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Author: Leila Mottley | Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Release Date: June 07, 2022
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK • A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This debut of a blazingly origin...
Author: Renée Rosen | Narrator: Rebekkah Ross
Release Date: August 24, 2021
America in the 1920s was a country alive with the wild fun of jazz, speakeasies, and a new kind of woman—the flapper.Vera Abramowitz is determined to leave her gritty childhood behind and live a more exciting life, one that her mother never dre...
Author: Alaa Al Aswany | Narrator: Peter Ganim
Release Date: August 10, 2021
A "glorious, humane novel" (The Observer) about the Egyptian revolution, taking us inside the battle raging between those in power and those prepared to lay down their lives in the defense of freedom—this globally-acclaimed na...
Author: Ishle Yi Park | Narrator: Ishle Yi Park
Release Date: May 11, 2021
The sweeping, unforgettable story of an interracial couple in 1990s New York City who are determined to protect their love against all odds—a reimagining of Romeo and Juliet“Triumphant . . . sensuous, tender, and facet...
Author: Ethan Hawke | Narrator: Ethan Hawke
Release Date: February 02, 2021
The blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes—a "witty, wise, and heartfelt novel" (Washington Post) about art and love, fame and heartbreak from the acclaimed actor/wr...
Author: Teju Cole | Narrator: Teju Cole
Release Date: April 28, 2020
“The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for those few things that I remembered with outsize int...
Author: William T. Vollmann | Narrator: Abby Craden
Release Date: February 18, 2020
The National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory--the lives of the dispossessed in San Francisco--with a parable about the limitations of desire and life at the margins of societyIn such earlier works of fiction as T...
Author: Jasmon Drain | Narrator: Sullivan Jones, Guy Lockard and Shayna Small
Release Date: January 21, 2020
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • A blazingly original story collection about the interconnected lives of the residents of a public housing project on the South Side of Chicago “The residents and their buoya...
Author: Kevin Barry | Narrator: Kevin Barry
Release Date: September 17, 2019
One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2019 Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Lit Hub, The Millions, The Paris Review, and NPR No. 1 Irish Times BestsellerLonglisted for T...
Author: Ernesto Quiñonez | Narrator: Daniel José Molina
Release Date: September 03, 2019
A uniquely dark, coming-of-age novel rife with urban magical realism, love, and redemption, from the author of Bodega Dreams When Julio, a teenager living in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taina, a pregnant fifteen-year-old from his high school claims to...
Author: Seth Fried | Narrator: Robert Petkoff
Release Date: March 19, 2019
A novel about an unlikely pair of lonely outsiders--one human, one AI--on an adventure to save the great American city of Metropolis written by "one of the most exciting new voices in fiction" (Charles Yu)*Named one of the best books of the month by ...
Author: Danzy Senna | Narrator: Kristen Ariza
Release Date: November 06, 2018
Look out for Danzy Senna's latest book, New People, on sale nowA young woman moves to New York City for what promises to be a dream job. Displaced, she feels unsure of her fit in the world. Then comes a look of recognition, a gesture of friendsh...