Local bookseller recommendations

Second Chances in New Port Stephen

By: TJ Alexander

Narrated by: Aden Hakimi & Feodor Chin

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A trans man returns to his Florida hometown for Christmas after his career goes up in flames, only to cross paths with his high school ex in this charming rom-com about family and second chances from the author of the “delectable” (Time) Chef’s Kiss.

Eli Ward hasn’t been back to his suffocating hometown of New Port Stephen, Florida, in ages.... Read more

The Emperor's Blades

By: Brian Staveley

Narrated by: Simon Vance & Oliver Cudbill

Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Now includes special bonus content. Stay tuned after the audiobook to hear “The Last Abbot of Ashk’lan,” a short story by Brian Staveley.The emperor of Annur is dead, slain by enemies unknown. His daughter and two sons, scattered across the world, do what they must to stay alive and unmask the assassins. But each of them also has a life-path on... Read more

Your Shadow Half Remains

By: Sunny Moraine

Narrated by: Sunny Moraine

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

The Last of Us meets Bird Box in Sunny Moraine's Your Shadow Half Remains, a post-apocalyptic tale where eye contact causes people to spiral into a deadly, violent rage.

ONE LOOK CAN KILL.

Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No faces, no eyes. Not if you want to survive.

But when... Read more

The Apprentice Witch

By: James Nicol

Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Will at once open a new and imaginative world and feel like a book you have loved forever." -- Jennifer Nielsen, New York Times bestselling author of The False PrinceA special middle grade debut of magic and courage in a world of witches, written with the charm and enchantment of Circus Mirandus and The Apothecary.Arianwyn has flunked her... Read more

Kinauvit?

By: Norma Dunning

Narrated by: Norma Dunning

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"From the winner of the 2021 Governor General's Award for literature, a revelatory look into an obscured piece of Canadian history: what was then called the Eskimo Identification Tag System
In 2001, Dr. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary program, requesting enrolment to legally solidify her existence as an Inuk woman. But in the... Read more

Good Omens

By: Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Full Cast, Mark Heap & Peter Serafinowicz

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s celebrated apocalyptic comic novel.

According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday in fact. Just after Any Answers on Radio 4….

Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies... Read more

The Hedgewitch of Foxhall

By: Anna Bright

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Alister Austin & James Meunier

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this gorgeous stand-alone cozy fantasy romance perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson and Allison Saft, a rebellious witch undertakes a last-ditch quest to restore magic to medieval Wales—as two princes vie for her heart.Magic is fading from Wales—choked off by King Offa’s Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the... Read more

Anatomy of a Scandal

By: Sarah Vaughan

Narrated by: Julie Teal, Luke Thompson, Esther Wane & Sarah ...

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

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“A strong choice for book clubs. Former political correspondent Vaughan makes an impressive debut with this savvy, propulsive courtroom... Read more

Free Love

By: Tessa Hadley

Narrated by: Abigail Thaw

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Exquisite."" —Minneapolis Star Tribune • ""Brilliantly observed.” — People, Pick of the Week“A beguiling novel, deceptively easy to read; beneath the surface swim disturbing and age-old questions about freedom and fate.” — Hilary MantelFrom the bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past comes a compulsive new novel about one woman’s... Read more

Terrace Story

By: Hilary Leichter

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about love, an epic daydream for a broken-hearted world Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn’t there before, and it seems to... Read more

The Ash House

By: Angharad Walker

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An unsettling, gripping middle grade debut about searching for a sense of belonging in the wrong places, and the bravery it takes to defy those who seek to control us. This is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children meets Lord of the Flies for fans of Neil Gaiman and Holly Black.When Eleven-year-old Sol arrives at the Ash House, desperate... Read more

The Lemonade Life

By: Zack Friedman

Narrated by: Zack Friedman

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The secret to an extraordinary life starts with five simple changes that anyone can make.In this groundbreaking book, Zack Friedman starts with a fundamental question: What drives success? It's not only hard work, talent, and skill. The most successful people have one thing in common,?the power to flip five internal "switches." We all have these... Read more

My Summer of Love and Misfortune

By: Lindsay Wong

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Crazy Rich Asians meets Love & Gelato in this hilarious, quirky novel about a Chinese-American teen who is thrust into the decadent world of Beijing high society when she is sent away to spend the summer in China.

