Books to Help You Escape The Cold

Books to Help You Escape The Cold

Books to Help You Escape The Cold

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Something in the Water

By Catherine Steadman, narrated by Catherine Steadman
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Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, and Mark is a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in love, they embark on a dream honeymoon to the tropical island of Bora Bora, where they enjoy the sun, the sand, and each other. Then, while scuba diving in the crystal blue sea, they find something in the water....

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Genre: Mystery

Smile Beach Murder (Outer Banks Bookshop Mystery Book 1)

By Alicia Bessette, narrated by Karissa Vacker
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When Callie is laid off from her reporting job, she returns to her hometown of Cattail Island and lands a gig at the local bookstore—the same one where she found comfort after her mother died. In fact, the anniversary of her mother’s infamous death is approaching. Years ago, Teri Padget tumbled from the top of the lighthouse.

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The Drowning Woman

By Robyn Harding, narrated by Brittany Wilkerson and Henriette Zoutomou
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Lee Gulliver never thought she’d find herself living on the streets—no one ever does—but when her restaurant fails, and she falls deeper into debt, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle, she parks in a secluded spot by the beach to lay low and plan her next move—until early one morning, she sees a sobbing woman throw herself into the ocean.

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Genre: Fantasy

Psyche and Eros

By Luna McNamara, narrated by Rachel Petladwala and Joshua Riley
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Who said true love is a myth? A prophecy claims that Psyche, princess of Mycenae, will defeat a monster feared even by the gods. Rebelling against her society’s expectations for women, Psyche spends her youth mastering blade and bow, preparing to meet her destiny.

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Genre: Fantasy

To Shape a Dragon's Breath

By Moniquill Blackgoose, narrated by Charley Flyte
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The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations—until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons lived among them and danced away the storms of autumn, enabling the people to thrive.

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Genre: Clean Romance

The Layover

By Lacie Waldon, narrated by Jorjeana Marie
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After 10 years as a flight attendant, Ava Greene is poised to hang up her wings and finally put down roots. She's got one trip left before she bids her old life farewell, and she plans to enjoy every second of it. But then, she discovers that former pilot Jack Stone - the absurdly gorgeous, ridiculously cocky man she's held a secret grudge against for years - is on her flight.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

You Can Trust Me

By Wendy Heard, narrated by Kelsey Navarro Foster and Natalie Naudus
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Summer and Leo would do anything for each other. Inspired by the way each has had to carve her place in a hostile and unforgiving world, and united by the call of the open road, they travel around sunny California in Summer’s tricked-out Land Cruiser. It’s not a glamorous life, but it gives them the freedom they crave from the painful pasts they’ve left behind.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Have You Seen Her

By Catherine McKenzie, narrated by Amanda Dolan, Stacy Gonzalez, Tyla Collier, Machelle Williams and, Ali Andre Ali
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Equipped with a burner phone and a new job, Cassie Peters has left her hectic and secretive life in New York City for the refuge of her hometown of Mammoth Lakes, California. There, she begins working again with Yosemite Search and Rescue, where a case she worked a decade ago continues to haunt her.

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Genre: Young Adult

Never Saw You Coming

By Erin Hahn, narrated by Jessica Almasy and Michael Crouch
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Raised by conservative parents, 18-year-old Meg Hennessey just found out her entire childhood was a lie. Instead of taking a gap year before college to find herself, she ends up traveling north to meet what’s left of the family she never knew existed.

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Genre: Clean Romance

One Summer in Italy

By Sue Moorcroft, narrated by Helen Johns
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When Sofia Bianchi’s father, Aldo, dies, it makes her stop and look at things afresh. Having been his carer for so many years, she knows it’s time for her to live her own life—and to fulfil some promises she made to Aldo in his final days.

11 Halloween Audiobooks for a Spooky Night

11 Halloween Audiobooks for a Spooky Night

11 Halloween Audiobooks for a Spooky Night

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Genre: Mystery

Halloween Party Murder (Juniper Holiday Cozy Mystery Book 1)

By Leighann Dobbs, narrated by Kasey Logan
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Everyone knows a Juniper Holiday Halloween party is to die for. To get an invite is the most talked about topic in Crescent Cove. To experience the Holiday mansion in all its (supposedly) haunted glory is the stuff of legend. Of course, no one has actually seen a ghost in residence—but how could they when they’re having the time of their life?

