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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

The Snowman

By: Jo Nesbo

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Inspector Harry Hole tracks a Norwegian serial killer in this “fiendishly complex and terrifically entertaining” (The New York Times Book Review) installment of the New York Times bestselling series.

"Maddeningly addictive.” —Vanity Fair

One night, after the first snowfall of the year, a boy named Jonas wakes up and... Read more

Westfallen

By: Brashares, Ann & Ben Brashares

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan & André Santana

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“What a thrilling—and chilling—adventure!” —Margaret Peterson Haddix, New York Times bestselling author

From #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants author Ann Brashares and her brother Ben Brashares comes the first book in a “pulse-pounding” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) middle grade alternate history thriller... Read more

Silence

By: Erling Kagge

Narrated by: Atli Gunnarsson

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

What is silence?

Where can it be found?

Why is it now more important than ever?

In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book. an astonishing and... Read more

Where Sleeping Girls Lie

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Narrated by: Natalie Simpson

Length: 16 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie — a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ace of Spades — a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears.

It’s like I keep stumbling into a dark room, searching for the switch to make things bright again...

Sade... Read more

Little

By: Edward Carey

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE

"An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I... Read more

Happiness Economics

By: Shari Lapena

Narrated by: Robin Wilcock

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The riotously funny second novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Everyone Here Is Lying, Shari Lapena, that explores what happens when art collides with commerce.

Will Thorne is a stalled poet, married to Judy, a wildly successful celebrity economist. Pressured by a starving fellow poet, Will establishes The Poets' Preservation... Read more

The Lovers

By: Rebekah Faubion

Narrated by: Gail Shalan & Mia Hutchinson-Shaw

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A second chance at love is in the cards for two women working a stylish California wedding in this charming debut romance.

If Kit Larson believes one thing, it’s that the cards never lie. She’s seen it proven time and time again as a tarot reader and mystic influencer. But unfortunately the cards didn’t warn her about her most recent breakup or... Read more

The Jump

By: Brittney Morris

Narrated by: Zeno Robinson, Ali Andre Ali, Soneela Nankani &...

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of SLAY and The Cost of Knowing comes an action-driven, high-octane “thrill ride” (Kirkus Reviews) about a group of working-class teens in Seattle who join a dangerous scavenger hunt with a prize that can save their families and community.

Influence is power. Power creates change. And change is exactly what Team Jericho... Read more

A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes

By: Rodrigo Garcia

Narrated by: Rodrigo Garcia

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“(Garcia) now honors his parents in this brief yet profound memoir rendered all the more intimate in García's own voice.”—Booklist (starred review)“This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone who has ever entered the glorious literary world of Gabriel García... Read more

The Dilemma

By: B.A. Paris

Narrated by: Beth Eyre & Peter Noble

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman's birthday party takes a dark turn in a poignant, heart-stopping new novel from the reigning queen of suspense, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors, The Breakdown, and Bring Me Back.

“A heartbreaking page-turner that will have you up at night reading just one more chapter.” —Catherine Steadman, #1 New... Read more

The Passenger

By: Lisa Lutz

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“A dead-serious thriller (with a funny bone)” (The New York Times Book Review), from the author of the New York Times bestselling Spellman Files series, comes the story of a woman who creates and sheds new identities as she crisscrosses the country to escape her past.

Forty-eight hours after leaving her husband’s body at the base of the stairs,... Read more

The Winter Soldier

By: Daniel Mason

Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic story of war and medicine from the award-winning author of The Piano Tuner is "a dream of a novel...part mystery, part war story, part romance" (Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See). 

Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of... Read more

The Gilded Years

By: Karin Tanabe

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Passing meets The House of Mirth in this “utterly captivating” (Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen House) historical novel based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, the first black student to attend Vassar, who successfully passed as white—until she let herself grow too attached to the wrong person.

Since... Read more

The God and the Gumiho

By: Sophie Kim

Narrated by: Greta Jung & Intae Kim

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sly and dazzling contemporary fantasy, the most notorious nine-tailed fox in Korea pairs up with a trickster god–turned–detective to track down a wrathful demon . . . before it can destroy the mortal world.

“Enchanting fantasy . . . With an intoxicating mix of action, mystery, and deliciously angsty romance, this reads like the most... Read more

Someone in the Attic

By: Andrea Mara

Narrated by: Jessica Regan

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From a #1 internationally bestselling author comes an atmospheric, chilling novel about a family who thinks there's someone hiding in their attic

“Andrea Mara is a star.” —Lee Child

You thought you were home alone.

Anya is enjoying a relaxing bath when she hears a noise coming from the ceiling. Through the open bathroom door, she sees the attic... Read more

Midnight on Beacon Street

By: Emily Ruth Verona

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“Midnight on Beacon Street is a lot of things. It’s a taut thriller about a babysitter and two kids surviving one weird night. It’s a celebration of classic horror movies. It’s a creepy narrative that involves a ghost and late night home break-ins. And, most important, it’s a lot of fun. . . Verona plays with home invasion tropes by delivering a... Read more

The (Super Secret) Octagon Valley Society

By: Melissa de la Cruz

Narrated by: Marni Penning

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This new series from #1 New York Times best-selling author Melissa de la Cruz is The Mysterious Benedict Society for reluctant readers, chockful of humor, adventure and mischief, and set at an exclusive, secluded, high-tech institute everyone wants to get into.A handful of sixth-graders have been chosen to attend an exclusive weekend at the... Read more

Girls They Write Songs About

By: Carlene Bauer

Narrated by: Cady Zuckerman

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

New York, 1997. As the city’s gritty edges are being smoothed into something safer and shinier, two girls meet at a music magazine. Rose?brash and self-possessed?is a staff writer. Charlotte?hesitant, bookish?is an editor. First wary, then slowly admiring, they recognize in each other an insatiable and previously unmatched ambition. Soon they’re... Read more

Boy Friends

By: Michael Pedersen

Narrated by: Michael Pedersen

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents. 'As perfect a portrait of friendship as I've ever read.' STEPHEN FRY 'Lucid, lyrical, loaded . . . A love letter to friendship.' JACKIE KAY 'A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refreshing.' ANDREW O'HAGAN 'A... Read more

Here After

By: Amy Lin

Narrated by: Amy Lin

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA Today Bestseller • Starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and Library Journal • Best Book of 2024 Pick by Esquire, ELLE, SheReads, and Kirkus • A 2024 NPR “Book We Love” Pick • A March 2024 Book of the Month Selection • An Apple Books Best Book of March • Finalist for the 2024 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction • A Great... Read more

Against the Currant

By: Olivia Matthews

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Little Caribbean, Brooklyn, New York: Lyndsay Murray is opening Spice Isle Bakery with her family, and it’s everything she’s ever wanted. The West Indian bakery is her way to give back to the community she loves, stay connected to her Grenadian roots, and work side-by-side with her family. The only thing getting a rise out of Lyndsay is Claudio... Read more

Ranger Games

By: Ben Blum

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"A gloriously good writer...Ranger Games is both surprising and moving...A memorable, novelistic account."—Jennifer Senior, New York Times 

Intricate, heartrending, and morally urgent, Ranger Games is a crime story like no other
 
Alex Blum was a good kid, a popular high school hockey star from a tight-knit Colorado family. He had one goal in... Read more