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Come Fly The World
By: Julia Cooke
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up
Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also... Read more
Who is Maud Dixon?
By: Alexandra Andrews
Narrated by: Therese Plummer
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
“Part Patricia Highsmith, part All About Eve and pure fun.”―Maria SempleFlorence Darrow has always felt she was destined for greatness, but after a disastrous affair with her married boss, she starts to doubt herself. All that changes when she sets off for Morocco with her new boss, the celebrated but reclusive author Maud Dixon. Amidst the... Read more
View audiobookThe Memory Thief
By: Jodi Lynn Anderson
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
“This expertly crafted story thrums with magic, love, and tense action.” —Booklist (starred review)
Perfect for fans of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, this fantastical and heartfelt first book in a new trilogy from critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author Jodi Lynn Anderson follows a girl who must defeat thirteen evil... Read more
Satellite Love
By: Genki Ferguson
Narrated by: Aya Furukawa, Alex Aoki & Hiro Kanagawa
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satellite—and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human. Longlisted for Canada Reads, shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction and for Speculative Fiction. Named CBC Radio's Q Book Pick of the Month, a CBC Books... Read more
View audiobookSimon B. Rhymin'
By: Dwayne Reed
Narrated by: Dwayne Reed
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A humorous and heartwarming bounce-to-the-beat underdog story about a young rapper whose rhymes help bring his community together, from America's favorite rapping teacher.
As featured on Good Morning America!
Eleven-year-old Simon Barnes dreams of becoming a world-famous rapper that everyone calls Notorious D.O.G. But for now, he's just a Chicago... Read more
Home Is Not a Country
By: Safia Elhillo
Narrated by: Safia Elhillo & Christopher Myers
Length: 3 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
“Nothing short of magic.” —Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X
From the acclaimed poet featured on Forbes Africa’s “30 Under 30” list, this powerful novel-in-verse captures one girl, caught between cultures, on an unexpected journey to face the ephemeral girl she might have... Read more
While Paris Slept
By: Ruth Druart
Narrated by: Luke Thompson, Frazer Hadfield, Jane Collingwoo...
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
One woman must make the hardest decision of her life in this unforgettably moving story of resistance and faith during one of the darkest times in history.
Santa Cruz, 1953. Jean-Luc is a man on the run from his past. The scar on his face is a small price to pay for surviving the horrors of Nazi occupation in France. Now, he has a new life in... Read more
Lovecraft Country
By: Matt Ruff
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Now an HBO® series from J.J. Abrams (executive producer of Westworld), Misha Green (creator of Underground), and Jordan Peele (director of Get Out and Us), this brilliant and imaginative novel by critically acclaimed author Matt Ruff makes visceral the terrors of Jim Crow America, melding historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian... Read more
View audiobookSmoke
By: Joe Ide
Narrated by: Zeno Robinson
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Isaiah Quintabe—an unlicensed detective for all seasons—and his best friend and masterful sidekick, Juanell Dodson, are at a crossroads in this latest installment of the "aggressively entertaining" IQ series (New York Times). This time, their lives may never be the same.
Isaiah Quintabe is no longer IQ, the genius of East Long Beach; instead,... Read more
The Smash-Up
By: Ali Benjamin
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Rebecca Lowman, Dion Graham & ...
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Smart, sublime, andwickedly clever, The Smash-Up captures—then transcends—our current polarized moment
“An exhilarating ride . . . hilarious . . . a modern and energetic story about a marriage on the skids.”—The New York Times
Ethan has always been one of the good guys, and for years, nobody has appreciated this fact more than his wife,... Read more
Do No Harm
By: Christina McDonald
Narrated by: Joy Osmanski & Kyle Tait
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of 2021 by Real Simple
From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Behind Every Lie and The Night Olivia Fell comes an unforgettable and heart-wrenching novel about the lengths one woman will go to save her son.
Emma loves her life. She’s the mother of a precocious kindergartener, married to her soulmate—a loyal and loving police... Read more
Under a White Sky
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
AudioFile Magazine’s Best Audiobooks of 2021
The New York Times bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction and Field Notes from a Catastrophe returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment in Under a White Sky.
That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a... Read more
Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
Narrated by: Siiri Scott
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people.
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people—and the Israelis celebrate as the War of... Read more
The Princess Spy
By: Larry Loftis
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
“As exciting as any spy novel” (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS’s most daring World War II spies before marrying into European nobility. Perfect for fans of A Woman of No Importance and... Read more
Gay Bar
By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Narrated by: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
As gay bars continue to close at an alarming rate, a writer looks back to find out what’s being lost in this indispensable, intimate, and stylish celebration of history. In the era of Grindr and same-sex marriage, gay bars are closing down at an alarming rate. What, then, was the gay bar? Set between Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London, Gay... Read more
View audiobookA Pho Love Story
By: Loan Le
Narrated by: Ryan Do & Vyvy Nguyen
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
“Will leave readers swooning.” —PopSugar
When Dimple Met Rishi meets Ugly Delicious in this funny, smart romantic comedy, in which two Vietnamese American teens fall in love and must navigate their newfound relationship amid their families’ age-old feud about their competing, neighboring restaurants.
If Bao Nguyen had to describe himself, he’d... Read more
Lady in Ermine
By: Donna DiGiuseppe
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Stroke by stroke, color by color, the past comes alive as a young woman in Lombardy, Italy, trains to paint with the masters.
Will her ambition be too much for them? Or will she secure her place in the world of Renaissance art, despite them?
As Sofonisba struggles to make her name, the Spanish empire invades Italy. With Michelangelo as her... Read more
Four Lost Cities
By: Annalee Newitz
Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site... Read more
View audiobookThe Removed
By: Brandon Hobson
Narrated by: Gary Farmer, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, DeLanna Stud...
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
“A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family’s reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family’s way home is full—in equal measure—of melancholy and love.” —Tommy Orange, author of There ThereA RECOMMENDED BOOK FROMUSA Today * O, the Oprah Magazine * Entertainment... Read more
View audiobookMade in China
By: Amelia Pang
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: Newsweek * Refinery29
“Timely and urgent . . . Pang is a dogged investigator.” —The New York Times
“Moving and powerful.” —Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author
Discover the truth behind the discounts.
In 2012, an Oregon mother named Julie Keith opened up a package of Halloween... Read more
Beneath the Keep
By: Erika Johansen
Narrated by: Mandy Williams
Length: 14 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
“A suspenseful, multilayered tale of how the sparks of revolution are kindled, and of those who strive to ignite them.”—Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author
As a kingdom descends into darkness and new alliances are forged under fire, a battle begins over a prophecy that will change the course of history in this much-anticipated... Read more
Love Is an Ex-Country
By: Randa Jarrar
Narrated by: Randa Jarrar
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this provocative memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America.
Randa Jarrar is a fearless voice of dissent who has been called "politically incorrect" (Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times). As an... Read more
The Ash House
By: Angharad Walker
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
An unsettling, gripping middle grade debut about searching for a sense of belonging in the wrong places, and the bravery it takes to defy those who seek to control us. This is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children meets Lord of the Flies for fans of Neil Gaiman and Holly Black.When Eleven-year-old Sol arrives at the Ash House,... Read more
View audiobookGood Neighbors
By: Sarah Langan
Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Celeste Ng and Liane Moriarty’s enthralling dissection of suburbia meets Shirley Jackson’s creeping dread in this “wickedly funny, unnerving puzzle box of a novel” (Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will) about the downward spiral of a Long Island community after a tragedy exposes its residents’ depths of deception.
Welcome to Maple Street, a... Read more