Curse of the Boggin (The Library Book 1)

The Forbidden Library

By: Django Wexler
Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No

The Forbidden Library kicks off a brand new classic fantasy series perfect for fans of Coraline, Inkheart, and The Books of Elsewhere

Alice always thought fairy tales had happy endings. That--along with everything else--changed the day she met her first fairy

When Alice's father goes down in a shipwreck, she is sent to live with her uncle... Read more »

Curse of the Boggin (The Library Book 1)

By: D. J. MacHale
Narrated by: Keith Nobbs & Mark Bramhall
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No

Leave the lights on for this first book in a new thriller series! The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Pendragon invites you to enter The Library, where the stories you can’t finish just might finish you.

There’s a place beyond this world where spirits tell their tales—stories that ended too soon, or don’t end at all. It’s a place for... Read more »

Ink and Bone

By: Rachel Caine
Narrated by: Ben Allen
Length: 14 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No

In 48 AD, a fire set by the troops of Julius Caesar destroyed much of the Great Library of Alexandria. But what if the fire had been stopped? What would the Library have become? Fast forward: the Great Library is now a separate country, protected by its own standing army. Jess Brightwell, seventeen years old and very smart, with a gift for... Read more »

A Children's Listening Library

By: Alcazar AudioWorks, the Brothers Grimm, Beatrix Potter & Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman, David Thorn & others
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

Enjoy a timeless collection of children's fables, fairy tales, and stories, all available in one audiobook. A Children's Listening Library: Volume 1 includes:Mother Goose's Nursery RhymesSelections from the Tales of Beatrix PotterBeauty & the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" by Peter Christen... Read more »

A Most Curious Murder

By: Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No

Jenny Weston moves home to Bear Falls, Michigan, to nurse her bruised ego back to health after a bitter divorce. But the idyllic vision of her charming hometown crumbles when her mother’s little library is destroyed.

The next-door neighbor, Zoe Zola, a little person and Lewis Carroll enthusiast, suspects local curmudgeon Adam Cane. But when he’s...

Death Overdue

By: Allison Brook
Narrated by: Mia Gaskin
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No

For fans of Miranda James and Jenn McKinlay comes an enthralling series debut featuring a librarian who solves mysteries with the help of a ghost in the stacks.Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut, until she is offered a job as the head of programs and events at the spooky local library, complete with its own... Read more »

A Load of Hooey

By: Bob Odenkirk
Narrated by: various narrators, David Cross, Jay Johnston, Jerry Minor, Megan Amram, Paul F. Tompkins & Bob Odenkirk
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No

Bob Odenkirk is a legend in the comedy-writing world,winning Emmys and acclaim for his work on Saturday Night Live, Mr. Show with Bob and David,and many other seminal television shows. This book, his first, is aspleen-bruisingly funny omnibus that ranges from absurdist monologues (“MartinLuther King Jr.’s Worst Speech Ever”) to intentionally bad...

She Stopped for Death

By: Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No

Jenny Weston and her mother, Dora, have been receiving strange midnight visits. The town of Bear Falls, Michigan, has its own elusive and highly secretive poet, Emily Sutton, who has lived her life cloistered away with her sister in a house at the edge of Pewee Swamp. But now, Emily has started leaving scraps of poetry in Dora’s little free...

Read and Gone

By: Allison Brook
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No

Twenty million dollars' worth of missing gems bring Carrie Singleton's long-lost and larcenous dad back into her life, and it's up to Carrie to clear his name.

A devoted dad is as precious as diamonds, but Carrie Singleton wouldn't know since her dad Jim's been on the lam most of her life. In an unusual family reunion, she finds Jim breaking into...

Another Children's Listening Library

By: Alcazar AudioWorks, Hans Christian Andersen & the Brothers Grimm
Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman, Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan, various narrators & David Thorn
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

Enjoy a timeless collection of children's fairy tales from Denmark, England, France, and more. Another Children's Listening Library includes"The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Andersen"The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Andersen"The Emperor's New Suit" by Hans Christian Andersen"The Fir Tree" by Hans Christian Andersen"The Happy... Read more »

The Mad Apprentice

By: Django Wexler
Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No

The dark and thrilling sequel to the book Kirkus called, "Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland, and Inkheart all rolled into one"

When Alice's mysterious Uncle Geryon sends her to help capture a rogue apprentice--a boy who has the same ability Alice has to Read himself into stories--she knows to expect a wild and unpredictable trip. But even though... Read more »

Black Moon Rising (The Library Book 2)

By: D. J. MacHale
Narrated by: Keith Nobbs & Mark Bramhall
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No

The next fast-paced, thrilling adventure from bestselling author D. J. MacHale! Check out a book and fall under its spell . . . literally.

