Audiobooks narrated by Kevin R. Free

"From award-winning author Rex Ogle, a mixed-format middle grade novel about three boys who skip school, told in verse and prose, and comics. With a dad in jail and a lack of teachers interested in helping him learn, Manny doesn’t see the point in anything besides skateboarding and writing lyrics. Calvin has so many responsibilities to his father and little brothers that when his bike is stolen, he can’t make it to school on time. And while Liam is studious and wants to become a doctor, he is tormented by bullies and hides out in an unused janitor’s closet instead of going to class. When the boys are thrown together in detention, they realize that they might still have a lot to learn—not just from their teachers, but from each other. Absent tells the boys’ stories in three distinct voices: Manny’s in verse, Calvin’s as a comic, and Liam’s as a prose journal. Printz Award Honoree and YALSA Nonfiction Award winner Rex Ogle explores school absenteeism in a compelling, entertaining, and utterly distinct novel. 'Brilliantly executed; a tender yet unflinching look at students who often, tragically, slip between the cracks.'—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "

Rex Ogle (Author), Kevin R. Free, Mark Sanderlin, Ramón de Ocampo (Narrator)

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Malcolm X, The CIA, and Other Blacks

"Like two intrepid leftist sleuths, Herb Boyd and Don Rojas take a deep dive into the files of the CIA, mainly inspired by Malcolm X's belief that he was under surveillance. They unearth and disclose enough evidence to confirm Malcolm's suspicion as well as to suggest, through circumstantial documentation, at least one agent stalking him. The book offers valuable insight into the history of government agencies spying on Black activists, and targeting Malcolm was just among the most notable of those in the CIA's crosshairs. Plummeting the depths of secrecy and intrigue of the CIA and Black radicals, Boyd and Rojas provide a promising blueprint and when, if ever, the agencies decide to declassify more documents on Malcolm, their work will be pivotal in the further pursuit of this ignominious truth."

Don Rojas, Herb Boyd (Author), Kevin R. Free (Narrator)

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Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy: A Tor Original

"A 2026 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Novelette! Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover... '[Narrator Kevin R.] Free employs subtle accents to distinguish the human characters; Nanna Naja especially is a hoot. But it’s his Murderbot, who has grown and changed over eight installments, that will have listeners rapt.' —Kirkus Reviews on Platform Decay (Earphones Award winner) Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy features sound design and special effects to enhance your listening enjoyment. A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com"

Martha Wells (Author), Kevin R. Free (Narrator)

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Chosen: How Opening My Home Healed My Heart

"In the tradition of The Glass Castle, a poignant, inspirational memoir of a lonely girl who survived decades of harrowing abuse at home to open her heart and redefine what it is to be a family and a mom. No child should grow up like Sandi Smith. At age three, she was locked in a closet. By age eight, she was behind the wheel of a car, and by age nine, she was forced to hunt deer for food. She was bartered as a child laborer to pick pinto beans and forced to clean motel rooms by her beautiful, schizophrenic mother and perpetually angry, inventor father. For six months, she lived alone in a trailer, stealing from the local grocery store to eat. In the rich tradition of The Glass Castle and Educated, Sandi recounts her heart-stopping, nomadic upbringing amid the mountains of Utah, flat farmlands of Idaho, and California sprawl, as her father's schemes and scams repeatedly failed. She escaped to college as a basketball player and worked her way through law school, rising to head of litigation for Apple and raising two children. Having built a conventional life, she never expected to re-examine the pain of her survivalist past. A sudden move east and a chance encounter inside the parking garage at the tony, elite Sidwell Friends School forever changed Sandi's life. She intersected with three young Black men, all football players at Sidwell, on scholarship. Sandi and her family open their home to these young men, and gradually, they share their own stories of hurt and survival with the woman they call "Momma." Fearlessly facing the challenges of race, class, prejudice, addiction, and abandonment, Chosen shows us how one determined mother built a family of her choosing and recovered the affirming healing power of love."

