Best Audiobooks for Your Holiday Drive

Simon Says...Hide (Kate Morgan Thrillers Book 1) book cover
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Simon Says...Hide (Kate Morgan Thrillers Book 1)

By Dale Mayer, narrated by Kristi Alsip
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Newly promoted detective Kate Morgan stands up for the victims in the world, never backing down or giving up. The worst ones prey on the hopes of desperate people to line their own pockets. And, when Kate finds a connection between more than a half-dozen cold cases to a recent case - where a child's life is in jeopardy - she'll make a deal with the devil himself to protect the child.

Holiday Buzz (A Coffeehouse Mystery Book 12) book cover
Genre: Mystery

Holiday Buzz (A Coffeehouse Mystery Book 12)

By Cleo Coyle, narrated by Rebecca Gibel
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Holiday time is party time in New York City, but after a sparkling winter bash ends with a murder, Village Blend coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi vows to put the killer on ice.

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Hard Cold Winter

By Glen Erik Hamilton, narrated by R.C. Bray
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When an old crony of Van Shaw's late grandfather calls in a favor, the recently discharged Ranger embarks on a dangerous journey to the Olympic Mountains, in search of a missing girl tied to Van's own criminal past. What he finds instead is a brutal murder scene, including a victim from one of Seattle's most influential families.

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Genre: True Crime

The Book of Atlantis Black

By Betsy Bonner, narrated by Laura Jennings
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For Grace Bonner, the bond of sisterhood is an exquisite, painful thing. In The Book of Atlantis Black, Bonner unravels the mystery of her sister and what happened in the final months before her disappearance, alleged overdose, and death.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Before You

By Marni Mann, narrated by Virginia Rose, Ava Erickson, Jason Clarke
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It was supposed to be a typical work trip. New York to San Francisco, window seat, exit row. Maybe a mimosa. Then, seat 14B sat down. When our eyes met, the flight became anything but routine. I could pinpoint the moments in my life where everything changed forever. Meeting Jared on that flight was first. Falling in love with him was second. Discovering the secrets he kept was third.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Mind of Winter

By Laura Kasischke, narrated by Justine Eyre
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On a snowy Christmas morning, Holly Judge awakens with the fragments of a nightmare floating on the edge of her consciousness. Something followed them from Russia. Thirteen years ago, she and her husband Eric adopted Tatty from the Pokrovka Orphanage #2. As a blizzard rages outside, Holly and Tatiana are alone. With each passing hour, Tatiana’s mood darkens... until Holly finds she no longer recognizes her daughter.

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Genre: Fantasy

The Palace of Lost Memories (After the Rift Book 1)

By C. J. Archer, narrated by Marian Hussey
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The king's magnificent palace was built in a matter of weeks. No one saw the builders, no villagers are allowed beyond the gilded gate, and only one servant has ever left. The haunted look in her eyes as she was recaptured by the palace guards is something Josie, daughter of the village doctor, has never forgotten.

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Genre: Fantasy

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

By T. Kingfisher, narrated by Patricia Santomasso
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Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter, and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance. But Mona's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor.

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Genre: Children

The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be

By Joanna Gaines, narrated by Joanna Gaines, Emmie Gaines
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In the number-one New York Times bestseller, The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be, Joanna Gaines celebrates how creativity and acceptance can come together to make for a bright and beautiful adventure.

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Genre: Young Adult

The Sound of Stars

By Alechia Dow, narrated by Joy Sunday, Christian Barillas
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Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading Ilori resulted in the death of one-third of the world’s population. Today, seventeen-year-old Ellie Baker survives in an Ilori-controlled center in New York City. All art, books, and creative expression are illegal, but Ellie breaks the rules by keeping a secret library.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Wildflower

By Drew Barrymore, narrated by Drew Barrymore
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Award-winning actress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present told from the place of happiness she's achieved today.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

My Ticket to Ride (A True Story from 1964)

By Janice Mitchell, narrated by Janet Metzger
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A true-adventure, coming-of-age tale set in the exhilarating first wave of Beatlemania. It's 1964, and 16-year-old Janice is struggling in a grim foster home in Cleveland when she falls suddenly, deeply in love...with The Beatles. They and their music stir in her an ecstatic new sense of freedom. With a friend, she hatches a bold plan to escape their dreary lives and run away to London to meet the Fab Four.

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Genre: Mystery

Twelve Slays of Christmas

By Jacqueline Frost, narrated by Allyson Ryan
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When Holly White's fiancé cancels their Christmas Eve wedding with less than two weeks to go, Holly heads home with a broken heart. Her plan to drown her troubles in peppermints and snickerdoodles is upended when local grouch and president of the Mistletoe Historical Society, Margaret Fenwick, is bludgeoned and left in the sleigh display at Reindeer Games, Holly's family-owned tree farm.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Hot as Puck

By Lili Valente, narrated by Tyler Donne & Summer Roberts
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I am the world's biggest dating failure. We're talking my last date went home with our waitress kind of failure. But I have an ace in the back pocket of my mom jeans... My sexy-as-sin best friend, NHL superstar forward, Justin Cruise. Justin owes me favors dating back to seventh grade, long before he became a hotshot with a world-famous... stick.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Angels at the Table

By Debbie Macomber, narrated by Kimberly Farr
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Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy know that an angel's work is never done, especially during a time as wondrous as New Year's Eve. With an apprentice angel, Will, under their wings, they descend upon Times Square in New York City eager to join in the festivities. And when Will spies two lonely strangers in the crowd, he decides midnight is the perfect time to lend a heavenly helping hand.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Believers

By Zoe Heller, narrated by Andrea Martin
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The Litvinoff clan is called upon to examine long-held articles of faith that have formed the basis of their lives together and their identities as individuals. In the end, each family member will have to decide what - if anything - they still believe in. The Believers explores big ideas with a light touch while delivering a tragic & comedic family story.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Dark Eden

By Chris Beckett, narrated by Matthew Frow, Jayne Entwistle, & More
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On the sunless planet Eden, 532 members of the Family shelter beneath the light and warmth of the Forest's lantern trees. Beyond the Forest lie the mountains of the Snowy Dark and a cold so bitter and a night so profound that no man has ever crossed it. The Oldest among the Family recount legends of a world where light came from the sky, where men and women made boats that could cross the stars. Young John Redlantern will break the laws of Eden, shatter the Family and change history. He will abandon the old ways, venture into the Dark… and discover the truth about their world.