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Afterlife

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents comes “a stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own.” (Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award–winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X)

Antonia Vega, the... Read more

Theft of Swords

By: Michael J. Sullivan

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 22 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Royce Melborn, a skilled thief, and his mercenary partner, Hadrian Blackwater, make a profitable living carrying out dangerous assignments for conspiring nobles—until they are hired to pilfer a famed sword. What appears to be just a simple job finds them framed for the murder of the king and trapped in a conspiracy that uncovers a plot far... Read more

Toad

By: Katherine Dunn

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Delaine has the perfect deadpan narration that conveys the hopelessness of our protagonist."- Booklist

Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world.

She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of goldfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who... Read more

The Queen Bees of Tybee County

By: Kyle Casey Chu

Narrated by: Neo Cihi

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Better Nate Than Ever meets Dumplin’ in this charming, poignant debut by Kyle Casey Chu, aka Panda Dulce, a founding queen of Drag Story Hour. After making the buzzer-beating shot at the Georgia basketball state championships, Derrick Chan becomes the star of Bayard Middle School, and Derrick’s single dad could not be prouder. But there are... Read more

Opioid, Indiana

By: Brian Allen Carr

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

During a week-long suspension from school, a teenage transplant to impoverished rural Indiana searches for a job, the whereabouts of his vanished drug-addicted guardian, and meaning in the America of the Trump years.



Seventeen-year-old Riggle is living in rural Indiana with his uncle and uncle's girlfriend after the death of both of his parents.... Read more

Hope for Cynics

By: Jamil Zaki

Narrated by: Jamil Zaki

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Cynicism is making us sick; Stanford Psychologist Dr. Jamil Zaki has the cure—a “ray of light for dark days” (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author). For thousands of years, people have argued about whether humanity is selfish or generous, cruel or kind. But recently, our answers have changed.  In 1972, half of Americans agreed that... Read more

Below the Edge of Darkness

By: Edith Widder, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to understand bioluminescence—the language of light that helps life communicate in the darkness—and what it tells us about the future of life on Earth in this “thrilling blend of hard science and high adventure” (The New York Times Book Review). 

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE... Read more

The Red-Haired Woman

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee & Katharine Lee McEwan

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them.

On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without... Read more

I Was Told There'd Be Cake

By: Sloane Crosley

Narrated by: Sloane Crosley

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to siccing the cops on her mysterious neighbor, Crosley can do no right despite the best of... Read more

The Great State of West Florida

By: Kent Wascom

Narrated by: Justin Price

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 2026, and Rally is thirteen years old. The long, hot Louisiana summer looms before him like a face-melting stretch of blacktop, and the country is talking civil war while his adoptive family acts more vicious than ever. Rally spends his days wondering about his dead father's people, the Woolsacks of West Florida, who long ago led a failed... Read more

The Borrower

By: Rebecca Makkai

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road.

Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but... Read more

Random Sh*t Flying Through The Air

By: Jackson Ford

Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky & Lauren Patten

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

'LIKE ALIAS MEETS X-MEN . . . I LOVED IT!' Maria Lewis on The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind

Full of imagination, wit and random sh*t flying through the air, this insane new Frost Files adventure will blow your tiny mind.

Teagan Frost's life is finally back on track. Her role working for the government as a telekinetic operative is going... Read more

Aurora Rising

By: Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest, Johnathan McClain, Candice Moll,...

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times and internationally bestselling authors of the Illuminae Files comes a new science fiction epic . . .

The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with... Read more

Blood Music

By: Greg Bear

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Nebula Award Finalist: A genetic engineering breakthrough may portend the destruction of humanity in this cyberpunk novel by the author of The Forge of God. This Hugo and Nebula Award finalist follows present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical... Read more

Four Lost Cities

By: Annalee Newitz

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site... Read more

Aftershocks

By: Nadia Owusu

Narrated by: Nadia Owusu

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of The Glass Castle, this “gorgeous” (The New York Times, Editors’ Choice) and deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu tells the “incredible story” (Malala Yousafzai) about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through.

“In Aftershocks, Nadia... Read more

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

By: Imogen Hermes Gowar

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 17 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction“Wonderful… completely transporting.”  —Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles ""Historical fiction at its finest, combining myth and legend with the brutal realities of the past. . . . Comparisons will be drawn to the works of contemporary authors... Read more

Hotel Cuba

By: Aaron Hamburger

Narrated by: Marie Hoffman

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“Deeply moving, compulsively readable, Hotel Cuba chronicles the early twentieth century immigrant experience with a profound understanding and crackling urgency I’ve not previously encountered. I could not put it down and I could not stop thinking about it long after I’d reached its stunning conclusion. In short: You need to read this book.... Read more

The Other Merlin

By: Robyn Schneider

Narrated by: Rosie Jones

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR! - Publishers Weekly
 
"Simultaneously heart-pounding and hilarious, Robyn Schneider gives us a veritable romp through Camelot fueled by adventure and romance."
—Kerri Maniscalco, #1 NYT bestselling author of The Kingdom of the Wicked and Stalking Jack the Ripper

Channeling the modern humor of The Gentleman’s... Read more

Like Streams to the Ocean

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

Narrated by: Jedidiah Jenkins

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “As inviting, wide-ranging, and philosophical as an all-night conversation with a best friend, and as revealing and thought-provoking as the diary of a curious adventurer.”—Sasha Sagan, author of For Small Creatures Such as We

You can travel the world looking for yourself, but if you don't know what you're looking for,... Read more

A Head Full of Ghosts

By: Paul Tremblay

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2015 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVELA chilling thriller that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror, reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New... Read more

In Pieces

By: Sally Field

Narrated by: Sally Field

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In this haunting memoir, an American icon tells her story of a challenging childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother.

One of the most celebrated and beloved actors of our time, Sally Field has an infectious charm that has captivated the nation for more than five... Read more

Black Girl, Call Home

By: Jasmine Mans

Narrated by: Jasmine Mans

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah Magazine • Vulture • Essence • Elle • Cosmopolitan • Real Simple • Refinery 29 • She Reads • The Everygirl • Career Contessa

“You are carrying in your hands a Black woman’s heart.”—Jericho Brown, author of Pulitzer Prize winner The Tradition

“[Mans’] lucid and lyrical lines are as undeniable as those of a... Read more

Fix Her Up

By: Tessa Bailey

Narrated by: Charlotte North

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A brand new romantic comedy from New York Times bestseller Tessa Bailey! Georgette Castle’s family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven’t taken her seriously since. Frankly, she’s over it. Georgie loves planning children’s birthday parties and making people laugh, just not... Read more