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New Year, New Adventures

Killing Floor (Jack Reacher Book 1) book cover
Genre: Mystery

Killing Floor (Jack Reacher Book 1)

By Lee Child, narrated by Dick Hill
Tags: Mystery

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Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.

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Genre: Mystery

Summit's Edge (FBI K-9 Book 9)

By Sara Driscoll, narrated by Susan Bennett
Tags: Mystery

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FBI handler Meg Jennings and her K-9 partner, Hawk, vie to rescue plane crash survivors from a Colorado mountain—and contend with a hijacker determined to stop them. As long as there’s hope of finding life, no mission is too dangerous for Meg Jennings and her colleagues in the FBI K-9 unit.

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Genre: Thriller & Suspense

The 6:20 Man

By David Baldacci, narrated by Zachary Webber, Christine Lakin and, Mela Lee
Tags: Thriller & Suspense

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Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city’s most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Undiscovered (Treasure Hunter Security Book 1)

By Anna Hackett, narrated by Stella Bloom
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Finding undiscovered treasures is always daring, dangerous, and deadly. Perfect for the men of Treasure Hunter Security. Former Navy SEAL Declan Ward is haunted by the demons of his past and throws everything he has into his security business - Treasure Hunter Security. Dangerous archeological digs - no problem. Daring expeditions - sure thing. Museum security for invaluable exhibits - easy.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Hold Your Breath (Search and Rescue Book 1)

By Katie Ruggle, narrated by Rachel Dulude
Tags: Steamy Romance

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As the captain of Field County's ice rescue dive team, Callum Cook is driven to perfection. But when he meets new diver Louise "Lou" Sparks, all that hard-won order is obliterated in an instant. Lou is a hurricane. A walking disaster. And with her, he's never felt more alive... even if keeping her safe may just kill him.

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Genre: Fantasy

Anansi Boys

By Neil Gaiman, narrated by Lenny Henry
Tags: Fantasy

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When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck like calling Fat Charlie Fat Charlie. Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can t shake that name, one of the many embarrassing gifts his father bestowed before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life because Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The White Road

By Sarah Lotz, narrated by Sam Alexander and Helen Johns
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Desperate to attract subscribers to his fledgling website, Journey to the Dark Side, ex-adrenaline junkie and slacker Simon Newman hires someone to guide him through the notorious Cwm Pot caves so that he can film the journey and put it on the Internet.

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Genre: Science Fiction

The Rift

By Walter Jon Williams, narrated by Kevin Kenerly
Tags: Science Fiction

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It starts with the dogs. They won’t stop barking. And then the earth shrugs - 8.9 on the Richter scale. It’s the world’s biggest earthquake since Lisbon in 1755, and it doesn’t hit California or Japan or Mexico, but New Madrid, Missouri, a sleepy town on the Mississippi River. Seismologists had predicted the scope of the disaster - but no one listened.

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Genre: Young Adult

The Fear

By Natasha Preston, narrated by Phoebe Strole and Andrew Eiden
Tags: Young Adult

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It’s just a stupid meme that’s going around their small fishing town in the dead of winter—people reposting and sharing their biggest fear. But when her classmates start turning up dead—dying in the way that they said scared them the most—Izzy knows it’s no joke.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

By Alfred Lansing, narrated by Simon Prebble
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, and then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world.

Cozy Up with These Festive Audiobooks

Cozy Up with These Festive Audiobooks

Cozy Up with These Festive Audiobooks

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Genre: Mystery

The Christmas Killer (DI James Walker Book 1)

By Alex Pine, narrated by Neet Mohan
Tags: Mystery

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DI James Walker is ready for a quiet family Christmas in the sleepy village of Kirkby Abbey. But when he opens an early Christmas present left on his doorstep, he soon realizes it is no gift. Inside is a gruesome surprise, and a promise – twelve days, twelve murders. Not long after, the first body is found, half frozen in the snow.

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Genre: Mystery

A Holiday Homicide (A Secret Bookcase Mystery Book 4)

By Ellie Alexander, narrated by Ellen Quay
Tags: Mystery

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As whispers of foul play swirl like snowflakes, Annie soon finds herself tangled in a web of secrets, small-town rivalry, and long-buried mysteries. With pub owner and new love Liam by her side and the help of her loyal bookstore colleagues, Annie sets out to solve Redwood Grove’s latest murder mystery.

