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Skyriders

By: Polly Holyoke

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A Bank Street College Best Book of the Year
Amazon Best Book of the Month
Sunshine State Young Readers Book Award List
Colorado Children's Book Award List
Ohio Buckeye Book Award List
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Wings of Fire meets Skandar and the Unicorn Thief in this epic fantasy adventure set in a world where human and skysteed share a deep bond... Read more

The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

Narrated by: Sheila Atim & Arinzé Kene

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK!Recommended by The New York Times • Vogue • People • NPR • Vulture • The Guardian • Cosmopolitan • Rolling Stone • Publishers Weekly • The Sunday Times • and many more!In this sensational, page-turning debut novel, a high-profile female journalist’s world is upended when her fiancé’s name turns up in a viral... Read more

Greystone Secrets #1: The Strangers

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix takes readers on a thrilling adventure filled with mysteries and plot twists aplenty in this absorbing series about family and friendships. Perfect for fans of A Wrinkle in Time and The City of Ember!What makes you you?The Greystone kids thought they knew. Chess has always been the... Read more

The Traitor's Kiss

By: Erin Beaty

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An obstinate girl who will not be married. 
A soldier desperate to prove himself. 
A kingdom on the brink of war.

With a sharp tongue and an unruly temper, Sage Fowler is not what they’d call a lady―which is perfectly fine with her. Deemed unfit for marriage, Sage is apprenticed to a matchmaker and tasked with wrangling other young ladies to be... Read more

The Waking Land

By: Callie Bates

Narrated by: Erin Spencer

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In the lush and magical tradition of Naomi Novik’s award-winning Uprooted comes this riveting debut from brilliant young writer Callie Bates—whose boundless imagination places her among the finest authors of fantasy fiction, including Sarah J. Maas and Sabaa Tahir.

Lady Elanna is fiercely devoted to the king who raised her like a daughter. But... Read more

Clark and Division

By: Naomi Hirahara

Narrated by: Allison Hiroto

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where they have been detained by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans.
The life in California the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled two... Read more

An Anonymous Girl

By: Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Julia Whelan

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The next audiobook of psychological suspense and obsession from the authors of the blockbuster bestseller The Wife Between Us.

Seeking women ages 18–32 to participate in a study on ethics and morality. Generous compensation. Anonymity guaranteed.

When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she... Read more

The Forgotten Girls

By: Monica Potts

Narrated by: Monica Potts

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Talented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different?

“The Forgotten Girls is much more than a memoir; it’s the unflinching story of rural women trying to live in the most rugged, ultra-religious, and left-behind places in America.”—Beth... Read more

Hallelujah Anyway

By: Anne Lamott

Narrated by: Anne Lamott

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago Tribune

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Dusk, Night, Dawn, Almost Everything and Bird by Bird, a powerful exploration of mercy and how we can embrace it.

"Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, Hallelujah Anyway. It's the permission you give... Read more

A Day at the Beach

By: Gary D. Schmidt & Ron Koertge

Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo & Victoria Villareal

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Look Both Ways meets Seedfolks in this masterful novel from two titans of kid lit that follows a diverse cast of young people whose lives intersect in surprising and hilarious ways over the course of a summer day.Here’s what’s so cool about the beach. Kids are everywhere! Kids you know, kids you want to know. Wandering from one blanket to... Read more

Tigers in Red Weather

By: Liza Klaussmann

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives':... Read more

The House of Impossible Beauties

By: Joseph Cassara

Narrated by: Christian Barillas

Length: 15 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and ’90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is BurningIt’s 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city’s glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning... Read more

The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

By: Cherise Wolas

Narrated by: Michael Dickes & Gabra Zackman

Length: 19 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"That I got so worked up about a person who doesn't exist is a testament to Cherise Wolas's success in creating a complex and distinct fictional character." — The New York Times Book Review

I viewed the consumptive nature of love as a threat to serious women. But the wonderful man I just married believes as I do—work is paramount, absolutely no... Read more

Warlight

By: Michael Ondaatje

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BEST SELLER

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.

In a narrative... Read more

Ghost 19

By: Simone St. James

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman moves to a town where she becomes obsessed with watching the lives of her neighbors while stuck in a house that refuses to let her leave in this first ever short story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases.
 
Is there something wrong with Ginette Cox? It’s what everyone seems to think. When a doctor... Read more

Ninefox Gambit

By: Yoon Ha Lee

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestselling Author—Nominated for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Series—Winner of the 2016 Locus Award—Nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke Awards

When Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for her unconventional tactics, Kel Command gives her a chance to redeem herself, by retaking the Fortress of Scattered... Read more

The Other Profile

By: Irene Graziosi

Narrated by: Barrie Kealoha

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and darkly funny story of a friendship and its unraveling, and a powerful examination on the disruptive impact of social media on our lives Once an ambitious and promising student at an elite university in Paris, Maia is now 26, living in Milan, and stuck in a dead-end job at a cafe and a dysfunctional relationship with an older man.... Read more

Palace of the Drowned

By: Christine Mangan

Narrated by: Emily Pennant-Rea

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Emily Pennant-Rea delivers a first-rate narration of Mangan's intense novel...Pennant-Rea's subtlety and nuance keep the suspense high and the mystery edgy." -- AudioFile Magazine

From the bestselling author of Tangerine, a "taut and mesmerizing follow up...voluptuously atmospheric and surefooted at every turn” (Paula McLain, author of The Paris... Read more

Emma in the Night

By: Wendy Walker

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer & Julia Whelan

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"Both twisted and twisty, this smart psychological thriller sets a new standard for unreliable narrators." –Booklist, Starred Review

One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of... Read more

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

By: Rachel Joyce

Narrated by: Jim Broadbent

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from... Read more

Ejaculate Responsibly

By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair

Narrated by: Gabrielle Stanley Blair

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in post-Roe America. In a series of 28 brief arguments, she deftly makes the case for moving the abortion debate away from controlling and legislating women’s bodies and instead directs the focus on men’s lack of accountability in preventing unwanted... Read more

Mr. Flood's Last Resort

By: Jess Kidd

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Himself comes a spellbinding and “magically entertaining read” (Good Housekeeping, UK) about a lonely caregiver and a cranky hoarder with a house full of secrets that “will appeal to fans of Tana French and Sophie Hannah, as it charms and unsettles in equal measure” (BookPage).

Maud Drennan is a dedicated... Read more

The Archer

By: Shruti Swamy

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“Set in 1970s Bombay, the novel explores art, ambition, gender roles and class with the same shimmering prose of Swamy’s first book, the story collection A House Is a Body.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“[A] sublime, boundary-pushing exploration of sexuality, creativity, and love.”
—NPR
 
In this transfixing novel, a young woman comes of age in 1960s-... Read more

Bad City

By: Paul Pringle

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal radiating across Los Angeles from one of the region's most powerful institutions, a riveting tale from a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who investigated the shocking events and helped bring justice in the face of formidable odds.

On a cool,... Read more