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Every Dead Thing

By: John Connolly

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Length: 15 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.

Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his... Read more

I Love Dick

By: Chris Kraus

Narrated by: David de Vries, Susan Ericksen & Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers. The story is gripping... Read more

The Girls Are All So Nice Here

By: Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

Narrated by: Erin Mallon & Alex Allwine

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Two former best friends return to their college reunion to find that they’re being circled by someone who wants revenge for what they did ten years before—and will stop at nothing to get it—in this “propulsive” (Megan Miranda, bestselling author of The Girl from Widow Hills) psychological thriller.

A lot has changed since Ambrosia Wellington... Read more

The Lords of Easy Money

By: Christopher Leonard

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious institutions—the Federal Reserve—to show how its policies spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our country’s economic stability at risk.

If you asked most... Read more

The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, but someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again.The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world’s foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her... Read more

The Last Goodbye

By: Fiona Lucas

Narrated by: Antonia Beamish

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An unforgettable story about learning to love again and living life to its fullest, perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes and Josie Silver.""A poignant and uplifting read about loss, love and learning to put yourself back together again after facing the unimaginable."" —Sophie Cousens, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Next YearLost love.... Read more

The Magnetic Girl

By: Jessica Handler

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Andrew Eiden

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In rural North Georgia two decades after the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Lulu Hurst reaches high into her father’s bookshelf and pulls out an obscure book, The Truth of Mesmeric Influence. Deemed gangly and undesirable, Lulu wants more than a lifetime of caring for her disabled baby brother, Leo, with whom she shares a profound and supernatural... Read more

Swamp Story

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Dave Barry

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling author—and actual Florida Man—Dave Barry returns with a “hilariously funny” (Steve Martin) caper full of oddballs and more twists and turns than a snake slithering away from a gator.

Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend,... Read more

After the Flood

By: Kassandra Montag

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An inventive and riveting epic saga, After the Flood signals the arrival of an extraordinary new talent. A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an... Read more

The Mirror Man

By: Jane Gilmartin

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“A cloning story that reads like a thriller… [for] fans of science fiction and corporate espionage.” —Library Journal

Meet Jeremiah Adams. There are two of him.

The offer is too tempting: be part of a scientific breakthrough, step out of his life for a year, and be paid hugely for it. When ViMed Pharmaceutical asks Jeremiah to be part of an... Read more

A Caribbean Heiress in Paris

By: Adriana Herrera

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"A romp-filled and refreshingly diverse historical romance."—Buzzfeed

Paris, 1889
The Exposition Universelle is underway, drawing merchants from every corner of the globe…including Luz Alana Heith-Benzan, heiress to the Caña Brava rum empire.

Luz Alana set sail from Santo Domingo armed with three hundred casks of rum, her two best friends and one... Read more

Saving Ruby King

By: Catherine Adel West

Narrated by: Kim Staunton, Imani Parks, Ron Butler, Adam Laz...

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Ms. Magazine, USA Today Book Riot, The Rumpus, Library Journal, PureWow, The Every Girl, Parade and more.

“Forever and to the end. That’s what they say instead of I love you.”

When Ruby King’s mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago’s South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in... Read more

The Nest

By: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives.Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on... Read more

Barkskins

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 25 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a television mini-series on National Geographic!
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year & a New York Times Notable Book

From the Pulitzer Prize–­­winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world’s forests: “Barkskins is grand entertainment in the... Read more

A Brief History of Equality

By: Thomas Piketty

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding, a perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books.It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased... Read more

100 Places to See After You Die

By: Ken Jennings

Narrated by: Ken Jennings

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author and legendary Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings comes a hilarious travel guide to the afterlife, exploring to die for destinations from literature, mythology, and pop culture.

Ever wonder which circles of Dante’s Inferno have the nicest accommodations? Where’s the best place to grab a bite to eat in... Read more

Six Crimson Cranes

By: Elizabeth Lim

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A princess in exile, a shapeshifting dragon, six enchanted cranes, and an unspeakable curse... Drawing from fairy tales and East Asian folklore, this original fantasy from the author of Spin the Dawn is perfect for fans of Shadow and Bone.

"A dazzling fairytale full of breathtaking storytelling." --Stephanie Garber,... Read more

In Other Lands

By: Sarah Rees Brennan

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 17 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The Borderlands aren't like anywhere else. Don't try to smuggle a phone or any other piece of technology over the wall that marks the Border—unless you enjoy a fireworks display in your backpack. (Ballpoint pens are okay.) There are elves, harpies, and—best of all as far as Elliot is concerned—mermaids.



Elliot? Who's Elliot? Elliot is thirteen... Read more

Enchantments

By: Mya Spalter

Narrated by: Mya Spalter

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A wise, witchy, and welcoming guide to living life magically

Mya Spalter has spent years among candles, herbs, cats, and spells as an employee at New York City’s oldest occult shop, Enchantments. Since it would get crowded in there if all of you visited, this audiobook will be your guide to its secrets and stories; in the process, Mya will... Read more

Sea of Rust

By: C. Robert Cargill

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic ""robot western"" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic.It’s been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots.... Read more

Cold

By: Mariko Tamaki

Narrated by: Katharine Chin & Raymond J. Lee

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A boy, a body, a girl, a secret. From award-winning author Mariko Tamaki, Cold is a haunting YA audiobook about a shocking murder in a quiet town and four students who knew too much and said too little.

This is the story of a boy who died—and a girl who wants to know why.

Todd Mayer is dead. Now he's some sort of ghost, hovering over his body,... Read more

A Wild Winter Swan

By: Gregory Maguire

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Wild Swans,"" transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of... Read more

The Hunter and the Old Woman

By: Pamela Korgemagi

Narrated by: Tiffany Ayalik

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award The intertwined story of a cougar and a man that portrays the strength, vulnerability, and consciousness of two top predators. Not since Life of Pi have we encountered such transcendence or walked so fully in the footsteps of a big cat. The “Old Woman” lives in the wild, searching for food, raising her... Read more

Between a Flock and a Hard Place

By: Donna Andrews

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"Listening to Bernadette Dunne perform the Meg Langslow audiobooks gives listeners a sense of coming home to a beloved family." —AudioFile on The Falcon Always Wings Twice (Earphones Award winner)

Listeners will flock to New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews's next installment in the award-winning Meg Langslow series.

Meg's neighbors,... Read more