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Genre: Clean Romance

The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

By Ally Carter, narrated by Saskia Maarleveld and Zachary Webber
Tags: Clean Romance

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The bridge is out. The phones are down. And the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of a locked room two days before Christmas. Meet Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt: She’s the new Queen of the Cozy Mystery. He’s Mr. Big-time Thriller Guy.

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Genre: Clean Romance

This Is Not a Holiday Romance (Funny Feelings Book 1)

By Camilla Isley, narrated by Stephanie Cannon and Alex Forward
Tags: Clean Romance

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Nina Thompson has one Christmas wish: to avoid her brother’s obnoxiously handsome best friend, Tristan, like the plague. From the moment he humiliated her as a teenager to their escalating revenge schemes, Nina and Tristan’s relationship can only be defined as an all-out prank war! And there is yet to be a winner.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Hygge Holiday

By Rosie Blake, narrated by Rosie Jones
Tags: Literary Fiction

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It's autumn in Yulethorpe and everyone is gloomy. It's cold, drizzly and the skies are permagrey. The last shop on the high street - an adorable little toy shop - has just shut its doors. Everything is going wrong for Yulethorpe this autumn. Until Clara Kristensen arrives.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Art of Christmas

By Jane Lovering, narrated by Karen Cass
Tags: Literary Fiction

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It’s been nearly two years since Harriet lost Jonno, but she’s finally decided that it’s time to celebrate Christmas again. Then she finds a stash of graphic novels belonging to her comic book-loving husband in the attic, and suddenly her world is turned upside down once more.

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Genre: Young Adult

The Holiday Switch

By Tif Marcelo, narrated by Leiana Bertrand
Tags: Young Adult

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Lila Santos is ready for her last winter break from high school. The snow in her small town of Holly, New York, is plentiful, the mood is as cozy as a fuzzy Christmas sweater, and she's earning extra cash working at the local inn - AKA the setting of the greatest film of all time, Holiday by the Lake - while moonlighting as an anonymous book blogger.

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Genre: Fantasy

Impractical Magic

By Emily Grimoire, narrated by Kate Handford
Tags: Fantasy

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When Scarlett Melrose receives a call from her estranged sisters, she immediately knows something is wrong. The magic at their mother’s inn – and in fact, the whole of Oak Haven – has gone awry, and they need her help to save it. As the conflicted middle child, returning home has given Scarlett the heebie-jeebies.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Married to the Yuletide Alien (Alliance Holiday Book 1)

By Alma Nilsson, narrated by Jill Smith and Jack Calihan
Tags: Science Fiction

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A year ago, I reluctantly erased my true other half’s memories of our time together. She said that if we were truly meant to be married, our souls would find each other again. Now, I’ve illegally traveled to Earth and have found her alone in a secluded cabin. I only have a few days to convince her of who I am to her. But the odds are against me.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Look Up, Handsome

By Jack Strange, narrated by Laurie Kynaston
Tags: Clean Romance

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Hay-on-Wye’s only queer bookshop is always a hive of activity. So when it’s threatened with closure, its owner Quinn Oxford is determined to do whatever it takes to save his beloved shop. That is until romantic novelist Noah Sage arrives in town. Gorgeous, brooding, and clearly unhappy to be there, Noah is the distraction Quinn doesn’t need.

Ghost Stories to Haunt Your Dreams

Ghost Stories to Haunt Your Dreams

Ghost Stories to Haunt Your Dreams

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Genre: Thriller & Suspense

The Haunting of Brynn Wilder

By Wendy Webb, narrated by Xe Sands
Tags: Thriller & Suspense

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After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers: the frail Alice, LuAnn, and Dominic, an unsettlingly handsome man inked from head to toe in mesmerizing tattoos.

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Genre: Thriller & Suspense

A Haunting on the Hill

By Elizabeth Hand, narrated by Carol Monda
Tags: Thriller & Suspense

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Open the door . . . . Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life.

