Local bookseller recommendations

Land Of Big Numbers

By: Te-Ping Chen

Narrated by: Eddy Lee, Fiona Rene, Matt Yang King, Christine...

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A Best Book of the Year: Barack Obama · NPR · The Washington Post · The Philadelphia Inquirer · Esquire · Kirkus Reviews · Chicago Public Library · Electric Literature Malala Yousafzai’s Fearless Book Club Pick for Literati 
""Dazzling...Riveting."" —New York Times Book Review
“Gripping and illuminating . . . At the heart of Te-Ping Chen’s... Read more

Milk Blood Heat

By: Dantiel W. Moniz

Narrated by: Machelle Williams

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each... Read more

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

By: Cherie Jones

Narrated by: Danielle Vitalis

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, a brilliant Caribbean writer delivers a powerful story about four people each desperate to escape their legacy of violence in a so-called "paradise."

In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, Lala’s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister. It’s a cautionary tale, about what happens to girls... Read more

The Bad Muslim Discount

By: Syed M. Masood

Narrated by: Pej Vahdat & Hend Ayoub

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way in modern America.

“Masood’s novel presents a stereoscopic, three-dimensional view of contemporary Muslim America: the way historical conflict in the Middle East... Read more

The Beguiling

By: Zsuzsi Gartner

Narrated by: Amanda Cordner

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An electrifying debut novel from the Giller Prize-shortlisted author of Better Living Through Plastic Explosives that takes readers for a wild ride with urban-gothic flair and delectably wicked humour.

Lucy is a lapsed-Catholic whose adolescent pretensions to sainthood are unexpectedly revived.

It all starts when her cousin Zoltan, in hospital... Read more

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

By: Mariana Enriquez

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”—Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE •... Read more

Persephone Station

By: Stina Leicht

Narrated by: Maria Liatis

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Hugo Award–nominated author Stina Leicht has created a “thoroughly enjoyable” (NPR) take on space opera for fans of The Mandalorian and Cowboy Bebop in this high-stakes adventure.Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has been largely ignored by the United Republic of Worlds, becomes the focus for the Serrao-Orlov Corporation as... Read more

D (A Tale of Two Worlds)

By: Michel Faber

Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh Young

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“Glorious. A story that will be found and enjoyed and dreamed about for years to come.”—Neil Gaiman

A stunning modern-day Dickensian fable and a celebration of friendship and bravery for freethinkers everywhere.

It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from language. First, it vanishes from Dhikilo’s parents’ conversation at breakfast,... Read more

Sasha Masha

By: Agnes Borinsky

Narrated by: Agnes Borinsky

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Transgender author Agnes Borinsky deftly explores gender identity and queer romance in this heart-wrenching debut novel.



Alex feels like he is in the wrong body. His skin feels strange against his bones. And then comes Tracy, who thinks he's adorably awkward, who wants to kiss him, who makes him feel like a Real Boy. But it is not quite enough.... Read more

The Beast and the Bethany

By: Jack Meggitt-Phillips

Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Lemony Snicket meets Roald Dahl in this “wickedly funny” (James Ponti, New York Times bestselling author), deliciously macabre, and highly illustrated tale of a hungry beast, a vain immortal man, and a not-so-charming little girl who doesn’t know she’s about to be eaten.

Beauty comes at a price. And no one knows that better than Ebenezer Tweezer,... Read more

Survival of the Thickest

By: Michelle Buteau

Narrated by: Michelle Buteau

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

*Now a comedy series on Netflix!*
From the stand-up comedian, actress, and host beloved for her cheeky swagger, unique voice, and unapologetic frankness comes a book of “zesty and hilarious” (Publishers Weekly) essays for fans of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling and We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union.