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The House in the Pines

By Ana Reyes, narrated by Marisol Ramirez
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Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they’d been spending time with all summer. Seven years later, Maya lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secret addiction that has allowed her to cope with what happened years ago, the gaps in her memories, and the lost time that she can’t account for.

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Genre: Clean Romance

My Roommate Is a Vampire

By Jenna Levine, narrated by Gilli Messer
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Cassie Greenberg loves being an artist, but it’s a tough way to make a living. On the brink of eviction, she’s desperate when she finds a too-good-to-be-true apartment in a beautiful Chicago neighborhood. Cassie knows there has to be a catch—only someone with a secret to hide would rent out a room for that price.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

'Salem's Lot (Movie Tie-in)

By Stephen King, narrated by Ron McLarty
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Writer Ben Mears has returned to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot with the hope that moving into a delapidated mansion, long the subject of town lore, might help him get a handle on his life and provide inspiration for a new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work.

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Genre: Fantasy

How to Be Eaten

By Maria Adelmann, narrated by Lauren Ezzo
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In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy.

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Genre: Young Adult

What Happens After Midnight

By K. L. Walther, narrated by Tina Wolstencroft
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Lily Hopper has two more weeks until she's officially finished with boarding school. With graduation quickly approaching Lily is worried that she's somehow missed out on the fun of being in high school.

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Genre: Young Adult

The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane

By Julia Nobel, narrated by Saskia Maarleveld
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With a dad who disappeared years ago and a mother who's a bit too busy to parent, Emmy is shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England, where she's sure she won't fit in. But then she finds a box of mysterious medallions in the attic of her home - medallions that belonged to her father…who may have gone to Wellsworth.

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The Only One Left

By Riley Sager, narrated by Christine Lakin and Dawn Harvey
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At seventeen, Lenora Hope hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it.

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Genre: Clean Romance

A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon

By Sarah Hawley, narrated by Helen Laser
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Mariel Spark is prophesied to be the most powerful witch seen in centuries of the famed Spark family, but to the displeasure of her mother, she prefers baking to brewing potions and gardening to casting hexes. When a spell to summon flour goes very wrong, Mariel finds herself staring down a demon—one she inadvertently summoned for a soul bargain.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By Shirley Jackson, narrated by Bernadette Dunne
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Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance; wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian; and eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine, or, Merricat—live together in pleasant isolation.

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Genre: Science Fiction

And Then I Woke Up

By Malcolm Devlin, narrated by Graham Mack
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In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin's And Then I Woke Up is a creepy, layered, literary story about false narratives and their ability to divide us. In a world reeling from an unusual plague, monsters lurk in the streets while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs. Or perhaps something very different is happening.

Books That Give Fall Feels

Books That Give Fall Feels

Books That Give Fall Feels

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Home Before Dark

By Riley Sager, narrated by Cady McClain and Jon Lindstrom
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Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. Three weeks later they fled in the dead of night, an ordeal her father recounted in a memoir called House of Horrors. His story of supernatural happenings and malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity - and skepticism.

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The Last Word

By Taylor Adams, narrated by Carlotta Brentan and Jim Meskimen
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Emma Carpenter lives in isolation with her golden retriever Laika, house-sitting an old beachfront home on the rainy Washington coast. Her only human contact is her enigmatic old neighbor, Deek, and (via text) the house’s owner, Jules.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Invisible Hour

By Alice Hoffman, narrated by Jessie Mueller
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One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia’s mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community—an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Well Met

By Jen DeLuca, narrated by Brittany Pressley
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Emily knew there would be strings attached when she relocated to the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland, for the summer to help her sister recover from an accident, but who could anticipate getting roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire alongside her teenaged niece?

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Genre: Clean Romance

Pumpkin Everything

By Beth Labonte, narrated by Lisa Larsen
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After calling off her fall wedding, horror novelist Amy Fox is left with a broken heart, a mega case of writer's block, and a serious aversion to all things pumpkin spice. When she receives news that her grandfather has broken his wrist driving through a Dunkin Donuts, Amy has no choice but to return to check on him.