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Genre: Mystery

Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop

By Emmeline Duncan, narrated by Emily Durante
Tags: Mystery

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Normally, spooky season is Bailey Briggs's favorite time of year and her Halloween-themed small town's time to shine. But between managing Lazy Bones Books, working on her graphic novel-in-progress, and running the Spooky Season Literary Festival, Bailey hardly has a moment to enjoy Elyan Hollow's spot-on seasonal vibes.

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Genre: True Crime
Tags: True Crime

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Follow the thrilling investigations of a man who has peered into more dark places than most and sought the answers to questions we fear to ask. Join Richard Estep (TV's Haunted Hospitals, Paranormal 911, Paranormal Night Shift) on a hair-raising adventure to haunted locations across the United States and England.

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Genre: Young Adult

The Ghosts of Rose Hill

By R. M. Romero, narrated by Carla Corvo
Tags: Young Adult

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Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an artist, Ilana Lopez—a biracial Jewish girl—finds herself torn between her dream of becoming a violinist and her immigrant parents’ desire for her to pursue a more stable career.

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Genre: Clean Romance

A Haunted Love Story: The Ghosts of the Allen House

By Mark Spencer, narrated by Brian Wiggins
Tags: Clean Romance

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When Mark Spencer and his family moved into the beautiful old Allen House in Monticello, Arkansas, they were aware of its notorious reputation for being haunted. According to local lore, the troubled spirit of society belle Ladell Allen, who had mysteriously committed suicide in the master bedroom in 1948, still roamed the grand historic mansion.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Spookily Yours (Witches of Pleasant Grove Book 1)

By Jennifer Chipman, narrated by Olivia Wright and Sean Masters
Tags: Steamy Romance

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No, that's not a joke. An actual, real-life demon. And he needs my help to break a curse. But what happens when that turns into more? It can never be forever, and yet... I'm falling in love with him anyway.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost

By David Hoon Kim, narrated by Joji Otani-Hansen
Tags: Literary Fiction

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When Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room, she's already dead, leaving a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food in her wake. For her boyfriend, Henrik, an aspiring translator, these remnants are like clues, propelling him forward in a search for meaning.

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Genre: Fantasy

The Bone Doll's Twin (Tamir Triad Book 1)

By Lynn Flewelling, narrated by Lynn Flewelling and Victor Bevine
Tags: Fantasy

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Long ago, during the dark days of the Great War with Pleinmar, King Thelatimos journeyed to the Oracle of the God Illior at Afra to save his warn-torn kingdom. Here he was presented with a prophecy 'So long as a daughter of Thelatimos's line defends and rules, Skala shall never be subjugated.' And that is how the line of queens ruling over Skala was established...

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Genre: Fantasy

The Ghost Bride

By Yangsze Choo, narrated by Yangsze Choo
Tags: Fantasy

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Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling to ancient customs. And in the sleepy port town of Malacca, ghosts and superstitions abound. Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt family, has few prospects. But fate intervenes when she receives an unusual proposal from the wealthy and powerful Lim family.

Books About Hopes and Dreams

Books About Hopes and Dreams

Books About Hopes and Dreams

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

By Gail Honeyman, narrated by Cathleen McCarron
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Anxious People

By Fredrik Backman, narrated by Marin Ireland
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Man's Search for Meaning

By Viktor E. Frankl, narrated by Theo Solomon
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Viktor E. Frankl was a medical doctor at a psychiatric hospital in 1942 when he became a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps in World War II. In 1946, he published a book about his camp experiences and a method of psychotherapy he developed. Forty-five years later, it was still named one of the most influential books in the United States.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

By Sandra Uwiringiyimana and Abigail Pesta, narrated by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism. Sandra was just 10 years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head.

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Genre: Young Adult

Rules for Being a Girl

By Candace Bushnell and Katie Cotugno, narrated by Julia Whelan
Tags: Young Adult

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It starts before you can even remember: You learn the rules for being a girl.... Marin has always been good at navigating these unspoken guidelines. A star student and editor of the school paper, she dreams of getting into Brown University. Marin’s future seems bright - and her young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. Beckett, is always quick to admire her writing and talk books with her.

