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Bestsellers
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
- By: Holly Jackson
- Narrated by: Bailey Carr, Marisa Calin, Michael Crouch, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town....
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Overwrought, even for YA
- By Anonymous User on 04-01-20
By: Holly Jackson
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Blood at the Root
- By: LaDarrion Williams
- Narrated by: Jalyn Hall, LaDarrion Williams
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Ten years ago, Malik's life changed forever the night his mother mysteriously vanished and he discovered he had uncontrollable powers. Since then, he has kept his abilities hidden, looking out for himself and his younger foster brother, Taye....
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SOOO GOOOOD!!!!
- By Anonymous User on 07-03-24
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Immortal Dark
- By: Tigest Girma
- Narrated by: Jordan Cobb
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The Cruel Prince meets Ninth House in this dangerously romantic dark academia fantasy, where a lost heiress must infiltrate an arcane society and live with the vampire she suspects killed her family and kidnapped her sister.
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Book 2 of this series ASAP please!
- By Anonymous User on 09-18-24
By: Tigest Girma
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The Davenports: More than This
- By: Krystal Marquis
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Like the blazing Chicago sun, the drama is heating up for the Davenports and their social set. Before the summer of 1910 drops its last petal, the lives—and loves—of these four young women will change in ways they never could have imagined.
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Too much romance from too many main characters
- By Anonymous User on 11-18-24
By: Krystal Marquis
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Heavenly Tyrant
- Iron Widow, Book 2
- By: Xiran Jay Zhao
- Narrated by: Rong Fu
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Zetian must balance dangerous politics with a new quest for vengeance in the sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Iron Widow.
By: Xiran Jay Zhao
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Firekeeper's Daughter
- By: Angeline Boulley
- Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother....
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Che Meegwetch
- By Anonymous User on 03-18-21
By: Angeline Boulley
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
- By: Holly Jackson
- Narrated by: Bailey Carr, Marisa Calin, Michael Crouch, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town....
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Overwrought, even for YA
- By Anonymous User on 04-01-20
By: Holly Jackson
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Blood at the Root
- By: LaDarrion Williams
- Narrated by: Jalyn Hall, LaDarrion Williams
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Ten years ago, Malik's life changed forever the night his mother mysteriously vanished and he discovered he had uncontrollable powers. Since then, he has kept his abilities hidden, looking out for himself and his younger foster brother, Taye....
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SOOO GOOOOD!!!!
- By Anonymous User on 07-03-24
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Immortal Dark
- By: Tigest Girma
- Narrated by: Jordan Cobb
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The Cruel Prince meets Ninth House in this dangerously romantic dark academia fantasy, where a lost heiress must infiltrate an arcane society and live with the vampire she suspects killed her family and kidnapped her sister.
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Book 2 of this series ASAP please!
- By Anonymous User on 09-18-24
By: Tigest Girma
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The Davenports: More than This
- By: Krystal Marquis
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Like the blazing Chicago sun, the drama is heating up for the Davenports and their social set. Before the summer of 1910 drops its last petal, the lives—and loves—of these four young women will change in ways they never could have imagined.
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Too much romance from too many main characters
- By Anonymous User on 11-18-24
By: Krystal Marquis
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Heavenly Tyrant
- Iron Widow, Book 2
- By: Xiran Jay Zhao
- Narrated by: Rong Fu
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Zetian must balance dangerous politics with a new quest for vengeance in the sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Iron Widow.
By: Xiran Jay Zhao
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Firekeeper's Daughter
- By: Angeline Boulley
- Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother....
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Che Meegwetch
- By Anonymous User on 03-18-21
By: Angeline Boulley
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Where the Library Hides
- Secrets of the Nile, Book 2
- By: Isabel Ibañez
- Narrated by: Ahmed Hamad, Ana Osorio
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Inez Olivera traveled across the world to Egypt, seeking answers into her parents' recent and mysterious deaths. But all her searching led her down a perilous road, filled with heartache, betrayal, and a dangerous magic that pulled her deep into the past.
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Fun, exciting follow up to a great debut story!
