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No Escape
By: Nury Turkel
Narrated by: Stewart Lang
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel lays bare China’s repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
In recent years, the People’s Republic of China has rounded up as many as three million Uyghurs, placing... Read more
Back to the Prairie
By: Melissa Gilbert
Narrated by: Melissa Gilbert
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Includes a foreword written and read by Timothy Busfield
The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a hilarious and heartfelt memoir chronicling her journey from Hollywood to a ramshackle house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the... Read more
The Marlow Murder Club
By: Robert Thorogood
Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
To solve an impossible murder, you need an impossible hero …
Seventy-seven-year-old Judith Potts is blissfully happy. She lives alone in a faded mansion in Marlow, sets crosswords for The Times, and there's no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink.
One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a... Read more
Love Marriage
By: Monica Ali
Narrated by: Ayesha Dharker
Length: 15 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of 2022 So Far by The New Yorker!
“Cultural clashes, political satire, Oedipal conflicts, elegant prose—they’re all here in this romp of a book.” —Oprah Daily
A Phenomenal Book Club Pick and a New York Times Book Review Group Text Selection, Love Marriage is a glorious moving novel from Booker Prize shortlisted Monica Ali, who... Read more
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief
By: A.F. Steadman
Narrated by: David Dawson
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestseller!
Soar into a breathtaking world of heroes and unicorns as you’ve never seen them before in this “unexpected, suspenseful, and heartwarming” (Kirkus Reviews) middle grade debut perfect for fans of the Percy Jackson and Eragon series!
Skandar Smith has always yearned to leave the Mainland and escape to the secretive... Read more
Disrupting the Game
By: Reggie Fils-Aimé
Narrated by: Reggie Fils-Aimé
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERIncludes an audiobook-exclusive conversation with video game journalist Geoff Keighley!Read by the author.LESSONS FROM A BOSS-LEVEL DISRUPTOR AND GAMING LEGENDReggie Fils-Aimé, retired President and Chief Operating Officer of Nintendo of America Inc., shares leadership lessons and inspiring stories from his unlikely... Read more
View audiobookThe Agathas
By: Kathleen Glasgow & Liz Lawson
Narrated by: Mehr Dudeja, Sophie Amoss & Holly Linneman
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Who killed Brooke Donovan? It’s the biggest mystery of the summer, and everyone in Castle Cove thinks they know what happened. But they're wrong. Two unlikely friends come together to solve the case in this fast-paced, fun, modern Agatha Christie inspired thriller.
"Part Agatha Christie, part Veronica Mars, and... Read more
Bravely
By: Maggie Stiefvater
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
What if you had one year to save everything you loved? ONE PRINCESS. Merida of DunBroch needs a change. She loves her family—jovial King Fergus, proper Queen Elinor, the mischievous triplets— and her peaceful kingdom. But she's frustrated by its sluggishness; each day, the same. Merida longs for adventure, purpose, challenge – maybe even,... Read more
View audiobookOne Day I Shall Astonish the World
By: Nina Stibbe
Narrated by: Joanna Scanlan
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From the beloved author of Love, Nina, a frank, tender, and poignantly funny story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime.
Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of... Read more
The Night They Vanished
By: Vanessa Savage
Narrated by: Lowri Walton
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A family with a secret.A past about to catch up with them. Hanna has barely spoken to her family since the tragedy that rocked their lives fourteen years ago. The tragedy for which they held Hanna responsible.Then she sees her family home listed as the scene of a horrific crime. Number of victims: three. Date of crime: today. Frantic, Hanna... Read more
View audiobookThe Wedding Season
By: Katy Birchall
Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Four Weddings and a Funeral meets The Wedding Party in Katy Birchall's The Wedding Season: when a recently jilted bride is forced to attend seven weddings in one summer, her friends devise a series of challenges as distraction.
