Bookseller picks

The Great Beanie Baby Bubble

By: Zac Bissonnette

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animal craze that became the tulip mania of the 1990s



In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. In just three years, collectors who saw the toys as a means of speculation made creator Ty Warner, an eccentric college dropout, a billionaire—without... Read more

Echo

By: Pam Muñoz Ryan

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Mark Bramhall & David deVries

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

2016 Newbery Honor BookNew York Times BestsellerAn impassioned, uplifting, and virtuosic tour de force from a treasured storyteller!Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica.Decades later, Friedrich in Germany,... 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 Art of Asking

By: Amanda Palmer

Narrated by: Amanda Palmer, Ellen Archer & Jamy Ian Swiss

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience to support her as she surfed the crowd (and slept on... Read more

Snow Like Ashes

By: Sara Raasch

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A striking fantasy tale of dark magic, dangerous politics, and discovering your true self—perfect for fans of Game of Thrones, An Ember in the Ashes and A Court of Thorns and Roses.Sixteen years ago the Kingdom of Winter was conquered and its citizens enslaved, leaving them without magic or a monarch. Now the Winterians' only hope for freedom is... Read more

The Distance Between Us

By: Kasie West

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers learned early that the rich are not to be trusted. And after years of studying them from behind the cash register of her mom's porcelain-doll shop, she has seen nothing to prove otherwise. Enter Xander Spence—he's tall, handsome, and oozing rich. Despite his charming ways and the fact that he seems to be one of... Read more

Mink River

By: Brian Doyle

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In a small fictional town on the Oregon coast there are love affairs and almost-love-affairs, mystery and hilarity, bears and tears, brawls and boats, a garrulous logger and a silent doctor, rain and pain, Irish immigrants and Salish stories, mud and laughter. There's a Department of Public Works that gives haircuts and counts insects, a... Read more

Big Little Lies

By: Liane Moriarty

Narrated by: Caroline Lee

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO® SERIES 
STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZOË KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEP

From the author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Truly Madly Guilty, and The Husband’s Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we... Read more

Illusive

By: Emily Lloyd-Jones

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The X-Men meets Ocean's Eleven in this edge-of-your-seat sci-fi adventure about a band of "super" criminals.

When the deadly MK virus swept across the planet, a vaccine was created to stop the epidemic, but it came with some unexpected side effects. A small percentage of the population developed superhero-like powers, and Americans suffering... Read more

Animal Madness

By: Laurel Braitman

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

**“Science Friday” Summer Reading Pick**
**Discover magazine Top 5 Summer Reads**
**People magazine Best Summer Reads**

“A lovely, big-hearted book…brimming with compassion and the tales of the many, many humans who devote their days to making animals well” (The New York Times).

Have you ever wondered if your dog might be a bit depressed? How... Read more

Astonish Me

By: Maggie Shipstead

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the widely acclaimed debut novel Seating Arrangements, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction: a gorgeously written, fiercely compelling glimpse into the demanding world of professional ballet and its magnetic hold over two generations.

Astonish Me is the irresistible story of... Read more

The Sixth Extinction

By: Elizabeth Kolbert

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important work about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.

Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass... Read more

Rough, Raw and Ready

By: Lorelei James

Narrated by: Rebecca Estrella

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When passion turns into love, three is never a crowd.

A year of wedded bliss to sexy-as-sin cowboy Trevor Glanzer has gifted Chassie West Glanzer happiness and contentment she didn’t expect to find. But when Trevor’s old roping partner ambles up the driveway, Chassie’s life is thrown into chaos.

Trevor never expected to see Edgard Mancuso again,... Read more

Dept. of Speculation

By: Jenny Offill

Narrated by: Jenny Offill

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply 'the wife,' once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes - a colicky baby, a... 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

The Invention of Wings

By: Sue Monk Kidd

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Adepero Oduye & Sue Monk Kidd

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women
 
 
Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world—and it is now the newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0... Read more

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly

By: Sun-mi Hwang

Narrated by: Jill Larson

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A Korean Charlotte's Web

More than 2 million copies sold
 
This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch an... Read more

A Natural History of Dragons

By: Marie Brennan

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Marie Brennan begins a thrilling new fantasy series in A Natural History of Dragons, combining adventure with the inquisitive spirit of the Victorian Age.

You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart—no more so than the study of dragons itself. But such study offers rewards beyond compare: to stand in a dragon's... Read more

Fortunately, the Milk

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An absolute delight of a madcap story for the young (and young-at-heart) by New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with equal parts pirates and piranhas, adventure and aliens, oddity and love. ""I bought the milk,"" said my father. ""I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: t h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a... Read more

Styxx

By: Sherrilyn Kenyon

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 31 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The most highly-anticipated novel in the Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series since Acheron is here—the unforgettable story of Styxx, Acheron's twin brother and one of the most powerful beings on earth

Just when you thought doomsday was over . . .

Centuries ago Acheron saved the human race by imprisoning an ancient evil bent on absolute... Read more

The Ghost Bride

By: Yangsze Choo

Narrated by: Yangsze Choo

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A startlingly original voice makes her literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, adventure, and fascinating, dreamlike twistsOne evening, my father asked me whether I would like to become a ghost bride. . . .Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling... Read more

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

By: Adelle Waldman

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The national bestseller, named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist, The New Republic, Bookforum, Baltimore City Paper, The Daily Beast, National Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Reader, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Buzzfeed and many others. A New York Times Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable... Read more

We Need New Names

By: NoViolet Bulawayo

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This unflinching and powerful novel tells the "deeply felt and fiercely written" story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe to America (New York Times Book Review).

Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's... Read more

The School for Good and Evil

By: Soman Chainani

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL will soon be a major motion picture from Netflix—starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh,  Sofia Wylie, Sophie Anne Caruso, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Kit Young, and more! 
The New York Times bestselling School for Good and Evil series is an epic journey into... Read more