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
Tags: Literary Fiction

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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
Tags: Literary Fiction

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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
Tags: Mystery

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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
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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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
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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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
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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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
Tags: Mystery

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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
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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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
Tags: Mystery

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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
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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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
Tags: Literary Fiction

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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

By Jesse Q. Sutanto, narrated by Risa Mei
Tags: Literary Fiction

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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
Tags: Literary Fiction

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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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Genre: Clean Romance

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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Genre: Clean Romance

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.

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Just Like the Other Girls

By Claire Douglas, narrated by Georgia Maguire
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At loose ends after the devastating death of her mother, Una Richardson responds to an advertisement for a ladies’ companion, a position that leads her into the wealthy, secluded world of Mrs. Elspeth McKenzie. But Elspeth's home isn’t the comforting haven it seems.

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Genre: Mystery

The Pallbearers Club

By Paul Tremblay, narrated by Graham Halstead, Xe Sands and, Elizabeth Wiley
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Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a 17-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended funerals. But his new friend thought the Pallbearers’ Club was cool.

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One Week to Claim It All

By Adriana Herrera, narrated by Frankie Corzo
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When Esmeralda Sambrano-Peña unexpectedly inherits her father’s media empire, it ruffles more than a few feathers. And no one is more conflicted about it than Rodrigo Almanzar. Esmeralda knows her father’s longtime protégé - and her ex-lover - wants the executive job for himself. Making matters worse, their renewed passion grows undeniable with every late-night meeting.

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Genre: Fantasy

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

By Alexander Freed, narrated by Jonathan Davis
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As the shadows of the Empire loom ever larger across the galaxy, so do deeply troubling rumors. The Rebellion has learned of a sinister Imperial plot to bring entire worlds to their knees. Deep in Empire-dominated space, a machine of unimaginable destructive power is nearing completion. A weapon too terrifying to contemplate and a threat that may be too great to overcome.

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Planetside

By Michael Mammay, narrated by R.C. Bray
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War heroes aren't usually called out of semi-retirement and sent to the far reaches of the galaxy for a routine investigation. So when Colonel Carl answers the call from an old & powerful friend, he knows it's something big - and he's not being told the whole story. A high councilor's son has gone MIA out of Cappa Base, the space station orbiting a battle-ravaged planet.

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The rags-to-riches story of one of America's wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian - the daring aviator, movie mogul, risk taker, and business tycoon who transformed Las Vegas and Hollywood to become one of the leading financiers in American business.

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Melody Beattie’s compassionate and insightful look into codependency—the concept of losing oneself in the name of helping another—has guided millions of readers toward the understanding that they are powerless to change anyone but themselves and that caring for the self is where healing begins.

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Genre: True Crime

The Priest (Vigilante Angels Book 1)

By Billy DeCarlo, narrated by Billy DeCarlo
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Enjoy this FREE vigilante justice noir crime audiobook! It's the tale of a former cop and Marine who receives a terminal diagnosis. He decides to make the world a better place with the little time he has, enlists the help of some like-minded patients and an unusual cast of characters. His biggest challenges, however, are inside his own home.

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Genre: Mystery

Polar Opposites

By Amity Allen, narrated by Penelope Graham
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A novice witch, a polar bear familiar & a murder under the Northern Lights. When a man is killed outside my back door, everyone becomes suspicious I'm the murderer. Eager to clear my name, I do my best to find the culprit. Now if I can only harness my newfound powers and find the murderer before Sheriff Brodie puts me in a jail cell...

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Bloodlines

By Lynn Lipinski, narrated by Markham Anderson
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A young man and his teenage sister dig into their late mother's history after her mysterious death, but they may have been better off not learning the family secrets.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Stolen Moments of Joy

By Hamour Baika, narrated by Finian Schwarz
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Abdul is on the edge. His loving boyfriend has violent outbursts. He faces persistent microaggressions everywhere in Baltimore. A recent police shooting reminds him of the sins of his past. When an attractive activist shows up in his workplace, Abdul gives in to his flirtatious advances. Would a sense of guilt make him stay in an abusive relationship?