Freya Scott is getting married. Her wedding to Matthew, her long-term boyfriend, is the first of eight in her calendar... Read more
The Puzzler
By: A.J. Jacobs
Narrated by: A.J. Jacobs
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world.
What makes puzzles—jigsaws, mazes, riddles, sudokus—so satisfying? Be it the formation of new cerebral pathways, their... Read more
Where the Children Take Us
By: Zain E. Asher
Narrated by: Zain E. Asher
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mother’s strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy. Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from a road trip, Obiajulu Ejiofor receives shattering news. There’s been a fatal car crash, and one of them is... Read more
View audiobookThe Good Left Undone
By: Adriana Trigiani
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Lisa Flanagan, Edoardo Baller...
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"[An] immersive saga. . . . A celebration of family and a paean to the power of storytelling.”—People, "Book of the Week"
"Trigiani conveys the beauty of Italy, the hardships of war, the taste of family recipes, and the enduring love of family."—Library Journal (starred)
“The beauty of any book by Adriana... Read more
Marrying the Ketchups
By: Jennifer Close
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the deep-fried, beer-battered, cream cheese-frosted love that feeds them all—from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses
“Laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply resonant to our times. I was so happy to be in the Sullivan... Read more
Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone
By: Tae Keller
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo, Carolyn Kang & Tae Keller
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In her first novel since winning the Newbery Medal for When You Trap a Tiger, Tae Keller offers a gripping and emotional story about friendship, bullying, and the possiblity that there's more in the universe than just us.
Sometimes middle school can make you feel like you're totally alone in the universe...but what if we aren't alone at... Read more
Inspired
By: Matt Richtel
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter ""unpacks the myths and mysteries of the creative process"" (Salon).How does creativity work? Where does inspiration come from? What are the secrets of our most revered creators? How can we maximize our creative potential?Creativity defines the human experience. It sparks achievement... Read more
View audiobookBlood Sugar
By: Sascha Rothchild
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Best Thriller of the Year
"Terrific. You might come for the mystery, but you will stay for the sheer energy."--New York Times Book Review
An utterly delicious debut thriller that tells the story of the most likable murderess you will ever meet, perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Jessica Knoll.
“I could just kill you right now!”... Read more
A Catalogue of Catastrophe
By: Jodi Taylor
Narrated by: Zara Ramm
Length: 13 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History' C. K. MCDONNELL
BOOK 13 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIES
For fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series, Jasper Fforde and Doctor Who.
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Finally - finally! - Max has that nice office job she's always... Read more
Paradise Falls
By: Keith O'Brien
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America’s most devastating environmental disasters.
Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. It had an... Read more
Year on Fire
By: Julie Buxbaum
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Julie Buxbaum explores the blinding power of lies, the tight grip of family secrets, and the magic of first love in this poignant novel about a trio of friends and the allure of romantic feelings that fractures their bond as they struggle to remain true to themselves while building back the grounding friendship... Read more
View audiobookGathering Blossoms Under Fire
By: Alice Walker
Narrated by: Aunjanue Ellis, Walker & Janina Edwards
Length: 22 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women’s activist, and intellectual.
For the first time, the... Read more
In Search of Lost Time
By: Marcel Proust
Narrated by: Full Cast, Derek Jacobi, Frances Barber, Paters...
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A landmark BBC radio production of Proust's epic masterpiece, starring Derek Jacobi as the narrator, Marcel
'Beautiful' - Charlotte Runcie, The Telegraph
Waking in the small hours, Marcel Proust embarks on a retrospective journey, endeavouring to capture the elusive moments that shaped his life. A sip of tea and the taste of a madeleine prompt... Read more
Atomic Anna
By: Rachel Barenbaum
Narrated by: Traci Odom, Natalie Naudus, Emily Lawrence & Za...
Length: 15 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
“Atomic Anna is a dazzling work of ingenuity and imagination.”―Téa Obreht,National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Inland
From the author of A Bend in the Stars, an epic adventure as three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster and right the wrongs of their... Read more