- By Shelby H. on 12-09-24
By: Isabel Ibañez
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Bones at the Crossroads
- Blood at the Root, Book 2
- By: LaDarrion Williams
- Length: 12 hrs
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It's Homecoming season at Caiman University, and all 17-year-old Malik Baron wants to do is be a regular college student…or as regular as he can get at a magical HCBU for young, Black Conjurers. He’s ready to go to parties, hang out with his new friends, choose a major, and talk to girls.
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The Davenports
- By: Krystal Marquis
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made through the entrepreneurship of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man who founded the Davenport Carriage Company years ago....
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Giving Bridgerton Vibes
- By Anonymous User on 03-11-23
By: Krystal Marquis
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As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
- By: Zoulfa Katouh
- Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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A love letter to Syria and its people, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow is a speculative novel set amid the Syrian Revolution, burning with the fires of hope, love, and possibility....
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Tell me something good
- By Anonymous User on 02-11-24
By: Zoulfa Katouh
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
- By: Erika L. Sánchez
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family....
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FOR LATINAS WHO ARE OFTEN TOLD THEY "SOUND WHITE"
- By Anonymous User on 12-14-18
By: Erika L. Sánchez
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The Hate U Give
- By: Angie Thomas
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil....
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This Book Changed My Entire Perspective
- By Anonymous User on 01-14-18
By: Angie Thomas
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Throwback
- By: Maurene Goo
- Narrated by: Jennifer Sun Bell
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Being a first-generation Asian American immigrant is hard. You know what’s harder? Being the daughter of one. Priscilla is first-generation Korean American, a former high school cheerleader who expects Sam to want the same all-American nightmare.
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Fun time travel twist
- By Anonymous User on 12-03-23
By: Maurene Goo
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What the River Knows
- A Novel
- By: Isabel Ibañez
- Narrated by: Ahmed Hamad, Ana Osorio
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
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Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten....
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Terrible pacing.
- By Anonymous User on 06-02-24
By: Isabel Ibañez
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Iron Widow (Book 1)
- By: Xiran Jay Zhao
- Narrated by: Rong Fu
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected - she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed....
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A fun yet uneven read.
- By Anonymous User on 09-28-21
By: Xiran Jay Zhao
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Warrior Girl Unearthed
- By: Angeline Boulley
- Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper’s Daughter comes a thrilling YA mystery about a Native teen who must find a way to bring an ancestor home to her tribe....
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Captivating!!
- By Anonymous User on 06-01-23
By: Angeline Boulley
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (10th Anniversary Edition)
- By: Sherman Alexie
- Narrated by: Sherman Alexie
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Best-selling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school....
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Beautiful novel - but wait and think before extra content
- By Anonymous User on 09-10-20
By: Sherman Alexie
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Miles Morales
- Spider-Man
- By: Jason Reynolds
- Narrated by: Guy Lockard
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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Miles Morales is just your average teenager. Dinner every Sunday with his parents, chilling out playing old-school video games with his best friend. Oh yeah, and he's Spider-Man....
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"You Are Just Like Me"
- By Anonymous User on 08-09-17
By: Jason Reynolds
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Solitaire
- By: Alice Oseman
- Narrated by: Jenny Walser
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Tori Spring isn't sure how to be happy again. Then she meets Michael Holden, and they try to unmask the mysterious Solitaire (and survive high school) in Alice Oseman's stunning, unflinchinghonest debut novel, which first introduced her fan-favorite Heartstopper characters Nick and Charlie.
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Other Version Better
- By Anonymous User on 07-31-23
By: Alice Oseman
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Where Wolves Don't Die
- By: Anton Treuer
- Narrated by: Anton Treuer
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojibwe, at a local college, so they have to be there. But Ezra hates the dirty, polluted snow around them. He hates being away from the rez at Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation....
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Not As Expected
- By Anonymous User on 09-20-24
By: Anton Treuer
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A Map of Days
- Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, Book 4
- By: Ransom Riggs
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in....
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Missing chapters
- By Anonymous User on 01-27-19
By: Ransom Riggs
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Patron Saints of Nothing
- By: Randy Ribay
- Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder....
