Books About Hopes and Dreams

Books About Hopes and Dreams

Books About Hopes and Dreams

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

By Gail Honeyman, narrated by Cathleen McCarron
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.

Anxious People book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

Anxious People

By Fredrik Backman, narrated by Marin Ireland
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Man's Search for Meaning

By Viktor E. Frankl, narrated by Theo Solomon
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Viktor E. Frankl was a medical doctor at a psychiatric hospital in 1942 when he became a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps in World War II. In 1946, he published a book about his camp experiences and a method of psychotherapy he developed. Forty-five years later, it was still named one of the most influential books in the United States.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

By Sandra Uwiringiyimana and Abigail Pesta, narrated by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism. Sandra was just 10 years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head.

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Genre: Young Adult

Rules for Being a Girl

By Candace Bushnell and Katie Cotugno, narrated by Julia Whelan
Tags: Young Adult

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It starts before you can even remember: You learn the rules for being a girl.... Marin has always been good at navigating these unspoken guidelines. A star student and editor of the school paper, she dreams of getting into Brown University. Marin’s future seems bright - and her young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. Beckett, is always quick to admire her writing and talk books with her.

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Genre: Science Fiction

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers Book 1)

By Becky Chambers, narrated by Rachel Dulude
Tags: Science Fiction

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Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space - and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe - in this lighthearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star. Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer.

The Humans book cover
Genre: Science Fiction

The Humans

By Matt Haig, narrated by Mark Meadows
Tags: Science Fiction

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When an extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin, a leading mathematician at Cambridge University, the visitor wants to complete his task and go back home, to the planet he comes from, and a utopian society of immortality and infinite knowledge.

Before We Were Strangers book cover
Genre: Clean Romance

Before We Were Strangers

By Renée Carlino, narrated by Kevin T. Collins and Samantha Summers
Tags: Clean Romance

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To the Green-Eyed Lovebird: We met 15 years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

The Road Trip

By Beth O'Leary, narrated by Josh Dylan and Eleanor Tomlinson
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Four years ago, Dylan and Addie fell in love under the Provence sun. Wealthy Oxford student Dylan was staying at his friend Cherry’s enormous French villa; wild child Addie was spending her summer as the on-site caretaker. Two years ago, their relationship officially ended. They haven’t spoken since.

A Beautiful Child: A True Story of Hope, Horror, and an Enduring Human Spirit book cover
Genre: True Crime
Tags: True Crime

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A student at Forest Park High School near Atlanta, Georgia, popular blonde-haired Sharon Marshall was at the top of her class. Serving as a Lt. Colonel in the ROTC, she earned a full scholarship to Georgia Tech University to study aerospace engineering. She was the ultimate girl next door, sweet, generous, and well-adjusted.

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Genre: Mystery

The Searcher

By Tana French, narrated by Roger Clark
Tags: Mystery

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Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After 25 years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens.

I Am Watching You book cover
Genre: Thriller & Suspense

I Am Watching You

By Teresa Driscoll, narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden
Tags: Thriller & Suspense

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When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it - until she realizes they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. But just as she’s decided to call for help, something stops her. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls - beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard - has disappeared.

Love & Gelato

Love & Gelato book cover
Genre: Young Adult

Love & Gelato

by Jenna Evans Welch, narrated by Rebekkah Ross

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A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping debut novel filled with romance, mystery, and adventure. Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn't in the mood for Italy's famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She's only there because it was her mother's dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father hasn't been around for 16 years?

Where the Crawdads Sing

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Genre: Young Adult

Where the Crawdads Sing

by Delia Owens, narrated by Cassandra Campbell

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Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder, Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

Soaking Up the Sun

Soaking Up the Sun

Soaking Up the Sun

The Last Time I Lied book cover
Genre: Thriller & Suspense

The Last Time I Lied

By Riley Sager, narrated by Nicol Zanzarella
Tags: Thriller & Suspense

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Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin into the darkness. The last she - or anyone - saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her...

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Genre: Mystery

Squeeze Me

By Carl Hiaasen, narrated by Scott Brick
Tags: Mystery

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At the height of Palm Beach’s charity ball season, Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons, a prominent member of geriatric high society, suddenly vanishes during a swank gala. Kiki Pew was a founding member of the Potussies, a group of women dedicated to supporting the President, who spends half the year at the “Winter White House” just down the road.

The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking True Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy book cover
Genre: True Crime
Tags: True Crime

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Ann Rule was working on the biggest story of her career, tracking the trail of victims left by a brutal serial killer. Little did this future best-selling author know that the savage slayer she was hunting was the young man she counted among her closest friends. Everyone's picture of a natural winner, Ted Bundy was a bright, charming, and handsome man with a promising future as an attorney.

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Genre: Young Adult

Love & Gelato

By Jenna Evans Welch, narrated by Rebekkah Ross
Tags: Young Adult

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A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping debut novel filled with romance, mystery, and adventure. Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn't in the mood for Italy's famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She's only there because it was her mother's dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father hasn't been around for 16 years?

