Holiday Gift Guide for Book Lovers

So This Is Christmas book cover
Genre: Clean Romance

So This Is Christmas

By Jenny Holiday, narrated by Cynthia Farrell
Tags: Clean Romance

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Matteo has spent his life serving at the pleasure of the Eldovian crown. His work is his life and his life, well...he doesn’t have much of one. When he is tasked to aid a management consultant who has been flown in to help straighten out the king’s affairs, he is instantly disturbed by her brash American manner—as well by an inconvenient attraction to the brainy beauty.

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Genre: Mystery

Murder for Christmas

By Francis Duncan, narrated by John Curless
Tags: Mystery

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Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions amongst the assortment of guests.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

The Last Black Unicorn

By Tiffany Haddish, narrated by Tiffany Haddish
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Tiffany Haddish grew up in one of the poorest parts of South Central Los Angeles. Her mother wound up with a debilitating brain injury after surviving a car accident. Tiffany never fit in anywhere: not in the households she rotated through in the foster care system and certainly not at the nearly all white high school she had to ride the bus an hour to attend.

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Genre: Clean Romance

The Matzah Ball

By Jean Meltzer, narrated by Dara Rosenberg
Tags: Clean Romance

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Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt is a nice Jewish girl with a shameful secret: She loves Christmas. For a decade she’s hidden her career as a Christmas romance novelist from her family. Her talent has made her a best seller even as her chronic illness has always kept the kind of love she writes about out of reach.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Immortalists

By Chloe Benjamin, narrated by Maggie Hoffman
Tags: Literary Fiction

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It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children - four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness - sneak out to hear their fortunes.

Down the River unto the Sea book cover
Genre: Mystery

Down the River unto the Sea

By Walter Mosley, narrated by Dion Graham
Tags: Mystery

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Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault by his enemies within the NYPD, a charge which lands him in solitary at Rikers Island.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Forever, Interrupted

By Taylor Jenkins Reid, narrated by Julia Whelan
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Elsie Porter is an average 20 something and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year’s Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza for one. She isn’t expecting to see anyone else in the shop, much less the adorable and charming Ben Ross. Their chemistry is instant and electric.

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The Hunting Party

By Lucy Foley, narrated by Gary Furlong, Elle Newlands, Morag Sims, Imogen Church and, Moira Quirk
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During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of 30-something friends from Oxford meets to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students 10 years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands - the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves.

Black Sun book cover
Genre: Fantasy

Black Sun

By Rebecca Roanhorse, narrated by Cara Gee, Nicole Lewis, Kaipo Schwab and, Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Tags: Fantasy

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In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial even proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice.

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Genre: Fantasy

Spinning Silver

By Naomi Novik, narrated by Lisa Flanagan
Tags: Fantasy

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With the Nebula Award-winning Uprooted, Naomi Novik opened a brilliant new chapter in an already acclaimed career, delving into the magic of fairy tales to craft a love story that was both timeless and utterly of the now.