Books to Help You Escape The Cold

Books to Help You Escape The Cold

Books to Help You Escape The Cold

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Something in the Water

By Catherine Steadman, narrated by Catherine Steadman
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Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, and Mark is a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in love, they embark on a dream honeymoon to the tropical island of Bora Bora, where they enjoy the sun, the sand, and each other. Then, while scuba diving in the crystal blue sea, they find something in the water....

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Genre: Mystery

Smile Beach Murder (Outer Banks Bookshop Mystery Book 1)

By Alicia Bessette, narrated by Karissa Vacker
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When Callie is laid off from her reporting job, she returns to her hometown of Cattail Island and lands a gig at the local bookstore—the same one where she found comfort after her mother died. In fact, the anniversary of her mother’s infamous death is approaching. Years ago, Teri Padget tumbled from the top of the lighthouse.

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The Drowning Woman

By Robyn Harding, narrated by Brittany Wilkerson and Henriette Zoutomou
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Lee Gulliver never thought she’d find herself living on the streets—no one ever does—but when her restaurant fails, and she falls deeper into debt, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle, she parks in a secluded spot by the beach to lay low and plan her next move—until early one morning, she sees a sobbing woman throw herself into the ocean.

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Genre: Fantasy

Psyche and Eros

By Luna McNamara, narrated by Rachel Petladwala and Joshua Riley
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Who said true love is a myth? A prophecy claims that Psyche, princess of Mycenae, will defeat a monster feared even by the gods. Rebelling against her society’s expectations for women, Psyche spends her youth mastering blade and bow, preparing to meet her destiny.

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Genre: Fantasy

To Shape a Dragon's Breath

By Moniquill Blackgoose, narrated by Charley Flyte
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The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations—until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons lived among them and danced away the storms of autumn, enabling the people to thrive.

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Genre: Clean Romance

The Layover

By Lacie Waldon, narrated by Jorjeana Marie
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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: Literary Fiction

You Can Trust Me

By Wendy Heard, narrated by Kelsey Navarro Foster and Natalie Naudus
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Summer and Leo would do anything for each other. Inspired by the way each has had to carve her place in a hostile and unforgiving world, and united by the call of the open road, they travel around sunny California in Summer’s tricked-out Land Cruiser. It’s not a glamorous life, but it gives them the freedom they crave from the painful pasts they’ve left behind.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Have You Seen Her

By Catherine McKenzie, narrated by Amanda Dolan, Stacy Gonzalez, Tyla Collier, Machelle Williams and, Ali Andre Ali
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Equipped with a burner phone and a new job, Cassie Peters has left her hectic and secretive life in New York City for the refuge of her hometown of Mammoth Lakes, California. There, she begins working again with Yosemite Search and Rescue, where a case she worked a decade ago continues to haunt her.

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Genre: Young Adult

Never Saw You Coming

By Erin Hahn, narrated by Jessica Almasy and Michael Crouch
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Raised by conservative parents, 18-year-old Meg Hennessey just found out her entire childhood was a lie. Instead of taking a gap year before college to find herself, she ends up traveling north to meet what’s left of the family she never knew existed.

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Genre: Clean Romance

One Summer in Italy

By Sue Moorcroft, narrated by Helen Johns
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When Sofia Bianchi’s father, Aldo, dies, it makes her stop and look at things afresh. Having been his carer for so many years, she knows it’s time for her to live her own life—and to fulfil some promises she made to Aldo in his final days.

The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane

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Genre: Young Adult

The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane

by Julia Nobel, narrated by Saskia Maarleveld

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With a dad who disappeared years ago and a mother who's a bit too busy to parent, Emmy is shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England, where she's sure she won't fit in. But then she finds a box of mysterious medallions in the attic of her home - medallions that belonged to her father…who may have gone to Wellsworth.

What Happens After Midnight

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Genre: Young Adult

What Happens After Midnight

by K. L. Walther, narrated by Tina Wolstencroft

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Lily Hopper has two more weeks until she's officially finished with boarding school. With graduation quickly approaching Lily is worried that she's somehow missed out on the fun of being in high school.

