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Madame Lazare

By: Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin

Narrated by: Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Oíche Bhealtaine in 1994, cailín agus buachaill corp isteach in uisce Chuan na Gaillimhe. Breis agus seachtó bliain níos deireanaí sa Bhruiséil, tosaíonn seanbhean Ghiúdach ag labhairt i dteanga nach dtuigeann a muintir. De réir mar a sceitheann tuilleadh eolais gan choinne ó bhéal Madame Lazare, tuigeann a gariníon, Levana, gur gá gach rud atá... Read more

Book Boyfriend

By: Kris Ripper

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

There are three things you need to know about Preston “PK” Kingsley: He’s a writer, toiling in obscurity as an editorial assistant at a New York City publishing house. He is not a cliché. No, really. He’s been secretly in love with his best friend, Art, since they once drunkenly kissed in college. When Art moves in with PK following a bad... Read more

Lovely War

By: Julie Berry

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle, Allan Corduner, Julie Berry, D...

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Perfect for fans of Divine Rivals, a critically acclaimed, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates--and the hearts--of four mortals in their hands.

"Pick an adjective—sweeping, sprawling, epic, Olympian—and yet none quite conveys the emotional width and depth of... Read more

The Everlasting Road

By: Wab Kinew

Narrated by: Michelle Bardach

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The boundaries between the virtual and the real world become dangerously blurred for a young Indigenous girl in the follow-up to the YA fantasy debut Walking in Two Worlds from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Perfect for fans of Ready Player One and the Otherworld series.

Devastated by the loss of her older brother to cancer, Bugz... Read more

Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

Narrated by: Leslie Jamison

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.
 
Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared... Read more

The Kingdom of Sweets

By: Erika Johansen

Narrated by: Grace Gray

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Twin sisters, divided by envy and magic, set against one another on a fateful Christmas Eve

Light and dark—this is the cursed birthright placed upon Clara and Natasha by their godfather, Drosselmeyer, whose power and greed hold an entire city in his sway. Charming Clara, the favorite, grows into a life of beauty and ease, while ignored and... Read more

The Orchid Thief

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Jennifer Jay Myers

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole Indians were arrested... Read more

You Can Keep That to Yourself

By: Adam Smyer

Narrated by: Donald Faison

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

At long last, a much-needed guidebook for well-intentioned people of pallor on what not to say to their African American “friends.”
“A balm for tongues bitten and comments swallowed . . . A bitingly humorous compendium of the absurd subtle racism of the American workplace.” —Kirkus Reviews Greetings, well-intentioned person of pallor. Your good... Read more

Island Queen

By: Vanessa Riley

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 21 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Richly detailed, vividly depicted, and sweeping in scope, Island Queen is historical fiction at its absolute finest. A stunning must-read!”—Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba
A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of... Read more

Burning Girls and Other Stories

By: Veronica Schanoes

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

When we came to America, we brought anger and socialism and hunger. We also brought our demons.



In Burning Girls and Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes crosses borders and genres with stories of fierce women at the margins of society burning their way toward the center. This debut collection introduces readers to a fantasist in the vein of Karen... Read more

Don't Call it a Cult

By: Sarah Berman

Narrated by: Ewa Wolniczek

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

As seen in Season Two of the HBO docuseries THE VOW

They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more secretive those connections are, the more exclusive you feel. Little did you know, you just joined a cult.

Sex trafficking. Self-help coaching. Forced labor. Mentorship. Multi-level marketing.... Read more

The Magician

By: Colm Toibin

Narrated by: Gunnar Cauthery

Length: 16 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book, Critic’s Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical Fiction

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek

​From one of today’s most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the... Read more

You Are Not Alone

By: Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Dylan Moore

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020
One of SheReads Most Anticipated Books of 2020
One of PopSugar's Most Anticipated Books of 2020
One of HelloGiggles’ Most Anticipated Books of 2020
One of Marie Claire’s Best Fiction by Women in 2020
One of Woman’s Day’s Best Fiction Books Coming Out in 2020

The... Read more

Move Fast and Break Things

By: Jonathan Taplin

Narrated by: Jonathan Taplin

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The book that started the Techlash.

A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.

Move Fast and Break Things is the riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs... Read more

The Lost City of the Monkey God

By: Douglas Preston

Narrated by: Bill Mumy

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning... Read more

The Ancients

By: John Larison

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“This richly imagined journey into a dystopian future is at once cautionary and provocative, inviting us to heed the lessons of the Ancients.”
—Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass

A richly imagined, sweeping novel of hope, love, and adventure set in the unforgiving world of our own descendants, by the... Read more

Hush, Hush

By: Becca Fitzpatrick

Narrated by: Caitlin Greer

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Nora finds forbidden love with her fallen angel, in the first book in the New York Times bestselling Hush, Hush saga.

For Nora Grey, romance was not part of the plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how much her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch came along.

With his easy smile and... Read more

Not the Girl You Marry

By: Andie J. Christopher

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days gets a millennial makeover in this romantic comedy by USA Today bestselling author Andie J. Christopher.

“The way Jack sets out to win Hannah back is really the stuff of true romance.”—NPR

Jack Nolan is a gentleman, a journalist, and unlucky in love. His viral success has pigeon-holed him as the how-to guy for a buzzy,... Read more

Muzzled

By: David Rosenfelt

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Grover Gardner returns to breathe life into listeners' favorite dog-loving lawyer...In his vivid portrayal of the wisecracking Andy, Gardner creates a sense of a cheerful reunion with the lawyer for longtime listeners and a warm greeting for newcomers." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

In David Rosenfelt's Andy Carpenter... Read more

The Prettiest Star

By: Carter Sickels

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston & Tiffany Morgan

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die.



At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short... Read more

Vacuum in the Dark

By: Jen Beagin

Narrated by: Jayme Mattler

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Whiting Award–winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a “thoroughly delightfully, surprisingly profound” (Entertainment Weekly) one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life.

Soon to be an FX television show starring Lola Kirke.

Mona is... Read more

Black Love Matters

By: Jessica P. Pryde

Narrated by: Jessica P. Pryde, Gina Daniels, Julienne Irons,...

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive, intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators, edited by Book Riot columnist and librarian Jessica Pryde.
 
Romantic love has been one of the most essential elements of storytelling for centuries. But for Black people in... Read more

The Housemate

By: Sarah Bailey

Narrated by: Felicity Jurd

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Dubbed the Housemate Homicide, it's a mystery that has baffled Australians for almost a decade. Melbourne-based journalist Olive Groves worked on the story as a junior reporter and became obsessed by the case. Now, nine years later, the missing housemate turns up dead on a remote property. Olive is once again assigned to the story, this time... Read more

Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

Narrated by: Sloane Crosley

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"An unflinching and deeply absorbing memoir of grief and loss, expertly narrated by the author."—Library Journal (Starred Review)

"Crosley’s narration is frank and articulate, a perfect complement to the wit and candor of her prose."—BookPage

"Crosley's fresh imagery and pithy one-liners are delivered with perfect timing."—AudioFile

This program is... Read more