Bookseller picks

Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider

By: Stephen B. Heard, PhD

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance.



Ever since Carl Linnaeus's binomial system of scientific names was adopted in the eighteenth century, scientists have been eponymously naming organisms in ways that both honor and vilify their namesakes.... Read more

Stand Up, Yumi Chung!

By: Jessica Kim

Narrated by: Greta Jung

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

One lie snowballs into a full-blown double life in this irresistible story about an aspiring stand-up comedian.

On the outside, Yumi Chung suffers from #shygirlproblems, a perm-gone-wrong, and kids calling her "Yu-MEAT" because she smells like her family's Korean barbecue restaurant. On the inside, Yumi is ready for her Netflix stand-up special.... Read more

How to Be Fine

By: Jolenta Greenberg & Kristen Meinzer

Narrated by: Jolenta Greenberg & Kristen Meinzer

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A humorous and insightful look into what advice works, what doesn’t, and what it means to transform yourself, by the co-hosts of the popular By the Book podcast.In each episode of their podcast By the Book, Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer take a deep dive into a different self-help book, following its specific instructions, rules, and... Read more

Hum

By: Natalia Hero

Narrated by: Natalia Hero

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Hum follows a young woman whose life is changed forever when, after being raped, she gives birth to a hummingbird. She must learn to cope with not only what happened to her, but with the bird’s persistent, agitating presence in her life. Natalia Hero’s debut is a beautiful and tormented magical-realist novella about surviving trauma, reclaiming... Read more

The Death of Sitting Bear

By: N. Scott Momaday

Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated American master N. Scott Momaday returns with a radiant collection of more than 200 new and selected poems rooted in Native American tradition. 

“The poems in this book reflect my deep respect for and appreciation of words. . . . I believe that poetry is the highest form of verbal expression. Although I have... Read more

At the Center of All Beauty

By: Fenton Johnson

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A profound meditation on accepting and celebrating one's solitude.



Solitude is the inspirational core for many writers, artists, and thinkers. Alone with our thoughts, we can make discoveries that matter not only to us but to others. To be solitary is not only to draw sustenance from being alone, but to know that our ultimate responsibility is... Read more

These Fevered Days

By: Martha Ackmann

Narrated by: Martha Ackmann

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, “All things are ready” and with this resolute statement,
her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely “at home” (the occupation listed on her death
certificate), Dickinson’s interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was hesitant about publication,
embraced... Read more

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

By: Sean Dietrich

Narrated by: Sean Dietrich

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From celebrated storyteller "Sean of the South" comes an unforgettable memoir of love, loss, the friction of family memories, and the unlikely hope that you're gonna be alright.Sean Dietrich was twelve years old when he scattered his father's ashes from the mountain range. His father was a man who lived for baseball, a steel worker with a ready... Read more

Do Nothing

By: Celeste Headlee

Narrated by: Celeste Headlee

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“A welcome antidote to our toxic hustle culture of burnout.”—Arianna Huffington
“This book is so important and could truly save lives.”—Elizabeth Gilbert
“A clarion call to work smarter [and] accomplish more by doing less.”—Adam Grant
 
We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable?
 
Despite our constant search for new... Read more

The Animals At Lockwood Manor

By: Jane Healey

Narrated by: Sarah Lambie

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection.

In August 1939, thirty-year-old Hetty Cartwright arrives at Lockwood Manor... Read more

A Murderous Relation

By: Deanna Raybourn

Narrated by: Angele Masters

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A royal scandal’s connection to a brutal serial killer threatens London in this new Veronica Speedwell adventure from New York Times bestselling and Edgar® Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn.Autumn 1888. Veronica Speedwell and her colleague Stoker are asked by Lady Wellingtonia Beauclerk to stop a potential scandal so explosive it threatens... Read more

You Are Not Alone

By: Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Dylan Moore

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020
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One of Marie Claire’s Best Fiction by Women in 2020
One of Woman’s Day’s Best Fiction Books Coming Out in 2020

The... Read more

Hannah's War

By: Jan Eliasberg

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A "mesmerizing" re-imagination of the final months of World War II (Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network), Hannah's War is an unforgettable love story about an exceptional woman and the dangerous power of her greatest discovery.
Berlin, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th... Read more

Mañanaland

By: Pam Muñoz Ryan

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Newbery Honoree Pam Munoz Ryan weaves an entrancing tale of courage and self-discovery."Uniquely magical...Timely and timeless." -- New York Times* "This tightly packed, powerful fantasy contains resonant truths." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review* "Another unforgettable work from a master storyteller." -- Booklist, starred review* "Richly... Read more

This Town Sleeps

By: Dennis E. Staples

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Set on a reservation in far northern Minnesota, This Town Sleeps explores the many ways history, culture, landscape, and lineage shape our lives, our understanding of the world we inhabit, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of it all.



On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the... Read more

Docile

By: K.M. Szpara

Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin & Vikas Adam

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

K. M. Szpara's Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles.

There is no consent under capitalism.

To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide... Read more

How a Woman Becomes a Lake

By: Marjorie Celona

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime Novel
 
From the Giller-nominated author of Y comes How a Woman Becomes a Lake, a taut, suspenseful novel about the dark corners of a small town, and the secrets that lurk within...

It's New Year's Day and the residents of a small fishing town are ready to start their lives anew.... Read more

Separation Anxiety

By: Laura Zigman

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“Separation Anxiety is a hilarious, heart-breaking and thought-provoking portrait of a difficult marriage, as fierce as it is funny.... My advice: Start reading and don’t stop until you get to the last page of this wise and wonderful novel.""  —Alice HoffmanFrom bestselling author Laura Zigman, a hilarious novel about a wife and mother whose... Read more

Temporary

By: Hilary Leichter

Narrated by: Carly Robins

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the... Read more

The June Boys

By: Court Stevens

Narrated by: McKenzie Fetters, Gabe Wicks, Court Stevens, Ri...

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook edition includes: The full-length, stand-alone Young Adult suspense novel A bonus scene with one of the Gemini Thief survivors A Q&A between Court Stevens and Ruta Sepetys, New York Times bestselling author of Fountains of Silence From award-winning and highly acclaimed author Court Stevens comes a gripping, emotional story... Read more

Anna K

By: Jenny Lee

Narrated by: Jenna Ushkowitz

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrator Jenna Ushkowitz is an award-winning actress, singer, producer, and podcast host best known for her role as Tina Cohen-Chang on Glee.

Meet Anna K! Every happy teenage girl is the same, while every unhappy teenage girl is miserable in her own special way...

At seventeen, Anna K is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich society (even if she... Read more

Spirit Run

By: Noé Álvarez

Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who “slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives.” A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez... Read more

Fahrenheit 451

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Toni Mora

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

El libro más emblemático de Bradbury llega a Minotauro Esenciales. Un clásico de la literatura. Fahrenheit 451: la temperatura a la que el papel se enciende y arde. Guy Montag es un bombero y el trabajo de un bombero es quemar libros, que están prohibidos porque son causa de discordia y sufrimiento. El Sabueso Mecánico del Departamento de... 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