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Do Tell

By: Lindsay Lynch

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A scintillating debut novel that brings the golden age of Hollywood to glittering life, from star-studded opening nights to backlot brawls, on-location Westerns to the Hollywood Canteen. Through character actress turned gossip columnist Edie O'Dare's eyes, Lindsay Lynch draws back the curtain on classic Hollywood’s secrets.

"Glamorous, tawdry,... Read more

Devil Is Fine

By: John Vercher

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by award-winning narrator Dion Graham.

"Devil Is Fine is self-deprecatingly tender, often bracingly hilarious, and at its heart is a runaway train through the haunted house of us. And I loved it. Don't miss it." —Dion Graham

"Graham’s rich, inviting, sigh-inducing voice magically weaves another irresistible aural web...Graham... Read more

Marrying the Ketchups

By: Jennifer Close

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the deep-fried, beer-battered, cream cheese-frosted love that feeds them all—from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses
 
“Laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply resonant to our times. I was so happy to be in the Sullivan... Read more

Silent Sister

By: Megan Davidhizar

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The must-read suspense novel of the summer about a mysterious girl's disappearance, her biggest betrayal and a deadly truth screaming to come out.

Two sisters went missing on their class trip—Grace, the outgoing athlete who is friends with just about everyone, and Maddy, the wallflower wilting in her sister’s shadow who'd rather absorb herself in... Read more

Between Two Fires

By: Christopher Buehlman

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

His extraordinary debut, Those across the River, was hailed as "genre-bending Southern horror" (California Literary Review) and "graceful [and] horrific" (Patricia Briggs). Now Christopher Buehlman invites readers into an even darker age—one of temptation and corruption, of war in heaven and of hell on earth.And Lucifer said, "Let us rise... Read more

If Women Rose Rooted

By: Sharon Blackie

Narrated by: Sharon Blackie

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this life-changing book that blends myth, memoir, and modern-day mentors, renowned psychologist Dr. Sharon Blackie journeys from the wasteland of modern society to a place of nourishment and connection.



"Mind-blowing. An anthem for all we could be . . . I sincerely hope every woman who can read has the time and space to read it." —Manda Scott,... Read more

Hello, Molly!

By: Molly Shannon & Sean Wilsey

Narrated by: Molly Shannon

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption by comedic genius Molly ShannonAt age four, Molly Shannon’s world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident with her father at the wheel. Held together by her tender and complicated... Read more

The Heart's Invisible Furies

By: John Boyne

Narrated by: Stephen Hogan

Length: 21 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Named Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year, 2017
Selected one of New York Times Readers’ Favorite Books of 2017
Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in... Read more

Growing Up Urkel

By: Jaleel White

Narrated by: Jaleel White

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive and insightful memoir by one of the most beloved icons of nineties television Jaleel White, the actor who portrayed Steve Urkel on the hit sitcom Family Matters.

DOES IT BOTHER YOU WHEN PEOPLE STILL CALL YOU URKEL?

“This is a question I get all the time and it’s an interesting one—because the question lands differently from different... Read more

Five Broken Blades

By: Mai Corland

Narrated by: Greg Chun, Jaine Ye, Sophie Oda, Donald Chang, ...

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

It's the season for treason …The king of Yusan must die.The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective: to kill the god king Joon.He has it coming. Under his merciless immortal hand, the nobles flourish, while the poor and innocent are imprisoned, ruined … or sold.And now each of... Read more

The Woman with the Blue Star

By: Pam Jenoff

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya, Emily Lawrence & Nancy Pet...

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"An emotional novel that you will never forget." —Lisa Scottoline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eternal

From the author of The Lost Girls of Paris comes a riveting tale of courage and unlikely friendship during World War II -- Now a New York Times bestsller!

1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents in the Kraków Ghetto... Read more

Foster

By: Claire Keegan

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An international bestseller and one of the Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a stand-alone book for the first time ever in the US



It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to... Read more

Let's Call a Truce

By: Amy Buchanan

Narrated by: Charlotte North

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

LET’S CALL A TRUCE is a sexy contemporary romance about second chances at life and love, bursting with humor and a touch of angst from debut author, Amy Buchanan.

After Juliana Ryan's husband dies unexpectedly, leaving her with two grieving kids and a stunted career from years as a stay-at-home mom, she has no choice but to make it work all on... Read more

The Hero of This Book

By: Elizabeth McCracken

Narrated by: Elizabeth McCracken

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A Most Anticipated Book of Fall from: Los Angeles Times * Boston Globe * BookPage * Book Riot * The Millions * Publishers Weekly * LitHub * St. Louis Post Dispatch * Town & CountryA taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, about a writer’s relationship with her larger-than-life mother—and... Read more

The Wren in the Holly Library

By: K.A. Linde

Narrated by: Stephanie Németh-Parker

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

CAN YOU LOVE THE DARK WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT IT HIDES?Some things aren’t supposed to exist outside of our imagination. Thirteen years ago, monsters emerged from the shadows and plunged Kierse’s world into a cataclysmic war of near-total destruction. The New York City she knew so well collapsed practically overnight.In the wake of that carnage, the... Read more

Empire of the Vampire

By: Jay Kristoff

Narrated by: Damian Lynch

Length: 27 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Damian Lynch’s depiction of the sword is especially creepy and compelling. Lynch has a great sense of dialogue and pitch overall, and keeps this dramatic tale moving." -Locus

From New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff comes Empire of the Vampire, the first volume of an astonishing new dark fantasy saga.

From holy cup comes holy... Read more

The Mystery Guest

By: Nita Prose

Narrated by: Lauren Ambrose

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A new mess. A new mystery. It’s up to Molly the maid to uncover the truth, no matter how dirty, in this standalone novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid, a Good Morning America Book Club pick.

“Polished to perfection!”—Shari Lapena, author of Everyone Here Is Lying
 
“Lives up to the hype . . . both a... Read more

Heat Wave

By: TJ Klune

Narrated by: Michael Lesley

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Heat Wave is the explosive finale to the thrilling and “uproariously funny” (Sophie Gonzales) Extraordinaries trilogy by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author TJ Klune!

Nick, Seth, Gibby, and Jazz are back in action bringing justice, protection, and disaster energy to the people of Nova City.

An unexpected hero returns to Nova City and... Read more

The Radium Girls

By: Kate Moore

Narrated by: Angela Brazil

Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous—the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls.


As the... Read more

Into the Riverlands

By: Nghi Vo

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find... Read more

Americanah

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 18 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home. • From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun • WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

"An expansive,... Read more

Ohio

By: Stephen Markley

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies, Jayme Mattler, Joy Osmanski, Jo...

Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.” —NPR

“[A] descendent of the Dickensian ‘social novel’ by way of Jonathan Franzen: epic fiction that lays bare contemporary culture clashes, showing us who we are and how we got here.” —O,... Read more

Young Jane Young

By: Gabrielle Zevin

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss—who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married—and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over... Read more

Sea Wife

By: Amity Gaige

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Will Damron & Emily Eiden

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book

"Sea Wife is a gripping tale of survival at sea—but that’s just the beginning.  Amity Gaige also manages, before she’s done, to probe the underpinnings of romantic love, marriage, literary ambition, political inclinations in the Trump age, parenthood, and finally, the nature of survival itself in our broken world. ... Read more