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Genre: Science Fiction

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers Book 1)

By Becky Chambers, narrated by Rachel Dulude
Tags: Science Fiction

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Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space - and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe - in this lighthearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star. Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer.

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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.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Before We Were Strangers

By Renée Carlino, narrated by Kevin T. Collins and Samantha Summers
Tags: Clean Romance

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To the Green-Eyed Lovebird: We met 15 years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

The Road Trip

By Beth O'Leary, narrated by Josh Dylan and Eleanor Tomlinson
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Four years ago, Dylan and Addie fell in love under the Provence sun. Wealthy Oxford student Dylan was staying at his friend Cherry’s enormous French villa; wild child Addie was spending her summer as the on-site caretaker. Two years ago, their relationship officially ended. They haven’t spoken since.

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Genre: True Crime
Tags: True Crime

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A student at Forest Park High School near Atlanta, Georgia, popular blonde-haired Sharon Marshall was at the top of her class. Serving as a Lt. Colonel in the ROTC, she earned a full scholarship to Georgia Tech University to study aerospace engineering. She was the ultimate girl next door, sweet, generous, and well-adjusted.

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Genre: Mystery

The Searcher

By Tana French, narrated by Roger Clark
Tags: Mystery

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Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After 25 years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens.

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Genre: Thriller & Suspense

I Am Watching You

By Teresa Driscoll, narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden
Tags: Thriller & Suspense

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When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it - until she realizes they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. But just as she’s decided to call for help, something stops her. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls - beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard - has disappeared.

Audiobook Series You Need to Read ASAP

Audiobook Series You Need to Read ASAP

Audiobook Series You Need to Read ASAP

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Genre: Mystery

Murder at the Mayfair Hotel (Cleopatra Fox Mysteries Book 1)

By C. J. Archer, narrated by Marian Hussey
Tags: Mystery

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December 1899. After the death of her beloved grandmother, Cleopatra Fox moves into the luxury hotel owned by her estranged uncle in the hopes of putting hardship and loneliness behind her. But the poisoning of a guest throws her new life, and the hotel, into chaos. Cleo quickly realizes no one can be trusted, not Scotland Yard and especially not the hotel’s charming assistant manager.

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Genre: Thriller & Suspense

Killing Floor (Jack Reacher Book 1)

By Lee Child, narrated by Dick Hill
Tags: Thriller & Suspense

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Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.

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Genre: Mystery

All His Pretty Girls (Detective Alyssa Wyatt Book 1)

By Charly Cox, narrated by Kate Zane
Tags: Mystery

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A woman is found naked, badly beaten, and barely alive in the New Mexico mountains. The shocking discovery plunges Albuquerque Detective Alyssa Wyatt into a case that will test her to the limit.

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Genre: True Crime
Tags: True Crime

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Uncover the shocking and brutal truths behind some of the most heinous crimes committed against innocent victims in Killer Case Files, the true crime anthology that takes you on a gripping journey into the minds of depraved murderers. An anthology of 100 stories, Killer Case Files delivers riveting accounts of deviant and horrifying murders.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Since the Day We Danced (Hadley Cove Sweet Romance Book 1)

By Kerk Murray, narrated by Luke Welland and Skye Alley
Tags: Clean Romance

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Emma Wright’s world came crashing down when her husband blindsided her with divorce papers on their anniversary and left her for a younger woman. Starting over at forty, she moves into a quaint beachfront cottage on the other side of Hadley Cove with her beloved rescue dog, Riley. But just as she’s picking up the shattered pieces of her life, Riley goes missing.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Dark Lover (The Black Dagger Brotherhood Book 1)

By J. R. Ward, narrated by Jim Frangione
Tags: Steamy Romance

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The only purebred vampire left on the planet and the leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who killed his parents centuries ago. But when his most trusted fighter is killed—orphaning a half-breed daughter unaware of her heritage or her fate—Wrath must put down his dagger and usher the beautiful female into another world.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Though I Stumble (A Promises of God Novel Book 1)

By Kim Cash Tate, narrated by Kim Cash Tate
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Four women in different seasons of life converge at a women’s conference—with a theme that charges them to run “in hot pursuit” of Christ. But how do they run when challenges seem insurmountable? And can they help one another navigate the difficult terrain?

