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Begin Again

By: Helly Acton

Narrated by: Emma Sidi

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Have you ever wanted to change the past and discover the result of choices not taken? Now, in this brilliantly fun novel of what-ifs, missed chances, and new beginnings, Frankie McKenzie discovers what starting over might bring…Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie feels unsettled. She can’t help feeling something’s... Read more

Yours for the Taking

By: Gabrielle Korn

Narrated by: Jasmin Savoy Brown

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"Savoy Brown enters the characters fully and makes their emotional changes audible and stunning—doubting to dreamy, bored to curious, saccharine to unhinged."—AudioFile

The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly... Read more

Owls of the Eastern Ice

By: Jonathan C. Slaght

Narrated by: Jonathan C. Slaght

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia



When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. He snapped... Read more

Crying in the Bathroom

By: Erika L. Sánchez

Narrated by: Erika L. Sánchez

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Equal parts pee-your-pants hilarity and break your heart poignancy- like the perfect brunch date you never want to end!"--America Ferrera, Emmy award-winning actress in Ugly Betty

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is... Read more

Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End.A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago’s divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above.An exiled auspex who... Read more

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Literary icon Julia Alvarez, the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic.Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn’t want to end up like her... Read more

Scrappy Little Nobody

By: Anna Kendrick

Narrated by: Anna Kendrick

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect.

Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, Twilight, and Into the Woods, Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird,... Read more

Milk Fed

By: Melissa Broder

Narrated by: Melissa Broder

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Time, Esquire, BookPage, and more

This darkly hilarious and “delicious new novel that ravishes with sex and food” (The Boston Globe) from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today is a “precise blend of desire, discomfort, spirituality, and existential ache”... Read more

Vita Nostra

By: Marina & Sergey Dyachenko

Narrated by: Jessica Ball

Length: 18 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive English language translation of the internationally bestselling Russian novel—a brilliant dark fantasy with ""the potential to be a modern classic"" (Lev Grossman), combining psychological suspense, enchantment, and terror that makes us consider human existence in a fresh and provocative way.Our life is brief . . .While... Read more

Love Radio

By: Ebony LaDelle

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt & JaQwan J. Kelly

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Readers won’t be able to get enough of these dope-ass characters.” —Elizabeth Acevedo, author of Clap When You Land

Hitch meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this “mega swoon-worthy, effortlessly cool” (Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author) novel about a self-professed teen love doctor with a popular radio segment who believes he can... Read more

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

By: Tom Lin

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A Chinese American assassin sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact revenge on her abductors in this New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice: a twist on the classic western from "an astonishing new voice" (Jonathan Lethem). Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime... Read more

Trouble

By: Lex Croucher

Narrated by: Ell Potter

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A Regency-era romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist and queer twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love.

There's a new governess at Fairmont House, and she's going to be nothing but trouble.

Emily Laurence is a liar. She is not polite, she's not polished, and she has never taught a child in her life.... Read more

Where You End

By: Abbott Kahler

Narrated by: Megan Tusing & Samantha Desz

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Tusing keeps listeners' attention from the start. At first, her voice has the quality of an ingenue. Desz, as Jude, sounds dominating, subtle, and quietly terrifying. Their voices align beautifully, with a darkness that entices deeper listening, particularly when motivations aren't clear." —AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)

“A perfectly paced,... Read more

Sadie

By: Courtney Summers

Narrated by: Dan Bittner, Fred Berman, Gabra Zackman & Rebec...

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

*Winner of the 2019 Odyssey Award**Winner of the 2019 Audie Award for Young Adult Audiobook*

"Courtney Summers's powerful story of love, neglect, abuse, and revenge is narrated with irresistible urgency by Rebecca Soler and Dan Bittner, along with an ensemble of supporting narrators...this is a production that will not be forgotten" — AudioFile... Read more

How to Resist Amazon and Why

By: Danny Caine

Narrated by: Danny Caine

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, and its business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own companies, and its CEO is the richest person in the world while its workers make minimum wage with impossible quotas...wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas,... Read more

The Sherlock Society

By: James Ponti

Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Nancy Drew, four kids and one grandfather in Miami tackle a decades-old mystery in this first book in the action-packed and funny Sherlock Society middle grade series from New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award–winning author James Ponti!

Siblings Alex and Zoe Sherlock take their last name as inspiration when choosing a... Read more

Ithaca

By: Claire North

Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the multi-award-winning author Claire North comes a daring reimagining that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men. It’s time for the women of Ithaca to tell their tale . . .

"North brings a powerful, fresh, and unflinching voice to ancient myth.... Read more

The Detective Up Late

By: Adrian McKinty

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Adrian McKinty is a gifted storyteller I love to read, and Sean Duffy is a character you will never forget.”—Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling authorFrom New York Times bestselling author Adrian McKinty comes the next thrilling mystery in the Edgar Award–winning Sean Duffy detective seriesSlamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s... Read more

He Who Drowned the World

By: Shelley Parker-Chan

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 18 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Natalie Naudus is an admirable guide through a complicated plot with multiple points of view...She illuminates the few tender moments amid the overall violence and sets a quick, smooth pace that never lags." —AudioFile

The sequel and series conclusion to She Who Became the Sun, the accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping... Read more

Stories I Might Regret Telling You

By: Martha Wainwright

Narrated by: Martha Wainwright

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A singer-songwriter's heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry, and more. Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly-acclaimed and genre-defying singer Rufus Wainwright,... Read more

Loveboat, Taipei

By: Abigail Hing Wen

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

-An instant New York Times Bestseller and Indie Bestseller!-Optioned for film by the producers of Jenny Han's Netflix series, TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE -#1 Cosmopolitan Audiobook of the Year-Featured in Entertainment Weekly, Seventeen, Boston Globe, South China Morning Post, World Journal, UK Evening Standard, Book Riot, Bustle, Nerd... Read more

The Newcomer

By: Mary Kay Andrews

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Kathleen McInerney gives an engaging narration of this entertaining and suspenseful beach listen." -- AudioFile Magazine

Mary Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads delivers her next summer listen with The Newcomer.

In trouble and on the run...

After she discovers her sister Tanya dead on the floor of her... Read more

The Comfort Book

By: Matt Haig

Narrated by: Matt Haig

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times Bestseller!

The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library, for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of a little encouragement.

Named by The Washington Post as one of the best feel-good books of the year

“It is a strange... Read more

Through the Groves

By: Anne Hull

Narrated by: Anne Hull

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author,

“Anne Hull has written some of the most important stories of our time, beautifully, unflinchingly.”
—Rick Bragg

"Hull delivers her book with a gentle twang and the unpretentious tone of someone who has lived the experiences she describes. Through her character work and emotionally intelligent delivery, Hull helps... Read more