Tomb of Sand
A Novel
By Geetanjali Shree
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
Length: 18 hours 20 minutes
WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
A playful, feminist, and utterly original epic set in contemporary northern India, about a family and the inimitable octogenarian matriarch at its heart.
āA tale tells itself. It can be complete, but also incomplete, the way all tales are. This particular tale has a border and women who come and go as...
Read more »Exiles
A Novel
By Jane Harper
Narrated by: Stephen Shanahan
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR JANE HARPER COMES EXILES, A CAPTIVATING MYSTERY ABOUT A MISSING MOTHER
āOnce again Harper proves that she is peerless in creating an avalanche of suspense with intimate, character-driven set pieces...Harperās legions of fans will exult in reading Exiles.ā
āDavid Baldacci, #1 New York Times...
Central Places
A Novel
By Delia Cai
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
A PHENOMENAL BOOK CLUB PICK ⢠āA sensitive, sharp-eyed, slyly funny novel of venturing back into the foreign country that is your pastāand discovering that you can never really shake the places and people that shaped you.āāCeleste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts
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A young womanās past and present collide when she... Read more »
Cobalt Red
How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By Siddharth Kara
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Cobalt Red
“We cannot close our eyes to what is happening in our world even in 2023. ExposĆ©s like this force us to see and understand how our choices can affect people on the other side of the earth from us. Changes need to be made starting at the major corporations and then trickle down to the individual. Once we know what is happening we cannot un-know it.”
Ellen, Banter Bookshop
Jawbone
By Mónica Ojeda
Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
"Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?"
Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?
When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from the Delta... Read more »
The Year of Cecily
From Sunset Park, With Love: Book #1
By Lisa Lin
Narrated by: Kat Riley
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
San Francisco attorney Cecily Chang is ready to tackle the New Year head on, so she creates a list of resolutions guaranteed to reboot her lifeāright after her dutiful visit home to Sunset Park, Brooklyn, for the Lunar New Year. Cecily prepares to face her critical, meddling mother, nosy relatives, and the chaos and drama family togetherness... Read more »
The Black Queen
By Jumata Emill
Narrated by: Angel Pean & Erin Spencer
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Nova Albright was going to be the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett Highābut now she's dead. Murdered on coronation night. Fans of One of Us Is Lying and The Other Black Girl will love this unputdownable thriller.
Nova Albright, the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High,Ā is dead. Murdered the night of her coronation, her body found the... Read more »
The Davenports
By Krystal Marquis
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
The Davenports delivers a totally escapist, swoon-worthy romance while offering a glimpse into a period of African American history often overlooked.
"A fresh, utterly enchanting read.āĀ āAyana Gray, New York Times bestselling author of the Beasts of Prey trilogy
The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a... Read more »
8 Rules of Love
How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go
By Jay Shetty
Narrated by: Jay Shetty
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk offers a revelatory guide to every stage of romance, drawing on ancient wisdom and new science.
Nobody sits us down and teaches us how to love. So weāre often thrown into relationships with nothing but romance movies and pop culture to help us muddle through. Until now.
Instead of... Read more »
Getting Lost
By Annie Ernaux
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries, it is 1989, and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris,... Read more »
Love, Pamela
By Pamela Anderson
Narrated by: Pamela Anderson
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
In this honest, layered and unforgettable book that alternates between storytelling and her own poetry, Pamela Anderson breaks the mold of the celebrity memoir while taking back the tale that has been crafted about her.
Her blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands of a football game, she was immediately rocket...
Read more »Sorry, Bro
By Taleen Voskuni
Narrated by: Christine Mirzayan
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
An Armenian-American woman rediscovers her roots and embraces who she really is in this vibrant and heartfelt queer rom-com by debut author Taleen Voskuni.
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When Nareh Bedrossianās non-Armenian boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes to her in front of a room full of drunk San Francisco tech boys, she realizes itās time to find someone who... Read more »
Behind the Scenes
By Karelia Stetz-Waters
Narrated by: Lori Prince
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Fans of Abby Jimenez and Meryl Wilsner will fall in love with this hilarious and refreshingly authentic novel about second chances, pugs, and finding the perfect muse . . .
Business consultant Rose Josten might not have officially reached āpug ladyā middle age, but sheās already got the pugsāalong with their little Gucci coats and trash-lovinā... Read more »
Children of Memory
By Adrian Tchaikovsky
Narrated by: Mel Hudson
Length: 13 hours 26 minutes
The modern classic of space opera that began withĀ Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceshipĀ EnkiduĀ and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this... Read more »
River Sing Me Home
By Eleanor Shearer
Narrated by: Debra Michaels & Eleanor Shearer
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
River Sing Me Home
“River Sing Me Home tells the gripping story of a freed slave in Barbados in the 19th Century, who is determined to find her surviving children, each of them sold to other owners and plantations. Following her on her journey through the Caribbean, the book digs into the disparate, and mostly sad, options for black people of the time. Although episodic, the novel is grounded in the psychological evolution of the mother, Rachel, who must come to terms with being a freed black woman in a time when that's the hardest thing you could be. The audiobook is brilliantly narrated!”
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Vampire Weekend
By Mike Chen
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
From the New York TimesĀ bestsellingĀ author of Star Wars: Brotherhood
āA love letter to the power of music, this thoughtful, humorous exploration of what constitutes living versus mere survival sees Chen (Light Years from Home) at the top of his game.ā āPublishers Weekly starred review
"A strong emotional core carries Chenās (Light Years from Home,... Read more »
Chain of Thorns
The Last Hours: Book #3
By Cassandra Clare
Narrated by: Finty Williams
Length: 29 hours 57 minutes
James and Cordelia must save Londonāand their marriageāin this thrilling and highly anticipated conclusion to the Last Hours series from the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare. Chain of Thorns is a Shadowhunters novel.
All first edition hardcovers will include full-color reverse jacket art, ten black-and-white... Read more »
Promise Boys
By Nick Brooks
Narrated by: Alfred Vines, Anthony Lopez, Brad Sanders, Christopher Hampton, Eliana Marianes, Hannah Church, Henriette Zoutomou, Jaime Lincoln Smith, Maria Liatis, Renier Cortes, Suehyla El-Attar & Xenia Willacey
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Promise Boys
“Just listened to Promise Boys and WOW! There is a murder at Promise Prep School in Washington DC and 3 students are accused. Heart rending on its own, but when they get together to solve the crime, it becomes a whole other story. I was hanging on until the very end and rooting for JB, Trey, and Ramon.”
Rebecca, Rediscovered Books
Maame
A Novel
By Jessica George
Narrated by: Heather Agyepong
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Maame
“Maddie, a 25 year old daughter of Ghanaian immigrants, is living at home with her father in London. Her father has Parkinsonās and her mother mostly lives in Ghana, so she is left to manage her fatherās care while trying to start an adult life. I enjoyed the complex relationship between Maddie and her mother and Maddieās efforts to navigate the work world, as well as her first attempts at dating. I listened to this book and loved the narrator.”
Amy, A Great Good Place for Books
Voice of the Fish
A Lyric Essay
By Lars Horn
Narrated by: Julie Maisey
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Lars Horn's Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven essay collection that explores the trans experience through themes of water, fish, and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels in Russia and a back injury that left Horn temporarily unable to speak. In Horn's adept hands, the collection... Read more »