Blind Date with a Beach Read - June 2024

True North

A Novel

By: Andrew J. Graff
Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

“It will be a challenging summer! A nefarious mining company, competing rafting companies, and mother nature letting loose with a flood of the century. It is going to be a bumpy ride, but lots of fun to read! Read more

Thirst for Salt

By: Madelaine Lucas
Narrated by: Madelaine Lucas
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

It’s hard to remember now that I was once that girl, lying in the sand in myred swimsuit and swimming late into the day. Sharkbait, he called me.

It’s in the water where she first sees him: a local man almost twenty years her senior. Adrift in the summer after finishing college, a young woman is on holiday with her mother in an isolated... Read more

The Lost Summers of Newport

A Novel

By: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig & Karen White
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Brittany Pressley & Lisa Flanagan
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER""An engrossing and sumptuous tale, this novel is a fantastic spring read."" — Good Morning AmericaFrom the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White—a novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a century from the... Read more

Hotel Cuba

A Novel

By: Aaron Hamburger
Narrated by: Marie Hoffman
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

“Two Russian Jewish sisters learn to love Cuba after being forced to live there while trying to emigrate to NYC. Set during WWI, the novel beautifully captures their experience of a foreign, tropical location and the very different, but warm Cuban people. Filled with romance and adventure as these two women develop personal strengths and begin to... Read more

Cape May

A Novel

By: Chip Cheek
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

“This book is extraordinary. In a small, empty beachside town after the season ends, a couple on their ill-planned honeymoon, slowly awakening to all the ways they can disappoint each other, stumble across a Gatsby-ish household of worldly beautiful people who embrace them wholeheartedly. The days pass in a glorious gin-soaked daze; erotic... Read more

The Vacationers

By: Emma Straub
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

An irresistible, deftly observed novel about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface over the course of an American family’s two-week stay in Mallorca.

For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth... Read more

Chlorine

A Novel

By: Jade Song
Narrated by: Catherine Ho & Imani Parks
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

“A haunting coming-of-age story about Ren Yu explores race, sexuality, and mental health. Ren becomes obsessed with mermaids at a very young age, which leads her to pursue competitive swimming. Ren struggles with her sexuality and her obsessive need to be even closer to the mermaids she reads about. Her journey is bloody, raw, and terrifying, as... Read more

The Unsinkable Greta James

A Novel

By: Jennifer E. Smith
Narrated by: Mae Whitman
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

“The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith is just plain AWESOME! Greta is a rising indie musician who finds herself on an Alaskan cruise with her dad after her mom dies unexpectedly, she splits with her music producer boyfriend, and had a major meltdown at her last public appearance three months prior. Greta needs a reset. She has to... Read more

The Garnett Girls

A Novel

By: Georgina Moore
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

In this brilliant debut novel full of heart and warmth, three very different sisters—and their free-spirited mother—must grapple with life, responsibilities, and family secrets.“Gorgeously written and utterly absorbing…a rare and wonderful delight.” — Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author
Love makes you do things you never thought you... Read more

Penance

A Novel

By: Eliza Clark
Narrated by: Hollie-Jay Bowes, Anna Gilthorpe, Emily Goldie, Evie Hargreaves, Salima Saxton & George Weightman
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists 2023 “Eliza Clark’s writing embraces the socially unacceptable and wryly explores themes of gender, power, and violence.”—Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2023“Chilling, clever, and unputdownable.”—GuardianFrom the author of the cult hit Boy Parts comes a chilling, brilliantly told story of... Read more

A Sweet Sting of Salt

A Novel

By: Rose Sutherland
Narrated by: Aven Shore
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

A young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife. Now she’ll have to fight to keep herself—and the woman she loves—safe.

“A modern sapphic updating of the selkie wife folk tale that’s already scoring with readers”—Parade (A Best Romance and Best LGBTQI+ Book of the Year So Far)

“Lush, atmospheric, and threaded... Read more

Lizzie & Dante

A Novel

By: Mary Bly
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

The insightful, audacious, and deeply romantic story of a woman whose life turns upside down after she meets an enigmatic chef on vacation in Italy, from a New York Times bestselling author

“Delicious.”—People • “Smart, sexy and funny, full of joy in simple pleasures.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune

What if falling in love means breaking someone’s... Read more

Before We Were Innocent: Reese's Book Club

By: Ella Berman
Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK!

A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home. . . .
 
Ten years ago, after a sun-soaked summer spent in Greece, best friends Bess and Joni were cleared of having any involvement in their friend Evangeline’s death. But that didn’t stop the media from ripping apart their teenage... Read more

The Divorcées

A Novel

By: Rowan Beaird
Narrated by: Bailey Carr
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

A "delicious" (Rebecca Makkai) and "deeply compelling" (Lauren Groff) debut novel set at a 1950s Reno "divorce ranch," about the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different future

Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is... Read more

It All Comes Down to This

A Novel

By: Therese Anne Fowler
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This is a warm, keenly perceptive novel of sisterhood, heartbreak, home, and what it takes to remake a life at its halfway point, for fans of Ann Patchett and Emma Straub.

Meet the Geller sisters: Beck, Claire, and Sophie, a trio of strong-minded women whose pragmatic, widowed mother, Marti, will be... Read more

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

A Novel

By: Alison Espach
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

“This story is raw and honest. It felt as I was listening to an internal monologue describing thoughts and aftermath of a family tragedy. Read more

Künstlers in Paradise

By: Cathleen Schine
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

“The first Künstler family member we meet is Julian, who at 24 is having a hard time finding himself and becoming an adult. After his parents refuse to foot his bill, he travels to LA to visit his grandmother. Then COVID hits and he finds himself staying with her for the duration. Through their relationship we learn of his grandmother’s escape... Read more

Florence Adler Swims Forever

By: Rachel Beanland
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Tim Paige, Carly Robins, Jonathan Todd Ross, Tara Sands, Jesse Vilinsky, Gabra Zackman & Rachel Beanland
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

“A historical fiction novel set in 1930's Atlantic City. At its core, this is a character-driven family drama. It is a story about a family's grief and secret keeping. It made me cry; it made me chuckle. It authentically describes the pain and inner thoughts caused by losing a loved one. Read more

The Summer Place

A Novel

By: Jennifer Weiner
Narrated by: Sutton Foster
Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another “must-have” (USA TODAY) beach read about family, secrets, and the ties that bind.

When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But headstrong Ruby has already set... Read more

Drowning

By: T. J. Newman
Narrated by: Steven Weber & Laura Benanti
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

“I could NOT put this book down. Thrilling action from start to finish. I was on the edge of my seat waiting to find out what would happen to each of the main characters. A last-ditch effort for sure! Read more