If you’ve... Read more

How to Catch a Queen

By: Alyssa Cole

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An arranged marriage leads to unexpected desire, in the first book of Alyssa Cole’sRunaway Royals series…When Shanti Mohapi weds the king of Njaza, her dream of becoming a queen finally comes true. But it’s nothing like she imagined. Shanti and her husband may share an immediate and powerful attraction, but her subjects see her as an outsider,... Read more

Barry Squires, Full Tilt

By: Heather Smith

Narrated by: Irene Poole

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Squires, Full Tilt takes readers on a romp through the streets of St. John's and into the Squires household, a place where tragedy strikes but love prevails. Derry Girls meets Billy Elliot with an East coast twist.

It's 1995. When the Full Tilt Dancers give an inspiring performance at the opening of the new bingo hall, twelve-year-old... Read more

Tsarina

By: Ellen Alpsten

Narrated by: Anna Krippa

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Makes Game of Thrones look like a nursery rhyme." —Daisy Goodwin, New York Times bestselling author of The Fortune Hunter

“[Alpsten] recounts this remarkable woman’s colourful life and times." —Count Nikolai Tolstoy, historian and author

Before there was Catherine the Great, there was Catherine Alexeyevna: the first woman to rule Russia in her... Read more

If I Knew Then

By: Jann Arden

Narrated by: Jann Arden

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Jann Arden—bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star—is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she's found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash.

Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her... Read more

Charming as a Verb

By: Ben Philippe

Narrated by: James Fouhey

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of The Field Guide to the North American Teenager comes a whip-smart and layered romantic comedy. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han.  Henri “Halti” Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. He is a star debater and popular student at the prestigious FATE academy, the dutiful first-generation Haitian son,... Read more

A Lover's Discourse

By: Xiaolu Guo

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"I don't believe in love at first sight."



I was taken aback. I thought we were definitely in love at first sight.



"What do you mean? Wasn't it clear the moment you picked the elderflowers by the park and we looked at each other? Or was it in that book club?"



You gave me a damp smile, as if my confusion proved that you were right.



A Chinese woman... Read more

A Life on Our Planet

By: Sir David Attenborough

Narrated by: Sir David Attenborough

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future.
See the world. Then make it better.

I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.

As a... Read more

The Talented Miss Farwell

By: Emily Gray Tedrowe

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Catch Me If You Can meets Patricia Highsmith in this electrifying page-turner of greed and obsession, survival and self-invention that is a piercing character study of one unforgettable female con artist.""Becky Farwell is one of the most wickedly compelling characters I've read in ages -- a Machiavellian marvel, a modern Becky Sharp, a... Read more

His Truth Is Marching On

By: Jon Meacham

Narrated by: JD Jackson & Jon Meacham

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America 
 
John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund... Read more

Bear Necessity

By: James Gould-Bourn

Narrated by: Rupert Holliday-Evans

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A “refreshing” (Kirkus Reviews), unpretentious, and uplifting story about a father and son reconnecting and finding happiness in the most unlikely circumstances.

Danny’s life is falling apart. His eleven-year-old son, Will, hasn’t spoken since the death of his mother in a car crash a year earlier, and Danny has just been fired from his... Read more

The Black Kids

By: Christina Hammonds Reed

Narrated by: Kiersey Clemons

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller
A William C. Morris Award Finalist

“Should be required reading in every classroom.” —Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin
“A true love letter to Los Angeles.” —Brandy Colbert, award-winning author of Little & Lion
“A brilliantly poetic take on one of the most defining moments in Black... Read more

Someone's Listening

By: Seraphina Nova Glass

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

She wrote the book on escaping a predator… Now one is coming for her.

Faith Finley has it all: she’s a talented psychologist with a flourishing career, a bestselling author and the host of a popular local radio program, Someone’s Listening, with Dr. Faith Finley. She’s married to the perfect man, Liam Finley, a respected food critic.

Until the... Read more

Hieroglyphics

By: Jill McCorkle

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A mesmerizing novel about the burden of secrets carried across generationsLil and Frank married young, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both—suddenly, tragically—lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents... Read more