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The Cafe at Beach End
By: RaeAnne Thayne
Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
“This compelling tale of family and community will please Thayne’s legions of fans as well as readers of Susan Mallery and Robyn Carr.” – Booklist on The Café at Beach End
For fans of Debbie Macomber and Susan Wiggs, an emotional story of starting over and reclaiming happiness.
When Meredith Collins was a child, the little beach town of Cape... Read more
The Woman Inside
By: M. T. Edvardsson
Narrated by: Josh Dylan, Nathalie Buscombe & Sofia Engstrand
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
This program features multicast narration and an author's note read by the author.
A wealthy couple ends up murdered in the nicest part of town in this compulsively listenable thriller from M. T. Edvardsson.
Bill Olsson, recently widowed, is desperate to provide for his daughter, Sally. Struggling to pay rent, he welcomes a lodger into their... Read more
The Mythmakers
By: Keziah Weir
Narrated by: Brefny Caribou
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Editors’ Choice
Named a Best New Book of the Year by Harper’s Bazaar
Named a Best Book of the Summer by Shondaland, SheReads, The Boston Globe, Harper’s Bazaar, and Reader’s Digest
From an acclaimed senior editor at Vanity Fair comes a “laudable” (The New York Times) debut novel about a young journalist who discovers a short... Read more
The Puzzle Master
By: Danielle Trussoni
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery—one with explosive consequences for the fate of humanity—in this suspenseful thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Angelology
“This novel has it all and more. In the nimble, talented hands of Trussoni the pages fly.”—#1 New York... Read more
We're All in This Together . . .
By: Tom Papa
Narrated by: Tom Papa
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
"In 37 short essays comedian Tom Papa reminds listeners that life's absurdities are here to stay and that everyone is doing the best they can. His tone and delivery are comforting, heartwarming, even therapeutic."- AudioFile
Stand-up is all well and good, but observational humor that’s funny and warm may work... Read more
Where Are Your Boys Tonight?
By: Chris Payne
Narrated by: Graham Halstead & Chris Abell
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
An explosive oral history of emo’s takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuringMY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FALL OUT BOY, PARAMORE, PANIC! AT THE DISCO, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, JIMMY EAT WORLD, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, AND MANY MOREIf Meet Me in the Bathroom traced New York City's early 2000’s rock scene, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? gives the inside story of the... Read more
View audiobookThe Paris Daughter
By: Kristin Harmel
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby & Kristin Harmel
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Instant New York Times bestseller!
“A gorgeous, gut-wrenching” (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author) historical novel about two mothers facing unthinkable choices as the Nazis invade France—from the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel.
Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in... Read more
Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style
By: Paul Rudnick
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 14 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
“A case study in elegant, honest tragicomedy…by the genuinely hilarious Paul Rudnick” (Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author) that follows the decades-long, rule-breaking romance between the son of one of America’s wealthiest families and a middle-class aspiring author.
Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is... Read more
The Queens of New York
By: E. L. Shen
Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Vyvy Nguyen & Joy Osmanski
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From acclaimed author E. L. Shen comes a sun-drenched, cinematic YA novel about three Asian American girls, their unbreakable bond, and one life-changing summer, perfect for fans of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.Best friends Jia Lee, Ariel Kim, and Everett Hoang are inseparable. But this summer, they won’t be together.Everett, aspiring... Read more
View audiobookMaeve Fly
By: CJ Leede
Narrated by: Sosie Bacon
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight." —Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author
“Leede’s words and narrator Sosie Bacon’s voice imbue Maeve with thought-provoking realism and earnestness, even as her violent acts become more savagely creative.” - Library Journal
A provocative debut... Read more
Anxiously Ever After
By: Clint Edwards
Narrated by: Clint Edwards
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
How Are You Doing? No, Really . . .
In this poignant memoir that is both laugh-out-loud funny, and sniffle inducing, Clint Edwards explores his lifelong struggle with mental illness in the shadow of his father's battle with the opioid epidemic and his mother's undiagnosed mental illness.
