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    The River We Remember

    A Novel

    by William Kent Krueger ...
    Narrated by CJ Wilson ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 33 min

    In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by a shocking murder, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling novel, an instant New York Times bestseller and “a work of art” (The Denver Post).On Memorial Day in Jewel, Minnesota, the body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. The investigation falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Cloud Cuckoo Land

    A Novel

    by Anthony Doerr ...
    Narrated by Marin Ireland, Simon Jones ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 52 min

    AudioFile Magazine’s Best Audiobooks of 2021**On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more“If you’re looking for a superb novel, look no further.” —The Washington PostFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of... ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    The Quick and the Dead

    by Louis L'Amour ...
    Narrated by Jason Culp ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 3 min

    When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use violence against other men—men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didn’t even possess.Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel’s worries. For ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Mortal Arts

    by Anna Lee Huber ...
    Narrated by Heather Wilds ...
    Audiobook 2 - Lady Darby Mystery

    Unabridged

    12 hours 46 min

    After her foray into murder investigation, Lady Kiera Darby must journey to Edinburgh with her family so that her pregnant sister can be close to proper medical care. But the city is full of many things Kiera isn't quite ready to face: the society ladies keen on judging her, her fellow investigator (and romantic entanglement) Sebastian Gage, and ultimately, another deadly mystery. Kiera's old ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

    A Novel

    by James McBride ...
    Narrated by Dominic Hoffman ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 21 min

    **A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, WASHINGTON POST, AND TIME MAGAZINE“A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing.” —Danez Smith, The New York Times Book Review“We all need—we all *deserve—*this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us.” —Ron ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The Personal Librarian

    by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 23 min

    **The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick!Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post!“Historical fiction at its best!”*A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Hernan Diaz ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, Orlagh Cassidy ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 21 min

    **WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE“Buzzy and enthralling …A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery…Fun as hell to read.” —Oprah Daily"A genre-bending, time-skipping story ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Homecoming

    The Stunning Novel from No. 1 Bestselling Author of The House at Riverton

    by Kate Morton ...
    Narrated by Claire Foy ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 38 min

    A brand-new book from award-winning author Kate Morton, read by powerhouse Emmy award–winning actress Claire Foy. This breathtaking mystery of love, lies and a cold case come back to life is told with Morton's trademark intricacy and beauty. Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand and mysterious house, a local deliveryman ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Only the Beautiful

    by Susan Meissner ...
    Narrated by Xe Sands, Jorjeana Marie ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 28 min

    **A Best Historical Fiction of Spring Pick by Amazon, PopSugar, AARP, and BookBub!A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the terrible injustice that tears them apart, by the USA Today bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things and The Last Year of the War.***California, 1938—*When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The Lincoln Highway

    A Novel

    by Amor Towles ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland, Dion Graham ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 39 min

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMore than ONE MILLION copies soldA TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club PickA New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year“Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review“A classic that we will read for years to come.” ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Lady Tan's Circle of Women

    by Lisa See ...
    Narrated by Jennifer Lim, Justin Chien ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 16 min

    *NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!*From “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review) an immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China—perfect for fans of Lisa See’s classics Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane.According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Sect of Angels

    by Andrea Camilleri ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 50 min

    Based on a true story and told with the pacing, humor, and thrills of a Mediterranean mystery, Andrea Camilleri’s novel tells of a turn-of-the-century Sicilian scandal that revealed a tendency that is with us still: the refusal to accept the truth.The lawyer and journalist Matteo Teresi discovers the existence of a secret sect whose members include priests, politicians, and regional VIPs. During ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    We the Living

    by Ayn Rand ...
    Narrated by Mary Woods ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 2 min

    We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. At its center is a girl whose passionate love is her fortress against the cruelty and oppression of a totalitarian state.Of this book, Ayn Rand said, “it is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write. The plot is invented, the background is not. I was born in Russia, I ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Study in Scarlet Women

    by Sherry Thomas ...
    Narrated by Kate Reading ...
    Audiobook 1 - The Lady Sherlock Series

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down.With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper-class society. But even she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London.When the city is struck by a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Dressmaker

