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A Death in Door County

A Monster Hunter Mystery: Book #1

By: Annelise Ryan
Narrated by: Susan Bennett
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

A Wisconsin bookstore owner and cryptozoologist is asked to investigate a series of deaths that just might be proof of a fabled lake monster in this first installment of a new mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan.

Morgan Carter, owner of the Odds and Ends bookstore in Door County, Wisconsin, has a hobby. When she’s not... Read more

Intrigue in Istanbul

Jane Wunderly Mystery

By: Erica Ruth Neubauer
Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

When vibrant American widow Jane Wunderly arrives in 1920s Turkey in search of her father, she finds a country redefining itself after the fall of the Ottoman Empire—and a deadly criminal who can't escape the past . . .



Istanbul, 1926: After her archeologist father makes a clandestine journey abroad, Jane and the dapper Mr. Redvers trace his... Read more

Death Stalks Door County

A Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery, Book 1

By: Patricia Skalka
Narrated by: Adam Prugh
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

“Can a big-city cop solve a series of murders whose only witnesses may be the hemlocks? An atmospheric debut.”—Kirkus Reviews
Six deaths mar the holiday mood as summer vacationers enjoy Wisconsin’s beautiful Door County peninsula. Murders, or bizarre accidents? Newly hired park ranger Dave Cubiak, a former Chicago homicide detective, assumes the... Read more

Danger on the Atlantic

Jane Wunderly Mystery

By: Erica Ruth Neubauer
Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

For young American widow Jane Wunderly, there are worse fates than adventuring aboard a transatlantic liner with the only man who could change her mind about romance. Unfortunately, her first-class itinerary has an unexpected—and deadly—addition waiting just below deck . . .



Atlantic Ocean, 1926: Voyaging from Southampton to New York,... Read more

Murder at Wedgefield Manor

Jane Wunderly Mystery

By: Erica Ruth Neubauer
Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

In the wake of World War I, Jane Wunderly—a thoroughly modern young American widow—is traveling abroad, enjoying the hospitality of an English lord and a perfectly proper manor house, until murder makes an unwelcome appearance . . .



England, 1926: Wedgefield Manor, deep in the tranquil Essex countryside, provides a welcome rest stop for Jane and... Read more

Canary Girls

A Novel

By: Jennifer Chiaverini
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini’s lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built bombs in Britain’s arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the football pitch.Early in the Great War, men... Read more

Forty Acres Deep

By: Michael Perry
Narrated by: Michael Perry
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

When farmer Harold wakes to find his wife dead beside him in bed and snow threatening to crush the last life from his dwindling farm, he takes drastic steps toward a fresh start. Set in a world of stark wintry beauty, Forty Acres Deep is the brief, unrelenting tale of one person's attempt to make sense of a world he no longer recognizes while... Read more

When in Rome

A Novel

By: Liam Callanan
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

From nationally bestselling, award-winning author Liam Callanan, the story of an opportunity to start over at midlife, a chance to save a struggling convent in the Eternal City, and the dramatic re-emergence of an old flame . . .

Claire, fifty-two, desperately desires a fresh start. After decades as a real estate broker specializing in old... Read more

What Happened to Rachel Riley?

By: Claire Swinarski
Narrated by: Ferdelle Capistrano, Alexandra Hunter, Karla Serrato, Gail Shalan, Reena Dutt, Caitlin Davies, Andrew Eiden & Kirby Heyborne
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

ALA Notable Children's Book Regional Indie Bestseller Audie Award Winner Edgar Award Nominee Cybils Award Nominee YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults New York Public Library Best Book of the Year Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Amazon Best Book of the Year SLJ Best Book of the Year Texas Lone Star Reading List Capital Choices Noteworthy... Read more

The Witch, The Sword, and the Cursed Knights

By: Alexandria Rogers
Narrated by: Marisa Calin, Josh Hurley & Suzanne Toren
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Perfect for fans of The School for Good and Evil and A Tale of Magic…, this Barnes & Noble Children’s Book Award finalist and Amazon Best Book of the Month is a charming fantasy debut that puts a new spin on the legend of Camelot Twelve-year-old Ellie can’t help that she’s a witch, the most hated member of society. Determined to prove her... Read more

Switchboard Soldiers

A Novel

By: Jennifer Chiaverini
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I—the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory. “An eye-opening and detailed novel about remarkable... Read more

When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East

A Novel

By: Quan Barry
Narrated by: David Lee Huynh
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upon Sticks comes a luminous novel that moves across a windswept Mongolia, as estranged twin brothers make a journey of duty, conflict, and renewed understanding.

"A dazzling achievement...The rhythms are more like prayer than prose, and the puzzlelike plot yields revelations." —The New York Times

Tasked with... Read more

Shady Hollow

A Shady Hollow Mystery: Book #1

By: Juneau Black
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony—until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case.

Reporter Vera Vixen is a relative newcomer to Shady Hollow. The fox has a nose for news, so when she... Read more

The Women's March

A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

By: Jennifer Chiaverini
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with The Women’s March, an enthralling historical novel of the woman’s suffrage movement inspired by three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.

Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on... Read more

Godspeed

By: Nickolas Butler
Narrated by: Jon Orsini
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

“Nickolas Butler's authorial voice is stalwart as ever, turning toward the natural world and working people with perceptive and unsentimental regard. Even as this story marks a divergence from his beloved Wisconsin landscape for the tourist destination near Jackson Hole, he does not diverge from what he does best: capturing the halting dynamics... Read more

Shoulder Season

A Novel

By: Christina Clancy
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Named a Best Book of Summer by Good Morning America • CNN • Parade • EW • Travel & Leisure • PopSugar • New York Post • BuzzFeed • Brit & Co • SheReads • Women.com

A dazzling portrait of a young woman coming into her own, the youthful allure of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and what we lose—and gain—when we leave home.

ONCE IN A LIFETIME,... Read more

The Second Home

A Novel

By: Christina Clancy
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

“Anne and Poppy are sisters who have taken very different roads in life. Growing up in Wisconsin, they enjoyed their Summers at their run-down cottage on the Cape with their adoring parents. When they were in their teens, their parents adopted a sixteen-year-old named Michael. For some time the family lived in peaceful harmony until a... Read more

Murder at the Mena House

Jane Wunderly Mystery

By: Erica Ruth Neubauer
Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

“One of the Pear Tree Shop’s book club picks for 2024! Loved by all of our members as a well told story, with dynamic characters and unexpected twists all in the beautiful setting of 1920s Egypt. Read more

We Ride Upon Sticks

A Novel (Alex Award Winner)

By: Quan Barry
Narrated by: Isabel Keating
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

“This is such a fun romp! It has everything you could possibly want in a book: field hockey, witches, and ’80s bangs that have literally taken on a life of their own. Set in Salem in the 1980s, we follow a group of high school field hockey players as they struggle with their new dark powers and attempt to end their losing streak. One of the... Read more

Resistance Women

A Novel

By: Jennifer Chiaverini
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 20 hours 9 minutes

“This poignant, previously untold story highlights a group of female spies in the resistance movement during World War II. Four women’s lives are entwined (only one of which is fictional), as one American, two Germans, and one German Jew gather intelligence to bring down the Third Reich from within. Beginning with an emotionally evocative... Read more