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Genre: Young Adult

Maybe Meant to Be

By K. L. Walther, narrated by Alexa Elmy and Graham Halstead
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Everyone at the Bexley School believes that Sage Morgan and Charlie Carmichael are meant to be. Even though Charlie seems to have a new girlfriend every month, and Sage has never had a real relationship, their friends and family all know it's just a matter of time until they realize that they are actually in love.

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Genre: Fantasy

The Binding

By Bridget Collins, narrated by Carl Prekopp
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Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to begin an apprenticeship as a Bookbinder—a vocation that arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice amongst their small community, but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Weyward

By Emilia Hart, narrated by Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley and, Nell Barlow
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Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.

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Genre: Mystery

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

By Joanne Fluke, narrated by Suzanne Toren
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In her first foray into the sleuthing game, resourceful, red-headed Hannah Swensen must find the right ingredients to solve two perplexing murders. One chilly morning on her way to The Cookie Jar, Hannah discovers Ron, the dairy delivery man, shot dead in his truck. When she begins to investigate, she suspects the dairy owner.

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Genre: Young Adult

The Graveyard Book

By Neil Gaiman, narrated by Neil Gaiman
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Nobody Owens is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings - such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him.

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Genre: Fantasy

Thornhedge

By T. Kingfisher, narrated by Jennifer Blom
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There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story. Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right?

Books with Shocking Plot Twists

Books with Shocking Plot Twists

Books with Shocking Plot Twists

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Genre: Mystery

The Night Olivia Fell

By Christina McDonald, narrated by Kelly Burke and Laurel Lefkow
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In the small hours of the morning, Abi Knight is startled awake by the phone call no mother ever wants to get: Her teenage daughter, Olivia, has fallen off a bridge. Not only is Olivia brain-dead, she’s pregnant and must remain on life support to keep her baby alive. And then Abi sees the angry bruises circling Olivia’s wrists.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Other People's Clothes

By Calla Henkel, narrated by Lauryn Allman
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Hoping to escape the pain of the recent murder of her best friend, art student Zoe Beech finds herself studying abroad in the bohemian capital of Europe—Berlin. Rudderless, Zoe relies on the arrangements of fellow exchange student Hailey Mader, who idolizes Warhol and Britney Spears and wants nothing more than to be an art star.

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The Sanatorium

By Sarah Pearse, narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden
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Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mysteries Book 1)

By Mia P. Manansala, narrated by Danice Cabanela
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When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment.

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I Know What You've Done

By Dorothy Koomson, narrated by Anna Acton, Ginny Holder, Madeline Appiah and, Mira Dovreni
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What if all your neighbours' secrets landed in a diary on your doorstep? What if the woman who gave it to you was murdered by one of the people in the diary? What if the police asked if you knew anything? Would you hand over the book of secrets? Or...would you try to find out what everyone had done?

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Genre: Young Adult

NOCTE

By Courtney Cole, narrated by Stephen Dexter and Simone Tetrault
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Save me, and I'll save you.... My name is Calla Price. I'm 18 years old, and I'm one half of a whole. My other half - my twin brother, my Finn - is crazy. I love him. More than life, more than anything. And even though I'm terrified he'll suck me down with him, no one can save him but me. I'm doing all I can to stay afloat in a sea of insanity, but I'm drowning more and more each day.

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Genre: Fantasy

A Touch of Darkness (Hades & Persephone Series Book 1)

By Scarlett St. Clair, narrated by Meg Sylvan
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Persephone is the Goddess of Spring by title only. The truth is, since she was a little girl, flowers have shriveled at her touch. After moving to New Athens, she hopes to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

King’s Captive

By Amber Bardan, narrated by Sofia Willingham
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For three years, I've belonged to Julius King. Some people would think being stuck on a private island is heaven, but this is my hell. Because I'm not here as a guest. Not even close. I'm a prisoner. I'm his. Julius King. Powerful. Wealthy. Dangerous.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Written with Regret (The Regret Duet Book 1)

By Aly Martinez, narrated by Andi Arndt
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Every little girl dreams of the fairy tale. The one where the white knight rushes in to save her from the clutches of evil. They fall in love, have babies, and live happily ever after. By that definition, my life should have been a fairy tale, too.

