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Creatures

A Novel

by Crissy Van Meter ...

**“[A] kaleidoscopic narrative . . . Tenacious, wildly original, and full of insight.” —San Francisco Chronicle“An alluring, atmospheric debut.” —PeopleA Belletrist Book Club PickA Most Anticipated Book of the YearEntertainment Weekly • The Millions • Bustle**On the eve of Evangeline’s wedding on Winter Island, the groom may be lost at sea, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor, and Evie’s mostly ... Read more

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**“[A] kaleidoscopic narrative . . . Tenacious, wildly original, and full of insight.” —San Francisco Chronicle“An alluring, atmospheric debut.” —PeopleA Belletrist Book Club PickA Most Anticipated Book of the YearEntertainment Weekly • The Millions • Bustle**On the eve of Evangeline’s wedding on Winter Island, the groom may be lost at sea, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor, and Evie’s mostly
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Creatures

A Novel

by Crissy Van Meter ...

Narrated by Piper Goodeve ...

Unabridged

5 hours 58 min

On the eve of Evangeline's wedding, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island, the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. From there, in this mesmerizing, provocative debut, Evie remembers and reckons with her complicated upbringing in this lush, wild land off the coast of Southern California.Evie grew up with her well-meaning but ... Read more

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On the eve of Evangeline's wedding, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island, the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. From there, in this mesmerizing, provocative debut, Evie remembers and reckons with her complicated upbringing in this lush, wild land off the coast of Southern California.Evie grew up with her well-meaning but
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Impersonation

by Heidi Pitlor ...

Narrated by Dylan Moore ...

Unabridged

11 hours 30 min

“By turns revealing, hilarious, dishy, and razor-sharp, Impersonation lives in that rarest of sweet spots: the propulsive page-turner for people with high literary standards.” —Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great BelieversAllie Lang is a professional ghostwriter and a perpetually broke single mother to a young boy. Years of navigating her own and America’s cultural definitions of motherhood have ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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“By turns revealing, hilarious, dishy, and razor-sharp, Impersonation lives in that rarest of sweet spots: the propulsive page-turner for people with high literary standards.” —Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great BelieversAllie Lang is a professional ghostwriter and a perpetually broke single mother to a young boy. Years of navigating her own and America’s cultural definitions of motherhood have
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Cinema Love

A Novel

by Jiaming Tang ...

Narrated by Samantha Tan ...

Unabridged

9 hours 39 min

**Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionWinner of the Edmund White Award for Debut FictionWinner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ FictionFinalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick“Part ghost story, part love story, ... Read more

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**Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionWinner of the Edmund White Award for Debut FictionWinner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ FictionFinalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick“Part ghost story, part love story,
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The Invisible Hotel

A Novel

by Yeji Y. Ham ...

Narrated by Jessie Baek ...

Unabridged

9 hours 7 min

I know this place. The room is too dim to see clearly. It smells like the bones.Yewon dreams of a hotel. In the hotel, there are infinite keys to infinite rooms—and a quiet terror she is both eager to understand and desperate to escape. When Yewon wakes, she sees her life: a young woman, out of her job at a convenience store, trapped in the tiny South Korean village of her birth, watching her ... Read more

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I know this place. The room is too dim to see clearly. It smells like the bones.Yewon dreams of a hotel. In the hotel, there are infinite keys to infinite rooms—and a quiet terror she is both eager to understand and desperate to escape. When Yewon wakes, she sees her life: a young woman, out of her job at a convenience store, trapped in the tiny South Korean village of her birth, watching her
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Gingerbread

A Novel

by Helen Oyeyemi ...

Narrated by Helen Oyeyemi ...

Unabridged

7 hours 28 min

"Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review**"[W]ildly inventive…[Helen Oyeyemi's] prose is not without its playful bite." –VogueThe prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy Snow Bird, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, and Peaces returns with a bewitching and imaginative novel.**Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in ... Read more

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"Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review**"[W]ildly inventive…[Helen Oyeyemi's] prose is not without its playful bite." –VogueThe prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy Snow Bird, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, and Peaces returns with a bewitching and imaginative novel.**Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in
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Chrysalis

Stories

by Anuja Varghese ...

