Local bookseller recommendations

Those Who Knew

By: Idra Novey

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"Read this now, because everyone you know will be talking about it by early 2019." —Washington Post

From the award-winning author of Ways to Disappear, a taut, timely story about what a powerful politician thinks he can get away with and the group of misfits who finally bring him down.

On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a... Read more

Why Religion?

By: Elaine Pagels

Narrated by: Lynde Houck

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these questions.These questions took on a new... Read more

The Devil You Know

By: Mike Carey

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of The Girl With All the Gifts Mike Carey presents the first book in his hip supernatural thriller series featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor.

Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stomping ground. It may seem like a good ghostbuster can charge what he likes and enjoy a hell of a lifestyle, but there's a risk:... Read more

Forever and a Day

By: Anthony Horowitz

Narrated by: Matthew Goode

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking readers into the very beginning of James Bond’s illustrious career and the formation of his... Read more

Elevation

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award

From legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting story about “an ordinary man in an extraordinary condition rising above hatred” (The Washington Post) and bringing the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine together—a “joyful, uplifting” (Entertainment Weekly) tale... Read more

This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

By: Kacen Callender

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

~Lambda Literary Award finalist for the best LGBT YA novel of 2018~A fresh, charming rom-com perfect for fans of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Boy Meets Boy about Nathan Bird, who has sworn off happy endings but is sorely tested when his former best friend, Ollie, moves back to town.Nathan Bird doesn’t believe in happy endings. Although... Read more

The Midnight Witness

By: Sara Blaedel

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Rookie homicide detective Louise Rick makes her debut in this thrilling #1 international bestseller that launched 3 million copy bestselling writer Sara Blaedel's incredible career.

A young woman is found strangled in a park, and a male journalist has been killed in the backyard of the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen.

Detective Louise Rick is put... Read more

Red Moon

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Maxwell Hamilton, Joy Osmanski & Feodor Chin

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Red Moon is a magnificent novel of space exploration and political revolution from New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson.

It is thirty years from now, and we have colonized the moon.

American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours... Read more

The Reckoning

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • John Grisham's most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet • “A murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga.” —USA Today
 
October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi

Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi’s favorite son—a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father,... Read more

Marilla of Green Gables

By: Sarah McCoy

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables . . . before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak—and unimaginable... Read more

Little

By: Edward Carey

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE

"An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I... Read more

Reveling in Sin

By: Meghan March

Narrated by: Joe Arden & Erin Mallon

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Reveling in Sin is the third book in New York Times bestselling author Meghan March’s epically romantic and addictive Sin Trilogy.Whitney Gable is the kind of woman you fight to the death to protect. To keep. To cherish.I’ve finally learned my lesson, and it’s time to prove I’m the man who’s worthy of her.I don’t care what it takes, because... Read more

The Craftsman

By: Sharon Bolton

Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Sharon Bolton returns with her creepiest standalone yet, following a young cop trying to trace the disappearances of a small town's teenagers.

Florence Lovelady's career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Grassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago in a small village in Lancashire. Like something out of a nightmare, the... Read more

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

By: Stephen Hawking

Narrated by: Ben Whishaw, Garrick Hagon & Lucy Hawking

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind.

“Hawking’s parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity’s future should read.”—NPR

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Forbes •... Read more

Wasteland

By: W. Scott Poole

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature.In the early twentieth century, World War I was the most devastating event humanity had yet experienced. New machines of war left tens of millions killed or wounded in the most grotesque of... Read more

Trinity

By: Louisa Hall

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, David Colacci, Saskia Maarl...

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer—father of the atomic bomb—as told by seven fictional characters.J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally protected his Communist friends, only to later betray... Read more

A Well-Behaved Woman

By: Therese Anne Fowler

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times and USA Today bestseller

"More than a rewriting of history, this is history reimagined from a fresh angle, delivered here with energy, sensitivity, and flair." — AudioFile Magazine

This program includes a bonus interview with the author.

A Well-Behaved Woman is the riveting audiobook about iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her... Read more

Killing Commendatore

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 28 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84

In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally... Read more

Bridge of Clay

By: Markus Zusak

Narrated by: Markus Zusak

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The unforgettable, New York Times bestselling family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be life-changing."

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
 
"One of those monumental books... Read more

White Dancing Elephants

By: Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Narrated by: Priya Ayyar

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman grieves a miscarriage, haunted by the Buddha’s birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange “rescue” mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two... Read more

Bright Ruin

By: Vic James

Narrated by: Avita Jay

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In the “thrilling conclusion”* to the dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage and Tarnished City, the people of Britain rise up against their magically gifted masters. They must break the system—or be broken.

MAGIC RUINS. WE RISE.

The rules are simple, the system cruel: the lower classes must give ten years in service to Britain’s... Read more

The Fallen Architect

By: Charles Belfoure

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting novel from The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect, a man in disgrace finds that digging up the past is the only road he can take. Architect Douglas Layton has lost everything. The balcony of one of his beautiful music halls collapsed during a packed performance, killing dozens. Layton knows the flaw was not... Read more

The Witch of Willow Hall

By: Hester Fox

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Steeped in Gothic eeriness."--Nicola Cornick, USA Today bestselling author

In Salem, they burned. Now, they will rise.

New Oldbury, 1821

The house holds its breath, trying to outlast me…

Something has awakened in Willow Hall. Eighteen-year-old Lydia Montrose can feel it. But she has no idea what it is.

Rocked by rumor and scandal, Lydia, her... Read more

Priest of Bones

By: Peter McLean

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"The first in an unmissable series, Priest of Bones is a fresh and compelling take on grimdark fantasy. Mashing together soldiers, gangsters, magic and war into a heady mix that is a hulking big brother to The Lies of Locke Lamora."--Anna Stephens, author of Godblind

The war is over, and army priest Tomas Piety heads home with Sergeant Bloody... Read more