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Mobility
A Novel
2023
EN
**National BestsellerLonglisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates PrizeA Powell’s Best Book of 2023A TIME Best Book of 2023A Vulture Best Book of 2023“A masterpiece of misdirection.” ―Geraldine Brooks“Mobility is a truly gripping coming-of-age story about navigating a world of corporate greed that’s both laugh-out-loud funny and politically incisive.” ―Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor“Kiesling . . . has pu...
- Narrated by
- Amanda Dolan
Unabridged
9 hours 10 min
2018
EN
A gorgeous, raw debut novel about a young woman braving the ups and downs of motherhood in a fractured AmericaIn Lydia Kiesling’s razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent―her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of...
Mobility
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Kelli Tager
Unabridged
11 hours 28 min
2023
EN
A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden State.The year is 1998, the End of History. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is an American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through Bunny’s eyes we watch global interests flock to the former Soviet Union during the rush for Caspian oil and pipeline access, hear rumbles of the expansion of the America...
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In Her Bones
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Madeleine Maby
Unabridged
10 hours 19 min
2018
EN
“A higher level than the standard thriller. Readers will enjoy this book for the suspense…[and] love it for the skill and mastery Moretti has for her craft.” —New York Journal of Books“Morbid…Moretti pulls some tricky tricks.” —The New York TimesNew York Times bestselling author Kate Moretti’s next “exceptional…emotionally astute, [and] deliciously sinister” (Kirkus Reviews, starr...
What Remains of Her
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Stephen Graybill
Unabridged
10 hours 13 min
2018
EN
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Girls comes this chilling, harrowing thriller set in rural Vermont about a recluse who believes the young girl he's found in the woods is the reincarnation of his missing daughter, returned to help him solve her and his wife's disappearance.I won’t say a word. Cross my heart and hope to die…Jonah Baum, a professor of poetry at a local college in Vermont, sees his ordinary life come tumbling ...
- Narrated by
- Julia Deakin
Unabridged
10 hours 44 min
2018
EN
Emma Healey follows the success of her #1 internationally bestselling debut novel Elizabeth Is Missing, winner of the Costa First Novel Award, with this beautiful, thought-provoking, and psychologically complex tale that affirms her status as one of the most inventive and original literary novelists today.Jen and Hugh Maddox have just survived every parent's worst nightmare. Relieved, but still terrified, they sit by the hospital bedside of their fifteen-y...
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Xe Sands
Unabridged
8 hours 51 min
2017
EN
"Between author Rooney's story and narrator Xe Sands's craftsmanship, this Walk will sweep listeners off their feet...Through Sands we feel the force of Lillian's personality — with all its drive, wit, and grace — as well as the counterforces that want to constrain it." — AudioFile MagazineNOW A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLERA love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathlee...
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Selected Stories
Unabridged
14 hours 47 min
2016
EN
“I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be—their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves.”—Lydia Davis, from the forewordA Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With ...
Homesick for Another World
Stories
- Narrated by
- Alyssa BresnahanRichard Poe
Unabridged
8 hours 25 min
2017
EN
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our timeOttessa Moshfegh’s debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015.Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for deb...
Edgar and Lucy
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Victor Lodato
Unabridged
19 hours 44 min
2017
EN
"I love this book. Profoundly spiritual and hilariously specific...an unusual and intimate epic that manages to capture the wonder and terror of both child and parenthood with an uncanny clarity." — Lena Dunham, bestselling author of Not That Kind of GirlEdgar and Lucy is a page-turning literary masterpiece—a stunning examination of family love and betrayal.Eight-year-old Edgar Fini remembers nothing of the accident people still whisper ab...
Gold Fame Citrus
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Jorjeana MarieMacLeod Andrews
Unabridged
10 hours 27 min
2015
EN
An acclaimed “5 Under 35” fiction writer’s much-anticipated first novelIn 2012, Claire Vaye Watkins’s story collection, Battleborn, swept nearly every award for short fiction. Now this young writer, widely heralded as a once-in-a-generation talent, returns with a first novel that will more than meet readers’ hopes, harnessing the sweeping vision and deep heart that made her debut so arresting to a love story set in a devastatingly imagined near future....
- Narrated by
- Elif Batuman
Unabridged
13 hours 40 min
2017
EN
**Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction“Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ“Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity FairA portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.*...











