Local bookseller recommendations

Out of My Dreams

By: Sharon M. Draper

Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Melody flies to London to speak at a convention about differently abled kids in this stunning sequel to the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling middle grade novels Out of My Mind and Out of My Heart.

When Melody saves an elderly back-in-the-day actress’s life, the woman is so grateful—and impressed by Melody—that she nominates Melody to be a US... Read more

Songlight

By: Moira Buffini

Narrated by: Antonia Beamish, Saffron Coomber, Sam Crerar, J...

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Star-crossed lovers, against-all-odds friendship, and a brutally unforgiving world make this first in a trilogy utterly unforgettable.We’re two songs joined. And there’s a word for that. A harmony.Elsa is used to hiding the most important parts of herself—her feelings for Rye, her distaste for a world ruled by men, and, most crucially, her gift... Read more

The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night

By: Steven Banbury

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A spooky yet heartwarming adventure about one girl's journey into the land of the undead, and the unexpected family she finds along the way. Perfect for fans of Nevermoor and the hit series Wednesday.

On Halloween, it is always wise to expect the unexpected, but no amount of planning could have prepared Eve for that particular night. Fleeing an... Read more

Our Green Heart

By: Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Narrated by: Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

In this inspiring culmination of Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s life’s work as a botanist, biochemist, biologist and poet of the global forest, she delivers a challenge to us all to dig deeper into the science of forests and the ways they will save us from climate breakdown—and then do our part to plant and protect... Read more

The Fallen Fruit

By: Shawntelle Madison

Narrated by: Robin Miles & Adenrele Ojo

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining history and fantasy, a sweeping multi-generational epic in the vein of Kindred and The Time Traveler's Wife about a woman who travels through time to end a family curse that has plagued her ancestors for generations.On a rainy day in May 1964, history professor Cecily Bridge-Davis begins to search for the sixty-five acres of land she... Read more

Haunt Sweet Home

By: Sarah Pinsker

Narrated by: Jennifer Blom, Jess Nahikian, Matt Godfrey & Ro...

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spooky ghost story from multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker.

“Don’t talk to day about what we do at night.”

When aimless twenty-something Mara lands a job as the night-shift production... Read more

The Traitor's Daughter

By: Roxana Spicer

Narrated by: Roxana Spicer

Length: 20 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The masterful narration of a daughter's decades-long quest to understand her extraordinary mother, who was born in Lenin's Soviet Union, served as a combat soldier in the Red Army, and endured three years of Nazi captivity—but never revealed her darkest secrets.

As a child, Roxana Spicer would sometimes wake to the... Read more

Empresses of Seventh Avenue

By: Nancy MacDonell

Narrated by: Gail Shalan

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"This audiobook is perfect not only for people in love with fashion, but also for anyone interested in fashion as art, obsession, and ever-present societal phenomenon."—Booklist

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

In the tradition of The Barbizon and The Girls of Atomic City, fashion historian and journalist Nancy MacDonell... Read more

Not Nothing

By: Gayle Forman

Narrated by: Dion Graham & Gayle Forman

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“The book we all need at the time we all need it.” —Katherine Applegate, Newbery Award–winning author of The One and Only Ivan

In this multigenerational middle grade novel of hope, compassion, and forgiveness from #1 New York Times bestselling author Gayle Forman that is as timely as it is timeless, a boy who has been assigned to spend his... Read more

Talking to Strangers

By: Fiona Barton

Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister, Jayne Entwistle & Steve West

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

Detective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who insists on doing her own investigation in this nail-biting mystery from the author of Local Gone Missing.

When Karen Simmons is murdered on Valentine’s Day, Detective Elise King wonders if she was killed by a man she met online. Karen was all over the... Read more

The Lost Souls of Benzaiten

By: Kelly Murashige

Narrated by: Mirai

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“I wish to become one of those round vacuum cleaner robots.” That’s what Machi prays for at the altar of Japanese goddess Benzaiten. Ever since her two best friends decided they want nothing to do with her, Machi hasn’t been able to speak. After months of online school and a carousel of therapists, she can no longer see the point of being human.... Read more

The Cheesemaker's Daughter

By: Kristin Vukovic

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When Marina’s father summons her to their Croatian island from New York—and away from her evaporating marriage—to help him save his failing cheese factory, she must face her rocky past and an uncertain future.How do you begin again when the past threatens to drown you?In the throes of an unraveling marriage, New Yorker Marina Maržic returns to... Read more