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Keeping It Hot (The Breakfast in Bed Series Book 1)

By Sydney Landon, narrated by Nicol Zanzarella
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Zoe Hart owns the coffee shop in one of the hottest upscale resorts in Florida, which is run by her childhood best friend, Dylan Jackson. Even though Dylan is a workaholic, he still finds time to enjoy the beautiful women who pass through his hotel - all of them except Zoe. She has been in love with Dylan for years without him noticing.

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Genre: Fantasy

The Summer Tree (Fionavar Tapestry Book 1)

By Guy Gavriel Kay, narrated by Simon Vance
Tags: Fantasy

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In the first book of his Fionavar Tapestry series, five college students meet a wizard who takes them to the heart of the first of all worlds - a place called Fionavar. The students soon discover that they have been pre-ordained as part of the pattern called the Fionavar Tapestry - and if they don't fulfill their destinies, the world will suffer devastating consequences.

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Genre: Science Fiction

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot Book 1)

By Becky Chambers, narrated by Em Grosland
Tags: Science Fiction

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It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in.

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Genre: Mystery

One Perfect Couple

By Ruth Ware, narrated by Imogen Church
Tags: Mystery

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Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she’s pretty sure they won’t extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren’t going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she decides to try out with him.

Where the Crawdads Sing book cover
Genre: Young Adult

Where the Crawdads Sing

By Delia Owens, narrated by Cassandra Campbell
Tags: Young Adult

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Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder, Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

Same Time Next Summer book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

Same Time Next Summer

By Annabel Monaghan, narrated by Dan Bittner and Brittany Pressley
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Sam’s life is on track. She has the perfect doctor fiancé, Jack (his strict routines are a good thing, really), a great job in Manhattan (unless they fire her), and is about to tour a wedding venue near her family’s Long Island beach house. Everything should go to plan, yet the minute she arrives, Sam senses something is off. Wyatt is here. Her Wyatt.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Secrets of a Summer Night (The Wallflowers Book 1)

By Lisa Kleypas, narrated by Rosalyn Landor
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Proud and beautiful Annabelle Peyton could have her pick of suitors - if only she had a dowry. Her family is on the brink of disaster, and the only way Annabelle can save them is to marry a wealthy man. Unfortunately, her most persistent admirer is the brash Simon Hunt, a handsome and ambitious entrepreneur who wants her as his mistress.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

By Dani Shapiro, narrated by Dani Shapiro
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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From the acclaimed, best-selling memoirist, novelist - "a writer of rare talent" (Cheryl Strayed) - and host of the hit podcast Family Secrets, comes a memoir about the staggering family secret uncovered by a genealogy test: an exploration of the urgent ethical questions surrounding fertility treatments and DNA testing, and a profound inquiry of paternity, identity, and love.

How to Date a Superhero (and Not Die Trying)

How to Date a Superhero (and Not Die Trying) book cover
Genre: Young Adult

How to Date a Superhero (and Not Die Trying)

by Cristina Fernandez, narrated by Chloe Dolandis

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Falling for a superhero is dangerous. You have to trust that they’ll catch you. Astrid isn’t a superhero, not like the ones she sees on the news, but she has something she thinks of as a small superpower: She has a perfect sense of time. And she’s not going to waste a single second.

11 Laugh Out Loud Books

11 Laugh Out Loud Books

11 Laugh Out Loud Books

Death and Croissants (A Follet Valley Mystery Book 1) book cover
Genre: Mystery
Tags: Mystery

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Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the fictional Val de Follet in the Loire Valley. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really that’s the way he likes it. One day, however, one of his older guests disappears, leaving behind a bloody handprint on the wallpaper. Another guest, the exotic Valérie, persuades a reluctant Richard to join her in investigating the disappearance.

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Genre: Mystery

Mexico, Margaritas, and Murder

By Wendy Day, narrated by Grace Noble
Tags: Mystery

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After her grumpy husband dies, Sally throws out his thread-worn plaid recliner, cashes the life insurance check, and lets her spunky best friend, Pearl, drag her to Mexico for an all-inclusive vacation using their Senior Citizen’s discount. They kayak, sing karaoke, and spy on the next-door nudist resort.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

A Long Time Coming

By Meghan Quinn, narrated by Erin Mallon
Tags: Steamy Romance

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From USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a witty take on a romantic comedy classic, My Best Friend's Wedding. Steamy, laugh-out-loud, and full of charm, these two best friends heat up the audio while proving true love might be right in front of you.

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

By Elle Cosimano, narrated by Angela Dawe
Tags: Literary Fiction

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FINLAY DONOVAN IS KILLING IT...except, she’s really not. The new book she promised her literary agent hasn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head.