Sandra Ellen Smith (Author), Kevin R. Free, Suehyla El-Attar Young (Narrator)

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Platform Decay

"A most-anticipated title from USA Today, Goodreads, BookPage, BookRiot, Seattle Times, and The Nerd Daily! Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know. Including human children. Ugh. This may well call for … eye contact! (Emotion check: Oh, for f—) “This spectacular journey, punctuated with satisfying combat scenes, takes on an epic flavor grounded by Murderbot’s sardonic voice and Wells' exploration of mental health and physical well-being. Equal parts action packed, humorous, and heartfelt, this proves the series shows no signs of slowing down.”—Publishers Weekly"

Martha Wells (Author), Kevin R. Free (Narrator)

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Marvel: What If...The Multiverse Was Doomed?

"What If....the Watcher saved the Multiverse? Victor von Doom has scoured across time, space, and countless dimensions and yet has never been closer to the home he’s been searching for. At long last, he has found the reality with his son, Franklin, a boy who welcomes him with open arms. However, soon after they meet, Victor discovers the boy was never a von Doom, but a Richards; the son of his arch-nemesis Reed Richards. Blinded by the sting of this loss, Victor von Doom will simply use Franklin and his powers as the key to ensuring the Multiverse can never break his heart again. With Doctor Doom only a heartbeat away from gaining unlimited control over all reality in every universe, America Chavez must gather a team of nexus beings from across the Multiverse to make one last stand. Loki, the Scarlet Witch, Kitty Pryde, and Venom-Moon Knight must give up the comfort and safety of their own universes to take up arms as a new band of Avengers to save everything they've ever known and everyone they've ever loved. © DaVaun Sanders 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026"

DaVaun Sanders (Author), Kevin R. Free (Narrator)

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What I Learned from Mom: 27 Celebrated Individuals on How Mother's Wisdom Shaped Their Lives

"The CEOs behind Sesame Street bring you the inspirational and life-changing lessons and parenting insights that successful people have learned from their moms. The first and most important teacher in life is mom. Her lessons start in early childhood and last a lifetime. Behind many successful people is a mother who gave her child the example, the insights, and the drive that helped them live their extraordinary life and become a better parent themselves. In this inspiring book, the past and present CEOs of Sesame Workshop, the producers of Sesame Street, capture the stories and love that some successful people have for their own mothers and how this shaped their lives. This book is a love letter to mothers everywhere."

Jeffrey D. Dunn, Sherrie Rollins Westin (Author), Cindy Kay, Jasmin Walker, Jonathan Todd Ross, Kevin R. Free, Libby McKnight (Narrator)

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Breakout

"‘YA’s biggest stars have written the collab of the year’ – Entertainment Weekly Trapped at a luxurious resort off the coast of Florida, a group of elite teens are about to have a spring break they will never forget … but not all of them are coming home. The star-studded team of authors behind New York Times bestsellers Blackout and Whiteout returns with a thrillerfull of intrigue, betrayal, and heart-stopping romance For Thurgood Marshall Academy's best and brightest–five friends who've been thick as thieves since kindergarten–this spring break is all about forgetting: they want nothing more than to wash away last year's tragedy, and the human-shaped hole it left in their friend group. It's a hole the new kid, Anthony Brooks, seems to fit right into. So when he invites the Five to join him on a private island for a week at his dad's luxury resort, they agree with zero hesitation. No one's counting on a freak tropical storm swooping in and killing the vibe. And speaking of killing, they're also ill-prepared for the mounting collection of dead bodies… including (another) one of their own. As their dream trip unravels, everything they tried to leave behind–secrets, lies, betrayals, dead best friends–seems to be washing up on the shore of their lives for everyone to see. Will any of them make it out alive? From the bestselling, award-winning team behind Blackout and Whiteout—Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon—comes a thriller that begs the question: is it possible to outrun the worst thing you've ever done?"

Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Dhonielle Clayton, Nic Stone, Nicola Yoon, Tiffany D. Jackson (Author), Amber Dekkers, Cary Hite, James Fouhey, Kevin R. Free, Korey Jackson, Liz Femi, Marcella Cox (Narrator)

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Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It

"With Malcolm Gladwell–like clarity, Churn captures the most commonplace tensions of life in a multifaceted democracy and how to minimize their corrosive effects in everyday life. A pioneer of social psychology, Claude M. Steele is renowned for Whistling Vivaldi, a runaway bestseller that analyzed societal stereotypes—from beliefs about racial and gender test score gaps to the athletic prowess of Black men—and how to mitigate these “stereotype threats.” In Churn, he coins a new term to identify “the agitation we can feel in diverse settings,” such as everyday exchanges between teachers and students; police and the public; managers and employees; parents and children; and strangers, or even friends, of different sexes and races. Steele braids together psychological research with his own biracial life story, demonstrating how initial wariness between people of different identities is as much a product of our history as of our biases. Through brilliant analysis Churn reveals how trust building can be a fresh and surprisingly powerful strategy for mitigating these tensions in the real-life settings of our lives and for realizing the full potential of our multiracial, multiethnic, multi-classed democracy."

Claude M. Steele (Author), Kevin R. Free (Narrator)

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Halo: Waypoint Chronicles: Volume One

"A thrilling short story collection set within the expanded universe of the New York Times bestselling video game series Halo! Delve once more into stories of legendary heroism and star-spanning conflicts—from the time of the ancient Forerunners to the perils of a twenty-sixth century clash between the United Nations Space Command and the Banished alien alliance. Halo: Waypoint Chronicles—Volume One collects over thirty short stories from all corners of the Halo universe, including twenty-four adventures previously only available online, plus ten brand-new tales exclusive to this collected volume! Also included are dozens of additional pieces of lore-laden intel items and story vignettes connected to the Halo Infinite game experience."

Alexander Wakeford, Jeff Easterling (Author), Alexander Wakeford, Austin Murphy, Camilla Arfwedson, Cary Hite, Cxee Foxx, Daniel Henning, Darren O'Hare, Erika Soto, Fred Tatasciore, Gideon Emery, Helen Laser, Jacques Roy, Jean Gilpin, Jeff Easterling, Jeff Steitzer, Jen Taylor, Jenna Sharpe, Kevin R. Free, Lisa Flanagan, Lottie Van-Praag, Luc Allock, Martin Smith, Pierce O'Toole, Sarah Elmelah, Scott Brick, Stewart Crank, Suzie McGrath, Tamara Taylor, Tricia Helfer, Trieu Tran, Yinka Ladeinde (Narrator)

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Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World

"A lively and captivating journey through the world of the Transcendentalists, America's first group of public intellectuals, whose visionary ideas reinvented our culture and politics and remain an inspiration today. "An impeccable and often dazzling behind-the-scenes look at the Concord iconoclasts clustered around Emerson who helped define what it means to be an American original." —Douglas Brinkley In the 1840s, America was a land of utopian promise, and nowhere captured this spirit of possibility better than Concord, Massachusetts. At the heart of this intellectual and cultural revolution was Ralph Waldo Emerson, a national celebrity who brought together a circle of bold and creative free thinkers. In The Emerson Circle, Bruce Nichols delivers a fascinating narrative of this transformative era, breathing life into the friendships and philosophies that comprised the titanic intellectual energy of this American Renaissance. Concord wasn't just a town; it was a crucible of innovation and reform. Luminaries such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry David Thoreau gathered there, united by ideas that would shape the nation. Nichols recreates this vibrant world, packed with brilliant conversations, emotional correspondences, and the essays, novels, speeches, and poetry that forever marked and changed American culture. Along the way, he shares intimate, surprising details—Thoreau's frustration with Emerson, Hawthorne's intense shyness masking deep love and hate—that make these iconic figures human. This book captures a forgotten utopian moment in our history. Anything seemed possible: abolishing property, money, and marriage, not just slavery; granting equal rights to women; eating vegan diets; banning alcohol and caffeine. These men and women turned away from the Bible in favor of the natural world and science, and they inspired our greatest early writers to create their most original and lasting works. With vivid storytelling and thought-provoking insights, Bruce Nichols invites us to reimagine the power of ideas to change the world—just as Emerson and his circle did nearly two centuries ago."

Bruce Nichols (Author), Kevin R. Free (Narrator)

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I Love Earth with The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle (Author), Kevin R. Free (Narrator)

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