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The Once and Future Sex
By: Eleanor Janega
Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior.
What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about... Read more
Liar, Dreamer, Thief
By: Maria Dong
Narrated by: Hannah Choi
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A young woman’s carefully constructed fantasy world implodes in this brilliantly conceived novel that blurs distinctions between right and wrong, comedy and tragedy, imagination and reality: "Surreal . . . leaves you with the creeping certainty that there is a different world lurking just under the surface of our own, filled with technicolor... Read more
View audiobookLunar Love
By: Lauren Kung Jessen
Narrated by: Raechel Wong
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
This sweet, enemies-to-lovers debut rom-com filled with Chinese astrology will undoubtedly prove to be a perfect match with readers of Helen Hoang, Jasmine Guillory, and Helena Hunting.
Always a matchmaker, never a match...
Olivia Huang Christenson is excited-slash-terrified to be taking over her grandmother’s matchmaking business. But when she... Read more
The Everlasting Road
By: Wab Kinew
Narrated by: Michelle Bardach
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The boundaries between the virtual and the real world become dangerously blurred for a young Indigenous girl in the follow-up to the YA fantasy debut Walking in Two Worlds from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Perfect for fans of Ready Player One and the Otherworld series.
Devastated by the loss of her older brother to cancer, Bugz... Read more
The Game Is a Footnote
By: Vicki Delany
Narrated by: Kim Hicks
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Scarlet House, now a historical re-enactment museum, is the oldest building in West London, Massachusetts. When things start moving around on their own, board members suggest that Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, might be able to get to the bottom of it. Gemma doesn’t believe in ghosts, but she agrees to eliminate... Read more
View audiobookBad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.
"A mystery and a horror story about grief, but one with defiant hope in its beating heart." —Paul... Read more
Reef Road
By: Deborah Goodrich Royce
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women—a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother’s best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their children—collide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020.A young woman’s life seems... Read more
View audiobookPoisoned
By: Jeff Benedict
Narrated by: Jackie Sanders
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
From Jeff Benedict, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods and The Dynasty, Poisoned chronicles the events surrounding the worst food-poisoning epidemic in US history: the deadly Jack in the Box E. coli infections in 1993.
On December 24, 1992, six-year-old Lauren Rudolph was hospitalized with... Read more
Sisters of the Lost Marsh
By: Lucy Strange
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A 2024 Odyssey Honor Audiobook!From award winning author Lucy Strange comes a thrilling story of six sisters who must fight against circumstance and fate, gorgeously told and steeped in history and legend.On a poor farm surrounded by marshlands, six sisters -- Grace, Willa, Freya, and triplets Deedee, Darcy, and Dolly -- live in fear of their... Read more
View audiobookSam
By: Allegra Goodman
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • “I’ve been an Allegra Goodman fan for years, but Sam is hands down my new favorite. I loved this powerful and endearing portrait of a girl who must summon deep within herself the grit and wisdom to grow up.”—Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers
NEW YORK TIMES... Read more
Back in a Spell
By: Lana Harper
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
An awkward first date leads to a sparkling romance between one of the most powerful witches in town and a magical newbie in this rom-com by Lana Harper, New York Times bestselling author of Payback’s a Witch.
Even though she won’t deny her love for pretty (and pricey) things, Nineve Blackmoore is almost painfully down-to-earth and sensible by... Read more
Drinking Games
By: Sarah Levy
Narrated by: Sarah Levy
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
Part memoir and part social critique, Drinking Games is about how one woman drank and lived— and how, for her, the last drink was just the beginning.
On paper, Sarah Levy’s life was on track. She was 28, living in New York City, working a great job, and socializing every weekend. But Sarah had a secret: her... Read more
Code Name Blue Wren
By: Jim Popkin
Narrated by: Jim Popkin
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in US history, drawing upon never-before-seen material and to be published upon her release from prison, for readers of Agent Sonya and A Woman of No Importance.
Just days after the 9-11 attacks, a senior Pentagon analyst eased her red Toyota Echo into traffic and headed to... Read more
The Love Match
By: Priyanka Taslim
Narrated by: Reena Dutt
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
“Jane Austen meets Bengali cinema” (Publishers Weekly) in this delightful and heartfelt rom-com about a Bangladeshi American teen whose meddling mother arranges a match to secure their family’s financial security—just as she’s falling in love with someone else.
Zahra Khan is basically Bangladeshi royalty, but being a princess doesn’t pay the... Read more
The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly
By: Margareta Magnusson
Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning—now a TV series developed by Amy Poehler and Scout Productions—a book of humorous and charming advice for embracing life and aging joyfully.
In her international bestseller The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning Margareta Magnusson introduced the world to the... Read more
The Circus Train
By: Amita Parikh
Narrated by: Imogen Church
Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
International Bestseller and #1 LibraryReads Pick
Water for Elephants meets The Night Circus in this World War II debut about a magnificent travelling circus, a star-crossed romance, and one girl’s coming-of-age during the darkest of times.
“A powerful reminder that to live is not just to survive, but to be seen and known for ourselves.” —Pam... Read more
A Dangerous Business
By: Jane Smiley
Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
“Mrs. Parks was often paid in gold dust, but she paid her girls in dollars …”
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls
Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been... Read more
The Least Among Us
By: Gwen Florio
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Public defender Julia Geary’s star is rising, and now she’s got her first murder case defending local denizen Ray Belmar in the death of a homeless man. But Julia’s professional and personal challenges are mounting. First, she’s assigned an intern whose arrogance is insufferable. Then, her widowed mother-in-law, whose home Julia and her son... Read more
View audiobookRoses, in the Mouth of a Lion
By: Bushra Rehman
Narrated by: Bushra Rehman
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
For fans of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community
"I LOVED EVERY MOMENT." —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!
"Bushra Rehman performs her novel of a queer Pakistani American girl who is coming of age... Read more
Running to Fall
By: Kalisha Buckhanon
Narrated by: Shari Peele
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A suspenseful, truthful look into the lives of women who drink to survive or just to cope, with a provocative narrator who carries readers along an emotional journey to acceptance.
Tragedy and Victor Powell have moved to the desirable but dark Grayson Glens enclave of dream homes just outside of Chicago. Stressed urbanites, they’ve got to live... Read more
Never Ever Getting Back Together
By: Sophie Gonzales
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Natalie Naudus
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
"Enjoy this rambunctious performance by glowing narrators Barrie Kreinik and Natalie Naudus."- AudioFile
When their now famous ex-boyfriend asks them to participate in a teen reality show, two eighteen year old girls—one bent on revenge, the other open to rekindling romance—get tangled up in an unexpected twist when they fall for each other... Read more
The Intimate City
By: Michael Kimmelman
Narrated by: Michael Kimmelman, William DeMeritt, Karen Murr...
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times architecture critic, his celebrated walking tours of New York City, now expanded, covering four of the five boroughs and some 540 million years of history, accompanied by some of the people who know it best
As New York came to a halt with COVID, Michael Kimmelman composed an email to a group of architects, historians,... Read more
Five Survive
By: Holly Jackson
Narrated by: Emma Galvin
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series comes a new blockbuster thriller about a road trip that turns deadly.
Eight hours. Six friends. Five survive.
Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend - the older brother - his perfect... Read more
None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive
By: Carolyn Prusa
Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Perfect for fans of Maria Semple and Jennifer Weiner, this “laugh-out-loud gem” (Beck Dorey-Stein, New York Times bestselling) of a debut novel follows Ramona through the forty-eight hours after her life has been upended by the discovery of her husband’s affair and an approaching hurricane.
Ramona has a bratty boss, a potty-training toddler, a... Read more