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The New Me

By: Halle Butler

Narrated by: Halle Butler

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"[A] definitive work of millennial literature . . . wretchedly riveting." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

“Girls + Office Space + My Year of Rest and Relaxation + anxious sweating = The New Me.” —Entertainment Weekly

I'm still trying to make the dream possible: still might finish my cleaning project, still might sign up for that yoga class,... Read more

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

By: Ross Gay

Narrated by: Ross Gay

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category
Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize
Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category
Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry category

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that... Read more

Rap Capital

By: Joe Coscarelli

Narrated by: Landon Woodson

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An “impassioned tribute” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) to the most influential music culture today, Atlanta rap—a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli.

From mansions to trap houses, office buildings to strip clubs, Atlanta is defined by its rap music.... Read more

Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche

By: Nancy Springer

Narrated by: Christopher Bonwell & Tamaryn Payne

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"A young girl who is empowered, capable, and smart...the Enola Holmes book series convey an impactful message that you can do anything if you set your mind to it, and it does so in an exciting and adventurous way." - Millie Bobby Brown

"This audiobook is a welcome addition to an engaging and fast-paced series." - AudioFile Magazine

Enola Holmes... Read more

Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Emma Naomi

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Emma Naomi, best known for Bridgerton. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Marilyn Butler.

With its irrepressible heroine and playful literary games, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's novels. It tells the story of young,... Read more

Defy

By: Dr. Sunita Sah

Narrated by: Dr. Sunita Sah

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is it so hard to speak up, even when we know something’s wrong?

This is the definitive book on defiance, a clear-eyed dissection of the forces that silence us, featuring groundbreaking research and legendary stories alongside everyday examples and strategies for how to unleash the power of a “True No.”

Many of us comply much more than we... Read more

After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Gilli Messer

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Part of Quindlen’s gift is that you don’t just read about these characters, you inhabit them. . . . Luminous with life, hope and the power of love.”—People (A Book of the Week Pick)

“[A] quietly revelatory and gently gleaming gem of a book.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

Anna Quindlen’s trademark... Read more

Everybody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 18 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times 2016 Notable Book

An immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. Richard Russo returns to North Bath—“a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy” (The New York Times)—and the characters who made Nobody’s... Read more

Gone to the Woods

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Dan Bittner flawlessly narrates this matchless memoir, which captures writer Gary Paulsen's bittersweet life...The sublime narration and satisfying conclusion contribute to a rewarding listening experience." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

A middle grade memoir from a living literary legend, giving listeners a new perspective on... Read more

Where They Last Saw Her

By: Marcie R. Rendon

Narrated by: Erin Tripp & Marcie R. Rendon

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series comes a compelling novel of a Native American woman who learns of the disappearance of one of her own and decides enough is enough.

A WASHINGTON POST AND BOOK RIOT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

All they heard was her scream.

Quill has lived on the Red Pine reservation in... Read more

Mavis the Bravest

By: Lu Fraser

Narrated by: Rosalind Bennett

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is Mavis the Bravest.

This is a laugh-out-loud story about a bonnet-wearing, would-rather-be-knitting chicken who embarks on a high stakes chase to save her friend, Sandra the sheep.

Mavis is not like her adventurous friend Marge. Mavis is a chicken who finds... Read more

Keeping Lucy

By: T. Greenwood

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

PopSugar's 30 Must-Read Books of 2019
Good Housekeeping's 25 Best New Books for Summer 2019
Better Homes & Gardens 13 New Books We Can't Wait to Read This Summer

The heartbreaking and uplifting story, inspired by incredible true events, of how far one mother must go to protect her daughter.

Dover, Massachusetts, 1969. Ginny Richardson's heart... Read more

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Dorian Gray, a handsome and narcissistic young man, lives thoughtlessly for his own pleasure—an attitude encouraged by the company he keeps. One day, after having his portrait painted, Dorian makes a frivolous Faustian wish: that he should always remain as young and beautiful as he is in that painting, while the portrait grows old in his... Read more

Mr. Dickens and His Carol

By: Samantha Silva

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Narrator Euan Morton's] British-accented narration is pure delight...This imaginative story is so charming that listeners will be convinced it is fact, not fiction. A heartwarming addition to the holiday audiobook collection." — Booklist

Laced with humor, rich historical detail from Charles Dickens’ life, and clever winks to his work, Samantha... Read more

The Reckless Oath We Made

By: Bryn Greenwood

Narrated by: Alex McKenna, Kirby Heyborne, Adenrele Ojo, Mac...

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A new provocative love story from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things.
 
“The story of Zee and Gentry is the reason we read.” —Brunonia Barry
 
Their journey will break them—or save them.
 
A moving and complicated love story for our time, The Reckless Oath We Made redefines what it means to be heroic. Zee... Read more

Small Spaces

By: Katherine Arden

Narrated by: Renee Dorian

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic.

After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the... Read more

Inspired

By: Matt Richtel

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter ""unpacks the myths and mysteries of the creative process"" (Salon).How does creativity work? Where does inspiration come from? What are the secrets of our most revered creators? How can we maximize our creative potential?Creativity defines the human experience. It sparks achievement... Read more

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

By: Maria Semple

Narrated by: Kathleen Wilhoite

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this "whip-smart and divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times).

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in... Read more

Nerd

By: Maya Phillips

Narrated by: Maya Phillips

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) and Black Nerd Problems, this witty, incisive essay collection from New York Times critic at large Maya Phillips explores race, religion, sexuality, and more through the lens of her favorite pop culture fandoms.

From the moment Maya Phillips saw the opening scroll of Star Wars, Episode V:... Read more

Ordinary Girls

By: Jaquira Diaz

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut author



While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Jaquira Díaz found herself caught between extremes: as her family split apart and her mother battled schizophrenia, she was surrounded by the love of her friends; as she longed for a family and... Read more

The Au Pair

By: Emma Rous

Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre & Nicola Barber

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

If V. C. Andrews and Kate Morton had a literary love child, Emma Rous' USA Today bestseller The Au Pair would be it.

One of the most anticipated books of 2019 from Pop Sugar, Bustle, Cosmo, Parade, and Goodreads!

Seraphine Mayes and her twin brother, Danny, were born in the middle of summer at their family's estate on the Norfolk coast. Within... Read more

Zone One

By: Colson Whitehead

Narrated by: Beresford Bennett

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.

Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuild­ing civilization under orders from the provisional govern­ment based in Buffalo.... Read more

Not for the Faint of Heart

By: Lex Croucher

Narrated by: Kit Griffiths & Olivia Dowd

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Lex Croucher comes a queer historical YA romance, with all the swoons, laughs, and heart-pounding moments you'd expect from a story about the granddaughter of Robin Hood and the girl she's accidentally kidnapped.

‘You aren’t merry,’ Clem said to her captor. ‘And you aren’t all men. So there’s been some... Read more

Reticence

By: Gail Carriger

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Bookish and proper Percival Tunstell finds himself out of his depth when floating cities, spirited plumbing, and soggy biscuits collide in this delightful conclusion to NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger's Custard Protocol series.
Percival Tunstell loves that his sister and her best friend are building themselves a family of misfits aboard... Read more