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Braised Pork
By: An Yu
Narrated by: Vera Chok
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband dead.
One minute she was breakfasting with him and packing for an upcoming trip, the next, she finds him motionless in
their half-full bathtub. Like something out of a dream, next to the tub Jia Jia discovers a pencil sketch of a strange
watery... Read more
Think Like a Rocket Scientist
By: Ozan Varol
Narrated by: Ozan Varol
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
* One of Inc.com's "6 Books You Need to Read in 2020 (According to Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, and Adam Grant)"* Adam Grant's # 1 pick of his top 20 books of 2020* One of 6 Groundbreaking Books of Spring 2020 (according to Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant).
A former rocket scientist reveals the habits, ideas, and strategies... Read more
Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel
By: Ruth Hogan
Narrated by: Jane Collingwood
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things comes a surprising and uplifting story about the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters, and the magic of chosen family.Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who loved fizzy drinks, naughty words, and liked playing with ghosts and matches. When her... Read more
View audiobookThe New Husband
By: D.J. Palmer
Narrated by: January LaVoy & Rebecca Soler
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The New Husband is a riveting thriller about the lies we tell ourselves from D. J. Palmer, the author of Saving Meghan.
What makes Simon Fitch so perfect?
-He knows all her favorite foods, music, and movies.
-Her son adores him. He was there when she needed him most.
-He anticipates her every need.
-He would never betray her like her first... Read more
The House of Kennedy
By: James Patterson
Narrated by: David Pittu
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Now with an all-new bonus chapter—in the bestselling The House of Kennedy, “James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . re-telling the political clan’s rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style” (People).
The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks... Read more
Afterlife
By: Julia Alvarez
Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents comes “a stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own.” (Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award–winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X)
Antonia Vega, the... Read more
The List of Things That Will Not Change
By: Rebecca Stead
Narrated by: Rachel L. Jacobs
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
EIGHT STARRED REVIEWS! The reassuring book kids and families need right now.
"An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love." --R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of Wonder
At a time when everything is changing for Bea and her family, the important things will always stay the same. A soon-to-be classic by the Newbery Award-winning author of... Read more
Rules for Being a Girl
By: Candace Bushnell & Katie Cotugno
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Candace Bushnell, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sex and the City, and Katie Cotugno, New York Times bestselling author of 99 Days, team up to write a fierce, propulsive novel about a girl who is preyed upon by a manipulative teacher and finds the power to fight back. Perfect for fans of Courtney Summers and Laurie Halse Anderson.It... Read more
View audiobookA Bad Day for Sunshine
By: Darynda Jones
Narrated by: Lorelei King
Length: 11 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
“This suspenseful and witty first novel in a new series is a perfect match for narrator Lorelei King." -- Booklist
"Narrator Lorelei King works well with the subtly snarky style of author Darynda Jones...Listeners will look forward to the next installment of this new series, as some mysteries are solved, and others remain." -- AudioFile Magazine ... Read more
Three Hours in Paris
By: Cara Black
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light—abruptly leaving, never to return. To this day, no one knows why.
Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. Wrecked by grief after... Read more
The Engineer's Wife
By: Tracey Enerson Wood
Narrated by: Libby McKnight
Length: 14 hours
Abridged: No
She built a monument for all time.
Then she was lost in its shadow.
Emily Warren Roebling refuses to live conventionally—she knows who she is and what she wants, and she’s determined
to make change. But then her husband, Wash, asks the unthinkable: give up her dreams to make his possible.
Emily’s fight for women’s suffrage is put on hold and her... Read more
To Have and to Hoax
By: Martha Waters
Narrated by: Anais Inara Chase & Joel Froomkin
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Romance of April by Goodreads, Popsugar, Bustle, and more!
“A laugh out loud Regency romp—if you loved the Bridgertons, you’ll adore To Have and to Hoax!” —Lauren Willig, New York Times bestselling author
In this fresh and hilarious historical rom-com, an estranged husband and wife in Regency England feign accidents and illness in... Read more
Bonds of Brass
By: Emily Skrutskie
Narrated by: James Fouhey
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend—the man he trusts most and might even love—only to learn that his friend is secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire.