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Genre: Fantasy

Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad Book 1)

By David Eddings, narrated by Brian Wiggins
Tags: Fantasy

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A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men—of strange lands and events—of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!

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Genre: Fantasy

A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic Book 1)

By V. E. Schwab, narrated by Steven Crossley
Tags: Fantasy

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Kell is one of the last Travelers - magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes. As such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, ruled by a mad King George. Then there's Red London, where life and magic are revered, and the Maresh Dynasty presides over a flourishing empire.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Hell Divers (Hell Divers Book 1)

By Nicholas Sansbury Smith, narrated by R.C. Bray
Tags: Science Fiction

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More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to Earth long ago.

Soaking Up the Sun

Soaking Up the Sun

Soaking Up the Sun

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Genre: Thriller & Suspense

The Last Time I Lied

By Riley Sager, narrated by Nicol Zanzarella
Tags: Thriller & Suspense

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Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin into the darkness. The last she - or anyone - saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her...

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Genre: Mystery

Squeeze Me

By Carl Hiaasen, narrated by Scott Brick
Tags: Mystery

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At the height of Palm Beach’s charity ball season, Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons, a prominent member of geriatric high society, suddenly vanishes during a swank gala. Kiki Pew was a founding member of the Potussies, a group of women dedicated to supporting the President, who spends half the year at the “Winter White House” just down the road.

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Genre: True Crime
Tags: True Crime

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Ann Rule was working on the biggest story of her career, tracking the trail of victims left by a brutal serial killer. Little did this future best-selling author know that the savage slayer she was hunting was the young man she counted among her closest friends. Everyone's picture of a natural winner, Ted Bundy was a bright, charming, and handsome man with a promising future as an attorney.

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Genre: Young Adult

Love & Gelato

By Jenna Evans Welch, narrated by Rebekkah Ross
Tags: Young Adult

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A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping debut novel filled with romance, mystery, and adventure. Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn't in the mood for Italy's famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She's only there because it was her mother's dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father hasn't been around for 16 years?

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Keeping It Hot (The Breakfast in Bed Series Book 1)

By Sydney Landon, narrated by Nicol Zanzarella
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Zoe Hart owns the coffee shop in one of the hottest upscale resorts in Florida, which is run by her childhood best friend, Dylan Jackson. Even though Dylan is a workaholic, he still finds time to enjoy the beautiful women who pass through his hotel - all of them except Zoe. She has been in love with Dylan for years without him noticing.

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Genre: Fantasy

The Summer Tree (Fionavar Tapestry Book 1)

By Guy Gavriel Kay, narrated by Simon Vance
Tags: Fantasy

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In the first book of his Fionavar Tapestry series, five college students meet a wizard who takes them to the heart of the first of all worlds - a place called Fionavar. The students soon discover that they have been pre-ordained as part of the pattern called the Fionavar Tapestry - and if they don't fulfill their destinies, the world will suffer devastating consequences.

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Genre: Science Fiction

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot Book 1)

By Becky Chambers, narrated by Em Grosland
Tags: Science Fiction

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It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in.

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Genre: Mystery

One Perfect Couple

By Ruth Ware, narrated by Imogen Church
Tags: Mystery

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Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she’s pretty sure they won’t extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren’t going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she decides to try out with him.

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Genre: Young Adult

Where the Crawdads Sing

By Delia Owens, narrated by Cassandra Campbell
Tags: Young Adult

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Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder, Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Same Time Next Summer

By Annabel Monaghan, narrated by Dan Bittner and Brittany Pressley
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Sam’s life is on track. She has the perfect doctor fiancé, Jack (his strict routines are a good thing, really), a great job in Manhattan (unless they fire her), and is about to tour a wedding venue near her family’s Long Island beach house. Everything should go to plan, yet the minute she arrives, Sam senses something is off. Wyatt is here. Her Wyatt.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Secrets of a Summer Night (The Wallflowers Book 1)

By Lisa Kleypas, narrated by Rosalyn Landor
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Proud and beautiful Annabelle Peyton could have her pick of suitors - if only she had a dowry. Her family is on the brink of disaster, and the only way Annabelle can save them is to marry a wealthy man. Unfortunately, her most persistent admirer is the brash Simon Hunt, a handsome and ambitious entrepreneur who wants her as his mistress.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

By Dani Shapiro, narrated by Dani Shapiro
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From the acclaimed, best-selling memoirist, novelist - "a writer of rare talent" (Cheryl Strayed) - and host of the hit podcast Family Secrets, comes a memoir about the staggering family secret uncovered by a genealogy test: an exploration of the urgent ethical questions surrounding fertility treatments and DNA testing, and a profound inquiry of paternity, identity, and love.