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Touching and informative
- By Anonymous User on 07-09-19
By: Randy Ribay
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Wings of Ebony
- By: J. Elle
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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“Make a way out of no way” is just the way of life for Rue. But when her mother is shot dead on her doorstep, life for her and her younger sister changes forever. Rue’s taken from her neighborhood by the father she never knew, forced to leave her little sister behind....
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Finally
- By Anonymous User on 01-28-21
By: J. Elle
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The Weight of Blood
- By: Tiffany D. Jackson
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Joy Nash, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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When Springville residents—at least the ones still alive—are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it....
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Blown away by this Carrie retelling
- By Anonymous User on 10-29-22
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
- By: Malinda Lo
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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For American-born Lily Hu, "good Chinese girl" feels like a mask she's only recently discovered she's been wearing. Or worse, like a trap. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown....
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Critiquing queer books
- By Anonymous User on 04-27-21
By: Malinda Lo
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Monster
- By: Walter Dean Myers
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life....
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A wonderful book -- weak audio cast
- By Anonymous User on 05-20-11
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Nick and Charlie
- By: Alice Oseman
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson, David Stagg
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
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Everyone knows that Nick and Charlie love their nearly inseparable life together. But soon Nick will be leaving for university, and Charlie, a year younger, will be left behind. Everyone's asking if they're staying together, which is a stupid question...
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The best book ever!🏳️🌈❤️
- By Anonymous User on 07-19-23
By: Alice Oseman
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Yo no soy tu perfecta hija mexicana [I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter]
- By: Erika L. Sánchez
- Narrated by: Scarlett Bernal Hernández
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor....
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amazing descriptions, relatable
- By Anonymous User on 03-29-20
By: Erika L. Sánchez
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The Desolations of Devil's Acre
- Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, Book 6
- By: Ransom Riggs
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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The fate of peculiardom hangs in the balance in this epic conclusion to the number-one best-selling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series....
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Where’s the PDF files?????
- By Anonymous User on 02-23-21
By: Ransom Riggs
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Only for the Holidays
- By: Abiola Bello
- Narrated by: Kenton Thomas, Nneka Okoye
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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City girl Tia Solanké is dreading the festive season. She and her boyfriend are on a break and the last thing she wants is to spend Christmas away from London. Dragged to Saiyan Hedge Farm by her mother, Tia takes an instant dislike to the countryside estate.
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A perfect christmas love story
- By Anonymous User on 11-02-24
By: Abiola Bello
New releases
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Written in Starlight
- Woven in Moonlight
- By: Isabel Ibañez
- Narrated by: Ana Osorio
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Catalina Quiroga is a Condesa without a country. She's lost the Inkasisa throne, the loyalty of her people, and her best friend. Banished to the perilous Yanu Jungle, Catalina knows her chances of survival are slim, but that won't stop her from trying to escape. Her duty is to rule. While running for her life, Catalina is rescued by Manuel, the son of her former general who has spent years searching for allies. With his help, Catalina could find the city of gold that's home to the fierce Illari people and strike a deal with them for an army to retake her throne.
By: Isabel Ibañez
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The Bollywood Lovers' Club
- By: Janci Patterson, James Goldberg
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani, Shawn K. Jain
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Amrita Sidhu belongs: in her Indian extended family, in her Sikh faith, in her California home. But when a family fight makes up her father's mind to take a job across the country in Ohio, she's torn from the fabric of her community and left to find her footing in a new high school and a new life. In Ohio, Amrita meets Dave Gill, who's funny, part-Indian, and also Mormon. At a series of Bollywood movie nights with friends, they begin to connect—despite the pressure they both feel not to date outside their own faith.
By: Janci Patterson, and others
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When Dimple Met Rishi
- By: Sandhya Menon
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Sneha Mathan
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right?
By: Sandhya Menon
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My Fairy God Somebody
- By: Charlene Allen
- Narrated by: Angel Pean
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The way Clae’s mom tells it, her dad took off when Clae was a baby, end of story. Ever since, it’s just been the two of them, living in the coastal city of Gloucester, where Clae is one of the only few Black girls. But when Clae discovers clues about a mysterious person she calls her fairy god somebody, she’s determined to know more. Her chance comes when she’s accepted into a summer journalism program in New York City, where her parents lived before she was born. With a couple of leads and a steel resolve, Clae leaves home for the first time to find out about her history.