Iris Wang is having a bit of a rough start to her summer: Her boyfriend cheated on her, she didn’t get into any colleges, and she... Read more

Shadow Man

By: Alan Drew

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel of psychological suspense about an idyllic community rocked by a serial killer—and a dark secret.

“A stellar achievement, a book that unspools like a dark-toned movie in the reader’s mind.”—The Wall Street Journal (One of the Best Mysteries of the Year)

Detective Ben Wade has returned to his hometown of Rancho Santa Elena in search of a... Read more

Love at First Book

By: Jenn McKinlay

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When a librarian moves to a quaint Irish village where her favorite novelist lives, the last thing she expects is to fall for the author’s prickly son… until their story becomes one for the books, from the New York Times bestselling author of Summer Reading.

Emily Allen, a librarian on Martha’s Vineyard, has always dreamed of a life of travel and... Read more

A Crooked Tree

By: Una Mannion

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting, suspenseful literary debut that combines a classic coming of age story with a portrait of a fractured American family dealing with the fallout of one summer evening gone terribly wrong.“The night we left Ellen on the road, we drove up the mountain in silence.”It is the early 1980s and fifteen-year-old Libby is obsessed with The Field... Read more

Tagging Freedom

By: Rhonda Roumani

Narrated by: Farrah Haidar

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Kareem Haddad of Damascus, Syria, never dreamed of becoming a graffiti artist.

But when a group of boys from another town tag subversive slogans outside their school, and another boy is killed while in custody, Kareem and his friends are inspired and start secretly tagging messages of freedom around their city.

Meanwhile, in the United States,... Read more

Rules for Rule Breaking

By: Talia Tucker

Narrated by: Shannon Tyo & Nick Martineau

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Booksmart meets Never Have I Ever in this debut YA rom-com about two Korean American teens forced into a shared college visit road trip where they discover that the reasons they’ve been rivals their entire lives might actually be signs they’re a perfect pair.

Winter Park and Bobby Bae are Korean American high school juniors whose families have... Read more

How to Build a Girl

By: Caitlin Moran

Narrated by: Louise Brealey

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture starring Beanie Feldstein!The New York Times bestselling author hailed as “the UK’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one” (Marie Claire) makes her fiction debut with a hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel.What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your... Read more

My Calamity Jane

By: Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Hold on to your hats: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestseller My Plain Jane, which Booklist praised as “delightfully deadpan” (starred review) and Publishers Weekly called “a clever, romantic farce” (starred review), are back with another irreverent historical adventure—perfect for YA fantasy and romance readers.Welcome to 1876... Read more

Lalani of the Distant Sea

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

Narrated by: LuLu Lam

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“Fast-paced and full of wonder, this is a powerful, gripping must-read.”—Kirkus (starred review)“A lush and mysterious fable, full of beauty, full of wonder.”—Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal–winning author of When You Reach MeNewbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly’s debut fantasy novel is a gorgeous, literary adventure about bravery, friendship,... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 17 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Great Expectations, recognized as Charles Dickens' finest novel, is told by Pip, an orphan who lives with his sister and her husband, the village blacksmith. The young boy's life is changed forever when he meets and aids an escaped convict who wanders into his yard. Years later, Pip is sent to live with the decaying, bitter Miss Havisham and... Read more

Trace of Evil

By: Alice Blanchard

Narrated by: Laura Nichol

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From Alice Blanchard, the author of the New York Times Notable mystery novel Darkness Peering comes Trace of Evil, first in an evocative new series about a small New York town, its deeply held secrets, and the woman determined to uncover them, no matter what the cost.

There’s something wicked in Burning Lake…

Natalie Lockhart is a rookie detective... Read more

Wildwood Whispers

By: Willa Reece

Narrated by: Kamali Minter, Grace Rolek & Andrew Kishino

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartwarming tale of hope, fate, and folk magic unfolds when a young woman travels to a sleepy southern town in the Appalachian Mountains to bury her best friend. At the age of eleven, Mel Smith’s life found its purpose when she met Sarah Ross. Ten years later, Sarah’s sudden death threatens to break her. To fulfill a final promise to her best... Read more