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Stepsister

By: Jennifer Donnelly

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

* "Printz Honor winner Donnelly offers up a stunningly focused story that rips into the heart of the familiar fairy tale. Isabelle [is] a shattered but not unredeemable girl with a warrior's heart." -- Booklist, starred reviewAn instant New York Times bestseller!Optioned for film by Lynette Howell Taylor, the producer of A Star is Born and Bruna... Read more

The Apollo Murders

By: Chris Hadfield

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author and astronaut Chris Hadfield comes this exceptional thriller and "exciting journey" into the dark heart of the Cold War and the space race (Andy Weir, author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary).1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny spaceship, a quarter million miles... Read more

Fake Accounts

By: Lauren Oyler

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"This novel made me want to retire from contemporary reality. I loved it." —Zadie Smith

A woman in a tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy theorist in this “incisive” and “funny” debut novel that “brilliantly captures the claustrophobia of lives led online and personae tested in the real world” (Publishers... Read more

Lore of the Wilds

By: Analeigh Sbrana

Narrated by: Marcella Cox

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning Romantasy debut about an enchanted library, two handsome Fae, and one human who brings them all together. A library with a deadly enchantment. A Fae lord who wants in.A human woman willing to risk it all for a taste of power.In a land ruled by ruthless Fae, twenty-one-year-old Lore Alemeyu’s village is trapped in a forested prison.... Read more

The Jasad Heir

By: Sara Hashem

Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri & Peter Ganim

Length: 18 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"A remarkable, razor-sharp debut that cuts straight to the heart."―Chelsea Abdullah, author of The Stardust Thief

A fugitive queen strikes a bargain with her greatest enemy that could resurrect her scorched kingdom or leave it in ashes forever in this unmissable Egyptian-inspired epic fantasy debut.  Ten years ago, the kingdom of Jasad burned.... Read more

The Witch of Woodland

By: Laurel Snyder

Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A young girl preparing for her bat mitzvah discovers she has mysterious abilities in this magical contemporary coming-of-age story from the beloved author of Orphan Island.Hi, whoever is reading this. I’m Zipporah Chava McConnell, but everyone calls me Zippy.Things used to be simple—until a few weeks ago. Now my best friend, Bea, is acting... Read more

Summer Reading

By: Jenn McKinlay

Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro Foster

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When a woman who’d rather do anything than read meets a swoon-worthy bookworm, sparks fly, making for one hot-summer fling in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay's new rom-com.

For Samantha Gale, a summer on Martha’s Vineyard at her family’s tiny cottage was supposed to be about resurrecting her career as a chef, until she’s tasked... Read more

The Women on Platform Two

By: Laura Anthony

Narrated by: Jessica Regan, Shakira Shute & Maeve Smyth

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 1970s Dublin, all forms of contraception are strictly forbidden, but an intrepid group of women will risk everything to change that in this sweeping, timely novel inspired by a remarkable and little-known true story.

Dublin, 1969: Maura has just married Dr. Christy Davenport and they look forward to growing their family. But as her husband’s... Read more

Always the First to Die

By: R. J. Jacobs

Narrated by: Petrea Burchard

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

After her husband's death, Lexi has refused to return to the Pinecrest Estate on the Florida Keys because there are too many hard memories on that strip of land, including the memories of meeting her husband on the set of an iconic horror movie, being cast as an extra, watching herself get killed on screen, and scoffing at the rumors of the... Read more

The Light We Lost: Reese's Book Club

By: Jill Santopolo

Narrated by: Jill Santopolo

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times Bestseller and A Reese’s Book Club Pick
 
“This love story between Lucy & Gabe spans decades and continents as two star-crossed lovers try to return to each other…Will they ever meet again? This book kept me up at night, turning the pages to find out, and the ending did not disappoint.”—Reese Witherspoon

“One Day meets Me... Read more

The Night Before

By: Wendy Walker

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman & Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Riveting and compulsive, national bestselling author Wendy Walker’s The Night Before “takes you to deep, dark places few thrillers dare to go” as two sisters uncover long-buried secrets when an internet date spirals out of control.