Marcus is an agent of the Library—a place filled with tales that don’t have an ending. Mysteries that won’t be solved until Marcus and his friends Theo and Lu step in to finish them. Before it’s too late.
... Read more »

In Want of a Knife

By: Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

When they investigate a string of disappearances of young girls, will Jenny Weston and Zoe Zola be dispatched with extreme pride and prejudice?

Amateur sleuth and little librarian Jenny Wilson is set on edge when the police discover a young girl’s body, dressed in an old-fashioned white lace dress, just outside Bear Falls. And when another local...

The Palace of Glass

By: Django Wexler
Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

An action-packed middle-grade fantasy with classic writing, a resourceful heroine, a host of magical creatures, and no shortage of narrow escapes—for fans of Story Thieves, Inkheart, Coraline, and Harry Potter.

For Alice, danger threatens from inside the library as well as out. Having figured out the role her master and uncle, Geryon, played in... Read more »

Bound for Murder

By: Victoria Gilbert
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

Blue Ridge library director Amy Webber learns it wasn’t all peace and love among the “flower children” when a corpse is unearthed on the grounds of a 1960s commune.

Taylorsford Public Library director Amy Webber’s friend “Sunny” Fields is running for mayor. But nothing puts a damper on a campaign like an actual skeleton in a candidate’s closet....

The Spook in the Stacks

By: Eva Gates
Narrated by: Elise Arsenault
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

Halloween in North Carolina's Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body.

Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina historical documents to the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, but the...

The Fall of the Readers

By: Django Wexler
Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No

In this thrilling conclusion to Alice's adventures in The Forbidden Library she must lead her band of friends, magical beings, and creatures against the collected might of the Old Readers—perfect for fans of Story Thieves, Inkheart, Coraline, and Harry Potter.

When Alice defeated her uncle Geryon and declared war on the totalitarian ways of the... Read more »

Something Read Something Dead

By: Eva Gates
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No

Dark deeds in the Lighthouse Library threaten to send Lucy Richardson's soon-to-be-wed cousin Josie to an early till-death-do-us-part.

Winter falls on North Carolina's Outer Banks as Lucy Richardson and her friends joyfully help her favorite cousin, Josie O'Malley, plan her wedding. The owner and head baker of Josie's Cozy Bakery and her fiance,...

Read and Buried

By: Eva Gates
Narrated by: Elise Arsenault
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

Librarian Lucy Richardson unearths a mysterious map dating back to the Civil War. But if she can’t crack its code, she may end up read and buried.

The Bodie Island Lighthouse Library Classic Novel Book Club is reading Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne while workers dig into the earth to repair the Lighthouse Library’s foundations....

The Arab Conquests

By: Justin Marozzi
Narrated by: Mark Elstob
Length: TBA
Abridged: No

In the 7th and 8th centuries AD, armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula. These Arab conquests followed immediately after the Prophet Mohammed's death in 632. By this time, against all the odds, he had managed to unite the feuding tribes of... Read more »

Voyagers

By: Nicholas Thomas
Narrated by: Mark Robertson
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nick Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between the Americas and the western coast of Asia from late prehistory onwards: firstly the colonization by speakers of Austronesian languages of the western Pacific littoral, from around 3000 BC, of the Philippines,... Read more »

A Murder Unscripted

By: Elizabeth Penney
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No

It’s lights, camera, action at Castleton Manor, the exclusive literary retreat in Lighthouse Bay, Massachusetts. Faith Newberry’s role as librarian expands to include assisting the producer in filming a remake of Alice in Wonderland. Faith and her friends in the Candle House Book Club thrill in the behind-the-scenes drama, and even Faith’s loyal...

Buddhism

By: Joan Duncan Oliver
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

A modern guide to the teachings of Buddhism.

Buddhism: An Introduction to the Buddha’s Life, Teachings, and Practices is an indispensable guide to a 2,600-year-old wisdom tradition that has transformed the lives of millions across centuries and around the world. Readers will learn how...

Bitter Words

By: Jan Fields
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No

Faith Newberry is settling in nicely at her job as librarian at the upscale and pet-friendly Castleton Manor literary retreat. Even her cat, Watson, has taken to his new life in Lighthouse Bay on Cape Cod. With a cozy cottage on the grounds of the Massachusetts estate in which to live, and surrounded by books by day and friends by night, Faith...

A Deadly Chapter

By: Jan Fields
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

Christmas is no humbug affair in Lighthouse Bay, Massachusetts. The merry festivities are well underway in the quaint seaside village, and the halls of the posh Castleton Manor literary retreat are decked out in full Victorian décor. This year, the manor is hosting the Charles Dickens Society’s annual gala, compete with parlor games and dramatic...