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Genre: Fantasy

Calixta: The Vanquishers of Alhambra

By Omayra Velez, narrated by Corina Ollett
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Calixta works in an undesirable trade in a world where all people have a trade for life. She woke at the gates of heaven. There she met 20 of the most unlikely of beings. They sent her back to Talbert with some unique gifts. At her return, Evil chased her all over creation. She has some help from an unlikely friend. Will she succeed in her task?

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Genre: Clean Romance

The Selection (Sapient Salvation Book 1)

By Jayne Faith, narrated by Laurel Schroder
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Twice a year, young men and women must compete in a deadly alien tournament. Maya must get through just one more Selection and then she's free. But fate has other plans for her. Thrown into the fight of her life, Maya must shed her innocence and use her wits to have a chance at survival -- and a love more epic than she could have imagined.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Crazy for You

By Kennedy Kovit, narrated by Sarah Van Sweden
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Meredith is home again, ready to settle down in her small town and open the antique shop she's always dreamed of owning. She's had enough of powerful men trying to use her and wants to simply fade away from the dating scene and enjoy life. When she runs into the diner's new owner, she quickly realizes her master plan might have been premature.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Dark Mind

By Ian Douglas, narrated by Nick Sullivan
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2425. The civil war between the United States of North America and the Pan-European Confederation is over. But before a new era of peace on Earth can begin, humankind must martial its interstellar forces as one fleet to engage in a war against an alien entity in Omega Centauri.

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Genre: Fantasy

Barren

By Peter V. Brett, narrated by Xe Sands
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Each night, the world is overrun by bloodthirsty demons. For centuries, humanity survived only by hiding behind defensive wards - magical symbols with the power to repel the demons. Now, the rediscovery of long-forgotten combat wards has given them the magic they need to fight back.

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Genre: Mystery

To Dwell in Darkness

By Deborah Crombie, narrated by Gerard Doyle
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Recently transferred to the London borough of Camden from Scotland Yard headquarters, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his new murder investigation team are called to a deadly bombing at historic St. Pancras Station. By fortunate coincidence, Melody Talbot, Gemma's trusted colleague, witnesses the explosion.

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Rock with Wings

By Anne Hillerman, narrated by Christina Delaine
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Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, Officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation and separate them - one near Shiprock and the other at iconic Monument Valley.

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Take Your Breath Away

By Linwood Barclay, narrated by Joe Knezevich and More
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One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most everyone assumed Andy had got away with murder—it's always the husband, isn't it?—but the police could never build a strong case against him.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

The Last Boss of Brighton: Boris “Biba” Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America

By Douglas Century, narrated by Sean Pratt and Gregory Korostishevsky
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Boris Nayfeld, aka “Biba”, is the last living boss of the old-school Russian mob in America, and he’s survived to tell it all. Filled with sex, drugs, and murder, Biba’s story is a mind-boggling journey that took him from petty street crime in the USSR to billion-dollar embezzlement in America.

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When 11-year-old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession led James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave him PTSD.

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The Investigator

By John Sandford, narrated by Richard Ferrone
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By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now a recent Stanford grad with a master’s in economics, she’s restless and bored in a desk job for U.S. Senator Colles.

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Genre: Fantasy

Cowboy (Disrupted Equilibrium Book 2)

By William Bahl, narrated by William Bahl
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An elite hitman. The CEO of a major biotech firm. Strangers to each other. Connected by fate. Each will face betrayal and disaster as the secret organization behind a plan to unleash a deadly formula loses control and civilization begins to collapse worldwide.

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Mail Order Abduction (Green River Brides Book 1)

By Leah Wyett, narrated by Gina Dobbs
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Immerse yourself in a heart-warming, suspense-filled adventure of growth and true love. Will Elijah rescue Lisette in time? Or is this one game that might just turn deadly?

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Discerning Grace (The White Sails Series Book 1)

By Emma Lombard, narrated by Siobhan Waring
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If Bridgerton and Pirates of the Caribbean had a love child. Grace Baxter is not a woman content with afternoon tea and scones! She would rather chance a life at sea than put up with unforgiving London society. Adventures on the high seas, bursting with action, suspense, and a dash of romance.

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Good Girl

By Piper Lawson, narrated by Joe Arden and Savannah Peachwood
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When student Haley scores an internship on grumpy rock god Jax Jamieson’s tour, she doesn't plan to fall for him - or to catch his eye in return. An addictive, enthralling romance!

