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The Dilemma
By: B.A. Paris
Narrated by: Beth Eyre & Peter Noble
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A woman's birthday party takes a dark turn in a poignant, heart-stopping new novel from the reigning queen of suspense, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors, The Breakdown, and Bring Me Back.
“A heartbreaking page-turner that will have you up at night reading just one more chapter.” —Catherine Steadman, #1 New... Read more
Camp
By: L. C. Rosen
Narrated by: Drew Caiden
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in a summer camp, this sweet and sharp screwball comedy set in a summer camp for queer teens examines the nature of toxic masculinity and self-acceptance.
Sixteen-year-old Randy Kapplehoff loves spending the summer at Camp Outland, a camp for queer teens. It's where he met his best friends. It's where he takes to the stage in the big musical.... Read more
I Tried to Change So You Don't Have To
By: Loni Love
Narrated by: Loni Love
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
An inspiring, hilarious memoir about learning to resist the pressures of conformity, love yourself for who you are, embrace your flaws, and unlock your true potential.
Winner of the African American Literary Award for Memoir!
Now cohost of Fox's The Real and SiriusXM's Café Mocha, Loni Love hasn't taken the typical path to becoming America's... Read more
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
By: Zen Cho
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Zen Cho returns with a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial arts movies with characters drawn from the margins of history.
A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there.
Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the Pure Moon, joins up with an eclectic group of thieves (whether they... Read more
Protocol
By: Capricia Penavic Marshall
Narrated by: Capricia Penavic Marshall & Courtney Patterson
Length: 16 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
President Obama’s former United States chief of protocol looks at why diplomacy and etiquette matter—from the international stage to everyday life.
History often appears to consist of big gestures and dramatic shifts. But for every peace treaty signed, someone set the stage, using hidden influence to effect the outcome. In her roles as chief of... Read more
The Girl from Widow Hills
By: Megan Miranda
Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
As a child she made headlines. As an adult no one knows her real name. But some nightmares linger even after you open your eyes…Don’t miss this “hauntingly atmospheric and gorgeously written page-turner” (Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of A Good Marriage) from Reese Witherspoon Book Club selected and New York Times... Read more
View audiobookThe Mist
By: Ragnar Jónasson
Narrated by: Amanda Redman
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The final nail-biting installment in Ragnar Jónasson's critically-acclaimed Hidden Iceland series, The Mist, from the newest superstar on the Icelandic crime fiction scene.
1987. An isolated farm house in the east of Iceland.
The snowstorm should have shut everybody out. But it didn't.
The couple should never have let him in. But they did.
An... Read more
Saving Ruby King
By: Catherine Adel West
Narrated by: Kim Staunton, Imani Parks, Ron Butler, Adam Laz...
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Ms. Magazine, USA Today Book Riot, The Rumpus, Library Journal, PureWow, The Every Girl, Parade and more.
“Forever and to the end. That’s what they say instead of I love you.”
When Ruby King’s mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago’s South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in... Read more
I Was Told it Would Get Easier
By: Abbi Waxman
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan & Bailey Carr
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
“Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin
Squashed among a bus full of strangers, mother-daughter duo Jessica and Emily Burnstein watch their carefully mapped-out college tour devolve into a series of off-roading misadventures, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Bookish Life of... Read more
The Lost Diary of Venice
By: Margaux DeRoux
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Two impossible love stories are fatefully connected by one artistic legacy in a stunning debut that leaps between the mysteries of late-Renaissance Venice and the dramas of present-day America.
“Enchanting from the first page.”—Sarah Jio, New York Times bestselling author of All the Flowers in Paris
In the wake of her father’s death, Rose Newlin... Read more
500 Miles from You
By: Jenny Colgan
Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan returns to the beloved Scottish Highland town of Kirrinfief, which readers first met in The Bookshop on the Shore, and adds a dash of London’s bustling urban landscape.
Lissie, is a nurse in a gritty, hectic London neighborhood. Always terribly competent and good at keeping it all together, she’s... Read more
Broken People
By: Sam Lansky
Narrated by: Sam Lansky
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, Parade, Library Journal, Harper’s Bazaar and more
“Profound and affecting.”—Chloe Benjamin
“Broken People leads us through the winds of time and memory to offer a riveting portrait of transformation. I am better for having read it.”—Jamie Lee Curtis
A groundbreaking,... Read more
Parakeet
By: Marie-Helene Bertino
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed author of 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas Marie-Helene Bertino's Parakeet is a darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one.
