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Down a Dark River
By: Karen Odden
Narrated by: Joshua Manning
Length: 12 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
London, 1878. One April morning, a small boat bearing a young woman’s corpse floats down the murky waters of the Thames. When the victim is identified as Rose Albert, daughter of a prominent judge, the Scotland Yard director gives the case to Michael Corravan, one of the only Senior Inspectors remaining after a corruption scandal the previous... Read more
View audiobookAll of Us Villains
By: Amanda Foody & C. L. Herman
Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown & Raphael Corkhill
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The blockbuster co-writing debut of Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman, All of Us Villains begins a dark tale of ambition and magick...
You Fell In Love With The Victors of The Hunger Games.
Now Prepare To Meet The Villains of The Blood Veil.
After the publication of a salacious tell-all book, the remote city of Ilvernath is thrust into worldwide... Read more
The Dangers of an Ordinary Night
By: Lynne Reeves
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
On a chilly fall evening at the prestigious Performing Arts High School of Boston, best friends Tali Carrington and June Danforth go missing after auditioning for a play. They're last seen in grainy, out-of-focus surveillance footage that shows them walking away from the school. Two days later in a town south of Boston, Tali is found disoriented... Read more
View audiobookThe Hidden
By: Melanie Golding
Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
One dark December night in a small seaside town, a little girl is found abandoned. When her mother finally arrives, authorities release the pair, believing it to be an innocent case of a toddler running off. Gregor, a seemingly single man, is found bludgeoned and left for dead in his apartment, but the discovery of children's toys raises more... Read more
View audiobookThe Donut Trap
By: Julie Tieu
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Julie Tieu sparkles in this debut romantic comedy, which is charmingly reminiscent of the TV show Kim’s Convenience and Frankly in Love by David Yoon, about a young woman who feels caught in the life her parents have made for her until she falls in love and finds a way out of the donut trap.
Jasmine Tran has landed herself behind bars—maple bars... Read more
The Secret Next Door
By: Rebecca Taylor
Narrated by: Libby McKnight
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
It's the perfect neighborhood, filled with not-so-perfect people.
Alyson Tinsdale is giving her son the childhood she never had: a stable family, a loving home, and a great school in a safe neighborhood. When they move into the home of her dreams in one of Denver’s most sought-after developments, Alyson
works hard to fit in and impress the other... Read more
You've Reached Sam
By: Dustin Thao
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
An Instant New York Times Bestseller!
If I Stay meets Your Name in Dustin Thao's You've Reached Sam, a heartfelt audiobook about love and loss and what it means to say goodbye.
Seventeen-year-old Julie Clarke has her future all planned out—move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam, attend college in the city; spend a summer in Japan.... Read more
The Perishing
By: Natashia Deon
Narrated by: Lisa Renee Pitts & Kevin R. Free
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A Black immortal in 1930s Los Angeles seeks to recover the memory of her past in this visionary novel from NAACP Image Award nominee Natashia DeónLou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles with no memory of how she got there or where she’s from. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education... Read more
View audiobookOdd Numbers
By: JJ Marsh
Narrated by: Jess Nesling & Paul Panting
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Strange things bring people together. Things like a tragic death.31st December 1999. The cusp of a new millennium. Six friends gather for their traditional New Year Celebration – this year, in a lakeside cabin on the outskirts of Prague. In every group of friends, each has a role. All except Gael that is. The outsider. The one who wasn't there... Read more
View audiobookAll Her Little Secrets
By: Wanda M. Morris
Narrated by: Susan Dalian
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
“All Her Little Secrets is a brilliantly nuanced but powerhouse exploration of race, the legal system, and the crushing pressure of keeping secrets. Morris brings a vibrant and welcome new voice to the thriller space.” —Karin Slaughter, New York Times and international bestselling author In this fast-paced thriller, Wanda M. Morris crafts a... Read more
View audiobookThe How
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Narrated by: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed poet behind bone, an exploration of how we can meet our truest selves, the ones we've always been meant to become
Yrsa Daley-Ward's words have resonated with hundreds of thousands of readers--through her books of poetry and memoir, bone and The Terrible; through her writing for Beyoncé on Black Is King; and through her always... Read more
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
By: Ai Weiwei
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process
“Poignant . . . An illuminating through-line emerges in the many parallels Ai traces between his life and... Read more
Carry the Dog
By: Stephanie Gangi
Narrated by: Cheryl Smith
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“Powered by insight and true wit.” —Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion
“I can’t remember the last time I was as completely bewitched by a fictional character as I was by Bea Seger . . . What a treat to view life through the eyes of this funny, smart, gutsy woman.” —Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and... Read more
Being Seen
By: Elsa Sjunneson
Narrated by: Elsa Sjunneson
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else.
