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How a Woman Becomes a Lake

By: Marjorie Celona

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime Novel
 
From the Giller-nominated author of Y comes How a Woman Becomes a Lake, a taut, suspenseful novel about the dark corners of a small town, and the secrets that lurk within...

It's New Year's Day and the residents of a small fishing town are ready to start their lives anew.... Read more

Orpheus Girl

By: Brynne Rebele-Henry

Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In her debut novel, award-winning poet Brynne Rebele-Henry re-imagines the Orpheus myth as a love story between two teenage girls who are sent to conversion therapy after being caught together in an intimate moment. Abandoned by a single mother she never knew, 16-year-old Raya-obsessed with ancient myths-lives with her grandmother in a small... Read more

Night Pleasures

By: Sherrilyn Kenyon

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The first installment of Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series, Night Pleasures.

The Dark-Hunters are ancient warriors who have sworn to protect mankind and the fate of the world is in their hands. . .

He is solitude. He is darkness. He is the ruler of the night. Yet Kyrian of Thrace has just woken up handcuffed to his worst nightmare: An... Read more

Erosion

By: Terry Tempest Williams

Narrated by: Terry Tempest Williams

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist

In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of... Read more

The Travelers

By: Regina Porter

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Dominic Hoffman

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“American history comes to vivid, engaging life in this tale of two interconnected families (one white, one black) that spans from the 1950s to Barack Obama’s first year as president. . . . The complex, beautifully drawn characters are unique and indelible.”—Entertainment Weekly

“An astoundingly audacious debut.”—O: The Oprah Magazine • “A... Read more

Cabinet of Curiosities

By: Aaron Mahnke

Narrated by: Aaron Mahnke

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features a bonus conversation between Aaron Mahnke, the book's author and creator of the smash-hit iHeartPodcast series, and journalist and screenwriter Dana Schwartz.

The new audiobook is based on the long-running hit podcast by Aaron Mahnke, which has translated into over 120-million downloads to date, and a monthly average of... Read more

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

By: Holly Black

Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Return to the captivating world of Elfhame with this illustrated addition to the New York Times bestselling Folk of Air trilogy that began with The Cruel Prince, from award-winning author Holly Black.
Once upon a time, there was a boy with a wicked tongue.

Before he was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone.... Read more

The Islanders

By: Meg Mitchell Moore

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

J. Courtney Sullivan’s Maine meets the works of Elin Hilderbrand in this delicious summer read involving three strangers, one island, and a season packed with unexpected romance, well-meaning lies, and damaging secrets.Anthony Puckett was a rising literary star. The son of an uber-famous thriller writer, Anthony’s debut novel spent two years on... Read more

The River Is Waiting

By: Wally Lamb

Narrated by: Jeremy Sisto

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable.

Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and... Read more

Haunting and Homicide

By: Ava Burke

Narrated by: Maria McCann

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Lou Thatcher is haunted by ghosts—friendly ghosts—but when she finds herself involved in a murder investigation, she’s in for the fright of a lifetime in this cozy mystery, perfect for fans of Amanda Flower and Ellen Byron.Tallulah “Lou” Thatcher has a gift: she can see dead people. But in New Orleans, Louisiana, this is not a drawback. On the... Read more

Call Me Indian

By: Fred Sasakamoose

Narrated by: Wilton Littlechild

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Fred Sasakamoose played in the NHL before First Nations people had the right to vote in Canada. This page turner will have you cheering for 'Fast Freddy' as he faces off against huge challenges both on and off the ice--a great gift to every proud hockey fan, Canadian, and Indigenous person."
--Wab Kinew, Leader of the Manitoba... Read more

Satisfaction Guaranteed

By: Karelia Stetz-Waters

Narrated by: Lori Prince

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Casey McQuiston and Abby Jimenez comes a bold, hilarious, and out-of-the-box novel about mixing business with battery-operated pleasure . . .

