Local bookseller recommendations

Dead Man's Hand

By: James J. Butcher

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of his renowned father, James J. Butcher’s debut novel is a brilliant urban fantasy about a young man who must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor.

On the streets of Boston, the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal Unorthodox. And in the Department of Unorthodox... Read more

The Confidante

By: Christopher C. Gorham

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Though Anna Rosenberg emerged from modest immigrant beginnings, equipped with only a high school education, she was the real power behind national policies critical to America winning the war and prospering afterwards. Astonishingly, her story remains largely forgotten.



With a disarming mix of charm and Tammany-hewn toughness, Rosenberg began her... Read more

All the Bees in the Hollows

By: Lauren Keegan

Narrated by: Candida Gubbins & Sofia Engstrand

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Bees choose their masters. Bees don't sting good people.


Marytè is a devoted beekeeper. She lives by the old rules: work with fellow beekeepers, be a good Christian and a good harvest will follow. These rules help her cope with her grief when she inherits her husband's tree hollows. But as harsh conditions and tax increases threaten the harvest,... Read more

Native Speaker

By: Chang-rae Lee

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS

The debut novel from critically acclaimed and New York Times–bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea and My Year Abroad.

In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American—a native speaker. But... Read more

The Cottage Around the Corner

By: D. L. Soria

Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A feisty witch and a handsome mage must put their heated business rivalry aside to save their small town from supernatural forces in this charming contemporary fantasy romcom from the author of Thief Liar Lady.

“Delightful and sweet . . . the magic and the romance both sizzle on the page.”—Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, author of Witch of Wild... Read more

Pages & Co.: The Bookwanderers

By: Anna James

Narrated by: Aysha Kala

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA Today Bestselling book!
A Barnes & Noble Book of the Month!
A 2019 Kids' Indie Next List Pick!
A National Bestseller!

"Mr. Lemoncello would love to go bookwandering at Pages and Co. If you love books, you're going to LOVE this book!"--Chris Grabenstein, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Mr. Lemoncello series.


An enchanting story... Read more

The Net Beneath Us

By: Carol Dunbar

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In her debut novel, Carol Dunbar draws from her own lived experiences, vividly describing the wonder and harshness of life off the grid. Told over the course of a year, The Net Beneath Us is a lyrical exploration of loss, marriage, parenthood, and self-reliance; a tale of how the natural world—without and within us—offers us healing, if we can... Read more

The Setup

By: Lizzy Dent

Narrated by: Anna Gilthorpe

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Summer Job comes a laugh-out-loud, heartwarming story about one woman’s impulsive fib that jump starts a summer of reinvention and learning about love, life, and what it means to accept yourself.

She has a plan. Fate has other ideas.

The last place very average thirty-one-year-old Mara Williams thought she’d be is on a solo... Read more

Big Summer

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Danielle Macdonald

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A deliciously funny, remarkably poignant “beach read to end all beach reads” (Entertainment Weekly) about the power of friendship, the lure of frenemies, and the importance of making peace with yourself through all of life’s ups and downs—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Good in Bed and Best Friends Forever.

Six years after the... Read more

A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

Narrated by: Ellie Gossage

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed. Historically happy to compartmentalize—distracting herself by hooking up with lesbian couples, doting on her grandmother, and flirting with a young administrative assistant—Helen finally meets her... Read more

Audre & Bash Are Just Friends

By: Tia Williams

Narrated by: Jordan Cobb & Torian Brackett

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Scorching-hot summer. Scorching-hot chemistry. Two teens can’t forget they’re just friends in this sweet, funny, electrifying romance from New York Times bestselling author Tia Williams. Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Nicola Yoon.
 
MEET AUDRE. Junior class president. Debate team captain. Unofficial student therapist. Desperately in need of a... Read more

The Last Legacy

By: Adrienne Young

Narrated by: Suzy Jackson

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with The Last Legacy, a captivating standalone about family and blood ties, reinventing yourself, and controlling your own destiny.

When a letter from her uncle Henrik arrives on Bryn Roth's eighteenth birthday, summoning her back to Bastian, Bryn is eager to prove herself and finally take... Read more

There Is a Door in This Darkness

By: Kristin Cashore

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie & Kristin Cashore

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

A magic-tinged contemporary YA about grief and hope from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the Graceling Realm novels.

