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Elephant Company

By: Vicki Constantine Croke

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

The remarkable story of James Howard “Billy” Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the world’s largest land animals transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic war hero known as Elephant Bill

In 1920, Billy Williams came to colonial Burma as a “forest man” for a British... Read more

Mercury

By: Amy Jo Burns

Narrated by: Maria Liatis

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart of their blue-collar town—from Amy Jo Burns, author of the critically acclaimed novel Shiner

It’s 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at... Read more

Her Good Side

By: Rebekah Weatherspoon

Narrated by: Marcella Cox & Daniel K. Isaac

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

**A New York Times Best Romance Book of the Year**

A swoony, heart-melting YA romance from beloved author Rebekah Weatherspoon about two awkward teens who decide to practice dating in order to be good at the real thing. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han.

Sixteen-year-old Bethany Greene, though confident and self-assured, is what they... Read more

The Hummingbirds' Gift

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Sy Montgomery

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of the “fascinating…entertaining” (The Daily Beast) National Book Award finalist The Soul of an Octopus, a charmingly perfect gem of a book about the most exquisite and extraordinary of winged creatures—hummingbirds.

As one of the most beautiful and intriguing birds found in nature, hummingbirds... Read more

If She Says Yes

By: Tasha L. Harrison

Narrated by: Mari & Oscar Reyes

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Tomaś Martinez has had a crush on his, Darcy MacFarland, best friend's mother, for longer than he's willing to admit. Would it be wrong to make those feelings known the weekend of his best friend's wedding?Or would that a big time party foul? Tying himself up and offering up his body for her to defile wouldn't be on his list of best man duties... Read more

Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style

By: Paul Rudnick

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“A case study in elegant, honest tragicomedy…by the genuinely hilarious Paul Rudnick” (Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author) that follows the decades-long, rule-breaking romance between the son of one of America’s wealthiest families and a middle-class aspiring author.

Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is... Read more

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

By: Dusti Bowling

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The audio edition of the bestselling middle grade novel about a spunky girl born without arms and a boy with Tourette syndrome navigating the challenges of middle school, disability, and friendship—all while solving a mystery in a western theme park.



Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a... Read more

On Looking

By: Alexandra Horowitz

Narrated by: Alexandra Horowitz

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy, this “elegant and entertaining” (The Boston Globe) explanation of how humans perceive their environments “does more than open our eyes...opens our hearts and minds, too, gently awakening us to a world—in fact, many worlds—we’ve been missing” (USA... Read more

The Grape Cure

By: Johanna Brandt

Narrated by: Troy W. Hudson

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic is still making its mark over 80 years since its debut. Author Johanna Brandt shares a personal journey of living with cancer and her discovery of how the beneficial properties of grapes cured her disease by refreshing and purifying cell structures. The virtues of naturopathy are extolled, and readers are encouraged to detoxify... Read more

Ophelia After All

By: Racquel Marie

Narrated by: Maria Liatis

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A teen girl navigates friendship drama, the end of high school, and discovering her queerness in Ophelia After All, a hilarious and heartfelt contemporary YA debut by author Racquel Marie.

Ophelia Rojas knows what she likes: her best friends, Cuban food, rose-gardening, and boys—way too many boys. Her friends and parents make fun of her endless... Read more

Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the World.  Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the... Read more

The Lost Souls of Benzaiten

By: Kelly Murashige

Narrated by: Mirai

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“I wish to become one of those round vacuum cleaner robots.” That’s what Machi prays for at the altar of Japanese goddess Benzaiten. Ever since her two best friends decided they want nothing to do with her, Machi hasn’t been able to speak. After months of online school and a carousel of therapists, she can no longer see the point of being human.... Read more

Wake of Vultures

By: Lila Bowen

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wake of Vultures is, quite simply, brilliant. A mind-bending mix of history, fantasy and folklore, it's a wild bronco of a read that'll leave you breathless for more."―Rachel Caine, New York Times bestselling author

Supernatural creatures create chaos across an unforgiving western landscape in the first book of a propulsive and cinematic fantasy... Read more

