapmaker

By: Christina Soontornvat

Narrated by: Sura Siu

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A Newbery Honor Book
“As assistant to Mangkon’s most celebrated mapmaker, twelve-year-old Sai plays the part of a well-bred young lady with a glittering future. In reality, her father is a conman—and in a kingdom where the status of one’s ancestors dictates their social position, the truth could ruin her. Sai seizes the chance to join an... Read more

Harvest House

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett & Charley Flyte

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NSK Neustadt Laureate and New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith delivers a thrilling cross-genre follow-up to the acclaimed Hearts Unbroken.

Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner... Read more

In Another Time

By: Jillian Cantor

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld & George Newbern

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping historical novel that spans Germany, England, and the United States and follows a young couple torn apart by circumstance leading up to World War II—and the family secret that may prove to be the means for survival.Love brought them together. But only time can save them…1931, Germany. Bookshop owner Max Beissinger meets Hanna... Read more