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Genre: Science Fiction

The Hazel Wood

By Melissa Albert, narrated by Rebecca Soler and James Fouhey
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Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away.

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Genre: Science Fiction

The Dead Zone

By Stephen King, narrated by James Franco
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Johnny Smith awakens from a five-year coma after his car accident and discovers that he can see people's futures and pasts when he touches them. Many consider his talent a gift; Johnny feels cursed. His fiancée married another man during his coma, and people clamor for him to solve their problems.

Books That Scream Summer

Books That Scream Summer

Books That Scream Summer

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Genre: Fantasy

The Salt Grows Heavy

By Cassandra Khaw, narrated by Susan Dalian
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You may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes. On the run, the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own.

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Hello, Sunshine

By Laura Dave, narrated by Joy Osmanski
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Sunshine Mackenzie truly is living the dream. A lifestyle guru for the modern age, Sunshine is beloved by millions of people who tune in to her YouTube cooking show, and millions more scour her website for recipes, wisdom, and her enticing suggestions for how to curate a perfect life.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Surfing Lesson

By Elin Hilderbrand, narrated by Therese Plummer
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Margot's reservoir of romantic feelings for her husband, Drum, is running dry. But while the family is on vacation in Nantucket, Margot finds an opportunity to potentially regain her romantic love for her husband - in the form of Hadley Axelram, his ex-girlfriend. She is counting on jealousy as a relationship defibrillator.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Carolina Moonset

By Matt Goldman, narrated by Bradford Hastings
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Joey Green has returned to Beaufort, South Carolina, with its palmettos and shrimp boats, to look after his ailing father, who is succumbing to dementia, while his overstressed mother takes a break. Marshall Green’s short-term memory has all but evaporated, but, as if in compensation, his oldest memories are more vivid than ever.

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Genre: Mystery
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Mae West, a far cry from the Hollywood actress, has been thrown for a loop. Her plush lifestyle in the big city of New York comes to a screeching halt after the FBI raids her mansion and arrests her husband, Paul West, for a Ponzi scheme that rips people out of millions of dollars.

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Genre: Clean 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: Mystery

A Killing by the Sea (By the Sea Mystery Series Book 2)

By Kathleen Bridge, narrated by Lauren Ezzo
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The breathtaking barrier island of Melbourne Beach, Florida, is every tourist's fantasy - until murder washes ashore.... Trading the urban sprawl of Manhattan for the tranquility and exotic beauty of a Florida barrier island was the best decision author Liz Holt ever made.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Second Chance Summer (Cedar Ridge Book 1)

By Jill Shalvis, narrated by Karen White
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Lily Danville's life is crumbling around her. With no money and no home, her only choice is to go back to the one town she swore she'd never see again: Cedar Ridge, Colorado. Back to the memories of her sister's tragic death.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

The Summer of Broken Rules

By K. L. Walther, narrated by Lyssa Browne
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Meredith's family's annual game of assassin at Martha's Vineyard during a summer wedding is the perfect chance to honor her sister's legacy, and finally join the world again. But when she forms an alliance with a cute groomsman, she's at risk of losing both the game . . . and her heart.

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Genre: Young Adult

You Have a Match

By Emma Lord, narrated by Eva Kaminsky
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When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it’s mainly to give her friend and secret love interest, Leo, a nudge. After all, she knows who she is already: Avid photographer. Injury-prone tree climber. Best friend to Leo and Connie...although ever since the B.E.I. (Big Embarrassing Incident) with Leo, things have been awkward on that front.

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Genre: Science Fiction

A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

By Roseanne A. Brown, narrated by Jordan Cobb
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For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his war-stricken home and start a new life with his sisters in the prosperous desert city of Ziran. But when a vengeful spirit abducts his younger sister, Nadia, as payment to enter the city, Malik strikes a fatal deal - kill Karina, Crown Princess of Ziran, for Nadia’s freedom.

