Bookshop Santa Cruz

What If? 2

By: Randall Munroe

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask
 
The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire... Read more

Tegan and Sara: Junior High

By: Tegan Quin & Sara Quin

Narrated by: André Santana, Ferdelle Capistrano, Helen Laser...

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From indie-pop twin-sister duo Tegan and Sara comes a contemporary middle-grade graphic audiobook narrated by the authors and a full cast. The program features original Tegan and Sara music and sound design throughout the program, and a bonus conversation with Tillie Walden, the illustrator of the graphic novel, discussing the process of... Read more

The Story of Gumluck the Wizard

By: Adam Rex

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a story about magic, if you like that kind of thing.

It is also a story about a ghost with amnesia, an unpopular fairy, an ungrateful town, and a wise and helpful raven (who happens to be a pretty good storyteller).

But mostly, it is about a friendly little wizard who lives inside a big hill and really, really, really wants to be a hero.... Read more

Night Pleasures

By: Sherrilyn Kenyon

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The first installment of Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series, Night Pleasures.

The Dark-Hunters are ancient warriors who have sworn to protect mankind and the fate of the world is in their hands. . .

He is solitude. He is darkness. He is the ruler of the night. Yet Kyrian of Thrace has just woken up handcuffed to his worst nightmare: An... Read more

The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet

By: Bernie Su & Kate Rorick

Narrated by: Ashley Clements

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the Emmy Award–winning YouTube series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries.

Twenty‑four‑year‑old grad student Lizzie Bennet is saddled with student loan debt and still living at home along with her two sisters—beautiful Jane and reckless Lydia. When she records her reflections on life for her thesis project and posts them on YouTube, she has no idea... Read more

The Summer Before the War

By: Helen Simonson

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community.”—The Washington Post

The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking... Read more

Why We Read

By: Shannon Reed

Narrated by: Paige McKinney

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize Semifinalist

We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the... Read more

Slow AF Run Club

By: Martinus Evans

Narrated by: Martinus Evans

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A practical guide and a celebration of running for runners of all sizes and athletic ability, from the founder of the Slow AF Run Club.

Ten years ago, Martinus Evans got some stern advice from his doctor: “Lose weight or die.” First defensive, but then defiant, Evans vowed that day to run a marathon, though his doctor thought he was crazy. Since... Read more

Mustache Shenanigans

By: Jay Chandrasekhar

Narrated by: Jay Chandrasekhar

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Director, writer, and actor Jay Chandrasekhar tells the hilarious stories behind his films Super Troopers and Super Troopers 2 (out on 4/20/2018!), the history of his comedy group, Broken Lizard, and everything in between.

Jay Chandrasekhar has spent the past two decades writing, directing, and acting in film and TV. With his comedy group, Broken... Read more

In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

Narrated by: Christian Coulson

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

GMA BUZZ PICK • INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER AND AWARD WINNER • A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I • “Will live in your mind long after you’ve closed the final pages.” —Maggie O’Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait

A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The... Read more

The Book of Speculation

By: Erika Swyler

Narrated by: David Pittu, Katherine Kellgren & Ari Fliakos

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

One of BuzzFeed's Best Fiction Books of the Year

In the tradition of Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, The Book of Speculation--with two-color illustrations by the author--is Erika Swyler's moving debut novel about the power of books, family, and magic.

Simon Watson, a... Read more

Trinity

By: Louisa Hall

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, David Colacci, Saskia Maarl...

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer—father of the atomic bomb—as told by seven fictional characters.J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally protected his Communist friends, only to later betray... Read more

Beginner's Grace

By: Kate Braestrup

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Chaplain Kate Braestrup, the New York Times bestselling author of Here If You Need Me, has written a compelling new book on prayer for which her devoted fans have been clamoring. Beautifully written, with her astonishing signature stories of faith in action in real life, Beginner's Grace explains how to tap into grace with prayer—as well as how... Read more

Accessory to War

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson & Avis Lang

Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller

An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.
In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang... Read more

Daemon Voices

By: Philip Pullman

Narrated by: Philip Pullman & Simon Mason

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, a spellbinding journey into the secrets of his art--the narratives that have shaped his vision, his experience of writing, and the keys to mastering the art of storytelling.

One of the most highly acclaimed and best-selling authors of our time now gives us a book that... Read more

The Friday Night Knitting Club

By: Kate Jacobs

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling sensation that’s “Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan” (USA Today)Once a week, an eclectic group of women comes together at a New York City yarn shop to work on their latest projects—and share the stories of their lives…Walker & Daughter is Georgia Walker’s little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on... Read more

The Light Between Oceans

By: M.L. Stedman

Narrated by: Noah Taylor

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The spectacular New York Times bestseller and major motion picture about a lighthouse keeper and his wife is "a beautifully delineated tale of love and loss, right and wrong, and what we will do for the happiness of those most dear" (The Boston Globe).

After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes... Read more

Witches on the Road Tonight

By: Sheri Holman

Narrated by: Dick Hill & Christina Traister

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

By the bestselling author of The Dress Lodger, Witches on the Road Tonight uncovers the secrets and lies that echo through three generations of one Appalachian family. It is a deeply human, urgent exploration of America’s doomed love affair with fear.On the eve of World War II, eight-year-old Eddie Alley lies in bed watching his first horror... Read more

The Briar Book of the Dead

By: A.G. Slatter

Narrated by: Jess Nesling

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the same universe as the acclaimed All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns (one of Oprah Daily's Top 25 Fantasy Novels of 2022), this beautifully told Gothic fairy tale of ghosts, witches, deadly secrets and past sins, will be perfect for fans of Hannah Whitten and Ava Reid.

Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her... Read more

A Crown for Cold Silver

By: Alex Marshall

Narrated by: Angèle Masters

Length: 24 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"It was all going so nicely, right up until the massacre."

Twenty years ago, feared general Cobalt Zosia led her five villainous captains and mercenary army into battle, wrestling monsters and toppling an empire. When there were no more titles to win and no more worlds to conquer, she retired and gave up her legend to history.

Now the peace she... Read more

The Proposal: Reese's Book Club

By: Jasmine Guillory

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick

“There is so much to relate to and throughout the novel, there is a sharp feminist edge. Loved this one, and you will too.”—New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay

The New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Date serves up a novel about what happens when... Read more

How Star Wars Conquered the Universe

By: Chris Taylor

Length: 20 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1973, a young filmmaker named George Lucas scribbled some notes for a far-fetched space-fantasy epic. More than forty years and $37 billion later, Star Wars–related products outnumber human beings, a stormtrooper army spans the globe, and “Jediism” has become a religion in its own right. Lucas’s creation has grown into far more than a... Read more

The Secret Library

By: Kekla Magoon

Narrated by: Nekia Renee Martin

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Travel through time with National Book Award Finalist Kekla Magoon in a page-turning fantasy adventure about family secrets and finding the courage to plot your own life story.

Since Grandpa died, Dally’s days are dull and restricted. She’s eleven and a half years old, and her exacting single mother is already preparing her to take over the... Read more

The Weird Sisters

By: Eleanor Brown

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved New York Times bestseller from acclaimed author Eleanor Brown about three sisters who love each other, but just don't happen to like each other very much.

Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the eccentric Andreas family. Here, books are a passion (there is no problem a library card can't solve) and TV is... Read more