A Crime Well Versed

By: Marlene Chase
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No

As librarian at Castleton Manor, the upscale literary retreat in Lighthouse Bay, Massachusetts, Faith Newberry cheerfully hosts various events for book lovers while accommodating the mansion’s quirky guests. But during a poetry retreat, Faith’s patience is tested by Emilie Smythe, an ill-mannered lecturer with an uncanny resemblance to Emily...

Haunted Houses

By: DK
Length: 15 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No

Classic haunted house ghost stories curated by world-renowned filmmaker and horror genre authority John Landis.

This beautifully presented, highly collectible anthology features ghost stories that have enthralled, terrified and inspired readers decade after decade. Some are relatively well known; others are long-lost treasures, awaiting... Read more »

The Bhagavad Gita

By: Edward Viljoen
Length: 3 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

The Bhagavad Gita: A Song of God Retold in Simplified English is the latest title in the Essential Wisdom Library.

This unique edition of the timeless epic is designed to be accessible for listeners without any prior experience of Hinduism. Not simply a translation of the original, Viljoen has simplified and...

A Novel Murder

By: Elizabeth Penney
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No

Faith Newberry's dream job may be morphing into a nightmare. Newly hired as the librarian at the upscale and pet-friendly Castleton Manor literary retreat, Faith sees her move from Boston to the quaint Cape Cod village of Lighthouse Bay, Massachusetts, as a boon.But things turn ugly when she discovers that the first edition book by Sir Arthur...

An Autographed Mystery

By: DeAnna Dodson
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No

A winter storm is brewing in Lighthouse Bay, Massachusetts. But it’s not just wind and snow swirling through the opulent halls of Castleton Manor. Eleven members of the Drelincourt family have booked the literary retreat for a private gathering. It’s librarian Faith Newberry’s job to convince the family patriarch, Max Drelincourt, and his nieces...

The Grim Reader

By: Margaret Welch
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No

It’s Simmering Suspense Week at the Castleton Manor literary retreat in Lighthouse Bay, Massachusetts. Librarian Faith Newberry has her hands full with a week of author talks and signings planned. But when the bejeweled guest of honor, reigning queen of romantic suspense Gloria Bauer, clears out her luxurious suite and disappears without a...

Relationships

By: The School of Life
Narrated by: Fiona Buckland
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

A refreshing take on how to approach relationships, reconsidering the myths of Romanticism and showing how love is a skill we can learn.

Focusing on a key subject fundamental to everyone’s life.

Challenges many preconceived assumptions about relationships while offering practical advice on how to improve our personal life.

Series edited by the...

A Literary Offense

By: Elizabeth Penney
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No

It’s Gatsby Week at Castleton Manor, the elegant retreat for booklovers in Lighthouse Bay, Massachusetts, and the roaring twenties are in full swing. Charlotte Jaxon, owner of the manor, arrives to put on the ritz and oversee the festivities celebrating the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Faith Newberry is sitting pretty when she receives a brief...

Pride and Publishing

By: DeAnna Julie Dodson
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

The air crackles with anticipation in scenic Lighthouse Bay, Massachusetts, when best-selling author Camilla Courtenay breezes into Castleton Manor to judge the final round of a Regency romance writing contest. The three finalists are competing for a publishing contract with Northanger Press, and the pressure intensifies when they accept their...

Up to Noir Good

By: Jan Fields
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

A heat wave grips Cape Cod, but the attendees of the So Noir literary retreat don't allow the hot weather to dampen their enthusiasm. They roam the halls of Castleton Manor in Lighthouse Bay, Massachusetts, wearing trench coats and fedoras, just like their favorite fictional private eyes.

Librarian Faith Newberry gets herself in a jam when she...

For Letter or Worse

By: Margaret Welch
Narrated by: Christa Lewis
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No

When the Nancy Drew Clue Colloquium converges on Castleton Manor in Lighthouse Bay, Massachusetts, scholars and fans, dressed as their favorite detective, arrive in their 1930s roadsters. But it turns into a bumpy ride when Nancy A. and Nancy Z. -- the good-natured bad girls of Nancy Drew fandom -- start pulling pranks. Their group, the River...

The Power of Awareness

By: Neville Goddard
Length: TBA
Abridged: No

THE POWER OF AWARENESS by Emmet Fox is a forthcoming title from St. Martin's Essentials. Read more »

Selections from Fairy Tales from England

By: author
Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman
Length: 1 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No

Enjoy a timeless collection of children's fairy tales from England. Stories include"Dick Whittington and His Cat""The Story of the Three Little Pigs""Henny Penny""Jack the Giant Killer""Johnny-Cake""The Story of the Three Bears""The History of Tom Thumb""Jack and the Beanstalk" Read more »

The Toltec Way - Abridged - Abridged

By: Susan Gregg
Narrated by: Susan Gregg
Length: 2 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes

When Ellen DeGeneres appeared on Oprah and spoke about the profound changes that certain Toltec principles have made in her life, Dr. Susan Gregg suddenly found herself a beneficiary of the publishing phenomena, the Oprah effect.

