Local bookseller recommendations

Swimming Back to Trout River

By: Linda Rui Feng

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A “beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration…and love” (Jean Kwok, author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation) set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution that follows a father’s quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter’s momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell... Read more

Illusionary

By: Zoraida Cordova

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In Zoraida Córdova's thrilling sequel to Incendiary, Renata embarks on a dangerous journey to bring justice to the kingdom—perfect for fans of Sabaa Tahir and Sarah J. Maas.Reeling from betrayal at the hands of the Whispers, Renata Convida is a girl on the run. With few options and fewer allies, she's reluctantly joined forces with none other... Read more

The Anatomy of Desire

By: L. R. Dorn

Narrated by: Santino Fontana, Shelby Young, Marin Ireland, J...

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Audie Award finalist for Multi-Voice Performance!Performed docuseries style by a star-studded full cast including Santino Fontana, Shelby Young , Marin Ireland, JD Jackson, Dan Bittner, Vikas Adam, Gabra Zackman, Fred Berman, Darrell Dennis, Oliver Wyman, Jonathan Davis, Hilary Huber, and Lisa FlanaganFor fans of riveting true crime docuseries a... Read more

The House of Always

By: Jenn Lyons

Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang & Vikas Adam

Length: 26 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Brandon Sanderson and Patrick Rothfuss, The House of Always is the fourth epic fantasy in Jenn Lyons' Chorus of Dragons series that began with The Ruin of Kings.

What if you were imprisoned for all eternity?

In the aftermath of the Ritual of Night, everything has changed.

The Eight Immortals have catastrophically failed to stop Kihrin's... Read more

New Girl in Little Cove

By: Damhnait Monaghan

Narrated by: Marnye Young

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fans of Richard Russo’s That Old Cape Magic, Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel, and Patricia Harman’s The Runaway Midwife will enjoy Rachel’s fish-out-of-water journey to acceptance and understanding.” —Booklist

"If you loved Come From Away, don’t miss this charming debut novel.”—Kate Hilton, bestselling author of Better Luck Next... Read more

A Theater for Dreamers

By: Polly Samson

Narrated by: Polly Samson

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Sublime and immersive . . . If you wish you could disappear to a Greek island right now, I highly recommend.”
—Jojo Moyes, #1 bestselling author of Me Before You

“This gorgeous, glimmering summer read is itself perfect summer: irresistible and deep, Samson's lyric sentences pulling you into unforgettable sunlight and shadow.”
—Amy Bloom, New... Read more

Hooked on You

By: Kathleen Fuller

Narrated by: Lauren Berst

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In Hooked on You, the first Maple Falls novel, opposites attract when an artist comes back home to help the grandmother who raised her and falls for the local hometown sports hero. Perfect for fans of Debbie Macomber and Denise Hunter.She never wanted to come back. He never wants to leave. The town of Maple Falls has plans for them both.Riley... Read more

Cool for the Summer

By: Dahlia Adler

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Witty, wise, and disarmingly tender. I am hopelessly devoted to this summer dream of a book."--Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Dahlia Adler's Cool for the Summer is a story of self-discovery and new love. It’s about the things we want and the things we need. And it’s about the people who... Read more

Son of the Storm

By: Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Narrated by: Korey Jackson

Length: 17 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most exciting new storytellers in epic fantasy, Son of the Storm is a sweeping tale of violent conquest and forgotten magic set in a world inspired by the pre-colonial empires of West Africa.

"Everything I love in a fantasy novel. Damn good stuff!" —Jenn Lyons, author of The Ruin of Kings

In the ancient. city of Bassa, Danso is a... Read more

You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.

