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The Garden of Small Beginnings

By: Abbi Waxman

Narrated by: Emily Rankin

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“A quirky, funny, and deeply thoughtful book”* that’s “filled with characters you’ll love and wish you lived next door to in real life”** from the author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.
 
Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years—ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental breakdown and some random suicidal thoughts... Read more

The Ensemble

By: Aja Gabel

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Pitch-perfect." —People

"You won’t be able to quit these characters." —goop

The addictive novel about four young friends navigating the cutthroat world of classical music and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love intertwine over the course of their lives.

Jana. Brit. Daniel. Henry. They would never have been... Read more

Crimson Lake

By: Candice Fox

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

*Winner of the Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense Audiobook*

"Narrator Euan Morton's gravelly voice and Australian accent embody Ted...His excellent pacing and gripping delivery maintain tension." — AudioFile Magazine

Candice Fox's thrilling Crimson Lake, the basis for the series Troppo starring Thomas Jane, now streaming on Amazon Prime!

How do you... Read more

The Kingdoms of Savannah

By: George Dawes Green

Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Jeanette Illidge, Karen Commins, K...

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"The narrators form a kind of tag team as they voice the florid descriptions of the city, its people, and a murder investigation led by the unlikeliest of characters, high society's Morgana Musgrove, portrayed by Karen Commins." - AudioFile on The Kingdoms of Savannah

Savannah may appear to be “some town out of a fable,” with its vine flowers,... Read more

Blackwater Falls

By: Ausma Zehanat Khan

Narrated by: Fareeda Pasha

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Girls from immigrant communities have been disappearing for months in the Colorado town of Blackwater Falls, but the local sheriff is slow to act and the fates of the missing girls are largely disregarded. At last, the calls for justice become too loud to ignore when the body of a star student and refugee—the Syrian teenager Razan Elkader—is... Read more

The Bright Hour

By: Nina Riggs

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

* INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *

“Stunning…heartrending…this year’s When Breath Becomes Air.” —Nora Krug, The Washington Post

“Beautiful and haunting.” —Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY

“Deeply affecting…simultaneously heartbreaking and funny.” —People (Book of the Week)

“Vivid, immediate.” —Laura Collins-Hughes, The Boston Globe

Starred... Read more

Real Men Knit

By: Kwana Jackson

Narrated by: Keylor Leigh

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"If you're looking for an easy charmer, this is the novel for you."—Shondaland
 
When their foster-turned-adoptive mother suddenly dies, four brothers struggle to keep open the doors of her beloved Harlem knitting shop.

Jesse Strong is known for two things: his devotion to his adoptive mom, Mama Joy, and his reputation for breaking hearts. When... Read more

Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

Narrated by: J. Dana Trent

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer in rural Indiana—only to find that no one can really “make it out” until they make peace with where their story began: home

Home, it turns out, is where the war is. It’s also where the healing begins.

Dana Trent is only a preschooler the first time... Read more

The Fall of Lisa Bellow

By: Susan Perabo

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The breakout novel from the critically acclaimed author of the short story collections Who I Was Supposed to Be and Why They Run the Way They Do—when a middle school girl is abducted in broad daylight, a fellow student and witness to the crime copes with the tragedy in unforgettable ways.

What happens to the girl left behind?

A masked man with a... Read more

The Book of Goose

By: Yiyun Li

Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will, by the celebrated author Yiyun Li.

Fabienne is dead. Her... Read more

The Path of Paganism

By: John Beckett

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Paganism is a way of seeing the world and your place in it. It means challenging the assumptions of mainstream society and strengthening your relationships with the gods, the universe, your community, and your self. The Path of Paganism provides practical advice and support for honoring your values and living an authentic Pagan life in... Read more

We Are the ARK

By: Mary Reynolds

Narrated by: Jane Copland

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Reynolds gives us a much-needed reason for hope. The gardener, the conservationist, the city planner, and the nature lover will all be inspired for this wonderful book shows how thousands of even small wildlife friendly gardens can provide habitat for embattled wildlife around the world.” —Jane Goodall, Phd, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall... Read more

Long Road to Mercy

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Kyf Brewer

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Introducing a remarkable new character from #1 New York Times bestselling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States who must confront a new threat . . . and an old nightmare.

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Catch a tiger by its toe.

It's seared into Atlee Pine's... Read more

The Collected Schizophrenias

By: Esmé Weijun Wang

Narrated by: Esmé Weijun Wang

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting AwardAn intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying... Read more

Aurora Blazing

By: Jessie Mihalik

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

To save her brother and protect her family’s future, a powerful princess must join forces with a dashing man from her past in this thrilling space adventure, the second novel in the Consortium Rebellion trilogy.

As the dutiful daughter of High House von Hasenberg, Bianca set aside her personal feelings and agreed to a political match arranged by... Read more

I Am a Girl from Africa

By: Elizabeth Nyamayaro

Narrated by: Elizabeth Nyamayaro

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A “profound and soul-nourishing memoir” (Oprah Daily) from an African girl whose near-death experience sparked a lifelong dedication to humanitarian work that helps bring change across the world.

When severe drought hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth Nyamayaro, then only eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to... Read more

Very Nice

By: Marcy Dermansky

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly funny novel of money, sex, race, and bad behavior in the post-Obama era, featuring a wealthy Connecticut divorcée, her college-age daughter, and the famous novelist who is seduced by them both.

Rachel Klein never meant to kiss her creative writing professor, but with his long eyelashes, his silky hair, and the sad, beautiful life he... Read more

The Prisoner

By: B.A. Paris

Narrated by: Georgia Maguire

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

With Behind Closed Doors, New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris took the psychological thriller to shocking new heights. Now she’ll hold you captive with THE PRISONER—a stunning new thriller about one woman wed into a family with deadly intentions.

Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it... Read more

The Stalker

By: Kate Rhodes

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Chillingly compelling and expertly assembled. An immersive piece of thriller writing of the sort late-night-reading binges are made of’ B. P. WALTER 

‘Dark, intense, and expertly crafted. Kate Rhodes delivers exactly what I look for in a gripping thriller’ RACHEL ABBOTT 

She thinks she understand stalkers. Until she becomes a target . . . 

Elly... Read more

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good

By: Helene Tursten

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Maud is an irascible eighty-eight-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and . . . no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss Investigation series, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home.



Ever... Read more

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

By: Stephen Hawking

Narrated by: Ben Whishaw, Garrick Hagon & Lucy Hawking

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind.

“Hawking’s parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity’s future should read.”—NPR

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Forbes •... Read more

Goddess of Filth

By: V. Castro

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

One hot summer night, best friends Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a séance. It's all fun and games at first, but their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burn straight through their prayer candles and Fernanda starts crawling toward her friends and chanting in Nahuatl, the language of their Aztec ancestors.



Over the... Read more

Slonim Woods 9

By: Daniel Barban Levin

Narrated by: Jay Myers

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An “extraordinary” (Nylon) firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs paid by its young victims: a group of college roommates
 
“Intense . . . [a tale] of hard-won survival, and creating a life after the unimaginable.”—Salon

The inspiration for the Hulu docuseries Stolen Youth, directed by Zach Heinzerling and co-produced by... Read more

The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko

By: Scott Stambach

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Fault In Our Stars meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is a life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus. For the most part, every day is exactly the same for Ivan, which is why he turns everything into a game, manipulating people and events around him for his own... Read more