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Genre: Young Adult

When Summer Ends

By Jessica Pennington, narrated by Carly Robins
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Aiden Emerson is an all-star pitcher and the all-around golden boy of Riverton. Or at least he was, before he quit the team the last day of junior year without any explanation. How could he tell people he's losing his vision at 17? Straitlaced Olivia thought she had life all figured out.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Summer Sons

By Lee Mandelo, narrated by Will Damron
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Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, only days before Andrew was to join him in Nashville, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide.

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The Last House Guest

By Megan Miranda, narrated by Rebekkah Ross
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The summer after a wealthy young summer guest dies under suspicious circumstances, her best friend lives under a cloud of grief and suspicion in this "clever, stylish mystery that will seize readers like a riptide" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) featuring "dizzying plot twists and multiple surprise endings" (The New York Times Book Review).

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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.

Books Set in New York City

Books Set in New York City

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Rich and Pretty

By Rumaan Alam, narrated by Julie McKay
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This irresistible debut, set in contemporary New York, provides a sharp, insightful look into how the relationship between two best friends changes when they are no longer coming of age but learning how to live adult lives.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts

By Colson Whitehead, narrated by Colson Whitehead
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New York Times best-selling author and New York native Colson Whitehead composes a breathtaking tribute to his hometown. Whitehead captures the very essence of New York, infusing his reflections with the energy that permeates the city. Thoughts on Central Park, the subway, Coney Island, the Brooklyn Bridge, and much more bring the city to life as never before.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

The Odd Woman and the City

By Vivian Gornick, narrated by Vivian Gornick
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A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Severance

By Ling Ma, narrated by Nancy Wu
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Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Now That I've Found You

By Kristina Forest, narrated by Shayna Small
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Following in the footsteps of her überfamous grandma, 18-year-old Evie Jones is poised to be Hollywood’s next big star. That is until a close friend’s betrayal leads to her being blacklisted.... Fortunately, Evie knows just the thing to save her floundering career: a public appearance with America’s most beloved actress - her grandma Gigi, aka the Evelyn Conaway.

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Genre: Mystery

Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize

By Margo Rabb, narrated by Tara Sands
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Lucy Clark has had it. After being bullied one too many times, Lucy retaliates. But when the fallout is far worse than she meant it to be, she gets sent to Manhattan to serve as a full-time companion to the eccentric Edith Fox.

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Genre: Clean Romance

I Heart New York

By Lindsey Kelk, narrated by Justine Eyre
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When Angela catches her boyfriend with another woman at her best friend's wedding, she's heartbroken and desperate to run away. With little more than a crumpled bridesmaid dress, a pair of Louboutins, and her passport in hand, Angela decides to jump on a plane for... NYC!

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Genre: True Crime
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Mrs. Grace Humiston was an amazing lawyer and a traveling detective during a time when no women were practicing those professions. She focused on solving cases no one else wanted and advocating for innocents. The first female US District Attorney, she made groundbreaking investigations into modern-day slavery, and the papers gave her the nickname of fiction's famous sleuth.

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Genre: Fantasy

The Change

By Kirsten Miller, narrated by January LaVoy
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Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick—a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp feminist revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers—putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Ask Again, Yes

By Mary Beth Keane, narrated by Molly Pope
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Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie NYPD cops, are neighbors in the suburbs. What happens behind closed doors in both houses - the loneliness of Francis’s wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian’s wife, Anne, sets the stage for the explosive events to come.

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Genre: Mystery

The Wild Life (Joe the Bouncer Book 4)

By David Gordon, narrated by Joe Barrett
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Expelled Harvard student and ex-Special Forces operative Joe Brody is getting his life back together, living with his grandmother in Queens and taking what should be a simple job as a bouncer at a strip club where he can spend most of his night reading the classics. The only catch is that his childhood friend Gio, now head of NYC's Italian Mafia, relies on Joe's extra-legal expertise.

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First Victim

By Debbie Babitt, narrated by Hillary Huber
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The Honorable Alice D. McKerrity is no stranger to violence. From the bench at Manhattan Supreme, she has seen the most hardened killers pass through her courtroom. But there’s something about this trial―a defendant charged with the murder of a pregnant woman―that affects her as no other case ever has.

