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The Labyrinth of Lost and Found

By: Jordan Lees

Narrated by: Nathaniel Curtis

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A #1 New York Times bestseller!

Doll Bones meets Skandar and the Unicorn Thief in this spooky, illustrated middle grade novel about a boy who doesn’t believe in magic discovering a supernatural world full of danger.

It began with a crack in the wall.

Eleven-year-old Benjamiah Creek believes in science, logic, and the power of reason. He... Read more

Raising Securely Attached Kids

By: Eli Harwood

Narrated by: Eli Harwood, KJ Althoff, Te Anna Brown, Angela ...

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“A comprehensive road map for parents who want to raise securely attached, emotionally healthy children. A parenting must-read.” —Alyssa Blask Campbell, M.Ed., author of Tiny Humans, Big Emotions
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Learn how to create a lifetime of connection, trust, and open communication with your children through connection-focused parenting.

Though... Read more

The Fate of the Tearling

By: Erika Johansen

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 19 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Tearling trilogy.In less than a year, Kelsea Glynn has transformed from a gawky teenager into a powerful monarch. As she has come into her own as the Queen of the Tearling, the headstrong, visionary leader has also transformed her realm. In her quest to end corruption and restore... Read more

Burning Questions

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Margaret Atwood & Full Cast

Length: 18 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola—and seeks answers to Burning Questions... Read more

Paris by the Book

By: Liam Callanan

Narrated by: Kim Bubbs

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris

Once a week, I chase men who are not my husband. . . .

When eccentric novelist Robert Eady abruptly vanishes, he leaves behind his wife, Leah, their daughters, and, hidden in an unexpected spot, plane tickets to Paris.

Hoping to uncover... Read more

Scattered All Over the Earth

By: Yoko Tawada

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award



Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her... Read more

The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

Narrated by: Kathryn Aboya

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas, read by Kathryn Aboya.

"Like Walter Benjamin, Aysegül Savas uncovers trapdoors to bewilderment everywhere in everyday life; like Henry James, she sees marriage as a mystery, unsoundably deep. The Anthropologists is mesmerizing; I felt I read it in a single breath." -Garth Greenwell

“Savas... Read more

The Unwomanly Face of War

By: Svetlana Alexievich

Narrated by: Julia Emelin & Yelena Shmulenson

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

“A landmark.”—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of... Read more

Dead to Her

By: Sarah Pinborough

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Liane Moriarty, Liv Constantine and Lisa Jewell, a twisty psychological thriller about a savvy second wife who will do almost anything to come out on top from the New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes.Being the second wife can be murder . . . ""Once a cheat, always a cheat,"" they say. Marcie Maddox has worked hard to... Read more

Drinking Games

By: Sarah Levy

Narrated by: Sarah Levy

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Part memoir and part social critique, Drinking Games is about how one woman drank and lived— and how, for her, the last drink was just the beginning.

On paper, Sarah Levy’s life was on track. She was 28, living in New York City, working a great job, and socializing every weekend. But Sarah had a secret: her... Read more

Leave No Trace

By: Mindy Mejia

Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the “compelling” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) and critically acclaimed Everything You Want Me to Be, a riveting and suspenseful thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a boy and his stunning return ten years later.

“A tense and gripping read that plumbs the depths of grief and longing...As thrilling as a whitewater rapid... Read more

A Terrible Thing to Waste

By: Harriet A. Washington

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A "powerful and indispensable" look at the devastating consequences of environmental racism (Gerald Markowitz) -- and what we can do to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities.
Did you know...
Middle-class African American households with incomes between $50,000 and $60,000 live in neighborhoods that are more polluted than those of... Read more

Cleat Cute

By: Meryl Wilsner

Narrated by: Dana Varden & Zim Avaltrades

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup.

Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women’s National Team for ten years, even though she’s only 26. But when she’s sidelined with an injury, a bold new... Read more

No One Cares About Crazy People

By: Ron Powers

Narrated by: Ron Powers

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia.

From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the... Read more

The Western Wind

By: Samantha Harvey

Narrated by: Nyasha Hatendi

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove Saturday, an explanation has to be found: accident, suicide or murder? The village priest, John Reve, is privy to many secrets in his role as confessor. But will he be able to unravel what... Read more

Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake

By: Alexis Hall

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of Casey McQuiston, Christina Lauren, and Abby Jimenez will love this scrumptious and sweet romantic comedy from the "dizzyingly talented writer" of Boyfriend Material (Entertainment Weekly)

LGBTQ Reads: Most Anticipated Adult LGBTQAP Fiction 2021
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Following the recipe is the key to a... Read more

Do Your Worst

By: Rosie Danan

Narrated by: Shane East & Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

Sparks fly when an occult expert and a disgraced archeologist become enemies-with-benefits in this steamy romance from "go-to author" Rosie Danan (The New York Times Book Review).

Riley Rhodes finally has the chance to turn her family’s knack for the supernatural into a legitimate business when she’s hired to break the... Read more

Brick Lane

By: Monica Ali

Narrated by: Full Cast, Anneika Rose, Zubin Varla, Nikesh Pa...

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning BBC radio adaptation of Monica Ali's bestselling, Booker-shortlisted novel

1985. Uprooted from her home in Bangladesh, 18-year-old Nazneen is sent to London for an arranged marriage with a much older man. Her new life is strange and bewildering - the busy streets and crowded tower blocks of the East End are a world away from the rural... Read more

Having and Being Had

By: Eula Biss

Narrated by: Alex McKenna

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME , NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

“A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it’s possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society. . . . The results are enthralling.” —Associated Press 

A timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York... Read more

Dominicana

By: Angie Cruz

Narrated by: Coral Peña

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA COVER TO COVER BOOK CLUB PICK

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

Named a Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, O Magazine, Time, Real Simple, Chicago Review of Books, Kirkus Reviews, Nylon, BuzzFeed, Lit Hub, The Millions, Instyle, Bustle,... Read more

Your Presence Is Mandatory

By: Sasha Vasilyuk

Narrated by: Sam Rushton

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Your Presence Is Mandatory by Sasha Vasilyuk, read by Sam Rushton.

A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a World War II veteran with a secret that could land him in the Gulag, and his family who are forced to live in the shadow of all he has not told them.

Ukraine, 2007. Yefim Shulman, husband, grandfather and war... Read more

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

By: Zora Neale Hurston

Narrated by: Aunjanue Ellis

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time.
New York Times’ Books to Watch for
Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020
Newsweek’s Most... Read more

Good Dog, Bad Cop

By: David Rosenfelt

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fred Berman resumes his narration of Rosenfelt's K Team series, lighthearted stories about private investigators and their trusty retired police dog who are hired by the police department of Patterson, New Jersey to solve cold cases. Berman portrays Douglas's street savvy and integrity while showcasing the humor and camaraderie Douglas shares... Read more

Blood Brothers

By: Elias Chacour

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. When tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps in 1948, Elias began a long struggle with how to respond. In Blood Brothers, he blends his riveting life story with historical research to reveal a little-known side of the... Read more