Izzy at the End of the World

By: K.A. Reynolds

Narrated by: Dana Wing Lau

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Last Kids on Earth meets Margaret Peterson Haddix in this middle grade adventure about fourteen-year-old Izzy, an autistic girl surviving the end of the world who must team up with her loveable dog to uncover the hidden truth behind her family and the rest of humanity’s disappearance.   Ever since Izzy Wilder’s mom died, she’s wanted life to... Read more

Colton Gentry's Third Act

By: Jeff Zentner

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From an award-winning author, a down on his luck country musician moves back home and rekindles a relationship with his high school sweetheart in this moving novel that's "not to be missed" (Emily Henry, author of Beach Read and Book Lovers).

Colton Gentry's music career is riding high, but he's hurting after his best friend is killed by a mass... Read more

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls

By: Anissa Gray

Narrated by: January LaVoy, Adenrele Ojo, Bahni Turpin & Dom...

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you enjoyed An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, read The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls...an absorbing commentary on love, family and forgiveness.”—The Washington Post 

“A fast-paced, intriguing story...the novel’s real achievement is its uncommon perceptiveness on the origins and variations of addiction.”—The New York Times... Read more

The Lady He Lost

By: Faye Delacour

Narrated by: Blythe Fortune

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Lieutenant Eli Williams was supposed to be dead. In the two years since his shipwreck, his friends and family mourned him, his brother spent his savings, and his fiancée married someone else. So when he turns up in the middle of the London social season, he quickly becomes the talk of the town. All Eli wants is to set his life back in order and... Read more

The Girl Before

By: JP Delaney

Narrated by: Emilia Fox, Finty Williams & Lise Aagaard Knudsen

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER • Soon to be a BBC One and HBO Max limited four-part series, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw (The Morning Show; Misbehaviour) and multiple Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Emmy-nominated actor David Oyelowo (Selma; Les Misérables)
 
“A pitch-perfect novel of psychological suspense” (Lee Child) that spins one woman’s seemingly good fortune,... Read more

Beware the Woman

By: Megan Abbott

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An NPR Best Book of the Year

By the "master of thinly veiled secrets often kept by women who rage underneath their delicate exteriors" (Kirkus Reviews), Beware the Woman is Megan Abbott at the height of her game.

Honey, I just want you to have everything you ever wanted. That’s what Jacy’s mom always told her. And Jacy felt like she finally did.... Read more

The Lost Sisters

By: Holly Black

Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes the difference between a love story and a horror story is where the ending comes...

While Jude fought for power in the Court of Elfhame against the cruel Prince Cardan, her sister Taryn began to fall in love with the trickster, Locke.

Half-apology and half-explanation, it turns out that Taryn has some secrets of her own to reveal.

The... Read more

Aviva vs. the Dybbuk

By: Mari Lowe

Narrated by: Leah Horowitz

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A long ago “accident.” An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn’t know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her.

That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a... Read more

Author in Chief

By: Craig Fehrman

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the best books on the American presidency to appear in recent years” (The Wall Street Journal) and based on a decade of research and reporting—a delightful new window into the public and private lives America’s presidents as authors.

Most Americans are familiar with Abraham Lincoln’s famous words in the Gettysburg Address and the... Read more

At Sea

By: Emma Fedor

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when the man you love most in the world unexpectedly disappears and takes your small child with him? Emma Fedor’s “wonderful, haunting, and original” (Katherine Faulkner, author of Greenwich Park) debut explores the fierceness of first love and how far one woman will go to learn the truth about her family.

When Cara and Brendan first... Read more

Scary Stories for Young Foxes

By: Christian McKay Heidicker

Narrated by: Christian McKay Heidicker

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2020 Newbery Honor Recipient! Christian McKay Heidicker, author of the Thieves of Weirdwood trilogy, draws inspiration from Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe for his debut middle-grade novel, a thrilling portrait of survival and an unforgettable tale of friendship.  "Clever and harrowing."—The Wall Street Journal "Into the... Read more