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Thank You For Listening by Julia Whalen
Sewanee Chester is a very popular audiobook narrator, but she does not do romance novels anymore. And she does not co-narrate books. At least, not until the author that gave Sewanee her start leaves specific instructions about how she would like her most recent novel read - and her production team makes Sewanee an offer she cannot refuse.
Sep 15, 2025


The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope
Clara Johnson has a special skill and is unable to refuse someone who asks her for help, no matter the person or the request. Then someone comes to her, asking for help with their son who no longer speaks or reacts but desperately tries to leave the house. Clara notices that this young man is not the only person acting strangely right now and decides to investigate.
Sep 11, 2025


From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L Armentrout
Poppy has a lot weighing her down as she goes about her life as THE Maiden, not allowed to interact with the world around her and punished for the smallest of infractions. But the allure of a regular life beckons to her and Poppy wonders what it would be like to be able to choose what she wanted to do... who she wanted to be.
Sep 8, 2025


Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy
Newlyweds Sam and Annie move back to Sam's hometown to be close to his ailing mother and Sam opens his open private psychiatric practice. But when Sam speaks to his patients in his office, and there just happens to be a vent that allows their sessions to be overheard, and there is nothing else to do in the small town - you'd listen, wouldn't you?
Sep 4, 2025


Geekerella by Ashley Poston
Danielle's stepmother and stepsisters are the absolute worst, it's all she can do to wait until high school is over so she can escape them. But when forced to repair an attic leak, she finds a box of her parents’ things including their infamous cosplay outfits for Starfield. On a whim, she decides to tailor the outfits with the help of her fairy godfriend/coworker and attend ExcelsiCon on the wings of a pumpkin food truck.
Sep 1, 2025


The Measure by Nikki Erlick
As people across the world wake one morning, they find a box waiting for them. Inside the box is a string. Every single person twenty-two years old or older receives a string - which tells them how long there life will be.
Aug 28, 2025


Fable by Adrienne Young
Fable was left by her father on an island full of questionable (at best) characters. If she can survive long enough to get herself off the island and find him, he will give her what she's owed. That was four years ago and it's time for Fable to find her father and remind him that while he never forgets the wrongs done to him, neither does his daughter.
Aug 25, 2025


The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul
RuPaul's memoir documenting the time from when he was a child living in California with his family, hid teenage years spent in Atlanta, and finally traveling to New York to make it big - recounting all the good times, bad times, and hijinks in between.
Aug 21, 2025


Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
August never wanted to go back to the island of Saiorse after he and his mother snuck away, not after everything happened and they were driven out. But after his mother died, her will requested that she be buried on the island, so August travels back to the one place he never wanted to go back to and the one person that he never wanted to leave.
Aug 18, 2025


Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
When Zelu gets fired from her teaching job and has her most recent book rejected by yet another publisher, she's feeling lower than ever. That night, she finally lets loose with nothing left to lose and writes a novel that will take the world by storm.
Aug 14, 2025


Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Adina was born to human parents, but she is anything but human. Sent here by her people to study humans, she is to report on them via an ancient fax machine until she receives the order by her superiors to return to her people.
Aug 11, 2025


First-Time Caller by B K Borison
When Lucie's daughter calls into a radio hotline that gives advice on love, she's looking for ways to help her mother not be so lonely. The call goes viral, leading to Lucie becoming temporary co-host during "Lucie's Road to Love - sponsored by Mr. Tire", but it turns out that what she looking for may look a little different than she expected.
Aug 8, 2025


People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
After not speaking for years, Poppy takes the plunge and reaches out to Alex - who agrees to go with her on their (mostly) annual vacation. Poppy wants to repair their fractured friendship but can they ever get past what tore them apart?
Aug 4, 2025


My Friends by Fredrik Backman
Luisa's life was changed when she saw a postcard of C Jat's famous painting "The One of the Sea". What she doesn't understand is how no one else realizes that it's not really a painting of the sea at all, but of friendship.
Aug 1, 2025


Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole
Diem Bellator is a healer who is passionate about caring for people, regardless of if they are mortal or Descended. But when her mother goes missing, Diem starts down a path that she cannot easily leave, and that will open her eyes to more than she ever imagined.
Jul 28, 2025


Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Someone robs a bank. They don't want to, but they are out of other options. Unfortunately for them, they choose to rob a bank that doesn't actually carry cash and the calamity that follows changes their life and the lives of all the people they accidentally take hostage.
Jul 25, 2025


I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
When Bodie Kane is invited to teach a short class on podcasting at her high school alma mater, she asks her students to come to the first class with an idea for what they would like to report on. One of those students decides to investigate the murder of a student in the 90's, who happened to be Bodie's roommate junior year.
Jul 21, 2025


Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
In 1978, NASA announced that it was looking for astronaut candidates and they were opening their doors to women and people of color for the first time. Joan Goodwin applies and although she is not accepted at first, she does eventually get invited to the program. The training that she goes through teaches her more than she ever expected, including where it is that she truly belongs.
Jul 18, 2025


Pike Island by Tony Wirt
When Krista's boss, the young and promising congressman from Minnesota Harrison Leonard, begins to receive strange and vaguely threatening postcards, Krista feels compelled to investigate and finds that the congressman hasn't been completely honest with her. But what does that mean for his career, or for hers?
Jul 14, 2025


Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
When Beth's brother-in-law shoots the animal that is killing their sheep, she has no idea that it will usher in the reintroduction of her first love and foreshadow the catastrophe that awaits them all.
Jul 11, 2025
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