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The Patriots

By: Winston Groom

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable democratic government in the vast, newly independent country. Three key founding fathers played significant roles: John Adams, the brilliant, dour New Englander; Thomas Jefferson, the aristocratic Southern renaissance man; and Alexander... Read more

Think Like a Rocket Scientist

By: Ozan Varol

Narrated by: Ozan Varol

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

* One of Inc.com's "6 Books You Need to Read in 2020 (According to Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, and Adam Grant)"* Adam Grant's # 1 pick of his top 20 books of 2020* One of 6 Groundbreaking Books of Spring 2020 (according to Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant).
A former rocket scientist reveals the habits, ideas, and strategies... Read more

Was She Wicked? Was She Good?

By: M. Rickert

Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Was She Wicked? Was She Good?" is a short horror story by award-winning author M. Rickert, one of 35 entries in the audio anthology Come Join Us by the Fire.

Not all anniversaries are happy occasions. One family copes with the damage that remains after being victims of a home invasion.

Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an... Read more

Painted Devils

By: Margaret Owen

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A scrappy former maid and jewel thief must outwit gods, injustice, and her own past in this sequel to the Indie Next Pick, Little Thieves by Margaret Owen.

Let's get one thing straight - Vanja Schmidt wasn't trying to start a cult.

After taking down a corrupt margrave, breaking a deadly curse, and finding romance with the vexingly scrupulous... Read more

The Curse of Saints

By: Kate Dramis

Narrated by: Devon Sorvari

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

As an elite spy and the Queen's Third-in-Command, Aya has dedicated herself to a life of discipline and duty, using her gods-given abilities to keep dark magic from ever returning to the realm. Her oath ensures she will always act to protect those she fights alongside?including Will, the Queen's Enforcer and Aya's bitter rival. Forced by... Read more

The Museum of Ordinary People

By: Mike Gayle

Narrated by: Witney White

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “brilliantly original” and warmhearted novel, an old set of encyclopedias leads a young woman to a curious museum and one profoundly moving lesson: that every life is an extraordinary life (New York Times bestselling author Claire Mackintosh).  

Still reeling from the sudden death of her mother, Jess is about to do the hardest thing... Read more

The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

Narrated by: Abigail Reno

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife who decides to get into the pool in her family’s apartment complex one morning and won’t come out.
 
It is an unseasonably warm Sunday in November 1957. Katheen, a college tennis champion... Read more

The Unspoken Name

By: A. K. Larkwood

Narrated by: Avita Jay

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Avita Jay manages a large cast of characters in this fantasy...Jay captures the growing affection and trust between Csorwe and those she enlists to help her. Most importantly, Jay's narration captures Csorwe's manner and personality as she transforms from a meek priestess to a formidable character." -- AudioFile Magazine

A. K.... Read more

Off With Their Heads

By: Zoe Hana Mikuta

Narrated by: Suzie Yeung

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of Chloe Gong and Judy I. Lin will devour this Korean-inspired Alice in Wonderland retelling about two very wicked girls, forever bonded by blood and betrayal . . . In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark forest where they lurk, it’s been five years since young witches and lovers Caro Rabbit and Iccadora Alice Sickle... Read more

I Want a Better Catastrophe

By: Andrew Boyd

Narrated by: Chris Bates

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers With global warming projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the "impossible news" of our climate doom. He searches out eight of today's... Read more

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

By: Lesley Nneka Arimah

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A PBS NewsHour/New York Times Book Club Pick

A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE

WINNER OF THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE

WINNER OF THE NYPL'S YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE LEONARD PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE

A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind... Read more

The Poison Squad

By: Deborah Blum

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book 

The inspiration for PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad.

From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change

By the end... Read more

American Spy

By: Lauren Wilkinson

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“American Spy updates the espionage thriller with blazing originality.”—Entertainment Weekly
“There has never been anything like it.”—Marlon James, GQ
“So much fun . . . Like the best of John le Carré, it’s extremely tough to put down.”—NPR

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The... Read more

Dreamer

By: Nazem Kadri

Narrated by: Nazem Kadri

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An outspoken, inspirational memoir from a charismatic athlete in the spotlight, Dreamer is the moving story of the first Muslim hockey player to win the Stanley Cup, and the impossible dreams he made a reality.

No one who knows the game is unfamiliar with the story of the NHL’s  first Muslim Stanley Cup winner, Nazem... Read more

Riviera Gold

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes turn the Riviera upside down to crack their most captivating case yet in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called “the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.”

It’s summertime on the Riviera, and the Jazz Age has come to France’s once-sleepy beaches. From their music-filled... Read more

The Housekeepers

By: Alex Hay

Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The night of London's grandest ball, a bold group of women downstairs plot a daring revenge heist against Mayfair society in this dazzling historical novel about power, gender, and class

Named a Best Book of Summer by The Washington Post * Good Housekeeping * Harper's Bazaar * Reader's Digest

“Rollicking fun and entirely original... Anyone who... Read more

Mozart's Starling

By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Narrated by: Linda Henning

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

On May 27th, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling in a Viennese shop who sang an improvised version of the theme from his Piano Concerto no. 17 in G major. Sensing a kindred spirit in the plucky young bird, Mozart bought him and took him home to be a family pet. For three years, the starling lived with Mozart,... Read more

Eastbound

By: Maylis De Kerangal

Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this gripping tale, a Russian conscript and a French woman cross paths on the Trans-Siberian railroad, each fleeing to the east for their own reasons



Eastbound is both an adventure story and a duet of two vibrant inner worlds.



In mysterious, winding sentences gorgeously translated by Jessica Moore, De Kerangal gives us the story of two unlikely... Read more

Warcross

By: Marie Lu

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“A vibrant, action-packed shot of adrenaline.”—Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“The Hunger Games meets Minecraft.”—Seventeen

From #1 New York Times bestselling author—when a game called Warcross takes the world by storm, one girl hacks her way into its dangerous depths.

For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t... Read more

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

By: Carlo Rovelli

Narrated by: Carlo Rovelli

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Order of Time and Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander

“One of the year’s most entrancing books about science.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
This playful, entertaining, and... Read more

Fellside

By: M. R. Carey

Narrated by: Finty Williams

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of a devastating fire, a prisoner is offered one chance at redemption in this haunting supernatural suspense from the author of USA Today bestseller, The Girl With All the Gifts.

Fellside is a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors. It's not the kind of place you'd want to end up. But it's where Jess Moulson... Read more

Next Level Basic

By: Stassi Schroeder

Narrated by: Stassi Schroeder

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover how to embrace your best basic self in this instant New York Times bestselling, laugh-out-loud hilarious, and “refreshing to read” (The Cut) guidebook from the breakout star of Bravo’s hit reality show Vanderpump Rules.

Millions of Vanderpump Rules viewers and podcast listeners know Stassi Schroeder as a major defender of Basic Bitch... Read more

The Ramblers

By: Aidan Donnelley Rowley

Narrated by: Erica Sullivan

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of J. Courtney Sullivan, Meg Wolitzer, Claire Messud, and Emma Straub, a gorgeous and absorbing novel of a trio of confused souls struggling to find themselves and the way forward in their lives, set against the spectacular backdrop of contemporary New York City.Set in the most magical parts of Manhattan—the Upper West Side, Central... Read more

The Memory Thief

By: Jodi Lynn Anderson

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“This expertly crafted story thrums with magic, love, and tense action.” —Booklist (starred review)

Perfect for fans of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, this fantastical and heartfelt first book in a new trilogy from critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author Jodi Lynn Anderson follows a girl who must defeat thirteen evil... Read more