Audiobooks to Beat the Heat

The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven

By: Nathaniel Ian Miller
Narrated by: Olafur Darri Olafsson
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

“Poor misanthropic Sven, his great Arctic adventures tend toward the bumbling and catastrophic, but he persists in his dream to be alone in the great north - only to find that the few friends (including a very shaggy dog) he has made in his travels are what he needs most. It's a lovely, wry and insightful novel, and Olafur Dari Olafsson's deep... Read more

Blizzard

By: Marie Vingtras
Narrated by: Rebecca Quinn Robertson, John Skelley, T. Ryder Smith & Leon Nixon
Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

A runaway bestseller in France about a boy gone missing in the middle of an Alaskan blizzard, and the people desperate to find him

In the middle of a raging storm in Alaska, Bess stops to tie her shoes. And just like that, the boy is lost, gone in a flash, swallowed up by the snow.

Bess is a California girl, while Benedict, with whom she and the... Read more

Girl In Ice

By: Erica Ferencik
Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

“A very engaging story, and the narrator did an amazing job with the voices/personalities. The imagary of the frozen landscape was just as much a character as the people, and it was so easy to visualize the space and place where the story takes place. I am looking forward to reading more from this author. Read more

In the Kingdom of Ice

The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

By: Hampton Sides
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age

In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans, although... Read more

Migrations

A Novel

By: Charlotte McConaghy
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

“Set in a world that is possibly our near future, where animals, birds and fish have been driven to extinction by global warming and human consumption, Franny Stone is desperate to follow the last migration of Arctic terns as they head south from Greenland. She persuades the captain of a small fishing boat to take her on as a crew member,... Read more

True North Rising

My fifty-year journey with the Inuit and Dene leaders who transformed Canada's North

By: Whit Fraser
Narrated by: Whit Fraser
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
In this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who successfully overturned the colonial order and politically reshaped Canada—including his wife, Mary Simon, Canada's first Indigenous governor... Read more

Wintering

The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

By: Katherine May
Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

“Katherine May uses 'winter' as a metaphor for life’s darker seasons in this poetic memoir about retreating from the demands and expectations of a pressuring society. She encourages the reader to explore the quiet and restorative moments in life that help us to grow, relax, and heal from difficult times. Lyrical, reflective, and comforting; this... Read more

City Under One Roof

By: Iris Yamashita
Narrated by: Aspen Vincent, Shannon Tyo & Anna Caputo
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a single high-rise building, in this gripping debut by an Academy Award–nominated screenwriter.

When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore of the small town of Point Mettier, Alaska, Cara Kennedy is on the case. A... Read more

Arctic Dreams

National Book Award Winner

By: Barry Lopez
Narrated by: James Naughton
Length: 17 hours 33 minutes

Winner of the National Book Award

This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing.

The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its harsh climate. In this modern classic, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far North:... Read more

Dead and Gondola

A Christie Bookshop Mystery

By: Ann Claire
Narrated by: Morgan Dalla Betta
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

In this series debut, a mysterious bookshop visitor dies under murderous circumstances, compelling the Christie sisters and their cat, Agatha, to call on all they’ve learned about solving mysteries from their favorite novelist.

“A fair-play plot, vivid characters, fascinating facts about Dame Agatha, and an intelligent and appealing protagonist... Read more

Last Word to the Wise

A Christie Bookshop Mystery

By: Ann Claire
Narrated by: Morgan Dalla Betta
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Christie sisters and their bookshop cat, Agatha, flirt with coldhearted crime when bookish matchmaking turns into a date with death.

Sisters Ellie and Meg Christie share a love of books, reading, and their new roles as co-caretakers of the Book Chalet, their family’s historic bookshop tucked midway up a scenic Colorado... Read more