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Lightlark
By: Alex Aster
Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
Length: 12 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
WELCOME TO THE CENTENNIAL
Every hundred years, the island of Lightlark appears for only one hundred days to host a deadly game, where the rulers of six realms fight to break their curses and win unparalleled power. Each ruler has something to hide. Each curse is uniquely wicked. To break them—and save themselves and their realms—one ruler will... Read more
The Drowned Woods
By: Emily Lloyd-Jones
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In this magical, ethereal fantasy novel from the bestselling author of The Bone Houses a crew led by a magic welding woman fight to take down the overpowered prince that used and abused them.
Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Mererid “Mer” is well-acquainted with both. She is the... Read more
The Last Karankawas
By: Kimberly Garza
Narrated by: Adriana Sananes, André Santana, Becca Q. Co & R...
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"Debut author Garza skillfully links brilliantly crafted episodes to create an unforgettable community in Galveston, TX...Indeed, staying well-tuned to Garza’s work earns enduring rewards."
— Booklist (starred review)
"These rich performances, a chorus of different tones and accents, create a beautiful tapestry of a complicated city and the... Read more
The Babysitter Lives
By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc & Stephen Graham Jones
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
“I enjoyed The Babysitter Lives very much. It’s perfect for audio, as really scary stories always are, and this one is really scary. Perfect for a long car ride…especially when you’re almost out of gas and you start wondering if maybe someone has gotten into the backseat and will lurch into the rearview mirror.” —Stephen King
Only on Audio! A... Read more
This Story Will Change
By: Elizabeth Crane
Narrated by: Elizabeth Crane
Length: 4 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage and how life can fall apart and be rebuilt in wonderful and surprising ways.
One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas,... Read more
Path Lit By Lightning
By: David Maraniss
Narrated by: David Maraniss
Length: 23 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete that “goes beyond the myth and into the guts of Thorpe’s life, using extensive research, historical nuance, and bittersweet honesty” (Los Angeles Times), by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered.
Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled... Read more
Egg Island
By: Sara Flemington
Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Two laconic teenage runaways plunge deep into backcountry, farther and farther away from civilization, searching for an extraordinary place that may or may not exist.
On the move for who knows how long, Julia, age unknown, walks into a gas station. There, the tall, ominous kid with a studded belt and crusty eyebrow ring who's stocking the... Read more
Stay Awake
By: Megan Goldin
Narrated by: Imogen Church & January LaVoy
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A murder she doesn’t remember committing. A killer she doesn’t remember meeting. Megan Goldin’s Stay Awake is an electrifying novel that proves memory can be deadly.
Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. When she’s dropped off at the door of her brownstone, a stranger answers—a stranger who... Read more
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 2 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious—during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner... Read more
View audiobookShutter
By: Ramona Emerson
Narrated by: Charley Flyte
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent skills have cracked many cases—she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the
ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook.
As a lone portal to... Read more
Dirt Creek
By: Hayley Scrivenor
Narrated by: Sophie Loughran
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ+ Mystery!
In Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek, a small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never Told You, a girl goes missing and a community falls apart and comes together.
When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Australia,... Read more
The Codebreaker's Secret
By: Sara Ackerman
Narrated by: Jennifer Robideau
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant female codebreaker. An “unbreakable” Japanese naval code. A pilot on a top-secret mission that could change the course of WWII. The Codebreaker's Secret is a dazzling story of love and intrigue set during America’s darkest hour.
1943. As war in the Pacific rages on, Isabel Cooper and her codebreaker colleagues huddle in “the dungeon”... Read more
The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie
By: Rachel Linden
Narrated by: Katie Koster
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
“Heartfelt, heartwarming, joyful, and uplifting. You can't go wrong with a Rachel Linden book.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber
An uplifting novel about a heartbroken young pie maker who is granted a magical second chance to live the life she didn’t choose. . . . from the bestselling author of The Enlightenment of Bees.
... Read more
The Wild Hunt
By: Emma Seckel
Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The islanders have only three rules: don't stick your nose where it's not wanted, don't mention the war, and never let your guard down during October.
Leigh Welles has not set foot in on the island in years, but when she finds herself called home from a disappointing life on the Scottish mainland by her father's unexpected death, she is... Read more
The Librarian Spy
By: Madeline Martin
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
**A NATIONAL BESTSELLER**
“Readers will be on the edge of their seats…. A brilliant tale of resistance, courage and ultimately hope.” –Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London comes a moving new novel inspired by the true history of America’s... Read more
The Puppeteer's Daughters
By: Heather Newton
Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Famed puppeteer and master manipulator Walter Gray surprises his three daughters by announcing there is a fourth at his 80th birthday party. An incomplete paternity test—and a will that places a condition on each daughter’s inheritance—suggest that the missing daughter isn’t a figment of his dementia. Jane, the eldest, is tired of her father’s... Read more
View audiobookAvalon
By: Nell Zink
Narrated by: Justis Bolding
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A profound and singular story about a young woman searching for her place in the world, from one of America’s most original voices—the irresistible story of one teenager’s reckoning with society at large and her search for a personal utopia.
“Effulgent and clever.... What fun.” —The New York Times
Bran’s... Read more
Accomplished
By: Amanda Quain
Narrated by: Deva Marie Gregory
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Georgiana Darcy gets the Pride & Prejudice retelling she deserves in Amanda Quain's Accomplished, a sparkling contemporary YA featuring a healthy dose of marching band romance, endless banter, and Charles Bingley as a ripped frat boy.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Georgiana Darcy should have been expelled after The Incident with... Read more
Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena
By: Julie C. Dao
Narrated by: Angela Tran & Richard Nguyen
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
"A rousing adventure and heartwarming series opener." - Publishers Weekly
A rollicking, action-packed adventure of laser tag and fierce sibling rivalries, Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena is the first book in a commerical middle grade fantasy series by Julie C. Dao.
"Dao is a bright voice in middle grade fiction, crafting characters and... Read more
Dirtbag, Massachusetts
By: Isaac Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Isaac Fitzgerald
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Winner of the New England Book Award for Nonfiction
"The best of what memoir can accomplish . . . pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy." —Esquire, "Best Memoirs of the Year"
A TIME Best Book of the Season * A Rolling Stone Top Culture Pick *... Read more
The Littlest Library
By: Poppy Alexander
Narrated by: Karen Cass
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A heartwarming literary-themed novel about a woman who turns an ordinary red phone box into the littlest library in England and brings together a struggling town.A little red telephone box full of stories, a chance to change her life...Jess Metcalf is perfectly content with her quiet, predictable life. But when her beloved grandmother passes... Read more
View audiobookThe Kingdoms of Savannah
By: George Dawes Green
Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Jeanette Illidge, Karen Commins, K...
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"The narrators form a kind of tag team as they voice the florid descriptions of the city, its people, and a murder investigation led by the unlikeliest of characters, high society's Morgana Musgrove, portrayed by Karen Commins." - AudioFile on The Kingdoms of Savannah
Savannah may appear to be “some town out of a fable,” with its vine flowers,... Read more
Bad City
By: Paul Pringle
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal radiating across Los Angeles from one of the region's most powerful institutions, a riveting tale from a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who investigated the shocking events and helped bring justice in the face of formidable odds.
On a cool,... Read more
Heat Wave
By: TJ Klune
Narrated by: Michael Lesley
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Heat Wave is the explosive finale to the thrilling and “uproariously funny” (Sophie Gonzales) Extraordinaries trilogy by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author TJ Klune!
Nick, Seth, Gibby, and Jazz are back in action bringing justice, protection, and disaster energy to the people of Nova City.
An unexpected hero returns to Nova City and... Read more