Bookshop Santa Cruz

Marie Kondo's Kurashi at Home

By: Marie Kondo

Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Transform your home into a haven of calm and achieve your ideal lifestyle with this inspirational guide, from the Netflix star and #1 bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.
 
Inspired by the Japanese concept of kurashi, or “way of life,” Kurashi at Home invites you to visualize your best life from the moment you wake up... Read more

Rez Life

By: David Treuer

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and... Read more

Her Body and Other Parties

By: Carmen Maria Machado

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado... Read more

The Electric Woman

By: Tessa Fontaine

Narrated by: Tessa Fontaine

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The Electric Woman is Tessa Fontaine's astonishing audiobook memoir about a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery. Narrated by the author, this audiobook recounts Tessa's life on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother.

Turns out, one lesson applies to living... Read more

Last Light

By: Richard Lacayo

Narrated by: Mack Sanderson

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the nation’s top art critics shows how six great artists made old age a time of triumph by producing some of the greatest work of their long careers—and, in some cases, changing the course of art history.

Ordinarily, we think of young artists as the bomb throwers. Monet and Renoir were still in their twenties when they embarked on what... Read more

Lucky Boy

By: Shanthi Sekaran

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani & Roxana Ortega

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy.

“Sekaran has written a page-turner that’s touching and all too real.”—People

“A fiercely compassionate story about the bonds and the bounds of motherhood and, ultimately, of love.”—Cristina Henríquez, author of The... Read more

Borderline

By: Mishell Baker

Narrated by: Arden Hammersmith

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A cynical, disabled film director with borderline personality disorder gets recruited to join a secret organization that oversees relations between Hollywood and Fairyland in this Nebula Award–nominated and Tiptree Award Honor Book that’s the first novel in a new urban fantasy series from debut author Mishell Baker.

A year ago, Millie lost her... Read more

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

By: Jeanette Winterson

Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeanette Winterson’s bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents that is considered... Read more

Emperor of the Eight Islands

By: Lian Hearn

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In the opening pages of the action-packed Book One of Lian Hearn's epic Tale of Shikanoko a future lord is dispossessed of his birthright by a scheming uncle, a mountain sorcerer imbues a mask with the spirit of a great stag for a lost young man, a stubborn father forces his son to give up his wife to his older brother, and a powerful priest... Read more

War Dances

By: Sherman Alexie

Narrated by: Sherman Alexie

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award winner and New York Times best-selling author Sherman Alexie infuses his writing with biting wit and poignant insight. As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric... Read more

The Borrower

By: Rebecca Makkai

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road.

Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but... Read more

Elephant Company

By: Vicki Constantine Croke

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

The remarkable story of James Howard “Billy” Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the world’s largest land animals transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic war hero known as Elephant Bill

In 1920, Billy Williams came to colonial Burma as a “forest man” for a British... Read more

The Boy in the Suitcase

By: Lene Kaaberbol & Agnete Friis

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR HARALD MOGENSEN AWARD FOR BEST DANISH THRILLER OF THE YEAR THIS MODERN CLASSIC OF NORDIC NOIR CELEBRATES ITS TENTH ANNIVERSARY, STARRING THE SERIES’ HEROINE, DANISH RED CROSS NURSE NINA BORG.

A nurse, wife and mother of two, Nina can’t say no when someone asks... Read more

What If This Were Enough?

By: Heather Havrilesky

Narrated by: Heather Havrilesky

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

*A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018*
*A Bustle Best Nonfiction Book of 2018*
*One of Chicago Tribune's Favorite Books by Women in 2018*
*A Self Best Book of 2018 to Buy for the Bookworm in Your Life*

By the acclaimed critic, memoirist, and advice columnist behind the popular "Ask Polly," an impassioned collection tackling our obsession with... Read more

The Lovers

By: Vendela Vida

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“Vendela Vida has written a riveting and suspenseful novel about an American woman’s voyage to self-discovery.”
—Joyce Carol Oates “Stunning. A masterful meditation on grief and love. The Lovers is a sensational novel from one of our finest writers at the height of her craft.”
—Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries In 2007, Vendela... Read more

Bridge to Bat City

By: Ernest Cline

Narrated by: Felicia Day

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ernest Cline comes a mostly true tall tale about an unexpected friendship between a young girl and a music-loving colony of bats. After losing her mother, thirteen-year-old Opal moves in with her uncle Roscoe on the family farm. There, Opal bonds with Uncle Roscoe over music and befriends a group of... Read more

City of Women

By: David R. Gillham

Narrated by: Suzanne Bertish

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

It is 1943—the height of the Second World War. With the men away at the front, Berlin has become a city of women.

On the surface, Sigrid Schröder is the model German soldier’s wife: She goes to work every day, does as much with her rations as she can, and dutifully... Read more

Africa Is Not a Country

By: Dipo Faloyin

Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories that bring to life Africa's rich diversity, communities, and histories.



Starting with an... Read more

Maphead

By: Ken Jennings

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him and to fellow enthusiasts everywhere.



Jennings takes listeners on a world tour of geogeeks... Read more

How to Fracture a Fairy Tale

By: Jane Yolen

Narrated by: various narrators, Suzanne Toren, Eileen Steven...

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Fantasy icon Jane Yolen is adored by generations of readers of all ages. Now she triumphantly returns with this inspired gathering of fractured fairy tales and legends. Yolen breaks open the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets: a philosophical bridge that misses its troll, a spinner of straw as a falsely accused moneylender, the... Read more

Scattered All Over the Earth

By: Yoko Tawada

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award



Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her... Read more

Your Duck Is My Duck

By: Deborah Eisenberg

Narrated by: Deborah Eisenberg, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moor...

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form, performed by a remarkable cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, and Wallace Shawn.At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight,... Read more

Hate to Want You

By: Alisha Rai

Narrated by: Summer Morton & Jeremy York

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Alisha Rai, one of contemporary romance’s brightest stars, makes her Avon Books debut with the first novel in the sexy Forbidden Hearts series!One night. No one will know. That was the deal. Every year, Livvy Kane and Nicholas Chandler would share one perfect night of illicit pleasure. The forbidden hours let them forget the tragedy that haunted... Read more

The Mechanical

By: Ian Tregillis

Narrated by: Chris Kayser

Length: 15 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From "a major new talent" (George R. R. Martin) comes an epic speculative novel of revolution, adventure, and the struggle for free will set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams.

My name is Jax.

That is the name granted to me by my human masters.

I am a slave.

But I shall be free. Read more