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Genre: Biography & Memoir
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For centuries, India has enthralled Westerners looking for an exotic getaway, a brief immersion in yoga and meditation, or in rare cases, a true pilgrimage to find spiritual revelation. Justin Alexander Shetler, an inveterate traveler trained in wilderness survival, was one such seeker.

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Genre: Science Fiction

The Reluctant Queen (Queens of Renthia Book 2)

By Sarah Beth Durst, narrated by Khristine Hvam
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Filled with political intrigue, violent magic, and malevolent spirits, the mesmerizing second book in Sarah Beth Durst's Queens of Renthia epic fantasy trilogy. Everything has a spirit: the willow tree with leaves that kiss the pond, the stream that feeds the river, the wind that exhales fresh snow. And those spirits want to kill you.

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Genre: Fantasy

Protect the Prince (Crown of Shards Book 2)

By Jennifer Estep, narrated by Lauren Fortgang
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Everleigh Blair might be the new gladiator queen of Bellona, but her problems are far from over. First, Evie has to deal with a court full of arrogant, demanding nobles, all of whom want to get their greedy hands on her crown. As if that wasn’t bad enough, an assassin tries to kill Evie in her own throne room.

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Midnight on the River Grey

By Abigail Wilson, narrated by Laura Kirman
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In this Gothic Regency romance, Rebecca fears she has developed feelings for the man she swore to see hanged, her brother's murderer. After her elder brother’s mysterious death, Rebecca Hunter vows to expose the man she believes responsible: Mr. Lewis Browning - known by the locals as the Midnight Devil and by Rebecca as her new guardian.

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Lord of Chance (Rogues to Riches Book 1)

By Erica Ridley, narrated by Jeremy Arthur
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Special Agent Garrett Kohl has just taken down a powerful and deadly cartel boss with the Texas Rangers when he finds trouble brewing back on his family’s homestead. A powerful energy consortium, Talon Corporation, has started an aggressive mining operation that threatens to destroy Garrett’s land, his family’s way of life, and everything they hold dear.

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Firestorm (Garrett Kohl Book 2)

By Taylor Moore, narrated by Jeremy Arthur
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Special Agent Garrett Kohl has just taken down a powerful and deadly cartel boss with the Texas Rangers when he finds trouble brewing back on his family’s homestead. A powerful energy consortium, Talon Corporation, has started an aggressive mining operation that threatens to destroy Garrett’s land, his family’s way of life, and everything they hold dear.

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The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs Book 16)

By Jacqueline Winspear, narrated by Orlagh Cassidy
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October 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Crouching in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at the delivery address, he’s shocked to come face-to-face with the killer.

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The Enigma of Room 622

By Joël Dicker, narrated by Chris Harper
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A writer named Joël, Switzerland’s most prominent novelist, flees to the Hôtel de Verbier, a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps. Disheartened over a recent breakup and his longtime publisher’s death, Joël hopes to rest. However, his plans quickly go awry. It all starts with a seemingly innocuous detail: at the Verbier, there is no room 622.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By David Graeber and David Wengrow, narrated by Mark Williams
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A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution - from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state", political violence, and social inequality - and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.

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Genre: Fantasy

Queen of Egypt (The Amarna Age Book 1)

By Kylie Quillinan, narrated by Catherine Bilson
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1334 BCE. Eighteenth dynasty Egypt. A country in chaos. A dynasty in peril. Queen Ankhesenamun fights to save her throne from the men who control Pharaoh. Somebody wants her dead and she doesn’t know who she can trust. Can she keep herself alive long enough to save the man she loves?

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Genre: Mystery

Sawbones

By Pamela Fagan Hutchins, narrated by Pamela Fagan Hutchins
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"Best book I've read in a long time." When a killer threatens his family before their testimony in a capital murder trial, Patrick Flint will do anything to keep them safe. Readers who like CJ Box or Craig Johnson love this series from USA Today bestselling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins.

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The Subway Girl (The Subway Girl Book 1)

By Lisa Becker, narrated by Erin Mallon
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A small-town hopeless romantic transplanted in NYC. A cynical news producer in need of a big story. What happens when they seek a “missed connection” from a NY subway? Serendipity meets Missed Connections and the warm fuzzies of a Hallmark Movie mix with Reality TV vibes in this fun and steamy, award-winning story narrated by Erin Mallon.