    A Novel

    by Rosalie Ham ...
    Narrated by Rachel Griffiths ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 47 min

    A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture—now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, and Hugo WeavingAfter twenty years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished from as a child. She plans only to check on her ailing mother and leave. But Tilly ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Yellow Wife

    A Novel

    by Sadeqa Johnson ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 31 min

    **From the New York Times bestselling author of House of Eve—a 2023 Reese’s Book Club Pick!*A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Christian Science Monitor*Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Before We Were Yours) story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Horse

    A Novel

    by Geraldine Brooks ...
    Narrated by Katherine Littrell, Michael Obiora, Graham Halstead, Lisa Flanagan, James Fouhey ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 6 min

    **“Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review“Horse isn’t just an animal story—it’s a moving narrative about race and art.” —TIME“A thrilling story about humanity in all its ugliness and beauty . . . the evocative voices create a story so powerful, reading it feels like watching a neck-and-neck horse race, galloping to its conclusion—you just ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Last Heroes

    A Men at War Novel

    by W.E.B. Griffin ...
    Narrated by Michael Russotto ...
    Audiobook 1 - Men at War

    Unabridged

    11 hours 29 min

    June, 1941. Determined that the United States will be prepared for war, Franklin D. Roosevelt and "Wild Bill" Donovan orchestrate the most complex espionage organization in history, the Office of Strategic Services. Young and daring, the OSS assemble under a thin camouflage of diplomacy and then disperse throughout the world to conduct their operations. And no operation is more critical than the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Sweetness of Water (Oprah’s Book Club)

    A Novel

    by Nathan Harris ...
    Narrated by William DeMeritt ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 8 min

    An Instant New York Times bestseller / An Oprah’s Book Club PickIn the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, an award-winning “miraculous debut” (Washington Post) about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, foreverIn the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry—freed by the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    by James Baldwin ...
    Narrated by Adam Lazarre-White ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 45 min

    One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy’s spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this “truly extraordinary” novel (Chicago Sun-Times).James Baldwin’s stunning first novel is now an American classic. With startling realism that brings Harlem and the Black experience vividly to life, this is a work ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Lady Chosen

    by Stephanie Laurens ...
    Narrated by Jill Tanner ...
    Audiobook 1 - Bastion Club

    Unabridged

    16 hours 15 min

    Stephanie Laurens' hot-blooded romances, including her New York Times best-selling Bar Cynster series, have earned her legions of loyal devotees. The beginning of an exciting new saga, The Lady Chosen introduces the distinguished war veterans of the Bastion Club, single gentlemen not entirely committed to staying that way. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Legacy of Mercy

    by Lynn Austin ...
    Narrated by Rachel Botchan, Stina Nielsen, Suzanne Toren, Amanda Leigh Cobb, Laura Knight Keating, Andrea Gallo ...
    Audiobook 2 - Waves of Mercy

    Unabridged

    12 hours 27 min

    Having returned to Chicago, young socialite Anna Nicholson can't seem to focus on her upcoming marriage. The new information she's learned about her birth mother continues to pull at her, and she hires Pinkerton detectives to help her find the truth. But as she meets people who once knew her mother and hears stories about the past, Anna soon discovers that some secrets are better left hidden. At ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    World Gone By

    A Novel

    by Dennis Lehane ...
    Narrated by Jim Frangione ...
    Audiobook 2 - Joe Coughlin Series

    Unabridged

    9 hours 6 min

    Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck—delivers a psychologically, morally complex novel of blood, crime, passion, and vengeance, set in Cuba and Ybor City, Florida, during World War II, in which Joe Coughlin must confront the cost of his criminal past and present.Ten years have passed since Joe Coughlin’s enemies killed ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    To Distraction

    by Stephanie Laurens ...
    Narrated by Jill Tanner ...
    Audiobook 5 - Bastion Club

    Unabridged

    18 hours 1 min

    Stephanie Laurens' New York Times best-selling Regency romances delight her countless fans. Visions of elegance and finery abound in her tales of temptation and unbridled passion. The distinguished veterans of the Bastion Club represent England's finest eligible bachelors. Among them is Deverell, a strapping man about to meet his match in the alluring Phoebe Malleson. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD