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Bestsellers
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
- A Novel
- By: Shelby Van Pelt
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Michael Urie
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up....
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Hidden gem, incredible narration!
- By Christine T on 05-17-22
By: Shelby Van Pelt
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The Covenant of Water
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Abraham Verghese
- Length: 31 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....
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Story Telling At Its Best
- By Regina on 05-06-23
By: Abraham Verghese
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Tom Lake
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake....
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So incredibly boring
- By Rhonda Morrison on 08-05-23
By: Ann Patchett
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Brooklyn
- A Novel
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go....
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Loved every word
- By J. P. Fitzpatrick on 02-24-17
By: Colm Toibin
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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- By Billy on 10-25-22
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The Three-Body Problem
- By: Cixin Liu
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From China's most beloved sci-fi author, a first-contact story that weaves politics, science, and cosmic mystery.
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They create a computer using a 30 million man Army
- By Josh P on 12-07-14
By: Cixin Liu
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
- A Novel
- By: Shelby Van Pelt
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Michael Urie
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up....
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Hidden gem, incredible narration!
- By Christine T on 05-17-22
By: Shelby Van Pelt
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The Covenant of Water
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Abraham Verghese
- Length: 31 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....
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Story Telling At Its Best
- By Regina on 05-06-23
By: Abraham Verghese
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Tom Lake
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake....
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So incredibly boring
- By Rhonda Morrison on 08-05-23
By: Ann Patchett
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Brooklyn
- A Novel
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go....
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Loved every word
- By J. P. Fitzpatrick on 02-24-17
By: Colm Toibin
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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- By Billy on 10-25-22
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The Three-Body Problem
- By: Cixin Liu
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From China's most beloved sci-fi author, a first-contact story that weaves politics, science, and cosmic mystery.
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They create a computer using a 30 million man Army
- By Josh P on 12-07-14
By: Cixin Liu
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Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- By: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality.
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Making my 3 adult daughters read this
- By Teresa H. on 04-07-22
By: Bonnie Garmus
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Hello Beautiful
- A Novel
- By: Ann Napolitano
- Narrated by: Maura Tierney
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up around him....
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Book was great, performance terrible
- By Amazon Customer on 03-17-23
By: Ann Napolitano
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Mad Honey
- A Novel
- By: Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Narrated by: Carrie Coon, Key Taw, Jodi Picoult, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side....
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Good writing but...
- By Suzanna on 10-08-22
By: Jodi Picoult, and others
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The Alchemist
- A Fable About Following Your Dream
- By: Paulo Coelho
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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Combining magic, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of discovery, this is a modern classic narrated by the inimitable Jeremy Irons.
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A Timeless Tale
- By Judi on 01-07-07
By: Paulo Coelho
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin....
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A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
- By Cathy Lindhorst on 08-27-17
By: Amor Towles
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A Little Life
- A Novel
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 32 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition....
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And the hits just keep on coming…
- By Mark T. Vernon on 01-04-23
By: Hanya Yanagihara
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- A Novel
- By: Gabrielle Zevin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name....
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This book sucked the life out of me
- By RMan on 08-08-22
By: Gabrielle Zevin
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North Woods
- A Novel
- By: Daniel Mason
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Michael Crouch, Jason Culp, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier comes a sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring, moving tale of memory and fate....
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An American Masterpiece
- By Psumissyh on 09-21-23
By: Daniel Mason
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- By: Harper Lee
- Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A great American classic with many invaluable teaching moments. It continues to touch hearts and minds.
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A gift to be treasured
- By David Shear on 07-09-14
By: Harper Lee
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Lady Tan's Circle of Women
- By: Lisa See
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lim, Justin Chien
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is a captivating story of women helping other women. It is also a triumphant reimagining of the life of a woman who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today....
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Another Beautiful Novel from Lisa See!
- By TuxedoedCorgi95 on 06-06-23
By: Lisa See
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The Measure
- A Novel
- By: Nikki Erlick
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live....
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heavy content
- By Cherece on 09-12-22
By: Nikki Erlick
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
- By: Flannery O’Connor
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Karen White, Mark Bramhall, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The flawed characters of each of these stories are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence....
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Pride goeth before the fall
- By Ryan on 08-14-13
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Horse
- A Novel
- By: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrated by: James Fouhey, Lisa Flanagan, Graham Halstead, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history....
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Love Geraldine Brooks
- By Regina on 06-25-22
By: Geraldine Brooks
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Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- By: Hernan Diaz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats....
