Local bookseller recommendations

We Walked the Sky

By: Lisa Fiedler

Narrated by: Erin Spencer

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning, multigenerational story about two teenagers: Victoria, who joins the circus in 1965, and her granddaughter, Callie, who leaves the circus fifty years later. Perfect for fans of This is Us.

In 1965 seventeen-year-old Victoria, having just escaped an unstable home, flees to the ultimate place for dreamers and runaways--the circus.... 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

Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy

By: Angie Thomas

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant #1 New York Times bestseller!Internationally bestselling superstar author Angie Thomas makes her middle grade debut with the launch of an inventive, hilarious, and suspenseful new contemporary fantasy trilogy inspired by African American history and folklore.It’s not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are... Read more

Yesterday

By: Felicia Yap

Narrated by: Rory Kinnear

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this heart-pounding mystery, a woman is found dead—but in a society where only the privileged have memories longer than a day, the chances of solving the crime seem futile. Imagine a world in which classes are divided not by wealth or religion but by how much each group can remember. Monos, the majority, have only one day's worth of memory;... 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

Collide

By: Bal Khabra

Narrated by: Julia Knippen & Max Meyers

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

She’s an honors student with ambitious graduate school plans and he’s a jock with only hockey on his mind, but once their worlds collide, their connection is hot enough to melt an ice rink.

An ultimatum from Summer Preston’s thesis advisor thrusts her into an unexpected collision with the hockey team’s captain, Aiden... Read more

Promise

By: Minrose Gwin

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart—one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager—fight for their families’ survival in this lyrical and powerful novel.“Gwin’s gift shines in the complexity of her... Read more

The Last Resort

By: Marissa Stapley

Narrated by: Caroline Slaughter

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Lucky, A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK!

NAMED ONE OF 2019’S BEST BEACH READS BY Oprah Magazine • New York Post • PopSugar • The Globe and Mail

FEATURED IN Us Weekly • Parade • Hollywood Reporter • Chatelaine

“Marissa Stapley’s writing is a gift.”—Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author

Miles Markell is missing, and everyone is a... Read more

Lobizona

By: Romina Garber

Narrated by: Sol Madariaga

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Garber’s gorgeous novel combines the wonder of a Hogwarts-style magic school with the Twilight-esque dynamics of a hidden magical species that has strict rules about interacting with the human world." -- BOOKLIST (Starred Review)

Some people ARE illegal.

Lobizonas do NOT exist.

Both of these statements are false.

Manuela Azul has been crammed... Read more

Dirt

By: Bill Buford

Narrated by: Bill Buford

Length: 16 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal

What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old... Read more

The Italian Teacher

By: Tom Rachman

Narrated by: Sam Alexander

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“An exotic touch of intrigue arises in THE ITALIAN TEACHER . . . deliciously ironic and deeply affectionate.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
 
A masterful novel about the son of a great painter striving to create his own legacy, by the bestselling author of The Imperfectionists.

Conceived while his father, Bear, cavorted around Rome in the... Read more

Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

Narrated by: Simone Collins

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST for the WOMEN’S PRIZE for FICTION * One of Vogue’s Best Books of the Year

Award-winning author Claire Kilroy’s “lyrical and incisive” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that reads with the pace of a thriller and is filled with astute and witty observations of life with a young child.

Soldier Sailor takes readers deep inside the early... Read more

Forgotten on Sunday

By: Valérie Perrin

Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelée

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An unforgettable story about an unlikely friendship and about healing the wounds of a broken past, from the million-copy bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers. Justine is 21 years old and has lived with her grandparents and her cousin Jules since the death of her parents. As a nursing assistant at a retirement home, she spends much of... Read more

The Lies You Told

By: Harriet Tyce

Narrated by: Sarah Durham

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Blood Orange, a dark new psychological thriller about the perfect mother, the perfect wife, the perfect family -- and the perfect murder.
In the playground it's the law of the jungle

But at the school gate, there are no rules at all...

When Sadie Roper moves back to London, she's determined to pick up the pieces of her... Read more

The Book of Essie

By: Meghan MacLean Weir

Narrated by: Robbie Daymond, Tara Sands & Erin Spencer

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE 2018 NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD

"Both timelessly beautiful and unbelievably timely."—Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant 

A captivating novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the story of the seventeen-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher, star of the family's hit... Read more

Mine

By: Delilah S. Dawson

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A twisty, terrifying supernatural mystery about twelve-year-old, her creepy new home in Florida, and the territorial ghost of the young girl who lived there before her.

"A fiendishly creepy ghost story."--Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Dust & Grim

"Hide-under-the-covers terrifying, I loved it.”--Katherine Arden,... Read more

The Shadows Between Us

By: Tricia Levenseller

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Few audiobooks warrant turning off all distractions, closing one's eyes, and simply listening to the story unfold. Narrator Caitlin Davies creates just that experience as she passionately guides listeners through this gripping story of ambition, love, and desire." — AudioFile Magazine

Tricia Levenseller, author of Daughter of the Pirate King,... Read more

The Mountain King

By: Anders de la Motte

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This atmospheric and sinister mystery will have you “hooked from the very first page” (Kyle Mills, #1 New York Times bestselling author) as it follows a brilliant female detective investigating the darkest side of humanity.

Detective Leonore Asker seems to have the leading position at Malmö’s Major Crime Division within reach. But things go awry... Read more

French Exit

By: Patrick deWitt

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration.Frances Price – tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature – is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her... Read more

Dread Nation

By: Justina Ireland

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestseller * Six starred reviewsAt once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar—a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet.Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk... Read more

The Wanderer

By: Sharon Creech

Narrated by: Dana Lubotsky

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.

Thirteen-year-old Sophie is the only girl amongst the crew of The Wanderer, made up of her three uncles and two cousins. They sail across the Atlantic toward England, the land of Bompie, her grandfather. The personal journey she takes brings her deeper... Read more

Crossings

By: Alex Landragin

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Raphael Corkhill

Length: 24 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Alex Landragin's Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut—a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes.

*To listen to this novel straight through, just play the program from the beginning. To listen to the Baroness Sequence, start with... Read more

Inheriting Edith

By: Zoe Fishman

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Driving Lessons, Saving Ruth, and Balancing Acts comes a poignant breakout novel about a single mother who inherits a beautiful beach house with a caveat—she must take care of the ornery elderly woman who lives in it.For years, Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients,... Read more

The Lost Vintage

By: Ann Mah

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you enjoyed my Sarah’s Key and Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, then this wonderful book by Ann Mah is for you.” -- Tatiana de RosnaySweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turning novel about a woman who returns to her family’s ancestral vineyard in Burgundy and unexpectedly uncovers a lost diary, an unknown relative, and a secret... Read more