11 Halloween Audiobooks for a Spooky Night

11 Halloween Audiobooks for a Spooky Night

11 Halloween Audiobooks for a Spooky Night

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Genre: Mystery

Halloween Party Murder (Juniper Holiday Cozy Mystery Book 1)

By Leighann Dobbs, narrated by Kasey Logan
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Everyone knows a Juniper Holiday Halloween party is to die for. To get an invite is the most talked about topic in Crescent Cove. To experience the Holiday mansion in all its (supposedly) haunted glory is the stuff of legend. Of course, no one has actually seen a ghost in residence—but how could they when they’re having the time of their life?

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The House in the Pines

By Ana Reyes, narrated by Marisol Ramirez
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Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they’d been spending time with all summer. Seven years later, Maya lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secret addiction that has allowed her to cope with what happened years ago, the gaps in her memories, and the lost time that she can’t account for.

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Genre: Clean Romance

My Roommate Is a Vampire

By Jenna Levine, narrated by Gilli Messer
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Cassie Greenberg loves being an artist, but it’s a tough way to make a living. On the brink of eviction, she’s desperate when she finds a too-good-to-be-true apartment in a beautiful Chicago neighborhood. Cassie knows there has to be a catch—only someone with a secret to hide would rent out a room for that price.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

'Salem's Lot (Movie Tie-in)

By Stephen King, narrated by Ron McLarty
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Writer Ben Mears has returned to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot with the hope that moving into a delapidated mansion, long the subject of town lore, might help him get a handle on his life and provide inspiration for a new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work.

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Genre: Fantasy

How to Be Eaten

By Maria Adelmann, narrated by Lauren Ezzo
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In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy.

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Genre: Young Adult

What Happens After Midnight

By K. L. Walther, narrated by Tina Wolstencroft
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Lily Hopper has two more weeks until she's officially finished with boarding school. With graduation quickly approaching Lily is worried that she's somehow missed out on the fun of being in high school.

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Genre: Young Adult

The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane

By Julia Nobel, narrated by Saskia Maarleveld
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With a dad who disappeared years ago and a mother who's a bit too busy to parent, Emmy is shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England, where she's sure she won't fit in. But then she finds a box of mysterious medallions in the attic of her home - medallions that belonged to her father…who may have gone to Wellsworth.

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The Only One Left

By Riley Sager, narrated by Christine Lakin and Dawn Harvey
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At seventeen, Lenora Hope hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it.

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Genre: Clean Romance

A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon

By Sarah Hawley, narrated by Helen Laser
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Mariel Spark is prophesied to be the most powerful witch seen in centuries of the famed Spark family, but to the displeasure of her mother, she prefers baking to brewing potions and gardening to casting hexes. When a spell to summon flour goes very wrong, Mariel finds herself staring down a demon—one she inadvertently summoned for a soul bargain.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By Shirley Jackson, narrated by Bernadette Dunne
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Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance; wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian; and eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine, or, Merricat—live together in pleasant isolation.

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Genre: Science Fiction

And Then I Woke Up

By Malcolm Devlin, narrated by Graham Mack
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In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin's And Then I Woke Up is a creepy, layered, literary story about false narratives and their ability to divide us. In a world reeling from an unusual plague, monsters lurk in the streets while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs. Or perhaps something very different is happening.

The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane

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Genre: Young Adult

The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane

by Julia Nobel, narrated by Saskia Maarleveld

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With a dad who disappeared years ago and a mother who's a bit too busy to parent, Emmy is shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England, where she's sure she won't fit in. But then she finds a box of mysterious medallions in the attic of her home - medallions that belonged to her father…who may have gone to Wellsworth.

What Happens After Midnight

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Genre: Young Adult

What Happens After Midnight

by K. L. Walther, narrated by Tina Wolstencroft

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Lily Hopper has two more weeks until she's officially finished with boarding school. With graduation quickly approaching Lily is worried that she's somehow missed out on the fun of being in high school.