By: Sheung-King

Narrated by: Kenny Wong

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
Finalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
A Globe and Mail Best Book Debut of 2020A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad—to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo—often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling... Read more

Seed to Dust

By: Marc Hamer

Narrated by: Owen Teale

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Late Migrations and H is for Hawk

A stunning meditation on gardening and the wisdom of plants, " that rare book that will appeal to nonfiction readers everywhere. . . Candid, tender, thoughtful and absorbing."—Shelf Awareness (STARRED Review)

"With chapters. . . [that] shimmer like lantern slides, lit with luminous imagery. . . Seed... Read more

Ariadne

By: Jennifer Saint

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"An elegant performance by narrator Barrie Kreinik recounts the life of Ariadne...This production, with its outstanding narration, makes the classic story new again. Kreinik is the perfect voice for Ariadne, a noble young woman who bravely stands up for her values." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

A mesmerizing debut novel for fans... Read more

Olympus, Texas: A GMA Book Club Pick

By: Stacey Swann

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! • A bighearted novel with technicolor characters, plenty of Texas swagger, and a powder keg of a plot in which marriages struggle, rivalries flare, and secrets explode, all with a clever wink toward classical mythology.

For fans of Madeline Miller's Circe: "The Iliad meets Friday Night Lights in this... Read more

The Bookshop of Second Chances

By: Jackie Fraser

Narrated by: Ell Potter

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman desperate to turn a new page heads to the Scottish coast and finds herself locked in a battle of wills with an infuriatingly aloof bookseller in this utterly heartwarming debut, perfect for readers of Evvie Drake Starts Over.

“Humor and charm abound. . . . [This] love story hits the spot.”—Publishers Weekly

Thea Mottram is having a bad... Read more

Secrets of Happiness

By: Joan Silber

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo, Daniel Henning, Mia Barron, Amy S...

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating tale of two families whose interlocking fates span the globe from PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author Joan Silber Ethan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father has long kept a second family—a Thai wife and two kids living in Queens. In the aftermath of this revelation, Ethan’s mother... Read more

The Last Fallen Star

By: Graci Kim

Narrated by: Suzie Yeung

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Graci Kim's thrilling debut about an adopted Korean-American girl who discovers her heritage and her magic on a perilous journey to save her witch clan family. "Graci Kim does such an amazing job of blending Korean mythology into the modern world, I am now wondering how I ever lived without knowing all... Read more

Madhouse at the End of the Earth

By: Julian Sancton

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter

“The energy of the narrative never flags. . . . Sancton has produced a... Read more

Pop Song

By: Larissa Pham

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love—with a place, or a painting, or a person—and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss—from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to James Turrell's transcendent light works, and Anne Carson's Eros the... Read more

On Juneteenth

By: Annette Gordon-Reed

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the nation’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction... Read more

Best Nerds Forever

By: James Patterson & Chris Grabenstein

Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

When a lifelong friendship just isn't long enough, two friends connect from beyond the grave in this heartwarming ghost story from a New York Times bestselling author.
 
One minute, Finn was biking home from school, and the next, he was run off the road by a maniac in a big van. Now, he's a ghost. He can do lots of fun things, like try every ice... Read more

Whereabouts

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

Narrated by: Susan Vinciotti Bonito

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies—her first in nearly a decade—about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties.

Exuberance and dread, attachment... Read more

Effortless

By: Greg McKeown

Narrated by: Greg McKeown

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Times (UK) Best Book of the Year • From the author of the million-copy-selling Essentialism comes an empowering guide to achieving your goals. It all starts with a simple principle: Not everything has to be so hard.

“In a world beset by burnout, Greg McKeown’s work is essential.”—Daniel H. Pink, author of When,... Read more

How To Write a Mystery

By: Mystery Writers of America

Narrated by: Cary Hite, Caroline McLaughlin, Nigel Patterson...

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From 70 of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries—from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers—“this is a writing guide that readers and writers will turn to again and again” (Booklist, starred review).

Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is known for providing unparalleled... Read more

I Am a Girl from Africa

By: Elizabeth Nyamayaro

Narrated by: Elizabeth Nyamayaro

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A “profound and soul-nourishing memoir” (Oprah Daily) from an African girl whose near-death experience sparked a lifelong dedication to humanitarian work that helps bring change across the world.

When severe drought hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth Nyamayaro, then only eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to... Read more