Till There Was You

By: Lindsay Hameroff

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Named Most Anticipated by: The Nerd Daily・ Culturess・ Zibby Magazine​・ and more

"Witty, warm, and charming...Fans of Emily Henry and Robinne Lee’s The Idea of You are going to go crazy for this one!” ―Jennifer Close, author of Marrying the Ketchups

A recipe for love that hits all the right notes

Culinary student Lexi Berman, 24, has one goal: to... Read more

Merkel's Law

By: Melissa Eddy

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of Notorious RBG, a fun and inspiring biography filled with lessons from the most powerful woman in the world, based on more than a decade’s worth of coverage of German Chancellor Angela Merkel from New York Times Berlin correspondent Melissa Eddy.

Angela Merkel is a boss. A trailblazer. An icon of colorful suits. Formerly the new... Read more

Heavy Hitter

By: Katie Cotugno

Narrated by: Callie Dalton & Andrew Eiden

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved New York Times bestselling author of Birds of California hits it out of the park with this smart, sexy, thrilling take on the celebrity-athlete story—a funny, sizzling, ripped-from-the-headlines romance between an international pop star and a major league baseball player who thought his best days were behind him.Taylor and Travis.... Read more

The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame

Narrated by: Callum Hale & Dylan Allcock

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Mole, Ratty, Badger and, of course, Mr Toad on their adventures by the Riverbank.Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of friendship, nature, and fast cars and fast living, is lovingly brought to life in this new production, performed by Callum Hale with sound effects and beautiful music by Dylan Allcock that truly immerses you in the world of the... Read more

Burn

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Last Ranger, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emerge from the woods of rural Maine to a dystopian country racked by bewildering violence

Every year, Jess and Storey have made an annual pilgrimage to the most remote corners of the country, where they camp, hunt, and hike, leaving... Read more

Under the Surface

By: Diana Urban

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler & Max Meyers

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic survival-thriller about four teens who get lost in the Paris catacombs for days—a gripping and propulsive story of love, danger, betrayal, and hope… even when all seems lost.

"Tense and fast-moving, with a unique setting and compelling characters, Under the Surface is Diana Urban’s best yet."—Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times... Read more

Mistress of Lies

By: K. M. Enright

Narrated by: Christine Allado

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A villainous, bloodthirsty heroine finds herself plunged into the dangerous world of power, politics and murder in the court of the vampire king in this dark romantic fantasy debut.

Fate is a cruel mistress. 

The daughter of a powerful but disgraced Blood Worker, Shan LeC laire has spent her entire life perfecting her blood magic, building her... Read more

Worst Case Scenario

By: T.J. Newman

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Following her explosive debut thriller Falling and its harrowing follow-up Drowning, #1 internationally bestselling author T.J. Newman is back with Worst Case Scenario.

When a pilot suffers a heart attack at 35,000 feet, a commercial airliner filled with passengers crashes into a nuclear power plant in the small town of Waketa, Minnesota, which... Read more

I Need You to Read This

By: Jessa Maxwell

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This “super creepy” (The Washington Post) and “perfectly plotted whodunnit” (Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author) follows an advice columnist searching for answers about her predecessor’s murder—from the bestselling author of The Golden Spoon.

Years ago, Alex Marks escaped to New York City for a fresh start. Now, aside from trips to her... Read more

Rebel Summer

By: Cindy Steel

Narrated by: Marli Watson

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Every good summer has a little bad… I wasn’t supposed to be in Sunset Harbor for more than a weekend. But thanks to—let’s just call it—an unforeseen act of stupidity on my part, I’m here for the whole summer. And for the first time in my life, I’m in a whole lot of trouble. The sentence? Community service paid toward the person I accidentally... Read more

The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

Narrated by: Claire Kinson

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR •DAKOTA JOHNSON’S TEATIME PICTURES SEPTEMBER BOOK CLUB PICK ● From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father’s fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears... Read more

The Forgotten Boy

By: Laura Andersen

Narrated by: Kim Bretton

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

1460: Ismay Deacon, caught between sides in the War of the Roses, tries to hide away in her ancestral home, Havencross. But when word gets out that she has a child, and speculation on who the father might be, Ismay has to make a terrible choice to protect her son. The Deacon family disappears, but there are rumors of a fair-haired, unsmiling... Read more