Family & Relationships

Paper Towns

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 3 mins)
• By John Green
• Narrated By Dan John Miller
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Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows.

Circle of Flight: Ellie Chronicles

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 12 mins)
• By John Marsden
• Narrated By Mikaela Martin

It is a time of profound change for Ellie Linton. Enemies are everywhere. Some come crawling over the hills others drive in and knock on the front door. Sometimes her friends are there and sometimes they are not. Ellie fights every inch of the way. But when courage and imagination are not enough, when she is trapped and helpless, Ellie must face the end of life as she knows it...standing alone, sustained only by her own strength.

All the Crooked Saints

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Maggie Stiefvater
• Narrated By Thom Rivera
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From best-selling author Maggie Stiefvater, a gripping tale of darkness, miracles, and family. At the heart of Bicho Raro, Colorado you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles.

Nowhere but Here

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 1 min)
• By Katie McGarry
• Narrated By Marguerite Gavin, Sean Pratt

Seventeen-year-old Emily likes her life the way it is: doting parents, good friends, good school in a safe neighborhood. Sure, she's curious about her biological father, the one who chose life in a motorcycle club, the Reign of Terror, over being a parent, but that doesn't mean she wants to be a part of his world. But when a reluctant visit turns into an extended summer vacation among relatives she never knew she had, one thing becomes clear: Nothing is what it seems.

The Bone Sparrow

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Zana Fraillon
• Narrated By Keith Brockett
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Subhi's imagination is as big as the ocean and wide as the sky, but his world is much smaller: he's spent his whole life in an immigration detention centre. The Bone Sparrow is a powerful, heartbreaking, sometimes funny and ultimately uplifting hymn to freedom and love. Sometimes, at night, the dirt outside turns into a beautiful ocean. As red as the sun and as deep as the sky. I lie in my bed, Queeny's feet pushing up against my cheek, and listen to the waves lapping at the tent.

The Considine Curse

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Gareth P. Jones
• Narrated By Judy Flynn
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Fourteen-year-old Mariel returns to England for her grandmother’s funeral. It is the first time she has been back since she emigrated with her mother as a baby, and it is the beginning of the uncovering of some really extraordinary truths about the Considine family. Why did Mariel’s mum argue with Grandma all those years ago? Why does Amelia wear so much perfume? Why is there a very large cat flap in Louvre House? And most importantly, what is the dark secret that lies at the heart of the family?

The Education of Margot Sanchez

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Lilliam Rivera
• Narrated By Almarie Guerra
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After "borrowing" her father's credit card to finance a more stylish wardrobe, Margot Sanchez suddenly finds herself grounded. And by grounded, she means working as an indentured servant in her family's struggling grocery store to pay off her debts. With each order of deli meat she slices, Margot can feel her carefully cultivated prep school reputation slipping through her fingers, and she's willing to do anything to get out of this punishment. Lie, cheat, and maybe even steal.

Hungry for Life: A Memoir Unlocking the Truth Inside an Anorexic Mind

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Rachel Richards
• Narrated By Rachel Richards
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In this painfully moving memoir, take a firsthand look at anorexia through the eyes of a young girl. Even in kindergarten, Rachel Richards knows something isn't right. By leading us through her distorted thoughts, she shines a light on the experience and mystery of mental illness. As she grows up, unable to comprehend or communicate her inner trauma, Rachel lashes out, hurting herself, running away from home, and fighting her family. Restricting food gives her the control she craves. But after being hospitalized and force-fed, Rachel only retreats further into herself.

The See-Through Leopard

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Sibel Hodge
• Narrated By Rada Sullivan
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Most 16-year-old girls are obsessed with their looks, but Jazz Hooper's obsessed for a different reason. After a car accident that kills her mum, Jazz is left with severe facial scars and retreats into a dark depression. Fearing what will happen if Jazz doesn't recover, her dad makes a drastic decision to move them from England to a game reserve in Kenya for a new start. And when Jazz finds an orphaned leopard cub, it sets off a chain of events that lead her on a two-year journey of discovery, healing, and love.

Does My Head Look Big in This?

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Randa Abdel-Fattah
• Narrated By Rebecca Macauley

Welcome to my world. I'm Amal Abdel-Hakim, a 17-year-old Australian-Palestinian-Muslim still trying to come to grips with my various identity hyphens. It's hard enough being cool as a teenager when being one issue behind the latest Cosmo is enough to disqualify you from the in-group. Try wearing a veil on your head and practicing the bum's up position at lunchtime and you know you're in for a tough time at school.

