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Cassandra at the Wedding

By: Dorothy Baker

Narrated by: Morgan Hallett

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding.... Read more

A Split Second

By: Janae Marks

Narrated by: Tyla Collier & Imani Parks

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Janae Marks delivers a stunningly crafted and twisty mystery about the tests of friendships that examines what matters most when everything can change in a split second—perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead and Anne Ursu.That clock can’t be right. When Elise wakes up the morning after her birthday celebration, she’s... Read more

If You See Me, Don't Say Hi

By: Neel Patel

Narrated by: Neel Patel

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"If You See Me, Don't Say Hi bristles with unexpected meetings and reunions, recognitions and failed recognitions, passions and estrangements of all kinds. These stories have a sharp eye for the complexities of modern life, but Neel Patel writes with the wisdom and compassion of an old soul." — Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more

Bully Market

By: Jamie Fiore Higgins

Narrated by: Jamie Fiore Higgins

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A “riveting and powerful” (Gretchen Carlson, cofounder of Lift Our Voices) insider’s account on Wall Street where greed coupled with misogyny and discrimination enforces a culture of exclusion in the upper echelons of Goldman Sachs.

Jamie Fiore Higgins became one of the few women at the highest ranks of Goldman Sachs. Spurred on by the obligation... Read more

Beverly, Right Here

By: Kate DiCamillo

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Revisiting once again the world of Raymie Nightingale, two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo turns her focus to the tough-talking, inescapably tenderhearted Beverly.

Beverly put her foot down on the gas. They went faster still.
This was what Beverly wanted--what she always wanted. To get away. To get away as fast as she could. To stay... Read more

Flash Fire

By: TJ Klune

Narrated by: Michael Lesley

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Flash Fire is the explosive sequel to The Extraordinaries by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author TJ Klune!

Through bravery, charm, and an alarming amount of enthusiasm, Nick landed himself the superhero boyfriend of his dreams. Now instead of just writing stories about him, Nick actually gets to kiss him. On the mouth. A lot. But... Read more

Days of Distraction

By: Alexandra Chang

Narrated by: Greta Jung

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“Startlingly original and deeply moving.... Chang here establishes herself as one of the most important of the new generation of American writers.”   — George SaundersA Most Anticipated Book of the Year from Buzzfeed, Electric Literature, and The MillionsA wry, tender portrait of a young woman—finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if... Read more

A Thousand Questions

By: Saadia Faruqi

Narrated by: Gail Shalan & Reena Dutt

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the backdrop of Karachi, Pakistan, Saadia Faruqi’s tender and honest middle grade novel tells the story of two girls navigating a summer of change and family upheaval with kind hearts, big dreams, and all the right questions. Mimi is not thrilled to be spending her summer in Karachi, Pakistan, with grandparents she’s never met.... Read more

Happily

By: Sabrina Orah Mark

Narrated by: Gilli Messer

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life, from a Jewish woman raising Black children in the American South—based on her acclaimed Paris Review column “Happily”

“One of the most inventive, phenomenally executed books I’ve read in decades.”—Kiese... Read more

Small Fires

By: Rebecca May Johnson

Narrated by: Kim Bretton

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A bracingly original, revelatory debut that explores cooking and the kitchen as sources of pleasure, constraint, and revolution, by a rising star in food writing



This joyful, revelatory work of memory and meditation both complicates and electrifies life in the kitchen.



Why do we cook? Is it just to feed ourselves and others? Or is there something... Read more

The Compound

By: Aisling Rawle

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Nothing to lose. Everything to gain. Winner takes all.

“I dare you not to tear through The Compound at lightning speed.”—Zakiya Dalila Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Black Girl

“The Compound is a debut so gripping and propulsive that it beats reality TV at its own game.”—Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition,... Read more

The Attic Child

By: Lola Jaye

Narrated by: Lola Jaye, Lucian Msamati & Nneka Okoye

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A hauntingly powerful and emotionally charged novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity and belonging.

Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret.Early 1900s London: Taken from his homeland, twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of the time locked away in the attic of a large house by the... Read more

Castle Hangnail

By: Ursula Vernon

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

When Molly shows up on Castle Hangnail's doorstep to fill the vacancy for a wicked witch, the castle's minions are understandably dubious. After all, she is twelve years old, barely five feet tall, and quite polite. (The minions are used to tall, demanding evil sorceresses with razor-sharp cheekbones.) But the castle desperately needs a master... Read more

Back to the Prairie

By: Melissa Gilbert

Narrated by: Melissa Gilbert

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Includes a foreword written and read by Timothy Busfield

The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a hilarious and heartfelt memoir chronicling her journey from Hollywood to a ramshackle house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the... Read more

Behind Her Eyes

By: Sarah Pinborough

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Josie Dunn, Huw Parmenter & Bea ...

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

The instant New York Times and #1 international bestseller. “You should read Behind Her Eyes…It’s bloody brilliant.” —Stephen King

"An eerie thriller…Pinborough keeps us guessing about just who’s manipulating whom – until the ending reveals that we’ve been wholly complicit in this terrifying mind game.”... Read more

Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Brontë

Narrated by: Carolyn Seymour

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The sole novel of Emily Brontë, who died a year after its publication at the age of thirty, Wuthering Heights is one of the most original classics in the canon of English literature. Set amid the wild and stormy Yorkshire moors, it is the tale of childhood playmates who grow into soul mates, and whose tempestuous natures and obsessive love... Read more

Consumed

By: J.R. Ward

Narrated by: Jim Frangione, Hillary Huber, Pete Simonelli & ...

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and “master of contemporary romance, with heroes so hot they set the pages on fire” (Gena Showalter, New York Times bestselling author), a steamy romantic suspense novel about arson investigator, Anne Ashburn, who is consumed by her troubled past, her family’s scorched legacy, and her current case:... Read more

The Walls Around Us

By: Nova Ren Suma

Narrated by: Georgia King & Sandy Rustin

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ori's dead because of what happened out behind the theater, in the tunnel made out of trees. She's dead because she got sent to that place upstate, locked up with those monsters. And she got sent there because of me." "The Walls Around Us" is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices--one still living and one long dead. On the outside,... Read more

Shady Characters

By: Keith Houston

Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography.



Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (†)—which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical verses of the early Bible—or the at sign (@), which languished... Read more

What Storm, What Thunder

By: Myriam J.A. Chancy

Narrated by: Ella Turenne

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster? Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive... Read more

Black Girls Breathing

By: Jasmine Marie

Narrated by: Jasmine Marie

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Harness the power of breathwork with this compassionate, healing guide for Black women.
 
As a Black woman, Jasmine Marie knows the impact that intergenerational trauma and systemic racism have had—and continue to have—on her community. Those experiences, along with her own journey through chronic stress, are why she created black girls... Read more

Good Apple

By: Elizabeth Passarella

Narrated by: Jill Blackwood

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"For a woman who thinks of herself as a New Yorker at this point, I buy a lot of clothes from companies named things like Shrimp & Grits. Why? Because identity is complicated."Elizabeth Passarella is content with being complicated. She grew up in Memphis in a conservative Republican family with a Christian mom and a Jewish dad. Then she... Read more

Dead Voices

By: Katherine Arden

Narrated by: Renee Dorian

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden returns with another creepy, spine-tingling adventure in the critically acclaimed Small Spaces Quartet.

Having survived sinister scarecrows and the malevolent smiling man in Small Spaces, newly minted best friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian are ready to spend a relaxing winter break skiing together... Read more

Marie Kondo's Kurashi at Home

By: Marie Kondo

Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Transform your home into a haven of calm and achieve your ideal lifestyle with this inspirational guide, from the Netflix star and #1 bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.
 
Inspired by the Japanese concept of kurashi, or “way of life,” Kurashi at Home invites you to visualize your best life from the moment you wake up... Read more