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Audiobooks September 2026 |
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Based on a True Story
by Sarah Vaughan
Famed children's author Dame Eleanor Kingman has summoned her family and friends to her exquisite manor house. They're celebrating her birthday and her latest number one bestseller. But the night before the party, Eleanor receives an email that threatens to expose the lie she's kept for over half a century. Someone knows her secret--and the list of suspects is long. With a television crew arriving to film a documentary of her life, Eleanor needs to find out who sent the email--and preserve her legacy and multimillion-pound career.
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Getting Away with Murder
by Shari Lapena
Jill and Ted adore their New York brownstone the way others adore their children. It is the stuff of glossy magazines and real-estate dreams. So when Ted's inheritance runs out and he makes a bad investment, they panic. How can they protect their beloved home and enviable lifestyle? The answer is obvious--to them. The death of a wealthy family member--from whom they stand to inherit millions--could solve all their problems. Together, they will get away with murder. As long as they trust each other. As long as neither makes a mistake. As long as there are no surprises...
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Hope Rises
by David Baldacci
Walter Nash, alias Dillon Hope, is on the road to revenge after transforming into a physically imposing man with lethal skills. He's determined to take down Victoria Steers, head of a global criminal operation. Working as an FBI informant, he'll cross enemy lines and try to get close to her. But Steers is shrewd and only brings those she trusts completely into her inner circle. And despite hating the woman for destroying his life, Nash finds himself oddly drawn to her. What he ultimately discovers will turn all he believed upside down, forcing Nash to do something truly unfathomable.
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Someone Else's Husband
by Kimberly McCreight
Gretchen Falk, a wealthy Park Avenue sophisticate, has a seemingly perfect life. She worries when her investment banker husband Richard decides to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. But it's not the mountain that's dangerous--it's another climber: Frankie Callahan, an aspiring artist with a shady past. Less than two weeks after their return to New York, Frankie's apartment is a crime scene, and Richard has been charged with her murder. It falls to Gretchen to prove her beloved husband's innocence.
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Three Reasons for Revenge
by Dervla McTiernan
Alexis Turner goes to the police station to report an assault. By the end of the day, she is nowhere to be found. Soon after she disappears, three packages arrive at three very different doors: a respected psychologist's home, a socialite's mansion, and a struggling single father's run-down apartment. Each gift is perfectly tailored to its recipient--and each will tear apart the life of its intended victim. Detective Sergeant Judith Lee deduces the perpetrator has intimate knowledge of their targets and knows exactly how to hurt them where they're most vulnerable. As she investigates, Judith discovers she's being forced to play a dangerous game.
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The Artist and the Feast
by Lucy Steeds
During a scorching summer in 1920s Provence, a young journalist, Joseph Adelaide, turns up at the farmhouse of reclusive artist Edouard Tartuffe, hoping to write an article about him. There, he meets Ettie, Tartuffe's niece, who appears to do everything for her uncle--from cooking and cleaning to catering to his maniacal moods. Joseph is beguiled by this foreign place, Tartuffe, and most of all by Ettie, who watches everything so quietly from the periphery. As the summer wears on, and as new ideas and passions are explored, Joseph, Ettie, and Tartuffe are propelled toward a finale that reveals long-held secrets and sets the world on fire.
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Black Bag
by Luke Kennard
An out-of-work actor accepts a quirky role--sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag--to aid a professor's psychological experiment. How will Dr. Blend's students react to someone encased in an oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall? The role soon has unexpected consequences. A professor of post-humanism develops research questions of her own--in particular, can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag? And the actor's childhood friend forms a vision for monetizing this crazy situation. It's a warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity, and an off-kilter love story all wrapped in one.
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Cool Machine
by Colson Whitehead
Cool Machine is the final novel in Colson Whitehead's acclaimed Harlem Trilogy. Set in New York City during the 1980s, the story returns to Ray Carney, a furniture store owner who balances a legitimate family life with his past as an underground criminal fence. The narrative is split into connected episodes capturing a gritty era of high crime, shifting real estate, and urban change in Harlem. Ray, along with his aging criminal associate Pepper, gets pulled back into illicit schemes to help fund his wife's business. Through heists, stolen artifacts, and sharp social commentary, the novel explores systemic racism, capitalism, and the evolution of the city.
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Daughters of the Sun and Moon
by Lisa See
In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty, and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Each woman comes from a very different background, and each has her own desires. Dove wants to love and be loved, Petal desires freedom, and Moon seeks justice. Together they face a larger society that wishes them not one ounce of good will.
Anti-Chinese sentiment is strong in LA. During the Night of Horrors, all three women are challenged in ways they could not have imagined. Brought together by hardship and heartbreak, they must use their bravery and endurance to discover their voices, find freedom, and connect through solace and friendship. Together they are daughters of the sun and moon.
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Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
by Ben Reeves
Travis is Death in the modern world, offering people comfort in their final hours of life and never trying to change anyone's fate. Then Travis meets Dalia, a midwife, and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter Layla, who live across the hall. Despite his best attempts to keep his distance, he finds himself wholeheartedly embraced by other people for the first time. Travis begins to understand what it means to be truly alive--and what might be irrevocably lost in death. Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt is an uplifting story about appreciating life, accepting its end, and finding our place in the universe.
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The Fine Art of Lying
by Alexandra Andrews
It was Clare Bast's love of art that saved her from a bleak, predictable life in upstate New York. She was drawn to the cultured world of Manhattan's Upper East Side where she met Jed, her doting, affluent husband. Clare secretly can't help but feel like an imposter in Jed's one-percent, Park-Avenue life. But when she's introduced to influential friends--a curator here, a gallerist there, an aficionado abroad--Clare feels an essential part of herself coming alive again. That is, until she discovers an important painting hanging in an attractive art dealer's home. She's caught at the scene of a gruesome murder and a stolen masterpiece--and every clue uncovered points back to her. What, exactly, has she gotten herself into... and how is she going to get herself out?
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How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
by David Richo
Retaining the core message of becoming more mindful in relationships, this updated edition includes new and revised material that addresses how we live and love today. The preface touches on Richo's experience with the book over time and outlines the key updates, including attention to online dating and modern communication styles. Five hallmarks of mindful loving are explored, detailing how they play a key role in relationships. Brimming with practical exercises for couples and singles, How to Be an Adult in Relationships offers heartening insights into a lifelong journey of love.
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Ransom
by Daniel Silva
Alice Winter, an ultra-wealthy British socialite, has millions of followers on social media. But when she disappears while on holiday with three old friends, her desperate husband, the real estate baron Edward Knight, turns to Gabriel Allon to find her. Gabriel discovers Alice has many secrets. But Edward has one too--and it links Gabriel to an old enemy waiting for the perfect moment to exact vengeance.
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Rocket's Red Glare
by James Patterson
Nat Phillips leads an elite roster of special operators. They are
ex-Special Forces, communications specialists, and intelligence officers. Phillips is a brilliant strategist and battle-tested leader who inspires total loyalty in his team. Now these decorated veterans of international warfare are at home and on stand-by--until a presidential campaign is interrupted by murder. Suddenly, the plan is no longer the stuff of action movies. Emergency operations are happening not overseas but in the centers of American power, from Nantucket to Washington, DC. This national crisis is real.
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