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Never Simple

A Memoir

by Liz Scheier ...

This gripping and darkly funny memoir “is a testament to the undeniable, indestructible love between a mother and a daughter” (Isaac Mizrahi).Liz Scheier’s mother was a news junkie, a hilarious storyteller, a fast-talking charmer you couldn’t look away from, a single mother whose devotion crossed the line into obsession, and—when in the grips of the mental illness that plagued her—a masterful liar ... Read more

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This gripping and darkly funny memoir “is a testament to the undeniable, indestructible love between a mother and a daughter” (Isaac Mizrahi).Liz Scheier’s mother was a news junkie, a hilarious storyteller, a fast-talking charmer you couldn’t look away from, a single mother whose devotion crossed the line into obsession, and—when in the grips of the mental illness that plagued her—a masterful liar
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Never Simple

A Memoir

by Liz Scheier ...

Narrated by Amy Landon ...

Unabridged

8 hours 27 min

"the audiobook is compelling and, on occasion, jaw-dropping."-- VultureLiz Scheier’s darkly funny and touching memoir—with shades of Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle and Mira Bartók’s The Memory Palace—of growing up in ’90s Manhattan with a brilliant, mendacious single motherScheier’s mother Judith was a news junkie, a hilarious storyteller, a fast-talking charmer you couldn’t look away from, a ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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"the audiobook is compelling and, on occasion, jaw-dropping."-- VultureLiz Scheier’s darkly funny and touching memoir—with shades of Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle and Mira Bartók’s The Memory Palace—of growing up in ’90s Manhattan with a brilliant, mendacious single motherScheier’s mother Judith was a news junkie, a hilarious storyteller, a fast-talking charmer you couldn’t look away from, a
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The Family: A Read with Jenna Pick

by Naomi Krupitsky ...

Narrated by Marin Ireland ...

Unabridged

9 hours 53 min

The Instant New York Times bestsellerA TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club PickA captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself.Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate.Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever observing... ... Read more

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The Instant New York Times bestsellerA TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club PickA captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself.Two daughters. Two families. One inescapable fate.Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever observing...
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Sex Cult Nun

Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

by Faith Jones ...

Narrated by Jaime Lamchick ...

Unabridged

13 hours 11 min

Educated meets The Vow in this story of liberation and self-empowerment—an inspiring and stranger-than-fiction memoir of growing up in and breaking free from the Children of God, an oppressive, extremist religious cult.Faith Jones was raised to be part a religious army preparing for the End Times. Growing up on an isolated farm in Macau, she prayed for hours every day and read letters of prophecy ... Read more

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Educated meets The Vow in this story of liberation and self-empowerment—an inspiring and stranger-than-fiction memoir of growing up in and breaking free from the Children of God, an oppressive, extremist religious cult.Faith Jones was raised to be part a religious army preparing for the End Times. Growing up on an isolated farm in Macau, she prayed for hours every day and read letters of prophecy
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Empire of Pain

The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

by Patrick Radden Keefe ...

Narrated by Patrick Radden Keefe ...

Unabridged

18 hours 6 min

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say NothingThe history of the Sackler dynasty is ... Read more

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say NothingThe history of the Sackler dynasty is
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Notes on an Execution

A Novel

by Danya Kukafka ...

Narrated by Mozhan Marno, Jim Meskimen ...

Unabridged

9 hours 42 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL • NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR“Defiantly populated with living women . . . beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity . . . Notes on an Execution is nuanced, ambitious and compelling.” —Katie Kitamura, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (Editors' Choice)""A searing portrait of the complicated women cau... ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL • NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR“Defiantly populated with living women . . . beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity . . . Notes on an Execution is nuanced, ambitious and compelling.” —Katie Kitamura, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (Editors' Choice)""A searing portrait of the complicated women cau...
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The Anomaly

A Novel

by Hervé Le Tellier ...

Narrated by Dominic Hoffman ...

Unabridged

10 hours 36 min

Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this dizzying literary page-turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight.In June 2021, a senseless event upends the lives of hundreds of men and women, all passengers on a flight from Paris to New York. Among them: Blake, a respectable family man, though he works as a contract killer; ... Read more

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Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this dizzying literary page-turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight.In June 2021, a senseless event upends the lives of hundreds of men and women, all passengers on a flight from Paris to New York. Among them: Blake, a respectable family man, though he works as a contract killer;
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We Are the Brennans

A Novel

by Tracey Lange ...

Narrated by Barrie Kreinik ...

Unabridged

9 hours 53 min

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**In the vein of Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again, Yes and Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest, Tracey Lange’s We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame—and the redemptive power of love—in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets.When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk ... ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**In the vein of Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again, Yes and Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest, Tracey Lange’s We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame—and the redemptive power of love—in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets.When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk ...
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These Silent Woods

A Novel

by Kimi Cunningham Grant ...

Narrated by Bronson Pinchot, Stephanie Willis ...

Unabridged

8 hours 22 min

A father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in Kimi Cunningham Grant's These Silent Woods, a mesmerizing audiobook of suspense.No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world.For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. And that's ... Read more

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A father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in Kimi Cunningham Grant's These Silent Woods, a mesmerizing audiobook of suspense.No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world.For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. And that's
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The School for Good Mothers

A Novel

by Jessamine Chan ...

Narrated by Catherine Ho ...

Unabridged

11 hours 56 min

Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence | Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize | Selected as One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year!In this New York Times bestseller and Today show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick, one lapse in judgment lands a young mother in a dystopian government reform program where custod... ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence | Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize | Selected as One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year!In this New York Times bestseller and Today show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick, one lapse in judgment lands a young mother in a dystopian government reform program where custod...
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The Guest Book

A Novel

by Sarah Blake ...

Narrated by Orlagh Cassidy ...

Unabridged

17 hours 14 min

"Orlagh Cassidy narrates Blake's beautifully written multigenerational story of love and lies with consummate skill. Elegant and clear, distant yet passionate, she helps listeners discover the quirks in characters' personalities and explore their motives, both evident and hidden." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winnerThis program includes a bonus conversation with the author.The thought ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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"Orlagh Cassidy narrates Blake's beautifully written multigenerational story of love and lies with consummate skill. Elegant and clear, distant yet passionate, she helps listeners discover the quirks in characters' personalities and explore their motives, both evident and hidden." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winnerThis program includes a bonus conversation with the author.The thought
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Girl A

A Novel

by Abigail Dean ...

Narrated by Ell Potter ...

Unabridged

12 hours 47 min

**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Pitch-perfect... Dean tells this story with such nuance and humanity, you’re desperate to step into its pages." —The New York Times“Heart-stopping psychological drama… A modern-day classic." —Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author“A gripping story about family dynamics and the nature of human psychology.” —Good Housekeeping**She thought she had ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Pitch-perfect... Dean tells this story with such nuance and humanity, you’re desperate to step into its pages." —The New York Times“Heart-stopping psychological drama… A modern-day classic." —Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author“A gripping story about family dynamics and the nature of human psychology.” —Good Housekeeping**She thought she had
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