Openly Straight

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 1 min)
• By Bill Konigsberg
• Narrated By Pete Cross
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Rafe is a normal teenager from Colorado. He's been out since 8th grade, accepted by his peers & championed by his progressive parents. And while that's important, all Rafe really wants is to be a regular guy. To have his sexuality be a part of who he is, but not the headline, every single time. So when Rafe transfers to an all-boys' boarding school in New England, he decides to keep his sexuality a secret - not so much going back in the closet as starting over with a clean slate.

Heidi (BBC Children's Classics)

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 47 mins)
• By Johanna Spyri
• Narrated By uncredited

When Heidi, a lively orphan girl, goes to live with her grandfather in a little hut high in the Alps she soon learns to live in perfect harmony with her surroundings, leading a carefree life with her constant companion, Peter, a young goatherd. But her happiness is short-lived when she is sent to stay with a rich city family as a companion for the sick Clara. Although she becomes fond of the older girl, Heidi is terribly homesick.

We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Josh Sundquist
• Narrated By Josh Sundquist

When I was 25 years old, it came to my attention that I had never had a girlfriend. At the time, I was actually under the impression that I was in a relationship, so this bit of news came as something of a shock. Why was Josh still single? To find out, he tracked down each of the girls he had tried to date since middle school and asked them straight up: What went wrong? The results of Josh's semiscientific investigation are in your hands.

Until Friday Night: Field Party, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Abbi Glines
• Narrated By Olivia Song, Sebastian York

To everyone who knows him, West Ashby has always been that guy: the cocky, popular, way-too-handsome-for-his-own-good football god who led Lawton High to the state championships. But while West may be big man on campus on the outside, on the inside he's battling the grief that comes with watching his father slowly die of cancer.

El Leon, La Bruja y El Ropero: Las Cronicas de Narnia (Texto Completo)

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 8 mins)
• By C. S. Lewis
• Narrated By Karl Hoffman

Un ropero abandonado se convierte en el pasaje a la más maravillosa aventura donde cuatro niños, Pedro, Susana, Edmundo, y Lucía, entran a otro tiempo, a otra tierra esclavizada por el poder de la Bruja Blanca. Pero cuando todas las esperanzas están perdidas la llegada de los niños y el retorno del gran León Aslan señalan grandes cambios

Wintergirls

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Laurie Halse Anderson
• Narrated By Jeannie Stith
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Lia and Cassie were best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies. But now Cassie is dead. Lia's mother is busy saving other people's lives.Her father is away on business. Her stepmother is clueless. And the voice inside Lia's head keeps telling her to remain in control, stay strong, lose more, weigh less. If she keeps on going this way - thin, thinner, thinnest - maybe she'll disappear altogether.

Toad Heaven

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Morris Gleitzman
• Narrated By Morris Gleitzman

The sequel to Toad Rage, the story of Limpy, a heroic and slightly squashed cane toad. This time Limpy has more extraordinary adventures as he sets off in search of a nature reserve he has heard about, where he and his friends and family will be safe. Accompanied by Goliath he sets off on his epic adventure but nothing goes quite according to plan.

Loving the Self Affirmations: Breaking the Cycles of Codependent Unconscious Belief Systems

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 16 mins)
• By Lisa A. Romano
• Narrated By Gina E. Manegio

These affirmations were specifically created to help heal the unconscious belief systems responsible for low self-esteem - low-self worth - guilt - shame - fear - and primarily codependency. All relationships in life are mirrors of the relationship we have with Self. The relationship we have with Self is the result of the value or lack of - we absorbed about Self when children. If when we were children and forming ideas about Self - we were taught to believe we had no worth - then our ideas about Self are fractured.

The Four-Story Mistake

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Elizabeth Enright
• Narrated By Pamela Dillman
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Following up on the classic children's novel The Saturdays, Elizabeth Enright continues the engaging tale of the Melendy family (Mona, Rush, Randy, Oliver, Father, and Cuffy, the housekeeper) and their move from an old brownstone in New York City to a charming house in the country. Called the Four-Story Mistake for its odd look and confused architectural history, the house offers the Melendys wonderful quirks and surprises.

