Coming of Age Audiobooks | Fiction & Literature

Lacy Wren (Author), Fiona Audron (Narrator)

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L. M. Montgomery’s classic tale, Anne of Green Gables, gets a romantic, charming, and hilarious modern adaptation, set in New York City. After an idyllic girlhood in Avonlea, Long Island, Anne has packed up her trunk, said goodbye to her foster parents, Marilla and Matthew, and moved to the isle of Manhattan for grad school. Together with her best friend, Diana Barry, she’s ready to take on the world and find her voice as a writer. When her long-time archrival Gilbert Blythe shows up at Redmond College for their final year, Anne gets the shock of her life. Gil has been in California for the last five years—since he kissed her during a beach bonfire, and she ghosted him. Now the handsome brunette is flashing his dimples at her like he hasn’t a care in the world and she isn’t buying it. Paired with the same professor for their thesis, the two former competitors come to a grudging peace that turns into something so much deeper…and sexier than either intended. But when Gil seemingly betrays her to get ahead, Anne realizes she was right all along—she should never have trusted Gilbert Blythe. While Gil must prove to Anne that they’re meant to be together, she must come to terms with her old fears if she wants a happily-ever-after with the boy she’s always (secretly) loved.

Brina Starler (Author), Carly Robins (Narrator)

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Sneaking Candy

All I ever wanted was to make a name for myself as Candice Salinas, creative writing grad student at the University of Miami. Of course, secretly I already have made a name for myself: as Candy Sloane, self-published erotic romance writer. Though thrilled that my books are selling and I have actual fans, if anyone at UM found out, I could lose my scholarship ... and the respect of my faculty advisor, grade-A-asshole Professor Dylan. Enter James Walker, super-hot local barista and-surprise!-my student. Even though I know a relationship is totally off-limits, I can't stop myself from sneaking around with James, taking a few cues from my own erotic writing ... if you catch my drift. Candy's showing her stripes for the first time in my real life, and I've never had so much fun. But when the sugar high fades, can my secrets stay under wraps?

Lisa Burstein (Author), Inés Del Castillo (Narrator)

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Prince of Secrets and Shadows

Everyone has Secrets. PRAGUE, 1870. After joining the Order of the Crystal Daggers, led by her dauntless grandmother, Lady Penelope, Eleanora Svobodová set out to save her kingdom from oncoming devastation. And she failed. Following the attack on Prague Castle, Eleanora is determined to redeem herself. She sets out to win Karl’s trust while distancing herself from Ferdy, whose secrets and lies have done nothing to stop her from falling in love with him. As she struggles to let him go, questions about the mission and her mother’s past cause a rift between Amir and Lady Penelope and add to the growing discord between Eleanora and her brother. But when a cunning provocateur arrives in Prague, Eleanora discovers there is an even more deadly game afoot, one that reaches into Amir's past and threatens Lady Penelope's future. Now, the members of the Order must work together if they are to uncover the true enemy hiding in Bohemia. Can they work together despite their divisions? Or will their division lead to even more destruction? FROM THE BOOK: “How do I know you’re telling me the truth?” The last thing I wanted to do was hurt him, but if I did not find a way to break free of him, I would risk doing even more harm. Ferdy met my gaze with his. “I promise you this, Ella, that as of now, I will never lie to you again.” He leaned forward and kissed me again, and I stood there, letting him, desperately debating whether I could trust him or not. His promise burned through me, his words scorched into my being. It was so tempting to believe him, more tempting than anything else I had ever faced in all my life. Freedom was only freedom if I could trust it to be true.

C. S. Johnson (Author), Hannah Sharafian (Narrator)

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Aufregende Zeiten

Eine beißend komische, zeitgenössische Beziehungsgeschichte, zärtlich und einfühlsam erzählt.Ava ist 22 und hat keine Ahnung, was sie mit ihrem Leben anstellen soll. Doch dann trifft sie Julian. Einen Banker. Einen Banker, der gerne Geld für sie ausgibt. Und plötzlich findet sie sich im Gästezimmer seiner Wohnung wieder und trinkt Clos Vougeot, spricht über schwankende Kurse und hat Sex. Ihre Einkommensunterschiede sind groß, und sie bewahren die selbsternannte Linke und Feministin Ava vor unangenehmen Fragen. Oder macht es sie vielleicht zu einer schlechten Feministin, dass er für alles zahlt?Das wird sie herausfinden, sobald es vorbei ist. Julian verreist für längere Zeit - und Edith tritt auf den Plan. Edith, die ihr zuhört, wenn sie spricht, und ihr Freesien und Tulpen schenkt. Aber dann kehrt Julian doch unerwartet nach Hongkong zurück ...'Lustig, klug und unerschrocken - ein triumphales Debüt' - Hilary Mantel-