The Best Audiobooks of April

The Best Audiobooks of April

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning

By Julene Bair, narrated by Kirsten Potter
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Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas' beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair farm for the next generation. The Ogallala Road tells a tale of the West today and points us toward a new way to love both the land and one another.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Dead Time

By D. L. Orton, narrated by Noah Michael Levine & Erin DeWard
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The window between universes is closing. If Diego has any hope of getting back to Iz, he must get to the mountain and fix the time machine before it's too late. What could possibly go wrong?

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Genre: Fantasy

Eve of Light Short Story Box Set

By Harambee K Grey-Sun, narrated by Sara Morsey
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This bundle includes five pulse-pounding audiobooks about sinister creatures, supernatural nightmares, dark conspiracies, and more.

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Genre: Fantasy

The Spoken Mage: The Complete Series

By Melanie Cellier, narrated by Shiromi Arserio
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As the daughter of shopkeepers, Elena has always known that the mysteries of reading and writing are closed to her. Only the mageborn can risk harnessing the power unleashed from putting pen to paper. Until Elena discovers an impossible new ability and joins the elite ranks of the mages.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Lessons

By Ian McEwan, narrated by Simon McBurney
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Both epic and intimate, the story of one man’s life across generations and historical upheavals: a deeply affecting novel about love, loss, ambition, and resolution from the best-selling author of Atonement.

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Genre: Clean Romance

To Steal a Duke’s Heart

By Audrey Ashwood, narrated by Marian Hussey
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A disgraced young woman with nothing to lose. A handsome, newly appointed duke, bound by his honor. Her one opportunity to steal his heart.

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Genre: True Crime

United States of True Crime: Alaska

By Ashley Hudson, narrated by Ashley Hudson
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United States of True Crime is an anthology series with books devoted to the most disturbing cases in each of the 50 states. This audiobook focuses on 10 of the most chilling crimes in Alaska's history.

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Genre: Mystery

The Ghostly Grounds: Murder and Breakfast

By Sophie Love, narrated by Ulka Mohanty
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Marie expects to go for a brief getaway and is shocked to learn that her great-aunt left her an inheritance: a dilapidated, historic house overlooking the harbor. Marie feels an instant connection. Although the locals tell her it would be folly, Marie decides to renovate and give it a second life as a B&B. But there is one thing she couldn’t have planned for: The house is haunted.

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Hangman

By Daniel Cole, narrated by Alex Wyndham
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Despite her reluctance to jump into another gruesome case, Detective Emily Baxter is summoned to a meeting of a new FBI/CIA/UK law enforcement task force in New York. There, she is presented with photographs of the latest copycat murder: a body contorted into a familiar pose, strung up from the Brooklyn Bridge, the word BAIT carved deep into its chest.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Until Tomorrow Comes

By Adelaide Forrest, narrated by Heather Firth & Fernando Guerra
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With one look, Isa captivated me. She consumed me, drawing me into her world without ever knowing the dangers of mine. I intend to make her mine, no matter what lies I need to tell to manipulate her into falling in love with El Diablo. It should be simple enough, but secrets lurk in the depths of her multicolored eyes and I’ll do anything to understand what broke her.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Richer than God

By Amelia Wilde, narrated by Tanya Eby & Axel Bosley
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I’m the city’s cruelest billionaire. And I’m the only one who can save her. Richer Than God is an intense, dark, billionaire romance.

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Coming of Winter

By Tom Threadgill, narrated by Austin Walp
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While investigating Blackston’s recent activities, FBI Agent Jeremy Winter stumbles upon a string of missing persons within state parks. Unable to convince his boss that Blackston’s disappearance is anything other than a lost hiker, Winter joins forces with a local police officer to continue the search.

Audiobooks with a Strong Female Lead

Audiobooks with a Strong Female Lead

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Genre: Biography & Memoir
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In the early 1900s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful. In addition, women faced stigma from illness—a diagnosis could greatly limit their ability to find husbands, jobs or be received in polite society.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

By Janice Kaplan, narrated by Janice Kaplan
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Even in this time of rethinking women’s roles, we define genius almost exclusively through male achievement. When asked to name a genius, people mention Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Steve Jobs. As for great women? In one survey, the only female genius anyone listed was Marie Curie.