“An exciting space opera full of action and adventure that explores the bonds of loyalty and love, and what happens when they are stretched to their limits.”—Rebecca... Read more
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
By: Samira Ahmed
Narrated by: Leila Buck & Soneela Nankani
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling
author Samira Ahmed traces the lives of two young women fighting to write their own stories and escape
the pressure of cultural expectations in worlds too long defined by men.
It’s August in Paris and 17-year-old Khayyam Maquet—American, French,... Read more
Joy at Work
By: Marie Kondo & Scott Sonenshein
Narrated by: Brittany Ishibashi & Dan Woren
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Declutter your desk and brighten up your business with this transformative guide from an organizational psychologist and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.
The workplace is a magnet for clutter and mess. Who hasn't felt drained by wasteful meetings, disorganized papers, endless emails, and... Read more
Days of Distraction
By: Alexandra Chang
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
“Startlingly original and deeply moving.... Chang here establishes herself as one of the most important of the new generation of American writers.” — George SaundersA Most Anticipated Book of the Year from Buzzfeed, Electric Literature, and The MillionsA wry, tender portrait of a young woman—finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if... Read more
View audiobookWe Want Our Bodies Back
By: jessica Care moore
Narrated by: jessica Care moore
Length: 2 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A dazzling full-length collection of verse from one of the leading poets of our time.Over the past two decades, jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet, performer, publisher, activist, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice, this searing poetry collection is filled with moving, original stanzas that speak to both... Read more
View audiobookThe Honey-Don't List
By: Christina Lauren
Narrated by: Patti Murin & Jon Root
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author behind the “joyful, warm, touching” (Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author) The Unhoneymooners comes a delightfully charming love story about what happens when two assistants tasked with keeping a rocky relationship from explosion start to feel sparks of their own.
Carey Duncan has worked... Read more
Tigers, Not Daughters
By: Samantha Mabry
Narrated by: Luis Moreno
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
THE FIRST TIME ANA TORRES C A M E B AC K A S A G H O S T, HER SISTERS WEREN’T THERE.
A year later, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, still consumed by grief and haunted by Ana’s memory, start
noticing strange things around the house: laughter without a voice, shadows cast by nothing,
writing on the walls. None of them have seen Ana, but they know she’s... Read more
Lakewood
By: Megan Giddings
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A startling debut about class and race, Lakewood evokes a terrifying world of medical experimentation—part The Handmaid’s Tale, part The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.One of The Millions’ Most Anticipated Reads (The Great First Half 2020 Books)When Lena Johnson’s beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed,... Read more
View audiobookStand Up, Yumi Chung!
By: Jessica Kim
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
One lie snowballs into a full-blown double life in this irresistible story about an aspiring stand-up comedian.
On the outside, Yumi Chung suffers from #shygirlproblems, a perm-gone-wrong, and kids calling her "Yu-MEAT" because she smells like her family's Korean barbecue restaurant. On the inside, Yumi is ready for her Netflix stand-up special.... Read more
How to Be Fine
By: Jolenta Greenberg & Kristen Meinzer
Narrated by: Jolenta Greenberg & Kristen Meinzer
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A humorous and insightful look into what advice works, what doesn’t, and what it means to transform yourself, by the co-hosts of the popular By the Book podcast.In each episode of their podcast By the Book, Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer take a deep dive into a different self-help book, following its specific instructions, rules, and... Read more
View audiobookCharles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider
By: Stephen B. Heard, PhD
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance.
Ever since Carl Linnaeus's binomial system of scientific names was adopted in the eighteenth century, scientists have been eponymously naming organisms in ways that both honor and vilify their namesakes.... Read more
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
By: Zora Neale Hurston
Narrated by: Aunjanue Ellis
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time.
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