Books With Unlikely Friendships

Books With Unlikely Friendships

Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship With Elvis Presley book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir

Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship With Elvis Presley

By Jerry Schilling and Chuck Crisafulli, narrated by William Dufris
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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On a lazy Sunday in 1954, 12-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch-football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a 19-year-old Elvis Presley, the local teen whose first record, That's All Right, had just debuted on Memphis radio. The two became fast friends, even as Elvis turned into the world's biggest star.

Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

By John Grogan, narrated by Johnny Heller
Tags: Literary Fiction

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John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wriggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same.

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My Summer Darlings

By May Cobb, narrated by Karissa Vacker, Amy Gordon, Nan McNamara and, Kristen DiMercurio
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Jen Hansen, Kittie Spears, and Cynthia Nichols have been friends since childhood. They are now approaching forty and their lives have changed, but their insular East Texas town has not. They stay sane by drinking wine in the afternoons, dishing about other women in the neighborhood, and bonding over the heartache of their own encroaching middle age and raising ungrateful teens.

The Accomplice book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

The Accomplice

By Lisa Lutz, narrated by Lisa Flanagan
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Everyone has the same questions about best friends Owen and Luna: What binds them together so tightly? Why weren’t they ever a couple? And why do people around them keep turning up dead? In this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Passenger, every answer raises a new, more chilling question.

Love Hacked (Knitting in the City Book 3) book cover
Genre: Clean Romance

Love Hacked (Knitting in the City Book 3)

By Penny Reid, narrated by Joy Nash and Zachary Webber
Tags: Clean Romance

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Sandra has difficulty removing her psychotherapist hat. Of her last 30 dates, 29 have ended the same way: the man sobbing uncontrollably. After one such disaster, Sandra gives in to a seemingly harmless encounter with her hot waiter, Alex. Argumentative, secretive, and hostile, Alex may be the opposite of everything Sandra knows is right for her.

You Deserve Each Other book cover
Genre: Clean Romance

You Deserve Each Other

By Sarah Hogle, narrated by Taylor Meskimen
Tags: Clean Romance

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When your nemesis also happens to be your fiancé, happily ever after becomes a lot more complicated in this wickedly funny, lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy debut.

Say Yes to the Boss (New York Billionaires Book 3) book cover
Genre: Steamy Romance

Say Yes to the Boss (New York Billionaires Book 3)

By Olivia Hayle, narrated by Maxine Hamilton and Mercer Boffey
Tags: Steamy Romance

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My billionaire boss is the absolute last person I’d marry. Until a deal with the devil forces me down the aisle...ready to say yes to the boss.

We Can Be Heroes book cover
Genre: Young Adult

We Can Be Heroes

By Kyrie McCauley, narrated by Katherine Littrell, Sura Siu and, Emily Lawrence
Tags: Young Adult

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Beck and Vivian never could stand each other, but they always tried their best for their mutual friend, Cassie. After the town moves on from Cassie’s murder too fast, Beck and Vivian finally find common ground: vengeance.

A Million Things book cover
Genre: Young Adult

A Million Things

By Emily Spurr, narrated by Zenia Starr
Tags: Young Adult

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A Million Things transforms a gut-wrenching story of abandonment and what it's like to grow up in a house that doesn't feel safe into an astonishing portrait of resilience, mental health, and the families we make and how they make us in return.

The Humans book cover
Genre: Science Fiction

The Humans

By Matt Haig, narrated by Mark Meadows
Tags: Science Fiction

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When an extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin, a leading mathematician at Cambridge University, the visitor wants to complete his task and go back home, to the planet he comes from, and a utopian society of immortality and infinite knowledge.

Burn Marks (V. I. Warshawski Book 6) book cover
Genre: Mystery

Burn Marks (V. I. Warshawski Book 6)

By Sara Paretsky, narrated by Susan Ericksen
Tags: Mystery

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With those words - and the sour yeasty smell of stale beer - Elena, V.I. Warshawski’s derelict aunt, reenters her niece’s life at three in the morning. Burned out of her SRO hotel, Elena has turned to V.I. for a place to stay. V.I. vows that it will be a short visit and uses some old political contacts to find Elena a room.

Best Friends Forever book cover
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Best Friends Forever

By Margot Hunt, narrated by Sarah Naughton
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Kat Grant and Alice Campbell have a friendship forged in shared confidences and long lunches lubricated by expensive wine. Though they're very different women - the artsy socialite and the struggling suburbanite - they're each other's rocks. But even rocks crumble under pressure.