Local bookseller recommendations

The Fortunes of Jaded Women

By: Carolyn Huynh

Narrated by: Vyvy Nguyen

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Jonathan Tropper, Amy Tan, and Kevin Kwan, this “sharp, smart, and gloriously extra” (Nancy Jooyoun Kim, author of The Last Story of Mina Lee) novel follows a family of estranged Vietnamese women—cursed to never know love or happiness—as they reunite when a psychic makes a startling prediction.

Everyone in Orange County’s Little... Read more

On the Rooftop

By: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A Reese’s Book Club Pick“An utterly original and brilliant story.” –Reese WitherspoonA stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters’ ambitions for their own lives—set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The... Read more

If I Survive You

By: Jonathan Escoffery

Narrated by: Torian Brackett

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

"If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level. There are no limits to where Jonathan Escoffery will go." —Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House

"Torian Brackett's skillful narration fully embodies the family at the center of... Read more

Happier Hour

By: Cassie Holmes

Narrated by: Cassie Holmes

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how to reframe your time around life’s happiest moments to build days that aren’t just full but fulfilling with this “joyful guide” (Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author) that is the antidote to overscheduling.

Our most precious resource isn’t money. It’s time. We are allotted just twenty-four hours a day, and we live in a culture... Read more

The Attic Child

By: Lola Jaye

Narrated by: Lola Jaye, Lucian Msamati & Nneka Okoye

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A hauntingly powerful and emotionally charged novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity and belonging.

Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret.Early 1900s London: Taken from his homeland, twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of the time locked away in the attic of a large house by the... Read more

Lost in Time

By: A.G. Riddle

Narrated by: John Skelley

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Amazing! One of the twistiest time-tales I've ever read ..."—Diana Gabaldon"Crichtonesque thrillers don't come much better than this intricate outing which combines a fantastic premise … with a closed-circle whodunit. Readers won't be able to turn the pages fast enough."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewPANGEA, 202,320,641 BCQuantum physicist... Read more

A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention

By: Rebecca Schiller

Narrated by: Rebecca Schiller

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

It should have been Rebecca Schiller's dream come true: moving her young family to the English countryside to raise goats and coax their own fruit and vegetables from the land. But, as she writes: The summer of striding out toward a life of open fields and sacks of corn, I brought a confused black hole of something pernicious but not yet... Read more

The Thread Collectors

By: Shaunna J. Edwards & Alyson Richman

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“An unforgettable story of female strength, hope and friendship. This collaborative work is magnificent—a true revelation!” —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman with the Blue Star

“A brilliant story brimming with unexpected friendships and family ties. Historically sound and beautifully stitched, The Thread Collectors will... Read more

Bully Market

By: Jamie Fiore Higgins

Narrated by: Jamie Fiore Higgins

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A “riveting and powerful” (Gretchen Carlson, cofounder of Lift Our Voices) insider’s account on Wall Street where greed coupled with misogyny and discrimination enforces a culture of exclusion in the upper echelons of Goldman Sachs.

Jamie Fiore Higgins became one of the few women at the highest ranks of Goldman Sachs. Spurred on by the obligation... Read more

Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

By: James Hannaham

Narrated by: James Hannaham & Flame Monroe

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “dangerously hilarious” novel (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men’s prison, over one consequential Fourth of July weekend—from the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award winner Delicious Foods.

Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a... Read more

California Burning

By: Katherine Blunt

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent Booksellers Alliance)

A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires — including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise — and the human cost... Read more

Kit McBride Gets a Wife

By: Amy Barry

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The four McBride brothers have their worlds turned upside down when their precocious younger sister secretly places an advertisement for a mail-order bride.

Kit McBride knows that Buck's Creek, Montana, is no place to find a wife. Between him and his three brothers—plus little Junebug—they manage all right on their own, thank you very much. But... Read more

My Government Means to Kill Me

By: Rasheed Newson

Narrated by: Jelani Alladin

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by actor, singer, and dancer Jelani Alladin, who originated the role of Kristoff in Broadway's Frozen musical.

A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s New York City, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and... Read more

Egg Island

By: Sara Flemington

Narrated by: Raquel Beattie

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Two laconic teenage runaways plunge deep into backcountry, farther and farther away from civilization, searching for an extraordinary place that may or may not exist.



On the move for who knows how long, Julia, age unknown, walks into a gas station. There, the tall, ominous kid with a studded belt and crusty eyebrow ring who's stocking the fridge... Read more

Stay Awake

By: Megan Goldin

Narrated by: Imogen Church & January LaVoy

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A murder she doesn’t remember committing. A killer she doesn’t remember meeting. Megan Goldin’s Stay Awake is an electrifying novel that proves memory can be deadly.

Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. When she’s dropped off at the door of her brownstone, a stranger answers—a stranger who... Read more

The Last Karankawas

By: Kimberly Garza

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes, André Santana, Becca Q. Co & R...

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Debut author Garza skillfully links brilliantly crafted episodes to create an unforgettable community in Galveston, TX...Indeed, staying well-tuned to Garza’s work earns enduring rewards."
— Booklist (starred review)

"These rich performances, a chorus of different tones and accents, create a beautiful tapestry of a complicated city and the... Read more

The Babysitter Lives

By: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc & Stephen Graham Jones

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“I enjoyed The Babysitter Lives very much. It’s perfect for audio, as really scary stories always are, and this one is really scary. Perfect for a long car ride…especially when you’re almost out of gas and you start wondering if maybe someone has gotten into the backseat and will lurch into the rearview mirror.” —Stephen King

Only on Audio! A... Read more

This Story Will Change

By: Elizabeth Crane

Narrated by: Elizabeth Crane

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage and how life can fall apart and be rebuilt in wonderful and surprising ways.



One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas, and... Read more

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious—during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner... Read more

The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie

By: Rachel Linden

Narrated by: Katie Koster

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW THE HALLMARK CHANNEL FILM THE MAGIC OF LEMON DROPS STARRING LYNDSY FONESCA AND IAN HARDING!

“Heartfelt, heartwarming, joyful, and uplifting. You can't go wrong with a Rachel Linden book.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber

An uplifting novel about a heartbroken young pie maker who is granted a magical second chance to live... Read more

Shutter

By: Ramona Emerson

Narrated by: Charley Flyte

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent skills have cracked many cases—she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook.As a lone portal to... Read more

The Devil Takes You Home

By: Gabino Iglesias

Narrated by: Jean-Marc Berne

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning author comes a genre-defying thriller about a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family—even if it means a descent into violence. Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After... Read more

The Wild Hunt

By: Emma Seckel

Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The islanders have only three rules: don't stick your nose where it's not wanted, don't mention the war, and never let your guard down during October.



Leigh Welles has not set foot in on the island in years, but when she finds herself called home from a disappointing life on the Scottish mainland by her father's unexpected death, she is... Read more

Literary Critters

By: Zondervan

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland, Mike Read & Rachel Louise ...

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Literary Critters is a truly unique book, introducing young readers to classic literary figures and encouraging them to use their imaginations. As William Shakesbear visits his fellow Literary Critter Guild members, he’s greeted with lots of advice from his author friends and has some adventures along the way.This playful story promotes literacy... Read more