11 Laugh Out Loud Books

11 Laugh Out Loud Books

11 Laugh Out Loud Books

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Genre: Mystery
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Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the fictional Val de Follet in the Loire Valley. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really that’s the way he likes it. One day, however, one of his older guests disappears, leaving behind a bloody handprint on the wallpaper. Another guest, the exotic Valérie, persuades a reluctant Richard to join her in investigating the disappearance.

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Genre: Mystery

Mexico, Margaritas, and Murder

By Wendy Day, narrated by Grace Noble
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After her grumpy husband dies, Sally throws out his thread-worn plaid recliner, cashes the life insurance check, and lets her spunky best friend, Pearl, drag her to Mexico for an all-inclusive vacation using their Senior Citizen’s discount. They kayak, sing karaoke, and spy on the next-door nudist resort.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

A Long Time Coming

By Meghan Quinn, narrated by Erin Mallon
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From USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a witty take on a romantic comedy classic, My Best Friend's Wedding. Steamy, laugh-out-loud, and full of charm, these two best friends heat up the audio while proving true love might be right in front of you.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

By Elle Cosimano, narrated by Angela Dawe
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FINLAY DONOVAN IS KILLING IT...except, she’s really not. The new book she promised her literary agent hasn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head.

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Genre: Young Adult

How to Date a Superhero (and Not Die Trying)

By Cristina Fernandez, narrated by Chloe Dolandis
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Falling for a superhero is dangerous. You have to trust that they’ll catch you. Astrid isn’t a superhero, not like the ones she sees on the news, but she has something she thinks of as a small superpower: She has a perfect sense of time. And she’s not going to waste a single second.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir
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Nick Offerman has always felt a particular affection for the Land of the Free - not just for the people and their purported ideals but for the actual land itself: the bedrock, the topsoil, and everything in between that generates the health of your local watershed.

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Genre: Fantasy

Midnight Riot (Rivers of London Book 1)

By Ben Aaronovitch, narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
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Probationary constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he'll face is a paper cut. But Peter's prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost.

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Genre: Fantasy

Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story

By Christopher Moore, narrated by Susan Bennett
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A striking red-head, 20-something Jody is attacked and transformed into a vampire while walking home one night in downtown San Francisco. Befriending 19-year-old Tommy, Jody tries to understand her new undead life, but trouble finds her when the cops start suspecting Tommy of being a local bloodsucking serial killer.

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Slow Horses (Slough House Book 1)

By Mick Herron, narrated by Gerard Doyle
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Slough House is a dumping ground for British intelligence agents who've screwed up cases in any number of ways - by leaving a secret file on a train or blowing a surveillance. River Cartwright, one such "slow horse", is bitter about his failure and about his tedious assignment transcribing cell phone conversations.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Funny Feelings

By Tarah DeWitt, narrated by Nelson Hobbs and Stephanie Bentley
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When falling in love is the punchline . . . Farley Jones is being forced to date Meyer Harrigan, the man she has come to love, in order to make all of her stand-up dreams come true. It's agony tragedy, even. In lieu of flowers, please send cash . . . Meyer and his daughter Hazel have been everything to her since they came into her life three years ago.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir
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What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Writer Jessica Pan intends to find out.

