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: 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.

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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...