The effects of the ongoing pandemic still pose a challenge for the bookselling community, but you can show your local bookstore support in-store or virtually on Independent Bookstore Day: a one-day celebration taking place at local bookshops.
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When you spend at least $15 USD at your bookstore between April 24th and 26th, you can pick one of the audiobooks below for free from Libro.fm. It’s our way of saying thank you for shopping local.
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Amari and the Night Brothers
By: B. B. Alston
Narrated by: Imani Parks
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this exhilarating debut middle grade fantasy, the first in a trilogy filled with #blackgirlmagic. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Percy Jackson series, and Nevermoor.
Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the police told... Read more »
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Libertie
By: Kaitlyn Greenidge
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
The critically acclaimed and Whiting Award–winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman returns with Libertie, an unforgettable story about one young Black girl’s attempt to find a place where she can be fully, and only, herself. Coming of age as a freeborn Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her... Read more »
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Act Your Age, Eve Brown
By: Talia Hibbert
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In USA Today bestselling author Talia Hibbert’s newest rom-com, the flightiest Brown sister crashes into the life of an uptight B&B owner and has him falling hard—literally.
One of POPSUGAR's 42 Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2021 and Oprah Mag's Most Anticipated Romances of 2021!
Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard... Read more »
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Remote Control
By: Nnedi Okorafor
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi Okorafor
Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award
"Narrator Adjoa Andoh captivates listeners with a stunning new sci-fi novella set in a near-future Ghana. Andoh is... Read more »
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
By: Rachel Bloom
Narrated by: Rachel Bloom
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
From the charming and wickedly funny co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, a collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and even amusement park maps on the subjects of insecurity, fame, anxiety, and much more.
Rachel Bloom has felt abnormal and out of place her whole life. In this exploration of what she thinks makes her "different,"... Read more »
Hummingbird Salamander
By: Jeff VanderMeer
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things
Security consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. Silvina, the dead woman who left the... Read more »
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You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey
By: Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers Amber Ruffin writes with her sister Lacey Lamar with humor and heart to share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of racism.
Now a writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers and host of The Amber Ruffin Show, Amber Ruffin lives in New York, where she is no one's First Black... Read more »
We Keep the Dead Close
By: Becky Cooper
Narrated by: Becky Cooper
Length: 15 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A Recommended Book from: New York Times * Publisher's Weekly * Kirkus * BookRiot * Booklist * Boston Globe * Goodreads * Town & Country * Refinery29 * CrimeReads * Glamour
Dive into a "tour de force of investigative reporting" (Ron Chernow): a "searching, atmospheric and ultimately entrancing" (Patrick Radden Keefe) true crime narrative of an... Read more »
Lost in the Never Woods
By: Aiden Thomas
Narrated by: Avi Roque
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
When children start to go missing in the local woods, a teen girl must face her fears and a past she can't remember to rescue them in this atmospheric YA novel, Lost in the Never Woods from the author of Cemetery Boys.
It’s been five years since Wendy and her two brothers went missing in the woods, but when the town’s children start to disappear,... Read more »
Firekeeper's Daughter
By: Angeline Boulley
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
"Isabella Star LaBlanc brings an authentic-sounding narration to this powerful audiobook...Dialogue, including words in other languages, is handled with effortless transitions and clear depictions between characters. This audiobook should not be missed." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB... Read more »
Concrete Rose
By: Angie Thomas
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.
If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that... Read more »
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How to Resist Amazon and Why
By: Danny Caine
Narrated by: Danny Caine
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, and its business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own companies, and its CEO is the richest person in the world while its workers make minimum wage with impossible quotas...wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas,... Read more »
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Spend at least $15 USD at your bookstore either online or in-person between April 24th and 26th.
Submit your receipt by 9pm ET on April 26th and select your audiobook.
Libro.fm will email you a link to your free audiobook on Wednesday, April 28th.
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Find your store“I have been to one million independent bookstores. I have met the booksellers who founded them and own them. I have fallen in love with them. Zero jerks own independent bookstores. They just don’t. They are—always—people who believe in and deeply invest in communities and art and ideas. And during this pandemic, in which we have lost one local indie per week, we need to prioritize investing in these local businesses who invest so much in us.”
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2021 IBD Ambassador
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What is Independent Bookstore Day?
Independent Bookstore Day occurs annually on the last Saturday in April to highlight the unique ways local bookstores and booksellers contribute to their communities.
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