Naoise Dolan (Author), Franziska Grün (Narrator)

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Im Wasser sind wir schwerelos

Anfang der 1980er Jahre, Polen: Vor dem Hintergrund des gewaltsamen Niedergangs des Kommunismus entwickelt sich eine zarte und leidenschaftliche Liebesgeschichte zwischen zwei jungen Männern, die sich schließlich auf entgegengesetzten Seiten der politischen Kluft wiederfinden - ein erstaunlich poetisches und herzergreifendes literarisches Debüt!Als der Universitätsstudent Ludwik in einem landwirtschaftlichen Sommercamp auf den gutaussehenden Janusz trifft, ist er fasziniert von diesem unbekümmerten Fremden. Eine zufällige Begegnung am Fluss wird bald zu einer intensiven, aufregenden und alles verzehrenden Liebesaffäre. Nachdem ihre Pflichten im Camp erfüllt sind, verbringen die beiden ein paar traumhafte Wochen auf dem Land, weit weg von den gesellschaftlichen Zwängen des repressiven Kommunismus und des katholischen Glaubens und verlieben sich zutiefst ineinander.-

Thomas Jedrowski (Author), Emil Schwarz (Narrator)

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Fatgirl: Episodes 1-3: Box Set #1

FATGIRL: EPISODES 1-3 BOX SET (FATGIRL OMNIBUS COLLECTION #1)You'll never look at doughnuts the same way again. There's nothing that seventeen-year-old Kallie Grande-White hungers for more than to be a famous model like her mother -- except maybe actually food. But that's a small inconvenience, especially with the Model Middle America reality show holding auditions for the Next Top Heartland Teen Heartthrob Model right in Kallie's hometown. Nothing's going to stand in Kallie's way as she claws her way to the top. But when Kallie downs half a dozen of her PhD-in-nuclear-nanotechnology grandmother's radioactive doughnuts in a momentary fit of rage, everything changes -- starting with her own body! Kallie's grandmother, Aubela-Blanca, soon explains the radioactive doughnuts are designed to bring about the eater's worst fears, and just as Kallie's made it to the Model Middle America audition, she bubbles up into Fatgirl -- just in time to stop a terrorist attack and propel Kallie's alter-super-sized ego into instant, adoring fame. And that's just the beginning of Fatgirl's misadventures, as Abuela-Blanca needs Kallie's help tracking down the person who framed her for her recipe's theft and got her fired, and Fatgirl's fandom quickly blows up ... INCLUDES: Fatgirl: Origins, Part One Fatgirl: Origins, Part Two Fatgirl: Fandom Menace Perfect for anyone who's ever felt out of place in high school and never felt good enough for others to love you for who you are. Fatgirl is a new series featuring a satirical science fiction superhero take on growing up, PC culture, and diet culture from award-winning, genre-hopping author C. S. Johnson.

C. S. Johnson (Author), Jennifer Groberg (Narrator)

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The Ice Lion

This cli-fi novel from a notable archaeologist and anthropologist explores a frozen future where archaic species struggle to survive an apocalyptic Ice Age One thousand years in the future, the zyme, a thick blanket of luminous green slime, covers the oceans. Glaciers three-miles-high rise over the continents. The old stories say that when the Jemen, godlike beings from the past, realized their efforts to halt global warming had gone terribly wrong, they made a desperate gamble to save life on earth and recreated species that had survived the worst of the earth's Ice Ages. Sixteen-summers-old Lynx and his best friend Quiller are members of the Sealion People—archaic humans known as Denisovans. They live in a world growing colder, a world filled with monstrous predators that hunt them for food. When they flee to a new land, they meet a strange old man who impossibly seems to be the last of the Jemen. He tells Lynx the only way he can save his world is by sacrificing himself to the last true god, a quantum computer named Quancee.