Wilhelmina Hart is part of the infamous class of 2020. Her high school years began with a shocking presidential election and ended with a pandemic. In the midst of this global turmoil, she also lost one of her... Read more

Riverine

By: Angela Palm

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Angela Palm grew up in a place not marked on the map, her house set on the banks of a river that had been straightened to make way for farmland. Every year, the Kankakee River in rural Indiana flooded and returned to its old course while the residents sandbagged their homes against the rising water. From her bedroom window, Palm watched the... Read more

Rising Out of Hatred

By: Eli Saslow

Narrated by: Scott Brick & Eli Saslow

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, this is a book to help us understand the American moment and to help us better understand one another. 

“Rising Out of Hatred proclaims if the successor to the white nationalist movement can forsake his ideological... Read more

Pritty

By: Keith F. Miller, Jr.

Narrated by: Landon Woodson & Eric B. Anthony

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

2024 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist 2025 Rainbow Book ListConcrete Rose meets Things We Couldn’t Say in Pritty, a debut novel by Keith F. Miller Jr.—the inspiration behind the forthcoming animated short film of Kickstarter fame—that follows two boys who get caught in the crossfire of a sinister plot that not only threatens everything they love... Read more

Satellite Love

By: Genki Ferguson

Narrated by: Aya Furukawa, Alex Aoki & Hiro Kanagawa

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satellite—and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human. Longlisted for Canada Reads, shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction and for Speculative Fiction. Named CBC Radio's Q Book Pick of the Month, a CBC Books... Read more

Notes on a Nervous Planet

By: Matt Haig

Narrated by: Matt Haig

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.

The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it?

Don’t miss Matt Haig’s new novel The Life Impossible, coming September 2024

Looking at sleep, news, social media, addiction, work and play, Matt Haig invites us to feel calmer, happier and to... Read more

Running to Fall

By: Kalisha Buckhanon

Narrated by: Shari Peele

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A suspenseful, truthful look into the lives of women who drink to survive or just to cope, with a provocative narrator who carries readers along an emotional journey to acceptance.

Tragedy and Victor Powell have moved to the desirable but dark Grayson Glens enclave of dream homes just outside of Chicago. Stressed urbanites, they’ve got to live... Read more

These Women

By: Ivy Pochoda

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Frankie Corzo

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVELAN LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE, MYSTERY & THRILLER FINALIST * AN INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS FINALIST, BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL * A MACAVITY BEST MYSTERY NOVEL FINALISTA Recommended Book FromThe New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * Vogue * Entertainment Weekly * Elle * People * Marie Claire... Read more

Spin

By: Neil Fishman, Harvey Edelman & David B. Coe

Narrated by: Jim Dale, Johnny Heller, Nicola Barber, Khristi...

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

2019 Audie Winner – Best Original Work2018 SOVAS Voice Arts Award – Best Voiceover in Children's Audiobook2018 SOVAS Voice Arts Award – Outstanding Production in Audiobook2018 Parents Choice Award – Silver Honor for AudiobookSPIN - THE AUDIOBOOK MUSICAL: A witty musical re-imagining of Grimm’s fairy tale, Rumpelstiltskin, created by... Read more

The Book of (More) Delights

By: Ross Gay

Narrated by: Ross Gay

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us.

Ross Gay’s essays have been called “exquisite” (Tracy K. Smith), “imperative” (the New York Times Book Review), and “brilliant” (Ada Limón). Now,... Read more

King's Cage

By: Victoria Aveyard

Narrated by: Amanda Dolan, Adenrele Ojo & Erin Spencer

Length: 17 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The third book in the thrilling #1 New York Times bestselling series!In this breathless third installment to Victoria Aveyard’s #1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen series, rebellion is rising and allegiances will be tested on every side. Perfect for fans of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.Mare Barrow is a prisoner, powerless... Read more

Effortless

By: Greg McKeown

Narrated by: Greg McKeown

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Times (UK) Best Book of the Year • From the author of the million-copy-selling Essentialism comes an empowering guide to achieving your goals. It all starts with a simple principle: Not everything has to be so hard.

“In a world beset by burnout, Greg McKeown’s work is essential.”—Daniel H. Pink, author of When,... Read more