Moonrise

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Sarah Crossan
• Narrated By Adam Sims
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'They think I hurt someone. But I didn't. You hear? Coz people are gonna be telling you all kinds of lies. I need you to know the truth.' Joe hasn't seen his brother for 10 years, and it's for the most brutal of reasons. Ed is on death row. But now Ed's execution date has been set, and Joe is determined to spend those last weeks with him, no matter what other people think....

Safe and Sound: Promise Me Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Alli Hope
• Narrated By Abigail Hope Endsley
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Sixteen-year-old Hailey Perish knows her life can't get much worse. Since her dad split a few years ago, Hailey's mother has spiraled hard and fast, careening toward rock bottom and threatening to take her daughter down with her. Hailey now marks time by evictions, her mother's poker games, and Saturday School where she voluntarily shows up for weekend detentions to secure her one promised meal of the week. She has no room for relationships, especially with someone like her childhood love and junior class golden boy Carson Hart.

Once You Know This

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Emily Blejwas
• Narrated By Catherine Taber

Eleven-year-old Brittany knows there has to be a better world out there. Lately, though, it sure doesn't feel like it. She and her best friend, Marisol, stick together at school, but at home Brittany's granny is sick, her cat is missing, there's never any money, and there's her little brother, Tommy, to worry about. Brittany has a hard time picturing her future as anything but a plain white sky. If her life is going to ever change, she needs a plan.

The Education of Margot Sanchez

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Lilliam Rivera
• Narrated By Almarie Guerra
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

After "borrowing" her father's credit card to finance a more stylish wardrobe, Margot Sanchez suddenly finds herself grounded. And by grounded, she means working as an indentured servant in her family's struggling grocery store to pay off her debts. With each order of deli meat she slices, Margot can feel her carefully cultivated prep school reputation slipping through her fingers, and she's willing to do anything to get out of this punishment. Lie, cheat, and maybe even steal.

Moonrise

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Sarah Crossan
• Narrated By Adam Sims
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

'They think I hurt someone. But I didn't. You hear? Coz people are gonna be telling you all kinds of lies. I need you to know the truth.' Joe hasn't seen his brother for 10 years, and it's for the most brutal of reasons. Ed is on death row. But now Ed's execution date has been set, and Joe is determined to spend those last weeks with him, no matter what other people think....

The Thing with Feathers

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 18 mins)
• By McCall Hoyle
• Narrated By Nora Hunter
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Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: She's homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and she's probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who can't swim. Then Emilie's mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pj's to halls full of strangers. To make matters worse, Emilie is paired with starting point guard Chatham York for a major research project on Emily Dickinson. She should be ecstatic when Chatham shows interest, but she has a problem. She hasn't told anyone about her epilepsy.

Hungry for Life: A Memoir Unlocking the Truth Inside an Anorexic Mind

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Rachel Richards
• Narrated By Rachel Richards
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

In this painfully moving memoir, take a firsthand look at anorexia through the eyes of a young girl. Even in kindergarten, Rachel Richards knows something isn't right. By leading us through her distorted thoughts, she shines a light on the experience and mystery of mental illness. As she grows up, unable to comprehend or communicate her inner trauma, Rachel lashes out, hurting herself, running away from home, and fighting her family. Restricting food gives her the control she craves. But after being hospitalized and force-fed, Rachel only retreats further into herself.

The Bone Sparrow

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Zana Fraillon
• Narrated By Keith Brockett
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Subhi's imagination is as big as the ocean and wide as the sky, but his world is much smaller: he's spent his whole life in an immigration detention centre. The Bone Sparrow is a powerful, heartbreaking, sometimes funny and ultimately uplifting hymn to freedom and love. Sometimes, at night, the dirt outside turns into a beautiful ocean. As red as the sun and as deep as the sky. I lie in my bed, Queeny's feet pushing up against my cheek, and listen to the waves lapping at the tent.

The Gates of Light

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Pari Forood
• Narrated By Pari Forood
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While working in Washington, DC, in 1984 as the press secretary for Congressman Hamilton Fish Jr., Pari Forood gets a phone call from her father. Her 17-year-old Iranian cousin has been drafted during the Iran/Iraq war. He must flee from Iran or face an almost certain death. Joining a cast of international characters that include Pakistani black market passport dealers and members of Francois Mitterrand's inner political sanctum, Forood uses her ties in Washington to help extricate her young cousin.