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Genre: Fantasy
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The Ripper's murder spree spans centuries. Now Jack has come to Austin and every woman in the city is in mortal danger. Harmon Waite has been hired to stop him—but all our hero manages to do is piss that devil off. As he goes from hunter to hunted, Harmon has one chance to survive the night. Of course, that's when the fallen angel shows up.

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Sworn to Sacrifice

By Cristina Ryan, narrated by Grace Noble
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When a Marine rescues a stranger from her abusive boyfriend, their connection evokes a powerful connection of healing and love.

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Genre: Mystery

Kingdom of Bones

By James Rollins, narrated by Christian Baskous
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A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them—plants and animals—has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace.

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Laughable Loves

By Milan Kundera, narrated by Richmond Hoxie
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Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road - only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God.

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The Frozen Crown

By Greta Kelly, narrated by Imani Jade Powers
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Askia became heir to the Frozen Crown of Seravesh because of her devotion to her people. But her realm is facing a threat she cannot defeat by sheer will alone. The mad emperor of the Roven Empire has unleashed a horde of invading soldiers to enslave her lands. For months, her warriors have waged a valiant, stealth battle, yet they cannot stop the enemy’s advancement.

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Genre: Business
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Only 10 percent of the world’s millionaires are women, making it difficult for women to wield the economic power that will create lasting equality. Whatever is stopping you from having seven figures in the bank, this book shows you how to clear every obstacle in your way, show up, and glow up.

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Genre: Mystery

The Serpent on the Crown (Amelia Peabody Book 17)

By Elizabeth Peters, narrated by Barbara Rosenblat
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The Emersons have returned to the Valley of the Kings in 1922 and Amelia Peabody and her family look forward to delving once more into the age-old mysteries buried in Egypt's ever-shifting sands. But a widow's strange story, and even stranger request, is about to plunge them into a storm of secrets, treachery, and murder.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Life on the Refrigerator Door

By Alice Kuipers, narrated by Dana Delany and Amanda Seyfried
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Claire and her mother are running out of time, but they don't know it. Not yet. Claire is wrapped up with the difficulties of her bourgeoning adulthood ¿ boys, school, friends, identity; Claire's mother, a single mom, is rushed off her feet both at work and at home.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

By Jami Attenberg, narrated by Xe Sands
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In this brilliant memoir of transformation, Jami Attenberg—described as a “master of modern fiction” (Entertainment Weekly) and the “poet laureate of difficult families” (Kirkus Reviews)—reveals the defining moments that pushed her to create a life, and voice, she could claim for herself. What does it take to devote oneself to art? What does it mean to own one’s ideas?

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Genre: Fantasy

Light Years from Home

By Mike Chen, narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
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Evie Shao and her sister, Kass, aren’t on speaking terms. Fifteen years ago, on a family camping trip, their father and brother vanished. Their dad turned up days later, dehydrated and confused - and convinced he'd been abducted by aliens. Their brother, Jakob, remained missing. The women dealt with it very differently.

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A Solitude of Wolverines (Alex Carter Book 1)

By Alice Henderson, narrated by Eva Kaminsky
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The first book in a thrilling series featuring a wildlife biologist who courts trouble as she saves endangered species...and a mysterious killer who buries his dead in the land she helps preserve - a fast-paced, action-driven tale of suspense with the atmosphere and propulsive tension of works by Jane Harper, C. J. Box, William Kent Krueger, and Nevada Barr.

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Isle of Dogs

By Patricia Cornwell, narrated by Karen White
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Newly installed superintendent of the Virginia State Police, Judy Hammer, and her right hand and confidant, Andy Brazil, are at their wits' end trying to protect the public from the politicians - and vice versa.

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Sacred Places (Druid Book 1)

By Mandy M. Roth, narrated by Mason Lloyd
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Coyle O'Caha, a 700-year-old immortal druidsorcerer, is a famed warrior among his kind and a legendary ladies' man - but that doesn't mean he hasn't spent his life looking for his soulmate. That one woman who will make him feel whole.