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An American Marriage
By: Tayari Jones
Narrated by: Sean Crisden & Eisa Davis
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve... Read More »
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Red Clocks
By: Leni Zumas
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A National Bestseller
A New York Times Editor's Choice
A Time Magazine Best Book of the Year
An Amazon Best Book of the Month
An Indie Next Pick
One of Wall Street Journal's Twelve Books to Read This Winter
An Esquire most anticipated book of 2018
An Elle Best Book of Winter
A Popsugar most anticipated book of Fall
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You Are a Badass
By: Jen Sincero
Narrated by: Jen Sincero
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author, speaker, and world-traveling success coach Jen Sincero cuts through the din of the self-help genre with her own verbal meat cleaver in You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life. In this refreshingly blunt how-to guide, Sincero serves up twenty-seven bite-sized chapters full of... Read More »
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
By: Marie Kondo
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles? Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a... Read More »
The Cruel Prince
By: Holly Black
Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant bestseller!
By #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, the first book in a stunning new series about a mortal girl who finds herself caught in a web of royal faerie intrigue.
Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.
And Cardan is even more... Read More »
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The Collector’s Apprentice
By: B. A. Shapiro
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris—broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiancé, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost... Read More »
Call Them By Their True Names
By: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, "with so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursuing power and profit at the point of a gun... Read More »
Space Opera
By: Catherynne M. Valente
Narrated by: Heath Miller
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets Eurovision in an over-the-top galactic science fiction spectacle from bestselling author Catherynne Valente where sentient races compete for glory in a universe-wide musical contest—where the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and... Read More »
The Winter Station
By: Jody Shields
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Must-Read Book by the NY Post
An aristocratic Russian doctor races to contain a deadly plague in an outpost city in Manchuria - before it spreads to the rest of the world.
1910: people are mysteriously dying at an alarming rate in the Russian-ruled city of Kharbin, a major railway outpost in Northern China. Strangely, some of the... Read More »
Heads of the Colored People
By: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity and the contemporary middle class in these compelling, boundary-pushing vignettes. Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of new, utterly original characters. Some are darkly humorous—from two mothers exchanging snide remarks through... Read More »
The Night Child
By: Anna Quinn
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl's face appears above the students' desks-"a wild numinous face with startling blue eyes, a face floating on top of shapeless drapes of purples and blues where arms... Read More »
Still Lives
By: Maria Hummel
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Kim Lord is an avant garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women—the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others—and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing,... Read More »
Gathering Moss
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide,... Read More »
Senlin Ascends
By: Josiah Bancroft
Narrated by: John Banks
Length: 14 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The first book in the word-of-mouth phenomenon debut fantasy series about one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world.
"One of my favorite books of all time" - Mark Lawrence
The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds unnumbered ringdoms, warring and peaceful, stacked... Read More »
Gunslinger Girl
By: Lyndsay Ely & James Patterson
Narrated by: Christie Moreau
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
James Patterson presents a bold new heroine--a cross between Katniss Everdeen and Annie Oakley: Serendipity Jones, the fastest sharpshooter in tomorrow's West.
Seventeen-year-old Serendipity "Pity" Jones inherited two things from her mother: a pair of six shooters and perfect aim. She's been offered a life of fame and fortune in Cessation, a... Read More »
The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe
By: Alexander McCall Smith
Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
In this delightful fifteenth installment, Mma Ramotswe has her hands full both at home and in the office. To add to her current challenges, her devoted partner, Grace Makutsi, has decided to branch out on her own and open The Handsome Man's Deluxe Cafe. But even “Miss 97 Per Cent” can't quite meet all the demands of running a business—not to... Read More »
Fly Girls
By: Keith O'Brien
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multi-day events, and cities vied with one another to host them. The pilots themselves were hailed as dashing heroes who cheerfully stared death in the face. Well, the men were hailed. Female pilots were more often ridiculed... Read More »
How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t
By: Andrea Owen
Narrated by: Andrea Owen
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: No
For everyone who loved You Are a Badass and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck--a cut-through-the-crap guide to quitting the self-destructive habits that undermine happiness and success
How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t is a straight-shooting approach to self-improvement for women, one that offers no-crap truth-telling about the most common... Read More »
With the End in Mind
By: Kathryn Mannix
Narrated by: Elizabeth Carling
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
For readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor's breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying.
Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. And for the most part, that is good news. But with changes in the way we understand medicine come changes in the way we... Read More »
The Gulf
By: Jack E. Davis
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 20 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction—the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic. When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's... Read More »
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The Liar's Girl
By: Catherine Ryan Howard
Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins, Alan Smyth & Gary Furlong
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin's elite St. John's College-and Ireland's most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his five young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen, Will is locked away in the city's Central... Read More »
Lawn Boy
By: Jonathan Evison
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
For Mike Muñoz, a young Chicano living in Washington State, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work—and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew—he knows that he's got to be the one to shake things up if he's ever going to change his... Read More »
Last Stories
By: William Trevor
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor is regarded as one of the best writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered tales—nine of which have never been published in book form—that illuminate the human condition and will surely linger... Read More »
I Know My Name
By: C. J. Cooke
Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A woman with no name. A wild, abandoned island. A family desperate for answers. A debut thriller like no other.
On a small Greek island, a woman comes ashore with no memory of who she is, where she's from, or how she came to be shipwrecked there. Worse, she has no way of leaving. As she's nursed back to health by the island's only inhabitants,... Read More »
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