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Somewhere Sisters

By: Erika Hayasaki

Narrated by: VyVy Nguyen

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, each knowing little about the other’s existence, until they were reunited as teenagers, against all odds.
 
The twins were born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, in 1998, where their mother struggled to care for them. Hà was taken in by their biological aunt,... Read more

Every Time You Hear That Song

By: Jenna Voris

Narrated by: Emily Lawrence & Allison Strong

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"Beautifully explores the high and low notes of fame. . . . A must-read for anyone who loves layered characters, true-to-life personalities, and country music!"—Jason June, New York Times best-selling author

Perfect for fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six, this queer coming-of-age story celebrates country music,... Read more

The Parisian

By: Isabella Hammad

Narrated by: Fiona Button

Length: 20 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile... Read more

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

By: Frans de Waal

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal comes this groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.What separates your mind from an animal’s? Maybe you think it’s your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future―all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the... Read more

All the Water I've Seen Is Running

By: Elias Rodriques

Narrated by: Landon Woodson

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Former high school classmates reckon with the death of a friend in this stunning debut novel.

Along the Intracoastal waterways of North Florida, Daniel and Aubrey navigated adolescence with the electric intensity that radiates from young people defined by otherness: Aubrey, a self-identified "Southern cracker" and Daniel, the mixed-race son of... Read more

Bravely

By: Maggie Stiefvater

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you had one year to save everything you loved? ONE PRINCESS. Merida of DunBroch needs a change. She loves her family—jovial King Fergus, proper Queen Elinor, the mischievous triplets— and her peaceful kingdom. But she's frustrated by its sluggishness; each day, the same. Merida longs for adventure, purpose, challenge – maybe even,... Read more

Mariam Sharma Hits the Road

By: Sheba Karim

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Three Pakistani-American teenagers, on a trip through the land of pork ribs, mechanical bulls, and Confederate flags. It’s going to be quite an adventure.The summer after her freshman year of college, Mariam is looking forward to working and hanging out with her best friends: irrepressible and beautiful Ghazala and religious but closeted... Read more

Darling Days

By: iO Tillett Wright

Narrated by: iO Tillett Wright

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Born into the beautiful bedlam of downtown New York in the eighties, iO Tillett Wright came of age at the intersection of punk, poverty, heroin, and art. This was a world of self-invented characters, glamorous superstars, and strung-out sufferers, ground zero of drag and performance art. Still, no personality was more vibrant and formidable than... Read more

At the Edge of the Haight

By: Katherine Seligman

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The 10th Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Awarded by Barbara Kingsolver

“What a read this is, right from its startling opening scene. But even more than plot, it’s the richly layered details that drive home a lightning bolt of empathy. To read At the Edge of the Haight is to live inside the everyday terror... Read more

The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany

By: Lori Nelson Spielman

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Kathleen Garrett & Lori Nelso...

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An International Bestseller!

A LibraryReads and Indie Next Pick!

A trio of second-born daughters sets out on a whirlwind journey through the lush Italian countryside to break the family curse that says they’ll never find love, by New York Times bestseller Lori Nelson Spielman, author of The Life List.
 
Since the day Filomena Fontana cast a curse... Read more

You, Again

By: Kate Goldbeck

Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “This gender-swapped When Harry Met Sally retelling is for anyone who craves romance novels with realistic and flawed characters. Ari and Josh circle each other for years in the kind of delicious, slow-burn tension that only comes from a well-executed enemies-to-friends-to-lovers arc.”—NPR

“Fresh, witty, and utterly... Read more

The Horsewoman

By: James Patterson & Mike Lupica

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This "hugely entertaining, riveting page-turner" (Louise Penny) follows the complicated relationship between mother and daughter as they face off in the Olympics—and into a ride they can barely control. Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another. 
 
Until the tense,... Read more

The Secret Next Door

By: Rebecca Taylor

Narrated by: Libby McKnight

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the perfect neighborhood, filled with not-so-perfect people.

Alyson Tinsdale is giving her son the childhood she never had: a stable family, a loving home, and a great school in a safe neighborhood. When they move into the home of her dreams in one of Denver’s most sought-after developments, Alyson
works hard to fit in and impress the other... Read more

The Lies We Conjure

By: Sarah Henning

Narrated by: Barrett Leddy & Kristen DiMercurio

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Knives Out meets The Inheritance Games with magic in this standalone supernatural thriller by Sarah Henning: thirteen witches, a locked-room murder, and two non-magical sisters trapped in a deadly whodunit.

Ruby and her sister, Wren, are normal, middle-class Colorado high school students working a summer job at the local Renaissance Fest to... Read more

Now and Forever

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A journalist bearing terrible news leaps from a still-moving train into a small town of wonderful, impossible secrets . . . The doomed crew of a starship follows their blind, mad captain on a quest into deepest space to joust with destiny, eternity, and God Himself . . . Now and Forever is a bold new work from an incomparable artist whose... Read more

The Story of Art Without Men

By: Katy Hessel

Narrated by: Katy Hessel

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of art as it's never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day.



How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?



Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, discover the glittering... Read more

Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother

By: Barry Sonnenfeld

Narrated by: Barry Sonnenfeld

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This outrageous and hilarious memoir follows a film and television director’s life, from his idiosyncratic upbringing to his unexpected career as the director behind such huge film franchises as The Addams Family and Men in Black. Barry Sonnenfeld's philosophy is, "Regret the Past. Fear the Present. Dread the Future." Told in his unmistakable... Read more

At the Center of All Beauty

By: Fenton Johnson

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A profound meditation on accepting and celebrating one's solitude.



Solitude is the inspirational core for many writers, artists, and thinkers. Alone with our thoughts, we can make discoveries that matter not only to us but to others. To be solitary is not only to draw sustenance from being alone, but to know that our ultimate responsibility is... Read more

The Lido

By: Libby Page

Narrated by: Clare Corbett

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

**INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**

“In many ways, this meditation on community and swimming follows in the footsteps of the enormously popular A Man Called Ove… Both are charming and heartwarming.”—Kirkus Reviews

WE'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS—OR TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Rosemary Peterson has lived in Brixton, London, all her life but everything... Read more

The Reunion

By: Kit Frick

Narrated by: Zac Aleman, Andre Bellido, Marisa Blake, Kurt K...

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of I Killed Zoe Spanos comes a “suspenseful and atmospheric” (Kirkus Reviews) YA thriller in the vein of The White Lotus and Karen M. McManus’s The Cousins following a doomed family reunion at a posh Caribbean resort, where old grudges and dangerous secrets culminate in murder.

Eleven Mayweathers went on vacation. Ten came home.
... Read more

The Midnight Club

By: Margot Harrison

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

A twisty, nostalgic, emotionally thrilling novel about a group of estranged college friends who experiment with a secret substance that allows them to re-live their memories—and the fallout when they uncover startling truths about a dark event from their past

“A strange, riveting, brilliant fable. Like a fever-dream of Donna Tartt’s The Secret... Read more

Lamentations

By: Carol Kammen

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Lamentations is a novel about the first group of families crossing west to Oregon in 1842, from the perspective of the dozen women on the trip. Although none of these women left a written record of her journey, the company clerk's daily notations provided documentation of historical events. Based on these records and the author's own decades of... Read more

Chlorine

By: Jade Song

Narrated by: Catherine Ho & Imani Parks

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale, told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of growing up in a society that puts pressure on young women and their bodies… a powerful, relevant novel of... Read more

Setting Free the Kites

By: Alex George

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the “lyrical and compelling” (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope.
 
For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who... Read more