Dr. Gregg, author of two previous books on the Toltec, was deep in the process of writing her latest book. Now...

Beauty and the Beast & East of the Sun, West of the Moon - Abridged - Abridged

By: Alcazar AudioWorks, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Peter Christen Asbjornsen & Jorgen Moe
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 1 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Enjoy two traditional and beloved loved fairy tales known to many generations of children, presented in an entertaining and wonderfully appealing way with a full cast of characters. Beauty & the BeastBeauty is kind and loving, even though her two sisters tease her and her merchant father is too poor to buy her presents. All she wants is a... Read more »

Selections from Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes

By: author
Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No

A collection of favorite Mother Goose rhymes set to popular children's music Familiar nursery rhymes are enjoyed by generations of children. In Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes, children can listen to the best-loved tales of Mother Goose. Stories include:"Little Bo Peep""Old Mother Goose""To the Market""Solomon Grundy""Banbury Cross""Diddle... Read more »

Cinderella, The Frog Prince, & Rumplestiltskin - Abridged - Abridged

By: Alcazar AudioWorks, Charles Perrault & the Brothers Grimm
Narrated by: David Thorn & a full cast
Length: 1 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Enjoy three traditional and beloved loved fairy tales known to many generations of children, presented in an entertaining and wonderfully appealing way with a full cast of characters.CinderellaPoor orphan girl Cinderella longs to go to the grand royal ball, but her cruel stepmother and stepsisters won't allow it. Can her fairy godmother help... Read more »

Dollypogs

By: David Thorn
Narrated by: David Thorn
Length: 1 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

The gentle story of a Labrador puppy, Dollypogs, and her two pals, big old Jetset and little Snuggles, both adopted by Dollypog's loving master, David Thorn. A very sweet and touching story about how they all came together and their adventures as a loving family. Read more »

Selections from Grimm's Fairy Tales

By: the Brothers Grimm
Narrated by: Susan McCarthy, Bobbie Frohman & Bruce Blau
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

Enjoy a timeless collection of children's fairy tales from Germany, compiled by the legendary Brothers Grimm. Stories include:"Ashputtel""Cat and Mouse in Partnership""Cat-Skin""Clever Elsie""Hansel and Gretel""Jorinda and Jorindel""Doctor Knowall""Rapunzel""Little Red Cap, or Little Red Riding Hood""The Elves and the Shoemaker""Old... Read more »

Paul Revere's Ride and The Pied Piper of Hamelin

By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Robert Browning
Narrated by: David Thorn
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No

Paul Revere's RideIn this classic piece of American poetry, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow commemorates the actions of American Patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775. The tale depicts Paul Revere's exciting midnight ride to warn all the neighbors in the countryside that the British were coming-one light if by land and two if by sea. Pied Piper of... Read more »

Racketty-Packetty House

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman
Length: 1 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No

Since its publication in 1906, the story of how Queen Crosspatch and her band of fairies rescued the Racketty-Packetty House has inspired dreamers and readers of all ages in the tradition of The Secret Garden and A Little Princess. When Tidy Castle arrives, brand-new and grand in every way, the Racketty-Packetty House has never looked shabbier,... Read more »

Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

By: Washington Irving
Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No

Washington Irving's two most famous stories-available in one audiobook! One tells of Rip Van Winkle, who escaped the dreadful life of a hen-pecked husband by magical means. The other is of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman on their midnight ride. Experience the fright of poor Ichabod when assailed by the headless horseman and laugh at poor... Read more »

The Land of the Blue Flower - Abridged - Abridged

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narrated by: David Thorn & a full cast
Length: 1 hours
Abridged: Yes

An enchanting and mysterious tale of a far away land where a young king transforms his kingdom with a blue flower and some positive thinking. The Land of the Blue Flower is a story of love, beauty, and nature, where a young king learns the true meaning of love-and how it can transform the world. Read more »

Selections from the Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

By: Charles Perrault
Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No

Enjoy a timeless collection of children's fairy tales from France, written by the legendary Charles Perrault. Stories include"Blue Beard""Cinderella, or, The Little Glass Slipper""The Fairies""The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots""Little Red Riding Hood""The Sleeping Beauty""Little Tom Thumb""Riquet with the Tuft" Read more »

Selections from The Tales of Beatrix Potter - Abridged - Abridged

By: Beatrix Potter
Narrated by: David Thorn, Bobbie Frohman & a full cast
Length: 1 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes

The tales of Peter Rabbit and Beatrix Potter's other anthropomorphic characters began as a series of illustrated letters to the five-year-old son of her former nanny. The nanny suggested publishing the letters, and the stories became among the bestselling children's books of all time.In this charming collection of classic stories, Beatrix... Read more »