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Blood and Moonlight
By: Erin Beaty
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Perfect for fans of Kerri Maniscalco and Mary E. Pearson, a young woman with dangerous magical abilities teams up with a handsome detective to hunt down an elusive serial killer in this dark and romantic fantasy thriller.
When orphan Catrin witnesses a murder on the streets of Collis, she’s pulled into a deadly chain of events where the only... Read more
The Truth About Ben and June
By: Alex Kiester
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Pete Cross
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Kiester, a heartfelt debut that explores the complexity of a modern-day marriage when a new mother vanishes one morning.
"This powerful novel takes an honest, unflinching look at the challenges of modern parenthood from both sides of a marriage." - Tracey Lange, New York Times bestselling author... Read more
This Vicious Grace
By: Emily Thiede
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan & Michael Gallagher
Length: 13 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"Riveting, passionate, and full of high stakes danger." —Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"This story of political intrigue, romance, and dark fantasy is elevated by Brentan's steadfast narration."- AudioFile Magazine
Emily Thiede's exciting fantasy debut, This Vicious Grace, will keep listeners riveted until the devastating... Read more
The Most Precious Substance on Earth
By: Shashi Bhat
Narrated by: Meher Pavri
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat’s "powerful, surprising and terrifying" (Rufi Thorpe) story about a high school student's traumatic experience and how it irrevocably alters her life, for fans of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Girlhood, and Pen15.
Bright, hilarious, and sensitive fourteen-year-old Nina spends her spare time reading Beowulf... Read more
Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
Narrated by: Susan Bennett, Justis Bolding, Cindy Kay, Laura...
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
On this season of The Catch, contestants must compete for love. And their lives.
When the final four women in competition for an aloof, somewhat sleazy bachelor’s heart arrive on a mysterious island in the Pacific Northwest, they prepare themselves for another week of extreme sleep deprivation, invasive
interviews, and, of course, the salacious... Read more
The Clackity
By: Lora Senf
Narrated by: Kimberly Woods
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces, this “delightfully eerie” (Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows) middle grade novel tells the story of a girl who must rescue her aunt by entering a world of ghosts, witches, and monsters to play a game with deadly consequences.
Evie Von Rathe lives in Blight... Read more
Project Namahana
By: John Teschner
Narrated by: Kurt Kanazawa
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
John Teschner's Project Namahana is “an enthralling tale of disappearances, deaths, dark secrets, and corporate evil” (Douglas Preston, #1 bestselling co-author of the Agent Pendergast series).
Nothing stays hidden forever...
Two men, unified by a string of disappearances and deaths, search for answers—and salvation—in the jungles of Kaua‘i.... Read more
The Redhead of Auschwitz
By: Nechama Birnbaum
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz.Upon arrival, Rosie’s head is shaved... Read more
View audiobookRide with Me
By: Lucy Keating
Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In this charming contemporary YA novel, neighborhood rideshare driver Charlie Owens embarks on a collision course with love when she crashes into the school’s cute but annoying party boy and wrecks his car and her no-strings-attached attitude toward life.As a driver for her local ride share app, Charlie Owens loves what the open road gives her:... Read more
View audiobookThe Key to Deceit
By: Ashley Weaver
Narrated by: Alison Larkin
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
London, 1940. After years of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor—well, to themselves, anyway—Ellie McDonnell and her family have turned over a new leaf as they help the government’s war effort. It’s true that the straight-laced Major Ramsey didn’t give them much choice, but still, Ellie must admit she doesn’t miss breaking and entering... Read more
View audiobookGirls They Write Songs About
By: Carlene Bauer
Narrated by: Cady Zuckerman
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
New York, 1997. As the city’s gritty edges are being smoothed into something safer and shinier, two girls meet at a music magazine. Rose?brash and self-possessed?is a staff writer. Charlotte?hesitant, bookish?is an editor. First wary, then slowly admiring, they recognize in each other an insatiable and previously unmatched ambition. Soon they’re... Read more
View audiobookOnyeka and the Academy of the Sun
By: Tolá Okogwu
Narrated by: Nneka Okoye
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
NAMED A 2023 ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN’S RECORDING!
Black Panther meets X-Men in this “fast-paced, action-packed, and empowering” (A. F. Steadman, New York Times bestselling author of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief) middle grade adventure about a British Nigerian girl who learns that her Afro hair has psychokinetic powers—perfect for fans of Amari and... Read more
Breaking Time
By: Sasha Alsberg
Narrated by: Elle Newlands & Joshua Manning
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
"Perfect for fans of Outlander... A lush story of star crossed lovers and time traveling assassins." —Laura Sebastian, New York Times bestselling author of Ash Princess
Fate brought them together. Time will tear them apart.
