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Year of Wonders

By: Geraldine Brooks

Narrated by: Geraldine Brooks

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Plague stories remind us that we cannot manage without community . . . Year of Wonders is a testament to that very notion.” – The Washington Post

An unforgettable tale, set in 17th century England, of a village that quarantines itself to arrest the spread of the plague, from the author The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize 

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Amber and Clay

By: Laura Amy Schlitz

Narrated by: Tom Picasso & Rachel Botchan

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Newbery Medal–winning author of Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! gives readers a virtuoso performance in verse in this profoundly original epic pitched just right for fans of poetry, history, mythology, and fantasy.

Welcome to ancient Greece as only genius storyteller Laura Amy Schlitz can conjure it. In a warlike land of wind and sunlight,... Read more

The World Cannot Give

By: Tara Isabella Burton

Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Secret History meets The Price of Salt” (Vogue) in this “equal parts dangerous and delicious” (Entertainment Weekly) novel about queer desire, religious zealotry, and the hunger for transcendence among the members of a cultic chapel choir at a Maine boarding school—and the ambitious, terrifyingly charismatic girl that rules over them.

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The Fake Mate

By: Lana Ferguson

Narrated by: Samantha Summers & Joe Arden

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Two wolf shifters agree to be fake mates but unexpectedly find something real in this steamy paranormal romantic comedy by Lana Ferguson.
 
Mackenzie Carter has had some very bad dates lately. Model train experts, mansplainers, guys weirdly obsessed with her tail—she hasn’t had a successful date in months. Only a year out of residency, her... Read more

Need to Know

By: Karen Cleveland

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • FINALIST FOR THE ITW THRILLER AWARD • Perfect husband. Perfect father. Perfect liar?

“Terrific.”—John Grisham
“Superb.”—Lee Child
“Breathtaking, heart-pounding.”—Louise Penny
“A fast-paced, relentlessly gripping read.”—Chris Pavone

Vivian Miller. High-powered CIA analyst, happily married to a man she adores, mother of... Read more

Holding

By: Graham Norton

Narrated by: Graham Norton

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller

From Graham Norton—the BAFTA Award–winning and hugely popular BBC America television host—comes a charming debut novel set in an idyllic Irish village where a bumbling investigator has to sort through decades of gossip and secrets to solve a mysterious crime. “With its tale of provincial life, gimlet-eyed spinsters,... Read more

Eileen

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A lonely young woman working in a boys' prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very strange crime, in a mordant, harrowing story of obsession and suspense, by one of the brightest new voices in fiction So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid... Read more

Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

Narrated by: Andy Ingalls

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

* Winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History * Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, The New York Times, Fresh Air (top 10 pick), NPR, the Los Angeles Times (top 15 pick),The Washington Post, and more!

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The Forgetting Time

By: Sharon Guskin

Narrated by: David Pittu & Susan Bennett

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Noah wants to go home. A seemingly easy request from most four year olds. But as Noah's single-mother, Janie, knows, nothing with Noah is ever easy. One day the pre-school office calls and says Janie needs to come in to talk about Noah, and no, not later, now - and life as she knows it stops.

For Jerome Anderson, life as he knows it has... Read more

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

By: Warsan Shire

Narrated by: Warsan Shire

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire

“The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist

“Warsan Shire is our ultimate modern poet. . . . This is our... Read more

Georgie, All Along

By: Kate Clayborn

Narrated by: Amelie Griffin & Alex Kydd

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"Perfect for Emily Henry fans. [This] is the love story that proves you can go home again . . . It's so rich and wonderful." —Julia Quinn on The TODAY Show



"A sweet novel that reminds you going back is sometimes the best path forward . . . and that planning is never as rewarding as doing." —Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author


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Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

By: Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Narrated by: Inés del Castillo

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“In a world where we are so often dividing ourselves into us and them, this book feels like a kind of magic, celebrating all beliefs, ethnicities, and unknowns.” —The New York Times Book Review

Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets Roswell by way of Laurie Halse Anderson in this astonishing, genre-bending novel about a... Read more

Since She's Been Gone

By: Sagit Schwartz

Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A clinical psychologist is thrown into her dark past as she races to uncover the truth about her mother's death while struggling with her own mental health.