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Before Purchasing
- By JLDLOfficial on 08-13-22
By: Hernan Diaz
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All the Light We Cannot See
- A Novel
- By: Anthony Doerr
- Narrated by: Zach Appelman
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home....
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Afraid to Write a "Less-Than-Positive" Review
- By Elizabeth on 08-06-14
By: Anthony Doerr
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The Name of the Wind
- Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1
- By: Patrick Rothfuss
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 27 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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A tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend....
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Not sure why the reviews are so polar opposite.
- By Aaron Altman on 06-28-09
By: Patrick Rothfuss
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Yellowface
- A Novel
- By: R. F. Kuang
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American....
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I've never hated a character harder
- By ashelyn downs on 07-26-23
By: R. F. Kuang
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The Song of Achilles
- A Novel
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War from the author of Circe.
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Wasn't Expecting to Like It- BOY! was I wrong!!
- By susan on 06-11-14
By: Madeline Miller
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The Most Fun We Ever Had
- A Novel
- By: Claire Lombardo
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin
- Length: 20 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In this “rich, complex family saga” (USA Today) full of long-buried family secrets, Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, blithely ignorant of all that awaits them. By 2016, they have four radically different daughters, each in a state of unrest....
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Wonderful book
- By Kaysi12 on 07-08-19
By: Claire Lombardo
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Fahrenheit 451
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Tim Robbins
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of 20th-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future, narrated here by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins....
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Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
- By Joel on 03-27-17
By: Ray Bradbury
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Where the Crawdads Sing
- By: Delia Owens
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl....
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Don't listen to the negative reviews.
- By Kyle on 12-03-19
By: Delia Owens
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Daisy Jones & The Six
- A Novel
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Daisy is a girl coming of age in LA in the late '60s, sneaking into clubs, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock 'n' roll she loves most. By the time she's 20, her voice is getting noticed....
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I wanted to love this book...
- By Stine on 03-17-19
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The Bee Sting
- A Novel
- By: Paul Murray
- Narrated by: Heather O’Sullivan, Barry Fitzgerald, Beau Holland, and others
- Length: 26 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart....
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Bone Clocks meets Jonathan Franzen
- By Cranson on 10-26-23
By: Paul Murray
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After Annie
- A Novel
- By: Anna Quindlen
- Narrated by: Gilli Messer
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Anna Quindlen’s trademark wisdom on family, friendship, and the ties that bind us are at the center of this novel about the power of love to transcend loss and triumph over adversity, by the bestselling author of Still Life with Bread Crumbs and One True Thing....
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Quindlen’s latest
- By Anonymous User on 03-03-24
By: Anna Quindlen
New releases
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Early Sobrieties
- By: Michael Deagler
- Narrated by: Alex Mortensen
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Like a sober, millennial Jesus' Son, Michael Deagler's debut novel is the poignant confession of a recovering addict adrift in the fragmenting landscape of America's middle class. Shot through with humor, hubris, and hard-earned insight, Early Sobrieties charts the limbos that exist between our better and worst selves, offering a portrait of a stifled generation collectively slouching towards grace.
By: Michael Deagler
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Skin & Bones
- A Novel
- By: Renée Watson
- Narrated by: Zenzi Williams
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she’s happy in love and in friendship—until a confession on her wedding day shifts her world.
By: Renée Watson
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Pucking My Next-Door Enemy
- A Brother's Best Friend Second Chance Romance
- By: Livvy Stone
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Mistake #1: Hooking up with a stranger when my life’s in danger. Mistake #2: Not recognizing he’s my brother’s best friend whom I’ve always hated. Mistake #3: When I do know, becoming his fake fiancée anyway. Targeted by a dangerous gang because I know military secrets, I’m fleeing to my small town to hide. Traveling in disguise, I stop to find a stress-relief partner. Whoah, do I find him— a tall, hot, brooding hunk with a killer smile and a body to die for who looks at me with hunger and devotion as he pleasures me like no one ever has before. Once at my brother’s, I ...
By: Livvy Stone
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A Kind of Madness
- By: Uche Okonkwo
- Narrated by: Nene Nwoko
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A searing, unflinching collection of stories set in Nigeria that explores themes of community expectations, familial strife, and the struggle for survival.
By: Uche Okonkwo
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The Ministry of Time
- By: Kaliane Bradley
- Narrated by: George Weightman, Katie Leung
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A boy meets a girl. The past meets the future. A finger meets a trigger. The beginning meets the end. England is forever; England must fall. The Ministry of Time is a novel about Commander Graham Gore (R.N. c.1809-c.1847) and a woman known only as the bridge. As their relationship turns from the strictly professional into something more and uneasy truths begin to emerge, they are forced to face the reality of the project that brought them together.
