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Little Weirds
By: Jenny Slate
Narrated by: Jenny Slate
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful" (George Saunders).
You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of... Read more
Disfigured
By: Amanda Leduc
Narrated by: Amanda Barker
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and... Read more
View audiobookIn the Dream House
By: Carmen Maria Machado
Narrated by: Carmen Maria Machado
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened... Read more
View audiobookField Notes from an Unintentional Birder
By: Julia Zarankin
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-five, she didn’t expect that it would change her life. Recently divorced and auditioning hobbies during a stressful career transition, she stumbled into birdwatching, initially out of curiosity for the strange breed of humans who wear multi-pocketed vests, carry spotting... Read more
View audiobookThe Year I Met My Brain
By: Matilda Boseley
Narrated by: Matilda Boseley
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Matilda Boseley's adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a prescription but had no idea what ADHD meant for her identity, her relationships or her future.
Twelve months of confusion later, journalist Matilda embarked on an epic voyage to figure out what's really happening in the stormy seas of the ADHD brain and... Read more
Paris
By: Paris Hilton
Narrated by: Paris Hilton
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Paris Hilton: As You’ve Never Heard Her Before
***An Instant New York Times Bestseller***From the woman who is credited for launching what we know as the celebrity focused, “brand” driven, social media obsessed popular culture of today, comes an honest and surprising memoir that reckons with that truth, and shows that there is so much more to... Read more
This Much is True
By: Miriam Margolyes
Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
Length: 15 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
From Blackadder to Call the Midwife, from the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit to Harry Potter, Miriam Margolyes is the outspoken great aunt (after two sherries) we all wish we had -- this is (at last) her extraordinary life story and it's well worth the wait.
'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRY
Award-winning actor, creator of a... Read more
Hunger
By: Roxane Gay
Narrated by: Roxane Gay
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to... Read more
View audiobookMott Street
By: Ava Chin
Narrated by: Ava Chin
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
“Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere
* TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 * San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Nonfiction * Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023 * Library Journal Best Memoir and Biography of 2023... Read more
A Book of Bees
By: Sue Hubbell
Narrated by: Lauren DePorre
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees’ lives, Sue Hubbell lovingly describes the ins and outs of beekeeping on her small Missouri farm, where the end of one honey season is the start of the next. With three hundred hives, Hubbell stays busy year-round tending to the bees and harvesting their honey, a process that is as personally... Read more
View audiobookIn the Weeds
By: B.K. Borison
Narrated by: Pippa Jayne & Dane Anderson
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
One incredible weekend in Maine, and Beckett Porter is officially a distracted man. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings. He knows how it goes. But Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He can’t stop thinking about her laugh, her hand pressed flat against his chest, her smiling mouth at his neck, her... Read more
View audiobookWe Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
2023 National Book Award Finalist for NonfictionA subtle psychological portrait of the author’s relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rightsAziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee. He was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this searingly... Read more
View audiobookI'm Just a Person
By: Tig Notaro
Narrated by: Tig Notaro
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
One of America’s most original comedic voices delivers a darkly funny, wryly observed, and emotionally raw account of her year of death, cancer, and epiphany.In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C. diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she went through a breakup, and then she... Read more
View audiobookWhen I Was Your Age
By: Kenan Thompson
Narrated by: Kenan Thompson
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
“Kenan is a master storyteller with extraordinary stories to tell. I wouldn’t miss this for the world.”—Leslie JonesWhen I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan ThompsonKenan Thompson... Read more
View audiobookBFF
By: Christie Tate
Narrated by: Christie Tate
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
* “A love story about the miracle of friendship.” —Maggie Smith * “Fearless and unflinching.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *
From the author of Group, a New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club Pick, a poignant, funny, and emotionally satisfying memoir about Christie Tate’s lifelong struggle to sustain female friendship, and the... Read more
The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The Years is a personal narrative of the period of 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present—even projections into the future—photos, books, songs, radio, television, and decades of advertising and headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and written notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of... Read more
View audiobookAll You Can Ever Know
By: Nicole Chung
Narrated by: Janet Song
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that... Read more
View audiobookSunshine State
By: Sarah Gerard
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Rising literary star and Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Sarah Gerard uses her experiences growing up along Florida’s gulf coast to illuminate the struggles of modern human survival—physical, emotional, environmental—through a collection of essays exploring intimacy, addiction, obsession, religion, homelessness, and... Read more
View audiobookAnother Appalachia
By: Neema Avashia
Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
When Neema Avashia tells people where she's from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving "There are Indian people in West Virginia?" A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. But the lessons she learned in childhood about race and class, gender and sexuality continue to inform the way she moves... Read more
View audiobookThe Night Parade
By: Jami Nakamura Lin
Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A Most Anticipated Book by Poets & Writers • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • The Millions • Library Journal • Debutiful • and many more! In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated speculative memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo—the... Read more
View audiobookThe Maximum Security Book Club
By: Mikita Brottman
Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men’s prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them—Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind... Read more
View audiobookFieldwork
By: Iliana Regan
Narrated by: Iliana Regan
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Not long after Iliana Regan’s celebrated debut, Burn the Place, became the first food-related title in four decades to become a National Book Award nominee in 2019, her career as a Michelin star–winning chef took a sharp turn north.Long based in Chicago, Iliana and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn,... Read more
View audiobookEnergy Follows Thought
By: Willie Nelson, David Ritz & Mickey Raphael
Narrated by: Willie Nelson & Ethan Hawke
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
For the first time ever, and to help celebrate his 90th birthday in 2023, American icon Willie Nelson provides the stories behind the lyrics of 160 of his favorite songs.From his earliest work in the 1950s to today, Willie looks back at the songs that have defined his career, from his days of earning $50 each to his biggest hits, from his less... Read more
View audiobookThe Barbizon
By: Paulina Bren
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A “captivating portrait” (The Wall Street Journal), both “poignant and intriguing” (The New Republic): from award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous residential hotel and the women who stayed there, including Grace Kelly, Sylvia Plath, and Joan Didion.
Welcome to New York’s legendary hotel for... Read more