Unabridged

4 hours 50 min

Winner, 2023 Governor General's Literary AwardWinner, 2023 Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2+ Emerging WritersShortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeLonglisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for FictionGenre-blending stories of transformation and belonging that centre women of colour and explore queerness, family, and community.A couple in a crumbling marriage ... Read more

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Winner, 2023 Governor General's Literary AwardWinner, 2023 Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2+ Emerging WritersShortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeLonglisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for FictionGenre-blending stories of transformation and belonging that centre women of colour and explore queerness, family, and community.A couple in a crumbling marriage
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The Repeat Room

A Novel

by Jesse Ball ...

Narrated by Erik Bloomquist ...

Unabridged

4 hours 32 min

Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America's most brilliant and distinctive writersIn a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant's lived experience, to see ... Read more

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Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America's most brilliant and distinctive writersIn a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant's lived experience, to see
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So Witches We Became

by Jill Baguchinsky ...

Narrated by Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Kristin James ...

Unabridged

11 hours

A queer, feminist spin on Stephen King’s The Mist, this ode to female-rage is a perfect pick for fans of She Is a Haunting, and a reminder that if "boys will be boys", girls will fight back.For high school senior Nell and her friends, a vacation house on a private Florida island sounds like the makings of a dream spring break. But Nell brings secrets with her—secrets that fuse with the island's ... Read more

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A queer, feminist spin on Stephen King’s The Mist, this ode to female-rage is a perfect pick for fans of She Is a Haunting, and a reminder that if "boys will be boys", girls will fight back.For high school senior Nell and her friends, a vacation house on a private Florida island sounds like the makings of a dream spring break. But Nell brings secrets with her—secrets that fuse with the island's
... Read more

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We Wish You Luck

A Novel

by Caroline Zancan ...

Narrated by Kristen Sieh ...

Unabridged

7 hours 27 min

**A Belletrist Book Club SelectionNamed a Best Book of 2020 by goop, ELLE and Vanity FairNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by The Millions, Lit Hub, Marie ClaireAn exhilarating novel about a group of students who take revenge on a wunderkind professor after she destroys one of their own-- a story of collective drive to create, sabotage, and ultimately, to love.**It doesn't take long for the ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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**A Belletrist Book Club SelectionNamed a Best Book of 2020 by goop, ELLE and Vanity FairNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by The Millions, Lit Hub, Marie ClaireAn exhilarating novel about a group of students who take revenge on a wunderkind professor after she destroys one of their own-- a story of collective drive to create, sabotage, and ultimately, to love.**It doesn't take long for the
... Read more

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A Certain Kind of Starlight

A Novel

by Heather Webber ...

Narrated by Hallie Ricardo, Stephanie Willis ...

Unabridged

11 hours 5 min

In the face of hardship, two women learn how to rise up again under the bright side of the stars in A Certain Kind of Starlight, the next audiobook from USA Today bestselling author Heather Webber, "the queen of magical small-town charm" (Amy E. Reichert)Everyone knows that Addie Fullbright can’t keep a secret. Yet, twelve years ago, as her best friend lay dying, she entrusted Addie with the ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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In the face of hardship, two women learn how to rise up again under the bright side of the stars in A Certain Kind of Starlight, the next audiobook from USA Today bestselling author Heather Webber, "the queen of magical small-town charm" (Amy E. Reichert)Everyone knows that Addie Fullbright can’t keep a secret. Yet, twelve years ago, as her best friend lay dying, she entrusted Addie with the
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Strangers and Cousins

A Novel

by Leah Hager Cohen ...

Narrated by Leah Hager Cohen ...

Unabridged

11 hours 30 min

**ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAROne of Christian Science Monitor's BEST FICTION OF 2019"Funny and tender but also provocative and wise. . . One of the most hopeful and insightful novels I've read in years." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post"Serious yet joyous comedy, reminiscent of the Pultizer-winning Less" - Out MagazineA novel about wh... ... Read more

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**ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAROne of Christian Science Monitor's BEST FICTION OF 2019"Funny and tender but also provocative and wise. . . One of the most hopeful and insightful novels I've read in years." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post"Serious yet joyous comedy, reminiscent of the Pultizer-winning Less" - Out MagazineA novel about wh...
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