By: Kaliane Bradley
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The Novices of Lerna
- By: Angel Bonomini, Jordan Landsman - translator
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The Novices of Lerna introduces the enigmatic fictions of Ángel Bonomini to English listeners for the first time. Shot through with wry humor and tender absurdity, these meditations on identity, surveillance, and isolation remain eerily prescient. The collection's central novella follows Ramon Beltra, an unambitious scholar who receives a mysterious invitation to a lucrative six-month fellowship at the University of Lerna in Switzerland.
By: Angel Bonomini, and others
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Early Sobrieties
- By: Michael Deagler
- Narrated by: Alex Mortensen
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Like a sober, millennial Jesus' Son, Michael Deagler's debut novel is the poignant confession of a recovering addict adrift in the fragmenting landscape of America's middle class. Shot through with humor, hubris, and hard-earned insight, Early Sobrieties charts the limbos that exist between our better and worst selves, offering a portrait of a stifled generation collectively slouching towards grace.
By: Michael Deagler
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Skin & Bones
- A Novel
- By: Renée Watson
- Narrated by: Zenzi Williams
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she’s happy in love and in friendship—until a confession on her wedding day shifts her world.
By: Renée Watson
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Pucking My Next-Door Enemy
- A Brother's Best Friend Second Chance Romance
- By: Livvy Stone
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Mistake #1: Hooking up with a stranger when my life’s in danger. Mistake #2: Not recognizing he’s my brother’s best friend whom I’ve always hated. Mistake #3: When I do know, becoming his fake fiancée anyway. Targeted by a dangerous gang because I know military secrets, I’m fleeing to my small town to hide. Traveling in disguise, I stop to find a stress-relief partner. Whoah, do I find him— a tall, hot, brooding hunk with a killer smile and a body to die for who looks at me with hunger and devotion as he pleasures me like no one ever has before. Once at my brother’s, I ...
By: Livvy Stone
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A Kind of Madness
- By: Uche Okonkwo
- Narrated by: Nene Nwoko
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A searing, unflinching collection of stories set in Nigeria that explores themes of community expectations, familial strife, and the struggle for survival.
By: Uche Okonkwo
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The Ministry of Time
- By: Kaliane Bradley
- Narrated by: George Weightman, Katie Leung
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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A boy meets a girl. The past meets the future. A finger meets a trigger. The beginning meets the end. England is forever; England must fall. The Ministry of Time is a novel about Commander Graham Gore (R.N. c.1809-c.1847) and a woman known only as the bridge. As their relationship turns from the strictly professional into something more and uneasy truths begin to emerge, they are forced to face the reality of the project that brought them together.
By: Kaliane Bradley
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The Novices of Lerna
- By: Angel Bonomini, Jordan Landsman - translator
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The Novices of Lerna introduces the enigmatic fictions of Ángel Bonomini to English listeners for the first time. Shot through with wry humor and tender absurdity, these meditations on identity, surveillance, and isolation remain eerily prescient. The collection's central novella follows Ramon Beltra, an unambitious scholar who receives a mysterious invitation to a lucrative six-month fellowship at the University of Lerna in Switzerland.
By: Angel Bonomini, and others
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Boathouse
- By: Jon Fosse, May Brit-Akerholot - translator
- Narrated by: Kåre Conradi
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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One of Jon Fosse’s most acclaimed novels, Boathouse is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator leading a largely hermit-like existence until he unexpectedly encounters a long-lost childhood friend and his wife. Told partially in a stream-of-consciousness style and with an atmosphere reminiscent of a gripping crime novel, Boathouse slowly unravels the story of a love triangle leading to jealousy, betrayal, and eventually death.
By: Jon Fosse, and others
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The Professor of Desire
- By: Philip Roth
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself “a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes.” Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage à trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a novel that “ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time”—Village Voice.
By: Philip Roth
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Like the Appearance of Horses
- By: Andrew Krivak
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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After Bexhet Konar escapes fascist Hungary and crosses the ocean to find Jozef, the man who saved his life in 1919, he falls in love with Jozef's daughter, Hannah, enlists in World War II, and is drawn into a personal war of revenge. Many years later, their youngest son, Samuel, is taken prisoner in Vietnam and returns home with a heroin addiction and deep physical and psychological wounds. As Samuel travels his own path toward healing, his son will graduate from Annapolis as a Marine on his way to Iraq.