By: Charlene Allen
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Midnights with You
- By: Clare Osongco
- Narrated by: Ferdelle Capistrano
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Seventeen-year-old Deedee's life is full of family ghosts and questions she can't ask. She longs to escape her stifling home, but guilt holds her back—that, and the fact that her strict, single Filipino mom won't let her learn to drive. But one sleepless night leads Deedee down a road she never thought possible: secret driving lessons with the new boy next door, Jay, whose turbulent family life also keeps him up until sunrise.
By: Clare Osongco
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Under the Heron's Light
- By: Randi Pink
- Narrated by: Ozzie Jacobs
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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On a damp night in 1722, Babylou Mac and her three siblings witness the murder of their mother at the hands of the preacher's son—so Babylou kills him. With plantation dogs on their heels, the siblings breach the treacherous confines of the Great Dismal Swamp. Deeper and deeper into Dismal they delve, toward a refuge where they can live freely within the swamp's natural—and supernatural—protection. Three-hundred years later, college student Atlas comes home to North Carolina for the annual Bornday cookout and hog roast.
By: Randi Pink
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Written in Starlight
- Woven in Moonlight
- By: Isabel Ibañez
- Narrated by: Ana Osorio
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Catalina Quiroga is a Condesa without a country. She's lost the Inkasisa throne, the loyalty of her people, and her best friend. Banished to the perilous Yanu Jungle, Catalina knows her chances of survival are slim, but that won't stop her from trying to escape. Her duty is to rule. While running for her life, Catalina is rescued by Manuel, the son of her former general who has spent years searching for allies. With his help, Catalina could find the city of gold that's home to the fierce Illari people and strike a deal with them for an army to retake her throne.
By: Isabel Ibañez
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The Bollywood Lovers' Club
- By: Janci Patterson, James Goldberg
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani, Shawn K. Jain
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Amrita Sidhu belongs: in her Indian extended family, in her Sikh faith, in her California home. But when a family fight makes up her father's mind to take a job across the country in Ohio, she's torn from the fabric of her community and left to find her footing in a new high school and a new life. In Ohio, Amrita meets Dave Gill, who's funny, part-Indian, and also Mormon. At a series of Bollywood movie nights with friends, they begin to connect—despite the pressure they both feel not to date outside their own faith.
By: Janci Patterson, and others
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When Dimple Met Rishi
- By: Sandhya Menon
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Sneha Mathan
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right?
By: Sandhya Menon
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My Fairy God Somebody
- By: Charlene Allen
- Narrated by: Angel Pean
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The way Clae’s mom tells it, her dad took off when Clae was a baby, end of story. Ever since, it’s just been the two of them, living in the coastal city of Gloucester, where Clae is one of the only few Black girls. But when Clae discovers clues about a mysterious person she calls her fairy god somebody, she’s determined to know more. Her chance comes when she’s accepted into a summer journalism program in New York City, where her parents lived before she was born. With a couple of leads and a steel resolve, Clae leaves home for the first time to find out about her history.
By: Charlene Allen
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Midnights with You
- By: Clare Osongco
- Narrated by: Ferdelle Capistrano
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Seventeen-year-old Deedee's life is full of family ghosts and questions she can't ask. She longs to escape her stifling home, but guilt holds her back—that, and the fact that her strict, single Filipino mom won't let her learn to drive. But one sleepless night leads Deedee down a road she never thought possible: secret driving lessons with the new boy next door, Jay, whose turbulent family life also keeps him up until sunrise.
By: Clare Osongco
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Under the Heron's Light
- By: Randi Pink
- Narrated by: Ozzie Jacobs
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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On a damp night in 1722, Babylou Mac and her three siblings witness the murder of their mother at the hands of the preacher's son—so Babylou kills him. With plantation dogs on their heels, the siblings breach the treacherous confines of the Great Dismal Swamp. Deeper and deeper into Dismal they delve, toward a refuge where they can live freely within the swamp's natural—and supernatural—protection. Three-hundred years later, college student Atlas comes home to North Carolina for the annual Bornday cookout and hog roast.
By: Randi Pink