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The Dolphin House

By: Audrey Schulman

Narrated by: Alex Picard

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the true story of the 1965 “dolphin house” experiment, this spellbinding novel captures the tenor of the social experiments of the 1960s in award-winning author Audrey Schulman’s tightly paced and evocative style. It is 1965, and Cora, a young, hearing impaired woman, buys a one-way ticket to the island of St. Thomas, where she... Read more

Bread and Circus

By: Airea D. Matthews

Narrated by: Airea D. Matthews

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

“Discerning and significant.” —Poetry Foundation
“A sharp memoir in verse.” —LitHub

This powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’s former Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class is a brilliant intellectual and... Read more

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

By: Kathleen Rooney

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"Between author Rooney's story and narrator Xe Sands's craftsmanship, this Walk will sweep listeners off their feet...Through Sands we feel the force of Lillian's personality — with all its drive, wit, and grace — as well as the counterforces that want to constrain it." — AudioFile Magazine

NOW A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER

A love letter to city... Read more

Calling for a Blanket Dance

By: Oscar Hokeah

Narrated by: Oscar Hokeah & Rainy Fields

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity. 

Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father’s injury at the hands... Read more

Black Buck

By: Mateo Askaripour

Narrated by: Zeno Robinson

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller 
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize

“Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, executing a high wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy.”
—Colson Whitehead, author of The Nickel Boys

“A hilarious, gleaming satire as... Read more

The Address

By: Fiona Davis

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld & Brittany Pressley

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue comes the compelling national bestselling novel about the thin lines between love and loss, success and ruin, passion and madness, all hidden behind the walls of The Dakota—New York City’s most famous residence.

When a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the... Read more

The Story of Arthur Truluv

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg comes a wise and emotionally powerful novel about three people who’ve lost the ones they love most, only to find second chances where they least expect them.For the past six months, Arthur Moses’s days have looked the same: He tends to his rose garden and to Gordon, his cat, then rides the... Read more

It Happened One Christmas Eve

By: Jenn McKinlay

Narrated by: Sara Young

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Claire Macintosh is about to get engaged to a man she doesn't love at the holiday gala she is hosting as director of the Museum of Literature. Her mother, Hildy Macintosh, has made it clear that if the museum is to continue to receive the enormous donations from the family trust that Hildy has approved all these years, then Claire must marry the... Read more

Reproduction

By: Louisa Hall

Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A lucid, genre-defying novel that explores the surreality of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood in a country in crisis A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist’s own painful experiences of... Read more

A Quantum Love Story

By: Mike Chen

Narrated by: Patti Murin

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A cozy sci-fi novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Brotherhood

The only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them.

Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda’s ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career—after one last week consulting at a top secret... Read more

The Sun Walks Down

By: Fiona McFarlane

Narrated by: Emma Jones

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Audiobooks of 2023

"Such a large cast of characters would normally be difficult to keep straight in an audiobook without tedious backtracking, but McFarlane’s skill in evoking their distinct inner lives and Jones’s deftness in capturing them in manner and accent keep them perfectly distinct." —The Washington... Read more

Layoverland

By: Gabby Noone

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Beatrice Fox deserves to go straight to hell.At least, that's what she believes. Her last day on Earth, she ruined the life of the person she loves most--her little sister, Emmy. So when Bea awakens from a fatal car accident to find herself on an airplane headed who knows where, she's confused, to say the least.Once on the ground, Bea receives... Read more

Gathering Dark

By: Candice Fox

Narrated by: Erin Bennett & Karissa Vacker

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Gathering Dark is a new standalone thriller set in Los Angeles from #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Candice Fox.

A convicted killer. A gifted thief. A vicious ganglord. A disillusioned cop. Together they’re a missing girl’s only hope.

Dr. Blair Harbour, once a wealthy, respected pediatric surgeon, is now an ex-con down on... Read more

Will's Race for Home

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

Narrated by: Christopher Hampton

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes goes West in this thrilling adventure story about a son and his father who set out to win land during the Oklahoma Land Rush–if they can survive the journey.  
 
It’s 1889, barely twenty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and a young Black family is tired of working on land... Read more

Blackmail and Bibingka

By: Mia P. Manansala

Narrated by: Danice Cabanela

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

When her long-lost cousin comes back to town just in time for the holidays, Lila Macapagal knows that big trouble can’t be far behind in this new mystery by Mia P. Manansala, author of Arsenic and Adobo.
 
It’s Christmastime in Shady Palms, but things are far from jolly for Lila Macapagal. Sure, her new business, the Brew-ha Cafe, is looking to... Read more

Instant Karma

By: Marissa Meyer

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer's young adult contemporary romance, a girl is suddenly gifted with the ability to cast instant karma on those around her – both good and bad.

Chronic overachiever Prudence Daniels is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. Her dreams of karmic... Read more

Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe

By: Heather Webber

Narrated by: Bethany Lind, Nicholas Techosky & Stephanie Willis

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"Listeners will be transported to the small Southern town of Wicklow by the drawls and laid-back pacing of the narrators...This is a beautiful story of family, love, and forgiveness." - AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

Heather Webber's Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and... Read more

The Deepest Blue

By: Sarah Beth Durst

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The natural magic of the classic The Island of the Blue Dolphins meets the danger and courage of The Hunger Games in this dazzling, intricate stand-alone fantasy novel set in award-winning author Sarah Beth Durst’s beloved world of Renthia.

Life is precious and precarious on the islands of Belene. Besieged by a capricious ocean full of malicious... Read more

The Tao of the Backup Catcher

By: Tim Brown

Narrated by: Justin Price & Tim Brown

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating book chronicles the unsung men of baseball who serve the job, the hardships they face, and their love for a game that would not always love them back―told partly through the experiences of an MLB veteran.​

In baseball there are superstars and stars and everyday players and then there are the rest. Within the rest are role... Read more

Earls Trip

By: Jenny Holiday

Narrated by: Harry Frost

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Ted Lasso meets Bridgerton for a nineteenth century spin on The Hangover in USA Today bestselling author Jenny Holiday's laugh-out-loud Earls Trip

Even an earl needs his ride-or-dies, and Archibald Fielding-Burton, the Earl of Harcourt, counts himself lucky to have two. The annual trip that Archie takes with his BFFs Simon and Effie holds a... Read more

How to Stop Time

By: Matt Haig

Narrated by: Mark Meadows

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.

“A quirky romcom dusted with philosophical observations….A delightfully witty…poignant novel.” —The Washington Post
  
“She smiled a soft, troubled smile and I felt the whole world slipping away, and I wanted to slip with it, to go wherever she was going… I had existed whole... Read more

This Is Chance!

By: Jon Mooallem

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together

“A powerful, heart-wrenching book, as much art as it is journalism.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“A beautifully wrought and profoundly joyful story of compassion and perseverance.”—BuzzFeed (Best Books of the Year)

In the... Read more

Searching for Sylvie Lee

By: Jean Kwok

Narrated by: Angela Lin, Samantha Quan & Caroline McLaughlin

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick & Emma Roberts Belletrist Book Club Pick!NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY New York Times • Time • Marie Claire • Elle • Buzzfeed • Huffington Post • Good Housekeeping • The Week • Goodreads • New York Post • and many more!“Powerful . . . A twisting tale of love,... Read more

Once More We Saw Stars

By: Jayson Greene

Narrated by: Jayson Greene

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

“A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss.”
 --Cheryl Strayed

For readers of The Bright Hour and When Breath Becomes Air, a moving, transcendent memoir of loss and a stunning exploration of marriage in the wake of unimaginable grief.

As the book opens: two-year-old Greta Greene is sitting with her... Read more