Books in Bloom

Books in Bloom

Books in Bloom

A World of Curiosities book cover
Genre: Mystery

A World of Curiosities

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

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

The Last Green Valley

By Mark Sullivan, narrated by Will Damron
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

By Alison Espach, narrated by Jesse Vilinsky
Tags: Literary Fiction

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

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Genre: Fantasy

The Honey Witch

By Sydney J. Shields, narrated by Mia Hutchinson Shaw
Tags: Fantasy

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

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Genre: Fantasy

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

By Claire Legrand, narrated by Evelyn Rose
Tags: Fantasy

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

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Genre: Young Adult

The Unmaking of June Farrow

By Adrienne Young, narrated by Brittany Pressley
Tags: Young Adult

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

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Genre: Clean Romance

Practice Makes Perfect

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

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Things We Never Got Over

By Lucy Score, narrated by Lila Winters
Tags: Steamy Romance

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

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Paper Palace

By Miranda Cowley Heller, narrated by Nan McNamara
Tags: Literary Fiction

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

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The Grace Year

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

Love in Literature

Love in Literature

Love in Literature

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Ugly Love

By Colleen Hoover, narrated by Grace Grant and Deacon Lee
Tags: Literary Fiction

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

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Genre: Mystery

Lavender House

By Lev AC Rosen, narrated by Vikas Adam
Tags: Mystery

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

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

A Place for Us

By Brandon J. Wolf, narrated by Brandon J. Wolf
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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

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Genre: Young Adult

Every Other Weekend

By Abigail Johnson, narrated by Kirby Heyborne and Taylor Meskimen
Tags: Young Adult

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

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Genre: Steamy Romance

If We Ever Meet Again (If Love Book 1)

By Ana Huang, narrated by Cindy Kay and Aiden Snow
Tags: Steamy Romance

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

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Genre: Fantasy

Moon Tortured (Sky Brooks Series Book 1)

By McKenzie Hunter, narrated by Jorjeana Marie
Tags: Fantasy

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

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Genre: Fantasy

The Savior's Sister

By Jenna Moreci, narrated by Emma Tigan
Tags: Fantasy

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

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The Beach Cottage

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

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Genre: Steamy Romance

The Graham Effect (Campus Diaries Book 1)

By Elle Kennedy, narrated by CJ Bloom and Teddy Hamilton
Tags: Steamy Romance

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

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Find Me

By André Aciman, narrated by Michael Stuhlbarg
Tags: Literary Fiction

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

New Beginnings

New Beginnings

New Beginnings

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Great Alone

By Kristin Hannah, narrated by Julia Whelan
Tags: Literary Fiction

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

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Lost Luggage

By Samantha Tonge, narrated by Jilly Bond
Tags: Literary Fiction

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

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Between Two Kingdoms

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.

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Genre: Young Adult

Sweet Sorrow

By David Nicholls, narrated by Rory Kinnear
Tags: Young Adult

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

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Genre: Science Fiction

The Space Between Worlds

By Micaiah Johnson, narrated by Nicole Lewis
Tags: Science Fiction

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

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Float Plan

By Trish Doller, narrated by Sarah Naughton
Tags: Steamy Romance

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

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Genre: Steamy Romance

How to Catch a Queen: Runaway Royals

By Alyssa Cole, narrated by Karen Chilton
Tags: Steamy Romance

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

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Genre: Young Adult

I Wish You All the Best

By Mason Deaver, narrated by MW Cartozian Wilson
Tags: Young Adult

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

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Genre: Mystery

On Skein of Death

By Allie Pleiter, narrated by Allie Pleiter and Brittany Pressley
Tags: Mystery

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

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True Crime Story

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

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
Tags: Fantasy

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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
Tags: Clean Romance

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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
Tags: Literary Fiction

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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
Tags: Literary Fiction

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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
Tags: Young Adult

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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

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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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 (The Jeremy Winter Thrillers Book 1)

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.