How to Date a Superhero (and Not Die Trying) book cover
Genre: Young Adult

How to Date a Superhero (and Not Die Trying)

By Cristina Fernandez, narrated by Chloe Dolandis
Tags: Young Adult

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Falling for a superhero is dangerous. You have to trust that they’ll catch you. Astrid isn’t a superhero, not like the ones she sees on the news, but she has something she thinks of as a small superpower: She has a perfect sense of time. And she’s not going to waste a single second.

Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Nick Offerman has always felt a particular affection for the Land of the Free - not just for the people and their purported ideals but for the actual land itself: the bedrock, the topsoil, and everything in between that generates the health of your local watershed.

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Genre: Fantasy

Rivers of London (Rivers of London Book 1)

By Ben Aaronovitch, narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Tags: Fantasy

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Probationary constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he'll face is a paper cut. But Peter's prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost.

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Genre: Fantasy

Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story

By Christopher Moore, narrated by Susan Bennett
Tags: Fantasy

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A striking red-head, 20-something Jody is attacked and transformed into a vampire while walking home one night in downtown San Francisco. Befriending 19-year-old Tommy, Jody tries to understand her new undead life, but trouble finds her when the cops start suspecting Tommy of being a local bloodsucking serial killer.

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Slow Horses (Slough House Book 1)

By Mick Herron, narrated by Gerard Doyle
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Slough House is a dumping ground for British intelligence agents who've screwed up cases in any number of ways - by leaving a secret file on a train or blowing a surveillance. River Cartwright, one such "slow horse", is bitter about his failure and about his tedious assignment transcribing cell phone conversations.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Funny Feelings

By Tarah DeWitt, narrated by Nelson Hobbs and Stephanie Bentley
Tags: Clean Romance

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When falling in love is the punchline . . . Farley Jones is being forced to date Meyer Harrigan, the man she has come to love, in order to make all of her stand-up dreams come true. It's agony tragedy, even. In lieu of flowers, please send cash . . . Meyer and his daughter Hazel have been everything to her since they came into her life three years ago.

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Writer Jessica Pan intends to find out.

The Girls of Summer

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Genre: Young Adult

The Girls of Summer

by Katie Bishop, narrated by Annabel Scholey

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Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteen years. Even though she’s now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than her. Rachel and Alistair’s summer love affair on a remote, sun-trapped Greek island has consumed her since she was seventeen, obliterating everything in its wake.

Around the World in 10 Books

Around the World in 10 Books

Around the World in 10 Books

The Good Left Undone book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

The Good Left Undone

By Adriana Trigiani, narrated by Carlotta Brentan, Lisa Flanagan, Edoardo Ballerini and, Deepti Gupta
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Matelda, the Cabrelli family’s matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother’s great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew...

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Genre: Science Fiction

Station Eleven

By Emily St. John Mandel, narrated by Kirsten Potter
Tags: Science Fiction

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Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.

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Genre: Mystery

Velvet Was the Night

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia, narrated by Gisela Chípe
Tags: Mystery

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Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city. When her next-door neighbor, the beautiful art student Leonora, disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman...

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Genre: Mystery

The Sicilian Inheritance

By Jo Piazza, narrated by Rachel F. Hirsch and Carlotta Brentan
Tags: Mystery

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Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie’s death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Vacationers

By Emma Straub, narrated by Kristen Sieh
Tags: Literary Fiction

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For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan.

The Girls of Summer book cover
Genre: Young Adult

The Girls of Summer

By Katie Bishop, narrated by Annabel Scholey
Tags: Young Adult

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Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteen years. Even though she’s now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than her. Rachel and Alistair’s summer love affair on a remote, sun-trapped Greek island has consumed her since she was seventeen, obliterating everything in its wake.

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Genre: Fantasy

A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic Book 1)

By V. E. Schwab, narrated by Steven Crossley
Tags: Fantasy

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Kell is one of the last Travelers - magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes. As such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, ruled by a mad King George. Then there's Red London, where life and magic are revered, and the Maresh Dynasty presides over a flourishing empire.

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Genre: True Crime

True Crime Canada

By Adrian Langenscheid and More, narrated by Andrew Nicholls
Tags: True Crime

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In the ninth volume of his True Crime series, Germany's bestselling True Crime author Adrian Langenscheid once again unleashes heart-pounding, addictive reading. It offers a breathtaking, deeply harrowing portrait of human abysses that arouses powerful emotions precisely because of its cool, factually neutral depiction.

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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: Clean Romance

Ready or Not

By Cara Bastone, narrated by Alex Finke
Tags: Clean Romance

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Eve Hatch lives for surprises! Just kidding. She expects every tomorrow to be pretty much the same as today. She loves her cozy apartment in Brooklyn that’s close to her childhood best friend Willa, and far from her midwestern, traditional family who has never really understood her. While her job is only dream-adjacent, it’s comfortable and steady. She always knows what to expect from her life...

The Unmaking of June Farrow

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Genre: Young Adult

The Unmaking of June Farrow

by Adrienne Young, narrated by Brittany Pressley

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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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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
Tags: Mystery

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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
Tags: Clean Romance

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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.

Things We Never Got Over book cover
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.