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Maybe Next Time
By: Cesca Major
Narrated by: Clare Corbett
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK A heartwarming and emotionally poignant time-loop novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate. It is an ordinary Monday and harried London literary agent Emma is flying out of the... Read more
View audiobookMy Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix
By: Kalynn Bayron
Narrated by: Clifford Samuel
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"Clifford Samuel's low, melodious voice sounds like it was made for this atmospheric queer retelling of the Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde story." - AudioFile Magazine
A teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance—and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger—in misty Victorian London, in Kalynn Bayron's My... Read more
The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
By: Daniel Nayeri
Narrated by: Daniel Nayeri
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A new all-ages adventure tale from Printz Medal Winner, Daniel Nayeri
This is the tale of an exciting journey along the Silk Road with a young Monk and his newfound guardian, Samir, a larger than life character and the so-called "Seller of Dreams". The man is a scammer; his biggest skill being the ability to talk his way into getting what he... Read more
The Exceptions
By: Kate Zernike
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
Length: 14 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Notable Book
As late as 1999, women who succeeded in science were called “exceptional” as if it were unusual for them to be so bright. They were exceptional, not because they could succeed at science but because of all they accomplished despite the hurdles.
“Gripping…one puts down the book inspired by the women’s grit, tenacity,... Read more
Time's Undoing
By: Cheryl A. Head
Narrated by: Jade Wheeler & Ronald Peet
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist’s search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, decades ago—inspired by the author’s own family history
Birmingham, 1929: Robert Lee Harrington, a master carpenter, has just moved to Alabama to pursue a job opportunity, bringing... Read more
The Humanity Archive
By: Jermaine Fowler
Narrated by: Jermaine Fowler
Length: 15 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Bestseller
This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all.
"An innovative reading of Black history, gracefully joining it to the larger history of all humankind." — Kirkus Starred Review
Using history as a foundation, The Humanity Archive uses... Read more
Users
By: Colin Winnette
Narrated by: Justin Price
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its "original experiences," has engineered a new product called The Ghost Lover. Wildly popular from the outset, the "game" is simple: a user's simulated life is almost identical to their reality, except they're haunted by the ghost of an ex-lover. However, when a shift in the... Read more
View audiobookSink
By: Joseph Earl Thomas
Narrated by: Joseph Earl Thomas
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture.
Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack... Read more
Izzy at the End of the World
By: K.A. Reynolds
Narrated by: Dana Wing Lau
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The Last Kids on Earth meets Margaret Peterson Haddix in this middle grade adventure about fourteen-year-old Izzy, an autistic girl surviving the end of the world who must team up with her loveable dog to uncover the hidden truth behind her family and the rest of humanity’s disappearance. Ever since Izzy Wilder’s mom died, she’s wanted life to... Read more
View audiobookA Country You Can Leave
By: Asale Angel-Ajani
Narrated by: Amanda Cordner
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"From page one, A Country You Can Leave is a riveting, exasperating, and deeply heartbreaking tale of mother-daughter strife and resilience." —Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Olga Dies Dreaming
A stunning debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black, biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the... Read more
Empty Theatre
By: Jac Jemc
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A wildly over-the-top social satire reimagining the mad misadventures of the iconic royal cousins King Ludwig and Empress Sisi, from the incomparable Jac Jemc.History knows them as King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Elizabeth of Austria, icons of the late nineteenth century who died young and left behind magnificent portraits and palaces. But... Read more
View audiobookFull Exposure
By: Thien-Kim Lam
Narrated by: David Lee Huynh & Keylor Leigh
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
Happy Endings author Thien-Kim Lam is back—with a rom-com set during the divine madness of Mardi Gras as two lovers ask: Can a Big Easy fling become the real thing?Boudoir photographer Josie Parks never ever takes a vacation. But when a client cancels a New Orleans shoot at the last minute, she decides to fly out from her Washington, D.C.,... Read more
View audiobookThe Sun Walks Down
By: Fiona McFarlane
Narrated by: Emma Jones
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Audiobooks of 2023
"Such a large cast of characters would normally be difficult to keep straight in an audiobook without tedious backtracking, but McFarlane’s skill in evoking their distinct inner lives and Jones’s deftness in capturing them in manner and accent keep them perfectly distinct." —The Washington... Read more
Gone Like Yesterday
By: Janelle M. Williams
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK
A lyrical debut novel that asks what we owe to our families, what we owe to our ancestors, and what we owe to ourselves. Janelle M. Williams’s Gone Like Yesterday employs magical realism to explore the majestic and haunting experience of being a Black woman in today’s America.