When it comes to her career, Cade Elgin has it all figured out. Only “professional talk” has become her default mode, relationships are nonexistent, and don’t even mention the word “orgasm.” All... Read more

Egg Marks the Spot

By: Amy Timberlake

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Buried in the heart of every animal is a secret treasure. Badger’s is the Spider Eye Agate, stolen years ago by his crafty and treasure-trade-dealing cousin, Fisher. Skunk’s is Sundays with the New Yak Times Book Review.
 
When Mr. G. Hedgehog threatens to take the Book Review as soon as it thumps on the doorstep, Skunk decides an adventure (“X... Read more

Five Feet Apart

By: Rachael Lippincott

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski & Corey Brill

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Also a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson!
Goodreads Choice Winner, Best Young Adult Fiction of 2019

In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel that’s perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within a few feet of each other... Read more

Congratulations, The Best Is Over!

By: R. Eric Thomas

Narrated by: R. Eric Thomas

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The beloved author of Here for It returns with a collection of “funny and compulsively readable” (Vogue), “hilarious and incisive” (Time) essays about what happens after happily ever after.

“How is it possible that I liked this book even more than his last one? Phenomenal.”—Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more

What We Lose

By: Zinzi Clemmons

Narrated by: Nicole Lewis

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree
NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Finalist
Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist

Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, NPR, Elle, Esquire, Buzzfeed, San Francisco Chronicle, Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, The Root, Harper’s Bazaar, Paste, Bustle, Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature,... Read more

Behind the Throne

By: K. B. Wagers

Narrated by: Angèle Masters

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind the Throne begins K. B. Wagers's action-packed science fiction adventure, with a heroine as rebellious as Han Solo, as savvy as Leia, and as skilled as Rey.

Hail Bristol has made a name for herself as one of the most fearsome gunrunners in the galaxy. But she can't escape her past forever: twenty years ago, she was a runaway princess of... Read more

Touch

By: Courtney Maum

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A] warm-hearted tale of a woman reconfiguring her priorities.”—O, The Oprah Magazine
 
NPR, "Best Books of 2017"
Belletrist's Book Pick for June
New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice
Glamour, "The 6 Juiciest Summer Reads”
New York Post, “The 29 Best Books of the Summer”
Huffington Post, “24 Incredible Books You Should Read This... Read more

They All Fall the Same

By: Wes Browne

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

An organized crime boss in Kentucky believes money and power are everything until his enterprise collides with a family tragedy in this gripping noir thriller perfect for fans of S.A. Cosby and Eli Cranor.   Cannabis kingpin Burl Spoon has reigned over the Jackson County area for three decades, building a powerful backwoods empire. But behind a... Read more

Fire Weather

By: John Vaillant

Narrated by: Alan Carlson

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce

“Riveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page…Captures the majesty and horror of one of [our] great disasters.” —David... Read more

A Certain Age

By: Beatriz Williams

Narrated by: Mia Barron, Barbara Goodson & Adrienne Rusk

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm.As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent... Read more

Fragile Remedy

By: Maria Ingrande Mora

Narrated by: James Fouhey

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen-year-old Nate is a Gem—a Genetically Engineered Medical Surrogate—created by Gathos City scientists as a cure for the elite from the fatal lung rot ravaging the population. As a child, Nate was smuggled out of the laboratory where he was held captive and taken into the Withers—a quarantined, lawless region. He manages to survive by... Read more

The Boyfriend Project

By: Farrah Rochon

Narrated by: Je Nie Fleming

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A smart and delightful romantic comedy featuring fabulous female friendships and "a great love story." --Jasmine Guillory, bestselling author of Party of Two Samiah Brooks never thought she would be "that" girl. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: she's been catfished by a three-timing jerk of a boyfriend.... Read more

This Is What It Sounds Like

By: Susan Rogers & Ogi Ogas

Narrated by: Susan Rogers

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A legendary record producer–turned–brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.

This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it’s also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in Los Angeles, rose to become... Read more