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Fencing with the King
By: Diana Abu-Jaber
Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent. Featuring a heartfelt author's note read by the author herself.
Amani is hooked on a mysteryâa poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her fatherâs books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in... Read more
Citizen K-9
By: David Rosenfelt
Narrated by: Fred Berman
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
In Citizen K-9, bestselling author David Rosenfelt masterfully blends mystery with dogs and humor to create an investigative team that readers will be rooting for book after book.
The Paterson Police Department has created a cold case division, and they want to hire the private investigators known as the K Team to look into the crimes. After all,... Read more
The Houseboat
By: Dane Bahr
Narrated by: William DeMeritt, Anna Caputo, Stacy Carolan & ...
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
James Sallis meets Mindhunter in this stylish and atmospheric noir set in small town Iowa in the 1960s, a midcentury heartland gothic with abounding twists and a feverish conclusion.
Local outcast Rigby Sellers lives in squalor on a dilapidated houseboat moored on the Mississippi River. With only stolen mannequins and the river to keep him... Read more
The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.
By: Lee Kravetz
Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed, Karissa Vacker & Teri Clark Linden
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The Millions Most Anticipated Pick and A GMA March Reads PickâLee Kravetz has created a bit of a miracle, a plot-driven literary puzzle box whose mystery lives in both its winding approach to history and its wonderous story. Itâs a book full of ideas about inspiration and a love for language that translates across borders, physical and... Read more
View audiobookThe World Cannot Give
By: Tara Isabella Burton
Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
âThe Secret History meets The Price of Saltâ (Vogue) in this âequal parts dangerous and deliciousâ (Entertainment Weekly) novel about queer desire, religious zealotry, and the hunger for transcendence among the members of a cultic chapel choir at a Maine boarding schoolâand the ambitious, terrifyingly charismatic girl that rules over them.
When... Read more
Booth
By: Karen Joy Fowler
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Best Book of the Year
Real Simple ⢠AARP ⢠USA Today ⢠NPR ⢠Virginia Living
Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth.
In 1822, a... Read more
Like a Sister
By: Kellye Garrett
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In this "crackling domestic suspense" filled with "wry humor and deft pacing" (Alyssa Cole), no one bats an eye when a Black reality TV star is found deadâexcept her estranged half-sister, whose refusal to believe the official story leads her on a dangerous search for the truth.
Edgar Award Finalist for Best Novel ⢠Lefty Award Winner for Best... Read more
The Wonders
By: Elena Medel
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
âThe Wonders is a poetâs novel, delicate but strong, impressing its images firmly on the imagination.ââ âHilary Mantel Â
NOW TRANSLATED INTO FIFTEEN LANGUAGESÂ
From award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel comes a mesmerizing new novel of class, sex, and desire.Â
Already an international sensation, The Wonders follows Maria and Alicia through the... Read more
Burning Questions
By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Margaret Atwood & Full Cast
Length: 18 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaidâs Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granolaâand seeks answers to Burning Questions... Read more
View audiobookHonestly Elliott
By: Gillian McDunn
Narrated by: Matthew Bridges
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Schneider Family Book Award: Best Middle Grade Honor Book!
Highly-acclaimed author of Caterpillar Summer, Gillian McDunn explores boyhood in a funny, big-hearted story about a kid trying to find the best way to be his best self.
Elliott isn't sure where he fits in. Ever since his best friend moved away and his dad and stepmom announced the... Read more
Saving Yellowstone
By: Megan Kate Nelson
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
From historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the captivating story of how Yellowstone became the worldâs first national park in the years after the Civil War, offering âa fresh, provocative studyâŚdeparting from well-trodden narratives about conservation and public recreationâ (Booklist, starred review).