Can we ever truly know the people we love?



Losing her mother to a hit-and-run at age fifteen threw Beatrice "Beans" Bennett's life into turmoil. Bereft, she developed a life-threatening eating... Read more

The Pledge

By: Kathleen Kent

Narrated by: Christie Moreau

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "instantly cinematic and completely compelling" thriller (Hank Phillippi Ryan), Detective Betty has only two weeks to take down her deadliest rival—this time for good.

Things are looking up for Detective Betty Rhyzyk. She’s settled into a happy marriage and been promoted to Sergeant in the Dallas Police Department. But when a hostage... Read more

Modern Lovers

By: Emma Straub

Narrated by: Jen Tullock

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“It’s ‘Friends’ meets ‘Almost Famous’ meets the beach read you’ll be recommending all summer.” –TheSkimm

From the author of the New York Times bestsellers All Adults Here and This Time Tomorrow, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college— and what it means to finally grow up, well after adulthood has set... Read more

The Cheesemaker's Daughter

By: Kristin Vukovic

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When Marina’s father summons her to their Croatian island from New York—and away from her evaporating marriage—to help him save his failing cheese factory, she must face her rocky past and an uncertain future.How do you begin again when the past threatens to drown you?In the throes of an unraveling marriage, New Yorker Marina Maržic returns to... Read more

Gilded

By: Marissa Meyer

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Rebecca Soler brings this YA adaptation of Rumpelstiltskin to life. . . This audiobook demands to be binged, so listeners should block out some time once they hit play." - AudioFile Magazine

In Gilded, #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer returns to the fairytale world with this haunting tale.

Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a... Read more

The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie

By: Rachel Linden

Narrated by: Katie Koster

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW THE HALLMARK CHANNEL FILM THE MAGIC OF LEMON DROPS STARRING LYNDSY FONESCA AND IAN HARDING!

“Heartfelt, heartwarming, joyful, and uplifting. You can't go wrong with a Rachel Linden book.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber

An uplifting novel about a heartbroken young pie maker who is granted a magical second chance to live... Read more

Don't Look Back

By: Achut Deng & Keely Hutton

Narrated by: Nedra Marie Taylor

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this propulsive memoir from Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, inspired by a harrowing New York Times article, Don't Look Back tells a powerful story showing both the ugliness and the beauty of humanity, and the power of not giving up.

I want life.

After a deadly attack in South Sudan left six-year-old Achut Deng without a family, she lived in... Read more

A Botanist's Guide to Society and Secrets

By: Kate Khavari

Narrated by: Jodie Harris

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1923. Returning from Paris, botanical researcher Saffron Everleigh finds that her former love interest Alexander Ashton’s brother, Adrian, is being investigated for murder. A Russian scientist working for the English government has been poisoned and expired in Adrian’s train compartment. Alexander asks Saffron to put in a good word for... Read more

Fraud

By: David Rakoff

Narrated by: David Rakoff

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

You've heard him on This American Life! Now read his book!

Wherever he is, David Rakoff is a fish out of water. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, playing an evil modeling agent on a daytime soap opera, or learning primitive survival skills in the wilds... Read more

The Porcelain Thief

By: Huan Hsu

Narrated by: Huan Hsu

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family’s hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before.
 
In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu’s great-great-grandfather Liu’s Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of... Read more

Fowl Play

By: Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

Narrated by: Jeanne Syquia

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Knives Out meets Finding Orion in this funny and heartwarming middle grade mystery by award-winning author Kristin O’Donnell Tubb about a girl investigating the recent death of her uncle only to find the healing power of family.Chloe Alvarez has never been to the reading of a last will and testament before, but she hopes it is just like the... Read more

Finding Hope

By: Nicola Baker

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in a warm and beautifully observed farm adventure series from Nicola Baker, star of Our Farm in the Dales. Perfect for readers 8+ and fans of Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Morpurgo, Dick King Smith and The Snow Foal. With stunning illustrations from Rachael Dean throughout.

When ten-year-old Ava moves to Whistledown Farm while her... Read more