When a mysterious Scotsman suddenly appears in the middle of the road, Klara thinks the biggest problem is whether she hit... Read more
The Silence that Binds Us
By: Joanna Ho
Narrated by: Raechel Wong
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
“A grieving teen fights Asian hate by finding her voice in this complex, timely story.” —Kirkus (starred review)""With a layered, sensitive voice, Ho’s weighty novel delves into themes of racism, classism, loss, and healing."" —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Inspired by the recent rise in hate crimes against AAPI, Ho’s story of inclusion,... Read more
View audiobookThe Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
Narrated by: Werner Herzog
Length: 3 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
“A potent, vaporous fever dream; a meditation on truth, lie, illusion, and time that floats like an aromatic haze through Herzog’s vivid reconstruction of Onoda’s war.” —The New York Times Book Review
The national bestseller by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog.
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of... Read more
The Teacher of Warsaw
By: Mario Escobar
Narrated by: Zach Hoffman
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of The Warsaw Orphan and The Tattooist of Auschwitz: the start of WWII changed everything in Poland irrevocably—except for one man’s capacity to love.September 1, 1939. Sixty-year-old Janusz Korczak and the students and teachers at his Dom Sierot Jewish orphanage are outside enjoying a beautiful day in Warsaw. Hours later, their lives... Read more
View audiobookFireworks
By: Alice Lin
Narrated by: Yu-Li Alice Shen
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A pitch-perfect K-pop rom com! Fame and friendship can get complicated, especially when there are more than platonic feelings at play.
Seventeen-year-old Lulu Li has her last summer before college all planned out. But her plans go awry when she learns that Kite Xu, her old next-door neighbor and childhood friend, will be returning home from South... Read more
Wastelands
By: Corban Addison
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
"Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written." —From the Foreword by JohnGrisham
The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of... Read more
Cult Classic
By: Sloane Crosley
Narrated by: Sloane Crosley
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"This is a surreal and hilarious insight into millennial dating with a big twist, and the narrator will have you hooked from the very beginning." -Buzzfeed
"Crosley reads with an incisive understanding of Lola's psyche. She hits all of the notes of sarcasm and reluctant self-reflection, and somehow even manages to give her searching optimism a... Read more
Wrath Goddess Sing
By: Maya Deane
Narrated by: Katherine Pucciariello
Length: 15 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on ancient texts and modern archeology to reveal the trans woman’s story hidden underneath the well-known myths of The Iliad, Maya Deane’s Wrath Goddess Sing weaves a compelling, pitilessly beautiful vision of Achilles’ vanished world, perfect for fans of Song of Achilles and the Inheritance trilogy.
The gods wanted blood. She fought for... Read more
The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes
By: Cat Sebastian
Narrated by: Joel Leslie
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Cat Sebastian returns to Georgian London with a stunning tale of a reluctant criminal and the thief who cannot help but love her.
Marian Hayes, the Duchess of Clare, just shot her husband. Of course, the evil, murderous man deserved what was coming to him, but now she must flee to the countryside. Unfortunately, the only person she can ask for... Read more
Heartsick
By: Jessie Stephens
Narrated by: Jessie Stephens
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
Heartsick unpacks the destruction of love by following the true stories of three lives altered by a major heartbreak.
I wrote this book for the person who doesn’t want to be told that this too shall pass. Not yet. Who wants to sit with it. And see it for what it is. Who wants to know they’re not alone. That... Read more
Wretched Waterpark
By: Kiersten White
Narrated by: Keylor Leigh
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A middle-grade mystery series that's spooky, creepy, and filled with gothic twists! Meet the Sinister-Winterbottom twins, who solve mysteries at increasingly bizarre summer vacation destinations in the hopes of being reunited with their parents—or at the very least finally finding a good churro.
“An absolute delight. If I have to die in a... Read more
It All Comes Down to This
By: Therese Anne Fowler
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This is a warm, keenly perceptive novel of sisterhood, heartbreak, home, and what it takes to remake a life at its halfway point, for fans of Ann Patchett and Emma Straub.
Meet the Geller sisters: Beck, Claire, and Sophie, a trio of strong-minded women whose pragmatic, widowed mother, Marti, will be... Read more