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The Lovers

By: Rebekah Faubion

Narrated by: Gail Shalan & Mia Hutchinson-Shaw

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A second chance at love is in the cards for two women working a stylish California wedding in this charming debut romance.

If Kit Larson believes one thing, it’s that the cards never lie. She’s seen it proven time and time again as a tarot reader and mystic influencer. But unfortunately the cards didn’t warn her about her most recent breakup or... Read more

The Last Thing You Surrender

By: Leonard Pitts, Jr.

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 20 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Could you find the courage to do what's right in a world on fire?



Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling author (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s new historical novel is a great American tale of race and war, following three characters from the Jim Crow South as they face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States.



An... Read more

Evvie Drake Starts Over: A Read with Jenna Pick

By: Linda Holmes

Narrated by: Julia Whelan & Linda Holmes

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • “Everything a romantic comedy should be: witty, relatable, and a little complicated.”—People

A heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young woman who’s lost her husband and a major league pitcher who’s lost his game.

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

Pet Sematary

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Michael C. Hall

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestseller and “wild, powerful, disturbing” (The Washington Post Book World) classic about evil that exists far beyond the grave—now featuring a stunning vintage cover!

When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be... Read more

Known to the Victim

By: K.L. Armstrong

Narrated by: AJ Bridel

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

•INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER•
From nationally bestselling author K.L. Armstrong comes a new heartstopping, propulsive, race-against-the-clock thriller.

How far will you go to protect the only family you have?

When Amy Gibson's mother is brutally murdered by her boyfriend, Amy's world is completely undone. Overcome with grief and heartache, she... Read more

The Last Dangerous Visions

By: Harlan Ellison

Narrated by: J. Michael Straczynski, Jim Meskimen, Mark San...

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series.In 1973 celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with Dangerous Visions and continued with... Read more

The Entire Sky

By: Joe Wilkins

Narrated by: Justin Price

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

With echoes of Demon Copperhead and Plainsong, a poignant story about a troubled boy on the run, an aging rancher, and a woman at a crossroads, who find unexpected solace and kinship in the family they make.
 
With his long hair and penchant for guitar, teenage Justin is the spitting image of his idol, Kurt Cobain—a resemblance that has often... Read more

If Walls Could Talk

By: Lucy Worsley

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two "dirty centuries?" Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries, did rich people fear fruit?

In her brilliantly and creatively researched book, Lucy Worsley takes us through the bedroom, bathroom,... Read more

Husband Material

By: Alexis Hall

Narrated by: Joe Jameson

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In Boyfriend Material, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends...and somehow figured out a way to make it work. Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc's feeling the social pressure to propose. But it'll take more than four... Read more

The Heiress

By: Rachel Hawkins

Narrated by: Dan Bittner, Eliza Foss, John Pirhalla & Patti ...

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrators Dan Bittner, Eliza Foss, John Pirhalla, and Patti Murin provide outstanding performances, creating such believable characters that listeners might wonder if the story is based in fact."—Library Journal

This program features multicast narration.

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins returns with a twisted new gothic suspense... Read more

The Great Bear

By: David A. Robertson

Narrated by: Brefny Caribou

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this second book in the Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series, Eli and Morgan journey once more to Misewa, travelling back in time.

Back at home after their first adventure in the Barren Grounds, Eli and Morgan each struggle with personal issues: Eli is being bullied at school, and tries to hide it from Morgan, while Morgan... Read more

Inciting Joy

By: Ross Gay

Narrated by: Ross Gay

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes a "brilliant" intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection (Ada Limón, U.S. poet laureate).

In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prizewinning poet and author Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during... Read more

Vacuum in the Dark

By: Jen Beagin

Narrated by: Jayme Mattler

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Whiting Award–winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a “thoroughly delightfully, surprisingly profound” (Entertainment Weekly) one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life.

Soon to be an FX television show starring Lola Kirke.

Mona is... 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

Master Slave Husband Wife

By: Ilyon Woo

Narrated by: Janina Edwards & Leon Nixon

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography

“A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class, and disability to hide in public on their journey to the North, where they... Read more

The ABCs of Women's History

By: Rio Cortez

Narrated by: Sabine Galbis-Kuffner, Sybil Chanin & Florentin...

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling creative team behind The ABCs of Black History comes a statement-making follow-up that celebrates women, their history, and their future by centering the diversity of the disruptors who blazed a path forward for everyone.

In a beautiful picture book brimming with G for Groundbreaking women, National Book Award... Read more

The Reappearance of Rachel Price

By: Holly Jackson

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 16 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series and Five Survive comes a gripping mystery thriller following one teen’s search for the truth about her mother’s shocking disappearance—and even more shocking reappearance—during the filming of a true crime documentary.

A... Read more

Ashlords

By: Scott Reintgen

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler, Andrew Eiden, Lauren Fortgang & ...

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Red Rising meets The Scorpio Races in this epic fantasy following three phoenix horse riders--skilled at alchemy--who must compete at The Races--the modern spectacle that has replaced warfare within their empire.

Every year since the Ashlords were gifted phoenix horses by their gods, they've raced them. First into battle, then on great hunts, and... Read more

Priest of Bones

By: Peter McLean

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"The first in an unmissable series, Priest of Bones is a fresh and compelling take on grimdark fantasy. Mashing together soldiers, gangsters, magic and war into a heady mix that is a hulking big brother to The Lies of Locke Lamora."--Anna Stephens, author of Godblind

The war is over, and army priest Tomas Piety heads home with Sergeant Bloody... Read more

The Poet X

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't miss this acclaimed audiobook, read by the author—winner of an Odyssey Honor and an AudioFile Earphones Award winner!The Poet X is also the winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award.Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for... Read more

Velvet Was the Night

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrated by: Gisela Chípe

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a simmering historical noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome enforcer, and the mystery of the missing woman they’re both desperate to find.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, The... Read more

Small Mercies

By: Dennis Lehane

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times Bestseller“Small Mercies is thought provoking, engaging, enraging, and can’t-put-it-down entertainment.” — Stephen KingThe acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the... Read more

Bad Blood

By: John Carreyrou

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos—one of the biggest corporate frauds in history—a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the prize-winning journalist. With a new Afterword.

“Chilling ... Reads like a thriller ... Carreyrou tells [the Theranos story]... Read more

All Boys Aren't Blue

By: George M. Johnson

Narrated by: George M. Johnson

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.

A New York Times Bestseller!
Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC feature stories

From... Read more