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Made for You

By: Jenna Satterthwaite

Narrated by: Bailey Carr

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“Mary Shelley in the Bachelor era…feminist as hell.”
—Katie Gutierrez, nationally bestselling author of More Than You’ll Ever Know

Hi. My name is Julia. I’m a Synth. And I’m here to find love…

Synthetic woman Julia Walden was designed for one reason: to compete on The Proposal and claim the heart of bachelor Josh LaSala. Her casting is... Read more

Unbreak Me

By: Michelle Hazen

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

AN AMAZON BEST ROMANCE OF THE MONTH
BOOKLIST TOP 10 ROMANCE OF 2019

What could two troubled souls from different walks of life have in common? Maybe everything.

Andra Lawler lives isolated at her family’s horse ranch, imprisoned by the memories of an assault in college. When she needs help training her foals, she hires a Haitian-Creole cowboy from... Read more

Coyote Lost and Found

By: Dan Gemeinhart

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Khristine Hvam’s narration is as heartfelt as the story of 12-year-old Coyote Sunrise...both the story and Hvam’s distinctive narration will linger in listeners’ minds" —AudioFile on The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise, an Earphones Award winner

From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Dan Gemeinhart comes a standalone companion to the... Read more

No Bullet Got Me Yet

By: John Stansifer

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible story of the most decorated chaplain in US military history and his path to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.

Father Emil Kapaun, a humble priest, went far beyond the call of duty during World War II and the Korean War. Often found with the combat medics on the front lines, unarmed, ministering to the wounded, and known for... Read more

Yes, Chef

By: Marcus Samuelsson

Narrated by: Marcus Samuelsson

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“One of the great culinary stories of our time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
 
It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother’s house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for... Read more

The Fixer Upper

By: Phoebe MacLeod

Narrated by: Jess Nesling

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

'I absolutely loved this book!' Maxine Morrey Finding a man is like buying a house: sometimes you have to look beyond the exterior to see the potential underneath.As an estate agent, Alex’s job is to create happy-ever-afters. It’s just a shame she can’t work the same magic on her own life. Her long-term boyfriend Thomas still lives with his... Read more

Like a Love Story

By: Abdi Nazemian

Narrated by: Lauren Ambrose, Vikas Adam & Michael Crouch

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 Audie Awards® Finalist - Young Adult Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time""A book for warriors, divas, artists, queens, individuals, activists, trend setters, and anyone searching for the courage to be themselves.”—Mackenzi Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and VirtueIt’s 1989... Read more

The Defense

By: Steve Cavanagh

Narrated by: Adam Sims

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"If you're a fan of John Grisham, Scott Turow, and Brad Meltzer, then you will be a fan of Steve Cavanagh's The Defense." —Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Radiant Angel

Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turns out the two aren't that different.

In The Defense, former con artist turned lawyer Eddie... Read more

Ghosts of Gold Mountain

By: Gordon H. Chang

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.



From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous... Read more

Lakelore

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

Narrated by: Vico Ortiz & Avi Roque

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half water, half air. But Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones who’ve been there. Bastián grew up both above the lake and in the otherworldly space beneath it. Lore’s seen the world under the lake only once, but that... Read more

Guilty Creatures

By: Mikita Brottman

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Murder, a love triangle, and small-town secrets in Tallahassee, Florida...an unputdownable read.” —The New York Times

“A compelling psychological double portrait of what happens when two people are forever bound by a life-altering secret.” —Becky Cooper, bestselling author of We Keep the Dead Close

From the critically acclaimed author dubbed... Read more

Eden Undone

By: Abbott Kahler

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An incredible true story of murder, romance, and a fateful search for utopia in the Galápagos—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ghosts of Eden Park

“Abbott Kahler’s wickedly gothic tale confronts an essential truth about those who ditch civilization: Try as we might, humans cannot elude the tyranny of our own nature.”—Hampton... Read more

Where Echoes Die

By: Courtney Gould

Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Two sisters travel to an isolated Arizona town to investigate its connection to their mother’s death, but uncover more than they bargained for in this supernatural thriller from the author of The Dead and the Dark.

Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. She can’t stop herself... Read more

All the Little Hopes

By: Leah Weiss

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A Southern story of friendship forged by books and bees, when the timeless troubles of growing up meet the murky shadows of World War II

Deep in the tobacco land of North Carolina, nothing’s been the same since the boys shipped off to war and worry took their place. Thirteen-year-old Lucy Brown is precocious and itching for adventure. Then Allie... Read more

The Elephant of Belfast

By: S. Kirk Walsh

Narrated by: Charlotte McCurry

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by true events, this vivid and moving story of a young woman zookeeper and the elephant she’s compelled to protect through the German blitz of Belfast during WWllBelfast, October 1940. Twenty-year-old zookeeper Hettie Quin arrives at the city docks in time to meet her new charge: an orphaned three-year-old Indian elephant named Violet.... Read more

Every Word You Never Said

By: Jordon Greene

Narrated by: Tyler Pirrung

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacob Walters′s dad has worked to make his son′s life a living hell. But when the cute new transfer student suffers his father′s wrath, Jacob must make the hardest decisions of his life.Skylar Gray is adopted, nonverbal, and he feels most comfortable wearing skirts. Life has never been easy, but with a fresh start at a brand-new school, with new... Read more

Night and Day

By: John Connolly

Narrated by: Caroline Lennon, Gerard Logan, Jeff Harding & M...

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, “one of the best thriller writers we have” (Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author), returns with a shivery collection of supernatural tales.

Filled with eerie surprises and dark delights, Night and Day takes us from the dusty shelves of an uncanny library filled with fictional... Read more

Verge

By: Lidia Yuknavitch

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Sophie Amoss, Michael Crouch, ...

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Bustle and Lit Hub

A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction.

Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer of rare insight into the jagged boundaries between pain and survival. Her... Read more

The Prisoner in His Palace

By: Will Bardenwerper

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, this haunting, insightful, and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein provides “a brief, but powerful, meditation on the meaning of evil and power” (USA TODAY).

The “captivating” (Military Times) The Prisoner in His Palace invites us to take a journey with twelve young... Read more

Transitional

By: Munroe Bergdorf

Narrated by: Mia Juul

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The wise, life-changing, ground-breaking book from writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf.Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition—a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are.As time goes on, we all... Read more

The Littlest Library

By: Poppy Alexander

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartwarming literary-themed novel about a woman who turns an ordinary red phone box into the littlest library in England and brings together a struggling town.A little red telephone box full of stories, a chance to change her life...Jess Metcalf is perfectly content with her quiet, predictable life. But when her beloved grandmother passes... Read more

Harbor Lights

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Gary Furlong, Matt Pittenger, Michael David Axt...

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), the New York Times bestselling James Lee Burke.

Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands... Read more

The Fallen Fruit

By: Shawntelle Madison

Narrated by: Robin Miles & Adenrele Ojo

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining history and fantasy, a sweeping multi-generational epic in the vein of Kindred and The Time Traveler's Wife about a woman who travels through time to end a family curse that has plagued her ancestors for generations.On a rainy day in May 1964, history professor Cecily Bridge-Davis begins to search for the sixty-five acres of land she... Read more

The Library of Lost and Found

By: Phaedra Patrick

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Rise and Shine Benedict Stone, now an original movie on Hallmark.

“Sweet and resonant.” —People, “Best New Books” Pick

A librarian’s discovery of a mysterious book sparks the journey of a lifetime.

Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people—though not for lack of trying. She keeps careful... Read more