“I quite liked this novel of a friendship and how it endured a pregnancy and a shared love and the past.” —Roxane Gay
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- Everything Here Is under Control
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By Emily Adrian
Read by Madeleine Lambert
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Release Date: 7/28/20
Formats: Digital Audy
Amanda is a new mother, and she is breaking. After a fight with her partner, she puts the baby in the car and drives from Queens to her hometown in rural Ohio, where she shows up unannounced on the doorstep of her estranged childhood best friend. Amanda thought that she had left Carrie firmly in the past. After their friendship ended, their lives diverged radically: Carrie had a baby the summer after high school, became a successful tattoo artist, and never escaped Ohio’s conservative grid of close-cut grass. But the trauma of childbirth and shock of motherhood compel Amanda to go back to the beginning and to trace the tangled roots of friendship and family in her own life.
Compelling and engaging, Everything Here Is under Control is a raw, honest, occasionally hilarious portrait of the complexity, conflicting emotions, and physical trauma of both modern motherhood and the intense, intimate friendships that women forge in their youth.
- Everything Here Is under Control
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By Emily Adrian
Read by Madeleine Lambert
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Release Date: 7/28/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The A-Word
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By Joy Preble
Read by Madeleine Lambert
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Release Date: 3/03/15
Formats: Digital Audy
It's been almost a year since Jenna Samuels' stoner brother, Casey, bit the dust and returned as her guardian angel; a year since Casey and his "angel boss," Amber Velasco, saved Jenna's life and helped her foil the bad guys, more or less; a year in which Jenna has solved the true mystery of the universe: how to get one Ryan Sloboda to ask her out.
Jenna's feeling mighty cheery about life and love. But Casey, whose doomed relationship with Lanie Phelps isn't doing much to distract him, has his own big question: Why is he still hanging around?
Bo Shivers, a heavenly head honcho Jenna and Casey didn't even know existed, might have the answer. Bo knows something big is coming, something that might just change everything for Jenna Samuels, who once again finds herself up to her non-winged shoulders in heavenly secrets of global proportions—just as she's finally found the perfect homecoming dance dress.
- The A-Word
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By Joy Preble
Read by Madeleine Lambert
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Release Date: 3/03/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Sweet Dead Life
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By Joy Preble
Read by Madeleine Lambert
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Release Date: 5/14/13
Formats: Digital Audy
"I found out two things today: One, I think I'm dying. And two, my brother is a perv."
So begins the diary of fourteen-year-old Jenna Samuels, who is having a very bad eighth-grade year. Her single mother spends all day in bed. Dad vanished when she was eight. Her sixteen-year-old brother, Casey, tries to hold together what's left of the family by working two after-school jobs—difficult, as he's stoned all the time. To make matters worse, Jenna is sick. When she collapses one day, Casey tries to race her to the hospital in their beat-up Prius and crashes instead.
Jenna wakes up in the ER to find Casey beside her. Beatified. Literally. The flab and zits? Gone. Before long, Jenna figures out that Casey didn't survive the accident at all. He's an "A-word" (she can't bring herself to utter the truth). Soon they discover that Jenna isn't just dying; she's being poisoned. And Casey has been sent back to help solve the mystery that not only holds the key to her survival, but also to their mother's mysterious depression and father's disappearance.
- The Sweet Dead Life
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By Joy Preble
Read by Madeleine Lambert
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Release Date: 5/14/13
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Stolen Children
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By Peg Kehret
Read by Madeleine Lambert
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Release Date: 3/01/13
Formats: Digital Audy
Amy learned a lot in her babysitting course—but not what to do if two thugs show up, intent on kidnapping.
When Amy agreed to babysit little Kendra Edgerton, she had no idea she was stepping into a kidnapping plot. Armed with misinformation and a weapon, the two men force the girls out of the house and take them to a remote cabin in the woods. There they make videos of the girls and mail them to Kendra's wealthy parents in an effort to get ransom money. After several of her escape attempts fail, Amy is forced to make one last, desperate move, sending clues to the police through the videos. But time is working against her.
In Stolen Children, award-winner Peg Kehret crafts a suspenseful thriller with a spunky, resourceful heroine.
- Stolen Children
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By Peg Kehret
Read by Madeleine Lambert
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Release Date: 3/01/13
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Exceptionals
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By Erin Cashman
Read by Madeleine Lambert
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Release Date: 3/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
In a famous family of exceptionally talented people, fifteen-year-old Claire Walker is ordinary—or so she leads everyone to believe. Yet the minute she steps out of line, her parents transfer her to Cambial Academy: the prestigious boarding school that her great-grandfather founded for students with supernatural abilities, or "specials."
Although Claire can't see ghosts or move objects with her mind like the other students, she does have a special she considers too lame to admit. Just as she is settling in, one by one the most talented students—the Exceptionals—go missing. In an attempt to find out what happened to them, Claire uncovers a dark prophecy foretelling a mysterious girl who will use her ability to save Cambial students from a dire fate.
Could she be that girl? Does the gorgeous but secretive boy she meets in the woods know more than he's letting on? After years of ignoring her special, Claire decides the time has come to embrace her ability—before it's too late.
- The Exceptionals
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By Erin Cashman
Read by Madeleine Lambert
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Release Date: 3/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
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- H. P. Lovecraft’s Book of the Supernatural
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Edited by Stephen Jones
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 8/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
H. P. Lovecraft is arguably the most important horror writer of the twentieth century. Culled from his 1927 essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature," Lovecraft acknowledges those authors and stories that he feels are the very finest the horror field has to offer, including Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, and Arthur Conan Doyle. This chilling collection includes twenty works, each prefaced by Lovecraft's own opinions and insights in each author's work, as well as Henry James' wonderfully atmospheric short novel, The Turn of the Screw. For every fan of modern horror, here is an opportunity to rediscover the origins of the genre with some of most terrifying stories ever imagined.
- H. P. Lovecraft’s Book of the Supernatural
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Edited by Stephen Jones
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 8/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Emerald City
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Read by Madeleine Lambert, Richard Waterhouse, and Charlie Thurston
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Release Date: 1/01/96
Formats: Digital Audy
These eleven masterful stories—the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan—deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan’s characters—models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls—are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations.
Elegant and poignant, the stories in Emerald City are seamless evocations of self-discovery.
- Emerald City
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Read by Madeleine Lambert, Richard Waterhouse, and Charlie Thurston
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Release Date: 1/01/96
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Invisible Circus
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Read by Madeleine Lambert
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Release Date: 12/01/94
Formats: Digital Audy
In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of eighteen-year-old Phoebe O'Connor.
Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe—a quest that yields both complex and disturbing revelations about family, love, and Faith's lost generation.- The Invisible Circus
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Read by Madeleine Lambert
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Release Date: 12/01/94
Formats: Digital Audy