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Genre: Fantasy

The Bear and the Nightingale

By Katherine Arden, narrated by Kathleen Gati
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Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, Vasya loves the story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon. Wise Russians fear him, for he claims unwary souls, and they honor the spirits that protect their homes from evil.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Remote Control

By Nnedi Okorafor, narrated by Adjoa Andoh
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The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From hereon in she would be known as Sankofa ­­- a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past. Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Yes & I Love You

By Roni Loren, narrated by Desiree Ketchum
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Everyone knows Miz Poppy, the vibrant reviewer whose commentary brightens the New Orleans nightlife. But no one knows Hollyn, the real face behind the media star...or the fear that keeps her isolated. When her boss tells her she needs to add video to her blog or she’ll lose her job, she's forced to rely on an unexpected source to help her face her fears.

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Genre: Clean Romance

The Boyfriend Project

By Farrah Rochon, narrated by Je Nie Fleming
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Samiah never thought she would be "that" girl. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: She's been catfished by a 3-timing jerk of a boyfriend. Suddenly, Samiah - along with his two other "girlfriends", London and Taylor - have gone viral online. Now, the three new besties are making a pact to spend the next six months investing in themselves.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Such a Fun Age

By Kiley Reid, narrated by Nicole Lewis
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Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket.

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Genre: True Crime
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1985, Gun Barrel City, Texas: Police searching for missing Fire Department captain Jimmy Don dug inside a wishing well in the neatly tended garden of Beets's wife, 48-year-old Betty Lou Beets. Not only did they find his body, but they also found the body of Betty Lou's fourth husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. It wasn't long before investigators unearthed the terrible truth.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

My Sister, the Serial Killer

By Oyinkan Braithwaite, narrated by Adepero Oduye
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Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead. mKorede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace.

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Genre: Mystery

The Widows of Malabar Hill

By Sujata Massey, narrated by Soneela Nankani
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Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women's legal rights.

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Conviction

By Denise Mina, narrated by Cathleen McCarron
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The day Anna McDonald's quiet, respectable life explodes starts off like all the days before: Packing up the kids for school, making breakfast, listening to yet another true crime podcast. Then her husband comes downstairs with an announcement, and Anna is suddenly, shockingly alone.

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Genre: Mystery

Barbed Wire Heart

By Tess Sharpe, narrated by Tess Sharpe
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Harley McKenna is the only child of North County's biggest criminal. Duke McKenna's run more guns, cooked more meth, and killed more men than anyone around. Harley's been working for him since she was 16 - collecting debts, sweet-talking her way out of trouble, and dreading the day he'd deem her ready to rule the rural drug empire he's built.

Season Of Love

Season Of Love

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes

By Elizabeth Bard, narrated by Ann Marie Lee
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In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman - and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pavé au poivre, the steak's pink juices puddling into the buttery pepper sauce? Lunch in Paris is a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Dark Matter

By Blake Crouch, narrated by Jon Lindstrom
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From the author of the best-selling Wayward Pines trilogy, Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human - a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of.

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Genre: Fantasy

Beyond the Highland Mist (Highlander Book 1)

By Karen Marie Moning, narrated by Phil Gigante
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An alluring laird.... He was known throughout the kingdom as Hawk, legendary predator of the battlefield and the boudoir. No woman could refuse his touch, but no woman ever stirred his heart - until a vengeful fairy tumbled Adrienne de Simone out of modern-day Seattle and into medieval Scotland.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Song of a Captive Bird

By Jasmin Darznik, narrated by Mozhan Marnò
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All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel - gossiping with her sister among the fragrant roses of her mother's walled garden, venturing to the forbidden rooftop to roughhouse with her three brothers and, writing poems to impress her strict.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Get a Life, Chloe Brown: A Novel

By Talia Hibbert, narrated by Adjoa Andoh
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Talia Hibbert, one of contemporary romance’s brightest new stars, delivers a witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman who’s tired of being “boring” and recruits her mysterious, sexy neighbor to help her experience new things - perfect for fans of Sally Thorne, Jasmine Guillory, and Helen Hoang!

