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Conclave

By: Robert Harris

Narrated by: Roy McMillan

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling author of Enigma and Fatherland turns to today's Vatican in a ripped-from-the-headlines novel, and gives us his most ambitious, page-turning thriller yet--where the power of God is nearly equaled by the ambition of men.

The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all... Read more

Ghosts

By: Dolly Alderton

Narrated by: Holliday Grainger

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Everything I Know About Love comes a smart, sexy, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about ex-boyfriends, imperfect parents, friends with kids, and a man who disappears the moment he says "I love you."

“An absolute knock-out. Wickedly funny and, at turns, both cynical and sincere… feels like your very... Read more

Big Girl, Small Town

By: Michelle Gallen

Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARD FOR NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 
FINALIST FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE

“Darkly hilarious . . . Wildly entertaining.” —The Guardian

Meet Majella O’Neill, a heroine like no other, performed by Nicola Coughlan, star of Derry Girls. 

Majella is happiest out of the... Read more

The Future of Geography

By: Tim Marshall

Narrated by: Tim Marshall

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes an “insightful, hopeful, and endlessly fascinating” (Daily Express) book on today’s space race—including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and what it means for all of us here on Earth.

Spy satellites... Read more

Framed

By: Frank Cottrell Boyce

Narrated by: Jason Hughes

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A few things to know about DylanHe is the only boy in his entire town—so forget about playing games of football.His best friends are two pet chickens, Michaelangelo and Donatello—named after (who else?) the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.His family owns the town's only gas station/copy shop/coffee house—their Picasso Pies are to die for, but... Read more

Reputation

By: Sara Shepard

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan, Allyson Ryan, Phoebe Strole, Bri...

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this perfectly-paced new novel from Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars, the women of a tight-knit college town learn through gossip, scandal, betrayal, and even murder, who their neighbors and husbands really are.

Aldrich University is rocked to its core when a hacker dumps 40,000 people's e-mails—the... Read more

How to Be a Good Creature

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Sy Montgomery

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be transformative. No one knows this better than author, naturalist, and adventurer Sy Montgomery. To research her books, Sy has traveled the world and encountered some of the planet's rarest and most beautiful animals. From tarantulas to tigers, Sy's life continually intersects with and... Read more

How to Set a Fire and Why

By: Jesse Ball

Narrated by: Emma Galvin

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A teenage girl. A shattering loss. An obsession with a secret arson club. This is the story of a girl who has nothing and will burn anything.
 
Lucia’s father is dead, her mother is in a mental hospital, and she’s living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. And now she’s been kicked out of school—again. Making her way through the world with... Read more

The Challenge Culture

By: Nigel Travis

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The executive chairman and former CEO of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin Robbins reflects on the unique, results-oriented discipline he's developed over decades of leadership, which provides a blueprint for any organization to achieve prosperity.

We live in an era in which successful organizations can fail in a flash. But they can cope with change and... Read more

Convenience Store Woman

By: Sayaka Murata

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world. So when she takes a job in a convenience store while at the university, they are delighted. For her part, she finds a predictable world in the convenience store, mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the... Read more

Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead

By: Jenny Hollander

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true?

Nine years ago, with the world's eyes on her, Charlie Colbert fled. The press and the police called Charlie a "witness" to the nightmarish events at her elite graduate school on Christmas Eve—events known to the public as "Scarlet Christmas"—though Charlie... Read more

The Flood Girls

By: Richard Fifield

Narrated by: Kathleen Early

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This snappy, sassy redemption story set in small-town Montana is “a wild and crazy debut novel by a talented young writer” (Jackie Collins), filled with an uproarious and unforgettable cast of characters you won’t want to leave behind.Welcome to Quinn, Montana, population: 956. A town where nearly all of the volunteer firemen are named Jim,... Read more

Too Bright to See

By: Kyle Lukoff

Narrated by: Jax Jackson & Kyle Lukoff

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A Newbery Honor Book • Winner of the Stonewall Book Award  • A National Book Award Finalist

"A gentle, glowing wonder, full of love and understanding." –The New York Times Book Review

It's the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug's best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare. For Moira,... Read more

Protocol

By: Capricia Penavic Marshall

Narrated by: Capricia Penavic Marshall & Courtney Patterson

Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

President Obama’s former United States chief of protocol looks at why diplomacy and etiquette matter—from the international stage to everyday life.

History often appears to consist of big gestures and dramatic shifts. But for every peace treaty signed, someone set the stage, using hidden influence to effect the outcome. In her roles as chief of... Read more

What Lies in the Woods

By: Kate Alice Marshall

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Vacker's overall performance, especially her solid pacing, will keep listeners guessing." - AudioFile Magazine

"Clever and deliciously dark.” - Alice Feeney, bestselling author of Rock Paper Scissors

"Narrator Karissa Vacker, with scores of audiobooks under her belt, provides a pitch-perfect performance in what, for some, would be a tough ask.... Read more

Hidden Figures

By: Margot Lee Shetterly

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the... Read more

The Ones We Burn

By: Rebecca Mix

Narrated by: Roisin Rankin

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller!

Love and duty collide in this richly imagined young adult debut about a witch whose dark powers put her at the center of a brewing war between the only family she’s ever known and the enemy who makes her question everything. Featuring a brand-new short story and character art!

Monster. Butcher. Bloodwinn.
... Read more

The Trap

By: Catherine Ryan Howard

Narrated by: John Keating & Alana Kerr Collins

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning, internationally bestselling crime writer Catherine Ryan Howard comes The Trap: an unsettling mystery inspired by a series of still-unsolved disappearances in Ireland in the nineties, wherein one young woman risks everything to catch a faceless killer.One year ago, Lucy’s sister, Nicki, left to meet friends at a pub in Dublin... Read more

Greenwild

By: Pari Thomson

Narrated by: Sophia Nomvete

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling first book in the most extraordinary new fantasy series from debut author Pari Thomson.

Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the earth itself . . .

Eleven-year-old Daisy Thistledown is on the run. Her mother has been keeping big, glittering secrets, and now she has vanished.... Read more

Disruptions

By: Steven Millhauser

Narrated by: Gisela Chípe, Vas Eli & Arthur Morey

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

AN NPR AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the short story, the culmination of a five-decade career: work that takes us beneath the placid surface of suburban life into the elusive strangeness of the everyday

Here are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A... Read more

Imagine Me Gone

By: Adam Haslett

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most?

When Margaret's fiancée, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his... Read more

The Stars Turned Inside Out

By: Nova Jacobs

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A Wall Street Journal Best Mystery of 2024

“Many and wondrous are the charms of this witty, suspenseful, and enchanting book.” —The Wall Street Journal

The discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merges science, philosophy, and the high-stakes race to unlock the fundamental nature of our... Read more

Seven Days of Us

By: Francesca Hornak

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A family can’t escape their secrets when they’re forced to spend a week in quarantine in this “sharply funny” (People) novel—an Indie Next and #1 Library Reads Pick!

It's Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrew's elder daughter—who is usually off saving the world—will be... Read more

When Stars Are Scattered

By: Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed

Narrated by: Faysal Ahmed, Barkhad Abdi, Victoria Jamieson, ...

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

An Odyssey Honor audiobook and National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel—adapted for audio—is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl.

Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life... Read more