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Invisible

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Michael Braun

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a gifted young woman must grapple with the legacy of a troubled childhood in order to pursue her dreams.

Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between an aspiring actress and an aristocrat from a once distinguished family. As a child, she is abandoned... Read more

Full Exposure

By: Thien-Kim Lam

Narrated by: David Lee Huynh & Keylor Leigh

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Happy Endings author Thien-Kim Lam is back—with a rom-com set during the divine madness of Mardi Gras as two lovers ask: Can a Big Easy fling become the real thing?Boudoir photographer Josie Parks never ever takes a vacation. But when a client cancels a New Orleans shoot at the last minute, she decides to fly out from her Washington, D.C.,... Read more

The Barren Grounds

By: David A. Robertson

Narrated by: Brefny Caribou

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson.

Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their... Read more

Marvel Comics

By: Sean Howe

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 17 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and dominant pop cultural entities in America’s history -- Marvel Comics – and the outsized personalities who made Marvel including Martin Goodman, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby.  “Sean Howe’s history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking... Read more

The Singularity Is Nearer

By: Ray Kurzweil

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come

Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement. Kurzweil's predictions about... Read more

Our Oaken Bones

By: Merlin Hanbury-Tenison

Narrated by: Merlin Hanbury-Tenison

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin

I lie on the rock to let my limbs dry after my immersion in the river. My bones warm. I have no towel but the moss is grateful for the additional moisture that I bring as the water runs off me and into its spongy web of roots and branches. I look up through the canopy and time freezes as the oak leaves drift gently... Read more

A Wing and a Prayer

By: Anders Gyllenhaal & Beverly Gyllenhaal

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Stephen Graybill

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating drama from the frontlines of the race to save birds set against the devastating loss of one third of the avian population.

Three years ago, headlines delivered shocking news: nearly three billion birds in North America have vanished over the past fifty years. No species has been spared, from the most delicate jeweled hummingbirds... Read more

Daikon

By: Samuel Hawley

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

“A riveting tale about war, intrigue, love, and perseverance.” —John Grisham • “I could not look away. This novel is storytelling at its finest.” —Karl Marlantes • “Spellbinding…A breathtaking chain reaction that unleashes the true power of the novel.” —Adam Johnson • “Extraordinary…Daikon will sweep you away.” —Jess Walter • “Exhilarating…I... Read more

My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me

By: Jason B. Rosenthal

Narrated by: Jason B. Rosenthal, Miles Rosenthal & Baize Buzan

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband’s life without her in a Modern Love column in the New York Times. On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned a Modern Love column for... Read more

Kings of B'more

By: R. Eric Thomas

Narrated by: Torian Brackett

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Infused with all the joy of the best teen movies, Kings of B'more is sure to be a big hit." —BuzzFeed

Two Black queer best friends face their last day together with an epic journey through Baltimore in this magnetic YA debut by bestselling author of Here for It, R. Eric Thomas.

A 2023 Stonewall Honor Book for Young Adult Literature

With... Read more

From Bad to Cursed

By: Lana Harper

Narrated by: Meg Price

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Opposites attract in this wickedly charming rom-com by Lana Harper, New York Times bestselling author of Payback’s a Witch.

Wild child Isidora Avramov is a thrill chaser, adept demon summoner, and—despite the whole sexy-evil-sorceress vibe—also a cuddly animal lover. When she’s not designing costumes and new storylines for the Arcane Emporium’s... Read more

Lessons

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: Simon McBurney

Length: 17 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines’s life is turned upside down. He is two thousand miles from his mother’s protective love, stranded at an unusual
boarding school, when his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a... Read more

Quench Your Own Thirst

By: Jim Koch

Narrated by: Jim Koch

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER and named a 2016 Best Book of the Year by Inc., Business Insider, Forbes, and Amazon

Founder of The Boston Beer Company, brewer of Samuel Adams Boston Lager, and a key catalyst of the American craft beer revolution, Jim Koch offers his unique perspective when it comes to business, beer, and turning your passion into a... Read more

The Black Echo

By: Michael Connelly

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An LAPD homicide detective must choose between justice and vengeance as he teams up with the FBI in the first novel of the "thrilling" Harry Bosch series (New York Times Book Review).For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal . . .... Read more

The Skunks

By: Fiona Warnick

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Skunks, I wrote. Then I got stuck. What was there to say about the skunks? Of course there was the smell—the spraying. Everyone’s mind jumped to the spraying. I often forgot about the spraying entirely, which was nice because it made me feel that I wasn’t like other people. From the outside, Isabel doesn’t seem to have much going on. It’s... Read more

When All Is Said

By: Anne Griffin

Narrated by: Niall Buggy

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"An extraordinary novel, a poetic writer, and a story that moved me to tears." —New York Times John Boyne, bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

"I'm here to remember–all that I have been and all that I will never be again."

If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each... Read more

Into the Forest

By: Rebecca Frankel

Narrated by: Natalie Pela

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features a bonus chapter of the author's preliminary research interviews with the sisters featured in the book.

"An uplifting tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times, exhilarating." —Wall Street Journal

Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a... Read more

Marcus Makes a Movie

By: Kevin Hart

Narrated by: Kevin Hart

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Stand-up comedian and Hollywood box-office hit Kevin Hart keeps the laughs coming in a middle-grade novel about a boy who has big dreams of making a blockbuster superhero film. Perfect for readers of James Patterson's Middle School series and Lincoln Peirce's Big Nate series.
 
Marcus is NOT happy to be stuck in after-school film class . . .... Read more

Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd―spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist―accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students, and begins to see a future in this tiny farming community. Her... Read more

The Duke Heist

By: Erica Ridley

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Travel to the Regency era with a New York Times bestselling author's novel of "irresistible romance," in which a woman looking to recover a stolen painting accidentally kidnaps a duke instead (Eloisa James).

Chloe Wynchester is completely forgettable—a curse that gives her the ability to blend into any crowd. When the only father she's ever... Read more

The Trespasser

By: Tana French

Narrated by: Hilda Fay

Length: 20 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling novel by Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Hunter, is “required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting” (The New York Times). She “inspires cultic devotion in readers” (The New Yorker) and is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past... Read more

A Dark and Stormy Tea

By: Laura Childs

Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A possible serial killer on the loose sends tea maven Theodosia Browning into a whirlwind of investigation in this latest installment of the New York Timesbestselling series.

It was a dark and stormy night, but that was the least of Theodosia Browning’s troubles. As she approaches St. Philips Graveyard, Theodosia sees two figures locked in a... Read more

It Starts with One

By: Jason Lipshutz

Narrated by: Jason Lipshutz, James Fouhey & Helen Laser

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the executive director of music at Billboard, an extensive look inside the 20+ year career of mega-selling rock band Linkin Park, featuring new interviews, exclusive quotes, and insights from the band’s associates and collaborators
 

Linkin Park is one of the 21st Century’s biggest, and most important, rock bands. All it takes is one quick... Read more

The Last Thing You Surrender

By: Leonard Pitts, Jr.

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 20 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Could you find the courage to do what's right in a world on fire?



Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling author (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s new historical novel is a great American tale of race and war, following three characters from the Jim Crow South as they face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States.



An... Read more