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Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

Rebecca Traister · Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies -- whom Anne Lamott called ''the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country'' -- comes a vital, incisive exploration into the transformative power of female anger and its ability...
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Death of a Nightingale

Lene Kaaberbol · Blackstone Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

[Read by Susan Boyce] [Translated by Elisabeth Dyssegaard] Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian woman who has been arrested for murdering her Danish fiancé, escapes police custody on her way to an interrogation in Copenhagen's police headquarters. It isn't the first time Natasha...
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Carl Sagan · Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don't understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific...
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The Better Brain Solution: How to Start Now--at Any Age--to Reverse and Prevent Insulin Resistance of the Brain, Sharpen Cognitive Function, and Avoid Memory Loss

Steven Masley M.D. · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

From the author of the bestselling 30-Day Heart Tune-Up and Smart Fat--the first book to show how the brain can become insulin resistant through diet and lifestyle, and to make clear how and why this has been directly linked to cognitive decline and memory loss. With a detailed program...
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Matagorda: A Novel

Louis L'Amour · Random House Audio Publishing Group
Format: Audiobook

Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States and then put his skills to the test as a soldier in the frontier army. Now he has settled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kittery-and finding himself in the middle of a feud between Kittery...
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Circe

Madeline Miller · Little, Brown & Company
Format: Audiobook

The daring, dazzling and highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Song of AchillesOne of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018"An epic spanning thousands of years that's also a keep-you-up-all-night page turner." - Ann PatchettIn the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest...
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Random acts

Judith A Jance · Harper Audio
Format: Audiobook

Sheriff Joanna Brady has a lot on her plate. She's up for re-election as sheriff, pregnant with her third child, and her eldest is packing up to leave for college. Then Joanna is woken in the middle of the night by a call reporting a motor vehicle accident. Her mother and stepfather's RV ran off the road...
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

Sarah Smarsh · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

*Finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize* An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest.During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified...
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When We Were Young: A Novel

Karen Kingsbury · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a classic story about second chances, featuring the beloved Baxter family and a young father who finds his whole world turned upside down on the eve of his divorce.From their first meeting, to their stunning engagement and lavish...
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The Light Over London

Julia Kelly · Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

Reminiscent of Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls and Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, this sweeping, entrancing story is a must-listen for fans of remarkable women rising to challenges they could never have predicted.It's always been easier for Cara Hargraves to bury herself in the past...
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The Book of Dust

Philip Pullman · Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

The much-anticipated new work from the author of The Golden Compass is coming at last!Renowned storyteller Philip Pullman returns to the parallel world of Lyra Belacqua and His Dark Materials for a thrilling and epic adventure in which daemons, alethiometers, and the Magisterium all play...
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

F. Scott Fitzgerald · Dreamscape Media
Format: Audiobook

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in Colliers Magazine on May 27th, 1922. The story follows Benjamin's life from his birth in 1860. However he is no ordinary child, as he has the appearance of a 70 year old man, already...
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Adjustment day

Chuck Palahniuk · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious blue-black book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. In this...
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The Bride Test

Helen Hoang · Dreamscape Media
Format: Audiobook

Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the pennyΓÇobut not important emotions, like love. His family knows betterΓÇothat his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly...
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Crusader One

Brian Andrews · Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

Nothing stops former Navy SEAL and Tier One operator John Dempsey from answering the call of duty - including a mission with the highest stakes he's ever faced. When one of the most brazen and lethal acts of terrorism rocks American and Israeli intelligence forces at the highest levels,...
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