Books in Bloom

Books in Bloom

Books in Bloom

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Genre: Mystery

A World of Curiosities

By Louise Penny, narrated by Robert Bathurst
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It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

The Last Green Valley

By Mark Sullivan, narrated by Will Damron
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From the author of the number one bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a new historical novel inspired by one family’s incredible story of daring, survival, and triumph.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

By Alison Espach, narrated by Jesse Vilinsky
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For much of her life, Sally Holt has been mystified by the things her older sister, Kathy, seems to have been born knowing. Kathy has answers for all of Sally’s questions about life, love, and Billy Barnes, a rising senior and local basketball star who mans the concession stand at the town pool.

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Genre: Fantasy

The Honey Witch

By Sydney J. Shields, narrated by Mia Hutchinson Shaw
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Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude has always preferred the company of the spirits of the meadow to any of the suitors who’ve tried to woo her. So when her grandmother whisks her away to the family cottage on the tiny Isle of Innisfree with an offer to train her as the next Honey Witch, she accepts immediately.

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Genre: Fantasy

A Crown of Ivy and Glass (The Middlemist Trilogy Book 1)

By Claire Legrand, narrated by Evelyn Rose
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Lady Gemma Ashbourne seemingly has it all. She's young, gorgeous, and rich. Her family was Anointed by the gods, and blessed with incredible abilities. But underneath her glittering façade, Gemma is deeply sad. Years ago, her sister Mara was taken to the Middlemist to guard against treacherous magic. Her mother abandoned the family.

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Genre: Young Adult

The Unmaking of June Farrow

By Adrienne Young, narrated by Brittany Pressley
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In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm—and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow’s disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Practice Makes Perfect

By Sarah Adams, narrated by Will Peters and Jorjeana Marie
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Annie Walker is on a quest to find her perfect match—someone who complements her happy, quiet life running the local flower shop in Rome, Kentucky. But finding her dream man may be harder than Annie imagined. Everyone knows everyone in her hometown, and the dating prospects are getting fewer by the day.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Things We Never Got Over

By Lucy Score, narrated by Lila Winters
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Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon. Knox doesn’t tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded, runaway bride.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Paper Palace

By Miranda Cowley Heller, narrated by Nan McNamara
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It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a 50-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at “The Paper Palace” - the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: Last night Elle and her oldest friend, Jonas, crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time...

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The Grace Year

By Kim Liggett, narrated by Emily Shaffer
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No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden. In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood.

Love in Literature

Love in Literature

Love in Literature

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Ugly Love

By Colleen Hoover, narrated by Grace Grant and Deacon Lee
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When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up.

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Genre: Mystery

Lavender House

By Lev AC Rosen, narrated by Vikas Adam
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Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the famous Lamontaine soap empire. Irene’s recipes for her signature scents are a well-guarded secret—but it's not the only one behind these gates. This estate offers a unique freedom, where none of the residents or staff hide who they are. But to keep their secret, they've needed to keep others out.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

A Place for Us

By Brandon J. Wolf, narrated by Brandon J. Wolf
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Growing up in rural Oregon, Brandon Wolf grappled with the devastating loss of his supportive mother and with the embedded racism and homophobia of a community that made him feel like an unwelcome stranger. After the lack of connection and role models led him down a spiral of risky behavior, Wolf escaped to survive.

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Genre: Young Adult

Every Other Weekend

By Abigail Johnson, narrated by Kirby Heyborne and Taylor Meskimen
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Adam's life used to be awesome. Straight As, close friends, and a perfect home life. Then his oldest brother died. Now his mom cries constantly, he and his middle brother can't talk without fighting, and the father he always admired moved out when they needed him most.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

If We Ever Meet Again (If Love Book 1)

By Ana Huang, narrated by Cindy Kay and Aiden Snow
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One year, two opposites, and a love that will blindside and, ultimately, shatter them. She's an aspiring interior designer who dreams of falling in love. He's an ex-football star who thinks love is a con. She's a virgin, and he doesn't do virgins. He's cocky, infuriating, and not her type. She wants the fairytale. He wants freedom.

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Genre: Fantasy

Moon Tortured (Sky Brooks Series Book 1)

By McKenzie Hunter, narrated by Jorjeana Marie
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Nothing is ever what it seems-including me. The Midwest Pack has three goals: Protect the pack. Protect the pack. And yeah, protect the pack. I have my own goal: Live a simple life and hope no one ever discovers that the quiet young woman next door turns into a wolf. All my efforts go up in flames when a vampire attack draws the attention of the Midwest Pack.