The Graveyard Book

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Genre: Young Adult

The Graveyard Book

by Neil Gaiman, narrated by Neil Gaiman

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Nobody Owens is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings - such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him.

Maybe Meant to Be

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Genre: Young Adult

Maybe Meant to Be

by K. L. Walther, narrated by Alexa Elmy and Graham Halstead

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Everyone at the Bexley School believes that Sage Morgan and Charlie Carmichael are meant to be. Even though Charlie seems to have a new girlfriend every month, and Sage has never had a real relationship, their friends and family all know it's just a matter of time until they realize that they are actually in love.

Books That Give Fall Feels

Books That Give Fall Feels

Books That Give Fall Feels

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Home Before Dark

By Riley Sager, narrated by Cady McClain and Jon Lindstrom
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Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. Three weeks later they fled in the dead of night, an ordeal her father recounted in a memoir called House of Horrors. His story of supernatural happenings and malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity - and skepticism.

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The Last Word

By Taylor Adams, narrated by Carlotta Brentan and Jim Meskimen
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Emma Carpenter lives in isolation with her golden retriever Laika, house-sitting an old beachfront home on the rainy Washington coast. Her only human contact is her enigmatic old neighbor, Deek, and (via text) the house’s owner, Jules.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Invisible Hour

By Alice Hoffman, narrated by Jessie Mueller
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One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia’s mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community—an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Well Met

By Jen DeLuca, narrated by Brittany Pressley
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Emily knew there would be strings attached when she relocated to the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland, for the summer to help her sister recover from an accident, but who could anticipate getting roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire alongside her teenaged niece?

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Genre: Clean Romance

Pumpkin Everything

By Beth Labonte, narrated by Lisa Larsen
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After calling off her fall wedding, horror novelist Amy Fox is left with a broken heart, a mega case of writer's block, and a serious aversion to all things pumpkin spice. When she receives news that her grandfather has broken his wrist driving through a Dunkin Donuts, Amy has no choice but to return to check on him.

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Genre: Young Adult

Maybe Meant to Be

By K. L. Walther, narrated by Alexa Elmy and Graham Halstead
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Everyone at the Bexley School believes that Sage Morgan and Charlie Carmichael are meant to be. Even though Charlie seems to have a new girlfriend every month, and Sage has never had a real relationship, their friends and family all know it's just a matter of time until they realize that they are actually in love.

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Genre: Fantasy

The Binding

By Bridget Collins, narrated by Carl Prekopp
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Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to begin an apprenticeship as a Bookbinder—a vocation that arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice amongst their small community, but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Weyward

By Emilia Hart, narrated by Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley and, Nell Barlow
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Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.

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Genre: Mystery

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

By Joanne Fluke, narrated by Suzanne Toren
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In her first foray into the sleuthing game, resourceful, red-headed Hannah Swensen must find the right ingredients to solve two perplexing murders. One chilly morning on her way to The Cookie Jar, Hannah discovers Ron, the dairy delivery man, shot dead in his truck. When she begins to investigate, she suspects the dairy owner.

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Genre: Young Adult

The Graveyard Book

By Neil Gaiman, narrated by Neil Gaiman
Tags: Young Adult

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Nobody Owens is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings - such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him.

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Genre: Fantasy

Thornhedge

By T. Kingfisher, narrated by Jennifer Blom
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There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story. Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right?

NOCTE

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Genre: Young Adult

NOCTE

by Courtney Cole, narrated by Stephen Dexter and Simone Tetrault

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Save me, and I'll save you.... My name is Calla Price. I'm 18 years old, and I'm one half of a whole. My other half - my twin brother, my Finn - is crazy. I love him. More than life, more than anything. And even though I'm terrified he'll suck me down with him, no one can save him but me. I'm doing all I can to stay afloat in a sea of insanity, but I'm drowning more and more each day.