Gone Like Yesterday follows two... Read more
The Darkness Manifesto
By: Johan Eklöf
Narrated by: Owen Findlay
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of 2023 by Scientific American
This timely and captivating look at the hidden impact of light pollution is “rich in revelation and insight…lyrical” (The Wall Street Journal) and urges us to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own well-being, and all life on earth.
How much light is too much light?... Read more
Stone Cold Fox
By: Rachel Koller Croft
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A perfectly wicked debut thriller about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families.
Like any enterprising woman, Bea knows what she’s worth and is determined to get all she deserves—it just so happens that what she... Read more
The Sanctuary
By: Katrine Engberg
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
From internationally bestselling author Katrine Engberg, the series that is a “gripping addition to the Scandinavian crime fiction pantheon” (Oprah Daily) comes to a stunning conclusion as Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner rush to untangle a long-simmering mystery before a brutal killer strikes again.
Jeppe Kørner, on leave from the police force and... Read more
Wild Massive
By: Scotto Moore
Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
Length: 16 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Scotto Moore's Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting the will of the mighty. Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire... Read more
View audiobookThe Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
By: Beth Lincoln
Narrated by: Nikki Patel
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Instant New York Times Bestseller!
“Knives Out feel by way of Lemony Snicket…This archly told, never muddled debut whodunit reveals a roster of distinct characters, a labyrinthine setting and plot, and a mystery that is as clever as its heroine.” – Publishers Weekly, starred review
“The suspenseful denouement is positively writhing with twists.”... Read more
The Love You Save
By: Goldie Taylor
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
“The Love You Save will console and inspire countless people."—J.R. Moehringer, New York Times bestselling author of The Tender Bar
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings meets Educated in this harrowing, deeply hopeful memoir of family, faith and the power of books—from acclaimed journalist and human rights activist Goldie Taylor
Aunt Gerald takes in... Read more
River Sing Me Home
By: Eleanor Shearer
Narrated by: Debra Michaels & Eleanor Shearer
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother’s gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children and piece her family back together is a “celebration of motherhood and female resilience” (The Observer).
Named One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023
“A powerful novel that... Read more
Barrow of Winter
By: H.M. Long
Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
Length: 11 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Thray is the Last Daughter of Winter, haunted by the legacy of her blood. When offered a chance to visit the northern land of Duamel, where her father once ruled, she can’t refuse—even if it means lying to the priesthood she serves and the man she loves.In Duamel, Thray’s demi-god siblings rule under the northern lights, worshipped by an arcane... Read more
View audiobookStolen
By: Ann-Helén Laestadius
Narrated by: Jade Wheeler
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
* NOW A NETFLIX FILM * AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR *
A spellbinding Swedish novel that follows a young indigenous woman as she struggles to defend her family’s reindeer herd and culture amidst xenophobia, climate change, and a devious hunter whose targeted kills are considered mere theft in the eyes of the law.
On a winter day north of the... Read more
Màgòdiz
By: Gabe Calderón
Narrated by: Everett Rain
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Màgòdiz (Anishinabe language): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country. Everything that was green and good is gone, scorched away by a war that no one living remembers. The small surviving human population scavenges to get by; they cannot read or write and lack the... Read more
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