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The After Party

By: Anton DiSclafani

Narrated by: Dorothy Dillingham Blue

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"A vintage version of 'Gossip Girl' meets bigger hair." —The Skimm

"DiSclafani’s story sparkles like the jumbo diamonds her characters wear to one-up each other. Historical fiction lovers will linger over every lush detail." —People

From the bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of lifelong female friendship –... Read more

The Strangest Fish

By: Katherine Arden

Narrated by: Fareeda Pasha

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Daisy’s favorite month is October. She loves the woodsmoke, pumpkins, cider, and most importantly, the fair. This year, after winning a carnival game, she’s given a fish to take home as her prize.

Her fish has funny-looking scales and too many fins. But Daisy loves and cares for her fish unconditionally—even when it starts growing into something... Read more

This Is Your Time

By: Ruby Bridges

Narrated by: Ruby Bridges

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the recent wave of activism led by young people fighting for racial justice, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges--who, at the age of six, was the first black child to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans--shares her story and offers a powerful call to action with this elegant gift book.

Written as a letter from civil... Read more

Made in Korea

By: Sarah Suk

Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee & Joy Osmanski

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Frankly in Love meets Shark Tank in this feel-good romantic comedy about two entrepreneurial Korean American teens who butt heads—and maybe fall in love—while running competing Korean beauty businesses at their high school.

There’s nothing Valerie Kwon loves more than making a good sale. Together with her cousin Charlie, they run V&C... Read more

Sea Monsters

By: Chloe Aridjis

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeen-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomás, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking—recklessness, impulse, independence. Tomás may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track... Read more

Hearts of the Missing

By: Carol Potenza

Narrated by: Laura Jennings

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Laura Jennings believably delivers the intonations of a number of Native American characters in this mystery...Overall, Jennings's reserved tone and low pitch give a note of solemnity and respect to a culture that has been historically marginalized." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

Beautifully written with a riveting plot... Read more

Speak No Evil

By: Uzodinma Iweala

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi & Julia Whelan

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, a revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences.On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, D.C., he’s a top... Read more

Betrayal

By: Phillip Margolin

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In Phillip Margolin's Betrayal, attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself defending her old nemesis in a multiple-murder case with too many suspects, where success might cost her own life.

Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end... Read more

Our Darkest Night

By: Jennifer Robson

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer’s wife in this unforgettable novel from USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson—a story of terror, hope, love, and sacrifice, inspired by true events, that vividly evokes the most perilous days of World War II.

It is the autumn of 1943, and life is becoming... Read more

The Windfall

By: Diksha Basu

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Charming . . . What Kevin Kwan did for rich-people problems, Diksha Basu does for trying-to-be-rich-people problems.”—People

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE • A PEOPLE PICK • A TIME PICK  

The Jhas are moving up. For the past thirty years, their lives have been defined by cramped spaces and gossipy neighbors. But when... Read more

The Cheerleaders

By: Kara Thomas

Narrated by: Phoebe Strole

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sharp, brilliantly plotted, and totally engrossing."--KAREN M. MCMANUS, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying

"A crafty, dark, and disturbing story."--KATHLEEN GLASGOW, New York Times bestselling author of Girl In Pieces

"A little bit Riverdale and a little bit Veronica Mars."--RILEY SAGER, bestselling author of Final Girls

A... Read more

The Best Cook in the World

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 19 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother.

Margaret Bragg does not own a single cookbook. She measures in "dabs" and "smidgens" and "tads" and "you know, hon, just some." She... Read more

Hum

By: Natalia Hero

Narrated by: Natalia Hero

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Hum follows a young woman whose life is changed forever when, after being raped, she gives birth to a hummingbird. She must learn to cope with not only what happened to her, but with the bird’s persistent, agitating presence in her life. Natalia Hero’s debut is a beautiful and tormented magical-realist novella about surviving trauma, reclaiming... Read more

The Sleeper and the Spindle

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt, Lara Pulver, Niamh Walsh, Ad...

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling and Newbery and Carnegie Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman has created a thrillingly reimagined fairy tale, ""told in a way only Gaiman can"" (GeekInsider.com), that the Guardian calls ""a refreshing, much-needed twist on a classic story.""In this captivating and darkly funny tale, Neil Gaiman has twisted together the... Read more

All That Happiness Is

By: Adam Gopnik

Narrated by: Adam Gopnik

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik, a concise, elegant volume presenting a radical alternative to our culture of relentless striving.



Our society is obsessed with achievement. Young people are pushed toward the next test or the "best" grammar school, high school, or college they can get into. Adults push themselves toward the... Read more

The Last Days of Kira Mullan

By: Nicci French

Narrated by: Sophie Roberts

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From international bestselling master of suspense Nicci French comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a woman determined to get justice for a murder no one else believes happened.Nancy North is ready to put her life back together. After suffering a psychotic break that ruined friendships, stalled her fledgling restaurant, and forced... Read more

Till There Was You

By: Lindsay Hameroff

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Named Most Anticipated by: The Nerd Daily・ Culturess・ Zibby Magazine​・ and more

"Witty, warm, and charming...Fans of Emily Henry and Robinne Lee’s The Idea of You are going to go crazy for this one!” ―Jennifer Close, author of Marrying the Ketchups

A recipe for love that hits all the right notes

Culinary student Lexi Berman, 24, has one goal: to... Read more

The Lost Witch

By: Paige Crutcher

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Paige Crutcher, author of the “mystical, magical, and wildly original”* The Orphan Witch, weaves a spellbinding tale of contemporary fantasy, romance, and Irish mythology as a woman torn out of time faces a dangerous coven, otherworldly creatures, and a seductive demigod to save the souls of a cursed island in The Lost Witch.

1922. The town of... Read more

Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus

By: Dusti Bowling

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The sequel to the critically acclaimed Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus follows Aven Green as she confronts yet another challenge: high school.



"High School. Two words that struck fear into the heart of every armless middle schooler I knew. Which was me. And like two people online."



Just as Aven starts to feel comfortable in... Read more

Vox

By: Christina Dalcher

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S AND SHEREADS' BOOKS TO READ AFTER THE HANDMAID'S TALE

“[An] electrifying debut.”—O, The Oprah Magazine 
“The real-life parallels will make you shiver.”—Cosmopolitan

Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, Vox is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one... Read more

The Most Dangerous Place on Earth

By: Lindsey Lee Johnson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An unforgettable cast of characters is unleashed into a realm known for its cruelty—the American high school—in this captivating debut novel.

The wealthy enclaves north of San Francisco are not the paradise they appear to be, and nobody knows this better than the students of a local high school. Despite being raised with all the opportunities... Read more

Unfinished Business

By: Vivian Gornick

Narrated by: Vivian Gornick

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life.“I sometimes think I was born reading…I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.”Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick’s celebration of passionate... Read more

This Town Sleeps

By: Dennis E. Staples

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Set on a reservation in far northern Minnesota, This Town Sleeps explores the many ways history, culture, landscape, and lineage shape our lives, our understanding of the world we inhabit, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of it all.



On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the... Read more

Three Sisters

By: Heather Morris

Narrated by: Finty Williams

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes exclusive archival audio.

From Heather Morris, the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey: a story of family, courage, and resilience, inspired by a true story.

Against all odds, three Slovakian sisters have survived years of imprisonment in the... Read more