As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of... Read more
The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
By: Nathaniel Ian Miller
Narrated by: Olafur Darri Olafsson
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
In this "briskly entertaining" (New York Times Book Review), "transporting and wholly original" (People Magazine) novel, one man banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is saved by good friends, a loyal dog, and a surprise visit that changes everything. In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek... Read more
View audiobookBurning Boy
By: Paul Auster
Narrated by: Paul Auster
Length: 35 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane.
With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who... Read more
David Copperfield's History of Magic
By: David Copperfield, Richard Wiseman & David Brit...
Narrated by: Feodor Chin & David Copperfield
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
An illustrated, illuminating insight into the world of illusion from the world’s greatest and most successful magician, capturing its audacious and inventive practitioners, and showcasing the art form’s most famous artifacts housed at David Copperfield’s secret museum.
In this personal journey through a unique performing art, David Copperfield... Read more
Daughter of the Deep
By: Rick Riordan
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times #1 best-selling author Rick Riordan pays homage to Jules Verne in his exciting modern take on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. "If you have ever craved a story that will leave your heart racing, your lungs gasping from the numerous twists and turns, your soul heaving from the effort of now carrying an ensemble cast, you will find all... Read more
View audiobookBarefoot Dreams of Petra Luna
By: Alda P. Dobbs
Narrated by: Ana Osorio
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting tale of one girl’s dangerous journey to cross the U.S. border, based on a true story.It is 1913, and twelve-year-old Petra Luna’s mamá has died while the revolution rages in Mexico. Before her papá is dragged away by soldiers, Petra vows to him that she will care for the family she has left—her abuelita, her little sister, Amelia, and... Read more
View audiobookBarakah Beats
By: Maleeha Siddiqui
Narrated by: Salena Qureshi
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of The First Rule of Punk and Save Me a Seat, Barakah Beats is a sweet, powerful, and joyous novel about a Muslim girl who finds her voice on her own terms... by joining her school's most popular boy band.Twelve-year-old Nimra Sharif has spent her whole life in Islamic school, but now it's time to go to "real school."Nimra's nervous,... Read more
View audiobookThis Thing Between Us
By: Gus Moreno
Narrated by: Robb Moreira
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"A surreal excursion into heartache and horror narrated by a man undone by grief . . . Along with allusions to Rod Serling and The Exorcist, there are shades of H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, zombie literature and, at least once, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . . . You don't want to read this book right before bed." —Sarah Lyall, The New... Read more
View audiobookThe Apollo Murders
By: Chris Hadfield
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 15 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author and astronaut Chris Hadfield comes this exceptional thriller and "exciting journey" into the dark heart of the Cold War and the space race (Andy Weir, author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary).1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny spaceship, a quarter million miles... Read more
View audiobookHooked
By: Sutton Foster
Narrated by: Sutton Foster
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From the 2-time Tony Award-winner and the star of TV’s Younger, funny and intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept her sane while navigating the highs and lows of family, love, and show business (and how it can help you, too).
Whether she’s playing an “age-defying” book editor on television or dazzling audiences on the... Read more
The 9.9 Percent
By: Matthew Stewart
Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “clear-eyed and incisive” (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone—including themselves.
In 21st-century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90% have lost ground.... Read more