Bookstore at Fitger's: Joni's Recommendations

A Court of Frost and Starlight

Court of Thorns and Roses: Book #4

By: Sarah J. Maas
Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

On the darkest night, the stars still shine.
Feyre’s first Winter Solstice as High Lady is drawing near. With it will come a hardearned rest from the work that she, Rhysand and their friends have done to rebuild the Night Court and the vastly changed world beyond. Yet the festive
atmosphere can’t keep shadows from looming.
Even as her own heart... Read more

A Court of Silver Flames

Court of Thorns and Roses: Book #4

By: Sarah J. Maas
Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
Length: 26 hours 5 minutes

An unfathomable power Nesta Archeron has always been prickly—proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she’s struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can’t seem to move past the horrors of the war with... Read more

A Court of Wings and Ruin

Court of Thorns and Roses: Book #3

By: Sarah J. Maas
Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb
Length: 25 hours 9 minutes

The epic series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas continues with a stunning story of love, war, and revenge.
Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin’s actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to
bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a... Read more

A Court of Mist and Fury

Court of Thorns and Roses: Book #2

By: Sarah J. Maas
Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
Length: 23 hours 16 minutes

Masterful storytelling from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas brings her sexy, action-packed series to new heights.
Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she’s now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae,
she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds... Read more

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Court of Thorns and Roses: Book #1

By: Sarah J. Maas
Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
Length: 16 hours 7 minutes

“Both fantasy novels explore relationships between humans and magical creatures. The characters are richly developed and both authors are masters at world building. Read more

A Discovery of Witches

A Novel

All Souls Series: Book #1

By: Deborah Harkness
Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
Length: 23 hours 56 minutes

Book one of the New York Times bestselling All Souls series—“a wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight” (People).

Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder!

Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the... Read more

The Book of Life

A Novel

All Souls Series: Book #3

By: Deborah Harkness
Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
Length: 23 hours 53 minutes

“Deborah Harkness' books are brain candy for the educated person. Her contemporary fantasies, filled with vampires, witches, and deamons, veer into historical fantasy (thanks to the long lives of characters). With a reader who can shift accents with ease, this audio book is enthralling. You'll be just as smitten by Harkness' descriptions of... Read more

Shadow of Night

A Novel

All Souls Series: Book #2

By: Deborah Harkness
Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
Length: 24 hours 24 minutes

The #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to A Discovery of Witches, book two of the All Souls series. 

Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder!

Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes reluctant witch Diana Bishop and vampire geneticist Matthew... Read more

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

By: Kelly Barnhill
Narrated by: Christina Moore
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

A young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon must unlock the dangerous magic buried deep inside her in this epic coming-of-age fairy tale from the highly acclaimed author of The Witch's Boy. Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this... Read more

Delicious!

A Novel

By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

In her bestselling memoirs Ruth Reichl has long illuminated the theme of how food defines us, and never more so than in her dazzling fiction debut about sisters, family ties, and a young woman who must finally let go of guilt and grief to embrace her own true gifts. 

     Billie Breslin has travelled far from her California home to take a job at... Read more

A Good Year

By: Peter Mayle
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

From Peter Mayle, a wonderful new novel steeped in wine—and the business of wine?and set in, bien sûr, Provence.

Max Skinner is not exactly setting the London financial world on fire?and when his supervisor steals his biggest client, it’s definitely time to inspect the vineyard in Provence that his recently departed uncle left him. Heartily... Read more

My Twenty-Five Years in Provence

Reflections on Then and Now

By: Peter Mayle
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

From the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribute to the most endearing and enduring aspects of his life in France—the charming and indelible parade of village life, the sheer beauty, the ancient... Read more

A Year in Provence - Abridged

By: Peter Mayle
Narrated by: Peter Mayle
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

More than 40,000 listeners have enjoyed this story on cassette. Now anyone who's ever dreamed of getting away from it all can enjoy the charms and challenges of A Year in Provence on CD!
Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists. They had dreamed of one day trading the long, gray winters and damp summers of England for the blue... Read more

My Life in France

By: Julia Child
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found her “true calling.”

From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre, en route to Paris, in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who... Read more

Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

By: Alan Alda
Narrated by: Alan Alda
Length: 6 hours

An insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions Alan Alda has asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even mean?)

Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off–having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile–Alda finds himself... Read more

Becoming

By: Michelle Obama
Narrated by: Michelle Obama
Length: 19 hours 1 minute

“I adore our former president and I miss him. Yet I cannot help but be ecstatic that Michelle is coming out with a book about her own life so that I can learn more about this powerful, intelligent, and singularly awesome woman. Barack would be the first to say that his wife is a superstar, and I can’t wait to get my hands on Becoming to read... Read more

Little Women

The Little Women Series: Book #1

By: Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
Length: 18 hours 59 minutes

This favorite book for children, based on the author’s own youthful experiences, describes the life of the March family in a small New England community in the 1800s.Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother while their father serves as chaplain during the American Civil War. Jo at fifteen is ungainly,... Read more

The Hidden Life of Trees

What They Feel, How They Communicate

By: Peter Wohlleben
Narrated by: Mike Grady
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Sunday Times Bestseller ‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of... Read more

A Year by the Sea

Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

By: Joan Anderson
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Life is a work in progress, as ever-changing as a sandy shoreline along the beach. During the years Joan Anderson was a loving wife and supportive mother, she had slowly and unconsciously replaced her own dreams with the needs of her family. With her sons grown, however, she realized that the family no longer centered on the home she provided,... Read more