By: Andrew Krivak
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This Strange Eventful History
- By: Claire Messud
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
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June 1940. As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar - honorable servant of France, devoted husband and father, currently posted as naval attache in Salonica - bids farewell to his beloved wife, aunt and children, placing his faith in God that they will be reunited after the war. But escaping the violence of that cataclysm is not the same as emerging unscathed. The family will never again be whole.
By: Claire Messud
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Only the Astronauts
- By: Ceridwen Dovey
- Narrated by: Natasha Beaumont
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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Adrift in outer space, a motley crew of human-made objects tell their tales, making real history sweeter and stranger. Starman, a lovelorn mannequin orbiting the Sun in his cherry-red car, pines for his creator. The first sculpture ever taken to the Moon is possessed by the spirit of Neil Armstrong. The International Space Station, awaiting deorbit and burial in a spacecraft cemetery beneath the ocean, farewells its last astronauts. A team of tamponauts sets off on a perilous mission to Mars inspired by the courage of their predecessors.
By: Ceridwen Dovey
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Ms. Sethianism Surges!
- Flash Fiction
- By: Andrew Bushard
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Ash
- Length: 9 mins
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Where and how did you discover your Life Mission? Ms. Sethianism discovered her Life Mission at a cafe she frequented in her homeland.
By: Andrew Bushard
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Gemini
- By: S.K. Ballinger
- Narrated by: Midnight Thorne
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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In the gripping world of this suspenseful thriller, the lives of identical twins diverge dramatically from the moment of their birth. Born into the same world, they are immediately separated, destined for divergent paths with devastating consequences. The tale unfolds with the birth of Lily and Grace, twins torn apart by fate. Lily is raised in a world of privilege, while Grace faces adversity in the realm of adoption. Their lives run parallel yet distant, each unaware of the other.
By: S.K. Ballinger
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The Orchard
- By: Peter Heller
- Narrated by: Kate Marcin
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Peter Heller is unique in his ability to capture the beauty and nuance of the natural world and its pull on women and men. In The Orchard, he pairs evocative storytelling with jewel-like poems—Hayley’s translations of her most beloved Tang poet, Li Xue—that echo Hayley and Frith’s life in the wilderness and tell their own tale of mother and daughter.
By: Peter Heller
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Through the Eyes of Desperation
- The Black Version
- By: Daniel J Volpe
- Narrated by: Sierra Kline
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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At Shadows Casino, this isn’t just a phrase, it’s a grim reality. Far from prying eyes is a world of decadent pleasure, and unimaginable pain, where only the desperate or the rich dare to tread. Cee is the leader of the sinister establishment, but that hasn’t always been her story. Long before she'd ever heard of a parlay or letting it ride, Cee was just a little girl with a daddy who liked to gamble. And when her daddy brought her into Shadows, he made a bet that changed both of their lives forever.
By: Daniel J Volpe
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Nevada Lowball
- Never Fold
- By: Antonio Nicassio
- Narrated by: Sam Williamson
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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Returning home from combat operations, Army Specialist Wesley Erickson strives to settle back into civilian life. Hanging up his rifle and picking up a deck of cards, Wes now provides for his wife, Maggie, and their unborn child as a poker dealer in a local casino.
By: Antonio Nicassio
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Soldier, Citizen, Settler
- Lineage Series, Book Two
- By: Michael Paul Hurd
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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This book follows the fictitious Harris family through the American Revolution and migration westward to the shores of Lake Ontario. Thomas Harris was the soldier’s soldier and was awarded a battlefield commission by General George Washington just before the Battle of Yorktown. Following release from his military obligations and suffering severe hardships, Harris and his family moved westward from Connecticut, across New York State. As in the first book of the "Lineage" series, the author laid down his own family tree against events in history, as if family members of the period could ...
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Spud (everything is meant to be)
- By: Lisa Talbott
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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Spud is a prescient three-year old, wise beyond his years. His mother, Angela, was left alone following the sudden death of Spud's biological father, Scott. Though Angela had the love and support of both her parents and Scott's, she elected to strike out on her own and leave the family farm - and her longtime friends - behind.Settled into a flat in Walcote, about two hours' drive from her parents' home, Angela crosses paths with several individuals, including Geoff, a would-be suitor, and his demolition team. Geoff introduces her to Reg and Phyllis, aging neighbors who lost their daughter, ...
By: Lisa Talbott