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As Bright as Heaven

By: Susan Meissner

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert, Jorjeana Marie, Cassandra Morris...

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War comes a novel set during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, telling the story of a family reborn through loss and love.

In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were opportunities for a fresh start on its cobblestone... Read more

The Souls of Yellow Folk

By: Wesley Yang

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without the jargon, formulas, and polite lies that bore us all. His powerful debut, The Souls of Yellow Folk, does more than collect a decade's worth of cult-reputation essays—it corrals new American herds of pickup artists, school shooters, mandarin... Read more

Bluebird, Bluebird

By: Attica Locke

Narrated by: J. D. Jackson

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A "heartbreakingly resonant" thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire (USA Today).

"In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it."-Ann Patchett

When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules -- a... Read more

Acts of Violet

By: Margarita Montimore

Narrated by: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz, Amy McFadden, Brittany ...

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"A multicast presentation of a novel with this many disparate narrative elements could easily become chaotic, so it is testament to the narrators’ talents and Montimore’s brilliant plot structure, compelling characters, and sharp, often hilarious prose that listeners are instead treated to an absolutely delightful audiobook, essential for all... Read more

The Two Doctors Górski

By: Isaac R. Fellman

Narrated by: Helen Laser

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Two Doctors Górski is a dazzling contemporary fantasy and an exploration of reclaiming personal power in the aftermath of abuse by Lambda Award-winning author Isaac Fellman



"Confident and lyrical."—Caitlin Starling



A Most Anticipated Pick for Buzzfeed



Annae, a brilliant graduate student in psychiatric magic and survivor of academic abuse, can't... Read more

The Hopefuls

By: Jennifer Close

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Hopefuls tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to Washington, D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among the young aspiring elite. 

When Beth arrives in D.C., she... Read more

All the Lost Things

By: Michelle Sacks

Narrated by: Cassandra Morris

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From "a master of slow-burn suspense" (Shelf Awareness), a simmering family drama about a father and daughter who embark on a road trip through the American South -- but what they're leaving behind is as important as what lies ahead.
When we first meet seven-year-old Dolly, she immediately grabs us with a voice that is both precocious and... Read more

Mrs. Fletcher

By: Tom Perrotta

Narrated by: Finn Wittrock & Carrie Coon

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an HBO series starring Kathryn Hahn!

“Light, zingy, and laugh-out-loud funny” (People), the New York Times bestselling novel about sex, love, and identity as seen through the eyes of a middle-aged woman and her college freshman son.

A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve Fletcher is struggling to... Read more

Joy at Work

By: Marie Kondo & Scott Sonenshein

Narrated by: Brittany Ishibashi & Dan Woren

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Declutter your desk and brighten up your business with this transformative guide from an organizational psychologist and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.
The workplace is a magnet for clutter and mess. Who hasn't felt drained by wasteful meetings, disorganized papers, endless emails, and... Read more

The Agathas

By: Kathleen Glasgow & Liz Lawson

Narrated by: Mehr Dudeja, Sophie Amoss & Holly Linneman

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Who killed Brooke Donovan? It’s the biggest mystery of the summer, and everyone in Castle Cove thinks they know what happened. But they're wrong. Two unlikely friends come together to solve the case in this fast-paced, fun, modern Agatha Christie inspired thriller.

"Part Agatha Christie, part Veronica Mars, and... Read more

The Queens of New York

By: E. L. Shen

Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Vyvy Nguyen & Joy Osmanski

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed author E. L. Shen comes a sun-drenched, cinematic YA novel about three Asian American girls, their unbreakable bond, and one life-changing summer, perfect for fans of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.Best friends Jia Lee, Ariel Kim, and Everett Hoang are inseparable. But this summer, they won’t be together.Everett, aspiring... Read more

The Intimate City

By: Michael Kimmelman

Narrated by: Michael Kimmelman, William DeMeritt, Karen Murr...