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Genre: True Crime

Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis

By Alexis Coe, narrated by Alexis Coe and Sophie Amoss
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In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that shocked the nation - it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass as a man in order to marry her 17-year-old fiancée Freda Ward, but when their love letters were discovered, they were forbidden from ever speaking again.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Your Dad Will Do

By Katee Robert, narrated by Jenny Nordbak
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I’ve been harboring a dark secret for two long years. I’ve been fantasizing about my fiancé’s father, thinking filthy thoughts that a good daughter-in-law should not be indulging in. So when I catch my fiancé cheating on me, there’s only one revenge that will fulfill all my needs. I’m going to seduce his father. It’s dirty and it’s wrong, and I don’t care.

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Bath Haus

By P. J. Vernon, narrated by Michael Crouch and Daniel Henning
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Oliver Park, a recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate backgrounds, they've made a perfect life together. With everything to lose, Oliver shouldn't be visiting Haus, a gay bathhouse.

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Genre: Mystery

A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem

By Manda Collins, narrated by Mary Jane Wells
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England, 1865: Newspaper columnist Lady Katherine Bascomb finds herself the subject of speculation when her latest article leads to an arrest in the murders plaguing London. The English believe women ought not to write about such vulgar things as crime, and a particularly attractive detective inspector is incensed that she's interfered with his investigation.

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Genre: Mystery

Whistleblower

By Tess Gerritsen, narrated by Erin Yuen
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When Victor Holland came flying out of the night, he ran straight into the path of Catherine Weaver's car. Having uncovered a terrifying secret that leads all the way to Washington, Victor is running for his life - and from the men who will go to any lengths to silence him.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Dial A for Aunties (Aunties Book 1)

By Jesse Q. Sutanto, narrated by Risa Mei
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What happens when you mix one (accidental) murder with two thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a possible curse on three generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get four meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue!

New Beginnings

New Beginnings

New Beginnings

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Helpline

By Katherine Collette, narrated by Jane U’Brien
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Germaine Johnson doesn’t need friends. She has her work and her Sudoku puzzles. Until, that is, an incident at her insurance company leaves her jobless - and it turns out that there are very few openings these days for senior mathematicians with zero people skills.

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Genre: Fantasy

Every Heart a Doorway

By Seanan McGuire, narrated by Cynthia Hopkins
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Children have always disappeared under the right conditions - slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere...else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.

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Genre: Mystery

The Good Daughter

By Karin Slaughter, narrated by Kathleen Early
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Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father - Pikeville's notorious defense attorney - devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night.

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Party of Two

By Jasmine Guillory, narrated by Janina Edwards
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Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe's mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior Senator Max Powell.

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Meet Cute Diary

By Emery Lee, narrated by Logan Rozos
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Noah Ramirez thinks he’s an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There’s just one problem - all the stories are fake. What started as the fantasies of a trans boy afraid to step out of the closet has grown into a beacon of hope for trans listeners across the globe.

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Genre: Mystery

Blackmail and Bibingka

By Mia P. Manansala, narrated by Danice Cabanela
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It’s Christmastime in Shady Palms, but things are far from jolly for Lila Macapagal. Sure, her new business, the Brew-ha Cafe, is looking to turn a profit in its first year. And yes, she’s taken the first step in a new romance with her good friend Jae Park.

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Genre: Science Fiction

The Midnight Library

By Matt Haig, narrated by Carey Mulligan
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Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir
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The megatalented creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder chronicles how saying yes for one year changed her life - and how it can change yours, too. With three hit shows on television and three children at home, the ubertalented Shonda Rhimes had lots of good reasons to say no when an unexpected invitation arrived.

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Life After Life

By Kate Atkinson, narrated by Fenella Woolgar
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On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Evvie Drake Starts Over

By Linda Holmes, narrated by Linda Holmes
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In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and Evvie doesn’t correct them.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

A Piece of Cake

By Cupcake Brown, narrated by Bahni Turpin
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11-year-old Cupcake woke up on the bicentennial and found her mother still in bed. She struggled to wake her up, pushing and pulling until she managed to tug her mother's lifeless corpse onto her own small body, crushing her beneath its dead weight. After squeezing out from under her mother, Cupcake calmly walked over to the phone and called her aunt Lori.