New Beginnings

New Beginnings

The Helpline book cover
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.

Every Heart a Doorway book cover
Genre: Fantasy

Every Heart a Doorway

By Seanan McGuire, narrated by Cynthia Hopkins
Tags: Fantasy

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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
Tags: Mystery

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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.

Party of Two book cover
Genre: Clean Romance

Party of Two

By Jasmine Guillory, narrated by Janina Edwards
Tags: Clean Romance

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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
Tags: Clean Romance

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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
Tags: Mystery

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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
Tags: Science Fiction

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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.

Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir
Tags: 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.

Evvie Drake Starts Over book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

Evvie Drake Starts Over

By Linda Holmes, narrated by Linda Holmes
Tags: Literary Fiction

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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
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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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.