Kathleen O'neal Gear (Author), Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Sisi Aisha Johnson (Narrator)

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Arcadia

An English-language debut that reveals and subverts contemporary conceptions of normative sexuality, capitalist culture, and environmental degradation. Farah moves into Liberty House-an arcadia, a community in harmony with nature-at the tender age of six, with her family. The commune's spiritual leader, Arcady, preaches equality, non-violence, anti-speciesism, free love, and uninhibited desire for all, regardless of gender, age, looks, or ability. At fifteen, Farah learns she is intersex, and begins to go beyond the confines of gender, as she explores the arc of her own desires. What, Farah asks, is a man or a woman? What does it mean to be part of a community? What is utopia when there are refugees nearby seeking shelter who cannot enter? Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam delivers a magisterial novel, both a celebration and a critique of innocence in the contemporary world. Contains mature themes.

Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam (Author), Sarah Mollo-Christensen (Narrator)

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The House Guest

The perfect family. The perfect chance. The perfect lie. A stunning novel about motherhood and betrayal, for readers who love Sarah Vaughan and Louise Candlish. 'Deliciously dark and totally twisted' ERIN KELLY 'Very acute on class, aspiration, women and status' SARAH PERRY, author of THE ESSEX SERPENT Kate trusts Della, and Della trusts Kate. Their downfall is each other. When Kate moves to London after the disappearance of her sister, she's in need of a friend. A chance meeting leads Kate to Della, a life coach who runs support groups for young women, dubbed by Kate as 'the Janes.' Della takes a special interest in Kate, and Kate soon finds herself entangled in Della's life - her house, her family, and her husband. It's only when she realises that she's in too deep that Della's veneer begins to crumble, and the warnings from 'the Janes' begin to come true. Why is Della so keen to keep Kate by her side? What does Kate have that Della might want? And what really lies beneath the surface of their friendship? A twisty psychological thriller for fans of Louise Candlish and Harriet Tyce. 'This twisty thriller is jam-packed with tense moments and a growing sense of unease' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING 'Dark, smart and classy' GILLIAN MCALLISTER 'Northedge is good at portraying the distinction between the real insecurities of some young women and the minor problems of the privileged type' DAILY MAIL 'Charlotte Northedge turns the psychological thumbscrews with relish' THE TIMES 'Full of twists, The House Guest spirals towards its dark conclusion, wrong footing the increasingly uneasy reader at every turn.' THE OBSERVER

Charlotte Northedge (Author), Kristin Atherton (Narrator)

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Great Circle: The dazzling new novel for fans of The Goldfinch

Brought to you by Penguin. I WAS BORN TO BE A WANDERER From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship; to the day she joins a pair of daredevil pilots looping and diving over the rugged forests of her childhood, to the thrill of flying Spitfires during the war, the life of Marian Graves has always been marked by a lust for freedom and danger. In 1950, she embarks on her life's dream - to fly a Great Circle around the globe, pole to pole. But after a crash landing she finds herself stranded on the Antarctic ice without enough fuel. With one fearsome piece of water separating her from completion of the Circle, she writes one last entry in her logbook. She is ready for her final journey. Half a century later, Hadley Baxter, a brilliant, troubled Hollywood starlet is irresistibly drawn to play Marian Graves, a role that will lead her to probe the deepest mysteries of the vanished pilot's life. GREAT CIRCLE is an enthralling journey over oceans and continents and a drama of exhilarating power. Combining unforgettable characters and thrilling suspense, it is a sweeping story of loss and obsession, sacrifice and survival, of the unknowable mysteries of freedom, love and life itself. Praise for Maggie Shipstead, New York Times bestseller and winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and LA Times First Fiction Prize: 'Outrageously gifted' RICHARD RUSSO 'Ferociously clever' GUARDIAN ''Graceful and dazzling' MARIA SEMPLE 'Joyously good' DAILY MAIL 'impressive' JEFFREY EUGENIDES © Maggie Shipstead 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Maggie Shipstead (Author), Alex Mckenna, Cassandra Campbell (Narrator)

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Happy For You

At the age of seven, they're friends. At 14, it's a crush. At 21, love...then heartbreak. At 28, could they be happy again? Every seven years, Ciara takes part in a study of happiness, together with a group of people born on the same day, including fun-loving Amelia and gorgeous, serious Max. Meeting at the ages of seven, 14, and 21, Ciara forms increasingly intense relationships. Until it all falls apart. Then, before the next meeting at 28, Max comes back into Ciara’s life unexpectedly. Can Ciara ever be truly happy?

Luci Beach (Author), Poppy Royana (Narrator)

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