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By: M. T. Edvardsson
Narrated by: Emily Watson, Georgia Maguire & Richard Armitage
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
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New York Times Book Review recommends M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal Family and lauds it as a “page-turner” that forces the reader to confront “the compromises we make with ourselves to be the people we believe our beloveds expect.” (NYTimes Book Review Summer Reading Issue)
M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal... Read more
Summer of '69
By: Elin Hilderbrand
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of the '60s summer when everything changed in Elin Hilderbrand's #1 New York Times bestselling historical novel.
Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward... Read more
This Is Home
By: Lisa Duffy
Narrated by: Renata Friedman & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of book club favorite The Salt House comes a deeply affecting novel about a teenage girl finding her voice and the military wife who moves in downstairs, united in their search for the true meaning of home.
Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives in Paradise, a seaside town north of Boston that rarely lives up to its name. After the... Read more
The First Mistake
By: Sandie Jones
Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From Sandie Jones, author of the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick and USA Today Bestseller, The Other Woman, comes an addictive new domestic suspense audiobook about a wife, her husband, and the woman who is supposedly her best friend.
THE WIFE: For Alice, life has never been better. With her second husband, she has a successful... Read more
Man of the Year
By: Caroline Louise Walker
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Michael Crouch, George Newb...
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A sinister, sophisticated debut thriller by “a remarkable new voice to watch” (J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author), Man of the Year has been lauded by Shelf Awareness as “an impressive slow burn that builds suspense and cracks the whip at the end…redolent with menace and ego.”
Dr. Robert Hart, Sag Harbor’s just-named Man of the Year,... Read more
The Unbreakables
By: Lisa Barr
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A delicious, sharp novel about a woman who jets off to France after her perfect marriage collapses, putting the broken pieces of herself back together while rediscovering her own joie de vivre—a lust for life, art, and steamy sex.“Artful, feminist, and emotionally gripping. The Unbreakables is a remarkable tribute to a woman’s strength in the... Read more
View audiobookThe Guest Book
By: Sarah Blake
Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
Length: 16 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"Orlagh Cassidy narrates Blake's beautifully written multigenerational story of love and lies with consummate skill. Elegant and clear, distant yet passionate, she helps listeners discover the quirks in characters' personalities and explore their motives, both evident and hidden." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
This program includes... Read more
Drawing Home
By: Jamie Brenner
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 12 hours
Abridged: No
An unexpected inheritance, a promise broken, and four lives changed forever: discover "the gold standard of summertime escapism" from USA Today bestselling author Jamie Brenner (Elin Hilderbrand).
Summer has started in idyllic Sag Harbor, and for Emma Mapson that means greeting guests at the front desk of The American Hotel. But when one of the... Read more
The Last Time I Saw You
By: Liv Constantine
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
“Thrilling. . . . a must-read!” — Mary Kubica
“Masterful.” — Wendy Walker
“I couldn’t put it down.” — Joseph FinderIn a world of wealth and privilege, a killer is hiding . . .The internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish follows that success with an addictive novel filled with shocking twists about the aftermath of a brutal... Read more
The Editor
By: Steven Rowley
Narrated by: Michael Urie
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a novel about a struggling writer who gets his big break, with a little help from the most famous woman in America.
After years of trying to make it as a writer in 1990s New York City, James Smale finally sells his novel to an editor at a major publishing house: none other than Jacqueline... Read more
The Last Romantics
By: Tara Conklin
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The House Girl comes a novel about our most precious and dangerous attachment: family.In the spring of 1981, the young Skinner siblings—fierce Renee, dreamy Caroline, golden boy Joe and watchful Fiona—lose their father to a heart attack and their mother to a paralyzing depression, events that thrust... Read more
View audiobookYou Go First
By: Erin Entrada Kelly
Narrated by: Amielynn Abellera
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Funny and poignant, Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestseller Erin Entrada Kelly’s national bestseller You Go First is an exploration of family, bullying, word games, art, and the ever-complicated world of middle school friendships.In a starred review, School Library Journal wrote that Erin Entrada Kelly can “capture moments of tween... Read more
View audiobookThe Parker Inheritance
By: Varian Johnson
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
The Westing Game meets The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 in a stirring mystery of past and present, as two kids search for a place in their families, city, and country.The letter waits in a book, in a box, in an attic, in an old house in Lambert, South Carolina. It's waiting for Candice Miller. When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she... Read more
View audiobookThe Flight Attendant
By: Chris Bohjalian
Narrated by: Erin Spencer, Grace Experience & Mark Deakins
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A NATIONAL INDIEBOUND BESTSELLER
From the author of The Guest Room, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man - and no idea what happened.
Cassandra... Read more
The Defense
By: Steve Cavanagh
Narrated by: Adam Sims
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"If you're a fan of John Grisham, Scott Turow, and Brad Meltzer, then you will be a fan of Steve Cavanagh's The Defense." —Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Radiant Angel
Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turns out the two aren't that different.
In The Defense, former con artist turned lawyer Eddie... Read more
NOS4A2
By: Joe Hill
Narrated by: Kate Mulgrew
Length: 19 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The spine-tingling, bone-chilling novel of supernatural suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman and Horns—now an AMC original series starring Zachary Quinto, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Ashleigh Cummings.""A masterwork of horror.""— TimeVictoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a... Read more
View audiobookThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
By: Rachel Joyce
Narrated by: Jim Broadbent
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from... Read more
Silver Sparrow
By: Tayari Jones
Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman-Williams & Heather Alicia Simms
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,” author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon’s two families—the public one and the secret... Read more
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