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A Brief History of Equality

By: Thomas Piketty

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding, a perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books.It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased... Read more

100 Places to See After You Die

By: Ken Jennings

Narrated by: Ken Jennings

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author and legendary Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings comes a hilarious travel guide to the afterlife, exploring to die for destinations from literature, mythology, and pop culture.

Ever wonder which circles of Dante’s Inferno have the nicest accommodations? Where’s the best place to grab a bite to eat in... Read more

Six Crimson Cranes

By: Elizabeth Lim

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A princess in exile, a shapeshifting dragon, six enchanted cranes, and an unspeakable curse... Drawing from fairy tales and East Asian folklore, this original fantasy from the author of Spin the Dawn is perfect for fans of Shadow and Bone.

"A dazzling fairytale full of breathtaking storytelling." --Stephanie Garber,... Read more

Welcome Home, Stranger

By: Kate Christensen

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kate Christensen’s new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence. What more could you ask?”—Richard Russo, author of Somebody’s Fool“To the great literature... Read more

Dead of Winter

By: Darcy Coates

Narrated by: Emily Ellet

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she's hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghosts of her past to rest. But when a bitterly cold snowstorm sweeps the region, the small group is forced to take shelter in an abandoned hunting cabin. Despite the uncomfortably claustrophobic quarters... Read more

Stygian

By: Sherrilyn Kenyon

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 26 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon brings us back to the astonishing world of the Dark-Hunters in Stygian, with a hero misunderstood by many…but most of all by himself.I have lived for thousands of years, believing myself to be something I’m not. Someone I’m not.Trained as a slayer and predator, I’ve learned to become a tool... Read more

Portrait of a Scotsman

By: Evie Dunmore

Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Instant USA Today Bestseller!

A BuzzFeed Best Romance of 2021!
One of Marie Claire’s most anticipated romances of 2021!
One of Cosmopolitan's most anticipated fall books of 2021!

“Dunmore is my new find in historical romance. Her A League of Extraordinary Women series is extraordinary.”—Julia Quinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“This... Read more

The Clergyman's Wife

By: Molly Greeley

Narrated by: Susie Riddell

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

For everyone who loved Pride and Prejudice—and legions of historical fiction lovers—an inspired debut novel set in Austen’s world.
Charlotte Collins, nee Lucas, is the respectable wife of Hunsford’s vicar, and sees to her duties by rote: keeping house, caring for their adorable daughter, visiting parishioners, and patiently tolerating the... Read more

The Ride of Her Life

By: Jennifer Dugan

Narrated by: Lindsey Dorcus

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Love at First Set, a new irresistible enemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine queer romcom for fans of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, about a wedding-obsessed city girl who inherits a horse farm from her estranged late aunt, and clashes with the cocky, unfairly hot farrier who thinks she’s going to run the barn into the ground.Molly... Read more

Don't Forget Us Here

By: Mansoor Adayfi

Narrated by: Roxanna Hope Radja & Mansoor Adayfi

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

This moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years tells a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Guantánamo.At the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi left his home in Yemen for a cultural mission to Afghanistan. He never returned. Kidnapped by warlords and then... Read more

The Search Party

By: Hannah Richell

Narrated by: Beth Eyre & Jamie Parker

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A spellbinding locked-room mystery about a glamping trip gone horribly wrong when a powerful storm leaves the participants stranded and forced to confront long-held secrets and a shocking disappearance.

Max and Annie Kingsley have left the London rat race with their twelve-year-old son to set up a glamping site in the wilds of Cornwall. Eager for... Read more

You Are Here: Connecting Flights

By: Ellen Oh

Narrated by: David Lee Huynh, Dana Wing Lau, Ramon de Ocampo...

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful and engaging exploration of contemporary Asian American identity through interwoven stories set in a teeming Chicago airport, written by award-winning and bestselling East and Southeast Asian American authors including Linda Sue Park, Grace Lin, Erin Entrada Kelly, Traci Chee, and Ellen Oh. Flying Lessons meets Black Boy Joy. “The... Read more

Heat and Light

By: Jennifer Haigh

Narrated by: Michael Rahhal & Allyson Ryan

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart—a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families.Forty... Read more

Enemies in the Orchard

By: Dana VanderLugt

Narrated by: Andy Ingalls, Elizabeth Klett & Rachel Leblang

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the backdrop of WWII, this achingly beautiful middle grade novel in verse based on American history presents the dual perspectives of Claire, a Midwestern girl who longs to enter high school and become a nurse even as she worries for her soldier brother, and Karl, a German POW who’s processing the war as he works on Claire’s family... Read more

On Juneteenth

By: Annette Gordon-Reed

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the nation’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas
and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction... Read more

The Great Passage

By: Shion Miura

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection. Kohei Araki believes that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after thirty-seven years of creating dictionaries, it's time for him to retire and find his replacement. He discovers a kindred spirit in Mitsuya Majime—a young, disheveled... Read more

The Intersectional Environmentalist

By: Leah Thomas

Narrated by: Leah Thomas, Hayden Bishop & Erin Walker

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change. The Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and promotes awareness of the fundamental... Read more

A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever

By: Matt Kracht

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

We can all agree—birds are terrible. They're stupid and won't shut up.



Featuring fifty of the absolute worst birds to fly the earth, Kracht identifies each of their most terrible qualities, details exactly why they suck, and shows you why. Including all-new, all-worst fowl, such as: the absolute waste of feathers Cruddy Turdstone (Ruddy... Read more

Kingdom of the Wicked

By: Kerri Maniscalco

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A James Patterson Presents Novel
From the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series comes a new blockbuster series...
Two sisters.One brutal murder.A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself...And an intoxicating romance.Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live... Read more

A Noise Downstairs

By: Linwood Barclay

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of No Time for Goodbye returns with a haunting psychological thriller that blends the twists and turns of Gillian Flynn with the driving suspense of Harlan Coben, in which a man is troubled by odd sounds for which there is no rational explanation.College professor Paul Davis is a normal guy with a normal... Read more

My Fair Brady

By: Brian D. Kennedy

Narrated by: Michael Crouch & Kevin R. Free

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

My Fair Lady meets the classic teen film She's All That in this charming and swoony new rom-com from Brian D. Kennedy, author of A Little Bit Country. Perfect for fans of What If It's Us and She Gets the Girl. Wade Westmore is used to being in the spotlight. So when he’s passed over for the lead in the spring musical, it comes as a major... Read more

Answers in the Pages

By: David Levithan

Narrated by: Christopher Gebauer, Vikas Adam & Oliver Wyman

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold, timely novel about speaking up and coming out as parents lobby to ban a beloved book from the school curriculum by New York Times-bestselling author David Levithan.

When Donovan left his copy of The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he didn't think his mom would read it—much less have a problem with it. It's just an adventure novel... Read more

The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht 

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“A touching, inventive novel about belonging and loss” (People) from the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife and Inland

“I marveled at the subtle beauty and precision of Obreht’s prose. . . Read in the context of today’s conflicts and injustices, climate emergencies, and political and racial... Read more

Cinders and Sparrows

By: Stefan Bachmann

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A suspenseful tale of witches, family, and magic from internationally bestselling author Stefan Bachmann. When a twelve-year-old orphan unexpectedly becomes the mistress of a seemingly abandoned castle, she is thrust into a mysterious plot involving murderous spells, false identity, and a magical battle of wills between the living and the dead.... Read more