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A Winter's Promise

By: Christelle Dabos

Narrated by: Emma Fenney

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima, and, what’s more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a... Read more

Sycamore

By: Bryn Chancellor

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Steven Jay Cohen, Sara Mors...

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“In this masterful performance, Bryn Chancellor explores the loss around which an entire community has calcified with humanity and wisdom. Chancellor digs deep in these pages, unearthing broken hearts, secrets, betrayals, passion and—most impressively—grace. What a joy to find a book that is both propulsive and perfectly composed.”—Cynthia... Read more

The Mask of Mirrors

By: M. A. Carrick

Narrated by: Nikki Massoud

Length: 23 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Fortune favors the bold. Magic favors the liars.

Ren is a liar and a thief, a pattern-reader and a daughter of no clan. Raised in the slums of Nadežra, she fled that world to save her sister. Now, she has returned with one goal: to trick her way into a noble house, securing her fortune and her sister’s future.

But in the city of dreams, her... Read more

Gilded Mountain

By: Kate Manning

Narrated by: Dawn Harvey

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Immersive…awe-inspiring.” —The New York Times “An epic story of love, hope, and perseverance.” — #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline

This “stellar read” (Los Angeles Times) is an exhilarating tale of an unforgettable young woman who bravely exposes the corruption that enriched her father’s employers in early 1900s... Read more

Fire Becomes Her

By: Rosiee Thor

Narrated by: Shannon Tyo

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In Rosiee Thor's lavish fantasy story with a Jazz Age spark, a politically savvy teen must weigh her desire to climb the socialladder against her heart in a world where magic buys votes.Flare is power.With only a drop of flare, one can light the night sky with fireworks . . . or burn a building to the ground -- and seventeen-year-oldIngrid Ellis... Read more

What If This Were Enough?

By: Heather Havrilesky

Narrated by: Heather Havrilesky

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

*A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018*
*A Bustle Best Nonfiction Book of 2018*
*One of Chicago Tribune's Favorite Books by Women in 2018*
*A Self Best Book of 2018 to Buy for the Bookworm in Your Life*

By the acclaimed critic, memoirist, and advice columnist behind the popular "Ask Polly," an impassioned collection tackling our obsession with... Read more

The Guide

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where he uncovers a plot of shocking menace amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests.

“Peter Heller is the poet laureate of the literary thriller." —Michael Koryta,... Read more

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

By: Saidiya Hartman

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday... Read more

Joe Biden

By: Evan Osnos

Narrated by: Evan Osnos & David Remnick

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

*A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR*
A concise, brilliant, and trenchant examination of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s successful lifelong quest for the presidency by National Book Award winner Evan Osnos.

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest—fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career... Read more

The Wolf in the Whale

By: Jordanna Max Brodsky

Narrated by: Jordanna Max Brodsky

Length: 18 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"If you liked American Gods by Neil Gaiman or Circe by Madeline Miller, be sure to pick this one up." -- Timeworn

A sweeping tale of forbidden love and warring gods, where a young Inuit shaman and a Viking warrior become unwilling allies in a war that will determine the fate of the new world.

There is a very old story, rarely told, of a wolf that... Read more

Cuyahoga

By: Pete Beatty

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel

“Cuyahoga is tragic and comic, hilarious and inventive—a 19th-century legend for 21st-century America” (The Boston Globe).

Big Son is a spirit of the times—the times being 1837. Behind his broad shoulders, shiny hair, and church-organ laugh, Big Son practically made Ohio City all by himself.... Read more

The English Experience

By: Julie Schumacher

Narrated by: Julie Schumacher

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger chaperones Payne University’s annual “Experience: Abroad” to London and beyond, with eleven undergrads in tow • The bestselling author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement completes her hilarious trilogy of academic mishap

“Wise and hilarious and... Read more

If They Come for Us

By: Fatimah Asghar

Narrated by: Fatimah Asghar

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice.”—Booklist
“Elegant and playful . . . The poet invents new forms and updates classic ones.”—Elle
“[Fatimah] Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed or flexible.”—The New Yorker

NAMED ONE OF... Read more

Before and After the Book Deal

By: Courtney Maum

Narrated by: Courtney Maum

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Everything you've ever wanted to know about publishing but were too afraid to ask is right here in this funny, candid guide by acclaimed author Courtney Maum. Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book has over 150 contributors from all walks of the industry, including... Read more

Out of Darkness

By: Ashley Hope Pérez

Narrated by: Benita Robledo & Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" 

New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it... Read more

Flip the Script

By: Lyla Lee

Narrated by: Greta Jung

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this simmering, joyous novel, I’ll Be the One author Lyla Lee delivers a tender romance set between two brave teens who decide that when the script isn’t working, it’s time to rewrite it themselves. The first rule of watching K-dramas: Never fall in love with the second lead. As an avid watcher of K-dramas, Hana knows all the tropes to avoid... Read more

Made in China

By: Anna Qu

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant’s journey to an American future.

As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family’s garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers... Read more

Pink Glass Houses

By: Asha Elias

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez, Saskia Maarleveld, Andi Arndt, ...

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Delicious, decadent, and utterly diabolical. No one serves up a scandal like Asha Elias.”—Kirsten Miller, author of The ChangeA seductive social satire about the wealthy PTA moms of an elite elementary school in Miami Beach, Pink Glass Houses is very Big Little Lies and Pineapple Street, but with diamonds, a tan, and a glass of rosé.There’s a... Read more

Emmett

By: L. C. Rosen

Narrated by: Drew Caiden

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A modern-day gay Emma, with the spikey social critique of Austen plus the lush over-the-top romance of Bridgerton.

Emmett Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence and had lived nearly eighteen years in the world with very little to distress or vex... Read more

Burn

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Last Ranger, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emerge from the woods of rural Maine to a dystopian country racked by bewildering violence

Every year, Jess and Storey have made an annual pilgrimage to the most remote corners of the country, where they camp, hunt, and hike, leaving... Read more

Unfortunately Yours

By: Tessa Bailey

Narrated by: Callie Dalton

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey is back in Napa Valley with this hilarious rom-com about a down-on-her-luck heiress who suggests a mutually beneficial marriage of convenience to a man she can’t stand... only to discover there’s a fine line between love and hate.After losing her job and her fiancé in one fell swoop, Natalie Vos... Read more

Wild Massive

By: Scotto Moore

Narrated by: Suzy Jackson & Liv Anderson

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Scotto Moore's Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting the will of the mighty. Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire... Read more

Red Moon

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Maxwell Hamilton, Joy Osmanski & Feodor Chin

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Red Moon is a magnificent novel of space exploration and political revolution from New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson.

It is thirty years from now, and we have colonized the moon.

American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours... Read more

Homegrown

By: Jeffrey Toobin

Narrated by: Jeffrey Toobin

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection—from acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin.

Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement.

Speaking to his lawyers days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets: killing 168 people... Read more