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By: Christy Lefteri
Narrated by: George Georgiou, Indira Varma, Art Malik & Loli...
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
“A beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class, that flags the frank truth of the life of migrant workers for whom a flight to freedom can become the most finely woven trap.”—JODI PICOULT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways
From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo comes... Read more
Godspeed
By: Nickolas Butler
Narrated by: Jon Orsini
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the Reading the West Book Award
In this riveting new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Shotgun Lovesongs, three troubled construction workers get entangled in a dangerous plan against an impossible deadline.
Why is it being built here, and why so quickly? These are the questions Cole, Bart, and Teddy, the three... Read more
Devotion
By: Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention.A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of... Read more
View audiobookThrough 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
Holding the Note
By: David Remnick
Narrated by: Matt Godfrey & David Remnick
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gathers his writing on some of the essential musicians of our time—intimate portraits of Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more.
The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing... Read more
Homegrown
By: Jeffrey Toobin
Narrated by: Jeffrey Toobin
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection—from acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin.
Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement.
Speaking to his lawyers days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets: killing 168 people... Read more
Collecting Confidence
By: Kim Gravel
Narrated by: Kim Gravel
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the author with audiobook-exclusive commentary and an audiobook-exclusive episode of The Kim Gravel Show. Showcasing the confidence she's gathered from her own life journey, Kim Gravel--beloved QVC star and creator of Belle by Kim Gravel and Belle Beauty--invites you to look at yourself with a fresh new lens, encouraging you to start... Read more
View audiobookPirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
Narrated by: Roger Davis
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Roger Davis, who earned first-class honors in media and anthropology, puts his training to good use to lead listeners through 17th- and 18th-century Malagasy history." - Library Journal
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything.
Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance... Read more
The Good Life
By: Robert Waldinger & Marc Schulz
Narrated by: Robert Waldinger & Marc Schulz
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller
What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their “captivating” (The Wall Street Journal) book, the directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted, show that the answer to these questions may be closer than you realize.
What makes a life... Read more
Avalon
By: Nell Zink
Narrated by: Justis Bolding
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A profound and singular story about a young woman searching for her place in the world, from one of America’s most original voices—the irresistible story of one teenager’s reckoning with society at large and her search for a personal utopia.
“Effulgent and clever.... What fun.” —The New York Times
Bran’s... Read more
Sirens & Muses
By: Antonia Angress
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” (BuzzFeed) debut
National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree • “Captures the ache-inducing quality of art and desire . . . a deeply relatable and profoundly enjoyable read, one... Read more
Ride with Me
By: Lucy Keating
Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In this charming contemporary YA novel, neighborhood rideshare driver Charlie Owens embarks on a collision course with love when she crashes into the school’s cute but annoying party boy and wrecks his car and her no-strings-attached attitude toward life.As a driver for her local ride share app, Charlie Owens loves what the open road gives her:... Read more
View audiobookWays of Being
By: James Bridle
Narrated by: James Bridle
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
"There's joy in self-described "satellite nerd" James Bridle's British-accented voice as he narrates this audiobook about consciousness and the search for planetary intelligence." - AudioFile Magazine
This audiobook is read by the author.
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of... Read more
The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
Narrated by: Werner Herzog
Length: 3 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
“A potent, vaporous fever dream; a meditation on truth, lie, illusion, and time that floats like an aromatic haze through Herzog’s vivid reconstruction of Onoda’s war.” —The New York Times Book Review
The national bestseller by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog.
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of... Read more
One Day I Shall Astonish the World
By: Nina Stibbe
Narrated by: Joanna Scanlan
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From the beloved author of Love, Nina, a frank, tender, and poignantly funny story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime.
Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of... 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
Inspired
By: Matt Richtel
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter ""unpacks the myths and mysteries of the creative process"" (Salon).How does creativity work? Where does inspiration come from? What are the secrets of our most revered creators? How can we maximize our creative potential?Creativity defines the human experience. It sparks achievement... Read more
View audiobookStories 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
View audiobookVagina Obscura
By: Rachel E. Gross
Narrated by: Siho Ellsmore
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A scientific journey to the center of the new female body.
The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means “parts for which you should be ashamed.” Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female body, as penned by men.
Today, a new... Read more
Fencing with the King
By: Diana Abu-Jaber
Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent. Featuring a heartfelt author's note read by the author herself.
Amani is hooked on a mystery―a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father’s books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in... Read more
The Bald Eagle
By: Jack E. Davis
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 15 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America.
The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious... Read more
Life Without Children
By: Roddy Doyle
Narrated by: Roddy Doyle
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
“[Doyle] imparts a sense of poignancy and glimpses of happiness, of grief and loss and small moments of connection . . . you’re left feeling close to dazzled.” —Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review
A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker Prize–winning author of... Read more
Find Your People
By: Jennie Allen
Narrated by: Jennie Allen
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE ECPA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD • The author of Get Out of Your Head offers practical solutions for creating true community, the kind that’s crucial to our mental and spiritual health.
“My dear friend Jennie Allen shows us how to make true emotional connections with the right people so that our authentic... Read more
The Berlin Exchange
By: Joseph Kanon
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From “the most accomplished spy novelist working today” (The Sunday Times, London), a “heart-poundingly suspenseful” (The Washington Post) espionage thriller set at the height of the Cold War, when a captured American who has spied for the KGB is returned to East Berlin, needing to know who arranged for his release and what they now want from... Read more
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