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Moonrise Over New Jessup

By: Jamila Minnicks

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama.
 
It’s 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the... Read more

The Girls at 17 Swann Street

By: Yara Zgheib

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Narrator Saskia Maarleveld's] tour de force reading perfectly encapsulates Anna’s anxieties, shame, and overwhelming guilt at failing to achieve perfection" — Booklist, starred review

**A People Pick for Best New Books**

Yara Zgheib’s poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman’s struggle with anorexia on an... Read more

The Paris Diversion

By: Chris Pavone

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“The most clever plot twist of the year.”—Washington Post

“I nominate Kate Moore, the protagonist of Chris Pavone’s sizzling new thriller The Paris Diversion, for patron saint of working wives and mothers everywhere.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

“The Paris Diversion is the best espionage novel I’ve read this year. Smart,... Read more

The Sound of Gravel

By: Ruth Wariner

Narrated by: Ruth Wariner

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"The narration by Wariner compliments the candid nature of her story...A captivating and emotional story delivered in a straightforward way without an ounce of self-pity." — Library Journal

A riveting, deeply-affecting audiobook memoir of one girl's coming-of-age experiences in a polygamist cult.

Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father’s... Read more

Here Comes the Sun

By: Nicole Dennis-Benn

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis-Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margot is... Read more

Loving Day

By: Mat Johnson

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons; his marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comic shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish-American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night in his new home,... Read more

Hamlet is Not OK

By: R.A. Spratt

Narrated by: R.A. Spratt

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Selby hates homework.

She would rather watch TV - anything to escape the tedium of school, her parents' bookshop and small-town busybodies.

So Selby didn't plan to read Hamlet. She certainly never planned to meet him.

This novel transports Selby, and the reader, into the cold and crime-ridden play itself. Here she meets Hamlet: heavy with grief,... Read more

Lakota America

By: Pekka Hamalainen

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history

This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and... Read more

First to the Front

By: Lorissa Rinehart

Narrated by: Kate Handford

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The first authoritative biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents.

"I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against officers, weakness against power."

From the beginning of World War... Read more

After Life

By: Gayle Forman

Narrated by: Gail Shalan, Jade Wheeler & Andrew J. Andersen

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A Good Morning America Book Club YA Pick""Gayle Forman has an uncanny ability to create characters in which we see ourselves, and her latest—which looks at where love goes, after a loss—is an honest, heartbreaking elegy to how memory makes relationships eternal."" —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author""I was consumed by this... Read more

Only If You're Lucky

By: Stacy Willingham

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Reader Vacker does a remarkable job.... Mystery and true crime fans will be drawn in and ultimately satisfied by this complex, tense tale read expertly by a talented narrator." —Booklist on All the Dangerous Things

A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the... Read more

Pictures of You

By: Emma Grey

Narrated by: Kristy Best & Nic English

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A PEOPLE Magazine's Best Book of November 2024
A November 2024 Book of the Month Selection
A USA Today Bestseller What would you do if you could start over? Imagine having a second chance with the one you never forgot. From the author of the global breakout bestseller The Last Love Note comes the story of a young woman struggling to piece her life... Read more

House of Suns

By: Alastair Reynolds

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 18 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every 200,000 years to exchange news and memories of... Read more

Fruit of the Dead

By: Rachel Lyon

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan & Joy Osmanski

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of the Year by Oprah Daily

* “Mesmerizing.” —Town & Country * “Twisty and unsettling.” —People * “Ancient Greece meets Succession by way of Emma Cline…deliciously dark.” —Ruth Gilligan *

A “superb…refreshing” (The New York Times Book Review) reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set on a lush private island,... Read more

The Scholar

By: Dervla McTiernan

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A compulsive new crime thriller set in the fiercely competitive, cutthroat world of research and academia, where the brightest minds will stop at nothing to succeedWhen Dr. Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit-and-run outside Galway University early one morning, she calls her boyfriend, Detective Cormac Reilly, bringing him first to... Read more

Concrete Rose

By: Angie Thomas

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. A Printz Honor Book!If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang... Read more

'Round Midnight

By: Laura McBride

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“If McBride is trying to prove—that if you change one life, you change the world—she succeeds magnificently.”—Booklist

From the author of the acclaimed novel We Are Called to Rise comes a “jewel of a novel” (BookPage) about four vivid and complicated women in Las Vegas whose lives become connected by secrets, courage, tragedies, and small acts... Read more

Piece of Cake

By: Mary Hollis Huddleston & Asher Fogle Paul

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

She’s only trying to save her job and her reputation.Claire Sommers grew up as a society girl destined to have it all: tasteful Dallas mansion, high-powered career, hot and rich husband. Until a massive mistake left her reputation in tatters and trust fund frozen. Now the former debutante is scraping by as a magazine staffer in Nashville—trading... Read more

Still Life at Eighty

By: Abigail Thomas

Narrated by: Abigail Thomas

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Three Dog Life, a witty and irreverent look at aging and the writing life, delivered with trademark brevity, humor, and wise wit.

“The Emily Dickinson of memoirists” (Stephen King) Abigail Thomas shares her thoughts on aging in this irresistibly wry memoir-in-vignettes—offering richly insightful... Read more

The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

By: Juliet Grames

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 16 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents—moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella’s own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted.In her rugged Italian village, Stella... Read more

The Mercies

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Narrated by: Jessie Buckley

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this "perfectly told" 1600s parable of "a world gone mad" (Adriana Trigiani).
Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen,... Read more

The Scaredy Cats

By: Allan Zullo

Narrated by: John Ratzenberger

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Scaredy Cats from the Haunted Kids spine-chilling audiobook collection by Allan Zullo of true ghost stories that have happened to real kids. A perfect way to set the tone for Halloween or anytime you want an eerie tale to keep you up at night!Listen in as actor John Ratzenberger tells the following story: The Scaredy CatsA cat that boys are... Read more

Fireworks

By: Alice Lin

Narrated by: Yu-Li Alice Shen

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A pitch-perfect K-pop rom com! Fame and friendship can get complicated, especially when there are more than platonic feelings at play.

Seventeen-year-old Lulu Li has her last summer before college all planned out. But her plans go awry when she learns that Kite Xu, her old next-door neighbor and childhood friend, will be returning home from South... Read more

Valley So Low

By: Jared Sullivan

Narrated by: Lee Osorio & Jared Sullivan

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history—and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, justice can be bought

For more than fifty years, a power plant in the small town of Kingston, Tennessee,  burned fourteen thousand tons of coal a day, gradually... Read more