Each year... Read more
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
Narrated by: Warsan Shire
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on BeyoncĂŠâs Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire
âThe beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.ââRoxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
âShire is the real thingâfresh, cutting, indisputably... Read more
Tell Me an Ending
By: Jo Harkin
Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
Length: 16 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Science Fiction Book of 2022 by The New York Times
âSharply, beautifully written.â âThe New York Times Book Review
âIntriguing, frightening, witty, and humane.â âThe Wall Street Journal
Black Mirror meets Severence in this thrilling speculative novel about a tech company that deletes unwanted memories, the consequences for those... Read more
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
By: Bob Odenkirk
Narrated by: Bob Odenkirk, Steve Rudnick & Leo Benvenuti
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
In thisâessentialâ (Entertainment Weekly), âhilariousâ (AV Club)memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul opens up about the highs and lows of showbiz, his cult status as a comedy writer, and what itâs like to reinvent himself as an action film ass-kicker at fifty.
âIâve known Bob Odenkirk for more than thirty years, and... Read more
The Bald Eagle
By: Jack E. Davis
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 15 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America.
The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird youâre not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as âmajesticâ and ânoble,â yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious... Read more
The Other Dr. Gilmer
By: Benjamin Gilmer
Narrated by: Benjamin Gilmer
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORSâ CHOICE ⢠A âmesmerizingâ (The New York Times Book Review) true story about a shocking crime and a mysterious illness that will forever change your notions of how we punish and how we healâan expansion on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time
âA remarkable medical detective storyâcumâmemoir,... Read more
Chorus
By: Rebecca Kauffman
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by two early and profoundly consequential events. Told in turns from the early twentieth century through the 1950s, the story builds as each sibling relays their own versions of the memories that surround both their motherâs mysterious death and the circumstances of one sisterâs scandalous teenage... Read more
View audiobookTripping Arcadia
By: Kit Mayquist
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From debut author Kit Mayquist, a propulsive and atmospheric modern gothic with all the splendor of The Great Gatsby . . . and all the secrets, lies, and darkness that opulence can hide
Med school dropout Lena is desperate for a job, any job, to help her parents, who are approaching bankruptcy after her father was injured and laid off nearly... Read more
Aviva vs. the Dybbuk
By: Mari Lowe
Narrated by: Leah Horowitz
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A long ago âaccident.â An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesnât know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her.
That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a... Read more
Wish You Were Gone
By: Kieran Scott
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby, Erin deWard, Soneela Nankani, R...
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A âcaptivating thriller full of twists and surprisesâ (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) about what happens when the death of a husband and father isnât the tragedy everyone believesâperfect for fans of the Netflix original series Dead to Me.
Emma Walsh has finally worked up the courage to confront her husband James about his... Read more
Scoundrel
By: Sarah Weinman
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A Recommended Read from: The Los Angeles Times * Town and Country * The Seattle Times * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub * Crime Reads * AlmaFrom the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around himâincluding conservative thinker William F. Buckleyâinto helping set him... Read more
View audiobookFind Your People
By: Jennie Allen
Narrated by: Jennie Allen
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠WINNER OF THE ECPA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD ⢠The author of Get Out of Your Head offers practical solutions for creating true community, the kind thatâs crucial to our mental and spiritual health.
âMy dear friend Jennie Allen shows us how to make true emotional connections with the right people so that our authentic... Read more
Take Up Space
By: The Editors of New York Magazine
Narrated by: Marisa Blake & Timothy AndrĂŠs Pabon
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning biography of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the bestselling tradition of Notorious RBG and Pelosi that explores her explosive rise and impact on the future of American culture and politics.
The candidate was youngâtwenty-eight years old, a child of Puerto Rico, the Bronx, and Yorktown Heights. She was working as a waitress... Read more
Life Without Children
By: Roddy Doyle
Narrated by: Roddy Doyle
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
â[Doyle] imparts a sense of poignancy and glimpses of happiness, of grief and loss and small moments of connection . . . youâre left feeling close to dazzled.â âDaphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review
A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker Prizeâwinning author of... Read more