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By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “It’s Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.”—The Guardian
ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD • NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity... Read more
The Vanishing Half
By: Brit Bennett
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE* VANITY FAIR * GLAMOUR
2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST“Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni... Read more
Atomic Habits
By: James Clear
Narrated by: James Clear
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 15 million copies sold!
Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones,... Read more
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
By: Hank Green
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Joe Hempel, Jesse Vilinsky, Nicol...
Length: 15 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Who has the right to change the world forever?
How will we live online?
How do we find comfort in an increasingly isolated world?
The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While the robots were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction with only their presence. Part of their... Read more
Clap When You Land
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo & Melania-Luisa Marte
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
An Odyssey Honor AudiobookIn a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.Don't miss the audiobook, read by Elizabeth Acevedo, the beloved... Read more
View audiobookEverything Sad is Untrue
By: Daniel Nayeri
Narrated by: Daniel Nayeri
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories,... Read more
View audiobookAll Adults Here
By: Emma Straub
Narrated by: Emily Rankin
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!
"In a time when all we want is hope, it’s a beautiful book to reach for." -Jenna Bush Hager
"Brimming with kindness, forgiveness, humor and love and yet (magically) also a page turner that held me captive until it was finished. This is Emma Straub's absolute best... Read more
Axiom's End
By: Lindsay Ellis
Narrated by: Abigail Thorn & Stephanie Willis
Length: 16 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The alternate history first contact adventure Axiom's End is an extraordinary debut from Hugo finalist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis.
Truth is a human right.
It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to... Read more
Pretty Things
By: Janelle Brown
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Lauren Fortgang & Hillary Huber
Length: 16 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Who’s really following you on social media? The scam of a lifetime brings together two wildly different women in this page-turning thriller about greed, legacy, and betrayal from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear.
An ID Book Club Selection • “It’s Dynasty meets Patricia Highsmith.”—The... Read more
Together
By: Vivek H. Murthy
Narrated by: Vivek H. Murthy
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The book we need NOW to avoid a social recession, Murthy’s prescient message is about the importance of human connection, the hidden impact of loneliness on our health, and the social power of community.Humans are social creatures: In this simple and obvious fact lies both the problem and the solution to the current crisis of loneliness. In his... Read more
View audiobookHumankind
By: Rutger Bregman
Narrated by: Rutger Bregman & Thomas Judd
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term success as a species.
If there is one belief that has united the... Read more
The Pull of the Stars
By: Emma Donoghue
Narrated by: Emma Lowe
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews).
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down... Read more
Intimations
By: Zadie Smith
Narrated by: Zadie Smith
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Abridged: No
“[Smith’s] slim collection of essays captures this peculiar moment with startling clarity. . . . The personal and political intermingle for a powerful indictment of America’s social systems.” —TIME, The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020
“While quarantined amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Smith penned six dazzling, trenchant essays burrowing deep into our... Read more
Begin Again
By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Narrated by: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”—Time
James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment?
One of the Best Books of the Year:... Read more
Wandering in Strange Lands
By: Morgan Jerkins
Narrated by: Morgan Jerkins
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Buzzfeed's 24 New Books We Couldn’t Put Down“One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”—Book RiotFrom the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing—a writer whom Roxane Gay has hailed as “a force to be reckoned with”—comes this powerful story of her journey to understand her... Read more
View audiobookBefore the Ever After
By: Jacqueline Woodson
Narrated by: Guy Lockard
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD
WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARD
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies.
For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a... Read more
The Hilarious World of Depression
By: John Moe
Narrated by: John Moe
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"Inspired by his podcast of the same name, this combination memoir and informational text is narrated by its author with sincere emotional investment and subtle humor." -- AudioFile Magazine
A moving portrait of depression, from the host of the podcast The Hilarious World of Depression
"This book is an excellent life raft for those of us who are... Read more
They Went Left
By: Monica Hesse
Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A tour de force historical mystery from Monica Hesse, the bestselling and award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat. Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal, her mind feels broken. And her... Read more
View audiobookWomen and Other Monsters
By: Jess Zimmerman
Narrated by: Vanessa Moyen
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism
The folklore that has shaped our dominant culture teems with frightening female creatures. In our language, in our stories (many written by men), we... Read more
This Is My America
By: Kim Johnson
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"Incredible and searing." --Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin
The Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system.
Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help... Read more
Weird but Normal
By: Mia Mercado
Narrated by: Mia Mercado
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Birth control. Body hair removal cream. Boobs. It’s all weird, but also pretty normal.Navigating racial identity, gender roles, workplace dynamics, and beauty standards, Mia Mercado's hilarious essay collection explores the contradictions of being a millennial woman, which usually means being kind of a weirdo. Whether it’s spending $30 on a... Read more
View audiobookLittle Family
By: Ishmael Beah
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of A Long Way Gone.
A powerful novel about young people living at the margins of society, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together.
Hidden away from a harsh outside world, five young people have improvised a home in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their... Read more
Dear Girl
By: Aija Mayrock
Narrated by: Aija Mayrock
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
From a poet and celebrated spoken-word performer comes a debut poetry collection that takes readers on an empowering, lyrical journey exploring truth, silence, wounds, healing, and the resilience we all share.
Dear Girl is a journey from girlhood to womanhood through poetry
It is the search for truth in silence
The freeing of the tongue
It is deep... Read more
Bear Necessity
By: James Gould-Bourn
Narrated by: Rupert Holliday-Evans
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A “refreshing” (Kirkus Reviews), unpretentious, and uplifting story about a father and son reconnecting and finding happiness in the most unlikely circumstances.
Danny’s life is falling apart. His eleven-year-old son, Will, hasn’t spoken since the death of his mother in a car crash a year earlier, and Danny has just been fired from his... Read more
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