From being diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder,... Read more
Such Kindness
By: Andre Dubus, III
Narrated by: Andre Dubus, III
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A working-class white man takes a terrible fall.Tom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family’s dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced he is making every sacrifice for the happiness of his wife... Read more
View audiobookMoby Dyke
By: Krista Burton
Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappearance of America’s lesbian bars by visiting the last few in existence.
Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987,... Read more
Brick Lane
By: Monica Ali
Narrated by: Full Cast, Anneika Rose, Zubin Varla, Nikesh Pa...
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning BBC radio adaptation of Monica Ali's bestselling, Booker-shortlisted novel
1985. Uprooted from her home in Bangladesh, 18-year-old Nazneen is sent to London for an arranged marriage with a much older man. Her new life is strange and bewildering - the busy streets and crowded tower blocks of the East End are a world away from the rural... Read more
Little Ghosts
By: Gregg Dunnett
Narrated by: Katie Villa
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
One moment my beautiful daughter, her face flushed from the sun, her curls still wet from splashing in the ocean, was waiting in line for a strawberry ice cream, the next she was gone… As I sit in her dimly lit bedroom, surrounded by flickering candles, I feel the crushing weight of my daughter’s absence. It's been two years since Layla was... Read more
View audiobookThe Forgotten Girls
By: Monica Potts
Narrated by: Monica Potts
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Talented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different?
“The Forgotten Girls is much more than a memoir; it’s the unflinching story of rural women trying to live in the most rugged, ultra-religious, and left-behind places in America.”—Beth... Read more
The Night in Question
By: Kathleen Glasgow & Liz Lawson
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss, Holly Linneman & Mehr Dudeja
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
How do you solve a murder? Follow the lessons of the master—Agatha Christie! Iris and Alice find themselves in the middle of another Castle Cove mystery in the sequel to New York Times bestseller The Agathas, by powerhouse authors Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson.
A PEOPLE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF SUMMER
A READ WITH JENNA JR. SELECTION
Last October,... Read more
Big Gay Wedding
By: Byron Lane
Narrated by: Noah Galvin
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by Noah Galvin, who starred in The Good Doctor, Dear Evan Hansen, The Real O'Neals, and Booksmart.
An unashamedly proud, loud, and hilarious novel about a small town that’s forever changed by a big gay wedding, perfect for fans of Red, White & Royal Blue and The Guncle
Two grooms. One mother of a problem.
Barnett Durang... Read more
Her Good Side
By: Rebekah Weatherspoon
Narrated by: Marcella Cox & Daniel K. Isaac
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
**A New York Times Best Romance Book of the Year**
A swoony, heart-melting YA romance from beloved author Rebekah Weatherspoon about two awkward teens who decide to practice dating in order to be good at the real thing. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han.
Sixteen-year-old Bethany Greene, though confident and self-assured, is what they... Read more
Beware the Woman
By: Megan Abbott
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
An NPR Best Book of the Year
By the "master of thinly veiled secrets often kept by women who rage underneath their delicate exteriors" (Kirkus Reviews), Beware the Woman is Megan Abbott at the height of her game.
Honey, I just want you to have everything you ever wanted. That’s what Jacy’s mom always told her. And Jacy felt like she finally did.... Read more
Bread and Circus
By: Airea D. Matthews
Narrated by: Airea D. Matthews
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
“Discerning and significant.” —Poetry Foundation
“A sharp memoir in verse.” —LitHub
This powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’s former Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class is a brilliant intellectual and... Read more
Built from the Fire
By: Victor Luckerson
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 19 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification
“Ambitious . . . absorbing . . . By the end of Luckerson’s outstanding book, the idea of building something new from the ashes of what has... 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
The Senator's Wife
By: Liv Constantine
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A D.C. philanthropist suspects that her seemingly perfect employee is secretly plotting to steal her husband, her reputation—even her life—in this seductive novel of psychological suspense from the internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish.
“A deadly cocktail of medical mystery, family drama, and psychological... Read more