The week of her wedding, The Bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead... Read more
The Lies That Bind
By: Emily Giffin
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Will Damron & Vikas Adam
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this irresistible novel from the author of All We Ever Wanted and Something Borrowed, a young woman falls hard for an impossibly perfect man before he disappears without a trace. . . .
It’s 2 A.M. on a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, and twenty-eight-year-old Cecily Gardner sits alone in a dive bar in New... Read more
My Summer of Love and Misfortune
By: Lindsay Wong
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Crazy Rich Asians meets Love & Gelato in this hilarious, quirky novel about a Chinese-American teen who is thrust into the decadent world of Beijing high society when she is sent away to spend the summer in China.
Iris Wang is having a bit of a rough start to her summer: Her boyfriend cheated on her, she didn’t get into any colleges, and she... Read more
More Miracle than Bird
By: Alice Miller
Narrated by: Polly Lee
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife and Amor Towles’s Rules of Civility, Alice Miller's sweeping debut novel charts the love story of two of literature’s most fascinating characters: Georgie Hyde-Lees and her husband, W. B. Yeats.
On the eve of World War I, twenty-one-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees—on her own for the first time—is introduced to... Read more
Something to Talk About
By: Meryl Wilsner
Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie & Xe Sands
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A showrunner and her assistant give the world something to talk about when they accidentally fuel a ridiculous rumor in this debut romance.
Hollywood powerhouse Jo is photographed making her assistant Emma laugh on the red carpet, and just like that, the tabloids declare them a couple. The so-called scandal couldn't come at a worse... Read more
These Women
By: Ivy Pochoda
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Frankie Corzo
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVELAN LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE, MYSTERY & THRILLER FINALIST * AN INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS FINALIST, BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL * A MACAVITY BEST MYSTERY NOVEL FINALISTA Recommended Book FromThe New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * Vogue * Entertainment Weekly * Elle * People * Marie Claire... Read more
View audiobookReal Men Knit
By: Kwana Jackson
Narrated by: Keylor Leigh
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
"If you're looking for an easy charmer, this is the novel for you."—Shondaland
When their foster-turned-adoptive mother suddenly dies, four brothers struggle to keep open the doors of her beloved Harlem knitting shop.
Jesse Strong is known for two things: his devotion to his adoptive mom, Mama Joy, and his reputation for breaking hearts. When... Read more
The Prettiest Star
By: Carter Sickels
Narrated by: Charlie Thurston & Tiffany Morgan
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die.
At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short... Read more
A Taste of Sage
By: Yaffa S. Santos
Narrated by: Inés del Castillo & Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A June 2020 Indie Next List Pick!
From talented new writer, Yaffa S. Santos, comes this unforgettable, heartwarming, and hilarious rom-com about chefs, cooking, love, and self-discovery that is a cross between The Hating Game and Sweetbitter.Lumi Santana is a chef with the gift of synesthesia—she can perceive a person’s emotions just by tasting... Read more
Date Me, Bryson Keller
By: Kevin van Whye
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
"One of the most adorable, big-hearted, charming books in existence." --Becky Albertalli, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
What If It's Us meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before in this upbeat and heartfelt boy-meets-boy romance that feels like a modern twist on a '90s rom-com!
Everyone knows about the... Read more
The House in the Woods
By: Mark Dawson
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Four murders. Two detectives. One mystifying crime.
On Christmas Eve, DCI Mackenzie Jones is called to a shooting at a remote farmhouse. Ralph Mallender believes his father lies dead inside. When three more bodies are discovered, it's clear a festive family gathering has turned into a gruesome tragedy.
At first it seems like an open and shut... Read more
The Boy in the Red Dress
By: Kristin Lambert
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery in this rollicking romp of truth, lies, and troubled pasts.
New Year's Eve, 1929.
Millie is running the show at the Cloak & Dagger, a swinging speakeasy in the French Quarter, while her aunt is out of town. The new year is just around the corner, and all of New Orleans... Read more