Laura Lochner has never been lucky in love. She falls too hard and too fast, always choosing the wrong men.... Read more

The Silence that Binds Us

By: Joanna Ho

Narrated by: Raechel Wong

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“A grieving teen fights Asian hate by finding her voice in this complex, timely story.” —Kirkus (starred review)""With a layered, sensitive voice, Ho’s weighty novel delves into themes of racism, classism, loss, and healing."" —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Inspired by the recent rise in hate crimes against AAPI, Ho’s story of inclusion,... Read more

The Mister

By: E L James

Narrated by: Dominic Thorburn & Jessica O'Hara-Baker

Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller—a thrilling new romance from E L James, author of the phenomenal bestselling Fifty Shades Trilogy.

London, 2019. Life has been easy for Maxim Trevelyan. With his good looks, aristocratic connections, and money, he’s never had to work and he’s rarely slept alone. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and Maxim... Read more

Devil in Spring

By: Lisa Kleypas

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author LISA KLEYPAS delivers the unforgettable tale of a strong-willed beauty who encounters her match in one of London’s most notorious—yet irresistible—rakes . . .An eccentric wallflower  . . .Most debutantes dream of finding a husband. Lady Pandora Ravenel has different plans. The ambitious young beauty would much... Read more

My Journey with Maya

By: Tavis Smiley

Narrated by: Tavis Smiley

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable story of friendship, love, and courage.

When Maya Angelou and Tavis Smiley met in 1986, he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, they shared an unlikely, special bond. Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often, of art, politics, history, race, religion, music,... Read more

The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

By: Michael Zapata

Narrated by: Coral Peña

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

*Winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction*

A Heartland Booksellers Award Nominee

An NPR Best Book of the Year

A BookPage Best Book of the Year

A Library Journal Best Winter/Spring Debut of 2020

A Most Anticipated Book of 2020 from the Boston Globe and The Millions

A Best Book of February 2020 at Salon, The Millions, LitHub and Vol 1.... Read more

Elizabeth of East Hampton

By: Audrey Bellezza & Emily Harding

Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton & Brittany Pressley

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This fresh and whip-smart modern retelling of Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice—from the authors of the “great beach read” (Bookreporter) Emma of 83rd Street—transports you to summer in the Hamptons, where classes clash, rumors run wild, and love has a frustrating habit of popping up where you least expect it.

It’s a truth universally... Read more

All the Ways We Said Goodbye

By: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig & Karen White

Narrated by: Helen Sadler, Nicola Barber & Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz hotel.

The heiress . . .
The Resistance fighter . . . 
The... Read more

Castle of the Cursed

By: Romina Garber

Narrated by: Ana Osorio

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A delicious and dark gothic romance from bestselling author Romina Garber!

THE HOUSE IS ALWAYS HUNGRY…

After a mysterious attack claims the lives of her parents, all Estela has left is her determination to solve the case. Suffering from survivor’s guilt so intense that she might be losing her grip on reality, she accepts an invitation to live... Read more

The Chestnut Man

By: Soren Sveistrup

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES2020 Audie Awards® Winner - MysteryFROM THE CREATOR OF THE HIT TELEVISION SHOW THE KILLING, “a full-throttle thriller in the tradition of classic Stieg Larsson” (A.J. Finn).IF YOU FIND ONE, HE’S ALREADY FOUND YOUA psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen.His calling card is a “chestnut man”—a handmade doll made of... Read more

Millie Fleur's Poison Garden

By: Christy Mandin

Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Wednesday Addams meets The Curious Garden in this delightfully peculiar story about finding joy in being wonderfully weird.Garden Glen is a very bland place. Every house and every garden looks exactly like the other. That is... until Millie Fleur La Fae comes to town.Up on a scruffy hill, beside a ramschackle house, Millie Fleur plants her... Read more

Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

Narrated by: Garth Greenwell

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"Garth Greenwell's superb narration makes a powerful case for authors reading their own work...there's an open tenderness in Greenwell's voice that's immediately compelling" —AudioFile on Cleanness

This program is read by the author.

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and luminous novel by... Read more

Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube

By: Blair Braverman

Narrated by: Blair Braverman

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North.Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had left her home in California, moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs, and worked as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska.By turns funny and... Read more

Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna

By: Alda P. Dobbs

Narrated by: Ana Osorio

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting tale of one girl’s dangerous journey to cross the U.S. border, based on a true story.It is 1913, and twelve-year-old Petra Luna’s mamá has died while the revolution rages in Mexico. Before her papá is dragged away by soldiers, Petra vows to him that she will care for the family she has left—her abuelita, her little sister, Amelia, and... Read more