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Genre: Fantasy

The Savior's Sister

By Jenna Moreci, narrated by Emma Tigan
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In the thrilling companion to one of Book Depository’s Best Books of All Time, experience the peril and heart-stopping romance through Leila’s fresh perspective. Leila T. Salvatíraas, Savior of Thessen and magical Queen of Her realm, is worshipped by all, except for Her father. He wants Her dead.

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The Beach Cottage

By Joanne DeMaio, narrated by Steven Barnett
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For Mack and Avery Martinelli, the summer is their oyster. They can spend all day on the beach, or not. Cruise the dusty beach roads, or never leave their deck overlooking Long Island Sound. Fill their itinerary with excursions on the Connecticut shore, or while away the hours in a shingled cottage. Every decision this week is theirs to make.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

The Graham Effect (Campus Diaries Book 1)

By Elle Kennedy, narrated by CJ Bloom and Teddy Hamilton
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Gigi Graham has exactly three goals: qualify for the women's national hockey team, win Olympic gold, and step out of her famous father's shadow. So far, so good, except for two little things. Fine—a little thing and a big, grumpy thing. She needs to improve her game behind the net, and she needs help from Luke Ryder.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Find Me

By André Aciman, narrated by Michael Stuhlbarg
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No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review).

New Beginnings

New Beginnings

New Beginnings

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Great Alone

By Kristin Hannah, narrated by Julia Whelan
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Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: He will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Lost Luggage

By Samantha Tonge, narrated by Jilly Bond
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For almost fifty years, sisters Dolly and Greta have lived together—getting each other through the good times and the bad. Except this year, Greta isn’t there and Dolly is feeling lost and alone. In memory of her sister, Dolly heads to the lost luggage auction where she and Greta go each Christmas. But her bid reveals a gift she never imagined.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

By Suleika Jaouad, narrated by Suleika Jaouad
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In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world”. She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone.

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Genre: Young Adult

Sweet Sorrow

By David Nicholls, narrated by Rory Kinnear
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Now: On the verge of marriage and a fresh start, 38-year-old Charlie Lewis finds that he can’t stop thinking about the past and the events of one particular summer. Then: Sixteen-year-old Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don’t remember in the school photograph. He’s failing his classes.

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Genre: Science Fiction

The Space Between Worlds

By Micaiah Johnson, narrated by Nicole Lewis
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Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Float Plan

By Trish Doller, narrated by Sarah Naughton
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After a reminder goes off for the Caribbean sailing trip Anna was supposed to take with her fiancé, she impulsively goes to sea in the sailboat he left her, intending to complete the voyage alone. But after a treacherous night’s sail, she realizes she can’t do it by herself and hires Keane, a professional sailor, to help.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

How to Catch a Queen: Runaway Royals

By Alyssa Cole, narrated by Karen Chilton
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When Shanti Mohapi weds the king of Njaza, her dream of becoming a queen finally comes true. But it’s nothing like she imagined. Shanti and her husband may share an immediate and powerful attraction, but her subjects see her as an outsider, and everything she was taught about being the perfect wife goes disastrously wrong.

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Genre: Young Adult

I Wish You All the Best

By Mason Deaver, narrated by MW Cartozian Wilson
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When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school.

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Genre: Mystery

On Skein of Death

By Allie Pleiter, narrated by Allie Pleiter and Brittany Pressley
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Libby has come home to Collinstown, Maryland, to live her dream and open her own yarn shop, aptly named Y.A.R.N., along the Chester River. To Libby, Y.A.R.N. stands for "You're Absolutely Ready Now". But the acronym changes whenever inspiration strikes, and customers add to the list of suggestions that fill the blackboard wall in a shop stuffed with color, fiber, and comfort.

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True Crime Story

By Joseph Knox, narrated by Joseph Knox and More
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A strikingly original novel in the vein of Daisy Jones and The Six meets Riley Sager, True Crime Story twists together transcripts, emails, and documents into an investigation of a missing college girl, also weaving in the mysteries of how the narrator, "Joseph Knox", came to be in possession of these files and what fate befell the original author...