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times architecture critic, his celebrated walking tours of New York City, now expanded, covering four of the five boroughs and some 540 million years of history, accompanied by some of the people who know it best

As New York came to a halt with COVID, Michael Kimmelman composed an email to a group of architects, historians,... Read more

The Storyteller's Secret

By: Sejal Badani

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream.Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her... Read more

Bevelations

By: Bevy Smith

Narrated by: Bevy Smith

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

From the host of the fabulous and popular show Bevelations on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy channel, Bevy Smith’s irreverent and inspiring memoir about learning to live a big, authentic, and unapologetic life—and how you can, too.

Bevy Smith was living what seemed like a glamorous dream as a fashion advertising... Read more

The Book Woman's Daughter

By: Kim Michele Richardson

Narrated by: Katie Schorr

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Revisit the packhorse librarians of Kentucky with this stunning companion to the New York Times bestseller The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse... Read more

The Dry

By: Jane Harper

Narrated by: Stephen Shanahan

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM IFC FILMS STARRING ERIC BANA

*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*

*Winner of the CWA's Gold Dagger Award**Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award*

“A breathless page-turner, driven by the many revelations Ms. Harper dreams up…You’ll love [her] sleight of hand…A secret on every page.” —The New York Times

“One of the most... Read more

Guilt and Ginataan

By: Mia P. Manansala

Narrated by: Danice Cabanela

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Autumn is in full swing for the town of Shady Palms—the perfect time for warm drinks, cozy cardigans, and…dead bodies?

The annual Shady Palms Corn Festival is one of the town’s biggest moneymakers, drawing crowds from all over the Midwest looking to partake in delicious treats, local crafts, and of course, the second largest corn maze in... Read more

Brood

By: Jackie Polzin

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An exquisite new literary voice—wryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational, in the vein of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Strout—depicts one woman's attempt to keep her four chickens alive while reflecting on a recent loss.
 
“Full of nuance and humor and strangeness…[Polzin] writes beautifully about everything.” —The New York Times

Over... Read more

Whiteout

By: Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Ston...

Narrated by: Danielle Shemaiah, Nic Stone, Shayna Small, Bah...

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Atlanta is blanketed with snow just before Christmas, but the warmth of young love just might melt the ice in this novel of Black joy, and cozy, sparkling romance—by the same unbeatable team of authors who wrote the New York Times bestseller Blackout!As the city grinds to a halt, twelve teens band together to help a friend pull off the most epic... Read more

The Recovering

By: Leslie Jamison

Narrated by: Leslie Jamison

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction.

With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction... Read more

The Militia House

By: John Milas

Narrated by: Davis Brooks

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize

“An extraordinary novel about the quiet and not so quiet horrors of war.” —Roxane Gay

Stephen King meets Tim O’Brien in John Milas’s The Militia House, a spine-tingling and boldly original gothic horror novel.

It’s 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing... Read more

The Forgotten Boy

By: Laura Andersen

Narrated by: Kim Bretton

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

1460: Ismay Deacon, caught between sides in the War of the Roses, tries to hide away in her ancestral home, Havencross. But when word gets out that she has a child, and speculation on who the father might be, Ismay has to make a terrible choice to protect her son. The Deacon family disappears, but there are rumors of a fair-haired, unsmiling... Read more

The Weird Sisters

By: Eleanor Brown

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved New York Times bestseller from acclaimed author Eleanor Brown about three sisters who love each other, but just don't happen to like each other very much.

Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the eccentric Andreas family. Here, books are a passion (there is no problem a library card can't solve) and TV is... Read more

The Hero of This Book

By: Elizabeth McCracken

Narrated by: Elizabeth McCracken

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A Most Anticipated Book of Fall from: Los Angeles Times * Boston Globe * BookPage * Book Riot * The Millions * Publishers Weekly * LitHub * St. Louis Post Dispatch * Town & CountryA taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, about a writer’s relationship with her larger-than-life mother—and... Read more