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    We Can Do Hard Things

    by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle

    Read by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle and Full Cast

    The #1 New York Times bestselling authors and award-winning podcasters Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle created We Can Do Hard Things — the guidebook for being alive — to help fellow travelers find their way through life.
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    The Missing Half

    by Ashley Flowers

    Read by Saskia Maarleveld and Ashley Flowers

    Two women haunted by their sisters’ unsolved disappearances band together in this captivating mystery from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Good People Here and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie.
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    Mark Twain

    by Ron Chernow

    Read by Jason Culp

    Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain. More than one hundred years after his death, Twain’s writing continues to be read, debated, and quoted. In this brilliant work of scholarship, a moving tribute to the writer’s talent and humanity, Chernow reveals the magnificent and often maddening life of one of the most original characters in American history.
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    Marsha

    by Tourmaline

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    Black transgender luminary Tourmaline brings to life the first definitive biography of the revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most important and remarkable figures in LGBTQIA+ history, revealing her story, her impact, and her legacy.
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    Big Asian Energy

    by John Wang

    Read by John Wang

    In his groundbreaking leadership book, John Wang, a top empowerment coach to Asian American professionals across Fortune 500 companies, offers research-backed guidance for Asian Americans to embody their most confident selves in business, relationships, and their everyday lives.
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    Hamnet

    by Maggie O'Farrell

    Read by Jessie Buckley

    The bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait delivers a luminous portrait of a marriage, a family ravaged by grief, and a boy whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time. “Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life … here is a novel … so gorgeously written that it transports you” (The Boston Globe).
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    Releasing 10

    by Chloe Walsh

    Read by Jacqueline Milne and Matthew Forsythe

    Lizzie Young has always felt she was too much everything. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at a young age, she’s never fit in with her family, her friends, her community. But when she meets a kind boy on the school bus, things start to look bright for the first time in her life. Hugh Biggs has an old soul and the wisdom of someone far beyond his years. He sees something in Lizzie Young that he can’t resist. Lizzie and Hugh’s bond seems unbreakable — their chemistry is electric, their love is potent, and their connection is soul deep — but even the truest love can be shaken by forces beyond control.
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    The Last Ferry Out

    by Andrea Bartz

    Read by Dani Martineck, Imani Jade Powers and Natasha Soudek

    On a trip to the tropical paradise where her fiancée died, a young woman begins to suspect the death was no accident — and the killer’s still on the island — in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Reese’s Book Club pick We Were Never Here.
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    It’s a Love Story

    by Annabel Monaghan

    Read by Hillary Huber

    From the USA Today bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script, a novel about a former adolescent TV actress-turned-Hollywood producer whose “fake it till you make it” mantra sets her on a crash course with her past, forcing her to spend a week on Long Island with the last man she thinks might make her believe in love.
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    One Golden Summer

    by Carley Fortune

    Read by AJ Bridel and Carley Fortune

    As a photographer, Alice is most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. But when she runs into someone from her youth, he makes her long to be seventeen again, when life was simpler and taking pictures was just for fun. But when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on her, she begins to worry for her heart. Because Alice sees people — that’s why she is so good at what she does — but she’s never met someone who looks and sees her right back. A radiant escape to the lake from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After and This Summer Will Be Different.
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    Dream On, Ramona Riley

    by Ashley Herring Blake

    Read by Gail Shalan

    A small-town waitress and a Hollywood star’s worlds collide in this new romance by Ashley Herring Blake, USA Today bestselling author of Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date.
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    The Names: A Read with Jenna Pick

    by Florence Knapp

    Read by Dervla Kirwan

    The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life? With exceptional sensitivity and depth, Knapp draws us into the story of one family, told through a prism of what-ifs, causing us to consider the “one, precious life” we are given. The book’s brilliantly imaginative structure, propulsive storytelling, and emotional, gut-wrenching power are certain to make The Names a modern classic.
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    The Original Daughter: A GMA Book Club Pick

    by Jemimah Wei

    Read by Eunice Wong

    In this dazzling debut, Stegner Fellow Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore.
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    The Emperor of Gladness: Oprah’s Book Club

    by Ocean Vuong

    Read by James Aaron Oh

    Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. Hallmarks of Ocean Vuong’s writing are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: A second chance.
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    My Name Is Emilia del Valle

    by Isabel Allende

    Read by Coral Peña and Johnathan McClain

    In this spellbinding historical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and The Wind Knows My Name, a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth about her father — and herself.
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    All We Lost Was Everything

    by Sloan Harlow

    Read by Ferdelle Capistrano and Steven Molony

    A sexy, dark romantic thriller — with a shocking twist — by the author of Everything We Never Said.
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    Trans History

    by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett

    Read by Alex L. Combs, Andrew Eakett and Full Cast

    An essential introduction to trans history, from ancient times to the present day. Conversations with modern activists, scholars, and creatives highlight the breadth of current trans experiences and gives listeners a deeper sense of the diversity of trans people, a group numbering in the millions. Moving, funny, heartbreaking, and empowering, this remarkable compendium from trans creators Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett is deeply researched, highly readable, and features a broad range of voices.
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    Death in the Cards

    by Mia P. Manansala

    Read by Dominique Salvacion

    The young adult debut from the award-winning author of Arsenic and Adobo! When a high school tarot reader’s latest client goes missing after a troubling reading, she must apply everything she’s learned from her private investigator mother to solve a case of her own.
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    The Education of Kia Greer

    by Alanna Bennett

    Read by Regan Aliyah

    How can you trust your heart in a world that’s plastic? The story of a teen girl who longs to escape the spotlight, and the PR relationship that helps her find real happiness.
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    Papa’s Coming Home

    by Chasten Buttigieg

    Read by Chasten Buttigieg

    A charming audiobook about unconditional love from New York Times bestselling author Chasten Buttigieg, perfect for families who love each other the whole year through.
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